William Gray Carney

William Gray Carney

*No plaque found

*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque.

*No soldier photograph found in the following book: Doyle, A. C., Haulsee, W. M., Howe, F. G. Soldiers of the Great War. Washington, DC: Soldiers Record Publishing Company, 1920.

Birth:  5/20/1888, Joelton, Tennessee [near Nashville, TN, originally a farming community]

Address: 772 E. 102nd St., Cleveland, Ohio

Demographics: age 29 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Trainman at Erie Railroad at draft registration; additional occupations included Switchman and Farm Laborer at age 12 in Tennessee; reported 7 months prior experience in U.S. Navy as a Coal Passer [a difficult, dirty and low-status job shoveling coal into a ship's furnace]; requested exemption from draft due to being not physically fit, dishonorable discharge from U.S. Navy, and "religiously & politically opposed to war"

Appearance: Height medium, Build stout, Eyes brown, Hair black

Marriage: On 9/22/1917, William Gray Carney, age 29,  married Marion May Lawrence (1896-?), a 21 year-old from Cleveland, at which time he was employed as a Switchman. They were married for just over a year when he died at Camp Sherman. No additional information was found about his widow.

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/4/1917; 11/12/1917; rank Cook

Service Number: 1945130

Deployment: died prior to deployment

Action: Rank was Cook at Camp Sherman as of 7/1/1918