Frederick "Fred" Ekelmann
(1892-1918)
(1892-1918)
Gravestone, Private Frederick "Fred" Ekelmann, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, Picardie, France
Frederick "Fred" Ekelmann
*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.
Address: 5903 Harvard Ave., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: age 25 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; occupation Laborer at Wire Mill at American Steel & Wire Co. at Newburgh Township near Cleveland [a subsidiary of U.S. Steel Corp. with one of its production sites in Newburgh Township]
Appearance: Height tall, Build slender, Eyes gray, Hair black
Service Number: 2110953
Deployment: 5/7/1918 from New York, NY aboard SS City of Brisean [sic - presumably City of Brisbane]
Action:
Next of Kin: Gus Ekelmann, father, 5903 Harvard Ave., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Father: Gustav "Gus" Ekelmann (1858-1937), born Germany, emigrated ~1889, occupation Laborer at Wire Mill, buried Harvard Grove Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Dorothea "Dora" Bendig Ekelmann (1854-1919), born Germany, emigrated ~1889, buried Harvard Grove Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Siblings: Ann Ekelmann George (1889-1982), twin sister of Marie Dorothea; Marie Dorothea Ekelmann Skarl (1889-1967), twin sister of Ann; Theresa J. Ekelmann (1894-1974), who had a son named Harold Frederick (1920-1987), presumably named after her brother Private Frederick "Fred" Ekelmann; Bruno G.E. Ekelmann (1896-1917). Sibling list may be incomplete.