Paul Flagg
(1892 or 1893-1918)
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Vintage matchbox cover with image of Goff-Kirby Coal Co., Cleveland, OH
Private First Class Paul Flagg, Signature on WWI draft registration with left lower corner of form cut off to indicate a “colored” soldier
SS President Grant
1919 group photograph of African-American troops in Battery C, 350th Field Artillery Regiment, 92nd Division
Paul Flagg
*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: 1/25/1893 on draft registration, 1892 on cemetery record, birthplace Atlanta, Georgia
Birth: 1/25/1893 on draft registration, 1892 on cemetery record, birthplace Atlanta, Georgia
Address: 3508 31st St. and 2504 E. 31st St., Cleveland, Ohio
Demographics: age 24 at draft registration; single; Black; native-born citizen; occupation Team Driver at Goff-Kirby Coal Co., Cleveland, OH [a well-known local supplier of coal and coke for residential and industrial use]
Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes dark brown, Hair black
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/7/1917; 3/9/1917 [sic-may be 1918]; Private First Class
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/7/1917; 3/9/1917 [sic-may be 1918]; Private First Class
Service Number: 2002888
Deployment: 6/30/1918 from Hoboken, New Jersey aboard SS President Grant
Action: [The 350th Field Artillery Regiment was part of the 92nd Division, a segregated African-American "Buffalo Soldier" unit.]
Death: October 17, 1918 [3 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 28 or 29; cause of death Bronchitis and Bronchopneumonia
Death: October 17, 1918 [3 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 28 or 29; cause of death Bronchitis and Bronchopneumonia
Burial: 10/17/1918 buried American Cemetery, Limoges, Haute Vienne, France [location of communal cemeteries for soldiers who died in local hospitals]; 10/8/1920 remains disinterred and prepared for return to US arriving Bordeaux 10/15/1920; 11/29/1920 remains shipped from Bordeaux to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 12/15/1920; 12/29/1920 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 12/30/1920 to the care of J.W. Wills & Co., Undertakers, 2533 Central Ave., Cleveland, OH; 1/6/1921 final burial at Harvard Grove Cemetery, 6100 Lansing Ave., Cleveland, OH, Block 21 Tier 6 Grave 21 [no grave photo on cemetery website]
Burial: 10/17/1918 buried American Cemetery, Limoges, Haute Vienne, France [location of communal cemeteries for soldiers who died in local hospitals]; 10/8/1920 remains disinterred and prepared for return to US arriving Bordeaux 10/15/1920; 11/29/1920 remains shipped from Bordeaux to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 12/15/1920; 12/29/1920 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 12/30/1920 to the care of J.W. Wills & Co., Undertakers, 2533 Central Ave., Cleveland, OH; 1/6/1921 final burial at Harvard Grove Cemetery, 6100 Lansing Ave., Cleveland, OH, Block 21 Tier 6 Grave 21 [no grave photo on cemetery website]
Next of Kin: Mrs. Addie Long, mother, 2928 Scovill Ave., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Research may have been impeded by the scarcity of historic records of Black people in that era. In the 1920 Census, William Long, age 38, and Addie Long, age 40, both born in Georgia, were married and living on Scovill Avenue in Cleveland. It is not known if these are relatives of Private First Class Paul Flagg, whose mother Addie Long was listed on his military records as his next of kin with an address on Scovill Avenue. No additional family information was found.
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