Abram Robertson Frye Jr.

(1896-1918)

Second Lieutenant Abram Robertson Frye Jr.

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SS Justicia

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Gravestone inscription, Second Lieutenant Abram Robertson Frye Jr., Maplewood Cemetery, Anderson, Indiana

Family grave monument, Second Lieutenant Abram Robertson Frye Jr., Maplewood Cemetery, Anderson, Indiana

1346 Hall Ave., Lakewood, OH, Second Lieutenant Abram Robertson Frye Jr.,'s sister's address at the time of her 1913 marriage

Abram Robertson Frye Jr.

**[Please see the Additional Information section below for a possible explanation of why Lieutenant Abram Robertson Frye Jr. was memorialized on Cleveland Liberty Row, despite not appearing to have ever lived in Cleveland.]

*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: 6/22/1896, Crestline, Ohio

Address: family lived in Crestline, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois, Anderson, Indiana, and New York city; mother's address while her son was serving in WWI was 452 Riverside Dr., New York, NY; no records showing Lieutenant Abram Robertson Frye Jr. living in Cleveland, OH

Demographics: no draft registration found which would have contained additional demographic information; Caucasian; native-born citizen; attended Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, where he played football and track

Appearance: not known

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date unknown; enlistment date 9/4/1917; Rank Second Lieutenant with some records recording his rank as Lieutenant

Service Number: not found

Deployment: 5/19/1918 from New York, NY aboard SS Justicia

Action: He attended Colgate University in Hamilton, NY [see below]. For at least some of his service overseas, he was attached to the Royal Air Force [see below].

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Death: July 9, 1918 at age 22 in England; cause of death Airplane Accident/Collision

Burial: 7/12/1918 at Newport Cemetery, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, Plot D328; 10/19/1920 remains disinterred and returned to the U.S. from Liverpool, England aboard USAT Northern Pacific arriving Hoboken, New Jersey on 10/29/1920; final burial at Maplewood Cemetery, Anderson, Indiana, East: Section 12 Lot 671 Space 7 alongside his parents

Next of Kin: Mrs. A. F. [sic] Frye, mother, 452 Riverside Drive, New York, NY

Additional Information: Father: Abram Thomas Frye Sr. (1860-1908), born Plymouth, OH, descendant of early American colonists, married 1881, occupation in 1904 Manager Western Union Telegraph Co., buried Maplewood Cemetery, Anderson, Indiana; Mother: Martha Sarah McCune "Mattie" Robinson Frye (1861-1943), born Crestline, OH, married 1881, occupation Schoolteacher, buried Maplewood Cemetery, Anderson, Indiana; Siblings: Anna Frye Donovan (1884-1957); Irilla Frye Alford (1889-1973), who married William John Alford Jr. on 10/8/1913 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and had a son named Robertson Frye Alford (1919-2006), presumably named after Lieutenant Abram Robertson Frye Jr.

**Lieutenant Abram Robertson Frye Jr. did not appear to have lived in Cleveland, OH. He had three known connections to Ohio. His father Abram Thomas Frye Sr. was born in Plymouth, OH, a small township in Ashtabula county, a distance of 59 miles northeast of Cleveland, OH. His mother was born in Crestline, OH, a village in Crawford and Richland counties, a distance of 91 miles southwest of Cleveland, OH. His sister Irilla Frye Alford's marriage took place in in 1913 in Cuyahoga County, OH, and her marriage certificate recorded her address as 1346 Hall Ave., Lakewood, OH, a nearby suburb of Cleveland OH.

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