Jesse Gravely
(1888-1918)
(1888-1918)
New York Central Railroad, Euclid, OH
Sergeant Jesse Gravely, signature on WWI draft registration
USS President Lincoln
Gravestone, Sergeant Jesse Gravely, Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial, Suresnes, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, FR
Jesse Gravely
*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: 235 E. 9th St., Cleveland, Ohio
Demographics: age 29 at draft registration; single; Black; native-born citizen; occupation Hostler [moved and serviced locomotives] at New York Central Railway at West Park [village outside of Cleveland in 1917]
Appearance: Height tall, Build stout, Eyes black, Hair black
Service Number: 2347098
Deployment: 3/30/1918 from Hoboken, New Jersey aboard USS President Lincoln
Action: [Black labor units were treated badly and given difficult jobs such as digging trenches, removing unexploded shells from battlefields, and burying soldiers killed in action.]
Next of Kin: Samuel P. Gravely, father, General Delivery, Martinsville, VA and Peyton Gravely, brother, 726 13th St., SW, Roanoke, VA
Additional Information: Father: ?Samuel Gravely (?-1937), occupation Farmworder, married 1866, occupation Farmworker; Mother: ?Delia M. Gravely (1848-?), married 1866; Siblings: Peyton William Gravely (1881-?); Siblings: Peyton William Gravely (1881-?). Sibling list may be incomplete. Research impeded by the scarcity of genealogy records for Blacks.