Jesse Gravely
(1888-1918)
Embedded Files
New York Central Railroad, Euclid, OH
Sergeant Jesse Gravely, signature on WWI draft registration, with lower left corner cut to indicate race "colored"
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.
Birth: 3/5/1888, Martinsville, Virginia
Birth: 3/5/1888, Martinsville, Virginia
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
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 11/21/1917; Sergeant
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 11/21/1917; Sergeant
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.]
Death: 9/23/1918 at age 30; cause of death Died of Wounds Received in Action, also described as, "Killed while trying to escape from confinement"
Death: 9/23/1918 at age 30; cause of death Died of Wounds Received in Action, also described as, "Killed while trying to escape from confinement"
Burial: buried after death at American Cemetery, Vauclaire, Dordogne, France; 10/4/1921 remains disinterred and reburied at Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial, Suresnes, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, FR, Plot A Row 13 Grave 9
Burial: buried after death at American Cemetery, Vauclaire, Dordogne, France; 10/4/1921 remains disinterred and reburied at Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial, Suresnes, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, FR, Plot A Row 13 Grave 9
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 Farmworker, 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.
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