George Hall
(1894-1918)
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Private/Cook George Hall, signature on WWI draft registration, with lower left corner cut off to indicate "colored" race
George Hall
*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: 7/2/1894, Meridian, Mississippi
Birth: 7/2/1894, Meridian, Mississippi
Address: 3018 E. 45th St., Cleveland, Ohio
Demographics: age 23 at draft registration; married; Black; native-born citizen; occupation Miner at Elkhorn Coal Co., Ocean Mine, West Virginia
Appearance: Height tall, Build slender, Eyes black, Hair black
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 8/15/1918; Private/Cook
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 8/15/1918; Private/Cook
Service Number: 4044536
Deployment: deployment date not recorded on ship manifest; ship name listed as "NY#3" with debarkation from Hoboken, New Jersey; manifest noted "colored" troops
Action:
Death: October 6, 1918 [2 months after enlistment and 5 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 24; cause of death Bronchopneumonia
Death: October 6, 1918 [2 months after enlistment and 5 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 24; cause of death Bronchopneumonia
Burial: 10/10/1918 buried at American Cemetery, Lambezellec, Finistere, France [where the U.S. Army created a large burial ground for the hundreds of soldiers who died of flu and pneumonia shortly after arrival, which appears to have been the case for Private/Cook George Hall]; 4/18/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at same cemetery; 6/8/1920 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S.; 6/21/1920 remains shipped from Brest, France to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Princess Matoika arriving Hoboken 7/21/1920; 8/5/1920 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving 8/7/1920 to the care of Charles Hall, father, 2656 E. 37th St. and E.F. Boyd Funeral Home, Cleveland, OH; final burial at Harvard Grove Cemetery, 6100 Lansing Rd., Cleveland, OH, Lot 238 N 1/2 Section 15 Tier 1 Grave 2N in same section as his father buried later [no grave photos on cemetery website]
Burial: 10/10/1918 buried at American Cemetery, Lambezellec, Finistere, France [where the U.S. Army created a large burial ground for the hundreds of soldiers who died of flu and pneumonia shortly after arrival, which appears to have been the case for Private/Cook George Hall]; 4/18/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at same cemetery; 6/8/1920 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S.; 6/21/1920 remains shipped from Brest, France to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Princess Matoika arriving Hoboken 7/21/1920; 8/5/1920 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving 8/7/1920 to the care of Charles Hall, father, 2656 E. 37th St. and E.F. Boyd Funeral Home, Cleveland, OH; final burial at Harvard Grove Cemetery, 6100 Lansing Rd., Cleveland, OH, Lot 238 N 1/2 Section 15 Tier 1 Grave 2N in same section as his father buried later [no grave photos on cemetery website]
Next of Kin: Mrs. Julia Hall, wife, Box 14, Ocean Mine, WVA, about whom no additional information was found
Additional Information: In 1946, Mrs. Mary Smith, 2321 E. 57th St., Cleveland, OH applied for a government-issued headstone for the unmarked grave of George Hall. No additional information was found about Mary Smith, unless she was possibly Private/Cook George Hall's sister Mary who married someone with the surname of Smith.]
Wife: Julia Hall, about whom no additional information was found; Father: Charles "Charlie" Augusta Hall (1858-1925), born Alabama, married 1888, per 1900 Census occupation Laborer at a Coal Yard, death certificate noted occupation as Night Watchman and cause of death as Lobar Pneumonia, buried Harvard Grove Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Hall (1850-?), born Mississippi, married 1888, reported 4 children in 1900 Census of whom 4 were living, per same Census occupation Sick Nurse for a private family; Siblings: Fannie Hall (1889-?); Mary Hall (1891-?). Sibling list may be incomplete.
Research was impeded by the prevalence of the surname and the paucity of records for Black Americans of that era.
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