Daniel Joseph Heffron Jr.

*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: 10/19/1888, Cleveland, Ohio

Address: 6202 Bridge Ave., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 28 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; occupation at time of draft registration Electrical Worker at K-W Ignition Co. (located north of Chester Ave., between E. 27th St. and E. 30th St., founded about 1908 as manufacturer of ignitions for automobiles and other vehicles); other occupations: 1910 at age 21 a Stenographer at a Railroad Office, 1912 Commercial Traveler (traveling salesman), 1915 Machinist, 1916 Electrician, 1917 Machinist

Appearance: Height 5'8 and 1/2", Build slender, Eyes black, Hair black 

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/15/1917; 5/25/1918; Private

Service Number: 2657661

Deployment: 7/21/1918 from New York aboard SS Canopic

Action: 13 Co 2 Inf Repl Regt 157 Dep Brig to July 12/18; 15 Co July Aut Repl Draft Cp Gordon Ga to Aug--/18; Co E 26 Inf to death. St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. AEF July 21/18 to death. Cited in GO 1 Div Dated Jan 1/20

Death: October 11, 1918 at age 29 at Sommerance, Champagne-Ardenne, France; cause of death Killed in Action/Missing in Action 

Burial: Tablets of the Missing at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France. (954 names are memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing.)

Next of Kin: Mrs. Agnes D. Heffron, mother, 6202 Bridge Ave., Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information: Private Daniel J. Heffron Jr. was the oldest child in his family. Father: Daniel John Heffron Sr. (1863-1947), born New York of Irish ancestry, occupation Cleveland Policeman, buried Calvary Cemetery, 1000 Miles Ave., Cleveland, OH; Mother: Agnes Devine Heffron (1861-1924), born Ohio of Irish ancestry, had 7 children (2 of whom died in childhood and 1 in WWI), buried Calvary Cemetery; Siblings: Edward John Heffron (1890-1948), who died on October 11, 1948 the same month and day as his brother Private Daniel J. Heffron; Katherine Heffron (1892-1904), who died at age 12 of acute nephritis; Agnes Heffron McKitterick (1894-1973); Walter R. Heffron (1895-1927), who served in WWI as a Private, was honorably discharged on 7/24/1917 with a 10% disability, and who named one son Daniel and one son Edward Joseph**, presumably after his deceased older brother Private Daniel Joseph Heffron; William J. Heffron (1897-1972), who was a Cleveland Fireman; and Marie Heffron (1899-?), who may have died in 1902. 

**Brother Walter R. Heffron's son, Edward Joseph Heffron, served as a Private in the USMC in WWII, died in 1943 at age 20 in the Pacific nation of Kiribati, and was buried in Honolulu, Hawaii at the Courts of the Missing Memorial, a tragic reminder of the death of his uncle in WWI, who was also missing in action. Edward Joseph Heffron's father died when Edward was 4 and his mother died when he was 10; he listed Sister Fides at the Parmadale Orphanage as his next of kin.    

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