Leslie Ray Herner
(1889-1918)
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Private Leslie Ray Herner
Private Leslie Ray Herner
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W. M. Pattison Supply Co. hardware
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Private Leslie Ray Herner, signature on WWI draft registration
Private Leslie Ray Herner, signature on WWI draft registration
SS Port Dennison
Newspaper article
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Gravestone, Private Leslie Ray Herner, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France
Gravestone, Private Leslie Ray Herner, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France
Private Leslie Ray Herner's father
Private Leslie Ray Herner's father
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Private Leslie Ray Herner and his mother
Private Leslie Ray Herner and his mother
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Sibling List
Private Leslie Ray Herner's brother, Neil
Private Leslie Ray Herner's brother, Neil
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Private Leslie Ray Herner's brother, Lewis
Private Leslie Ray Herner's brother, Lewis
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Leslie Ray Herner
Leslie Ray Herner
*No plaque located*
*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: 7/10/1889, West Farmington, Ohio
Birth: 7/10/1889, West Farmington, Ohio
Address: 2195 E. 85th St., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: age 27 at draft registration; single at draft registration [married later - see Additional Information section below]; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Clerk at W. M. Pattison Supply Co. [founded ~1897 by Wallace M. Pattison as major distributors of industrial hardware and equipment], 777 Rockwell St., Cleveland, OH; per 1910 Census occupation Farm Laborer at age 20
Appearance: Height tall, Build medium, Eyes blue, Hair dark
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 4/28/1918; Private
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 4/28/1918; Private
Service Number: 2431075
Deployment: 6/6/1918 [fewer than 2 months after marriage] from Brooklyn, NY aboard SS Port Dennison
Action:
Death: October 25, 1918 or November 25, 1918 at age 29; place of death listed as both Crepion, Meuse, Lorraine, France and Verdun, France [the latter on his cenotaph]; cause of death listed as both Killed in Action and Died of Disease: Pneumonia
Death: October 25, 1918 or November 25, 1918 at age 29; place of death listed as both Crepion, Meuse, Lorraine, France and Verdun, France [the latter on his cenotaph]; cause of death listed as both Killed in Action and Died of Disease: Pneumonia
Burial: buried after death at American Cemetery, Haumont-pres-Samogneux, Meuse, France; 5/19/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France; 10/14/1921 remains disinterred and reburied for a final time at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France, Plot D Row 40 Grave 18; a cenotaph was placed at Hillside Cemetery, State Route 88, West Farmington, OH at Lot 27 Section 4 Grave 2, alongside the graves of his parents and other family members
Burial: buried after death at American Cemetery, Haumont-pres-Samogneux, Meuse, France; 5/19/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France; 10/14/1921 remains disinterred and reburied for a final time at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France, Plot D Row 40 Grave 18; a cenotaph was placed at Hillside Cemetery, State Route 88, West Farmington, OH at Lot 27 Section 4 Grave 2, alongside the graves of his parents and other family members
Next of Kin: Mrs. Leslie Ray Herner, wife, 14415 Alder Ave., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Wife: On 4/23/1918, at age 28 and employed as a Clerk, Leslie Ray Herner married Ada May Bowden (1889-1976), who was born in Cleveland and was age 28 and employed as a Stenographer. On 8/13/1931, she sailed to Europe on the SS America as part of the WWI Gold Star Mothers' and Widows' Pilgrimage to visit her deceased husband's grave. On12/24/1931 she remarried to Frank James Patterson. She was identified as "Aunt May" in an undated Herner family photograph on ancestry.com.; Father: Monroe L. Herner (1845-1920), born Ohio, occupation Farmer, buried Hillside Cemetery, West Farmington, OH; Mother: Neva A. Bennett Herner (1859-1916), born OH of at least one ancestor from Vermont who fought in the Revolutionary War, had at least 4 children, buried Hillside Cemetery, West Farmington, OH; Siblings: See Sibling List at left. Sibling list may be incomplete.
Herner family plot, Hillside Cemetery, West Farmington, OH
Cenotaph, Hillside Cemetery, West Farmington, OH
Hillside Cemetery, West Farmington, OH
WWI Gold Star Mothers' and Widows' Pilgrimage Pin
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