Edmund Walter Jeroski

Birth: 7/7/1895, Cleveland, Ohio

Address: 6829 Claasen Ave., Cleveland, OH, located in the Slavic Village neighborhood

Demographics: age 21 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; occupation Electrician at American Steel and Wire Company, Cleveland, OH [founded 1857 as a manufacturer of various types of wire and wire products and became a subsidiary of U.S. Steel Company in 1901]; natural born citizen

Appearance: Height tall, Build medium, Eyes blue, Hair blond

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date 6/5/1917; enlistment date 7/21/1918; rank Private

Service Number: 4125504

Deployment: 9/18/1918 from Newport News, VA, ship name not found

Action: Co C 3 Regt FA Repl Draft to death. Pvt. AEF Sept 18/18 to death. 

Death: November 3, 1918 [one week before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 23; cause of death Pneumonia  

Burial: 11/4/1918 buried at American Cemetery at Souilly, Meuse, France; 4/11/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 5/1/1921; 6/19/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ arriving Hoboken 7/2/1921; 7/29/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 7/30/1921 to the care of W.J. Donlon, Undertakers, 9111 Miles Ave., Cleveland, OH; final burial 8/4/1921 at Calvary Cemetery, 10000 Miles Ave., Cleveland, OH  

Next of Kin: Mrs. Francis (or Frances) Jeroski, mother, 6829 Claasen Ave., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Father: Leo or Leon Jeroski (1873-1946), born Germany, emigrated 1886, occupation Electrician at Steel Mill, buried Northfield Macedonia Cemetery, Northfield, OH; Mother: Francis [or Frances] Lomkosky [or Lomkofsky] Jeroski, born Germany, buried Northfield Macedonia Cemetery, Northfield, OH; Siblings:  See Sibling List below. Sister Helen Hurley named a son Edmund, presumably after her late brother. Sibling list may be incomplete.  

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