Moses Elias Levine
(1895-1918)
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Private First Class Moses Elias Levine
Private First Class Moses Elias Levine
Photo Credit: Cleveland Press Archive
Cleveland Press Building in 1937 at E. 9th and Rockwell, Cleveland, OH
Private First Class Moses Elias Levine, signature on WWI draft registration
Private First Class Moses Elias Levine, signature on WWI draft registration
Base Hospital, Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Alabama
Base Hospital, Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Alabama
Obituary Private First Class Moses Elias Levine
Credit: Cleveland Press Archive
Gravestone, Private First Class Moses Elias Levine, Fir Street [or Fir Avenue] Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Gravestone, Private First Class Moses Elias Levine, Fir Street [or Fir Avenue] Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Partially illegible inscription on gravestone
Moses Elias Levine
Moses Elias Levine
*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: 4/4/1895, Cleveland, Ohio
Birth: 4/4/1895, Cleveland, Ohio
Address: 1363 E. 93rd St., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: age 22 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; religion Jewish; native-born Clevelander; had previously served in the Navy; claimed mother was a dependent; occupation Reporter at Cleveland Press [The Cleveland Press was published from 1878-1982. By 1903, it was Cleveland's leading daily newspaper. By the 1920's, its circulation was nearly 200,000.]
Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes blue, Hair light brown
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/2/1918; rank Private First Class
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/2/1918; rank Private First Class
Service Number: 1543294
Deployment: died prior to deployment
Action:
Death: July 3, 1918 at age 23 at Base Hospital, Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Alabama; cause of death "Suicide (carbolic acid)" [Carbolic acid, aka phenol, was a widely accessible antiseptic in that era and commonly used as a highly toxic tool for self-harm or suicide, until regulations were put in place to control its use.]
Death: July 3, 1918 at age 23 at Base Hospital, Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Alabama; cause of death "Suicide (carbolic acid)" [Carbolic acid, aka phenol, was a widely accessible antiseptic in that era and commonly used as a highly toxic tool for self-harm or suicide, until regulations were put in place to control its use.]
Burial: 7/6/1918 at Fir Street [or Fir Avenue] Cemetery, 6015 Fir Ave. at W. 61st St, Section 3 Row 7 Grave 11, alongside his parents [Cleveland's second oldest Jewish cemetery, founded 1865 in the present-day Detroit Shoreway neighborhood]
Burial: 7/6/1918 at Fir Street [or Fir Avenue] Cemetery, 6015 Fir Ave. at W. 61st St, Section 3 Row 7 Grave 11, alongside his parents [Cleveland's second oldest Jewish cemetery, founded 1865 in the present-day Detroit Shoreway neighborhood]
Next of Kin: Mrs. Ida Levine, mother, 1363 E. 93rd St., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Father: Elias Barkowski Levine (1861-1908), born Vizhon, Lithuania, emigrated ~1879, married 1890, occupation 1900 Salesman, died of Peritonitis at age 47, buried Fir Street Jewish Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Ida Blumkin Levine (1864 or 1866-1935), born Russia-Poland, emigrated ~1887, married 1890, had at least 6 children, per 1910 Census she was a widow and employed as a Traveling Saleslady, buried Fir Street Jewish Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Siblings: Harry Levine (1882-1941); Abraham Levine (1890-1979); David B. Levine (1893-1903); Samuel McKinley Levine (1896-1997) who served in and survived WWI; Irene Levine Goulder (1898-1984). Sibling list may be incomplete.
Brother Samuel McKinley Levine
Brother Abraham Levine
1363 E. 93rd St., Cleveland, OH, address given on WWI draft registration
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