Guy M. McElroy
(1892 or 1893-1919)
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Private First Class Guy M. McElroy, signature on WWI draft registration
Private First Class Guy M. McElroy, signature on WWI draft registration
Widow Katherine Corrigan McElroy and son Guy McElroy Jr.
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Gravestone, Private First Class Guy M. McElroy, Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Gravestone, Private First Class Guy M. McElroy, Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Sibling List
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Sibling List
11918 Phillips Ave., Cleveland, OH, sister Bessie McElroy's address
Guy M. McElroy
Guy M. McElroy
*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: 3/17/1892 or 1893 [birth year on gravestone 1893], Ravenna, Ohio
Birth: 3/17/1892 or 1893 [birth year on gravestone 1893], Ravenna, Ohio
Address: 118 E. 16th St., Chicago, Illinois [on draft registration]; sister's address 11918 Phillips Ave., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: age 25 at draft registration; married; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation at draft registration Railroad Switchman "not working;" reported previous military service
Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes brown, Hair brown
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 9/19/1917; enlistment date not known; Private First Class Medical Department
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 9/19/1917; enlistment date not known; Private First Class Medical Department
Service Number: 13907
Deployment: 1/12/1918 from Hoboken, New Jersey aboard transport ship for Evacuation Hospital Number 3, Medical Department, U.S Army
Action: no military action records found; deployed as part of Evacuation Hospital Number 3, Medical Department, U.S. Army
Death: February 1, 1919 at U.S. Military Evacuation Hospital #3, Toul, France; cause of death Lobar Pneumonia
Death: February 1, 1919 at U.S. Military Evacuation Hospital #3, Toul, France; cause of death Lobar Pneumonia
Burial: 2/3/1919 buried after death at Stadtisha Friedhof Cemetery, Trier (Treves), Germany; 8/24/1920 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 9/6/1920; 9/10/1920 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Antigone arriving Hoboken 9/29/1920; 10/13/1920 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving 10/14/1920 to the care of M.H. Gallagher [undertaker] 4304 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, OH; final burial Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, 4700 Broadveiw Rd., Cleveland, OH, Linwood Plot, alongside his mother who was buried there in 1910
Burial: 2/3/1919 buried after death at Stadtisha Friedhof Cemetery, Trier (Treves), Germany; 8/24/1920 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 9/6/1920; 9/10/1920 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Antigone arriving Hoboken 9/29/1920; 10/13/1920 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving 10/14/1920 to the care of M.H. Gallagher [undertaker] 4304 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, OH; final burial Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, 4700 Broadveiw Rd., Cleveland, OH, Linwood Plot, alongside his mother who was buried there in 1910
Next of Kin: Miss Bessie McElroy, sister, 11918 Phillips Ave., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Wife: On 8/1/1917 [5 months before deployment for WWI], at age 25 and employed as a Clerk, he married Katherine Corrigan, age 29. Katherine Corrigan McElroy Callaghan (1887-?) was born in Owenduff, Mayo, Ireland and emigrated ~1910. She remarried in 1934 to James Callaghan; Child: Son Guy McElroy Jr. (1918-1940) was born on June 5, 1918, seven months after his father deployed to France and eight months before his father died in WWI. In the 1920 and 1930 Census records, he and his widowed mother were living together in Cleveland. In the 1940 Census, Guy McElroy, age 21, was living at the Institution for Feeble-Minded Youth in Scioto, Pickaway County, Ohio. He died in Scioto, OH that same year. No cause of death was found; Father: Samuel E. McElroy (1866-1952), born New Philadelphia, OH, occupation Railroad Engineer; Mother: Mary Matilda Marshall McElroy (1869-1910), born Wheeling, West Virginia, buried Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Siblings: See Sibling Lists at left. Sibling lists may be incomplete.
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