John "Jack" Oscar Pearson

John "Jack" Oscar Pearson

*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: 2/6/1892, Lattsbyn, Bralanda, Sweden

Address: 1470 E. 71st. St., Cleveland, Ohio

Demographics: age 25 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; occupation Tool Maker, Hart Manufacturing Company, 2319 E. 20th St., Cleveland, OH, [makers of iron and steel products]; citizenship status Declarant; requested exemption due to "Alien"

Appearance: Complexion fair, Height 5'6", Weight 158 lbs., Hair blond, Eyes blue

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 11/8/1917; Private

Service Number: 1946209

Deployment: 4/23/1918 from Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Mercury

Action: Co L 331 Inf to Apr 12/18; Apr Repl Draft Cp Sherman O to --/18; Co H 163 Inf to May 24/18; Co H 16 Inf to death; Private Defensive Sector; AEF Apr 23/18 to death; died of wounds June 8 1918

Death: June 8, 1918 at age 26; cause of death Died of Wounds

Burial: buried locally after death in France; 7/28/1922 remains disinterred with permanent reburial in Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois, France; Plot D Row 19 Grave 31 [no gravestone photo on cemetery website]  

Next of Kin: Anna Lind (?-1968), sister, 238 Harrison St., Elyria, OH; Mrs. Mary Anderson, sister, 1443 W. 112th St., Cleveland, OH; Miss Ida Maria Pearson, sister, 644 E. 131st St., Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information: Emigrated 4/29/1912 when many Swedes were emigrating to the U.S. due to religious repression, social conservatism, population growth, and crop failures creating unusually bleak conditions in the Swedish countryside; unable to locate information about parents and sisters due to the common name Pearson; the "back yard" of Hart Manufacturing Co. was the site in 1936 where the third victim of Cleveland's notorious torso murderer was found

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