William Frederick Sundermeier 

[also spelled Sandermeier]                     

*No plaque located*

*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque*

Birth: 10/17/1886, Cleveland, Ohio

Address: 4301 Bailey Ave., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 30 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; occupation Clothing Cutter at Jacob Marks, Cleveland, OH; [Jacob Marks (1872-1936) was a clothing manufacturer located at 311 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland, OH, according to the Cleveland City Directories of the early years of 20th century. The ready-to-wear garment industry reached its peak in Cleveland in the 1920's with many of the early entrepreneurs being of German Jewish extraction.]

Appearance: Height short, Build medium, Eyes grey, Hair blond

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 9/20/1917; Private

Service Number: 1943932

Deployment: 3/14/1918 from Hoboken, NJ aboard "Ship 85"

Action: Co B 331 Inf to Feb 26/18; Cp Sherman O Feb Aut Repl Draft to Apr 5/18; Co C 163 Inf to Apr 30/18; Co E 125 Inf to death. Pvt. Aisne-Marne; Defensive Sector. AEF Mch 11/18 to death. 

Death: July 31, 1918 at age 30; cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: buried after death in American Cemetery, Aisne, France; 6/12/19 remains disinterred and reburied in another grave in the same cemetery; 5/12/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 6/13/1921; 6/19/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard USAT Wheaton arriving Hoboken 7/2/1921; 7/20/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 7/30/1921 to the care of Mrs. Louise Beinker, mother, Union Station, Cleveland, OH; funeral 8/2/1921 at Trinity Lutheran Church, W. 30th St. and Lorain Ave., Cleveland, OH with Veterans of Foreign Wars officiating; final burial 8/2/1921 at Lutheran Cemetery, 4566 Pearl Rd., Cleveland, OH, Section K Lot 62

Next of Kin: Louisa Beinker, mother, 4301 Bailey Ave., Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information: Father: Friedrich "Fred" Ludwig Sundermeier (1854-1904), born Germany, emigrated 1888, occupation Cigar Maker, buried Lutheran Cemetery, Cleveland, OH alongside his wife and son Private William Frederick Sundermeier; Mother: Anna Marie Louise Hoelscher Sundermeier Beinker (1856-1928), born Germany, had 4 children with first husband, remarried 1905 to Frederick Beinker (1862-1918), a widower who died on 10/22/1918, 3 months after her son died. She was buried at Lutheran Cemetery, Cleveland, OH alongside her first husband and her son Private William Frederick Sundermeier; Siblings: Anna Sundermeier Groener (1879-1962; August Ernst Sundermeier (1881-1949); Fred Beinker (1894-1956), a step-brother from his mother's second husband's first marriage.  Sibling list may be incomplete. 

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