Edward Urbancic
(1894-1918)
(1894-1918)
City of Erie Steamer Great Lakes Vintage 1917 postcard
Private Edward Urbancic, signature on WWI draft registration
SS Nagoya
Painting Sunday Morning at Cunel, by Harvey Dunn
Credit: National Museum of American History
Gravestone, Private Edward Urbancic, Meuse Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France
Edward Urbancic
[No Cleveland WWI soldier was found with the name "Ed Curbanoic." Recorded as such on the original list of Liberty Row names, it was most likely a misspelling. We did find records for Clevelander Edward Urbancic who died in WWI and is profiled below.]
*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.
Address: 2030 Halstead Ave., Lakewood, OH
Demographics: age 22 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; occupation Grading at W. Ware, Lakewood, OH
Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes brown, Hair sandy
Service Number: 3487379
Deployment: 7/27/1918 from Halifax, Nova Scotia aboard SS Nagoya
Action:
Additional Information: Family information was scarce and difficult to verify. We sketched out a few possible details as follows.
Per the 1910 Census, there were three children Edward, Frank and Annie Urbancic living as "boarders" at a home at 1306 E. 55th St., Cleveland, OH. At the time, Edward Urbancic was 15 years old and employed as a Laborer in a Factory.
Father: Frank E. [aka Franz and France] Urbancic (?1864-?1904), France Urbancic [not certain if this is his father] buried at Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: ?Ann Horvat Urbancic (?-1906), [not sure if this is his mother] born Austria, died of cancer at age 39, buried Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Siblings: Frank Urbancic (1893-?), Annie Urbancic, and possibly others.