Seamon Patrick Whealon

 Seamon Patrick Whealon  (aka Semon P. Whalen)

Birth: 5/6/1895, Kincardine [a small town on Lake Huron], Ontario, Canada 

Address: 10505 Cedar Ave. and 13413 Woodworth Rd., Cleveland, Ohio

Demographics: draft registration not located; Caucasian; occupation Mechanic; naturalized citizen; married on 7/2/1917 at age 22 to Blanche Irene Hamshire Whealon (1896-1984), age 21, a Saleswoman and later a Clerk at Ohio Bell Telephone Co

Appearance: unknown, as draft registration card not located.

Draft Registration Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft registration card not located; enlistment date 1/7/1915;  Sergeant

Service Number: 1518374

Deployment: 6/15/1918 from Hoboken, New Jersey aboard SS Leviathan

Action: Co F 5 Inf ONG (Co F 145 Inf) to death. Pvt; Corp Aug 1/17; Sgt Sept 15/17; Sup Sgt May 30/18; Sgt July 10/18. Defensive Sector. AEFJune 15/18 to death. KIA  Aug 18/18.

Death: August 18, 1918 at age 23; cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: local burial in France; remains disinterred 2/15/1921; remains shipped to Cherbourg, France 3/7/1921; remains shipped to Hoboken, NJ 5/1/1921 aboard SS Wheaton; remains arrived Hoboken, NJ 5/18/1921; remains shipped to Mrs. Margaret Whealon, mother, South Euclid, OH 6/2/1921 with arrival 6/4/1921; funeral Monday 6/6/1921 at 2 p.m. under the direction of Millard Sons & Raper Co., 2092 E. 105th St., Cleveland, OH; final resting place Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 4 Lot 196-28, under the name "Semon P. Whalen." [The burial plot is a single plot, not a family plot. There is no gravestone. Lake View Cemetery staff speculate that some families of that era were unable to afford a gravestone. Some family members were buried in California (see below).] 

Next of Kin: Mrs. Margaret Whealon, mother, 1121 Woodland Ave., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: family seemed to have changed surname to Whalen at some point; Seamon Whealon was naturalized on 6/10/1918 while serving at Camp Lee, Virginia; parents immigrated to United States 1897 or 1899; Father: Levi Whealon (1869-1943), born Canada of Irish ancestry, occupation Milk Peddler and later Stock Manager Dry Goods Store; Mother: Margaret Jane Gilmore Whealon (1868-1943), born Canada; Siblings: Robert William Whalen (1903-1979); Harry Gilmore Whalen (1907-1990); no apparent descendants from either brother, although Robert and his second wife had a stillborn child in 1956; parents and brother Robert buried Goleta Cemetery, Goleta, California; brother Harry died in Oregon; in 1923 Cleveland City Directory, Widow Blanche Whealon was living at 2256 E. 100th St., Cleveland, OH and employed as a Clerk at Ohio Bell Telephone Co.; widow Blanche Whealon, age 27, remarried on 6/5/1924 to Arthur R. Taubert, age 27, a Salesman, and they later had 2 daughters.