James Znidarsic 

[spelled Znedarsic and Zmedarsic in some records]

*No plaque located*

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

Birth: 6/26/1895, Wheeling, West Virginia 

Address: 1204 Norwood Ave., Cleveland, Ohio

Demographics: age 21 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Clerk at Cleveland Post Office Station H [Cleveland's historic Glenville Bratenahl Station post office was known as Station H in 1917; the current building was built in the 1930's.] 

Appearance: Height tall, Build slender, Eyes brown, Hair dark brown

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 9/18/1917; Private [also listed as Corporal]

Service Number: 1946247

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

Action: Co L 331 Inf to May 13/18; Co H 163 Inf to May 24/18; Co M 16 Inf to death. Pvt. Montdidier-Noyon; Aisne-Marne; Defensive Sector. AEF Apr 23/18 to death. Camp Sherman Replacement Draft.

Death: August 3, 1918 at age 23; cause of death Died of Wounds

Burial: buried locally in an American plot at Orleans, Loiret, France; 10/11/1920 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Saint-Nazaire, France 10/14/1920; 11/22/1920 remains shipped from Saint-Nazaire to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 12/15/1920; 1/4/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 1/8/1921 to the care of Ignatz Znidarsic, father, 1204 Norwood Ave., Cleveland, OH and Anton Grdina [undertaker]; final burial 1/8/1921 at Calvary Cemetery, 10000 Miles Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 41 Lot 99, alongside his parents and several siblings who were buried there at a later date; family name on gravestone was spelled Znidarsic

Next of Kin: I. Znidarsic, father, 1204 Norwood Ave., Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information: Some family members may have changed their surname to Snyder. 

Father: Ignatz Znidarsic (1861-1932), born Lipje, Obcina Dobrna, Savinjska, Slovenia, emigrated ~1891, occupation Laborer in Fountain Supply, buried Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH alongside wife and several children including Private James Znidarsic; Mother: Mary Poppadec Znidarsic (1867-1938), born Slovenia, emigrated ~1892, buried Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH alongside husband and several children including Private James Znidarsic; Siblings: Victoria Znidarsic Smrekar (1888-1974); Frank Snyder (1893-1971); Louis Anthony Snyder (1898-1953); Rudolph Znidarsic (1901-1950); George E. Snyder (1904-1998)