Camp Sherman in Chillicothe, Ohio

World War I

Wesley Weber Schaub did his training for service at Camp Sherman in Chillicothe, Ohio.

The war ended before he was sent overseas.*

Pictures from the collection of Sandy (Paulus) Franklin.

Jan Edith Latta told her niece (me--Betty Latta Kitchen) that her Uncle Wes enlisted in World I War in 1918. He was in Virginia (in Fort Myers outside Washington D.C. ) when the armistice was announced so he did not have to go to Europe. Aunt Jan said one of his jobs was to remove the dead bodies of the many soldiers who died in the influenza epidemic. He was taking one out when he heard a moaning. Turned out that soldier was not dead yet and back to the infirmary he went. Over 600,000 people died in that epidemic (including my grandfather Percy Miller and his brother).

U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 about Wesley W Schaub

Name: Wesley W Schaub

County: Stark

State: Ohio

Birthplace: Ohio,United States of America

Birth Date: 16 Nov 1896

Draft Board: 2

Age: 21

Occupation: electrician

Nearest Relative: George W. Schaub, father

Height/Build: medium/medium

Color of Eyes/Hair: brown/dark

Signature: Wesley W. Schaub

Ohio Soldiers in WWI, 1917-1918 about Wesley W. Schaub

Name: Wesley W. Schaub

Age: 22

Race: White

Birth Date: 16 Nov 1896

Birth Location: Louisville, Ohio, USA -- [THIS SHOULD BE LEWISVILLE, MONROE CO.,OHIO]

Enlistment Date: 5 Sep 1918

Enlistment County: Alliance

Enlistment State: Ohio

Enlistment Division: National Army

Decorations and Awards: View image

Advancement: View image

Comments: 158 Depot Brigade to 19 Oct 1918; 29 Engineers to 20 Nov 1918; Co A 76 Engineers to Discharge Private Honorable discharge 11 Dec 1918.

Last modified February 12, 2014.

Provided by Betty Latta Kitchen

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