Name: Beuttenmiller, George Frederick, PVT, USA
Local address: Cliffwood Ave, Cliffwood, NJ
George’s father, Frederick E. Beuttenmuller (c. 1841-1896) was a German immigrant who worked as a butcher in Elizabeth, NJ, where he was married to the former Elizabeth Jacobs (1852-c.1906). They had four children who survived to adulthood, George being the third, born December 18, 1889 in Elizabeth.
After his parents died, he and his younger brother and sister resided with the oldest sibling, Elise Beuttenmiller Siess (1877-1924) and her family in Elizabeth. The 1900 census lists George as a student, while those in 1905 and 1915 list he employment as “car builder” and a carpenter, respectively – all in Elizabeth.
The only tie he has to our area is his June 5, 1917 draft registration wherein he advised he was employed by Harvey Stillwagon in Cliffwood as a farm laborer. Stillwagon was residing on Cliffwood Avenue in 1920, per the census. Although he registered in Matawan Township that date, his name did not appear with other listed in the Matawan Journal, possibly because of a transient status. The army considered his home residence as Cliffwood.
Inducted at Keyport on June 1, 1918, he trained at Camp Jackson, SC and shipped out to Europe on July 23, 1918 out of New York aboard the SS Corinthic with the 23rd Battery as a “replacement draft.” Upon reaching the continent, he was assigned to Battery “A” of the 121st Field Artillery.
His military record indicated he participated in action in Soissons, Argonne Sector. He survived the war but died of lobar pneumonia associated with the Spanish Influenza a month after the Armistice, December 11, 1918.
Buried in the American Cemetery in Revigny, France, his body was disinterred Oct 1, 1921 and shipped to Hoboken on November 26, 1921 aboard the USAT Cantigny with the bodies of 806 other servicemen. It arrived December 7, 1921 and was transferred to an Elizabeth funeral home a week later. His sister Elise was the point of contact. Except for his being listed as a casualty in a Trenton paper, no additional information regarding his death or funeral could be located in any publication. His sister in a letter to the New Jersey War History Bureau dated October 27, 1920, she advised she had no photograph of her brother. George is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Elizabeth.
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