How can I ever thank you for all this wonderful information that will help me and my family find their past? Thank You.

It is true that John's family had thought John dead. They had been told according to my Aunt by military officials that "all were lost".

John Francis O'Brien - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Army Rank: Private (1918)
Assigned Unit: 107th Supply Train, H.Q. Company, 32nd Division
Army Serial Number:
Inducted:
Promoted:
Army Discharge: 1919
Remarks: Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – 1919
  Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918
  Address: 116 Ash St., Baraboo, WI (1900)
  Address: 110 Oak St., Baraboo, WI (1910)
  Address: 420 Marshall St., Milwaukee, WI (1920)
  Address: 2704 East Locust St., Milwaukee, WI (1935)
Fathers Name: William O’Brien (b. April 1866 WI)
Mothers Name: Allie Bridget McLaughlin
  (b. Oct. 1876 Fond Du Lac, WI)
  Married: April 9, 1888 Baraboo, Sauk Co., WI
Brothers: William O’Brien
Sisters: Marcella & Violet O’Brien
Civilian Occupation:
Born: March 30, 1889 Baraboo, Sauk Co., WI
Died: April 5, 1935 Milwaukee, WI (age 44)
Cemetery: Valhalla Cemetery, Milwaukee, WI
  Funeral Services - St. Johns Cathedral, Milwaukee, WI
Plot:

It was not until sometime later that they were contacted by John that he was alive. She said her mother nearly keeled over with heart failure.

June Prestin
July 30, 2000