Albin Leonhard Ratz.............Seaman

    Son of Joseph and Mary Witt Ratz (both deceased); born February 26, 1894, St. Leon, Dearborn County, Indiana. Reared by an uncle, Nicholas Ratz, St. Leon, Indiana. Farmer. Enlisted in U. S. Navy in 1915. Sent to Great Lakes Training Station, Illinois. Serving on the Peoria at the outbreak of the World War. Ordered overseas; drowned off the coast of France, September 23, 1917. Buried, St. Nazaire, France.