U. S. Army Sergeant. He enrolled at Akron, Ohio on November 5, 1917. William H. Wirt died of disease, according to the book, Soldiers of the Great War, Vol. 3.

However, in Ohio Soldiers in World War I, 1917-1918, Sergeant William H. Wirt, born in Dallas, West Virgina, and a resident of Akron, Ohio, was Wounded in Action on November 8, 1918 and Honorably Discharged November 15, 1919: "Co B 332 Infantry to 23 Feb 1918; Co G 11 Infantry to Discharge Private, first class 22 Jan 1918; Private 20 Feb 1918; Private, first class 23 May 1918; Corporal 1 Sept 1918. St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. Wounded In Action severely 8 Nov 1918."

In his WWI Draft Registration, this same man said he was born at Dallas, West Virginia on February 3, 1895, and was employed at Goodyear Rubber at the time of enlistment.

On November 11, 1922, he married Frances Eleanor Gentner in Summit County, Ohio, parents stated as Willis Wirt and Lina Bone.

His death record in Stark County, Ohio, states his parents were Willis Wirt and Christina Bone. The parents' names are variously stated in marriage and death records of siblings and family as Willis, William, Wilson and Wiltz, for the father, and Tiny, Tina, and Christina for the mother.

The father, William/Willis,who died in 1904, and a few siblings, are buried at Mt. View Cemetery, Dallas, Marshall County. The mother had died before the father, according to the father's obituary.