We are actively seeking additional information regarding Major Street.

E-Mail from Stephen Jenkins: January 2009:

"From internet sources (appears to be true), John Alexander Street was son of John Waller Street Jr. and Mary White Alexander. His siblings were: Orbrey, Elliot Emett, Viola Bessie, Vibrait Lee, Charlotte Frances (Lottie),  Emma Murry,  Mary Robertson, and Mildred Jeanette Street. John Alexander Street married Olive Gray, daughter of Colonel Alonzo Gray who also is interred at Arlington National Cemetery and who wrote a book "Cavalry Tactics as Illustrated by the War of Rebellion." I am not aware of  John Alexander Street having any children. My link to John is that we share a common ancestor (John's grandfather.)"

NOTE: See below for the additional information that Stephen included with his e-mail.

Major John A. Street, who was probably the youngest officer of field rank in the United States Army, was killed in action on October 4, 1918.  Major Street, whose home was at 408 Grand Street, Brooklyn, New York, was 23 years old and a West Point graduate of the class of 1916.

He was born in Mississippi.

On his graduation he was assigned as a Second Lieutenant to the Ninth Infantry, with which command he served in the Mexican Expedition under General Pershing. He went to France as a Battalion Commander of the 128th Infantry.

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