RIEDER, Nicholas 1890-1918

RIEDER

Posted By: Joe Conroy (email)
Date: 9/10/2010 at 17:02:09

Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo, Iowa
8 Nov 1918
Page 9

Pvt. Nicholas Reiter, Gilbertville, Killed In Action Sept. 30

Gilbertville, Ia., Nov. 8. -- (Special) -- Mrs. Gerhard Reiter (sic) received notice last evening that her son, Pvt. Nicholas Reiter, 88th division, was killed in action Sept. 30. Pvt. Reiter was called into service in March, 1918. He was 22 years old. Surviving are the mother, a brother, Pvt. Mathias Reiter, Camp Pike, and three sisters, Gilbertville.

Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo, Iowa
12 Nov 1918
Page 9

Pvt. Nicholas Rieder of Gilbertville, the last Black Hawk county boy reported to have made the supreme sacrifice, was killed in action Sept. 30. He left with a county contingent for Camp Dodge Feb. 22; was transferred to South Carolina, and sailed with the 117 infantry May 10.

No particulars of the manner of his death were given in the official notice received by his mother on Friday last. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Anna Rieder, and five sisters, Mrs. Joe Webber, Mrs. Leonard Bernard, Mrs. Frank Teeter, Gilbertville; Mrs. Fallana Marx, Verona, N. D., and Mrs. Mike Hintz, Iona Lake, Minn.

(Contributor note: Pvt. Nicholas Rieder was buried at Plot A, Row 24, Grave 1, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, France. - J.C.)