Iowa
Old Press
Glenwood Opinion Tribune
Glenwood, Mills Co., Iowa
February 11, 1935
COMPILING RECORD OF VETERANS GRAVES HERE
Relatives of a deceased veteran of any war whose grave is not
marked with a government head stone, are requested to communicate
with a member of Mills County Graves Registration committee which
is composed of the following men: Glenwood, Clarence B. Day;
Malvern, Harold Slater; Emerson, Ted Birdsall; Silver City, Roy
Flanagan.
This committee of veterans is making a survey of all the
cemeteries in Mills County and hope to register the graves of
veterans of all wars. The government is furnishing head stones
for these graves free of charge to the nearest railroad station.
The purpose of the graves registration service is to compile a
record of the burial place of all those who served in the
military or naval forces of the United States in time of war, or
in a campaign under the direction of the federal government, and
whose bodies now rest in the state of Iowa.
Necessity for such a record has been realized for years, and is
especially important now that records of former war soldiers are
quite likely to become lost as the veterans of the Civil war and
Spanish-American war are growing fewer each year.Mills county's
graves registration committee is a part of the American Legion
program for 1935 to establish and mark every veterans grave
before Memorial Day.
This committee asks the cooperation of all citizens of Mills
county and especially relatives of veterans in order to secure
data needed. Once this work is done it will be a permanent
record, one copy will be left with the county recorder, one with
the attorney-generals office and one copy with the War Department
at Washington, D.C.
[transcribed by C.D., March 2009]