COMPILING RECORD OF VETERANS GRAVES HERE

Glenwood Opinion Tribune
February 11, 1935

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.