From the United States Veterans Administration Master Index comes the enlistment record of Private Albert Adair Williams, a soldier who was killed in action during World War I, and who rests at Greenlawn Cemetery in Portsmouth, Ohio. Just three short months before Albert’s enlistment in May 1917 his young wife, Ruth Beatrice McMeans, dies after …
WPA Project Locates Local Veterans’ Graves
“Graves of scores of veterans of United States wars in this county, which have not been decorated in recent years, will be covered with flowers Decoration day when residents pay tribute to the dead.” “Graves of these Scioto county war heroes are those which have been brought back from obscurity by the WPA veterans’ graves …