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County: McLean

Corp. James Bethel Gresham Memorial Bridge

Marker Number: 

1199

Location: 

Rumsey, S. end of Green River Memorial Bridge, KY 81

Erected, 1928, honoring the first American killed in action in World War I on Nov. 3, 1917, at Battle of Sommerviller. Enlisted in 1914 in Indiana. With Pershing in Mexico, 1916. Sent overseas, June 14, 1917, with first American soldiers of AEF. Born McLean Co., Aug. 23, 1893. Buried in France; reinterred, Evansville, Ind., 1921.

Reverse Description:

Erected in 1968.

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