On Feb. 19, 1930, the Park City Daily News reported that a local woman would be traveling to Europe soon to visit her son’s grave. Her son was killed in action during the first World War.

The mother did not have to pay for the trip. It was paid for by the United States Government. At the time, the U.S. Government covered the cost of travel for mothers and widows to visit the graves of military members who served from April 5, 1917 to July 1, 1921 and who were buried in foreign soil.

Most of the bodies of these service members had been returned to their families for proper burial. This local woman was considered the last mother in Warren County to have a son still buried in Europe.

– “Way Back When in Warren County” is compiled by researchers at the Warren County Public Library and appears twice weekly in the Bowling Green Daily News. For more information about the library, visit warrenpl.org.