Sfc. Melvin Rivers

Historical marker location:

125 W Taylor St, Griffin, Georgia

( Memorial is on West Taylor Street (Business U.S. 19/41) west of State Alley, on the right when traveling west.)

U.S. Army.

The state of Georgia was home to the first American-born saint, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, who founded the Sacred Heart Orphanage in Savannah in 1900.