Dixie Cornell Gebhardt

Historical marker location:

214 East Main Street, Knoxville, Iowa

( Marker is on East Robinson Street just east of South 3rd Street, on the right when traveling east.)

1866-1955.

In 1917, a German submarine sank the SS Housatonic, a U.S. freighter carrying food and supplies to Europe during World War I, off the coast of South Carolina. Among the crew members who went down with the ship was an Iowa native named Herbert C. Jones, who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during the sinking.