Buxton

Historical marker location:

Lovilia, Iowa

( Marker is on Iowa Route 5, 0.1 miles north of East 22nd Street, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1978

The first American casualty of World War I was a sailor from Iowa named Merle Hay. He was killed when the German submarine U-58 torpedoed the USS Jacob Jones on December 6, 1917.