Graceland Cemetery

Historical marker location:

1844 South Cherry Street Road, Creston, Iowa

( Marker is on Cherry Street Road, 1.2 miles south of Taylor Street (U.S. 34), on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1967

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.