American World War I Mothers’ Pilgrimage, 1930, Day County, South Dakota

In the late 1920s the War Department of the United States compiled a list of mothers and widows of deceased soldiers killed in World War I and offered to send them to their loved one's final resting place in Europe. This database contains the names those women who were entitled to make the pilgrimage, as shown by department records on 15 November 1929, for Day County, South Dakota

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Surname Deceased	First Name Deceased	Invitee	Relationship	City	Rank	Organization	Cemetery
Brady	Ray A.	Mrs. Jessie Brady	Mother	Waubay	PVT	Co. D, 362^nd Infantry	Meuse-Argonne
Morehouse	Walter E.	Mrs. Florence A. Morehouse	Mother	Bristol	PVT	Co. D, 308^th Infantry	Meuse-Argonne
Henning	Joe P.	Mrs. Martha Henning	Mother	Grenville	PVT	Co. B, 355^th Infantry	Meuse-Argonne

Source: List of Mothers and Widows of American Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines Entitled to Make a Pilgrimage to War Cemeteries in Europe. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1930.