Finding Roscoe Enloe's Grave

By Submitted by: Martha Baker
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I commemorated the Great War with a tour of battlefields and cemeteries in Belgium and France last fall. I carried with me the data I needed to find the grave of one of the first men from my home town, Jefferson City, Mo., to die in World War I. Roscoe Enloe had given his life for his country, but he also gave his name to the American Legion post my father, Harold B. Baker Jr., belonged to in that capital city. On a tour of the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery, I asked the superintendent how long it would take to find Enloe's grave, and I gave him the data. "Get in," he said, pointing to his golf cart.

I commemorated the Great War with a tour of battlefields and cemeteries in Belgium and France last fall. I carried with me the data I needed to find the grave of one of the first men from my home town, Jefferson City, Mo., to die in World War I. Roscoe Enloe had given his life for his country, but he also gave his name to the American Legion post my father, Harold B. Baker Jr., belonged to in that capital city. On a tour of the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery, I asked the superintendent how long it would take to find Enloe's grave, and I gave him the data. "Get in," he said, pointing to his golf cart. Within a minute, I was standing by Plot B, Row 18, Grave 32, the final resting place of the man whose name I had heard so often in my living room. Standing by his grave mattered to me greatly as a way also to honor this member of the 13th Machine Gun Battalion of the 35 Division, who died Sept. 30, 1918.

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