Berrien County lost a disproportionate number of men in World War I in part because companies at that time were organized by militia districts at home.

Eight weeks before the Armistice, 25 Berrien County men were among the 200 recently enlisted soldiers who perished at sea off the coast of Scotland.

[5] Many of the bodies were returned to the soldiers' hometowns for burial, and the names of the dead were engraved on a memorial located on the courthouse grounds in Nashville.

The memorial was the first in a series of pressed copper sculptures by artist E. M. Viquesney entitled The Spirit of the American Doughboy.

[20] The largest Christian groups within the county are Baptists and non or interdenominational Protestants, followed by Methodists and Pentecostals.