Tomb of the Known Soldier

Charles Graves enlisted in the United States Army on August 16, 1917; he was eighteen years old at the time.

On October 5, 1918, fourteen months after his Army service began, Graves was killed by German artillery shrapnel on the Hindenburg Line.

Four years after his death, Grave's mother claimed her son's body when it arrived on a troopship called the Cambria on March 29, 1922.

The War Department wanted to give his body, in its flag-draped coffin, a parade on Fifth Avenue in New York with generals, admirals, and politicians before his mother buried Graves in the cemetery near Antioch Church on April 6, 1922.

On November 11, 1923, Armistice Day, Charles and the other 33 young men from Floyd County who died in World War I were honored with three Maxim guns and 34 magnolia trees.