Here Lies in Honored Glory an American Soldier

This memorial honors Pvt. Charles Graves, a Rome soldier killed by German shellfire on the Hindenburg Line in October 1918. The American Legion placed the marble slab and bronze tablets at his Myrtle Hill grave.

Here Lies in Honored Glory an American Soldier is a historical marker in Rome, Floyd County. It is one of 31 historical markers documented in Floyd County, among 160 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 34.2505, -85.1783 near Rome. The nearest cataloged historic site is The McDougald Family of Georgia (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Georgia’s Paul Revere, Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, and Myrtle Hill Cemetery.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.