Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery (click to enlarge)

A telegram received Saturday states that Howard Nickerson was killed in action.

The Farnam Echo 15(51):1 Thursday, 28 November, 1918

Howard Nickerson is another Frontier county boy who has paid the supreme sacrifice. Word was received last week by his mother, Mrs. Marion Messersmith, that he was killed in action on October 12th. Howard volunteered soon after war was declared in Co. L, at Gothenburg, Nebr., and was sent to Deming, New Mex. He was sent to France last June and was in active service at the front almost immediately after arriving over there. The mother has the sincere sympathy of the community in her grief. We all knew that some of our boys would in all probability, not come back, but somehow we all hoped that “our” boy would not be among them. Our hearts go out to the sorrowing mother and other relatives.

The (Stockville) Faber, 35(9) Thursday, Nov. 28, 1918.

Private, U.S. Army
Co. C, 128th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Division, AEF
Died: 12 Oct 1918
Buried: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
Romagne, France
Plot H Row 3 Grave 11

American Battle Monuments Commission

See 2006 Memorial Day Address: Lest We Forget