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  Distinguished Veteran Awardee Blog By: Dale Gardner   George Francis Grady Pfc. USMC (Posthumously promoted to Corporal) Navy Cross, 7 August 1942   George Francis Grady served in the 1 st Parachute Battalion, 1 st Marine Division, USMC during World War II. He was born in New York City on April 28, 1920. On October 11, 1938, he enlisted in the USMC at the age of eighteen, eventually being deployed to the Pacific theater with the 1 st Marine Division. The battle for Gavutu (Gavutu-Tanambogo are two islets connected by a causeway), during which Grady earned the Navy Cross and was killed in action, was part of the Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands. Airfields, communications bases, and refueling stations on these islands threatened supplies between America and Australia, therefore, the U.S. decided to use the Solomons to help bring security and to help begin the “island hopping strategy” towards the Philippines and ultimately Japan. Even though ...
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John Wirtz Grave Research for Liberty University HIUS-390

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  By: Dale Gardner Name of Deceased: John Wirtz Date of Birth: c. 1822 Date of Death: c. November 1907 Location in Cemetery: Sect. 8, Lot 7, Space 5           John Wirtz was born c. 1822 and died in November of 1907 at the age of 85. His burial was conducted on November 15, 1907, and he is buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery in Lynchburg, Virginia. His gravesite is unmarked, so there is no information about him to gather from a tombstone, but the original ledger at the Presbyterian Cemetery confirms his burial date and age.         The Wirtz name has its origins in Germany and Switzerland, giving some idea of his family origins.  His grave lies within the same section as various members of the Shaner family as well as members of the Angle family.  The earliest burial of the Shaner family was the father of John B. Shaner in 1862. John B. Shaner (who was a captain in the Lynchburg Militia), Mary C. Shaner, and Lucy C. S...
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