We have two Civil War vets from Grace City, George Trembley, who is buried in New Rockford, North Dakota and Louis Whitman, who is buried in the Grace City Cemetery. Mr. Whitman was never prouder than when marching in a parade on Memorial Day. He lived alone in a little house and raised a garden and raspberries, which he picked and sold. I can still remember him chewing tobacco. We had soft gum erasers in school in those days shaped like an old man's head and we used to squeeze them and say it looked like Granddad Whitman chewing tobacco. The first men called to the colors June 1917 were Richard Robichaud, Otto Lambrecht, Peter Christofferson, Chalmer Smucker and Enoch Molyneaux. We never lost a man to the war but Henry Palmer and John Flatters both died in Army camps of the flu in October of 1918. Both are buried in the Grace City, Cemetery. Many served in the Army, Navy, Merchant Marines and the C.C. and National Guard. On June 5, 1917, 44 men from Grace City registered for draft.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 323