First, My mother lived with her mother-in-Law Susan Ferguson Harris, and they talked. My mother was told that the soldier, her son, was on a ship going to France in WWI when he died of the flu and was buried at sea. Then, Jewell Payne, Verner's niece, said she saw his grave near the embarkation port, with a marker on it. I believed that the marker said "in memory of" which would mean he was not actually buried there.

Then I see this monument in Pauls Valley OK with his name on it. I may be wrong but i think my mother and Verner's mother were correct and the two markers on the"grave" sites are memorials rather than actually containing his body.