Private Charles W. Graves was designated the “Representative of the Nation's Known Dead of The World War” when the troopship Cambria returned the final 1,065 bodies of the known dead to the United States in March 1922, and his body, the last removed from the ship, was honored at an April 2 memorial service at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where four Army generals and four Navy admirals carried his flag-draped casket before thousands of Gold Star mothers, U.S. Senators, Representatives, and Governors as President Warren G. Harding delivered a eulogy. Although national plans called for America's Known Soldier to be placed beside The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, the Graves family requested that he be returned to his native Georgia, and he was buried at Antioch Church Cemetery on Collier Springs Road on April 6, 1922, after hundreds marched from Broad Street and Second Avenue to the small wooden church. Armistice Day services were held there on November 11, 1922. On September 22, 1923, his body was removed from Antioch and interred for a third time at Myrtle Hill, where Armistice Day 1923, the fifth anniversary of the end of The World War, was observed at the site. Shanklin - Attaway Post 5 of The American Legion provided the marble slab and two bronze tablets that serve as his memorial, and three 1904 model machine guns have stood guard there since that date. Hundreds attended the service, including Governor Clifford Walker, every civic group in Rome, most of Rome/Floyd County's school children, Graves' commanding officer Gen. C. F. Spence, and Gen. E. M. Lewis, Commander, 8th Corp Area, who delivered the Address of Dedication and said, “He has given all that he had … what could any man do more?”