Ten soldiers who died during the 1918 Influenza Epidemic are buried here, but their identities remain unknown. During and after World War I, troop trains regularly ran through Montello, and ill soldiers were unloaded and treated by a Southern Pacific Railroad doctor in a makeshift hospital at the town hotel. Crucial government documents identifying the men were destroyed by fire, and the graves remained unmarked for years. Through the efforts of Mr. and Mrs William Kimber of Montello and a Las Vegas service organization, The 40 & 8, the previously unmarked graves were marked in 1975, although the soldiers still had no names.