From the Feb. 23, 2013, St. Louis (Mo) Post-Dispatch "A Look Back: First St. Louisan killed in World War I is still honored with a city park" by Tim O'Neil.
David Hickey was 38 (kind of old) when he volunteered for the Army in April 1917. He was assigned to an artillery battery and sent to France to the village of Seichepray, near the slaughter house of Verdun. And, this is where he died.
Back in St. Louis, he had been a paperboy and later worked in a shoe factory, the Post-Dispatch mail room and played on local amateur baseball teams.
Sad to be the First.
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