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Pvt Everett H. Waterland enlisted at Fort Snelling, Minnesota on 16 June 1944.
He was born in Ismay, Montana and grew up in Prairie County, Montana. His father died in 1920 when Everett was a little boy, and his mother remarried. He came to McIntosh, South Dakota, with his parents in 1937. From 1938 to 1944 Everett worked for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad at McIntosh. He married October 29, 1938. With his wife he got two children. In June of 1944 he left McIntosh with a contingent of draftees from Corson County. After a short period of training in the Infantry in the United States, he left for overseas in December 1944 as part of the 28th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron. When he died, he was part of the 3rd Army attacking Germany.
The "Corson County News" reported that he was a fine young man, quiet and unassuming, and held in highest esteem by every acquaintance.
First buried at Block OOO, Row 12, Grave 284.