In the center of the cemetery. Isolated Burial

A large portico style mausoleum with an inscription in the center.

The memorial is an Isolated Burial (ISOB) of a civilian, Dr. Jesse Benedict Carter. He was of the Princeton Class of 1893 and a Professor of Latin there from 1902 to 1907. He was appointed as the director of the American Academy in Rome in 1912 succeeding F.D. Millet who died when the Titanic sunk. He was a fund raiser for the Italian cause in World War 1 and died in Red Cross Service at Cervignano, Italy, (Isonzo) on July 20, 1917. He Posthumously decorated Commander of the Crown of Italy. Carter is also remembered on the Princeton Plaque in Pershing Hall in Paris France which remembers all the Princeton War dead of the First World War.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY

OF

JESSE BENEDICT CARTER

DIRECTOR OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME

BORN JUNE 16TH 1872 AT NEW YORK CITY U.S.A.

DIED JULY 20TH 1917 AT CERVIGNANO ITALIAN WAR

ZONE WHILE ON AN AMERICAN MISSION OF AID

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS"