EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - Leading up to America’s 250th birthday, we’re doing a series of ‘We the People’ stories highlighting the connections between local and national history. In this first story in the series, 14 News anchor Robinson Miles learns more about James Bethel Gresham. He was one of the first, if not the first, American combat fatality of World War I. He grew up in Evansville, and is buried here, too.