Doddridge County native Lucinda Rose trained at St. Mary’s Hospital in Clarksburg alongside her sisters and became a registered nurse in 1914. After the United States entered World War I, she joined the Red Cross in 1918 and was assigned to the 68th Unit, U.S. Army Nurses, sailing for England that September. Stricken with influenza during the 1918 flu pandemic, she died in a Red Cross hospital in Portsmouth, England, becoming the only West Virginia woman to lose her life overseas during the war. Honored with military burial, medals, and later reinterment in Clarksburg, she was commemorated by veterans’ groups and featured as the only woman pictured in West Virginia’s section of Soldiers of the Great War (1920).