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A Civil War veteran born into slavery in Louisiana is among nine Union soldiers with new grave markers at Greenfield Cemetery ...
Bost is among several lawmakers who are veterans who spearheaded the Mark Our Place Act to ease the process for providing free VA-furnished markers and medallions for pre-1917 Medal of Honor ...
James Phillips Jr., the co-founder of Remember Veteran Grave Markers Incorporated, is a one-man band that has cleaned hundreds of veterans’ gravestones over the past two years.
KENTON — There’s an unmarked grave in the cemetery up the road, a stranger told him. A Black soldier from the Civil War is buried there. And for a hundred years now, the people of this Upper ...
Grave markers at St. Agnes Cemetery in Branford are sunken and overgrown, the soil and grass encroaching on the granite so only part of the inscription can be read. It’s the same at many ceme… ...
LEETONIA — A new grave marker at Franklin Square Cemetery this Memorial Day honors the service of Leetonia area Civil War veteran and Union infantry soldier John M. James — nearly 150 years after his ...
Byington said the cemetery is the resting place to some 80 people, but only 45 grave markers are in place. The rest have been lost to floods, weather and the ravages of time.
He joined 50 men from the Wabasha area who formed Company G of the 5th Minnesota Infantry and went on to fight in more than 20 battles, from the regiment's first clash near Corinth, Miss., in ...
Some 134 years after he was buried on what once was a Greene County family farm, one of the nation’s biggest Air Force bases respectfully tends to the grave of U.S. Army Private Hiram Honaker.
Solomon Duncan, a Civil War soldier from Coshocton County, died of disease in Texas in 1865 and was buried in an unmarked grave. Through the efforts of the Sugarcreek American Legion post, Duncan ...
Robert James 'Moose' Mackison's grave marker at Walnut Ridge Cemetery in Jeffersonville, Ind. Another marker was found on a property in Elsmere. By: Taylor Weiter Posted and last updated ...
ARP, Texas (KLTV) - 23 years after his death, an East Texas veteran’s grave is finally complete. Private Isaac Herring served in the United States Army during World War Two. He passed away in 2000, ...