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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 ...
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 ...
A pair of accused Indiana grave robbers have been arrested for allegedly swiping more than a dozen bronze headstone markers from veteran burial sites — memorials that can sell for several ...
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… ...
The grave of a missing World War One soldier has been identified in Belgium. Capt Ernest Cecil Blencowe of the Dorsetshire Regiment died in February 1916 trying to get control of The Bluff, an ...
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, ...
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.
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.
Maybin's grave is located in the Maybin Family Cemetery in Green River. Born in Ireland, he immigrated to South Carolina with the Scot-Irish Presbyterians, Summey said. He then became a resident of ...
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.
Opinion Unearthing grave markers restores veterans’ final dignity | Opinion Published: Nov. 10, 2022, 8:01 a.m. 18 1/18 ...
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 ...