Restoration is underway at the Mulberry Street Cemetery in LaGrange. Many former slaves are buried there. Preservationists are hoping the public can help them find the names of more than 1,000 former ...
Tom Mauer knew his great-great-grandfather fought in the Civil War, but he didn't know much more, including where he was buried. With some sleuthing and hard work, the retired postal worker from ...
Winter is the perfect time for working on your family tree. Last week my husband and I got to mark off one of the items on our genealogy research bucket list. We had to make a quick trip to a town ...
SHERIDAN, Mont. — Time and weather eventually take their toll on most everything. Generations pass. Names of people long gone are lost or forgotten. But it doesn't have to be that way. The American ...
Iowa's Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) aims to honor the people who were laid to rest in their cemetery. The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) was founded in 1883, and ...
For many years, two Civil War veterans remained buried at Rippey Cemetery without a headstone. However, a social studies ...
Three Civil War veterans buried in Painesville’s Evergreen Cemetery will no longer lie unnoticed after a local boys group worked to raise funds for headstones. The Men of Honor Junior Cadets ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Maple Grove Cemetery in Wichita holds all kinds of history, and one organization is helping to preserve the history there. For eight years, members of the Sons of Union Veterans ...
HAMMOND | Historical preservation volunteers placed Christmas wreaths on the graves of Hammond Civil War veterans Tuesday, honoring the men for their war-time holiday sacrifices from 150 years ago.