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LOCAL GROUP WILL REMEMBER CIVIL WAR VET
Thursday, June 15th, 2006 -- 10:40 am
Posted by Riley Hebert-News Director
The grave of a Civil War veteran in the Greenwood Cemetery will finally get a proper marking during a ceremony on Saturday.
During the process of documenting gravesites in local cemeteries, the Clark County Internet Library group discovered there was nothing marking the location where Curtis Markham was buried.
“Some of the people plot all the cemeteries in Clark County. When they did Greenwood’s, they checked the various gravestones and matched it with the city records and found Mr. Markham was buried there, but they couldn’t find the gravestone,” explains Dick Adler, a member of the Internet Library group and Greenwood American Legion.
He says Markham was born in New York in 1822, was a soldier in the Civil War and moved to Clark County in 1869 where he lived in the Town of Warner. He died in 1908.
After all these years, Adler thinks it’s time to pay him proper respect.
“He’s our forgotten soldier. We’ve contacted a (Civil War) reenactment group, they will do the volley and play taps. We’ll have a prayer service.”
“Hopefully it will be a tribute to someone that’s been forgotten,” Adler says.
The group really got into the investigation, checking with the Register of Deeds office and finding old Veterans Office records.
And this might not be the final sleuthing they do; they’ve already discovered more markerless gravesites, Adler says.
The service will be held at 10 a.m. this Saturday in the Greenwood Cemetery.
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