LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Military Funeral Honors Team of Lake County will conduct a dedication ceremony for newly placed markers on the graves of three veterans of the Civil War on Saturday, Aug. 30.
The special dedication will take place beginning at 11 a.m. at Hartley Cemetery, 2552 Hill Road East.
The public is cordially invited to attend the dedication ceremony.
There are six unmarked graves of Civil War veterans buried at Hartley Cemetery.
The remaining three will be similarly honored when family members are located and contacted. The Veterans Administration requires a request from a family member to provide a headstone for a veteran.
This is the second such ceremony in recent months, the team reported.
Last October, a ceremony was held at Middletown Cemetery for a veteran of the Civil War, Union soldier Pvt. Lorenzo T. Adams, whose grave had gone unmarked and eventually covered over by brush.
It was discovered by a descendant of the veteran who was searching for it as part of her research into her family heritage. The Lake County Historical Society enlisted community volunteers to assist in the search.
The Lake County Veterans Service Office ordered a marble gravestone from the Veterans Administration and had it set at the grave. The Military Funeral Honors Team provided a well-attended dedication ceremony to honor Adams.
The full story about the ceremony can be found at http://bit.ly/1ed0N6L .
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2015 in Lakeport has embarked upon a project to identify and record the burial place of all military veterans in Lake County. Post Historian Darrel Bittle, a Vietnam veteran, has undertaken this monumental task.
The Aug. 30 ceremony honoring the marking of three previously unmarked graves of Civil War Veterans buried in Hartley Cemetery represents Bittle's latest efforts in this project.
Thus far, the graves of more than 2,790 veterans of American wars ranging from the War of 1812 to the present have been located and cataloged.
Included are veterans from the following wars: War of 1812, Black Hawk War of 1832, Mexican American War, Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, as well as recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. A digital pictorial record of the gravestones is being compiled.
Dedication ceremony planned for Civil War graves in Lakeport
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