Foto Friday 3/29

[John Winn]

James was buried alongside his 1st wife, Rebecca Carson.

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Looks like somebody chalked the stone which is unfortunate.

 

[Lubliner]

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I was out-of-pocket yesterday (Friday) attending my favorite HUGE monthly flea market at Canton, Texas, so missed this thread! My late contribution will be one I've posted previously but is still a favorite because of how it all came about: I purchased the tintype below at another flea market many years ago and when I disassembled the case found the name D. C. Yakey inside. The name was unusual enough that I was easily able to find him in the NPS online roster of Civil War veterans in the 25th Wisconsin Vol. Inf. as a corporal and later sergeant. According to other information I found, the 25th saw service at Vicksburg, in the Atlanta Campaign, and Sherman's March through Georgia and the Carolinas.

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When I told my friend Mike (@mkyzzzrdet) who lives in a suburb of Minneapolis about my find he suggested we go "visit' Yakey who he had found on Find-A-Grave during my next visit. In January, 2013 I made a winter visit to Minnesota and on a nice sunny day we drove over into Wisconsin and found Sergeant Yakey in the little but well-kept country Salem Church Cemetery about 25 mi. ESE of La Crosse seen here. (I have since added my photo of him to his Find-A-Grave entry.)

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That is an interesting stone marker. It almost looks like the variant to the Wells marker in post #1. My first thought was Infantry, because of the square design. Good story too.
Lubliner.

 

[ErnieMac]

Private Levi McFadden, Company K, 11th Pennsylvania Reserves - my 1st cousin three x removed.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34746373

 

[General Casey]

A little late but here is John Ryan's grave. He served with the 28th Massachusetts and the 61st Massachusetts, remaining in the army after the war and serving as a First Sergeant in the 7th Cavalry.

 

[White Flint Bill]

John Wyatt Stubblefield Guerrant. Sergeant 13th North Carolina Infantry, Co. K.

Peyton Clay Keesee. Danville Artillery and 5th Virginia Cavalry, Co. C.

Two of my g-g-g grandfathers.