Memorial to
Veterans of All Wars
In Memory of
Vicksburg Post No. 72
Grand Army of the Republic
1861 - 1865
Lawton Circle No. 97
Ladies of the G.A.R. — — Map (db m66605) WM
Granny Cowden was believed to have been the 1st white woman in Kansas. You can visit her grave in the Civil War section at the Iola Cemetery west of town on Highway 54. You can also find out more about her in the Allen County Historical Museum at . . . — — Map (db m83584) HM
This memorial in memory of
Union soldiers who fell in battle
was dedicated on May 31, 1909, and
maintained by McCook Post No. 51, G.A.R.
In 1998 the statue was refurbished and
a new pedestal was erected. On June 2, 2001
this Monument . . . — — Map (db m34600) WM
When the town of
Iola
was organized in
January, 1859
Josiah E. Colborn
was one of the founders
who named the town after
Mrs. Colburn
whose given name was
Iola
She and her husband rest here
This tablet is . . . — — Map (db m34607) HM
1917 - 1918
The American Legion
In memory of those whose final resting place
is known to God alone
U.S. Army
James E. Cook 1944 Rex L. Johnson 1944
A. W. Redding Jr. 1943 Joseph H. Wood 1942
U.S. Navy
Howard N. Belvoir 1942 . . . — — Map (db m72039) WM
Born in Leicester, Mass.
May 25, 1847
Died June 19, 1872
from the effect of a
railway accident.
Faithful unto death
Wisdom is the gray hair unto men
and an unspotted life is old age.
Erected by the men in the
service of the . . . — — Map (db m77749) HM
In memory of a soldier and statesman.
John A. Martin
Born at Brownsville, Pa. March 10, 1839.
Died at Atchison, Kas. Oct. 2, 1889.
Colonel of the 8th Kansas Volunteers, and
Brevet Brigadier General of U.S. Volunteers.
Editor & . . . — — Map (db m77740) HM WM
Private
Company G 1st Regiment
Missouri Mounted Infantry
Mexican War
Pvt Carson died of some unknown illness
at this point on July 13, 1846
and was buried on the following day — — Map (db m64202) WM
Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union . . . — — Map (db m108813) HM
This National Cemetery
has been listed in
The National Register
of
Historic Places
by the
United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m61520) HM
Civil War Fort Scott
Fort Scott, founded 1842, was named for former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army, Gen. Winfield Scott. The army abandoned the fort in 1853, but the Civil War prompted federal troops to return in 1862. Fort Scott . . . — — Map (db m108814) HM
Homecoming [Side A]
This small town into which I was born, has, for me, grown into the largest, and most important city in the universe. For Scott is not as tall, or heralded as New York, Paris or London - or other places my feet have . . . — — Map (db m79845) HM
Downtown Fort Scott
Historic downtown Fort Scott has roots in a time when it was the last stop before the frontier. Initially comprised of former fort buildings, it soon transformed into a lively downtown commercial district. New permanent . . . — — Map (db m128766) HM
Erected by the United States to the Memory of the Officers and Soldiers Killed in the Battle of Baxter Springs October 8, 1863, and Other Engagements in this Vicinity who are Buried near this Monument, and . . . — — Map (db m21140) WM
First burial site for victims of the Baxter Springs Massacre and the attack on Ft. Blair. In 1869, the bodies were moved to the National Cemetary plot west of town. — — Map (db m37836) HM
Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War (1861-1865). As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union troops. This propelled the . . . — — Map (db m171034) HM
In 1870-71, the victims of the attack on Fort Blair and the Battle of Baxter Springs were disinterred from a site near the fort and reinterred in this newly designated national cemetery plot, officially National Cemetery #2. — — Map (db m171037) HM
Headquartered in Fort Scott, Union Major General James G. Blunt was the highly recognized commander of the District of the Frontier. In 1863, Blunt decided his force needed to be closer to the gathering Confederate forces in the South and headed out . . . — — Map (db m170743) HM
In Grateful Memory of All
Those Who Served Their Country.
Star Cemetery
Fred Fry William Druit Pete Bond
James Geddes James Huntsinger
John Marietta Joe Marietta
Dalla Creekmore Julian Englebright
Charles Stout . . . — — Map (db m39768) WM
Rev. W. H. Hickcox Dr. Charles Hewitt Frank Lewin W. A. Willis J. P. Marshall H. S. Walters E. F. Walters B. Adams T. C. Ruscoe Charles Ingram R. T. Batchalor E. M. Davis R. Fowles A. B. Rothwell James H. Young T. N. . . . — — Map (db m80981) HM
Born in Burlington Borough, Pennsylvania, to Randolph and Celia Hill, Anna spent her childhood in nearby Elmira, New York. After spending several years as a teacher, Anna, at 26, discovered the Emigration Department of Children's Aid Society (CAS). . . . — — Map (db m241917) HM
Louis was born in New York City to John Henry and Florentine (Goldig) Meyer. After the death of his mother, John was unable to care for the children, so he turned Dorothea and William over to the Episcopalian Orphanage. Amelia helped him with . . . — — Map (db m185999) HM
To show our appreciation to the U.S. military men and women, past, present and future, for their sacrifices, dedication and service to our country. — — Map (db m71511) WM
In tribute to all veterans who
so loyally served their country
Flag flying today in memory of
____________
and these men who gave their lives
in service of their country
World War II
Albertson, Henry Bazin, Lawrence . . . — — Map (db m34649) WM
At an early age I accompanied my parents on Decoration Day, a term used from the Civil War, to decorate graves. When in the sixth grade I assembled with band members on downtown Main Street, behind Legionnaires, for the march to the cemetery then . . . — — Map (db m177423) WM
Established by
Fr. Dumortier, frontier missionary
First Mass December, 1864
Catholic mission for
Irish Settlers and Native Americans
Used as a school and community
meeting place
Destroyed by tornado on June 11, 2008 . . . — — Map (db m90507) HM
The Navarre Church of the Brethren was organized in 1869 at a site approximately 850 feet east of here. The last service was a homecoming August 19, 2001. The church bell was donated and moved to Navarre Cemetery in 2005. — — Map (db m49655) HM
This memorial is dedicated
in honor of all the men and
women who served these
United States of America
during times of war and peace. — — Map (db m47836) WM
Sir Knight John W. Smith
Died in Memphis Tenn. Dec. 18, 1877
Aged 86 years
A Master Mason, Royal Arch
and Knight Templar
62 years a Mason and
first Deputy Grand Master
of the Grand Lodge of Kansas
Erected by the Masonic . . . — — Map (db m47868) HM
Stony Point Evangelical Lutheran Church was established around 1860 by Joseph Eberhart. Church services were held at Stony Point School until the church building was constructed in 1883. The church was disbanded around 1900. The building was placed . . . — — Map (db m24024) HM
The Haskell Cemetery has approximately 100 students buried here. The childs name, tribal affiliation, date of birth and death are engraved on their headstone. Some of causes of death were listed as consumption (Tuberculosis), pneumonia, . . . — — Map (db m77300) HM
Born in Halstead, Kansas, of German emigrant parents Sept. 2, 1901, he was quite proud that he was a full-blooded German.
Rupp graduated from Halstead High School and then attended the University of Kansas where he played basketball under Coach . . . — — Map (db m54601) HM
Three Sport Letterman, All American 1919
Coach at Northwestern University 23 years
Helped organize first NCAA Basketball Tournament
University of Kansas Athletic Director 1950-1964
Manager of the 1960 U.S. Olympic Basketball Team, Chairman . . . — — Map (db m54594) HM
Emporia, Kansas is Dean Smith's birthplace. After completing school in Emporia and Topeka, he came to the University of Kansas where he played under Coach Phog Allen. Dean played on the National Championship team, the 1952 team which beat St. . . . — — Map (db m54602) HM
As a University of Kansas student in 1905, Phog Allen played basketball for the inventor of the game, Dr. James Naismith. His performance produced three Letters from 1905-1907 and earned him a place on the roster of the K. C. Athletic Club. . . . — — Map (db m54599) HM
Born November 6, 1861 in Almonte Ontario, Canada and died November 28, 1939 in Lawrence, Kansas. Buried in Lawrence Memorial Park.
Dr. Naismith invented the game of basketball as a winter indoor sport for the YMCA at Springfield, Massachusetts . . . — — Map (db m54545) HM
This fountain is dedicated by the Womans Relief Corps Number 9, Department of Kansas, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic as an enduring memorial of perpetual service to the living, in loving remembrance of Comrade Robert S. and Mary J. . . . — — Map (db m77863) WM
University of Kansas Basketball Coach 1984-1988. Every team during his tenure advanced to the NCAA Tournament, twice to the Final Four His 1988 team won the National Championship, beating Oklahoma 83-79. His 1986 team's record was 35-4. — — Map (db m54596) HM
This cemetery, known originally as Oread, was opened in 1854 by the New Englanders who founded Lawrence. Following burials in 1882, Oread fell into disuse. In 1928, the City of Lawrence changed the name to Pioneer Cemetery.
The marble obelisk . . . — — Map (db m20474) HM
Samuel Jones was an entrepreneur. He constructed Constitution Hall in 1856 and it is now a National Landmark. He was appointed Sheriff of Douglas County, Kansas, in 1856 by Territorial Governor Daniel Woodson. Sheriff Jones enforced the laws of the . . . — — Map (db m119138) HM
James H. "Dog" Kelley, who ran a saloon and gambling hall on this site, was involved in the assault upon Sheriff Peter Lanahan on July 16, 1871, at Henry "Lon" Kelly's Saloon west of here. When Lanahan's bullets nearly hit him, "Dog" was so enraged . . . — — Map (db m96512) HM
Often times soldiers who died while fighting were buried where they fell. Most who died at or near the post were buried at the fort's military cemetery, approximately one mile northwest of here. Nearly 25 of the 175 buried here were civilians. . . . — — Map (db m59724) HM
The hill approximately two miles south of the guardhouse was known as Sentinel Hill. As part of the Fort Hays military reservation, a sentry (guard) posted at this location could have seen several miles in all directions.
The legend of . . . — — Map (db m59723) HM
Between 1867 and 1874 more than eighty persons were buried here. Dozens of them had died "with their boots on" as victims of knife, gun, or rope. Since the days when Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill, and Calamity Jane lived in Hays City, the bodies . . . — — Map (db m95671) HM
Left their home in Fife, Scotland
to join the Victoria Colony.
Contracted Typhoid Fever while
traveling up the Mississippi River.
---Laid to rest here Summer 1873---
Margaret, 27 William, 25 Robert, 24
Thomas, 18 Jane, 16
They . . . — — Map (db m95692) HM
Let the names of the battles forever be written in our history books but let the memory of all those who served and died be forever etched in our hearts — — Map (db m59816) WM
This hill was not a pleasant place during the 1870s. It was covered with buffalo grass, prickly pear and soapweed and was used as a burying ground for drifters, troublemakers, and unknowns from 1872 until 1879. As early as 1879 newspapers were . . . — — Map (db m62003) HM
This site became known as Boot Hill due to the custom of burying gunfighters with their boots on or behind their heads. It is estimated that 32 men and one woman were buried on this site. The names of many of these are unknown as they died . . . — — Map (db m65388) HM
Between the opening of the post in April, 1865, until its closing in October, 1882, about 150 burials were made at this cemetery. One of the earliest was that of the sixteen-year-old son of Henderson Boggs, a freighter. The boy was shot and . . . — — Map (db m65438) HM
In this area rest the remains of approximately 100 soldiers, civilian workers, and their dependents who perished at Fort Riley, Kansas Territory, during the cholera epidemic in the summer of 1855. These soldiers and civilian workers were engaged in . . . — — Map (db m74308) HM
Erected to the memory of Confederate soldiers whose remains are laid to rest here. They were captured during the New Mexico campaign that culminated in the Battle of Glorieta Pass fought on March 28, 1862 near Santa Fe. Approximately 130 . . . — — Map (db m74309) HM
Dedicated on June 15, 1975 to the gallant soldiers of the United States Army who for 200 years have died in defense of their country. — — Map (db m74340) HM
Went to school with Lincoln's. Brother to Aaron Grigsby who married Abe Lincoln's oldest sister. Visited in White House.
Through this inscription I wish to enter my dying protest against what is called the Democratic party I have watched it . . . — — Map (db m62738) HM WM
Dedicated
to the Soldiers
who so bravely offered
their all to preserve
the Union of States,
1861 to 1865
Decorated
in memory of our comrades
who sleep in the
Unknown,
peacefully awaiting the
call to the Parade . . . — — Map (db m77110) WM
He served the communities of Potter, Winchester and Topeka, Kansas 1922 - 1957. He devoted his life and his skills to the relief and comfort of the sick and distressed in their time of need.
"In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least . . . — — Map (db m63724) HM
Antioch Cemetery
Est. 1871
This plaque dedicated May, 2001
to honor those whose services,
past and present have preserved
the beauty of this cemetery
————————
[Cemetery Chapel] . . . — — Map (db m88150) HM
Colonel 9th Cavalry
Brevet Major General, U.S.A.
Born in Bangor, Me.
Dec. 22, 1832
Died at Fort Robinson, Neb.
April 11, 1889
[Battles]
Brill's Point Charleston Sykeston
New Madrid Point Pleasant Island No. 10 . . . — — Map (db m42071) WM
This National Cemetery
has been listed in
The National Register
of
Historic Places
by the
United States Department of the Interior
1999 — — Map (db m42059) HM
In October of 1864 when Fort Leavenworth and the city of Leavenworth were threatened by Confederate forces under General Sterling Price, fortifications were constructed on the crest of the ridge to the west. These works were armed with heavy siege . . . — — Map (db m66684) HM
Colonel 3d U.S. Infantry
Brevet Brig.-Gen. U.S. Army
Established
Fort Leavenworth May 8, 1827.
Born Dec. 10, 1783
Died July 21, 1834. — — Map (db m42070) HM WM
Samuel Turner Shepperd,
son of Honorable A. H. Shepperd
of North Carolina.
Died at Fort Leavenworth,
K. T. June 27, 1855
Aged 24 yrs, 3 mos.
He graduated at West Point in June 1854, entered the army as Brevet 2nd Lieut, 2nd Infantry and . . . — — Map (db m93433) WM
Dedicated to the Soldiers who died while serving their country at Fort Larned, Kansas (1859-1878). In 1888, remains were relocated from the post cemetery to Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, Section B, where they were not identified. Among the . . . — — Map (db m93424) HM
He helped make Kansas a free state,
He fought to save the Union,
He published the Daily Times for nearly
forty years in the interest of Leavenworth,
He was no hypocrite. — — Map (db m77150) HM WM
Nearby homes were converted into makeshift hospitals where wounded were treated before being sent to larger hospitals in Mound City, Fort Scott, and Fort Leavenworth. Union soldiers killed in battle were buried in cemeteries within these same . . . — — Map (db m67435) HM
Of the approximately 600 Confederate casualties in this battle, many of those killed in action were buried in unmarked graves on this battlefield.
Most of the dead were from Marmaduke's Missouri Cavalry Division and Fagan's Arkansas Cavalry . . . — — Map (db m20264) HM
Nothing in the struggle over slavery in Kansas did more to inflame the nation than the mass killing which took place May 19, 1858, about four miles northeast of this marker. Charles Hamelton who had been driven from the territory by Free-State men, . . . — — Map (db m4359) HM
(Front):
Rev. B. L. Read
John F. Campbell
William Colpetzer
Michael Robertson
Patrick Ross
William Hairgrove
Asa Hairgrove
Charles Snider
William A Stilwell
Amos Hall
Austin Hall
(Side 2):
On the 19th day of May . . . — — Map (db m20113) HM
Erected to the memory of
Wilbert H. Otte FF/C U.S.N.
Born Apr. 14, 1922
Killed in Action May 4, 1945
Aboard the U.S.S. Birmingham — — Map (db m80627) WM
In memory of the
Defenders of the Union
1861-1865
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In 1900 the Peabody Women's Relief Corps Post 99, auxiliary for Peabody Post 89 of the Grand Army of the Republic, purchased this . . . — — Map (db m95252) HM WM
This Centennial Memorial, erected in gratitude to God, commemorates the coming to America of the Swiss-German Mennonites in the Fall of 1874 from Volhynia, a former Polish province, in the present Russian Ukraine. It symbolizes the Christian . . . — — Map (db m57109) HM
