Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1901 — Soldiers’ Tombstones Coming. [ARTICLE]

Soldiers’ Tombstones Coming.

There are quite, a large number of soldiers of the civil war buried in Weston and other cemeteries of Jasper county, whose graves are without tombstones, of any kind. An effort has been going on here for a long time to secure stones from the war department, such as the government furnishes for the otherwise unmarked graves o soldiers. The effort has at last suceeded, and Capt. J. M. Wasson has just received notice from the department of the shipping to him of 12 crates of these stones, and they are expected to arrive in a few days. There is a head and a foof stone for each grave. How many graves are provided for in thdse 12 crates, the captain does not know, but probably each crate contains only the stones for one grave. If this is all, other shipments will no doubt soon follow. The stones come properly lettered and freight prepaid, so that the only expense to be met here is the patting the stones in place.