Ahead of the Memorial Holiday next week, the Joplin Civil Air Patrol will hold an event tomorrow to honor a Civil War Veteran.
KRPS’s Fred Fletcher-Fierro has more.
On Friday night, members of the Joplin Civil Air Patrol will remember and honor Isaac Daniel, born on September 17, 1845, in Kentucky.
He served in the Grand Army of the Republic as a Private in Company F, 19th Kentucky Volunteers. After the war, he married Annis D. Scott of Virginia, and they lived in Cherokee County, Kansas with eight children ranging in age from 15 years to three months old when Annis passed away around 1880.
In Issac, he worked as a farmer and wood seller. He would pass away on March 26, 1909, at 64 years of age. Members of the Squadron will participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the recently discovered grave of a Civil War Veteran in Joplin.
The gravesite, at a small cemetery at 5765 W. Choctaw Lane, off Central City Road was recently uncovered and cleared by the Jasper County Cemetery Preservation Society. The family had all but given up on finding their ancestor and was elated when contacted by the Society.
The ceremony will start at 5:45 on Friday night.
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