KENTWOOD, Mich. (AP) - At least 13 more U.S. flags will be flying at Pine Hill Cemetery in Kentwood on Veterans Day because of a historian's effort to identify the Civil War veterans interred there.
Eloise Haven has verified that at least 16 veterans of the war are buried in the cemetery in the Grand Rapids suburb.
Haven tells The Grand Rapids Press when the project got under way, only three of the graves had Civil War markers, which are designed to hold small flags.
One of the original markers recently was stolen but will be replaced.
Haven and her growing group of volunteers have helped to identify Civil War veterans buried in eight area cemeteries.
She verified last year that 67 men who fought in the war were at Grand Rapids' Oakhill Cemetery.
