Old Union Cemetery monument up at Grandview Cemetery.
In memory of our early citizens - buried in this graveyard - whose monuments were destroyed by the flood - May 31, 1889. Erected in Union Cemetery 1898 - moved to present site 1949.
This stone a relic of the old Portage railroad marks the grave of Samuel Cole - a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
He is listed in an 1840 Pension Roll - which says he was born around 1761.
This stone a relic of the old Portage railroad marks the grave of George Lucas - a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
George is listed in the same 1840 Pension Roll - he was born around 1750 and another source I found states that he lived to be 115 years old. Which means he died in 1865 - and lived to see some of his grandsons come back from the Civil War. Pretty cool - if you ask me.
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