Veteran's Graves

[Niederlander]

I went out to the local cemetery tonight to see if one of our Indian War veterans had a marker.  (He doesn't.  We'll get that corrected.)  I decided to look around a little and found two Spanish American War veterans, one of who fought with the 2nd Nebraska Volunteer Infantry.  I'll be spending more time looking around out there and taking notes!

[1961MJS]

Hi Dale
I don't know how to do it, but you might put the information you get in Find a Grave. 
Later

[38OVI]

www.Findagrave.com  is not hard to use.  It is a free site but to use it to post, just create a free account, create a "user name"- mine is my initials, and you're set to go.  If you add to another gravesite, just double-check the long sets of digits twice.  One error puts the information on the wrong grave...  For military veterans, you can also add their service information and/or biography.
Just be careful of YEAR DATES.  I've come across two where the bodies were returned after the war- WWII - and the person filling out the headstone dates put the wrong year.  In both cases, the Illinois govt employee put 1945 for the death date - and both of the men were killed at Normandy on 6 June, 1944! Since it is literally "engraved in stone" all one can do is ignore the error, and Yes, I had copies of the headstone cards saying 1944
Just remember that the unmarked veteran's graves deserve whatever one can do to remember them.