Hi.
We are going back to try and obtain there origional military service records. I believe that there were only a total of six solders. That would include the Major. This is the best I could get out of the Western Manuscripts.
We are still looking were the 5 were buried. In research, we found a telegraph that indecated that the bodies were to be taken to Washington, Mo. The local historians have never had any indecation the this occured, and thay have good cemetery records for the most part.
In the area were the were killed, there were only 2 Cemeteries. The one would have been the Family cemetery of a slave holding family as much as I can tell. The other is the Luthern Cemetery. The Justice of Peace the did the inquest, Klinebeck is buried in the Luthern Cemetery next to a large open space were according to the local families were the solders are buried. Is it true, this has not been determined. We have talked about enlisting a grave douser to determined if there are in fact some one buried there.
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Veteran Hall of Honor Committee will continue to research this matter. I am not sure when, but we will working with our local Newspaper to prepare a artical on this matter. An find if there is some formal documentation on this matter. At least one of the officers have ties to this area, Amos Maupin he was from Washington. Is the Klinebeck family still in the area an have some information. Capt. Dinger family did live in Iron Co., but from what I have found his family don't live there any more. Some were, some one, has the thread that pull this issue together. If thies solders are buried here, thay need to have there grave site monumented after all this time. God bless our VETERANS.