Thanks Bruce for the input, I have printed out what you wrote. My instincts tell me that it isn't the same fellow I have in the burial plot at Highland. However, I have two southern graves marked in the Highland as men who belonged to Shelby's Brigade, one in the SW Mo. regiment and the other in the Jackson County regiment, the former is dead wrong, the other lacks further proof than that current records indicate he was actually union. I will get to them later as I require three lines of proof. The Jackson county man is buried in the Eggleston Plot GAR and was actually a past commander of that post. Someone just went in and planted a marker because it fit the names on the records. Thus the problems of correctly identifying these men.

One avenue I have yet investigated is land records. The only way a southern man could get land in this state was from a Union man who proved it up. In the case of Elliott being in SW Indian Territory, I can believe that as that wasn't a problem there during the boomer days. So we are left with 'What outfit did Elliott serve with?' I have a genealogist on this matter also.

The southern soldier buried in the pauper section I have marked with a red utility flag until such time as the SCV can do something about it. Of the other names mentioned in the article of 1901 I cannot find a William Reid (Possibly W. H. Reede who is buried in the same section Feb. 3, 1834 to Feb. 14, 1900) in the Confederate data base. Same for James Brasfield, and A. Tigniere. These names may be misspelled. The cemetery records do not show them buried there. We have a mystery.