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Stephen Paul Field, Sr., committee chairman for Boy Scouts Troop 107, and his wife, Rachel, search for veterans gravesites at Mountain View Cemetery.
• On the home page: Nickolas Charles locates a veteran's gravesite.
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Scoutmaster Mark Green volunteered Troop 107 to place the U.S. flags at the gravesites.
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Rose Marie Cooper Jordan and Scoutmaster Mark Green review the cemetery's map.
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A flag marks the gravesite of S. Sgt. Frederick Eison Glenn, a WW II Purple Heart recipient
Boy Scouts Troop 107 paid homage Sunday to veterans of the U.S. military services buried at the city’s Mountain View Cemetery.
American flags were placed at the gravesites that were marked by a meticulous grid produced by members of the Joyce Scott Chapter of the South Carolina Daughters of American Revolution.
It took the group a year to research archives through the military branches and Department of Defense. “It’s hard to believe this has never been done,” Rose Marie Cooper Jordan, said.
Scoutmaster Mark Green, committee chairman Stephen Paul Field, Sr. and a dozen scouts slowly maneuvered around each gravesite to locate the veterans. Jordan said 11 gravesites are of Civil War veterans.
More than 350 veterans have been identified in four city cemeteries – Mountain View, Edgewood, Wilson and Needmore Community.
The research produced the gravesites, identified veterans of all wars, and prepared a roster that lists each name along with birth and death dates, branch of service and rank.
Researchers compiling the roster included:
Zoe Benwell Lorshbough Carlson
Juliana Distler Nelson Christy
Karen Edney Faulkner
Rose Marie Cooper Jordan
Charlotte Hay James Koehler
Abbie Carolyn Frick McWilliams
Peggy Snoddy Robinson
Sarah (Sallie) Olmert Smith
Phyllis Salli Distler Nelson Troyan
Carole Black Walters