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Article: Stones of HONOR.(General News)(A group refurbishes a Civil War cemetery plot and provides headstones for previously unmarked graves)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- May 27, 2007
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Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard
`He fell to the sidewalk dead.'
So says the Eugene Weekly Guard obituary of James "Jimmie the Cook" Smith, who died in Eugene on Nov. 16, 1901, at the age of 71.
Smith, however, survived the deadliest conflict in American history while serving in the U.S. Navy aboard a "man-of-war" during the Civil War.
"The whereabouts of his relatives, if he has any, are unknown," reads the obit's last line. But now, Smith's grave in Eugene's Pioneer Cemetery has a marker - 106 years after his death.
"The biggest satisfaction I get is when I can put a marker on an unmarked grave," says Eugene's Randy ...