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For First Time!Gilmanton fo HonorOld VeteranrGraveGILMANTON (Special) —For tlit* first time since h i s death 97 years ago, t h e United States flag will f 1 y over the grave of a veteran of the War ot 1812 here today.barely visible inscription recording his birth, death i n1866, and his war service.Members of the Forrest-Gunderson Legion Post, who just found out about the grave, also will decorate theThe veteranB M. Gard- graves of their post’s namener who was born in 1777 as cannons blasted between New Hngland farmers and K n g-lish Redcoats during the Rev.sakes: Eileen Forrest, a RedC i os s nurse who died in France in 1918 of illness, and; 1) e wey Gunderson, Wor ld1 olutionary War lies be* War II casualty in the Phcif-neath a stone which has a ic. Gilmanton post is one offew in Wisconsin named for a woman.MUCH OF THE history of this Buffalo County village of j 175 residents is recorded in the public cemetery her e One tall marble stone marks the graves of Samuel G i 1-man and his four sons who were the first settlers here in 1855. IAnother marker records the death of three young sisters! who died during the diphthe-j ria epidemic of the 1880s.Inscriptions similar to those on many gravestones in New I England are written on sev-j oral of the older stones. One verse on the gravestone of Mrs. Martha Cochrane whodied at the age of 91 in 1888leads: “Oh softly waves the silver hair from off that aged b r o w. that crown of g I o r v worn so long, a lifting crown is now.’' |Walter Brixen has been sexton of the cemetery t h epast 12 years. jMemor ial Day services willbe he 1 d at the Gilmantonregardless Cemetery following a 10:30v rij parade through Main StreetThe Rev. J. Edward P h i 1-lips, Mondovi, will deliverthe message. Oscar Meistad is post commander and Harold Davis, chaplain.Mental Exam Ordered for Dunn SpeederMENOMONIE (Special) -A (Hi dav mental examinationVwas ordered in County Court h e r «* Wednesday for Raymond Ayers, 26, rural G 1 e n-wood City man who led state,county, and citw police officers on a high speed chasethrough streets of Menomonie Mav 23.The petition for examination was introduced bv Ayers attorney, Chalres White o f River Falls, and granted by County .fudge William Bundy. Ayers is scheduler) to reappear in County Court August 2 on a charge of “feloniously endangering the safety of several people by conduct dangerous to others evincinga depraved mind of human life.”APPEARING IN court last Friday morning, Ayers pleaded guilty to six c h a r g e s brought by the state traffic patrol. He did not enter a
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Eau Claire Leader
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Thu, May 30, 1963
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