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Memorial Day Sermon and Parade Honors Fallen Soldiers
Rev Lockhart delivers a memorial sermon at the Presbyterian church as a large crowd gathers. A procession to Prairie Home Cemetery follows with Prof E E Boner giving an address and flowers laid on graves of soldiers including those from Grant era and battlefields like Missionary Ridge Lookout Mountain Chickamauga Gettysburg Vicksburg Shiloh. The speech honors unknown dead and ties patriotism to living veterans and Hispano American War casualties.
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Lockhart
Presbyterian Church
W. ER. C
Post and Corps
Prairie Home Cemetery
E. E. Boner
Boner
Elysium
Patrens
Grant
Missionary Ridge
Lookout Mountain
Chicamauga
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Shiloh
Nickajack
Canon
South
Dixie
Antilles
Luzon
Philippines
Nebraska