American Legion working to install military markers for Civil War, WWI soldiers
Coeur d'Alene American Legion Post 14 Adjutant Jerry Staub during an Oct. 30 interview discusses current efforts to install military markers on the gravesites of two veterans interred at Mica Peak Cemetery. The original markers at the resting places of the Civil War and World War I soldiers have gone missing or have been destroyed through time.
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What's left of the original Mica Peak Cemetery marker for soldier Joseph A. Phillips, who served as a wagonmaker during the Civil War. His great-great-granddaughter Debbie Mitchell of Coeur d'Alene is pleased to know people are working to give her ancestor a proper military marker.
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Debbie Mitchell, the great-great-granddaughter of Civil War soldier Joseph A. Phillips, is seen Friday with the Phillips Family Bible. The first entry in the book documents the wedding of Phillips and his bride, Harriet Campbell. Joseph Phillips is interred at Mica Peak Cemetery, where efforts are being made to install an official military marker on his gravesite as well as World War I veteran Elmer Jess.
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Elmer Jess was inducted into the service March 31, 1918. His grave is currently marked with a simple post in the Mica Peak Cemetery.
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Soldiers who fought in the Civil War and World War I are buried in the Mica Peak Cemetery without proper markers honoring their military service.
Members of the Coeur d'Alene American Legion and others in the community are working to ensure this is no longer the case.
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