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MARCIA HORA
DeJoWa DinerNow Open For
In-House Dining
DeJoWa Diner in Stapletonhas opened again for in-house dining
beginning May11.
Hours for the week of May11-15 wil be 7:00 a.m. - 2:00p.m.
Watch for extended hourscoming soon.
The restaurant is still offer-ing carry-out and delivery atthis
time and they will be fol-lowing state regulations.
Please call 308-636-2526 toorder your meals for take-out.
DATE HI LOW MT3 59 48 .344 73 48 .755 57 37 .326 68 32 07 63 34
08 68 33 09 59 33 010 59 22 T11 55 24 .03Thunder was heard on May 3
and36 mph wind @ 7:00 p.m. wasrecorded on May 7.
MARCIA HORA - THE STAPLETON ENTERPRISE
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Library To Host AnnualPlant Swap
The Logan County Librarywill host its annual “PlantSwap” during
StapletonClean-Up Week. It will be acome-and-go, open
houseevent.
Just label your plants andseeds and leave them on thesidewalk
outside the libraryon Tuesday, May 12 andThursday, May 14 during
theday. Then, help yourself toany plants you would like totake
home.
Who moved the body ofMajor General JamesMcPherson from hisgrave
in Ohio and why?That question has beencirculating for nearly
25years since a headstoneshows him as beingburied in the Loup
ValleyCemetery located 10miles west of Stapleton.
There have been calls toresidents in the Stapletonarea wanting
to knowabout the gravesite. Peo-ple have stopped in Sta-pleton on
their way to thecemetery and some haveeven suggested conspir-acy
theories on how heended up being buried inLogan County,
Nebraska.Find-A-Grave had themarker listed on its web-site, that is
until it wastaken down.
Daniel Frodsham soughtto find answers in aMarch 10, 2006 post
onGenealogy.com entitled,“James Birdseye McPher-son Grave in
Nebraska.”
In his blog he said, “Iwas recently visiting acemetery and saw a
tomb-stone that interested me,so I took a picture andcame home to
look himup. He is listed as buriedelsewhere. The tombstonereads –
‘Civil War GeneralJames B. McPherson,killed in action near
At-lanta, GA in 1864, Rein-tured (sic) 1907.’ Thegrave is in the
Loup ValleyCemetery between Staple-ton and Ringgold. It is lo-cated
in Logan County,Nebraska. Some websiteshave the cemetery listedin
McPherson County. Ichecked with the countyseats and it is actually
inLogan County. McPher-son County is right nextdoor to Logan, and
was ac-tually named after JamesMcPherson. I am no rela-tion and
have no connec-tion to James McPherson.I like the mystery and
amlooking into this in myspare time. My general in-terest is who
dug him upand why… Also at thegravesite is a bronzemarker with
‘GAR.’ In thenear future I intend to golook at the cemeteryrecords
and see if I canfind any more and willpost information here.”
It appears Frodshammust have hit a dead endas there were no
com-ments or other posts onthe forum.
Incorrectly marking agrave can create seriousproblems.
Technology hasopened up a whole newworld. Where people areburied,
ancestors, and alot of pertinent historycan be found with a clickof
a mouse and Googlesearch.
Gene Smith, curator atthe Clyde Museum,McPherson House, and
Who is buried in McPherson’s grave?Heritage Hall in Clyde,Ohio,
decided it was timeto set the record straight.He is conducting
exten-sive research into whythere was a marked gravefor General
James B.McPherson in a Nebraskacemetery and including itin a
special presentation.
COVID-19 has forced themuseum to shut down forthe time being,
but afterhis recent call to The En-terprise it was finally timeto
get to the bottom ofwhy this grave wasmarked in 1997 as Gen-eral
James McPherson’sburial site.
Smith wanted to knowwhat led to the installa-tion of the marker
atLoup Valley, and put torest, once and for all, thatGeneral James
BirdseyeMcPherson was in factstill interred in theMcPherson County
Ceme-tery located in Clyde,Ohio, for whom the ceme-tery was
named.
“There have been storiesthat General McPherson’sbody was dug up
andtaken elsewhere,” Smithsaid. “There was a timewhen he was to
have beentaken to Washington,D.C., but the people ofClyde
surrounded thecemetery and it was re-ported that shots wouldbe
fired if there was an at-tempt to take his body. Weare researching
the gravemarker near Stapleton,and see how this markergot placed
there.”
Smith went on to saythat in addition to havingthe cemetery named
forGeneral McPherson,there is a school, highway,and the family home
wasdonated to the Clyde Her-itage League in 1995, afterbeing placed
on the Na-tional Register of HistoricPlaces in 1974. The
homeeventually received anhistorical marker fromthe Ohio Historical
Soci-ety Marker program.
The only mention of themarking of the grave inLoup Valley
Cemetery lo-cally, appeared in the May29, 1997 issue of The
Sta-pleton Enterprise. Thestory reads, “A stonemarking the grave of
CivilWar veteran James B.McPherson has been do-nated by Mildred
Ready.The stone has been placedalong with the round,metal GAR flag
holderthat was the grave’s onlyprevious indication. RoyReady,
father-in-law, andDarrel, husband of Mil-dred, were both
presidentof the Loup Valley Ceme-tery Association and long-time
members.”
An extensive story andpicture appeared in theNorth Platte
Telegraph andwas written by JudyLanka, Telegraph
areacorrespondent.
“Mildred Ready of Sta-pleton says she has been
fascinated with theknowledge that GeneralMcPherson was
buriedthere since hearing aboutit from her father-in-lawand others
familiar withthe cemetery’s history.”
The story went on to saythat three differentcounty service
officerswho tried to get a vet-eran’s stone placed on thegrave
failed to come upwith enough data toachieve their goal.
Ready’s research wasnot successful in deter-mining date or place
ofbirth for the General ofwhom it is said scores ofNebraska
settlers hadonce served.
“We’ve always knownthat grave was a veteran’sgrave…and that he
is theperson who McPhersonCounty was named for,”Ready added.
Todd von Kampen, a re-porter and “Civil Warbuff,” later wrote a
storythat was published in theNorth Platte Telegraphwhich stated,
“Sorry,Sandhills, say two Ohio
historians, McPhersonCounty’s namesake liescloser to Toldeo than
toTryon. Major GeneralJames B. McPherson’sbody remains in theClyde,
Ohio, cemeterywhere he was buried afterhis 1864 death in
battle.Cemetery records andstate records of Civil Warveterans
suggest the gravedoes in fact belong toWilliam McPherson, amusician
in a New Yorkregiment who later livedin Logan County and diedin
1907. In fact, residentsof Clyde, located 40 mileseast of Toledo
fought offan 1876 attempt to movethe Union Army of theTennessee
commander toa spot under a monumentto him in Washington,D.C., said
Clyde HeritageLeague secretary BettyRogers. That led to
thecompletion of a monu-ment over McPherson’sgrave by veterans of
his
This headstone at Loup Valley Cemetery was placednearly 25 years
ago to mark the grave of Civil War Gen-eral, James B. McPherson. It
has been determined it wasplaced there erroneously, as General
McPherson isburied in McPherson Cemetery in Clyde, Ohio. It
isthought this could be the gravesite of William McPher-son, a
musician in a New York regiment, who later livedin Logan County and
died in 1907.
COURTESY PHOTO
When an attempt to move the Union Army of the Ten-nessee
commander’s body to Washington, D.C. wasfought off by Clyde, Ohio
residents, this monument wasinstalled over the grave of James
Birdseye McPhersonby veterans of his command. President Hayes spoke
atthe monument’s dedication in 1881. The Clyde cemeteryis now named
McPherson Cemetery.
Golf course lookinggood for ‘20 season
MARCIA HORA - THE STAPLETON ENTERPRISE
New officers and members are on board as the AugustaWind Golf
Course prepares to open for the 2020 season.The grass is greening,
the sprinklers have been turnedon, and the greens have been swept
and appear to havefared very well this winter.
Augusta Wind GolfCourse is gearing up forthe season and has
newofficers and members onthe board. Skip Hecox willserve as
president; ScottGaites will be vice-presi-dent and treasurer;
Chay-ton Crow, secretary; andMike Needs, groundskeeper. Tim Karn is
incharge of advertising andmarketing, and board
Collaborative EffortLeads To Arrest Of
Pursuit SuspectA collaborative effort of
several law enforcementagencies has resulted inthe arrest of the
suspectinvolved in a pursuit lastTuesday near Brady.
At approximately 7:50p.m. Tuesday evening,May 5, a trooper
located aChevrolet Silverado,which had been reportedstolen in
Cozad. Thetrooper observed the ve-hicle speeding at 100miles per
hour as it wastraveling westbound onHighway 30 in easternLincoln
County. Thetrooper attempted a traf-fic stop, but the
vehiclefled.
The trooper initiated apursuit, which turnednorth on Haythorn
Roadbefore circling back andreturning to Highway 30westbound. As
the vehiclecontinued driving at ap-proximately 100 miles perhour,
NSP dispatch wasable to confirm the iden-tity of the suspect.
Troop-ers then discontinued thepursuit. The entire pur-suit lasted
approximatelynine minutes.
Wednesday morning, alocal resident located theSilverado, which
hadbeen abandoned on TinCamp Road, south of
members are NickKlosen, Travis Hansen,and Eric Garrelts.
The grass is greeningand sprinklers have beenrunning at the
course.The greens have beenswept and appear to havefared very well
this win-
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Highway 92 in McPher-son County. The McPher-son County
Sheriff’sOffice responded andconfirmed that it was thevehicle that
had beenstolen and had been in-volved in the pursuit withtroopers
Tuesday even-ing.
Several law enforcementagencies, including depu-ties from the
McPherson,Logan, and LincolnCounty Sheriff’s Offices,the NSP
Aviation SupportDivision, and NSP PoliceService Dog Division,
re-ported to the scene to as-sist in a search of the areato locate
the suspect. Lawenforcement received areport that the suspectwas at
an abandonedfarmstead and werequickly able to locate himand take
him into custodywithout further incidentat approximately
2:25p.m.
Shawn Grizzle, 33, ofCozad, was arrested foroperating a motor
vehicleto avoid arrest, theft byunlawful taking, willfulreckless
driving, and as ahabitual criminal. Grizzlewas lodged in
LincolnCounty Jail. Additionalcharges are pending fromDawson
County.
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