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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.

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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.

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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

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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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