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August 4th, 2008, 12:13 PM
http://hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080804/NEWS01/80804005/-1/rss
GULFPORT – Luke Ward Conerly, a Civil War veteran who died at 81 in 1922, has been given a proper grave marker in the Mississippi City Cemetery in Gulfport.
Conerly had been living at the Confederate Veterans’ Home at Beauvior at the time of his death.
Conerly was buried with a makeshift, hand-lettered headstone, although his wife, Ida Mae Farmer, had a traditional stone at the same grave plot. The husband’s new headstone, placed over the weekend, resulted from efforts by his family and the Sons of the Confederate Veterans.
Conerly enlisted in the 16th Mississippi Quitman Guards and served in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was twice wounded in battle, at Antietam in 1862, and the Battle of Spotsylvania, in 1864.
GULFPORT – Luke Ward Conerly, a Civil War veteran who died at 81 in 1922, has been given a proper grave marker in the Mississippi City Cemetery in Gulfport.
Conerly had been living at the Confederate Veterans’ Home at Beauvior at the time of his death.
Conerly was buried with a makeshift, hand-lettered headstone, although his wife, Ida Mae Farmer, had a traditional stone at the same grave plot. The husband’s new headstone, placed over the weekend, resulted from efforts by his family and the Sons of the Confederate Veterans.
Conerly enlisted in the 16th Mississippi Quitman Guards and served in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was twice wounded in battle, at Antietam in 1862, and the Battle of Spotsylvania, in 1864.