U.S. Civil War veteran honored in Violet Hill Cemetery

June 28, 2023

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veteran1 — Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War member Mike Rowley, left, and Minburn American Legion Post 99 member Don Richardson worked together to raise a grave marker for military veteran Jonathan Nelson in Violet Hill Cemetery.

Working on erecting a grave marker for U.S. Civil War veteran Jonathan Nelson are, from left, Minburn American Legion Post 99 members Don Richardson and Tom Sloss and Violet Hill Cemetery sexton Richie Steadman.

Minburn American Legion Post 99 members Don Richardson of Minburn and Tom Sloss of the Minburn were assisted Wednesday by Violet Hill Cemetery sexton Richie Steadman of Perry and Mike Rowley of Clive, a member of the Grenville M. Dodge Camp of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, to install a 180-pound monument to mark the grave of U.S. Civil War veteran Jonathan Nelson.

Nelson was a private in Company H of the 5th Iowa Cavalry. He died in 1925. The replacement stone was obtained from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and positioned on Nelson’s plot after removal of the broken stone and its concrete base.