© MJH for Buffalo County NEGenWeb Project, 2001
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History of Buffalo County and Its People - Volume I
by Samuel Clay Bassett


Decoration Day at Riverside Cemetery, Gibbon, 1912
Photo by S. D. Butcher
DECORATION DAY AT RIVERSIDE CEMETERY, GIBBON, 1912

Members of G. K. Warren Post, G.A.R., from left to right: Post Commander P. E. Foxworthy; Past Post Commander James Holloway (supporting the flag); W. C. Rizer; Past Post Commander Emory Wyman; Post Chaplain D. G. Sturdevant; Post Adjutant S. C.. Bassett; kneeling, A Watenpaugh; W. L. Randall, marshall of the day. Following the post are the members of the G. K. Warren W. R. C. In rear of the procession 140 boys and girls bearing wreaths and flowers with which to decorate the graves of seventy soldiers of the Civil ward buried in the cemetery. More than one thousand people of the community were in attendance on the occasion.


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