HUMBOLDT — One of the most prominent grave sites at Humboldt’s Mount Hope Cemetery now has a headstone.
At a somber ceremony Saturday, members of Humboldt’s Camp 9 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and descendants of the late John W. Howard dedicated a headstone in the Civil War soldier’s memory.
The ceremony caps a monthslong effort by local historian Carolyn Whitaker who had discovered that Howard, who served with the famed Company I of the Michigan Brigade Sharpshooters during the Civil War, was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery with his wife, Jane,…
Humboldt honors Civil War soldier
