Manitowoc County’s Veterans Day celebration will also include the reinstallation of history.
Since he began organizing Civil War gravesite restoration efforts at Evergreen Cemetery, Dan Reinke has been searching for the final resting places of Heinrich H. Behrens and John S. Tufts.
It was learned that their gravestones were missing, making it very hard to find where they were buried.
How exactly they disappeared is unknown, but thanks to burial books that are over 100 years old and the work of the Evergreen Cemetery staff, both men were located.
At that time, markers were placed in the ground to easily outline each plot.
The workers and Reinke went out to the cemetery with the books and began prodding the ground to find their caskets.
Behrens was the toughest, as his casket, for an unknown reason, was placed horizontally compared to the others around him.
Thanks to donations and a lot of legwork, new grave markers were purchased and will be officially unveiled following the Veterans Day Ceremony at the Manitowoc Veterans Memorial across the street.
That program is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m.
