The following excerpt is from an AP article posted in the October 7, 2012 edition of tdn.com:
An honor guard made up of Confederate and Union Civil War re-enactors fires a salute during the dedication of the final resting place of Confederate soldier Pvt. Hugh McLaughlin in Greenwood Memorial Terrace cemetery on Saturday.
One mystery surrounding Pvt. Hugh McLaughlin was recently solved.
For 106 years, the Confederate soldier’s body lay in an unmarked grave in Spokane’s Greenwood Memorial Terrace cemetery.
Genealogists, including McLaughlin’s great-granddaughter, Bonnie Young, tracked down the grave, and a new marble headstone was unveiled in a graveside dedication ceremony Saturday.
“It was pretty much lost history,” Young said.
She knew her ancestor’s body was somewhere in the area, but didn’t know exactly where, and didn’t know the history of his Civil War service. For Young, locating McLaughlin’s grave brings her one step closer to piecing together her family history.
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The sleuthing started with a Seattle-based genealogist who discovered some census data indicating a Confederate soldier had died in Spokane. That genealogist reached out to local genealogist Pat Weeks through the Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness website. Weeks, who has no relation to McLaughlin’s family, called area cemeteries to find McLaughlin’s burial place, then decided to find the soldier’s grave to document the information on his marker.
