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| Holmes Brigade at Saturday's service (Photos by Gene Young) |
With all the pomp and circumstance befitting an officer in the U.S. Army, hundreds of people from Carthage, Mo., and from around the country laid to rest a man who died a respected businessman, but sat on a shelf for 102 years awaiting a proper burial. Descendants of Maj. Raphael Guido Rombauer, who died at age 74 in 1912, were joined by veterans as the community paid its last respects to a man who served through the entire Civil War, then moved to Carthage and helped rebuild a community devastated by that conflict. • Article
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Elizabeth Young speaks at her ancestor's grave in Carthage.  |
