Nebraska veterans plan honors for Civil War soldier whose remains lay unclaimed for 105 years

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 Nebraska veterans plan honors for Civil War soldier whose remains lay unclaimed for 105 years

    Steve Liewer Oct 12, 2021 Updated Oct 12, 2021
 

Cynthia Vest Kinkead has rested alone beneath a white headstone in her family’s large burial plot near the east entrance to Plattsmouth’s Oak Hill Cemetery ever since her death, in 1910.

She’s about to get some company in that lonely patch of grass.

Later this month, her husband, Civil War veteran Benton Kinkead, will be laid to rest beside her — just a few weeks after the unlikely discovery of his cremated remains in a Seattle funeral home 105 years after his death.

It’s believed he will be the first Civil War soldier buried in Nebraska in almost 75 years.

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