The grave of a Civil War soldier who died in 1910 was given a headstone in a northern Michigan cemetery. Ruel Boynton was a veteran who had eight children.
EMPIRE, Mich. (AP) The grave of a man who served in the U.S. Civil War has been formally marked at a northern Michigan cemetery. Claude Fields ensured that Ruel Boynton's service wouldn't be forgotten.
Ruel K. Boynton is not a name most people today would know. He didn’t invent anything. He wasn’t famous. But he served nearly two years as a Union cavalryman in the American Civil War and, until recently, there was no headstone marking his grave.