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Published May 25, 2009 06:05 pm - SARCOXIE, Mo. — A project in the works will create a memorial for more than 40 area residents who were Union soldiers and defenders of the Cave Spring and Bowers Mill area during the Civil War. Stone has been donated for a monument to bear the names of those who died. Monument proposed to honor Civil War soldiers, residents w/ replica of monument and copies of war records
By Susan Redden sredden@joplinglobe.com SARCOXIE, Mo. — A project in the works will create a memorial for more than 40 area residents who were Union soldiers and defenders of the Cave Spring and Bowers Mill area during the Civil War. Stone has been donated for a monument to bear the names of those who died. The memorial will be erected between the Cave Spring school and cemetery, according to Helen Hunter, a member of the Eastern Jasper County Historic Sites Association. The association two years ago completed a project to restore the Cave Spring school. The one-room, brick schoolhouse was built in the early 1840s to educate children of the Cave Spring community near Sarcoxie. During the Civil War, it served as a federal militia garrison. After the war, it was the seat of county government after the Jasper County Courthouse burned down. The memorial will honor members of the 76th Regiment Enrolled Missouri Militia who served out of Cave Spring and Bowers Mill, and civilians from that area who were killed during the war. Getting recognition Research to gather the names for the monument was done by Hunter, who also does research as a volunteer at the Jasper County Records Center, which preserves county records and archives. “It’s really exciting to work on,” she said. “Maybe they can get some recognition. They’ve gone unremembered all these years. It’s like some of them have ceased to exist, and if we can change that with a monument, we want to.” Hunter said the idea grew from research she did after hearing stories about Stephen and Jasper Crawford, two brothers from the area who were killed by guerrillas during the war. “I knew from the headstones at the cemetery that they didn’t have marked graves, so I started working on getting headstones for them,” she said. “And the more I worked, the more I discovered how many were killed serving out of that school and Bowers Mill.” She counted 44 from that area who died between 1881 and 1865, as a result of the war. More than 40 deaths “from such a rural, sparsely populated area — that needs to be recognized,” Hunter said. “Some died of wounds. Some died of disease due to being stationed there. Their military records say the majority were killed by guerrillas.” That means Confederate partisans, said Steve Weldon, county archivist, since the Cave Spring and Bowers Mill area was a Union stronghold. 
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