The members of the Gunnison High School (GHS) Legion Club have a mystery and need assistance from the community to solve it.The mission of the Legion Club is to support those on active duty and veterans (both living and deceased). The members of the club show their patriotism through service. The Legion Club has been working with John Vader at the Gunnison Cemetery for about a year and a half. We have raised about 16 veteran stones and replaced one cracked veteran stone. On Friday, April 19, five members of the club cleaned the 16 stones we had raised. We also found one bronze memorial that has a hole in it. We will work with Steve Otero, the Gunnison County veteran service officer to replace it. During our work on Friday, Vader showed us a marker in the pauper section of the cemetery that is for “Maj. Harry Sehrman, 1839-1929.” We would like to obtain a Veterans Administration memorial for Sehrman, but we are unable to find an online source that documents his military service. Actually, we have not found him in any online source. We think he is a Civil War veteran given his birth date. If you have any information about Sehrman, please contact Mark High, the GHS Legion Club co-sponsor, at mhigh@gunnisonschools.net. The Legion Club is also sponsoring an online memorial website for veterans buried in the Gunnison Cemetery. (Scan the QR code below, or search “GHS Veteran Memorial Index.”) Our GHS Journalism class, taught by Kelsey McDonald, is currently researching memorials for the veterans listed below. We realize that we can only obtain limited information from online sources about the veterans.Please contact Mark High if you have information about the veterans below.
Lt. Wm. C. Adams, Company E, 2 Kentucky Cavalry
Albert Blinerry, 7th New York Battery
E. W. Burton, Company C, 9th Michigan Infantry
Thomas R. Cox, Company D, I Colorado Infantry
Sgtt Jos. G. Dean, Company I, 7 Missouri Cavalry
Jackson C. Enbody, Nebraska, Private 134 Infantry, 34 Division, July 24, 1934
Glenn J. George, Colorado, CFR 1 CL, 78 Balloon Company AS, July 5, 1891-July 25, 1954
Jas. A. Haymaker, Company I, 193 Ohio Infantry
Paul Hostrawser, Company B, 95th Illinois Infantry
Lt. Henry B. Keefer, Company G, 40 Iowa Infantry
Lewis E. Lore, Company C, 21 Missouri Infantry
Samuel G. Smith, Company E, 140 Illinois Infantry
John Stanley, Company D, 10 Michigan Infantry
Walter J. Thomas, Montana, Private 23 Engineers, Nov. 13, 1940
The research for each veteran is in different stages, so each veteran may not have a web page at this time. This is an on-going project for the journalism class and Legion Club.(Mark High is a Gunnison High School teacher and veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps)
The members of the Gunnison High School (GHS) Legion Club have a mystery and need assistance from the community to solve it.
The mission of the Legion Club is to support those on active duty and veterans (both living and deceased). The members of the club show their patriotism through service. The Legion Club has been working with John Vader at the Gunnison Cemetery for about a year and a half.
We have raised about 16 veteran stones and replaced one cracked veteran stone. On Friday, April 19, five members of the club cleaned the 16 stones we had raised. We also found one bronze memorial that has a hole in it. We will work with Steve Otero, the Gunnison County veteran service officer to replace it.
During our work on Friday, Vader showed us a marker in the pauper section of the cemetery that is for “Maj. Harry Sehrman, 1839-1929.” We would like to obtain a Veterans Administration memorial for Sehrman, but we are unable to find an online source that documents his military service. Actually, we have not found him in any online source. We think he is a Civil War veteran given his birth date.
If you have any information about Sehrman, please contact Mark High, the GHS Legion Club co-sponsor, at mhigh@gunnisonschools.net.
The Legion Club is also sponsoring an online memorial website for veterans buried in the Gunnison Cemetery. (Scan the QR code below, or search “GHS Veteran Memorial Index.”) Our GHS Journalism class, taught by Kelsey McDonald, is currently researching memorials for the veterans listed below. We realize that we can only obtain limited information from online sources about the veterans.
Please contact Mark High if you have information about the veterans below.
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