Alexis LeClaire – This Civil War Veteran had almost been lost to history. His headstone had been sinking for a very long time. Two of our group got ambitious on March 23 and rescued his sinking headstone. Take a look at how much his stone had sunk.
We know very little about this man; a search of the PPLD database yielded no information. He was born in 1844, likely in Massachusetts. He died in Colorado Springs in 1888. We know he served in Company B of the 8th Regiment of the Massachusetts Infantry for 100 days in 1864. He was not wounded, nor taken a Prisoner of War. Aside from an order for his headstone, we found no records in Ancestry or Fold3.
Evergreen Heritage has not forgotten him. Thanks to our two volunteers, his stone is standing tall again.
***This will be an ongoing story with, hopefully, a happy ending. The following Monday, we searched cemetery records and were unable to locate any burial information for Mr. LeClaire. This was unfortunate, but it was not that uncommon during those early years of the cemetery.
We hope there may be family members doing genealogy research who may come upon our little post and will be able share more information on Mr. LeClaire.
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