A member of a Civil War United States Colored Troops unit buried in Nicholasville will finally receive a military marker – but the search for his gravesite continues. Private Anthony “Mack” McInham will be honored October 19th in the Locust Grove Cemetery. John Buckler is a member of the local Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War.
“We found his death certificate and obituary, and we knew he was buried in Locust Grove, because that’s what the obit that’s what the death certificate said, but there are several people in that cemetery that had no markers.”
Buckler said he and other members of the historic organization began searching for the grave of McInham three or four years ago…