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AboutMichael Vincour'sAdopt a Civil War Soldier ProgramThis area is currently under development.
Mike & Stephanie, his girlfriend, spent the summer of 2005 planting flowers & cleaning grave sites. This lead to them "adopting" civil war soldier, Hiram Spooner. Here is Mike's story of how the project got it's roots. I recently saw an article in the local newspaper that read, "War Monument To Be Cleaned." I have been a huge civil war fan since the 4th grade my teacher gave me a report to do. I had not done anything so she brought civil war material in for me to look at. That did it. I as hooked.
After cleaning the stone we left. I came home and found a site on the computer called "Spooner Generations" (http://spoonergen.com). I wrote a message on this site asking if it would be okay for me to cut the vines and cleanup the mess. I waited for about a month. When I got no answer me and my girlfriend Stephanie decided to go up there and do it, the two of us.
When we pulled in the driveway of the cemetery there was something strange
about Hiram's grave. As we walked up to it to our
Last month I found another Spooner site. I left a message there saying if anyone can give me information about Hiram Spooner to please e-mail me. To my surprise- I got an e-mail the next day from a lady in NY State saying she is a descendant of Hiram's. She told me he was a stretcher bearer. He went out on the battle field during a battle and helped the wounded by carrying them out. He was shot in the belly and died that day I was in SHOCK !!!!! Now I know more about my friend Hiram. I always had a feeling he was a special man. It takes A SPECIAL MAN TO GIVE UP HIS LIFE HELPING A FRIEND. Civil War veterans have a flag holder on their graves shaped like a star with the letters GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) on it. This was a group started by survivors of the war. They had reunions for the old vets. There are two guys helping me so far. One picked two soldiers buried there. The other is making up his mind. |
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We drove out to Southampton, a town about 10 minutes away from our home.
As we went in the main gate I felt something pulling me towards a certain
area of the cemetery. I walked up to a huge mess of vines at brush
that looked like it has been there for 100 years or more. There in
this mess was a stone and a broken American flag. As I pushed away the
vines on the gravestone it read, "Hiram Spooner, Killed in Battle, June 2,
1864." My heart about broke. This poor soldier, his grave was
an a horrible mess. My heart cried for this poor man.
hearts delight The mess that had been there for 100 years was gone! That's when I
called the newspaper and got this project going.
