Records from Dearborn Historical Museum include a graveyard inscription project of Putman (Oak Grove) cemetery completed in 1941 by volunteer members of the Dearborn Historical Commission. Also at the Dearborn Historical Museum is undertaker Elba Howe's diaries (Howe-Peterson Funeral Home.) Howe writes that "English Dick" drowned in the Rouge River, as he was a general laborer and was washing sheep for a local farmer. Ancestry.com records and SUV records show that Lemon was given a military marker.
Records from Dearborn Historical Museum include a graveyard inscription project of Putman (Oak Grove) cemetery completed in 1941 by volunteer members of the Dearborn Historical Commission. Also at the Dearborn Historical Museum is undertaker Elba Howe's diaries (Howe-Peterson Funeral Home.) Howe writes that "English Dick" drowned in the Rouge River, as he was a general laborer and was washing sheep for a local farmer. Ancestry.com records and SUV records show that Lemon was given a military marker.
Inscription
From records of Dearborn HIstorical Museum, graveyard inscription project of 1941. " Rich D. Lemon, Co.G. 24th Mich Infantry. "
Gravesite Details
From records of Dearborn HIstorical Museum, graveyard inscription project of 1941.
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