Custer Post News Today

- It was 2017 when Tony Gonsor, a 74-year-old Vietnam veteran and Custer resident, took charge of the community’s veterans honor guard, presenting military honors at funerals and on holidays such as Memorial Day and Veterans Day.

It was 2017 when Tony Gonsor, a 74-year-old Vietnam veteran and Custer resident, took charge of the community’s veterans honor guard, presenting military honors at funerals and on holidays such

It takes 14 volunteers to pull off each ceremony, with color guard, firing squad, bugler, officer of the day and commander

Finding people to participate in honor guard ceremonies is getting more difficult as the veteran population has dropped nearly 20% since 2010.

In early September 1890, according to the Sedalia Weekly Bazoo, a man who called himself Porter arrived in Sedalia. The 35-year-old man was about 5 feet, 5 inches tall and had square shoulders, auburn hair and a heavy mustache. He wore cowboy boots and told people he was a mule buyer from LaJora, Colorado. He wore a Grand Army of the Republic badge, meaning that he was a veteran of the Civil War, and was from Custer Post, No. 2, in Saguachi, Colorado.

The Nevada Appeal, the Silver States oldest continuously run newspaper, first published on May 16, 1865.

A fraternal organization of Civil War veterans was led in Rochester by a Vermont native who settled near Rochester.

A years-long effort spearheaded by a Civil War historian will finally bring Civil War Navy veteran David Franklin the white marble tombstone that was forgotten in 1920.

Historian Loran Bures' quest to get David Franklin his headstone began in 2017 when he was researching Civil War veterans from Pierce County, Washington.

Rochester lauded him on the day of his funeral in New York with shops being closed and speeches made in honor of "Gen. Grant."