The Daring Rescue of the Ephraim Williams
Editor’s note: On December 22, 1884, began one of the most daring and dangerous U.S. Life-Saving Service rescues up to that time. The rescuers receive...
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Editor’s note: On December 22, 1884, began one of the most daring and dangerous U.S. Life-Saving Service rescues up to that time. The rescuers receive...
We scoured the archives to bring you this story of a shipwreck off Jones Beach.
“We can’t have a vet in here with no headstone,” Fields said. “That isn’t right.”
The grave of a Civil War soldier who died in 1910 was given a headstone in a northern Michigan cemetery. Ruel Boynton was a veteran who had eight children.
Ruel Boynton died in 1910 after settling on a 160-acre farm in Leelanau County after the war.