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Burial Location of Joseph P. Elliott Capt 5th Mo

In researching the Highland Cemetery here in Wichita along with diligent search of the period papers of the 1890's etc., it would appear that Wichita had the only Confederate Veterans association in the state of Kansas. A small article dated October 9, 1901 gives a listing of men who were buried in Highland cemetery without Markers. It reads as follows: "The ex-Confederates association has located the unmarked graves of several ex-Confederates who are buried in Highland Cemetery, and the grave of one who is buried at the county farm. At the next meeting of the association, which will be held Saturday, October 19, action will be taken toward providing some marker for the graves. The names of those whose graves have been found in Highland Cemetery are John Watson, J. P. Elliott, William Reid, James Brasfield, and A. Tigniere. James Morgan is buried at the Poor Farm." Morgan was moved on Dec. 22, 1906 to the pauper section of the Highland cemetery in grave 191. There is still no marker. As to the other names I have been able to only confirm two others. The name J. P. Elliott comes up and according to the Confederate data base this is possibly Captain Joseph P. Elliott who led Company E, 5th Mo. Cavalry. There is a badly worn stone in Section 3 confirming his burial location of Highland in what seems to be a section where a number of confederate veterans are buried. However, I have not been able to confirm this is the man. Have found no obituary to date. Putting this question on the table: does anyone have a burial location for Joseph P. Elliott from Missouri. I have found a man by that name in the 26th S. C., 19th Tn., but was killed at Franklin Tenn.; the 31st Tenn, and the 18th Tx., which does not seem likely.

Buried in the same section with Elliott is the first commander of the Confederate Veterans association, John H. Shields, who was a capt in Co. A, 26th Ga. and owned and operated a newspaper in Wichita, along with holding city offices. Another was Richard Cogdell, also of 26th Ga. In the early 1870's was the city marshal, who according to current documentation was the one who gave Wyatt Earp his walking papers when he got caught with his hand in the public till.

This is part of a project to recover lost data on the graves of veterans in this Cemetery, it is in bad shape.

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