3 SUV and one SCV installed the marker last year. Previously he only had a temporary tin marker that held the death-burial permit copy from 1916 which I found the remains of when I was sure he was buried in the empty grave next to his cousin. I also found a wooden foot marker and then i learned how to grave dowse and confimed a male adult in the grave.
JWC died poor and no money from anyone to get him a marker. Had a donated grave to his widow from his cousin's first wife who did not want it as the 2nd wife was in the other grave in the 3 person plot.
We had reports he and his father deserted another TX Cav unit for bounty money and then he alone later came back and was in the 30th. That is probably all wrong too. But all we have on hand here. No record of him ever going bad like his brothers and father ever.
I am the Civil War specialist at the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery past ten years and also PCC local SUV camp. Have UDC Jeff Davis Hist. Gold Medal for my work over the years researching, marking graves, and relating stories about CSA soldiers locally and in other areas nearby by my writings and giving talks to interested groups. Hanging it all up soon due to extreme age and infirmaties.