William O Miller -- Trading Post Cem., Trading Post KS
N 38° 15.125 W 094° 40.816
15S E 352978 N 4235119
The homemade tombstone of William O. Miller at the deeply historic and exceedingly tragic Trading Post Cemetery, near Marais du Cygnes.
Waymark Code: WMGP8C
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 03/27/2013
Views: 4
The homemade grave marker for William O Miller consists of a modern metal funeral home plate stuck in a hardware-store concrete planter with some flowers planted in it.
This humble homemade monument sits in the shadow of the 30-foot tall obelisk monument to the victims of the Marais du Cygnes massacre of 1858, during the Bleeding Kansas era.
Date of Birth: 1879
Date of Death: 1951
Material: Concrete
Web Site: Not listed
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