Long ago on independence square (Liberty, Jackson: home, tenant, high school)

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by SilverDoc

I'll be damn! This forum is like the Energizer bunny!

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

where have you been????

We could have used your help over the past years? chuckle.

Welcome back! You have all night to catch up on your reading, we'll expect your answers in the morning! Or at least stick around until we hit page 1000...

[Kev 2732]

Originally Posted by Major Tom 58

This is a google snap shot of a brick building now a residence. Located on S. Pearl a little south east of the power plant/ Sermon center. Was wondering if this might have been a neighborhood grocery at one time. I know said businesses have been discussed here several times but didn't want to dig around trying to find those postings. I happened to drive by this building/home a few days ago and decided I needed to share.

I have been in this building a few times. My cousin lived here briefly in the mid 90's. He had told me that it was a former grocery store. I was unaware of the other occupants. From what I remember, it looked like it had been vacant for quite some time and in desperate need of repair. He worked for a few months renovating the interior but had a disagreement with the owner on who was going to pay for renovations.

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by SilverDoc

I'll be damn! This forum is like the Energizer bunny!

It's the Cialis

Welcome back

[Mad Anthonie]

Time for trivia! This should be easy, as I'm sure most of you are old enough to remember this place. Who or what is "We"?

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

Time for trivia! This should be easy, as I'm sure most of you are old enough to remember this place. Who or what is "We"?

Where Redford met Streisand

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

Where Redford met Streisand

If'n you look closely you can see them peeking out of the back of the ambulance!

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

The state: Missouri

The locality: Independence

The date of erection: September 1864

The military involved: The Second Colorado Cavalry
The location: Woodlawn Cemetery but then known as City Cemetery.

The monument was for eight Union men killed in the Grinter farm fight two months earlier. These Union members were all from the Second Colorado Cavalry. And, it was this military unit that took up a collection to purchase the stone. The Grinter Farm fight appears to have taken place on July 6, 1864, on Lee’s Summit Road south of US Highway 40 and south of the Little Blue near the old Jackson County hospital.

The Center for Civil War Research recognizes the monument as the first in the US west of the Mississippi. But also says incorrectly that the monument was to the Confederate dead.

Pearl Wilcox and apparently a 1968 edition of the Jackson County Historical Society Journal says it was the first Civil War monument in the country. At least she says in one sentence that it was the first in the country and then in another sentence says it was likely the first in the nation. A web site associated with the Examiner says it is likely the third oldest in the country.

Another web site shows a photo and says it is a 7-foot white Vermont marble obelisk dedicated to the Union dead, specifically the Second Colorado Cavalry. That sight says that the monument was erected only ten days after the fight, which is not correct.

One author says he was amazed at how fast the monument was erected. Ten days or two months after the fight, I would be more amazed at how fast they got the Vermont marble and carved it. Must have been a mail order rush thing. Actually, they could have got it from a local undertaker.

The Colorado Second Cavalry was stationed in Independence for one year but were expecting to be transferred west to fight Indians at any time. This expectation was what caused the monument to be erected so quickly. The Sand Creek Massacre took place on November 29, 1864, in Colorado but the the Colorado Second was not called home to take place in that attack. The Coloradans formed a militia under an idiot colonel named Chivington and disposed of the Indians, themselves. The Colorado Second Cavalry stayed in Missouri and were mustered out at Fort Leavenworth the following year.


The Colorado Second Cavalry was formed in, of all places, St. Louis. It was a consolidation of the 2nd and 3rd Colorado Infantry regiments. Someone must have had a lot of horses available and our boys were tired of walking.

A history of the Second Colorado says that Company C was involved near the Little Blue in Jackson County on July 6, 1864. It does not mention a monument, though.

My Beloved and I took advantage of a very beautiful day to take a romantic stroll through Woodlawn Cemetery. This is the monument mentioned some time ago...

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

My Beloved and I took advantage of a very beautiful day to take a romantic stroll through Woodlawn Cemetery. This is the monument mentioned some time ago...

I have always thought cemeteries should have a Department of Corrections. That is, a worker or workers who will from time-to-time reset crooked head stones to vertical.

[Major Tom 58]

Originally Posted by SilverDoc

I'll be damn! This forum is like the Energizer bunny!

Well, as Gomer used to say, "Surprise, surprise, surprise!" Hope you can stay a while.

[Mad Anthonie]

Here is a small clue that may help those of you with keen powers of observance and deducing skills equal to Sherlock Holmes.