Veterans Memorial
Memory Plaque
Clearwater Township Cemetery
Kalkaska County
Wood plaque with names of all veterans of wars buried in cemetery by war, Civil War lists eight. One of which is questionable. Have not been able to verify George Gardner was a Civil War veteran. The plaque faces west to Gillett Road. Site maintained by Clearwater Township. Added to Memorials list: 6/1/2012
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To perpetuate the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) and the men who saved the Union between 1861-1865; to assist in every practicable way in the preservation and making available for research of documents and records pertaining to the G.A.R. and its members; to cooperate in doing honor to all who have patriotically served our country in any war; to teach patriotism, and the duties of citizenship, the true history of our country, and the love and honor of our Flag; to oppose every tendency or movement that would weaken loyalty to, or make for the destruction or impairment of our constitutional Union; and to inculcate and broadly sustain the American principles of representative government, of equal rights, and of impartial justice for all
