Photos from a graveside military honors ceremony in Fort Mitchell, Ky., on Saturday to honor Bellville native John F. Rowalt, who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1869 as a U.S. Army private fighting in the Indian Campaigns in Arizona. He died of smallpox in 1875 and had been buried in an unmarked grave […]
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Veteran in Kentucky launched effort that will lead to Bellville soldier being honored Saturday
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. — Robert Schultz served his country in the armed forces for nearly two decades. The Kentucky native understands the honor of military service. That’s why he could never allow a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient from Bellville to lay buried in an unmarked Kentucky grave. It was the 59-year-old U.S. Air Force […]
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Bellville Medal of Honor recipient’s grave to be honored 148 years after death
BELLVILLE –– U.S. Army Pvt. John F. Rowalt received the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1870 for his bravery during the Indian Campaigns in the Arizona Territory. The Bellville native died from smallpox five years later in Cincinnati and has been buried in an unmarked grave in northern Kentucky for the past 148 years, a […]