The Silent Home Cemetery in Cameron is the resting place of more than 100 people who served in the United States military.
Yesterday, members of the community gathered for a Memorial Day service in honor of the men and women who served and lost their lives. Owen Muelder, who runs the Galesburg Colony Underground Railroad Freedom Station at Knox College, delivered a speech about war in the region.
“Whether we remember on this Memorial Day the Calvary Officer John Beaufort from Rock Island, Illinois, who famously held the crucial high ground for the Union army after the first day of fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg,” Muelder said, “or the relatively unknown men who served and are buried in this cemetery, all are deserving of our respect.”
About 50 people gathered in the cemetery that Muelder described as reminiscent of Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology.
