Kirkersville Cemetery dates back to 1829 and is an active cemetery to this day. US Army Major General Fred L. Walker, who earned the Distinguished Service Cross during both World War I and World War II, is buried here. Walker was born in Fairfield County and graduated from The Ohio State University in 1911 with a degree in engineering. He was awarded his first Distinguished Service Cross for his actions while commanding a batallion as a Major during WWI's Second Battle of the Marne. During WWII he was the commanding general of the 36th Infantry Division, stationed out of Texas. His WWII Distinguished Service Cross was for his part in that war's Italian campaign in that role. In 1969, the same year in which Walker died, his journal of his divisions WWII experience, "From Texas to Rome", was published.
In 2012, ground-penetrating radar was used at the cemetery to try to determine if remains had been moved to the cemetery from a nearby tiny family cemetery where two people had been buried in the early 19th century. The headstones for those two people had been moved to Kirkersville Cemetery in 1968 and the fencing around the old family cemetery removed. The radar did not find the remains at Kirkersville Cemetery, nor were they detected at the old family burial site, leaving the location of the remains of Francis Jackson and his infant son Clark undetermined.
This postcard shows the Soldiers Monument in Kirkersville Cemetery and was produced sometime around 1905-1915 by Whedon S. Harriman of Columbus:
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