World War I Veteran’s Tombstone “Dug Up” from Jonesboro, Arkansas, Cemetery

Posted by admin on Apr 20, 2012

Once a month, Bobbie Hindman tends to the gravesite of her uncle, a World War I veteran who died 56 years ago. Claud Hindman received a bronze-plated monument denoting his service, but his niece discovered it missing from the Strawfloor Cemetery while recently paying her respects.

“It makes me feel better just to go out there and know that they’re there and everything,” Bobbie Hindman said. “When I went out there and found out his tombstone was gone, I was disappointed. I really wanted to cry, and I thought that wouldn’t do no good. That won’t bring it back.”

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