Reprinted with permission from The Leavenworth County Historical Society and Museum and the Leavenworth Times. Donated by Debra Graden.
Graveyards are history books in which the headstones are the pages.
The Easton and Langley cemeteries in northern Leavenworth County are filled with pages of that community's past. The first burial in the Easton Cemetery was of an Army paymaster from Fort Leavenworth. Lt. J. N. Walkup was in Company G, 9th Regiment of the Kansas Cavalry. He died in the fall of 1855 after being stricken with cholera. Many soldiers at the fort died during this time, but Walkup took a secret to his grave that remains unsolved today.