Emma M. [nee Hess] and Jacob Reed Wolverton's gravelot is shown in the images below.
The top image illustrates the 'blank', tilting government-furnished military headstone 'as found' in 2003. The headstone was repositioned and reset [plumb and level] by David Via and Associates in May 2005 as part of a cemetery conservation project jointly funded by the Town of Superior and the Colorado Historic Preservation Fund.
A bronze niche marker, with JRW's service information, was order from the US Department of Veterans Affairs to supplement the existing 'stand-in' headstone. The applicaton was supported / certified by the Town of Superior Supervisor of Recreation and Community Services.
The plaque was mounted on dimension marble stone and installed before J.R. Wolverton's 'stand-in' military marker in May 2007. This is illustrated in the second image. The bronze marker reads:
JACOB R WOLVERTON
PVT CO A 13 ILL INF
JAN 16 1837 FEB 11 1890
Thus, Jacob R. Wolverton's grave is appropriately marked and his military service memorialized 117 years after his death.
As found, the tablet marking Jacob Reed Wolverton's grave was 'blank', has no inscription. The normal bas relief inscription had been purposefully removed, chisled off. The marker had been 'defaced' in the literary sense. This is apparent when viewing the tablet in raking sunlight; see hyperlinked image.
Apparently, this tablet is one of the military tablets appropriated for reuse by the Boulder Post of the Grand Army of the Republic veterans' organization. The practice of re-using redundant and erroneous military tablets is mentioned in the 01 April 1905 minute of Post 9 of the Grand Army of the Republic available at the Boulder Public Library Carnegie Branch Library for Local History; more specifically, Call Number: BHS 332 b2 folder 1.
