Road Marker located on Kentucky State Route 80 at the Virginia and Kentucky Stateline on the way up to the Breaks Interstate Park It reads: Here rests the body of a soldier of
the Confederacy,
struck down by an unknown assassin in May of 1865, apparently on way to
home in the South. He was buried in a coffin made of boards rived from
a great oak by four men of this community. After the turn of the
century,
a rose bush marked this final resting place of a soldier who is
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