Real Daughter Marker Returned to Proper Place-- Part 1

From the Nov. 10, 2019, Sentinel-Record

The United States Daughters of 1812 was established in  1892 and many of its original members were the actual daughters of a War of 1812 veteran.  The group developed a grave marker for those members.

Earlier this year, Arkansas State President Kay Tatum received a real daughter's grave marker that was found in the attic of a recently purchased house in Fairfield Bay.  The marker was inscribed with the name Susanna Tucker Shamstrom. "Real Daughter" of Lt. John Tucker, War of 1812.

Using records in the U.S.D. 1812 National Office in Washington, D.C., it was determined that the marker  belonged to Shamstrom's grave in Coolidge, Kansas.

--Brock-Perry