From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 4, 1911:

“On one of their recent hikes the Lutheran Boys League visited the old forgotten cemetery along the Santa Fe about two miles west of town. The burying ground is almost concealed in a neglected clump of trees and underbrush, and is remembered by only the earliest Lawrence pioneers. It covers about a half acre of ground and still had fifteen stones standing. Several sunken places indicate where bodies have been removed and transferred elsewhere. There is in this cemetery the grave of a soldier which has probably not been remembered on Decoration Day for years. The soldier was Robert L. Hughes, a member of the 1st Reg. Kansas Volunteers who died in 1862. The Lutheran boys formed a military file around the grave and planted their own tiny emblem of the stars and stripes on its sunken surface. Every year they expect to carry baskets of flowers out to the grave on Decoration Day as a mark of honor they feel is due a member of the 1st Reg. of Kansas Volunteers who heard his country’s call and obeyed that call.”