Wright-Patterson’s only veteran grave: A Black Civil War soldier buried 134 years ago
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on July 3, 2022
The grave marker for Hiram Honaker and his family — the only U.S. veteran buried on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. (Sandy Simison/U.S. Air Force)
(Tribune News Service) — Some 134 years after he was buried on what once was a Greene County family farm, one of the nation’s biggest Air Force bases respectfully tends to the grave of U.S. Army Pvt. Hiram Honaker.
Just south of state Route 235 on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s Area A, the Air Force is the . . .
