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Associated Press - November 22, 2009 12:24 PM ET
ALBANY, Ind. (AP) - A former auto worker has tapped his love of history to restore a Civil war soldier's marble gravestone.
Doug Cross of Albany came across Thomas Kent's grave last September while looking for a site where Civil War soldiers had used limestone slabs to cross the Mississinewa River.
The gravestone was filthy and nearly indecipherable, but Cross took pictures and used a computer to enhance them. He and his 10-year-old daughter then used non-damaging chemicals to remove sediment from the stone until it was clean and easy to read.
Cross says he hopes the work allows the soldier's name to live on.
Kent died at the 1862 Battle of Stone River in Murfreesboro, Tenn., after being shot and suffering a bayonet wound.
Information from: The Star Press, http://www.thestarpress.com
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