Garner Veterans Memorial

The Garner Veteran’s Committee, Inc. and Town of Garner is proud to sponsor the 2011 Veterans Day Celebration on Friday, November 11, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. at Aversboro Road Baptist Church, 1600 Aversboro Road, Garner, NC 27529.  Join local Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion Posts, veterans and their families, civic and community leaders [...]

1st Lt. Cornelius C. Young entered the State’s Militia about 1861 and served as a Conscript Officer in Wake County (per North Carolina Adjutant-General’s Militia Officer Roster 1861-1865 located at the NC Archives).  The Obituary Notices from the Biblical Recorder, 1835-1877 records that Cornelius C. Young, Confederate Soldier, died 25 June 1862.   He was the [...]