SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A local historian has made it his life mission to find and honor every last veteran buried in the Bonaventure Cemetery.

Bob Alhouse, a passionate historian with the Bonaventure Historical Society, has been working on this project for over a year.

He says it all started as a side project to update the list of veterans in the cemetery, but quickly turned into something much bigger.

Alhouse estimates he may have around 4,000 names when the project is complete.

“I’ve spent the last year and two or three months trying to find and document every veteran buried in Bonaventure Cemetery. I started out with a list of about 900 and I’m to almost 3,500 now. There’s a lot of veterans that are out here, lying forgotten, and I’m trying to basically keep their memory alive for

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