Kirksville celebrated its Founders' Day on Sunday by honoring one of its oldest veterans.

The city of Kirksville, along with the Friends of the Forest-Llewellyn Cemetery committee hosted the city’s annual Founders Day ceremony.

The committee took the time to remember Kirksville's past by unveiling a new gravestone for civil war veteran Daniel Bradford Hatch, a confederate soldier who fought during the Battle of Kirksville.

May is not only the month that Kirksville was founded but also National Preservation Month.

That's why ever since 2013, the committee picks a prominent person who has lived in Kirksville, or a soldier who does not have a stone and makes them one.

"Honoring our veterans is an ongoing project that will never end because we owe them so much for the freedoms that we have today in this country," said Friends of the Forest-Llewellyn Cemetery Committee Chairman Dwight Buckinghan

Hatch's grave stands tall in the Forest Llewellyn Cemetery and is there for visitors to the cemetery to see just a piece of Kirksville's history.