Bethany, Missouri
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Bethany is a city in, and the county seat of, Harrison County, Missouri, approximately midway between Kansas City and Des Moines on Interstate 35. The population was 2,915 at the 2020 census.
The Harrison County Courthouse is in downtown Bethany.
This former Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy station is in Bethany.
This outcropping of the Bethany Falls Limestone member is off the Main Street bridge on the west side of the city.
Frank Buckles
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Frank Woodruff Buckles was a United States Army corporal and the last surviving American veteran of World War I. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 at age 16 and served with the 1st Fort Riley Casua
Bethany, Missouri
…Babe Adams, a professional baseball player who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and pitched in three World Series games, lived in Bethany. Frank Buckles, the last surviving United States veteran from World War I, was born in Bethany. Beulah Poynter (1883–1960), an actress and writer, was raised in…
Buckles on March 6, 2008
Buckles upon his national service recruitment, aged 16 (1917)
A belt buckle similar to the one given to Buckles by a German prisoner in 1918
Buckles' future home, Gap View Farm, in the 1930s