By ALEX GAUL Click here for updates on this story SWANSEA, Illinois (KMOV) — Local volunteers cleaned the graves of local veterans Saturday morning at a cemetery with centuries of history. The Messinger Cemetery is located north of Belleville in Swansea, Illinois, and it dates back to the earliest years of the state’s history. Originally built on the land of John Messinger, Illinois’ first Speaker of the House, the cemetery had been neglected for years before the local post of the American Legion “adopted” the cemetery. “There are seven veterans that are buried here,” Post 2007 Commander Jim Page said. “In the past, it was kind of a forgotten cemetery, and we’re here to honor t
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