The ashes of over two dozen veterans of the Civil War, along with the remains of their spouses, have finally been interred after being stored at a Seattle funeral home and cemetery.

The Missing in America Project, a nonprofit that identifies the remains of dead veterans and works to get them buried in national or state cemeteries, helped figure out who the Civil War dead were and to inter their remains. The group found the remains of 30 veterans from that war and the remains of 31 spouses.

Many Civil War veterans were involved in settling the Pacific Northwest after the war and ended up dying in Washington.

The veterans found by MIAP hailed from states including Rhode Island, New York, Maine, Ohio and Washington itself, and included both U.S. Army personnel and one member of the U.S. Navy.

As the veterans died over the course of decades and no one came to pick them up after cremation, the funeral home was left caring for a growing collection of remains stored in urns above ground. MIAP spent four years confirming the identities of the remains ahead of their new burials, Civil War Seattle’s Richard Heisler told the Emerging Civil War podcast in August.

One veteran, Byron Johnson, originally hailed from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and moved to Washington in the 1870s before dying there in 1913. His remains were buried at Pawtucket’s Oak Grove Cemetery last month, according to the Providence Journal.

On Aug. 22, a group of 42 veterans and their dependents were buried at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, Washington, the National Cemetery Administration posted on Facebook.

Locals, including Civil War recreators wearing Union uniforms, were in attendance, and the service included the firing of muskets and the singing of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” according to The Associated Press.

The mass burial was among the largest involving Civil War veterans since the 1870s, Mr. Heisler told the Emerging Civil War podcast.

Other notable veterans buried in that ceremony included one named George Camp, who survived the 1863 Battle of Missionary Ridge in Tennessee because his pocket watch stopped a Confederate bullet, and William O’Neal, an Ohio veteran who survived the Confederate prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, Mr. Heisler and ECW historian Brian Matthew Jordan said.

“It’s amazing that they were still there and we found them. It’s something long overdue. These people have been waiting a long time for a burial,” MIAP Washington State Coordinator Tom Keating told AP.