FREMONT, Ind. (AP) – The coffin carrying the remains of a northeastern Indiana soldier who died during the Korean war passed under a large American flag as it arrived at a cemetery for burial.

About 250 people attended Monday's graveside service for Cpl. Leland Ford Smith of Angola. The Army says the infantryman was 18 years old when died from malnutrition at a North Korean prisoner camp in 1951.

Carl Short told The Herald Republican he always hoped his uncle's remains would be found while his mother was still alive.

Smith's three surviving sisters were among the mourners at Monday's services at Jamestown Cemetery near Fremont.

Members of several area American Legion posts took part in the services at the headstone Smith's family had placed for him in 1954.