Once An Implacable Foe

Black Hoof's Grave Near Wapakoneta, Au Glaize, Ohio

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Death Of Harry Garrett

Gravestone Of Harry Garland Garrett
Pine Hill Cemetery
Craighead County, Arkansas

1913-11-12

Jonesboro Weekly Sun

...sickness and death of precious son Harry

Mr. and Mrs. Wylie B. Garrett, Nettleton

24 October 1913

Note: Harry Garrett was my 1st cousin 3x removed.

7 Yards South From James Patullo's Stone

From Elie [Scotland] Burials (1799-1822)

[1818] 9th Oct David Marr, Blacksmith, Elie - 7 yards South from James Patullo's stone. [Source]

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Margaret Vance's Tombstone

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Lieutenant Samuel Vance of Washington County, Virginia, was mentioned in Thomas Laughlin's Revolutionary War pension application.  It's thought that Margaret Laughland Vance's maiden name was Laughlin, not Laughland.

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Philip Embury Memorial

See Philip Embury's portrait here.

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Mrs. Jackson's Tomb

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The magazine of American history with notes and queries, featuring the Reminiscences of Colonel Chester:

Speaking of inscriptions, he said that the one on Mrs. Jackson's tomb, "A being so gentle slander could wound but could not dishonor," etc., was written by General John H. Eaton.

Clement Family Burying Ground

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More about the Clement family here and here.

The Civil War's Last General Officer To Die

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West Point, Georgia

Brigadier General Robert C. Tyler, Infantry, CSA, died April 16, 1865.  He was the last general officer to die in the Civil War.

TYLER, ROBERT C. 

Captain, Assistant Quartermaster, April, 1861. 

Major, Assistant Quartermaster, 1861. 

Colonel 15th regiment Tennessee infantry, 1863. 

Brigadier-General, February 23, 1864. 

Killed at Fort Tyler, near West Point, Georgia, 

April 16, 1865. 

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Capt. C. [Celestino] Gonzalez, Co. H.

1 Regt.

Florida Infantry

CSA

April 16, 1865

THE John Brown Almost Lost To History

From The Plains Of Abraham, A History of North Elba and Lake Placid:

"...Old Mountain saw use for many more years by the wagons of local farmers... . The abolitionist John Brown of Harper’s Ferry fame was almost lost to history on Old Mountain. Then farming in North Elba, two miles from Lake Placid, he came near to death by freezing while walking home alone in mid-winter of 1850."

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[See John Brown's grave located on the map above]

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"John Brown's grave, at North Elba, Essex county, New York.  This tombstone was his grandfather's, Capt. John Brown, who died in the War of 1776 in a barn near New York City and was buried at Torrington, Conn., and while John Brown lived at North Elba, he went to Connecticut and helped to put a monument at his grandfather's grave, and when he came home he brought this stone with him."

"....have this stone that stood at his grandfather's grave set at the head of his and such additional inscription on it as were necessary just below that of his grandfather's which reads as follows "In memory of Capt John Brown...John Brown born May 9, 1800, was executed at Charlestown, Virginia, December 2, 1859."

Vance Tombstone

Church In Abingdon, Virginia

Inscription at Abingdon, Virginia:

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Memorial Of A Bereaved Mother

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The bereaved mother was Josephine Le Monnier Newcomb who also honored her daughter, Harriott Sophie Newcomb, by establishing a college for women in New Orleans.

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Genealogical Memoir of the Newcomb Family... .  The Newcomb family was living in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1860.  Mrs. Josephine Newcomb's obituary was published in the New York Times on 9 April 1901.

The Trial Of Robert Randall

The trial according to A faithful report of the trial and acquittal of Robert Randall, Esq.: a member of the Commons House of Assembly in Upper Canada, accused of perjury, and tried at Niagara, on Wednesday the 7th of September, 1825.

Biographical details of Robert Randal(l) with added links:

"RANDAL, ROBERT (before about 1809 he signed Randall), businessman and politician; b. c. 1766 probably in Harford County, Md; probably unmarried, he had a daughter by Deborah Pettit; d. 2 May 1834 at Gravelly Bay, Niagara District, Upper Canada."

"Before the assizes of 1819, Randal’s debt to Boulton fell due."  "To satisfy this judgement, Boulton attached the whole of Randal’s 1,000-acre property at the Chaudière Falls."

 "...[another] decision was to lead to a sheriff’s sale of Randal’s 1,200-acre estate in Wainfleet...".

Randall, who perceived that he was a victim of powerful political interests, ran for politcal office himself in the Lincoln district.  "Randal, by now a popular hero, won easily."

"...Randal’s persistence made him a popular hero and led his enemies in the Niagara area to make another...effort to crush him in the courts." 

Source - Map Of Property Once Owned By Randall

Randall's property also mentioned here and here.

Grandfather Of The President

Text from "The Lincoln kinsman."

Hananiah Lincoln, cousin of Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of the President, was living near Elizabethtown in 1794, and an entry from the Hardin County Order Book of that year reveals his association with Christopher Bush. [Source]

Note:  Christopher Bush's daughter, Sarah, was President Lincoln's step-mother.

Barbara Ann Akers Probate

From Illinois Probate Records, Gallatin Probate records, 1815-1860 vol 1:

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Bought of M. A. Lawrence one margle grave stone...

Barbara Ann

wife of Charles Akers

Died Oct. 20, 1856

In her 34 year

Addendum or Supplement to cemeteries of Gallatin County Ill. Vol.2:

"Markers found since publication of vol. 2....­Chas. Akers d 12‑31‑1852; Age 33+, w Barbara Duvall 1840 she d 1856, thin markers. both down, 1 broken. 3/8 mi S. of Boyd, Ind. Mound or 1/8 mi S. of N. line Sec. 9 Shawnee Twp. On top of high hill pasture, of Lawrence Rollman, in May of 1981."

Meriwether Lewis

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Meriwether Lewis's Grave On The Natchez Parkway

Falling Apart

MATTIE

Wife of F?G? Wiley

Born June 15, 1851

Died May 30, 1872

Aged ___

Photo Taken April 27, 2003

Vicksburg, Mississippi, Area

Grave of Captain John Logan

Cap't John Logan, Indian Chief & Scout

The Defiance County Genealogical organization website included the following: "...an engraved stone that was installed on the Fort Defiance earthworks. Lettering on the native stone says, “Grave of Capt. John Logan, Indian Chief and Scout, 1788-1812."

Withburga, Youngest Daughter of Annas

Just something I found while exploring.....

From The European magazine, and London review, Volumes 65-66, by Philological Society (Great Britain):

This Bath

 was erected in the year

 1793

 (in part by voluntary subscription for public benefit)

 on the ruins of a Tomb which contained

 the Remains of

 WITHBURGA

 youngest daughter of Annas,

 King of the East Angles,

 who died AD 654.

The Abbot and Monks of Ely stole this

 precious Relique,

 And transmitted it to Ely Cathedral,

 where it was interred near her three

Royal Sisters

AD

 974.

Losing Duelist Buried In Norfolk

The New England Historical And Genealogical Register...had an interesting tidbit about a Massachusetts midshipman who was killed in a duel and buried in a churchyard in Virginia.

In St. Paul's churchyard in that city [Norfolk, Virginia] is the following on a small headstone..." Samuel W. Cushing of Berwick Massachusetts, killed in a Duel 24th April 1800, AE 23 years."

A record in another place, showing who Cushing was, has the following : 

"Cushing, Samuel W. Appointed Midshipman, 28 August, 1799. Last appearance on Records of Navy Department, 12 September 1799. Killed in a duel."

His parents were John Cushing and Olive Wallingford.

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy, by Ian W. Toll, (see below) told the story of Midshipman John Duboise who "fought a duel with a fellow midshipman, Samuel Cushing, and 'shot his antagonist through the neck, which put an immediate period to his Existence.'  Fearing arrest on a murder charge, Duboise fled."

Andersonville Prison

The University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library has photographs of Andersonville Prison.

Jim's Photo Of Andersonville Prison in Georgia

See Jim's Andersonville story.