1812 Society plans five events honoring VA 1812 veterans this
Virginia Society Plans Five Dedications to Virginia War of 1812 Veterans All of these are open to the public and all society officers and members are encouraged to participate May 16, 2015: Masonic Cemetery in Fredericksburg, VA This event will honor War of 1812 veterans and Revolutionary War patriots interred or memorialized in the historic cemetery A plaque mounted upon on a pole will be installed just inside the entrance gate listing nineteen War of 1812 veterans and twenty Revolutionary War patriots, The event will be sponsored by the Virginia Society Sons of the American Revolution and the Society of the War of 1812 in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Masonic Lodge, Below are the names that will be on the plaque REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOTS AND WAR OF 1812 VETERANS MEMORIALIZED IN THIS HISTORIC MASONIC CEMETERY REVOLUTIONARY WAR CAPTAIN (NAVY) ELIEZER CALLENDER LIEUTENANT JOHN CHEW, JR LIEUTENANT ROBERT B CHEW, SR MAJOR BENJAMIN DAY PATRIOT WILLIAM DRUMMOND PRIVATE DANIEL GRINNAN SR MIDSHIPMAN DAVID HENDERSON PATRIOT WILLIAM JENKINS SURGEON JOHN JULIAN PRIVATE JOHN LEGG PRIVATE LEWIS LITTLEPAGE LT COLONEL WILLIAM MCWILLIAMS PRIVATE JOHN MINOR PATRIOT JAMES SOMERVILLE PATRIOT JAMES STEVENSON PATRIOT WILLIAM STORKE PRIVATE WILLIAM WIATT LT COLONEL GUSTAVUS B WALLACE BRIG GENERAL GEORGE WEEDON PATRIOT CHARLES YATES WAR OF 1812 CAPTAIN (NAVY) MATTHEW ANDERSON CAPTAIN JOHN BUCK SURGEON’S MATE CHARLES L CARTER CORPORAL JOHN CHEW SERGEANT ROBERT S CHEW, SR SERGEANT MAJOR JAMES DIXON SERGEANT ROBERT T ELLIS PRIVATE BASIL GORDON PRIVATE DANIEL GRINNAN, JR PRIVATE ANTHONY KALE PRIVATE WILLIAM A KNOX BRIG GENERAL RICHARD B MAURY PRIVATE JOHN METCALFE BRIG GENERAL JOHN MINOR PRIVATE JOHN SCOTT PRIVATE JOHN M SHEPHERD LT COLONEL JOHN STANARD LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER WALKER PRIVATE HENRY WHITE May 23, 2015 at Fort Meigs in Perrysburg Ohio. The placement of a granite monument at Fort Meigs, Perrysburg, OH, will list Virginia’s war dead in Ohio from General Joel Leftwich’s Virginia Brigade and from the Petersburg Volunteers. The design has been approved by Fort Meigs and has been approved and will be fully funded by the Virginia War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission. These are the names that died in the battle there or in Ohio at the approximate time of the battle: From the Virginia Brigade under Brigadier General Joel Leftwich: JAMES ADARE, JOHN ANDERSON, STEPHEN ARCHER, GEORGE ARNOLD, ISAAC BOCKOVER, JACOB BREWER, PATRICK BURK, WILLIAM CARDER, RICHARD CARSON, JOHN CLUTTER, THOMAS CRAIG, MATHIAS CULLEN, EDWARD DAVIS, ANDREW DAVISON, JESSE DAVSON, WILLIAM DIXON, ABSALON ELKINS, JOHN EVANS, GEORGE FLEMING, ISAAC FORMAN, JONATHAN GRINDSTAFF, PETER KNIGHT, JAMES HOLBERT, JAMES HUFFMAN, NIMROD LANCASTER, THOMAS LEWIS, ARCHIBALD McCARTY, ALEXANDER McCLAIN, DAVID MOLSBY, RAWLEY MORGAN, TIMOTHY MURPHY, JAMES QUEEN, BENJAMIN ROGERS, SAMUEL RUCKMAN, HENRY SIX, SAMUEL SPIVY, ANDREW STALKNIKER, JOHN STEED, SIMEON STEVENS, WILLIAM TAUNIBILL, FIELDER WILCOXEN, HENRY WISCOFF, DAVID WOOLLUM, AND JESSE VOAKUM The Petersburg Volunteers under the command of Captain Richard McRae: ANDREW ANDREWS, GEORGE BOOKER, GEORGE CLOUGH, JOHN CURETON, EDMUND GEE, WILLIAM LACY, WILLIAM LANIER, NICHOLAS MASSENBURG, SAMUEL MILES, JOHN PERRY, WILLIAM R. RAWLINGS, GEORGE P. RAYBORNE, JOHN SHORE, JAMES STEVENS, AND SAMUEL WILLIAMS June 11, 2015 at the Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Lynchburg These are the names that will be listed on the plaque presented by the society there that are interred or memorialized in the cemetery: PRIVATE JOHN H. BAGWELL SERGEANT WILLIAM S. REID PRIVATE JAMES COLEMAN CAPTAIN JAMES B. RISQUE SERGEANT SAMUEL GARLAND PRIVATE JOHN KINNIER SERGEANT JOHN ROBINSON PRIVATE JOSEPH E. ROYALL LIEUTENANT MAURICE LANGHORNE SURGEON JAMES T. SAUNDERS SGT. MAJOR AUGUSTINE LEFTWICH PRIVATE WILLIAM SAUNDERS MATROSS HARDIN MURRELL CORPORAL JOHN MURRELL CORPORAL JOHN NEW PRIVATE BENJAMIN E. SCRUGGS PRIVATE RICHARD TYREE, SR. CORPORAL JOHN WILLS June 20, 2015 at the Ware Episcopal Church in Gloucester County The War of 1812 Society in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Thomas Nelson Jr Chapter, Virginia Society Sons of the American Revolution will honor two War of 1812 veterans and two Revolutionary War veterans at 10 am. The 1812 veterans are sons of the Revolutionary War veterans and their gravestones in the cemetery are adjacent to each other. Individual grave markers from each society are planned to be unveiled. The names and information about them are as follows: War of 1812: SMITH, Thomas; b 05 Mar 1785; d 13 Apr 1841 RU: Ensign, 21st VMR, Capt Thomas Cary, Gloucester Co CEM: Ware Episcopal Church; Gloucester; 7825 John Clayton Memorial Rd, Gloucester GS: Y SP: No spouse information VI: Eldest son of Rev Armistead & Martha Smith of Mathews Co. Stone moved from Toddsbury in 1924 P: None BLW: No War of 1812: YEATMAN, Thomas Robinson; b 05 Jan 1789; d 28 Aug 1832 RU: Ensign, 115th VMR, Capt John Armistead, Mounted Infantry, Elizabeth City Co, Warwick Co, or York Co CEM: originally Yeatman Plantation; Mathews; Rt 602 reinterred to Ware Episcopal Church; Gloucester; 7825 John Clayton Memorial Rd, Gloucester GS: Y SP: No spouse information VI: Eldest son of Thomas Muse Yeatman and Mary Tomkins P: None BLW: No Revolutionary War : SMITH, Armistead, born 1757 Mathews County, died 12 sep 1817, Patriot gave material aid to cause; Was a Reverend in the Ware Episcopal Church. Married Martha Tabb daughter of Edward Tabb Revolutionary War YEATMAN, Thomas Muse, born 1762, died 14 Sep 1812, Lieutenant commanded a company in Westmoreland County, also gave material aid to cause; married Mary Tompkins, daughter of John Tompkins July 25, 2015 at the Augusta County Stone Church Cemetery in Fort Defiance This will be a joint ceremony with the Virginia Society Sons of the American Revolution and the Society of the War of 1812 in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Two separate plaques are planned with each to be mounted on a pole in the cemetery. The names for each plaque that are recommended for placement on each plaque are shown. Final approval of the names from the church officials are pending War of 1812 Plaque PRIVATE JOSEPH BEARD SECOND LIEUTENANT JAMES BELL MAJOR WILLIAM BELL PRIVATE JAMES CRAIG, JR PRIVATE GEORGE CRAWFORD PRIVATE JAMES CRAWFORD LIEUTENANT SAMUEL CRAWFORD, SR CORPORAL SAMUEL CURRY SERGEANT ROBERT GUY PRIVATE SILAS HENTON PRIVATE ANDREW YOUNG PRIVATE JOSEPH KERR PRIVATE JAMES NELSON PRIVATE WILLIAM POAGE PRIVATE JACOB STOVER SERGEANT JOHN A. TATE PRIVATE JACOB VAN LEAR CORPORAL JOHN WALKER CORPORAL JAMES WILSON DIED 1828 SURG. MATE JAMES WILSON DIED 1830 PRIVATE JAMES WILSON DIED 1854 Revolutionary War Plaque: PRIVATE JAMES ALLEN CAPTAIN ANDREW ANDERSON CAPTAIN DAVID BELL CAPTAIN JOSEPH BELL, JR PRIVATE JOSEPH BELL, SR PRIVATE WILLIAM BELL PATRIOT ARTHUR CONNALY, SR PRIVATE JAMES CRAIG, JR PRIVATE JAMES CRAIG, SR PATRIOT JOHN CRAIG PRIVATE WILLIAM CRAIG PRIVATE GEORGE CRAWFORD, JR MAJOR JOHN CRAWFORD PATRIOT PATRICK CRAWFORD CAPTAIN ROBERT CURRY CAPTAIN JOHN GAMBLE CAPTAIN JOHN GIVENS PRIVATE ROBERT HARNSBERGER PATRIOT WILLIAM HOOK PRIVATE WILLIAM HOOKE, PRIVATE ROBERT HOOK(HOOKE), SR PRIVATE ROBERT KENNY PRIVATE JAMES KERR PRIVATE JOHN KERR, JR PRIVATE JOHN KERR, SR PRIVATE JOSEPH KERR PRIVATE JOHN MILLS SERGEANT ROBERT MILLS COLONEL GEORGE MOFFETT PRIVATE ALEXANDER NELSON ENSIGN JOHN POAGE, JR 2D LIEUTENANT ROBERT POAGE PRIVATE THOMAS POAGE ENSIGN ALEXANDER ROBERTSON LT COL ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, SR LIEUTENANT WILLIAM ROBERTSON PRIVATE ALEXANDER ROSS PRIVATE JOHN SMITH PATRIOT ALEXANDER WALKER MAJOR WILLIAM WILSON SR LIEUTENANT JAMES YOUNG
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