Category Archives: War of 1812

Fantasy Genealogy

Posted on November 28, 2011 by genealogysleuth

A woman wrote that she was descended from “almost all of the Magna Carta Sureties.” I advised that several of them either had no known issue or their line was extinct within four or five generations. She became very upset, … Continue reading →

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Newly Released War Of 1812 Land Records | Jim Dane

Posted on September 16, 2011 by genealogysleuth

How did I miss this? This is the new part: “The National Bureau of Land Management recently released family military land records to the general public. These records have only been available in the last couple of years and the … Continue reading →

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War of 1812

Posted on July 6, 2009 by genealogysleuth

John Downing was a veteran of the Revolutionary War. After the war he left Pennsylvania for Ohio where he lived for many years before moving on to Logan County in 1821. John and his wife Hannah Frakes had nine children, … Continue reading →

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War of 1812 Veteran Grave Marked

Posted on June 15, 2009 by genealogysleuth

Darrell Eugene Payne, Gayle French Lessen, Thelma Gardner Eisberg, Mary Payne Barringer, Lindsay Erlenbush Maus, Pamela Erlenbush, Phillip Franks French, Brynne Barringer Monier. All are descendants of John Winans Clark whose stone [with wife Ann “Nancy”] is on the left. … Continue reading →

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John Winans Clark

Posted on March 27, 2009 by genealogysleuth

John Winans Clark was born in Somerset County, New Jersey, in 1779, traveled to Kentucky and eventually Illinois, and died at Yankeetown, Logan County, Illinois, on March 5, 1859. He is buried at Laenna Cemetery, Chestnut. Yankeetown is long gone … Continue reading →

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Military Markers for ALL Veteran Graves

Posted on December 27, 2008 by genealogysleuth

Logan County has six known Revolutionary War veteran burials, more than two dozen War of 1812 veteran burials and a massive number of Civil War Veteran burials. There are even some Spanish American War veteran burials. Those are just the … Continue reading →

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