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"On the evening of the 14th of March, 1864, a concert was given in this village, the proceeds of which, by previous announcement, were to be donated in aid of erecting a suitable
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monument to the memory of our soldiers who had fallen in defence of the Union, or who should thereafter lose their lives in the same holy service.
The names of these performers, which all will agree should appear upon the first page of this record, were: Mrs. J. E. Dow, Miss A. M. Bates, Miss C. M. Barney, Miss L. S. Carroll, Miss E. Piper, Miss H. C. Marston, Miss S. E. Ransted, Mr. Wm. A. Caffrey, Mr. S. C. Marston, Mr. J. R. Pitman, Mr. G. A. Phillips.
During the intermission, a proposition to form a permanent organization for the more speedy and certain accomplishment of the work was introduced ; and after some explanations and dis- cussion, a committee was chosen to prepare a plan of organiza- tion, to be submitted at a future meeting, with a list of officers, etc. The following gentlemen were put upon this committee :
J. Nye, J. B. Foster, G. A. Phillips, E. G. Meader, and C. M. Morse.
A second concert in aid of this object was given by the same individuals on the evening of the 23rd of the same month, at which time the committee named above reported a constitution, which was unanimously adopted. The following list of candi- dates was also presented, and after the adoption of the constitu- tion, they were chosen to the several offices for which they were severally designated.
G. A. Phillips, president; Wm. A. Caffrey, vice-president ; Daniel R. Wing, secretary: Geo. L. Robinson, treasurer ; Jones R. Elden, E. G. Meader, C. M. Morse, trustees.
Article 2 of the constitution reads as follows: "The object of this association shall be to procure the erection, at such time and in such place within the town as shall hereafter be desig- nated, of a suitable monument in honor of those of our fellow- citizens, residents of Waterville, who shall have died in the mili- tary or naval service of the United States during the present war."
Appended to the constitution are the names of ninety-two persons.
A second benefit concert was given in 1865 and efforts were made to secure a contribution of one dollar from each citizen for the association.
BREVET BRIG. GEN. FRANCIS E. HEATH.
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Here occurs a hiatus of nearly ten years, or from November 29, 1865, to June 14, 1875, during which there is no record of any kind, nor any explanation of the interregnum.
There were doubtless good reasons, and the first that suggests itself is the effervesence of zeal, as this has occurred in the his- tory of many commemorative monuments ; but the purpose was fixed in the minds of good men and the funds drawing interest.
In 1875 the fund with accumulated interest amounted to $1,000, this with the $1,000 voted by the town made $2,000 avail- able for the purpose of the association. The meeting of the association at which such report was made was the last meeting held in the old town hall before it was remodeled. This fact Secretary Daniel R. Wing thought was worthy of permanent record. The committee to submit plans and estimates for a monument was as follows: Col. F. E. Heath, Dr. Atwood Crosby, Edwin Noyes, Reuben Foster, J. H. Plaisted.
This committee recommended the purchase of Milmore's "Citizen Soldier" in bronze, the price to be $2,000. This recom- mendation was accepted and a committee consisting of the offi- cers of the association, Edwin Noyes, Col. I. S. Bangs and J. H. Plaisted was appointed to procure a suitable monument upon which to place the statue.
The committee to locate the monument consisted of Nathaniel Meader, E. R. Emerson, Miss Florence Plaisted, Miss Roxana Hanscom, Dr. Crosby and Mrs. Crosby, C. G. Carleton, M. C. Foster, C. K. Mathews, C. R. McFadden, F. P. Haviland, P. S. Heald, Reuben Foster, W. B. Arnold, Prof. E. W. Hall, Prof. M. Lyford, A. A. Plaisted and Mrs. Plaisted, Dr. N. R. Boutelle and Mrs. Boutelle, E. B. Cummings, E. F. Webb and the officers of the association.
The following inscriptions were accepted. On the Elm street front, "To the memory of the Soldiers and Sailors of Waterville who gave their lives for the preservation of the Republic 1861-1865." On the opposite front, "Erected by the citizens of Waterville."
In order to raise the balance of the money needed for the mon- ument the ladies of the committee decided to have an entertain- ment on two evenings, the 16th and 17th of May, 1876, the first
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evening to consist of an antiquarian supper and concert the sec- ond of music, tableaux, free lunch, presentation of flag to G. A. R. Post by the ladies, etc. And this was ratified by the association.
The entertainments were a grand success, in every way, and will be long remembered with pleasure by those present. A full account will be found in the Mail of May 19, 1876. Three hun- dred and fifty dollars were added to the funds of the association.
The Waterville Soldiers' Monument was dedicated with appro- priate ceremonies on Memorial day, Tuesday, May 30, 1876. Col. F. E. Heath acted as marshal ; the Waterville brass band furnished the music ; the members of W. S. Heath Post, G. A. R., joined in the possession, with Waterville 3 Engine Company, Ticonic I, Appleton Hook and Ladder Company and the Colby Rifles did escort duty. These formed in procession on the Com- mon, and with the officers of the association in carriages and citizens following, marched through the streets to Monument Park, where prayer was offered by Rev. C. D. Crane ; a financial statement and the Roll of Honor were read by Mr. G. A. Phillips, the president ; the monument was unveiled ; an oration delivered by Mr. L. Stevens, Esq., of Portland ; a poem read by A. L. Hinds, Esq., of Benton, and a hymn sung by a select choir.
The Roll of Honor, deposited beneath the monument, with a list of the officers, etc., is as follows :
Benjamin C. Allen, William H. Aderton, Charles R. Atwood, David Bates, Charles Bowen, William H. Bowen, Elijah Ballan- tyne, George W. Bowman, Jr., Joseph Oren Brackett, Bennet Bickford, George A. E. Blake, William Barrett, Hiram Cochran, Alonzo Copp, William Chapman, Isaac W. Clark, Charles Clark, Lorenzo D. Clark, Albert Corson, William H. DeWolfe, Octa- vius A. Davis, Hadley P. Dyer, Stephen Ellis, Dighton Ellis, Pawlette Euarde, Charles A. Farrington, Hiram Fish, Thomas A. Gibbs, David B. Gibbs, George C. Getchell, Edward B. Herbert, William S. Heath, William H. Ham, Algernon P. Herrick, Albro Hubbard, Joseph Jerow, Jolın O. James, Moses King, Charles F. Lyford, William H. Marston, Alvin Messer, John N. Messer, Orren Messer, Lewis Murray, Joseph M. Pen- ney, William W. Penney, Pelatiah Penney, Ira D. Penney, Richard Perley, William H. Phelps, James B. Pullen, Henry
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Pooler, Edwin Plummer, Edward E. Prescott, Albert Quimby, James F. Ricker, Peter Roderick, Miner W. Savage, Joseph D. Simpson, Richard A. Shepherd, W. A. Stevens, Edwin C. Stevens, Gilbert G. Stevens, Jason R. Stevens, Adin B. Thayer, George Tilley, Martin Tallow, Henry E. Tozier, Wallace W. West, James O. West, Erastus D. Woodman, George L. Wheeler, John M. Wheeler, Henry White, William W. Wyman, Eben W. Woung, Roscoe G. Young. (The name of Wm. H. Bacon should have been added to this list as he died here in 1862). (I. S. B.) ,
The financial statement submitted by President Phillips read as follows : "We have received from all sources, since our asso- ciation was organized, $2,772.84 ; we have expended for filling and grading, $76.90 : for plans for pedestal, $25.00; for freight on statute, $16.18; for pedestal, including foundation, $982.75; for bronze statute, $1,600.00; total expenditure, $2,700,83 ; balance in treasury, $72.01.
DANIEL R. WING, Secretary.
The number of persons who were members of the Monument Association was 239.
W. S. HEATH POST NO. 14, DEPARTMENT OF MAINE, G. A. R.
The Grand Army of the Republic was founded by Dr. B. F. Stevenson of Springfield, Ill., in 1866.
Dr. Stevenson devoted the best years of his life to his grand idea of a brotherhood of old soldiers, to perpetuate the memories of the camp, the march and the battlefield, and to perpetuate the memory and history of the dead. Could he have lived to see the day, what a tribute to his prophetic vision, what a reward for his labor, would have been the increasing numbers of his comrades till they reached the high water mark of 400,000 in 1888 to 1892 ; these recruited from the men who served as citizen soldiers and as soldier citizens with equal credit in war and peace!
The Grand Army of the Republic symbolizes fraternity, charity and loyalty. It stands for American manhood. It epitomizes the heroism of a Nation. It is the trustee of patriotism.
Memorial Day is their creation and they who love liberty must succeed them in their annual pilgrimage to the shrines of their
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dead when their last member shall have passed beyond our feeble following.
W. S. Heath Post, No. 14, Department of Maine, G. A. R., was organized in 1874 and chartered December 29th of the same year, under the administration of Department Commander Gen- eral Selden Connor, with the following charter members: * Atwood Crosby, * F. E. Heath, I. S. Bangs, * J. H. Plaisted, O. F. Mayo, * Levi A. Dow, A. P. Webb, * Addison Dolley, * Sidney Keith, Redford M. Estes, Alpheus S. Webber, John U. Hubbard, George W. Hubbard, Henry J. Goulding, George W. Goulding, E. P. Buck, W. H. Emery, W. H. Russell, R. T. Beazley, * G. A. Osborne, James W. King, * Moses J. Kelley, * Charles W. Lowe, E. N. Small, G. T. Stevens, A. M. Sawtelle.
The Post was named by these veterans after Lieutenant Colonel W. S. Heath of the 5th Maine Infantry, who was killed at the battle of Gaines Mill.
Its first commander was General * Francis E. Heath, and he was succeeded by General I. S. Bangs, Dr. * Atwood Crosby, G. H. Mathews, Captain * Charles Bridges, A. O. Libby, * J. G. Stover, Dr. D. P. Stowell, N. S. Emery, George W. Reynolds, S. S. Vose, George A. Wilson, P. S. Heald, J. L. Merrick, F. D. Lunt, E. Gilpatrick, A. E. Ellis, Captain J. P. Garland, J. H. Coombs, O. P. Richardson, Captain Silas Adams, H. C. Proctor, and J. R. Pollard.
The Post has on its roll of membership 195 names.
Death, emigration, and other causes have reduced its mem- bership to fifty-seven, but it is still one of the vigorous active Posts of the order, and is doing a noble charitable work, looking with great fidelity after the necessities of sick and disabled com- rades, their widows and orphans, whether members of their organization or not.
If it performed no other duty, it would commend itself to the charitable and humane, but in a higher sphere of influence, it is an organized examplar of loyalty, by the service of its members to the land they helped to save, and a lesson in loyalty to the generation that are to follow them.
January 30, 1891, Hon. Nathaniel Meader, then Mayor of the city of Waterville, presented to the Post a very beautiful record
* Deceased.
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book, especially designed for recording the name and military history of its members.
It has taken the writer and Comrade A. O. Libbey of the com- mittee, five or six years to secure the names and record of 105 of these members from Waterville and Winslow, verify them, have them re-written and engrossed in the great book.
The labors of the committee are finished, and the record-the lasting memorial to her patriotic sons, is to be presented to the city of Waterville as soon as a depository is provided for its safe keeping.
The Post has had leading place and influence in all observ- ances of a patriotic character, has made its campfires schools of patriotism, has furnished to the Department of Maine, Com- mander Gen. I. S. Bangs and Commander James L. Merrick. It has pleasant headquarters in Masonic block which are always open. The Womans Relief Corps has added greatly to the com- fort and efficiency of the Post.
Since its organization, the Post has paid its annual tribute of respect to the memory of dead comrades whose graves are within its jurisdiction in Waterville and Winslow.
The number of these is so rapidly augmenting, that they already number nearly three times the Post membership, and will increase until all have joined the ranks of the great army of the dead, to take up their march under the loving eye and guiding hand, to which we confidently commit them.
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
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The Revolutionary War commenced with the battle of Lex- ington, April 19, 1775. Provisional articles of peace were signed, November 30, 1782, and proclamation of cessation of hostilities ordered by the Continental Congress, April 11, 1783. Definite treaty of peace was concluded, September 3, 1783, ratified by the Continental Congress and proclaimed, January 14, 1784.
From a report of the Secretary of War to the House of Repre- sentatives, dated May 10, 1790, and published in American State Papers, Military Affairs, Volume I, pages 14 to 19, it appears that the number of troops and militia furnished from time to
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time by the several states during the Revolutionary War was 395,330. It is impossible to ascertain whether the figures, which are given in the report for each year of the war, and which aggre- gate 395,330 for the whole period of the war, represent only the number of new enlistments each year, or whether they include not only men who enlisted during each year but also those who were in the service at some time during that year but who enlisted during a prior year. In other words, it cannot be deter- mined positively whether the figures for each year merely rep- resent additions to the force during that year, or whether they represent these additions together with the force remaining in service from a prior year. It is certain that, in either case, they do not represent the total number of individuals in service in any year, or the total number of individuals added to the force in any year, because there must have been many duplications caused by counting the same man over again for each successive enlist- ment. It is well known that a very large proportion of the men who served in the American army during the Revolutionary War rendered two, three or more terms, or "tours" of service. This was notably the case in militia organizations in which men frequently served tours of a few days each at comparatively short intervals.
The writer feels it unnecessary to apologize for the meager incidents that serve to connect this generation with events of a century and more ago.
The time for detail was passed when the old Revolutionary soldiers passed away and their families were separated.
Their military history was carefully preserved by the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts, and if identity could be established, a biographical sketch might be written that would confer credit upon the soldier and his biographer.
'The writer presents the most and the best sketch of these old worthies possible who went from Waterville (then Winslow) or came here after the war and found a home and a final resting place here or in the immediate vicinity.
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RECORDS OF SERVICE IN THE REVOLUTION.
Captain Dean Bangs, grandfather of Isaac Sparrow Bangs, was born May 31, 1756, in Harwich, (now Brewster), Cape Cod, Mass. He married April 21, 1780, Eunice Sparrow, daughter of Isaac, son of Jonathan, son of Jonathan, son of Jonathan, who married Hannah. daughter of Gov. Thomas Prence and Patience, daughter of Elder Brewster.
He "followed the sea" as boy and man for forty years ; became mate and master in the East India trade, was a privateer in the first year of the War of the Revolution, and then enlisted in Abijah Bangs' company, Colonel Dike's Regiment in 1776 and served two years.
In 1802 he came to Sidney and brought a large tract of land on the Kennebec river and there lived and reared a large family. Waterville was his mercantile home and here he raised a com- pany of artillery during the War of 1812 for Major Joseph Chandler's Battalion of Artillery, and marched to Augusta with the other companies of the Waterville contingent. He died, December 6, 1845 and was buried in a private cemetery on his own farm in a beautiful spot overlooking the Kennebec river, where lie several of his family, including his wife and one son.
The cemetery is enclosed by a permanent granite and iron fence, and in this enclosure near Captain Bangs' grave is a ceno- taph in memory of his father, whose military record is inscribed as follows :
To the memory of ELKANAH BANGS, (father of Dean Bangs),
who was in the privateer service of the Revolution; was taken prisoner with three of his neighbors, and died on board the Jersey prison ship at Wallabout Bay, New York, in July, 1777, aged 44 years ; this
CENOTAPH
is respectfully dedicated by his great-grandson, Isaac Sparrow, son of Isaac Sparrow, son of Dean Bangs, who settled upon this farm in the year 1802.
Thomas Bates: Corporal, Capt. John Gibb's Co., Col. Eben- ezer Sprout's Regt .; service from December 8 to December IO,
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1776, two days, marched to Falmouth on an alarm at Elizabeth Islands : Roll dated at Wareham :
Also, Private Capt. Samuel Brigg's Co., Col. Theophilis Cot- ton's Regt., General Palmer's Brigade; service 32 days on a secret expedition to Tiverton, R. I., September 29, 1777. (Do. Vol: I page 803).
Also, Capt. Gibb's Co. (4th Plymouth), Col. Sprout's Regt., service from September 6 to September 10, 1778, 5 days, marched to Dartmouth on an alarm :
Also, pay roll for five days' service from September 13, 1778, marched to Falmouth on an alarm :
Also, Capt. Gibbs' (4th Plymouth) Co., Lt .- Col. White's Regt.
Thomas Bates: Enlisted July 31, 1780, discharged August 9, 1730, service nine days at Rhode Island : Roll sworn to at Wareham. (Ibid. Vol. I, page 804).
Thomas Bates: Sergeant, Capt. Joseph Parker's Co., Col. Ebenezer Sprout's Regiment : Muster roll dated February 13, 1778: Enlisted January 9, 1778, enlisted for three months from January 1, 1778; stationed at Rhode Island.
Also, Capt. John Gibbs' Co., Col. John Jacobs' Regiment : Enlisted July 23, 1780, discharged October 27, 1780; service three months, six days on an alarm at Rhode Island: Enlist- ment three months; company raised to reinforce Continental Army: Roll dated Wareham. (Ibid. Vol. I, page 804).
Was a pensioner and lived in Waterville in 1840. Date of death, and burial place unknown.
John Cole: Appears with rank of Private (on Continental Army pay accounts, Captain Redding's company, 5th) in Col. Bradford's regiment for service from March 8, 1777 to Decem- ber 31, 1779. Residence, Winslow, Me. Vol. : 14:2:74.
He appears with rank of Private on Continental Army pay accounts of Capt. Haskell's company, Col. Bradford's regiment, for service from January 1, 1780 to March 8, 1780. Residence, Winslow. Vol. : 14:1:35.
He appears in Capt. John Samont's company, Colonel Gamaliel Bradford's (15th) regiment Massachusetts. Line from Wins- low. Was pensioned in 1818. He moved to Albion about 1814 and died there January 1I, 1824. His age unknown, but prob-
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ably less than seventy years. His widow, Polly Cole, on papers signed by her July 7, 1835, alleges her age then as seventy-one.
John Cool: Appears with rank of private on Continental Army pay accounts of Capt. Sewell's company, Colonel Sprout's regiment for service from March 12, 1777 to December 31, 1779. Residence, Winslow, also given in Capt. Josiah Jenkins company, Col. Brewer's regiment, dated, Camp near Valley Forge, January 23, 1778. Vol. : 12:2:79:10:319.
Was discharged at Fishkill, N. Y., March 12th, 1780, having served full three years ; his term of enlistment. He alleged on a paper dated May 26, 1835, that he was then seventy-eight years old and had lived in Waterville, (Winslow) seventy years. He lived on Cool street, which after his death was named for him. He died October 5, 1845, aged eighty-nine years, six months, and was buried in the old cemetery and afterwards removed to Pine Grove cemetery.
. . Levi Crowell: Born, reared and enlisted on Cape Cod. After the war drifted "down east" to Winslow (that part in which is now Oakland) with Elisha and Solomon Hallett. Date of death unknown. Buried in old cemetery, Oakland.
Manoah Crowell: Was pensioned in 1834 for service in the Massachusetts militia, but his name is not to be found in Massa- chusetts records. He was said to be seventy-one years old in 1835, but is put down at seventy-eight in 1840, when he was living in Waterville (now Oakland) and drawing his pension there.
The date of his death is unknown, but he was a soldier in the War of 1812.
John Davis: Appears with rank of private on muster roll of Capt. Jeremiah Hill's company, Col Scammon's regiment, dated August 1, 1775. Enlisted May 5, 1775. Time of service, twelve weeks, four days. Residence, Biddeford. Eight month's service. Vol. 15, p. 28.
He appears with rank of drummer on company return of Capt. Hill's company, Col. Scammon's regiment, (30th) dated Sep- tember 27, 1775. Enlisted May 5, 1775. Residence, Bidde- ford. Coat Rolls. Eight months' service. Vol. 56, p. 199.
He appears among signatures to an order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money, due for the eight months' service in
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Capt. Jeremiah Hill's company, Col. James Scammon's regi- ment, dated October 6, 1775. Coat Rolls. Vol. 57, File 21.
He appears with rank of drummer on muster roll of Capt. Jere- miah Hill's company, Col. Edmund Phinney's regiment, dated in garrison, Fort George, December 8, 1776. Enlisted January I, 1776. Re-enlisted November 14, 1776. Vol. 46, p. 3.
During the winter months of 1776 he enlisted for the war and served as drummer and drum-major in Col. Joseph Vose's (First) Regiment, Massachusetts Line and was dis- charged in June 1783. He was five feet, six inches high, light complexion, light hair. He claimed to have been in the Battle of Monmouth and at the surrender of Burgoyne, and to have marched to Yorktown and been present at the surrender of Cornwallis. He was at one time reported as a deserter, but the charge was cancelled and this record removed.
He came to New Sharon in 1794 and to Waterville about 1830. He had nine children, but never owned any property in New Sharon or Waterville. He was probably a skilled mechanic.
Mr. Davis was born in Simbross, Cork county, Ireland, about 1754. The date of his death and place of burial are unknown, but he was living here in 1835 and at his great age would hardly return to New Sharon. He died before 1840, if he died here, as, although he was a pensioner, he was not on the list of fifteen living here and in Winslow in 1840.
Oliver Dow, and his cousin Amos, enlisted in Captain Watts' company in Salem, N. H., in 1756. Oliver continued in såme company in Colonel N. Meserve's regiment ; fought at Crown Point, Ticonderoga, and in other campaigns.
In 1777 he was in Captain Joseph Bailey's company, Moses Kelly's regiment, General Whipple's brigade.
In 178I he served in Captain Nathaniel Head's company of Lieut .- Col. David Reynolds' regiment of New Hampshire troops.
He was a lieutenant as early as 1776, as appears from military archives ; his name appearing with other Hopkinton men.
Oliver Dow was born in Salem, N. H., in 1736; moved to Hopkinton, in 1773, back to Salem about 1790 and lived there till 1820, when he moved to Waterville with his son Levi, died here December 18, 1824 and was buried in Monument Park.
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He was grandfather of Charles Dow who lived and died here, and great-grandfather of Levi A. Dow, late of Co. B, 21st Maine Infantry Volunteers.
He was a great grand-father of Hon. Richard S. Dow, coun- sellor-at-law, State street, Boston, Mass., to whom the writer is indebted for this biographical sketch.
Sampson Freeman: Appears in a return of men enlisted into the Continental Army from Ist Essex county regiment. Resi- dence, Salem. Term, three years. Joined Capt. Fairfield's company, Col. Wigglesworth's regiment. Vol. 41, p. 44.
Appears with rank of private on muster roll of Capt. Joseph McNall's company, Col. Edward Wigglesworth's regiment, Dated Camp at Valley Forge, June 2, 1778. Term three years. Vol. 61, p. 24.
Appears with rank of private on muster and pay roll of Capt. Peter Page's company, Col. Wigglesworth's regiment, for March and April, 1779, dated at Providence, May 5, 1779. Enlisted February 1, 1777, three years. Transferred to Capt. John K. Smith's company, Col. Smith's regiment. Vol. 22, p. 98.
Appears with rank of private on Continental Army pay accounts of Capt. John K. Smith's company, Col. Smith's regi- ment, for service from February 1, 1777 to February 5, 1780. Residence, Salem. Continental Army books.
Sampson Freeman was a free man of color who came to Waterville from Peru, Me., in 1835, and after a brief acquain- tance married Venus, the widow of Prince Henry who lived on the second rangeway and owned a small farm. Venus was brought up in the family of Judge Redington of Vassalboro. Her husband must have died before 1825 as she was a widow in 1826 and lived on the farm she inherited from him and which is now a part of the farm of J. C. Blaisdell on the 2nd rangeway. Freeman lived with "Aunt Venus" six years, when she died and was buried in Monument Park. He died in 1843 and was buried near her.
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