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NOT FORGOTTEN CtREMAINS OF REVOLUTIONARY HERO REST IN BURLINGTON.John Moroan Was » Soldier Unde*-Washington—Hi* Grave Will Be Marked by D, A. R. Chapter■ For ChappedHandsSORE LIPS OR ROUGH SKIN. There’* nothing better than on* vwn specially preparedh ITCH HAZEL LOT I OX,Rut up in 25c and S9 Bottle*. Used and endorsed by Burling* ton'* leading Physician*. Sold and guaranteed byI TAMA ELOO. 311 N. 3RD ST. ^^^mjRUNGTON, IOWA. ^At (ho next state meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution, th** Stars anrl Stripes chapter of Burlington will report the marking of om of the four .graves of the Revolt; tlonary war soldiers in Iowa. It halt; long been known that John Morgan.«• , died in Burlingt m ta 1843, who 1*1i,u ilt; i in Aspen Grove cemetery, was —.■■■p....... ..., , ■ .■■■■■ . ..i,..., ■ , ..« old lor of the Revolutionary w*r-1 HrndertHtii P. Morgan, also a great* Hi military record has j’it hern ver‘* rrJintj HOn Edward I) Morgan and a li hy tlif local registrar of the Stats un at groat grandson, Harold Morgan and Stripes, 1~. A. R. chapter, who ha* Henderson P. Morgan Is a native of j r« r iv' 1 a ropy of his pension paper*. Miami county, Ohio. born. November Which gives the date of hia enlistment, s a ,(in „f oorgP an,j (EH*aF 1. 177(’. length of rank and see- McKee) Morgan. Reared In his na-vi uv private. He served under Col 11vv* state until the age of eight year;,1 'unahan. ami Capt. Young in Ibo fiendoraon P Morgan th^n ranie with Virginia troops and was engaged in ^ paror.ts and grand parents, John tt battles «f Germantown. Brandy* pr scllia Morgan, to Des Molneg win* and was at A alley Forge wU’i I ooimtjr in its enrly pioneer day lt;Washington where he has resided ever since andJohn Morgan was horn in It CH. rounding out a ripe old age. and a . vft r county, Virginia, and lived at,d useful life with hir wife atfor a number of years near Washing bis home on Osborn street. i i. home near Mt. Vernon. He Suitable services are to be held over i rved as stated above with Washing- ^e marking of John Morgan’s grave ion in the Continental army. After tlio jn Aspen grove cemetery, hy the local war hlt; married Priscilla Parker am! chapter. D A. R. at. an early date.: i : red to Kentucky and Ohio ami Other graves of Revolutionary bo Icame to Burlington. In 1839, with hislt;j{ars mai*ked in Iowa, are Charles si n George Morgan an 1 wife Eliza shepherd, who served as a private In (McKee) Morgan, both natives of Vir a Pennsylvania regiment and in 1830 via Iloth. John Morgan and his came west and located in that part of v. if* Priscilla Parker Morgan (the laf- tbe thPn territory of Wisconsin which tlt; r. who died in 1848), arc buried in now comprised within the borders A; pen Grove cemetery, having been of Henry county. He died in 1848. i iruv } from the place where the ftnfj waa buried on his farm what is High hool now stands. When John ),noWn as Millspaugh Mills, in Henry...... — ■ county. Another Revolutionary sol-I dier Is W'llliam Blair, who came to ; Iowa in territorial days, and settled in Des Moines county. Hia remains am entered in Round Prairie cemetery, near Kossuth.The soldier who fought on the British side in the stniggle of the colonies for independence was William Ross, ensign in an English regiment, who | served the entire seven years with hi•: regiment and when the colonies were acknowledged as having won inde-I pendence he returned to his home in England. But he soon after resigned from the army and came to I^ancaster Pennsylvania, to live. In 1873 he went to Lexington. Kentucky, where he built the first brick house In tfcet town. He afterwards removed to Quincy, Illinois, then to Burlington.; Iowa, where he died in about a year, j It is said his son Dr. William R. Roes, caused the body to be placed in a private cemetery on the farm four miles from Burlington.William Blair, who is buried near Kossuth. Des Moines county, was also a Revolutionary soldier. His monumei t bears the following description:Born J^measter county, Pa., 1760.Died Des Moines county, la., 1841.A soldier of the American Revolution. A Pioneer in Pennsylvania. Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois and Iowa.
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Burlington Evening Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Sat, Feb 04, 1905
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