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REVOLUTIONARY GRAVES I € The following is part of an j editorial entitled “Revolutionary | Graves,” which appeared in the In- | dianapolis News on March 28th: j“At the annual meeting of the i ? Indiana Society, Sons of the Ameri- | can Revolution, recently, arrange- I ments were made to mark the graves | of Revolutionary War Soldiers buried 1 j in Indiana. Cornelius F. Posson, of „ Brazil, vice-president, declared that there were over 800 of these graves 5 and that most of them were neglect-1 f ed. Mr. Posson, who was placed in!} charge of the work, is now collect- j ing information about the location of graves and the names of soldiers | who are buried in them. People § who have such information should J send it to him at Brazil.” |This effort to reclaim and mark j | permanently the graves of the Revo- i t lutionary patriots who found their j | last resting place in the soil of j C Indiana, is certainly a worthy cause. ■; In reply to a letter received from i this community. Mr. Posson wrote; that this editorial was bringing him j mail from all parts of the state, | showing that the people of Indiana I evidently feel a keen interest in this j matter. IHe also stated that a list published j by the government showed the fol-1 lowing veterans of the Revoultion as j residing in Sullivan County in 1835: ;William Dougherty, Hardy Hanly, ] Alexander Bailey, James Spence, j John Hopewell, Mathew McCammon, j Robert Beedwell, Levi Bemis, James | Williams, Abraham Johnson, Thomas; Flynn, Joseph Ransford, Mordecaij Mayfield, Alexander Armstrong.Mr. Posson asks that inquiry be; made, especially among the older residents, to find out if anyone knows where any of these men were buried. Since Carlisle is the oldest town in the county, the graves of . some of them are undoubtedly in this vicinity.In this connection, a paragraph in I the “History of Sullivan and Greene Counties” (1884) is interesting. It is here stated that Handy Handly (who is probably the same as the ’ Hardy Hanly given in above list), a ’ soldier of the Revolution, is buried in the Carlisle cemetery. Handly (or Hanly) is said to have been “one of the guard selected by Washington to watch and keep up the fires during the night before the Battle of Trenton, in order to deceive the British commander as to the real movements of the Americans.” Edward Purcell, another veteran and one of the builders of old Fort Haddon, was living in Knox county in 1835, but is thought to be buried I in the Carlisle cemetery.Doubtless there are a number of Revolutionary soldiers buried in * this township; and if their names and the location of their graves “ ! could be ascertained, markers would I be erected. Any one having such in- formation, by notifying this office or writing to Mr. Posson, will not only honor these patriots, but will do the j community a service as well.B| -----
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Sullivan Union
Sullivan, Indiana, US
Wed, May 04, 1921
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