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Clermont Soldiers in the War of 1812 Remembered
The article chronicles Clermont County men who served in the War of 1812, naming units like the Williamsburg Rifles and individual soldiers such as Jacob Naylor, Daniel Kain, and the Raper brothers. It notes roughly 150 local enlistments, describes battlefield losses at Brownsville and Lundy’s Lane, and surveys marked and likely graves across Williamsburg Bethel Goshen and neighboring cemeteries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont County
America
Great Britain
Ohio
James Arthur
John Conrey
James Jah Lindsey
Charles Waits
Jacob Naylor
Williamsburg Township
United States Army
England
Onio
Brown County
Williamsburg Rifles
Jacob Boerstler
Williamsburg
Brownsville
Boerstler
Abner Arthur
Watson Stephens
Daniel McCallum
Daniel Campbell
William Wardlow
Brown ‘County
David Snell
Lundy’s Lane
Daniel Kain
John
Thomas
Rapers
Thomas Foster
Brownstown
Main Street
Bethel
Samuel Raper
Michael Ellsberry
Raper
Holly
William H. Raper
Perry
Newport Barracks
Young Raper
Leonard
Loveland
Ripley
William
Brown
Clermont
Goshen
Meyers
Notley Hill
Adam Leever
Joseph Mangan
David Hand
Thomas J. Molloy
Jacob D. Smith
Goshen Township
Leever
Mangan
Hand
Man‘gan
Smith
Hill
Rapp's
Stonelick Township
Glancy’s
Perin
Perin’s Mills
Perintown
Newtonsvie
Henry Stull
Plainview
Mewtonsville
Rufus Richardson
Monroe Township
George McMillan
Philip Nichols
Pranklin Methodist
Mt. Zion
David Bushman