I would love to have a marker put up for my gr-gr-gr grandfather Richard Lee Cardwell; he's buried in Shockoe Cem, Richmond, and was a veteran of that war. I am quite fascinated by the war, but it's so hard to find much information. And trying to locate where the forts were [many now under shopping centers and Interstates in Tidewater...]. Nancy ------- I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. --Daniel Boone On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Craig Kilby wrote: > Hello listers: > > This is to let you know that the Virginia Society of the War of 1812 > will be placing a bronze marker at the grave of Leroy Kilby near > Slate Mills Rappahannock County on November 15th at 3:00 p.m. This > came about from initial efforts a year ago, when I met Mike Lyman, > president of the Virginia Chapter, who lives here in Lancaster where > I do. The state group was (and is) working on a statewide index of > grave sites for War of 1812 Veterans, and I mentioned to him there > was a grave for Leroy Kilby who served in that war, and whose wife > was a pensioner from that service. > > Lucia Kilby, widow of Dr. Irving Kilby, has made the arrangements > with Mike Lyman for the ceremony. > > Leroy Kilby (1785 - 1859) was the son of James Kilby (d. 1829) and > his first wife Lucy Sparks. He was twice married. First, to Eleanor > Mayre, daughter of Rev. Peter Mayre of Orange County and Eleanor > Coleman Green. By this wife he had one son, James O. Kilby who > married Sarah W. Gaines and who moved to Missouri (no known > children). His 2nd wife was Sarah Lee Hill, by whom he had 10 > children. > > The War of 1812 is called by some other name in Great Britain. It > started over British seizure of American shipping during one of the > Napoleanic Wars. To them, the American problem was a minor skirmish, > but not so minor that they didn't send gun boats up the Chesapeake > Bay, burn down the White House and bombard Baltimore, witnessed by a > young attorney named Francis Scott Key who set the episode to poem, > which is now known as the American National Anthem. > > The War was basically a "draw" and the end result was the abandonment > of American attempts to take over Canada, the British ceding the > Northwest Territory to the U.S., and a final and permanent boundary > between the US and Canada (which was at that time still a British > colony.) Though peace had been concluded, the news did not reach > British or American troops in New Orleans and the famous and fatal > (for the Brits) "Battle of New Orleans" of song fame resulted. > > One major impact of the War of 1812 was that, after it was over, > resulted in a huge wave of "Anglo-Southern" migration to Missouri, > which became a state in 1821 as part of the Missouri Compromise, > which admitted Maine (formerly a part of Masschussetts) as a free > state, and Missouri as a slave state. > > If any of you are interested in attending the ceremony, please let > contact me off list. > > Craig > > . > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VACULPEP- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message