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 .