REVOLUTIONARY HEROES.

There have died in Henderson county four soldiers of the revolution : Samuel Chapin, born in Chicopee, Massachusetts, September 24, 1760 ; served under Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga; died at Oquawka in 1842, and is buried in Oquawka cemetery ; David Finley, born in Belfast, Ireland, September 3, 1848, and is interred. in South Henderson cemetery ; Earl Frazell was born in Essex county, Vermont, December 13, 1764, and died May 5, 1850; he rests in Oquawka cemetery ; Jeremiah Rose is buried at Oquawka.

THE WAR OF 1812.

It has been ascertained that at least fifteen of the heroes of the war of 1812 have resided in Henderson county, most of whom lie in the soil of this county and awaiting the reveille of the great hereafter. They are Wm. Beatty, Thomas Carts, John Crose, Abner Davis, Robert Erwin, A. D. Frazell, Samuel Gordon, John Goodnight, John Hopkin, W. A. Morehead, William Morgan, J. McDermot, Erastus Rise, John Tweed and Samuel Watson.

William Cousland served in the Black Hawk war, as also S. S. Phelps. Hiram Rose was in the Aroostook war. Wm. Herberts was in the war with Mexico.

History of Mercer and Henderson Counties.

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