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Joseph Hamilton Daviess (1774-1811) —
also known as Joe Daviess —
of Danville, Boyle
County, Ky.; Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Bedford
County, Va., March 4,
1774.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1800-06; major in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812.
Welsh
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Around 1801, he served as a second to John
Rowan in his duel
with James Chambers; after Chambers was killed, he fled
to avoid
prosecution as accomplice to murder,
and became a fugitive,
but when Rowan was arrested, he returned to act as Rowan's legal
counsel.
Shot
and killed in the Battle of Tippecanoe, in what is now Tippecanoe
County, Ind., November
7, 1811 (age 37 years, 248
days).
Interment at Tippecanoe
Battlefield Park, Battle Ground, Ind.
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Leonard Covington (1768-1813) —
of Maryland.
Born in Aquasco, Prince
George's County, Md., October
30, 1768.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Maryland at-large, 1805-07; member of Maryland
state senate, 1807-09; general in the U.S. Army during the War of
1812.
Mortally wounded in the Battle of Chrysler's Field, and died
in Frenchs Mills (now Fort Covington), Franklin
County, N.Y., November
14, 1813 (age 45 years, 15
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Fort Covington, N.Y.; reinterment in 1820 at Mt.
Covington, Sackets Harbor, N.Y.; cenotaph at Military
Post Cemetery, Sackets Harbor, N.Y.
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Benjamin Pond (1768-1814) —
of Essex
County, N.Y.
Born in Stockbridge, Berkshire
County, Mass., 1768.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Essex County, 1807-10; U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1811-13; served in the
U.S. Army during the War of 1812.
Suffered exposure and disease
at the seige of Plattsburg, and died as a result, in Schroom,
Essex
County, N.Y., October
6, 1814 (age about 46
years).
Original interment at Pine
Ridge Cemetery, North Hudson, N.Y.; reinterment in 1923 at Riverside
Cemetery, Elizabethtown, N.Y.
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Thomas Gholson, Jr. (d. 1816) —
of Brunswick, Brunswick
County, Va.
Born in Brunswick, Brunswick
County, Va.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1806-09; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1808, 1809-16 (17th District 1808,
1809-15, 18th District 1815-16); died in office 1816; served in the
U.S. Army during the War of 1812.
Died from war wounds, in Brunswick
County, Va., July 4,
1816.
Interment at Gholson Family Cemetery, Brunswick, Va.
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William Allen Trimble (1786-1821) —
of Ohio.
Born in Woodford
County, Ky., April 4,
1786.
Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1819-21; died in office 1821.
Died, from his war wounds, in Washington,
D.C., December
13, 1821 (age 35 years, 253
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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