{"id":8365,"date":"2014-09-26T15:26:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T15:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=8365"},"modified":"2014-09-26T15:26:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T15:26:49","slug":"old-obituary-tells-war-of-1812-veterans-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/old-obituary-tells-war-of-1812-veterans-story.html","title":{"rendered":"Old Obituary Tells War of 1812 Veteran\u2019s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the old obituary of Captain Ambrose Spencer (1795-1814), a young man who fought and died fighting the British during the War of 1812.<\/p>\n

This obituary from the 1800s was a good newspaper research find.<\/p>\n

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Green Mountain Farmer (Bennington, Vermont), 30 August 1814, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The veteran\u2019s obituary was published in this Bennington, Vermont, newspaper because his brother John Canfield Spencer (1788-1855) was \u201cof this village.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Per the obituary, Captain Ambrose Spencer served with Major General Jacob Jennings Brown (1775-1828) during the war.<\/p>\n

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Portrait: General Jacob Jennings Brown (1775-1828). Source: Wikipedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spencer was wounded during the Battle of Lundy\u2019s Lane<\/a> (a.k.a. Battle of Niagara Falls) on 25 July 1814, as was General Brown.<\/p>\n

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Painting: \u201cAmerican Infantry Attacks at Lundy\u2019s Lane,\u201d by Alonzo Chappell, 1859. Source: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We learn from the historical obituary that they didn\u2019t think Spencer\u2019s wound was critical, and so\u2014on \u201ca cold and wet day\u201d\u2014he was moved 2 \u00bd miles \u201cup the Niagara river, and then returned to his former place, with his bed and bedding wet entirely thro\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\n

Not good conditions for his recovery.<\/p>\n

Add to that, that the \u201cBritish Indians were hovering about the house where he lay and disturbed his last moments by their menaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

On 5 August 1814 the young captain died.<\/p>\n

Find your family\u2019s stories.<\/p>\n

Document them in GenealogyBank.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t let them be lost.<\/p>\n

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