This is the fourth of a series of articles by the Committee for the Orange County Veterans Memorial. Remember our goal is to raise funds, so we can build the Orange County Veterans Memorial to honor those sons and daughters of Orange who died while defending our county and our liberties.
Listed below is the number of Orange County’s war dead which occurred in the War of 1812, derived from the Library of Virginia’s Military Dead Database.
War of 1812 (1812 –1815) 5 dead
| Name |
Gender |
Race |
County or City |
Conflict |
Branch of Service |
Date of Death |
|
| Thomas Morrison Faulconer |
M |
|
Orange |
1812 |
Militia |
3/8/1815 |
|
| Listed Residence |
Company |
Regiment |
Rank |
Cause of Death |
Place of Death |
Source |
|
Crutchfield |
1st Virginia |
Private |
|
|
r |
| Notes |
| Residence: Montgomery Co?; buried in Broce/Kinser Family Cemetery Blacksburg, Montgomery Co |
|
|
| Thomas Gholson, Jr. |
M |
|
Orange |
1812 |
Militia |
7/4/1816 |
|
| Listed Residence |
Company |
Regiment |
Rank |
Cause of Death |
Place of Death |
Source |
|
|
5th Virginia |
Private |
Died of Wounds |
|
r |
| Notes |
| WIA at Washington, DC during the War; Residence: Brunswick Co?; buried in Gholson Family Cemetery Brunswick Co |
|
|
| John F. Swanson |
M |
|
Orange |
1812 |
Army |
2/15/1815 |
|
| Listed Residence |
Company |
Regiment |
Rank |
Cause of Death |
Place of Death |
Source |
|
|
35th Infantry |
|
|
Hospital Norfolk, Virginia |
i |
| Notes |
| Residence: Brunswick Co? |
|
|
| Willis Taylor |
M |
|
Orange |
1812 |
Army |
6/26/1813 |
|
| Listed Residence |
Company |
Regiment |
Rank |
Cause of Death |
Place of Death |
Source |
|
|
20th Infantry |
|
|
|
i |
| Notes |
| POD: Neward, New Jersey?/(Newark, New Jersey?) |
|
|
| James Turner |
M |
|
Orange |
1812 |
Army |
1/11/1814 |
|
| Listed Residence |
Company |
Regiment |
Rank |
Cause of Death |
Place of Death |
Source |
|
|
20th Infantry |
|
|
in camp near Buffalo, New York |
i |
| Notes |
|
|
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Donations, comments and suggestions can be mailed to P.O. Box 188, Orange, VA 22960. Or they also can be left at any of the Veteran’s organizations and they will be forwarded by the Memorial representative as each organization has one now. Please make the donation checks
payable to the Orange County Parks and Recreation Foundation with “Orange Veterans Memorial” or “OVM” in the memo line. For those who are tech-savvy, you can send comments and suggestions to our e-mail address, orangeveteransmemorial@gmail.com. And, we also have a website, www.orangeveteransmemorial.org.
The local chapter of the National Society United States Daughters of the War of 1812 is The Madisons of Montpelier Chapter. The National Society's purposes are to promote patriotism, preserve the history of the American people by the preservation of records, and documents from the period of 1784 ~ 1815. In addition, they help with marking historical sites, genealogical research of our 1812 ancestors, and the marking of their graves sites. We help maintain a National Headquarters in Washington, D.C. We honor those veterans who bravely fought for our second War of Independence. We present our Chapter wreath in honor of our veterans and past U.S. Presidents. The current President of The Madisons of Montpelier Chapter is Mrs. Anne H. Winn. Mrs. Constance B. Paradiso is the Registrar. Mrs. Brenda M. Graves, the Vice-President, may be reached at 672-7281, if you wish to get involved.
Finally, remember we want this memorial to be inclusive. As mentioned at the Memorial Day ceremony, we want your ideas and suggestions. You do not need to be a Veteran, or a member of a Veteran’s organization to participate. All you need is a desire to help and let us know that. Give us an opportunity to find a way to get you involved. Our intent to have this memorial built is not to open old wounds or tear off scabs. Let the building of this memorial help bring us together. A monument to honor the sacrifice of our fallen comrades, not harm anyone. If the building of the monument does harm someone, we apologize. As mentioned at the Memorial Day ceremony, we believe this memorial needs to be a dedication to Orange’s sons or daughters who made the supreme sacrifice, which allowed the rest of us to live in freedom.
