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Simon Shover

Lieutenant Army War of 1812

Army
Army
Lieutenant
Lieutenant
Branch of Service
Army
Rank
Lieutenant
Unit
19th Regiment, Captain Angus Lanham's Co.
Conflict / Era
War of 1812
Years of Service
1812
Hometown
Jerome, OH
Burial Location
Infirmary Farm
Monument Paver
No
Township (entering service)
Jerome
Township (current / at death)
Paris
Status
Prisoner of War
When
01/23/1813
Where
Monroe, Michigan
Record Authenticated
Yes

Biography

taken prisoner at General Winchester's defeat; held captive by Indians and reportedly escaped death by "jumping on a log, flapping his arms and crowing like a rooster." (Beers, 273) son of Henry Shover, Revolutionary War; Shover family buried in Jerome Cemetery, Ash Section 2022 Voice From the Stone Honoree

Source: Esther Carmany; Beers, Chapter II; Record 434; Beers, Jerome Township History, (273); Union Co. Cem. Rec., Vol. 2, p. 123