"IN MEMORY OF PATRIOTS & SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION BURIED IN MACOUPIN COUNTY"
This monument, donated and dedicated by the Macoupin chapter Daughters
of the American Revolution in 1981,
is located on the Northwest corner area of the Macoupin County
courthouse
lawn, Carlinville, Illinois.
Listing of the Soldiers.
Macoupin_DAR_Rev_Monument - View of monument looking South
All rights reserved. Stan Jacobs
Macoupin_DAR_Rev_Monument - "In Memory of" inscriptions,
looking South
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** NOTE: My ancestor, William Kirk - Patriotic Service: Virginia. He
was
a Gunsmith detailed to make muskets at Harpers Ferry in Col. Baylor's
Light
Horse Calvary.
"Do you see the spelling, "Patriotiot" on the stone? We
wonder why the DAR would have allowed this misspelling?"
Macoupin_DAR_Rev_Monument - DAR dedication inscription, looking North
**Source - as listed in the publication "SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION BURIED IN ILLINOIS", published as A Bicentennial Project
of the Illinois State Genealogical Society, 1976.
All rights reserved. Stan Jacobs