REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS
BY THE EDITOR
SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
BURIED
IN OHIO
This is the title of a book which has
long been in
demand by citizens of Ohio and many
beyond the bor-
ders of that state, who have learned
through tradition
or otherwise that their Revolutionary
ancestors came to
this state and are probably buried
here. The arduous
work of collecting material for this
volume was under-
taken by the Daughters of the American
Revolution,
under the direction of Mrs. Eugene
Kennedy of Dayton,
Ohio, who was State Chairman of
Historical Sites and
Revolutionary Graves Committee from
1920 to 1923,
and continued by Mrs. Jane Frances Dowd
Dailey of
Albany, Ohio, who had been Chairman of
this commit-
tee from 1923 to the present time.
This book contains 447 pages and lists
over 3,000
soldiers of the American Revolution
buried in Ohio.
This comparatively large number of
burials within the
border of our state, which was not
admitted into the
Union until twenty years after the
Revolution, is ex-
plained in the following paragraph from
the Foreword
to the volume by Mrs. Dailey:
Lest the reader should wonder at the
large number of Revo-
lutionary soldiers buried in Ohio, it
should be recalled that the
present boundaries of Ohio were nearest
the original colonies,
and when land grants were given to the
soldiers thither came the
hardy New Englanders to the Western
Reserve and the region
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of Lake Erie; sturdy Pennsylvanians
crossed over into central
Ohio and the Virginian and Carolinian
took up his abode in the
southern part of Ohio. Here in the
Northwest Territory they
lived and died; they were fathers of a
race who inherited the in-
vincible courage and sterling qualities
of the Revolutionary soldier
and who took up the burden of founding
the Nation by pressing
westward.
Mrs. Dailey explains that the Roster is
not designed
as a genealogical reference book, but
it is of great value
to many seeking information in regard to
their Revolu-
tionary ancestors. We quote further
from the Fore-
word:
Its primary object is to present an
authentic and complete list
of Revolutionary soldiers buried in this
state. Research has ex-
tended over a quarter of a century, and
had it not been for the
patriotic service given gratis by Ohio
men and women the compila-
tion of these records would not have
been possible. No detail was
too insignificant for these searchers;
county cemeteries were in-
vestigated by faithful Chapter chairmen
of the D. A. R.; news-
papers gave freely of their space; the
U. S. Bureau of Pensions
gave valuable aid and many persons were
assiduous in searching
the D. A. R. lineage books and the
published lists of the Sons of
the American Revolution.
Contained herein are many records of
proven service, but
there are some which may never be proved
though the service
given by the individuals is beyond
question. Information in many
instances was meager, but this, it is
felt, can be corrected by
adding to the Roster additional records
which are now or will be
in the future under investigation. The
chapter or person who
filed the data is responsible for the
authenticity of the record and
any communication should be carried on
with them.
The name of the chapter of the D. A. R.
furnishing
the information accompanies the record
of each Revo-
lutionary soldier. This not only gives
the local chapters
credit for their work and fixes the
responsibility for its
accuracy, but in many instances it
gives the interested
person consulting the book a clue to
sources of addi-
tional information.
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Society Publications
The price of the book is $1.00 if the
party purchas-
ing calls at the office of the Ohio
State Archaeological
and Historical Society for the book.
The book costs
$1.25 mailed to any part of the United
States. This
barely covers expense in the production
of the book
which is printed on good paper and
substantially bound
in attractive blue buckram. A large
number of copies
still remain with the Ohio State
Archaeological and His-
torical Society and may be had at the
price named upon
application.
In the preparation of this work, the
Ohio Daughters
of the American Revolution have
contributed a notable
service. They have made it possible for
those interested
in patriotic research work to have this
volume at less
than one-fifth the price that they
would have had to pay
for it if it had been published for
sale at a profit.
DEATH OF SENATOR THEODORE E. BURTON
Senator Theodore E. Burton, who
delivered the ad-
dress on the occasion of the dedication
of the Memorial
Wing of the Museum and Library Building
of this So-
ciety, April 6, 1926, died in
Washington, October 28,
1929. A sketch of his life, with the
exception of the last
three years, appears in the QUARTERLY for
July, 1926.