{"id":2356,"date":"2022-09-15T10:12:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2022-09-15T10:12:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:12:08","slug":"honoring-patriot-ancestors-on-findagrave-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2356","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Patriot Ancestors on FindAGrave.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) take patriotism seriously. One way they do this is through a partnership with www.FindAGrave.com to mark the memorials of Patriot ancestors. A Betsy Ross symbol and a Patriot profile can be added to the memorial.\n<\/p>\n

This week I am taking a look at the sites for my own proven ancestors to see if this has been done. Both graves have military headstones provided by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA):\n<\/p>\n

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  1. Gershom Hall (1760-1844). He is buried in the First Congregational Church Cemetery in Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. His grave is marked with an American flag and a Revolutionary War medallion. FindAGrave has no mention of his Revolutionary War service, and there is no Betsy Ross symbol on the site. https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/95947092\/gershom-hall\n<\/li>\n
  2. Robert Kirkham (1754-1819). He is buried in the Kirkham Cemetery near New Middletown, Harrison County, Indiana. The grave is marked with an American flag but no medallion. A Daughter (perhaps a distant cousin of mine!) has already placed a description of his War service and the Betsy Ross symbol on this site. https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/20513563\/robert-kirkham\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Since Robert Kirkham has been taken care of, I will turn my effort to updating the memorial for Gershom Hall.\n<\/p>\n

    I know of no other descendant of Gershom Hall who is a current member of DAR. A DAR application from nearly 100 years ago was approved based on descent from his daughter, Thankful (1785-1863). If a current Daughter descends from Thankful, she has not yet updated the FindAGrave memorial.\n<\/p>\n

    I descend from Gershom’s eldest daughter, Rhoda (1784-1850), and no one else has applied on her line. I had to prove my descent back 6 generations through her to join DAR.\n<\/p>\n

    I suspect I am the only person who would see that the upgrade to Gershom Hall’s memorial gets done. I need to do a little research to learn how to do this.\n<\/p>\n

    I want to see Gershom Hall’s service honored this way.\n<\/p>\n

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    The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) take patriotism seriously. One way they do this is through a partnership with www.FindAGrave.com to mark the memorials of Patriot ancestors. A Betsy Ross symbol and a Patriot profile can be added to the memorial. This week I am taking a look at the sites for my own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}