From the July 31, 2014 "North Andover (Mass.) Eagle-Tribune "Backyard yields relic of 199-year-old Port tragedy" by Dyke Hendrickson
Newburyport, Massachusetts
The celebration of the end of the war caused a local youngster to be killed.
Michael Prendergast of Merrill Street has found parts of a grave marker under his backyard.
On February 14, 1815, George Augustus Wood, 9, was playing in State Street when he was run over by a gun carriage drawn by horses and died of his injuries.
The marker reads: "Inscrutable the ways of Providence! Sacred to the memory of George Augustus Wood, promising son of John and Elizabeth Wood, whose life yo the incomprehensible grief of his parents, was instantly destroyed in a fatal accident amidst the public rejoicing of peace Feb. 14, 1815
The War of 1812 hit Newburyport particularly hard because of maritime restraints and the impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy.
The article didn't mention how they think the marker came to be in that backyard.
A Sad End to a Great Day. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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