In the last post, I mentioned that Duncan McArthur was buried at Grandview Cemetery in Chillicothe, Ohio. Also buried there is Nathaniel Massie (1763-1813).
A Virginia native, he served in that state's militia during the American Revolution and then was a frontier surveyor who founded 14 towns in early Ohio, including Chillicothe, the first capital. In 1807, the Ohio General Assembly elected him governor, but he refused it.
He also established Manchester, Ohio and platted Chillicothe. One of Ohio's biggest landowners, he was also a major general in the state militia.
He led troops during the War of 1812 and in 1813, led 500 troops in a relief effort for William Henry Harrison who was besieged at Fort Meigs in Ohio. There is a Captain Nathaniel Massie's Mounted Cavalry Company listed as probably being from Ross County.
Nathaniel Massie died of pneumonia on November 3, 1813.
--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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