From the June 11, 2016, Register-Mail.
John Whitmore's grave at Clover Chapel Cemetery near Woodhull was dedicated and several of his descendants were there.
He was a private, born in 1790 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and married in 1816. he had ten children.
The Illinois Society of the War of 1812 and the U.S. Daughters of 1812 presented the ceremony.
--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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