Overdue Honors for Soldier of Forgotten War-- Part 2: John P. Albaugh

The ceremony will begin at 1:30 pm will feature a War of 1812 medallion needs to be authorized by the Daughters of the War of 1812 and is about four inches wide and is being attached to the stone by Roger Clark of the Lyons Memorial Shop.

John P. Albaugh operated a tavern in the Lyons hamlet of  Alloway.

The Battle of Sodus Point took place on June 19, 1813, when British soldiers came ashore during the night for a raid and were met by a ragtag band of militia and citizens that included Albaugh.  Two Americans and two British were killed in the exchange of gunfire.

The British retreated to their boats, but came back the next day to burn the village.  But, the Americans had already removed anything of value.

Albaugh is not the only War of 1812 veteran buried in the South Lyons Cemetery.  Others include Dr. Cyrus Jackson, Thomas Dorsey, Joseph Goseline, Ananias Langdon, Edward Leach and George Sparks.

--Brock-Perry

Overdue Honors for Soldier of Forgotten War: Capt. John P. Albaugh

From the May 19, 2022, Finger Lakes Times (Waterloo, New York) by Steve Buchiere.

Captain John P. Albaugh was like many of the American soldiers in the War of 1812.  He didn't fight in one of the key battles, but he defended the small  bayside village of  Troupville, now known as Sodus Point, against a British Army intent on seeking provisions from American storehouses along the Lake Ontario shoreline.

MaryAnn Loss is John Albaugh's four-times great granddaughter, now living in Raleigh, North Carolina,  after serving 25 years in the U.S. Army.  She thinks it is now time for her ancestor to receive his honors.

On May 24, she and a group that includes the past president of the United States Daughters of the War of 1812 will honor Albaugh with a grave-marking ceremony at the South Lyons Cemetery on Route 14, where he and his family are laid to rest.  A special  medallion is being epoxied to the family stone for Albaugh and his family which includes his wife, Prudence, and their five children.

Albaugh, a native of Maryland, died at age 54 or 55 in August 1832.

--Brock-Perry