Joseph Willcocks-- Part 4: Ancaster Bloody Assize and Death

In the spring of 1814, fifteen Upper Canadians, including Joseph Willcocks, were charged with  high treason as part of the Ancaster Bloody Assize.  Eight of them were arrested and executed in July 1814.  Willcocks was not arrested.

But, on September  4, 1814, while leading a skirmish during the Siege of Fort Erie, he was fatally shot  in the chest.

His body, as well as that of Lieutenant Roosevelt, was buried initially in "the circle or open square of" Buffalo, New York.  Later, his body was reburied in Buffalo's Forest Lawn Cemetery in the 1830s, but his grave is unmarked.

Wonder Why They Wouldn't Bury Him In Canada?  --Brock-Perry