The Family of Ann Minerva Rodgers Macomb and John Navarre Macomb

Before I commemorated the 75th anniversary of D-Day these last six posts, I was writing about the Rodgers and Perry families and the number of sons they sent to the military as well as daughters marrying into other military families.  Here is how the Perry family got linked to the Macomb family.

Ann Minerva Rodgers Macomb was the daughter of John Rodgers and Sarah Wallace Perry, daughter of Christopher R. Perry and sister of Oliver Hazard and Matthew Calbraith Perry.

JOHN NAVARRE MACOMB (Jr.)(1811-1889) was an 1828 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy.

His father was John Navarre Macomb (1774-1810) who was a New York merchant who died defending the British packet ship Princess Charlotte against a French privateer off the Isle of Sicily.

His father also had two brothers who were in the military.  They were:

ALEXANDER MACOMB  (1782-1841).  He was a general in the War of 1812 and eventually general in command of the whole U.S. Army.

His youngest son was Commodore William H. Macomb who was a Union Navy officer in the Civil War.

ROBERT MACOMB--  Lt. Col. War of 1812

MAJOR ALEXANDER SARANAC MACOMB  Graduated USMA 1835.  Aide-de-Camp to his father, Alexander Macomb.

Also, there was a Lt. JASPER LIVINGSTON MACOMB (?-1833)  7th Regiment, U.S. Army Infantry.  Died at age 30.  Interned at Tremont House Hotel's "Stranger's Tomb" built in 1833 to bury guests who had died at the hotel.  Hew was a brother of John Navarre Macomb, Jr.

--Brock-Perry