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
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