From the September 7, 2022, Observer (Fredonia, N.Y.).
The local Celea Sampson Cole chapter of the United States Daughters of 1812 will hold their first grave marking ceremony since receiving their charter September 11, 2020. The ceremony will be at Plot E/30 Forest Hill Cemetery in Fredonia on Sunday. The ceremony will honor William "Billy" Burch.
Burch is the 3X great grandfather of 1812 Daughter Sandra Johnson of Lakewood. He was born November 19, 1787 in New York state. He entered U.S. service in Cooperstown into the 23rd Infantry of the Regular Army on August 12, 1812, and served until February 1815.
He was stationed at Fort Niagara, Fort George and Sackets Harbor.
After the war, he settled in Pomfret and married Jemima Adams in November 1817. He died February 16, 1818 at the age of 33 in Randolph.
His Find-A-Grave site says he died 16 February 1881 at age 93.
(Fredonia was also the home of Civil War heroes Alonzo and William Barker Cushing.)
--Brock-Perry
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