Illinois' 200th!!!!!-- Part 1: The Illinois Territory During War of 1812

I'll be taking a few days' break to write about the bicentennial of Illinois becoming a state in 1818.

From Wikipedia.

During the War of 1812, the Illinois Territory was the scene of fighting between American settlers and soldiers and Indians.  At the time, the Illinois Territory consisted of modern Illinois and parts of Minnesota and Michigan.

Tensions between Americans and Indians had been increasing in the years before the war.  Present-day Peoria was the site of a major Indian concentration and the chief there was a big supporter of Shawnee Prophet Tenskwatawa and his brother Tecumseh.

There were few U.S. soldiers in the area which was the far frontier at the time.  Ninian Edwards, Illinois Territorial governor directed militia operations.

--Brock-Perry

A Walk in the Cemetery: Two War of 1812 Veterans Buried in Marshall Cemetery

From the October 31, 2017, Independent (Minnesota)  "A walk in the cemetery finds a four-time war hero"  Jody Isaacson.

Marshall Cemetery, Marshall, Minnesota.  Thomas Hicks and Joseph Fifield served in the War of 1812.  They are the only two Minnesota soldiers in the area to serve in that war according to Arthur Finnell, author of "Known War of 1812 Veterans Buried in Minnesota."

Both came considerably after the war to live in Minnesota, as late as 1870.  They weren't born in Minnesota (which wasn't a state during the war), but came later as pioneers or to live with relatives in their declining years.

Thomas Hicks was originally buried in the Catholic Cemetery east of Marshall, but was reburied at Marshall Cemetery in 1921.

--Brock-Perry