Grave Of A 1776 Hero

GRAVE OF A 1776 HERO

Located at Carpenter's Corners in Pittsfield

WIFE WAS A HEROINE

John Terhune, a Revolutionary Soldier, Settled in Pittsfield in 1831

The following communication is given to the papers by the secretary of the D. A. R. with the hope that if it is seen by anyone who knows of any other Revolutionary soldier who is buried in the county he will make the fact known to Mrs. S. W. Clarkson, 813 Tappan Street, she having been appointed chairman of the committee on burial places of Revolutionary soldiers:

Ann Arbor, Feb. 18, 1902

To D. A. R.:

John Terhune born at Hackensack, New Jersey, served as ensign all through the Revolutionary war, and received nine bayonet wounds.

He came to Michigan in 1831 and settled at Carpenter's Corners, Pittsfield, Washtenaw County, where he now lies buried.  His wife, Sarah Vreeland, when a girl, walked nine miles before breakfast to warn the American camp of the approach of the British who had encamped the night before on a corner of her father's plantation at Hackensack.

The late Enoch Terhune, of N. State Street, and my mother were grandchildren and the only living grandchild is Cornelius Earl, of Cross Street, Ypsilanti.

Written by 

Mrs. Sarah Fletcher Thompson, Great granddaughter of three Revolutionary soldiers:

John Terhune, Ensign, New Jersey

John Tream, Messenger, New York City

Joseph Parrish, Soldier, Connecticut