Rev. Joseph Badger
Born 28 Feb. 1757 at Wilbraham, MA
Died 5 Apr. 1846 at Perrysburg, OH
Buried Fort Meigs Cemetery, Perrysburg. Block 3, Lot 97, Grave 8
Spouses: 1. (1784) Lois Noble (1755-1818). 2. (1819) Abigail Ely (1775-1846)
Daughter Lucia married Rev. Isaac Van Tassel and helped operate the Indian Mission on the Maumee River near Tontogany Creek.
Badger’s military service began at age 18, three weeks after the Battle of Lexington. He served at Bunker Hill with Col. John Patterson’s Regiment as well as in New York and Canada. One report says that he was with Washington on the Delaware and in all his service totaled three years. Later Badger taught school and attended Yale college. He was ordained a Congregationalist minister in 1787 and became the first missionary to the Ohio Western Reserve in 1800. Badger preached to both white and Native American settlements and founded the first church in the Western Reserve (second in Ohio) in October 1801 at Austinsburg, where he brought his family. He acted as a guide to Gen. William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812 and as chaplain at Fort Meigs. In 1835 Badger was one of the founders of Plain Congregational Church near Bowling Green and resided in Plain Township, then later at Maumee and Perrysburg.
Robert Dunlap
Born 28 July 1752 at Pennypack Woods, Philadelphia County, PA
Died 25 July 1834 at Middleton Township, Wood County, OH
Buried Dunlap Cemetery in Middleton Twp. on private property 300 feet off SR 65 and along the Maumee River, not far from Haskins.
Spouses: 1. (1787) Nancy Giles (1764-1803) 2. (1810) Mary Letts 3. (1817) Anna E. Williams (1797 -1839)
Dunlap served in the army from New Jersey as a wagoner and blacksmith. He was on a detail to keep fires burning to deceive the enemy while Washington marched to Brunswick and he saw action at Trenton, Princeton, and Milltown Creek. Dunlap is supposed to have served five years in all to 1781. In 1794 he settled at Ovid, NY, and about 1798 at Pultney, NY, coming to Wood County, OH in 1831. Dunlap settled on the farm where he is buried.
John Hall
Born 1750 at Berkshire, MA
Died 19 Dec. 1839 at Perrysburg OH
Buried Fort Meigs Cemetery, Perrysburg, OH. Block 4, Lot 101, Grave 8
Spouse: Phebe Benedict (1760-1825)
Hall served as an army lieutenant and took part in the battles of Bunker Hill, Trenton, and Ticonderoga. He removed to New York state after the war and late in life to Perrysburg, OH.
Thomas Howard
Born 15 Nov. 1758 at Cumberland Co. PA
Died 25 May 1825 at Gilead (later Grand Rapids) OH
Buried Howard Cemetery, Grand Rapids, OH Row C Block S.G.
Spouse: (1783) Elizabeth Armstrong
Howard was a private in Capt. Hugh McAllister’s Company, 7th Battalion, Cumberland County Militia. He landed at Fort Meigs in 1823, served locally as Indian Commissioner and lived at Ai Village in what is now Fulton County, OH. He was also a pioneer of Grand Rapids.
James McNeal or McNealy
Died at Wood County, OH
Buried on the former Reason Whitacre farm east of Cygnet. It is believed that his burial is in the present Whitacre/Sugar Grove/ Cygnet Cemetery on Cygnet Road near Solether Road, but there is no marker and his death date is unknown.
A. Morrison
Buried Beaver Creek Cemetery, Grand Rapids, OH. South Section Row 13.
A federal government gravestone gives only the name and fact that he was a Revolutionary soldier. According to the sexton it is on one of a row of graves designated originally for Civil War soldiers. It is possible that it is a re-interment. No service record or death information has been located.
Daniel Rice
Born 28 March 1764 at Washington County, PA
Died 5 Oct. 1834 at Wood County, OH
Buried Beaver Creek Cemetery, Grand Rapids, OH. East section, Row 14, Stone 3 - Lot D Old
Section. (Rice was originally buried at Howard Cemetery and re-interred here)
Spouse: (1791) Ann Johnston (1764-1833)
Rice served in the Washington County PA militia. He came with his son to Wood County, OH, in 1833 and settled in Weston Township.
Major Amos Stoddard
Born 26 October 1762 at Woodbury, Litchfield County, CT
Died 11 May 1813 at Fort Meigs, Perrysburg, OH
Buried Fort Meigs Historic Site, Perrysburg, OH
Stoddard enlisted in the Massachusetts militia in the Spring of 1779 and served with the 12th Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry. He re-enlisted November 1779 and served with the 3rd Continental Regiment of Artillery. In 1780 Stoddard witnessed the desertion escape of General Benedict Arnold by boat to the British. He also personally witnessed the execution of British spy Major John Andre and stood next to the wagon from which Andre was hung. Stoddard served under General Lafayette at the battles of Green Springs and Yorktown and witnessed the surrender of the British army there. In 1787 he served in the Massachusetts militia sent to suppress Shay’s Rebellion. Stoddard later practiced law and served in the state legislature. He entered the U.S. Army in 1798 as a Captain and served as the first Civil and Military Commandant of Upper Louisiana when the territory was received from France in 1804. Promoted to Major in 1807, Stoddard commanded the artillery at Fort Meigs and was wounded there May 1, 1813 on the opening day of the Seige. He died of tetanus and was buried in front of the “Grand Battery” on the spot he was wounded. A memorial marker is located nearby.