Rufus Carver - Mound Cemetery; Racine, WI - American Revolutionary War Veteran Graves on Waymarking.com

From the Wisconsin Society Sons of the American Revolution (visit link)

Rufus Carver (1755-1840) was born December 13, 1755, in Montague, Massachusetts. While a resident of Northfield, Massachusetts, 19-year old Carver belonged to Captain Ebenezer Jones' company of minutemen and marched with that unit to Cambridge, Massachusetts, following the battle of Lexington in 1775.

While stationed in Cambridge he re-enlisted as a private in Captain Eliakim Smith's Company of Colonel (later General) Artemus Ward's Massachusetts Regiment. Rufus was at the battle of Bunker Hill and retreated with General Israel Putnam to Prospect Hill. Here Carver assisted in constructing the redoubt.

Completing his 8-month enlistment, he was discharged on January 1, 1776. Carver later responded to the "Bennington alarm" and served in Captain Wright's Company, which marched to Bennington, but arrived after the battle.

Carver enlisted again in 1777, and served three months in Colonel Bigelow's Massachusetts Regiment. Carver was discharged at Danbury, Connecticut at the end of November 1777. Rufus Carver received a pension for his service.

Rufus Carver later moved to New York, and sometime after 1838, accompanied by his wife, Pricilla Cummings, and family moved to East Troy, Wisconsin, where he died, on March 20, 1840, at the age of 85.

Location type: Single Grave Date of Birth: December 13, 1755 Date of Death: March 20, 1840 Cause of death: Died Later Grave Marker Text: The SAR marker reads: Rufus Carver PVT Continental Line Revolutionary War Dec. 13, 1755 - Mar. 20, 1840 Ranks: Private

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