Sacred to the memory of Maj. General Joseph Graham.
Aged 77 years 11 months (Dec 1752?)

DAR Library # A046752
Major in the American Revolution
born Oct 13, 1759 Chester CO PA
died Nov 12, 1836 Lincoln Co NC

his wifes father was a Signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration
DAR Library # A030096

His wifes mother's father also listed with a
DAR Library # A127827
The name of Graham recalls that of my mother's father, General Joseph Graham, a name well known in our Revolutionary annals. He entered the army at nineteen years of age. At the end of two years of arduous and responsible service he was stricken down by a severe and lingering illness, but returning health found him again in the field. When the war invaded his own section, and the army under General Greene withdrew towards Virginia, to him was assigned the command of those troops which sustained the rear-guard under General Davies. For many miles he was confronted with Tarleton's famous cavalry, said to be the best in British service. The obstinate resistance which he opposed to their advance had nearly closed his career, After many gallant but ineffectual attempts to drive them back, he fell, literally covered with wounds. But no sooner did he recover than he again took the field. The service which now fell to his lot was one of peculiar privation, suffering, and sacrifice. Of commissary stores, his command often had none; nay, were sometimes under the necessity of supplying their own horses and purchasing their own equipments. But his patriotism was entire and uncalculating ; he recked not of means, health, or of life itself in the cause to which he had devoted himself; and so he continued in the field as long as there was an enemy in the country, and though, when peace was declared, he had but entered on the threshold of manhood, he had commanded in fifteen different engagements.

In civil life he was scarcely less distinguished. The many important positions filled by him afford the highest testimony to his capacity and character. He received the commission of Major-General during the war of 1812.

From the "Life and Letters of Stonewall Jackson" by his wife – Mary Anna Jackson pages 91 and 92

Contributor: Billy Walker