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Capt Benjamin Lockwood

Birth
Westchester County, New York, USA
Death
Nov 1807 (aged 36–37)
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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He was the son of Ephraim and Elizabeth (MEAD) LOCKWOOD and a brother to Judge David LOCKWOOD.
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He married to Marianne ----.
His widow, Marianne Lockwood, married 2nd, 25 Dec 1808 at Fort Adams, Tennessee to Capt. John Cleves SYMMES (1780-1829), son of Timothy and Mercy (Harker) Symmes, and widower of Susan McNarry.
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"DIED - At Fort Adams, Captain Benjamin LOCKWOOD, of the Army of the United States, formerly of this county."
From THE WHEELING REPOSITORY Thursday, December 3, 1807, pg.223.
HALE COLLECTION OF CEMETERY INSRIPTIONS AND NEWSPAPER NOTICES, pg63 gives date of death as Aug. 28, 1807.
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Note: "With Chhickasaw approval, Army Captain Isaac Guion erected the United States first garrison in the mid-Mississippi Valley in October 1797 at the site that is now Memphis, TN. Initially named Fort Adams, the stockade was later named Fort Pike. Fort Pike was abandoned when Fort Pickering was constructed on a higher part of the bluff.
He was the son of Ephraim and Elizabeth (MEAD) LOCKWOOD and a brother to Judge David LOCKWOOD.
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He married to Marianne ----.
His widow, Marianne Lockwood, married 2nd, 25 Dec 1808 at Fort Adams, Tennessee to Capt. John Cleves SYMMES (1780-1829), son of Timothy and Mercy (Harker) Symmes, and widower of Susan McNarry.
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"DIED - At Fort Adams, Captain Benjamin LOCKWOOD, of the Army of the United States, formerly of this county."
From THE WHEELING REPOSITORY Thursday, December 3, 1807, pg.223.
HALE COLLECTION OF CEMETERY INSRIPTIONS AND NEWSPAPER NOTICES, pg63 gives date of death as Aug. 28, 1807.
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Note: "With Chhickasaw approval, Army Captain Isaac Guion erected the United States first garrison in the mid-Mississippi Valley in October 1797 at the site that is now Memphis, TN. Initially named Fort Adams, the stockade was later named Fort Pike. Fort Pike was abandoned when Fort Pickering was constructed on a higher part of the bluff.


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