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KENTUCKY, INDIANA AND NEW YORK SOCIETIES Revolutionary War Lt. Col. and War of 1812 Maj. Gen. Samuel Hopkins' grave was marked by five societies on May 19 at the Spring Garden Cemetery in Henderson, Ky. This is perhaps the first time a veteran of the Revolution and War of 1812 has been so honored. The societies were the Kentucky Daughters of the American Revolution; General Samuel Hopkins Chapter DAR, Henderson, Ky.; Captain William Rowan Chapter DAR, Livermore, Ky.; General John Caldwell Chapter DAR, Princeton, Ky.; Capt. Henry Vanderburgh Chapter DAR, Evansville Ind.; Capt. Jacob Warrick Chapter DAR Boonville, Ind.; the Society of the Cincinnati of Virginia; Lt. Robert Moseley Chapter, KYSSAR, Owensboro, Ky.; Ohio Valley Chapter, INSSAR; Ladies Auxiliary, Ohio Valley Chapter, INSSAR, Evansville, Ind.; the Syracuse Chapter ESSSAR, Syracuse, N.Y.; the Illinois Society of the War of 1812; and the Society of the Second War with Great Britain from New York. Descendants of the general placed roses on his grave and each of the above-named societies laid a wreath by the grave. The event was sponsored by the General Samuel Hopkins Chapter, DAR, Henderson, Ky.; City of Henderson Department of Parks and Recreation; and the Kentucky War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission. The event was well attended. Robert J. Gang III, fourth great- grandson of Samuel Hopkins and member of the Syracuse Chapter, ESSSAR, spoke on "The Life and Service of General Hopkins" the eve- ning before the ceremony at the University of Kentucky Extension Service Expo Center. Mary Alice Springer of the General Samuel Hopkins Chapter DAR was mistress of ceremonies. Gang outlined the life and service of Hopkins. Ken Gilkey of the Ohio Valley Chapter INSSAR com- manded the posting of colors, the wreath presentation, the musket salute and the retirement of colors. Gary Tunget, Lt. Moseley Chapter, KYSSAR, presented a flag to Gang. Following the grave marking, Hopkins historian Richard Ferguson of the Indiana Territorial Rangers spoke on "The Role of Major General Samuel Hopkins" in the War of 1812 at the Expo Center. "Take a moment and look around at this crowd. Your faces are the collec- tive DNA … of these soldiers we honor today. You are also their spirit. These French Creoles live on in the hundreds of thousands of descendants today, in all races. Many of you count more than one of these soldiers in your ancestry. I have at least nine. Carlos has at least 10. Let's see by a show of hands, who has more than one of these family names in your ancestry? "These 37 men represent the foun- dation of colonial Avoyelles … the fami- lies who followed the Native Americans who shaped Avoyelles into what is today. Most of them made their way here from Pointe Coupee after the 1780 flood. On this prairie, at this site was the church the Spanish government set aside a land grant for. Our LOUISIANA SOCIETY The DAR, Society of the Cincinnati, SAR, U.S. Daughters of the War of 1812 and the General Society of the War of 1812 grave markers mark the grave of Maj. Gen. Samuel Hopkins. This is perhaps the first time a veteran of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 has been so honored. The mahogany granite stone was provided by Gary Tunget of the Lt. Robert Moseley Chapter, KYSSAR, who also engraved the stone and placed the five emblems. A monument and plaque were dedi- cated by the Enemund Meuillion Chapter last October to the soldiers of French descent who settled in Avoyelles Parish and fought in the Revolutionary Battle of Baton Rouge under Bernardo de Galvez, Sept. 12-21, 1779. The monument was made possible through donations by Compatriots Randy DeCuir and Carlos Mayeux Jr. A portion of the dedi- cation speech follows: ancestors worshipped here for genera- tions to follow. Over the years their names were forgotten by memory, but the records survived of their names and service in the Louisiana Militia. People like Winston DeVille are to be credited for locating these records back in the 1960s in the archives of Cuba and Spain. "Since the 1950s their graves have been unmarked when the overgrown cemetery was leveled and old markers lost under this spot. "This project began a few years ago. We, along with several of you here in the crowd today, 6$5 0$*$=,1(