Tablet to DAR Unveiled - 1922

YOUMANS, SQUIRES, SHORES, SCOVEL

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 4/10/2006 at 19:43:28

"The Fairfield Ledger-Journal"
May 26, 1922

UNVEIL TABLET TO REAL DAR -- Abigail SQUIRES YOUMANS....

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"The Fairfield Ledger-Journal"
May 30, 1922

DAR TABLET. Abigail SQUIRES YOUMANS -- Her Revolutionary Ancestors.

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"The Fairfield Weekly Ledger-Journal"
June 1, 1922
Page 2, Column 4

Abigail YOUMANS.... was daughter of Jonathan SQUIRES, Jr., a soldier of the American Revolution. He was born Fairfield, Conn., in 1763. At the age of 14 he entered the service and served with his father in the regiment of Col. Goose Dan Schiack of the New York Battalion. Both were present at the burning of Danbury by the British.... Mr. SQUIRES died at Fishkill, N.Y. in 1842. In 1854 the family came to Monmouth, Ill., and in 1892 they moved to Libertyville where Mrs. YOUMANS died.... Tablet unveiled by her two great-granddaughters, Lois SHORES and Helen SCOVEL.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s).