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Conrad Heyer (April 10, 1749 or 1753 [Note 1] – February 19, 1856) was an American farmer, veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and centenarian.He is often credited as being the earliest-born person to have been photographed alive, although several other contenders are known, most notably a shoemaker named John Adams and Caesar, an African.
He was the last living African American veteran of the Revolutionary War at the time and the oldest person buried in Elmwood Cemetery. [33] [34] His last known living descendant was Gertrude Robinson, his granddaughter, who died in Ohio in 1983. [35]
George Middleton (c. 1735 – April 6, 1815) was an African-American Revolutionary War veteran, a Prince Hall Freemason, and a community civil rights campaigner in Massachusetts. War service [ edit ]
In this file photo from 2013, Boy Scout Troop 36 members Evan Mayle, John Golden and Mikey Milton, along with American Revolutionary War reenactors Ron Pfouts and John McDowell, present the colors ...
Frank Buckles (1901–2011), shown here in this recruitment photo, was the last verified American soldier to have served in World War I. Frank Woodruff Buckles (1901–2011) – U.S. Army. Last U.S. veteran, served with the 1st Fort Riley Casual Detachment.
The 1st Rhode Island Regiment (also known as Varnum's Regiment, the 9th Continental Regiment, the Black Regiment, the Rhode Island Regiment, and Olney's Battalion) was a regiment in the Continental Army raised in Rhode Island during the American Revolutionary War (1775–83). It was one of the few units in the Continental Army to serve through ...
Peter Salem, who had been freed by his owner to join the Framingham militia, was one of the Black men in the military. He served for nearly five years. [11] In the Revolutionary War, slave owners often let the people they enslaved to enlist in the war with promises of freedom, but many were put back into slavery after the conclusion of the war ...
Oliver Cromwell (May 24, 1752 – January 1853) was an African-American soldier, who served in the American Revolutionary War.He was born a free black man in Black Horse (now the Columbus section of Mansfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey), [1] on the farm of tavernkeeper John Hutchin and was raised as a farmer.