The Veterans of Greenfield Hill

Greenfield Hill Burial Ground (Fairfield, Connecticut) contains the graves of more Revolutionary War soldiers than any other cemetery in the country - 103. Also interred within Greenfield Hill are three soldiers of the French and Indian Wars, 25 veterans of the War of 1812, and six combatants from the Civil War. Those veterans are listed below, categorized chronologically by the conflicts in which they fought. 

The French and Indian Wars

Captain David Banks

Daniel Bulkley

Lieutenant Jedidiah Hull

The American Revolution

The outside wall, to the right of the entrance is a plaque, "In memory of the men of Greenfield Hill who fought in the American Revolution." A list of those Revolutionary War veterans follows.

John Alvord

Benjamin Banks 4th

Daniel Banks

David Banks

Ebenezer Banks Esq.

Ebenezer Banks

Elijah Banks

Eliphalet Banks

Gershom Banks

Gershom Banks, Jr.

Hyatt Banks

Isaac Banks

Jesse Banks

John Banks

Jonathan Banks

Joseph Banks

Nathan Banks

Nehemiah Banks

Nehemiah Banks Jr.

Moses Betts

Elisha Bradley

Hezekiah Bradley

Hezekiah Bradley Jr.

John Bradley

Joseph Bradley

Nathan Bradley

Samuel Brdaley

Seth Bradley

Zalmon Bradley

Daniel Bulkley

Gershom Bulkley

Joseph Bulkley

Ebenezer Burr 3rd

Ebenezer Burr

Ichobod Burr

Jesse Burr

Joseph Burr

Timothy Burr

Joshua Davis

David Down

Burr Gilbert

Jospeh Gorham

Lewis Goodsell

Nathan Gould

Joseph Hayes

Ebenezer Hill

Eliphalet Hill

Moses Hill

David Hubbell

Gershom Hubbell

Hosea Hulbert M.D.

Daniel Hull

Eliphalet Hull

Ezekial Hull

Jedidiah Hull

John Hull

Aaron Jennings

Josiah Jennings

William Jennings

Sturges Lewis

Eliphalet Lyon

Sylvanus Middlebrook

Samuel Morehouse

Abijah Merwin

David Nichols

Ebenezer Nichols

Ephraim Nichols

Jesse Nichols

Hezekiah Ogden

Moses Ogden

Samuel Ogden

Sturges Ogden

David Osborn Jr.

Nathan Perry

Thomas Perry

Hezekiah Price

James Redfield

Albert Sherwood

Benjamin Sherwood

Daniel Sherwood

David Sherwood

Eleazer Sherwood

Eliphalet Sherwood

John Sherwood

Noah Sherwood

Benjamin Smith

Ebenezer Smith

John Staples

Abel Wakeman

Gershom Wakeman

Gershom Wakeman Jr.

John Wakeman

Thaddeus Wakeman

Samuel Whitney

Samuel Whitney Jr.

Thomas Wheeler

Reuben Williams

Samuel Wilson

The War of 1812

Hezekiah Ogden, veteran of the War of 1812. He died January 21, 1844, age 68. 

Captain Abraham D. Baldwin

Abraham Banks

Elijah Banks, Jr.

Zalmon Banks

Abel Bradley

Burr Bradley

William Bradley

David Bulkley

Sergeant Joseph Bulkley

Timothy Bulkley

Morris Burr

Sergeant David Down

Lieutenant Daniel Gould

Jesse Gould

David Hawkins

Hezekiah Ogden, Jr.

Benjamin Sherwood

Daniel Smith

John Staples

Asahel Wakeman

Sergeant Nathan Wheeler

Captain Samuel Wheeler

Sanford Wheeler

Samuel Wilson

Wakeman Wilson

The Civil War

Horatio S. Banks

Bradley Crossman

Edward Lyon

Francis B. Merwin

Sturges Raymond

Thomas B. Stewart

"Francis B. Merwin Co. I 23rd Reg't C.V. Died in the service of his country at Lafourche La. April 17, 1863, aged 23 y'rs & 11 mo."

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