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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (66)2/3/2016 7:37:33 PM
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Speaking of being over 100. Just found this on line while working on my genealogy. (no relation to Cronk, but I wonder if any of my (4) ancestors who fought in the War of 1812 ever met mr. Cronk?)

"One of the war's soldiers was Hiram Cronk, born in Frankfort and raised in Rome. Young Hiram entered the conflict with his father and two brothers; this was his father Kosper's second war, him being a veteran of the American Revolution. Hiram's military lineage didn't end there; his grandfather James fought for the crown during the 1754-63 French and Indian War in North America. And he lost one of his sons during the Civil War, at the Battle of Shiloh in 1861. After his brief military service (August-Nov. 1814) Private Cronk returned to Oneida County and spent his life as a shoemaker.

Hiram Cronk is not remembered for any battlefield heroics or for achieving high rank. He is remembered because he was the last surviving veteran of the War of 1812. Living his final years in the town of Ava, Cronk was over 105 when he died in 1905. He came into this world during the John Adams administration and left it when Theodore Roosevelt was president. His funeral took place in New York City, where he lay in state in City Hall. His funeral procession was captured on film (which is available on YouTube) and he is buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn."

uticaod.com



"Funeral of Hiram Cronk 1905"



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