Revolutionary Soldiers

Samuel Bird

On the bronze tablet erected by the DAR in honor of Revolutionary Soldiers who died in Allen County appears the name of Samuel Bird. Practically nothing is known of him although research done by the DAR in connection with this plaque revealed that he was born in 1751 in Virginia.

He seems to have been a private in the Illinois Regiment of Volunteers which served under the command of Colonel George Rogers Clark during the Revolutionary War. For this service he was entitled to land and presumably received a warrant. This may have been his incentive to move west and he is said to have died in March of 1829 in Allen County, Indiana, where he was buried in the old Fort Wayne Broadway Cemetery. Nothing is known of his family.

References:
Braumbaugh, Gaius Marcus, Revolutionary War records, Volume 1, Virginia . . . Washington, D.C., 1936.

Illinois Historical Library. Transactions. Publication No. 8, 1903.

O�Byrne, Mrs. Roscoe C., comp. & ed. Roster of soldiers and patriots of the American Revolution buried in Indiana. n.p., Indiana Daughters of the American Revolution, 1938.

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