Brig. Gen. Henry Stanton

• NOTE: From 1777 to 1791, the government of Vermont declared independence from both the British colony of Quebec and the American states of New Hampshire and New York. Vermont was called by several names: Vermont Republic, Republic of New Connecticut, or the Republic of the Green Mountains. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Republic
• Henry's birth and death information are available at royandsharon.lifegrid.com/STANTON,%20Henry%20(1789).htm and at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6678211/henry-stanton
• NOTE: Henry's year of birth at Find A Grave is given as 1779. His year of birth at royalandsharon is given as 1789. The latter date is approximately correct. That is because in the 1850 United States census for New Utrecht, Kings County, New York, Henry was listed as being 60 years old [born ca. 1790]. In the 1855 New York State census Henry was listed as being 64 years old [born ca. 1791]. Thus, a span from 1789 to 1791 is provided in Henry's profile. See royandsharon.lifegrid.com/STANTON,%20Henry%20(1789).htm
• Henry served in the military War of 1812. He received a Lieutenant of light artillery military promotion 29 Jun 1813. He received a Asst Deputy Quartermaster-Genera military promotion Jul 1813. He received a Military Secr to Genl Geo Izard military promotion 1814. He received a Major, Dep Quartermaster-General military promotion 13 May 1820. He received a Acting Adjutant-General military promotion Florida, 1836 to 1837. Under Gen. Thomas S. Jessup.
• He received a Col., Asst Quartermaster-General military promotion in Washington, DC, 1838. He received a Brigadier-General military promotion 1 Jan 1847. For meritorious conduct in the Mexican War. He was an Episcopalian.

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The son of David Stanton and Olivia Galusha, I believe he was in the Vermont Volunteers before entering the light Artillery as a Lieutenant June 19, 1813. He was promoted to Asst. Deputy Quartermaster-General and then to Military Secretary to Gen. George Izard in May 1814. He resigned Dec. 1, 1817 to return to civilian life, married Eliza Keyes on December 2 in Hartford, Connecticut, and returned to the Army as a Captain in the Quartermasters Feb. 1818. He was promoted to Major in May 1820. He and his first wife, Eliza Keyes, had four children before her death in March 1832. In February 1834, he married Alexandrine Macomb, the daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Macomb, in Washington, DC. He served in the Seminole War under Gen. Thomas Jessup as Acting Adjutant General from1836 to 1838. On January 1, 1847, he received the brevet of Brig. General for meritorious conduct particularly for duties during the War with Mexico. The seven children by his second wife were all born at Fort Hamilton, New York. He retired there to his home near St. John's, "The Church of the Generals", where he had served on the vestry. He died of yellow fever during an epidemic in the area and was buried on his estate. When the estate was sold by his widow in 1873, all the burials from his vault were reinterred at Green-Wood.

Six if their children are buried here. Their second and third sons, Henry Whiting and Francis died young, in the West, and are buried there.

Their firstborn, Alexander Macomb Stanton, b. Nov.24, 1834, is not here. He married Caroline Cammann, June 2, 1859. They had 5 children. Alexander died in Hamilton, Bermuda May 12, 1913.