Walter Townsend Deaver

Source: Baltimore Patriot - Maryland News story dated: July 29, 1813 Ohio - Zanesville, July 21 FROM Fort Meigs.

    By a private in capt McCune's company, from this county, direct from Fort Meigs, we have seen a letter from the captain, dated July 6.

    A number of discharged men, in proceeding towards, Fort Defiance, had been attacked by a party of Indians, and some of them killed.  A party was ordered out to reconnoitre, and captain McCune escaped narrowly from being killed by a party of Indians, who were in ambuscade on the river bank, watching the motions of the detachment. - Maj. Anthony Pitzer had his leg fractured, by the falling of a tree, near the Fort, and was not expected to live. - Walter T. Deaver, a fine young man from this county (Muskingum), had died, and one other in the same company.  The company's time of service will shortly expire.

Walter was living in Deavertown, OH when he enlisted in Captain Joseph King McCune's company to fight in the War of 1812. In those days, Deavertown was in Muskingum County. The British had recruited the followers of Tecumseh to fight against the Americans. They were based in Canada.

Joseph King McCune