James O. Cussar is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
James O. Cussar
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4404705
Unit:
Merchant Ship Volunteer
Date of Death:
1814-12-07
State:
New York
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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James O. Cussar was a 39-year-old seaman from New York who served aboard the merchant ship Volunteer. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Cussar died on December 7, 1814, with peripneumonia recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.