Elisha Holford is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Elisha Holford
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4405853
Unit:
Merchant Ship Barfleur
Date of Death:
1815-01-05
State:
New York
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Elisha Holford was a 19-year-old seaman from New York who served aboard the merchant ship Barfleur. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Holford died on January 5, 1815, with peripneumonia recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.