Sunday, August 30, 2020

Quin Hieronymus In The Military


Sixty years in a school-room.... By Julia Ann Tevis...:

Of all duties, the hardest is to forget a great sorrow. The very effort to forget teaches us to remember. It was as the friend and companion of this brother [Quin] (who died in Florida on military duty) on one of his short visits home, in 1817, that I first saw General Sam Houston.


Military Park In Pensacola, Florida

Military record of Quin B. Hieronymus (Ancestry.com. U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 [database on-line].):

#1217.  Hieronymus, Quin B., 2nd Lt., 4th Inf., appt. Feb. 19/18


Lt. Hieronymus served at Pensacola, Barrancas, Montpelier; June and July 1820, absent having tendered his resignation; died August 17, 1820




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