{"id":460,"date":"2024-09-15T09:47:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T13:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/?p=460"},"modified":"2024-09-15T09:51:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T13:51:26","slug":"grave-marking-ceremony-for-revolutionary-war-soldier-silus-watters-1751-1820","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/grave-marking-ceremony-for-revolutionary-war-soldier-silus-watters-1751-1820\/","title":{"rendered":"Grave Marking Ceremony for Revolutionary War Soldier, Silus Watters (1751-1820)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">The Jockey Hollow Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution is holding a grave-marking ceremony at the final resting place of Silus Watters on Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 3:00 P.M. (directions are listed below). All Chapter members are encouraged to attend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Silus Watters was given his famous dog-head sword by Princeton Militia Captain James Moore (a hero of&nbsp;the Revolutionary War Battle of Princeton). This sword is now on display at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">John Lawrence Brasher, Ph.D., a direct ancestor of Silus Watters, will be in attendance and has written a book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bright-Libertys-Forgotten-Battle-Princeton\/dp\/0578825058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Bright Liberty&#8217;s Forgotten Sword and the Battle of Princeton<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This event is being held at the Pleasant Grove (formerly Presbyterian) Cemetery in Washington Township atop Schooley&#8217;s Mountain. The original gravestone is still there, but the inscription is gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_5212.jpeg?resize=751%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_5212.jpeg?resize=751%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 751w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_5212.jpeg?resize=220%2C300&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_5212.jpeg?resize=768%2C1047&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_5212.jpeg?resize=1126%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1126w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_5212.jpeg?resize=863%2C1177&amp;ssl=1 863w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_5212.jpeg?resize=79%2C108&amp;ssl=1 79w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_5212.jpeg?w=1191&amp;ssl=1 1191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-contact-info\">\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-address\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/Pleasant+Grove Cemetery,132 Califon Rd,+Long Valley,+NJ,+07853\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Open address in Google Maps\"><div class=\"jetpack-address__address jetpack-address__address1\">Pleasant Grove Cemetery<\/div><div class=\"jetpack-address__address jetpack-address__address2\">132 Califon Rd<\/div><div><span class=\"jetpack-address__city\">Long Valley<\/span>, <span class=\"jetpack-address__region\">NJ<\/span> <span class=\"jetpack-address__postal\">07853<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jockey Hollow Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution is holding a grave-marking ceremony at the final resting place of Silus Watters on Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 3:00 P.M. (directions are listed below). All Chapter members are encouraged to attend! Silus Watters was given his famous dog-head sword by Princeton Militia Captain James Moore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/grave-marking-ceremony-for-revolutionary-war-soldier-silus-watters-1751-1820\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grave Marking Ceremony for Revolutionary War Soldier, Silus Watters (1751-1820)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61,27,53,66,23],"tags":[43,40,44,62],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceremonies","category-chapter-presentatons","category-grave-markings","category-historical-sites","category-news","tag-community-service","tag-events","tag-historical-presentations","tag-public-event"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jockeyhollowsar.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}