A chance meeting of history buffs at the Plymouth Historical Museum last summer has led to a campaign to mark what is thought to be the burial site of a man who served in the American Revolution.
Titus Hoisington, a teenager when he joined local militias in Vermont during the war years of 1778 and 1780, settled later in life in Panama (now Salem) Township with his wife and two of their sons, according to genealogical researcher Mike Roberts. He was buried, in an unmarked grave, at “The Hill,” a cemetery that was adjacent to what is now the First Presbyterian Church, said Garry Packard, who has been researching Plymouth-area cemeteries.
Hoisington, who died in 1841 in his late 70s, is the sixth great-grandfather of Patty Roberts, Mike’s wife, on her father’s side. Mike Roberts began his research, studying both sides of their family, in order to pass it on to their children, Katherine, 4, and Nicholas, 2. The family lives in East Lansing, and Mike is a firefighter paramedic in a neighboring community.
Read the full article by Matt Jachman in the January 16, 2010 edition of Hometownlife.com.
