General Thomas Childs: From Fort Erie to Puebla, Buried in St. Paul’s Cemetery
General Thomas Childs rests beneath an obelisk in lot 32 of St. Paul’s Cemetery in Alexandria, one of the thirteen burial grounds of the Wilkes Street Cemetery Complex. Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on March 16, 1796, he spent nearly forty years in the U.S. Army — from the War of 1812 through the Seminole War … Read more