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Person Details
 
Last NameCAPWELL
First NameJAMES
Maiden 
RelationH/O ANNE [JOHNSON]
Cemetery NumberCY071
Cemetery NameJOHNSON-CAPWELL LOT
Birth Day0
Birth Month 
Birth Year1757c
Death Day30
Death MonthAPR
Death Year1848
WarREVOLUTION
Gravestone Details
Section 
Lot 
Map00012
Stone Materialslate
Conditiongood
Shapesquare top
Carvingurn/willow
Legibilitygood
Number of Graves on Stone1
Stone Height (inches)24
Stone Width (inches)16
Exists?
Last Seen Date1994
Carver 
Notes/Misc Details
Notes'A Revolutionary Pensioner/Who risked his life, his country for to save/Coventry gave him birth and also his grave' [Pvt RI - pensioner] died: COVENTRY [SAR: 1777 in Capt. Elijah Lewis's Co.; Col. Greene's Reg't RI Continental Line for 3 yrs.; in Battles of Redbank & Monmouth, NJ; pensioner]
Transcribed ByJNA(6:17);WRE;BENNS290;AKW