Commissioner Charles Gause Chapter USD 1812 June 5, 2021 Meeting

 

                                       

President Pat Gooding was happy to hold our Commissioner Charles Gause Chapter USD 1812  June 5, 2021 meeting in a nice location in Southport, NC.

Jane Johnson presented a most interesting program on her ancestor Lt. Colonel Benjamin Forsyth and his body servant Charles Gibson of Stokes Co. NC. Forsyth County is named in honor for Benjamin Forsyth.   Both men were in the War of 1812. Benjamin was killed 28 June 1814 at Odelltown, Canada. Charles Gibson returned to North Carolina after his master’s death.  Gibson was a slave and could have stayed in Canada as a freeman and yet he walked back to North Carolina.  He later died in his 80’s and is buried in the colored section of the Moravian cemetery in Winston-Salem. 

                                           

               

            

Charles Gibson who Jane Johnson mentioned in her talk.  Charles Gibson was denied an 1812 pension and was buried in an unmarked grave.  In 2018, the graves in the Cemetery were marked only with the word “Beloved”.  For his contribution to the War of 1812, it would be fitting for his grave to be marked with his name.