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James Bird, the son of John and Rebecca Montanye Bird, was born December 20, 1785. He served with great distinction in the Battle of Lake Erie. For leaving his command later to join the army at New Orleans, he was condemned, shot, and buried at Erie on November 10, 1814, but his countrymen in song and story honored him as a hero and martyr. He was reinterred here on November 10, 1935, by the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society and the Luzerne County Chapter, Daughters of 1812.
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Forty Fort, Pennsylvania · United States
