Revolutionary War Veteran

Cooper Pixley and Alexander Porter served as Patriots in the American Revolution and are buried in Section 33 of this National Soldiers Rest. Cooper Pixley, born in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts on July 16, 1763, enlisted at age 15 and served three years in Captain Joseph Troop's Company of Colonel Marius Willett's Regiment of New York Militia. He was present at the Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey and took part in General John Sullivan's expedition against the Iroquois in the Finger Lakes area of New York. After the Revolution, he lived in New York and Canada before moving to Portage in June 1849, and he died on March 12, 1855. Alexander Porter was born near Hebron, Connecticut on December 14, 1757. On July 11, 1775, at age 18, he enlisted and served short terms as a private in Abijah Rowles' Company of the 6th Connecticut Militia until December 17. In May 1777, he enlisted in Judidiah Huntington's Company of the 8th Regiment, Connecticut Militia. He was stationed on the Sound until September, when he was ordered to Boston and served at Roxbury with General Spenser's Brigade, and he was discharged again on May 26, 1780. After the war, he lived in Hebron, Connecticut, and Oppenheim, New York, where he died on April 28, 1833. He was originally buried in Freedom, New York, and his remains were moved to Portage and reinterred in this cemetery in 1924.

Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin · United States