SS
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Rank
- Lieutenant
- Unit
- 19th Regiment, Captain Angus Lanham's Co.
- Conflict / Era
- War of 1812
- Years of Service
- 1812
- Hometown
- Jerome, OH
- Burial Location
- Infirmary Farm
- Monument Paver
- No
- Township (entering service)
- Jerome
- Township (current / at death)
- Paris
- Status
- Prisoner of War
- When
- 01/23/1813
- Where
- Monroe, Michigan
- Record Authenticated
- Yes
Biography
taken prisoner at General Winchester's defeat; held captive by Indians and reportedly escaped death by "jumping on a log, flapping his arms and crowing like a rooster." (Beers, 273) son of Henry Shover, Revolutionary War; Shover family buried in Jerome Cemetery, Ash Section 2022 Voice From the Stone Honoree
Source: Esther Carmany; Beers, Chapter II; Record 434; Beers, Jerome Township History, (273); Union Co. Cem. Rec., Vol. 2, p. 123