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Stephen Decatur Sr. (June 1751 – November 11, 1808) was a United States Navy officer and privateer who served in the American Revolutionary War and the Quasi-War. He was commissioned as a captain in the United States Navy, and was the father of Stephen Decatur .
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Greenwood Cemetery. The cemetery was established on December 9, 1869 [1] on 43 acres (170,000 m 2) on the estate of Commodore Stephen Decatur, Sr. known as "Mount Airy".The cemetery was founded by George Chandler Paul [3] of the fraternal organization, Knights of Pythias, for the interment of its members and others. [4]
Detail, grave of Stephen Decatur. By then other men who had known about the duel were arriving at the scene, including Decatur's friend and mentor, the senior officer John Rodgers. In excruciating pain, Decatur was carefully lifted by the surgeons and placed in Rodgers' carriage and was carried back to his home on Lafayette Square.
Stephen Decatur Miller was married twice. His first wife, Elizabeth Dick, died in 1819. None of their three children lived to adulthood. Miller remarried in 1821; his second wife was a girl sixteen years his junior, Mary Boykin (1804−1885). They had four children together. Despite the age difference, their marriage was happy and passionate. [2]
The Tripoli Monument is the oldest military monument in the United States. [1] It honors heroes of the United States Navy from the First Barbary War (1801–1805): Master Commandant Richard Somers, Lieutenant James Caldwell, James Decatur (brother of Capt.Stephen Decatur), Henry Wadsworth, Joseph Israel, and John Sword Dorsey.
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Stephen A. Decatur (born 1813, [1] died 1888 [2] [3] or 1889 [1]), born Stephen Decatur Bross and often referred to as Commodore Decatur, [2] was one of the earliest settlers in Nebraska. He was born and educated in the East, where he became a school teacher and started a family.