Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — A FLAG. [ARTICLE]

A FLAG.

Placed on the Grave of One of the Boston Tea Party. Just south of the proposed entrance of La Salle street, Chicago, an American flag fluttered over the. grass of Lincoln park the other day. It was placed there by Josiah Lombard, George 11. Fergus and Fernando Jones to mark the grave of David Kennison, who was there interred with military honors forty-two years ago. As young men they witnessed that procession, and they alone knew the location of the grave in the once thickly populated cemetery that is now Lincoln park. The mark of the Sons of the American Revolution and a bronze tablet bearing inscriptions tolling of the leading facts in David Kennison’s career were attached to the flagstaff. Kennison was born in the province of Maine, November 17, 1736. He was one of a club of seventeen which held secret meetings to deliberate on grievances offered by England to the young colonies. He was one of the bold Americans who threw the tea overboard in Boston harbor, and though he fought through the revolutionary war, he achieved no distinction such as in after years was conferred upon him as one of the disguised men in the Boston tea party. He saw service in the war of 1812, and after its close lived in New York state. In 1574 he went to Chicaga For several years he lived in the family of Judge Henry Fuller on Indiana avenue. He was a pensioner and the oldest man in Chicago, and a figure in the celebrations of the town. He was 115 years old when he died. The Sons of Maine, the Sons of Massachusetts, and the Chicago Pioneers, it is said, will unite in the erection of a granite pedestal on the spot marked by the flag. It will bear a bronze bust of Kennison, and will be cared for by these societies.