Society Installs Tombstone for 1812 Veteran Jacob Houck

The Society installed a tombstone in Baltimore’s Mount Olivet Cemetery on the grave of 1812 veteran Jacob Houck who, later in life, donated an acre of the land to the State of Maryland where the “Battle of Patapsco Neck” occurred. The Society also participated in the Maryland Daughters of the War of 1812 celebration and installation of a bronze plaque on the grave of Eliza Young Parrish, a niece of Mary Pickersgill, and one of the seamstresses of the Star-Spangled Banner flag.

The new military headstone for Jacob Houck in Mount Olivet Cemetery