Eliada Brown (1760-1855) was born July 29, 1760, in Hadden, Connecticut. At age 20, Brown enlisted in July 1780 and served a three month tour as a private in Captain Stenen's Company of Colonel Nichol's New Hampshire Regiment. Eliada was acting as a sentry to General Benedict Arnold at West Point at the time of Arnold's desertion. Brown re-enlisted in April 1781 and served seven or eight months as a private in Captain Charles Nelson's Company of Colonel Benjamin Wait's Vermont Regiment. He assisted in building the fort at Corinth, Vermont and guarding the frontier and participating in scouting parties.

Eliada Brown lived in Vermont until 1838, when he moved with his wife and family to Jefferson, Wisconsin He moved back to Vermont in 1846, and, after a brief sojourn to Illinois, returned to Wisconsin. Elida Brown died on June 23, 1855, at the age of 95, and is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery, located on East Greenwood Street, City of Jefferson, Section 2W, Town of Jefferson, Jefferson County. A bronze government maker and an upright stone family marker mark his grave.

GPS coordinates -- N43.01172°; W088.80412°

(Portions reprinted from Solders of the American Revolution Buried in Wisconsin by Robert G. Carroon, who was Curator of Research Collections for the Milwaukee Country Historical Society in 1975.)