Daniel F. Bakeman

Daniel F. Bakeman
Daniel Frederick Bakeman
Born October 9, 1759(1759-10-09)
Died April 5, 1869(1869-04-05) (aged 109)
Buried at Sandusky Cemetery, Freedom, New York
Battles/wars American Revolutionary War
Other work Farmer

Daniel Frederick Bakeman (October 9, 1759 – April 5, 1869) may have been the last surviving veteran of the War for American Independence (1775–1783). He is buried in Sandusky Cemetery, Freedom, New York. He was married to Susan Brewer Bakeman, on August 29, 1772. He was 12 years old at the time of marriage, she was 14. She died aged 105 on Sept. 10, 1863. It was a marriage of 91 years, 12 days, the longest marriage on record. They also had seven children. To this day, Daniel and Susan are the only couple in the world known to have seen a 90th wedding anniversary. He died just six months before his 110th birthday.

On February 14, 1867, the United States Congress passed a special act, which granted a Revolutionary War pension to Bakeman. A special act of Congress was required, because Bakeman could not prove that he had served in New York.[1] The longest surviving veterans who were on the pension rolls since the beginning, were Lemuel Cook of Clarendon, New York (d. May 20, 1866), and Samuel Downing of Edinburgh, New York (d. February 19, 1867).[2]

George Fruits also claimed to be the last surviving veteran of the Revolutionary War (by the Daughters of the American Revolution), but was never on the pension rolls.

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References

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  2. ^ Reverend E.B. Hillard, The Last Men of the Revolution (1864), republished 1968 with additional notes by Wendell Garrett.

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