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Death of Ralph Farnham.
--Ralph Farnham, the last survivor of the battle of Bunker Hill, died Wednesday morning at Acton, Me., aged 104 years.
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource], Death of the last survivor of the battle of Bunker Hill . (search)
Death of the last survivor of the battle of Bunker Hill.
--Ralph Farnham, of Acton, Maine, the last survivor of the battle of Bunker Hill, which took place on the 17th of June, 1775.--over a year before the independence of this country was declared — died while on a visit at Great Falls, New Hampshire, on the 26th inst., aged one hundred and four years five months and nineteen days. Mr. Farnham's home was on a farm of one hundred acres, situated about half a mile from the village of Acton,Acton, Me. The farm is managed by his second son, Mr. John Farnham, who is now sixty-three years old. The old patriot was the father of seven children, the eldest, who would now have been seventy-five years old, and another are dead.
There are five yet living.
He enlisted, with some of his youthful comrades, shortly after Washington took command of the revolutionary forces at Cambridge.
He reached the camp only the day before the battle of Bunker Hill, and was immediately marched to the expected sc