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From his birth in Montgomery Square , Pennsylvania to Elizabeth Hoxworth and Benjamin Franklin Hancock, from the stories of his grandfather, “Old Neddie” Hoxworth, the Revolutionary War patriot, to the parade grounds of West Point Military Academy along the Hudson River, a boy was forged, tempered and delivered into a man who would encompass the best qualities of a soldier and citizen while not relinquishing his forthright, unaffected nature.

 

This man would rise through the ranks to craft a life story second to none, never blowing his own horn but, instead that of those who served with him. His story ended in February of 1886 with his death on Governor’s Island in New York Harbor with a nation and the world he had inhabited to attest to his personal valor and character. Over time, his significance lost its luster with no one to laud his name.  In 1994, his story arose again with the restoration of his mausoleum at Montgomery Cemetery in Norristown and, today, the W.S. Hancock Society is here to once again introduce the name of Winfield Scott Hancock back into the American lexicon.

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Our annual Ceremony and wreath laying at General Hancock's Mausoleum, located in Montgomery Cemetery here in Norristown.  The days activities will begin around 11:00 A.M. with a commemoration held at the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) section that will be lead by our provost officer, Charlie (S.O.B.) Evans.  A commemoration march will then follow, that we go to the verious veterans and CW notables graves, Generals, Sam Zook, John Fredrick Hartranft, to name a few, and will end at 12:00 Noon with the commemoration service at General Hancock's Mausoleum.
 

For this year's service, at Hancock's Mausoleum, I will be talking about the United States soldiers, The Heroes of our Freedom and Independence, that will encompass the time periods of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, War with Mexico, Civil War through the 1880's.  A few members of our living history unit, both male & female, will be representing soldiers and civilians from these time periods for this presentation.  All other living history unit members should be dressed in their Civil War time period uniforms or civilian clothing for this commemoration.

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