CAPT Ephraim Brevard, 1st North Carolina, Continental Army -- Settler's Cemetery, Charlotte NC
N 35° 13.750 W 080° 50.584
17S E 514280 N 3898468
Although not a Vietnam era prisoner of war, Captain Efraim Brevard of the first North Carolina was captured and held as a British prisoner of war in Charleston South Carolina in 1780.
Waymark Code: WMX3Q2
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 11/22/2017
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This short memorial stands near the main entrance to settler Cemetery from Trade Street at W 5th Street in the historic Fourth Ward area of downtown Charlotte.
It was jointly placed in 2016 by the Mecklenburg Chapter, North Carolina Sons of the American Revolution, and the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
The monument reads as follows:
"[logos of the DAR and SAR]
In memory of
Revolutionary war soldier and patriot
EPHRAIM BREVARD
Signer and reputed author of
The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, NC
Captain -- NC
Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge -- 27 February 1776
Surgeon, 1st North Carolina
Prisoner of war -- Charleston SC -- 1780
Born in 1744 in Maryland
Died in 1781 in Mecklenburg County, NC
Marker placed by
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Chapter, NSDAR
Mecklenburg Chapter, North Carolina SAR
20 May 2016"