Article submitted for THE HAVERSACK
Newsletter of the Sergeant Lawrence Everhart Chapter
of the Maryland Society Sons of the American Revolution
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OF MONUMENTS AND MEN
Sergeant Lawrence Everhart
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This fourth of a series of profiles of monuments and plaques memorializes the namesake of the Sergeant
Lawrence Everhart Chapter of the Maryland Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. This
monument is located in Zion Lutheran Cemetery in Middletown, Maryland. The inscription on the
monument reads:
Sergeant
Laurence Everhart
Born May 6th 1755
Died August 6th 1840.
In his 86th year.
A veteran of the Revolution, The rescuer of
Washington at the Battle of Cowpens. He
assisted at the most remarkable battles
during the war, and at the Battle of
Brandywine when Lafayette was wounded, he and Sergeant Wallace rescued
him from his perilous setuation and
carried him about two miles to the
house of a friend.
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He served from the beginning to the
end of the Revolution.
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He was generous and just in all
relations of life.
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GPS Locus: N 39o 26’ 38.59”, W 77o 32’ 49.44”