1785 - 1819

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• Birth	20 Aug 1785	South Kingstown,Washington Co.,Rhode Island
  Gender	Male
  Died	23 Aug 1819	Port au Spain,Trinidad
  Person ID	I121513	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	05 Oct 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Christopher Raymond PERRY, b. 4 Dec 1761, South Kingstown,Washington Co.,Rhode Island
  Mother	Sarah Wallace ALEXANDER, b. 1768, Loughbrickland,Newry,Down County,Ireland
  Family ID	F47252	Group Sheet
  Family	Elizabeth Champlain MASON
  Married	5 May 1811	Newport,Newport Co.,Rhode Island
  Children	1. Christopher Grant Champlain PERRY, b. 2 Apr 1812   2. Oliver Hazard PERRY, b. 23 Feb 1813, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F47270	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Name Prefix: Comm. Island Cemetery 1 NOTE Oliver Hazard PERRY, was aCommodore in the U.S. Navy and theCommander and hero in the victorious Battleof Lake Erie duringthe War of 1812. This simple statement does not do justicetothe extra-ordinary feat this victory represents. PERRY had to recruit his own sailors, and not only train them,but he had to build his own ships. He ledhis men into their first battle as adecided underdog, and went up against one of England's finestfleets, winning the battle. As a result of this victory, England lost control of the Great Lakes. In his reportto Gen. William Henry HARRISON, he summed up the battle with thefamous statement "We have met the enemy and they are ours".Commodore PERRY died of yellow fever in Ciudad Bolivar,Venezuela on August 23, 1819. He was buried in Port au Spain,Trinidad. His remainswere later conveyed from there in a shipof war, according to a resolution of Congress and interred inIsland cemetery in Newport, RI in 1829. His wife, Elizabeth(CHAMPLIN MASON) PERRY is also buried there. There is a large statue of Commodore PERRY located in front ofhis former home in Washington Square, in Newport, RI, and also amonument to him at Put-In-Bay, So. Bass Island, Ohio, nearthe site of his naval victory.