| Sacramento and Mother Lode Chapters Partner with the Sacramento Society, CAR at Joint Meeting in the Historic Sacramento City Cemetery June 13, 2010 The June meeting of the Sacramento Society, Children of the American Revolution was held in the Sacramento City Cemetery on June 13, 2010 at the monument for Col. William Stephen Hamilton. Col. Hamilton was born in New York on August 4th, 1797 and died in Sacramento on October 9th, 1850. He was a younger son of Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father, author of most of the Federalist Papers, and first Treasurer of the United States. Col. Hamilton attended West Point in the class of 1818 and following his resignation from the U.S. Army served in volunteer militias during the Indian wars. He served as a commander during the Winnebago War and the Black Hawk War. He came to California in 1849 with the gold rush and died during a cholera epidemic in 1850. The objective of this meeting was to repair and rededicate the bench that sits next to his gravesite. The bench was originally dedicated by the Sacramento Society, Children of the American Revolution with the sponsorship of the Sacramento Chapter DAR in 1992. In April, during one of the Sacramento SAR 5th grade living history programs, Helena Hurst, a member of the Sacramento Chapter DAR and also a member of the Sacramento SAR "School Guard" brought the deteriorated condition of the bench to the attention of Sacramento SAR Color Guard Commander, Jim Faulkinbury. Jim is also the Sr. Registrar for the Sacramento Society CAR so he brought it up as a project at the next CAR meeting that month. After obtaining the go-ahead from the Cemetery Director responsible for "Hamilton Square" and obtaining financial sponsorship for the project from the Sacramento and Mother Lode SAR Chapters, the plans were put in place to replace the wooden 2x4 slats on the bench with weather resistant Trex planks in accordance with current Cemetery standards. Jim Young, President of the Mother Lode SAR Chapter and Sr. CAR Treasurer, and Jim Faulkinbury provided most of the labor in installing the new planks. Others attending the meeting were: Sr. CAR President, Jeanette Barrett, with her children, Ciara, Damien, Dariana, Donecia, and Raeven Barrett, Leslie Young, daughter of Jim Young, Katherine McJimsey, granddaughter of Jim Faulkinbury, Sacramento SAR Compatriot Jim Malinovsky with his daughters, Hailey, Katie and Molly, and Mother Lode SAR Compatriot, Tom Adams with his granddaughters, Ashley, Julia, and Nicholas Adams. Following a brief meeting and the repairs, the attendees took a short tour of the Cemetery to see the burial places of some of the notables including Mark Hopkins, the Union veterans in the GAR section, and Albert Maver Winn who was the first mayor of Sacramento in 1850 and also first President of the Sons of Revolutionary Sires the lineage society that was organized for the Centennial celebration in San Francisco on July 4th, 1876. The SRS became the California Society SAR in 1890 during the formation of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. 
Children of the American Revolution
Hamilton Monument
The inscription “Wm Stephen Monument, son of” is placed on the left face of the monument. His date of birth and death are placed on the right face of the monument. 
Grand Army of the Republic Memorial
Children of the American Revolution
The Bench awaiting repair
Halfway finished
Jim Faulkinbury and Jim Young
Working hard
The repaired bench
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