s/o Asa Bacon / Lucretia Champion
In 1832, after having sailed to England on a vessel and becoming attracted to sea life, Frederick joined the United States Navy as a midshipman. Five years later he married Sarah Arnold Harris, with whom he had one child. In 1838 while on an exploration of the south seas his ship became lost and no crew members were ever recovered.
m 1837 Sarah Arnold Harris
In 1832, after having sailed to England on a vessel and becoming attracted to sea life, Frederick joined the United States Navy as a midshipman. Five years later he married Sarah Arnold Harris, with whom he had one child. In 1838 while on an exploration of the south seas his ship became lost and no crew members were ever recovered.
m 1837 Sarah Arnold Harris
s/o Asa Bacon / Lucretia Champion
In 1832, after having sailed to England on a vessel and becoming attracted to sea life, Frederick joined the United States Navy as a midshipman. Five years later he married Sarah Arnold Harris, with whom he had one child. In 1838 while on an exploration of the south seas his ship became lost and no crew members were ever recovered.
m 1837 Sarah Arnold Harris
In 1832, after having sailed to England on a vessel and becoming attracted to sea life, Frederick joined the United States Navy as a midshipman. Five years later he married Sarah Arnold Harris, with whom he had one child. In 1838 while on an exploration of the south seas his ship became lost and no crew members were ever recovered.
m 1837 Sarah Arnold Harris
Inscription
Frederick Asa Bacon
late an officer in the Navy
of the United States
attached to the schooner
Sea Gull
[of the Exploring Expedition]
which foundered off
Cape Horn
on the 1st of May
A D 1839
All on board perished
He died
at the age of
26 years
a highly merirotious
and promising young officer
Gravesite Details
Litchfield and Morris Inscriptions D. C. Kilbourn in Litchfield, CT 1905
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