James Graham (1749-1837) served in the Connecticut militia as a corporal in Captain Dethic Hewitt's Company, and later Captain Simon Spaulding's Company, Colonel Zabulon Butler's Regiment. James Graham was born in 1749 in Ireland. He married Mary Van de Mark and they had two sons. He came and settled in the area of Michigan later to be known as Oakland County between 1816 and 1817. The Graham settlement was the first non-native community in Oakland County. James Graham died September 5, 1837, and is buried in the Graham family cemetery in Avon Township. Later, in 1926, he was entombed in the Perry Mount Park Cemetery, Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan.
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