ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A crowd gathered at Mt. Hope Cemetery to hear a story from American Revolution nearly lost to time.

Katie Blind of the Irondequoit Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution explained how soldiers from the Sullivan Campaign were sent out on a mission to destroy a village of the Senecas who were allied with the British in Groveland, New York, but were ambushed and killed in 1779

The remains of the fallen were eventually brought to Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester in 1841.

"They had no advocate and after burying them here with plans to give them honor later,” Blind said. “They were kind of forgotten and then when that land was needed for other purposes when the Civil War came along, we had other dead to bury. They weren't given the honor they were due."

Blind added it wasn't until the founding of the Daughters of the American Revolution in the 1890s, that there was a renewed effort to locate the remains of the soldiers and give them a proper burial and monument.

That search took four years.

"We don't want that to ever happen again that those have given their lives should not be honored and not be given a place of honor," Blind said.

For Blind, this story got told on Memorial Day weekend for one simple reason.

"The importance of honoring those who gave everything, which is why we have this weekend so that we may have our freedoms,” Blind said. “Freedom is not free. All of our soldiers when they join , when they give an oath, they write a blank check and that blank check may be giving up their lives so we want to press that upon everyone here."

The Sons of the American Revolution and the Children of the American Revolution also assisted with the presentation.