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Originally posted by Phoenix Rising:
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I will look into this. I've looked at local cemeterys and this is the oldest I've found. I'm not absolute about the dates right now.
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From the Book Rev. Soldiers in Alabama:
GRESHAM, THOMAS, (1761-1816) served as private in Capt. Robert Powell's company, Col. Thomas Marshall's 3rd Virginia regiment. He was born in Amherst County. Va.; died in Lauderdale County, Alabama.—D.A.R. Lineage Book; Vol. 117, page 272.
I couldn't find him listed in Gresham Cemetery. I wonder if it is unmarked?
My 4th great grandfather Robert Finney - from the book South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution: “b. 1753. He enlisted in the Sixth Regiment (South Carolina Continental Line) about 1 February or 17 March 1776. On 4 June 1776, he became a corporal. He served under Capt. Samuel Taylor and Col. Sumter. Moved to Alabama. National Archives, M853, Roll 16.”
Robert died in Lawrence County after 1830. His Revolutionary War marker is in Old Town Creek Baptist Church Cemetery located at the intersection of Alabama 101 and (old) 24 in Lawrence County between Landersville and Mt. Hope.
He is not listed in Owen’s book Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama cited by Phoenix Rising.
Neither is Benjamin Carpenter, another 4th great grand and a RevWar soldier from Va buried in Masterson Cemetery in the Wolf Springs community of west Lawrence County.
Nor is William Hodges 1754-1843, who, according to SC Patriots, was a private in the SC militia and moved to Alabama and whose RevWar marker is also located in Masterson Cemetery.
If your family predates statehood when where we live now was Mississippi Territory, there’s a good chance you descend from Revolutionary War soldiers, however, you will not find any RevWar land grants for service for this area as none were given. And the French and Indian Wars predated the RevWar which means the whatever grants would have been British, not American, and therefore voided. This was Injun Country. Most likely your RevWar ancestors were from Virginia and the Carolinas migrated to this area from eastern Tennessee after the War of 1812 and unless 1812 War vets acting on war service grants, they most likely they purchased land from the Huntsville Land office. I have mine for the farm deeded to my 3rd great grandfather and signed by Andrew Jackson. A good, but not perfect, source for finding land your folks may have owned can be found in the book Old Huntsville Land Office Records & Military Warrants 1810-1854. It seems my family may have “squatted” on their land some 15 years before purchasing. Try before you buy, I guess.
I know my SC (and VA families) were in Lawrence County at least by 1815, so when I “migrated” from SC almost two centuries later, I was not the first member of my family to do so. And the longer I live here, the more I appreciate that they did. What a grand legacy they left me.
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