Revolutionary War & Other Historical
Wars
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served in any of the historical wars, please let me know so I
can add them to this page.
The following is
from
Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama.
BEING A LIST OF NAMES, COMPILED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES, OF
SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WHO RESIDED IN THE STATE OF
ALABAMA
provided by the ADAH records.
To include
your ancestor of Walker County from this site---look here:
http://www.archives.state.al.us/al_sldrs/a_list.html
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their record, please
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these records please send me your information and I will post it
to the page of Revolutionary War
Soldiers of Walker County. (see here)
Compiled by Thomas M.
Owen, Director, State of Alabama
Department of Archives and History,
Montgomery , Alabama. The Brown Printing
Co, Printers and Binders, 1911
Prefatory Note
It is believed
that the publication of this compilation will be of much
practical service to large numbers of people interested in a
study of the personal records of the Heroes of the American
Revolution. And this is true, although the lists are manifestly
incomplete, and the sketches are wanting in many desirable
details.
The lists have
been made up from altogether reliable and authentic sources.
These consist of contemporary obituaries, drawn from old
newspaper files, the Revolutionary Pension Roll, published by
the U. S. Government as Senate Document 514, 3 volumes, 23rd
Congress, 1st Session 1833-34; the Census of
Pensioners, taken officially in 1840, and published by the U. S.
Government in 1841, in one volume; inscriptions from tombstones;
well authenticated data taken from published family histories;
and the manuscript, Pension Book, kept officially by the State
Branch Bank at Mobile. A few other sources have been drawn
upon. Citation of the authority or authorities has been given
in each case.
In 1904 Mrs. P. H.
Mell published a paper containing thirty sketches, entitled
“Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Alabama.” It appears as pp
527-572, Vol. iv, Transactions of the Alabama Historical
Society, 1899-1903. Mrs. Mell had been State Historian of the
Alabama Division of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
While limited in numbers, her paper was prepared with great
care. The sketches appear in their proper places in the list
here presented, with due credit. Although a few lists of names,
either by counties or localities, had been compiled, no
pretentious effort, prior to the work of Mrs. Mell had been
undertaken.
Inasmuch as this
is but a preliminary effort looking to a complete and exhaustive
record, the attention of the Department should be brought to any
and all errors, to dates and places of death, to places of
burial, to the names of those who removed from the State, and to
all others whose names ought to be included.
Montgomery, Ala.,
Sept. 30, 1910
ALEXANDER, JEREMIAH,
aged 113 (evidently an error for 71). and a resident of Morgan
County; private, Massachusetts Militia State Troops; enrolled on
September 17, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $33.33;
sums received to date of publication of list,
$83.32.—Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514,
23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in Walker County,
June 1, 1840, aged 76. Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 150.
GARISON, STEPHEN, aged 83,
resided in Walker County, June 1, 1840, with Silas Garison.
Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 150.
LAWLER, JACOB —Appeared before
the Circuit Court of Walker County, Ala., November 1837,
applying for a pension but was rejected because he did not serve
six months in a regularly organized corps. He was born in the
State of North Carolina, had no record of his age, was living in
Burke County, N. C., when he volunteered under Capt. Francis
McKorkle, Colonel McDowell; marched to Catawba River; later was
drafted, but hired a man to take his place; again volunteered in
Burke County, N. C., under Captain Davidson, Colonel McDowell.
He remembers a Colonel Daniel McIsik and Col. George Davidson.
He did not receive a discharge but was dismissed each time. This
record is in the National Archives, Washington, D.
C.—Information from Mrs. Maud May Brown Williams, Quitman, Miss.
MABGLY, VARDER, aged 102,
resided in Walker County, June 1, 1840, with Robert Mabgly.
Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 150.
MANASCO, JEREMIAH , a native of
Wales, who came to Virginia during Colonial times, was a Captain
in the Revolutionary Army, subsequently lived in North and South
Carolina and in Alabama, and has many descendants in Walker
County, Alabama —Dombhart's History of Walker County,
Alabama, pp. 276.
NELSON, ANDREW, aged 72, and a
resident of Morgan County; private, Virginia Continental Line;
enrolled on July 2, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $35.44;
sums received to date of publication of list
$106.32.—Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514,
23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in Walker County,
June 1, 1840, with Robert Howard, aged 76. Census of Pensioners,
1841, p. 150.
PAYNE, MATHEY,
aged 76, resided in Walker County, June 1, 1840. Census
of Pensioners, 1841, p. 150
SIDES, HENRY—born in 1734, was of a
Holland Dutch family that immigrated to America shortly before
the Revolutionary War, and family tradition states that Henry
Sides served with distinction during that war. About 1818, while
Alabama was still a territory, Henry Sides, then of advanced
age, came to Walker County with several married sons and
their families, among these sons being Henry, William, Levi,
John, and Moses. He made his home with his son, William, who
settled south of Pleasant Grove, and when he died he was buried
in the Sides Graveyard on the old home place. Sides Family
Tradition. Gravestone.—Dombhart's History of Walker County,
Alabama, page 342.
WALLING, DAVID, aged 76, resided
in Walker County, June 1, 1840. Census of Pensioners, 1841,
p. 150
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