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"He was (an unreadable value) Rev. War. Served during the Revolutionary War in Col. John Dagget's Regiment. Afterwards he removed to western Virginia and then came to the area of Marietta in 1803. In 1804 he was living below Vienna Island and operating a ferry between Belpre and Marietta. He opened the first public house in the area.

Source: Carolyn Sheets Vallance, from a post card in her possesion that belonged to her maternal grandmother, Sarah Velvie Wetherholt Trotter

JOHN COLE REVOLUTIONARY MEMORIAL, at Gravel Bank Cemetery, near Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. The tablet reads:

"A soldier of the Revolution
JOHN COLE
Born Swansea, Mass. 1742
Died Washington Co., Ohio, 1826
Captain James Hill's Company
Col. James Daggett's Regt.,
Bristol, R.I., 1777
This tablet erected by his descendants 1918"

Placed August 22, 1918, by the Cole Family Association
Miss Sophia S. Cole, Pres., Belpre, Ohio
Mrs. Ethel Ellenwood Alderman, Sec. Treas., Marietta, Ohio
Under supervision of the Cole Memorial Society of America
Mortimer A. Cole, President, Rochester, N.Y.
Ernest B. Cole, Sec., Treas., Indianapolis, Ind.

Source: History of Washington County, Ohio.

John Cole, the father of Asa, settled in Warren twp. in 1806, and kept the tavern at the roadside on the river bank known as the "Half Way House", because it was about equidistant from Marietta and Belpre. He entertained the wayfarer and the stranger and as was the universal custom in his time set forth the "gigger" of whiskey to his guests, until he passed away at the ripe age of ninety-five years, about 1817*. (*should read about 74 years in 1826)


Source: Mrs. Olive E. Gatewood Housekeeper, DAR Lineage Book - Vols. 159-160, year 1920.

John served as a private in Captain Ichabod Wade's Company in 1776

To the right of John's (111) grave was his wife's grave marked
as followes: In Memory of Mrs. Suzannah Cole lConsort of John
Cole ) who died February 13, 1823. age 77 years.
This tablet was erected by his descendants in 1918. The
original stone had deteriorated and the above inscription
was bolted onto a small stone and an American Flag was up
in a bronze marker at back. This John (III) was a member
of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Society.