Thomas McAdory Owen's Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama
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CADENHEAD, JAMES, Sen., aged 98, resided in Pike County, June 1, 1840. Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149. CAFFEY, JOHN, The Alabama Journal, Montgomery, August 28, 1826, contains the obituary of John Caffey: "Died, at his plantation, in the vicinity of Montgomery, on Saturday, the 19th, inst. (Aug. 19, 1826), of bilious fever, Mr. John Caffey, in seventy-fifth year of his age.
CALDWELL, DAVID, aged 87, resided in Talladega County, June 1, 1840, with Charles Caldwell. Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148. CALDWELL, JAMES. Mrs. P.H. Mell in Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, vol. iv, pp. 534-5, says:
"James Caldwell is buried in the cemetery at old Davisville, in Calhoun
County, Ala, one and one-half miles south of Iron City station, twelve
miles east of Anniston, on the Southern railroad. The 'oldest inhabitant'
could give no information concerning the soldier.
"The tomb is built of brick; about 8 feet long, 61/2 feet wide, and 5 feet high. The shingles of the roofs are badly rotted. A plain marble tablet is let into the wall of the tomb, bearing this inscription:
Sacred
to the memory of
JAMES CALDWELL,
who died October 2nd,
1847;
in the 98th year
of his age.
He was a soldier of the Revolution.
"The above account was furnished by W. B. Bowling, of Lafayette, Ala.
"Efforts have been made in vain to find the history of this old soldier.
It is said that he came from South Carolina. He is another one of those
forgotten heroes whose graves are scattered over the State."
CALHOUN, JOSEPH. A good old age. The Savannah
papers publish a notice of the death of a veteran soldier of the Revolution.
Joseph Calhoun, at the advanced age of one hundred years and ten months.
He fought in several of the most important battles of the war of Independence—at
Camden, Guilford Courthouse, and Yorktown. Mr. Calhoun died at his residence
in Dooly County, Georgia. By nativity he was a North Carolinian. The
Dispatch, Wetumpka, Dec. 5, 1856.
CAMPBELL, CHARLES, aged 76, and a resident
of Lauderdale County; private, Virginia State Troops; enrolled on October
7, 1833 under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March
4, 1831; annual allowance, $80.— Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv,
Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
CAMPBELL, DAVID, aged 72, and a resident
of Greene County; private, S.C. Militia; enrolled on September 17. 1833,
under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831;
annual allowance, $30; sums received to date of publication of list, $90.
— Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st
sess., 1833-34. He resided in Greene County, June 1, 1840, aged 80. Census
of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.
CAMPBELL, GEORGE, a resident of Autauga
County; private and sergeant, particular service not shown; enrolled on
April 8, 1835, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from
March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $55.83.—Pension Book, State Branch Bank,
Mobile.
CAMPBELL, WILLIAM, Name appears on Huntsville
Monument, erected by Twickenham Town Chapter, D.A.R.
CAMFIELD, CAPT. AARON "On motion of Richard
Camfield of Shelby County, Tenn., whose deposition taken before Judge
of the Court of Marion County, Alabama, on the 3 Feb. 1834 is produced
in Court, ORDERED: certified to the Register of the State Land Office in
Virginia that the Court is satisfied that the late Capt. Aaron Camfield,
an officer in the Continental Line of Virginia, shortly after the war of
the Revolution, removed from Virginia to Hancock County, Ga., and married,
that he died two or three years after his marriage, leaving a widow and
only son; that his widow survived him but a short time, and both died intestate
and that the aforesaid Richard Camfield is the son and only surviving heir-at-law
of said Capt. Aaron Camfield, Hanover County, Va., Order Book 1831-1835,
p. 158, Court 28 Nov. 1832." Ljungstedt County Court Note Book, April,
1927, p. 15.
CARD, HUGH, aged 84, resided in Randolph,
June 1, 1840. Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.
CARGILL, THOMAS, age not given, a resident
of Jackson County; private of Cavalry, N.C. Militia; enrolled on January
6, 1834; under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March
4, 1831; annual allowance, $100; sums received to date of publication of
list, $300.—Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd
Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in Marshall County, June 1, 1840,
aged 77. Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.
CARLETON, JOSEPH Grave located.—General
D.A.R. Report, 1929.
CARLETON, JOSEPH, born October l, 1763,
married December 25, 1787, Elizabeth Eddins, born November 9, 1771. He
was the son of William Carleton, of Botetourt County, Va. It is supposed
that he enlisted at the age of sixteen. He died in St. Clair County, Ala.,
and is buried in an old cemetery, N.W., Attalla, Etowah County. Information
from biographical files, Alabama Department of Archives and History.
CARROL, DUMPSEY, aged 82, and a resident
of Wilcox County; private, N.C. Militia; enrolled on July 25, 1834, under
act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual
allowance, $20. Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514,
23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
CARROLL, DEMPSEY, aged 78, resided in Wilcox
County, June 1, 1840. Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149. (Probably same
as preceding, but age of each makes it uncertain.)
CARROLL, DENNIS Shelby County census of
1820 gives one male and one female over twenty-one. The Census of 1820
gives "Daniel" with one male and one female between sixty and seventy.
Denis Carroll of Shelby County on the list of pensions rejected.
CARUTHERS, HUGH, aged 77, and a resident
of Madison County; private, N.C. Continental Line; enrolled on December
31, 1832, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March
4, 1831; annual allowance, $80; sums received to date of publication of
list, $240. Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd
Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
CASEY, WILLIAM, aged 77, and a resident
of Autauga County; private, S.C. Militia; enrolled on March 7, 1834, under
act of Congress of June 7, 1832; payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual
allowance, $40. Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Part 3, Vol. xiii, Sen.
Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in Coosa County, June
1, 1840, with M. B. Casey, aged 89. Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.
CATCHUM, HUGH, aged 72, and a resident of
Limestone County; private, N.C. Militia and State Troops; enrolled on January
24, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March
4, 1831; annual allowance, $46.66; sums received to date of publication
of list, $139.98. Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514,
23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
CAULK, JACOB, aged 85, resided in Madison
County, June 1, 1840, with John H. Webster. Census of Pensioners, 184l,
p. 148.
CAVETT, RICHARD an old and respectable citizen
of this county, died at his residence on the 11th inst., aged 80 years
and 5 months. His health had been declining for many years, and his departure
from this world was anticipated by him with resignation and composure.
He was a soldier of the Revolution and also of the late war; and had given
frequent proofs of his devotion to this country. He was long an acceptable
member of the Baptist Church and died in the faith of a happy change of
existence. He was an industrious and enterprising citizen, and has realized
by his own exertions an independent fortune. He has left a number of descendants
and connexions to lament his loss.—Huntsville. The Democrat, November
27, 1844. See Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution, Vol. 4.
CAVETT, RUTH. Died in this county, on the
5th inst., in the 77th year of her age, Mrs. Ruth Cavett, wife of the venerable
Richard Cavett, a patriot of the Revolution. Mrs. Cavett was for 54 years
a professor of religion, and for the past 20 years attached to the Baptist
Church. She was the mother of eleven children, who with their offspring,
deeply lament the death of one whom they so much loved indeed, her loss
is greatly lamented by her neighbors and all who knew her, and doubly so
by the partner of her bosom.—Huntsville, The Democrat, December
14, 1843.
CHALKER, Mrs. REBECCA, of Crottenden's Mills.
Real Daughter.—D.A.R. Report, 1908-09, p. 33.
CHANCELLER, DAVID—The undersigned served
in the revolutionary war, in the Virginia line in the month of February,
1777, in Captain Holdman Rice's company, to guard the troops of Gen. Burgoyne,
who were then prisoners of war. He was in said company about eight months,
when he was transferred to Capt. Merriwether's company, where he served
15 months—Col. Francis Taylor commanded the Regiment while he was in the
service, he was honorably discharged on the 2nd of May, 1779. He was also
at the seige of Yorktown. If there is any person still who can prove his
service, he hopes that they will give information. Mr. Wm. Roundtree, and
Mr. Daniel Kneaves, who a few years ago lived in Mercer County, Ken. were
in the same company with him; but he cannot learn where they have removed
to. From his age and his helpless situation, he needs the assistance of
his country. Information will be communicated to Col. Steven F. Ogden,
Yellow Banks, Davies County, on this business. David Chanceller August
15, 1825. The Tuscumbian, August 22, 1825.
CHANCELLOR, JERRY. "This soldier of the
Revolution is buried in a country churchyard at Pine Level Methodist church,
in Autauga County, eighteen miles west of Montgomery.
"A short sketch of the life of Jerry Chancellor may be found in the Memorial Record of Alabama, vol. ii., p. 895. He was born in England
and came to America with his father and two brothers, when sixteen years
of age. This was during the Revolutionary War. After remaining a short
time in Virginia, the father and his two oldest sons, William and Jerry,
came to South Carolina, leaving the youngest son, Jackson Chancellor, in
Virginia. Tradition says that Chancellorsville, Virginia, was named for
the family of this youngest son.
"When the Chancellors arrived in South Carolina they found the war
raging violently all around them and it became necessary for them to decide
what their own course should he. The father, whose loyalty to England could
not be shaken, told his sons that he should join the British; the sons
declared that they admired the Americans for standing up for their rights
and they intended to cast their lots with the people of their adopted country.
The father and sons never met again, but fought on opposite sides until
the close of the Revolutionary War. We do not know in what regiment Jerry
Chancellor served, but Saffell's Records, p. 293, states that Nov.
1, 1779, William Chancellor was a private in the South Carolina regiment
commanded by Lieut. Col. Francis Marion, Seventh Company, Thomas Dunbar,
captain.
"Jerry Chancellor married Galatea Gilbert and settled in South Carolina
after the Revolution, where he remained until 1818, when he organized a
colony in South Carolina and came with them to Alabama. They settled on
the Autauga side of the Alabama River. He remained with this colony until
his death. Descendants of Jerry Chancellor are now living in Childersburg
and in Coosa County. His grandson, William S. Chancellor was one of the
oldest Masons in Alabama.--Mrs. P. H. Mell in Transactions of the Alabama
Historical Society, Vol . iv ., P . 535.
CHANDLER, JOHN, aged 89, resided in Benton
County, June 1, l840. Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.
CHENEY, Mrs. AUGUSTA BELLINGER, of Montgomery.
Real daughter. D.A.R. Report, 1908-09, p. 33.
CHERRY, JOSIAH, aged 79, resided in Marengo
County, June 1, 1840, with J. W. Cherry. Census of Pensioners, 1841, p.
149.
CHRISTIAN, GEORGE (1762-1831) served as
private in Capt. Holman Rice's company of Foot, Col. Francis Taylor's regiment
of guards, Virginia. He was born in Goochland County, Va.; died in Wilcox
County, Ala. D.A.R. Lineage Book, Vol. 139, page 131.
CHRISTOPHER, Mrs. MARY MALISSA FAVER, of
Strange. Real daughter.--D.A.R. Report 1908-09, p.33.
CLARKE, LEWIS, aged 71, and a resident of
Jackson County; private, Virginia Militia; enrolled on November 4, 1833,
under the act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4,
1831; annual allowance, $20.—Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen.
Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in Jackson County,
June 1, 1840, aged 77. Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.
CLARK, ROBERT. Departed this life at his
residence in Madison County, Ala., on Monday morning November 20, 1837,
Mr. Robert Clark. He was born in Halifax County, N.C., on the 23rd of February,
1756; he had for the last twenty odd years been a resident of this county;
he had for a long time been a man of affliction, and for the last, two
weeks of his life he was confined by exceeding painful affliction. Yet
amidst all he neither murmured nor repined, but sustained it with patience,
fortitude and resignation. He was an upright citizen, a kind neighbor and
affectionate parent, and fulfilled the duties of life with correctness
and fidelity; kind and mourning friends ministered to the hours of illness,
and watched around his dying couch, but all availed not to avert the fatal
stroke. The hour of departure had arrived—the summons of Him who gave
life had recalled the vital spark, and the soul went home to the bosom
of its Father and God. Bereaved relatives and sorrowing friends may weep
their loss, but their hours of mourning are brightened by the glorious
hope of a joyous resurrection, and a full belief of a happy meeting in
that better world where all is peace, where sorrow is unknown and happiness
without alloy prevails forever. Sacred be the memory of the dead—long will
the memory of his worth be cherished and the remembrance of his virtues
remain to cheer and comfort the appointed years of those who remain sojourners
and pilgrims in this vale of tears. Huntsville, The Democrat, Nov.
25, 1837.
CLARK, THOMAS, aged 79, and a resident
of Tuscaloosa County; private, N.C. Militia; enrolled on September 26,
1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March
4, 1831; annual allowance, $60; sums received to date of publication of
list, $180.—Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd
Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
CLAY, WILLIAM , Esq., Revolutionary soldier.
- On the 4th ult. at his residence in Gringer County, Tenn., William Clay,
Esq., father of the Hon. C. C. Clay, Senator in Congress from Alabama.
The deceased was born in the County of Chesterfield, in the State of Virginia
on the 11th. of August, 1760. Consequently, when he died he was within
one week of completing his 81st year. He entered the Revolutionary Army
at the early age of sixteen, served several tours of duty with the militia
of his native State, and aided in the closing scene of the War of Independence,
by his services at the siege of Yorktown and the capture of Lord Cornwallis.
After his marriage, he settled in the county of Halifax, Va., where he
resided several years. He then removed to the western country, and settled
in Tennessee, where he spent the last forty-five years of his life. He
has left an aged widow and numerous descendants and relatives to mourn
his loss. He died as he lived: an honest man and a patriot. Huntsville
Democrat, September 4, 1841.
CLEMENT, THOMAS (1752-1823) enlisted, 1776,
as private in Captain William Caldwell's company, Colonel William Thompson's
3rd South Carolina regiment. He was wounded at the Battle of Eutaw Springs.
He was born in South Carolina; died in Alabama. D.A.R. Lineage Book, Vol.
155, p. 206.
CLEMENTS, CULLIVER. The paternal grandfather
of Dr. B. F. Wilson, also came from Tennessee to Tuscaloosa with his son
William, in 1818, and there died, over thirty years ago. His maternal grandfather,
Culliver Clements, came from Georgia to Tuscaloosa, in 1818, and to Pickens
County the next year, settled the place where now lives John L. Guyton,
and subsequently removed to the present residence of Dudly Pruitt, where
he died in 1840. Jesse Clements was his son. Both these ancestors were
soldiers of the Revolution—Wilson was at Guilford Courthouse battle; Clements
was a South Carolina partisan soldier, in the trying times of Marion and
his whig comrades. The descent is said to be Scotch-Irish on both sides.
Smith, History of Pickens County, pp. 241-42.
CLEVELAND, COL. LARKIN. The grave of Mrs.
Larkin Cleveland, wife of Col. Larkin Cleveland, of the Revolution, is
at the old Govan graveyard about eight miles south of Selma, and the inscription
is as follows: This marble placed here by C. H. Cleveland, son. In memory
of his mother Mrs. Frances Cleveland, Widow of Col. Larkin Cleveland, sen.
She was born August 6th, 1756 and died March 26th, 1836. This C. H. Cleveland
was Carter Harrison Cleveland.—Mrs. R. L. Sturdivant, Berlin, Alabama.
CLICK, JOHN, resided in Jefferson County,
on the East side of Valley Creek, between the present Powderly and old
Hawkins Big Spring. Here he built a mill, which later became the property
of his son, Moss Click.
CLOWER, JONATHAN, aged 71, and a resident
of Bibb County; private, N. Carolina Militia; enrolled on July 6, 1834,
under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831;
annual allowance, $40.—Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Part 3, Vol. xiii,
Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
COCHRAN, WILLIAM, age not given, a resident
of Clarke County; sergeant, Virginia Continental Line; enrolled on September
22, 1819, under act of Congress of March 18, 1818, payment to date from
September 7, 1818; annual allowance, $96.; sums received to date of publication
of list, $1 21.60; died December 12, 1819.—Revolutionary Pension Roll,
in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
COLEMAN, CHARLES P., aged 71, and a resident
of Greene County; private, N.C. State Troops; enrolled on October 3, 1833,
under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831;
annual allowance, $80; sums received to date of publication of list, $240.—Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
COLEMAN, FRANCIS, (1744-1823) served as
a private in the Georgia troops. He was born in Virginia; died in Washington
County, Ala. D.A.R. Lineage Book, vol. 163, page 121. See also McCall's
Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, page 210.
COLLIER, JAMES. Died at his residence near
the village, on Monday the 20th instant, after a severe illness of two
weeks, Mr. James Collier, in the 77th year of his age. Mr. Collier was
a native of Virginia, and at an early period of his life entered the Revolutionary
Army. Through the whole of that arduous and protracted struggle for liberty,
he manifested the most untiring zeal and unceasing devotion in the cause
of his country. He was no less distinguished for his patriotism, than for
high-toned honor and those bland and social virtues which endeared him
to a large circle of relations and friends.
Overwhelming as is this melancholy bereavement to his worthy family,
in which he shone as a most affectionate husband and father, and benevolent
master, there is still for them great consolation in knowing that he developed
strong hopes of future bliss, that flourish above the tomb, immortal and
unfading. Many of his latest moments were spent in prayer; and he maintained
throughout this trying interval that propriety which belonged to the character
of a man of sense, and that elevated dependence upon a higher power which
became a Christian.
Such were, as we have been enabled to sketch them, the life and death
of our deceased friend; we see pictured in them the employments of a man
bent earnestly and steadily upon the faithful discharge of the duties which
pertained to the situation allotted to him by his Creator. No meritorious
artifice to attract the popular applause, no disingenuous maneuvering,
were perceptible in his character. These qualities rendered him firm and
steady in his friendships. His loss will long be felt by the circle of
relations whom he has left behind him; and his memory, as a soldier and
a man, will be long and affectionately cherished by all to whom he was
known.
How often, at the peaceful fireside of this revolutionary soldier,
have we heard the tale of the deeds of other years! Even now, can we see,
in fancy's eye, the grey-haired sire, traveling with increased emotion
through the memorable battles of Gilford, Brandywine, Savannah and Eutaw
Springs. His aged and failing eyes glisten again with the fire of youth!
At the recollection of their resplendent glories, he springs forward from
the venerable chair of age, and in the warmth of emotion, almost forgets,
for the time, the lapse of years! But he is gone to the cold and silent
tomb, moldering into dust, and mingling again with his mother earth. No
more shall his spirit rejoice in the cannon's roar, or the music of the
drum. Triana, Madison Co., Ala. Aug. 18, 1832.—Southern Advocate,
Huntsville, Sept. 8, 1832.
Mrs. P. H. Mell has collected some additional details, and her sketch
is given in full, although it contains some repetitions:
"James Collier a Revolutionary soldier, is buried on his plantation
near Triana, Madison County, Alabama, about twenty miles from Huntsville.
"His wife is buried beside him and their monuments, with inscriptions,
are now standing in a full state of preservation in the old family burying
ground. The inscriptions are as follows:
" 'To the memory of
JAMES COLLIER,
who was born in Lunenburg Co. Va., Oct. 13th,
A. D. 1757, and died the 20th of August, A. D. 1832.
"And though after my skin worms destroy this body,
yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for
myself and my eyes shall behold and not another."
To the memory of
ELIZABETH BOULDIN,
of Charlotte Co., Va., wife of James Collier, who was born the 13th of
Feb., A. D. 1763, and died the 23rd of Feb., A. D. 1828.
"All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as a flower
of the field, for the wind passeth over it and it is gone and the place
thereof shall know it no more."
"James Collier was the son of Cornelius Collier and Elizabeth Wyatt,
of Lunenburg County, Va. He was descended from Charles Collier, of King
and Queen County, Va., on his father's side, and his mother was nearly
related to Sir Francis Wyatt, Colonial Governor of Virginia. It was the
old flax wheel of his (James Collier's) cousin, Mary Collier, the ancestor
of the late Prof. G. Brown Goode, which suggested insignia of the Daughters
of the American Revolution. James Collier was wounded at the battle of
Eutaw Springs by a sabre cut across his cheek, in a hand-to-hand encounter
with a British soldier. He killed the soldier and carried the scar on his
face to his grave. His brother, Wyatt Collier, was killed in the same battle
when only a boy.
"James Collier married Elizabeth Bouldin, July 3, 1788, daughter
of James Bouldin and Sally Watkins, of Charlotte County, Va. He was a large
land owner in Lunenburg County and resided there until 1802, when he, with
his little family, followed his father and other relatives to Abbeville
District, South Carolina. He was a large planter in that State until 1818,
when he followed his sons to the territory of Alabama, his older sons having
settled in that part of the Mississippi territory, now Alabama, in 1812.
He settled on a large plantation in Madison County, where he lived and
died.
"His wife, Elizabeth Bouldin, was the daughter of James Bouldin,
who was the oldest son of Colonel Thomas Bouldin of Colonial fame, who
settled in Lunenburg (now Charlotte) County, Virginia, in l 744, coming
from Pennsylvania. His wife was Nancy Clark, niece of Captain Richard Wood
of the English navy. The family of Bouldins are noted for their intellect
and their love for the legal profession. Virginia boasts there has never
been a generation without a Judge, even to the present day. This couple
left a large family of sons, but there were only four grandsons among,
the grandchildren. Governor Henry Watkins Collier was a son of James Collier.
He was closely connected with the politics of Alabama from 1822 until his
death in 1855.
"The ancestry of James Collier is as follows:
(1) Charles Collier of King and Queen County, Virginia. One of his
children,-
(2) John Collier, Sr., (1680-1735), who was married three times,
by his third wife, Nancy Eyres, had issue, among others:
(3) Cornelius Collier, born 1725, married Elizabeth Wyatt in Gloucester
County, Va., about 1750, lived in Lunenburg County, Va., was a soldier
in the Revolution and moved to Abbeville District, South Carolina in 1788;
he had four sons and one of them was—
(4) James Collier, the subject of this sketch. The facts of this
article were furnished by his great-granddaughter Miss Elizabeth R. Benagh.
James Collier is mentioned in the Memorial Record of Alabama, vol.
ii p. 415."— Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Vol.
iv, pp. 536-7.
COLLINS, ELISHA, aged 75, and a resident
of Greene County; private, Virginia Militia; enrolled on December 18, 1833,
under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831;
annual allowance, $30; sums received to date of publication of list, $90.
Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc 514, 23rd Cong., 1st
sess., 1833-34.
COLLINS, MRS. ELIZABETH Died March 20, 1852,
at the residence of her son, ALFRED COLLINS, in Limestone County, Mrs.
ELIZABELTH COLLINS, relict to SOLOMON COLLINS, a Revolutionary soldier,
aged about 88 years.—Huntsville, Southern Advocate, March 31, 1852.
COLLINS, WYATT—Resided at Burnt Corn in
1825, was invited to LaFayette Celebration at Clairbourne, April 6, 1825.—
Alabama Military Archives.
COLLINS, ELY. aged 76, and a resident of
Limestone County; private, N.C. Militia; enrolled on February 23, 1834,
under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831;
annual allowance, $40 ; sums received to date of publication of list, $100.—Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc, 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
CONE, JESSE , Montgomery County. Name appears
on tablet placed in hall of Alabama Memorial Building by Francis Marion
Chapter, D.A.R., 1941.
CONNALLY, JOHN WILLIAM. Name appears on Huntsville
Monument, erected by Twickenham Town Chapter, D.A.R.
COOK, BENJAMIN, aged 82, resided in Monroe
County, June 1, 1840. Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.
COOK, REUBEN, aged 74, and a resident of
Fayette County; private N.C. Militia; enrolled on November 15, 1833, under
act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March A, 1831; annual
allowance, $36.66; sums received to date of publication of list, $109.98.—Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
He resided in Fayette County, June 1, 1840, aged 80. Census of Pensioners,
1841, p. 148.
CORLEY, ZACCHEUS, aged 72, and a resident
of Bibb County; private, S. Carolina Militia; enrolled on March 8, 1834,
under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831;
annual allowance, $10; sums received to date of publication of list, $100.—Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Part 3, Vol. Xiii, Sen. Doc 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess.,
1833-34. He resided in Bibb County, June 1, 1840, aged 77. Census of Pensioners,
1841, p. 149.
CORY, THOMAS, age not given, a resident
of Mobile County; sergeant, 4th Battalion Corps Artillery; enrolled on
May 21, 1821, payment to date from February 15, 1821; annual allowance,
$32; sums received to date of publication of list, $161.41; Acts Military
establishment.—Revolutionary Pension Roll ill Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514,
23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
COSEY, JAMES- Mr. Cosey and the Messrs.
Cluff located within the limits of the present village, (Evergreen) while
Mr. Andrews pitched his tent upon the hill beyond the small branch, west
of Evergreen. Mr. Cosey was an old Revolutionary soldier,and bore the mark
of a severe wound in his bosom. Riley's History of Conecuh County, Alabama,
p. 63.
COTTON, JAMES, aged 69, and a resident of
Madison County; private, Virginia Militia; enrolled on March 2, 1833, under
act of Congress of June 7, 1833, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual
allowance, $55; sums received to date of publication of list, $165.--Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
COUCH, ELY, age not given, a resident of
Russell County; corporal 4th Regular U. S. Infantry; enrolled on September
20. 1832, payment to date from August 1 1832; annual allowance, $96 ; sums
received to date of publication of list, $201.06; Acts Military establishment.—Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-31.
COURSON, JAMES, aged 72, and a resident
of Montgomery County ; private, S.C. Continental Line and Militia; enrolled
on January 19, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832; payment to
date from March 1831; annual allowance, $80; sums received to date of publication
of list, $240.—Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514,
23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
COWLES, WILLIAM MARSTEN. At his residence
in this county, on Friday the 15th inst., Major William Marsten Cowles,
in the 70th year of his age. Thus passeth away the witnesses of, and the
participators in, the scenes of the Revolution.
Major Cowles was a native
of Charles City, Va., and although a very young man at that time, voluntarily
put on the armour of his country, in defence of her violated rights. He
was a member of a voluntary corps of cavalry, stationed at Charles City
Court House; was taken prisoner at that place, carried to Westover and
put on board an English ship of war, then lying off that place, where he
was detained two months, when he made his escape, carrying off six other
prisoners; he landed at Ferry Point, from whence he proceded to the Great
Bridge, to the camp of General Gregory, reaching that place the day after
the battle fought there; he thence returned home.
Shortly after this period,
Lord Cornwallis was beseiged by the American forces under General Washington,
at Little York. Major Cowles, in company with several gentlemen of his
acquaintance, repaired to the scene of action, & was present at the
surrender of that place. In 1784, he emigrated to the State of Georgia,
and settled in the County of Richmond, near Augusta. For many years after
the peace with Great Britain, the Creek Indians continued to be troublesome
to the settlements on the frontiers of Georgia, and in an expedition ordered
out by the State for their chastisement, Major COWLES volunteered his services,
and during the expedition, served in the capacity of Aid, to Major General
Twiggs. He continued to reside near Augusta until 1818, when he removed
to this State, and located himself in this county, where, by his hospitality,
and active benevolence, he has acquired a numerous circle of friends and
acquaintances, who, with the more immediate members of his family, will
long deplore his loss. Selma Courier, November 20, 1828.
COX, JOHN Listed in the Report of the Secretary
of War of 1852 as living at Clarksville, Clarke County, as one whose application
for a pension as a soldier of the Revolution had been rejected for the
reason that the service had been of less than six months duration. The
Clarke County census of 1830 lists him as aged between sixty and seventy.
The census of l840 lists him as between seventy and eighty. His name does
not appear in the census of 1850.
COZBY, ROBERT, age not given, a resident
of Lowndes County; private Revolutionary Army; enrolled on May 15, 1821;
payment to date from February 14, 1821; annual allowance, $96; sums received
to date of publication of list, $245.06; Acts Military establishment.—Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
CRAFT, EZEKIEL, aged 72, and a resident
of Madison County; private, dragoon and drummer, S.C. Continental Line
and Militia; enrolled on December 3l, 1832, under act of Congress of June
7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, l831; annual allowance, $93.33;
sums received to date of publication of list, $279.99.—Revolutionary Pension
Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-3-4. He resided
in Madison County, June 1, l 840, aged 77. Census of Pensioners, 1841,
p. 148.
CRAIG, JOHN, aged 71, and a resident of
Limestone County; private, Virginia Militia; enrolled on January 24, 1833,
under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831;
annual allowance, $28.34.—Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen.
Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
CRAIG, JOHN, aged 75, resided in Limestone
County, June 1, 1840. Census of Pensioners, p. 148.
CRANE, MAYFILLD, aged 67, and a resident
of Pickens County; private, S.C. State Troops; enrolled on April 13, 1834,
under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831;
annual allowance, $80.—Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc.
514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
CRENSHAW, STEPHEN A Revolutionary soldier,
with a large family, stores and stock, etc., moved from Edgefield District,
S.C., about 1817, to the Territory of Alabama. He entered the land known
as Lowndes County, Hayneville, cutting the roads and bridges as they moved.
He died in 1820 from exposure and was buried in the woods in Lowndes County.
Afterwards a Methodist Church was built near his grave. Later others were
buried there and was enclosed by brick wall and was kept by Susan Crenshaw
Hardy and grandsons Dr. Henry L. Whipple, of Montgomery. During the War
Between the States the graves were neglected and later were sold and a
warehouse marks the place. It is at Hayneville, Dreighman's Warehouse.
She remembers seeing part of his uniform, knee buckles, coat and pants.
She saw these things at Hayneville. He was a private. Mrs. Hardy is 87
years old. Her mother's name was Baby Ruth Queen Victoria. Mrs. Hardy in
1927, was living with her daughter at Stone's Tank.
CROW, ROBERT , (1761-1850) served as private
in Crockett's company, 7th Virginia regiment commanded by Col. Holt Richeson.
He applied for a pension, 1819, and his claim was allowed. He was born
in Fincastle County, Va.; died in DeKalb County, Alabama.—D.A.R. Lineage
Book, vol.121, p. 160.
CULP, FREDERICK—Buried near Gurley or Huntsville,
Ala., Madison County. Several letters in Library, Department of Archives
and History, making this statement but no proof.
CUNNINGHAM, ROBERT, aged 73, and a resident
of Tuscaloosa County; private and sergeant, N.C. Continental Line and Militia;
enrolled on June 5, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment
to date from March 4, 1871; annual allowance, $91.67; sums received to
date of publication of list, $275.01.—Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol.
xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
Mrs. P. H. Mell in Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society,
Vol. iv, pp. 537-541 has a full account of the life and services of this
patriot.
"Rev. Robert Cunningham lies buried near the central part of the
old cemetery in Tuscaloosa. A stately marble shaft marks his grave; the
epitaph which covers the four sides of the shaft is in Latin, showing among
other things that he had been a soldier of the Revolution, and pastor of
Presbyterian churches in Georgia and in Lexington, Kentucky.
"These inscriptions are as follows:
On the west face:
Hic Sepultus Jacet
Vir ille
ROBERTUS M. CUNNINGHAM, D. D.
Belli Revolutionis
Americanae miles fidelis.
etiamque
Crucis Domini Jesu Christi:
On the east face:
Ecclesiae Presb.
in Republica Georgiae
Pastor
Multos annos.
Et in urbe Lexingtonia
Rep. Kentuckiensis
Eundem honorem tulit.
On the south face:
Qui
De Religione, de Patria
Optime meritus:
Maximo suorum
et bonorum omnium
Desiderio
Mortem obiit,
Die Jul. Xl: Anno Domini:
MDCCCXXXIX:
Aetatis suas
LXXX.
On the north face:
Uxor dilectissima
Hoc monumentum
ponendum
Curavit.
"The facts concerning the life of this distinguished man are mostly taken
from Sanders' Early Settlers of Alabama, p. 197. The author says
that the importance of historical societies is shown from the fact that
very little information could be obtained for this biography from any source
until he wrote to the Presbyterian Historical Society of Philadelphia,
when he promptly received a circumstantial account of the events of his
life.
"Robert M. Cunningham, a son of Roger and Mary Cunningham, was born
in York County, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1760. In 1775 his parents removed
to North Carolina. Query 293 of the Historical and Genealogical Department
of the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser states that 'Roger Cunningham and wife,
Sturgeon, removed from near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to Mecklenburg County,
North Carolina, just previous to the Revolutionary War. They had six children,
Robert, William, James, Nelly, Mary and Margaret.' There is little room
to doubt that this is the same family as that of the subject of this sketch,
and that his mother's name was Mary Sturgeon.
"Robert served as a youthful soldier in the North Carolina contingent
during the Revolutionary War, but it is not known to what regiment he was
attached. At the close of the war he went to school to the Rev. Robert
Finley, Mr. Robert McCulloch and the Rev. Joseph Alexander. In 1787, being
26 years of age, he entered the junior class in Dickinson College, Carlisle,
Pa., and graduated in 1789.
"On leaving college he returned to his parents and taught school
while he studied theology. He was licensed to preach by the First Presbytery
of South Carolina in 1792. Here he married his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter
of Charles and Mary Moore, of Spartanburg District. A sketch of the life
of Charles Moore is given in J. B. Landrum's History of Spartanburg,
p. 189. He was a brave and faithful old patriot. Elizabeth died November
3, 1794, leaving a daughter who died young.
"In the autumn of 1792 he went to Georgia and organized a church
called Ebenezer, in Hancock County; he also preached at Bethany Church.
October 15, 1795, he married Betsy Ann, daughter of Joseph Parks, of Prince
Edward County, Virginia, and by this marriage he had five sons, one of
whom was the Rev. Joseph Cunningham, a minister of ability. October 14
1805, he married as a third wife, Emily, daughter of Col. William Bird,
of Warren County, Georgia, originally from Pennsylvania, who survived him.
Hers was a family of distinction.—See Dubose's Life of Yancey. Three
of her aunts on her father's side married signers of the Declaration of
Independence, James Wilson and George Ross, of Pennsylvania, and George
Read, of Delaware. Her sister, Caroline Bird, married Benjamin Cudworth
Yancey, and was the mother of the great Southern orator, William Lowndes
Yancey. Another sister, Louisa Bird, married Captain Robert Cunningham
of 'Rosemont,' South Carolina, a gentleman of great wealth, liberality
and high culture, and an officer in the war of 1812. Their daughter, Miss
Ann Pamela Cunningham, was the founder of the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Memorial
Association and was its first regent. Another sister married Jesse Beene,
of Cahaba, a distinguished lawyer and politician. A brother, Will E. Bird,
was County judge of Dallas County, Alabama, 1836. It is a singular coincidence
that Emily Bird married Rev. Robert Cunningham, of Georgia, and another
sister, Louisa Bird, married Capt. Robert Cunningham, of South Carolina.
Rev. Robert Cunningham at the time of his marriage must have won much distinction
in a ministerial and social respect. By this last marriage he had a son,
Robert, a physician who died in Sumter County, Alabama, and three daughters, Mrs.
Maltby, Mrs. Wilson and Louisa.
"In 1807 he removed to Lexington, Kentucky, and was installed pastor
of the First Presbyterian church. This town was even then celebrated for
its wealth and intellectual culture and this pulpit required a minister
of learning and eloquence. He remained in Lexington until 1822, when he
removed to Moulton, in North Alabama. He had been laboring as a minister
for thirty years, and, requiring some relaxation, he bought a plantation
but preached in Moulton and surrounding villages. In 1826 he bought a farm
eleven miles from Tuscaloosa and removed there. He built up churches in
Tuscaloosa and at Carthage; he also preached occasionally at Greensboro,
where his son, Joseph, was pastor. For eight years he preached a free gospel
at Tuscaloosa. He preached his last sermon in 1838. He received the degree
of doctor of divinity from Franklin College, Georgia (now the University),
in 1827. In 1836 he removed to Tuscaloosa, and he died there on the 1lth
of July, 1839, 80 years of age. Dr. Cunningham was a man of impressive
appearance; his height was more than six feet and his form was well developed;
his features were good with expressive eyes; he was a man of learning,
eloquence and power in preaching; a man of charity, beloved by Christians
of all denominations, and his tenderness in preaching opened many hearts.
The old saint was called in Alabama 'Father Cunningham'; and he is thus
described in Nall's Dead of the Synod of Alabama : 'Very few men
ever exhibited more of clear and sound intellect—of tender, melting pathos—and
of bold and manly eloquence—than did this patriarch of the church.' "
CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM N., aged 93, resided
in Benton County, June 1, 1840. Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.
CURRY, THOMAS, sergeant, particular service
not shown; annual allowance, $31.82; not demanded after March, 1831.—Pension
Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile.
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