MILITARY LEGACY OF LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND BEYOND
GENEALOGY ~ PHOTOGRAPHS ~ LETTERS ~ HISTORY
Written And Compiled By Waukesha Lowe Sammons
Daughter of Daskum Combs (1917 - 2005) and Technical Sergeant, Albert Roy "Jake" Lowe ( 1917 - 1944),
who was awarded a Silver Star Medal for Action Taken on The Fourth of July 1944 in France,
and who was Killed In Action on September 16, 1944 in World War II.
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LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN, MARINES
REMEMBER AND NAME, A - Z
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AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
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FRAZIER
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FRAZIER, MICAJAH (1753-1843), VIRGINIA LINE, AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
HOMETOWN: Lawrence County, Kentucky, USA.
OTHER RESIDENCE: Albermarle County, Virginia. Amherst County, Virginia. Russell County, Virginia. Missouri.
DATE OF BIRTH: 25 December 1753 in Albermarle County, Virginia. Born in 1736 on his Headstone?
ALTERNATE SPELLINGS: Frasher, Frazeur, Frazear, Frashure.
PARENTS: Perhaps his parents were Sarah Elliot and James Alexander Frazier.
SPOUSE: Susan Hamilton.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Virginia.
ENLISTMENT DATE: 1780 in Amherst County, Virginia,
DISCHARGE DATE: Served 18 months.
RANK: Private.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Militia.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: Served in Captain Samuel Cabbell / Cavell’s Company, Colonel Pope’s Regiment, Virginia Line, American Revolutionary War.
MILITARY DATA: Served under Captain Richard Ballinger, Benjamin Taliferro, Captain Samuel Cabell, General Marques De Lafayette. Yorktown: Erected Breast Works, a low wall used as a defense barrier to protect the soldiers against British General, Lord Charles Cornwallis.
BATTLES: Battle of Williamsburg. Battle of Yorktown.
DATE OF DEATH: 9 November 1843 in Lawrence County, Kentucky.
CEMETERY: Frasher Cemetery, Frasher Hill, Fort Gay, Wayne County, West Virginia.
MEMORIAL PLAQUE: Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried In Wayne County, West Virginia, April 1978.
HISTORICAL HIGHWAY MARKER: Revolutionary War Soldier’s Grave, Fort Gay, Wayne County, Virginia.
SOURCES: Findagrave # 8398583. Revolutionary War Soldiers of Wayne County, Virginia, wcghs.com. U. S. Revolutionary War Pension And Bounty Land Warrent Application Files, 1800-1900. U. S. Revolutionary War Pensioners, Widows Pension, Virginia.
NOTE: I placed my husband's fifth-great-grandfather, Micajah Frazier on my ~ Sammons Bradshaw Ferguson Wooton Castle Hopkins Daniel Spencer; McCoy Stafford Stanley May Rutherford Brashear Williamson Ball ~ In-law Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.
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WELLMAN
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WELLMAN, BENNETT (1754 MD–1830 KY), AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
HOMETOWN: Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky.
OTHER RESIDENCES: Maryland. West Virginia.
DATE OF BIRTH: 9 February 1754, St. Marys, Baltimore, Maryland. PARENTS:
SPOUSE: Mary Mulligan.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Maryland
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Maryland Militia. COMBAT ORGANIZATION:
DATE OF DEATH: 15 September 1830, Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky.
BURIAL: Currently, the grave has not been located, but there are two considerations.
A 1978 Memorial Plaque listed, that he was buried in Wayne County, West Virginia.
MEMORIAL PLAQUE: Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried In Wayne County, West Virginia, April 1978.
Findagrave has a photograph of a Memorial Headstone, which is located in Wellman Cemetery in Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky.
SOURCE: Findagrave. U. S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application, 83761. NOTE: I placed my husband's fourth-great-grandfather, Bennett Wellman on my ~ Sammons Bradshaw Ferguson Wooton Castle Hopkins Daniel Spencer; McCoy Stafford Stanley May Rutherford Brashear Williamson Ball ~ In-law Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.
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WOOTON
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WOOTON, SILAS PENNIX (1759-1846), VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL LINE, AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
HOMETOWN: Lawrence County, Kentucky.
OTHER RESIDENCE: Virginia. Floyd County, Kentucky.
DATE OF BIRTH: 1759 in Virginia.
PARENTS:
SPOUSE: Phoebe Worth.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Kentucky.
RANK: Private.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Army.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: Virginia Regiment Continental Line.
1833 – 1844: KENTUCKY, U. S. REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSIONER, Silas P. Wooton, Private, $8 a month, “transferred to Ohio”. (Question: Was that Ohio County, Kentucky or the State of Ohio?)
DATE OF DEATH: 25 February 1846.
PLACE OF DEATH: United States.
CEMETERY: Wooton – Chapman Cemetery, Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky.
SOURCES: Findagrave. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900. Revolutionary War Pensioner Census, 1841. Revolutionary Soldiers In Kentucky, Lawrence County Pensioners Under The Act of March 18, 1818. Survivors Pension Application; Survivors Pension Number S. 40730. U. S. Pensioners, 1818-1872, Kentucky. U. S. Revolutionary War Pensioners.
NOTE: I placed my husband's fourth-great-grandfather, Silas Pennix Wooton on my ~ Sammons Bradshaw Ferguson Wooton Castle Hopkins Daniel Spencer; McCoy Stafford Stanley May Rutherford Brashear Williamson Ball ~ In-law Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.
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WAR OF 1812
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BRADSHAW
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BRADSHAW, JAMES, WAR OF 1812, SOLDIER. RANK: PAYMASTER. COMBAT ORGANIZATION: FIELD AND STAFF, FIRST REGIMENT, KENTUCKY LIGHT DRAGOONS.
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