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State of Service: SC
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
Grave yard is on the right side of the church. Park in the parking lot on the right side of the church, go up the stairs, and the grave is in the second row. His headstone is hardly readable, but has a Veterans Administration brass foot marker with his name on it
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Author: Kenneth Scott Collins
William Addington b. 1759 d. 9/8/1845 UNION COUNTY, GEORGIA
He enlisted in 1781 in the Union District, South Carolina at Old Blockhouse at Fair Forest. He served as a Lieutenant in Captain William Young's Company of the South Carolina Troops commanded by Lieutenant Colonel William Farr and Colonel Thomas Brandon, and fought at the Siege of Ninety Six. He also served in Captain James Bruton's Company and fought Indians, and was also a Lieutenant in Major Benjamin Jolly's Battalion of General Andrew Pickens' Regiment of South Carolina Militia and pursued the Indians. He later received a pension for his services.
Buried: Shady Grove Cemetery, Owltown District. "From the Old Courthouse Square in Blairsville, it is 5.8 miles south on U.S. 129, then« mile west on Owltown Road, then one mile north."
See: (1) Cemetery Records of Union County, Georgia, p. 365, 366.
(2) Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, v. 1, p. 17.
(3) Georgia Pensioners, p. 162.
(4) Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, p. 187.
(5) Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution, p. 7.
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 2, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke.
A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.
Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.
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When William (Lieut ) Addington was born on September 7, 1759, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, his father, Henry, was 39 and his mother, Sarah, was 36. He Delilah Dee Duncan on 23 Dec. 1784; they had seven sons and seven daughters between 1786 and 1810.
Born in South Carolina, he served in the South Carolina militia during the Revolutionary War, Among the many battles, he also participated in the Battle of Ninety Six. He was discharged with the rank of Lieutenant in 1782. William Addington served in the Revolutionary War, joining the South Carolina State Militia in 1781, and fought in the "Siege of Ninety Six." He served two months as a private for Capt. William Young; for four weeks as a private for Capt. James Bruton; three months as a Lieutenant for Capt. William Young. All under the command of Col. Thomas Brandon. He marched in pursuit of white and Indian Tories to the Little Tennessee river in North Carolina also served in areas of Orangeburg and Charleston, South Carolina. William's pension application, dated December 1833 from Macon Co., North Carolina, was granted for his service as a private only.
Ninety -Six was a village on the Cherokee Path, a trade route between Charleston and the upcountry of South Carolina. Ninety-Six was exactly ninety six miles from Keowee, the major Cherokee town in the Blue Ridge foothills. A trading post opened about the year 1752 and was soon followed by businesses and plantations.
In the French and Indian War, a hastily constructed fort withstood two Indian attacks. At the time of the Revolutionary War, Ninety-Six was the seat of government for Ninety-Six District. In 1775, loyalists and patriots fought a three day battle at Ninety-Six with inconclusive results. Ninety-Six was occupied by the British in 1781. General Nathaniel Greene laid siege to the British who were defending two redoubts, but despite a twenty-eight day battle, Gen Greene failed to dislodge the defenders and withdrew upon the arrival of British reinforcements. The British burned Ninety-Six when they evacuated. "Ninety-Six played its role in the course of a few decades, took a bow and faded away."
William and Delilah moved to Macon County, N.C. in the 1820s, then to Blarisville, Ga. about 1836. Most of the southern Addingtons are decendents of William.
In 1787, William inherited his father's plantation in Union County, South Carolina with instructions to provide for his mother Sarah. However, his mother did not stay with him and traveled to Ohio and Indiana with his brother, John. Soon after 1800, William & Delilah sold the farm and moved to Cartoogechaye river Buncombe Co., North Carolina , where they lived for twenty years. In the early 1820's they moved west to what is now Macon Co., North Carolina with several of there children. About 1836, they moved to Blairsville, Union County, Georgia. It is believed William was visiting his son Moses when he died on September 7, 1845, in Franklin, North Carolina, having lived a long life of 86 years. He was buried near Moses' home in Franklin, North Carolina.
He has a marker in the 1st Methodist Church Cemetery (old section), Harrison Avenue, Franklin, Macon County, NC. It is a bronze government-issued marker; standing gravestone, with the inscription, "Sacred to the memory of W. M. Addington who was a Revolutioner & a consistent member of the M. E. Church 40 y." This was reported by the Battle of Sugartown Chapter.
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