Display Patriot - P-109965 - Joseph BARTHOLEMEW/BARTHOLOMEW
Joseph BARTHOLEMEW/BARTHOLOMEW
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P-109965
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Located down a gravel lane which is located just West of the house at 21668 Clarksville Road. Money Creek Township, Section 3
Author: K. Lee Wilder
Joseph Bartholomew was born March 15, 1766 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, the son of Daniel and Catherine Bartholomew. At about the age of two, Joseph and his family moved to Chester County in Western Pennsylvania.
It was here at an early age that Joseph became an expert with a rifle and at the age of ten, he joined a scouting party in a campaign against marauding Indians. During the Revolutionary War, he served as a scout against the British, and was able to pass through their lines without arousing attention due to his young age. He also utilized his expert marksmanship to provide wild game, including bear meat, to the Continental troops.
In 1787 in Pennsylvania Joseph married Christiana Pickenpaugh, the daughter of Peter Johan and Anna Barbara (Henry) Pickenpaugh, Sr. Christiana was born about 1769 in Pennsylvania. Soon after their marriage, the couple migrated to Charlestown in Clark County, Indiana, across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. They had eleven children, with Christiana dying on May 9, 1810 during the birth of the last child. The baby was immediately named Christiana.
On July 30, 1811, Joseph married Elizabeth McNaught in Charlestown. Elizabeth was born in Ireland in 1787. This marriage produced eight children, three of whom died young.
Less than four months after this marriage, Joseph was serving in the War of 1812. On November 7, 1811, as a Lt. Colonel of the Second Regiment of Indiana Militia, he was wounded in the right forearm during the Battle of Tippecanoe. He lost three-fourths use of that arm as a result.
Elizabeth died in Charlestown on September 24, 1824 after falling from a horse. Joseph remained in that area until 1831 when he purchased 600 acres of government land west of Lexington, Illinois in McLean County. He settled there with his granddaughter, Nancy Spence Hopkins. During this time, he also joined the ranks of hundreds of other veterans to fight in the Black Hawk War.
When William Henry Harrison was nominated as a candidate for president, Joseph quickly rallied to support his friend and former commander by traveling throughout Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky on his behalf. While campaigning on horseback for Harrison, Joseph aggravated a chronic inflammation of the bladder. He returned home where he died the next day, November 3, 1840, at age 74. He was buried in the cemetery in the village of Clarksville, McLean County, Illinois.
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