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The cemetery is on a private farm. The family that lived there at that time were not related to anyone in the cemetery
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Going down Bunker Hill from Judy, the cemetery is on the left approximately half way between Aarons Run Road and Plum Lick Road. It sits up on a hill. The house is on the left of the driveway and the cemetery is on the right of the drive further up the hill
Author: Michael D. C. Merryman
An excerpt transcribed from the Revolutionary War Pension of Freeman Battershell, *W2913:
State of Kentucky
County of Bourbon Sct:
Be it known that on this 18th day of July 1842 personally appeared before the Magistrate Court of the County of Bourbon State of Kentucky Nancy Battershell a resident of the County of Bourbon State of Kentucky aged seventy five 75 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress July 7 1838 entail an Act Granting Half Pay and Pensions to Certain Widows. That she is the Widow of Freeman Battershell who was a Soldier on the Virginia Line during the War of the Revolution as she has been informed and believes by him and others. She was not acquainted with him but a short time before their marriage and she has often heard him speak of being in the service the officers under whom he served but in consequence of her great age and loss of memory she is not able to state many of the particulars but she well recollect of hearing him say that he served seven years and a half as a Soldier during the War of the revolution and that he entered the service as a volunteer and entered for during the war by Cap. Thomas Moore who she believes was his Captain. She has often heard him speak of being under Gen Washington and in various engagements but do not recollect the names and place of the different battles he was in but she well recollect hearing him state that he was in the same mess with Thomas Brickel who went out of the fort and was shot down by the enemy she has also often heard him and John Lion speak of being in the service together of the said Lion coming with provision to the fort where Bickle was killed he pushed his right for land of his brother George Brickel and am of the impression that he put the claim in John Harrison to obtain it for him and she thinks that he …[illegible]… his claim for land Capt Urias Springers had and in neither case did he ever obtain the land. She well recollect of hearing him speak of being discharged at Fort Pitt but she does not recollect by whom nor does she know what has become of his discharge many of his papers was lost or destroyed and she knows of no person by whom she can prove his service and refers to the record for the evidence of his service.
She further declares that she was married to the said Freeman Battershell in the month of March Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Six the day not at this time recollected and the next January 22d day Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Seven 1787 her daughter Mary was born as will appear from their family record which contains the true ages of her children all of whom were born after their marriage the said family record is in the hand writing of Joseph Trobridge who has been dead about ten years which shows that her daughter Mary was born January the Twenty Second Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Seven which is the best evidence she is able to produce and her husband the aforesaid Freeman Battershell died on the Sixteenth day of April Eighteen hundred and Eighteen That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place prior to the First day of January Seventeen hundred and Ninety Four viz at the time above stated.
Nancy Battershell
The Battershell family record as recorded in their Bible:
Mary Battershell was born January 22nd 1787
Elizabeth Battershell was born Nov’r 7th 1789
Susannah Battershell was born January 20th 1792
Sarah Battershell was born February 8th 1794
Rachel Battershell was born December 28th 1795
Nancy Battershell was born February 2nd 1798
Peggy Battershell was born January 22nd 1800
John Battershell was born July 14th 1803
Freeman Battershell departed this life April 16th 1818
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