Display Patriot - P-116175 - Reuben/Ruben BLANCHARD

Reuben/Ruben BLANCHARD

SAR Patriot #: P-116175

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: GA Qualifying Service: Private

DAR #: A011104

Birth: 1750 / Gates / NC
Death: bef 08 May 1790 / Columbia / GA

Additional References:

Received Bounty Land, 1784
L.L. KNIGHT, GA'S ROSTER OF THE REV, pg 37

Spouse: Sarah Cartledge
Children: James; Uriah; Sarah;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child
1965-09-21	AL	Unassigned	Marion B Brunson (88097)	James
1989-07-31	GA	220180	John Henry Singleton III (133304)	James
1991-11-08	GA	214405	John Caldwell Davis (137885)	James
2006-08-29	GA	26225	Patrick G. Blanchard (167640)	James
2018-10-05	GA	83147	Michael Franklin Blanchard (209093)	James
2023-10-06	GA	108932	James G. Blanchard Jr. (227936)	James
2025-01-24	GA	115029	Steven Randall Williams (232400)	James

Burial:

Damascus Baptist Church Cemetery_(C-0103170)

Location:

Appling / Columbia / GA / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

2245228

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

33.665870 / -82.319970

Find A Grave Memorial #:

46071381

Marker Type:

SAR

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

15 Oct 2016

Comments:

Photos by permission: Bill Tankersley, Georgia Society SAR
He has another VA Military stone at the Bethel Cemetery

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 2

Photo: 2 of 2

Author: Kenneth Scott Collins

Reuben Blanchard b. 1750 d. 5/8/1790 COLUMBIA COUNTY, GEORGIA

He served in the North Carolina Continental Line and fought at Guilford Courthouse. He was certified as a Revolutionary War Soldier by Colonel Greenberry Lee and received bounty land in Georgia for his services. His widow, Sarah, drew land in the 1827 Georgia Land Lottery as a widow of a Revolutionary War Soldier and resident of Columbia County.

Buried: Damascus Baptist Church Cemetery, Leah, Georgia.

See: (1) D.A.R. Historian General card file.

(2) Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine. January 1984, p. 18.

(3) Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 37, 376.

(4) Information on Some Georgia Pioneers, p. 18.

(5) Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, v. 3, p. 304.

Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 1, 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.

Printed in the United States of America

New Papyrus Co., Inc.

548 Cedar Creek Drive

Athens, GA 30605-3408

Author: William Joseph Tankersley
Pvt. Ruben Blanchard, DAR Ancestor A011104 and SAR Patriot P-116175, was born in Chowan County, North Carolina in 1758, and died in what was then Upper Richmond County, Georgia (now Columbia County) sometime before 08 May 1790. He fought with the Georgia Continental Line during the Revolutionary War and received bounty land for his service. Ruben married Sarah Cartledge, sister of Capt. James Cartledge and Pvt. Samuel Cartledge. Ruben and Sarah had a plantation near Damascus Baptist church, and five children with quite a number of descendants, many of whom still live in the Columbia and Richmond County, Georgia area today.

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