Display Patriot - P-122049

John BROOME

SAR Patriot #: P-122049

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State of Service: VA Qualifying Service: Sergeant

Birth: 1749 / / VA
Death: 23 Dec 1825 / Washington / OH

Qualifying Service Description:

Sergeant in Col Wood's VA Regiment, Continental Line

Additional References:

Pension S42095
1835 Roster of Pensioners
DAR Roster of Rev Graves in OH

Spouse: Mary XX;
Children:

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Burial:

Mound Cemetery_(C-0371679)

Location:

Marietta / Washington / OH / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

42224

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

39.420075 / -81.452044

Find A Grave Memorial #:

23277460

Marker Type:

SAR bronze marker

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

photo used with permission of Michael B. Gunn, 185230, Cincinnati Chapter, OHSSAR
grave is part of a group of NSDAR markers for Patriots with unknown burrial locations in Washington County, Ohio

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Michael B. Gunn

Born in 1749, John Broome served in the Virginia Line as a sergeant for 3 years. He enlisted at Romney, Virginia and was discharged in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. John was pensioned, applying on January 8, 1818, as a resident of Fearing Township, Washington County, Ohio Ref. # S4209. He received a annual allowance of $96.00.

He married Mary ___; children: Ruth b. 1803. He died on July 12, 1825 at age 76 and is buried at Mound Cemetery, Washington County, Ohio. "Mound Cemetery was established in 1801 by the citizens of Marietta, Ohio, to preserve an Ohio Hopewell burial mound dating from 100 BC to 500 AD, and provide for settler burials. After the Revolutionary War, the area along the Ohio River and Marietta attracted many veterans rewarded with land grants. General Rufus Putnam donated land for the cemetery. The cemetery is thought to have the largest number of Revolutionary War Officer burials, among other important Ohio River pioneer settlers and Northwest Territory politicians. Burials continue to today despite the limited space." Although his actual gravesite is unknown, the cemetery has an SAR marker in his honor.

References:

Mrs. Orville Dailey, The Official Roster of Soldiers of The American Revolution Buried In The State of Ohio, Roster# 2, p. 70.

Virgil White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Volume 1, (Waynesboro, TN: National Historical Publishing, Co., 1900), p. 405.

Pension Roll of 1835, Volume IV, Mid-Western States, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1994, p. 222.

Gaius M. Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, Volume 1, Virginia, (Washington D.C. 1936). Revolutionary War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993.

SAR Revolutionary War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY, 1998.

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