Display Patriot - P-130327

Thomas CATES

SAR Patriot #: P-130327

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State of Service: MD Qualifying Service: Sergeant / Patriotic Service

Birth: 08 Feb 1758
Death: 01 Feb 1848 Tuscaloosa / / AL

Qualifying Service Description:

Served as a private, corporal and sergeant in the 4th Regiment Maryland Line in Capt Oddoms (Odums) Company commanded by Colonel Samuel Smith and General Smallwood
Was wounded 4 times and took part in the Battle of Stoney Point
Provided Provisions for the Militia

Additional References:

Graves registry submitted by Walter E. Dockery
Pensioner #S38109
Rev War Soldiers who Once lived in Tuscaloosa County, AL. by Billy Thompson Lockard
Grave Registry form. National Society Sons of the American Revolution (SAR)

Spouse: Martha Trice
Children: John S; Isaiah;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child	View Application Detail
1997-01-07	AL	202873	Walter Espey Dockery (147414)	Nancy

Burial:

Espey Cemetery_(C-0151825)

Location:

Tuscaloosa / Tuscaloosa / AL / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

2325986

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

33.297677 / -87.399205

Find A Grave Memorial #:

42717661

Marker Type:

VA Vertical

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Photo displayed courtesy of Walter Espey Dockery, AL SAR

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Find-a-Grave: map coordinates have not been set for this cemetery
This cemetery is locates 20 miles north of Tuscaloosa and is a the old Wiley Espey home place in 2018. Cemetery is near Lexington

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Walter Espey Dockery

Thomas (Keates) Cates was born 8 February 1758. He married Martha Trice at Orange County, North Carolina, 2 March 1784. Her father, Doctor John Trice, was also a Revolutionary Soldier. Thomas Cates joined the 4th Maryland Line and rose to the rank of sergeant. The line was made up with men from Anne Arundel and surrounding counties. After the war, he and his family moved to Putnam County, Georgia and then to Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. They arrived at The Falls of the Black Warrior 23 December 1818. Their deaths are noted in the Minutes of Salem Church at New Lexington, Alabama.

According to Orphans Records of Tuscaloosa County, he applied for a pension in 1832. He stated he fought at the "Glorious Battle of Stony Point, NY, under General Wayne" and could state many more battles in the South, where he got his discharge. He also stated he applied for a pension at Tuscaloosa County, 17 July 1826, for service. He enlisted 28 January 1778 in Maryland and was discharged in 1781 in the State of North Carolina and he received no pay and only one suit of clothes.

He stated that he was in many a bloody battle and was wounded four different times in battles. He was living in New Lexington, Alabama when he received his pension of $8.00 per month. He said that when he enlisted they told him that he was to receive a bounty of land, but he had never received it. He was 20 years old when he enlisted in the Continental Army.

Thomas Cates and Martha Trice Cates had eight children. Their daughter, Nancy Cates, married Wiley Espey and they had four children. Their son, Thomas Espey, married Nancy Maddox and had seven children. Their son, John Wiley Espey, married Tabitha Hogg and they had 7 children. Their daughter, Vera Espey, married Walter Gibson Dockery and they had one child. Their son, Walter Espey Dockery, married Gwendolyn Preskitt, and they had one child, Julia.

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