Display Patriot - P-130342 - Jasper CATHER

Jasper CATHER

SAR Patriot #: P-130342

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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Genealogy Notations
Problems have been discovered with at least one previously verified application.
  • Application is dependent upon DAR application - DAR state FUTURE APPLICANTS MUST PROVE CORRECT SERVICE - THIS MAN APPEARS TO BE A QUAKER. PREVIOUS SERVICE BASED ON FAMILY TRADITION. NO MILITARY SERVICE FOUND IN TRADITIONAL RECS. 6/2010

State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
DAR #: A020595

Birth: 1740 Ulster / Tyrone / Ireland
Death: bef 30 Jul 1812 Gainesboro / Frederick / VA

Qualifying Service Description:

Paid Frederick Co, VA Property Tax, 1782


Additional References:
  1. Hatcher, Patricia Law; "Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots" 4 vol; Dallas, TX, Pioneer Heritage Press, 1987, Vol, pg 162
  2. Genealogical, Burial, and Service Data for Rev War Patriots Buried in Virginia (M.E. Lyman, 2016)

Spouse: (1) Catherine Lawrence; (2) Barbara Lawrence; (3) Sarah Moore
Children: Thomas; John Howard; Robert; William; James; Mary;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child Genealogy Flags View Application Detail
1959-07-22 KS Unassigned Lawrence A Cather (82367)   
1978-04-27 VA Unassigned James Kenneth Robinson (114411) Thomas FAMPCS   
2003-05-07 KY 16119 Thomas Pine Petznick (160307) Jane FAMPCS   
2008-11-10 NC 33030 Robert Gwinn Schaaf (172818) Robert FAMPCS   
2021-05-28 VA 94524 Matthew Taylor Atkins (203934) Mary   
Burial:
Back Creek Quaker (aka Gainesboro United Methodist) Cemetery (C-0106150)
Location:
Gainesboro / Frederick / VA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2250413
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
23217423
Marker Type:
DAR
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Dale Edward Corey

Jasper Cather was born 1740 in Ulster, Tyrone, Ireland.  He was of eight children born to Robert Cather and Joanna Thurloe.  He descended from the clans located in the highlands of Scotland.  Jasper immigrated to America via Ulster in Northern Ireland about 1753.  He owned a series of farms in the Virginia and Pennsylvania frontiers and was also a teacher.  He was at Fort Redstone in western Pennsylvania in the early 1750s.  His name appears on a tax list of Farguhar County, Pennsylvania.  Soon after that he had come to the Winchester, Virginia area.  He married Catherine Lawrence 27 Mar 1771 in Fayette City, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.  He fought as a private in the Virginia militia during the Revolutionary War and supposedly witnessed the British surrender at Yorktown.  Jasper's first wife Catherine died in 1781 and they had five children, Jane, Mary, Thomas, John and Margaret.  He married Catherine's sister Barbara Lawrence in 1781.  They had one child, David.  Barbara died in 1785 and Jasper then married Sarah Moore in Mar 1786.  They had seven children, Robert, David, William, Hannah, James, Sarah and Mary.  Sarah died in 1810.  Jasper died in 1812 at his home on the Hayfield-Gainesboro road and was buried at the Back Creek Quaker Cemetery, also known as the Gainesboro United Methodist Church Cemetery.


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