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Author: Michael B. Gunn
Born on December 12, 1740. Served as a Private in the Gloucester County, New Jersey Militia in the Revolutionary War, was in the battle of Princeton. He married Elizabeth Roberts in 1775; children: Rachel, Ann, Ester, Enoch, Hannah, David and Jonas He located in Goshen Twp., Mahoning Co, early in the nineteenth century and was a delegate to the Society of Friends in 1803. He died on February 2, 1828 and buried at East Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield Township, Columbiana County, OH 44445. Cemetery notes and/or description: Located in Section 36 of Fairfield Township, East Fairfield cemetery began as the Christian Church Cemetery. Job Wickersham and his wife, Hannah, deeded to Joseph Morlan, John Barnes, John Ferrell, Thomas Hawkins, and John Crager, "Trustees of Church called Christian," one acre on Nov 5, 1823. On Sept 11, 1883, an adjacent tract of land, one and 11/100 acres, was deed to the trustees of Fairfield Township, and on April 3, 1956, Edna and Harvey Weber deeded 58/100 of an acres to the township trustees. On March 20, 1875, the Ohio society of Christian Churches deeded the Christian Church Cemetery to the Fairfield Township trustees.
At the fork in road of North side of Ohio State Route 558 and 517 west of Ohio State Route 7. Ref: N. J. Men of the Rev. p 585; Trumbull and Mahoning Co. History, Vol. 1 p 193. DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition, Part 1, p. 519. Mrs. Orville Dailey, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Roster #1, p. 72. Ensign & Co. – History of Columbiana County Ohio, p. 147. Veterans Grave Registration Belmont County, Ohio (Washington DC, Works Progress Administration.). William Stryker, compiler, Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War (New Jersey: 1911) p. 534. SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ., 2002) plus data to 2004. Gravesite Unknown.
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