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Author: Gary Lee Coburn
Conrad Cornelison was born on May 28, 1763, in Loudoun, Virginia and moved to Rowan, North Carolina where he grew to manhood. Conrad Cornelison lived in Rowan County, North Carolina and was sixteen years of age, when he enlisted as a private in Captain William Bell’s Company in Colonel Andrew Hampton’s North Carolina Regiment in November 1779. Conrad was discharged on March 24, 1781, but served again under Captain Peter Hendrick until the close of the war. Following the war, he married Susanna (Skinner) Strange in 1785 in Rowan, North Carolina. Susanna was the widow of John Strange who died c. 1782. By 1789 the Cornelison family moved to Wilkes County, Georgia and by 1792 had moved to Madison County, Kentucky. Conrad was recorded in the Second Kentucky Census in 1900 as a resident of Madison County. It seems that Conrad and Susanna had at least nine children plus they probably raised the three children Susanna had with her first husband who lived to maturity. Conrad was granted a pension in 1832 while a resident of Otter Creek, Madison, Kentucky in the amount of $24.63 per year. Conrad was recorded on the 1840 US Census and lived in the Eastern District of Madison County. Susanna Cornelison was granted an application for a pension on Conrad’s Revolutionary War service after his death on May 28, 1846. He is buried in the Conrad Cornelison Cemetery in Terrill, Madison, Kentucky with his wife Susanna and other family members. Conrad’s youngest child Melinda Cornelison married Thomas Warren the grandson of Thomas Warren DAR Patriot A121689 and SAR Patriot P-314016.
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