Display Patriot - P-153117 - Thomas EDGINGTON

Thomas EDGINGTON

SAR Patriot #: P-153117

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service / Civil Service
DAR #: A036196

Birth: 02 Jan 1744 / Hampshire / VA
Death: aft 02 Jan 1814 / Holliday's Cove / Brooke / VA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. 1778, served as a juror in Yohogania County, Virginia
  2. 1782, he was captured and sold to the British, who held him prisoner

Additional References:
  1. Marked graves of Revolutionary soldiers and patriots. DAR Magazine
  2. The Draper Manuscript Collection, 2 S 292, 293 [better citation needed]

Spouse: Martha Swearingen
Children: Thomas; Drusilla; Jesse; Mary; Sarah; Ashel;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1968-11-29 OH Unassigned Stiles Daniel Brumbaugh (90147) Jemima   
Burial:
Union Cemetery (C-0372628)
Location:
Steubenville / Jefferson / OH / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
43837
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
28144392
Marker Type:
DAR
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Photo used with permission of Michael B. Gunn, 185230, Cincinnati Chapter, OHSSAR



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Michael B. Gunn
Born in 1744 in Hampshire County, West Virginia to parents George Edgington (1706-1791) and Margaret Broome (1723-1773). He served as a Private in Washington County, Pennsylvania Militia under Captain Kiss’s Militia with Colonel John Marshall’s 4th Battalion, he and his brothers, Joseph and Isaac, enlisted in Capt. James Munn's Company of PA Militia in 1782 and served in Crawford's Expedition also Served in Brady's Rangers, a spy for the Frontier Rangers, Indian captive in 1781, taken to Detroit and sold to the British. He married Martha__; children: George, John, Thomas, Jesse, Drusilla, Jesse, Sarah, Rachel, Cassandra, Ashiel & Mary. De died on January 2, 1814 and buried at Union Cemetery, 1720 Sunset Blvd., Jefferson Co., OH 43952. Has a tombstone with his wife. Ref: Pa Arch 6th Series, Vol. II, pg. 153; Draper Mss. 2 S 292, 293. Mrs. Orville Dailey, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Roster #2, p. 130. Thomas L. Montgomery, Editor, Archives of Pennsylvania, Sixth Series, Vol. II (Harrisburg, Pa: 1906), p. 153. Has a large tombstone, a DAR marker and a bronze VA marker.
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