Author: James O. Edmondson, Jr.
Ensign Andrew Edmondson, born about 1750 in Augusta County, Virginia, moved to Washington County, Virginia where, in 1773, he married his cousin Ann Edmiston/Edmondson. In 1776 they had a daughter, Martha. When British Colonel Patrick Ferguson was marching his troops up the coast, he sent word across the mountains to the settlers that if they did not cease their resistance to the King, he would march his army across the mountain and lay waste to their homes and fields. The Over Mountain Men of Washington County and surrounding areas took this threat seriously – they put together a substantial army; marched across the mountain; found Ferguson at King’s Mountain; and, in the space of one afternoon, decimated his army and killed Ferguson. In that battle, October 7th, 1780, Ensign Andrew Edmondson was killed. He is buried in a mass grave at Kings Mountain National Battlefield Park.

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