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State of Service: NC/SC
Qualifying Service: Corporal
Author: David French
Richard Grantham was born 16 March 1754 to John and Ann Brown Grantham in Dobbs County, North Carolina. He married Frances Amis on 14 April 1784 in Rogersville, Hawkins County, Tennessee. Their marriage was blessed with twelve children: Penelope, Mary Elizabeth Saunders, Anne Robertson, Tabitha Robertson, Amis, Rachel, Lincoln, Rhoda Moore, John Thomas, James, Alice Gale, and Willis Grantham. Richard served as a Corporal under Captain Thomas Lynch and Captain Glenn Draytop in Colonel Charles Pickney’s 1st South Carolina Regiment from 22 July 1775 to August 4, 1778. He is also credited with serving as a Sergeant Major in Colonel Kennedy’s North Carolina Regiment and participating in the battle of Kings Mountain. He died 22 June 1846 and is buried in Grantham Cememtery, Grainger County, Tennessee.
Sources: Family History page on Manuel: Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kingharry&id=I10973
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