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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 1751 / / VA Death: 18 Sep 1853 / Lawrence / KY
Qualifying Service Description:
Capt Bowyer's Comp, Colonel Campbell's 7th Regt, VA line
Additional References:
SAR RC 164881 cites; Pension # W11258
Spouse: (1) Sarah Preston; (2) Mary Auxier Fugate Children: Elizabeth;
William was born in 1758, in Virginia, the son of Michael Haney and Anna Moles.
He enlisted on 1 May 1780, in Campbell County, Virginia, in Captain Bowyer’s Company, Colonel Campbell’s 7th Regiment of Virginia Line. He was discharged on 1 November 1781, at Hillsborough, North Carolina.
On December 29, 1788, in Bedford County, Virginia, he married Sarah Preston the daughter of Philip Preston and Mary Ann Doss. He lived for a short period, about 1802-1804, in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. By 1811 he had moved to Floyd County, Kentucky, into an area that, in 1821, became Lawrence County.
His wife Sarah died here in about 1832. After her death, William married Elizabeth Auxier on 15 July 1835, in Floyd County, Kentucky.
William is listed in the 1850 Federal Census for Kentucky as living in Lawrence County, age 99 years. He died there on 18 September 1853. His second wife, Elizabeth, is recorded as receiving a widow’s pension in May 1856.
William and Sarah are buried in the Georges Creek Cemetery, near Ulysses, in Lawrence County, Kentucky. The DAR incorrectly placed a headstone for him in the Stacy Fork/Oliver Haney Cemetery, in Morgan County, Kentucky, but this is totally the wrong Haney family and it is unknown why the DAR placed his headstone in a county so distant from William’s home at Georges Creek, separated by very hilly and mountainous terrain.
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