Display Patriot - P-179337 - Thomas HELM

Thomas HELM

SAR Patriot #: P-179337

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
DAR #: A054409

Birth: 14 Sep 1731 / Prince William / VA
Death: 27 Apr 1816 / Hardin / KY

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. LT in Capt Philip Francis Lee's Co, Colonel Thomas Marshall 3rd VA Regt
  2. Resigned 1777

Additional References:
  1. 1st-11th Annual Reports DAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC
  2. "Virginia Military Records", pg 401, 407 (Officers from Virginia, who served with Gen. Geo. Washington)
  3. "Trenton and Princeton 1776-77" Washington crosses the Delaware, published in Great Britain, Osprey Publishing, pg 19
  4. NARA, M881, COMP MIL SERV RECS ROLL #954

Spouse: Jane Pope
Children: Cella; Elizabeth; George; John; Charles; Joseph; Jane; Henry; Benjamin; Sarah;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1960-11-30 SC Unassigned Thomas Helm Perdue (85962) George   
1971-06-09 KY Unassigned John Larue Helm IV (101265) George   
1991-09-04 OK 215278 Monroe Garland Davis Jr (137599) Ann   
2009-02-19 FL 26931 Phillip Herbert Tarpley (165167) Cella   
2023-04-14 GA 106525 John Connelly Stoecker (225974) John   
2023-04-14 GA 106526 Christopher Hans Stoecker (225975) John   
2023-04-14 GA 106527 Benjamin Connelly Stoecker (225976) John   
2023-04-14 GA 106528 John William Stoecker (225977) John   
2023-04-14 GA 106529 Winston Scott Law (225978) John   
Burial:
Helm (C-0373750)
Location:
Elizabethtown / Hardin / KY / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
640735
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
37.708507 / -85.872799
Find A Grave Memorial #:
11639238
Marker Type:
VA Vertical / SAR granite
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
15 Sep 2019

Comments:
  • 4"x4"x8" Granite SAR Patriot Emblem
  • Photo(s) displayed courtesy of A.G. Manning, INSSAR
  • Helm Cemetery photo courtesy of John Humphries, KYSSAR


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

From north on 31W, pass Hardin Memorial Hospital on the right, pass Wendy’s on the left, pass the Helmwood Animal Clinic and immediately turn left. The cemetery is behind Helmwood Animal Clinic, 804 N. Dixie Ave. in Elizabethtown. There is a fairly steep hill to climb to enter the stone walled cemetery



Author: Scott Giltner
Thomas Helm lived in Fauquier County, Virginia.  Thomas Helm was a Lieutenant in the 3rd Virginia regiment in 1775.  He was in a company commanded by Captain Lee.  Thomas was later promoted to Captain which rank he held until the end of the war.  He was in the battles of York Island, Trenton, and Brandywine.  He was in command of a company at the Siege of Yorktown.  After the surrender of the British, he was in charge of marching off prisoners.
 
Thomas married the daughter of John Gillison also of Fauquier County.  His wife's first name is not known.
 
Thomas Helm was one of three original settlers in Severn's Valley in Kentucky in the 1780s.  Severn's Valley later became Elizabethtown, KY.  He built a fort at the location now known as Helm's Place where five generations of his family would live.  His grandson John LaRue Helm was twice elected governor of Kentucky.

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