The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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The grave is located at the center-back portion of the cemetery, in front of the tree line
The grave is marked with a new stone, provided by the Veterans Administration
It is also marked with a DAR medallion, posted in the ground next to the stone, by the Bowling Green DAR Chapter
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Author: Steven Gary Stegen
An excerpt from the Revolutionary War Pension of Elijah Hendricks, S*W10104, transcribed by Steven G. Stegen:
Territory of Missouri Northwest in Circuit County of Pike:
On this 12th day of November in the year of our Lord 1820 personally appeared in open Court being the Circuit Court & Court of record within & for the said County of Pike, Elijah Hendrick a resident citizen of said County aged sixty-four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Acts of Congress of the United States passed on the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st May 1820, that he the said Elijah Hendrick enlisted & served on the Continental establishment from the 7th March 1776 to the month of July 1781 by virtue of two enlistments, the one for the term of two years & the other for three years to the best of his recollection in the following manner – that is to say – on the 7th March 1776 he enlisted for two years (in the County of Halifax in the State of Virginia) in the Company commanded by Captain Nathaniel Cocke, & went to old Williamsburg, where the said Company joined the 7th Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel McClenachan [Alexander McClanachan]; that he was at Gwinn's Island [Gwynn Island, July 8-10, 1776] at the driving away Governor Dunmore [John Murray, Lord Dunmore, last Royal Governor of the colony of Virginia]; that he afterwards marched to New Jersey and joined General Washington's Army at BondBrook [Boundbrook]; that he afterwards joined the Company commanded by Captain Thomas Posey in Morgan's Rifle Regiment, under whose command he marched to Canada; was at the taking of General Burgoyne & at the battle of Monmouth, that he was under the command of General Sullivan in his Indian expedition; that on his return he joined the company of Captain William Mosely [William Moseley], in the first Virginia Regiment commanded by Russell [perhaps William Russell] & Ball in General Woodford's [William Woodford's] Brigade marched to Charleston South Carolina & was there taken prisoner – and remained there until the month of July in the year 1781 when he was exchanged & set round to old Jamestown & thence went to old Williamsburg where he was discharged – & that of these facts he has no other evidence in his power at this time than the word of a Continental soldier under the solemnity of an oath. – Sworn to & subscribed in open Court 12th October 1781.
S/ Elijah Hendrick
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