Absalom Hooper was born on the Broad River in SC about 1763. His father died when he was very young. His mother was a Tory and Absalom ran away from home to join the Ist Regiment SC Continental Line in Charleston, SC in 1776.He stayed in the Sc Continental Army until Benjamin Lincoln surrendered the Army at Chalreston to Sir Henry Clinton and Lord Cornwallis. He escaped and went to Georgia and Joined Elijah Clarke's Georgia Militia. He stayed with Clarke until the treaty was signed in 1783. He actually grew up from age thirteen until age twenty serving in the Revolutionary armies of South Carolina and Georgia. After the war he settled on Pistol Creek in Wilkes County, Georgia…He met his wife Sarah Silers there and they were married there in July of 1782. They moved to Pendleton County South Carolina and he received a land grant of 200 acres for his Revolutionary War service. He sold that land and moved to Haywood County North Carolina before 1810. He lived on Caney Fork Creek in what is now Jackson County North Carolina. He hand Sarah had the following children: James Hooper Born 1784 Married Mary Emmaline Chastain, Elizabeth Hooper born 1787 married William Henry Moss, Absalom Hooper,JR born 1789 marriedvMartha Kelly, Eleanor Hooper born 1790 married Abraham Picklesimer, Andrew Hooper born 1792 married1st Dicea? 2^nd Mary Cantrell, Nancy Hooper Born 1794 married Benjamin Chastain, Kessiah "Kizzy" "Kissa" Hooper born 1796 married Milton Brown, Mary Hooper born 1800 married "Bell" or "Ball", Enos McHenry Hooper born 1805 married Matilda Burell, William Hooper born 1806 married Nancy "Nany" Bryson, and Isaac Hooper born 1807 married 1^st Sarah Ledbetter 2^nd Delaney Mathews. Absalom Hooper learned the gunsmith trade while in the ary….also learned to blacksmith. He died on December 9, 1845 in Haywood ( now Jacksin ) County North Carolina.

Sarah Silers/Salers was born about 1762 in South Carolina…She married Absalom Hooper on Pistol Creek in Wilkes county Georgia in 1782. She lived and moved with Absalom Hooper having eleven children through the years. She Died in Haywood ( now Jackson ) County North Carolina in 1857.

Absalom Hooper Ran away from home at age thirteen to Join the First Regiment South Carolina Continental Line. He joined this unit in Charleston in 1776. He served at Sulivan"s Island and at Fort Moultrie helping to repel the British in their first attempt to capture Charleston. This attempt failed. Absalom Hooper then went with General Howe in an unsuccessful attempt to punish the Tories and Indians in their stronghold in Florida. He fought at Brier Creek and Fort Stono. He was in the attack lead by French General DeEstaing at Spring Hill in an attempt to take Savannah back from the British. In this fight, he was wounded by a musket ball in his right arm. He was with Benjamin Lincoln's Army defending Charleston and was wounded in his left thigh by a musket ball. Benjamin Lincoln surrended all of his forces and Absalom Hooper became a prisoner of war. He recupperated from his wound till he felt strong enough and he escaped. He had no unit to go back to because they were all prisoners so he went into Georgia trying to get to his uncle's house. He was captured by Tories and held for five days before being released. He then herd of Elijah Clarke's Georgia Militia. So he found them and joined them. In Elijah Clarke's Militia he was at the seige of Augusta and was at the capture of Fort Brown and Fort Greyson. Then he was at a balle on the Little River in South Carolina. Then He when with General Wayne on his attempt to to retake Savannah. He then went with Elijah Clarke on an expedition against the Cherokees at Long Swamp. He stayed with Elijah Clarke until the treaty was signed