Display Patriot - P-231690 - John KOONTZ/KOONS/KOON/COON/KUNTZ
John KOONTZ/KOONS/KOON/COON/KUNTZ
SAR Patriot #:
P-231690
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
Images taken and submitted with permission of Compatriot Orin Sadler (NC) member 182372
KOONTZ memorial
Husband | Johannes Kuntz | Born York Co,. PA | Nov 17, 1754 | Aug, 5, 1842
Wife | Dorothea Glatfielder | June 25, 1755 | Baptized Jul 6, 1755 | July 30, 1842
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Main Entrance. Walk toward cross with circle around it. His grave is well marked on the right side of the trail leading to the cross. PRS: please note DAR marker at site.
Photo: 1 of 3 (gps: 35.888194444444,-80.279 Direction: 256°)
Photo: 2 of 3 (gps: 35.888180555556,-80.278983333333)
Photo: 3 of 3 (gps: 35.888172222222,-80.279030555556)
Author: Lt Col Gary Owen Green
John Koontzes son, Michael Koontz is recorded at Davidson, NC Division of Land Bk., I, Lot 3, pg. 15; also, note that during 1777, John Koontzes residence is recorded at Rowan Co., NC. Importantly, during 1770 Surry Co., NC, was formed from Rowan Co., and Benjamin Cleaveland became one of its prominent leaders, serving as a Justice of the court; source, "Before They Were Heroes at King's Mountain," Randell Jones, copyright 2011, pgs 22, 173 & 271 (Col. Francis Locke)
Dorothea Clodfelter (1755-1842) mar., John, (1775 at Rowan Co., NC); Children: 1) sons, Michael b., 10 Feb 1777 (Rowan Co., NC) mar., wife, (Unknown), a son, George b., 1806, NC; 2) David; and, 3) dau., Susanna;
Revolutionary War service as a Private in Capts., Lyons and Lopp's companies, of Col. Francis Locke's regt. of BrigGen Griffith Rutherford's Bgde., (NC) Militia; source, US Nat'l., Archives (NARA) WDC, Pension File, see: Pension Records, Vol II, pg 1984 compiled by Virgil D White; also, NSSAR # 164990, approved May 24, 2005
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