Display Patriot - P-235358 - James LEMMON/LEMON

James LEMMON/LEMON

SAR Patriot #: P-235358

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Private
DAR #: A069543

Birth: Apr 1765 Hagerstown / / MD
Death: 04 Jul 1857 Lancaster / Dallas / TX

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. DAR - FUTURE APPLICANTS MUST PROVE CORRECT SERVICE
    • SERVICE ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES LEMON A069544. 5/1986
    • FUTURE APPLICANTS MAY USE HIS FATHER ROBERT LEMON, A069571. 5/2021
  2. 1st Regiment Virginia - Infantry

Additional References:
  1. Vol IV, pg 225, VA State Library, Richmond, VA fought in the 4th, 8th, and 12th VA Regiment
  2. Historical Register of Virginians in the Rev War by John H. Gwathmey
  3. Payroll record June 1779 1st Regiment of Virginia
  4. Graves Report submitted by William B. Watts - 14 Nov 2022

Spouse: (1) Sarah Carr; (2) Amy Rawlings
Children: John; Washington; Hardin; William; Robert Allen; Francis Marion; Jack; Betsy Patsy; Ellen; Daniel; Damaris; Sally;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
2003-01-15 TX 14966 Lee Roy Wylie (154348) Ellen   
Burial:
Edgewood Cemetery (C-0003128)
Location:
Lancaster / Dallas / TX / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
3375
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
32.579738 / -96.747121
Find A Grave Memorial #:
6061692
Marker Type:
SAR GRANITE / War 1812
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
19 MAR 2023

Comments:
  • Edgewaood Cemetery record: "...in the older sectoin is that of James Lemon, veteran of the American Revolution, who died on July 4, 1858..."
  • photo used with permission of William B. Watts, TXSSAR


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Drive into the cemetery entrance past the pavilion to the last pathway and turn right. Drive about 800 feet the tombstone is on the right about 100 feet



Author: William Byron Watts

James Lemmon, the son of Captain Robert Lemmon, was born about 1765 in Hagerstown, Maryland. Apparently, James followed his father during the Revolutionary War and was a messenger. “It was safer for a boy than for a man.”

James was twelve in 1777 and joined George Washington as a messenger providing communication between Washington’s camp and other commanders in the Colonial forces. As he grew, he became big enough to carry a musket and joined the Virginia army. James probably served under Francis Marion because he named one of his children Francis Marion Lemmon.

After the war, James moved with his father to “Kentucke.” Around 1800, he married Sarah Carr and lived in Bowling Green, Kentucky. They had seven known children.

James joined the fight during the War of 1812, and in 1815 after Sarah died, he sold his farm and moved to Illinois, where he married Amy Rawlins, and they had eight known children.
In 1844 James’s son talked his father into moving to the “Texjas” because there was more fertile black land. The family made the long trip to Texas, where James built his final home in the Republic of Texas, where he died on 4 July 1858. He is buried in Edgewood Cemetery, Lancaster, Texas, near the spot where he camped the night they arrived in Peter’s Colony in 1844.

Sources:

  1. Dallas Morning News June 27, 1948
  2. Gwathmey, John H., Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution: Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, 1775-1783, Virginia. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1938, page 468.
  3. Monnette, Orra Eugene, Spirit of Patriotism as Evidenced by the Revolutionary and Ancestral Records of the Society, Sons of the Revolution, in the State of California, California. Los Angeles: Publican Committee, Sons of the Revolution, 1915, page 241.
  4. Lemmon, Jasper, The History of the Lemmon Family April 13, 1884

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Additional Information:

DAR cites birthplace as Elizabeth Town / Frederick / MD



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