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State of Service: SC
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant / Patriotic Service
There are multiple stones: 1] upright stone that is contemporary with the death of the Patriot; 2] Large flat stone covering the grave; 3] Name appears on a monument dedicated to veterans buried in the cemetery.
per Find-a-Grave COL Aaron Lockert
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Author: Billy Mott Jones
Aaron Lockert was born Aaron Lockhart in the year 1732 in Pennsylvania. It’s been suggested that the name change came about during the Revolution, Aaron and his brother joined the Rebel Army, but their Northern branch adhered to the cause of the King and became Tories. This caused a breach in the family with such bitterness that Aaron and his brother changed their name to Lockert.
Aaron’s father was a Scotsman who settled with his seven sons in Pennsylvania. The Lockhart family is mentioned in Donald Bains’ book of Clans & Tartans, and the Lockharts were related to Robert the Bruce. Aaron and his brother moved to Chester County, South Carolina, and settled on the Broad River at a place now called Lockhart Shoals.
Aaron married twice: first to Elizabeth Levision on 22 April 1767 at Swede’s Church in Philadelphia, and they had six children. After Elizabeth’s death, he married a second time to Sarah Miles on 12 December 1776 in Chester County, South Carolina. Sarah was born on 11 November 1749 and died in 1834 in Montgomery County, Tennessee. There were seven children born into this union.
Aaron’s services to the war included £285.2, flour, corn, and bacon for the use of Colonel Winn’s Regiment. He carried the rank of Lieutenant in Colonel Winn’s Regiment. However, his gravestone is marked as Colonel Aaron Lockert, died on 26 December 1795, age 63 years.
He died on 20 December 1795 and was buried as Aaron Lockert at Bullock Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Sharon, York County, South Carolina.
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