Display Patriot - P-238408 - Michael LOONEY Sr

Michael LOONEY Sr

SAR Patriot #: P-238408

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: VA      Qualifying Service: Private
DAR #: A071516

Birth: abt 1755 / Botetourt / VA
Death: aft 12 Nov 1827 / Hawkins / TN

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Private, Virginia, in the Battle of Point Pleasant and Dunmore's War, 1775
  2. DAR RC# 433801, # 660358 state: PRIVATE; Captain HENRY PAULING, BATTLE OF PT PLEASANT

Additional References:
  1. Goodspeed's History of Knox County, Tennessee, pg 999-1000
  2. Acklin's Tombstone Records and History of Tennessee, pg 234-235
  3. White's King's Mountain Men, pg 201
  4. Summer's Southwest Virginia, pg 109, 113, 1431
  5. DAR RC# 433801 & # 660358 cite:
    • SUMMERS, ANNALS OF SOUTHWEST VA, PART 2, pg 1413
    • POFFENBARGER, BATTLE OF POINT PLEASANT, pg 26
  6. 56th-77th Annual Reports DAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate)
  7. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004

Spouse: Temperence/Temperance Cross
Children: Margaret; William; Michael Jr; Absalom D; John; Mary Polly/ Mary Ann; Margaret;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1973-01-24 LA Unassigned Robert Calvin Scott (104104) Mary Ann/Polly   
1988-12-14 AL 221883 John Will Matthews (132176) Mary/Polly   
1994-10-03 OK 207754 Robert Glyn Trimble (143290) William   
1996-08-23 CA 214483 LeBron Camp Preston (137953) Margaret   
1997-10-09 CA 204638 Steven Guy Preston (145706) Margaret   
2000-01-25 CA 5266 Scott Lee Newsome (145496) Margaret   
2000-01-25 VA 5308 Harry Lowrey McNeel (144822) Margaret   
2001-11-13 CA 10662 Todd Powell Newsome (154152) Margaret   
2022-11-18 TX 104322 Milton Andrew Nantz (224397) Mary Ann   
Burial:
Michael Looney Cemetery (C-0236065)
Location:
Surgoinsville / Hawkins / TN / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2455326
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
43358558
Marker Type:
SAR Granite
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
27 Oct 2019

Comments:

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
  • No GPS data for grave site on Find-a-Grave - Oct 2020
  • The Looney Cemetery is located behind the home at 2569 Stanley Valley Road, Rogersville
  • Turn in the driveway and go back to the vineyard at the back of the property
  • The cemetery is fenced and a large sign denotes who is buried there


Author: Donald L. Hills
 Michael Looney was born at Botetourt County, Virginia, a son of Absalom Looney and Margaret Eleanor (maiden name unknown).  He attended school at Hagerstown, Maryland.
     Private Michael Looney was in Captain Henry Paulding's militia  and fought in the Battle of Point Pleasant at what is now West Virginia.  Point Pleasant is located where the Kanawha River joins the Ohio River.  The battle took place October 10, 1774 during what is called Lord Dunmore's War.  The Virginia militia, under the command of General Andrew Lewis, fought a force of Shawnee and Mingo indians along with a few Wyandot, Delaware and Miami braves.  The Indian force numbered close to twelve hundred warriors while the militia numbered eight hundred.  The battle started in the early morning and lasted into the afternoon with much of it being hand-to-hand combat.  It ended when the Shawnee Chief Cornstalk learned of five hundred militia reinforcements on their way up the Kanawha River and would soon be at the battle in about an hour.  Cornstalk withdrew his warriors in a slow retreat back to and across the Ohio River.  General Lewis thought this was a maneuver to draw his troops into a trap and withdrew them back to camp.  The Battle of Point Pleasant was over.  The militia claimed victory due to holding their ground while the Indians withdrew.
     Michael Looney mustered out of the militia in late 1775 or early 1776.  He married Temperance Cross in 1776.  The Looney and Cross families settled around the present Blountville, Tennessee, area and held much land in Sullivan and Hawkins counties.  in 1780, Michael bought 250 acres of land and a cabin in Stanley Valley from Mr. Stanley, who was eager to return to his native Massachusetts.  The purchase price for the land and cabin was Michael's horse,saddle,bridle and a fine long butcher knife.  Michael and Temperance started life in Stanley Valley with his rifle and her spinning wheel.  The purchase price amounted to 12 1/2 cents per acre.
     Michael and Temperance had ten children between the years of 1779 and 1799.  They were Margaret, Mary Ann, Ann (who died at a young age), William, Rachel, Peter, Absalom, Benjamin, Michael and John.
     During a hunting trip into Kentucky territory, Michael, his son Peter, and Michael's brother were attacked by a Shawnee hunting party.  Peter was captured and the brother was killed.  Michael escaped back home where Peter joined him a year later after his release.
     Michael attained approximately 2,000 more acres in the valley during his lifetime, leaving it to his sons and daughters.  He was preceded in death in 1837 by his wife and he died in 1839, at the home of his son,Benjamin.
     Two of Michael's descendants were Joseph Emerson Brown, the Governor of Georgia during the Civil War, and his son Joseph Mackay Brown also a Governor of Georgia.
 

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