Display Patriot - P-239663 - Dickerson LUMPKIN Jr

Dickerson LUMPKIN Jr

SAR Patriot #: P-239663

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: Soldier
DAR #: A072393

Birth: abt 1765 / / VA
Death: bef 14 Jan 1856 / Talbot / GA

Qualifying Service Description:

He received a grant for land in Georgia made to Revolutionary War veterans.


Additional References:

Hitz, Alex Mayer, Authentic List of all Land Lottery Grants Made to Veterans of the Revolutionary War by the State of Georgia: Taken from Official State Records in the Surveyor-General Department Housed in the Georgia Department of Archives and History: Georgia. Atlanta, Secretary of State of Georgia, Atlanta, 1955, pg 46


Spouse: Charlotte XX
Children: Frances/Franky; Rebecca; Sarah/Sally; Elizabeth; Charlotte; Milly; John; Edmund; Dickerson
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
2017-01-16 GA 71698 John Thomas Trussell (191169) Charlotte   
Burial:
Woodall Family Cemetery #2 (C-0277069)
Location:
Woodland / Talbot / GA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2516291
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
32.735556 / -84.498611
Find A Grave Memorial #:
147223122
Marker Type:
SAR Granite;
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
13 Apr 2024

Comments:
  • Image taken and provided with approval of compatriot John Trussell (GA), member 191169.
  • There was no original marker at the site. Willand probate records stated that a wooden shelter was constructed over his grave.A search was made of the presumed site and location for marker was onlygrave site where approximately 10 nails were found.Stonescontemporary to 1856 were found at this grave site.


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: John Thomas Trussell

Dickerson Lumpkin, Jr was born in Virginia in about 1765 to Dickerson Lumpkin Sr and his wife, Ann Cabiness Lumpkin. He is named in his father, Dickerson Limpkin, Sr.'s nuncupative will made in 1793. Dickerson Sr. is described as an apprentice who "binds himself" in service to John Philips of Prince Edward County. Dickerson Lumpkin "of King and Queen County" agreed, apparently, not to marry before the end of his apprenticeship. This indenture was for two years and two months, which was made on November 28, 1757. During his time as an indentured servant, he served as a jointer and builder. In the early 1780s, while a resident of Amelia County, Virginia, Dickerson Lumpkin, Sr provided beef for the Continental Army and is also a National Society SAR-approved Patriot. Proof of his contributions can be found in the Amelia County, Virginia Public Service Claims. Dickerson Lumpkin Sr. donated beef on three different occasions in 1781, 1782, and 1783. 

This lengthy period of donations might indicate close ties to the local military unit. It would lend credibility to the fact that Dickerson Lumpkin's teenage son, Dickerson Lumpkin, Jr, was offering service as a soldier. After the Revolutionary War, Dickerson Jr. moved south and settled in Jones County, Georgia. 
His Talbot County, Georgia Last Will and Testament lists his heirs as his wife, Charlotte [Tillman], and his children:

  • Frances "Franky" was born in 1791 and married Hardy Wheeless.
  • John was born in 1801 and married Sarah Slaton.
  • Edmund was born in about 1803 and married Sarah Franklin.
  • Sarah "Sally"
  • Elizabeth was born about 1805 and married Richard Tillman.
  • Charlotte was born about 1807 and married Henry Peed.
  • Milly married John Cook.
  • Dickerson was born on 29 September 1812 and married Bal Sarah Brooks. 
  • Rebecca was born on 15 April 1819 and married Benjamin Halley.

In the 1827 Georgia Land Lottery, Dickerson Jr. was identified as a Revolutionary Soldier with "R.S." next to his name was a fortunate drawer in the land lottery as a resident of Jones County. He was listed in Jones County, Georgia, in the U.S. Census reports for 1820 and 1830. 

He moved to Talbot County, Georgia, where he died in 1856 and was buried in the Wheelus-Woodall-Lumpkin Cemetery, located at the property at 3162 Kurt Williams Road. His actual grave was lost to time in this cemetery. While researching his Talbot County estate records, it was revealed that the Executor of his Will had a wooden structure built over his grave. That hint of a location allowed the finding of only one grave in this cemetery, where nails were located in the soil with a metal detector. At that point, Patriot Dickerson Lumpkin, Jr.’s grave was determined to be found. 

 

Sources:

  1. Dickerson Lumpkin, Sr., Nuncupative Will, Made in 1793 and "Proved" in Charlotte County, VA, on June 2, 1794. The Will was ultimately filed among "Partly Proved and Unrecorded Wills of Charlotte County, Virginia"; research provided by Roger Harris, a descendant, in find-a-grave memorial 147223122
  2. Dickerson Lumpkin, Jr., Will and Codicil, Probate Records 1856-1856, Talbot County, GA, Vol. D.

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