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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Private / Spy / Patriotic Service
Per FindaGrave The Minear Memorial is on the side of Location Rd in St. George, WV.
Author: Wm Lee Popham, Sr.
Birth: Jul. 31, 1755 Bucks County Pennsylvania, USA Death: Oct. 21, 1834 Fort Minear Saint George, Tucker County, West Virginia, USA
David was a Ranger, an Indian Fighter, and a Spy during the Revolutionary War. He was also a soldier during the Indian Wars.
David Minear married Catherine Saylor on April 21, 1787 in Harrison County, (West) Virginia by Rev. J.W. Loofborough. This is recorded in Book One on Page 37, Harrison County, West Virginia.
Children: Manassah Minear Sarah Nancy Minear Nathan Minear William Minear Enoch Minear Elizabeth Minear Jonathan Minear Sarah Minear Mary Minear
Family links: Parents: Johannes George Minear (1730 - 1781) Marie Ursula Minear (1738 - 1780)
Spouse: Catherine Saylor Minear (1771 - 1833)*
Children: Manassah Minear (1788 - 1852)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial: Saint George Cemetery Saint George Tucker County West Virginia, USA
Created by: Trudy Record added: Feb 08, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 84664455
[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #1871, Date of Import: Dec 15, 1996]
David came to Tucker County VA with his father, John Minear. In the spring of 1779 he enlisted in Captain William Haymond's Rangers where he served nine months and was discharged. In the summer of 1780 he was drafted and served six months in Captain Biscoe's Company under General George Rogers Clark in Indiana against the Indians. He was again drafted in the summer of 1781 and served another six months in Captain Salathiel Goff's Company against the Indians.
After his marriage in 1787 he built a stone home in St. George, now torn down, in which school and church were conducted before buildings were built for the purpose. David died of cancer of the throat and is buried in St. George beneath the Minear memorial. He received a pension on Certificate No. 23,565, Survivors File No. 15,932. The text of his pension application is reproduced in C.J. Maxwell, "Descendants of John Minear, 1732?-1781," Ann Arbor, Edwards Bros., 1948.
!Birth and death dates given in Odie Chapman, "Cemetery Records of Tucker County, WV." See also (complete references given under Enoch Minear): Maxwell, History of Tucker Co, WV Fansler, History of Tucker Co, WV Maxwell, History of Randolph Co, WV Book 1, p. 37, Harrison Co, WV
The John Minear Descendants (1948) - By C. J. Maxwell .
David Minear - Short Biography.
David came with his father from Hampshire County to Tucker County about 1776. At the death of his father in 1781 he seems to have become the head of the family. He was married to Catherine Saylor (Sailor), April 21 1787, the ceremony being performed by Rev. J. W. Loofborough. In those days the groom had to give bond that there "was no lawful cause to obstruct the marriage." This bond was signed by David Minear, Thomas Douglass, and John Haymond and witnessed by Benjamin Wilson. At the same time a certificate giving permission for the marriage was signed by John Sailor, Lizbeth Sailor and was witnessed by Frederick Sailor and Philip Minear; evidently John and Elizabeth Sailor were the parents of Catherine; Philip Minear was a brother to David; Frederick Sailor was a brother of Lizbeth. (All these papers are on record in Book One, page 37, Harrison County, W. Va.).
David was much interested in the religious life of the colony. he went to the Methodist Conference "East of the Mountains" and had St. George included in the conference and a minister assigned to it. A separate toom in his home was reserved for the minister on his visits and no other person ever occupied it..
John Minear built the first mill and his son David built the first stone house in Tucker County. David was Overseer of the Poor in 1787 and Constable in 1789. He died of cancer of the throat in St. George, Oct. 21, 1834 and was buried there. In 1928 his descendants erected a large native stone marker at his grave. .
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Tucker Co., was created on 07 Mar 1856 from parts of Randolph Co.