Display Patriot - P-262827 - Michael O'HAIR/O'HARA

Michael O'HAIR/O'HARA

SAR Patriot #: P-262827

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 #: A085841

Birth: 11 Sep 1749 Newry Valley / County Down / Ireland
Death: 1813 Hazel Green / Montgomery / KY

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Private - CAPT Looney, COL William McClenechand, VA
  2. CAPT John Hay, 9th, VA Regt

Additional References:
  1. Gen Service Administration, National Archives & Records Service File: Michael O'Hair Morgans Rifle Regiment, Continental Troops
  2. WORRELL, EARLY MARRIAGES, WILLS, AND SOME REV WAR RECS, BOTETOURT CO, VA, pg 69
  3. Lib. of VA, List of Rev War Soldiers of VA, pg 229
  4. Summers, Annals of Southwest VA 1769 - 1800, pg 1379, 1403

Spouse: (1) Elinor Hawkins; (2) Elizabeth Tribett
Children: Thomas; Sarah/Sallie; Rose Ann; Eleanor; James E M; Mary; Nancy; John; Michael; Andrew Washington;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1944-01-14 KS Unassigned Jess Newman Dalton (59772) Thomas   
1965-07-15 PA Unassigned William Curtis Hearst (92989)   
1965-11-18 IN Unassigned Robert Hufford O'Hair (93577) James   
1977-06-06 IN Unassigned Michael Wayne Thomas (113302) James   
1981-02-04 IN Unassigned Emory Carl O'Hair (118073) James   
1998-12-23 CA 2577 Kelly Thomas O'hair (151221) John   
2006-07-27 FL 25913 Willard Lee Strong Jr. (167462) Eleanor   
2006-12-08 CA 26767 Robert Lee Taylor (161199) Andrew   
2010-02-26 PA 38031 William Skaggs Hearst (176321) James   
2010-02-26 PA 38032 William Curtis Hearst (176322) James   
2015-12-04 MD 67220 Ryan Alexander Woodard (197090) Eleanor   
2016-12-08 TX 72217 Paul Randal Howe (200738) Thomas   
2017-10-20 FL 77748 Thomas Bartholomay Jelke (205052) John   
2019-02-08 TN 85090 Terrence Ladd O'Hair (210614) James   
2022-03-11 MO 98432 Brad Edgar Frazier (218066) Rose   
2022-04-15 TX 101302 Robert Wayne Saunders (222216) Nancy   
2022-04-15 TX 101303 Jonathan Lawrence Saunders (222217) Nancy   
2022-04-15 TX 101304 Wyatt Owen Saunders (222218) Nancy   
2022-04-15 TX 101305 Christopher Wayne Saunders (222219) Nancy   
2023-01-20 TX 105046 Matthew Steven Lacek (225038) Sarah   
Burial:
Hazel Green Cemetery (C-0372698)
Location:
Hazel Green / Wolfe / KY / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
411712
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
37.797170 / -83.413420
Find A Grave Memorial #:
13135650
Marker Type:
horizontal VA
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Photo used with permission of Compatriot Mitchell Anderson



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Aimee Freeman

Michael O'Hair was born on 11 September 1749 in Newry Valley, County Down, Ireland. He arrived in colonial America at the age of 12 without his parents. He was bonded to Alexander Milroy in Staunton, Virginia, in 1760, moving close to the Cowpasture River before moving to Fincastle, Virginia. 

He spent most of his time in this area until participating in the Virginia militia in 1776 before enlisting in the Continental Army, where he was selected to join Daniel Morgan's elite rifle company. With Morgan, he saw action in Saratoga and marched back to Valley Forge, where he was furloughed. He re-enlisted in the Illinois Regiment under George Rogers Clark, serving from 1 December 1779, and discharged on 2 February 1782. 

During this time, he met the brother of his second wife, Eleanor Hawkins. They were married on 10 June 1783 in Botetourt, Virginia. In 1788, Michael, Eleanor, and two small children moved from Virginia to Kentucky following the Wilderness Road crossing in northern Tennessee, arriving at the Cumberland Gap. They continued following the Boone Trace, settling roughly ten miles south of Lexington. 

Following Eleanor's death, he married Elizabeth Tribett on 4 April 1793, as recorded in Cark County, Kentucky. He was a pioneer of Kentucky, a soldier, a farmer, and a family man. He was married three times and had 19 children, 18 living to maturity.

The Patriot died in 1813 in Montgomery County, Kentucky. In his honor, a historical marker and a V/A stone were placed in Hazel Green Cemetery.


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DAR NOTE: (there are potential issues) regarding this person's lineage -THE MOTHER OF MICHAEL AND MARY FLORENCE, CHILDREN OF JOHN O'HAIR BORN PRIOR TO 1831, HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED - Aug 2019



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