Author: Barrett L. McKown
Thomas Pribble, III was born 1760 in Baltimore County, MD, Now St. George’s Parish, Harford County and moved to Greene Co., PA prior to the Revolutionary War living in the area known as the “Ten Mile Country” near Fort Redstone.

In 1796 he moved with his family to Wood County, VA on the north side of the Little Kanawha River, about one and one-half miles above the mouth of the Hughes River where he owned 350 acres in Tithable Lists 1797-99, in Wood Co, VA

He died 20 Dec 1836 in Wood County, VA, now Wirt County WV, His Parents were Thomas Pribble II and Elizabeth Teagarden. He was the great-grandson of the indentured emigrant to Baltimore County, Thomas Pribble, 20 August 1684. He is buried Pribble Cemetery, Newark, Wirt Co. WV

He married Hannah Enoch 1784, daughter of Col. Henry Enoch, Greene Co., PA - 1766 to 8/25/1846. They had 12 Children - Elizabeth Fought, Abram, Mary Darnell, Hiram, Hugh, Armanelah Foster, Nancy Pickering, Hedgeman, Daniel, Thomas Jr., Henry, and Hannah.

Rev. War Service Information was from his pension application R 8439 dated 13 March 1834 He alleged that while residing on Muddy Creek near Fort Red Stone in Greene County, PA he served as an Indian Spy under Capt. James Pigman, and that he served under Capt. William Cross in Col. Evans Regiment of the Pennsylvania Militia, having marched to Pittsburgh and joined Gen, McIntosh and helped to build Forts McIntosh and Lauren, and that he served under Capt David Owens in Col. Zane’s Regiment of Pennsylvania Militia as an Indian Spy on the Ohio River and that he joined Cols. Clark and Logan in Kentucky and marched to Chillicothe and the Piqua Towns, after which he was in the Battle of Sandusky under Cols. Crawford and Williamson, and that all of his service amounted to 2 years 6 months