Display Patriot - P-276365 - Peter REASONER

Peter REASONER

SAR Patriot #: P-276365

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: PA      Qualifying Service: Captain
DAR #: A093996

Birth: 17 Dec 1740 / Frederick / PA
Death: 1807

Qualifying Service Description:

Frontier Ranger serving in Colonel John Cannon's Pennsylvania Militia


Additional References:
  1. Bates, History of Greene County, Pennsylvania, pg 251-252
  2. SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
  3. Portrait and Biographical Record of Guernsey County. Ohio C.O. Owen & Co, 1895, pg 321
  4. Mabel Smith and Hilda Johnson, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Roster #3, pg 290

Spouse: Mary Spears
Children: Benjamin; Henry; John; Jacob; Nicholas/Nichlos; Rebecca; Sarah; Susan; Solomon;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1970-09-25 KS Unassigned Wendling Henderson Hastings (100355) Benjamin   
1983-11-21 CA Unassigned Warren LeRoy Odell (122986) John   
1984-03-16 AZ Unassigned William Delmer Murphy Sr (123623) Benjamin   
1985-03-12 VA Unassigned James Lesley Fulton Jr (123860) Benjamin   
1991-03-25 CA 219928 Jamieson Bitzer Bates (133488) Jacob   
1993-06-22 OH 210734 Bradford Earl Reasoner (140963) Benjamin   
2006-07-27 TX 25949 Thomas Robert Leslie IV (167478) Benjamin   
2006-11-20 OH 27035 Kenneth Walter Riley (168164) Jacob   
2015-01-28 CA 62362 Glenn David Reasoner (193520) Jacob   
2015-11-10 MO 66979 Phillip Roland Krause CPA (196906) Benjamin   
2015-11-10 MO 66980 Zachary Reed Fletcher (196907) Benjamin   
2016-11-02 MO 71603 Jake William Krause (200223) Benjamin   
Burial:
Reasoner Burying Grounds (C-0210581)
Location:
/ Guernsey / OH / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2415702
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
39.997879 / -81.723831
Find A Grave Memorial #:
75460580
Marker Type:
Headstone
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • Newer VA style stone & bronze 1776 marker, upright, legible
  • Image used with permission of Michael B. Gunn, 185230, Cincinnati Chapter, OHSSAR
  • Images 2 & 3, provided with permission from Chris Burns, Find-A-Grave memeber # 276365


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Dr. Michael Bernard Gunn
Born on February 17, 1735, Frederick Co., Virginia to Parent: Nicholas Reasoner (1697-1771), wife's name not known. Served as a Ranger with the Washington County Pennsylvania Militia on the frontier and was one of Patrick Henry's captains. His wife was Mary Molly Speer born on the South Shenandoah River in VA who he married at Patterson Creek in 1763 in then Hampshire County, VA which is now a part of WV. They temporarily moved to Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co PA where her parents had settled on the Monongahela River. Peter appeared on the tax list before moving west with his family. He Married Mary Molly Speer (1745-1805) in 1763; Children: Nicholas, Benjamin, John, Sarah, Jacob, Solomon, Henry, Regina. Susan & Mary. On May 16, 1791, given 136 acres of land as depreciation claim. He Died in 1807 in Guernsey Co., and buried in Reasoner Burying Grounds, 1163 Fitzgerald Lane, New Concord, Guernsey Co., OH 43762. Burial ground given by John Reasoner living near Cemetery. Sandstone marker, partly crumbled, inscription obliterated. Fur infor Anna Asbury Stone Chap. 56th-77th Annual Reports DAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC. DAR Patriot index Centennial Edition, Part 3, p. 2417. Thomas L. Montgomery, Ed., Archives of Pennsylvania, Fifth Series, Volume II, (Harrisburg, Pa.: 1906), pp. 318, 725.  Portrait And Biographical Record of Guernsey County. Ohio C.O. Owen & Co., 1895, p. 321. Mabel Smith and Hilda Johnson, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Roster #3, p. 290.. Has a VA tombstone and a bronze 1776 marker.

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