Display Patriot - P-279649 - Archibald ROANE

Archibald ROANE

SAR Patriot #: P-279649

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State of Service: PA      Qualifying Service: Soldier
DAR #: A096572

Birth: 1759 / Lancaster / PA
Death: 04 Jan 1819 Campbell's Station / Knox / TN

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Soldier, PA Militia
  2. Fought at the Siege of Yorktown
  3. Capt James McCreight, Lieutenant Colonel John Rogers

Additional References:
  1. PA Archives, 5th Series, Vol.7, pg 912, 937, 957
  2. Tennessee Historical Magazine, Volume 4, No. 2 (JUNE, 1918), pg 149-152

Spouse: Anne Campbell
Children: James; Andrew Campbell;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1975-02-28 TX Unassigned Anthony D Sheppard (108378) James   
Burial:
Pleasant Forest Cemetery (C-0015770)
Location:
Farragut / Knox / TN / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
17189
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
35.877878 / -84.149826
Find A Grave Memorial #:
5696649
Marker Type:
Monument
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • On June 26, 1918, near Campbell's Station, Knox Co., there was dedicated the monument erected by the State of Tennessee to its second governor, Archibald Roane."After lying for ninety-nine years in an unmarked grave, the pioneer soldier, statesman and jurist was honored as few Tennesseans have been honored."
  • Photo used with permission of Compatriot Mitchell Anderson, 229001, KYSSAR


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Mr. Joel Anthony Davenport

During the Revolutionary War, Archibald Roane, second governor of the state of Tennessee (1801-1803), served in the Continental Army as a member of the Lancaster County Militia (5th Company, 9th Battalion, Pennsylvania Volunteers). He was among the troops who took part in Washington's crossing of the Delaware River and the subsequent Battle of Trenton in December 1776. He was present at the surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781. Roane is buried at Pleasant Forest Cemetery in Farragut, Tenn.


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Additional Information:
  • He migrated to TN in 1788 as a teacher of languages
  • 2nd Governor of TN
  • Road marker [1E8] on US 11-70 in Knox Co at Concord Road in Farragut, TN states: "A short distance north lived Archibald Roane, Continental Soldier, frontier judge, and the second Governor of Tennessee."
  • He died at his plantation, Grassey Valley 9 miles south of Knoxville, near Campbell Station


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