The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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Author: Frank Grady Hall, III
When John Secrest was born about 1754, in Culpeper, Virginia, his father, Jacobus, was 20 and his mother, Jeanette, was 24.
He married Sabra Jeanette Fields Lewis in 1786 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. They had nine children during their marriage. He had one child from one relationship in 1795.
He then married Elizabeth Lock and they had two children together between 1795 and 1816.
He served as a Private in the North Carolina Line; some records show him as a Captain.
He died on November 30, 1847, in Williamson, Tennessee, at the impressive age of 93, and was buried in Tennessee.
The monument on the front lawn of the Union County Tennessee Court House is "IN MEMORY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS OF UNION COUNTY". Three of the names listed are Emanuel Stevens, William Houston, and John Secrest.
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