Display Patriot - P-294319 - Frederick SAUERS/SOURS/SOWERS
Frederick SAUERS/SOURS/SOWERS
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P-294319
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Frederick Sowers (Sauers or Sours) enlisted in the Army of the United States as a private in the fall of 1779 in Captain Roberts’ Company of Colonel Slaughter’s Regiment in the Virginia Line. He marched to the falls of the Ohio, and joined General George Rogers Clark's Illinois regiment and served two years.
He was stationed at Fort Nelson, which is present-day Louisville, Kentucky. The fort protected the center of Kentucky from Indians. Sowers was discharged in the fall of 1781 and returned to Shenandoah County. He married Ann Mary Roddolph, March 12, 1783. They were the parents of six children: Henry, Eve, Adam, Philip, Balthasar and Anna Elizabeth.
Frederick Sowers died August 11 or 12, 1832, at Shenandoah County, Virginia. By virtue of Sowers’ military service during the Revolution, Ann Mary Roddolph Sowers was allowed a widow’s pension of $80 per annum. She made her pension application, at *W6144, October 24, 1836, as a resident of Page County, Virginia, aged about seventy years. Ann Mary Rudolph Sowers died at Page County, August 14, 1847.
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