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.
Birth: 25 Jul 1755 / Cumberland / MD Death: 20 Dec 1815 Harrisburg / Dauphin / PA
Qualifying Service Description:
Private, First Company, Fourth Battalion of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Militia, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Culbertson
In the Company of John McDonnell
Additional References:
NSSAR Grave Registry form provided to Official SAR Nat'l. Graves Registry Comm. Chm, May 2, 1947 by Chas. W Simmons, a resident of Harrisburg, PA. Simmons apparently, was affiliated with the Harris Ferry Chapter of PASSAR at Harrisburg, PA, based upon the Grave Registry form's typed heading
Pennsylvania Archives, Series III, Vol XXIII, pg 700
After conducting a cem. physical survey, the writer, determined the grave location at "R" within Section "89"
The submitter of the form wrote, that during 1941 the Harrisburg NSDAR erected names on a Memorial plaque the Harrisburg cem. entrance
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