Display Patriot - P-300212 - Mrs Jemima SUGGETT/JOHNSON

Mrs Jemima SUGGETT/JOHNSON

SAR Patriot #: P-300212

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
DAR #: A063334

Birth: 20 Jun 1753 / Orange / VA
Death: 23 Feb 1814 / Scott / KY

Qualifying Service Description:

CARRIED WATER TO DEFENDERS OF BRYAN'S STATION


Additional References:

DAR cite DRAKE, Kentucky IN RETROSPECT, pg 209


Spouse: Robert Johnson
Children: Henry; James; Elizabeth/Betsy; Sallie; John Telemachus; William;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1996-08-09 OR 203384 Wilmer Purvine Blanchard (146671) Elizabeth/Betsy   
1996-08-09 OR 203387 John Milton Coletti III (146673) Betsy   
Burial:
Great Crossing (aka Johnson Family) Cemetery (C-0371279)
Location:
Great Crossing / Scott / KY / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
1966699
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
38.214230 / -84.605230
Find A Grave Memorial #:
35076512
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

photo used with permission of Compatriot Mitchell Anderson, 229001, KYSSAR



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Author: James E. Vaughn, Jr.
Jemima Suggett Johnson was born in 1753 and died in 1814. She was married to Colonel Robert Johnson who was born in 1745 and died 15 Oct 1815. Both Jemima and Robert were natives of Virginia. They had four children when they left Virginia for Kentucky, and a fifth child, Richard Mentor Johnson, was born while the family was living on Bear Grass Creek, Kentucky, near the Falls of the Ohio. Richard Mentor Johnson became the 9th Vice President of the United States of America. Jemima and Robert Johnson had a total of eleven children, and they moved their family from Bear Grass Creek to Bryan’s Station, near Lexington, Kentucky, in the winter of 1780-1781.
Jemima Suggett Johnson is thought to be the leader of the women and children who left Bryan’s Station under the muskets of hostile Wyandot Indians and Canadian Rangers to get water from a nearby spring during the siege of Bryan’s Station in the middle of August 1782. Richard Mentor Johnson was still an infant during this siege, and was saved by his sister, Betsy, when a flaming arrow landed in his “sugar trough cradle”. Jemima’s name and those of her daughters, Sally and Betsy Johnson are the first ones listed on the Daughters of the American Revolution Memorial Wall at Bryan’s Station. Jemima Suggett Johnson is listed as Ancestor #A063334 by the Daughters of the American Revolution for her patriotic service in carrying water to the defenders of Bryan’s Station.

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