Display Patriot - P-312940 - Andrew WALTHOUR/WALDHAUER

Andrew WALTHOUR/WALDHAUER

SAR Patriot #: P-312940

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.

State of Service: GA Qualifying Service: Private

DAR #: A120670

Birth: 1743 / / Holland
Death: 16 Sep 1824 / Liberty / GA

Qualifying Service Description:

Certificate as refugee soldier, Colonel John Baker, March 15, 1784, Warrant 1560
2nd certificate of John Baker May 19, 1784. Petitioner prays bounty in Washington County
NSDAR Cites - Refugee, as per Act of 20 August 1781

Additional References:

Knight, Lucian LamarGeorgia's Roster of the Revolution, Containing a List of the States Defenders; Officers and Men; Soldiers and Sailors; Partisans and Regulars; Whether Enlisted from Georgia or Settled in Georgia After the Close of Hostilities, Georgia. Atlanta: George Department of Archives and History, 1920, pg 121, 186. 431
NSDAR Cites - O'Kelley, Nichole M. and Mary Bondurant WarrenGeorgia Revolutionary Bounty Land Records, 1783-1785, Georgia. Athens: Heritage Papers, 1992, pg 28

Spouse: Ann Hoffmire/Hophmire
Children: George Washington;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child
2010-08-19	AL	40048	Jonathan Paul Angell (177740)	George
2010-08-19	AL	40049	Thomas Agee Webb (177741)	George
2010-08-19	AL	40050	William Ward Webb (177742)	George

Burial:

Midway Cemetery_(C-0371610)

Location:

Midway / Liberty / GA / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

35348

Grave Plot #:

Roe E Grave 24

Grave GPS Coordinates:

31.805749 / -81.431163

Find A Grave Memorial #:

50693275

Marker Type:

SAR Granite

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

10 July 2022

Comments:

Marked by the Athens Chapter, Blue Ridge Mountains Chapter and Marshes of Glynn Chapter Georgia Society SAR
photo used with permission of Compatriot Mitchell Anderson, 229001, KYSSAR

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Midway Cemetery is on US Highway 17 in Midway, Georgia directly across the street from the Historic Midway Church.
Take I-95 to exit 76 - at end of ramp turn west on U.S. 84 and travel 3.7 miles to U.S. 17 - Turn right and travel <1 mile to the Historic Midway Church on right and cemetery on left.

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: William Foye Ramsaur

Andrew Walthour was born in 1750 in Holland. He immigrated to Pennsylvania and later moved to Ebenezer, Georgia, with his brother, Jacob (born in 1731), and his father, Johann Casper Walthauer (born in 1696 in Hollard, died in 1766 in Georgia). Johann had received a Land Grant in 1750 for service in the Georgia Trustees public store.

Andrew received a Land Grant and moved to St. Johns Parish before the Revolutionary War. He served as a Private in the Georgia Militia. He frequently accompanied Private Robert Sallett (born 1754) and other Refugee Militiamen in skirmishes against British soldiers and Tories during the British Occupation of Liberty County.

After the war, he established a plantation, originally called Sand Hills, in 1795. As the community around the plantation grew, it was named Walthourville in 1800.

The Patriot died in 1824 and was buried in Midway Cemetery, row E, grave 24.

Author: Kenneth Scott Collins

Andrew Walthour b. 1743 d. 9/16/1824 LIBERTY COUNTY, GEORGIA

In 1784, he was certified as a refugee soldier by Colonel John Baker. He was a rice planter along the coast and later established Walthourville.

Buried: Midway Cemetery.

See: (1) Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 186, 431.

(2) Some Early Georgia Epitaphs.

(3) Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of Liberty County, Georgia, p. 27, 28.

Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 2, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke.

A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.

Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.

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