Display Patriot - P-316276

Joseph B WELLS

SAR Patriot #: P-316276

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State of Service: PA Qualifying Service: Private

DAR #: A122548

Birth: 25 Oct 1766 / / PA
Death: 06 Feb 1852 St Louis / St Louis / MO

Qualifying Service Description:

NSDAR cites PVT, Capt TIMOTHY DOWNING,3D BATT; WASHINGTON CO, MILITIA

Additional References:

PA Archives, 6th Series, Vol 2, pg 115 & 117

Spouse: Mary Scott
Children: Drucilla; Richard; Tyrie; Margaret; Sarah; John

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child	View Application Detail
1989-01-30	MO	221602	Adrian DeYong Jr (132347)	Ann
2021-05-28	TX	97245	Christopher Wayne Bowles (219330)	Drusilla

Burial:

Sappington Cemetery (aka Sappington Burial Ground, Sappington Grave Yard)_(C-0373491)

Location:

Crestwood / St. Louis City / MO / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

1617045

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

7560266

Marker Type:

DAR SAR

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

13 Jul 2019

Comments:

Photo displayed courtesy of Donald A. Withrow MO SAR

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Donald Alan Withrow

Joseph Wells was born in Pennsylvania to Richard Wells and Mary Stevenson on October 25, 1766.
He served as a private in the 3^rd Battalion, Washington County, Pennsylvania Militia during the American Revolution. In 1786 he married Mary Scott in Pennsylvania and sometime later moved to Kentucky. Around 1804-1805 he was among a group of settlers led by John Sappington who moved to Missouri from Madison County, Kentucky. He settled in an area known as the Gravois Settlement near the location of present day [2019] Grant’s Farm with the center of his property at the junction of Watson, Elm and Rock Hill Roads and adjacent to the property of John Sappington. The Wells and Sappington families intermarried and Wells was later a witness to the will of John Sappington. In Missouri he became a successful farmer and stock raiser. In 1845 he was invited to make an address at the ceremony marking the reinternment of Daniel and Rebecca Boone3 in Frankfort, Kentucky. He died February 6, 1852 at the age of 85 and was buried in the Sappington Cemetery.

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