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State of Service: GA
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
Per Find-a-Grave three memorials for Samuel Whatley (02 Mar 1762-03 Oct 1826)
Memorial ID 53020792 - cenotaph at Bathesda Cemetery
Memorial Number 37156032 - cenotaph at Kettle Creek Battlefield Cemetery
Memorial Number 62297364 - burial of Rev Fr Samuel Whatley
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Per FindaGrave - Rev Samuel Whatley is buried one and one half miles east of Sandy Cross Rd on Silas Mercer Rd NE near Crawfordville, Taliaferro Co. on private property
Author: Kenneth Scott Collins
Samuel Whatley d. 10/3/1826 GREENE COUNTY, GEORGIA
When he was 14, his father was killed by Cherokees at "Cherokee Corner" in North Carolina. He lived in Bute County, North Carolina before moving to Wilkes County, Georgia where he enlisted. He served in Captain Micjah Williamson's Company of Mounted Militia of Colonel Elijah Clarke's Regiment of Georgia Troops. He was wounded in the Battle of Long Cane on December 10, 1781, and lost the use of his arm. He applied for and received a disability pension. He died at his home in Wilkes County, and his widow applied for a pension for his services.
Buried: Bethesda Church Cemetery - "two miles north of Route 44 on left side of road."
See: (1) Abstracts of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots. Reported to D.A.R. in 1936.
(2) Cemeteries of Greene County, Georgia, p. 83.
(3) Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, v. 3, p. 3764.
(4) Georgia Genealogist: County Records (Wilkes).
(5) History of Greene County, p. 396.
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 1, 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.
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