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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Application states burial in Ball-Kinkaid cemetery Ewing / Lee / VA
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Author: Larry G Williams
Birthday 1725/1730 Scotland Rev.War Pvt. Henry David Yeary, Sr. Va. Militia & 2nd Va. Reg’t from Fairfax Co. Va. Died: 1799
Henry David Yeary Sr. & wife Elizabeth Croxstol/Croxdale who came to southwestern Virginia in search of new land in 1780’s. According to family tradition, Henry David Yeary Sr. came to this area in the great migration to settle the wilderness of the new country w/his brothers, William & Benedict. They migrated to the southwest area of Virginia w/the Chadwell’s & Ball’s & these families intermarried throughout a number of generations.
Henry David Yeary Sr. settled in the Powell Valley area of Lee Co. Va. over near the mountains, along Indian Creek. This was off Boone’s Path. The territory was still wild at the time & Indian attacks frequent. Henry David Yeary Sr. served in the Revolutionary War from Washington County, Virginia & in 1782, was allowed 15 pounds for a horse lost in service.
Henry David Yeary Sr.’s service is on record at the DAR Headquarters in Washington D.C. The land that Henry David Yeary Sr. had in Lee County, Virginia was formed from Russell County 25 October 1792. Petitioners for a place for holding court & establishing a town on 10 December 1792, listed by Hattie Bales in “Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia & Adjacent Counties, Vol. II” were: John Chadwell - [s/o. Capt. David Chadwell Sr. & Elizabeth Turner] , John Martin, John Ball Sr. - [s/o. George Ball & Kezziah ?], Henry David Yeary Sr.,
James Noe, Daniel Martin, Littleton Martin - George Ball - [s/o. John Ball & Winifred Williams], Moses Ball Sr. - [s/o. George Ball & Kezziah ?] , John Noe, Jr., Quilla Noe, David Noe, John Noe Sr. - Drury Lawson, Alex Martin, James Marcum, Abner Marcum, Charles Noe, Randal Noe, & Sam Noe.
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