Display Patriot - P-337224 - Nelson JOLLY/JOLLEY

Nelson JOLLY/JOLLEY

SAR Patriot #: P-337224

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State of Service: PA Qualifying Service: Private

DAR #: A061731

Birth: 1740 Newtown / Bucks / PA
Death: 19 Nov 1817 Hardinsburg / Breckinridge / KY

Qualifying Service Description:

Captain JACOB HENDERSHOT, 1ST BATT BEDFORD CO MILITIA

Additional References:

“PA Archives, 5th Series,” 1906, Vol 5, pg 67

Spouse: Mary Graham
Children: Alice; Nelson; Samuel;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child
1988-03-17	KY	223277	Guy Andrew Jolly PE USAR (Ret.) (130862)	Samuel
1988-05-11	KY	223140	John William Jolly (131170)	Samuel
1991-08-27	FL	217154	Gregory Eric Engler (135910)	Nelson
2020-02-07	FL	90438	Joshua Edward Jolly (214498)	Samuel
2022-09-16	GA	98069	Codey Brett Henderson (212355)	Alice

Burial:

William Hardin Pioneer (aka Hardin Cemetery #2) Cemetery_(C-0099365)

Location:

Hardinsburg / Breckinridge / KY / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

2238346

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

54759317

Marker Type:

SAR Engraved on Headstone

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

17 Oct 2019

Comments:

Photo courtesy of Gary Tunget, Lt. Robert Moseley Chapter - Kentucky SAR
record showed grave gps coordinate (39.939259,-86.455020) that don't map to this cemetery

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Find-a-Grave: map coordinates have not been set for this cemetery

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Larry Basham, DDS - California

Nelson Jolly, Sr. was born in 1740 in Bucks Co., PA. of Scotch-Irish heritage. He married Mary Graham in 1760 and served in the 1st Battalion of the Bucks County, Pennsylvania militia in 1777. They left Pennsylvania in 1783-84 with their family and other settlers and navigated down the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers to Fort Nelson at the Falls of the Ohio, near Louisville, KY. Land records show that in 1884 Nelson bought property near present day Elizabethtown and lived there for several years before moving to Hardins’ Fort in 1789.

They bought land about 2 miles west of the fort on a ridge between Hardin’s Creek and Bear Run where they farmed and raised livestock. A daughter, Alice Jolly, married Daniel Hardin and two of their daughters, Cassie and Thursie Hardin, married Obediahs’ sons, Henry and Francis. Nelson and Marys’ son, Nelson Jolly, Jr., married Barbara Barr, the daughter of Revolutionary War Patriot Adam Barr, who is buried at Union Star Cemetery.

Nelson Sr. died about 1818 at his home on Clover Creek and Mary passed away in 1825. They are believed to be buried in the old Fort Hardin Pioneer Cemetery which has been lost. Nelson Jolly, Jr. and his wife, Barbara Barr, are buried in the Union Star Cemetery next to her father, Adam Barr, who was previously recognized for his patriotic service. Because the exact location of Nelson Srs.’ gravesite is unknown, his memorial marker has been placed next to his son in Union Star Cemetery, not far from fellow Rev. War soldier and relative, Adam Barr.

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