Display Patriot - P-340516 - Joseph GOLLADAY

Joseph GOLLADAY

SAR Patriot #: P-340516

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Corporal / Patriotic Service

Birth: 1758 Germantown / Cumberland / PA
Death: Sep 1826 Stony Creek / Shenandoah / VA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. also, Pvt, Capt Jonathan Clark, 8th VA Regt., furloughed Fredericksburg, 1779
  2. Battles of Germantown, Brandywine and Monmouth

Additional References:
  1. Gwathmey, Hist. Register of VA in the Rev., 1775-1783," pg 314
  2. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Rev War Pension Files, Vol 2, pg 1375

Spouse: (1) Maria Holtzlander; (2) Susannah Carrier
Children: Susannah; David; Jacob; John; Benjamin; Deliah Ann;
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Burial:
Dry Run Cemetery (C-0375542)
Location:
Seven Fountains / Shenandoah / VA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
946395
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
38.859290 / -78.400750
Find A Grave Memorial #:
100313305
Marker Type:
SAR Marble
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
18 Mar 2023

Comments:
  • Images taken and provided with permission of:
    • Craig Batten, George Washington Chapter, VASSAR
    • Dale Corey, VASSAR
  • Descendants of the Golladay family installed Veterans Administration headstones in June 2010
  • The headstone for Joseph is on the east edge of the cemetery
  • Photos displayed courtesy of Dale Corey, VASSAR


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
  • Rte 55 from Front Royal towards Strasburg. Turn left onto Fort Valley Road (Route 678). The church and Cemetery are approximately 11 miles on the left. The cemetery is located in two sections. One section is at the top of the hill to the left of the church and second is on the other side of the hill to the left of the church. Park in church parking lot and walk around the hill or park at back section of cemetery #1 on top of the hill and walk down the northeast side of the hill. The cemetery is on property that was donated by Jacob Golladay Sr., once called the Golladay Cemeteries.


Author: Dale Edward Corey

Joseph Golladay was born 1758 at Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, a son of Jacob Golladay and Maria Holtzlander.  He moved with his parents to Maryland in 1759, and again in 1761 to Fort Valley, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.  In the fall of 1776, he enlisted in the Army as a Private at Woodstock, Virginia.  He served at various times in the 3rd, 4th and 8th Virginia Regiments and was furloughed in 1779.  He was at the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth.  Joseph's father and his brother, David, were patriots of the Revolutionary War.  He received a Virginia Bounty Land Warrant, 7 March 1786, however; there is no record of his claiming this bounty.  While in the Army, he met Mary Holtzlander/Huslander, a daughter of Nicholas Holtzlander and Anna Magdalene Genuigh.  They were married at New York in 1784.  They had the following children:  Susannah, David, Jacob, John, Benjamin and Deliah Ann. 

In 1801, Joseph took possession of a tract of land at Powell's Fort Valley at an auction conducted by the Executors of his father's estate.  This property was conveyed to Joseph's oldest son Jacob, 7 October 1807.  Joseph was a blacksmith by trade, but by the early 1810s was in ill health and moved in with daughter, Susannah and her husband, Henry Lichliter.  He applied for and was granted a pension in 1819.  After his death, Mary was awarded a widow's pension.  Mary died in June 1843.  Both Joseph and his wife are buried at the Dry Run Cemetery at Fort Valley, Shenandoah, Virginia. 

 


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Additional Information:
  • son of Jacob Golladay Sr, P-167486
  • brother of David, P-167485


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