Military Legacy of Nelson and Nicholas County, Kentucky And Beyond

MILITARY LEGACY OF NELSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND BEYOND

AND

MILITARY LEGACY OF NICHOLAS COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND BEYOND

GENEALOGY ~ PHOTOGRAPHS ~ LETTERS ~ HISTORY

Written And Compiled By Waukesha Lowe Sammons

Daughter of Daskum Combs (1917 - 2005) and Technical Sergeant, Albert Roy "Jake" Lowe (1917 - 1944),

who was awarded a Silver Star Medal for Action Taken on The Fourth of July 1944 in France,

and who was Killed In Action on September 16, 1944 in World War II.

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NELSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN, MARINES

REMEMBER AND NAME

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AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1775 - 1783)

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BRASHEAR

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BRASHEAR, IGNATIUS “NACY” (1734 – after 1832), AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
HOMETOWN: Moved to Kentucky in 1784.
OTHER RESIDENCE: Maryland, during the American Revolutionary War.
DATE OF BIRTH: 17 April 1734 in Prince Georges County, Maryland.
PARENTS: Elizabeth Brashear and Samuel Brashear, Jr. They were double-first-cousins. Elizabeth was the daughter of Mary Jones and Benjamin Brashear, who was the son of Alice and Robert Brashear, who was the son of Mary Richford and Benjamin Brashear, a French Huguenot immigrant.
SPOUSE:   Frances Pamela.
SON: Levi Brashear married Camilla Lansdale in Bardstown, Kentucky.
GRANDSON: Richard G. Brashear, First Regiment Volunteers, Kentucky Mustangs of Bardstown, Kentucky, The Battle of Coleto, Prisoner of War, Slaughtered in the Goliad Massacre by Santa Anna’s Mexican Troops, Texas Revolutionary War of Independence.
GRANDSON: William P. Brashear, Texas Revolutionary War of Independence.
GREAT-GRANDNEPHEW: William C. Brashear, Naval Commander, Texas Navy, Texas Revolutionary War of Independence.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Maryland.
ENLISTMENT DATE: 18 January 1777.
~ On a Maryland Military Muster Roll for February 1778. Private Ignatius Brashear, [enlisted] for 3 years.
~ Muster Roll for April 1778: Ignatius Brashear, guard.
DISCHARGE DATE: 18 January 1780.
RANK: Private.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Foot Soldier.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION:
~ Captain John Davidson’s Company of the Second Maryland Regiment of Foot, Commanded by Colonel Thomas Price.
~ “Friday, 5 May 1780... That the Commissary of Stores delivered to Ignatius Brashear lately of the second Regiment one Coat and Waistcoat ..., page 163. Source: Maryland Archives, Journal and Correspondence of the State Council of Maryland.
~ “Private Ignatius Brashear, Sr. served in the Prince George County, Maryland Line Company, which was commanded by Captain Reazin Beall, then by Captain Bracko, who was slain and then by Captain Jno. Davidson. The Second Regiment of Foot was commanded by Colonel Thomas Price. Ignatius served from 18 January 1777 to 18 January 1780.” Source: The Brashear – Brashears Family, 1449 – 1929 by Henry Sinclair Brashear, 1929.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES:
RESIDENCE: “1784, Moved to Kentucky and settled on the Salt River near what is now Shepardsville ...”. Source: The Brashear Story A Family History by Troy L. Back and Leon Brashear, 1962.
April 14, 1832, APPLICATION FOR A PENSION: “Ignatius Brashears ... age 79, a sister, Dorcas Brashears ... being in need of a pension. He enlisted as a private in the Maryland Line Company commanded by Capt. Reazin Beall ...” Source: The Brashear – Brashears Family, 1449 – 1929 by Henry Sinclair Brashear, 1929.
DATE OF DEATH: After 1832 in Shephardsville, Kentucky.
CEMETERY:
SOURCES: Maryland Archives, Journal and Correspondence of the State Council of Maryland.
North America, Family Histories, 1500-200, Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book, p. 299. The Brashear – Brashears Family, 1449 – 1929 by Henry Sinclair Brashear, 1929. The Brashear Story A Family History by Troy L. Back and Leon Brashear, 1962. U. S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, Maryland.
NOTE: I placed my first-cousin-seven-times-removed, Ignatius “Nacy” Brashear, Sr. on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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TEXAS WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AKA TEXAS REVOLUTION (1835 – 1836)

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TEXAS WAS A TERRITORY OF SPAIN, FRANCE AND MEXICO.
MARCH 6, 1836, THE ALAMO FELL TO MEXICAN GENERAL SANTA ANNA.
MARCH 27, 1836, THE GOLIAD MASSACRE AKA LA BAHIA MASSACRE OCCURRED.
APRIL 21, 1836, THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO LASTED EIGHTEEN MINUTES:
TEXAS GENERAL SAMUEL HOUSTON DEFEATED MEXICAN GENERAL SANTA ANNA,
THUS ENDING THE TEXAS REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
1837, THE TEXAS TERRITORY BECAME THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS.
1845, TEXAS BECAME PART OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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BRASHEAR

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SONS OF CAMILLA LANSDALE AND LEVI BRASHEAR:
RICHARD G. BRASHEAR AND WILLIAM P. BRASHEAR

BRASHEAR, RICHARD G. ( – 1836), “THE MUSTANGS,” THE FIRST REGIMENT, KENTUCKY VOLUNTEERS OF BARDSTOWN, KENTUCKY, FOUGHT FOR TEXAS INDEPENDENCE AGAINST MEXICAN PRESIDENT – GENERAL SANTA ANNA IN THE BATTLE OF COLETO; BRASHEAR’S COLONEL, JAMES W. FANNIN, SIGNED A DOCUMENT OF CAPITULATION, ORDERED HIS MEN TO STACK ARMS AND BECOME PRISONERS OF WAR; A WEEK LATER SANTA ANNA DEMANDED THE EXECUTION OF ALL PRISONERS; DURING THE CHAOS OF THE SLAUGHTER, BRASHEAR ESCAPED ACROSS THE RIVER, BUT WAS HUNTED DOWN AND KILLED IN THE GOLIAD MASSACRE, TEXAS REVOLUTIONARY WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE.
HOMETOWN: Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky.
OTHER RESIDENCE: Texas.
DATE OF BIRTH:
PARENTS: Camilla Lansdale and Levi Brashear, who was born 1773 in Maryland. They were married in Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky.
GRANDPARENTS: Frances Pamela and Ignatius “Nacy” Brashear, Sr., who was an American Revolutionary War Soldier. Private Ignatius Brashear, Sr. served in the Prince George County, Maryland Line Company, which was commanded by Captain Reazin Beall, then by Captain Bracko, who was slain and then by Captain Jno. Davidson. The Second Regiment of Foot was commanded by Colonel Thomas Price. Ignatius served from 18 January 1777 to 18 January 1780. Source: The Brashear – Brashears Family, 1449 – 1929 by Henry Sinclair Brashear, 1929.
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Elizabeth Brashear and Samuel Brashear, Jr. They were double-first-cousins. Elizabeth was the daughter of Mary Jones and Benjamin Brashear, who was the son of Alice and Robert Brashear, who was the son of Mary Richford and Benjamin Brashear, a French Huguenot immigrant.
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Ann Jones and Samuel Brashear, Sr.
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Alice and Robert Brashear.
FOURTH-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Mary Richford and Benjamin Brashear, a French Huguenot, who immigrated to the Colony of Virginia and moved to Maryland. Benjamin was commissioned Justice of Peace of Calvert County, Maryland in 1661.
SECOND-COUSIN-ONCE-REMOVED: William C. Brashear (ca 1812 – 1849), Naval Commander, Texas Navy, Texas Revolutionary War.
SPOUSE:
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE: 1835.
DISCHARGE DATE: 27 March 1836, Prisoner of War, Slaughtered in the Goliad Massacre.
RANK: Corporal. First Sergeant.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Kentucky Volunteers.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: Captain Burr H. Duval’s Company, First Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, U. S. Army, nicknamed “Mustangs.” The unit was organized in November, 1835 in Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky. Colonel James Walker Fannin was in charge at the Battle of Coleto.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES: Battle of Coleto.
NOVEMBER 1835: “The Bardstown, Kentucky Volunteers marched to Louisville, sailed down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, and in a couple of weeks or so were at the mouth of the Brazos.”
THE BATTLE OF COLETO, 19 March – 20 March, 1836. On the second day of battle, Texas Commander, James W. Fannin, Jr. signed a document of capitulation. The men surrendered their weapons and became Prisoners of War. Survivor accounts indicated, that the Texans were led to believe they would be returned to the United States. Source: Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas, Battle of Coleto by Craig H. Roell.
21 – 27 MARCH 1836, PRISONERS OF WAR: ~ “During their captivity, John C. Duval and Richard Brashear, the first sergeant of the company, recognized a Mexican Lieutenant as A. Martinez, their former classmate from St. Joseph’s College in Bardstown” [Kentucky].
~ “Martinez, who won honors for English rhetoric at St. Joseph’s in 1832, had been a roommate and particular friend of Brashear.”
~ “During the week of their captivity, the prisoners had a number of chats and shared reminiscences of old times with Martinez.”
~ “Duval said that the last time they saw their Mexican friend, on the morning of Palm Sunday, he had an affectionate smile on his countenance and walked off laughing.”
Source: Kentuckians in Texas: Captain Burr H. Duval’s Company at Goliad by John B. Thomas, Jr. Richard G. Brashear by Charles Brashear; sonsofdewittcolony.org.
DATE OF DEATH: 27 March 1836, Palm Sunday in the Goliad Massacre, aka Fannin’s Massacre, a slaughter of the American soldiers, who were Prisoners of War.
~ “On the morning of the 27th of March 1836, a Mexican officer came to us and ordered us to get ready for a march.”
~ “John Duval’s brother, Captain Burr Duval, was killed in the first volley. RICHARD BRASHEAR was one of those, who crossed the river, but was killed on the other side. Just under four hundred prisoners perished in the massacre.” Source: Kentuckians in Texas by John B. Thomas, Jr.
PLACE OF DEATH: Goliad, Goliad County, Texas.
STATUS: Slaughtered, valuables taken, left unburied by the soldiers of Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794 – 1876) and left unprotected from animals and vultures.
BURIAL: IF HIS REMAINS WERE FOUND by Republic of Texas soldiers, he was buried on 3 June 1836.
~ “General Thomas Jefferson Rusk of the Republic of Texas gathered the remains and buried them with full military honors on June 3, 1836.” Source: Findagrave, bio by Cheryl (Smith) Owens.
CEMETERY:
LAND BOUNTY WARRANT, 12 JULY 1838:
~ “Richard G. Brashear, decd [deceased] arrived previous to Declaration of Independence, entitled to 1st class grant of 1/3 league, located in Brazorio County, To William P. Brashear, as Heir, 12 July 1838.
~ “R. C. Brashear; he received 1920 acres for bounty warrant #59 in Karnes County, Texas, for his death at Goliad...”
Source: Richard G. Brashear by Charles Brashear; sonsofdewittcolony.org.
MONUMENT: “The Fannin Memorial Monument marks the location, where the [remains of] the Texans from the Goliad Massacre were finally buried.” wikepedia.org.
HISTORICAL MARKER: Located at the Fannin Memorial Monument, LaBahia, Texas.
SOURCES:
~ Findagrave.
~ John Crittenden Duval: The Last Survivor of the Goliad Massacre by William Corner; The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Vol 1, No. 17 (July 1897), pp 47 – 67.
~ Kentuckians in Texas: Captain Burr H. Duval’s Company at Goliad by John B. Thomas, Jr.; Maryland Archives, Vol. 3, F – 424 – For Colonial Claims.
~ Kentucky and the Independence of Texas by James E. Winston; The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 1 (July 1912).
~ Kentucky Volunteers In The Texas Revolution by James E. Winston; Register of Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 11, No. 32 (May 1913), pp 17 -28.
~ Richard Brashear by Charles Brashear.
~ Sons Of Dewitt Colony Texas; sonsofdewittcolony.org.
~ Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas, Battle of Coleto by Craig H. Roell; tshaonline.org.
~ The Register Of The Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 81, No. 3 (Summer 1983).
~ The Brashear – Brashears Family, 1449 – 1919 by Henry Sinclair Brashear, May 1929.
~ The Brashear Story A Family History by Troy L. Back and Leon Brashear, 1962.
NOTE: I placed my third-cousin-five-times-removed, Richard G. Brashear on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

BRASHEAR, WILLIAM P. ( – 1846), TEXAS REVOLUTIONARY WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE.
HOMETOWN: Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky.
OTHER RESIDENCE: Texas.
DATE OF BIRTH:
PARENTS: Camilla Lansdale and Levi Brashear, born 1773 in Maryland. They were married in Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky.
GRANDPARENTS: Frances Pamela and Ignatius Brashear, Sr., who was an American Revolutionary War Soldier. Private Ignatius Brashear, Sr. served in the Prince George County, Maryland Line Company, which was commanded by Captain Reazin Beall, then by Captain Bracko, who was slain and then by Captain Jno. Davidson. The Second Regiment of Foot was commanded by Colonel Thomas Price. Ignatius served from 18 January 1777 to 18 January 1780. Source: The Brashear – Brashears Family, 1449 – 1929 by Henry Sinclair Brashear, 1929.
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Elizabeth Brashear and Samuel Brashear, Jr. They were double-first-cousins. Elizabeth was the daughter of Mary Jones and Benjamin Brashear, who was the son of Alice and Robert Brashear, who was the son of Mary Richford and Benjamin Brashear, a French Huguenot immigrant.
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Ann Jones and Samuel Brashear, Sr.
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Alice and Robert Brashear.
FOURTH-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Mary Richford and Benjamin Brashear, a French Huguenot, who immigrated to the Colony of Virginia and moved to Maryland.
BROTHER: Richard G. Brashear, Prisoner of War, Slaughtered in the Goliad Massacre, a Corporal in Captain Burr H. Duval’s Company, First Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, U. S. Army, nicknamed “Mustangs.” The Unit was organized in November, 1835 in Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky.
SECOND-COUSIN-ONCE-REMOVED: William C. Brashear (ca 1812 – 1849), Naval Commander, Texas Navy, Texas Revolutionary War.
SPOUSE:
ENTERED SERVICE FROM:
ENLISTMENT DATE: DISCHARGE DATE:
RANK: Second Lieutenant.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Kentucky Volunteers.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: Captain Price’s Company, Kentucky “Mustangs” Volunteers. Source: Kentucky Volunteers In The Texas Revolution by James E. Winston.
~ “William C. Brashear ... served as a second lieutenant in Capt. James Pope Price’s Company of Kentucky Volunteers...” Source: Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas.
~ Note: Did William P. and William C. serve in Capt. James Pope Price’s Company, Commanded by Colonel Chas. L. Harrison? Or, if only one of them was in that military unit, which one?
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES:
LAND BOUNTY WARRANT: “William P. Brashear, arrived previous to 1 August 1836, entitle to 2M?, as a Volunteer from Brazoria County, 7 July 1838. W. P. Brashears was granted 640 acres on bounty warrant #58 on 16 May 1846 in Karnes County, Texas for service in the Texas Army between 10 June 1836 and 10 December 1836.” Source: William P. Brashear by Charles Brashear; sonsofdewittcolony.org.
DATE OF DEATH: 1846.
CEMETERY:
1846, ADMINISTER OF WILLIAM P. BRASHEAR’S ESTATE: William C. Brashear of the Texas Navy.
SOURCES: Indian Depredations In Texas by J. W. Wilbarger. Kentucky Volunteers In The Texas Revolution by James E. Winston. Sons of Dewitt Colony; sonsofdewittcolony.org. Texas, Index Card Collections, 1800-1899.
NOTE: I placed my third-cousin-five-times-removed, William P. Brashear on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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BRASHEAR, WILLIAM C. (ca 1812 – 1849), THE TEXAS NAVY, TEXAS REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
HOMETOWN: Kentucky.
OTHER RESIDENCE: Texas. Maryland.
DATE OF BIRTH: circa 1812.
PARENTS: Sarah Goodman and Benedict Brashear.
GRANDPARENTS: Sarah Tilghman and John Brashear.
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Rachel Brashear and Samuel Brashear III.
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Elizabeth Brashear and Samuel Brashear, Jr.
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Ann Jones and Samuel Brashear, Sr.
FOURTH-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Alice and Robert Brashear.
FIFTH-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Mary Richford and Benjamin Brashear, a French Huguenot, who immigrated to the Colony of Virginia and moved to Maryland.
SECOND-COUSINS-ONCE-REMOVED: Richard G. Brashear ( - 1836) and William P. Brashear , who were brothers. Both served in the Texas Revolutionary War. Palm Sunday, 27 March 1836, Richard was slaughtered in the Goliad Massacre by the order of Mexican President and General Santa Anna.
SPOUSE:
ENTERED SERVICE FROM:
ENLISTMENT DATE: DISCHARGE DATE:
RANK: Lieutenant. Commander of the Texas Navy. U. S. Naval Commander.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: U. S. Navy.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: Texas Revolution.
~ 1836: “Lieutenant William C. Brashear, Captain James Pope Price’s Company of Kentucky Volunteers...” Source: Sons of Dewitt Colony; sonsofdewittcolony.org.
~ 6 August 1836: “Served on the brig, HOPE.”
~ October 1841: “Placed in Command of the steam warship, ZAVALA.”
~ March 1842: “Forced to run his ship aground in Galveston Harbor to keep her from sinking, after the government refused to appropriate funds to patch her leaks.”
~ 1842: “Appointed to command of the Galveston Navy Yard.
~ 1842: “Resigned from the Texas Navy.”
~ 19 July 1843: “[Sam] Houston nominated Brashear as a lieutenant in the Texas Navy.”
Source: Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas by Thomas W. Cutrer.
~ Commander of the Texas Navy.
~ Note: Did both William P. and William C. serve in Captain Price’s Company, Kentucky Volunteers, Commanded by Colonel Chas. L. Harrison? Or, if only one of them, which one?
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES:
18 MARCH 1848, UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT CASE, BRASHEAR V. MASON: Brashear v. Mason, U. S. Supreme Court, Volume 47, 47 U. S. 6 How. 92 92 (1848). William C. Brashear, Plaintiff v. John Y. Mason, Secretary of the Navy, Defendant. Brashear requested to be paid for his service as Commander of the Navy of Texas and to be recognized as an officer in the United States Navy.
DATE OF DEATH: 31 October 1849, Beltsville, Prince George County, Maryland.
CEMETERY:
1859, APPLICATION RECEIVED BY THE TEXAS NAVY COMMITTEE: William C. Brashear’s mother, Sara applied for his bounty pay.
SOURCES: Brashear v. Mason, U. S. Supreme Court, Volume 47, 47 U. S. 6 How. 92 92 (1848); justia.com and courtlistener.com. Sons of Dewitt Colony; sonsofdewittcolony.org. Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas, William C. Brashear by Thomas W. Cutrer. The Brashear Story A Family History by Troy L. Back and Leon Brashear, 1962. U. S. Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704 – 1930.
NOTE: I placed my fourth-cousin-four-times-remove, William C. Brashear on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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DUVAL

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SONS OF NANCY HYNES AND WILLIAM POPE DUVAL:
BURR HARRISON DUVAL AND JOHN CRITTENDEN DUVAL

DUVAL, BURR HARRISON (1809 – 1836), PRISONER OF WAR, EXECUTED AT THE GOLIAD MASSACRE, TEXAS REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
HOMETOWN: Bardstown, Kentucky.
DATE OF BIRTH: 1809 in Bardstown, Kentucky
PARENTS: Nancy Hynes and William Pope Duval.
SPOUSE:
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Bardstown, Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE: DISCHARGE DATE:
RANK: Captain.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Kentucky Volunteers.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: Captain Burr H. Duval’s Company, First Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, U. S. Army, nicknamed “Mustangs.” The unit was organized in November, 1835 in Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky. Colonel James Walker Fannin was in charge at the Battle of Coleto.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES: The Battle of Coleto.
DATE OF DEATH: 27 March 1836, executed in the Goliad Massacre.
BURIAL: IF HIS REMAINS WERE FOUND by Republic of Texas soldiers, he was buried on 3 June 1836.
~ “General Thomas Jefferson Rusk of the Republic of Texas gathered the remains and buried them with full military honors on June 3, 1836.” Source: Findagrave, bio by Cheryl (Smith) Owens.
CEMETERY:
MONUMENT: “The Fannin Memorial Monument marks the location, where the [remains of] the Texans from the Goliad Massacre were finally buried.” wikepedia.org.
HISTORICAL MARKER: Located at the Fannin Memorial Monument, LaBahia, Texas.
SOURCES: ~ Findagrave. ~ John Crittenden Duval: The Last Survivor of the Goliad Massacre by William Corner; The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Vol 1, No. 17 (July 1897), pp 47 – 67.
~ Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas; tshaonline.org.

DUVAL, JOHN CRITTENDEN (1816 – 1897), PRISONER OF WAR, ESCAPED THE GOLIAD MASSACRE, TEXAS REVOLUTIONARY WAR; TEXAS RANGER; CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN: Bardstown, Kentucky, USA.
OTHER RESIDENCE: Florida. Texas.
DATE OF BIRTH: 14 March 1816 in Bardstown, Kentucky.
PARENTS: Nancy Hynes and William Pope Duval.
SPOUSE:
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Bardstown, Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE:                                                                                                                                            DISCHARGE DATE:
RANK:
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Kentucky Volunteers.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: Captain Burr H. Duval’s Company, First Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, U. S. Army, nicknamed “Mustangs.” The unit was organized in November, 1835 in Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky. Colonel James Walker Fannin was in charge at the Battle of Coleto.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES: The Battle of Coleta, Texas Revolutionary War Of Independence.
1845: A Texas Ranger.
1861 – 1865, Captain, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
DATE OF DEATH: 15 January 1897.
STATUS: Escaped the Goliad Massacre. Became a Texas Ranger. Served as Captain in the Confederate States Army, American Civil War. An American author.
CEMETERY:
SOURCES: ~ John Crittenden Duval: The Last Survivor of the Goliad Massacre by William Corner; The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Vol 1, No. 17 (July 1897), pp 47 – 67.
~ Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas; tshaonline.org.

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RUTHERFORD

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RUTHERFORD, JOSEPH (1798 – 1836), DIED AT THE FALL OF THE ALAMO, TEXAS REVOLUTIONARY WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE.
HOMETOWN: Kentucky.
DATE OF BIRTH: 1798 in Kentucky.
PARENTS: Rhoda Rutherford and Julias Rutherford, an American Revolutionary War Soldier, who was part of General George Washington’s winter encampment at Valley Forge. Rhoda was the daughter of Elizabeth M. Adkins and Joseph W. Rutherford, Jr., who was the son of Mary E. Elliott and Joseph Rutherford, Sr., who was the son of Margaret Vawter and Robert Rutherford.
GRANDPARENTS: Ursula Parrish and William O. Rutherford.
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Violetta Reynolds and John Rutherford.
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Margaret Vawter and Robert Rutherford.
SPOUSE: Elizabeth White.
DAUGHTER: Carmelita Rutherford, who married first, Samuel Bean and married second, William Martin. Carmelita and Samuel’s son was Joseph D. Bean.
GRANDSON: Joseph J. D. Bean of Kentucky, enlisted 29 March 1862 at Alto, Texas; Private, Company E, 28th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Randal’s) (First Texas Lancers) Confederate States Army, American Civil War. [Did Joseph Bean die in The Battle of Mansfield or did he survive the war?]
ENTERED SERVICE FROM:
ENLISTMENT DATE:
DISCHARGE DATE: 6 March 1836 at The Alamo, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas in the Texas Revolutionary War of Independence.
RANK: Private. Garrison Member.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Artillery.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION:
~ Joseph Rutherford, Marksman, Alamo Garrison Member, Captain William R. Carey’s Artillery Company, The Texas Revolutionary War for Independence.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES: The Siege and Fall of the Alamo, February 23 – March 6, 1836, in the Texas Revolution.
DATE OF DEATH: 6 March 1836 at The Alamo, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas in the Texas Revolutionary War of Independence.
STATUS: Died at The Alamo in Texas Revolutionary War of Independence.
DISPOSITION: The manner in which human remains were finally handled was complicated.
FUNERAL PYRES BURNED THE BODIES.
FIRST KNOWN BURIAL OF ASHES: “Formerly Buried in the Sanctuary of the Old San Fernando Church.”
REPATRIATED: Exhumed July 28, 1936.
EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VIEW FOR A YEAR IN 1937.
ENTOMBED, MAY 11, 1938.
CEMETERY: The Alamo, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
MEMORIAL: “The Archdiocese of San Antonio erected this memorial, May 11, A. D., 1938.”
MEMORIAL CARVING: “In Memory of the Heroes, who Sacrificed Their Lives at The Alamo, March 6, 1836, in Defense of Texas. They Chose Never to Surrender Nor Retreat. ...” Erected by the State of Texas, 1936 ... to Commemorate One Hundred Years of Texas Independence.”
MONUMENT: “Cenotaph (empty tomb) erected in Alamo Plaza, where one of the three funeral pyres lifted the souls of the sacrificed. The bodies of our heroes were destroyed and rendered unto ash.”
SOURCES: ~Findagrave.
~ Historical Southern Families, Volume IV by John Bennett Boddie, 1960.
~ Joseph Rutheford, Biography by John “J-Cat” Griffith, Findagrave.
~ Sons of Dewitt Colony; sonsofdewittcolony.org.
~ Texas State Historical Association; tshaonline.org.
~ Texas, U. S., Muster Roll Index Cards.
~ The Battle of the Alamo by Stephen L. Hardin.
NOTE: I placed my husband’s third-cousin-five-times-removed, Joseph Rutherford, on my ~ Sammons Bradshaw Ferguson Wooton Castle Hopkins Daniel Spencer; McCoy Stafford Stanley May Rutherford Brashear Williamson Ball ~ In-law Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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NICHOLAS COUNTY, KENTUCKY SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN, MARINES

REMEMBER AND NAME

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AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR

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BOONE, DANIEL (1734 – 1820), LEGENDARY FRONTIERSMAN, HUNTER, TRAPPER, EXPERT MARKSMAN, TRAILBLAZER, EXPLORER, LAND SPECULATOR, POLITICIAN IN THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE, SOLDIER, FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR, CHEROKEE UPRISING, DUNMORE’S WAR, AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
HOMETOWN: Nicholas County, Kentucky, USA.
OTHER RESIDENCE: Pennsylvania. Holman’s Ford on the Yadkin in North Carolina. Boonesborough, Kentucky. Virginia. Point Pleasant between the Ohio and the Great Kanawha. North Carolina. Defiance, Missouri.
DATE OF BIRTH: 22 August 1734 on the Julian Calendar (old style) and 2 November 1734 on the Gregorian Calendar (new style) in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
PARENTS: Sarah Morgan and Squire Boone I.
GRANDPARENTS: Mary Maugridge and George Boone III, who were Quakers.
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Sarah Mary Uppey and George Boone.
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Ann Fallace and George Boone I.
BROTHER: Squire Boone, Jr., who was killed and scalped during a Native American attack.
BROTHER: Edward “Ned” Boone. While hunting with Daniel, Native Americans shot and killed Ned. The Shawnee removed his head and kept it as a trophy.
NEPHEW: Enock Boone (1777-1862), son of Squire Boone, Jr., was the first white male born in Kentucky.
FIRST-COUSIN-SIX-TIMES-REMOVED: John Lewis Barkley (1895-1966), Missouri, Private First Class, Company K, Third Division, U. S. Army, World War I, CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT. John Lewis Barkley was the sixth-great-grandson of George Boone III and Mary Maugridge.
SPOUSE: Rebecca Bryan, married in 1755.
SON: Israel Boone (1759-1782) was Killed in the Battle of Blue Licks, American Revolutionary War.
SON: James Boone (1757- 9 October 1773), Killed by Native Americans in the Cumberland Gap.
SON: Daniel Morgan Boone, War of 1812 Soldier.
SON: Nathan Boone, War of 1812 Soldier.
DAUGHTER: Jemima Boone, captured by Native Americans on July 14, 1776, along with Betsy and Fanny Calloway, who were sisters. A few days later the three teenagers were rescued by Daniel Boone and other frontiersmen.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Virginia. North Carolina. Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE:
DISCHARGE DATE:
RANK: Wagoner. Captain. Lieutenant Colonel of Fayette County Militia.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Militia. COMBAT ORGANIZATION AND BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES: French and Indian War (1754-1763). Lord Dunmore’s War (1774). American Revolutionary War (1775-1783).
~ 1755, French and Indian War. Daniel Boone, Militia, Wagoner, joined British Major General Edward Braddock in his attack on Fort Duquesne, a French Fortification. George Washington served as an aid to Braddock in the endeavor.
~ 9 July 1755, The Battle of Monongahela.
~ 1758-1761, Cherokee Uprising. Daniel Boone served in the North Carolina Militia.
~ 1774, Dunmore’s War. Lord Dunmore was John Murray, the fourth Earl of Dunmore and Royal Governor of Virginia. Dunmore assigned Daniel Boone to construct a fort on the left bank of the Kentucky River.
~ 1775-1783, Daniel Boone, American Revolutionary War Soldier.
~ 1775, Richard Henderson’s Transylvania Company hired Daniel Boone to blaze the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky.
~ 7 August 1780, The Battle of Piqua. Daniel Boone was part of George Rogers Clark’s invasion of the Ohio Country.
~ October 1780, Daniel Boone and his brother Squire Boone, Jr. were attacked by Native Americans. Squire was killed and scalped; Daniel escaped.
~ November 1780, Daniel Boone was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Fayette County militia.
~ 19 August 1782, The Battle of Blue Licks. Daniel Boone and two of his sons fought in the Battle of Blue Licks. His son, Israel Boone was killed and his other son, who may have been Daniel Morgan Boone, was wounded.
~ September 1782, Daniel Boone took part in another Clark expedition into Ohio.
~ September 1786, Daniel Boone took part in a Benjamin Logan military expedition into the Ohio Country.
DATE OF DEATH: 26 September 1820, Defiance, Missouri in the home of his son, Nathan Boone.
BURIAL OF DANIEL BOONE, 1820 IN THE STATE OF MISSOURI.
MISSOURI CEMETERY, 13 SEPTEMBER 1845: An exhumation of a body considered to be Daniel Boone by the State of Kentucky was performed and moved to a Kentucky Cemetery. Later, the State of Missouri declared, that the wrong grave was disturbed. Therefore, the State of Missouri and the State of Kentucky claim to be the location for the burial remains of Daniel Boone.
SOURCES: Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889, Vol 1. Findagrave. Historic Missourians; historicmissourians.shsmo.org. History; history.com. Pennsylvania Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1772-1890. U. S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935.
NOTE: I placed my first-cousin-seven-times-removed, Daniel Boone on my ~ Lowe Stephenson Rose Burchfield Murphy Whitt; Littleton Caudill Salisbury Crace Adams Wiley Webb Boone ~ Paternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry. NOTE: I placed my first-cousin-seven-times-removed, Daniel Boone on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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BURDEN

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BURDEN, JAMES (1740 – 1806), AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
HOMETOWN: Nicholas County, Kentucky.
DATE OF BIRTH: 8 June 1740 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
PARENTS:
FOURTH-GREAT-GRANDSON: Lee Roy “Peanut” Smith (1942-2019), who married Wanda Sue Cornett.
SPOUSE: Josephina Rose, 1st wife. Mary Brain, second wife.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: New Jersey.
RANK: Captain.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Militia.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: New Jersey and Virginia Militia, American Revolutionary War. U. S. REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AND BOUNTY-LAND WARRANT APPLICATION FILES, 1800-1900: James Burdine / Bordine. State, New Jersey. S2389.
DATE OF DEATH: 5 April 1806.
PLACE OF DEATH: Nicholas County, Kentucky.
CEMETERY: James Burden Farm Cemetery, Headquarters, Nicholas County, Kentucky.
MONUMENT: Erected in 1962 by Sons of the American Revolution at Saltwell-Brukner Road and Morning Glory Road. James Burden Farm Monument, Headquarters, Nicholas County, Kentucky.
SOURCES: Descendants of James Burden 1740-1806 – James Whaley 1684-1750 – Henry Talbott 1745 – 1819 by Karl Rosenberg. History of Nicholas County, Compiled and Edited by Joan Weissinger Conley, Nicholas County Historical Society, Inc., Carlisle, Kentucky 1976. Findagrave Memorial # 133301779.
NOTE: I placed James Burden on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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