A Vintage early Patriotic Post Card
We have several Revolutionary soldiers that served in this first fight for freedom. After the battle at Yorktown, many of these Scotch-Irish patriots started leaving their devastated homelands in the south and headed north though the mountains into Kentucky They brought the region a noteworthy heritage.
James Walker
James Walker was born Oct. 25, 1762 in York County, Pa., and moved with his family to Mecklenburg County, NC in about 1771. He married Mary Love born about 1799. James Walker came to Livingston County from Tennessee with some of his younger children, including his son Samuel Barr Walker.
James Walker made application for a Revolutionary War Pension in Livingston County that was approved.
He first served in the Militia under Captain Matthew Stewart and Thomas Gray to guard the frontier from Tories. He then volunteered to serve under Col. Lock and Capt. William Smith.
He was on guard at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse and discharged about May 1781.
James Walker died in 1834 in Livingston County (later Crittenden County.) Their is no burial stone or location of his death place.
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Patrick Cain
Patrick Cain entered service in the Ninety Six District during 1776 under Capt. William Moore, commander of a blockhouse.
After moving to Abbeville District, he was drafted into the militia and sent to serve under Capt. Robert Anderson, the commander of a company at Fort Independence, also served under Col. Pickens and Gen. Williamson.
In 1780 he volunteered to guard prisoners at the blockhouse on Pickens' plantation.
Family history on Find-A-Grave says that Patrick Cain died Nov. 26, 1836 and is buried in the Duvall Cemetery off of S. R. 1901, and has no marker to identify his grave.
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