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    1. [OHHARRIS] Revolutionary soldiers buried in Harrison County
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1YB.2ACI/824 Message Board Post: The History Of Carroll & Harrison Counties, Ohio author - Judge H. J. Eckley, for Carroll County author - W. T. Perry, for Harrison County pub. in - 1921 page - 295 A list of Revolutionary soldiers who were finally buried in Harrison County soil, as near as can be discovered from government records and pension rolls published by the authority of Congress in 1835, is as follows : John Brannon of the Pennsylvania line aged eighty-nine years Timothy Boyles of the Delaware line aged ninety-six years Timothy Haley of the Maryland line aged seventy-four years Thomas Johns of the Virginia line died July 13, 1828 aged seventy years Neal Peacock of the Maryland line aged seventy-four years died August 17, 1827 James Larkins of the Pennsylvania line died July 13, 1828 aged seventy years John Parker of the Pennsylvania line aged sixty-eight years Henry Rankin of the Pennsylvania line aged seventy-two years In the government census for 1840, a list of pensioners was repaired and printed in the census returns. This gave the names of all then drawing pensions for Revolutionary service, or the service in the War of 1812 and the following Indian wars. Harrison County then contained the following pensioned veterans : In Rumley Township: George Dickerson aged ninety-four In Washington Township: John Parker aged eighty-one years In Cadiz Village: William Boggs In Cadiz Township: Robert Alexander aged forty-five Charles D. Wells aged eighty-two In Hanover Village: Charles Conaway aged eighty-eight In North Township: Mordecai Ames aged ninety In Stock Township: Federick Walters aged eighty In Nottingham Township: William Todd aged eighty-four Isaac Suddith aged eighty

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