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    1. Gen John HIESTER/HEISTER, RW
    2. Diana Quinones
    3. Well I just found the RW vet buried in Oak Grove cemetery in Parkerford, Coventry area. His name is shown on the tombstone section of the Chester Co Board in an Adobe document of RW soldiers buried in PA. see http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/chester/tsimages.htm<http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/chester/tsimages.htm> Here are tombstone reading for him: Row 9, Area A from a publication by Raymond E. Hollenbach, Sept 1970). p 14 In memory of Col John HIESTER A Patriot of '76 born the 9th day of April 1746 departed this life the 15th day of Oct'b 1821 aged 76 years 6 months and 6 days The following is probably from Hollenback's notes: (Captain of Chester County Militia Series 2, Vol 14, page 84, PA Archives Afterwards major general of Penn. militia, state senator from Chester county and member of U S Congress.) wife's tombstone shows: In memory of Hannah HIESTER (nee Pawling) consort of John Hiester born the 25th day of November 1747 departed this life the 25th day of November 1822, aged 73 years. Anyone close to Oak Grove to get a picture of their stones? There is also a son Samuel and his wife Mary buried in the same row. And a dau Elizabeth who married a Matthew DAVIS buried in Row 10 with some young children. These rows start at the opposite side of the stone wall in the cemetery and run perpendicular to the road to Pottstown on an unscaled map in the book. Sec A is next to the road to Pottstown. Sec B is near the meeting house, and runs along the road into the cemetery. The picture of the sign with the meeting house in the background on the tomstone section for Oak Grove would be Sec B. Family lore says that my gr4grandfather Zenas SAVAGE, a mason, built the stone wall at the cemetery, and was given a burial site there. I have never found his grave there, but his son Zenas SAVAGE, is buried there with wife Rebecca MARCH in Sec A row 7, and other SAVAGE kin. Diana in AL Diana in AL

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