Person:Josiah Tanner (1)

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Josiah Tanner
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Name Josiah Tanner
Gender Male
Alt Birth[2] 1744 Virginia, United States
Birth[3] 10 Oct 1754 Lunenburg, Virginia, United States
Alt Birth[1] 1754 Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States
Marriage 1 Dec 1771 Mecklenburg, Virginia, United Statesto Martha Wooten
Military[1][2][3][4] From 1780 to 1781 South Carolina, United StatesSoldier in Revolutionary War - wounded in Battle of King's Mountain
Death[2][4] 1 Nov 1807 Oldham, Kentucky, United States
Alt Death[2] 1818 Kentucky, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Volume 1. Tanner, Josiah, in Johnson, Bess Sellers; Daughters of the American Revolution. Alexander Hamilton Chapter (Indiana); and Vera Reese Tranter. Family bible records of Johnson County, Indiana: a collection of family records compiled from family bibles and other sources. (Ft. Wayne, Indiana: Allen County Public Library, 1986)
    pp. 159-161.

    Family record compiled by Mathew Tracy, grandson of Josiah Tanner. "Josiah Tanner was a soldier of the Revolution and was in the battle of King's Mountain."

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Matthew J. Tracy, in Banta, D. D. (David Demaree). History of Johnson County, Indiana: from the earliest time to the present, with biographical sketches, notes, etc., together with a short history of the northwest, the Indiana territory, and the State of Indiana. (Chicago, Illinois, United States: Brant & Fuller, 1888)
    Accessed 27 Feb 2009.

    MATHEW J. TRACY, . . . son of James and Mary (Tanner) Tracy, both of whom were natives of North Carolina. His mother was born December 31, 1788, and was the daughter of Josiah and Martha (Wooten) Tanner, who were both natives of Virginia. Both of his grandfathers served in the Revolutionary War. . . . His maternal grandfather, Josiah Tanner, was wounded in the battle of King's Mountain, in the month of September, 1780. . . . Josiah Tanner was born in 1744, and was married to Martha Wooten, in 1767. He died in Kentucky in 1818.

    [Note: Nearly all the dates in this biography are quoted differently by both Mathew and by other, older, siblings in other, more primary, records.]

  3. 3.0 3.1 Daughters of the American Revolution. Genealogical Research System
    Ancestor No. A112750 .

    Tanner, Josiah
    Service: SOUTH CAROLINA Rank: LIEUTENANT
    Birth: 10-10-1754 LUNENBURG CO VIRGINIA
    Death: 11-1-1807 JEFFERSON CO KENTUCKY
    Pension Number: *W9503
    Service Source: *W9503; SC ARCH, ACCTS AUD #7615, ROLL #144
    Service Description: 1) CAVALRY, CAPT VARDRY MCBEE, COL ROEBUCK
    Residence: District: NINETY SIX DIST - State: SOUTH CAROLINA
    Spouse: 1) MARTHA WOOTEN

  4. 4.0 4.1 South Carolina, Tanner, Josiah, in United States. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. (Washington D.C.).

    Service SC, Tanner, Josiah; Lemaster, Martha (former widow), No. W9503
    Sally Crittenden, daughter of Josiah Tanner decd and Martha Tanner his widow now the widow of Abraham Lemasters, says Josiah Tanner died in the fall of 1807.
    He entered the War in south Carolina sometime in May 1781 under Capt. Varda Magby under the command of G__ Morgan and that he was at the Battle of Kings Mountain where he "was wounded in the Right arm and that the Tories had plundered the house so that he had no cloths to change himself and when his wounds was cured he returned to the Army",
    and her father went "with a letter from Morgan to Col. Washington at Charlottesville in NC to come and meet with said Morgan with his light Horse at the Cowpens",
    and her father was in the Service about 18 months and was a second Lieutenant and drew a pension for about 13 years when living in SC and drew none since which is about 50 years ago.

    [For complete transcription see Revolutionary War Pension Statements:T ]