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Facts and Events
Military Service
- American Revolutionary War Veteran
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 1, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
Calmes, Marquis - entered service 1775 in Virginia; granted Pension age 77, Woodford County, Kentucky, 1832; son M. resided in Pettis County, Missouri, 1855; query letter in file states Marquis Calmes died 2/27/1834 & his widow died in 1821, their residence was in Versailles, Woodford County, Kentucky. R452.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 General Marquis Calmes, in Railey, William Edward. History of Woodford County. (Originally published Frankfort, Kentucky: Roberts Printing Co., 1928)
p 227.
[see Transcript]
... George Heale and Sarah Smith had these children : ... Priscilla, who married General* (*see page 36) Marquis Calmes ...
... Of these children, it is known that Smith Heale and his wife, Nancy Douglas, and Priscilla Heale and General Calmes came to Kentucky and settled in Woodford County soon after the Revolution. ...
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Find A Grave.
Gen Marquis Calmes
Birth: Feb. 26, 1755
Millwood
Clarke County
Virginia, USA
Death: Feb. 27, 1834
Versailles
Woodford County
Kentucky, USA
General Marquis Calmes was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in what was then Frederick County (and is now a part of Clark County) on February 26, 1755. He was sent abroad to be educated as was the custom of wealthy families of that period, but when the Revolutionary War broke out in October, 1775, he returned home to serve his country. In October, 1775, Marquis Calmes was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Company of Captain Alexander Spotswood. Later, he raised and equipped a company of soldiers at his own expense, and with them, served with distinction. He was Captain of his company and in 1812 was promoted to General.
Marquis Calmes had visited the Kentucky area in 1775 and purchased four hundred acres of land in what would later become Woodford County. By preemption warrant signed by Patrick Henry, Calmes received one thousand acres of land near the town which he would name Versailles. At the close of the war, he returned to this area and built a fine home three and one-half miles from Versailles. At the age of twenty-seven, Calmes married Priscilla Heale (Hale) and they had nine children. He died February 27, 1834, and his remains repose with those of his wife in a stone mausoleum at their home.
This stone mausoleum was built in family cemetery of "Caneland" plantation by Gen. Marquis Calmes, a friend of Lafayette during Amer. Revolution. Calmes (1755 – 1834), born in Va. of Huguenot ancestry, assisted in laying out Versailles and named it after French city. He and wife Priscilla Heale buried here. Tomb restored in July 1990.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103689722&ref=acom
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