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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. 3, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
McDaniel, Henry - born 11/1763 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia; entered service 1779 in Bedford County, Virginia, moved in 1781 to Greenbrier County, Virginia, where parents had moved abt. 1780; resided there to 1810, thence to Walnut Township, Gallia County, Ohio, where granted Pension in 1832; died that County 9/28/1838; married 5/16/1788 to Hannah Bryan, Greenbrier County, Virginia; widow died 5/5/1841; son Alexander, administrator of mother's estate, applied for Pension 1853 in Gallia County, Ohio for self & rest of surviving siblings: John, Caleb, Icher, Sarah BOGGS, Benjamin, Ephraim & Celia Shumate; children's Pension Application Rejected; query letter in file in 1938 from descendant Clyde E. McDowell, Elvins, Missouri, grandson of soldier's granddaughter; query letter in file in 1910 from great grandson Guy McDaniel of Oak Hill, Ohio; query letter in file in 1916 from great granddaughter Jesta McDaniel Richards, Salisbury, North Carolina; query letter in file says soldier's eldest son was John; query letter in file in 1927 from descendant H.B. Maddy, Huntington, West Virginia. F-R6678, R1676.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ohio. Adjutant General's Office. Grave registrations of soldiers buried in Ohio. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958).
Name: Henry McDaniel
Birth Date: Nov 1763
Birth Place: Pittsylvania Co., VA.
Enlistment Date: 1779
Discharge Date: Oct 1781
Death Date: 28 Sep 1838
Death Place: Gallia County
Burial Place: Walnut, Ohio, USA
Cemetery: W. L. Eakins Pvt.
Rank: Private
Branch of Service: Army
- Find A Grave.
Henry McDANIEL
Birth 4 Nov 1763
Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA
Death 28 Sep 1838 (aged 74)
Gallia County, Ohio, USA
Burial: McDaniel Cemetery
Walnut Township, Gallia County, Ohio, USA
Henry McDANIEL, Jr is the son of Henry McDANIEL, Sr. and Mary Ann PORTER McDANIEL. He was born in Virginia and fought in the Revolutionary War. He married Hannah BRYAN McDANIEL on 15 May 1788. His stone was originally buried in another location that is now private property and was moved to McDaniel Cemetery. His remains couldn't be found when his stone was moved.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14495119
- Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.
Pension application of Henry McDaniel R6678 Hannah f58VA
Transcribed by Will Graves rev'd 1/12/12
State of Ohio, Gallia County
On this 25th day of September AD1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of
the Court of Common Pleas now sitting in said County of Gallia Henry McDaniel a resident of Walnut Township in said County of Gallia & State aforesaid aged 69 years come Nov., who first being duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers & served as herein stated – That sometime in the latter part of spring or the beginning of summer in 1779 I enlisted in Bedford County Virginia in a company commanded by Captain Thomas Arthur in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Lynch , commonly called Lynch's Rangers or Lynch's Light Horse. Our first Lieutenant was Moses Green who died & his successor was George Turnbull. We were rendezvoused in New London (then Bedford Ct. House [Courthouse]); from thence we were marched to Blackwater to meet the Tories which had their embodied; from thence we went into Carolina to a place called May's [?]; from thence to the Hawfields on the River Yadkin, where we put to flight another body of Tories & took several prisoners & some deserters. In the winter of 1780 we went to a place called Moravian Town in North Carolina & were there quartered during the cold weather in the winter. After the winter had broken, we were continually scouring the country, some of the time on the Yadkin, & sometimes on the head waters of New River. From thence we went to a place called King's Mountain where we had a severe skirmish [October 7, 1780] with the Tories in which I received a wound in my thigh. After this skirmish we were employed in scouting as heretofore until the Battle of Guilford [March 15, 1781] when the company to which I was attached was detached from Regiment to attend upon the sick & wounded soldiers. When our services were no longer required here, we were called back to our Regiment & employed as heretofore until the taking of Cornwallis [October 19, 1781] which I think was in October 1781 when I was discharged at Camden & returned to Greenbrier County Virginia where my parents had moved after my enlistment. I was born in Pittsylvania County Virginia in November 1763. I have no record of my age. I continued to live in Greenbrier until 1810 when I removed to Walnut Township in the County of Gallia & State of Ohio where I have ever since resided.
That I do not remember the names of any regular Officers as they were not to my recollection
associated with us. I received a discharge from Captain Arthur & countersigned by Colonel Lynch which discharge is lost. That I am known by all the citizens in the vicinity in which I live, but know of no one that I can prove my services by unless it may be by William Gillaspy1 who resides in Meigs [?] County.
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
S/ Henry McDaniel
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
S/ Francis Leglereg [?], Clk. C. C. P. G. C.
[Signed] Henry McDaniel
[Robert Langford, a clergyman, and John Lewis gave the standard supporting affidavit.]
[f p. 12: On September 13, 1853 in Gallia County Ohio, Alexander McDaniel filed a claim in which he states that Henry McDaniel received a pension of $100 per annum for his service as a private in the cavalry up until the time of his death on September 28, 1838 at age 75 leaving Hannah McDaniel his widow to whom he was married in Greenbrier County Virginia May 15, 1782 by the Reverend John Alderson; that Hannah's name prior to her marriage was Hannah Bryan; that Hannah died in Gallia County May 5, 1841 aged 70 without having applied for the pension due her as the widow of a veteran of the revolution; that the said Hannah left surviving her the following sons and daughters as heirs of her body: John, Caleb, Icher, Sarah Boggs, Alexander, Benjamin, Ephraim and Celia Shumate, all of whom now reside in the Gallia County state of Ohio.
[Signed] Alexander McDaniel
[Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $100 per annum commencing March 4th, 1831, for two-year service as a private in the Virginia service. Veteran's widow's heirs' application was rejected.]
http://revwarapps.org/r6678.pdf
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