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Facts and Events
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Will Abstract
- Will of John Edmiston, page 467.
- Wife Margaret; My son, Alexander; My daughters.
- Written: August 13, 1812
- Probated: April, 1813
- Executors: Wife, Margaret, James Richardson, William Prewitt and Walter Preston.
- Witnesses: Robert Wickliffe and Margaret P. Wickliffe
- [Source: Will Records of Fayette County, Kentucky, 1794-1818, Familysearch.org]
Overview
From: River Raisin Battlefield (fair use, but this needs to be expanded and written to make it independent)
- Captain John Montgomery Edmiston (Edmondson, Edmonson) was born in Virginia in 1764. He fought alongside his father [Col Person:William Edmiston (5) at the Battle of King’s Mountain during the Revolutionary War.[1] After marrying his cousin and serving as a Clerk of the Court at Abingdon, Virginia, he relocated to Fayette County, Kentucky, where he became a prosperous landowner.
- In 1812, he organized a company for Allen’s 1st Rifle Regiment and was elected its captain, but resigned in favor of his lieutenant, Richard Bledsoe. Continuing as a private in the company he formerly commanded, he was killed at the Battle of the River Raisin on January 22, 1813. A county in Kentucky was named after him in 1825.
From Howard V. Jones fide Dogwoods to Bluebonnets
- As for John who m. Mary Buchanan, as I said earlier, there were two of them. John Edmiston, s/o John II, married one, apparently the daughter of Samuel Buchanan II. John Edmondson, s/o William Edmiston Sr., married Mary Buchanan, d/o Andrew & Joanna Hay. The former went to Davidson Co. TN, the latter stayed in WCV. It took me several years to get that one figured out.
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Footnotes
Battle of River Raisin, from Kentucky Genealogy Trails
- ↑ This may not be true. Moss 1990 does not list a John Edmiston as confirmed at King's Mountain, though he includes him in his list of "maybe's".
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