Nathaniel Vannoy
BIRTH 16 Feb 1749
Rowan County, North Carolina, USA
DEATH 26 Jul 1835 (aged 86)
Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina, USA
BURIAL
Springwood Cemetery
Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina, USA
Nathaniel Van Noy, b. Feb. 16, 1749; d. July 26, 1835; m. Elizabeth Ray, of English ancestry, of Ashe Co., N. C. He was a pioneer settler in Wilkes Co., N. C., and lived on the north fork of Lewis Fork Creek.
He was sheriff of Wilkes Co., during Revolutionary times and at the direction of Col. Benjamin Cleveland hung three Tories to a tree for horse stealing, a remnant of which still stands (1925) besides the Wilkes County Court House.
He joined the regiment of Col. Benjamin Cleveland as a Sergeant Major and served throughout the Kings Mountain Campaign. Family tradition says that the Cleveland's were related to the Van Noys and through common ancestors were related to the family of Oliver Cromwell.
President Grover Cleveland presented a family bible to Caroline Yates, grandchild of Nathaniel Van Noy, as a memento of the family relation. The home of Nathaniel Van Noy on Lewis Fork bordered that of Col. Benjamin Cleveland and in its vicinity lived the Ellers, McNiels and Shepherds. He traveled considerably in his later life in N. and S. Carolina. and Tenn.
He was a member of, and one of the founders of, the New Hope Baptist Church that was organized in Wilkes Co., N. C., in June, 1830.
During his last years he resided in Greenville, S. C., with his daughter Sarah Cleveland, where he died and is buried.
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