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REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS
in ALABAMA
Source: Revolutionary Soldiers in
Alabama
Being a List of Names, Compiled from Authentic
Sources, of Soldiers of the
American Revolution, Who Resided in
The State of Alabama
Montgomery, Ala.
The Brown Printing Company
Printers and Binders,
1911
ISAAC OAKS, aged
74, and a resident of Perry county; private Virginia Militia;
enrolled on Oct. 29, 1833, under act of Congress of June7, 1832,
payment to date from Mar. 4, 1831; annual allowance, $60; sums
received to date of publication of list, $150.
- Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514,
23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
He resided in Perry county, June 1, 1840, with Willis
Osbourn, aged 81.
- Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149. |
JACOB ODOM, aged
72, and a resident of Pickens county; private N. C. Militia;
enrolled on Jan. 28, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7,
1832, payment to date from Mar. 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20;
sums received to date of publication of list, $50.
- Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514,
23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. |
THOMAS OLIVER.
"The writer has been told that the grave of this soldier may be
seen near one of the public roads about six miles from
Montgomery. His tombstone relates that he was in the War
of the Rebellion from Culpepper county, Virginia; he was at
King's Mountain and Yorktown. HE died in 182_ in
Montgomery county, Alabama. Nothing more has been learned
of his history or family."
- Mrs. P. H. Mell in Transactions of the Alabama
Historical Society, Vol. iv, p. 558. |
DAVID OSTEEN, aged
73, and a resident of Morgan county; private N. C. Militia;
enrolled on May 2, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from Mar. 4, 1831; annual allowance, $23.33;
sums received to date of publication of list, $69.99
- Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514,
23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. |
SAMUEL OTTERSON,
aged 80, and a resident of Greene county; captain and major S.
C. Militia; enrolled on July 2, 1833, under act of Congress of
June 7, 1832, payment to date from Mar. 4, 1831; annual
allowance, $525; sums received to date of publication of list,
$1,585.
- Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514,
23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. |
SAMUEL OTTERSON,
age not given, and a resident of Greene county; captain S. C.
Militia; date enrolled not stated, but pension to date from Oct.
6, 1816, under act of Congress, Mar. 3, 1809; transferred from
S. C., Mar. 4, 1834; annual allowance, $96; sums received to
date of publication of list, $2,247.74.
- Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514,
23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. |
JOHN OWEN, a
resident of Autauga county; private, particular service not
shown; enrolled on Jan. 26, 1835, under act of Congress of June
7, 1832, payment to date from Mar. 4, 1831; annual allowance,
$26.66
- Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile. |
RICHARDSON OWEN.
"At his residence in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on the 24th day of July,
1822, departed this life Col. Richardson Owen in the 78th
year of his life. Col. Owen was born in Henrico
county, Virginia, on the 14th of Mar. 1744. He emigrated
to N. Carolina in 1762, where he was appointed Col. Commandant
of Randolph county. During the period of the Revolutionary
War he retained this command and was for some time in active
service. He participated in many of the interesting and
painful events with the Revolution. Near the close of the
War he resigned this command and removed to Va. on New River
where he found a brisk in partisan war kept up between Wigs and
Tories.
"Devoted to the cause of liberty, he could not remain
neutral in this conflict. The Tory party for a while
appeared dominant and Col. Owen was selected as one of
the victims of their cruelty; his vigilance and activity,
however, enabled him to elude their group, but his whole estate
(which was large) was swept away by them. They burned his
house and plundered him to everything movable. Fired by
patriotic feelings as well as individual resentment Co. Owen
determined at once to crush this murderous band of unprincipled
desperadoes. For this purpose he raised a volunteer
regiment whom he commanded, and after many sharp conflicts he
succeeded in killing, hanging and putting to flight these
destroyers of this fortune and enemies of his country's
liberties. He carried with him to the grave all those
feelings which animated the American soldier in the times that
tried men's souls.
"Though he encountered many privations and sustained
losses which he was ever after unable to repair, still he felt
himself amply compensated in the acquisitions of that liberty
for which he fought and struggled and which he long lived to
enjoy.
"Nature endowed him with a strong mind, which he
retained to close of his life. In his deportment through
life his conduct was exemplary. For more than 20 years he
was a member of the Methodist church and daily engaged in the
pious duties of a Christian.
"He faced death with confidence and without fear,
leaving an aged wife, five sons and one daughter,"
- Obituary, written by Col. John I. Inge, Tuscaloosa,
Ala., and published in the Tuscaloosa Republican, July,
1822. |
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