Gravesite of Major Jeremiah Austill - Rockville, AL
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N 31° 25.417 W 087° 51.413
16R E 418559 N 3476868
Marker is along Rockville Rd (County Rd 15) at Suel Rd and describes the nearby location of a famous folk hero of the Creek Indian Wars. Noted as the "Paul Revere of Clarke County."
Waymark Code: WMV5XE
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 02/28/2017
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Marker text:
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Near this site, is the gravesite of Maj. Jeremiah Austill, folk hero & prominent figure in the early settlement of Clarke County. Born in 1794 in S. C., he lived, along with his parents, Capt. Evan and Sara Austill, among the Cherokee in Ga. Before moving here at 18.
He is best known as the “Paul Revere of Clarke County.” During the Creek War, a Sept. 2, 1813 Red Stick attack on Ft. Sinquefield near Whatley prompted the teen to make a dangerous, solitary night ride more than 40 miles to dispatch assistance from the militia at Mt. Vernon. With Austill’s news,
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the colonel ordered forts Glass and Madison evacuated to St. Stephens with the Austills, a few others, including Sam Dale, remaining. Afterward, he was among the scouts who fought the Red Sticks in the famous Canoe Fight on the Alabama River.
After the war, he was clerk in the store of his uncle, Col. David Files & moved to Mobile where he was appointed clerk of the county court & spent one year in the state legislature. In 1840, he bought the Gullet Plantation south of Jackson, residing there until his death on Dec. 9, 1879.
Marker Name: Gravesite of Major Jeremiah Austill
Marker Type: Rural Roadside
Addtional Information::
Erected by Clarke County Historical Society.
Date Dedicated / Placed: 2014
Marker Number: N/A
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