Location type: Single Grave
Date of Birth: March 24, 1753
Date of Death: December 1838
Cause of death: Died Later
Grave Marker Text:
William Boydston - A Revolutionary Soldier
Born in Frederick Co. MD
March 24, 1753
Died in Clay Co., Mo., Dec. --, 1838
First to be buried in in this cemetery. Married in Montgomery Co. VA 1777 - 1778. Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel 4, and Jane Christian Died in Buchanan Co. Mo. Aug. 1844.
The back of the stone lists Boydston’s military record:
WILLIAM BOYDSTON
SERVED IN THE BATTLE OF POINT PLEASANT, VA,
OCT. 10, 1774 IN MONTGOMERY CO.
VA MILITIA 1776-1777
IN WASHINGTON CO., N.C.
LATER TENN., MILITIA 1780.
UNDER GEN. FRANCIS (“THE SWAMP FOX”) MARION,
AND UNDER COL. JOHN (“NOLICHUCKY JACK”) SEVIER.
PROBABLY ALSO IN BATTLE OF KING’S MOUNTAIN OCT. 7, 1780.
On a small brass plaque:
Celebrating the anniversary of the birth of our American Patriot
Marker Placed by William Boydston Chapter, NSDAR March 24, 2002
Ranks:
Headstone does not specify and I was not able to determine through further research.
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