Benjamin Oliver - Union Cemetery - Langston, AL - American Revolutionary War Veteran Graves on Waymarking.com

From a transcript of Benjamin Oliver's pension application:

"that he was born in the County of Fairfax Virginia & was in his infancy removed & raised in the County of Granville North Carolina; that in March 1778, he volunteered from the County of Washington North Carolina, in the Company of Captain Valentine Sevier & attached to the Regiment of Colonel Charles Robinson & served a three months tour against the Cherokee Indians & marched as far as the Chickamauga Towns on the Tennessee River; this tour was performed by water from the Long Island; & when we reached the Indian Towns they had abandoned them there we stayed some time after burning the Town & what grain was on hand, we scoured the Country in search of the Indians found some few dispersed, of which several were killed – from the Chickamauga Towns we returned home on foot & were disbanded during which period of service he was engaged in no civil employment whatever. Again in June 1779 – he was drafted & went into the service of the United States for three months in the Company of Captain
Valentine Sevier, & attached to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Robinson & marched across the Yellow Mountain, where we met an express from Colonel McDowell to reinforce them on Broad River where he lay but shortly before been attacked by the British Tories; we then marched hastily to his relief & remained for the term of our engagement; during which time we had a skirmish with a flying party of Ferguson's Army; in which some four or five [of] his men were killed & two taken prisoners. We returned when our tour of service had expired & during which term of service he was engaged in no civil employment whatever. While he was in this service he knew Colonel Charles McDowell & Colonel Clark [sic, Elijah Clarke] of Georgia a refugee who joining McDowell after we had been some days with him. He further saith that he obtained a discharge for his first tour here mentioned; but which has long since been lost or destroyed, for the second he obtained none, & that he does not now know of any person living by whom he can prove the services rendered"

He died before a pension was granted in 1842.

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Location type: Section of a Cemetery/Mass Grave Date of Birth: May 1752 Date of Death: September 1840 Cause of death: Died Later Grave Marker Text: Benjamin Oliver Capt John Sevier's Regt. Revolutionary War May 1752 Sep 1840 Ranks:

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