Capt John Venable is suspected to be a Revolutionary War Veteran.
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This thread on geneology.com lists a family tree of sorts (http://genforum.genealogy.com/venable/messages/1409.html), and there are many others discussing the family.
This link (http://www.southerncampaign.org/pen/w18220.pdf), provides a transcript of the Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements application by John Venables (Venable). Some of the text:
'W18220
Transcribed by Will Graves
State of North Carolina, Stokes County
On this 10th Day of September 1833 personally appeared in open court before us he Justices of the County Court of Stokes aforesaid now sitting John Venable Esq. A resident of said county in North Carolina aged seventy one years the first day of September....
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herin after stated according to the best of his recollection (to wit).
That he entered service of the United States as a substitute for a certain John Jordan of York District in South Carolina as a pivate militia soldier some time in the latter end of August of first of September in the year 1778 in a company commanded by Lt. Malcolm Henry in a Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Neal & Rendezvoused at a Major Ross's in York district and marched from there & crossed Broad River at Talbot's Ferry......to a place called Fort White Hall at which place a General Williamson [Andrew Williamson] resided where a military store was kept........Captain Sadler's & Lt. Henry's companies should be detached from Col. Neal's regiment, when this applicant marched some miles under Lt. Henry's command up the Country not far from the Savannah River to guard the Country against the Hostile Indians and marched by a Fort encampment near Savannah River.....at which place he was discharged from his term of service of three months as he entered for a substitute aforesaid But he does not recollect whether he got a written discharge or not, & if he did he has lost it.....entering into said service as aforesaid a Student to School under the tuition of a Mr. Jesse Burgen in York District aforesaid in SC & was 16 years of age the first of September, 1798
The next service...was as a private militia soldier drafted in Surry County in North Carolina in the month of February or March 1780. Rendezvoused at the courthouse in Richmond in County aforesaid in the company of Capt. James Freeman and Lt. Samuel Dyer....called into service for the purpose of joining the army organized for the defense of Charlsetown in South Carolina.....That they were in Company with General Rutherford near Salisbury, and after being marched to a place in or near...Waxhaw Settlements near Nation of Indians of the Catawba tribe, and about this time....the City of Charleston had surrendered to the British.....whereupon this applicant with others were verbally discharged by his Captain aforesaid after having served one month at least. Sometime in the same year 1780 in May or June....he entered service as a volunteer in a Company of light horse militia troopers & found his own horse under the command of Captain John Barber....While at General Sumpter's [Thomas Sumpter] camp his horse ran away...he was permitted and directed by his Captain John Barber, to go and Join the Army under the Command of General Rutherford a distance of about 30 or more miles, in Anson County, North Carolina near the Pedee River....by the place called the Cheraw hills in South Carolina to Rugeley's Mills in said State, at which place he saw a number of Generals he thinks about thirteen in number & that General Gates was the Commander in Chief at this encampment we was ordered to build up our fires & leave them in as silent a manner as possible in the Night of the 15th of August 1780, said to be 12 or 13 miles from Camden in South Carolina & from thence was marched in as a silent a manner as possible some miles from Camden in the night time when & where the advanced Guards began firing on the enemy & the enemy at our Guards occasionally from that until day light when the General engagement took place, in which our American Army under the Command of the aforesaid General Gates, was defeated that he was in the said Battle & that it was said that General Rutherford was taken prisoner during the Battle and after said Battle & defeat of our forces, he this applicant returned home to Surry County
In 1781 Joined the Army commanded by General Green [Nathanael Greene] that he continued in said County of Guilford & was in the Battle
at what is called Whitsell's [Weitzel's] Mills on Reedy fork which happened a very few days before the Battle of Guilford in this Service he acted as Ensign trooper for the term aforesaid of one month but had no commission & knows of no person that can testify that he acted as an officer Ensign aforesaid, therefore he only claims as a private trooper.
The next & last Service he rendered he entered in Surry County North Carolina at the Courthouse in Richmond as a private light horseman as a Substitute for a certain Benjamin May of said County of Surry in Captain Minor Smith's Company of troopers under a Colonel Smith & Major Grayham [Graham?] and this applicant found his own horse & marched from Richmond aforesaid scouring the Country to subdue the
Tories through several Counties in the State of North Carolina above 200 miles to the place called the Raft Swamp & to the Brick house near Wilmington in North Carolina & at the Camp at Shaws in Brunswick County received a written discharge signed by his Captain M. Smith the 17th of November 1781 after serving his tour of three months which
discharge accompanies this declaration. The following is a brief Recapitulation of the applicant's claim as set forth in the foregoing Declaration (to wit)
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According to www.adsd.com/jackson there are 2 marked and 15 unmarked graves in the cemetery.
John Venable - 1740-1811
'Is believed to be the last resting place of Capatin John Venable
1740-1811
of the family
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Nathanel Venable - 1781-1832
'Nathanel Venable
1781-1832
Son of Captain John Venable and Agnes Moorman'