Daniel Higdon Rev War Soldier

 

Daniel Higdon

Rev War Soldier

 

Daniel Higdon was born on August 1,1755 in Chatham, North Carolina the son of Daniel and Priscilla Brantley Higdon.  Daniel joined Captain Joseph Johnson's company, a part of Colonel John Collier's regiment which was part of the 1st Brigade commanded by Brig Gen. John Burler. The unit was part of General Gates' army that fought at Ramsey's Mill on Deep River and at Camden, SC. Later, in 1780 Private Higdon fought Tories at Cane Creek and Linsey's Mill as a member of Major Galston's unit. He continued to fight in many NC counties as the Patriots and Tories battled each other.   

                       

This culminated at Kings Mountain where he fought under the command of Major (then Col) James Williams. Afterwards, he joined Capt. Matthew Ramsey's company which was part of the 4th NC Regiment. This regiment was part of General Nathanael Green's army which fought at Ninety Six, SC and later at Guilford Courthouse, NC. He remained in Greene's army until the end of the southern campaign. He married Mary Bryant in 1798 in Chatham, NC.  Daniel moved his family to Hancock County, Georgia and drew land in the 1827 Land Lottery as a Rev. war soldier. In the 1840’s Daniel and Mary moved to Columbus, GA.  After applying several times, he received a pension as a resident of Muscogee County, GA.  Daniel and Mary had at least three children according to the pension application. Mahala, born about 1800, Letty, born about 1803 and Rhoda, born about 1806. After Daniels death, at age 91, on December 22, 1853, his wife received a pension of about $66.00 per year (about $2,400 today) until her death. Daniel and Mary are buried in the Providence Church Cemetery located on St. Mary’s Road in Columbus, GA.

Pension application

https://www.ancestry.com/familytree/person/tree/170349898/person/142251586052/fact

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Georgia Revolutionary War Soldier’s Graves, Arnold H. Ross, Iberian Publishing Co., Athens, Ga, 1993

 

                                                                

Rev. James Allen

                                          Rev. James Allen

                   Revolutionary War Soldier

Linwood Cemetery

Columbus, GA

“He was as useful, as a minister of the Gospel, as he was a physician, and the work of his hands will fruit on and on and ripen in eternity.” * 

*(from an article in Alabama Historical Quarterly, V. 15, no. 2 (Summer 1953) “ The History of Opelika and Her Agricultural Tributary Territory.” 

 

Rev. James Allen was born in Virginia, possibly in the Richmond area on July 26, 1764. He was the son of Andrew Chapman and Hannah Newton Allen. He served in the Virginia Continental Line during the Revolutionary War.  After the war, he settled in Columbia County, GA. He married Jane Eliza McGehee on June 16, 1792. 

The family moved into Meriwether County in the 1830’s where he worked as a carpenter. His wife Jane died there in October 1834. 

When the family moved into Russell County, AL, Allen became a physician and minster. It was reported that he never charged for his services. “The last half of his active life was devoted to the gratuitous practice of medicine. This necessity arose from the scarcity of regular physicians in the early days. It is known that he rode day and night, during the sickly season, to meet the calls of the suffering, furnishing medicine at his own expense and never charging a cent for his services. He was very successful in his practice, though he never made medicine a study until it became necessary and never graduated from any school of medicine, except that of the saddle and the sick bed.” *

*(from an article in Alabama Historical Quarterly, V. 15, no. 2 (Summer 1953) “ The History of Opelika and Her Agricultural Tributary Territory.” 

Rev. Allen died in the home of his son, John W. Allen, on July 12, 1871 near Smiths Station, AL.

James and Jane Allen had six children: Zilpah, Harriet, William, Mariah, James, and John.

Allen Family Plot

Linwood Cemetery

 References

U.S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, www.ancestry.com, accessed February 19, 2025

“The History of Opelika and Her Agricultural Tributary Territory,” Alabama Historical Quarterly, V. 15, no. 2 (Summer 1953), Chapter 29, 322, Alabama Department of Archives and History.

"United States, Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1966", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26485569/james-allen

 Historic Linwood Cemetery, Linda J. Kennedy and Mary Jane Galor, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, 2004, p.50

Linda McCardle