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Henry DePue Veteran

Birth
New Jersey, USA
Death
1845 (aged 71–72)
Wirt County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Wirt County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Henry Depue, father of nine, leaving many ancestors, left New Jersey at the age of twenty, going to the Mississippi River, searching for a sister. He returned to New Jersey and then went on to the Ohio River buying bear meat and venison. He took these to New Orleans and started back to Pittsburgh with two boats of flour, which he lost at the falls of Ohio. He then went to Greenbrier County where he married Virginia Jane Mays, September 9, 1802 in Harrison county
Virginia - now West Virginia.
Henry served in the Revolutionary War when a mere boy. He took part in the battles of Princeton, Trenton, and Valley Forge. Records show he was born in 1773 and was buried in the cemetery on the P.T. L. Depue farm in Elizabeth, West Virginia.
Father of Virginia, Beniah, Jonathan, Eleanor, Archibald, David and Hiram Depue.
Henry Depue, father of nine, leaving many ancestors, left New Jersey at the age of twenty, going to the Mississippi River, searching for a sister. He returned to New Jersey and then went on to the Ohio River buying bear meat and venison. He took these to New Orleans and started back to Pittsburgh with two boats of flour, which he lost at the falls of Ohio. He then went to Greenbrier County where he married Virginia Jane Mays, September 9, 1802 in Harrison county
Virginia - now West Virginia.
Henry served in the Revolutionary War when a mere boy. He took part in the battles of Princeton, Trenton, and Valley Forge. Records show he was born in 1773 and was buried in the cemetery on the P.T. L. Depue farm in Elizabeth, West Virginia.
Father of Virginia, Beniah, Jonathan, Eleanor, Archibald, David and Hiram Depue.


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