Note: North Carolina was a Colony in 1761.
Brandon,Josiah, Departed this life, in Lincoln County, Tenn., in the triumphs of Christian faith, on the 5th inst.,in the 83rd year of his age, Rev. Josiah Brandon. Brother Brandon had been an acceptable, useful, and highly exemplary member of the Methodist E. Church for near 60 years, and about 50 years of that time a devout, zealous and useful minister of the gospel of Christ, beloved by all who knew him. As a minister he was vigilant in watching the interests of our beloved Zion; he labored and prayed for her prosperity and success, and he was permitted by the great head of the church to live to see her borders extend far and wide, and see the blood stained banner wave in majestic triumph over many nations. As a citizen in the "land of the free and the home of the the brave," he, after
having fought for the liberties of his country, spent a long and useful life in the enjoyment of that precious gift of Heaven to man, Liberty. He was ardently attached to the institutions of his country, rendering unto "Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." His house was a home for many years for all the ministers of
Christ. Kind and hospitable to friends, generous and liberal to the fatherless and widow, and distressed; an indulgent father, the kind husband, the worthy citizen, the devout christian. He had prayed for many years, that when the fatal hour came for his final dissolution, that he might pass the dismal vale without a struggle. His prayer was answered. The day on which he died he was happy all day, and in his usual health; at night he fell asleep in the arms of Jesus, without a murmur or a sigh escaping his lips. He has left an affectionate companion an the large circle of the relations to mourn their loss. May they follow the sainted patriarch as he followed Christ.
"Another soul, dismissed from Earth's abode, Is borne triumphant to the throne of God-- Conveyed by angels to the realms above, Where saints made perfect chant the song of love."- P.B.R.
The Huntsville Democrat
Date: November 14, 1842
Place: Huntsville, Alabama
Description: Obituary
His parents were Thomas and Elizabeth Sample Brandon. Thomas Brandon died 7 Oct 1780 in the "Battle of Kings Mountain", South Carolina. Thomas was a Captain in the Loyalist Militia.
Note: Sample may not be Elizabeth's maiden name
When Josiah was about 17 years old, he enlisted under Captain Samuel Davidson to fight against the Cherokee Indians. He participated in the building of "Old Fort" and in 1779, he joined in the pursuit of Captain Cunningham serving in Captain Boykin's Company of Light Horse Cavalry. He enlisted again in 1780 to fight the Cherokees who had recently butchered the John Davidson family, close neighbors to the Brandon family. However, on the eve of King's Mountain, Josiah's father (Thomas Brandon who was a Captain in the Loyalist militia), "partly by persuasion and partly by menace" (to use Josiah's terms in a Testimony for a pension), forced him to join his father's company under Colonel Ferguson in charge of the troops of the crown. During the battle at King's Mountain, Josiah's father was killed and Josiah was captured though released shortly afterwards by Major McDowell, who knew the family well since Josiah had served under him on several of the earlier excursions against the Indians. He was released to the custody of his widowed mother (Elizabeth Brandon) but shortly re-enlisted under Captain Boykin to march against Captain Cunningham who was marauding the settled areas of South Carolina. Josiah's war record shows service under the Patriots for some three years, and he was ultimately awarded a pension. Nevertheless, when he applied for the pension in 1832, his service under the crown at King's Mountain became an issue which involved negotiations among his sons to correct the "wrong impression" that he was sympathetic to the royalist cause. Josiah was a land owner in North Carolina. In the fall of 1805, Josiah moved his family into Tennessee and settled in Lincoln County. Josiah and his wife are buried on the hill opposite his church, Brandon Chapel, near Lynchburg. In 1981, the North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal published an article written by William Bennett "Josiah Brandon's Burke County, NC, 1777-1800." This was an in depth study, using land grants, to determine the name of Josiah Brandon's father. A successful study it was, as Thomas Brandon, Loyalist, emerged. Some of the information for this narrative came from Dr. John Rison Jones Jr (lived in Alabama), the James Record Collection found in the Madison County Public Library, Huntsville, Alabama. Thomas M. Owen's Revolutionary War Soldiers In Alabama and Franklin County, TN Revolutionary War Pensions (contains an abstract of Josiah's Revolutionary War pension file).
Shortly after King's Mountain, Josiah married Rachel Brown, a childhood friend and neighbor, the daughter of Thomas Brown, a noted Quaker in western North Carolina.
Josiah and Rachel Brown were married 8 Mar 1781 at Burke Co, NC. and they were the parents of 15 children:
Elizabeth: Dec. 17, 1781 - Jan. 29, 1862 Married: Major Benjamin Burgin Jr.
Margaret: Feb. 7, 1784 - ?
Thomas: April 17, 1785 - Aug. 31, 1859 Married: Elizabeth Sample
William: Sept. 7, 1788 - March 22, 1848 Married: Mary Sample
Lemuel Robert: Aug. 24, 1790 - June 21, 1860 Married: 1st wife Rebecca Leah Burgin, 2nd wife Mary Beall
Jane (Jensey): June 7,1792 - ? Married: Francis Woodward
Nancy: April 25, 1794 - Sept. 26, 1880 Married: Isaac Winston
Josiah H, Jr : Nov. 14 , 1796 - Aug. 16, 1822 Married: Martha Sample
Byrd: Dec. 17, 1798 - June 3, 1838 Married: Mary (Jane) Caldwell
Lydia: Jan. 25, 1800 - ?
Logan Davidson: Sept. 27,1801 - March 18,1855 Married: Sarah Haughton
Rachel: Dec. 3, 1803 - ?
Polly: Jan. 9, 1806 - ?
Lucy W. : July 26, 1809 - Jan. 28, 1875 Married: Samuel Roseborough
Elenor C. : April 24, 1814 - ?
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive battle between the Patriot and Loyalist militias in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It took place on October 7, 1780 near Kings Mountain in South Carolina, where the Patriot militia defeated the Loyalist forces commanded by British Major Patrick Ferguson who was killed in the battle.
Brandon,Josiah, Departed this life, in Lincoln County, Tenn., in the triumphs of Christian faith, on the 5th inst.,in the 83rd year of his age, Rev. Josiah Brandon. Brother Brandon had been an acceptable, useful, and highly exemplary member of the Methodist E. Church for near 60 years, and about 50 years of that time a devout, zealous and useful minister of the gospel of Christ, beloved by all who knew him. As a minister he was vigilant in watching the interests of our beloved Zion; he labored and prayed for her prosperity and success, and he was permitted by the great head of the church to live to see her borders extend far and wide, and see the blood stained banner wave in majestic triumph over many nations. As a citizen in the "land of the free and the home of the the brave," he, after
having fought for the liberties of his country, spent a long and useful life in the enjoyment of that precious gift of Heaven to man, Liberty. He was ardently attached to the institutions of his country, rendering unto "Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." His house was a home for many years for all the ministers of
Christ. Kind and hospitable to friends, generous and liberal to the fatherless and widow, and distressed; an indulgent father, the kind husband, the worthy citizen, the devout christian. He had prayed for many years, that when the fatal hour came for his final dissolution, that he might pass the dismal vale without a struggle. His prayer was answered. The day on which he died he was happy all day, and in his usual health; at night he fell asleep in the arms of Jesus, without a murmur or a sigh escaping his lips. He has left an affectionate companion an the large circle of the relations to mourn their loss. May they follow the sainted patriarch as he followed Christ.
"Another soul, dismissed from Earth's abode, Is borne triumphant to the throne of God-- Conveyed by angels to the realms above, Where saints made perfect chant the song of love."- P.B.R.
The Huntsville Democrat
Date: November 14, 1842
Place: Huntsville, Alabama
Description: Obituary
His parents were Thomas and Elizabeth Sample Brandon. Thomas Brandon died 7 Oct 1780 in the "Battle of Kings Mountain", South Carolina. Thomas was a Captain in the Loyalist Militia.
Note: Sample may not be Elizabeth's maiden name
When Josiah was about 17 years old, he enlisted under Captain Samuel Davidson to fight against the Cherokee Indians. He participated in the building of "Old Fort" and in 1779, he joined in the pursuit of Captain Cunningham serving in Captain Boykin's Company of Light Horse Cavalry. He enlisted again in 1780 to fight the Cherokees who had recently butchered the John Davidson family, close neighbors to the Brandon family. However, on the eve of King's Mountain, Josiah's father (Thomas Brandon who was a Captain in the Loyalist militia), "partly by persuasion and partly by menace" (to use Josiah's terms in a Testimony for a pension), forced him to join his father's company under Colonel Ferguson in charge of the troops of the crown. During the battle at King's Mountain, Josiah's father was killed and Josiah was captured though released shortly afterwards by Major McDowell, who knew the family well since Josiah had served under him on several of the earlier excursions against the Indians. He was released to the custody of his widowed mother (Elizabeth Brandon) but shortly re-enlisted under Captain Boykin to march against Captain Cunningham who was marauding the settled areas of South Carolina. Josiah's war record shows service under the Patriots for some three years, and he was ultimately awarded a pension. Nevertheless, when he applied for the pension in 1832, his service under the crown at King's Mountain became an issue which involved negotiations among his sons to correct the "wrong impression" that he was sympathetic to the royalist cause. Josiah was a land owner in North Carolina. In the fall of 1805, Josiah moved his family into Tennessee and settled in Lincoln County. Josiah and his wife are buried on the hill opposite his church, Brandon Chapel, near Lynchburg. In 1981, the North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal published an article written by William Bennett "Josiah Brandon's Burke County, NC, 1777-1800." This was an in depth study, using land grants, to determine the name of Josiah Brandon's father. A successful study it was, as Thomas Brandon, Loyalist, emerged. Some of the information for this narrative came from Dr. John Rison Jones Jr (lived in Alabama), the James Record Collection found in the Madison County Public Library, Huntsville, Alabama. Thomas M. Owen's Revolutionary War Soldiers In Alabama and Franklin County, TN Revolutionary War Pensions (contains an abstract of Josiah's Revolutionary War pension file).
Shortly after King's Mountain, Josiah married Rachel Brown, a childhood friend and neighbor, the daughter of Thomas Brown, a noted Quaker in western North Carolina.
Josiah and Rachel Brown were married 8 Mar 1781 at Burke Co, NC. and they were the parents of 15 children:
Elizabeth: Dec. 17, 1781 - Jan. 29, 1862 Married: Major Benjamin Burgin Jr.
Margaret: Feb. 7, 1784 - ?
Thomas: April 17, 1785 - Aug. 31, 1859 Married: Elizabeth Sample
William: Sept. 7, 1788 - March 22, 1848 Married: Mary Sample
Lemuel Robert: Aug. 24, 1790 - June 21, 1860 Married: 1st wife Rebecca Leah Burgin, 2nd wife Mary Beall
Jane (Jensey): June 7,1792 - ? Married: Francis Woodward
Nancy: April 25, 1794 - Sept. 26, 1880 Married: Isaac Winston
Josiah H, Jr : Nov. 14 , 1796 - Aug. 16, 1822 Married: Martha Sample
Byrd: Dec. 17, 1798 - June 3, 1838 Married: Mary (Jane) Caldwell
Lydia: Jan. 25, 1800 - ?
Logan Davidson: Sept. 27,1801 - March 18,1855 Married: Sarah Haughton
Rachel: Dec. 3, 1803 - ?
Polly: Jan. 9, 1806 - ?
Lucy W. : July 26, 1809 - Jan. 28, 1875 Married: Samuel Roseborough
Elenor C. : April 24, 1814 - ?
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive battle between the Patriot and Loyalist militias in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It took place on October 7, 1780 near Kings Mountain in South Carolina, where the Patriot militia defeated the Loyalist forces commanded by British Major Patrick Ferguson who was killed in the battle.
Note: North Carolina was a Colony in 1761.
Brandon,Josiah, Departed this life, in Lincoln County, Tenn., in the triumphs of Christian faith, on the 5th inst.,in the 83rd year of his age, Rev. Josiah Brandon. Brother Brandon had been an acceptable, useful, and highly exemplary member of the Methodist E. Church for near 60 years, and about 50 years of that time a devout, zealous and useful minister of the gospel of Christ, beloved by all who knew him. As a minister he was vigilant in watching the interests of our beloved Zion; he labored and prayed for her prosperity and success, and he was permitted by the great head of the church to live to see her borders extend far and wide, and see the blood stained banner wave in majestic triumph over many nations. As a citizen in the "land of the free and the home of the the brave," he, after
having fought for the liberties of his country, spent a long and useful life in the enjoyment of that precious gift of Heaven to man, Liberty. He was ardently attached to the institutions of his country, rendering unto "Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." His house was a home for many years for all the ministers of
Christ. Kind and hospitable to friends, generous and liberal to the fatherless and widow, and distressed; an indulgent father, the kind husband, the worthy citizen, the devout christian. He had prayed for many years, that when the fatal hour came for his final dissolution, that he might pass the dismal vale without a struggle. His prayer was answered. The day on which he died he was happy all day, and in his usual health; at night he fell asleep in the arms of Jesus, without a murmur or a sigh escaping his lips. He has left an affectionate companion an the large circle of the relations to mourn their loss. May they follow the sainted patriarch as he followed Christ.
"Another soul, dismissed from Earth's abode, Is borne triumphant to the throne of God-- Conveyed by angels to the realms above, Where saints made perfect chant the song of love."- P.B.R.
The Huntsville Democrat
Date: November 14, 1842
Place: Huntsville, Alabama
Description: Obituary
His parents were Thomas and Elizabeth Sample Brandon. Thomas Brandon died 7 Oct 1780 in the "Battle of Kings Mountain", South Carolina. Thomas was a Captain in the Loyalist Militia.
Note: Sample may not be Elizabeth's maiden name
When Josiah was about 17 years old, he enlisted under Captain Samuel Davidson to fight against the Cherokee Indians. He participated in the building of "Old Fort" and in 1779, he joined in the pursuit of Captain Cunningham serving in Captain Boykin's Company of Light Horse Cavalry. He enlisted again in 1780 to fight the Cherokees who had recently butchered the John Davidson family, close neighbors to the Brandon family. However, on the eve of King's Mountain, Josiah's father (Thomas Brandon who was a Captain in the Loyalist militia), "partly by persuasion and partly by menace" (to use Josiah's terms in a Testimony for a pension), forced him to join his father's company under Colonel Ferguson in charge of the troops of the crown. During the battle at King's Mountain, Josiah's father was killed and Josiah was captured though released shortly afterwards by Major McDowell, who knew the family well since Josiah had served under him on several of the earlier excursions against the Indians. He was released to the custody of his widowed mother (Elizabeth Brandon) but shortly re-enlisted under Captain Boykin to march against Captain Cunningham who was marauding the settled areas of South Carolina. Josiah's war record shows service under the Patriots for some three years, and he was ultimately awarded a pension. Nevertheless, when he applied for the pension in 1832, his service under the crown at King's Mountain became an issue which involved negotiations among his sons to correct the "wrong impression" that he was sympathetic to the royalist cause. Josiah was a land owner in North Carolina. In the fall of 1805, Josiah moved his family into Tennessee and settled in Lincoln County. Josiah and his wife are buried on the hill opposite his church, Brandon Chapel, near Lynchburg. In 1981, the North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal published an article written by William Bennett "Josiah Brandon's Burke County, NC, 1777-1800." This was an in depth study, using land grants, to determine the name of Josiah Brandon's father. A successful study it was, as Thomas Brandon, Loyalist, emerged. Some of the information for this narrative came from Dr. John Rison Jones Jr (lived in Alabama), the James Record Collection found in the Madison County Public Library, Huntsville, Alabama. Thomas M. Owen's Revolutionary War Soldiers In Alabama and Franklin County, TN Revolutionary War Pensions (contains an abstract of Josiah's Revolutionary War pension file).
Shortly after King's Mountain, Josiah married Rachel Brown, a childhood friend and neighbor, the daughter of Thomas Brown, a noted Quaker in western North Carolina.
Josiah and Rachel Brown were married 8 Mar 1781 at Burke Co, NC. and they were the parents of 15 children:
Elizabeth: Dec. 17, 1781 - Jan. 29, 1862 Married: Major Benjamin Burgin Jr.
Margaret: Feb. 7, 1784 - ?
Thomas: April 17, 1785 - Aug. 31, 1859 Married: Elizabeth Sample
William: Sept. 7, 1788 - March 22, 1848 Married: Mary Sample
Lemuel Robert: Aug. 24, 1790 - June 21, 1860 Married: 1st wife Rebecca Leah Burgin, 2nd wife Mary Beall
Jane (Jensey): June 7,1792 - ? Married: Francis Woodward
Nancy: April 25, 1794 - Sept. 26, 1880 Married: Isaac Winston
Josiah H, Jr : Nov. 14 , 1796 - Aug. 16, 1822 Married: Martha Sample
Byrd: Dec. 17, 1798 - June 3, 1838 Married: Mary (Jane) Caldwell
Lydia: Jan. 25, 1800 - ?
Logan Davidson: Sept. 27,1801 - March 18,1855 Married: Sarah Haughton
Rachel: Dec. 3, 1803 - ?
Polly: Jan. 9, 1806 - ?
Lucy W. : July 26, 1809 - Jan. 28, 1875 Married: Samuel Roseborough
Elenor C. : April 24, 1814 - ?
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive battle between the Patriot and Loyalist militias in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It took place on October 7, 1780 near Kings Mountain in South Carolina, where the Patriot militia defeated the Loyalist forces commanded by British Major Patrick Ferguson who was killed in the battle.
Brandon,Josiah, Departed this life, in Lincoln County, Tenn., in the triumphs of Christian faith, on the 5th inst.,in the 83rd year of his age, Rev. Josiah Brandon. Brother Brandon had been an acceptable, useful, and highly exemplary member of the Methodist E. Church for near 60 years, and about 50 years of that time a devout, zealous and useful minister of the gospel of Christ, beloved by all who knew him. As a minister he was vigilant in watching the interests of our beloved Zion; he labored and prayed for her prosperity and success, and he was permitted by the great head of the church to live to see her borders extend far and wide, and see the blood stained banner wave in majestic triumph over many nations. As a citizen in the "land of the free and the home of the the brave," he, after
having fought for the liberties of his country, spent a long and useful life in the enjoyment of that precious gift of Heaven to man, Liberty. He was ardently attached to the institutions of his country, rendering unto "Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." His house was a home for many years for all the ministers of
Christ. Kind and hospitable to friends, generous and liberal to the fatherless and widow, and distressed; an indulgent father, the kind husband, the worthy citizen, the devout christian. He had prayed for many years, that when the fatal hour came for his final dissolution, that he might pass the dismal vale without a struggle. His prayer was answered. The day on which he died he was happy all day, and in his usual health; at night he fell asleep in the arms of Jesus, without a murmur or a sigh escaping his lips. He has left an affectionate companion an the large circle of the relations to mourn their loss. May they follow the sainted patriarch as he followed Christ.
"Another soul, dismissed from Earth's abode, Is borne triumphant to the throne of God-- Conveyed by angels to the realms above, Where saints made perfect chant the song of love."- P.B.R.
The Huntsville Democrat
Date: November 14, 1842
Place: Huntsville, Alabama
Description: Obituary
His parents were Thomas and Elizabeth Sample Brandon. Thomas Brandon died 7 Oct 1780 in the "Battle of Kings Mountain", South Carolina. Thomas was a Captain in the Loyalist Militia.
Note: Sample may not be Elizabeth's maiden name
When Josiah was about 17 years old, he enlisted under Captain Samuel Davidson to fight against the Cherokee Indians. He participated in the building of "Old Fort" and in 1779, he joined in the pursuit of Captain Cunningham serving in Captain Boykin's Company of Light Horse Cavalry. He enlisted again in 1780 to fight the Cherokees who had recently butchered the John Davidson family, close neighbors to the Brandon family. However, on the eve of King's Mountain, Josiah's father (Thomas Brandon who was a Captain in the Loyalist militia), "partly by persuasion and partly by menace" (to use Josiah's terms in a Testimony for a pension), forced him to join his father's company under Colonel Ferguson in charge of the troops of the crown. During the battle at King's Mountain, Josiah's father was killed and Josiah was captured though released shortly afterwards by Major McDowell, who knew the family well since Josiah had served under him on several of the earlier excursions against the Indians. He was released to the custody of his widowed mother (Elizabeth Brandon) but shortly re-enlisted under Captain Boykin to march against Captain Cunningham who was marauding the settled areas of South Carolina. Josiah's war record shows service under the Patriots for some three years, and he was ultimately awarded a pension. Nevertheless, when he applied for the pension in 1832, his service under the crown at King's Mountain became an issue which involved negotiations among his sons to correct the "wrong impression" that he was sympathetic to the royalist cause. Josiah was a land owner in North Carolina. In the fall of 1805, Josiah moved his family into Tennessee and settled in Lincoln County. Josiah and his wife are buried on the hill opposite his church, Brandon Chapel, near Lynchburg. In 1981, the North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal published an article written by William Bennett "Josiah Brandon's Burke County, NC, 1777-1800." This was an in depth study, using land grants, to determine the name of Josiah Brandon's father. A successful study it was, as Thomas Brandon, Loyalist, emerged. Some of the information for this narrative came from Dr. John Rison Jones Jr (lived in Alabama), the James Record Collection found in the Madison County Public Library, Huntsville, Alabama. Thomas M. Owen's Revolutionary War Soldiers In Alabama and Franklin County, TN Revolutionary War Pensions (contains an abstract of Josiah's Revolutionary War pension file).
Shortly after King's Mountain, Josiah married Rachel Brown, a childhood friend and neighbor, the daughter of Thomas Brown, a noted Quaker in western North Carolina.
Josiah and Rachel Brown were married 8 Mar 1781 at Burke Co, NC. and they were the parents of 15 children:
Elizabeth: Dec. 17, 1781 - Jan. 29, 1862 Married: Major Benjamin Burgin Jr.
Margaret: Feb. 7, 1784 - ?
Thomas: April 17, 1785 - Aug. 31, 1859 Married: Elizabeth Sample
William: Sept. 7, 1788 - March 22, 1848 Married: Mary Sample
Lemuel Robert: Aug. 24, 1790 - June 21, 1860 Married: 1st wife Rebecca Leah Burgin, 2nd wife Mary Beall
Jane (Jensey): June 7,1792 - ? Married: Francis Woodward
Nancy: April 25, 1794 - Sept. 26, 1880 Married: Isaac Winston
Josiah H, Jr : Nov. 14 , 1796 - Aug. 16, 1822 Married: Martha Sample
Byrd: Dec. 17, 1798 - June 3, 1838 Married: Mary (Jane) Caldwell
Lydia: Jan. 25, 1800 - ?
Logan Davidson: Sept. 27,1801 - March 18,1855 Married: Sarah Haughton
Rachel: Dec. 3, 1803 - ?
Polly: Jan. 9, 1806 - ?
Lucy W. : July 26, 1809 - Jan. 28, 1875 Married: Samuel Roseborough
Elenor C. : April 24, 1814 - ?
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive battle between the Patriot and Loyalist militias in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It took place on October 7, 1780 near Kings Mountain in South Carolina, where the Patriot militia defeated the Loyalist forces commanded by British Major Patrick Ferguson who was killed in the battle.
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