Captain William McCrackin Jr. was born in 1757, in Virginia. He was the son of William McCrackin and Sarah Osman. William married Nancy Ann Higgins. William passed away 4 Nov., 1782, in what was the future site of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is believed to be buried at what is now the "Great American Ball Park", adjacent to the landing place of Pete Rose's 4,192nd hit,
The child of William and Nancy McCrackin was:
Pamelia McCracken-Allen (1782–1864)
"We will no doubt all recollect Captain McCracken. He commanded the company of light horse, and Green Clay was his lieutenant. The captain was slightly wounded in the arm at Piqua town, when within a few feet of one of the subscribers, from which place he was carried on a horse litter for several days ; his wound produced mortification, and he died in going down the hill where the city of Cincinnati now stands. He was buried near the block-house we had erected opposite the mouth of Licking, and the breastworks were thrown over his grave to prevent the savages from scalping him." ~ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924032193520/cu31924032193520_djvu.txt
"A book called Lexington 1779, Pioneer Kentucky 976.947 H2m, p. 94, has the compiled notes of a Rev.. Shane who was interviewing older people in Kentucky for their memories of the making of Lexington Kentucky History, and he intereviewd a man named Josiah Collins, who had a memory, of traveling with General Clark from Kentucky to Ohio, chasing the Shawnee Indians, "The second night after we left Lexington, a gun went off accidently wounded one of our company. The third day, my captain (William McConnell) solicited me and Hugh Thompson to ride out and try to kill some meat. That night we lay out. The next morning we pursued on and came to the camp ground from behind. As we passed in, we came to a fresh grave at the camp. We were told that when they had stopped in the evening, several hunters had run out to kill game. One man had killed a deer, and was stooping down and gutting it when JOHN VARDEMAN took him for an indian and shot and killed him. They brought him in and buried him. So that there was one killed and one wounded before we got to the mouth of Licking. We there waited a day or so till the regulars and some militia came up in boats from the falls. While we were at now Cincinnati, we threw up a little sort of breast work and put up a sort of little cabin for Capt. Adams to stay in and take care of the invalids and wounded. Cabin right opposite the mouth of Licking. (I think he said left with him five soldiers to guard.) McCracken (Capt. William McCracken dead from what was thought to have been a poisoned arrow) was buried with the honors of war right by the cabin and a log heap burnt over it to conceal the place. McCracken had been out with us in the 1779 expedition. Maj. (George) Walls and his company of horse killed two when we came to the towns. Across the river for a small distance was a level bottom where the Indians attneded their corn. The prairie then extended considerably up the hill. The camp was drawn up in the form of a hollow square right on the bank of the river. The mess on the lower side (down the river) next to the river was right where (in) the yard of an Indian cabin had been. The first night, the Indians carried the opposite bank of the river in the night and fired on that mess and wounded a man. They then fell back and talked from off the top of that hill. John Sovereign that had formerly been a prisoner of the Shawnees and understood their language well talked for Clark (General George Rogers Clark)." ~ http://strongfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I7434&tree=STR06
The Revolutionary War's Last Causality buried at present day "Great American Ball Park". Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Reds, Ohio. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/pdf/KY_CE_040708.pdf∼Throughout the American Revolution, Shawnee Indian warriors conducted raids against American settlements in Kentucky. In November 1782, George Rogers Clark, hoping to prevent further attacks, led 1,050 men against the Shawnee Indians living in the Miami River Valley. Among Clark's soldiers was Captain McCracken.
While looking for his strayed horse, Capt. McCracken was lured into an ambush and was killed by a rifle shot. Rescuers reached him and dressed his wounds, but he died three days later.
The Kentucky soldiers buried Captain McCracken in the blockhouse, then burned the log house above the grave. This was standard procedure to keep the Indians from getting the body.
Source: Background to Glory by John Bakeless--The Life of George Rogers Clark, 1957
Phillip Fazzino asked me to add the following:
"Died of wounds while with George Rogers Clark raid of Piqua Ohio. Buried at what is now Mt. Auburn (Cincinnati) by blockhouse opposite mouth of Licking River. According to the 1929 Daughters of American Revolution book on Revolutionary War Veterans buried in Ohio, the grave was still in existence 50 years after his death (which would have been 1832)."
Note #1: Another Find A Grave member (KMN #48151589) has raised concerns regarding the identity of Capt. McCracken. If you are researching this man, I suggest you also see Find A Grave memorial #117358995, Cyrus McCracken, who may be William's brother. Both the submitter of that memorial and I have given our sources. I suggest anyone needing to determine Capt. McCracken's full identity find the reference books and see where the authors of those books got their information. It will take an investigation back through all the sources to possibly determine the identity of the Capt. McCracken who died in November 1782. It is possible that William was the son of memorial #139997884, William McCracken, Sr. Researchers are advised to do their own investigation. (This note was added on April 9, 2016.)
Note #2: Another Find A Contributor notified me of the existence of memorial #16791419 (last name spelled McCrackin, not McCracken). I am leaving my memorial to aid researchers looking for McCracken, because that is the name in published books and historical records. (This note was added on June 14, 2020.)
The child of William and Nancy McCrackin was:
Pamelia McCracken-Allen (1782–1864)
"We will no doubt all recollect Captain McCracken. He commanded the company of light horse, and Green Clay was his lieutenant. The captain was slightly wounded in the arm at Piqua town, when within a few feet of one of the subscribers, from which place he was carried on a horse litter for several days ; his wound produced mortification, and he died in going down the hill where the city of Cincinnati now stands. He was buried near the block-house we had erected opposite the mouth of Licking, and the breastworks were thrown over his grave to prevent the savages from scalping him." ~ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924032193520/cu31924032193520_djvu.txt
"A book called Lexington 1779, Pioneer Kentucky 976.947 H2m, p. 94, has the compiled notes of a Rev.. Shane who was interviewing older people in Kentucky for their memories of the making of Lexington Kentucky History, and he intereviewd a man named Josiah Collins, who had a memory, of traveling with General Clark from Kentucky to Ohio, chasing the Shawnee Indians, "The second night after we left Lexington, a gun went off accidently wounded one of our company. The third day, my captain (William McConnell) solicited me and Hugh Thompson to ride out and try to kill some meat. That night we lay out. The next morning we pursued on and came to the camp ground from behind. As we passed in, we came to a fresh grave at the camp. We were told that when they had stopped in the evening, several hunters had run out to kill game. One man had killed a deer, and was stooping down and gutting it when JOHN VARDEMAN took him for an indian and shot and killed him. They brought him in and buried him. So that there was one killed and one wounded before we got to the mouth of Licking. We there waited a day or so till the regulars and some militia came up in boats from the falls. While we were at now Cincinnati, we threw up a little sort of breast work and put up a sort of little cabin for Capt. Adams to stay in and take care of the invalids and wounded. Cabin right opposite the mouth of Licking. (I think he said left with him five soldiers to guard.) McCracken (Capt. William McCracken dead from what was thought to have been a poisoned arrow) was buried with the honors of war right by the cabin and a log heap burnt over it to conceal the place. McCracken had been out with us in the 1779 expedition. Maj. (George) Walls and his company of horse killed two when we came to the towns. Across the river for a small distance was a level bottom where the Indians attneded their corn. The prairie then extended considerably up the hill. The camp was drawn up in the form of a hollow square right on the bank of the river. The mess on the lower side (down the river) next to the river was right where (in) the yard of an Indian cabin had been. The first night, the Indians carried the opposite bank of the river in the night and fired on that mess and wounded a man. They then fell back and talked from off the top of that hill. John Sovereign that had formerly been a prisoner of the Shawnees and understood their language well talked for Clark (General George Rogers Clark)." ~ http://strongfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I7434&tree=STR06
The Revolutionary War's Last Causality buried at present day "Great American Ball Park". Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Reds, Ohio. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/pdf/KY_CE_040708.pdf∼Throughout the American Revolution, Shawnee Indian warriors conducted raids against American settlements in Kentucky. In November 1782, George Rogers Clark, hoping to prevent further attacks, led 1,050 men against the Shawnee Indians living in the Miami River Valley. Among Clark's soldiers was Captain McCracken.
While looking for his strayed horse, Capt. McCracken was lured into an ambush and was killed by a rifle shot. Rescuers reached him and dressed his wounds, but he died three days later.
The Kentucky soldiers buried Captain McCracken in the blockhouse, then burned the log house above the grave. This was standard procedure to keep the Indians from getting the body.
Source: Background to Glory by John Bakeless--The Life of George Rogers Clark, 1957
Phillip Fazzino asked me to add the following:
"Died of wounds while with George Rogers Clark raid of Piqua Ohio. Buried at what is now Mt. Auburn (Cincinnati) by blockhouse opposite mouth of Licking River. According to the 1929 Daughters of American Revolution book on Revolutionary War Veterans buried in Ohio, the grave was still in existence 50 years after his death (which would have been 1832)."
Note #1: Another Find A Grave member (KMN #48151589) has raised concerns regarding the identity of Capt. McCracken. If you are researching this man, I suggest you also see Find A Grave memorial #117358995, Cyrus McCracken, who may be William's brother. Both the submitter of that memorial and I have given our sources. I suggest anyone needing to determine Capt. McCracken's full identity find the reference books and see where the authors of those books got their information. It will take an investigation back through all the sources to possibly determine the identity of the Capt. McCracken who died in November 1782. It is possible that William was the son of memorial #139997884, William McCracken, Sr. Researchers are advised to do their own investigation. (This note was added on April 9, 2016.)
Note #2: Another Find A Contributor notified me of the existence of memorial #16791419 (last name spelled McCrackin, not McCracken). I am leaving my memorial to aid researchers looking for McCracken, because that is the name in published books and historical records. (This note was added on June 14, 2020.)
Captain William McCrackin Jr. was born in 1757, in Virginia. He was the son of William McCrackin and Sarah Osman. William married Nancy Ann Higgins. William passed away 4 Nov., 1782, in what was the future site of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is believed to be buried at what is now the "Great American Ball Park", adjacent to the landing place of Pete Rose's 4,192nd hit,
The child of William and Nancy McCrackin was:
Pamelia McCracken-Allen (1782–1864)
"We will no doubt all recollect Captain McCracken. He commanded the company of light horse, and Green Clay was his lieutenant. The captain was slightly wounded in the arm at Piqua town, when within a few feet of one of the subscribers, from which place he was carried on a horse litter for several days ; his wound produced mortification, and he died in going down the hill where the city of Cincinnati now stands. He was buried near the block-house we had erected opposite the mouth of Licking, and the breastworks were thrown over his grave to prevent the savages from scalping him." ~ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924032193520/cu31924032193520_djvu.txt
"A book called Lexington 1779, Pioneer Kentucky 976.947 H2m, p. 94, has the compiled notes of a Rev.. Shane who was interviewing older people in Kentucky for their memories of the making of Lexington Kentucky History, and he intereviewd a man named Josiah Collins, who had a memory, of traveling with General Clark from Kentucky to Ohio, chasing the Shawnee Indians, "The second night after we left Lexington, a gun went off accidently wounded one of our company. The third day, my captain (William McConnell) solicited me and Hugh Thompson to ride out and try to kill some meat. That night we lay out. The next morning we pursued on and came to the camp ground from behind. As we passed in, we came to a fresh grave at the camp. We were told that when they had stopped in the evening, several hunters had run out to kill game. One man had killed a deer, and was stooping down and gutting it when JOHN VARDEMAN took him for an indian and shot and killed him. They brought him in and buried him. So that there was one killed and one wounded before we got to the mouth of Licking. We there waited a day or so till the regulars and some militia came up in boats from the falls. While we were at now Cincinnati, we threw up a little sort of breast work and put up a sort of little cabin for Capt. Adams to stay in and take care of the invalids and wounded. Cabin right opposite the mouth of Licking. (I think he said left with him five soldiers to guard.) McCracken (Capt. William McCracken dead from what was thought to have been a poisoned arrow) was buried with the honors of war right by the cabin and a log heap burnt over it to conceal the place. McCracken had been out with us in the 1779 expedition. Maj. (George) Walls and his company of horse killed two when we came to the towns. Across the river for a small distance was a level bottom where the Indians attneded their corn. The prairie then extended considerably up the hill. The camp was drawn up in the form of a hollow square right on the bank of the river. The mess on the lower side (down the river) next to the river was right where (in) the yard of an Indian cabin had been. The first night, the Indians carried the opposite bank of the river in the night and fired on that mess and wounded a man. They then fell back and talked from off the top of that hill. John Sovereign that had formerly been a prisoner of the Shawnees and understood their language well talked for Clark (General George Rogers Clark)." ~ http://strongfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I7434&tree=STR06
The Revolutionary War's Last Causality buried at present day "Great American Ball Park". Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Reds, Ohio. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/pdf/KY_CE_040708.pdf∼Throughout the American Revolution, Shawnee Indian warriors conducted raids against American settlements in Kentucky. In November 1782, George Rogers Clark, hoping to prevent further attacks, led 1,050 men against the Shawnee Indians living in the Miami River Valley. Among Clark's soldiers was Captain McCracken.
While looking for his strayed horse, Capt. McCracken was lured into an ambush and was killed by a rifle shot. Rescuers reached him and dressed his wounds, but he died three days later.
The Kentucky soldiers buried Captain McCracken in the blockhouse, then burned the log house above the grave. This was standard procedure to keep the Indians from getting the body.
Source: Background to Glory by John Bakeless--The Life of George Rogers Clark, 1957
Phillip Fazzino asked me to add the following:
"Died of wounds while with George Rogers Clark raid of Piqua Ohio. Buried at what is now Mt. Auburn (Cincinnati) by blockhouse opposite mouth of Licking River. According to the 1929 Daughters of American Revolution book on Revolutionary War Veterans buried in Ohio, the grave was still in existence 50 years after his death (which would have been 1832)."
Note #1: Another Find A Grave member (KMN #48151589) has raised concerns regarding the identity of Capt. McCracken. If you are researching this man, I suggest you also see Find A Grave memorial #117358995, Cyrus McCracken, who may be William's brother. Both the submitter of that memorial and I have given our sources. I suggest anyone needing to determine Capt. McCracken's full identity find the reference books and see where the authors of those books got their information. It will take an investigation back through all the sources to possibly determine the identity of the Capt. McCracken who died in November 1782. It is possible that William was the son of memorial #139997884, William McCracken, Sr. Researchers are advised to do their own investigation. (This note was added on April 9, 2016.)
Note #2: Another Find A Contributor notified me of the existence of memorial #16791419 (last name spelled McCrackin, not McCracken). I am leaving my memorial to aid researchers looking for McCracken, because that is the name in published books and historical records. (This note was added on June 14, 2020.)
The child of William and Nancy McCrackin was:
Pamelia McCracken-Allen (1782–1864)
"We will no doubt all recollect Captain McCracken. He commanded the company of light horse, and Green Clay was his lieutenant. The captain was slightly wounded in the arm at Piqua town, when within a few feet of one of the subscribers, from which place he was carried on a horse litter for several days ; his wound produced mortification, and he died in going down the hill where the city of Cincinnati now stands. He was buried near the block-house we had erected opposite the mouth of Licking, and the breastworks were thrown over his grave to prevent the savages from scalping him." ~ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924032193520/cu31924032193520_djvu.txt
"A book called Lexington 1779, Pioneer Kentucky 976.947 H2m, p. 94, has the compiled notes of a Rev.. Shane who was interviewing older people in Kentucky for their memories of the making of Lexington Kentucky History, and he intereviewd a man named Josiah Collins, who had a memory, of traveling with General Clark from Kentucky to Ohio, chasing the Shawnee Indians, "The second night after we left Lexington, a gun went off accidently wounded one of our company. The third day, my captain (William McConnell) solicited me and Hugh Thompson to ride out and try to kill some meat. That night we lay out. The next morning we pursued on and came to the camp ground from behind. As we passed in, we came to a fresh grave at the camp. We were told that when they had stopped in the evening, several hunters had run out to kill game. One man had killed a deer, and was stooping down and gutting it when JOHN VARDEMAN took him for an indian and shot and killed him. They brought him in and buried him. So that there was one killed and one wounded before we got to the mouth of Licking. We there waited a day or so till the regulars and some militia came up in boats from the falls. While we were at now Cincinnati, we threw up a little sort of breast work and put up a sort of little cabin for Capt. Adams to stay in and take care of the invalids and wounded. Cabin right opposite the mouth of Licking. (I think he said left with him five soldiers to guard.) McCracken (Capt. William McCracken dead from what was thought to have been a poisoned arrow) was buried with the honors of war right by the cabin and a log heap burnt over it to conceal the place. McCracken had been out with us in the 1779 expedition. Maj. (George) Walls and his company of horse killed two when we came to the towns. Across the river for a small distance was a level bottom where the Indians attneded their corn. The prairie then extended considerably up the hill. The camp was drawn up in the form of a hollow square right on the bank of the river. The mess on the lower side (down the river) next to the river was right where (in) the yard of an Indian cabin had been. The first night, the Indians carried the opposite bank of the river in the night and fired on that mess and wounded a man. They then fell back and talked from off the top of that hill. John Sovereign that had formerly been a prisoner of the Shawnees and understood their language well talked for Clark (General George Rogers Clark)." ~ http://strongfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I7434&tree=STR06
The Revolutionary War's Last Causality buried at present day "Great American Ball Park". Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Reds, Ohio. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/pdf/KY_CE_040708.pdf∼Throughout the American Revolution, Shawnee Indian warriors conducted raids against American settlements in Kentucky. In November 1782, George Rogers Clark, hoping to prevent further attacks, led 1,050 men against the Shawnee Indians living in the Miami River Valley. Among Clark's soldiers was Captain McCracken.
While looking for his strayed horse, Capt. McCracken was lured into an ambush and was killed by a rifle shot. Rescuers reached him and dressed his wounds, but he died three days later.
The Kentucky soldiers buried Captain McCracken in the blockhouse, then burned the log house above the grave. This was standard procedure to keep the Indians from getting the body.
Source: Background to Glory by John Bakeless--The Life of George Rogers Clark, 1957
Phillip Fazzino asked me to add the following:
"Died of wounds while with George Rogers Clark raid of Piqua Ohio. Buried at what is now Mt. Auburn (Cincinnati) by blockhouse opposite mouth of Licking River. According to the 1929 Daughters of American Revolution book on Revolutionary War Veterans buried in Ohio, the grave was still in existence 50 years after his death (which would have been 1832)."
Note #1: Another Find A Grave member (KMN #48151589) has raised concerns regarding the identity of Capt. McCracken. If you are researching this man, I suggest you also see Find A Grave memorial #117358995, Cyrus McCracken, who may be William's brother. Both the submitter of that memorial and I have given our sources. I suggest anyone needing to determine Capt. McCracken's full identity find the reference books and see where the authors of those books got their information. It will take an investigation back through all the sources to possibly determine the identity of the Capt. McCracken who died in November 1782. It is possible that William was the son of memorial #139997884, William McCracken, Sr. Researchers are advised to do their own investigation. (This note was added on April 9, 2016.)
Note #2: Another Find A Contributor notified me of the existence of memorial #16791419 (last name spelled McCrackin, not McCracken). I am leaving my memorial to aid researchers looking for McCracken, because that is the name in published books and historical records. (This note was added on June 14, 2020.)
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