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Grave of Revolutionary War Hero Found Destroyed, Desecrated in Blue City Graveyard
American Tribune ^ | August 15, 2025 | J.C. Sosin

Posted on 08/15/2025 8:01:22 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: PrairieLady2; wardaddy

Some of my ancestors received Revolutionary War land grants in Tennessee. That was pretty common. Tennessee and Kentucky had been parts of North Carolina and Virginia and were largely unsettled.


41 posted on 08/15/2025 8:51:02 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: Seruzawa

As of July 4, 1776, the former colonies became states.


42 posted on 08/16/2025 1:49:34 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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