The Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Fayette County (Part 2)

  

In Part 1 of this story (see post from May), I wrote about finding a script my grandmother, Maude Rankin, wrote for a segment of a weekly broadcast on radio station WCHO which was given by members of the Fayette County Ohio Sesquicentennial Committee, possibly in 1952.

In this script she laid out the case for wanting to commemorate the Revolutionary War Soldiers buried in Fayette County including the thought that had gone into potentially marking each soldiers' grave.  But given a number of obstacles, which I re-counted in that earlier post, it was concluded that a plaque should be placed in the court house with all of the men's names that could be identified.  

In the second half of her radio talk, she appealed to members of the community:

"Now we are anxious that NO name be left OFF this plaque that should be on it. Over a period of years Mrs. Max Dice has been compiling a list of the Soldiers of the Revolution who lived in Fayette County, and in recent years she has been able to add more names through our research.“

These are the names that the Committee was still researching at that time:

    

     William Whicker          Buch Pendleton          Caleb Taylor

     Thomas Crouch            Drury Ragsdale           Jacob Coons

     William Mahy              Jesse Britton                Thomas Jones            

     James Kious                  Joseph Vance               John Graham

     William Faulkner        Abraham Colaw

    

And I find this to be one of the most interesting comments my grandmother made:

“When Mr. George Gossard was Superintendent of the Washington Cemetery he gave us the names of Joseph Bloomer, Abraham Payne and “Boss” or Ross Bryant. The latter is buried on the lot of Joseph Bell, as Mr. Bell said he did not want a soldier of the Revolution to lie in Potter’s Field.”

She concluded that week’s radio address:

"… Any of my listeners who may have knowledge of one or more of these men will be doing us a favor by sending that information to Mrs. Dice, Miss Elizabeth Johnson at the library or myself. You will be helping to insure that no name is left off the plaque that should be on it.”

This joint effort by the D.A.R. and the Ohio Sesquicentennial Committee and others resulted in the plaque, pictured above, being located outside the present-day probate court office.

I would be very interested to gather more information from anyone who knows about these weekly radio addresses.

Please leave your questions or comments.