Not long ago, I wrote about one of the family immigrants to Preble County, Ohio, John William Runyon. He was the husband of Patricia Mary Bennett and they are both said to be buried in Friendship Cemetery, Sugar Valley, Preble County, Ohio. They appear to have been married in Kentucky before the move to Ohio.
There is also William Runyon who married Katherine Low, December 13, 1793, in Rowan County (now within Davidson County near Healing Springs) North Carolina. Are William and John William the same man? What became of Katherine Low Runyon? Was she the mother of Ellen Runyon Rice or Mary Runyon Hornbaker?
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John William Runyon
Not all of Phineas and Charity's children chose the Shaker communal way of life. In fact, only four of fourteen chose that road.
I am slowly attempting to track down the others. Their oldest child, son John William Runyon, went as an adult - as several did - from Kentucky to Preble County, Ohio. After the family had moved from New Jersey to North Carolina and then to Madison County Kentucky, John married Patricia Mary Bennett (in Madison County).
According to a letter written to Mrs. B.S. Lewellen in 1934 regarding the Revolutionary War record of John Runyon, pensioner in Preble Co, Ohio:
John Runyon was born November 4, 1763, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
While residing in Rowan County, NC, John Runyon enlisted in the summer of 1780, served at various times until after the surrender of Cornwallis, amounting in all to about 1 and one half months, as a private under Captains James Byers, Peter Hedrick, Cole and Carson, and Colonels Francis Locke, and Collier in the North Carolina troops, was in the battle of Rugeley's Mills, and a severe engagment with the Tories near Deep River, during which action he was injured in his right arm by a ball passing through the flesh about the elbow; he served a subsequent tour of one month from sometimes in November 1781 under Catain William, guarding munition wagons from New Bern to Duplin, North Carolina.
After the war, the soldier resided in Madison County, Kentucky and moved from there to Preble County, Ohio. He was allowed pension on his application executed September 21, 1832, at which time he resided in Dickson [Dixon] Township, Preble County, Ohio; he remained resided in that county for about thirteen years.
According to Find a Grave, John and Patty are buried at Friendship Cemetery, Sugar Valley, Preble County, Ohio
I am slowly attempting to track down the others. Their oldest child, son John William Runyon, went as an adult - as several did - from Kentucky to Preble County, Ohio. After the family had moved from New Jersey to North Carolina and then to Madison County Kentucky, John married Patricia Mary Bennett (in Madison County).
According to a letter written to Mrs. B.S. Lewellen in 1934 regarding the Revolutionary War record of John Runyon, pensioner in Preble Co, Ohio:
John Runyon was born November 4, 1763, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
While residing in Rowan County, NC, John Runyon enlisted in the summer of 1780, served at various times until after the surrender of Cornwallis, amounting in all to about 1 and one half months, as a private under Captains James Byers, Peter Hedrick, Cole and Carson, and Colonels Francis Locke, and Collier in the North Carolina troops, was in the battle of Rugeley's Mills, and a severe engagment with the Tories near Deep River, during which action he was injured in his right arm by a ball passing through the flesh about the elbow; he served a subsequent tour of one month from sometimes in November 1781 under Catain William, guarding munition wagons from New Bern to Duplin, North Carolina.
After the war, the soldier resided in Madison County, Kentucky and moved from there to Preble County, Ohio. He was allowed pension on his application executed September 21, 1832, at which time he resided in Dickson [Dixon] Township, Preble County, Ohio; he remained resided in that county for about thirteen years.
According to Find a Grave, John and Patty are buried at Friendship Cemetery, Sugar Valley, Preble County, Ohio
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