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America’s first veterans DAR members share details of their Patriot ancestors
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Alan Sloan
Jay and Sam Wyrosdick look over copies of documents dating back to 1832 tracing Sam’s ancestry back to the Revolutionary War. Also displayed in the family kitchen are photos of her ancestors, which trace back to Patriot Elijah Smith, and her certificate (background) as a member of Samuel Frazier Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Three Farragut residents, women who have proven ancestral ties to The Revolutionary War, are members of Samuel Frazier Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. All three shared details about their Patriot ancestors, and what motivated each to go digging genealogically. Sharon “Sam” Crabtree Wyrosdick, a chapter member since June 2012, traces her ancestry to Patriot Elijah Smith (Sam’s paternal side, 17551835). It’s her great-great-greatgreat-great-grandfather. From 1776 into 1781 “he was a forager for an artillery regiment. … He went in six times. He vol-
unteered for two, three, four months at a time,” Jay Wyrosdick, Sam’s husband whose hobby is genealogy, said. “He started out in New Jersey for about three times, and then he moved to Virginia and he continued to volunteer for two, three, four months at a time in the fall and spring. In that time he got married, too. … There was a break in [17]78 when he moved to Virginia. “His responsibility was trying to get food, I guess, through the countryside,” Jay added. Smith “worked under five different commanders,” Sam added. Having begun their research “about five years ago” according to Jay, the couple produced a copy of a document from 1832,
from Rutherford County, where Smith “was applying for his pension,” Jay said. The document lists his times of service. His second wife, Lucretia Smith, submitted a handwritten account detailing her husband’s Revolutionary War service, from which the Wyrosdicks obtained a copy. However, “I can’t read half of it,” Jay said. Pointing to a certain section of the handwritten document, “It mentions Valley Forge,” Jay added. “She tried to underline commanders and dates,” Sam said. Smith and his wife later moved to Jacksonville, Ill., where he died in 1835, Sam said. Looking back on what See VETERANS on Page 2C
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sparked her interest five years ago, “Jay said, ‘I think you have the linage to be a member of DAR, do you have an interest in it?’” Sam recalled. Her biggest surprise? “It was on my father’s side [Mack Crabtree] and I thought for sure it would be on my mother’s,” Sam said. “[Jay] hasn’t found it on my mother’s side.” Doris Woods Owens traces her Patriot, Lt. Thomas Love — her great-great-great-great grandfather (maternal side, born 1739) — back to Chester County, Pa. On May 12, 1775, “The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania gave him the rank of lieutenant. He served the whole time with Gen. Samuel Cochrane’s outfit,” Owens said. “He served with a company of foot soldiers in the 4th Battalion in the County of Chester, near Philadelphia. “The brother of Thomas was John [Love II], and that’s who I go through,” Owens added. “… And I guess he decided he’d make his mark somewhere else, so he took off with the crowd and came South and that’s how he ended up in the Knoxville area.” John Love I, Thomas’ father, “was the first Love recorded in the country,” Owens said. “Thomas inherited John’s land of a hundred acres.” “Thomas was buried at Faggs Manor Presbyterian Church” in Chester County, Owens added. “… In 1979, the National Society [DAR] marked Thomas Love’s grave at Faggs Manor
Presbyterian Church.” Owens said her interest in Revolutionary War genealogy started upon going through information left behind by her late mother, Ziza Welch Woods. Lexie Randolph, a DAR member roughly 12 years and a Samuel Frazier chapter member 10 years, told about her “Patriot that was in the Revolution. His name is James McDade. He was a private in the South Carolina Militia under Col. Anderson. “They came from Spartanburg District, S.C. … My ancestor was married to Elizabeth Wilkins, and I have that they had six children that I know about,” Randolph added about McDade, adding the tie is “through my [maternal] grandfather [Roy McRae] who was from Arkansas, which is where I lived when I was growing up. On that side of the family, “I was the first one to come to East Tennessee,” Randolph said. About discovering McDade and his service, “It was real exciting,” Randolph said. “I had done a lot of work trying to trace him and all and it finally paid off. I was surprised, I had no idea I could trace it back that far.” In 1999, “My mother died and I got interested in genealogy from some of the things that I got from her,” Randolph said. “… I got on ancestory.com when I first started doing it … and I did it for a solid year all the time. I lived in Morristown at the time, and I would come down to the McClung library [downtown Knoxville] and do my research down there.”
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Left: This hand-written document is from Elijah Smith’s wife, Lucretia, in 1832 outlining her husband’s service as a Revolutionary War veteran as part of a pension application form filled out in Rutherford County. Right: This document is a copy of a pension application filled out by Revolutionary War veteran Elijah Smith in 1832 in Rutherford County at age 77, just a few years before his death.
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