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PUTKAMITES WITH REVOLUTIONARY CONNECTIONSAs Putnam was first settled by people from Virginia and the Caro-linas, it is but natural that we should find many Putnam families -«with names similar and sometimes almost identical with names found in those states many years after Putnam was settled It seems certain that many Putnam families had Revolutionary ancestors and never knew anything about it. In the year 1840 a census of all Revolutionary soldiers then living in the United States was madeby resolution of the U. S. Senate. Looking over these names I think it would be of interest to the readers of the Messenger to learn somethingabout them.The Gatewood family, was for a .ong time one of Putnam's most prominent families. I well remember Major William Gatewood, who lived, I believe, in Ashbank. District noW embraced in the JBriari Patch project. His family moved to Putnam * at a very early w ds0 from around Petersburg Virginia? T find hat in 1840 William and EdmundSatewood, two Revolutionary soldiers were living in Caroline County, Va. Another William Gatewood lived in King and Queen County. Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood of the United States Army, was from this section of Va. also he received a Medal of Honor for his services with General Crook and Miles in the Geronimo Indian Campaign of 1889. Also Wm. Coates, another Revolu*»ionary soldier, lived in Caroline County, Virginia. Probably he ’was related to Nathaniel Coates another Revolutionary soldier, who came tfc Putnam from Virginia.In North Carolina I firid Thomas Gregory in Currituck County, Abram Gregory in Person County, ThomasGregory in Sampson County. Lookout Tom, your name seems to be a family name and you will have the D. A. R.*s raking over your family history with a fine tooth comb if you don’t look out. •We all know and love “Uncle” Johnnie Clopton. His legs are short but we older ones remember wher he could outrun everybody on Pea Ridge. We also remember that if there was anyone that Uncle Johnnfe could not throw down in a wrestlingmatch in Putnam County he could-at** *least make it ^ dog fall. Uncle Johnnie’s grandfather, Dr. Thomas Clopton, moved to putrmm fromOVif-i ginia and. tuil tthe old home now known as the'H, R. Pinkerton hofn; 'He- served Capt. JoKn Tields’ .Company of Virginia Militia in the .Wa£ of .1812. I find that a Revolutiohary soldier by the name .of Thomas Clop-? ton- was living in Henrico County. Virginia in 1840. Cloptons ai% buriec in the same-, cemetery with Shake speare at Stratford-on-Avon. ' The Hailey 'family was one of Putnam’s oldest families in'East Put nam. The Estes family from tin% asame section was. a maternal ances' tor of the Hailey, family. I findthat a Revolutionary, veteran by ,thi*
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Eatonton Messenger
Eatonton, Georgia, US
Thu, Mar 16, 1939
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