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Pvt Jacob Greathouse

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Pvt Jacob Greathouse Veteran

Birth
Death
27 Sep 1777 (aged 24–25)
Burial
Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
Plot
Buried with other victiums in mass grave
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Among Militamen under Captain William Foreman Killed during an Indian ambush at the McMechen Narrows on the Ohio River south of Wheeling, Virginia in 1777.

Note: Contrary to novelist Alan Eckert in "The Frontiersman" he was not captured, tortured and killed by Indians in 1791; that was an nephew Jonathan Greathouse.
Among Militamen under Captain William Foreman Killed during an Indian ambush at the McMechen Narrows on the Ohio River south of Wheeling, Virginia in 1777.

Note: Contrary to novelist Alan Eckert in "The Frontiersman" he was not captured, tortured and killed by Indians in 1791; that was an nephew Jonathan Greathouse.


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