Greene County, Alabama  Revolutionary War

Revolutionary War Soldiers 

HILL, LEWIS —the maternal grandfather of Francis M. Cody, was born in North Carolina, when young went to South Carolina, and still later, but afterward moved to Barbour county, Ala., and died there about 1850, aged ninety years. He served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, was of Scotch descent, and raised a large family of children.--Memorial Record of Alabama, Vol. 1, page 773.

THOMAS, ELLIOTT—"The grave of a Revolutionary soldier in Barbour County will be marked soon by Lewis Chapter, D.A.R. The grave is that of Elliott Thomas in Clayton."—Montgomery Advertiser, Feb. 10, 1934.

WALKER, SOLOMON, Born in Virginia in 1757. He, in 1778, in company with Richard Taylor was sent to join the American Army which was stationed on the North side of the Savannah River, opposite Augusta, then occupied by the British. A detachment under General Ashe was ordered across the river to take their station at the point where Briar Creek flows into the Savannah. To avoid being captured, Lt. Solomon Walker swam the Savannah.—N.C. State Records, vol. 22, p. 125. See also General D.A.R. Report, 1927-28, p. 109. See also Thompson, History of Barbour County, pp. 564-5. See also D.A.R. Roster of the Revolutionary Soldiers from N.C. See also Walker, Backtracking in Barbour County, pp. 23-24.

Source:   Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911 - Transcribed by C. Anthony