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Revolutionary War Soldiers
GRIERSON, ROBERT, native of Scotland. Died about 1816 or 1817 and buried near Pinckneyville in Clay County. Col. Hawkins says of Robert Grierson that he was attached to the armies of colonies during the Revolutionary War and made contributions in aid of them. His wife was an Indian woman of the village of Genalgee, a branch of Hilibi town. She was named Sinnuggee. They had children: Sandy, Sarah, Walter, David, Liza, Elizabeth and Catherine.—Benjamin Hawkins Letters.
LEVERETT, MARY (GRIFFIN) Widow of Thomas Leverett (1755-1834) whose service was as a private in the Georgia line, Capt. John Clarke's Company, Col. Alexander's regiment. He married Mary Griffin in 1789 according to McCall's Roster of Revolutionary soldiers in Georgia, page 199. She removed to Alabama and the Census of 1850 of Chambers County states that she was born in 1771 and died suddenly of asthma in February, 1850. Her will dated August 25, 1848, date of probate not shown, states that she was a widow lately the wife of Thomas Leverett of Troup County, Ga., deceased. In it she mentions the following children: Jeremiah; Katherine Tompkins, deceased, wife of Nicholas Tompkins; Mariah wife of John H. Walker; Thomas, Jr.; Gideon; Matilda, wife of Thomas Black; Almeda, wife of Charles Bussey; Malita, wife of Dredzil E. Pace; Abraham; Mary E.. wife of Green M. Carlisle; and a granddaughter, Lucretia Pace. Bible records of Rev. Charles Bussey show that his wife, Almeda Leverett, was born January 22, 1806, in Lincoln County, Ga., died November 16, 1876, place not given. She was married to Charles Bussey, July 1, 1822, in Putnam County, Ga., by John Robinson (Putnam County Marriages, Vol. P, p. 36), and in 1843 they were living in Tallapoosa County, Ala., but were in Carroll County, Miss., by the end of 1844. The tombstone of Malita, in the Baptist Churchyard, Ashland, Ala., recites: Malita wife of Rev. Dreadzil E. Pace Born May 12, 1808, Died Dec. 30, 1883. The tombstone of Rev. Gideon Leverett, in the cemetery at Milltown, Chambers County, Ala., records his birth as July 14, 1799 and his death as October 27, 1864. Abraham Leverett lived in that part of Talladega County which later became Clay County. There are references to him in the early records of Talladega County and the Coosa River Baptist Association.
Source: Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; Author-Thomas McAdory Owen, 1911 - Transcribed by C. Anthony
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