/ Pages / REMEMBERING 1776 REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERANS WHO ARE BURIED IN UPSON COUNTY died in 1839. His granddaughter Antoinette Respress married Captain James W. Atwater. Tommy Adams and his brother James are two of his descendants living in the county today. James Walker, born in 1753, served with North Carolina troops. After the war he came to Upson County from Putnam County in time to be appointed one of commissioners of Thomaston in 1825 at age 72. He is listed as one of the During this month, our thoughts always age 16, served under Nathaniel Green, and turn to the birth of our nation on July 4, was at Yorktown when Comwallis 1776. When the momentous events that surrendered. His migration to Upson took place between Lexington and County, where he had won some land in a Yorktown were unfolding, these red clay lottery, brought him from Virginia into hills of Upson County still belonged to the South Carolina and then into Georgia. His Indians; and few, if any, Europeans wife, Sarah Kendrick was bom in Wales frequented the trails which criss-crossed on January 11, 1766. They built their over what we now call our commnity. This Upson County home place on Logtown means that Upson County had no Revolutionary Army veterans when Comwallis surrendered at Yorktown. After the county came into being in 1825, some did move in , many more came through here bound for points west. We have to remember that when our county came into being, a sixteen year old in 1776 was now 65 years of age. In 1995, the John Houstoun Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution placed a monument on the Courthouse Square honoring those veterans who came to Upson, liked it, and lived out their lives in this place. What do we know about these men? Just a little can be found on the pages of The Early History of Upson County and from talking to descendants. William Carraway was bom in Cumberland County in North Carolina, but enlisted in the Army in Cambridge, South Carolina. He served for about 20 months and held the grade of sergeant. He took part in the Battle of Stono and the siege of Savannah. He came to Upson County in REVOLUTIONARY WAR MARKER ON THE COURTHOUSE SQUARE. Read this article and the next time you pass it on the Square, it will have more meaning to you and yours. , 1825 after having lived a while in Lincoln County, Georgia. According to local traditions, the Carraway brothers built the first three houses in Thomaston. He died in 1834 and was buried in Glenwood Cemetery. The DAR marked his grave. Road. A Primitive Baptist, he died at the age of 85 on September 8, 1843, and is Henry Kendall, Sr.'s record leaves buried in a marked grave in the Horsley earliest owners of real estate, and once he built a road from Thomaston to Holloway's Mill. He died at the ripe old age of 96 on June 24, 1849. If anyone can supply additional information on these men, whose names are inscribed on our monument, why not call The Newsletter and Ed Clibum at 647- 6839 and share this information for a follow-up article. Much of our history is lost when people die and move away. Our hope is that the files of The Newsletter can become a continuing source of historical data. few footprints. By 1826 he had arrived in Cemetery near the Waymanville Road. the county and owned a mill on Tobler He is the • the county and owned a mill on Tobler great, great, great, great of Mrs. Sidney (Aline) Creek. The County paid him $250 for grandfather building a bridge over the creek and Nicholson. maintaining it. Still alive in 1830, the Richard Respress, descended from Eastern Shore Virginians, was bom in 1749 and married Martha Dawson about 1769. In 1792, after serving in the Revolutionary War, he migrated to Greene County, Georgia, and then came to Upson, living in the area called Hootenvillc. He census listed him as the head of a household; but by 1834 he had died and his children are selling some of his property. Valentine Horsley was bom on January 18, 1758, in Monforth, Maryland. He enlisted in the Revolutionary Army at