Fentress-Overton County TN Archives Military Records.....Flowers, Rowland 
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ROWLAND FLOWERS



   Rowland Flowers applied for revolutionary pension while living in Fentress

County, Tennessee, in July, 1834. He was born, in 1846 in Buckingham County,

Virginia, and was the son of James Flowers. He was reared in Buckingham and

Campbell Counties, Virginia. While he was a resident of Buckingham County he

enlisted in the spring of 1781 and served three months in Captain Silas

Williams' Virginia Company. At the close of this service he enlisted as a

substitute for this father in Captain Peter Gearin's company under Major Bois in

Virginia troops and was at the Seige of Yorktown and at the surrender of

Cornwallis, serving three months. After the war he continued to reside in

Virginia until he was 22 years of age when he moved to Overton County,

Tennessee. He drew pension in Fentress County, that part which had been in

Overton County. He died in Fentress County, September 23, 1837. He married in

Buckingham County, Virginia, about December 1, 1782, Ann or Anna Jarot or

Garrott, who was born about March 15, 1762. She applied for pension in October,

1838, while residing in Fentress County. She died May 29, 1854. They had twelve

children as follows: William, the eldest, born about August 1783; Betsey; James;

Rowland, Jr.; Arthur; Rosanna; Maggie; Sally; Polly; Delila and Judy. Judy, the

youngest child aged 31 in 1838, married Rodney King and had eight children. In

1834, Anthony Flowers, a younger brother of the soldier, was aged 61 years and

lived in Fentress County.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. III



by Zella Armstrong





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