FRANKLIN COUNTY, TN - MILITARY - 1812 Home Guards
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Contributor's Note:  In the absence of original records, printed sources are 
used. In the case of this printed document, it was first printed in a Franklin 
Co., TN., newspaper article in the later part of 1800, so at that time the 
original records had already disappeared or were lost in fire.

The following list is most important and it is most important that it be keep 
just as it is printed, because it is now considered original source material. 
This list has been printed and reprinted from time to time but in most cases 
some of the names were changed or left off. This listing is just as it was 
printed in 1888.


"WHEREAS, The honor of the United States has made it necessary that war should 
be declared against Great Britain by the United States; and whereas, in this 
contest it may evidently happen that the active part of our force may be 
called off to distant service, by which an opportunity will be afforded to the 
disaffected (if any such there should be amongst us), to do much mischief: 
Therefore, for the purpose of defending the frontiers and property of our 
younger brethren when flghting our battles abroad, and to suppress and put 
down any combination which may manifest itself inimicable to our beloved 
country we, the undersigned, all over forty-five years of age, and most of 
whom fought in the late Revolutionary war. have embodied ourselves into a 
company, to be denominated the Revolutionary Volunteers of Franklin County; 
and when the company is formed, officers to command the same shall be elected 
by the suffrages of the members of the company. Captain, Wallis Estill; first 
lieutenant, Richard Farris; second lieutenant, John Woods; ensign , James 
Russey; sergeants, A. Berryhill, Alex Beard, James Holland, Jacob Casterline; 
adjutant, James Lewis, Rev. John Davis, Rev. Wm. Ginnings, Jesse Embry, Jesse 
Bedu, John Champion, Samuel Henderson, Jos. Champion, John Chilcoat, Ralph 
Crabb, Jesse Toulan, Francis Adams, John Poe, Wm. Thompson, George Waggoner, 
Benj. Johnson, Samuel Rosebary, Archibald Woods. Rev. Andrew Woods, Rev. Peter 
Woods Rev. Robert Bell, David Milligan, Elijah Williams, Ebenezer Picket, 
Moses Ayers, John Denson, Joseph McClusky, James Weeks, Alex. Borehill, 
Nicholas Robinson, James Busby, Thomas Green, Samuel Reynolds, Jesse Perkins, 
James Holland, John Robinson, William King, Samuel Runnells, William Crawford, 
James King, Richard Miller, John Barnett, David Larkins, William McCloud, 
Samuel Handley, Jacob Van Zant, Sr., James Harris, Robert Hudspeth, Jesse 
Ginn, Thomas Herlep, John Cowan, William Russell, Sr., Daniel Champion, 
William Faris, John Herrod, John Nellum, John Dellehide, William Greenwood, 
John Stokes, David McCord, Charles Weeks, Randolph Riddle, Matthew Taylor."

These noble men were among those who first secured, and afterward maintained. 
our liberties, and Time, the great leveler, has long since closed the green 
earth over all that was mortal of every one of them. Many of the citizens of 
this county served under Jackson in the Florida war, and. according to 
tradition, Jackson encamped with his troops just below Winchester, on one 
occasion, while the Indians were encamped on the opposite side of the Boiling 
Fork. In the brief but brilliant war with Mexico it is learned that Franklin 
County furnished Capt. George T. Colyar's Company E. of the Third Regiment 
Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Col. B. F. Cheatham. This company, 
consisting of 116 men, rank and file, left Winchester in September, 1847, and 
was mustered into the United States service near Nashville about October 
10,1847, and left for Mexico in the same month. Capt. Colyar died January 8, 
1848, in the city of Mexico. His remains were sent to his home in Winchester.
First Lieut. Sherrod Williams then became captain, and continued as such to 
the close of the war. The company was discharged about July 22, 1848. The 
following is a list of the survivors of the company now living in this county: 
A. J. Caldwell, John Thurman, F. M. Williams, Ed Jackson., William Adcock, 
David Smith, Nathan Boone and Gordon McCutcheon. The following are living 
elsewhere: T. H. Finch, Texas; W. H. Jones, Lincoln County; M. N. Matthews. 
Bedford County; Wilson Clark. Alabama; Berry Logan and William Taylor, Moore 
County; Ed Anderson and Alpheus Green, Texas. Oliver Posey is a survivor of 
some other command in the Mexican war, and lives in Franklin County."