Newspapers, Genealogybank.com.
Date: Sunday, July 31, 1949 Paper: Lexington Herald (Lexington, KY) Page: 27
Potato Patch, Highway, Signal Yard, Industries Operating Over Graves of Revolutionary Heroes
Markers Urged For Resting Places In Lexington, Fayette by C. Frank Dunn
...It is generally known that there are many graveyards on farms in the county, but one would hardly expect to find remains in the city itself on what were farms of pioneer days. Nevertheless, there are at least two such family graveyards in which Revolutionary War soldiers are buried...In Fayette county, outside of Lexington, there are unmarked graves of the following Revolutionary War soldiers:...Col. Abraham Byrd on his plantation, Maysville pike and Hughes lane...
Clift, G. Glenn, compiler, Kentucky Obituaries 1787-1854, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977, Dallas Public Library, 929.3769 / C639K 1977.
KENTUCKY OBITUARIES p. 21
Col. Abraham Bird, of Fayette county. Died March 1820, aged 88 years.
McAdams, Ednah Wilson, Kentucky pioneer and court records: abstracts of early wills, deeds, and marriages, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1967, Dallas Public Library, 929.3769 / M113K 1967.
KENTUCKY PIONEER AND COURT RECORDS p.38
BIRD, ABRAHAM--Will Book E, page 149 Names wife, Rachael, sons; Abraham, Mark, and George. Daughters; Magdelane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine and Margaret. Executors; sons, Abraham Bird and Wm. I Russell. Written 1808. Witnesses: Joseph Jay, Wm. Manuel and David Coffman. Proved March Court, 1820. Will Book G, page 217 give legatees: Rachel Bird, No. 3. Catherine Thomas, No.4. Page 426, gives legatees; Joseph Hawins, No.1. Magadaline Allen, No.2
Wayland, John Walter, History of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Strasburg, Virginia: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1927; Regional Publishing Co., 1980, p. 692., Dallas Public Library.
Lived at Smiths Creek, Old Augusta Co., Virginia until 1773... then bought 550 acres on N. River & Jumping Run in Shenandoah co., a part of the "Red Banks" estate; lived there until 1803, when he sold the estate and removed to Fayette Co., Ky, and died there in 1820. Ensign of the militia in 1759; Capt. 1762-1771; elected to House of Burgesses in place of Joseph Watson, dec'd and attended session in 1774; a member of the 2nd Cont. Congress in 1775-6 and served several terms in House of Delegates representing Shenandoah County; justice for many years; Sheriff; County Lt. & Col of Militia during Revolutionary War.
Date: Sunday, July 31, 1949 Paper: Lexington Herald (Lexington, KY) Page: 27
Potato Patch, Highway, Signal Yard, Industries Operating Over Graves of Revolutionary Heroes
Markers Urged For Resting Places In Lexington, Fayette by C. Frank Dunn
...It is generally known that there are many graveyards on farms in the county, but one would hardly expect to find remains in the city itself on what were farms of pioneer days. Nevertheless, there are at least two such family graveyards in which Revolutionary War soldiers are buried...In Fayette county, outside of Lexington, there are unmarked graves of the following Revolutionary War soldiers:...Col. Abraham Byrd on his plantation, Maysville pike and Hughes lane...
Clift, G. Glenn, compiler, Kentucky Obituaries 1787-1854, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977, Dallas Public Library, 929.3769 / C639K 1977.
KENTUCKY OBITUARIES p. 21
Col. Abraham Bird, of Fayette county. Died March 1820, aged 88 years.
McAdams, Ednah Wilson, Kentucky pioneer and court records: abstracts of early wills, deeds, and marriages, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1967, Dallas Public Library, 929.3769 / M113K 1967.
KENTUCKY PIONEER AND COURT RECORDS p.38
BIRD, ABRAHAM--Will Book E, page 149 Names wife, Rachael, sons; Abraham, Mark, and George. Daughters; Magdelane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine and Margaret. Executors; sons, Abraham Bird and Wm. I Russell. Written 1808. Witnesses: Joseph Jay, Wm. Manuel and David Coffman. Proved March Court, 1820. Will Book G, page 217 give legatees: Rachel Bird, No. 3. Catherine Thomas, No.4. Page 426, gives legatees; Joseph Hawins, No.1. Magadaline Allen, No.2
Wayland, John Walter, History of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Strasburg, Virginia: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1927; Regional Publishing Co., 1980, p. 692., Dallas Public Library.
Lived at Smiths Creek, Old Augusta Co., Virginia until 1773... then bought 550 acres on N. River & Jumping Run in Shenandoah co., a part of the "Red Banks" estate; lived there until 1803, when he sold the estate and removed to Fayette Co., Ky, and died there in 1820. Ensign of the militia in 1759; Capt. 1762-1771; elected to House of Burgesses in place of Joseph Watson, dec'd and attended session in 1774; a member of the 2nd Cont. Congress in 1775-6 and served several terms in House of Delegates representing Shenandoah County; justice for many years; Sheriff; County Lt. & Col of Militia during Revolutionary War.
Newspapers, Genealogybank.com.
Date: Sunday, July 31, 1949 Paper: Lexington Herald (Lexington, KY) Page: 27
Potato Patch, Highway, Signal Yard, Industries Operating Over Graves of Revolutionary Heroes
Markers Urged For Resting Places In Lexington, Fayette by C. Frank Dunn
...It is generally known that there are many graveyards on farms in the county, but one would hardly expect to find remains in the city itself on what were farms of pioneer days. Nevertheless, there are at least two such family graveyards in which Revolutionary War soldiers are buried...In Fayette county, outside of Lexington, there are unmarked graves of the following Revolutionary War soldiers:...Col. Abraham Byrd on his plantation, Maysville pike and Hughes lane...
Clift, G. Glenn, compiler, Kentucky Obituaries 1787-1854, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977, Dallas Public Library, 929.3769 / C639K 1977.
KENTUCKY OBITUARIES p. 21
Col. Abraham Bird, of Fayette county. Died March 1820, aged 88 years.
McAdams, Ednah Wilson, Kentucky pioneer and court records: abstracts of early wills, deeds, and marriages, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1967, Dallas Public Library, 929.3769 / M113K 1967.
KENTUCKY PIONEER AND COURT RECORDS p.38
BIRD, ABRAHAM--Will Book E, page 149 Names wife, Rachael, sons; Abraham, Mark, and George. Daughters; Magdelane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine and Margaret. Executors; sons, Abraham Bird and Wm. I Russell. Written 1808. Witnesses: Joseph Jay, Wm. Manuel and David Coffman. Proved March Court, 1820. Will Book G, page 217 give legatees: Rachel Bird, No. 3. Catherine Thomas, No.4. Page 426, gives legatees; Joseph Hawins, No.1. Magadaline Allen, No.2
Wayland, John Walter, History of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Strasburg, Virginia: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1927; Regional Publishing Co., 1980, p. 692., Dallas Public Library.
Lived at Smiths Creek, Old Augusta Co., Virginia until 1773... then bought 550 acres on N. River & Jumping Run in Shenandoah co., a part of the "Red Banks" estate; lived there until 1803, when he sold the estate and removed to Fayette Co., Ky, and died there in 1820. Ensign of the militia in 1759; Capt. 1762-1771; elected to House of Burgesses in place of Joseph Watson, dec'd and attended session in 1774; a member of the 2nd Cont. Congress in 1775-6 and served several terms in House of Delegates representing Shenandoah County; justice for many years; Sheriff; County Lt. & Col of Militia during Revolutionary War.
Date: Sunday, July 31, 1949 Paper: Lexington Herald (Lexington, KY) Page: 27
Potato Patch, Highway, Signal Yard, Industries Operating Over Graves of Revolutionary Heroes
Markers Urged For Resting Places In Lexington, Fayette by C. Frank Dunn
...It is generally known that there are many graveyards on farms in the county, but one would hardly expect to find remains in the city itself on what were farms of pioneer days. Nevertheless, there are at least two such family graveyards in which Revolutionary War soldiers are buried...In Fayette county, outside of Lexington, there are unmarked graves of the following Revolutionary War soldiers:...Col. Abraham Byrd on his plantation, Maysville pike and Hughes lane...
Clift, G. Glenn, compiler, Kentucky Obituaries 1787-1854, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977, Dallas Public Library, 929.3769 / C639K 1977.
KENTUCKY OBITUARIES p. 21
Col. Abraham Bird, of Fayette county. Died March 1820, aged 88 years.
McAdams, Ednah Wilson, Kentucky pioneer and court records: abstracts of early wills, deeds, and marriages, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1967, Dallas Public Library, 929.3769 / M113K 1967.
KENTUCKY PIONEER AND COURT RECORDS p.38
BIRD, ABRAHAM--Will Book E, page 149 Names wife, Rachael, sons; Abraham, Mark, and George. Daughters; Magdelane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine and Margaret. Executors; sons, Abraham Bird and Wm. I Russell. Written 1808. Witnesses: Joseph Jay, Wm. Manuel and David Coffman. Proved March Court, 1820. Will Book G, page 217 give legatees: Rachel Bird, No. 3. Catherine Thomas, No.4. Page 426, gives legatees; Joseph Hawins, No.1. Magadaline Allen, No.2
Wayland, John Walter, History of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Strasburg, Virginia: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1927; Regional Publishing Co., 1980, p. 692., Dallas Public Library.
Lived at Smiths Creek, Old Augusta Co., Virginia until 1773... then bought 550 acres on N. River & Jumping Run in Shenandoah co., a part of the "Red Banks" estate; lived there until 1803, when he sold the estate and removed to Fayette Co., Ky, and died there in 1820. Ensign of the militia in 1759; Capt. 1762-1771; elected to House of Burgesses in place of Joseph Watson, dec'd and attended session in 1774; a member of the 2nd Cont. Congress in 1775-6 and served several terms in House of Delegates representing Shenandoah County; justice for many years; Sheriff; County Lt. & Col of Militia during Revolutionary War.
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