Matching family tree profiles for Captain William Cone, Sr.
view all 14
Immediate Family
-
-
daughter
-
son -
son
-
daughter
-
-
daughter
-
daughter -
daughter
-
daughter
-
daughter
-
About Captain William Cone, Sr.
A Patriot of the American Revolution for Georgia. DAR Ancestor # A024922
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7033704/william_henry-cone
http://books.google.com/books?id=a4UccKkdd54C&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=j...
William Cone was a Revolutionary War Soldier from the Colony of Georgia. DAR Ancestor # A024922
Birth: Oct. 27, 1749 Martin County North Carolina, USA Death: Dec., 1816 Bulloch County Georgia, USA
William Henry Cone was born October 27, 1749 in Martin County, North Carolina. About 1765 he married Keziah Eudel Barber Cone at the Pee Dee Station in North Carolina. He was a patriot soldier during the Cherokee Wars preceeding the American Revolution. William was to become a farmer, landowner, justice of the peace, Baptist minister (of the Little Ogeechee Baptist Church), and a Revolutionary War hero known as the "Fighting Parson" (while fighting with Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," of South Carolina). Keziah and William became residents of Cheraw County, South Carolina before migrating to Effingham County, Georgia and later to Bulloch County. They had nine children: Aaron Cone, Sr., Jane E. Cone, William Cone, Jr., Joseph Cone, Keziah Cone Dampier, Sarah Cone Knight, Nancy Ann Cone Hagin, Mary Cone Lee Best, and Elizabeth Cone. Keziah and William resided in the Ivanhoe Voting District (Briar Patch Census District) of Bulloch County, Georgia. His wife Keziah preceeded him in death, in 1810. He later remarried, to Martha Beacham Cone of Camden County, Georgia. William was 67 when he died in December of 1816 in Bulloch County and was buried, probably near his wife's grave, in the Old William Cone-Barber Family Cemetery (Captain William Cone Cemetery) adjacent to the old Barber family homestead on the east side of the Old River Road near the Stagecoach Road on the western bank of the Ogeechee River south of Georgia Highway 119 (Guyton-Stilson Road). In 1985 a bridge across the Ogeechee River linking Bulloch and Effingham Counties was named in honor of him.
Among William's many notable descendents was a son, Aaron Cone, Sr., who was a courier during the American Revolution; a son, William Cone, Jr., who served in both the Georgia and Florida legislatures; a daughter Nancy Ann Cone Hagin, a founding member of three Baptist churches and a poet; a grandson, Aaron Cone, Jr., who assisted naturalist John Abbot in exploring Bulloch County; a grandson, William Haddock Cone, who was a Confederate veteran and a Florida state senator; a grandson Peter Cone who was a Major General in the Confederacy; a grandson Daniel Newman Cone who was a law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty; great-grandsons, Paul Robert Cone and John Slater Cone, Confederate soldiers who died from wounds received at the battle at James Island, South Carolina in June 1862; a great-grandson, Frederick Preston Cone, Governor of Florida from 1937 to 1942; a great-grandson Aaron Donaldson Cone, a Confederate veteran; a great-grandson Joseph Smith Cone, a Lt. Colonel in the Confederacy and a Georgia state senator; a great-grandson James Basil Cone, a dentist; a great-great-grandson Daniel Newman Cone, III, a physician; a great-great-grandson Reamer Hamilton Cone, a teacher; a great-great-grandson Howell Cobb Cone, a founder of Georgia Southern University, an attorney, and member of the Georgia Legislature; a great-great-great-grandson William Henry Cone, a World War II veteran, a Lt. Commander in the Navy, and an attorney; a great-great-great-grandson Rufus McClelland, a World War I veteran; a great-great-great-grandson Harry McClelland, a World War II veteran; a great-great-great-great-grandson Pernell McClelland, Jr., a World War II veteran; a great-great-great-great-grandson Waldo Floyd, Jr., MD, a physician; a great-great-great-great-grandson James Howell Cone, a Lutheran minister; a great-great-great-great-grandson John Cone, an accountant; a great-great-great-great-grandson William McDonald, a pastoral counselor and professor; and a great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter Sharlotte Neely Donnelly, PhD, a professor and author of Snowbird Cherokees; to name but a few of William Henry Cone's descendents.
Thanks so much to the dozens of Cone family genealogists for much of this information and to the late William Bernard Cone, Jr. for creating the site.
A Patriot of the American Revolution for GEORGIA. DAR Ancestor # A024922
view all 16
Captain William Cone, Sr.'s Timeline
| 1745 |
1745
|
on the Pee Dee River, NC, United States
|
|
| 1760 |
1760
|
South Carolina, United States
|
|
| 1766 |
October 31, 1766
|
Pee Dee River, North Carolina, USA
|
|
| 1771 |
January 1, 1771
|
Halifax County, North Carolina, United States
|
|
| 1772 |
May 17, 1772
|
North Carolina, United States
|
|
|
November 16, 1772
|
Pee Dee, Anson, North Carolina, United States
|
||
| 1777 |
December 24, 1777
|
Barnwell, Barnwell, South Carolina, United States
|
|
| 1780 |
February 16, 1780
|
Cheraw Dist., SC, United States
|
|
|
1780
|
Barnwell, South Carolina, USA
|