Brig. Gen. Charles Elias Barbee, Sr

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DAR A 005804, Pvt. VA

At the age of 17, he enlisted in the Patriot cause in the Virginia militia following in the footsteps of his five elder brothers, three of whom, with Elias, fought together at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781.

Elias was appointed to several local offices and was later elected to terms in both the Kentucky House of Representatives and the Senate. He served in the Kentucky militia as a major, colonel, and ultimately as a brigadier general during the Indian wars on the Ohio River frontier.

A daughter of Elias and Elizabeth named Lucy was born deaf in 1799. Concerned for deaf children in the Commonwealth, General Barbee in 1822 (then in the Kentucky Senate) was instrumental in founding the Kentucky School for the Deaf located at Danville. It was the first state-sponsored school of its kind in the United States.

Source:http://www.gwsar.org/honoring-patriots/patriot-mini-biographies/

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