Dempsey Tyner

A Patriot of the American Revolution for SOUTH CAROLINA with the rank of Private. DAR Ancestor # A117748

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Dempsey Tyner was at least half Cherokee. His son Lewis Tyner is noted as being on the Trail of Tears and 1/4 Cherokee.

Note: *Other researches believe he may have been half and some say Fullblood however, the sources are listed on Find A Grave

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Private Dempsey Tyner
Private Dempsey Tyner served in Captain Miller’s Company of the South Carolina militia and was at the
battle of Kettle Creek.
Private Tyner provided this information about the battle in 1832.
Soon after this applicant returned from the siege at Savannah [December 1778] he was again called on by his Captain (Miller) and marched to McGowen's blockhouse against the Tories where Capt Miller's and Captain Baskin's Companies had an engagement with the Tories, and Capt Miller was shot through the knee and he and Capt Baskins taken prisoners by the Tories.
This applicant and several others who were in the engagement made their escape without being taken and joined Major Pickens at the Cherokee Ford and marched against the Tories to Kittle Creek under him where we had another engagement with them and defeated them and took three hundred prisoners.
This applicant was ordered on the guard to guard the prisoners to Ninety Six (Footnote.com 2008 [Dempsey Tyner S1599]).

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links

• Dempsey Tyner Find A Grave
• http://www.tynerfamily.net/trees/view/Descendants-of-Dempsey-Tyner
• http://srvg.org/Members-Only/Library/Publications/Elbert-County-Off...
• http://www.npshistory.com/publications/kecr/rpt-131.pdf