Isaac Garrison

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor # A044314

Note: Although often listed as the "II" Isaac Garrison, he would more accurately be the VI (sixth). (Of course, this applies only if the suffix exists in any primary source documentation... please cite that source before applying.)

Family

Son of Isaac Garrison and Elizabeth (Lawrence) Garrison

Isaac Garrison married twice - Martha Ballinger & Martha Fountain.

Children of Martha Ballinger were Sarah (1769) , Isaac (1771) , John (1774) & Mary Polly (1779) .

Children of Martha Fountain (1768) were Joseph (1786) , David (1788) , William (1789) & James (1792). there are also 4 other unidentified daughters.

Sources

Ref. The Family of Isaac Garrison 1732-1836 Frontiersman & Soldier of the American Revolution. Published by The Isaac Garrison Family Association, Inc. ; Ltr & corrected history from Denzil Garrison PO Box 1217, Bartlesville, Ok. dated 12-31-1994; Heritage of Surry County, NC, Volume II; The Trunk of The Tree & The Branches by Denzil D. Garrison & Paul Garrison Page 15

Notes

Source: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~moomcsam/garrison.html

Isaac Garrison was born in 1732 possibly in North Carolina. As listed in the DAR Patriot Index, Isaac was a recognized patriot in North Carolina during the Revolutionary period. He is on several tax lists for Surry County, North Carolina and also fought as a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

Isaac married his first wife (name unknown) in about 1767 when he would have been 35 years old. They had 4 children: Sarah, Isaac, John, and Mary.

His first wife having died, Isaac was married to Martha (last name unknown) in about 1783 in Surry County, North Carolina. Isaac and Martha had 4 sons and 4 daughters. Only the sons' names are known: David, Joseph, William, and James.

According to family tradition, Isaac Garrison knew George Washington in his youth and went with him on surveying trips. He is also said to have known Daniel Boone well and supposedly went with him on trips into the Kentucky Territory. It was a source of pride with him that he had come from the same generation as George Washington and Daniel Boone and had outlived both of them.

Isaac Garrison is believed to have first served in the North Carolina troops under either General Francis Nash or Col. Edward Buncombe. Their troops were from Surry, Wilkes, and other Northern counties of North Carolina. And their men served in the Battle of Brandywine on Sept. 11, 1777 and in the Battle of Germantown on Oct. 4, 1777. Both Nash and Buncombe were mortally wounded at Germantown along with six other officers. After the deaths of these two commanders, it is believed that their regiments combined to become the 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment.

The Pennsylvania Archives do give record that Isaac Garrison served as a private in Joseph Howell's Company, 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment from July 1, 1777 to August 1778 when it became Capt. Peter Gosner's Company. This company served at Valley Forge under General Nathaniel Greene. He continued serving in this company until 1781.

After the Revolutionary War ended, Isaac Garrison was granted land in the Lick Creek area of Rowan and Surry County, North Carolina. He came to own 981 ½ acres of land in Surry County, North Carolina. This land became part of Stokes County in 1789. He sold the last of his North Carolina property in 1791, when he moved to Grayson County, Virginia. He moved back to Stokes County in 1795 but stayed only a short time.

He then went westward to Hawkins County in eastern Tennessee, where he bought land from John Cotteral in 1798. There he purchased 200 acres in Puncheon Camp Valley. Amazingly, he left Hawkins County, Tennessee in 1832 at the age of 100 and came to Missouri with his sons Joseph, James, and William. Joseph settled on the Dry Auglaze in what is now Camden County. The other two settled in Greene County, Missouri, in a place known as "The Rich Woods" on Finley Creek, northwest of the present site of Ozark. This is where the Richwood Cemetery got its name in later years.

After 4 years of living in southwest Missouri, Isaac Garrison died in 1836 in what was Greene County, Missouri and now is in Christian County. He was 104 years old at his death. His marker is in the southwest corner of the Richwood Cemetery.

The monument currently at Isaac's grave, was placed there by Jack Farthing of Ozark, Darrell Garrison, and other members of the Isaac Garrison Family Association in about 1976. The DAR marker was placed by the Meyongo Chapter of DAR from Buffalo in about 1990. About 20 Garrison descendants were present at that grave marking ceremony. Ozark Mountain Chapter SAR held a dedication service on November 19, 1994 (an SAR insignia had been placed at his grave several years earlier.)

Birth: 1732 - Surry County, North Carolina, USA
Death: 1836 - Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, USA

Family links:

Children:

• Joseph Garrison (1786 - 1847)*
• William Jacob Garrison (1789 - 1866)*
• James Calvin Garrison (1792 - 1862)*

Burial: Richwood Cemetery, Nixa, Christian County, Missouri, USA

• Created by: Rhonda Capps-Sells
• Record added: Feb 09, 2009
• Find A Grave Memorial# 33673001

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Isaac Garrison BIRTH 1732 Surry County, North Carolina, USA DEATH 1836 (aged 103–104) Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, USA BURIAL Richwood Cemetery Nixa, Christian County, Missouri

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33673001/isaac-garrison

Children John Ballinger Garrison 1774–1874

Photo Joseph Garrison 1786–1847

Photo William Jacob Garrison 1789–1866

Photo James Calvin Garrison 1792–1862

• Military service: Dec 1 1776 - United States
• Military service: Aug 1782 - Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States
  • Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Aug 14 2019, 16:26:13 UTC