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About Johann Jacob Olinger
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Served in the Revolutionary War. Was drafted the first three months of 1781. He had been in several skirmages at Pourtsmouth and was in the battle at Jamestown.
Per DAR Ancestor #A075139, pension number R7787V (DAR); served in Captain Charles Cameran's Co.
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(Research):I found this story along with the picture at http://graves.inssar.org/NO/olinjaco2.html
We installed the Jacob Olinger stone on August 14, 2002 at Nebo Cemetery.
The Carroll County Comet a local newspaper covered the 150th anniversary of Jacob Olingers death in the middle of Sept 2002. The below article appeared in the Sept 18, 2002 edition and was written by Jennifer Archibald a staff writer.
Six from Carroll County Project honors Revolutionary War Patriots. David Watson visited Carroll County in 1994 to find the gravesite of his ancestor who fought in the American Revolution. But when he went to Nebo Cemetery, west of Camden, there was nothing to to mark his great-great-great-great grandfather's grave.
Now, eight years later, and 150 years after his ancestors death, there is a new stone and a bronze flag holder with an American Flag to mark the site.
Watson's ancestor, Jacob Olinger, is one of more than 2,000 Revolutionary War patriots who are buried in Indiana, according to records of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Six of those are buried in Carroll County.
Because many of these sites throughout the state are either unmarked or the exisating stone is deteriorating, the Sons of the American Revolution undertook a three year project to see that the graves are properly marked.
The various chapters of the SAR are in charge of the project in their area of the state. Carroll County is one of seven counties covered by the William Hnery Harrison chapter.
Bringhurst native Stanley Evans, a descendant of Revolutionary War patriot Andrew Evans, is a member of the chapter and spearheaded the project in Carroll County.
He discovered that only two of the six Carroll County Patriots gravesites were marked. These two are John Ollinger and Nathaniel Farmer. The other four patriots are Jacob Ollinger (mentioned above), Willibe Nichols, John Johnston and Peter Galloway. Jacob Olinger's stone was placed in August and stones for the other three have been ordered.
The six patriots migrated to Carroll County sometime after the war. John Ollinger's age at the time of his dath in unknown, but the other five all lived into thier 80's.
Evans obtained information about the patriots from Phyllis Moore and the staff at the Carroll County Historical Museum and prepared the forms needed to apply for the goverment stones to descendants of the patriots,if they were available.
Records showed that Jacob Olinger, 1763-1852 was buried in Nebo Cemetery, but there was no stone there. Fortunately, Ralp Rohrabaugh, Camden Town Council president, said he used to place flags on the veterans' graves, and he remembered the exact site where Olinger was buried. There was once a stone there, but it disappeared many years ago.
Evans has been told that there was logging done on the cemetery grounds a long time ago and many stones either run over or thrown over the hill. Sometimes after that, some of the stones were retreived and laid up against a fence at the edge of the cemetery. They remain there to this day.
The Olinger family plot is at the east end of the cemetery, near the fence.
Evans was able to find out the information about Jacob Olinger:
His father and uncle came to America from Germany in 1741. He was drafted in the Revolutionary War in 1781 and served three months and 20 days. He served with the Virginia Line.
In his own words
David Watson receives the "Ohlinger Family Newsletter", which printed a letter written by Jacob Olinger in 1833, telling about his service. An Excerpt follows:
" I have been in severfal skirmmages (skirmishes) at Portsmith (Portsmouth, VA) where my first Caption Cunninham got wounded and I was in the battel (battle) at Jamestown where my Cornel (Colonel) Wm Boyers got taken prisoner".
Olinger was married June 1, 1785, in Augusta County, Va to Barbara Downey. They had 11 children, and the last two were twins.
The Ohlinger newsletter quotes a book, Early Settlement of Carroll County, as describing Olinger in later years as follows: "He was a kind-hearted, honest old man as ever lived, and one who loved the country he had fought for, with his whole heart".
Jacob Olinger died at the age of 89. His family Bible is in the Maxwell Historical Museum in Story County, Iowa. It was taken to Iowa by Olinger's son John, who left Carroll County with his family in the 1850's. Evans said he doesn't know of any Olinger descendants still living in Carroll County. Watson and his wife, Sheila, live in Grant County.
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The following is the contents of a letter written by JACOB OLINGER in 1833 regarding his Revolutionary War record: [Copy of Actual letter and Transcription of such was provided to me by Jerry Olinger of Saltville, VA.]
This is a statement of my sarvis (service) in the Revolution War. I was drafted the first 3 months in the year 1781 under Captain John Cunningham and Cornel (Colonel) Samson Mathis, he was my Cornel (Colonel) at Portsmith (Portsmouth) in old Virginia and when we came to headquarters and had to give up my gun and _____musket, I had no rifel (rifle). Then I was transfaird (transferred) into another company undeer Captain Camel or Camron. It is so long that I have fergot (forgot) wether (whether) it was Camel or Camron and I never got my gun again and the next time I was drafted for 20 days and every man had to find a horse. I went out under Captain Samuel McCutchen and William Boyers was our Cornel (Colonel) for the 20 days draft. That was when Tarltons horse came to sharlitsvill (Charlottesville) in old Virginia and then the British went to Williamsburg in old Virginia and I have been in several skirmages (skirmishes) at Portsmith (Portsmouth), where my first Captain Cunningham got wounded and I was in the bottel (battle) at Jamestown where my Cornel (Colonel) Wm. Boyers got taken prisoner. When I was drafted I lived in Virginia in Augusta County and I think I can find two witness in this state that will sartify (certify) that I have served (served) the two terms. And I was born in the year 1763 October the 3rd.
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Johann Jacob Olinger's Timeline
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October 3, 1763
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Lancaster County, Province of Pennsylvania
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| 1786 |
May 4, 1786
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Augusta Co., VA
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July 18, 1787
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Stauton, Augusta, VA
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November 2, 1789
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Augusta Co., VA
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July 20, 1791
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April 4, 1793
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Staunton, Virginia, United States
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April 14, 1793
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September 9, 1794
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