John Wilfong

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA & SOUTH CAROLINA with the rank of PRIVATE. DAR Ancestor # A125459

young John Wilfong, received a severe wound in the right arm in that same glorious fight and carried that honorable scar to his grave. He afterwards became a great man in wealth, popularity and good deeds. He never sought political office, notwithstanding he was chosen elector on the Van Buren ticket, and was made chairman of that college, where the great Nathaniel Macon was his colleague, to cast the vote of that body. He is honored on the Guilford Battle Ground by that patriotic company. A beautiful lake on that sacred spot is named in his honor “Wilfong Lake.” These two men fought under Major Joe McDonald in the Burks and Rutherford Regiments, together with John Dellinger and others in the King’s Mountain battle. All the Territory of Catawba County then belonged to Burke County as far south as Earl Granville’s line, for that was the dividing line, at that time, between Burke and Tyron Counties. The names of these brave patriots are not mentioned in Draper’s History of “King’s Mountain and its Heroes.” 

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GEDCOM Note

Sources:

1- The Patriots at Kings Mountain, by Moss, p. 269 (FHL 975.743, M2m).

2- The Annals of Lincoln County, North Carolina, by: Sherrill, p. 43 (FHL 975.678, H2s).