Nicholas Ware

A Patriot of the American Revolution for SOUTH CAROLINA (Soldier). DAR Ancestor # A120865

Nicholas Ware was born in Gloucester County, Virginia on August 12, 1739. Both his parents were 25 years old at the time. At the age of twenty-three, he married Martha “Peggie” Hodges and all their children were born in Virginia. The couple moved away from Virginia sometime “after October 1783 and settled in an area that came to be called Ware Shoals, South Carolina.” Actually, the name of the area came from “the name of the owner of the nearby gristmill, Nicholas Ware, and was combined with the river’s shoals to create the name of Ware’s Shoals, later shortened to Ware Shoals.” “Nicholas was called ‘Nicholas of Abbeville’ in order to identify him from his cousin Nicholas Ware V who lived in nearby Edgefield, South Carolina. According to DAR records, he continued to serve in a military capacity in his new home of South Carolina, and both Nicholas and Peggie were “charter members of the Turkey Creek Baptist Church in the Abbeville area. This church was “organized on January 29, 1785, with some of its’ families transferring over from Broad Run Baptist Church.” On March 26, 1787, Nicholas pre-deceased his father and died at the age of 48. He is buried in the Turkey Creek Cemetery

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78826109/nicholas-ware https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ware-240