Stephen "Baldy" Austin

AUSTIN, STEPHEN Ancestor #: A2077855 [https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=ful...]

Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PRIVATE Birth: 11-1755 HALIFAX CO VIRGINIA Death: 1850 HARDIN CO-BUR TENNESSEE Pension Number: *S2040 Service Source: *S2040 Service Description: 1) CAPT WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, GENERAL GREEN'S DIVISION

RESIDENCE Created: 2011-06-09 10:46:02.0, Updated: 2011-06-09 10:46:02.0, By: MCZARNECKI 1) County: SURRY CO-ENL - State: NORTH CAROLINA Created: 2012-03-12 07:54:09.0, Updated: 2012-03-12 07:54:09.0, By: 2) County: MONTGOMERY CO - State: VIRGINIA

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Created: 2011-06-09 10:46:02.0, Updated: 2011-06-09 10:46:02.0, By: MCZARNECKI 1) X X

Hint: Click on the member number to see more. ASSOCIATED APPLICATIONS AND SUPPLEMENTALS Nat’l Num Add Vol. Docs Child [Spouse #] Spouse 894488 SAUNDERS [1] NANCY X He came to the Colony of Virginia before the Revolutionary War. Stephen served in the American forces until the end of the Revolutionary War. He moved to Lincoln County Tennessee about 1809.

Birth: Nov. 4, 1755 Halifax County Virginia, USA Death: 1850 Hardin County Tennessee, USA

Stephen Austin was born in Halifax County, Virginia, on November 4, 1755, to John Austin Jr. and Mary McBee. He married Dorcas Pinson, daughter of Delilah and Aaron Pinson, in 1775, in Grayson County, Virginia. Dorcas was born about 1757 in Laurens, South Carolina, and died April 12, 1836, in Hardin County, Tennessee. Stephen and Dorcas had these children together: William, Stephen, Saunders A., Robert, Elizabeth, John, and Rebecca.

Stephen was a Revolutionary War soldier. At the age of 21, he enlisted in the cavalry of Major William Armstrong and Col. Washington. He served five years in the Light Horse Dragoons of General Green's division in Surry County, North Carolina, but the last 2 years hired a substitute. After the war, he returned to Virginia and lived there for twenty years. He then moved to Tennessee and lived in Warren, Giles, Wayne, and Hardin Counties.

From information researched by Janet Austin Curtis, with help from Oliver Qualls of Savannah, TN and Mrs. Orville Sharp of Florence, AL, family tradition among the descendants of Stephen would seem to indicate that he was sort of a "wagon master" who made trips back to North Carolina and Virginia and led settlers from there into Tennessee. Supposedly, he made his last trip when he was 70 years old and came back with 30 families, mostly relatives from VA and NC, who settled in Wayne Co., TN, along Second Creek; in Hardin Co., TN, along Hollands Creek; and in Lauderdale Co., AL, along Bumpas Creek. Since he does not show up in many census schedules, this seems like a likely explanation for these absences.

Stephen died in 1850 in Hardin County, Tennessee, and was buried in the Hollands Creek Cemetery, Savannah, Hardin County, Tennessee.

Note: One of Stephen's many grandchildren was Martha Viannah Austin Rhea, daughter of William and Rebecca (Moses) Austin,

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Spouse:

 Dorcas Pinson Austin (1757 - 1836)*

Children:

 Sanders A. Austin (1784 - 1859)*

 Hannah Austin Wood (1784 - 1870)*

 Benjamin Austin (1787 - 1861)*

 John Austin (1789 - 1872)*

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Burial: Hollands Creek Cemetery Savannah Hardin County Tennessee, USA

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Maintained by: Velma Greer Originally Created by: Larry Ward Record added: Dec 22, 2004 Find A Grave Memorial# 10164690

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• Per DAR His Mother was Mary Crenshaw and John Austin, his Father was Patriot Ancestor #: A003825 https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=ful... - he’s not here

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Stephen “Baldy” Austin VVETERAN
BIRTH
4 Nov 1755
Halifax County, Virginia, USA
DEATH
1850 (aged 94–95)
Hardin County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL
Hollands Creek Church Cemetery
Walnut Grove, Hardin County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL