Col Samuel Wear Veteran

Birth: 1753
Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA
Death: 3 Apr 1817 (aged 63–64)
Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
Burial: Fort Wear Cemetery

Henderson Springs, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 35.8070416, Longitude: -83.5831953
Memorial ID: 7871904 View Source

Inscription: "Pioneer/Solider of Four Wars/Colonial, Revolution, Indian, 1812/One of the Heroes of/Kings Mountain and a/ Founder of the State of Franklin"
Settled in Henderson Springs in Servier County in 1792; picked the location of Sevierville and named it for his fried, John Sevier; first County Clerk of Sevierville.

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1741–1835

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Robert Wear

Rebecca Carrell Wear

Mary Thompson Wear

Mary Thompson Wear

Mrs Mary Gilliland Wear

Pvt John Wear

Capt Robert Wear

Lieut John Alexander Wear

Mary Thompson Wear Perry

Malinda Wear Bradshaw

Maj Pleasant Miller Wear

Minerva Wear Guthrie

Margaret M. Wear Cumming

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