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- Sons of the American Revolution membership application.
by Charles Kyle Osborne, Jr.
for Captain Enoch Osborne, Sr.
1957
for service:
Captain Montgomery County, Virginia Militia
- Sons of the American Revolution membership application.
by John Clark Osborne
for Capt. Enoch Osborne
1948
for service:
Captain Virginia Militia
sources:
SAR Nat'l No.66597
Montgomery Co. Va court records
Grayson Co records
Family records
- Esquire Enoch Osborne settle on New River, near Bridle Creek; this for many years was known as the Osborne settlement. Enoch Osborn had three brothers, Solomon, Ephriam, and Johnathan, who came to this country with their families about the same time, and settled on New River, near together.
A fort was built on the farm now occupied by Joshua Osborne and son, Joh, at Ancella Post Office. Indian depredations were common on the border settlements, and preparations for protection and defence were necessary.
It was fortunate for society that the first settlers were people of moral worth and piety.
Enoch Osborne's wife was a Miss Hash. He and his wife were Christians, and aided very much in planting the standard of Christian civilization over the land that was so recently inhabited by savages.
Their home was a resting place for the wayworn traveling preachers. The venerable Bishop Asbury called with them, rested, and took refreshments, as he was making his ministrerial tours through this newly settle country preaching the gospel.
It was at the old Fort where Esquire Enoch Osborne, Sr., first located a home.
An incident occurred with the Osborne brothers, in their newly occupied territory, that tells of the dangers and exposures to which pioneer settlers were subjected.
Enoch Osborne and brothers, Solomon and Ephriam, went into what is now Watauga, N.C., on a hunting trip, deer being plentiful in that section. Getting wet by a shower of rain, and wet bushes, they struck up camp in the evening and lay down to sleep and rest, hanging up their clothes by the camp fire to dry. The Indians surprised them by shooting into the camp and killing Solomon Osborne; an Indian chased Enoch some distance, and lost him in the dark. Ephriam, after fleeing from camp carefully crept back in the bark to his horse that was fastened with a hickory bark halter to a tree, loosed him and rode home. Enoch returned home without shoes, and in his night clothing. These facts are gathered from Mrs. May McMullen, wife of Hon. Lafayette McMullen, member of Congress, from Scott county, Va., for several sessions. Mrs. McMullen, before her marriage, was Miss Mary Woods, granddaughter of Solomon Osborne, who was murdered in the camp by the Indians.
Pioneer settlers of Grayson County, Virginia. by Benjamin Floyd Nuckolls. Bristol, Tennessee, King Printing Co., 1914.
page 171-172.
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