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- Notes on Find a Grave:
Solomon Osborne
Son of Ephraim Osborne and maybe Elizabeth Howard
Born ca 1750
Killed in the late 1700s by Indians raiding a hunting party in Watauga.
According to the various legends, the other two members (his brothers) of the hunting party fled and one came back and buried him, or the two came back at a later time to bury him, or came back later to retrieve the body but were unable to locate the site of the incident in the wilderness or brought the body home to his wife.
No one knows now where he's buried. . . and maybe only that he was killed by Indians and presumably covered over to prevent predation.
He was married and did have children or had one child only.
Wife: Nancy Davidson. After she was widowed she married Jonathan Wood (1744 - 1804)
Child
James D Osborn Birth 4 January 1765
- 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. ....
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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1743 - 1764 (21 years)
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