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Josiah Earp was born March 10,
1761 in Montgomery County, Maryland, and married Ellender
Hawker there about 1783. Ellender was born in 1765 in
Maryland and died in 1835 in Pulaski County, Kentucky. Josiah died there, at
Somerset on November 25, 1844.
They had four children; Jemima married James Randol; Allen M. is noted below; Eleanor married George Randol; Singleton married Rebecca Herrin, and Hannah
Brinson; and Anna married John Herrin.
Josiah helped to guard prisoners taken at the surrender of
Cornwallis during the American Revolution. He made application for pension on
November 18, 1833, and was residing in Pulaski County, Kentucky at that time.
The application shows that he was a resident of Montgomery County, Maryland,
when he entered the service in March of 1780. He served under Capt. John
Nichols and Lt. Thomas Nichols for 9 months, and was 72 years old when he
applied for his pension.
Pension record Rev. War S 31 004. He is listed in the DAR
Patriot Index 1966 on page 211.
Allen M. Earp Mary
“Polly” Stogsdill Earp
Allen M. Earp was born in 1798
in North Carolina, and married Mary "Polly" Stogsdill
on May 23, 1819 in Pulaski County, Kentucky. Mary was born August 7, 1798 in
Pulaski County, Kentucky, a daughter of Vachel and
Susannah Stogsdill. She and Allen had ten children,
born in Kentucky and Tennessee; Archibald; Susannah married John Wesley Scott; Ellander "Well" married William Robert Batey, and Fielding Strawn; Ann A. married Allan Woods, and
John Wesley Scott; Catherine "Kate" married Green B. Jerrold; John
Wesley married Lenna White, and Martha, maiden name
unknown; Matilda Caroline "Lenney" married Sloman "Slo" White,
brother of Lenna; William Harrison married Narcissa Jane Boyle; Josiah Allen "Joe" married
Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Pirtle; and Mary Ann
“Polly” married James Hamilton “Jim” Montgomery.
Sloman and Lenna White are children of Aden
and Martha Patricia "Patsy" Mount White of Bedford and Marshall
Counties, Tennessee, and Polk County,
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