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Capt John Harris Woolfolk

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Capt John Harris Woolfolk Veteran

Birth
Virginia, USA
Death
18 Jan 1813 (aged 24–25)
Monroe County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
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s/o Sowyel [Sowell] Woolfolk / Mary Netherland Harris
Natives of VA

His family moved from VA to Woodford Co., KY shortly after the Revolutionary War. In 1812, General Winchester appointed him to be his personal secretary.
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Name Inscribed on:
Raisin River Massacre Monument

In September 1834 these men were for the fourth, and the last time, exhumed and placed in boxes marked Kentucky's Gallant Dead, 18 Jan 1813, River Raisin Michigan, and at last and forever placed at rest in the State Cemetery, in Frankfort, Kentucky.
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s/o Sowyel [Sowell] Woolfolk / Mary Netherland Harris
Natives of VA

His family moved from VA to Woodford Co., KY shortly after the Revolutionary War. In 1812, General Winchester appointed him to be his personal secretary.
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Name Inscribed on:
Raisin River Massacre Monument

In September 1834 these men were for the fourth, and the last time, exhumed and placed in boxes marked Kentucky's Gallant Dead, 18 Jan 1813, River Raisin Michigan, and at last and forever placed at rest in the State Cemetery, in Frankfort, Kentucky.
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