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Stokley Belcher UNKN - 1845
Bell-Harlan County KyArchives Biography

Author: Dr. John J. Dickey Diary

Dr. John J. Dickey Diary

Stokley Belcher - Hyden, Ky., June 24, 1898.
     My grandfather, Bailey Belcher was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.  He lived to be 84 years old and drew a pension till his death about 1845.  He was born and raised in S.C.  He was only 14 years old when he enlisted.  His father was drafted and he was sent as his substitute.  He received a saber wound in his left arm, the scar of which he carried to his grave.  I remember him and remember the scar.  After the war he removed to Hawkins County, Tenn. where he married Alsie Lawson.  She survived him 4 years.  She was 4 years his junior.  They had six children, three boys, three girls.  Salle (John Malden); George moved south; John went west; Joseph went west with John; Lanie (George Trent); he died. 
Children lived and died in Hawkins County; Betsey, my mother is still alive, lives on Straight Creek with her daughter, Martha Osborne.  My mother had ten children.  I was a soldier in the Rebel Army, so was my brother, Milton.  My father was Col. David Rogers  My mother had ten children by him, then married him.  He made up a company for the Union Army but before he was mustered in, the Rebels captured him and he died. 
This was in Hawkins Co., Tenn., where we were all born and raised.  My brother, Orville Belcher, lives in Leslie County.  The Rogers and Belchers were Irish.  Both are mixed with Tuchaho Dutch.
     My father had 12 children by his first wife.  He was beaten up by the Rebels so that he died.  He was a great fighter.  He fought 52 fist fights, was the bully of Tenn.  He fought the Rebels, refusing to surrender.  He had a real Irish face with a tremendous voice.  He was an officer in the militia before the war.  His first children were in the Union Army. 

Belcher Lawson Malden Trent Osborne Rogers 
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SC Hawkins-TN

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