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Subject: Irvin.James.1754.Jessamine.BIOS


James Irvin 1754 - 1851
Jessamine County KyArchives Biography

Author: Bennett H. Young

James Irvin.

   The last Revolutionary soldier to die in Jessamine county was James Irvin. He was 
born in Mecklenburg county, Va., in 1754, and died in Jessamine county in 1851, at 
ninety-seven years. He served seven years in the Revolutionary war and was badly 
wounded at the Battle of Guilford Court House, March 15, 1781. He was shot in the 
left hip. He came to Jessamine county in 1793 and raised a large family of daughters 
who all lived to be over eighty-seven years of age.

   He is the only Revolutionary soldier who very many of the people in Jessamine 
county ever saw. When Gen. William O. Butler was a Democratic candidate for Governor 
of Kentucky in 1844, James Irvin and four other Revolutionary veterans rode in the 
carriage with General Butler from the place of Mr. John Butler, on Jessamine creek, 
on the Danville pike, to Nicholasville, where General Butler was to speak, in the 
field adjoining the colored cemetery, close to the line of the R., N., I. & B. R. R.

   When Irvin was wounded in battle he was left at the house of the father of William 
A. Graham, the distinguished politician of North Carolina, and Secretary of the Navy 
under Millard Fillmore. While sick he cut his initials on a stone and the date of his 
wounding and brought this stone with him to Kentucky when he emigrated to the state. 
He lived on the place now owned by Mr. Dean, near Sulphur Well, and was buried in the 
Hickman neighborhood.



Submitted by: Joy Fisher
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Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

A HISTORY OF JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO 1898.
By BENNETT H. YOUNG,
PRESIDENT POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; MEMBER FILSON CLUB; MEMBER CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, 
1890; AUTHOR HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF KENTUCKY, OF "BATTLE OF BLUE LICKS, ETC, ETC.

S. M. DUNCAN, ASSOCIATE AUTHOR.

Every brave and good life out of the past is a treasure which cannot  be measured in 
money, and should be preserved with faithfullest care.

LOUISVILLE, KY.: COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING CO., 1898.


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