Dionysius served in the American Revolution as a Soldier and participated in the Battle of Kettle Creek. He was also credited with service as a magistrate for Wilkes County, Georgia.[3]
Dionysius married secondly Susan Jackson. relative of Governor Jackson[4][5]
Dionysius Oliver died about 1808 in Elbert County, Georgia.[6]
DAR-A086134: DAR Website, Ancestor #: A086134 Dionysius Oliver Service Source: O'KELLEY & WARREN, GA REV BOUNTY LANDS RECS, PP 39,67; CANDLER, REV RECS OF GA, VOL 2, P 140; DAVIDSON, EARLY RECS OF GA, WILKES CO, VOL 2, P 3
Saunders, Col. James Edmonds. Early Settlers of Alabama, New Orleans, LA, 1891 On Archive.org
Note: He moved from Virginia, through South Carolina, to Elbert county, Ga. (then a part of Wilkes county), where he served in the Revolution as captain of a Privateer, and also with General Lincoln at the sieges of Savannah and Augusta; was in the battles of King's Mountain and Kettle Creek, in Wilks county. It is said he also served with General Marion. He was captured by the British and, many years after, would relate to his grandchildren the hardships he, and his family of young children, then
endured. His home place, says his grandson, Dr. James Oliver, was in Elbert county, on Beaver Dam creek, near "Stenchcomb Meeting House," where he died and was buried. Another grandson, Wm. T. O. Cook, of Georgia (yet living, 1898 , at the age of 90), says he had a place in Wilks county, on the south side of Broad river, in the flatwoods, about three and a quarter miles above the mouth of Wahatchee creek. These lands were afterward owned by his sons, Peter and Rev. Florance McCarthy Oliver. There was a fort near by, called the "Block House" (now Washington), to which the people fled when attacked by Tories and Indians. When the men and boys, and their negro slaves, went to their work they carried guns lashed to their backs, even when ploughing. Wilks county began to be settled in 1770, when the Indian line of frontier was thrown farther out. "The young wife," continues her grandson, "was large and handsome, and gifted with great courage, and generally softened the hardships of her little family by playing to them spirited airs on the violin, of which she was the complete mistress, often dancing to its accompaniment, to the no small delight of her youthful audience. Such was the Nerve of the Women of the Revolution."
In an old minute book (bound in untanned hog's skin and yet preserved in Wilkes county, Ga.), of the revolutionary proceedings of 1779, in "the proceedings of the court, which met at the house of Jacob McLendon, Sr.," about thirteen miles from Heards Fort (now Washington), on the 25th of August, 1779, during which, after a summary trial, nine Tories were declared guilty, and hung in ten days after. Wilks county had neither courthouse nor jail at the time, and prisoners had to be closely guarded, and all able-bodied men were needed for the common defence, and judges did not feel they could waste the time of men who were anxious to serve their country, in guarding those who had sided with the British, Tories and Indians, in murders, pillage and arson. The nine Tories hung were, John Bennefield, James Mobley, Dread Wilder, Joshua Rials, Clement Yarbrough, Edmond Dormey, John Watkins, Wm.
Crut??hfield, and John Younge.
At the time, Savannah was in the hands of the British, and raiding parties of Tories and Indians disturbed the interior as far up as Augusta, and the people gave short shrift to the murderers when caught. The Council had fled from Augusta, and established the State government, for a short time, in Wilks county, about six miles north of the site of Washington, and Stephen Heard (mentioned as foreman of the grand jury) was President of the Executive Council of the State.
(From James Edmond Saunders, "Early Settlers of Alabama")
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