bejamin mahorney
Benjamin MAHORNEY
Source: Banner Times, Greencastle, Indiana (date unreadable)
WH Ragan showed the Banner Times this morning a copy of the docket of Arthur Mahorney, deceased. Mr. Mahorney was a Justice of the Peace in this county and his book shows many valuable relics. He was a brother of Benjamin Mahorney who was mentioned in Mr. Ragan's paper before the historical society this month. Arthur Mahorney was himself a Revolutionary soldier and his name goes into a collection which Mr. Ragan is making, he having secured the names of about 20 in Putnam so far.
Source: Soldiers & Patriots of the American Revolution buried in Indiana - 1981 p 244
Benjamin Mahorney born 1760. Enlisted March 4, 1779 Fauquier Co VA - served until Oct 25, 1780 under Capts. William Wales and Thomas Hoard and Epps and Col. Buford and Gen. Washington 3rd Vir. Regt.
Pension S 32393.
Died: Dec 25, 1854. Buried Smuthe Cemetery east of Fillmore. Has a government marker placed by the Washburg Chapter, DAR.
At least one son, Owen.
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Source: Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Indiana (found on ancestry.com - no known date)
Benjamin Mahorney, the 5th and last survivors, and perhaps among the very last of his race died in the summer of 1854, more than 70 years after the close of the great struggle in which he was an active participant. His residence was in the northern portion of Marion Township and immediately on the line of the Big Four Railway one mile east of the little station of Darwin. He lived with his son, Owen Mahorney who made him comfortable in his last days. He was a most venerable personage, known to the people of the neighborhood as one worth of veneration and respect. His hair was as white as the driven snow. He was a Virginian and enloisted from Farquire (sic) County in that state in the spring of 1779 ,for a term of 18 months. He served under Capt. Walls in Col. Buford's regiment of VIrginia Militia. His regiment met the British cavalry under the celebrated Col. Tarleton at Warsaw, NC and were repulsed with great loss to killed, wounded and prisoners. Patriot Mahorney was one of the four who escaped without injury or capture. His term of enlistment closed on Oct 25, 1780, nearly 74 years prio to his death in this county. From the records of our county clerk's office, I learn that he made application for a pension on the April term of court in 1833, and he was at that time 73 years of age. From this record I also learn the above facts concerning his enlistment and service in the patriot cause. At the time of his death there was in the neighborhood a military company with headquarters at the village of Fillmore and commanded by James H. Summers, a Mexican War veteran and afterwards colonel of an Iowa Regiment in the war of the Rebellion. Capt. Summers called together his company and fired a salute over the open grave of the last survivor of Revolution memory in the neighborhood. The interment was at what is known as the Smythe graveyard just south of the Vandalia RR and one mile east of Fillmore. It is probably the grave of Mr. Mahorney might still be identified. An incident occurred after the burial of Patriot Mahorney when Capt. Summers with his company, returned to Fillmore to store their guns in the company's armory. A member of the company, Noah Alley, also a Mexican veteran and afterwards killed at Cedar Mountains, Virginia as a member of the 27th Indiana regiment, through an awkward mishap thrust the fixed bayonet of his musket through his leg just above the ankle, making a serious and painful wound. The village boys, out of juvenile curiously had gathered about the military company and were many of them witnesses to this painful accident. The writer well remembers the impression it made on his youthful mind and this associated with the death and burial of the last survivor of the Revolutionary struggle in that part of Putnam County if not in the state. Of these five five Revolutionary patriots, two only, Hopkins and Stobaugh, have living descendants in our midst. Denny, it will be remembered had no children of his own. Bartee's wife and daughter are long ... ... and the younger Mahorney after his father's death, together with his family moved to Fountain County where they have been lost in sight in the busy throng that now throbs and pusates through our land.
Source: Greencastle Star Press, 9 Feb 1895 p 1
The meeting of the Putnam County Historical Society held in the GAR Hall Tuesday evening was opened with a prayer by Dr. Jenkins. A chorus conducted by Miss Kate Hammond rendered, My Country ‘tis of thee.” The first paper was read by Mr. WH Ragan who took as his subject, Some Revolutionary Soldiers. He said that he should confine his theme to relating what he knew or what he had learned from authentic sources, concerning five pioneers of Putnam County who had served through the Revolutionary War: Abraham Stobough, Silas Hopkins, Samuel Denny, John Bartee and Benj. Mahorney. These were the only ones whom he remembered or of whom he had any authentic information. They had lived within a few miles of each other along the borders of Marion and Floyd townships. The speaker said that perhaps in no other part of our state had there lived in such a small area so many distinguished sons of the revolution.
Abraham Stobough – came from Montgomery County, Virginia and died in Floyd Township in September, 1826. He is buried on the old Goram farm now owned by Albert O. Lockridge in Marion Township. Stobough was a veteran of the War of 1812 as well as the Revolution.
Silas Hopkins came to Putnam County from Baltimore. In what command he served is not known. That he was a Revolutionary Soldier is not questioned. He is buried in the same graveyard as Mr. Stobough. That graveyard is unkept and almost unknown in face of the fact that it contains two bodies of America’s most honored dead.
Samuel Denny, a great uncle of Squire Denny of this city, came here at a very early date. He died some time in the 30s and was buried in Warren Township. The location of his grave is unknown.
John Bartee lived in extreme poverty in a one-room log cabin in Marion Township. The county assisted him. He died in February 1848 and is buried on the Yates farm.
Benj. Mahorney who came from Virginia, lived one mile east of Darwin. He enlisted in the Army in 1779. He died in the summer of 1854.
Only Messrs. Hopkins and Stobough have descendants yet living of whom any thing is known.