Revolutionary War Veterans of Moniteau County

Moniteau County Missouri

Revolutionary War Veterans

David Allee

1763-1835

Revolutionary War Veteran David Allee

By Alan Sparks

David Allee, born in 1762 at Pittsylvania County, Virginia, the son of Nicholas Allee and Ann Stephens. David married Charity Bybee December 4, 1786 in Franklin County, Virginia. Some time around 1795 he obtained 200 acres of land in Barren County, Kentucky, from the state of Virginia for payment of his services on the Virginia Continental Line in the Revolutionary War.

According to his Cooper County court pension application dated May 1833, while living in Henry County, Virginia, he served six months in 1777 or 1778 under Capt Peter Hartson's Company under Col. Shelby and Christie where he marched to French River in Tennessee in pursuit of Cherokee Indians. In July 1788, he again volunteered for three months in Capt Thomas Cummings Company, Col. Charles Lynch's Regiment where he marched against the Tories and was in an engagement with them in Botetourt County, Virginia. In 1779 he served 6 months in Capt Arbuckle's Company of Rangers and went from New River to Point Pleasant on the Ohio River. Then in 1780, he served six months in Capt Arbuckle's Company under Col. Cloyd, where he marched to Point Pleasant and guarded the frontier. Sometime after the Battle of Guilford, he spent three months in Capt Joshua Martin's Company, Col Abraham Penn's Regiment.

In addition to farming, David was ordained a Baptist minister in 1806 at the Glover Creek Baptist Church in Barren County, KY, where he preached from 1803-1820. As a Baptist preacher, he organized schools and churches on the colonial western frontier. Around 1820 David moved ten of his eleven children to Cooper County, Missouri where he lived the remainder of his life. David continued his work with the Baptist church soon after he moved to Missouri, as he joined Pisgah Baptist church in southeast Cooper County, MO in November 1820. He gave land for the establishment of Mt Pleasant Baptist church in 1823 and was the first moderator of Mount Gilead Baptist Church (now First Baptist Church) in California, MO in August 1833.

David and Charity's 11 children were:

1. Buford married to Suzanna Evans

2. John remained in Kentucky

3. Betsey married to Thomas Scott

4. Polly married to Captain Stephen Cole

5. Nicholas married to Tempey Hill

6. Anne married to Kemp Scott

7. William married to Anna Hill

8. Jerusa married to James Hill

9. Winifred married to William Birdsong

10. Charity married to Carrick Howard

11. David who never married

Rev. Allee rode throughout the surrounding counties of Saline, Morgan, Moniteau, Cooper, Cole, Callaway, Boone and Howard, preaching his Baptist gospel. While he helped start many Churches, his first one was most often chosen by his family for membership. Named Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, it was formed in 1823. He spent the summer of 1834 in Kentucky, returning to Missouri in the fall and after a long and painful affliction died in January 1835.

From A History of the Baptists in Missouri by Robert Samuel Duncan:

Eld. Allee’s manner of preaching was plain and forcible. He was not what would now be called a systematic preacher, but his sermons were made rich with Scripture quotations well adapted and fitly chosen. He was a man of prayer and deeply pious, and this gave him power as a gospel minister. His children, five sons and six daughters, all professed religion. Three sons filled the office of deacon in the churches of which they were members. Four grandsons are ministers of the gospel, viz.: Wilson and Nicholas Allee, David K. Scott of Kansas, and R. P. Scott, for some years moderator of Concord Association, by whom the substance of this sketch was furnished.

John Hines

Enoch Job/Jobe

Abt 1757-1843

Revolutionary War Veteran Enoch Jobe

By Alan Sparks

Enoch Jobe was born around 1757 in Virginia. Nothing is known of his upbringing until he enlisted as a young man in the 8^th Virginia Regiment and served two terms as a Private in 1776-1778. He fought in the Battles of White Plains (NY, September 1776), Trenton (NJ, December 1776-January 1777), Brandywine (PA, September 1777), Germantown (PA, October 1777) and White Marsh (PA, December 1777) and was discharged in February 1778 while under the command of General Charles Scott.

As far back as the late 1600s the Jobe family were historically Quakers, who were well known pacifists. Because of this, Enoch became a Baptist after his service in the Revolutionary War, when he joined the Big Pigeon Creek Baptist Church in Cocke County, Tennessee in 1794. Never staying in one place very long, Enoch and his family moved to Monroe County, Kentucky by 1797 when he donated money for building the Mill Creek Baptist Church. On the move again, Enoch and his family were in Greene County, Kentucky by 1799 as he had 150 acres of land surveyed there. By 1807 he is in Warren County, Tennessee where he has 100 acres of land surveyed.

In the late 1770s Enoch married his first wife Lucretia, probably in Virginia. They had at least nine children: 5 sons and 4 daughters between 1781 and 1800. Several of his children, including Elisha and Abraham, moved with Enoch to central Missouri sometime between August 1817 and June 1820, when he sold land in Warren County, Tennessee and joined Pisgah Baptist Church in Cooper County, Missouri.

The 9 known children of Enoch and Lucretia Jobe were:

1. Hannah married William M Logue

2. Nancy married Benjamin Coil

3. Elisha married 1st Unknown; 2nd Elizabeth Williams; 3rd Elizabeth Driskill

4. James married Margaret Stone

5. Robert married Mary Long

6. Abraham married Margaret Yewes/Yows

7. Reuben married Mary Williams

8. Mary married John Francis

9. Lydia married Dedrick Yows

In 1828, Enoch finally applied for a pension in the Cole County Circuit Court for his Revolutionary War service citing old age, poor health and general debility. He received $8 per month ($96 per year). In April, 1829, he married a widow, Sarah Martin, who already had three children of her own.

By August 1833, Enoch had moved south into what is now the California area as he was a charter member of Mt Gilead Baptist Church (now First Baptist Church). He apparently lived out his days in this area as he appears in Walker Township, Cole County, Missouri (now Walker Township, Moniteau County) census in 1840 and died on April 19, 1843.

The Jobe family has a long history with Baptist churches. Nine out of the 17 charter members of Salem Baptist Church, north of California, in August 1843, were Jobe family or closely related to the Jobes. At least three of Enoch’s grandsons, Abraham, Logan and Jacob, and their wives, Susan, Mary and Amanda, are buried in Old Salem cemetery along with granddaughter Lydia and her husband, Ira Williams. There are currently several of his descendants that are 6th, 7th and 8th generation members of what is now First Baptist Church.

James Kelly

1756-1843

Revolutionary War Veteran James Kelly

By Alan Sparks

James Kelly was born in Ireland in 1756 and served as an Ensign in the Revolutionary War. He married Nancy Caperton in 1782 in Virginia and James died in January 1843 in what is now Moniteau County. Missouri.

According to his pension application filed in Cooper County in 1833, he entered the Service of the United States sometime in the month of September 1777 as a volunteer in the capacity of Private under Lt. Samuel Lewis and Capt Archibald Woods from Greenbrier County, Virginia [now West Virginia]. His Company remained at Rich Creek Fort for the purpose of defending the frontier against Indians. He remained there for three years when a draft was made sometime in the year 1780 in Botetourt County, Virginia for three Companies to serve under the command of General Clark [George Rogers Clark] of the Continental Troops. James Kelly served as a substitute for Adam Caperton, who was drafted, in the regular service under Capt John Henderson, Lt John Woods & Ensign John Hall and Andrew Hamilton, militia Major. The troops then marched from Greenbrier County to Fort Chisel [Fort Chiswell] in Montgomery County, Virginia. From there they moved to several different locations until reaching Lexington, Kentucky, where he was discharged in August 1781. Somewhere during this time, officers resigned, promoted and James Kelly was promoted from Private to Ensign.

David Moore

1763-1845

From the April 11, 1912 California Democrat newspaper:

DAVID MOORE

Revolutionary Soldier and Pioneer who

Settled in Moniteau 97 Years Ago

Some Incidents of his early

Life Interestingly Told

By O B Hudson

"No tomb shall e'er plead to remembrance for thee,

Or redeem form or fame from the merciless surge,

But the white foam of waves shall thy winding sheet be,

And winds in the midnight of winter thy dirge."

David Moore, Revolutionary Soldier and Patriot and father of the Moore dynasty in Linn township was born in Stokes County, N.C. in 1763. At the time of his birth, the French and Indian war was raging in all its mad fury, so that it may be truly said of him that he was born amid the storm of war and the shock of battle and inherited from his father good honest Scotch blood. He grew up on the farm assisting his father in the culture in tobacco, cotton, corn and other work incident to farming at that period of North Carolina. I know of but one interesting incident of his boyhood and I here give it as I received it from one of his sons as it throws a fine sidelight on the religious condition of the colonies at that time. The Baptists and Quakers were proscribed at that period; that is they were forbidden by law to hold meetings or services in public houses. But these sects were bold and faithful and held their meetings clandestinely in thickets and houses remote from centers of influence. It became known to our young hero that the Baptists were to have a meeting and preaching in a designated pine woods some two or three miles from his father's home, and himself and two or three of his companions at once became very curious to know what sort of looking creatures the Baptists were, and what their performance would be. So on this Sunday they stole away from home and turned their steps toward the pine thicket to see what manner of people the outlawed preacher and people were. They went as near to the congregation as they could go without being detected, climbed up into pines trees concealing themselves amid their thick boughs; saw and heard the preacher, saw the people, heard them pray, sing and shout, reprising thro the entire service, returning at night and reporting to their parents to their great amazement and delight that they had been to a Baptist meeting and had actually seen the preacher and that was not a hairy man, and the he wore clothes and that he did not have claws on his feet and hands and that they could understand him. And that the people were not hairy and did not have claws on their feet and hands, that they wore shoes and dressed like other people and that they made a great deal of noise when they prayed and sang and all seemed to be very happy. How strangely this transition contrasts with the commanding position which the Baptists of North Carolina hold today.

The next we see of David Moore is when at the tender age of sixteen years, he enlisted in the Continental Army under General Lafayette. He enlisted in 1779 and served with distinction under the gallant Frenchman in all that wonderful campaign in which he hung with ceaseless vigilance night and day upon the rear of Cornwallis, worrying and annoying him until he retreated in the peninsula and fortified himself at Yorktown on whose blood stained, glory crowned heights our subject received his final baptism of blood. He gave graphic descriptions of the dress, manners, personal appearances of Washington, Rochambeau, and Lafayette. Saw the dove light on the croup of General Lafayette's saddle while he sat motionless on his horse at the head of the line which was regarded by soldiers as an augury of peace and a token of divine approval, witnessed the good feeling between the Americans and French, and the sad countenance of the Red Coats as they marched out between the gay French lines on one side and the ragged Continentals on the other.

Of the personal valor and prowess of our subject we shall give but one instance. There was in the company to which he belonged, a bully and a giant who was arrogant, vicious, of prodigious strength, lazy, with an appetite like a sink hole and a digestion like a quartz-mill, who went from mess to mess and snatched their food from them and ate it himself and if any resentment was offered he quickly suppressed it with a slap in the face or a savage threat. Young Moore, who was very diminutive in size, but alert, active and left-handed, had suffered at the hands of this two legged hog until patience had ceased to be a virtue. He asked the captain to protect him and punish the offender. He also notified him that if he did not protect him and punish the bully he would protect himself and administer personal punishment. Whereupon , the captain who was himself afraid of the man cautioned him that it would be dangerous and disastrous to him to have any trouble with the man. Chagrined at this advice from the man form who he expected protection, he went back to his mess and soon had another corn dodger ready to munch, but our bully was on hand too and snatched it from his hand. Bounding at his antagonist with the quickness and ferocity of a panther, young Moore struck him a terrific blow under the chin while his left hand which felled him to the earth in a helpless condition and then inflicted such a punishment that he soon left the company in disgrace.

After the final triumph at Yorktown had assured our independence, our subject returned to his North Carolina home where in 1782 he married a lady of amiable disposition and character whose maiden name was Hill, whose love was a heritage of glory and peace to him till the day of his death. He and his family emigrated to Kentucky in 1815, and in 1818 came to Missouri where they settled, two miles north of Jamestown, where he lived with his son Robert till the tragedy of his melancholy death carried his gallant and immortal spirit to the domain of the voiceless.

He was a revolutionary pensioner and in the year 1845, just 64 years after the battle of Yorktown, was traveling by boat to New Orleans to secure his well earned pension at the U.S. mint when from some unknown cause the boat sank in the Mississippi river somewhere below Vicksburg, Miss, carry down to a watery grave in the land of sunshine and song, where the magnolia blooms and the cypress mourns, the noble, venerable Christian soldier and patriot.

His sons were James, Robert and Jesse, and some of his grandchildren were Aunt Sallie Johnson, of Putnam county, Mo; the late John Williams, Frank, Anderson, Matt Moore and Polly Lewis of Oregon; Woodson, Granville, Crittenden, Todd, Livingston, Lisbon, Pressley, Mary Moore, Permelia Clay, Verona Hudson, Manervae Hall. I do not know the names of uncle Jesse's children or I should name them in this list. His great grandchildren and his great-great grandchildren are scattered all over Missouri and Oklahoma, all of whom rise up and call his name blessed.

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