Revolutionary Soldiers in Kirby Family Cemetery, Blount County, TN
  
Located near the Maryville Water Treatment Plant, Wheeler Rd., Louisville, TN. Cemetery is located near the Little River on the original family plantation. The property is now owned by the City of Maryville.
 

Richard Kirby.  Born in 1748 in VA. He married Sarah Jane Small, from Scotland. Served in the VA militia, and pledged an oath of allegiance to the Revolutionary Cause in Henry County, VA. Living with wife and ten children in NĒ in 1790. Lived in Blount Co by 1800 when he served on a jury. Owned 191 acres near Little River in Blount County. Wife Sarah stated in pension application that he was buried in the Kirby Cemetery on the Kirby farm. She received pension in 1818 and died in 1826. Marker dedicated by Mary Blount DAR chapter on May 23, 2004.

 

 

 

Richard Kirby gravesite.

Additional information on each of the soldiers is available - as well as information on those whose graves are not marked. Email Mary Nell Clevenger for more information. Chapter members kept very detailed files, and there are wills, deeds, marriage records, and more.

 

 

 

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