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Gabriel Patrick, Jr. (b. 1751, d. January.12.1788)
Notes for Gabriel Patrick, Jr.:HISTORY OF GABRIEL PATRICK, JR.
The Patrick Family Cemetery was established 200 years ago this year in 1788. The first person to be buried here was Gabriel Patrick, Jr.Even though his grave marker seems small and insignificant on the back row of the cemetery, his life was much bigger and more impofrtant.This is what we know about Gabriel Patrick, Jr.
He came to this part of the old Union District of South Carolina, now Cherokee County, shortly after he was born in 1751, with his father and mother, Gabriel and Margaret.They were deeply religious Scotch-Irish.This back country of South Carolina was called the frontier.It was unsettled, uncleared for farming, and home to the hostile Cherokee Indians.
The rugged toil of the frontier,the dangers of the Indian tomahawk and scalping knife and the struggle to build a homeand farm in this wilderness helped build him into a man.
At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the Patrick family joined the fight for independence from Great Britain. He and his brothers John and Charles enlisted as Whigs in a group of Rangers.
He served in the Snow Campaign and the Fall of Charleston.He served under such great men as Lt. Col. James Steen and then Capt. Joseph McJunkin.He was stationed at the Ten Mile House or Ten Mile Spring.He returned home at the end of February, 1780 after the Fall of Charleston.
In the Battle of Blackstock's, Nov. 20, 1780, under General Thomas Sumter, when volunteers were asked to go on and attack the enemy, he and his brothers stepped forward.He fought at Blackstock's under then Major Joseph McJunkin, Lt. Col. William Farr, and Col. Thomas Brandon. He was at the Battle of Stone, S.C. in 1779 and the seige of Ninety Six, May and June of 1781. He also fought at the Battle of Eutaw Springs on September 8, 1781.It is believed that he fought at Cowpens and Kings Mountain also, since Col. Brandon's regiment was at these battles.The records show that he served in Col. Thomas Brandon's Regiment of Rangers from the start of the war until its end.
He never married and his marker simply states he died January 12, 1788 at the young age of 37 years. No records indicate the cause of his death.
It is hoped that when you visit the cemetery in the future that you will visit his small and insignificant marker on the back row and pay tribute to a great young man who left us a bigger and more significant marker to be proud of -- our heritage.
Presented to the family members attending the 4th annual Patrick-Peeler Family Reunion on March 26, 1988.
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Burial: Patrick Cemetery, Gaffney, S.C..