{"id":2289016,"date":"2024-07-04T01:02:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T05:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/help-find-the-grave-of-this-14-year-old-revolutionary-hero\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T01:05:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T05:05:32","slug":"help-find-the-grave-of-this-14-year-old-revolutionary-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/help-find-the-grave-of-this-14-year-old-revolutionary-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Find The Grave Of This 14-Year-Old Revolutionary Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhelp-find-the-grave-of-this-14-year-old-revolutionary-hero%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2289016&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Based on\u200c the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-man-convicted-of-fatally-shooting-black-lives-matter-protester-wont-get-new-trial-judge-rules\/\" title=\"Texas man who killed Black Lives Matter protester won&#039;t receive new trial, judge decides.\">provided text<\/a>, the summary in English would be:<\/p>\n<p>Christopher\u2062 Jefferson Loving Jr., \u2062a 14-year-old boy, enlisted \u200bin\u2064 the Continental Army in 1777 and\u2063 fought\u2062 in \u200dsix significant battles of the southern campaign during the \u2062American Revolutionary War. Unfortunately, \u2064he sustained\u2062 permanent wounds shortly before \u2062the Siege\u200b of Yorktown. He was a valiant patriot who, like many others, fought for American\u200b independence.\u2062 A sworn\u2063 declaration he made in 1819 details his service and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-downplays-freezing-incident-as-one-particular-moment-of-my-time-back-home\/\" title=\"McConnell dismisses freezing incident as &#039;a single moment from my time at home&#039;.\">injuries\u200b sustained<\/a> during \u200bthe war. Despite his injuries,\u200d Loving was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-new-civil-rights-movement\/\" title=\"America\u2019s New Civil Rights Movement\">eventually granted<\/a> a pension for his distinguished \u200cservice. He later married Judith Seay in 1792. \u2062Today, on July 4th, we honor\u2062 Loving&#8217;s memory and \u2063that of all \u200bpatriots who fought\u2062 for the freedom of \u2064the United States.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In 1777, Christopher Jefferson Loving Jr., a 14-year-old boy, enlisted in the Continental Army. Christopher was my paternal grandmother\u2019s great-grandfather. During his service, he would fight in six of the most consequential battles of the southern campaign before suffering permanent wounds a month before the victorious Siege of Yorktown. On this July 4, we honor his memory, along with all the other patriots who fought to secure our freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a transcription of a sworn <a href=\"https:\/\/revwarapps.org\/s38153.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declaration<\/a> Loving made in 1819 recounting his valiant service in the fight for American independence. This declaration is also referenced in Alan Pell Crawford\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/This-Fierce-People-Americas-Revolutionary\/dp\/0593318501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">book<\/a>, <em>This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America\u2019s Revolutionary War in the South.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Pension application of Christopher Loving (Loveing):<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>On this 8th day of October 1819<\/em><\/strong><em>  before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the General Court and assigned to the Circuit of the Superior Court of Law composed of the Counties of Bath, Augusta, Amherst, Nelson, Albemarle and Rockbridge <\/em>(Virginia)<em>, personally appeared Christopher Loving aged 56 years, resident in said County of Nelson &#038; State aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress entitled \u201cAn act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-has-put-his-boat-in-the-water-for-his-trip-to-cross-the-delaware-on-christmas-eve-attorney-lin-wood\/\" title=\"President Trump \u201cHas Put His Boat In the Water For His Trip to Cross the Delaware\u2026 On Christmas Eve\u201d \u2013 Attorney Lin Wood\">revolutionary war<\/a>\u201d that he the said Christopher Loving enlisted in the year 1777 when he was but 14 years of age, and the State of South Carolina in a Company commanded by Captain Linticomb [?] on Continental establishment for three years in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/6th_South_Carolina_Regiment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">6th Regiment of South Carolina<\/a> troops on Continental establishment commanded by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Sumter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colonel Thomas Sumpter<\/a> <\/em>(sic, Sumter for which Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor was named) <em>&#038; Lt Col Henderson in the Army commanded by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Moultrie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">General Moultrie<\/a>, afterwards by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Lincoln\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">General Lincoln<\/a>, that he was at the <\/em>(1779)<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siege_of_Savannah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">battle of Savanna<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siege_of_Charleston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Siege of Charleston<\/a> in South Carolina where he was at the close of the siege taken prisoner by the British and detained as a prisoner for nine weeks when he made his escape from the City of Charleston <\/em>(In an American force of 6,577, Loving would have been one of 5,466 captured, one of as many as 1,000 who escaped.) <em>and afterwards joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kykinfolk.org\/livingston\/biolacey.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colonel Lacy<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikitree.com\/wiki\/McGriff-82\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lt Col McGriff<\/a> as a volunteer his enlistment being expired as well as he now recollects. That he was with them at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Kings_Mountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">King\u2019s Mountain<\/a> and there had a battle, after which he joined General Thomas Sumter and was in a skirmish at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Blackstock%27s_Farm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blackstock\u2019s<\/a> on Tyger River, that he then joined Captain Montgomery\u2019s Company of Mounted riflemen under the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Morgan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Command of Genl Morgan<\/a> &#038; was at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Cowpens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Battle of Cowpens<\/a>, that he then joined a volunteer Company under the command of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolana.com\/SC\/Revolution\/patriots_sc_capt_jacob_barnett.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Captain Jacob Barnett<\/a><\/em> <em>in a Regiment commanded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikitree.com\/wiki\/Hampton-2220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colonel Henry Hampton<\/a> and under the command of Genl Sumter and was at the <\/em>(Sept. 1781)<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Eutaw_Springs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">battle of the Eutaw Springs<\/a>. <\/em>(In an American force of 2,000, Loving would have been one of 382 wounded, with an additional 119 killed).<em> under the Command of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nathanael_Greene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">General Green<\/a>, that he during his said services was very badly wounded and had his right hand nearly cut off by a broad sword and his left arm very much wounded in several places so as to render them but of minor service to him\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately, Loving was granted his pension in recognition of his distinguished service. Following the war, Christopher Jefferson Loving Jr. (1763-1830) married Judith Seay (1775-1831), a granddaughter of Seay II, in 1792. Consider the future a 17-year-old woman awaited in marrying a 29-year-old farmer with limited use of his arms. They would have 11 children by 1813, all but one of them spaced two years apart.<\/p>\n<p>In the award-winning 2023 movie \u201cThe Holdovers,\u201d the character played by Dominic Sessa twice mentions the threat that, if he didn\u2019t succeed at Barton Academy, he\u2019d be sent to Fork Union Military Academy. Unlike Barton Academy, Fork Union Military Academy (FUMA) is not fictional but was founded in 1898 in Fork Union, Virginia, about midway between Charlottesville and Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>In 1987, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and FUMA erected a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-woman-wearing-a-nazi-shirt-at-a-trump-rally\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Does This Photo Show A Woman Wearing A Nazi Shirt At A Trump Rally?\">historical marker<\/a> in the cemetery of Fork Union Baptist Church across from FUMA\u2019s entrance. It honors Austin Seay (1758-1836), who fought in the Revolution. The marker mentions his father Abraham Seay (II) (ca. 1690-1771\/8), whose Huguenot father had emigrated to the Colony of Virginia from France via England. (Richmond\u2019s Huguenot Memorial Bridge and Huguenot High School were named after these several hundred immigrants.) In 1745, Seay II received a royal grant of 345 acres in and around what became Fork Union, where the Rivanna and James Rivers meet.<\/p>\n<p>It is not stated on the DAR historical marker that Seay II had another relative who was a veteran of the Revolution. That man was Christopher Jefferson Loving Jr.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to honoring the memory of his service, we can still honor him by identifying his grave \u2014 or at least the location of his cemetery. One source says that both Christopher and his wife Judith are buried in the town of Floyd, Floyd County, Virginia, but there is no location for the cemetery by the name given (Big River Mountain House or, more likely, Pigg River Meeting House). Another source says Judith is buried in Culpeper County, Virginia. I would be happy to share all of the information I have on these supposed burial sites with anyone willing to embark on the quest to find them, so Christopher Jefferson Loving Jr. can be honored.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1777, a 14-year-old named Christopher Jefferson Loving Jr. joined the Continental Army and fought in several important battles during the southern campaign of the American Revolution. He suffered permanent injuries before the Siege of Yorktown. On July 4, we remember him and all the patriots who fought for our freedom. Loving&#8217;s sworn declaration in 1819 details his service, which was recognized with a pension. He married Judith Seay and had 11 children despite his injuries. The historical marker at Fork Union Military Academy honors another relative, Austin Seay, who also fought in the Revolution. It is unknown where Loving is buried, but efforts to locate his grave continue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3274,"featured_media":2289017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Minute-Man-e1720030037210.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7230,7665,5760,6788,33891],"class_list":["post-2289016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-grave","tag-14-year-old","tag-find","tag-help","tag-revolutionary-hero"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Minute-Man-e1720030037210.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}