Post #2 Michael O'Hair our Irish immigrant

MICHAEL O'HAIR, WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 11, 1749 AND DIED ABOUT 1813. HE LEFT THE COUNTY OF DOWN IN IRELAND ABOUT 1775. HIS NAME IS FOUND IN THE WAR DEPARTMENT RECORDS AT WASHINGTON D.C., INDICATING THAT HE WAS SERVING IN THE CONTINENTAL FORCES IN 1777. HIS NAME APPEARS ON THE PAYROLL OF CAPTAIN JOHN HAY'S COMPANY, THE NINTH VIRGINIA REGIMENT. HE WAS ENGAGED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR WITH BOTH VIRGINIA AND PENNSYLVANIA RECRUITS, FIGHTING IN THE SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN UNDER GENERALS MORGAN AND GREEN, AND PARTICIPATING IN THE BATTLES OF COWPENS AND EUTAW SPRINGS, GUILFORD COURT HOUSE, AND OTHER BATTLES. AFTER THE WAR HE SETTLED IN VIRGINIA, TEN MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON, IN WHAT IS NOW JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. HE MARRIED AND HIS "FIRST WIFE DIED SOON AFTER"---(NOT TO SOON AFTER AS THEY HAD 4 CHILDREN). 

AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FIRST WIFE, OUR GRANDFATHER--MICHAEL, MOVED TO STERLING KENTUCKY WHERE HE MARRIED OUR GRANDMOTHER, ELIZABETH TRIBBETT. SHE IS LISTED AS AN ORPHAN. THEY HAD 10 CHILDREN. THE FIRST BORN JOHN IS OUR NEXT GRANDFATHER WE WILL LEARN MORE ABOUT.

MICHAEL O'HAIR MOVED FROM MT STERLING TO THE MOUNTAINS OF KENTUCKY AND SETTLING NEAR HAZEL GREEN. HE DIED ABOUT 1813. HE WAS BURIED IN AN OLD COUNTY GRAVE YARD THAT IS NOW ABANDONED. HIS HEADSTONE WAS WORN AWAY AND LOST. THE GOVERNMENT FURNISHED A REVOLUTIONARY MARKER FOR THE GRAVE AND IT WAS PLACED IN HAZEL GREEN KENTUCKY CEMETERY.

HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH, BEING AN ORPHAN---I CAN FIND NO OTHER RECORD FOR HER. I DID FIND THAT SHE WAS BORN IN OR AROUND 1768 IN VIRGINIA. SHE DIED 1 OCT 1839 AT BRICK CHAPEL, PUTNAM, INDIANA.

MUCH OF THE INFORMATION THAT I SHARE COMES FROM THE BOOK "THE MICHAEL O'HAIR FAMILY" BY MRS. C. GERALD BRANN WHO WAS A GGGGRANDDAUGHTER. A FEW OF US ARE NOT FAR BEHIND HER AT 4 GREATS:) SO WHERE ARE THE REST OF YOU, WITH THIS IRISH DNA RUNNING THROUGH YOU!