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SAR Patriot Grave Marking for Freed Slave and Georgia Patriot Austin Dabney

Posted Fri, 2009-12-11 21:46 by Bob Yankle
Last updated: Fri, 2009-12-11 21:46
Event Date: 
Sat, 2010-01-30
Event Location: 
Zebulon Cemetery
Pope Street
Zebulon (Pike County) , GA
United States

   When the American Revolution moved South in 1778 with the capture of Savannah, there lived in Wilkes County a freed slave named Austin, who enlisted in the Patriot militia as a substitute for his master, took on the name Dabney, and served as a good soldier in many battles and skirmishes with the British and the Tories, and helped his country secure victory over Great Britain in the American Revolution.

File Attachment: 
application/pdf iconAustin_Dabney_Heads_Up.pdf
application/pdf iconAustin_Dabney_Invitation_Flyer.pdf
application/pdf iconAustin_Dabney_Pike_County_Proclamation.pdf