 Abt 1750 - Abt 1783 (~ 33 years)
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| Name |
Jonathan CORNELISON [1] |
| Born |
Abt 1750 |
, , New Jersey, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Abt 1783 |
, Rowan, North Carolina, USA [1] |
| Cause: Killed by the Torries |
| Person ID |
I11802 |
An Armstrong & A Heffernan |
| Last Modified |
20 Feb 2014 |
| Father |
Conradt CORNELISON, b. Abt 1730, , , New Jersey, USA , d. 30 Mar 1795, , Wilkes, Georgia, USA (Age ~ 65 years) |
| Mother |
Anne ???, b. Abt 1735, d. Abt 1806 (Age ~ 71 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1749 |
| Family ID |
F4552 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
COX, b. 23 Sep 1751, , Rowan, North Carolina, USA , d. Deceased |
| Children |
| | 1. John C CORNELISON, b. 11 Feb 1773, , Randolph, North Carolina, USA , d. 1850, , Montgomery, North Carolina, USA (Age 76 years) |
| | 2. Jesse E CORNELISON, b. Abt 1775, , Rowan, North Carolina, USA , d. 1862, , Barry, Missouri, USA (Age ~ 87 years) |
| | 3. Annie CORNELISON, b. 1783, , , North Carolina, USA , d. Deceased |
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| Last Modified |
28 Dec 2009 |
| Family ID |
F4551 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- "Revolutionary Incidents and Sketches of Character Chiefly in the 'Old North State'" by Rev. E. W. Caruthers, D. D. 1854 & 1856.
p. 104. " A man, by the name of John Cornelison, who lived near the gold and silver mines in Davidson County, was killed in his own house, and in a manner which indicated great barbarity. When several of them went in and fell upon him with clubs and swords, he got back under the mantlepiece, when they shot him down, and he fell into the fire; but his wife pulled him out. Next morning, Mrs Ann Briggs, the mother-in-law of Jacob Goss, Esq. who was originally a Miss Collins, from the neighborhood of Wilmington, went over and saw the body of Cornelison. The hearth was deluged with blood, and the house presented a most frightful scene. The man who shot Cornelison was known, and Cornelison had a relation by the name of Spirey, who was determined to revenge his death. He pursued the Tory who shot Cornelison, and followed his trail into Tennessee. At length he reached the house of a woman who was a relation of his; and thinking himself out of danger, he stopped there for the night; but Spirey was there and, with the stealthiness of an Indian, was watching the house, when he heard the murderer tell his relation, the mistress of the house, that he would pull off his clothes to sleep; for he had not had them off since leaving North Carolina. While he was stripping and preparing for bed; Spirey, being certain of his man, run the muzzle of his gun through a crack or opening between the logs, and shot him dead. Spirey then returned to his home in North Carolina; and this affair was the last of the kind that occured during the struggle for independence. Such scenes present to us the horror of civil war in a strong light, and while they were the price of our liberties, they should serve as a perpetual warning to guard, most vigilantly and strenuously, against everything of the kind to the end of time."
It is unknown at this time whether Jonathan was the son of Conrad or Cornelius.
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| Sources |
- [S264] Cornelisons 1726-2001, Descendants of Garrett Cornelison and Marietje Lammerse, Roberts, Nancy Cornelison, (2001 Nancy Roberts and John Cornelison).
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