Henry
Childers
State
of Kentucky - County of Grant
Henry Childers was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, moved to Kentucky about thirty-four or five yeas ago, and has been a resident of Grant ever since it has been a county. The date of his birth and names of his parents not given. He entered the service of the United States as a volunteer under Captain Samuel Hickenbottom in the county of Amherst, State of Virginia, about the first of October, preceding the surrender of Cornwallis. He volunteered for three months. Shortly after being discharged, he again enlisted and served three months as private in Captain William Tucker's company, Colonel Dabney's Virginia regiment. He was in a slight skirmish with the British near "Half Way House" and was discharged a short time before the British entered Yorktown. He was pensioned in 1833. Henry Childers died in Grant County on September 2, 1839.
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