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 1750 - 1843 (93 years)
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| Name |
Samuel Cartledge |
| Birth |
15 Junl 1750 |
Pee Dee, NC  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
13 Jul 1843 |
Columbia Co, GA |
| Person ID |
I274 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
27 Oct 2016 |
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| Notes |
- Samuel Cartledge was a son of Edmund Cartledge, Sr., and his wife, Lucretia Elizabeth Kibble. He had two sisters, Mary Ann and Sarah, and three brothers, James, John, and Edmund, Jr. He co-founded Damascus Baptist Church near Appling, GA on 29 July 1820. He was the first pastor of the church, serving from 1820-1839. Before the revolution, he was the officer who arrested the Rev. Daniel Marshall, founder of the Kiokee Church in 1772. Marshall was hauled into court in Augusta for "holding religious services not in accord with the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England." Cartledge was said to have been so impressed by the exhortation by Mrs. Marshall upon the arrest of her husband that he was convetred, baptized by Rev. Marshall, served as a deacon for several years, and was ordained in 1789. He preached for the rest of his long life. Source: GA Historical Commission sign at Damascus Baptist Church, near Appling, GA.
- Samuel Cartledge married Elizabeth Lloyd.
- Samuel Cartledge's obituary was printed in the Edgefield Advertiser newspaper on 26 Jul 1843: Death of the Rev. Samuel Cartlidge. It is with feelings of deep regret, that we announce to his numerous relatives and acquaintances, the death of this venerable soldier of the Revolution, and faithful Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He had been to fulfill an appointment in Columbia county, Georgia. On a visit to a friend in the neighborhood, his horse took freight, ran off with him, and the old Father, being unable, by his infirmity, to manage the creature, was dashed with great violence to the earth, and, in half an hour afterwards expired, on the 13th inst., without having spoken as single word. He breathed his last in the house of Dr. Crawford, to which he had been conveyed. He received all the attention, which that kind and hospitable family could bestow upon him, who were deeply penetrated by the solemn and unexpected event. He was buried in the family burying ground of Mr. James Cartlidge, of Columbia county, Geo., aged 93 years lacking two days. At an early age he entered the Revolution, was present at the siege at Savannah, in the scenes of which, he acquitted himself with honor to his country and the great cause in which he was engaged. Though not so fearless and adventurous as his brother James, who was in the same campaign, he was nevertheless as resolute in his struggle for liberty, and looked upon the foes of his country with utter abhorrence. It was therefore a matter of honest congratulations with himself, and sometimes humbly alluded to such in the pulpit; that in those dark hours, which tried men?s souls, he was found among that invincible band, who eventually planted the standard of American freedom on the complete overthrow of British tyranny and oppression. But it is not the character of a soldier of the Revolution, that has endeared him to the bosoms of all who knew him. He was for nearly seventy years a pious and devoted Minister of the Gospel. Although of limited education, his extensive usefulness has never been questioned. Thousands, who have long since gone to their Heavenly home, will rise up and bless the memory of the sainted patriarch, who, under God, was the great instrument of their eternal happiness. And other thousands will admire, if not follow his example. His zeal and his piety uniformly kept pace with each other, and it is difficult to determine in which he excelled. Neither of them was of a periodical caste or nature. They exhibited themselves, not by fits and starts, as too often the case, with both Ministers and Laymen, but as fixed and constant principles of true and hourly devotion. His piety was not a meteor blaze, or an exhalation that flits across the miasma, but an ever during light, fit guide to Heaven and a blissful immortality; such too as gained upon the respect even of the profligate and abandoned. He affected nothing; religion was his great theme to the last. Wherever he went, religion was invariably the most prominent topic of conversation, and if at any time he discoursed of other matters, it was because these subjects interested others and not him. He seldom had an interview with any person, to whom he did not introduce the subject of religion before parting. It was his custom, when his health would permit, never to eat or drink a mouthful in the morning, until he had first addressed the Throne of Grace; nor would he lie down at night without enjoying in the same duty. At the age of 93, almost incredible, he was found riding from ten to twenty miles a day, through every description of weather, element or inclement, preaching the Gospel of Christ. He closed his earthly career in the active service of his Great Master. He died in the discharge of duty. Honored, respected, and beloved, he was gone to his long home, to give up his stewardship, and received his Master?s award, ?Well done Good and Faithful servant, enter into the joy of thy Lord.? Peace to his memory, and let every heart say Amen. ?Though dead, he yet speaketh;? his pious example will live in the remembrance of us all. It calls upon us in the loudest accents, ?prepare to meet thy God.?
- In his Revolutionary War pension statement, Samuel Cartledge stated that he was drafted in May 1779 and served as a private in the Georgia Militia under Captain William Phelps in Col. Benjamin Few's regiment, and that he served at the Siege of Savannah.
Pension #R1790V 10 Apr 1833 SC
On this the tenth day of April 1833 personally appeared before me Joshua J. Evans presiding Judge of the Court of Common pleas for said district now sitting in open Court Samuel Cartledge Senior a resident of the said district and State aforesaid aged near eighty-three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and Served as herein stated (Viz.) he was drafted in May 1779 in the State of Georgia now Columbia County in a company commanded by Captain William Phelps in Colonel Benjamin Few's Regiment, he then marched for Saint Augustine (then in possession of the Tories) he served in that expedition personally for ten days he then hired a Substitute to serve out his time which was four months he was all the ensuing summer engaged in Scouting and repelling the enemy, and in September following he went to the Siege of Savannah [September 16 -October 18, 1779] and continued until the first of October being 29 days on his return he was sent to General Greene's [Nathanael Greene's] Camp then stationed in South Carolina at a place called the High Hills
of Santee for ammunition which service he performed in fifteen days he was then called out against the Tories on the Oconee River then the frontier of Georgia and continued in readiness until the end of the revolutionary war which he believes to have been in the month of May or June 1782 And that he has no documentary evidence of his Service; He relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. source: http://revwarapps.org/r1790.pdf
- Grave marked on 15 Oct 2016 by Col. William Few Chapter
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