Reuben McLeroy

Dedication Service – McLeroy one grave cemetery, Jones County, Gray, Georgia. Conducted April 24, 2004 by the Piedmont, Ocmulgee and Lyman Hall Chapters.

Reuben married Christina Johnson in April 1776 and lived in Johnson County, North Carolina during the revolution. Reuben participated in the skirmishes following the battle of Guilford Courthouse and several other area conflicts. His unit is also credited with rescuing Reuben’s’ older brother John from the Tories (John owned 1,000 acres in Guilford County). Both became Baptist Preachers.

By the end of the Revolutionary War, all of the William McLeroy family migrated to Wilkes County, Georgia. When the county was later subdivided into several counties, it was in Oconee County that Reuben was ordained as a Baptist Preacher in 1806 at the Mars Hill Baptist Church. Reuben next moved his family to Jones County, Georgia (north of Macon) in 1810 and served the Walnut Creek Baptist Church until his death on February 12, 1820. We have not been able to determine where in Jones County he is buried. Sometime later Christina moved to Harris County near Callaway Gardens to live with some of her children and in 1852 at age 92 filed for a Widow’s Pension!