| Birth | 14 Sep 1752 | VA |
| Death | 10 Oct 1866 | Harlan co., KY |
| Buried | Layman Cemetery, Harlan co., KY | |
| Oral History | ||
| "Enoch Osborne settled on New River, near Bridle Creek. Shortly after he came, he was joined by three brothers - Solomon, Ephraim, and Jonathan. On the farm of Enoch Osborn [a] fort was built as a precaution against Indians outbreaks and depredations which were common on the border settlements. This early fort stood at or near the present site of Ancella Post Office." | ||
| Military | 29 Sep 1777 | Montgomery Co., VA |
| "Montgomery County, Virginia - Revolutionary War Record - 1775-83. A copy of the Muster Roll - a list of persons who hath sworn alegiance to the state in 1777. Captain Ozburn's Company - 1777 September 29th. ... Jeremiah Ozburn Capt. Enoch Osburn (Octr. 6th 1777) ... Wm. Hash Stephen Ozburn Jonathan Ozburn Wells Ward Jno. Hash ... Jas. Ward Ephriam Ozburn, Jr. ... Ephriam Ozburn, Senr. Stephen Ozburn, Senr. " | ||
| Spouse | Bef 1883 | |
| m. Mary "Polly" Brock, dau of Aaron "Chief Red Bird" Brock (1/2 Cherokee) and Susannah Davis (a full blood), and had: Hiram (1805), Jesse, Ephraim, Rebecca, Mary, Rhoda, and James | ||
| Military | 1785 | Montgomery Co., VA |
| "List of Captain Enoch Ozburn Company in 1785 Mongtomery County, Virginia Enoch Ozburn, Captaion ... Ephriam Osborn, Jr ... " | ||
| Census | 1820 | Harlan co., KY |
| Census | 1830 | Harlan co., KY |
| Census | 21 Aug 1850 | Harlan co., KY |
| Oral History | 25 Apr 1954 | Harlan co., KY |
| Perhaps one of the oldest Harlan County citizens living through five wars was Ephriam Ozborn, Jr., who died at the age of 112. He was born in Virginia September. 14, 1754 and died in Harlan County Oct. 10, 1866. He is buried in a Layman cemetery on the hill. When Ozborn entered the Revolutionary War, he was a young man living in Virginia. The five conflicts which terminated in his life time were the French and Indiana, Revolutionary, War of 1812, Mexican War and Civil War. During his Revolutionary War days he volunteered at "Ozborn Fort" and served six months in Capt. Enoch Ozborn's company in the expedition against the Cherokee Indians. Sent On Scounting Parties Many times he was sent on "scounting parties after the Tories." The many months he spent serving under Capt. Abram Bletcher, Colonel Christy, and Capt. Frederick Edwards, should have been sufficient to allow pension benefits. When he became 80 years of age, he felt that he was due a few benefits. On Sept. 8, 1834 he applied but the records in Montgomery County, Va., were not available and therefore he was turned down for compensation. His life history as a Revolution War soldier has been preserved through records and accounts by members of his family and handed down from one to another. During the war and oath of allegiance was made by Capt. Ozborn's company. The "muster roll" which was signed by James McCorkle, 5 Dec. 1777, has also been perserved. The allegiance in part reads: "We whose names are hereunto subscribed do swear or affirm that we renounce and refuse all allegiance to George Third King of Great Britain, his heirs and successors, and that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the Commonwealth of Virginia as a free and independent State and I will not at any time do our cause to be done any matter or thing that will be prejudical or injurious to the freedom and independence thereof and also that I will discover and make known to some one Justice of the Peace for the said state all treasons which I now or hereafter know to be formed against this or any of the United States of America." List Of Soldiers A list of persons who have sworn allegiance to the State 1777 in Capt. Ozborn's company were Ezekial young, Frances Stegil, Jermiah Ozborn, William Landreth, Robert Baker, John Medly, Isaac Weaver, William hash, Stephen Ozborn, Jr., Joshua Pennington, James Ward, Ephriam Ozborn, Jr., Timothy Roark, George Ewing, Jr., Henry Long, Josiah Ramsey and Samuel Newberry. A few names from Coxe's Company refused to sign. Next to one of the refusers name was written "an old inoffensive ignorant man." Could be that our expression of "Coxe's Army" could have originated here. Sunday April 25, 1954 Volume 53 Number 96 Pages 1 & 4 | ||
| Descendants of John Hash http://shadybanks.net/vickie/DescendantsofJohnHash.html found: 17 Jan 2001 dated: 28 Nov 2000 Descendants of James Osborne http://sites.netscape.net/vickieste/DescendantsofJamesOsborne.html found: 18 Jan 2001 dated: not dated Sturgill Births http://shadybanks.net/sturgill/births.html dated: not dated found: 24 Jun 2001 Vickie Sturgill Stevens <vickie327@aol.com> |
| 1830 Harlan Co., KY Federal Census transcribed by Larry Jones <mailto:sp1ke@mindspring.com> an |
| Harlan, KY 1820 Federal Census transcribed by Larry C. Jones <sp1ke@mindspring.com> |
| 1850 Federal Census Harlan County, Kentucky transcribed & proofread by Sue Ann Morrow <KentuckyBumpkin@ |
| Newspaper bio for Ephraim Osborne Joyce Osborne <joyce1@kih.net> |
| Grayson County: A History in Words and Pictures Bettye-Lou Fields |
| email w/MSWord attachment subject: "Enoch Ozborn and Ephraim Osborne" dated 1 Dec 2003 9:13am Chuck Clout <ccloudjr@cox.net> |
| 1860 Census of Harlan co., KY ancestry.com images of original record |
| How to cite this page as a source | |
| author: | Michael Sheppard < sheppard@cs.unm.edu > |
| title: | Genealogical events for Ephraim OSBORNE |
| url: | http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~shep/shep/I2466.html |
| updated: | 1 Dec 2003 |