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| Birth: | 1754 in Petersburg, Dinwiddie, Virginia 1 |
| Death: | 7 Aug 1799 in Columbia, South Carolina 2 |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Swanson Lunsford b. 7 Jan 1730/31 in Northumberland County, Virginia |
| Mother: | Rebecca Jones b. About. 1735 |
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| Burial: The State House grounds, Columbia, South Carolina |
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| Rebecca Wade (Wife) b. 15 May 1778 in Camden District, South Carolina
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| Marriage: | 13 SEP 1797 in Columbia, South Carolina |
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 Mary Letherd Lunsford b. 14 Aug 1798 in Richland County, South Carolina
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Swanson Lunsford was born in Virginia and came to South Carolina during the American revolution as an officer in Colonel "Lighthorse Harry" Lee's cavalry, known as Lee's Legion. He remained in South Carolina after the war, married the much younger daughter of another revolutionary war figure, George Wade, and was prominent in the early days of the state capital, Columbia. He died only a year after the marriage, leaving an only child, Mary Lunsford. Swanson Lunsford is buried on the grounds of the South Carolina State House."Capt. Swanson Lunsford was one of the original town council of Columbia. The Legislature passed an act Dec. 16, 1797 appointing Swanson Lunsford, Geo. Wade and others 'commissioners of the streets and markets of the said town of Columbia'. Swanson Lunsford is buried on the State House grounds. The following inscription is on his monument: Capt. Swanson Lunsford
a native of Virginia
And for many years a
resident of Columbia
died Aug. 7, 1799
Aged four and forty years He was a member of Lee's Legion
in the eventful period of '76 This humble tribute to his memory
has been erected by his only child
Mrs. M. L. & her husband, Dr. Jo.
Douglas of Chester, S.C."Fitz Hugh McMaster papers, South Caroliniana library.From the Sesquicentennial issue of The State: Lonely Grave on State House Grounds
Holds Dust of Revolutionary Soldier,
Captain Under Lighthorse Harry Lee
BY HELEN KAHN HENNAING Until the death of Senator Long of the free school of Louisiana, South Carolina had the distinction of having a grave on her capitol grounds, the only state where such a grave could be seen. Mrs Lee Lorick has given the story of that grave:
"Swanson Lunsford was born in Petersburg, Va., in 1755. He was commissioned a lieutenant in Lee's Legion of the Continental Establishment upon its organization and was subsequently promoted to captain. (See Whitman Register, where the wrong first name is given; Lee's "Memoirs of the Revolution":;-the South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. VIII, 221 ,222; Garden's '"Anecdote's of the American Revolution,'' first series 1822, page 123.) This information was furnished by A. S. Sally a few years ago.
Swanson Lunsford was with "Light Horse Harry" Lee when he joined Gen. Nathaniel Green after the battle of Guilford Court House and followed him into South Carolina and took part in the capture of Fort WATS on the San tee, Fort Granny on the Congaree, witnessed the burning of Mrs. Rebecca Motte's house to effect the capture of Fort Motte, and in his campaigns from Ninety-Six to Yorktown. Lee was there when Cornwallis surrendered. Lee was ordered to return to South Carolina with his Legion to report to General Green; the state of affairs in South Carolina was such it was not wise to disband the army there. While awaiting orders before leaving Yorktown, Lieutenant Colonel Lee visited his relatives in Virginia and those at Stratford, on the Potomac. Lee was very much dissatisfied when he returned to South Carolina: his native state had been freed of the enemy; but the real cause was he was in love with his cousin, the divine Manila (Lee), whom he afterwards married. Captain Lunsford had cause for satisfaction in being returned to South Carolina, where he was married to Rebecca Wade, the daughter of Capt. George Wade of the Revolutionary war, who was one of the first trustees of the free school at Columbia under an act of the legislature of 1792, and was one of the signers of the call to the first pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Columbia, a framed copy of which now hangs in the Presbyterian Sunday school rooms."
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- Title: A Record of The Descendants of Isaac Ross and Jean Brown
Author: Anne Mims Wright
Publication: Consumers Stationery and Printing Company, Jackson, Mississippi. 1911.
Media: Book
- Headstone South Carolina Statehouse Grounds
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