OAS_AD('Top'); The Converse Family and Allied Families by Charles Allen Converse
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Page 173 - The Converse Family 76. REV. JEREMIAH CONVERSE,6 (Capt. Pain,5(30), Pain,4 Samuel,3 Sergeant Samuel,2 Deacon Edward,1), born 4 August 1761; died in Darby Township, Madison Co., Ohio, 26 June 1837. He married, 26 November 1778, his second cousin, Rhoda Converse,6 (Jonathan5, Ensign Edward,4 Samuel,3 Sergeant Samuel,2 Deacon Edward,1). She was born 23 August 1756, and died, in Darby Township, 27 January 1842. A sketch of Hon. George Leroy Converse in The National Cyclopedia of American Biography says that Rev. Jeremiah Converse had been a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was wounded by a musket ball in the left shoulder, from which he suffered until he died. The following is from the History of Madison County, Ohio: During the Revolutionary War Rev. Jeremiah Converse enlisted as a private in the cause of freedom. On one occasion he with his company was sent out as a scouting party to ascertain the strength and position of a marauding band of Indians. They had traveled many miles along the banks of the Muskingum river when, toward evening of the second day, they found themselves confronted by about four hundred savages secreted behind fallen timber, trees, underbrush, etc. The deadly fire from the first volley laid half and more of their company in the dust. The surviving ones stood bravely the galling fire from their hidden foe until the Indian warwhoop and rush of savages reminded them that their only safety was in retreat. | |
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