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REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER SAMUEL AUSTIN



BURIAL SITE:

Hazelwood Cemetery, 1642 E. Seminole, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. Samuel Austin and others of his family are buried in the southwest corner of the cemetery. From the north entrance go south until you see the "office road" (Road 10). Then continue south for 4 more roads (including gravel roads) to Road 14. Then turn right (west) until you reach the third road. Samuel Austin is buried just northwest of that intersection. He is in the third row of graves going west, and going north, his is the third grave that has a marker in that row. His stone is small, but next to him is his son, Greene Austin and wife Nancy who have tall stones which may be easily identified.

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Samuel Austin (II), Revolutionary War soldier from North Carolina, was born August 29, 1768, and was the son of Samuel Austin (I). He fought with the Continental army for a short time as a young boy. He married Catherine Paine (Payne), daughter of Robert Bynum Payne, Sr. and Rachel Ellen (Lord) Paine of North Carolina.

The couple reared a family of nine children and all of them came to Greene County, Missouri except two who married and remained in North Carolina. Their names were: Anna, Mary, Temperance, John (who married Rachel Freeman), Greene (who married Nancy Freeman), Jennie, Catherine, Sarah, and Samuel. The Freeman girls were sisters and daughters of William Freeman, also a Revolutionary War veteran who came to Greene County, Missouri (see his record).

Samuel came to Greene County, Missouri, in about 1835, his son Greene Austin having come earlier with the Freeman family. His age is shown in the 1840 Census as being 70 to 80 years. In the 1850 Census he is listed as being 82 years and born in North Carolina.

He did receive a pension for his war service and received bounty land.

Samuel died in 1854 and was buried in the family cemetery near what is now Hickory Hills school. This was close to what is now the intersection of Chestnut Expressway and U.S. 65. It was also close to the farm where William Freeman's family lived. Two of his sons married Freeman daughters.

Much later, in March of 1913, he was moved to Hazelwood Cemetery and there beside his son Greene and Greene's wife Nancy is a small stone that marks the spot where this Revolutionary soldier and Missouri pioneer lies.


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