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     Elizabeth O'Rear was born on 12 July 1842 at Morgan County, Illinois.¹ She died on 12 May 1875 at Morgan County, Illinois, at age 32.² She was buried after 12 May 1875 at Antioch Cemetery, Morgan County, Illinois.²

     Thomas Benjamin O'Rear was born on 22 January 1839. He was in military service in the Union Army, 101st Regiment, Illinois Infantry during the Civil War at Illinois.² He died on 5 April 1920 at Jacksonville, Illinois, at age 81.

     Maria Louisa O'Rear was born on 12 July 1842. She married Francis M. Morton on 27 January 1863 at Morgan County, Illinois.^2,3

     Harriett O'Rear was born on 9 September 1846. She married Stephen Dunlap Jr. on 7 February 1866 at Morgan County, Illinois.²

     Franklin O'Rear was born on 27 January 1849.² He married Ann Capitola Haggerty on 18 February 1885 at Morgan County, Illinois.³ Franklin O'Rear died on 5 February 1918 at Jacksonville, Illinois, at age 69.² He was buried after 5 February 1918 at Antioch Cemetery, Morgan County, Illinois.²

     Lucinda Arminta O'Rear was born on 30 June 1852. She died on 11 February 1899 at age 46.

     Cassandra Janet O'Rear was born on 2 December 1854.

     Daniel O'Rear was born on 15 November 1777 at Fauquier County, Virginia.^3,2 He was a farmer circa 1798 at Clark County, Kentucky.² He married Elizabeth Bush on 10 January 1799 at Clark County, Kentucky, by James Quisenberry.^4,5,6,7 Daniel O'Rear resided in 1833 at Boone County, Missouri. He appeared on the census of 1850 at Boone County, Missouri.⁸ He died on 15 April 1864 at Boone County, Missouri, at age 86.²

     Elizabeth Bush was born in 1779 at Clark County, Kentucky.³ She married Daniel O'Rear, son of Jeremiah O'Rear and Nancy Catlett, on 10 January 1799 at Clark County, Kentucky, by James Quisenberry.^4,5,6,7 Elizabeth Bush died after 21 July 1824.³ She was enumerated with Daniel O'Rear in 1850 on the Census at Boone County, Missouri.⁸

     Robert B. O'Rear was also known as Robert R.² He was born on 8 February 1800 at Clark County, Kentucky.^1,3 He was a merchant.¹ He married Elizabeth Wilkerson.¹ Robert B. O'Rear appeared on the census of 1850 at Boone County, Missouri.⁴ He died on 27 June 1850 at Boone County, Missouri, at age 50.⁵

     John Bush O'Rear was born on 3 April 1802 at Clark County, Kentucky.^1,2 He married (?) (?) before 1826.³ John Bush O'Rear married Elizabeth Talbott on 22 May 1834 at Boone County, Missouri, as his second wife.^1,4,5,6 John Bush O'Rear appeared on the census of 1880 at Rocky Fork, Missouri.⁷ He died on 7 February 1883 at age 80.¹ He was buried after 7 February 1883 at Boone County, Missouri.⁸

     Frances O'Rear was born on 19 April 1804 at Clark County, Kentucky. She married Jesse O'Rear, son of Jesse O'Rear and Malinda Mildred Holton, on 21 December 1823 at Montgomery County, Kentucky.^1,2,3,4,5 Frances O'Rear resided with Jesse O'Rear in 1838 at Boone County, Missouri.⁶ Frances O'Rear was enumerated with Jesse O'Rear in 1850 on the Census at Boone County, Missouri.⁷ Frances O'Rear was enumerated with Jesse O'Rear in 1860 on the Census at Columbia, Missouri.⁸ Frances O'Rear died on 27 April 1864 at age 60.¹ She was enumerated with Jesse O'Rear in 1870 on the Census at Boone County, Missouri.⁹ Frances O'Rear died on 13 May 1880 at Columbia, Missouri, at age 76.¹⁰

     Allen Bush O'Rear was one of the first curators at University of Missouri.¹ He was a teacher.¹ He was born on 18 February 1806 at Clark County, Kentucky.¹ He appeared on the census of 1850 at Boone County, Missouri.² He married Susan Overton Slavens on 15 July 1855 at Boone County, Missouri.^1,3 Allen Bush O'Rear died on 27 April 1864 at Boone County, Missouri, at age 58.¹ He was buried after 27 April 1864 at Orear Cemetery, Boone County, Missouri.³

     Elizabeth B. O'Rear was also known as Eliza O'Rear.² She was born on 12 August 1808 at Clark County, Kentucky. She died in 1853.³

     Mary Ann O'Rear, daughter of Daniel O'Rear and Elizabeth Bush, was born on 20 August 1810 at Clark County, Kentucky. Mary Ann O'Rear married John Pope Suggett on 9 February 1838 at Boone County, Missouri.^1,2,3,4 Mary Ann O'Rear was enumerated with John Pope Suggett in 1850 on the Census at Boone County, Missouri.⁵ Mary Ann O'Rear was enumerated with John Pope Suggett in 1860 on the Census at Boone County, Missouri.⁶

     Nancy B. O'Rear was born on 11 January 1812 at Clark County, Kentucky. She was enumerated with Daniel O'Rear in 1850 on the Census at Boone County, Missouri.² Nancy B. O'Rear married John Tandy Bradley on 17 July 1855 at Boone County, Missouri.^3,4 Nancy B. O'Rear was enumerated with John Tandy Bradley in 1880 on the Census at Rocky Fork, Missouri.⁵

     Marquis O'Rear was born on 3 September 1815 at Clark County, Kentucky.

     William Tandy O'Rear was a member of the Grand Jury. He was a teacher.¹ He was born on 20 June 1818 at Clark County, Kentucky.^1,2,3 He married Elvira Frances Slavin on 5 May 1846 at Boone County, Missouri.^4,1,5,6,7,3 William Tandy O'Rear appeared on the census of 1850 at Boone County, Missouri.⁸ He appeared on the census of 1870 at Moberly, Missouri.⁹ He appeared on the census of 1880 at Moberly, Missouri.² He died on 21 May 1883 at Mexico, Missouri, at age 64.^1,10

     Samuel E. O'Rear was born on 21 July 1824 at Clark County, Kentucky. He resided in 1833 at Boone County, Missouri.³ He was enumerated with Daniel O'Rear in 1850 on the Census at Boone County, Missouri.⁴ Samuel E. O'Rear was enumerated with Dudley Holton O'Rear in 1870 on the Census at Boone County, Missouri.⁵ Samuel E. O'Rear was a schoolteacher in 1880 at Rocky Fork, Missouri.⁶ He was enumerated with John Tandy Bradley in 1880 on the Census at Rocky Fork, Missouri.⁶ Samuel E. O'Rear resided with John L. Suggett in 1900 at Boone County, Missouri.⁷ Samuel E. O'Rear died after 1900 at Missouri.

     John O'Rear was born on 21 March 1748/49 at Prince William County, Virginia.^3,4,5 He was in military service during the Revolutionary War between 1776 and 1783 at Montgomery County, Kentucky.⁶ He resided circa 1778 at Fauquier County, Virginia.

John O’Rear served as a sergeant with his brothers Jessie O'Rear and Daniel O'Rear (both privates) in Helm’s company of Virginia volunteers. (Helm's company was part of George Rogers Clark’s command when he made his expedition against Virginia and Kentucky in 1778 well known to us all from school histories). All three brothers received land grants in the Indian Territory in recognition of this service, although none of them actually homesteaded their grants. John and Daniel O’Rear both applied for pensions under the Act of 1832 and received pensions. Both told of this service in their applications. Daniel O’Rear’s application (No. S7376), dated Dec. 31, 1846, tells of their service:

He remained at his father, John O’Rear’s till the spring of the year 1778 and in April he went under Col Rogers Clark as a private in the secret expedition to Illinois in the west which service he did not set forth at large in his former declarations hoping that he should be able to furnish the testimony of two men, Robert Garret and John O’Rear who were with him in said service under Col. Clark and whose certificates he has procured and placed in the hands of James Foster of Prince William who says he deposited the same in the war office at Washington. That the said service of eight months and a few days in 1778 under Col. Clark in the West was performed under the command of Captain Leonard Helm who was raised in Prince William County and who at the time resided in Kentucky was connected in some way with the Indians in the West, that said Helm came into his native County Prince William and made the call for volunteers and himself the said Daniel O’Rear, Joseph Anderson, Moses Kemper, Tillman Kemper, James Holmes, Robert Garrett, James Woods, James Garrett, Charles Jones, John O’Rear, Jesse O’Rear, Richard Luttrell, and Benjamin Kendale (privates) and Levy Todd was 1st, Henry Floyd was second Leiutenant of the company under Helm making fifteen who went from Prince William County and were his acquaintances and neighbors at the time of the said service. These men formed themselves into a company at the house of his father, John O’Rear of Prince William and marched under the direction of his brother John O’Rear till they reached the said Helm at the present courthouse in said county and then went on to Winchester his company marched on to Red Stone old fort on the Monogahelia River and remained there until the volunteers in that section had collected together and then marched on to the site of Wheeling where there was a fort erected and from Wheeling his company went on to the falls of the Ohio where headquarters was formed and all of the forces had collected together and from the falls of the Ohio his men went to the extensive wilderness to the town of Kaskaskia then called Illinois, a town of considerable size and residence of the governer named Rosebly a Frenchman in the British Service, that his forces reached the town in that summer season on one Saturday Night the moon shown very bright about midnight his men saw the Sentinel on watch or guard of said fort of Illinois leave his post and went in the fort and his men immediately made the attack and took the governer and fort without firing a single gun and governer was himself asleep in the fort, this was harvest time and he had given a feast and there was a great frollick in the fort that after taking said fort all the town surrendered to his forces that his men then marched on and took the fort of St. Vincennes in the same county on the Wabash River about 50 miles and thar the said governer of these parts and he thinks his name was Rosiblay was taken prisoner as before stated by his men and brought on here to Richmond in the state of Virginia and he understood was afterwards exchanged for General Lincoln who was defeated at Charlestown in South Carolina that after reducing the forts before mentioned together with several other villages the name of which he has entirely forgotten some time in July He thinks, his men started back for home taking with them the said governer and went to the said falls of Ohio and so to Virginia thence on by Staunton in the said state and thence to Richmond and delivered the governer and then went on and reached their home in Prince William County a few days before Christmas of 1778. That from a Application made by his brother John O’Rear that there were precisely one hundred and seventy seven men including officers in said service under Col. Clark and including Captain Montgomery’s men who he understood were mostly from Pittsylvania County in Virginia but served with his men in this tour. That of this tour of service he has always had a distinct recollection that it was a laborious undertaking and the men saw very hard service and were greatly exposed during the tour both to the enemy and to hardships.^7,8

John O'Rear began military service in April 1778 at Prince William County, Virginia; as an orderly sergeant with the militia in Helm's Company under the command of George Rogers Clark when he made his expedition against Virginia and Kentucky.^7,9,10 He was bondsman for the marr bond of Jedethum Blackerby and Mary O'Rear on 13 May 1780 at Fauquier County, Virginia.^11,2,12,13 John O'Rear married Sarah Davis circa 1786 at Virginia.² John O'Rear was a planter after 1786 at Virginia.² He resided in 1789 at Montgomery County, Kentucky. He witnessed the note of Col. John Sanford Pickett and Elizabeth Chamberlayne in 1792 at Fauquier County, Virginia; are noted in a court record indicating a dispute between them and.¹⁴ John O'Rear left a will at Montgomery County, Kentucky, on 26 September 1824.¹⁵ He received a pension for Revolutionary War Service as shown in his Pension Application S31285 on 8 November 1832 at Montgomery County, Kentucky. He served with his brother, William Orear who made an affadavit on 23 Apr 1833 stating that he had known John in Prince William County, Virginia during the years of 1769 to 1776 and served with him during the war. The affadavit was included with John's Revolutionary War pension Application.¹⁰ He died in 1836 at Montgomery County, Kentucky.² His estate was probated in July 1836 at Montgomery County, Kentucky.¹⁶

     Sarah Davis was born circa 1755 at North Carolina.^2,3 She married John O'Rear, son of John O'Rear and Hester Reno, circa 1786 at Virginia.⁴

     William D. O'Rear was born circa 1790.³

     Anna O'Rear was born on 17 June 1786 at Culpeper County, Virginia.^3,2,4 She married William O'Rear Jameson, son of Benjamin Jameson and Margaret O'Rear, on 7 February 1813 at Culpeper, Virginia.^3,2,5 Anna O'Rear died on 21 May 1866 at Montgomery County, Kentucky, at age 79.^3,2 She was buried after 21 May 1866 at McCormick Cemetery, Montgomery County, Kentucky.

     Sarah O'Rear married Meredith Wright.² Sarah O'Rear was born circa 1792.³

     Elizabeth O'Rear was called "Betsy."² She was born circa 1794.³ She married Peyton Hall on 28 February 1822 at Montgomery County, Kentucky.^2,4,5,6,7 Elizabeth O'Rear died before 1825.⁸

     John Davis O'Rear was a farmer.² He was called "Capt. Jack."³ He was born on 20 April 1788 at Culpeper County, Virginia.^2,4 He was born on 21 April 1788 at Fauquier County, Virginia.^5,6 He was in military service as a soldier in the 17th Regiment (Francesco's) of the Kentucky Militia between 16 January 1812 and 3 October 1815.^4,7 He married Miriam Boone Calbraith on 14 October 1824 at Montgomery County, Kentucky.^5,2,8,4 John Davis O'Rear appeared on the census of 1850 at Montgomery County, Kentucky.⁹ He appeared on the census of 1 June 1860 at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.¹⁰ He died on 28 February 1866 at Montgomery County, Kentucky, at age 77.^5,2,11 He was buried after 28 February 1866 at Orear Cemetery, Montgomery County, Kentucky.¹²

     Miriam Boone Calbraith was also known as Marian B.^4,5 She was also known as Calbreath.⁶ She was also known as Marianne.⁷ She was also known as Coldbreath.⁸ She was born on 27 January 1808 at Spencer, Kentucky.^4,5,9,2 She married John Davis O'Rear, son of John O'Rear and Sarah Davis, on 14 October 1824 at Montgomery County, Kentucky.^4,5,10,2 Miriam Boone Calbraith was enumerated with John Davis O'Rear in 1850 on the Census at Montgomery County, Kentucky.¹¹ Miriam Boone Calbraith was enumerated with John Davis O'Rear on 1 June 1860 on the Census at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.¹² Miriam Boone Calbraith appeared on the census of 1 June 1870 at Camargo, Kentucky.¹³ She appeared on the census of 1 June 1880 at Camargo, Kentucky.¹⁴ She died on 13 March 1883 at Montgomery County, Kentucky, at age 75.^4,5,2 She was buried after 13 March 1883 at Orear Cemetery, Montgomery County, Kentucky.¹⁵

     Elizabeth O'Rear was born on 7 April 1751 at Prince William County, Virginia.^3,4

     Margaret O'Rear was born on 13 February 1753 at Prince William County, Virginia.^3,4,5 She married Benjamin Jameson circa 1773 at Virginia.⁵ Margaret O'Rear resided before 1782 at Culpeper County, Virginia.⁶ She died in 1834 at Culpeper, Virginia.⁶

     Jesse O'Rear was born on 24 January 1756 at Prince William County, Virginia.^4,5,6 Jessie O’Rear served as a private with his brothers, John O'Rear (sergeant) and Daniel O'Rear (private) in Helm’s company of Virginia volunteers. (Helm's company was part of George Rodgers Clark’s command when he made his expedition against Virginia and Kentucky in 1778 well known to us all from school histories). All three brothers received land grants in the Indian Territory in recognition of this service, although none of them actually homesteaded their grants. John and Daniel O’Rear both applied for pension under the Act of 1832 and received pensions. Both told of this service in their applications. Daniel O’Rear’s application (No. S7376), dated Dec. 31, 1846, tells of their service:

He remained at his father, John O’Rear’s till the spring of the year 1778 and in April he went under Col Rogers Clark as a private in the secret expedition to Illinois in the west which service he did not set forth at large in his former declarations hoping that he should be able to furnish the testimony of two men, Robert Garret and John O’Rear who were with him in said service under Col. Clark and whose certificates he has procured and placed in the hands of James Foster of Prince William who says he deposited the same in the war office at Washington. That the said service of eight months and a few days in 1778 under Col. Clark in the West was performed under the command of Captain Leonard Helm who was raised in Prince William County and who at the time resided in Kentucky was connected in some way with the Indians in the West, that said Helm came into his native County Prince William and made the call for volunteers and himself the said Daniel O’Rear, Joseph Anderson, Moses Kemper, Tillman Kemper, James Holmes, Robert Garrett, James Woods, James Garrett, Charles Jones, John O’Rear, Jesse O’Rear, Richard Luttrell, and Benjamin Kendale (privates) and Levy Todd was 1st, Henry Floyd was second Leiutenant of the company under Helm making fifteen who went from Prince William County and were his acquaintances and neighbors at the time of the said service. These men formed themselves into a company at the house of his father, John O’Rear of Prince William and marched under the direction of his brother John O’Rear till they reached the said Helm at the present courthouse in said county and then went on to Winchester his company marched on to Red Stone old fort on the Monogahelia River and remained there until the volunteers in that section had collected together and then marched on to the site of Wheeling where there was a fort erected and from Wheeling his company went on to the falls of the Ohio where headquarters was formed and all of the forces had collected together and from the falls of the Ohio his men went to the extensive wilderness to the town of Kaskaskia then called Illinois, a town of considerable size and residence of the governer named Rosebly a Frenchman in the British Service, that his forces reached the town in that summer season on one Saturday Night the moon shown very bright about midnight his men saw the Sentinel on watch or guard of said fort of Illinois leave his post and went in the fort and his men immediately made the attack and took the governer and fort without firing a single gun and governer was himself asleep in the fort, this was harvest time and he had given a feast and there was a great frollick in the fort that after taking said fort all the town surrendered to his forces that his men then marched on and took the fort of St. Vincennes in the same county on the Wabash River about 50 miles and thar the said governer of these parts and he thinks his name was Rosiblay was taken prisoner as before stated by his men and brought on here to Richmond in the state of Virginia and he understood was afterwards exchanged for General Lincoln who was defeated at Charlestown in South Carolina that after reducing the forts before mentioned together with several other villages the name of which he has entirely forgotten some time in July He thinks, his men started back for home taking with them the said governer and went to the said falls of Ohio and so to Virginia thence on by Staunton in the said state and thence to Richmond and delivered the governer and then went on and reached their home in Prince William County a few days before Christmas of 1778. That from a Application made by his brother John O’Rear that there were precisely one hundred and seventy seven men including officers in said service under Col. Clark and including Captain Montgomery’s men who he understood were mostly from Pittsylvania County in Virginia but served with his men in this tour. That of this tour of service he has always had a distinct recollection that it was a laborious undertaking and the men saw very hard service and were greatly exposed during the tour both to the enemy and to hardships.^7,8 He began military service in April 1778 at Prince William County, Virginia; as a private with the militia in Helm's Company under the command of George Rogers Clark when he made his expedition against Virginia and Kentucky.^7,9,10,11 He married Malinda Mildred Holton on 20 December 1783 at Fauquier County, Virginia, with William Holton as surety.^3,2,12,13 Jesse O'Rear was a planter.² He appeared on the tax list at Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1787.¹⁴ He appeared on the census of 1810 at Frederick County, Virginia.¹⁵ He witnessed the marriage of Catherine Jones and Benjamin O'Rear on 12 August 1812 at Frederick County, Virginia.¹⁶ Jesse O'Rear died in 1825 at Frederick County, Virginia.^2,17 He was buried after 1825 at Liberty Hill Cemetery, Clarke County, Virginia.³