Independence Day . . . don't take it for granted

Originally Published June 27 at 3:18pm on Facebook

Reading up on family connections associated with the American War of Independence. This one was interesting:

Adam Lugar came to America as a Hessian soldier to fight for the British, but almost immediately deserted and joined the rebellion. Adam fought with Casimir Pulaski’s line for 18 months and afterwards for another 6 months in North Carolina. Shortly after the Revolutionary War, Adam and Polly Lugar were married in Guilford County, NC and settled in what was then Montgomery County, in northern Virginia. Their son George Lugar relocated to Grant County, Indiana in the late 1820s, settling near the town of Marion. Adam and Polly were the 2nd great-grandparents of Cora Viola Rowe, grandmother of my mom Betty Thompson. 

 

Here is a Google Earth shot of the general area in Craig County, Virginia where Adam Lugar lived in the late 1700s and early 1800s. This is looking north from along VA Highway 42 (also called Cumberland Gap Road). The dark green hills in the background are along the West Virginia state line. The valley behind the first patch of trees is Sinking Creek. The Appalachian Trail runs through this valley, right to left (east to west). The surrounding area is called Level Green and the family homestead was called Lugar Hill, located about 20 miles northeast of Blacksburg, Virginia. The Fairview Cemetery, where Adam and Polly are buried, is within a mile of here.