LOCATIONWest Columbia, Texas
The Micajah Fort Chapter Officer Installation 2021-2022 was performed by Judy Turner, Texas Society State Historian. (L-R): Judy Johnson, Treasurer; Judy Turner; Laura Otto, President; Bartlett Ramsey, Vice President and Registrar; Tissie Schwebel, Librarian; Donna Loggins, Corresponding/Recording Secretary; and Dolyne Stevens, Chaplain.
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For more than a century, the members of the National Society United States Daughters of 1812, have dedicated themselves to patriotism, preservation of documents and relics, and education. |
The Micajah Fort Chapter #310 is named after Micajah Fort who was born in Halifax County, N.C. in 1769 and was the son of Elias Fort 11 and his wife, Ann Rawls. He was a fifth generation Fort living in this country descending from an earlier Elias Fort of James City, Isle of Wight, Va.
He moved to Kentucky in the late 1790's having married a woman by the name of Judith whose last name has never been discovered. He settled in the Flat Lick area of Christian County where he and Judith raised all their twelve children.
In the War of 1812, he volunteered as a private at Wadlington, Kentucky in the Volunteer Co. of Capt. Dudley Williams and Lt. Daniel Moore. This company was attached to a regiment of Illinois Volunteers commanded by Col. Trammell in the war of the United States generally called Gen. Hopkins Expedition, against the Kickapoo and other nations of Indians in the War of 1812. He was honorably discharged at Camp Russell, Illinois about November 4,1812.
Micajah Fort died in 1866, age 86, at Hardeman County, Tennessee, probably at the home of one of his children. His wife had preceded him in death by several years while they were still living in Christian County, Kentucky.
He was one of those staunch pioneers that have helped to make our country great. These pioneers were patriotic, proud, and honorable. Let us always remember them and never forget what they gave us as a legacy.
He moved to Kentucky in the late 1790's having married a woman by the name of Judith whose last name has never been discovered. He settled in the Flat Lick area of Christian County where he and Judith raised all their twelve children.
In the War of 1812, he volunteered as a private at Wadlington, Kentucky in the Volunteer Co. of Capt. Dudley Williams and Lt. Daniel Moore. This company was attached to a regiment of Illinois Volunteers commanded by Col. Trammell in the war of the United States generally called Gen. Hopkins Expedition, against the Kickapoo and other nations of Indians in the War of 1812. He was honorably discharged at Camp Russell, Illinois about November 4,1812.
Micajah Fort died in 1866, age 86, at Hardeman County, Tennessee, probably at the home of one of his children. His wife had preceded him in death by several years while they were still living in Christian County, Kentucky.
He was one of those staunch pioneers that have helped to make our country great. These pioneers were patriotic, proud, and honorable. Let us always remember them and never forget what they gave us as a legacy.