George Glatfelder

Not the same as John Clodfelter, Sr.

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA with the rank of PRIVATE. DAR Ancestor #: A045346

Ernst: "Minute book 1778 reveals he signed the Oath of Allegiance of Rowan county in 1778 during the last two months of that year he served as a private in the North Carolina troops under Captain Sapp's company and Colonel Paisley's North Carolina regiment. He enlisted in 1779 and served 3 months as private in Captain John Sapp's company... pension was granted.

Origins

The family of John Jacob Myers. Casey, Ill.: Printed by Casey Ans. & Sec. Service, 1972. Page 3.

References

• https://sarpatriots.sar.org/patriot/display/134974 shows Death: aft 05 Oct 1837 / Rowan / NC
• http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full...
• Ancestry.com. The family of John Jacob Myers [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data:Clodfelder, Lucy A.. The family of John Jacob Myers. Casey, Ill.: Printed by Casey Ans. & Sec. Service, 1972. https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/21037/ .
• He was in the Revolutionary War, a Private. <http://www.regan.org/genealogy/families/clodfelter/clodfelter0008.htm> (Dead link)
• Updated from Find A Grave Memorial via brother John Clodfelter by SmartCopy: Mar 6 2015, 21:10:36 UTC

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John George Clodfelter, Sr.

Find A Grave Memorial ID # 14649043

Son of Felix Glatfelder (AKA Felix Clodfelter) & Maria Sarah Meyer Glatfelder (AKA Maria Sarah Meier Clodfelter), born October 9, 1757 in York, York County, Pennsylvania.

Brother of Jacob Rudolph Clodfelter, also of Rowan (later Davidson) County, North Carolina. (The Clodfelter surname was originally spelled Glattfelder)

Served at a Patriot in the Revolutionary War.

Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery is a historic church cemetery located near Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina. It is associated with the Pilgrim Reformed Church, founded about 1757 by a man of the name Valentine Leonard (AKA Valentine Leonhardt). It initially contained approximately 350 graves, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1781. It features a unique collection of folk gravestones by local stone cutters erected in Davidson County in the late-18th and first half of the 19th centuries.

This was the first North Carolina church for followers of the Pilgrim faith.