Henry Lusk

Henry Lusk my 5th Great Grandfather was born in Augusta County, Virginia on February 27th 1751 to James and Eleanor Lusk. He served during the Revolutionary War for the Colonies from 1780 to 1783 under Captains William Strain and Andrew Pickens as a quartermaster, lieutenant and adjutant. He was paid for the loss of a horse in 1780 by Captain Pickens for whom he served 273 days as a horseman and 25 days as a footman. Henry Lusk married Eleanor “Ellen” McKiddy in 1783 and raised 12 children with her. Henry and Ellen migrated to the Pendleton District of South Carolina in 1800 bringing with them their first 8 children including Nathan Lusk (my 4th Great Grandfather) They had bought land in the Abbeville District of South Carolina but ended up settling in the Pendleton District and Oconee County. Henry died at the age of 62 on March 30th 1813 and is buried in the Old Henry Lusk Family Cemetery, in Salem, Oconee County, South Carolina. Ellen lived until February 6th 1845 and is buried with Henry.

Nathan Lusk was born March 20th 1793, in Abbeville District or Anderson County, South Carolina, He married Rosannah Capehart daughter of Jacob Kiser Capehart and Margareta Rogers on February 2nd 1823 in Abbeville District of South Carolina. Rosannah was born in the Pendleton District of SC on January 5th 1800. Nathan and Roseannah lived in Walhalla, Oconee County, SC and raised 11 children there. Nathan was a Hatter and a Farmer by trade. Nathan died on January 28th 1872 a couple months shy of his 79th birthday, He was buried in the Old Henry Lusk Family Cemetery. Rosannah lived another 20 years she passed away at the young age of 92 on June 9th 1892, she is buried next to Nathan in the Old Henry Lusk Family Cemetery in Oconee County, SC

Nathan and Rosannahs son Leroy Worth Lusk (my 3rd Great Grandfather) was born in Oconee County, South Carolina on Tuesday May 10th 1831 at about four in the morning according to his Family Bible. Leroy was a Farmer in and around the Salem, South Carolina area. He married Jeanette A Rogers on February 5th 1856 in Oconee County, SC and had three children before the start of the Civil War. Leroy Worth Lusk mustered into Company F, 1st Regiment South Carolina Calvary as a Corporal and was a 2nd Lieutenant at the end of the War. In the midst of the war on March 9th 1863 my Great Great Grandmother Mary Roseanne Lusk was the first of seven more children to be born to Leroy and Jeanette. They lived and raised their family in Oconee County on the same land where generations of Lusks have lived. Jeanette died on March 16th 1905 and was laid to rest in the Old Henry Lusk Family Cemetery, Leroy died about 4 years later on May 9th 1909 and was also buried in the Family Cemetery.