ROBERT RANKIN REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER MEMORIAL
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Cemetery Stones
Year Dedicated: 1936
Access: Cemetery
Wars Commemorated: REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Photograph By: MICHAEL HERRICK
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
BACK OF MEMORIAL: ROBERT RANKIN WAS AN OFFICER IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY, VIRGINIA TROOPS, 1776, IN THE SAME COMPANY WITH HIS NEAR KINSMAN, JOHN MARSHALL, WHO LATER BECAME CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. HE PARTICIPATED IN THE BATTLE OF BRANDYWINE, GERMANTOWN AND STONY POINT AND IN THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON. THREE OF HIS SONS, JOSEPH, JOHN KEITH AND JAMES RANKIN SERVED IN THE WAR OF 1812.
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