JOSIAH HOSKINSON


Born: 1759, Virginia

Died: 1836

Buried: Small private cemetery on the J.A. Amos farm, near Edinburgh.
In the last half of the 1900s the gravestones were moved about 30 feet to the south to build a house.
Josiah's stone is not obvious, but it was noted in an earlier published reading of the stones.

Service: Served in company of George Washington's Bodyguards

Proof: The DAR burial records of Soldiers of the Revolution buried in Indiana show that Josiah Hoskinson is buried in an abandoned cemetery on the J.A.Amos Farm east of Edinburg, Indiana.
It is not clear where and when these records were made, but when Vera Elizabeth Hoskins /b.1922 d.1989/ (daughter of Fred & Sada) applied for DAR membership, the grave-site had already been noted.

Married 1st: Isabell Evans, 1795, in what is now Monongalia, West Virginia
Isabell died in Floyd Co, KY in 1814.

Married 2nd: Alcy Brent, 1815, in Washington Co, KY
Alcy was the widow of Jacob Cutsinger

Children:
6 Children by 1st Marriage
6 Children by 2nd Marriage, including Hugh Abel Hoskinson

Directions: As of 1993 the Frost Hill Farm is currently raising and boarding horses. It is immediately East of the Ind-252 N-bound exit from I-65. Access is via a driveway off of Ind-252 (a.k.a. Road 1100 S). The house near the highway was the original house; it was the summer home of the Frost family from Louisville or Lexington, Ky. It is not clear who occupies it today. The Amos family lives in a house located S.W. of the entrance; it was built circa 1950 and sits on the original site of the cemetery. The stones were relocated approximately 20-yards to the south after preliminary investigation indicated that there were no bones or boxes under the stones.

Information provided by Hugh and Arliss Hoskins
http://home.earthlink.net/~dhoskins/ghosk000/

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