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A Genealogy of Colonel John VanHoose down to Rosetta VanHoose d/o William Roland VanHoose & Margaret Cunningham Cline.
Colonel John Van Hoose, Revolutionary War Soldier, Pioneer, Farmer, and the Grand-daddy of all the Van Hooses in Eastern Kentucky, was born April 5,1760 in Arson (now Montgomery) County, North Carolina. He married, in 1788, in Montgomery County, North Carolina, to Mary Bryan, daughter of William Bryan.
About 1800 he moved to Washington County Virginia for a few years. Later moving to Cabell County, (now Wayne County) West Virginia. About 1810 he moved to Jennie's Creek in Floyd (Johnson) County Kentucky, at a place now called Hager Hill. " Colonel Van Hoose was one of the trustees of the first seminary founded in the Big Sandy Valley, Prestonsburg Academy, established about 1820. In recognition of his services to his country,his name, with others, is inscribed on a monument erected in the Court House yard at Paintsville, Kentucky,by the Daughters of the American Revolution of Johnson County. In his last years Colonel Van Hoose lived with his son, Valentine, near White House on the Sandy River. He died January 5, 1860 and is buried at the Van Hoose graveyard near White House, Kentucky.
John Van Hoose had service in the Revolutionary War in the Virginia State Troops,Clark's Illinois Regiment. According to the Mitchel Hall's book "Jenny Wiley Country" John was 6 feet 2 inches tall weighed 240 pounds and was 16 years of age when the Revolution broke out.
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