Cox’s Station NSDAR to mark Revolutionary War grave Saturday

STAFF REPORT

Monday, April 21, 2014 — The Cox’s Station Chapter NSDAR will mark their first Revolutionary War solder, Conrad Mathis at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 26, 2014, at the Lutheran church Cemetery on Lutheran Church Road.

Conrad Mathis served in the Revolutionary War in Maryland as a Sergeant in Benjamin Ogles’ Company of the Flying Camp of Maryland.

Conrad’s family was listed in the Frederick County Maryland Census of 1790, and they remained there until around 1800 when they moved to Nelson County with a group of Pennsylvania Germans.

They settled near Bardstown where the community was know as German Hill. The church that was formed was Lutheran Evangilica, and for a time the congregation met in the barn on Conrad’s farm. George Harrison, who owned the old Stone house and property nearby, donated land for the church and cemetery to Trustee Conrad Mathis, Amos Smith and George Harrison.

The first church was erected in 1818. Later a larger brick building was built in 1833. The church stood until the 1942 tornado demolished it.

Following the marking of Mathis’ grave, at 11:30 a.m. the Coxs Station DAR will help the Governor Isaac Shelby SAR to mark the gravesite of another Revolutionary War Soldier, Captain Thomas Lewis gravesite in Poplar Level Cemetery.

The public is invited and asked to bring a lawn chair.

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