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William Jasper was the son of John Andrew and Mary Herndon
Jasper. This couple with their children moved from Augusta County, Virginia, to the Grindal Shoals area of Ninety Six
District (later Union County) circa 1772. William, born circa 1756, hunted and trapped with Elijah Clark who also lived in the same area. William went with Elijah and his family to Wilks County, Georgia, in 1774. William settled in Burke County, Georgia, where he was enlisted on July 7. 1775, by Capt. Bernard Elliott to serve in the 2nd South Carolina Continental Regiment. He fought with Framcis Marion. He married Mary Wheatley in South Carolina circa 1776. She was from Pennsylvania. They had three children but only the twins survived. The twins, Eliza and William, were born in 1777. Eliza later applied for a pension from her father's service in the Revolutionary War. William and Mary lived on Sullivan's Island in a house that later was made into a building for the Episcopal Church, probably a mission of Grace church parish. Mary married Christopher Wagner after the death of Sgt. William Jasper, who was killed on October 7, 1779, while his regiment was charging the Spring Hill redoubt in Savannah, Georgia. Sgt. Jasper's most famous deed, the rescuing of the fallen colors during the Battle of Fort Sullivan became a symbolic deed for patriots, representing at once the ideals for which they fought and the valor of the common soldier. William Jasper was the grandson of Thomas and Sarah Taylor Jasper who lived in Richmond County, Virginia, and he was the great, great, great grandson of Lancelot and Rose Sheppard Jasper who lived in Redgrave, Suffolk, England.
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