Col. Gideon Alloway Strange, I - of Dog Point

1793 - 1838  (44 years)

• Name	Gideon Alloway Strange  [1]
  Prefix	Col.
  Suffix	I - of Dog Point
  Born	7 Mar 1793
  Gender	Male
  Died	23 Feb 1838	Private Cemetary Rock Rest Cemetery, Dog Point, Fluvanna, VA   [2]
  Person ID	I7000	Strange Genealogy
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	John Alloway of Fluvanna, Oak Hill Strange, IV,   b. 15 Jan 1727, Goochland, VA ,   d. 1 Sep 1811, Fluvanna, VA  (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Mildred Ann “Milly” Barnett
  Married	29 Apr 1782	Fluvanna, VA   [3]
  Family ID	F5065	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Harriet Magruder,   d. 1829
  Married	23 Apr 1816	Fluvanna, VA
  Children	1. Edward Magruder Strange,   b. 1817   2. James Magruder Strange,   b. 8 Aug 1818   3. Sarah W. Willie Strange,   b. 1819,   d. Mar 1844  (Age 25 years)   4. Ann Mildred Strange,   b. 1821   5. Harriet V. Hattie Strange,   b. Feb 1822,   d. 13 Aug 1859  (Age ~ 37 years)   6. Col. John Bouie Strange,   b. 1823,   d. 1862  (Age 39 years)   7. Gideon Alloway Strange, II,   b. 1825, Cumberland, VA ,   d. 1899  (Age 74 years)   8. Mary Elizabeth Strange,   b. 15 Jan 1829,   d. 12 Nov 1898  (Age 69 years)
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2018
  Family ID	F5124	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mary B. Gay,   b. 1794,   d. 1879  (Age 85 years)
  Married	1831
  Children	1. Charles Windham Strange   2. Henry Erskin Strange   3. Frances B. Strange   4. Lizzie E. Strange   5. William Gay Alloway Strange,   b. 1833,   d. 1877  (Age 44 years)   6. Agatha Estell Strange   7. Caroline Scott Strange
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2018
  Family ID	F5138	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Alloway of Dog Point Inherited his estate from his father. He was recommended as a fit and proper person for the office of Colonel of the 12th Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Virginia Militia, in 1826/2.7 He represented his district in the Virginia State Legislature for twenty-one years. Judging from known dates, we surmise that his military career began sometime between 1811 and 1816, and that he became a district representative to the Virginia Legislature about 1817. One record stated that he served as a captain in the War of 1812 (1812-1815). Member of the House of Delegates (M.H.D.), Virginia. This author has concluded that Gideon must have fought with Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), 12th President of the United States, because Taylor is the only person whose background could satisfy all these criteria. Gideon‟s abilities in French would have served him well d uring the Black Hawk War (1832), led by „Old Rough and Ready‟ Taylor, along the Mississippi , in a region of Illinois and Wisconsin inhabited by French frontiersmen and fur trappers.

  
  

• Sources

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