Comments on: Colonel William M Searing (1821-1895) http://blog.searingfamily.com/2008/01/04/colonel-william-m-searing-1821-1895/ Family - coming together Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:16:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: searing22 http://blog.searingfamily.com/2008/01/04/colonel-william-m-searing-1821-1895/#comment-41 searing22 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:10:13 +0000 http://blog.searingfamily.com/2008/01/04/colonel-william-m-searing-1821-1895/#comment-41 Check this out! This my GR GR GR Grandfather. I hope I have enough greats in there! Anyway this is VERY interesting stuff! Can you imagine living to be 104 years old back in the 1700s! This is why there is actually information on him. Not your average Joe!

Register Report

Generation 1

1. SOLOMON SERRING-1. He was born Abt. 1757 in Union (Connecticut Farms), Essex County, New Jersey. He died Abt. 05 Aug 1861 in Liberty, Union County, Indiana.

Notes for Solomon Serring:
General Notes: What became of Solomon and Joshua? I know Solomon married Rachel Adams
in Harrison Co., Kentucky in 1800. Where was he between 1768 and 1800?
Debbie gave me a clue with this: “Liberty Herald” August 7, 1861 – “A
few days ago, Solomon Sering, aged 104 years old, died in Liberty, Union
County, Indiana. Born in Pennsylvania. Prisoner of Indians at 10 years
for 7 years. Served in the Army with Wayne.” He was not born in
Pennsylvania – rather Morristown, New Jersey. And he was still in
Morristown when he was ten. And as for serving in the Army with (Mad
Anthony) Wayne? The information given to the newspaper was second-hand
from a grieving daughter or son or an acquaintance- who knows- and
obviously inaccurate – to a point. But it leaves tantalizing clues!

General Anthony Wayne served during the Revolutionary War and the Indian
War for the Old Northwest Territory in 1792-1795. So Solomon probably
served in the Revolutionary War, but I’m certain he served in the Indian
War for the Northwest Territory – maybe taken prisoner. Broderbund, the
creator of Family Tree Maker, has a CD-ROM #146 titled “Military
Records: U.S. Soldiers 1784-1811″. Solomon’s name is on it. I’ve
searched for a look-up but no one listed has a copy of that CD-ROM.

Information From John Sering

]]> By: searing22 http://blog.searingfamily.com/2008/01/04/colonel-william-m-searing-1821-1895/#comment-40 searing22 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:02:03 +0000 http://blog.searingfamily.com/2008/01/04/colonel-william-m-searing-1821-1895/#comment-40 I just want to reply to this post, this history. My father James L. Searing fought in WW2 as a Sargent, platoon leader of a mortar platoon. His unit fought in the Phillipines and New Guniea. His troop transport was sunk by a Kamikazee and he survived, though he couldn’t swim, by klinging onto some debris. He was rescued by General Douglas McArthur’s flagship and directly accounted to him for the survivors of his platoon.

My father received a battlefield commission by his actions in WW2. A Jewish Colonel made this happen. Anyway his career in the US Army covered over 30 Years and he retired a Full Colonel in 1973. The other thing that is notable about his career in the Army is that he served in the Chemical Corp. for most of those years. He transported Truckloads of Nerve Agent and worked at most of the Chemical Weapons depots in the USA and even one in Panama. Not bad for a kid with no college education and joked at an officers function that he got his degree at “HKU”.

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