History of the Lemen family, of Illinois, Virginia and elsewhere . ly were friends and associates ofsome of the Lee family of Virginia, of revolutionarynote, and he, with some of his brothers, particularlyhis brother Robert Lemen, often reaped wheat withsome of them. Before his majority he enlisted for a// period of two years in the Army of the Revolution,and was a soldier under Washington, receiving at onetime his special commendation for a noted act ofbravery. He was in the battle of White Plains andseveral other engagements. His enlistment had ex-pired previous to the siege at Yorktown, but
History of the Lemen family, of Illinois, Virginia and elsewhere . ly were friends and associates ofsome of the Lee family of Virginia, of revolutionarynote, and he, with some of his brothers, particularlyhis brother Robert Lemen, often reaped wheat withsome of them. Before his majority he enlisted for a// period of two years in the Army of the Revolution,and was a soldier under Washington, receiving at onetime his special commendation for a noted act ofbravery. He was in the battle of White Plains andseveral other engagements. His enlistment had ex-pired previous to the siege at Yorktown, but with theview of re-enlisting, he joined his old comrades andwas in the ranks at Yorktown when Lord Cornwallissurrendered; after which, our officers thinking the cd as c* o tf S » CD ~i >-J -I © w o H 2,3 2 S: o - DO 5f 3 CD p 3S ** 1 C* «?+ S. a- E g B* d cd B » O 2. er b •-» trp 52 ° s-s cd a B o & * 5 p £ cd £. £B ^ -• R ffff2 H cr2- ^ 5 5. CD nt-j CD o & § oB b CO Is » to >-< a 2. P CD00 re w •—i o w c. REV. JAMES LEMEN, SR. 23 fighting was well over, James, with his brotherEobert Lemen, who was also a soldier under Wash-ington and who was in the American army at York-town, returned home without being again mustered Virginia, in 1782, he married Miss Catharine Ogle,a daughter of Captain Joseph Ogle and Drusilla Ogle,nee Biggs; and with his wife and first two children,Robert and Joseph, he came to the Illinois Territoryt/ in 1786, and finally settled at New Design, now inMonroe County, having previously lived for shortintervals in Fort Piggott some miles from NewDesign, and in some other neighboring and temporaryforts, to protect the family against the hostile Indians. On his farm at New Design, where they settled,and where he built a small temporary house, was abeautiful swell of prairie with a heavy forest on eachside, and near by was a beautiful, clear and deep lakeof some forty acres in extent, abounding in fine fish,and at times al
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