John Tollett, Sr. was born 1758, in Montgomery County, Virginia, near the Natural Bridge. In 1777, he took the Oath of Allegiance sworn of Captain Joseph Cloyd's Company of the Virginia Militia on Oct. 10, 1777. In 1784, John married Margaret Brown of Augusta County, Virginia. They then moved to Wilkes County. Georgia. John and Margaret then moved back to Virginia and had seven children, all being born in Montgomery County, Virginia. John was a Methodist preacher and a builder of churches. In 1803, when Bledsoe County, Tennessee was formed, the entire family pulled up stakes and moved to the Sequatchie Valley, above where the town of Litton, in Bledsoe County is located. Around 1818, John, with his wife and all his children, pulled up stakes again and moved on to the west into the newly formed Missouri Territory. John and his family once again moved to Old Miller County, Arkansas which later became Red River County, Texas. He died in 1824 at the age of sixty-six and is buried in an unmarked grave on the home place in the northern part of Red River County. His wife, Margaret Brown Tollett died in 1844 and is buried in Red River County. A memorial stone and SAR marker was placed in the Clarksville Cemetery, Red, River County on 26 September, 2009. Source: American Revolutionary War Patriots Buried In Texas by Clovis H. Brakebill.