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William Barjonah Braswell served in the North Carolina Militia in the American Revolution. He then moved to Johnston County North Carolina. A mountain called Jonas Ridge was named after him. In 1913 the DAR placed a Revolutionary Soldier marker on his grave. It reads as follows WM. BRASWELL,NC. MIL.,REV. WAR. William had relatives in Pensacola, near Big Tom Wilson's. When a very old man, Braswell, his wife and a girl named Yarber started late on fall from Lower Creek to Pensacola to visit people named Mace, relatives of his wife, porbably. They had to stay the night in camp under a rock on a high ridge leading up from Burke to the Linville Country. They could not procure fire, and a cold snap coming on the old man froze down. When the chill morning dawned his wife and the girl met Jacob and William Carpenter at the fork of Linville River to which they hastened through the darkness seeking aid. The two men hastened on to the camp rock, where Braswell was found, very low, but still alive. They placed him on a horse, they managed to keep him there by walking on each side of him and holding him in the saddle until they reached home. He died after having revived for a short time. The present road does not pass very near the ol camp rocks but they are still remembered. While the high ridge where they stand has been preserved part of a heros name. For it has been called Jona's Ridge ever since. - Hope Lowman
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