page_title: Frederick Hambright
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Frederick Hambright / Later life
caption_attribution_description: The Hambright Homestead cira. 1920. Col. Frederick Hambright homestead in Kings Creek, South Carolina. The house was built about 1790.
context_page_description: Frederick Hambright was a military officer who fought in both the local militia and in the North Carolina Line of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He is best known for his participation in the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. Serving as a statesman early in the Revolution, Hambright joined the War in 1777, ranked a lieutenant colonel in a local militia. His early actions were limited to occasional checks on Loyalist groups. This changed in 1780 with Hambright's important role at the Battle of Kings Mountain, which occurred near his lands in the newly formed Lincoln County, North Carolina. Hambright was commended for his bravery during the battle, though suffering a wound which forced him to permanently resign from military service.
  A native of the Duchy of Bavaria, Hambright immigrated to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1738. Between 1755 and 1775, he moved several times, first to Virginia, and then to various areas in North Carolina. After the War, he lived the remainder of his life near Kings Mountain.
context_section_description: After his first wife's death on July 17, 1781, Hambright married Mary Dover. Together they had ten children, eight of whom survived to maturity.  He lived a quiet life on his homestead near Kings Mountain, until his death on March 9, 1817 at the age of ninety. His remains were interred at Old Shiloh Presbyterian Cemetery in Grover, North Carolina.
  Thomas Dixon Jr. was his grandson.
caption: The Hambright Homestead, 1920.
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