This version is a hardback book with color dust jacket, gold print on Navy Linen cover and full color interior.
Obadiah was born in Princess Anne County, Virginia under King George III and grew to manhood in the wild frontier of Pitt County, North Carolina. He enlisted in the North Carolina Continental Line in the Revolutionary War and fought in the Battle of Charleston under Gen. Benjamin Lincoln. He was captured, a Prisoner of War, and paroled. After the war was over,in 1783 he married Winney Ventis and the couple went "west", to Columbia County, Georgia, then Jasper County, Georgia and finally in 1819 to old Autauga County, Alabama, where he is buried in the old Moore Cemetery, an Alabama Historic Cemetery that today is in Chilton County. Alabama.