Tag: Kings Mountain North Carolina Battle

Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Mary Calhoun Green (1797-1827) and Husband Robert Wilson Woods

William D. LindseyLeave a comment
Tombstone of Mary Calhoun Green Woods, Tannehill Historical Statae Park, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, photo by William D. Lindsey
Second marker for grave of Mary Calhoun Green Woods, photo by J R MORRIS-AKA-FRANK DOCKERY — see Find a Grave memorial page of Mary Calhoun Green, Tannehill Historical State Park, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, created by Kathy

Or, Subtitled: “Some marriagable [sic] young man or widower may ask, is there any pretty girls, old maids or widows there? Answer. some as nice as you ever saw”

5. Mary Calhoun Green, who was the fifth child of John Green and Jane Kerr and was named for her maternal grandmother Mary Calhoun Kerr, was born 16 November 1797 in Pendleton District, South Carolina. This date of birth is inscribed on her tombstone.[1] Mary is buried with her parents and siblings Lucinda and John Ewing Green in Tannehill Historical State Park in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. As a previous posting notes, these Green family members were originally buried in a family cemetery near the Green homeplace in Bibb County, about a mile southeast of Woodstock in Bibb County. The graves were then moved at some point to Tannehill Historical State Park, about five miles away across the Bibb-Tuscaloosa County line.

Pages: 1 2

David Dinsmore, Ulster-Scots Loyalist in South Carolina and Nova Scotia Exile: Every Life Worth a Novel (8)

William D. Lindsey2 Comments
Hants County, Nova Scotia, Deed Bk. 4, p, 508

Or, Subtitled: New Documents Casting New Light on Old Mysteries

And now another addendum to a series of postings from the past — these tracking the life of my ancestor David Dinsmore, who was born in Ulster in 1750, arrived from Belfast with his wife Margaret aboard the Earl of Donegal in Charleston, South Carolina, on 10 December 1767, and received a grant from the colony of 150 acres on the Tyger River in Craven County (later Ninety Six District, then Spartanburg County) on 27 February 1768. When the American Revolution broke out, David took the British side, in 1775 and ended up in Nova Scotia, with his wife Margaret and their five children remaining behind on their farm on Jamey’s Creek of the Tyger River in South Carolina. I told David’s story and the story of his family in a seven-part series (citing documentation you’ll find as you read this series) that began in February 2018 with this posting.

Pages: 1 2