Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 386 pages of information about Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical.

Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 386 pages of information about Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical.

3.  Violet Davidson married William Bain Alexander, a son of John McKnitt Alexander, one of the secretaries of the Mecklenburg Convention.

4.  Elizabeth Davidson married William Lee Davidson, a son of General Davidson, who fell at Cowan’s Ford.

5.  Mary Davidson married Dr. William McLean, a distinguished physician during and after the Revolution.

6.  Sarah Davidson married Alexander Caldwell, a son of Dr. David Caldwell, an eminent Presbyterian minister of Guilford county.

7.  Margaret Davidson married Major James Harris, of Cabarrus county.

8.  John (or “Jackey”) Davidson, married Sallie Brevard, a daughter of Adam Brevard, a brother of Dr. Ephraim Brevard.

9.  Robert Davidson married Margaret Osborne, a daughter of Adlai Osborne, the grandfather of the late Jas. W. Osborne, of Charlotte.

10.  Benjamin Wilson Davidson married Elizabeth Latta, a daughter of James Latta, Esq.

The third wife of Samuel Wilson, Sr., was Margaret Jack, a sister of Captain Jack, the bearer of the Mecklenburg Declaration to Congress.  By this marriage there were five children: 

1. Sarah Wilson, married Ben McConnell, who had three children, Charity, Latta and Wilson McConnell.  Charity McConnell married Reese Davidson, a nephew of General Ephraim Davidson.  This family, and also that of Wilson McConnell, moved to Tennessee.

2. Charity Wilson, died at the age of sixteen years.

3. Robert Wilson, married Margaret Alexander, a daughter of Major Thomas Alexander, and grand-daughter of Neil Morrison, one of the Mecklenburg signers.  He left five daughters, and one son, who lost his life in the Confederate cause.

4. Lillis Wilson, (frequently written “Lillie,”) married James Connor, who emigrated from Ireland when about twenty-one years of age; volunteered his services at the commencement of the Revolutionary War, and fought through the struggle to its close.  He died in April, 1835, aged eighty-four years, and is buried in Baker’s graveyard.  He left two children, Henry Workman and Margaret Jack Conner.  H. Workman Conner was a worthy and influential citizen of Charleston, S.C., where he spent about fifty years of his life, and died in January, 1861.  Margaret J. Connor married J. Franklin Brevard, a son of Capt.  Alexander Brevard, of Lincoln county.  She was an estimable Christian lady, survived her husband many years, was beloved by all who knew her, and died with peaceful resignation, on the 25th of October, 1866, in the sixty-eighth year of her age.  Her only child, Rebecca, married Robert I. McDowell, Esq., of Mecklenburg county.

5. William Jack Wilson, youngest child of Samuel Wilson, Sr., by the third wife, married Rocinda Winslow, the youngest daughter of Moses Winslow.  The house in which this old patriot then resided, has long since disappeared.  It stood on the public road, about three miles southwest of Center church.  A large Honey Locust tree now (1876) nearly points out its original location.

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