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_Thomas Ely BELLER ____|
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|--Michael Carl BELLER
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| _James Franklin MCCRARY _
|_Eleanor Ruth MCCRARY _|
|_Eulah Edith WILSON _____+
[499] still living - details excluded
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_Alexander CARRUTH ________|
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|--Alvira (Allie) CARRUTH
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| _David Carroll WILSON ___+
|_Elizabeth (Betsy) WILSON _|
|_Jane (Jinny) CAROTHERS _
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|--A.H. GANZE
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_Unknown GRABEEL _|
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|--Ben Arthur GRABEEL
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| _Orvel Jo GRAY __________
|_Debbie GRAY _____|
|_Carolyn Marie SCHAEFER _+
[397] still living - details excluded
_Willard Noel HENDERSON _+
_Willard Noel HENDERSON _|
| |_Jewel UNKNOWN __________
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|--Jeremey Noel HENDERSON
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|_Carol UNKNOWN __________|
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[327] still living - details excluded
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|--Math HERBERT
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|--Sarah Ann MCSPADDIN
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[728]
Sarah's mother's maiden name was Porter, and her father was Thomas C.
McSpadden.
_William Alonzo WHITMAN _
_Clyde Homer WHITMAN _|
| |_Doshia BURGE ___________+
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|--Danna Marie WHITMAN
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|_Jennie Kay TRAMMEL __|
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[582] still living - details excluded
_Zacheus Captain WILSON ______+
_Jonathan WILSON _|
| |_Elizabeth Conger ROSS _______
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|--Eliza WILSON
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| _David Carroll Wilson, MAJOR _+
|_Narcissa WILSON _|
|_Jane (Jean) Rowan SHARP _____
_Winfield Scott (Pomp) WILSON _+
_William Eli WILSON _________|
| |_Alice Clorinda BAKER _________
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|--Raymon Carey WILSON
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|_Lura (Lou) Clarissa HARRIS _|
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[171] still living - details excluded
_Robert WILSON ___+
_Zaccheus Sr WILSON _|
| |_Rachel PRICKLOW _
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|--Robert Sr "Old Robin" WILSON
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|_Martha UNKNOWN _____|
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[13]
References for this family are: 1) Ramsay's Annals of Tennessee (very old)
2) Cisco's History of Sumner County 3) Ellet Famous Women of the Revolution
for Eleanor Vol 3, Chapter 22-347 4) Katherine Keogh White King Mountain Men
5) Historic Sumner County for attack on Zigler's Station 6) Early History of
Tennessee by Albright page 167 for another account of the attack.
The first 9 sons of Robert fought in the war..
[14] The following text is a continuation of a passage regarding the family of Eleanor Wilson, wife of Robert from the book, Sketches of Western North Carolina by C.L. Hunter. Originally published in 1877, reprinted 1970, Baltimore, Regional Publishing Co
[15]
On this march Cornwallis dismissed Zaccheus, (son of Robert and Eleanor) telling him to go home and take care of his mother, and to tell her to keep her boys at home. After he (Cornwallis) reached Winnsboro, he dispatched an order to Rawdon, at
Camden, to send Robert (Wilson) and his son John, with several others, to Charleston, carefully guarded. Accordingly, about the 20th of November, Wilson, his son, and ten others, set off under the escort of an officerand fifteen or twenty men. Wilson
formed several plans of making his escape, but owing to the presence of large parties of the enemy, they could not be executed. At length, being near Fort Watson, they encamped before night, the prisoners being placed in the yard, and the guard in the
house and in the portico. In a short time the arms of the guard were ordered to be stacked in the portico, a sentinel placed over them, and all others were soon busily engaged in preparing their evening meal. The prisoners, in the meantime, having
bribed a soldier to buy some whiskey, as it was a rainy day, pretended to drink freely of it themselves, and one of them seemingly more intoxicated than the rest, insisted upon treating the sentinel. Wilson followed him, as if to prevent him from
treating the sentinel, it being a breach of military order. Watching a favorable opportunity, he seized the sentinel's musket and the drunken man suddenly became quite sober, seized the sentinel. At this signal, the prisoners-like vigilant hornets,
rushed to the stacked arms in the portico, when the guard, taking the alarm, rushed out of the house. But it was too late; the prisoners secured the arms, drove the soldiers into the house at the point of the bayonet, and the whole guard surrendered at
discretion. Unable to take off their prisoners, Wilson made them all hold up their right hands and swear never again to bear arms against the "cause of liberty, and the Continental Congress," and then told them they go the Charleston on parole; but if
he ever found " a single mother's son of them in arms again, he would hang him up in a tree like a dog."
Wilson had scarcely disposed of his prisoners before a party of British dragoons came in sight. As the only means of escape, they seperated into several small companies, and took to the woods. Some of them reached Marion's camp at Snow Island, and
Wilson, with two or three others, arrived safely in Mecklenburg, over two hundred miles distant, and through a country overrun with British troops.