Re: Book: William Wilkinson Decendants
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Book: William Wilkinson Decendants
Peggy Collum 11/07/07
Can you tell me more about this William Wilkinson and his family? Did he ever live in North Carolina? I am searching for information on a Samuel Wilkinson who married Esther McBride in Rowan Co., NC in 1783. I believe (but can't prove) that they were the parents of William Wilkinson (c.1793-aft. 1860) and Archibald Wilkinson (c.1800-1832).
William married twice, first to Lucy Reives/Reeves in 1814, and to Drucilla Hampton in 1825, both in Rowan Co., NC. I can't find him in the 1840 census, but he was in Mecklenburg Co., NC in 1850, and Lancaster Co., SC in 1860. There was a household headed by a William Wilkinson in Mecklenburg Co., NC in 1840, which consisted of three males born between 1810 and 1820. I believe these were three sons of William Wilkinson and Lucy Reeves: William R. Wilkinson (c.1816-1857/60, my 3rd great grandfather), David Wilkinson (1817-1883) and Henry Wilkinson (c.1820-aft. 1880).
Archibald married Nancy Graham (c.1804/5-after 1880) in Mecklenburg Co. in 1824. They had three children: James G. Wilkinson (c.1825-1864), Mary Ann Wilkinson (c.1826-1844) and Neill Wilkinson (c.1829-1863). Archibald and all three of his children are buried at the Old Settlers Cemetery, Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., NC. Both of the sons were Confederate soldiers killed in the War.
William R. Wilkinson married Mary Amanda DeWeese (1824-1851, daughter of Jonathan DeWeese and Margaret Boyd Irvin/Irwin/Erwin) in Mecklenburg Co. in 1841, and they had six children: Edward (born & died 1842), William (c.1843), Julia (c.1844), Mary Adeline (1846-1906, Mrs. John Andrew Field, my line), John (c.1848) and Margaret (c.1850). The family had moved to Marion, McDowell Co. in 1845, but William was back in Mecklenburg Co. in 1852, where he married Mary Amanda's younger sister, Nancy Adeline DeWeese (1827-1862). They had three children: Emily (c.1854), Lucy (c.1855) and Cornelia (c.1857), all born in SC. I presume they were in Lancaster Co., SC, as that is where William's father was in 1860.
By the time of the 1860 census, William had apparently died. Nancy Adeline was listed as head of a household at Mountain Island, Gaston Co., NC, that consisted of her sister's five children, her own three, and her widowed mother, Margaret Boyd Irvin DeWeese. I suspect they went there after William's death so the children could find work at the Mountain Island cotton mill there.
I don't know what happened to any of the other children, except that William survived the war and married Nancy Chaney in Gaston Co. in May, 1865. Mary Adeline also married in Gaston Co. in Oct. 1865, to John Andrew Field (1846-1883) who was a son of Elswick Sherwood Field (1808-1867) who had built and run the Mountain Island cotton mill in the 1850s. John and Mary Adeline settled on a farm in Cabarrus Co., near where her maternal DeWeese ancestors had lived for generations. They had six children, the eldest being Ernest Marion Field (1866-1902), my great grandfather.
I would be most grateful to you for any information you (or anyone else) could give me on the Wilkinsons.
Best Regards,
John Field Pankow
Asheville, NC
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