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In doing my family genealogy I have come across a real mystery concerng the woman whom my Grandmother clearly and repeatedly said was her father's Mother whose name was Polly Ann Wishart.
If anyone here on the Wishart Forum has any clues to offer I would be eternally grateful. Here are the facts as my research and the gracious help of Sam West and Phil Collins have help me find.
I'm looking for the mother of David Alexander Taylor son of John Pickney Taylor who died young in the CSA at Front Royal,Virginia in November of 1862.
Mary Pitman is listed in every genealogy I can find as his wife and my grandfather's mother hence my Grandmothers Grandmother.
Mary Pitman was born on 04 Sep 1825 and died on 18 Oct 1921.
She drew a pension on John Pickney Taylor's service for many years until her death.
According to my grandmother who was Mary Magdalene (Maggie) Taylor b. 02 Dec 1898 her Grandmother Polly Ann Wishart died when she was a big little girl about 5 or 6 making her as she said Polly Ann Wishart was the oldest of that generation being 98 years of age when she died approximately 1903-05 making her birth between 1805 -07.
My grandmother did have a Grandmother Pitman named Mary Jane Israel Pitman (b. 13 Jan 1839)wife of Jorden Lee Pitman (16 Feb 1832)who died either in late 1898 or early 1899 since she said her mother Clairicy Jane Pitman daughter of Mary Jane Israel and Jordan Lee Pitman told her her Grandmother Pitman died when she was 3 weeks old.
Both my Grandmother and her brother Jesse Lee Taylor are on video recordings I made from 1979 until her death in 1988 as clearly and repeatedly referring to their Grandmother as Polly Ann Wishart Taylor wife of John Pickney Taylor. They both remember clearly that she lived about a mile from them and walking over to visit her often and their Aunt Mandy who never married and lived with Polly Ann.
I am compelled to believe until and if shown different that my great great grandmother was Polly Ann Wishart Taylor since both Grandmother and Uncle Jesse had sharp clear mental faculties until the very moment of their deaths and I have to believe they knew who their grandmother was and her name.
There are other Wisharts in the Taylor Pitman Israel line of my ancestors.
All of these ancestors were born in or lived in Robeson County North Carolina in either Wishart Township or Burnt Islands.
Thanks to anyone at all who can possibly provide any clue to this mystery no matter how small. I would like to solve it to my satisfaction for my family's history record before I am too late and leave it unsolved. Terminal disease brings home the importance of who you are and where you come from and the real need to pass accurate facts and memories to descendents.
Thank you anyone.
Terrell Johnson
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