Généalogie Wylie » Elizabeth (Elizabeth ) Wylie Walker (± 1738-1806)

Données personnelles Elizabeth (Elizabeth ) Wylie Walker 

• Prénom Elizabeth ****.
• Elle est née environ 1738 dans Northern Ireland ac.
• Elle est décédée en l'an 1806 dans Chester District, South Carolina.
• Elle est enterrée dans Old Stone Graveyard, near Landsford, Chester County, South Carolina.
• Un enfant de Adam Wylie et Jean MrsAdam
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 9 juin 2012.

Famille de Elizabeth (Elizabeth ) Wylie Walker

Elle avait une relation avec James Walker.

CHAN21 Apr 2002

Enfant(s):

1. Jane Walker  1762-1824 
2. William Walker  1782-1832
3. Margaret Walker   
4. John Walker  ????-> 1822 
5. Thomas Walker  

Notes par Elizabeth (Elizabeth ) Wylie Walker

****From BYU referenced book

James & Elizabeth Wylie Walker and Descendants
by William Cuthbertson
On February 6, 1791, James Walker purchased one hundred fifty acres of land west of the Catawba River and north of Fort Lawn. The following day his son-in-law William McMillian received title to two hundred sixty acres on the east branches of Tinker's Creek, a few miles northwest of the Walker land. These families came to South Carolina from Northern Ireland, and were a part of the Covenanter community.
James Walker's wife was Elizabeth Wylie, who was cousin of Dr. Samuel Brown Wylie, D.D., who came from County Antrim to Philadelphia in 1797, taught at the University of Pennslvania and was the first Covenanter minister ordained in America. Dr. Wylie accompanied Rev. James McKinney and preached in South Carolina. He was an uncle of Rev. Samuel Wylie who organized the Reformed Presbyterian Church at Eden, later Sparta, Illinois.
Elizabeth Walker, nee Wylie, was buried in the Old Stone Graveyard near Land's Ford. One tombstone serves as a memorial to her and to her youngest son, William Walker. William died 1832 in his fiftieth year, and Elizabeth died 1806 in her 68th year. Very close to her grave is the stone of William Wylie who also died 1806 aged 66 years, along with other members of his family, evidently Elizabeth's relatives. James Walker died about 1816, but his tombstone has not been found among those of many family members buried there. His will, made 1811, mentioned "money due me in the Kingdom of Ireland."
James Walker was survived by his daughter, Jane McMillan, in following paragraphs, and a daughter Margaret Faris and sons John, Thomas and William. John Walker married Elizabeth Hood and has many descendants in the midwest. Thomas Walker married first Margaret Guthrie, daughter of Paul Guthrie. William Walker was partially educated for the ministry, but eye trouble prevented further study. He owned more than one thousand acres of land, and has many descendants living in Chester County.
Jane Walker married William McMillan in Norther Ireland, and their first child, John, was born at sea on the way to South Carolina. Their ship, loaded with a cargo of salt, was wrecked, but ther were not far from land and the men on board were able to row the boat the rest of the way. According to recollections of descendants in Illinois, Jane was paralyzed for a time after John's birth, and she sat on the bags of salt to nurse him. John married, and in 1819 went to near Sparta, Randolph County, part of a migration which eventually included hundreds of Chester County people. He took with him the large family Bible with gold-edged pages, a large chest and a dulcimer, all brought from Ireland, but they burned years later when the Preston home burned hear Sparta. John daughter Hannah Alice married John Stewart Burns, Sr., of another prominent Chester County family, whose great-granddaughter, Thelma Burns Campbell of Coulterville, Illinois, has done a great amount of research on many Chester County families who moved to Illinois.
The oldest daughter of William and Jane Walker McMillan was Mary W. who married William Dunn, a land owner on the north branches of Little Rocky Creek. William died about the time their sixth child was born in 1827, and in 1841 Mary Dunn and her children traveled by wagon to live near her brother John near Sparta, Illinois. Her daughter Jane Dunn married James C. Smith who was likely born in the northern part of Fairfield County. William Cuthbertson of Girard, Kansas, is a great-grandson of Jane Dunn Smith.
In the summer of 1804, several weeks before Jane Walker McMillan gave birth to twins, her husband was thrown from his hose while riding to church, and died from his injuries. One of the twins was Eleanor who married William Sturgis, and was the mother of Mary Elizabeth Sturgis, who married Elijah Cherry. Mary Elizabeth Cherry was the great-grandmother of Mary Elizabeth Kell Wade of Fort Lawn, active in historical research there. Mrs. Wade owns a part of William McMillan's original land grant.
The other twin was Robert McMillan, M.D., who distinguished himself in the field of medicine. After his elder brother, William, refused the opportunity to receive an education with the sum of $300 from the sale of swine, Robert qualified himself in a neighboring academy and entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1828. He graduated from medical school two years later, and studied six years in Paris. He served three years as a surgeon in the Seminole War in Florida. In 1847 he began the practice of medicine in San Francisco, California, where he became a highly successful surgeon, and was a member of the Society of California Pioneers.
Heritage History of Chester County, South Carolina 1982Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas, ©1982, p. 411

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