Généalogie Wylie » Isabella Kelso Wylie [sAs-iWdi-iWdi-iaWdia Bu] (± 1755-1826)

Données personnelles Isabella Kelso Wylie [sAs-iWdi-iWdi-iaWdia Bu] 

• Aussi connu(e) sous le nom de Isabella /Kelso/.
• Elle est née environ 1755 dans County Antrim, Ireland.Source 1
• Elle est décédée en l'an 1826 dans Perry County, Alabama.Source 1
• Elle est enterrée dans Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Plantersville, Dallas County, Alabama.
• Un enfant de Samuel Kelso et Susannah Mills
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 20 février 2014.

Famille de Isabella Kelso Wylie [sAs-iWdi-iWdi-iaWdia Bu]

Elle est mariée avec William Wylie.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1780 à County Antrim. Ireland.Source 1

Enfant(s):

1. Peter Kelso Wylie  1787-1855 
2. Susan Wylie  1782-1866 
3. Sarah Wylie  ± 1783-???? 
4. Ann Wylie  1785-1797
5. Mary Wylie  1795-1853
6. Jennet Wylie  1790-1860 
7. John Nixon Wylie  1792-1868 
8. Samuel Kelso Wylie  1793-1873 

Notes par Isabella Kelso Wylie [sAs-iWdi-iWdi-iaWdia Bu]

Her family switched primarily to Kelsey it seems.

Isabela Kelso's info came from "Samuel Kelso/Kelsey 1720-1796 Revolutionary Patriot of Chester Co, SC" written by Mavis Kelsey, MD #2 Longbow Lane Houston, TX 77024-5722 713 686-3768 (the book was purchased from Dr Kelsey in March 1998 for $75 by Terry Olsen. He is quite elderly and it was a blessing to find him alive. He did extensive research on this family.

Isabella arrived with her parents in Charleston, SC on 22 Dec 1767. She bacame the most famous of the Kelso children as a result of her heoic efforts during the American Revolution. THese exploits wree described in detail by Mrs Ellet, v. 3, p 209 and pp 276-287, "Women of the Revolution". She organized the maidens of Fishing Creek to harvest crops while the men were at war (Ellet, v.3, p 276). These women were Mray, Margaret and Ellen Gill; Isabella and Margaret Kelso; Sarah Knox; Margaaet, Elizabeth and Mary Mills; Mary McClure; and Nancy Brown. She went with Mary Mills to search for the body of Capt Alexander Pagan on the vattle field of Sumter's Surprise. SHe carried clothing to prisoners to Charlotte, and she carried supplies to prisoners in Camden, which included William Wylie, and her brother-in-law, Rovert Gill. Here at the British prison in Camden, her romance began with William Wylie. They were married a few weeks after his release from prison. During Tory and British raids in the Fishing Creek area Isabella heard a gun fired at Mr Strong's house a few hundred yards distant form the Samuel Kelso hime on 11 June 1780. On going there she found the murdered Strong youth and his anguished mother. The Kelso house was robbed of everything at this time. Isabella went to White's mill to protest to Tarleton but received only abuse.

In the book "Samuel Kelso/Kelsey 1720-1796" Revolutiolnary Patriot of Chester Co, SC", p. 46-47 written by Mavis Kelsey, it reads "The Battle of Fishing Creek, 18 August 1780, was fought near the church. The minister, Rev. John Simpson, was away fighting under Capt John McClure when the British Soldiers rifled his house while his wife and children hid in nearby woods. The notorious Tory, Capt Huck of NY, came through the community harassing all. Hannah Wylie, (q.v.) relates how Huck and his gang went to the Samuel Kelso (1720-17960 house, robbing and destroying the swords he and his sons had been manufacturing. They abused and threatened to kill Samuel for not answering questions, he being deaf and hardly able to hear them. His daughter, Isabella Kelso Wylie was at the house while young Samuel and George Kelso and her husband William Wylie were at war. She talked boldly to Huck, and while he was there a pigeon flew by. Huck cut its head off with his sword. Isabella said to him, "Dear man, but that was a great act to kill the puir thing that was doing you nae harm". He told her if she didn't mind, her head would be the next. She defied him, telling him that he didn't have the power to do such a thing, that God Almighty would strike him dead.

That day, Huck and his men killed the Strong boy next door while he was trying to conceal his family valuables. They ran him through with swords until the mother and Isabella Kelso Wylie got there and the mother threw her body over his. The people of the community were so aroused by this cruel act that a militia party was rapidly formed. A month later they surprised the Huck encampment at Bratton's field, York County, and slaughtered 89 or his men, including Huck. The Americans lost one man. This was said to be the first victory for the colonists. A month after that, the British were annihilated at King's Mountain about 30 miles from Fishing Creek Church (Chester District, SC). This victory was said to be the turning point of the American Revolution."

John C Reinhardt of 2720 Country Club Ave, Omaha, Nebraska 68104, a descendent in the Wylie and Morrow families has provided some interesting background info on the Wylie family and their activities in Colonial America which we are reproducing:
"Wylie is an English name, variously speeld, signifying a native of Wylie, a village in Whitshire. NOtwithstanding the origin of hte name, by family tradition the first known member of the family was a Scot. From Scotland some of hte Wylies went to Northern Ireland and then to the American Colonies, eventually settling in the Piedmont section of South Carolina in the 18th century. There wrea number of Wylie families in North and South Carloina at that time, many doubtless related in some way.

Some of the Wylies in our line became rather promeninet citizens of Chester, SC, active in civic affaris in their community and were judges, doctors and merchants there through the generations. There is a Wylie Street in th town of Chester, a Wylie Park donated by a member of this family, and a reservoir on the Catawba River nearby called Lake Wylie.
p 131-132)

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