John MIDDLETON

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 _John C. MIDDLETON _|
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|--John MIDDLETON 
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|                     _Thomas D. STEWART _
|_Laura STEWART _____|
                     |_Rebecca SHAW ______

Notes

John SMITH

• BIRTH: 30 DEC 1772
• DEATH: 16 JUN 1851

• MARRIAGE: NOV 1795

1. Elizabeth SMITH
2. Alexander SMITH
3. Farquhard C. SMITH
4. Isabella SMITH
5. Mary SMITH
6. John Campbell SMITH
7. Jane SMITH
8. William Turner SMITH
9. Robert SMITH
10. James Campbell SMITH

                        _John SMITH ________
 _Alexander SMITH _____|
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|--John SMITH 
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|                       _William WHITFIELD _
|_Elizabeth WHITFIELD _|
                       |_Rachel BRYAN ______

Notes

1820 Cumberland Co. NC census: Smith, John 2-0-0-1-0-1 0-1-1-0-1 (Ferry) 2M 01-10, 1M 16-26, 1M 45+, 1F 10-16, 1F 16-26, 1F 45+ (From the Cumberland Co. NC GenWeb page).

Dates from Al Williams

From http://www.rootsweb.com/~jecain/smit035.htm: [Cumberland Co. NC] Will Book C-185 Smith, John 4 Jan 1848 / Sep 1851 Son: Farquard Smith, John C. Smith, William T. Smith Dau: Jane Mallett (decd), Elizabeth, Isabella, Mary Exr: Farquard Smith, John C Smith, William t Smith, Jonathan Evans, Henry Elliot, Alexander Elliot, John Elliot Wit: J C Dobbin, J G Shepherd Codocil: Nov 1, 1849, Wit: J Winslow, Archd A Smith

Served in NC State Senate, 1812-1814 ("Scattered Seed")

Janet MCLEAN

• BIRTH: 27 FEB 1800
• DEATH: 12 JAN 1882

• MARRIAGE: OCT 1820

1. Kenneth MURCHISON
2. Flora Eliza MURCHISON
3. Catharine MURCHISON
4. Isabella MURCHISON

1. Janet Ann MCNEILL
2. Martin MCNEILL

                     _John MCLEAN _____
 _Daniel MCLEAN ____|
|                   |_Effie MCCRAINIE _
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|--Janet MCLEAN 
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|                    _Coll MCALLISTER _
|_Flora MCALLISTER _|
                    |_Janet BUIE ______

Notes

I don't remember my source for the dates.

Grissella MCALLISTER

• BIRTH: ,Cumberland,North Carolina,USA
• DEATH: BEF 1790

• DIVORCE: N
• MARRIAGE: 1771, ,Cumberland,North Carolina,USA

1. John MCKETHAN
2. Flora MCKETHAN
3. Janet MCKETHAN
4. Christian MCKETHAN
5. Seraiah MCKETHAN

                         _Coll MCALESTER ______________
 _Alexander MCALLISTER _|
|                       |_Janet MCNEILL _______________
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|--Grissella MCALLISTER 
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|                        _Neill "Black_Neill" MCNEILL _
|_Flora MCNEILL ________|
                        |_Grisella CAMPBELL ___________

Notes

A tombstone at Bluff Church Cemetery in Cumberland Co. NC reads: "Grissella, wife of John McKethan, daughter of Alexander & Flora McNeill McAlester." This is among a group of ten stones moved from the McKethan Family Cemetery on John McKethan's plantation about one mile north of the church. In her 1975 book, Alma McKethan McBride wrote about finding stones for other members of John McKethan's family in the old cemetery, but said that no stone for Grissella could be found. A listing of the stones in this old cemetery (from the Cumberland County Cemeteries section of the Cumberland County GenWeb page on the WWW) includes "A broken, unreadable tombstone with no base to indicate its proper location" and there was "one additional semiburied stone;" perhaps one of these was Grissella's marker. All stones, including these two, were moved to Bluff Presbyterian Church in 1986.

Alma McKethan McBride gave the date of John and Grissella's marriage as 1771, at the Bluff Church. She stated that Grissella's father Alexander McAllister was adamantly opposed to the marriage and refused to attend the wedding. In a letter (probably late 1771) to Mary, the wife of his brother Hector MacAlester in Scotland, Alexander McAlester wrote "I have no adision in my famile since my last to my brother. It is Deminished. My two oldest Daughter have made runon away marriages. Since they were both well fixed I never have Spok to them nor I believe I never shall." He apparantly retained this attitude until his death, when he left only a token inheritance to John McKethan, the husband of his deceased daughter Grissella. (The other daughter mentioned in this letter is Janet McAlester who married Malcolm McNeill, son of Archibald McNeill and Janet "Jennie Bahn" Smith). This letter was published in "Mac-Alisdair Clan," the journal of the Clan McAlister of America, Dec. 1995.

Sarah GOSS

• BIRTH: 14 JAN 1786, ,,Virginia

                       _James GOSS ______
 _Benjamin GOSS ______|
|                     |_Marianne DUTOIT _
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|--Sarah GOSS 
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|_Elizabeth HAMILTON _|
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Queen Victoria SUMNER

• BIRTH: ABT 1874

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 _William Harvey SUMNER _|
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|--Queen Victoria SUMNER 
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|_Elizabeth GARNTO ______|
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