Notes: Flora
McEachern witnessed the 1801 will of James McNeill of Rockfish Creek but she is not specifically named as one of his daughters; however, the will also bestows upon John
McEachern 30 dollars, and the same amount is given to "each of my daughters". I now believe Flora, the witness, is a granddaughter of James McNeill. I knew about Daniel McEachern's second wife, a McNeill whose first name was unknown, from a compilation of charts on Daniel's descendants that inherited from my deceased brother's collection citing Purcell's Lumber River Scots. In this little history there was a John McEachern (the son of Daniel and his McNeill wife) who I thought was perhaps the John McEachern mentioned in James McNeill's will. On Ancestry.com I found a transcription of the 1815 will of one James McEachern of Sumter, SC who appointed his "uncle Duncan McNeill of Robertson County North Carolina" as executor to divide his assets amongst his widow and three children. The only Duncan in Robeson County who was of age to do that was "Long Duncan" McNeill who married Margaret McNeill the daughter of James of Rockfish. Though when lost during this period a woman's name is usually gone for good, further research needs to be done to firm up this connection and discover the first name of this unknown McNeill, the wife of Daniel McEachern. |
Children |
Birth |
Death |
Spouse |
Cht # |
Children by 1st wife Effie Currie: |
1. Patrick/Peter McEachern
('Patrick' and 'Peter' were used
interchangeably in deeds for
him.)
|
c. 1771 |
alive 1812 in
Wilson Co., TN |
According to the Alexander McNeill estate of 1821, Peter, in debt to the estate, was "gone to Georgia" by 1823; said to have married a McNeill of Moore Co. McNeills who moved to Tennessee. |
dme1 |
Children by 2nd wife (unknown) McNeill: |
2. Malcolm McEachern |
c. 1774 |
|
Mary "Polly" McTaggart |
dme2 |
3. James McEachern |
c. 1775 |
Between Aug &
Nov 1815 in
Sumter Co., SC
|
|
dme3 |
4. Daniel McEachern II |
c. 1777-84 |
? |
Christian McEachern, dau of Robert McEachern and Jennet Henderson of Robeson Co., NC. Married before 1818, when their daughter Sallie McEachern was born. |
dme4 |
5. Mary "Polly" McEachern |
c. 1780 |
? |
|
dme5 |
6. John McEachern
(War of 1812) |
c. 1777-84 |
1847 in
Pike Co., AL
|
Elizabeth Conley; daughter of Daniel Conley and Jane Ann "Nancy" Campbell Conley of Robeson Co., NC. The couple moved to Georgia. Elizabeth died in AL. This John McEachern is believed to have been given 30 dollars in the will of James McNeill of Rockfish Creek. John and Elizabeth are g-g-grandparents of Gov. George C. Wallace of AL. |
dme6 |
7. (Flora
McEachern?) |
c. 1777-84? |
after 1810? |
(witnessed James McNeill's will of 1801? There is an Flora McEachern in the Robeson Co. 1810 census, aged 26-45, who lived next door to Daniel Conley who may have been a relative of the above Elizabeth Conley. Was this Flora named after her deceased mother?) |
dme7 |
Children by 3rd wife, the widow Beatrice Torrey Purcell: |
8. Col. Archibald
McEachern |
Mar 1788 |
23 May 1873 |
|
dme8 |
9. Sallie
McEachern |
? |
? |
Archibald Patterson (died 1820) of Buffalo Creek |
dme9 |