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Mary GASTON

Mary GASTON

Female 1712 - 1802  (90 years)

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  • Name Mary GASTON 
    Born 1712  Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Female 
    Residence (SETTLED)  South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Died 1802  [1] 
    • DAR Lineage Book (p. 103) states her death date as 1800.
    Buried Burnt Meeting House Cemetery, Wylie's Mill, Chester Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Notes 
    • Elizabeth F. Ellet's "The Women of the American Revolution" provides a lengthy profile of Mary Gaston McClure, citing her brave and courageous actions during the American Revolution. [Burgess, "The Gaston Genealogy," p. 82] The Lineage Book of the Daughters of the American Revolution, p. 103, states that Mary Gaston McClure "is recorded in history as 'The Cherokee Heroine.'"
    Person ID I3320  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 5 Jul 2011 

    Father William GASTON,   b. 1680, Cloughwater, County Antrim, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. CA 1770, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years) 
    Mother Olivet LEMON,   b. 1688, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1752  (Age 64 years) 
    Family ID F1172  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family James MCCLURE  [5] 
    Children 
    +1. John MCCLURE,   d. 6 Aug 1780, Hanging Rock, SC Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Martha MCCLURE,   b. 1754,   d. 21 Dec 1836  (Age 82 years)
    +3. William MCCLURE
     4. Mary MCCLURE
     5. (Female) MCCLURE
    Family ID F1186  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Burnt Meeting House Cemetery, Wylie's Mill, Chester Co SC    		Burnt Meeting House Cemetery, Wylie's Mill, Chester Co SC

  • Sources 
    1. [S638] Headstone (year only).

    2. [S554] Ireland birth/marriage/christening records.
      Max Perry reports her birth as 1712, which corresponds to her headstone. DAR Lineage Book (p. 103) states it as 1725.

    3. [S504] Ohio Valley Genealogies, Charles A. Hanna, (Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900)), p. 41.

    4. [S5] Headstone.

    5. [S2134] Gaston of Chester, Chalmers Gaston Davidson, (Davidson Printing Co, Davidson NC (1956)), p. xi.