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I was very interested in this. My 3rd great grandparents, William R. Wilkinson (c.1816-between 1857 and 1860) and Mary Amanda DeWeese (1824-1851) show up in the McDowell County Census of 1850. They were married in Mecklenburg County in 1841, and their first born child, born & died in 1842, is buried near Mary Amanda's grandparents in the Ramah Presbyterian Church cemetery near Huntersville, Mecklenburg Co. Sometime around 1845 or 1846, they moved to McDowell Co. I presume Mary Amanda died there. They had the following additional children:
William H. Wilkinson (c.1843/4), born Mecklenburg Co.
Julia Wilkinson (c.1845), born Mecklenburg Co.
Mary Adeline Wilkinson (1846-1906), born McDowell Co.
John Wilkinson (c.1847/8), born McDowell Co.
Margaret Wilkinson (c.1850), born McDowell Co.
M. A. Pope, age 22, a shoemaker, and Adaline DeWeese, 22, were living in the household in 1850. Nancy Adeline DeWeese (1827-1862) was Mary Amanda's younger sister.
Mary Amanda died 16 August 1851. According to a DeWeese family record, William Wilkinson married Nancy Adeline DeWeese (1827-1862), in Mecklenburg County, NC in 1852. They apparently had three more children: Emily Wilkinson, born 1854, Lucy Wilkinson, born 1855, and Cornelia Wilkinson, born 1857, all three born "in South Carolina" according to the 1860 census.
At the time of the 1860 census, William seems to have died. Nancy, along with her widowed mother Margaret Irvin DeWeese (c.1796-1865), and her step children and children, were living at Mountain Island, Gaston County, NC. The oldest children, William and Julia, were listed as factory hands, so I presume they were working at the Mountain Island Cotton Mill which had been built there in the 1850s. (The mill was built and run by folks in another of my family lines.)
William H. Wilkinson served in the Confederate Army, and he married Nancy Chaney in Gaston County, NC on 19 May 1865. She was the daughter of Wiley and Isabella Chaney, who were living next door to the Wilkinsons in 1860. I have no further information on them.
Mary Adeline Wilkinson (1846-1906) married John Andrew Field (1846-1883) in Gaston County on 26 Oct. 1865. He was the son of Elswick Sherwood Field (1808-1867), builder and superintendent of the Mountain Island Cotton Mill in the 1850s, and his wife Guilianna L. Lindsay (1807-1885). Both the Field and Lindsay families were very prominent in the history of Guilford County, NC going back to the 1750s. Elswick and Guilianna had moved to Gaston Co. in the early 1850s, were in Rockingham Co. by 1860, and appear to have gone to Caldwell Co. in the early 1860s. (Elswick apparently built and ran cotton mills for various of his wife's family connections, among them Gov. John Motley Morehead.) Mary Adeline and John Andrew Field settled in Cabarrus Co., just across the county line from the Ramah Church, where her DeWeese ancestors lived. They were my 2nd great grandparents.
But back to the Wilkinsons (and the name was often spelled Wilkerson). I don't know where they went in SC, though the family later had property and business interests in Greenville, SC. I've always suspected that William R. Wilkinson may have been related to Moses Wilkinson, who lived in Burke Co. in the 1790-1820 era. This could explain why he came to McDowell.
Interestingly, my grandfather John Levi Field (1899-1963)moved his family to Marion, McDowell Co. in 1941. I have no idea if he knew that his grandmother had been born there nearly 100 years before. I never knew him, as he died before I was born.
At any rate, I am most interested in anything I can learn about the Wilkinsons/Wilkersons of McDowell Co., and their possible connection to my family.
Best Regards,
John Field Pankow
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