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Mary McDowell Moffett (Carson)[1]

Female 1768 - 1825  (56 years)


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  • Name Mary McDowell Moffett (Carson)  [2, 3, 4] 
    Born 28 Dec 1768  Rockbridge, Augusta, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Gender Female 
    Died 6 Jul 1825  Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Buried McDowell County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID P3305  Woelfel Test
    Last Modified 19 Jun 2020 

    Father Col. George Moffett, Sr,   b. 1735, Augusta County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Aug 1811, Point Pleasant, Mason, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Sarah Martha McDowell (Moffett),   b. 16 Oct 1741, Augusta County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Aug 1805, Staunton, Staunton City, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 1761  [5] 
    Family ID F684  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Col. John Hazard Carson,   b. 24 Mar 1752, Fortanagh, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Mar 1841, McDowell County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Samuel Price Carson,   b. 22 Jan 1798, Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Nov 1838, Hot Springs, Garland, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 40 years)  [natural]
     2. Matilda M. Carson,   b. 16 Dec 1799, Burke County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
    +3. William Moffett Carson,   b. 9 Dec 1801, Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Apr 1863, Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years)  [natural]
    +4. Jonathan Logan Carson,   b. 2 Jul 1807, McDowell County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1866, McDowell County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 19 Jun 2020 
    Family ID F688  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Col. Joseph "Quaker Meadows Joe" McDowell, Jr,   b. 15 Feb 1756, Winchester, Frederick, Colonial Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Feb 1801, Morganton, Burke, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 44 years) 
    Married 27 Apr 1786  Augusta County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7] 
    Children 
    +1. Col John Moffett McDowell,   b. 9 Feb 1787, Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jun 1855, Rutherford County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)  [natural]
     2. Elizabeth Betsy McDowell,   b. 1788, Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1795, Mercer County, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 7 years)  [natural]
     3. George Moffett McDowell,   b. 30 Nov 1788, Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 May 1804, Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 15 years)  [natural]
    +4. James Moffett McDowell,   b. 22 Jun 1791, Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 May 1854, Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years)  [natural]
     5. Col. James Moffett McDowell,   b. 22 Jun 1791, Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 May 1854, Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years)  [natural]
     6. Charlotte Minerva McDowell,   b. 25 Oct 1793, Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1860, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)  [natural]
     7. Anna McDowell (McDowell),   b. 25 Oct 1793, Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Nov 1859, Quaker Meadows, Burke, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)  [natural]
     8. Joseph McDowell, Jr,   b. 10 Jan 1796, Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Aug 1800, Pleasant Gardens, McDowell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 4 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 19 Jun 2020 
    Family ID F685  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Mary Moffett was born in Old Augusta County, Virginia, a daughter of Col. Geroge Moffett and his wife Sarah Margaret McDowell. I believe where she was born is now Rockbridge County, Virginia.

      Mary was first married to a cousin, Col. Joseph McDowell (1758-1795, hero of the Battle of King's Mtn.) of Pleasant Garens, Burke (now McDowell, which was named for him) County, NC, in Virginia in 1786, and after his death, she married Col. John Hazard Carson (1752-1841) in 1797. He was a neighbor, and the widower of Col. McDowell's sister.

      At the time Mary moved from her first husband's home (now known as the McDowell House) she took the name Pleasant Gardens, which had referred to that house, and conferred it upon her second husband's home, which had previously been known as Garden Hill (and is now known as the Carson House). Now, that whole area around Buck Creek & the valley of the Catawba River out from Marion, NC, is known as Pleasant Gardens, and both houses are historically significant museums. (The Carson House has been a museum since the 1960s, and I believe there are plans to make the McDowell House into one.)

      The children of Mary Moffett and Col. Joseph McDowell were: John M. (Moffett?) McDowell (1787-1855, m. Mary Mansfield Lewis), George McDowell (1788-1804), Col. James Moffett McDowell (1791-1854, m. Margaret Caroline Erwin), Anna McDowell (1793-1859, m. Capt. Charles Gordon McDowell, a cousin) and Joseph McDowell (1796-1800). There may have been a daughter named Elizabeth who died young.

      The children of Mary Moffett and Col. John Hazard Carson were Samuel Price Carson (1798-1838, m. Catherine Wilson, U. S. Congressman and Secretary of State of the Republic of Texas), Matilda M. Carson (1799-?), William Moffett Carson (1801-1863/70, m. Almyra Tennessee Wilson), George Moffett Carson (1804-1863/70), and Jonathan Logan Carson (1807-1866, m. Mary Sturdivant Presnell). And there may have been more.

      Mary's husbands, children and grandchildren were quite prominent people, and had a great effect on the course of history. But one should always be mindful of the old saying "It's the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world." Miss Mary made a great contribution to her world, and to that of her descendants.

  • Sources 
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