Life History

Other facts

Notes

• One source had two separate children, Mary and Margaret.  The estimated date of birth of Margaret was 1792.  But the exact date of birth in that source for the next child, William, was 22 Sep 1792.  This means no other child could have been born to that family in 1792.  That date is also reported for William by other sources.  They could have been twins.
  
  For a long time I found no other sources with the name Mary Margaret, or a separate Margaret.  It appeared best to follow this World Family Tree source in naming this child Mary Margaret.  In July 2007 I found one site that gave Margaret as the nickname of this Mary, with the same birth date, but different county information (Orange instead of Rutherford), but a different approximate death date with the same location:
  "McSwain, Mary "Margaret" b: 16 Mar 1784 in Orange County, North Carolina d Abt Rutherford  (nka Cleveland) County, North Carolina"
  --  http://www.rfci.net/wdfloyd/cemm5.html
  
  The Moore-McSwain has no birth record for a Maragret McSwain in this family.  Mary McSwain's birth date is reported there as 16 March 1782.
  
  "Mary McSwain was born march 16th Day of 1782 / Hannah McSwain was born may 11 Day of 1785 / Sarah McSwain was born the 17th Day of september 1786 / James McSwain was Born September 17 Day 1787 / Rebeccah McSwain was Born may the 20 Day of 1789" / Elizabeth McSwain was Born may the 21 Day 1791"
  --  Moore Family Bible,  courtesy of Virginia Owens Long, accessed 1 Feb 2016 on the Owens-Burns genealogy, Ancestry.com
  
  This may need to be reconsidered, since I have discovered that the Hamrick family data  has a set of children with birth dates beginning after the date of death of Mary McSwain, wife of Elijah Hamrick.  According to the list of children, Mary had 10 children before she died in 1823.
  
  They list Margaret, her sister as the second wife of Elijah, who had 7 more children after that.  17 children would be a lot of children for one woman to have.  And the death year of 1823 matches the death date I have from other sources for Mary Margaret:  23 Feb 1823.
  
  The 1860 census report for Thomas Moore and his wife Margaret reports Margaret as age 53.  This would make her birth year about 1796 or 1797, 5 years after the date suggested by the source mentioned above.
  
  1860 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina, 13 July, Eastern Division, PO Guntersville, page 89, Hse/Fam #598
  Thomas Moore 65 M Farmer $320 Personal Estate b North Carolina
  Margaret Moore 63 F b North Carolina
  G M 22 M b North Carolina
  Elizabeth Jolly 7 F b North Carolina

Sources

• 1. Ancestry Trees
  • http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm-cgi?op=GET&db=*v133t0575&id=I1176&ftm=1
• 2. Hamrick Data Pages
  • http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hamrick/wga75.html
• 3. RootsWeb ID: I374 -- John Elias Green
  • Location: No longer Online;
• 4. RootsWeb ID: I4707 -- Mary McSwain
  • Name: Name: http:/worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=prsjr&id=I4707;;
• 5. Moore Family Bible
• 6. One World Tree (sm)
• 7. RootsWeb Trees
• 8. 1860 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • 13 July, Eastern Division, PO Guntersville, page 89, Hse/Fam #598
• 9. Will of William David McSwain
  • Rutherford County, NC, #489 written February 3, 1833
• 10. World Family Tree Vol. 129
  • Pedigree #809
• 11. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 12. Ancestry Trees
  • Davis Family, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/23944576/person/12469957830?ssrc=&ftm=
• 13. Ancestry Trees
  • Darcey Slaughter, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/10564809/person/-617918661?ssrc=&ftm=1
• 14. Rutherford/Cleveland County, NC, Burial Information
  • Name: Name: http://www.rfci.net/wdfloyd/cemm5.html;;
• 15. 1850 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • p 132, Hse/Fam #295, as tanscribed at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~judytalk/1850.htm
• 16. 1880 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • 3 June, Township 7, Sandy Run, District 71, page 6, Hse #57, Fam #60
• 17. 1860 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • 13 August, page 132-3, Hse/Fam #955
• 18. FamilySearch Trees
• 19. Hamrick Data Pages
  • http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hamrick/wga74.html
• 20. 1880 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • 3 June, Township 7, Sandy Run, District 71, page 1 (Scan 569A), Hse #56, Fam #59
• 21. Beaverdam Baptist Cemetery Register, Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • Location: http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/cleveland/cemeteries/bdamclev.txt;
• 22. Ancestry Trees
  • Hamrick-McSwain2, http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm-cgi?op=GET&db=*v59t0959&id=I592&ftm=1
• 23. 1850 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • 19 August, page 272, Hse/Fam #297
• 24. Family Data Collection - Individual Records