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The known chn. of Mary Ann Crenshaw & Thomas Mackey Sr. were: (all b. Lancaster Co.)

8. Thos. C. Mackey b. 21 Sept. 1784 d. 4 Sept. 1862, McNairy Co. Tenn; m. in Lancaster Dist., Janet Emma Virginia Bell.

9. Geo. Mackey (c1786-1862) m. Louise Hughes, N. i.

10. Mary Ann Mackey c1788,

11. John T. Mackey b. 28 June 1798 d. 15 Nov. 1,882; m. Mary Maranda (Polly) Beckham,

12. Andrew Jackson Mackey b. 1799 d. 18 Aug.1877; M-l, Sara Elizabeth Douglass; m-2, Edith Johnson, wid.

13. Margaret Missouri Mackey b. 23 May 1801 d. 20 Jan. 1868 bu. Douglass Presby. Ch. Lancaster Co; m. John Lytle Caskey,

14. Agnes (Nancy) Jane Mackey (c1803-1-852/53) bu. Lancaster Co; m. John Jarrett Sims, Jr.

8. Thomas C. Mackey (1784-1862), a deed to Thos. P. Ballard sg. 19 Feb. 1843, tract of land lying on each side of Dry Crk. a branch of Camp Crk. containing 300a. bounded by J. J. Sims, Horton's, James Bailey and others. Thos. C. Mackey/S/.

    Jennett (sic) w. of Thos. C. Mackey renounced her dower 19 Feb. 1844, and signs as Jennet McKey (sic).

Wit: John Bell, L. Fleming.

(Lancaster Co. S. C: O (Old Bk.) 432).

    Thos. C. Mackey was short in stature, medium build inclined to sturdiness with a short neck and broad shoulders. He was industrious and a man of high integrity. It is sd. he was drafted for service in the War of 1812, but did not serve. It is probable he hired some relative or friend to serve in his place as many did.

    He resided on a plantation on the S. side of Dry Crk. N. E. side of the Catawba River on the main road between Lancaster, S. C. and Camden, S. C. The court records indicate he owned several hundred acres of land in this vicinity and a few slaves, one of whom was old Hiram who remained with him until his death.

FOOTNOTE: *Micajah Crenshaw, Sr. was b. in Lunenburg Co. Va. He removed to Granville Co. N. C. with his bro. Gideon, before 1760. He is shown in the Waxhaw Settlement of Lancaster Dist. S. C., 14 Jan. 1?86 (Stub Indents, S. C. Archv.). He had a grant of 202a. surveyed for him 24 Mch. 1787, Camden Dist. (Grant Bk. 30-61., Secy. of State (S. C.) on a branch of Rockey Crk. a prong of Cedar Crk. N. E. side of Catawba Rv. bound on NE by John Simpson;SW by' Wm. Curry; NW by Jesse Tilman & widow Dukes land. (Priscilla Duke and Mary Cook were sisters of Micajah Crenshaw, Sr. and are mentioned in the will of their father, Joseph Crenshaw of Lunenburg Co. Va. pr. 1758 (W. B. 1-228).

    Mary Ann Crenshaw w, of Thos, Mackey, Sr. is sd. to have been one of the best "readers" of her day, and it was through her tutoring that her chn. received their education on the plantation,