Lt. Thomas McCULLOCH (1736 - 1780) - some notes

MCCULLOCH, CORBITT, PATRICK, CLARK, LOGAN

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 6/17/2011 at 21:37:41

Notes transcribed from "Jefferson County Records"
by Mary and Orville Prill
Volume 2, Page 287

Note: Our good friend, Mr. W. G. CORBITT of Portland, Oregon, (native of Jefferson County, Iowa), has sent us a photo of the headstone at the grave of Lt. Thomas McCULLOCH in Little Brittain Cemetery, Rutherfordton, North Carolina. Lt. Thomas McCULLOCH was grandfather of Col. Thomas McCULLOCH 1795-1858, buried Abingdon Cemetery, Abingdon, Iowa.

The inscription on the gravestone of Lt. Thomas McCULLOCH reads as follows: "Here lies the body of Lieutenant Thomas McCULLOCH, belonging to Colonel Campbell's Virginia Regiment, who lost his life in and for the Honourable, just and Righteous cause of Liberty in defeating Colonel Ferguson's infamous company of banditti at King's Mountain October seventh, 1780."

Mr. CORBITT goes on to state that Lt. Thomas McCULLOCH was born 1736 in Virginia; married Isabell PATRICK in Virginia; lived on the North Fork of Holston River, Washington County, Virginia, northwest of Abingdon, Virginia, about 9 miles. W.G.C. is gr.gr.grandson of Lt. Thomas and Isabell (PATRICK) McCULLOCH. Their son, Robert McCULLOCH (May 2, 1764 - Aug. 29, 1849) married, in 1794, Sarah Ann CLARK (Nov. 25, 1775 - Dec. 25, 1854) and they were the parents of Col. Thomas McCULLOCH (1795-1858), of Abingdon, Iowa, according to Mr. CORBITT's McCULLOCH chart. Mr. CORBITT gives the maiden name of "Dorcas, wife of Col. Thomas M'CULLOCH" (buried Abingdon, Iowa) as Dorcas LOGAN.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.