David McBrayer

David McBrayer
BIRTH
15 Feb 1772
Rutherford County, North Carolina, USA
DEATH
6 Jan 1855 (aged 82)
DeKalb County, Alabama, USA
BURIAL
Bethany Baptist Church Cemetery
Reece City, Etowah County, Alabama, USA
MEMORIAL ID
17006627 · View Source
MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 2
FLOWERS 5
David married Mary Young in 1793 in Rutherford County, North Carolina, daughter of John Young and Mary Young. She was born February 02, 1779 in Tryon (Rutherford) County, North Carolina, and died June 10, 1859 in DeKalb County, Alabama.

Mary was the daughter of his step-mother (also named Mary Young) and was only 14 years old when she married. They moved from the Broad River area about 1794 to the Horseshoe community of Buncombe County (now Henderson), where he later bought 100 acres of land on the headwaters of Shaw's Creek - on 3 Nov 1800 - from his brother-in-law, Amos Justice for $100, This had been part of a 200 acre grant awarded Justice on 27 November 1796.

On 25 August 1814 he entered claim for an additional 50 acres of land adjoining, which was granted on 4 December 1815. The deed registering the sale of his land in North Carolina has not yet been located, but it is known that David left Buncombe County in the winter of 1818 and moved his family just over the mountains to the south into the Greenville District of South Carolina, where on 30 Jan. 1819 he bought 100 acres of land for $100 from Robert Warren. The land was located on the north fork of the Saluda River. The Saluda River flows near the city of Greenville, South Carolina.(Bk L, p 149, Records of Deeds, Greenville, SC.)

It is believed that David's brother, John and his family, also lived near him in the Greenville area, since John sold his 100 acres of land in Buncombe County to his half-brother, Andrew McBrayer, on 30 November 1816. There have, however, been no records to verify this assumption.

David left South Carolina about 1821 and migrated to Alabama. One unsubstantiated source reports that he spent one year in Tennessee, where they obtained supplies before beginning the final leg of their journey. They supposedly came down the Tennessee River on flat-bottomed rafts and landed at Guntersville, Alabama. They later migrated to the Bristow's Cove in Blount County in about 1822. In about 1835 David moved his family into the Little Wills Valley and settled on a spring which was located in the now northern portion of Attalla and Reese City, AL. The land at that time was still Indian land, but later came open to settlement in. The Cherokees were removed to the west in 1836. (Ft. Payne, Alabama, was the county seat then.) It is now in Etowah County.

David, because he had settled the land prior to the removal of the Indians, became known as a "squatter". It is said that he, his sons, daughters and their descendants at one time "owned most of the land in Little Wills Valley from Attalla to the DeKalb County line and from ridge to ridge".

It was also David and his family who organized the Bethany Baptist Church in Reese City. This church celebrated its 150th birthday in 1985. David's farm was located just to the east of the church.

David sold land on 9 July 1844 to Allen Avery for $15. The land was located in DeKalb Co.

David is buried in the Bethany Cemetery, Reece City, Alabama Mary is buried beside David. Their grave markers can no longer be found.

(Information from "The McBrayers of America" by Carl B. McBrayer. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/c/b/Carl-B-Mcbrayer/in...)

Family Members
Parents

Samuel McBrayer
1736–1814

Elizabeth Ashe McBrayer
1740–1787

Spouse

Mary Young McBrayer
1779–1859 (m. 1793)

Siblings

Samuel McBrayer
1765–1840

Mary McBrayer Justice
1768–1811

James McBrayer
1769–1851

John B McBrayer
1774–1863

Half Siblings

Andrew McBrayer
1788–1851

Martha McBrayer Fletcher
1791–1855

Margaret Amelia McBrayer Cowart
1799–1870

Children

Rebecca McBrayer Gilliland
1794–1849

Elizabeth McBrayer Blythe
1796 – unknown

John Young McBrayer
1801–1869

Sarah McBrayer Avery
1809–1890

Samuel Crockett McBrayer
1812–1900

Susana Dulcenia McBrayer Rink
1819–1892

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Children

Rebecca Gilliland (born Mcbrayer), Elizabeth Blythe (born Mcbrayer), Nancy Mcbrayer, John Young Mcbrayer, Jane F. Nelson (born Mcbrayer), Peggy Mcbrayer, Sarah Avery (born Mcbrayer), Samuel Mcbrayer, Joseph Tally Mcbrayer, Dulcena Rink (born Mcbrayer), Thomas Justice McBrayer