Isabella Graham

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Isabella, born September 21, 1764, died January 15, 1808, age 44. She married General Joseph Graham in 1787 and moved to Lincoln County. Joseph Graham was born in 1759, raised in Mecklenburg County, educated at Queens College and witnessed the reading of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence on May 20, 1775. From 1778 to 1791, aged 18 to 21, Graham served in the militia, taking part in 15 engagements and rising in rank from private to Major.

Perhaps the height of his career was in commanding the militia at the Battle of Charlotte where he was wounded by three gunshots and six sabre cuts and left on the field for dead. He recovered and continued to serve his country to the end of the war. After the war he continued his public service as County Sheriff, land commissioner, delegate to both conventions to ratify the Federal Constitution, and later as State Senator and on the founding board of the State University.

After he married Isabella in 1787 they moved to Lincoln County where he went into the Iron business with his father-in-law and his brother-in-law, Alexander Brevard. This industry made each of them a very rich man.

Graham served as a General in the War of 1812 and many public offices throughout his life. After 1820 he wrote his reminiscences of the Revolution which, though not published at the time, provides the only eye-witness accounts of many of the seminal events of that era, including the writing of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Notable among their eleven children was Mary, who married Dr. Robert Hall Morrison, the first president of Davidson College. She was the mother of Anna Morrison who married Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, and Isabella who married Confederate General Daniel Harvey Hill. Another notable child of this union was William Alexander Graham who served as Governor of North Carolina from 1845-49 and as a US Senator and Secretary of the Navy.

More information: Birth: unknown Death: Jan. 15, 1808

Consort of General Joseph Graham. Aged 45 years and 5 months.

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Parents:
 John Davidson (1735 - 1832)
 Violet Winslow Wilson Davidson (1742 - 1818)

Spouse:
 Joseph Graham (1759 - 1836)*

Children:
 Mary Graham Morrison (____ - 1864)*
 Robert Montrose Graham (1799 - 1821)*
 Alfred Graham (1803 - 1835)*
 Isabella Graham (1806 - 1807)*

Siblings:
 Isabella Davidson Graham (____ - 1808)
 Robert Davidson (1769 - 1853)*
 Violet Davidson Alexander (1771 - 1821)*
 John Davidson (1779 - 1870)*
 Benjamin Wilson Davidson (1787 - 1829)*