Jean Graham (Alexander)

Jeane Graham did not leave her sons any of her Est. as indications are that they were quite "well to do" and did not need it. She left all of the land, clothing and her husband's sermon book to her daughters, Margaret Templeton, with whom she lived. She gave her husbands sermon book to her daughter Nancy Williams, wife of Jeremiah Williams Sr. Her land is containing 389 acres and adjoining John Cornachan's on Turkey Creek. She appoints her daughter, Margaret Templeton and Hugh Barry executors with witnesses, James Willson, George Templeton and William Templeton.

Recorded April 30, 1792 in Will Book A-13, pg. 69, Case 56, file 160. The data on the children and grandchildren of Jeane Graham was collected by the late well-known genealogist, Leonardi Andrea from various sources, during the past fifty years, includint a chart drawn in 1938 by K. Graham Copeland of Everglades, Florida, listed as "Genealogy of the Graham families of Barnwell Co. SC. Mr. Andrea was too ill, with heart trouble and cancer to hunt documents to prove the priceless verbal statements given to the compiler. Jeane Graham had six actual children, but only five were minors at the time she settled in Mecklenburg NC. later York Co. SC. Another Genealogist to do this research was Mrs. W. S. Elrod, Genealogist for Miss Isadora Williams. "Ancestry of Nancy Graham Williams"