Maria (Mary) Cline

Marriage 1 George CLINE

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@R450350217@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

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The following is an account of Maria's
story as posted by Brady Kerr on his
rootsweb site:
Much of the history of those early pioneerdays was preserved for us by Mary, as she told of the early days to her great-grandsons in the 1850's.
Those boys include three Cline brothers, the sons of Wiley Cline.
Her memory was still clear when she was in her nineties, and ran back to her girlhood in Pennsylvania. When they left, Maria was large enough to
ride horseback on the long journey from Pennsylvania. She told of the wagon train trip from Berks
Co. (near Readling), across the SusquehennaRiver and down through Virginia. Since she
spent most of her time sitting beside the big fireplace knitting during the years she lived in the home of her grandson, Wiley Cline, the boys affectionately called her "Knitting Granny". It was fascinating to the boys to have"Knitting Granny" sit by the fire on winter nights and tell them of things that went on back in the days of George Washington, and
of old colonial days before our country cameinto being. During the Revolutionary War,several of Mary's brothers, as well as their Blackwelder cousins, who were neighbors, enlisted in the Army and went off to
Cowpens, SC to meet the win of the British Army in the Battle of Cowpens, in which our boys were defeated. According to her version, when the order toretreat was given by General Daniel Morgan, her long legged brothers and cousins didn't
take time to run around the scrub pine trees at the battlefield, but straddled over the top of them.However, many of our men in this story are the same ones abducted by the David Fanning Gang, or it could be that they were instead captured at "Gates Defeat" at the Battle of "Gum Swamp" near Camden, SC. It is the opinion of this writer, based on the evidence researched, that Meisenheimers and/or Blackwelders did fight at both "Gum Swamp" and "Cowpens".
Their relatives and friends made trips to visit these boys while prisoners, making the long trip on horseback or in buggies or wagons.
An epidemic of smallpox broke out among theprison inmates, and many of them died.
Some of the visitors also contracted the dreaded disease.</line><line />