Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson, II and his brother, Joseph, served under Col. Lyle with Lincoln at Charleston and were taken prisoners but were given a parole and allowed to return home. They had scarcely reached their home when the British General declared the country subdued and required all militiamen to join in the fight. Refusing to fight against their country, they joined the Company of Gen. Sumpter and was in the Battle of Hanging Rock, among others.

Robert 1760-1819 married Jane McDowell 1761-1853. He was Capt. in the Rev. War and Indian War. She was the daughter of Gen.Wm. and Ellen McDowell of York, N.Car.

About 1792, the sons of Robert and Eleanor moved to Tennessee. Robert Wilson, II was said to have been the first man to cross the Cumberland Mountains with a wagon. He married Jane McDowell, daughter of William and Ellen McDowell of York County, South Carolina. Both Jane and her mother went to King’s Mountain after the battle and remained several days caring for the wounded soldiers. It was said that William McDowell gave his only daughter in marriage because of the bravery that Robert Wilson displayed at King’s Mountain. Jane McDowell Wilson was a very courageous woman, also molding bullets for Gen. McDowell and his men for the Battle of King’s Mountain. Robert Willson, II was born in 1760 and died in 1819. Jane Wilson was born in 1761 and died in 1853. They are buried in a family graveyard in the part of the county that is now in Rutherford County, between Allisona and Eagleville.

Their children were:

1. Eleanor
2. Jane
3. Mary
4. Asenath
5. Cynthia
6. Martha
7. Louise
8. Matilda

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