Clayton - Person Sheet
Clayton - Person Sheet
NameWYLIE, Margaret Lee 
Birth Dateabt 1774
Birth PlaceChester County, South Carolina
Death Date22 Oct 1853 Age: 79
Death PlaceChester County, South Carolina
FlagsScarbrough Lineage
Spouses
Birth Date25 Feb 1766
Birth PlaceLerwick, Shetland, Scotland
Death Date5 Apr 1851 Age: 85
Death PlaceChester County, South Carolina
FlagsImmigrant, Scarbrough Lineage
Misc. Notes
Hugh Ross Sr. was an elder in the Purity church in 1813 at the time on 12th of January, 1813 when about one hundred men and women, heads of that many households, pledged, by signing as "Subscribers to Build Stone Wall Around Purity Burying Ground" on the 12th of January, 1813, funds for the constuction of the now nearly two-century old wall, a quarter century after the cemetery had been dedicated, still protecting the earlier graves.
Hugh and brothers William and Abram Ross were among the many subscribers, many inter-related by marriages during the first half-century of living in an area that was settled long before Chesterville existed. Chester court house, later Chesterville and then Chester was established by actions taken in 1795 about three miles northwest from the Purity meeting house and cemetery by a state commission from farm or timber land purchased from William Lacey.
This particular Hugh Ross is the oldest listed, for now, of the Hugh Ross entries at this site, but his father, also a Hugh Ross Sr., died in the early to mid-1780's while his daughter and four sons and two step-children were still quite young and was buried, as was the custom at that time in what was still a frontier area, whether by necessity or by religious perspectives, in a simple grave somewhere in Chester District most probably marked by field stones probably located on his original land grant near the dwelling. The year of birth of Hugh Ross is approximate and could be the year before, 1762, but seems more likely to be early 1763.
Somewhat like his father Hugh Ross, the second Hugh Ross, Sr., had a household of seven children, but in the latter's case the children were all his by blood. The father died in the 1780's intestate and his estate was administered in what was still then Camden District, but would shortly become Chester District. As noted the location of the elder Hugh's grave can only be guessed (but check out the land received when entering South Carolina under the Act to Encourage Protestant Immigration and his remains are almost certain to be there somewhere).
The younger Hugh Ross, Sr. was an early leader of the Purity Presbyterian Church and was one of the many dozen male and female subscribers of pledges to pay to build the first stone wall around Purity Burying Ground (already established in 1787) by instrument subscribed on 12 January, 1813 (as well as one of the five then serving Purity Presbyterian Church Elders, the officers of the church to whom the subscriptions would be collected for the church and that purpose):
"We whose names are hereunto subscribed do promise to pay unto Capt. John Kennedy, Hugh Ross, John Douglas, John Walker and George Kennedy, or their successors in office. Being an appointed committee to have a stone wall one hundred feet square and four feet high to be built around the present burying ground at Purity Meeting House. Each subscriber to pay the sum ascribed to his or her name when the work is finished or sooner if required by the Committtee given under our hands or by consent this 12th day of January, 1813."
Hugh and brothers William and Abram Ross were among the many subscribers, many inter-related by marriages during the first half-century of living in an area that was settled long before Chesterville existed. Chester court house, later Chesterville and then Chester was established by actions taken in 1795 about three miles northwest from the Purity meeting house and cemetery by a state commission from farm or timber land purchased from William Lacey.
This particular Hugh Ross is the oldest listed, for now, of the Hugh Ross entries at this site, but his father, also a Hugh Ross Sr., died in the early to mid-1780's while his daughter and four sons and two step-children were still quite young and was buried, as was the custom at that time in what was still a frontier area, whether by necessity or by religious perspectives, in a simple grave somewhere in Chester District most probably marked by field stones probably located on his original land grant near the dwelling. The year of birth of Hugh Ross is approximate and could be the year before, 1762, but seems more likely to be early 1763.
Somewhat like his father Hugh Ross, the second Hugh Ross, Sr., had a household of seven children, but in the latter's case the children were all his by blood. The father died in the 1780's intestate and his estate was administered in what was still then Camden District, but would shortly become Chester District. As noted the location of the elder Hugh's grave can only be guessed (but check out the land received when entering South Carolina under the Act to Encourage Protestant Immigration and his remains are almost certain to be there somewhere).
The younger Hugh Ross, Sr. was an early leader of the Purity Presbyterian Church and was one of the many dozen male and female subscribers of pledges to pay to build the first stone wall around Purity Burying Ground (already established in 1787) by instrument subscribed on 12 January, 1813 (as well as one of the five then serving Purity Presbyterian Church Elders, the officers of the church to whom the subscriptions would be collected for the church and that purpose):
"We whose names are hereunto subscribed do promise to pay unto Capt. John Kennedy, Hugh Ross, John Douglas, John Walker and George Kennedy, or their successors in office. Being an appointed committee to have a stone wall one hundred feet square and four feet high to be built around the present burying ground at Purity Meeting House. Each subscriber to pay the sum ascribed to his or her name when the work is finished or sooner if required by the Committtee given under our hands or by consent this 12th day of January, 1813."
Marr Dateabt 1800
Marr PlaceSouth Carolina