Mary Buntin was born on 18 December 1741 in Surrey County, North Carolina, to Robert Buntin and Martha Diterson. She married first John Ray in 1760. Their sons were James, William, and John Ray. Mary was widowed when her husband died in 1764. She married second Colonel Hugh McGary, 1766, in North Carolina. He raised her boys as his own and fathered three or four more children with her: Robert, Daniel, Mary, and possibly Rosanna McGary. Mary brought the first Bible into the state when the McGary family migrated with Daniel Boone in the fall of 1775. Hugh was known as "a headstrong man of fierce passions" but his wife was an equally strong-minded widow woman, who, it was said, "could manage McGary where a whole army couldn't." After the death of her 14-year-old son, William, who was scalped by Indians, Mary Buntin McGary retired to her bed until her death in the spring of 1780, aged 39. She was buried at the cemetery on the hill above Shawnee Springs in Mercer County, Kentucky.
Mary Buntin was born on 18 December 1741 in Surrey County, North Carolina, to Robert Buntin and Martha Diterson. She married first John Ray in 1760. Their sons were James, William, and John Ray. Mary was widowed when her husband died in 1764. She married second Colonel Hugh McGary, 1766, in North Carolina. He raised her boys as his own and fathered three or four more children with her: Robert, Daniel, Mary, and possibly Rosanna McGary. Mary brought the first Bible into the state when the McGary family migrated with Daniel Boone in the fall of 1775. Hugh was known as "a headstrong man of fierce passions" but his wife was an equally strong-minded widow woman, who, it was said, "could manage McGary where a whole army couldn't." After the death of her 14-year-old son, William, who was scalped by Indians, Mary Buntin McGary retired to her bed until her death in the spring of 1780, aged 39. She was buried at the cemetery on the hill above Shawnee Springs in Mercer County, Kentucky.
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