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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power
http://sangamon.illinoisgenweb.org/1876/moffittg.htm

MOFFITT, GEORGE, was born about 1780, in Augusta county, Va., was married to Rebecca Gilkison, had two children there, and then moved to Fayette county, Ky., where six children were born. The family moved to Christian county, Ky., and from there to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in what is now Ball township in 1829. Of their children--

JOHN, born in Virginia, died in Sangamon county, unmarried, aged about forty-five years.

MYRA, born in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Moses Archer. See his name.

SALLY, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to David Black. They had six children, and Mr. Black died in 1857. His widow lives with her son GEORGE, who married in St. Clair county to Lavina Broom. They have six children, and live near Blue Mound, Macon county, Illinois.

EVELINE, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Thomas Drennan. See his name.

MARGARET, born May 18, 1808, in Fayette county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Thompson Pyle. See his name.

GEORGE, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Mahala Peters, moved to Jefferson county, Iowa, and died, leaving a widow and three children there.

MARTHA, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, to Calvin Stevenson, had one son, and Mr. S. died. His widow married James Mitts. They had seven children, and she died near Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

REBECCA, born in 1814, in Kentucky, married in 1826, in Sangamon county to Smith Ball. See his name.

Mrs. Rebecca Moffitt died in 1829, in Sangamon county, and Mr. Moffit married Mrs. Betsy Dawdy. They had two children--

JAMES and EMILY, and George Moffitt died in 1860, in Jefferson county, Iowa. His widow lives with her son James, in Mt. Pleasant. Iowa.--1874.




This George Moffett is #4 of the children..

"The third child of John McDowell and Magdalene Woods was Sarah. She married Col. George Moffett, of Augusta county, the same who drove the Indians from Kerr's Creek, and was ambuscaded and repulsed by them on the Falling Spring farm, in Alleghany county. Col Moffett (not Moffitt, as generally printed,) was distinguished in Indian warfare, at Guilford, Cowpens, King's Mountain, and fought from the beginning to the close of the Revolutionary war. Col. Moffett and wife, Sarah McDowell, had nine children:

1st. John, died young;
2d. Margaret, married her cousin, Gen. Joseph McDowell, of North Carolina, one of tine heroes of King's Mountain, and their son, Gen. Joseph Jefferson McDowell, of Hillsboro, Ohio, who died a few years since, married Sallie McCue, daughter of Rev John McCue, of Long Meadows, Augusta county ,Va,, who is still living, the only surviving child of her eminent father;
3rd. Jas. McDowell Moffett married Hannah Miller (daughter of the founder of Miller's Ironworks on Mossy Creek, the first west of the Blue Ridge) One of their daughters, Hannah Winters Moffett, married John McCue, of the Long Meadow, Augusta county, Va., father and mother of Mrs. Col. D. S. Bell, of Augusta county, Va,: judge J. H. McCue, Staunton; Mrs. Dr. C. Alexander, Staunton; Mrs. W. B. Dorman, Texas; Mrs. Decatur Hedges, of W. Va.; Jas. M. McCue, W. Va.; Wm. A. McCue and Miss Hannah W. McCue, both of Augusta co., Va. The said John McCue was long Presiding Justice of Augusta, and for a number of years represented the county in the Legislature.
4th child of Col. Moffett, and wife, Sarah, was George, who married Miss Gilkeson, and removed to Fayette, Ky.
5th. William, married a Miss McChesney, and a Jones.
6th. Mary married Dr. Joseph McDowell, of North Carolina, and after his death, she married, secondly Col. Jno. Carson, of North Carolina, member of Congress ; their son, Sam'l P. Carson, was also a member of Congress from that State.
7th. The seventh child of Col George Moffett and wife, Sarah McDowell, was Magdalene, who married James Cochran, of Staunton. Their children were, so far as I am informed, the late John Cochran, of Charlottesville ; Geo. M. Cochran, of Staunton; the late Mrs. Benj. Crawford; the late J. Addison Cochtan; the descendants of these, are many of them, among the most distinguished professional and business men of the country.
8th Martha, who married Capt. Robert Kirk, of the U. S Navy .
9th. Elizabeth, who married James Miller, of Mossy Creek,"
Source: "History of Augusta County, Virginia" by J. LEWIS PEYTON 1882