Son of Hugh McWhorter and Keziah Tyler. Husband of Anna Parker, widow of his cousin, Michael Buchanan.∼*************************************************************************************
The first settlers after William and Michael Buchanan were James and Hugh McWhorter and James and George Moore, who came in about two years after the Buchanan's. The McWhorter and one of the Moores became permanent settlers. James McWhorter settled on the I.J. Haskin farm where he erected a log cabin and commenced a clearing, but did not remain long, as Gershom Towner purchased the Haskin farm prior to 1800. Finley McClure, who came about the same time as Gershom Towner, purchased the farm known as the Shaver farm, and cut the road through on the west side of the river from Kanona to his clearing.
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Michael Buchanan married Anna Parker, the pioneer schoolteacher, about the year 1800, the marriage having been solemnized by Gen. George McClure. He lived with his wife only seven years, when he died. In 1811 his widow married (Michael’s first Cousin) James McWhorter, but she continued to live on the Buchanan farm, it having been willed to her by her first husband. The first framed dwelling in Avoca was erected by James McWhorter on the Buchanan farm, and but about three rods from where once stood Eight-Mile-Tree.
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James McWhorter and Arathusia (Parker) Buchanan had four children;
1.Abigail McWhorter - 1812...………………..M:Spence Moore
2.Keziah McWhorter - 1813...………………..M:Joel Richard Collier
3.Tyler McWhorter - 1815...……………….….1M:Lydia Esther Grow
…………...………...…………………………..2M:Clarissa M. Luce
4.Hanna Ann McWhorter - 1818...…………...M:Nathan Barney
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HISTORICAL GAZETTEER
Steuben County, N.Y.
John Single Paper Co., Ltd.
Syracuse, N.Y., 1891
Compiled/transcribed by Dennis W. McWhorter
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