Brice M McEver

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• Find-A-Grave: 39699397
• Reference Number: 9498
• Birth: 7 Dec 1774, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA

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Buried:
McEver Family Cemetery

Brice married Lieuraney Boroughs 7 Mar 1799, Jackson, Georgia, USA. Lieuraney (daughter of John Boroughs) was born 26 Mar 1781, Jackson, Georgia, USA; died 29 Aug 1847, Georgia, USA; was buried , White City, Bartow, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. Brice Collins McEver was born 10 Dec 1807, Franklin, Georgia, USA; died 22 Jun 1868, Bartow, Georgia, USA; was buried , White City, Bartow, Georgia, USA.
2. Thomas Caswell McEver was born 12 Dec 1812, Georgia, USA; died 14 Jun 1880, Georgia, USA; was buried , White City, Bartow, Georgia, USA.
3. Isabel Ann McEver was born 30 Oct 1822, Georgia, USA; died 28 Feb 1904, Georgia, USA; was buried , White City, Bartow, Georgia, USA.
4. Susan E McEver was born 25 Feb 1826, Georgia, USA; died 3 Feb 1907, Bartow, Georgia, USA.
5. Nancy McEver was born 24 Nov 1819, Georgia, USA; died 1896, Saline, Arkansas, USA.
6. Irene McEver was born 30 Jun 1817, Jackson, Georgia, USA.
7. Margaret C McEver was born 12 Mar 1815, Georgia, USA; died 29 Jan 1897, White City, Bartow, Georgia, USA; was buried , White City, Bartow, Georgia, USA.
8. Martha McEver was born 19 Sep 1805, Georgia, USA; died 29 Jan 1897, Georgia, USA.
9. James McEver was born 9 Oct 1803, Georgia, USA; died 4 Apr 1856, Georgia, USA.
10. Andrew McEver was born 19 Nov 1801, Jackson, Georgia, USA; died 4 Sep 1876, Georgia, USA.

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• Name: McKeever
• Reference Number: 9516

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The following information about John McEver was adapted from information received from Earl Strebeck and Truman McEver. Most came from a journal of John McEver Forbes, which he wrote in 1887 at the age of 87. It later (1934) appeared in the Anniston Times, Anniston, Alabama. John Forbes was the son of Arthur and Catherine McEver Forbes. Catherine was the daughter of John McEver.
John was born December 1739. He lived in Pennsylvania during the Colonial days, and there, about 1764, he married Margaret Collins, an Irish girl, daughter of John and Catherine Collins of the same state. During the American Revolution, John served under General George Washington. In Pennsylvania, he owned a farm, which was well improved with all the necessary out buildings to sustain itself. His dwelling was built of limestone over a large limestone spring, having a basement that contained a kitchen and dining room.
Being a trusting soul, John stood account for a man in the amount of 500 pounds sterling and unfortunately, was left to pay the debt, To cover the amount, he was forced to sell his farm. After selling his property and paying the debt, John and his family moved south and settled in Georgia. John and Margaret had. a large family. Andrew was born 1768, John, Jr. in 1771, Brice in 1774, James in 1776, Robert Collins McEver in 1777, Samuel in 1778, William in 1780, Mary Margaret in 1783, Isaac and Thomas M. between 1783 and 1789, Catherine in 1789, and Joseph in 1790. The family was in Jackson County Georgia in 1787. In Georgia, John McEver bought a tract of land in Jackson County on the Mulberry Fork- of the Oconee River, adjoining the then Cherokee Nation, ten miles from Hog Mountain. He began farming again and paid for the land. with tobacco. He also built a good frame house with corner posts twelve inches square. About 1807 or 1808, John road horseback top the Louisiana Territory where he purchased 2 shares of the Mississippi Land Company (Louisiana Purchase, 1803). He paid 2,000 pounds for 15,000 acres (two or three leagues) of land He placed a man in charge of his purchase until he could return to Georgia, dispose of his property, and move his family to the Louisiana Territory.
On his way home, he put up for a night with a man living on the Tennessee River in the Cherokee Nation. That night his mare was stolen. Being subject to rheumatism, he couldn't walk, so he wrote to one of his sons telling him to meet him 30 or 40 miles up the Tennessee River at a designated point with a horse. Also, in his letter to his son, John gave instructions that if he were not at this meeting place agreed upon, then the son was to come down the river to the man's house where he had lodged and from where his horse was stolen. He further wrote that he had bought land for a home for every grandchild that he might have.
After writing his letter to his son, John bought a canoe and started up the river to meet his son. When John's son reached the meeting place agreed upon, he could not fine his father. He went further down the river until he reached the man's house where John had stayed and from whom John has purchased the canoe. There, he inquired about his father. The man told him his father had left in the canoe loaded with his saddle bags and other possessions. Three days later the same canoe came floating back down the river smeared with blood and empty! It was thought that all was lost, John, his papers identifying his land purchase and the man's name that he had left in charge of his purchase. With a sad heart, the son started home. After riding about 20 miles, he thought he heard a horse neigh. He explored and behold a short distance from the road was his father's mare, tied to a tree. He untied the horse and she followed his home, but John's body and his precious papers were never found. Margaret Collins McEver, John's widow, continued to live in Jackson County Georgia, and I assume. she died there and is buried there.

John married Margaret Collins 1764, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA. Margaret (daughter of John Collins and Catherine Brice) was born 1740, Pennsylvania, USA; died 1807, Jackson, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 3099

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• Reference Number: 9494
• _MILT: French/Indian War
• Birth: 1716, Lancaster, Huntington, Indiana, USA
• Death: 1768, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA

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Here is a verbatim account of the adventures of Andrew
McEver, from the court records in Frederick County. It begins
in August, 1751.
"Andrew McEver
vs Judgment Sur (?) Report of Referee
Michael Kirkpatrick for the
"Command was given to the Sheriff of Frederick County that he
should take Michael Kirkpatrick Late of Frederick County Farmer
if he should be found in his Bailiwick and him should safe keep
so that he might have his body before his Lordships Justices of
his Lordships then next County Court to be held at Frederick
Town in said County on the third Tuesday in August then next to
answer unto Andrew McEver of a plea of Trespass upon the Case
and that thereof he the said Sheriff should not fail at his
Peril and that he should have then and There that Wit est? At
which said Third Tuesday of August to wit the Twentieth day of
the Same Month Anno Domini Seventeen hundred and fifty one being
the day of The Return of the aforegoing Wit Comes the said
Andrew McEver by Daniel Dulany Junior his attorney (whose
father, Daniel Dulany, was the founder of Frederick, Maryland)
and the Sheriff of Frederick County to whom the Same Wit was
Divested also _____ and makes Return thereof to the Court here
thus Indorsed to wit.
Cepi? Geo Gordon Sheriff
"And hereupon this day to wit The Third Tuesday in August in the
first Year of his Lordship the Lord Proprietary Dominion.
Thomas Kelly and John Henthorn (?) of Frederick County Farmers
in thier Proper (?) Persons in Court here becomes Pledges and
Manucaptors for the said Mimchael Kirkpatrick that in Case the
said Michael Kirkpatrick in the Plea aforesaid should be Convict
then the said ThomasKelly and John Henthorn Yielded (?) and
Granted that as well all Damages Costwhich to the said Andrew
McEver in this Part Should be Adjudged of their Lands and
Chattles Should be made and Levied (?) to the use of the said
Andrew McEver in Case the said Michael Kirkpatrick ____next line
illegible_____Andrew McEver do not Pay or his Body into Custody
of The Sheriff by Cuasion (?) thereof not Render And the said
Andrew McEver Declared against the said Michael Kirkpatrick in
the plea aforesaid as followes to wit Frederick County
__Michael Kirkpatrick late of Frederick late of Frederick County
farmer was attacked (?)to answer unto Andrew McEver of a plea
of Trespass upon The Case. And Whereupon the same Andrew by
Daniel Dulany Junior his attorney complains that whereas the
said Michael on the seventeenth day of April Anno Domini
Seventeen hundred and Fifty at Frederick County Aforesaid was
Indebted to the aforesaid Andrew in the Sum of ten pounds
Current Money of Pensilvania of the Value of Eleven pounds
thirteen shilling and four Pence Current Money of Maryland being
fora Particular article Properly Chargeable in an amount as by
a Particular amount thereof Herewith into Court brought may
appear and being so Indebted the aforesaid Michael in
Consideration thereof afterwards to wit On the Same Day andYear
Last Mentioned at Frederick County aforesaid upon himself
Assumed And to the said Andrew Then and There Faithfully
Promised that he the aforesaid Michael the aforesaid Sum of
Pensilvania Current Money of the Value aforesaid Current Money
of Maryland to the aforesaid Andrew when Thereto he should be
afterwards Required would well and Truly Content and

Andrew married Mary Elizabeth (Unknown) Pennsylvania, USA. Mary was born Abt 1702. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 11176

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• Reference Number: 3081

John married Catherine Brice 1745, Pennsylvania, USA. Catherine was born Abt 1720, Pennsylvania, USA; died Apr 1815, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 2218
• Death: 1815, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA
• Death: Apr 1815, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA