John McWhorter
BIRTH: 17 Jul 1774
USA
DEATH: 4 Feb 1839 (aged 64)
Oconee County, South Carolina, USA
BURIAL
Bethel Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Walhalla, Oconee County, South Carolina, USA
"JOHN MCWHORTER OF LITTLE RIVER"
John McWhorter, son to Moses Allen McWhorter, married distant cousin Mary McWhorter, daughter of David McWhorter & Mary Poston. A Schoolmaster known as "John McWhorter of Little River," to distinguish him from his brother-in-law, a blacksmith called "John McWhorter of Cane Creek".
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"From the most authentic information, Bethel Church, [Pendleton] District, South Carolina was organized in the year of our Lord, Anno Domini 1805. The first house of worship was a rough round log house. The first Pastor, Rev. Andrew Brown. The Elders, Gen. Andrew Pickens, Nathan Lusk, Robert White. Subsequently a hewed log house was erected. The families composing the congregation were as follows: viz; on Little River, JOHN MCWHORTER (school master), Nathan & Henry Lusk, Alexander Keown, John Hughes & Andrew Pickens. Oconee Creek were Thomas Lesley & Francis Jinkens. On Cane Creek Patrick, Andrew, Alexander & John White, James Anderson, Oliver Woods, JOHN MCWHORTER (black smith), John & Josiah Houston, Jesse Neville & Mrs. Ware, and Conneross Arthur McDow and Abner Steele" (Minutes of Session, April 22, 1855, S.R. McFall, clerk).
In the early 1830s the founding families of JOHN MCWHORTER (school-master) and Francis Jinkins departed to establish Richland Presbyterian Church in 1834, serving as Richland's first two ruling elders.
John & Mary McWhorter had 9 children;
1.David Washington
2.Moses Edward
3.Sarah Love
4.John Newton
5.Mary Matilda
6.Isaac A.
7.Andrew Poston
8.Belinda Adeline
9.Elizabeth Ann
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