... Mary Ann Simpson, fourth child of Robert and Catherine Hunter Simpson, lived near Milton, Laurens County, S. C. She was born in 1792, the same year her father, Robert Simpson, died, and married in 1918 Archer Craddoc, son of Edmund and Nancy Elmore Craddock, who came from Virginia about 1786 to 1790 and settled on the head waters of Bush River, Laurens County, S. C. Archer Craddock was born in 1790, was killed with a knife by Samuel Whiteworth, for which he was afterwards hung. Mary Ann, his widow, proved herself to be a remarkable woman. After her husband's death, she took the plow and fed and clothed her family of young children, executed them above their condition, and during the whole of her life, maintained an unblemished character. Had the following children: ...
