Person:Mary Tyner (3)

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Mary Tyner
 
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Name Mary Tyner
Gender Female
Birth? 1765 , , North Carolina
Marriage to _____ Ryley

"Years later, Jack Manack, an Indian trader, found Mary and Tamar. The Indians sold Mary to John and they returned to Elbert County where they married. The Indians would not sell Tamar and were going to burn her alive as they thought she was trying to escape. An Indian woman felt sorry for her and helped her get a canoe and provisions with which she floated alone at night down the Chattahoochee. She reached Apalachicola where another boat took her to Savannah and from there was helped to get back to Elbert County. Tamar, born circa 1760, married James Hunt, a revolutionary War soldier. Their first child was born in 1779. (Taken from the "Chronicles of Wilkes County, GA" from "Washington's Newspapers 1889-1898