Mary Watson Akin
BIRTH 1760
Clover, York County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 14 Jan 1820 (aged 59–60)
Wayne County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL Pisgah Cemetery
Hampshire, Maury County, Tennessee, USA
She was born in 1760 in Clover, York District, SC. Her parents were Col. Samuel Watson and Elizabeth McDowell who lived near (and were very active in) the Bethel Presbyterian Church. Both her parents are buried in the historic Bethel Presbyterian Cemetery along with several members of her family, including her young daughter Mary "Polly" W. Eakin who died before the Akins moved to Tennessee. Mary's son by first husband Robert Howe is buried there near his grandparents and his half-sister.
The church was there during the Revolution, and a British officer promised to burn the church when he got back from King's Mountain. He never came back.
1st Married Robert Howe
1777
York Co., South Carolina
(Killed in Revolutionary War at the Battle of Hanging Rock. His body was never recovered from the battlefield)
2nd Married Rev. John Akin
1782
York District, South Carolina
Mary and John moved to Middle Tennessee probably because John would have had a land grant for service in the Revolution at King's Mountain, just north of Clover, SC.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62650568/mary_akin
