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- !REFERENCE:"The Mackeys" by Beatrice Mackey Doughtie, 1957;
!REFERENCE:"The Lewis Family of Seventeenth Century":
C 2. Susannah, daughter of David Lewis, by Miss (???) Terrell, his first wife, was born in Hanover county, Va., about 1726. She married Alexander Mackey, and moved from Albemarle county, Va., to Rutherford county, N. C., before the Revolutionary war, where she died, in 1784, from small-pox, on Broad river, a few miles from Rutherfordton. Alexander Mackey died in the same county soon after the close of the Revolutionary war. They raised six children, viz.:
D 1. John, died a bachelor in Robertson county, Tenn.
D 2. Susannah, married Rob. Young and died near the Ohio river, perhaps in the State of Ohio, or Kentucky.
D 3. Rebecca, married John Young and died near the Ohio river.
D 4. Mary, married a Mr. (???) Powers and died in Kentucky.
D 5. David, married Sally Potts and resided at New Madrid, New Madrid county, Mo., where his wife died, leaving two children. After the death of his wife he started to move. He placed his two little children on a boat and went by land himself in order to carry his stock. He was taken sick on the road and died in the Choctaw Nation: His children were never heard of afterward.
D 6. William Lewis Mackey, the youngest, was born in Rutherford county, N. C., about 1773.
Elizabeth Ashbrook, whom he married in Rutherford county, N. C., about the year 1792, was born in 1769 in Rutherford county, N. C.
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