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Author: Frank Grady Hall III
Among the earliest members at Third Creek Presbyterian Church in Western Rowan County were Captain Richard Graham and James Graham.
Captain Richard Graham, born about 1716 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; died 13 February 1779; buried in Thyratira Presbyterian Church, Mill Bridge, Rowan County, NC) served in the NC State Militia during the Revolutionary war. He was the son of Scottish immigrants, James Graham and Mary Millar.
In 1736, he married Hannah Agnes Cathey (born before 1720 in Somerset County, Pennsylvania; died 1792 in Rowan County; buried in Thyratira Presbyterian Church, Mill Bridge, Rowan County, NC).
In his will, Richard willed personal and real property to his son James and his daughter Jane.
Private James Graham was one of the first Elders of the church and was Third Creek Church’s representative to Presbytery in 1798. As an Elder in 1789 this would mean at his death in 1834 he would have been a Ruling elder of Third Creek for 45 years. Private James Graham may have been the son of Richard Graham.
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