Display Patriot - P-245350 - Alexander MCALISTER/MCALLISTER

Alexander MCALISTER/MCALLISTER

SAR Patriot #: P-245350

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
 

State of Service: NC      Qualifying Service: Colonel / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A074373

Birth: 1715 Loup / Islay / Scotland
Death: aft 1790 / Cumberland / NC

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Member of the Provincial Congress of NC, Cumberland Co, 1775
  2. Member of the Committee of Safety, 1776
  3. LtCol - Cumberland Co. Militia, 1775
  4. Col - Cumberland Co. Militia, 1776

Additional References:
  1. NSDAR #940563 cites: Saunders, The Colonial Records of NC, Vol 10, pg 207, 215, 165,174, 500, 523, 531
  2. Hay, Roster of the Soldiers from NC in the American Rev, pg 498, 500, 503

Spouse: (1) Mary McNeill; (2) Flora McNeil/McNeill; (3) Jean Calvin/Colvin;
Children: Grissella; Margaret; Catherine/Katherine; Janet/Jennet; Coll; Alexander; Hector; Charles;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1942-09-03 NC Unassigned Alexander Worth McAlister Jr (61387) Charles   
1942-09-03 NC Unassigned James Shubel McAlister Jr (61388) Charles   
1958-02-28 AL Unassigned Henry Poellnitz Johnston (80463)   
1958-02-28 AL Unassigned Henry W Poellnitz III (82764)   
1958-03-21 NC Unassigned Lacy Little McAlister (82520) Charles   
1959-02-20 AL Unassigned Charles Augustus Poellnitz (83870)   
1960-03-16 AL Unassigned Robert W Poellnitz (85705)   
1960-04-25 NC Unassigned Francis Marion Harper Jr (86101) Janet   
1969-11-06 NC Unassigned Benjamin Alexander Johnson (99038) Janet   
1970-01-23 NC Unassigned Stedman Black Bryan (99049) Janet   
1980-03-10 OK Unassigned Ben M Huckabay Jr (103382) Grissella   
1985-02-13 SC 230466 Hector McAllister McNeill (125278) Alexander   
1995-02-28 NC 206903 Ray Donavon Munford Jr. (144144) Grissella   
1996-10-11 AL 202636 Henry Withers Poellnitz III (147185) Margaret   
2004-06-22 GA 20029 George Blackburn Sargent (162888) Catherine   
2013-04-26 NC 52832 Neill Alexander Lindsay III (187091) Jennet/Janet   
2017-06-16 NC 75501 Robert Alford Hasty Jr. (203264) Grissella   
2021-10-15 PA 99269 Michael McKay Williamson (220719) Janet/Jannet/Jennet   
2022-10-28 MD 104182 Rufus G Kelly III (224166) Janet   
2023-01-27 GA 104773 Mathew Avary Pinson (225089) Catherine   
Burial:
Old Bluff Presbyterian Church Cemetery (C-0371217)
Location:
Godwin / Cumberland / NC / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
1764222
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
69463261
Marker Type:
DAR / SAR
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
09 Aug 2014

Comments:

Cenotaph memorial plaque erected by the DAR on the face of a large boulder



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
  • Find-a-Grave cites:
    • Located 1/2mile NW of the intersection of Sisk Culbreth Road (SR 1812)
    • It’s actually physically closer to Wade than Godwin, but the road address is Godwin, North Carolina


Author: Neill Alexander Lindsay III

Alexander McAllister was born in Loup Islay, Scotland in 1715. He immigrated to the Colonies before 1739, settling in Cumberland County, North Carolina, one of the areas home to the Highland Scots. He married Mary McNeill in 1739. After her death in 1740, he married a second time to Flora McNeill. His third wife was Jean Colvin.

He was a delegate to the General Assembly in New Bern, North Carolina, in 1774. On September 9, 1775, Alexander was commissioned as a Lieutenant Colonel under Colonel Thomas Rutherford in the Cumberland County Regiment of the North Carolina Militia. The following year he was promoted to Colonel in the Cumberland County Regiment. He was a representative to the Provincial Congress in Hillsboro, North Carolina, in 1775. He served in the North Carolina Senate in 1787, 1788, and 1789 where the US Constitution was ratified.

He continued to live in Cumberland County, North Carolina, after the war until his death in 1798 in Wade, North Carolina. He is buried in the Old Bluff Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Wade, North Carolina. His grave is marked with a DAR marker.

Sources:

  1. McAllister, David Smith, Descendants of Col. Alexander McAllister Etc. & Etc. - Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Cumberland County, North Carolina, Virginia. Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1900.
  2. Saunders, William, The Colonial Records of North Carolina: Published Under the Supervision of the Trustees of the Public Libraries, by Order of the General Assembly. Vol. X, North Carolina. Raleigh: Josephus Daniels, Printer to the State, 1890, pages 207, 215, 165,174, 500, 523, 531.

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