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Mrs Ann EDMONDSON/EDMONSTON/MCDOWELL
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P-331060
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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Author: Robert McDowell Hammond
Ann Edmonston McDowell was the wife of “Hunting” John McDowell. He was so-called because he was an outdoorsman, hunter and, with his wife, a very early settler of western North Carolina. In about 1748 Ann and John established their home, which they called Pleasant Gardens, near the Catawba River close by what is now the town of Marion. At the time, it was one of the most westernmost outposts of colonial civilization. They had three children: a son, Joseph, and two daughters, Ann and Rachel. Their son, Joseph McDowell, was a major serving in the Burke County, North Carolina militia under his father’s cousin, Col. Charles McDowell. Col. McDowell lived at his home, which was called Quaker Meadows, located about 20 miles east of Pleasant Gardens. When the Overmountain Men gathered with militias of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia to resist the advances of Maj. Patrick Ferguson, their rendezvous was at Quaker Meadows. As the men prepared for what was to be the Battle of King’s Mountain, Ann McDowell is recorded as “molding bullets” for use by her son, Maj. Joseph McDowell and his men. She probably did this at her home, Pleasant Gardens. As the men left Quaker Meadows on their way to Gilbert Town, Ann placed her bundle of bullets under her skirts and went, by horseback, to catch up with her son. On the way she was confronted by a group of Tories but managed to avoid any issue with them and continued on without their discovering her concealed package. She found her son, gave him the bullets, and, as they say, the rest is history. Ann McDowell died after 1800 and is buried in the Round Hill cemetery on what was then Pleasant Gardens property. She has been named a Revolutionary Patriot by the Sons of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the American Revolution. McDowell County, North Carolina was formed in 1842 and named for her son, Maj. Joseph McDowell.
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