The Niblock/Niblack/Niblick researchers on their rootsweb group have been discussing the tombstone of William Niblock of Rowan Co., NC. As a result, everybody was sent copies of the photograph and immediately they mentioned the Knox tombstone in the background. Knox is a family I have just breezed past, but my sister had this to say: --- Did you notice the Knox tombstone behind the Niblock one? That Mary Knox looks like she is the daughter of John Knox 1708-1758 and his wife Jean Gracy 1708-1772. Both born in Scotland, transplanted to Ireland by King of England. His wife was an Irish Presbyterian and having seven sons in the Revolution, William, Samuel, James, Absalom, John, Joseph, Benjamin, AND A DAUGHTER MARY. The son James is the grandfather of President James Knox Polk. Jean Gracy was the daughter of Jean Sinclair, a relative of the mother of John Knox the Reformer. They came to America about 1740 settling on land that had been granted by Earl Granville to James Stewart. This history book also has quite an extensive description of a skirmish in Rowan Co. Feb. 1-3, 1781 which could very well be the one in which our James Craig was killed. I haven't looked up his death date this morning, but wasn't that when he was killed? Judy Driscoll - I looked up the death of our James Craig (the head of them all on Team #14) and he was killed Feb 1 1781 according to wife Rhoda Niblick Craig when she filed for compensation for herself as a widow and four children. It never mentioned a battle, so we Craig researchers have always guessed at it. Well, James lived in Long Canes, SC, but his son John went up to Rowan Co. and married Elizabeth Andrews, granddaughter of the William Niblock on the tombstone). So this leaves us with: Did James Craig possible come from Scotland with the Niblock family? His wife Rhoda was Elizabeth Andrews' aunt per an old, old family letter.