Mary Pettus was born in York County, SC ca 1900, the daughter of Capt. George Pettus and Mary Knox of the Steel Creek community, Mecklenburg County. She married William Burton and they lived in Steel Creek just north of the South Carolina line on land she inherited from her grandfather, Samuel Knox. William Burton died in early 1842. Evidently the family had attended Flint Hill Baptist Church in upper York County close to the NC line (today the church is between Pineville and Carowinds just off Hwy 51). An 1848 entry in the Flint Hill Church records shows: “Take up the case of Mary Burton and finding to our satisfaction that she has joined the Methodist Church in Georgia, therefore Resolve that she is cut off from the church for covenant breaking.” At this point I lost track of Mary Pettus Burton for a number of years but recently found her in Meriwether County, Georgia with her daughter, Mary Springs Burton, who married Rev. William E. Holliday, a Methodist minister and had a 5 month old son, Clark F., in the 1850 Georgia census. Another daughter, Rebecca, who had first married a Fuller of York County and was now with a second husband, Jackson Laney, of Mecklenburg, was nextdoor in the same census. Again I was stuck but just found this in The Southern Christian Advocate, Nov. 4, 1858: “Rev. Wm. E. Holliday, formerly of the S. C. Conf., died in Madison Co., Miss., on the 20th Sept. 1858.” Now I am searching for Mary’s whereabouts in Mississippi. But, back to William Burton, Mary’s husband. Does anyone know his parents or siblings? Was he a native of Mecklenburg County? Any information on this family would be much appreciated. I would be happy to share what I have on the families of Samuel & Mary (Taggart) Knox of Mecklenburg and the Pettuses of York Co. Louise Pettus