-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 1:11 pm Subject: Re: [NCROWAN] Index, T-Z WILLIS Some pages referred to a John Willis ELLIS, and are not included here. 349 FIFTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT COMPANY K Privates Trott, Willis; d. of d. WISEMAN Page 119 >From Cowan=’s Ford=, the British pressed on and soon met Colonel Webster’s division, which had crossed at Beatties’s Ford, at Torrence’s Tavern; which Lord Cornwallis in his general orders styles “Crossroads to Salisbury,” and Tarleton in his map designates as “Tarrant’s.”This place is about two miles above Davidson College, and within a quarter-mile from where “Center Depot,” on the Atlantic Tennessee, and Ohio Railroad, now stands. They burned the house of Mr. Torrence, of John Brevard, General Davidson’s father-in-law, and set fire to Moses Winslow’s house; but the fire was extinguished by order of Lord Cornwallis. At Torrence’s Tavern, Colonel Tarleton with his light horse found about three hundred American militia, with a motley company of refugees in their wagons, from South Carolina and elsewhere, fleeing for safety. Tarleton made an onslaught upon these, killed a few of the militia, less than ten, and scattered the refugees. He sustained a loss of seven men and twenty horses in this action. This was about two o’clock in the afternoon. From Cornwallis’ order book we learn that the British army encamped at Torrence’s that night, and began its march in pursuit of Greene at half-past five o’clock on the morning of the second of February. From Tarleton’s map we learn that the route of the army was almost directly eastward for some fifteen or twenty miles, to a point which is called “Grimes,” southeast of Salisbury. This was probably Graham’s plantation, on the west side of Grant’s Creek, near “Wiseman’s Mill.” 169 John Brandon, the son of William Brandon, of Thyatira, married Mary, the daughter of Major John Dunn, of Salisbury. This couple died childless. Their residence was on the west side of Cathey’s Creek, a mile from Thyatira Church. The place was known of late years as the residence of Dr. Samuel Kerr, and still later as the home of our fellow-citizen, James S. McCubbins, Esq. The other son of William Brandon, known as Col. James Brandon, married Esther Horah, sister of Hugh Horah, and aunt of the late William H. Horah. He resided near Thyatira Church in his early married life. After the Revolutionary War he was “entry-taker,” and lost nearly all his property by the depreciation of continental money in his hands. In his latter days he lived in what is now Franklin Township, where William R. Fraley now resides. Col. James Brandon died about 1820, and left a number of children. 1. Among these was a son named William Brandon, who was a merchant in Salisbury, and kept his store about the place now occupied by Enniss’ drug store. He never married, and died young, about the same time that his father died. 2. Priscilla Brandon married William Gibson, and their children were Dr. Edmund R. Gibson, late of Concord, James Brandon Gibson, now an elder of Thyatira, George Gibson, who moved to Tennessee, now dead, and Mrs. Margaret G. Smith, now living with James G. Gibson. 3. Margaret, who never married, died about 1828. 4. Clarissa Harlowe, who married Thomas Kincaid. These were the parents of Mrs. Mary Ann Bruner, Mrs. Jane E. Fraley, and William Mortimer Kincaid, Esq. 5. Sophia Gardner, who never married, and died in 1846. 6. Mary, who married William Hampton of Rowan. Their children were Nancy Reed, the wife of Hon. Philo White; Margaret Gardner, wife of Montfort S. McKenzie, Esq.; Mary Ann, wife of John C. Palmer, of Raleigh; and James, who died young. 7. Elizabeth, who married Francis Gibson. Their children were Clarissa, the ‘wife of Benjamin Julian, of Salisbury; Esther, the wife of Jesse P. Wiseman, Esq.; and Emmeline, the wife of Rufus Morrison. 293 COMPANY K (ROWAN RIFLE GUARDS) ENTERED SERVICE APRIL 19, 1861. REORGANIZED AS COMPANY K FOURTH REGIMENT INFANTRY, MAY 30, 1861 Officers Francis M. Y. McNeely, Capt.; en. May 30, 1861; resigned May 31, 1862. W. C. Coughenour, 1st. Lt.; en. May 30, 1861; a. 25; pr. Capt. May 31, 1862; w. Seven Pines; appointed Inspector-General of Ramseur s Brigade, August, 1863; w. April 4, 1864, Amelia Courthouse. Marcus Hoffin, 2d. Lt..; en. May 30, 1861; pr. 1st. Lt. May 31, 1862; pr. Capt. August, 1863; appointed Capt. Com. Dept. 1864; w. Seven Pines. Williams Brown, Jr. Lt.; en. May 30, 1861; resigned November, 1861. Addison N. Wiseman, 1st. Sgt.; en. May 30, 1861; a. 24; pr. 2d. Lt. 1862; w. December 14, 1862; pr. 1st. Lt. 1863; w. Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863; k. Winchester, September 19, 1864. Wilburn C. Fraley, 3d. Sgt.; en. May 30, 1861; a. 21; pr. 1st. Sgt. 1862; w. September 19, 1864. Moses L. Bean, 4th. Sgt.; en. May 30, 1861; a. 20; pr. 1st. Sgt. 1862; pr. 2d. Lt. April 1, 1863; pr. lst. Lt. September 19, 1864; pr. Capt. February, 1865; w. May 12, 1864. James Bowers, 1st. Cor.; en. May 30, 1861; a. 21; k. Seven Pines, May 31, 1862, with Regimental Colors in his hands. John F. Kenter, 2d. Cor.; en. May 30, 1861; a. 23; pr. Q.-M. Sgt. November, 1861; c. Petersburg, Va. John L. Lyerly, 3d. Cor.; en. May 80, 1861; a. 27; transferred. James Crawford, 4th. Cor.; en. May 30, 1861; a. 23; elected 3d. Lt. Company B, Forty-second Regiment.