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Jacob Houser
Samuel Bryan
Transcribed from:
Rowan Co. NC Will Book Vol. #D page # 121
Samuel married Elizabeth McMahon. Elizabeth was born in 1732 in Frederick County,
Virginia and died before 1810 in Fayetteville, Anson County, North Carolina.
Noted events in her life were:
• Information: 1732, Frederick County, Virginia. Elizabeth was Samuel's second wife.
His first wife was
68. Eleanor Bryan (Morgan III 5 , Morgan II 4 , Morgan I (Capt.) 3 , William (Capt.) 2 ,
John Sr. (Capt.) 1 ) was born in 1722 in Chester County, Pennsylvania and died in 1792 in Madison
County, Kentucky at age 70.
Eleanor married William Linville, son of John Linville Sr. and Anne Hendricks.
William was born in 1718 in Stafford County, Virginia and died in Jul 1766 in Linville Falls,
Rowan, North Carolina at age 48.
Noted events in his life were:
• He died in 1766 in Linville Falls, Rowan County, North Carolina. William and his son
John were killed by Native Americans at the Falls of a river, and the falls were named
after the Linville family.
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"Two men named Linville from the forks of the Yadkin went to hunt on the Watauga
River between 1760 and 1770. They employed John Williams, a lad of sixteen, to go
with them, keep camp and cook for them. They were sleeping in the camp when the
Indians came on them and killed the Linvilles. They "shot Williams through the thigh,"
but he escaped and rode a horse from the mouth of the Watauga "Hollows in Surry" in
five days. He recovered from his wound and became a man of influence.
It is now almost certain that these falls have taken their name from these two men, who
may have visited them before their last hunt and told the people of their location and
beauty, for Dr. Draper (note, p. 183) records that the stream itself was named from the
fact that in the "latter part of the summer of 1766 William Linville, his son and a young
man had gone from the lower Yadkin to this river to hunt, where they were surprised by
a party of Indians, the two Linvilles killed, the other person, though badly wounded,
effecting his escape.
The Linvilles were related to the famous Daniel Boone.
" It is a matter of record that a family by the name of Linvil---probably an economic
way of spelling Linville---were members of Three Forks Baptist Church and lived on
what is now known as Dog Skin Creek, or branch, but which stream used to be called
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