Husband: Archibald WILKERSON
AKA: Archibald McQUILKIN
Birthdate: Abt 1776
Birthplace: Scotland
Death date: Bef 14 Mar 1829
Place of death: Troup County, Georgia
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Wife: Margarett
Birthdate: 1780-1788
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Death date: After 1840
Place of death: Troup County, Georgia
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CHILDREN

Child No. 1: John Wilkerson
Sex: M
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Death date: Bef 1845
Place of death: Troup County, Georgia
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Child No. 2: Neal K. Wilkerson
Sex: M
Birthdate: 20 May 1804
Birthplace: Robeson County, North Carolina
Death date: 27 Feb 1865
Place of death: Troup County, Georgia
Burial: Long Cane Baptist Church, Troup County, Georgia
Marriage date: 7 Feb 1831
Marriage place: Troup County, Georgia
Spouses' names: Rebeccah Johnston (1809-1879)

Child No. 3: Margaret Wilkerson
Sex: F
Birthdate: Bef Oct 1812
Birthplace: North Carolina
Death date: After 1880
Place of death: Anderson County, Texas
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Marriage date: 24 Aug 1830
Marriage place: Troup County, Georgia
Spouses' names: Pleiades Orion Lumpkin (1808-1855)

Child No. 4: Flora Wilkerson
Sex: F
Birthdate: Bef Oct 1810
Birthplace: North Carolina
Death date: Bef 1860
Place of death: Anderson County, Texas
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Marriage date: 24 Aug 1830
Marriage place: Troup County, Georgia
Spouses' names: George Washington Browning (Abt 1808-1853)

Child No. 5: Jane A. Wilkerson
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1813
Birthplace: North Carolina
Death date: 1877
Place of death: Washington County, Florida
Burial: Cravey Cemetery
Marriage date: 8 Dec 1830
Marriage place: Troup County, Georgia
Spouses' names: James W. Cravey (1810-Bef 1865)

Child No. 6: Alexander J. Wilkerson
Sex: M
Birthdate: 10 Nov 1815
Birthplace: North Carolina
Death date: 10 Nov 1855
Place of death: Tallapoosa County, Alabama
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Marriage date: 21 Sep 1837
Marriage place: Troup County, Georgia
Spouses' names: Jane Adaline Potts (1821-Aft 1870)

Child No. 7: Archibald Alonzo Wilkerson
Sex: M
Birthdate: 14 Jul 1818
Birthplace: North Carolina
Death date: 1867
Place of death: El Dorado, Union County, Arkansas
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Marriage date: [1] 3 Oct 1847 [2] 29 Jul 1861
Marriage place: [1] Chambers County, Alabama
Spouses' names: [1] Bethany Ward (1829-Abt 1854) [2] Mary Frances Hammond (1827-1896)

Child No. 8: Rebecca Wilkerson
Sex: F
Birthdate: 26 Dec 1824
Birthplace: North Carolina
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Spouses' names: John Milton Andrews (1808-1857)

Child No. 9: Mary Ann Wilkerson
Sex: F
Birthdate: 6 Sep 1825
Birthplace: North Carolina
Death date: 18 Sep 1899
Place of death: El Dorado, Union County, Arkansas
Burial: Hammond Cemetery, El Dorado
Marriage date: Abt 1843
Marriage place: Georgia
Spouses' names: Newton Gilbert Hammond (1822-1877)

Child No. 10: Joseph Wilkerson
Sex: M
Birthdate: 28 Jul 1827
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Death date: 1 Jan 1834
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Documentation:
  * Archibald came to Troup County by way of Monroe County, Georgia in 1827. We know this from a land purchase he made at that time from Whitfield Sledge, another early Troup pioneer. He paid $250 for 202.5 acres in land lot 257, district 5. This is recorded in Deed Book A. Most likely, Mr. Sledge won this property in the Georgia Land Lottery, since all those parcels were 202.5 acres in size.
  * However, his time in the county was short - he died intestate before 1829. His possessions were handled by different administrators, including W. W. Carlisle and David B. Cameron. Three appraisers were hired to inventory his possessions.
  * Records of the sale of his worldly goods to thirty different purchasers exist in the Troup County archives. His slaves, Mack, Sarah, Dick, Sealy (sp?), Harriet and Arthur were all purchased by the administrator of the estate, D. B. Cameron, on November 25th, 1829. Tempy was retained and we might guess that she was the children's nursemaid. He left a wife and five small children behind. He also had five older children.
  * Archibald had a son John who also had children and about midway through the distribution of the returns of his estate, John must have died because his orphans are included in the distributions of 1844 and 1845, when the estate was closed.
  * Because his other older son Neal K. won land in the land lottery, you might wonder if John was the oldest. Typically the oldest son got the property when the father died.
  * We can guess from later census information that his wife Margaret must have been in her mid to late forties when her husband died.
  * At the time of their father's death the children were the following approximate ages: Neal K was about 24. John may be the oldest, but we cannot find a record of him. Alexander J and Archibald Alonzo were in their mid teens. Joseph was just a little tyke of one and a half years. Flora, Margaret and Jane were all in their late teens. Rebecca and Mary Ann both under five.
  * All of these children, with the possible exception of Joseph, claim on the US census to have been born in North Carolina. According to family verbal history, Neal K. was born in Robeson County.
  * An 1820 census of Robeson County shows an Archibald Wilkerson and the family listed on it matches the ages of the existing children at that time, which total seven. However, Mary Ann shows on the census later in life that she was born in North Carolina also, so we can safely assume that all of the children with the possible exception of Joseph, were born in North Carolina.
  * Mary Ann was born in September of 1824, so the family must have made their move south after that.
  * We also know that as of December of 1827, Archibald and his family were living in Monroe County, Georgia, which is just east of Troup County.
  * The children married several people from Greene County, Georgia which could mean that the family spent some time there on their migratory path. A map of Georgia shows that Greene and Monroe counties are on a direct path from Robeson County to Troup County.
  * Margarett won land in the lottery after her husband died. 26th DIstrict, 2nd section, Cherokee
  * Margarett was living in Heard County with a family named Talley. She had a number of small children when he died. He died about 1829 and she had 5 children born after 1815. This means she lived with him in NC
Last Modified: 16 Oct 2005