First Families Proven Ancestors
The following persons are proven ancestors with descendants who have been accepted as members of First Families of Old Buncombe under the following individuals:
Thomas Henry Abel
James Alexander
Robert Anderson
John Ashworth
Wesley Banks
Col. Joseph “Job” Barnard
John Bennett
Adam Biffle/Buffel
James Boyd
Robert Houston Brank
Solomon Briggman
James Brittain, (Jr., Sr., or II; b. 1750-55 in VA; d. abt. 1831 in Henderson Co., NC; wife was Deliliah)
William Brittain
Benjamin Brookshire
James Holmes Bryson
William M. Bryson (b. ca 1758 in PA; d. 1817 in Bunc/Hend Co., NC; wife was Susanna Bogle)
Gen. Edward Burleson
James Burleson
Canagatoga, Old Hop
Zachariah Moorman Candler
William Capps
John Case, Sr.
Thomas Case
Capt. George M. Cathy
William Cathey (1777-1864; wife was Catherine Turner; proven 2002)
William Cathey (bef. 1755-1812; wife was Rebecca (-?-); proven 2017)
Elihu William Chambers
James Chambers
John Chambers
Jane Claypoole
Lambert Clayton
Ann Cole
David Cole
Matthew Cole
Rachel Thrash Cole
Adam Cooper
Adam Cowan (Cowen)
James Craig
George Cunningham
Humphrey Cunningham
Col. William Lee Davidson
Maj. William Davidson
Uriah Davis (b. 1740 in MD; d. 1808 in Bunc. Co., NC; wife was Elizabeth (-?-))
William John Dever/Deaver
Absalom Dillingham
Adam Dinsmore/Dunsmore
Ann Edmon
Asa Quincey Edney
Samuel Edney
John Jackson Edwards, Sr.
John Jacob Eller, Jr. (b. ca 1754-55 in PA; d. UNK; wife was Mary Biffle) (Sr. Found in Rowan Co. Wills in 1782)
William Erwin
Capt. William C. Fletcher, Jr.
Samuel Forgay
Col. Thomas Foster (b. 1774 in VA; d. Dec 1858 in Bunc., NC; buried in Newton Academy Cem; s/o William Jr, II, below, and brother of William III, below)
William Foster/Forster/ Forrester Jr., or II (b. 31 Mar 1748 Ireland; d. 02 Apr 1830 in Bunc. Co, NC; buried in Newton Academy Cem.; Md. Elizabeth Heath ca. 1771 in VA)
William Foster III, (b. 1776 in VA; d. May 1826 in Bunc. Co., NC; buried in Newton Academy Cem.; wife was Fannie Lucinda Ballew)
Martin Alley Gash
John Gillaspie
Epaphroditus Gilliam
Denise DeCrease Green
Henry Griggs
William Gudger
Phillip Guice
George Hall
Benjamin Hawkins
James Hawkins
John Hawkins
John Hays/Hayes
Capt. Thomas Hemphill
Sgt. Henry Harry Hensley
Phillip Gysberti Hoodenpyle
Sookie Granny Hopper
Zephaniah Horton
William Hunter
Shadrack Hyatt
Daniel Jarrett, Sr. (b. Dec 1747 in PA; d. Feb 1822 in Bunc. Co., NC; wife was Mary Catherine Moyer)
James Johnson/Johnston
John Jones, Sr.
Joshua Jones
Thomas Pleasants Jordan
John Justice/Justus
Reuben Keith, Sr.
Daniel Killian, Sr.
Joseph Milton Kilpatrick
Samuel King, Sr.
Abraham Kuykendall
William Kyle
John Lance, Sr. (b. ca 1758 in SC; d. ca 1820 in Bunc. Co., NC; wife was Mary (-?-))
John Lance, Jr. (b. 1787; d. (-?-); wife was Sarah Ann (-?-))
Peter Lance
Barney Landers
John “Pioneer” Lanning, Sr. (b. Feb 1757 in NJ; d. Aug 1839 in Bunc. Co., NC; Md. Sarah Whitaker in Rowan Co., NC)
William Lawson
Edward Leatherwood
William Lusk
Andrew Lyda
Martin Maney
James McBrayer
Samuel McBrayer, Sr.
Samuel McBrayer, Jr.
John David McCarson, Sr.
Malcom McCourry
Alexander McDaniel
Jane Gurley Meehan
John Merrell
Absalom Abraham Metcalf
Mary “Polly” Mills
William Henry Mills, Jr.
William Mills
William Hamilton Moore
Abner Mullins
Samuel Murray, Sr.
Mary Newman
John Orr
Jeremiah Osborn, Sr. (b. ca 1734 in VA; d. 1805/06 in KY or OH; Md. Mary “Polly” Newman ca 1759 in Old Augusta Co., VA)
Jeremiah Osborne, Jr. (b. 1772 in VA; d. 1812/13 in Bunc. Co., NC; (Mud Ck present Henderson Co., NC); wife was Anne Blyth; s/o Jeremiah Sr. even though surname spelled differently)
John Osborn
Soloman Osteen
Mosbey Owen
Jesse Owens
Edmund Palmer
George Patton
Col. John D. Patton
Robert Patton
Thomas Patton
Charles Phillips
Thomas L. Ray, Sr.
James “Jim” Reeves
Abraham Reynolds
Joseph Marion Rice, Sr.
William Rice
John Roberts, Sr.
Robert Gaines Roberts, Sr.
William Robeson
Hugh Rogers
Robert Rogers
Henry Roland
Matthew Russell, Jr.
Edmund Sams
John Sams
James Scott
David Shelton
Roderick Shelton
Jacob Shipman
Jacob Shook
Capt./Col. Daniel Smith (b. 1757 in NJ; d. 17 May 1824 in Bunc. Co., NC; Md. Elizabeth Davidson in 1781 in Rowan Co., NC)
Samuel Smith
James Stepp
James Stringfield, Sr.
Richard Sumner
Samuel Taylor
John Thomas, Jr.
Nathan Thompson
Valentine Thrash
William Treadway, Jr.
Capt./Col. David Vance, Sr. (b. 1745 in Fred. Co., VA; d. 1813 in Bunc. Co., NC; Md. Priscilla Brank in Sept. 1775 in Rowan Co., NC)
James Warren
John Weaver
John Wells
Robert Wells
Jeremiah West
Joshua Whitaker, Jr.
William Whitaker/Whitteker
Charles Williamson, Sr.
Elizabeth “Betsy” Davis Wilson
Joseph Richard Wilson
James Witherow
Ann Wood
James Wood
William Young