Daniel McKissick

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Daniel was born in 1749, the son of unknown parents. The place is not known.

He died on 18 Nov 1818 in Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee.

His wife was Jane Wilson, who he married in 1776. The place has not been found. Their four known children were Margaret (1777-1865), Mary (1780-1853), James (1783-1848) and David (1786-1863).

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Lt. Col. Daniel McKissick was born in 1749 and died November 18, 1818. He is said to have come to America with his parents when he was about ten years of age or younger. He was not known until he married Jane Wilson in Lincoln County, North Carolina in 1776 and when he was twenty seven years of age. They were married by the Rev. Lyle of the Sugar Creek Presbyterian Church. He established his home in Lincoln County (now Gaston County), North Carolina, and was a neighbor of General Joseph Dickson. Daniel McKissick was a Captain of Dragoons and Lieutenant Colonel in the North Carolina Militia during the Revolutionary War. On June 20, 1780, in the Battle of Ramsour's Mill, which was fought about ten miles from his home, he was severely wounded in his left arm. When his wife was notified that he had been wounded and left for dead on the battlefield, she went to the battlefield immediately. Searching among the dead and wounded, she found her husband and carried him to the Rhinehart House nearby, where they remained until he could be carried home. He had only partial use of his arm for the remainder of his life. From 1780 to 1798 he served alternately in the House of Representatives and the Senate of North Carolina. About 1807, Daniel McKissick and his wife, Jane, moved to Bedford County, Tennessee. He settled on a farm about seven miles south of Shelbyville. He is listed as one of the early settlers in Bedford County. He was appointed as one of seven commissioners to select a county seat for the new county in 1807. He was also the first Circuit Court Clerk of Bedford County. He died November 18, 1818 at age 69 and is buried on his farm in Tennessee. 

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DANIEL MCKISSICK (1755 - March 18, 1811)

The following excerpts were taken from:

Emmett R. White's Revolutionary War Soldiers of Western North Carolina: Burke County Volume I; Southern Historical Press, Inc. Greenville, SC 1998.

Daniel McKissick/McKissock was born circa 1755. During the Revolutionary period he resided in southeastern Burke County (later Lincoln and then Catawba County.) He was married to Jane Wilson around 1776 and had nine children, they are as follows:

Margaret - born 1777

John - born 1784

Joseph - born 1791

Mary - born 1779

James - born 1782

David - born 1786

Daniel - born 1789

Wilson - born 1794

Elizabeth - born 1797

He served as one of the ranking officers under Col. Charles McDowell's Burke Regiment. While serving in the 2nd Rowan Regiment, McKissock participated in the Cross Creek Expedition in February of 1776, which was the cleanup operation following the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. In the summer of 1776, McKissock was along side Col. McDowell on the western frontier fighting against the Cherokee Indian raid. They held Cathey's Fort until they were relieved by a large expeditionary force of General Griffith Rutherford.

After being relieved from duty at the fort, McKissock took part in the Cherokee Expedition of August and September of that year. Upon his return to Burke County in 1778, he was active against local Loyalist in the area, and began his one year term as High Sheriff. He was appointed as field officer, of the Burke Militia serving under Lt. Col. Hugh Brevard, with the rank of major. In June 1780, McKissock, Lt. Col. Brevard, Capt. John Hardin, Major Joseph McDowell, Capt. John Bowman, Capt. John Dobson and others joined forces with the Rowan Militia to suppress Torie forces in Lincoln County. They won a major victory at Ramsour's Mill on June 20,1780, but that victory did not go without severe consequences.

Capt. Dobson, and Capt. John Bowman, who was serving as Burke County Sheriff at the time, were mortally wounded. McKissock, although escaping death, was critically wounded in the left arm, leaving him permanently disabled. After his injury, he became involved in administrative duties of the war, but did not participate in fighting. In early 1782, due to his seniority in rank, he presided over the court martial proceedings of Col. Charles McDowell, who had been brought on charges presented by another Burke Sheriff, James Davidson (see Sheriff James Davidson for more information).

Following the cessation of the war, Maj. McKissock became a military auditor of the Morgan District, and in 1782 was one of the Commissioners chosen to select the new county seat of Lincoln County. He became very active in Lincoln County Court affairs until his move to Bedford County, Tennessee in 1807. Records indicate that McKissock applied for and received a pension from the State of North Carolina due to his wounds received at Ramsour's. He died in Shelbyville, Tennessee on March 18, 1811. His widow, Jane, lived in Bedford County until 1836 when she moved to Benton County, Arkansas.

Note 2

At least six children of Joseph Dickson and Margaret McEwen apparently married children of men that served with him in American Revolution:

James L & Agnes Moore 1786

Robert & Ester Moore 1796

Joseph & Sarah Moore 1793

John B & Margaret McKissick 1798

Ezekiel & Mary McKissick 1802

William & Margaret McDowell 1801