Person:Esther Edmiston (1)

Esther Edmiston
Facts and Events
Name Esther Edmiston
Alt Name Esther Edmonson
Gender Female
Birth[1][2] 13 Apr 1766 Virginia, United States Possibly Grayson County
Marriage 10 Mar 1785 near Abingdon, Washington County, Virginiato Robert Campbell Kennedy
Death? 17 Aug 1823 Columbia, Maury, Tennessee, United StatesWhile Visiting Her Daughter

According to Dogwood to Bluebonnets


Per LC Strahan's notes: Hetty Montgomery McEwen: Hetty claims that her parents came to Nashville in 1786, when it was just a fort on the Cumberland, in NC. In 1808, they left Lincoln Cty (sic?) to settle on bounty land's Robt Kennedy rec'd for military service.
References
  1. Donald Loyd Bradley.

    Date of Import: Aug 21, 1999

  2. POB in Washington County is not consistent with settlement of the area. First settlers did not begin to arrive until 1769 at the earliest.