Direct Descendants of Barbara Culp 1 Barbara CULP b: ca 1739 d: ca 1790 E. Chester Co., SC Father: Hans Casper KOLB Mother: Anna FELICITAS -+William MCKINNEY b: ca 1736 Big Fish Creek, E. Chester Co., SC d: Bef. Apr 27, 1785 SC 2 Hannah MCKINNEY b: 1761 Chester Co., SC d: 1839 ---+John STEADMAN b: ca 1753 England m: ca 1784 d: 1840 Father: Robert STEEDMAN Mother: _ HENDERSON --3 John STEADMAN b: ca 1795 Chester Co., SC d: Aft. 1850 Spartanburg Co., SC ----- +Sally MINTZ b: ca 1795 Rutherford Co., NC m: ca 1814 d: Aft. 1850 ----- 4 Elias J. [Jackson?] STEADMAN b: 1815 SC d: Aft. 1870 --------+Mary THORNE b: 1816 SC m: Oct 25, 1838 SC d: ca 1863 Spartanburg Co., SC Father: Theophilius THORNE Mother: Jennie POPE -------5 Ann Maria "Annie" STEADMAN b: Sep 18, 1840 SC d: Dec 13, 1934 Buncombe Co., NC Burial: Pleasant Hill Cem, Candler, Buncombe Co., NC ----------+Thomas Joseph MINTZ b: Jan 10, 1834 Rutherford Co., NC m: ca 1858 d: Nov 15, 1874 Candler, Buncombe Co., NC Burial: Pleasant Hill Cem, Candler, Buncombe Co., NC Father: son [perhaps John] MINTZ Mother: Susan "Susy" _ ----------6 Susan Louisa MINTZ b: Jan 05, 1861 d: Dec 17, 1937 Candler, Buncombe Co., NC Burial: Rosemont Cem, Union Co., SC -------------+Joseph Donahue FORE b: Aug 31, 1862 SC m: Feb 05, 1882 d: Jan 16, 1928 Union, SC Burial: Rosemont, Union Co., SC Father: Jimmie Dore [unproven son/g'son] FORE Mother: Elizabeth "Lizzie" HENDRIX ------------7 Hattie Elizabeth FORE b: May 25, 1888 Buncombe Co., NC d: Mar 31, 1972 Wallace Thompson Hosp, Union, SC Burial: Rosemont, Union, SC In the late summer of 1761, William McKINNEY was traveling from their home in present day Chester Co., SC, to Camden, SC, leaving Barbara behind, about 6 months pregnant and with 2 small children. Soon after his leaving, a bunch of Cherokee squaws came running up to her and pushed her into her house as if they were saving her from the Cherokee men who were running up behind. The Cherokee group had migrated there recently. Nothing happened to Barbara or her children that day, but Barbara got some friends to stay with her that evening. The next morning, she went to milk the cows and was ambushed by several Cherokee men. A shoot out ensued between the Cherokee and the people in the house. One of Barbara's friends in the house, John Ferguson, was killed. The Cherokee men then knocked her unconscious and drug her about a mile away. She later regained consciousness, discovered herself to be naked and scalped. She saw the Cherokee picking corn in the nearby McKinney field. She knew she needed to play dead until they left. Later that evening, she managed to get back to the house. John Ferguson was dead and his mother was mortally wounded. They bandaged Barbara as best they could. William McKinney, having an uneasy feeling and having dreamt for 2 nights straight about losing his hat, came home early, deciding not to go as far as Camden. Afterwards for many years, Barbara's head would often bleed onto her pillowcase, her wounds never fully healing. Three months after the attack, she birthed a daughter, Hannah. Barbara went on to have a number of other children as well. This is abstracted from a 1850 book entitled "Women in the Revolution" which I saw at the DAR library. It is also printed in the Chester Co. Gen Soc bulletin. I hope to transcribe Barbara's full story here, as presented in "Women in the American Revolution." In the mean time, I will include this direct descendancy from Barbara to my great grandmother, Hattie Elizabeth (FORE) TREADWAY. The last three generations are pictured at my website. Below, I will include her biography as told by Captain Bill. Bonnie Butler skyvine@alum.wofford.org http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/u/t/Bonnie-Ferguson-Butler/ BARBARA CULP (Daughter of Hans Casper Culp) Barbara Culp was born in Pennsylvania in 1733, the second daughter of Hans Casper Culp. Her date of death in present Chester County, SC is not known, but sometime after 1782, when she was named as administratrix in her husband's will. She is buried in Old Richardson's Church, or Burnt Meeting House Cemetery, beside her husband, both graves unmarked. She married William McKinney, born 1729 in Virginia, died 4/17/1785. He was a brother of James McKinney and both had come to present Chester County from Virginia. In youth, the two brothers had been hired by a horse drover to help drive horses to South Carolina. Later, they entered into the business on their own and finally settled on Fishing Creek. William McKinney's father was a Scotsman that had come to America from England and settled in Virginia. William McKinney seems to have been a very highly educated man and he became a much sought after legal advisor of the area, a "backwoods lawyer," when the closest such was in Charlestown, some two hundred miles and a week away. His name is found in many deeds and estates of the area and, in fact, many of the originals were penned by him. The home he built on Fishing Creek was marked on old maps as close to (Upper) Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church and the home stood until after the middle of this century when it was demolished for building material. On 11 August 1774, William McKinney bought 100 acres of land from Christopher Strait that included the church, adjacent to the former land of Hans Casper Culp, so he actually owned the most famous landmark of Chester County today! There is a William McKinney from the present Chester County area recorded as a Revolutionary soldier, but he was undoubtedly William McKinney, Jr. There can be do doubt, however, that William McKinney was an American Patriot during that conflict. Barbara (Culp) McKinney is best remembered as having been the victim of a Cherokee Indian attack in August of 1761, during which she was abducted, tomahawked, scalped, and left for dead. She miraculously survived to bear more children. There have been many pages written into history books about the incident, but the best by far is in Elizabeth F. Ellett's WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, Vol III. That account was written by Daniel Green Stinson (1793-1879), the great histographer of Chester County. After Barbara (Culp) McKinney's horrible experience, she wore black silken caps to hide her baldness and wounds. My late great-grandmother, Margaret (McFadden) Edwards, a great-granddaughter of Barbara's, owned one of those caps, but its whereabouts is now unknown. When William McKinney wrote his will, he named six children, but also named "my two youngest children" in such a manner it is not possible to determine if they were included in the named six. [This comes from "Captain Bill Book III" by Robert J. Stevens.....page 163-4]