Ancestors
& Descendants of
Sarah McCRAVEY-AKINS
1758 - Aft 1840
SC>Transylvania Co., NC
Sarah McCRAVEY was a dtr of Archibald Everett McCRAVEY & Marie HEMBREE of Spartenburg Dist., SC.
She met and married
Ezekiel AKINS [1760- abt 1825] abt 1782 in Laurens Dist., SC. By
1790 census, Ezekiel and Sarah McCRAVEY-AKINS were in Old Pendleton Dist., SC. They both died
in Transylvania Co., NC.
Descendants of Archibald Everett McCravey, Sr. 1 Archibald Everett MCCRAVEY, Sr. b: 1745 in York Co., PA or
Spartenburg Dist., SC src: LDS Film Number:448048; Page Number: 0094;
Reference Number: 23297 Residence: 1791 - 1800 in Moved to Spartenburg
Dist., SC d: May 12, 1838 in Union Co., SC Burial: Union Co., SC Military
service: NC Line - Rev. War Land: Nov 25, 1819 Spartenburg Co., SC - sold
61 acres on both sides of Provies Creek to Wm. WADDEL Census: 1800
Spartenburg Dist., SC pg 197: 11001-20100-00 . +Frances Marie HEMBREE b: 1749 Married: Abt 1762 in VA Source: LDS
Film Number: 458672 d: 1791 in Spartenburg Dist., SC ... 2 Sarah Crittendan MCCRAVEY b: Abt 1763 in Old 96th Dist., SC d:
Aft. 1840 in area now known as Transylvania Co., NC src: Census Data (sent
to me by Cathy Hall <chall@chattanooga.net>] ...... +Ezekiel AKINS b: Abt 1760 in VA Married: Abt 1782 in Laurens
Co., SC Father: Lewis AKINS d: 1820 - 1830 in area now known as
Transylvania Co., NC Military service: Rev. War 10/17-5/22/1782
A.A.54;X1074; X2712 Col. Brandon's & a horseman underCapt. vardry
McBee Military Other: & as a footman under Capt. John Roebuck Census:
1811 - 1820 Western NC area Source: Love's Survey Maps, 1820, Western NC ........ 3 John AKINS, Sr. b: 1783 in Buncombe Co., NC d: Nov 27, 1863
in Union Co., GA src1: Will, src2: Union Co., GA Probate Court Burial: an
unmarked grave, Harmony Grove Cem., Union Co., GA Land: 1819 Grant given
in Burke Co., NC Public Service: 1807 Rep to GA State Legislature,
Milledgeville, GA Source: Old Walton Co., GA records Census 1: 1830 Macon
Co., NC [Transylvania Co.] Census 2: 1800 Old Pendleton Dist., SC Census
3: 1807 Old Walton Co., GA--GA State Rep. Census 4: 1840 - 1860 Union Co.,
GA ........... +Catherine CLARK b: Abt 1790 in Buncombe Co., NC Married:
Abt 1809 in Old Walton Co., GA [later Buncombe Co., NC then Macon Co., NC]
Father: John CLARK, Sr. d: 1832 - 1840 in NC or Union Co., GA ........ *2nd Wife of John AKINS, Sr.: ........... +Sarah 'Sallie' OLIVER b: 1786 in NC src: 1870 Transylvania
Co., NC Census Married: Bef. Sep 1840 in Macon Co., NC Father: Benjamin
OLIVER, Sr. Mother: Sarah Or Elizabeth d: 1875 in Transylvania Co., NC
Transylvania Co., NC ........ 3 Archibald AIKEN b: 1785 in Laurens Co., SC d: Aug 11, 1880
in Pickens Co.., SC Burial: Old Toxaway Cem. Transylvania Co., NC ........... +Lucretia YOUNG b: 1775 - 1790 Married: Abt 1810 in SC d:
1833 in Eastatoe, Pickens Co., SC ........ *2nd Wife of Archibald AIKEN: ........... +Martha BYERS b: 1810 - 1820 in SC src: 1840 Pickens Co.,
SC Census Married: Abt 1838 in Pendleton Dist., SC d: Abt 1893 in Pickens
Co., SC ........ 3 Thomas AIKEN b: 1789 in Pendleton Dist., SC d: Aft. 1850 in
Henderson Co., NC ........... +Charlotte DUCKWORTH b: Sep 7, 1807 in Burke Co., NC
Married: 1819 in NC Father: Johnathan DUCKWORTH Mother: Kezziah ENGLAND d:
Feb 1, 1854 in Cherryville, Transylvania Co., NC src: World Family Tree
Burial: Cathey's Creek Transylvania Co., NC ........ 3 Hannah AKINS b: Dec 30, 1793 in SC d: Apr 8, 1870 in Oconee
Co., SC Burial: Fall Creek Bapt. Ch. Cem. Oconee Co., SC ........... +John Colby GALLOWAY b: Nov 13, 1793 Married: Abt 1814 in
Pendleton Dist., SC Father: William GALLOWAY Mother: Sarah ESSARY d: Jan
8, 1872 in Oconee Co., SC Burial: Fall Creek Bapt. Ch. Cem. Oconee Co., SC ........ 3 Sarah AKINS b: Jan 31, 1795 in Pendleton Dist., SC src:
Robert Havery Gillespie Bible from Henderson Co., NC Gen. & Hist. Soc.
d: Nov 18, 1872 in Transylvania Co., NC Burial: Gillispie Evergreen Cem.
Transylvania Co., NC ........... +Robert Harvey GILLESPIE b: Feb 1, 1791 in Buncombe Co., NC
Married: May 3, 1812 in Pendleton Dist., SC Father: John GILLESPIE Mother:
Jane HARVEY d: May 29, 1881 in Transylvania Co., NC Burial: Gillespie
Evergreen Cem. Transylvania Co., NC Occupation: Gunsmith & Farmer ........ 3 Mary Jane AKINS b: Mar 1796 in Pendleton Dist., SC d: 1860
in Gordon Co., GA ........... +John CHASTAIN b: May 3, 1800 in Pendleton Dist., SC
Married: Abt 1820 in Pendleton Dist., SC Father: John CHASTAIN, Jr.
Mother: Jemina DENTON d: Jan 31, 1876 in Gordon Co., GA Census: 1850
Gordon Co., GA ........ 3 Cleve Joseph AKINS b: 1798 in Pendleton Dist., SC ........... +Salena b: Abt 1786 Married: Abt 1816 ........ 3 Lewis AKINS b: 1798 - 1799 in SC or NC src: 1870 GA Census
Index b. abt 1794 according to LDS Film #2034612; Census shows 1798 or
1799 d: Dec 29, 1887 in Coosa Dist., Union Co., GA ........... +Luvicia NICHOLSON b: 1802 in SC or NC Married: Abt 1817 in
Probably Macon or Buncombe Co., NC Father: John NICHOLSON, Sr. Mother:
Nancy FREEMAN d: 1870 in Union Co., GA ........ *2nd Wife of Lewis AKINS: ........... +Elizabeth b: 1833 in GA Married: Nov 30, 1870 in Union
Co., GA d: Aft. 1880 in Coosa Dist., Union Co., GA ........ 3 Elizabeth AKINS b: 1800 - 1801 in Buncombe Co., NC src: LDS
(AFN:1SPF-RV0) ........ 3 Abraham 'Littleton' AKINS b: 1803 in Walhall, Pickens Co.,
SC src: 1870 Gilmer Co., GA Census d: Dec 27, 1899 in Gilmer Co., GA
Burial: on a hill above his farm on Cartecay River, Gilmer Co., Ga
Military service: Civil War May 15, 1862 Co. D, 49th GA Reg. [Taliaferro
Vol.] Military Other: Apr 9, 1865 Surrendered @ Appomattox Court House
Census 1: 1830 Pickens Co., SC 00001-2001 Census 2: 1840 Pickens Co., SC
100001-122001 Census 3: 1850 Gilmer Co., GA ........... +Nancy CHASTAIN b: 1807 in Pickens Co., SC Married: Abt
1827 in Pickens Co., SC Father: John CHASTAIN, Jr. Mother: Jemina DENTON
d: 1890 - 1900 in Gilmer Co., GA src: Gwen Skelton Burial: on a hill above
her farm on Cartecay River Gilmer Co., GA ........ 3 Louisa AKINS b: Abt 1804 src: LDS (AFN:1SPF-RV0) ........ 3 Stephen AKINS b: 1808 - 1813 in SC src: 1870 GA Census Index
Residence: 1851 - 1855 in Moved from SC to Union Co., GA d: Aft. 1880 in
Union Co., GA Census 1: 1850 Pickens Co., SC Census 2: 1840 Pickens Co.,
SC Census 3: 1860 - 1880 Union Co., GA ........... + b: Abt 1815 in SC Married: Abt 1838 d: Abt 1845 in
Pickens Co., SC ........ *2nd Wife of Stephen AKINS: ........... +Nancy J. b: 1820 - 1823 in SC Married: 1846 - 1847 in
Pickens Co., SC d: 1871 - 1880 in Union Co., GA ... 2 Margaret MCCRAVEY b: 1783 in VA or GA src: 1850 Census d: 1851 -
1860 in Winston Co., MS ...... +Josiah WOODRUFF b: 1774 in Yadkin Valley, NC Married: Abt 1800
Father: Joseph WOODRUFF Mother: Annie LINSEY d: 1853 in Louisville,
Winston Co., MS Census: 1850 Winston Co., MS pg 350 ........ 3 Daniel Pinkney WOODRUFF b: 1801 in Woodruff, Spartenburg
Dist., SC d: Feb 19, 1854 in Braggs, Lowndes Co., AL ........ 3 Delila WOODRUFF b: Aug 18, 1802 in Woodruff, Spartenburg
Dist., SC d: in Williamson Co., TX ........... +Isaac Newton LEATHERWOOD b: Aug 29, 1803 in Woodruff,
Spartenburg Dist., SC Married: Aug 24, 1820 Father: John B. LEATHERWOOD d:
Jun 25, 1860 in Louisville, Winston Co., MS ........ 3 Caleb WOODRUFF b: 1804 in Woodruff, Spartenburg Dist., SC d:
1854 in Lowndes Co., AL ........... +Priscilla LEATHERWOOD b: 1803 in Woodruff, Spartenburg
Dist., SC Father: James LEATHERWOOD ........ 3 Ann Mahala WOODRUFF b: 1805 in Woodruff, Spartenburg Dist.,
SC ........ 3 Simon M. WOODRUFF b: 1807 in Woodruff, Spartenburg Dist., SC ........ 3 Nathaniel E. WOODRUFF b: 1810 d: 1860 ........... +Ruth LEATHERWOOD b: 1813 Father: James LEATHERWOOD ........ 3 Hiram Garner WOODRUFF b: 1812 in Woodruff, Spartenburg
Dist., SC ........ 3 Emaline Elizabeth WOODRUFF b: 1816 in Woodruff, Spartenburg
Dist., SC ........ 3 Oliver Hazard Perry WOODRUFF b: 1818 in Woodruff,
Spartenburg Dist., SC ........ 3 Harriett E. WOODRUFF b: 1820 in Woodruff, Spartenburg Dist.,
SC ... 2 Archibald MCCRAVEY, Jr. b: 1785 in VA src: LDS Film Number:
458672 d: Aft. 1850 in Monroe Co., TN ...... +Mary b: 1788 in SC Married: Abt 1809 d: Aft. 1850 in Monroe
Co., TN ........ 3 Dindda MCCRAVEY b: 1835 in SC ........ 3 DtrA Archibald MCCRAVEY b: 1811 - 1820 src: 1820 Census ........ 3 DtrB Archibald MCCRAVEY b: 1811 - 1820 src: 1820 Census ........ 3 SonA Archibald MCCRAVEY b: 1811 - 1820 src: 1820 Census ... 2 Ezekiel MCCRAVEY b: 1786 in NC d: Aft. 1860 in White Co., GA
Census 1: 1860 White Co., GA Census 2: 1850 Habersham Co., GA ...... +Pherobe Ann CONNER b: 1791 in SC Married: Bef. 1824 d: Aft.
1860 in White Co., GA ........ 3 William Archibald MCCRAVEY b: 1817 in GA src: 1820 Census d:
Aft. 1850 in Union Co., GA Occupation: 1850 School Teacher Census: 1850
Union Co., GA ........... +Fanny REID b: 1823 in NC Married: Jul 18, 1841 in Union
Co., GA d: Aft. 1850 in Union Co., GA ........ 3 Francis Marion Stewart MCCRAVEY b: 1824 in GA/TN/NC d: Aft.
1880 in Cartersville, Bartow Co., GA ........... +Louisa b: 1823 in SC src: 1880 Census Married: Bef. 1849
d: Bef. 1880 in GA ........ 3 Martha Ann MCCRAVEY b: 1826 - 1829 in GA d: Aft. 1850 in
Habersham Co., GA ........... +Benjamin Francis TROTTER Married: Jun 15, 1845 in
Habersham Co., GA ........ 3 V.C. MCCRAVEY b: 1831 in GA ... 2 Isaiah MCCRAVEY b: 1787 in VA d: Aft. 1860 in Monroe Co., TN ...... +Mary b: 1789 in SC d: Aft. 1860 in Monroe Co., TN ........ 3 George MCCRAVEY b: 1826 in SC d: Aft. 1860 in Monroe Co., TN
Census: 1860 Sweetwater, Monroe Co., TN ........... +Elizia b: 1828 in TN Married: Abt 1852 in TN d: Aft. 1860
in Monroe Co., TN ... 2 James MCCRAVEY b: 1790 in Spartenburg, Spartenburg Co., SC d:
1851 - 1879 in Spartenburg, Spartenburg Co., SC Occupation: 1850 Mason
Source: 1850 Spartenburg Co., SC Fed Census ...... +Frances BILLINGS b: 1804 in SC/VA/VA src: 1880 Census Married:
Bef. 1830 in Spartenburg Co., SC d: Aft. 1880 in Spartenburg, Spartenburg
Co., SC ........ 3 James D. MCCRAVEY b: Mar 29, 1830 d: May 16, 1895 in Cross
Anchor, Spratenburg Co., SC Burial: Grace Chapel Cem., Spartenburg Co., SC
Census: 1880 Cross Anchor, Spartenburg Co., SC ........... +Melissa Jane WALKER b: Apr 29, 1838 in SC/SC/RI Married:
Bef. 1857 in Spartenburg Co., SC d: Mar 16, 1911 Burial: Grace Chapel
Cem., Spartenburg Co., SC ........ 3 Jane MCCRAVEY b: 1832 ........ 3 Archer MCCRAVEY b: 1834 ........ 3 John MCCRAVEY b: 1836 *2nd Wife of Archibald Everett MCCRAVEY, Sr.: . +Jane Pettit CATHCART b: Aug 6, 1769 Married: Sep 16, 1793 in
Spartenburg Dist., SC Source: LDS Film Number: 1760963 Father: Samuel
CATHCART d: Jun 17, 1854 in Union Co., SC Burial: Union Co., SC ... 2 Samuel MCCRAVEY b: 1793 - 1794 in Spartenburg Dist., SC src: 1800
Spartenburg Dist., SC Census Residence: Apr 3, 1855 in Spartenburg, SC age
56 Source: Military Records d: 1875 in SC Burial: Friendship Graveyard,
Union Co., SC Census 1: 1830 Spartenburg Dist., SC Census 2: 1840
Spartenburg Co., SC ...... +Rachel DAVIS b: 1808 Married: Abt 1823 ........ 3 James MCCRAVEY b: Oct 29, 1826 in Cross Anchor, Spartenburg
Co., SC d: Feb 3, 1893 in Cross Hill, Laurens Co., SC Census: 1880 Cross
Anchor, Spartenburg Co., SC pg 59d ........... +Kizziah Stark SPEAKE b: 1840 in SC Married: Abt 1858 in SC
d: Aft. 1880 in Cross Hill, Laurens Co., SC ........ 3 John Wesley MCCRAVEY b: Dec 15, 1824 in Dutchman on Tyger
River, Spartenburg Dist., SC d: Jan 30, 1908 in Cross Keys, SC ........... +Anna Wofford TUCKER Married: 1852 ... 2 Nancy MCCRAVEY b: Jul 18, 1794 in Spartenburg Dist., SC src: 1800
Spartenburg Dist., SC Census ... 2 Massey MCCRAVEY b: 1795 - 1800 in Spartenburg Dist., SC src: 1800
Spartenburg Dist., SC Census d: 1880 ...... +Thomas STRIBLING b: Abt 1795 in SC Married: Bef. 1830 in
Probably Union Co., SC d: 1852 ........ 3 Rebecca STRIBLING ........... +Hatchette ........ 3 John Quincy STRIBLING b: Dec 13, 1830 d: 1904 Burial:
Friendship Ch Cem. ........... +Lucy Clementine STALLINGS ........ 3 Harriett STRIBLING b: 1832 ........... +Francis Justice 'Frank' NEWMAN ........ 3 Frances J. STRIBLING b: 1834 ........ 3 James STRIBLING b: 1836 d: 1910 Burial: Friendship Ch Cem. ........... +Sarah PREWITT b: 1837 Married: Abt 1856 d: 1899 Burial:
Friendship Ch Cem. ........ *2nd Wife of James STRIBLING: ........... +Mary M. CATHCART b: 1854 Married: Abt 1874 ........ 3 Sarah STRIBLING b: 1838 ........... +R. M. MCCRAVEY Married: Bef. 1866 d: 1870 ........ 3 Christina STRIBLING b: 1844 d: 1905 Burial: Hebron United ........... +W. Mack SUMNER b: 1847 d: 1897 Burial: Hebron United ........ 3 Thomas Cummings STRIBLING b: 1847 d: 1933 Burial: Hebron
United ........... +Angelina HILL b: 1847 Married: Abt 1867 d: 1883 Burial:
Hebron United ........ *2nd Wife of Thomas Cummings STRIBLING: ........... +Emma Lorena JOHNSON Married: Abt 1888 ... 2 John MCCRAVEY b: 1802 in Spartenburg Dist., SC src: LDS Film
Number: 1903801 d: Bef. 1880 in Glenn Springs, Spartenburg Co., SC ........ 3 William Archibald MCCRAVEY b: 1837 in SC d: Aft. 1880 in
Glenn Springs, Spartenburg Co., SC Census: 1880 Glenn Springs, Spartenburg
Co., SC pg 220d ........... +Eliza BILLINGS b: 1842 in SC Married: Abt 1865 in
Spartenburg Dist., SC Father: Rutherford BILLINGS d: Aft. 1880 in Glenn
Springs, Spartenburg Co., SC ........ 3 John Quincy MCCRAVEY src: Gene Pool Records, ancestry.com b:
May 23, 1841 in Dutchman Creek, Spartenburg Co., SC d: 1890 in Dutchman
Creek, Spartenburg Co., SC Census: 1880 Glenn Springs, Spartenburg Co., SC
pg 220d ........... +Emily Fredona HOLTZCLAIW Married: 1861 - 1865 d: Bef. 1875
in SC ........ *2nd Wife of John Quincy MCCRAVEY: ........... +Mary b: 1852 Married: Abt 1875 in SC ... 2 Christian 'Chrissy' MCCRAVEY b: 1805 - 1810 src: 1820 Census ...... +Holmes ... 2 Sarah Jane MCCRAVEY b: 1805 - 1810 in Spartenburg Dist., SC src:
1820 Census ...... +James PRUITT b: 1805 in Spartenburg Dist., SC Married: Abt 1825
d: Aft. 1836 ........ 3 James PRUITT b: Abt 1825 ........ 3 Mariah 'Marie' PRUITT b: Abt 1827 ........ 3 John PRUITT b: 1829 ........ 3 William Kemper PRUITT b: 1831 ........ 3 Amelia Jane 'Ginny' PRUITT b: 1833 ........ 3 Sarah 'Sarie' PRUITT b: 1835 ........ 3 Thyeresa PRUITT b: 1837 ... 2 Jane MCCRAVEY b: 1814 src: 1820 Census ...... +Andrew HARRISON
For the children of Sarah McCRAVEY & Ezekiel AKINS, please visit
Our Southern AKINS website.
Ezekiel's Ancestors were:
James AKIN, Sr. Henrico Co., VA
>James AKIN, Jr.
>>John AKIN
>>>Lewis AKINS, d. 1791 Laurens Co., SC
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