Virginia Margaret “Mary” O'Neil (McDowell)

1717 - 1790  (73 years)

• Name	Virginia Margaret “Mary” O'Neil (McDowell)
  Born	1717	Northern Ireland
  Gender	Female
  Died	1790	Burke County, North Carolina, USA
  Person ID	P3765	Woelfel Test
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2020

  
  

  Family	Capt Joseph McDowell,   b. 1715, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland ,   d. Nov 1771, Burke County, Colonial North Carolina  (Age 56 years)
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2020
  Family ID	F848	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Margaret and Joseph were the parents of eight children: Sarah Nancy/10 May 1739 Elizabeth/abt 1741 Hugh/1742 Charles M/28 Oct 1743 m. Grace Greenlee John/1751 Hannah/1755 Joseph "Quaker Meadows Joe"/15 Feb 1756 Jane/abt 1760 Her father was Samuel O'Neill of Ulster, Northern Ireland "Prior to the Battle of King's Mountain, where Charles and Joseph McDowell were leading figures, men from Colonel Ferguson's army visited Quaker Meadows and ransacked the house, appropriating the clothing of Charles and Joseph. They told Margaret (O'Neil) McDowell, who presided over the house, that when they caught Charles they would kill him outright. Joe, they would kill on bended knees after humiliating him by making him beg for his life. Margaret O'Neil, far from being intimidated or overawed, bade them to be careful lest all the begging should be done by themselves. Margaret (O'Neil) McDowell, by her defiance of the Tories, is one of the few women recognized by the Daughters of the Revolution as being a patriot of the Revolution." (Steve O'Neal) The Battle of Kings Mountain, October 7, 1780, was a decisive Patriot victory in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. (wikipedia.org)