Martha Athalinda Jamison (Gregg) McIntosh (1812 - 1874)

Born 18 Jan 1812 in Darlington, South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of James Hawes McIntosh — married 15 Dec 1831 in Society Hill, South Carolina

Descendants

Died 25 Oct 1874 at age 62 in Towson, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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Biography

Martha (Gregg) McIntosh was a South Carolinian.

Martha (Gregg) McIntosh has Scottish Ancestors.

By her great-great-granddaughter Jouett Taylor Prisley
Martha Gregg has been described as a devoted woman who seemed to live for her children, and was in all ways attentive, quiet and of simple tastes.
The first born of David and Athalinda Gregg, she was her mother’s namesake and the third generation of that unusual name.

Family

Martha Athalinda Jamison Gregg married James Hawes McIntosh, direct descendant of the immigrant John who joined that same Welsh Neck Baptist Church so many years before, having been accepted on profession of faith and infant baptism in the Presbyterian church of his youth in Scotland.
Martha and James are buried in the Welsh Neck Baptist Church graveyard^[1]
Yet another Martha Athalinda McIntosh, the fourth to bear that name, married George Buell, Sr. and had son George Buell, who, with his wife, were Presbyterians.
Martha Athalinda McIntosh had a younger brother, Francis Bernard McIntosh
James Hawes died in the Fall of 1858 at the age of 58 leaving Martha and three daughters and five sons,^[2]
four of whom were in Confederate service and survived the War.
Having lost her husband in '58, Martha suffered the deaths of three children: a daughter in 1864 at age 21, her youngest son in 1871 at age 20, and another son in 1872 at age 32. The family long had in its possession a letter from Gen. Robert E. Lee, president of Washington & Lee University where the youngest son became fatally ill in 1871.^[3]
Of the remaining five children, only David, James and Lucas--three veterans of Confederate service--had children.
Martha died exactly sixteen years and one day after her husband while she was visiting her son David in Towson, Maryland and just before her planned return home to Society Hill.

Enslaved African Americans

Martha's husband James bequeathed to her 24 enslaved people:^[4]

Limeric, Old Peter, and Isaac.

Moses and his wife Tirwan, and their children, Richard, Sophy, Lizzy, Katy, Amand and Tira.

Tom and his wife Marion, and their children Charles, Chaney, Emma, Jane, Molly, Harry, John, Reuben, and Turner.

Old Sam and his wife Sophy.

See also

• "United States Census, 1850" familysearch.org Martha Mc Intosh in household of Jas H Mc Intosh, Darlington county, Darlington, South Carolina, United States; citing family 317, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C. National Archives and Records Administration)
  
• "United States Census, 1870" FamilySearch familysearch.org M G Mcintosh in household of Ed Mcintosh, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 15, family 129, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C. National Archives and Records Administration) FHL microfilm 552,992.
  
• www.archive.org Descendants of James McIntosh who was born about 1734 (sic) archive.org], by J. Rieman McIntosh, 1978 (unpublished, donated to DAR Library)
  
• www.archive.org Gregg family bibliography Genealogy and biography of leading families of the city of Baltimore and Baltimore County, Maryland, (Chapman Publishing Co: 1897) pp.567ff
  
• Gregg, AlexanderHistory of the Old Cheraws, (Richardson and Company: New York, 1867)
  
• Gregg, David MSS collection, (Caroliniana Library: USC, Columbia)
  
• Gregg, John M.; Early PeeDee Settlers (Heritage Books: Bowie MD, 1993, Vol.1, pp.204-210
  
• McCarty, Louise Miller; Footprints: the Story of the Gregg Family of South Carolina
  
• McIntosh, David Gregg Reminiscences of Early Life in South Carolina (St. David's Society: Florence SC, 1985)
  
• Reynolds-Faust volume on the South Carolina Senate, DAR Library
  
• Rudisill, Horace F.; Notes and comments from this respected historian, Darlington County Historical Society
  
• "The State Magazine" newspaper clipping, 1959
  
• Welsh Neck (South Carolina) Baptist Church graveyard, tombstones
  
• Wilson, Mrs. Furman E.; Memories of Society Hill (PeeDee Historical Society: USA)
  

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #64074885 for Martha Gregg McIntosh (18 Jan 1812–25 Oct 1874), citing Welsh Neck Baptist Church Cemetery, Society Hill, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA; Maintained by Patrick Yearty (contributor 46993532).
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1860" FamilySearch familysearch.org M G Mc Intosh, 1860.
3. ↑ Gen. Robert E. Lee letter dated 28 Jun 1870 to Mrs. M. G. (Martha Gregg) McIntosh, Society Hill, South Carolina. Original letter last known in the possession of J. Rieman McIntosh of Monkton, Maryland in 1977
4. ↑ Darlington County, South Carolina Will Book No. 10, p. 384-386.