Lydia (Gillespie) Wallace (1753 - 1828)

Born 2 Aug 1753 in Rowan, Colonial North Carolina

Wife of James Knox — married 4 Nov 1772 in Rowan, North Carolina

Wife of Ezekiel Wallace — married 19 Apr 1797 in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died 18 Feb 1828 at age 74 in Maury, Tennessee, United States

Problems/Questions Profile manager: US Presidents Project WikiTree [send private message]

Lydia (Gillespie) Wallace is an ancestor of a US President/Vice President Join: US Presidents Project Discuss: Presidents

This person is an ancestor of President James Knox Polk 11th US President

Biography

This person is an ancestor of President James Knox Polk^[1] Her age is an estimate.

Lydia (sometimes Lidia) Gillespie was born Aug 2, 1753 in Rowan County, North Carolina, United States. She was one of ten children of Thomas Gillespie and Naomi Thompson Gillespie.^[2] She married Captain James Knox (1752-1794) on Nov 4, 1772 in Rowan County, North Carolina.^[3] She was still living at the time of her father's death on Dec 15, 1796, along with her son Thomas Knox, who was mentioned in her Father's Will. After James died, she married Ezekiel Wallace on Apr 19, 1797. There were no known children by her marriage to Ezekiel.^[4]

James Knox and Lydia Gillespie Knox had the following children:

1. Robert Knox (1774-1869)
2. Naomi Knox (1775-1854)
3. Jane Gracy Knox (1776-1852), who married Samuel Polk (1772-1827) (Father of President James Knox Polk (1795-1849), 11th President of the United States)
4. Thomas G. Knox (1780-?)

Sources

1. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents
2. ↑ #Probate, #Probate2, #Probate3, #RootsWeb
3. ↑ #Marriage
4. ↑ #Goodman

• Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.
• Source: "North Carolina Probate Records, 1735-1970," images, (FamilySearch: 21 May 2014), Rowan > Wills, 1797-1819, Vol. G > image 5 of 570; county courthouses, North Carolina.
• Source: "North Carolina Probate Records, 1735-1970," images, (FamilySearch : 21 May 2014), Rowan > Wills, 1797-1819, Vol. G > image 6 of 570; county courthouses, North Carolina.
• Source: "North Carolina Probate Records, 1735-1970," images, (FamilySearch: 21 May 2014), Rowan > Wills, 1797-1819, Vol. G > image 7 of 570; county courthouses, North Carolina.
• Source: "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, (FamilySearch: 22 December 2016), James Knox and Lidia Gillispie, 04 Nov 1772; citing Rowan, North Carolina, United States, p. , Office of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Records. State Archive of North Carolina and various county Register of Deeds; FHL microfilm 500,953.
• Source: "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, (FamilySearch: 22 December 2016), Ezekiel Wallace and Lidia N Knox, 19 Apr 1797; citing Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States, p. , Office of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Records. State Archive of North Carolina and various county Register of Deeds; FHL microfilm 546,466.
• Source: "Find A Grave Index," database, (FamilySearch: 11 July 2016), Jane Gracy Knox Polk, 1852; Burial, Columbia, Maury, Tennessee, United States of America, Greenwood Cemetery; citing record ID 6659665, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• Source: RootsWebThomas and Naomi (Thompson) Gillespie and descendants, A well documented genealogy, accessed Jan 25, 2017
• Source: Goodman, Hattie S. The Knox Family: A Genealogical and Biographical Sketch of the Descendants of John Knox of Rowan County, North Carolina, and Other Knoxes. Richmond, Va: Whittet & Shepperson, 1905. Print. Page 118.