My g,g,g,g,grandfather was Captain Daniel McKissick. Jane Wilson McKissick was my g,g,g,g, grandmother. Here is a brief article about them:
Jane Wilson grew up in those years when the people of the colonies in America were growing indignant at their treatment by their mother county.Her father, James Wilson, was a prominent leader amongthe patriots or Rowan County, North Carolina.
When Jane was 12 years old her father was appointed as a member of the Committee of Safety for Rowan County, a committee which acted for the purposes of independence.
As a young woman, she married Daniel McKisick in 1776, the very year that the colonists declared themselves to all the world to be the Free, Independent, and United States of America.
Daniel, a mature man of 27 at the time of their marriage, was a lieutenant colonel in the North Carolina Militia, and when the war came, the War of the Revolution, he formed a company, which he led as Captain.
That summer had not been favorable to the cause of American liberty. On May 12, the Americans had suffered their greatest defeat in the fall of Charlestown to the British forces of Gen. Clinton.
The loyalists of North Carolina were emboldened by this victory. John Moore, a prominent Tory of Lincoln County, called for the local loyalists to gather on June 13 near Ramsour’s Mill. Over the next week local men loyal to the crown continued to gather at the encampment until there were between 1200 and 1400 of them.Their intention was to join forces with the regular British army just over the border in South Carolina
On the evening of June 19, the militia led by Colonel Locke, numbering about 400 men began an all night march toward the mill.The battle began at dawn on the 20th of June, 1780--a very different kind of battle which tells us so much about the America of that day.
There was not a uniform on either side. Not a single British soldier, only local people loyal to the crown. And on the other side, only a citizen militia led by local people dedicated to independence and liberty for the new nation. Losses were heavy on both sides, about 70 killed and about 100 wounded on each side, including Captain Daniel McKisick whose left arm was shattered from the elbow to the sholder y a rifle ball, which would leave him handicapped for life.
And here is the best part of the story: someone was sent to tell Mrs. Mckisick who was at home about 10 miles away.She left a small child and a baby and went out to the hill by Ramsour’s Mill, found her wounded husband, took him to the Rhinehart house nearby and cared for him there, until she could take him back home.
After Ramsour’s Mill, she is a genuine heroine of the Revolution.
