Margaret
E
"Peggy"
Huddleston
formerly Welch
Born about in Halifax, Halifax, Colony of Virginia
Ancestors 
Daughter of Nicholas Welch
and Elizabeth E (Moore) Welch
Sister of
John Welch, William C Welch Snr, Judith Welch, Nicholas William Welch, Mary (Welch) Misick, Thomas Welch, Ann Welsh, Sarah Welch, Hester Welch, John Welsh, Richard Welch, Hester Welsh, Thomas Welsh, Elizabeth (Welsh) Welch, Lewis Welch and Elizabeth Welch
Wife of
Benjamin Easley Huddleston
— married
1786 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Harriet Huddleston, Mary Stanfield Huddleston, James Barnes Huddleston, David Huddleston, Joseph Slaton Huddleston, Daniel Huddleston, Fleming Huddleston, Mary Catherine (Huddleston) Barnes, Elizabeth Jane (Huddleston) Barnes, Charlotte (Huddleston) Faires, William G Huddleston and Fleming L Huddleston
Died
at about age 76
in De Soto, Mississippi, United States
Profile last modified
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Biography
Margaret Welch was born in 1765. She was the daughter of Nicholas Welch and Elizabeth E (Moore) Welch.
Margaret married Benjamin Easley Huddleston (1763–1842) in 1786. The couple had at least 9 children: James Huddleston (1786–1849), Joseph Slaton Huddleston (1788–1861), Daniel Huddleston (1794–1847), Mary Catherine Huddleston Barnes (1799–1889), Fleming Huddleston (1800–1839), Elizabeth Jane Huddleston Barnes (1802–1828), Charlotte Huddleston Faires (1802–1846) and William G Huddleston (1806–1855).
Margaret Welch Huddleston died on Oct 1841 (aged 75–76) in DeSoto County, Mississippi. She is buried at the Huddleston Family Cemetery in Hernando, DeSoto County, Mississippi. [1]
Research Notes
- Wed, 15 Apr 1998 10:39:29 -0700
- From: James F Northcutt <ocjames@@pacbell.net>
- To: Huddleston-L <Huddleston-L@@rootsweb.com>
- Message-ID: <3534F0D0.A098F6C5@@pacbell.net>
- Subject: Benjamin Huddleston - Virginia abt 1765
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
- For the interest of other Huddleston researchers ... the following is
- paraphrased from sworn statements of three 1896 applications for
- membership in the Cherokee Nation of Indians made by Margaret E.
- Huddleston, Joseph G. Huddleston, and George Ann Huddleston:
- That the Indian blood is derived from Peggy or Margaret Welch their
- great-grandmother who married Ben E. Huddleston their great-grandfather
- and who was a Cherokee Indian by blood. By direct lineal descent as
- follows: from Margaret or Peggy Welch married to Ben E. Huddleston, to
- their son Joseph S. Huddleston, thence to his son Andrew J. Huddleston
- who was the father of the claiments listed above. The said Peggy Welch
- was a Cherokee Indian woman and a recognized member of the tribe. She
- married Ben E. Huddleston in North Carolina and their son Joseph S.
- Huddleston lived with the Cherokee Indians in Tennessee and Alabama as a
- member of the tribe previous to their immigration to the West.
Sources
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118148753/margaret-huddleston: accessed 02 October 2022), memorial page for Margaret Welch Huddleston (1765–Oct 1841), Find a Grave Memorial ID 118148753, citing Huddleston Family Cemetery, Hernando, DeSoto County, Mississippi, USA; Maintained by: Find a Grave . Brand new marker with no value for verification purposes.
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Margaret Welch Huddleston BIRTH 1765 DEATH Oct 1841 (aged 75–76) BURIAL Huddleston Family Cemetery Hernando, DeSoto County, Mississippi, USA
Find a Grave maybe wrong. The husband's profile shows a different Burial Location