David John McWhorter, Sr. 1745-1789
⌞sp: Mary Poston
David is notable for having served in the Revolutionary War by rendering material aid.
David McWhorter was a Blacksmith by trade. He received a land grant in the 96th District, South Carolina in 1786. He was wounded in a hand to hand encounter with a party of Tories in upper South Carolina, and that he died subsequently from the effect of the wound. The wound was in his head, and he was left for dead, some friendly Indians found him, repaired the fractured skull with a piece of silver and nursed him until he was able to get back to camp. He died in Abbeville County in 1789, leaving his widow and nine children, ranging in age from two to twenty-one years.
Buriel: McWhorter Cemetery Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina (plot unknown)
St. James Episcopal Church, where David McWhorter was married, is still a thriving parish in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Many patriots of the American Revolution are buried there.
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