Captain Thomas HEMPHILL1746 - 1826 (79 years)
Captain Thomas Hemphill Biographical Sketch
Program from the ceremony commemorating the service of Captain Thomas Hemphill in the American Revolution.
In 1780, Thomas Hemphill became a captain and led his company in the Battle of Ramsour’s Mill, the first Patriot victory after the devastating defeat of the Continental Army at Camden.
After Ramsour’s Mill, Thomas Hemphill joined the McDowells and they were engaged in several skirmishes in South Carolina. Captain Thomas Hemphill was part of the force which defeated the British at King’s Mountain, a battle which many historians consider the turning point of the American Revolution. While he was on his last tour of duty, his home was visited by some of the British troops under Ferguson’s command.
In 1773, Thomas Hemphill married Mary Ann Mackie (Mackey), a daughter of Thomas and Rosannah McEntire Mackie of Burke County, North Carolina. She was born in 1758 and died in September 1804. Both she and Thomas are interred here in the Old Siloam Cemetery, which is approximately three miles east of Old Fort.
Their children include: (1) Martha Hemphill, who married Thomas Young Hemphill McEntire, (2) Mary “Polly” Hemphill, who died young and was never married, (3) James Hemphill, (4) Andrew Hemphill, who married Catherine McDonald, (5) Ann Hemphill, who married Moses Whiteside (some sources say she died young), and (6) Thomas McEntire Hemphill, who first married Malinda Burgin and who secondly married Margaret Hemphill Dysart. Other children may include: (7) Rebecca Hemphill, (8) Rachel Hemphill, who married Foster Whiteside, (9) Ruth Hemphill, who married John Underwood Whiteside, (10) Samuel Hemphill, (11) RosannahHemphill , (12) Jane Hemphill, and (13) Thomas Hemphill.”
|Owner/Source||Margaret Hemphill Anthony|
|Date||13 Jun 1998|
|Linked to||I1975; Malinda BURGIN; Elizabeth Ann HEMPHILL; James HEMPHILL; Jane HEMPHILL; Margaret HEMPHILL; Martha HEMPHILL; Mary HEMPHILL; Rachel HEMPHILL; Rebecca HEMPHILL; Rosannah HEMPHILL; Ruth Bertha HEMPHILL; Samuel HEMPHILL; Captain Thomas HEMPHILL; Thomas Mcentire HEMPHILL; Mary Ann MACKIE; Thomas MACKIE; Rosannah MCENTIRE; Thomas Young Hemphill MCENTIRE; Susannah PATTON|