Maria Magdalena aka Mary Wilfong

Maria married Henry Weidner Robinson 17 Apr 1787, Lincoln County, North Carolina. Henry (son of John Poffh Wilfong and Hannah Sigmon, son of Jesse Robinson and Anna Maria Mull) was born 20 Apr 1798, North Carolina, United States; died 17 Jun 1883, Catawba, Catawba, North Carolina, United States. [Group Sheet]

1. George Sigmon was born Abt 1718, Germany; died Bef 1789, Lincoln County, North Carolina.
2. Hendrick Courpenning was born Abt 1727, Youmpts, United Netherlands; was christened 27 Feb 1727, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands; died 30 Oct 1827, Burke, NC, USA; was buried , Corpening Cem., Caldwell Co., North Carolina.

Maria married Henry Weidner Robinson 3 Aug 1819, Lincoln, North Carolina, United States. Henry (son of John Poffh Wilfong and Hannah Sigmon, son of Jesse Robinson and Anna Maria Mull) was born 20 Apr 1798, North Carolina, United States; died 17 Jun 1883, Catawba, Catawba, North Carolina, United States. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
Spouse: Mary Magdalena Robinson (born Wilfong)

1. Cynthia Elizabeth Robinson was born 23 May 1820, Lincoln, North Carolina, United States; died 29 Dec 1882, Hickory, Catawba, North Carolina, United States.
2. Catherine Elmira Robinson was born 8 Jan 1822, Catawba County, North Carolina, United States; died 18 Oct 1870, Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States; was buried 1870, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States.

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John Wilfong also served during the Revolution in Col. McDowell's Reg., and later with Gen. Pickens. He married Hannah Sigmon and had children John Wilfong Jr., George David, Mary Magdalena, Susannah Barbara, Sarah Salome, and Elizabeth. "The Kings Mountain Men" by Katherine Keough White, 1924 John Wilfong was born Apr 8, 1762 and died 1838. He enlisted in McDowell's regiment under Capt. Sigman and LT. Van Horn. He was wounded in the left arm at King's Mountain and went home the day after the battle but was at Eutaw. He married Hannah Sigmore (Sigman) and his son John married Lavina Sumay.

John married Hannah Sigmon 17 Apr 1787, Usa. Hannah (daughter of Conrad Mull and Molana Relick, daughter of George Sigmon and Barbara Bissing) was born Jul 1768, Of Bucks Co., Pennsylvania; died 22 Mar 1834, Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States; was buried 1831, Old St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Newton, North Carolina, United States. [Group Sheet]

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Buried Old St. Paul Luthern Church Catawba, NC.

Tombstone reads died 22 Mar 1831 66 years 9 months.

Mattie Adams Plyler has death 1734?

Others have death 1836.

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Married:
Spouse: John Poffh Wilfong

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George and Jacob are believed to be the sons or close kin of Johannes Wilfong who came with his parents George and Elizabth Wilfong on the ship "St. Andrew's Galley" 12 Sep 1734.

George's will was dated 18 Mar 1817 and probated in Jan 1819. The original cannot be located, but court minutes indicate it was "proven" by John Yoder. The executors were John Wilson and Andrew Hoyle. The index lists devisees as John Wilfong, Peter Wilfong, Mary Whitener, Elizabeth Cline, Catharine Hoyle, and Sally Gross.

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George and his brother Jacob came to NC as young men, probably with Henry Weidner. After the Indian attack in 1759, young George married the equally young widow Mary Poff Mull. He quickly assumed military duties, being listed in 1766 as a Lt. in the NC Militia. By the time of the Revolution he was a Major with the 2nd Reg., Rowan Co. He acquired much land after the war, and was heavily involved in civic duties, appearing often at the sessions of the Lincoln County court at Lincolnton. In addition, in 1769 he was named guardian for the minor children of his brother, Jacob. He and Mary Poff had John, [BO:Mary:BO], Elizabeth, Catherine, Peter, and Sarah. Peter married Susannah Hoyle, and had children George Daniel, Rebecca, Mary Margaret, Abel. J., and Elizabeth.

The following tidbits were forwarded by another Wilfong researcher, Martha Kapp: 1. in essence....when Burke Co. was broken off from Rowan, circa 1777, several commissions were appointed. George Wilfong was appointed to a commission to choose a site to erect a courthouse, prison, "and stocks". Another reference is made as follows, concerning the erection of a courthouse and person's proximity to the site "at Edward Smith's:" "George Wilfong lived in the eastern part of the county (east of present Catawba County)". Evidently there was a "deadlock" as to where it should be. Another notation states that "the movement of the courthouse from the plantation of Edward Smith to a location more than 20 miles to the west had far-reaching repercussions. Of the commissioners whom the legislature had appointed to select a site, only Hugh Brevard, GEORGE WILFONG, and possibly John Connelly would have been averse to the action. But WILFONG and Brevard were the representatives of the residents of the area which is present-day Catawba County. Their dissatisfaction probably was the determining factor which led to the transfer of this area to Lincoln County. After all, the Lincoln County seat (Lincolnton) chosen in 1784 was much more accesible to these citizens than the site on Hunting Creek."

2. in a list of citizens appointed to serve as justices in Burke County prior to 1792, George Wilfong was included.

3., In references to the Revolutionary War, George Wilfong is listed as a Major from the South Fork area of Catawba Co., who was distinguished as a Burke Militia officer noted for his bravery

George married Mary Pofh Mull 1761, North Carolina, USA. Mary (daughter of Conrad Mull and Molana Relick, daughter of Robert Wakefield and Arabella Corpening) was born 1744, Newton, Catawba County, North Carolina, United States; died 7 Jun 1816, Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States; was buried Jan 1816, Old St Paul's Lutheran Church Cem., Newton, Catawba Co., NC, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
Spouse: Mary Pofh Poffh (born Mull)

George married Barbara Bissing. [Group Sheet]

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His will was not probated until 1761, probably because his wife whom

he named Mollieanna in the will, could not file it until it was safe

to return to North Carolina following the Indian raid in which he was

killed. Besides her, only his brother John was mentioned.

I found this in on-line postings from The Pennsylvania Gazette:

Item #23376, June 28, 1759, filed from Charles Town in South Carolina,

May 12.

"According to Letters received yesterday from Gentlemen of Repute in

Rowan County, in North Carolina, upon the North Borders of this

Province, dated the 28th of April, and 1st, 3d, and 5th Insant, many

horrid Murders have lately been committed by Indians, on the Yadkin

and Catawba Rivers. The Number of People killed, in some Letters, are

said to be 13 or 14, in others 17 or 18; and the Murderers are

supposed to be Cherokees, tho they may as well be Shawanese, or of

those Indians who were prevailed on to quit the Ohio with the French

Garrison of Fort Duquesne. Among the Killed are named John SNAP,

Thomas ELLIS, Thomas ADAMS, Daniel HOLSEY, and Joseph RENTFORD, in the

upper Branch of the Yadkin; John HANNAH, and his Family (supposed to

be 7 in Number) near Fort Dobbs, and Conrad MULL, on the Catawba

River. The Catawba Nation was greatly exasperated on this Occasion,

as soon as they heard of the Murders, sent out 30 of their best

Warriors, under Capt. Matthew Tool, in Pursuit of the Enemy. In the

mean time all the Frontier Inhabitants are very much alarmed, many of

them have desisted Planting, and

others are fortifying themselves..........By some Accounts received

since our last, there is hardly any Room to doubt, that they were

Lower Cherokees who committed the late horrid Murders in Rowan County,

North Carolina........May 30. We hear proper Measures have been taken

by the Administration here, for obtaining effectual Satisfaction for

the outrageous Breach of Treaty, and impudent and barbarous Insult

committed by those Cherokees, in murdering and scalping the Rowan

Settlers."

While contemporaneous to the events, the information published in

the Gazette was still coming third hand. The account of the Indian

attack, scalped children, settlers alarmed, fits in with the Weidner

story of the attack which led to their retreat to South Carolina. The

Weidner tale of Abram Mull being killed, young widow Mary warning

them, is certainly given substance by this account. Conrad is a

proven member of the Mull family, living adjacent to the Weidners,

Abram is otherwise unknown. Nevertheless, the homestead attacked

probably is Conrad's, whether it was he or a possible brother killed

is still unsure

Conrad married Molana Relick. Molana (daughter of Heinrich Bissing) was born Abt 1722, Lincoln County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Henry married Maria Magdalena aka Mary Wilfong 17 Apr 1787, Lincoln County, North Carolina. Maria (daughter of John Poffh Wilfong and Hannah Sigmon, daughter of George Sigmon and Barbara Bissing) was born 27 Mar 1798, Lincoln, North Carolina, United States; died 23 Jun 1886, Catawba, Catawba, North Carolina, United States; was buried , Weidner-Robinson Cemetery, Catawba, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet]