Susan Bentley

Susan married Robbie Conners [Group Sheet]

Susan married Henry Meade (son of Leslie Anne Bentley and Susan Bentley) [Group Sheet]

Coley married John Perkins. [Group Sheet]

Kristin married Luther Partee Bentley. (son of Ralph Lesley Bentley and Mabel Beatrice Link) [Group Sheet]

Mary married Jacob Forney, Jr WFT Est 1806 1832. Jacob (son of Jean Jacob Forney and Maria Margartha Bergner) was born 6 Nov 1754, Ingleside, Lincoln, North Carolina, United States; died 7 Nov 1840, Morganton, Burke, North Carolina, United States; was buried Nov 1840, Jacob Forney Jr Cemetery, Burke, North Carolina, United States. [Group Sheet]

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Buried:
Find A Grave Memorial# 94629022

Jean married Maria Margartha Bergner 23 Sep 1752, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. Maria (daughter of Coley Conners and John Perkins, daughter of Johannes Peter Bergner and Catharina Glatthard) was born 3 Aug 1727, Grindelwald, Canton of Berne, Switzerland; died 1810, Machpelah, Lincoln, North Carolina, United States; was buried 1804, Old Dutch Meeting House Cemetery, Machpelah, Lincoln, North Carolina, United States. [Group Sheet]

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Find A Grave Memorial# 94629533

Maria married Jean Jacob Forney 23 Sep 1752, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. Jean (son of Coley Conners and John Perkins) was born 12 Oct 1721, Canton of Berne, Switzerland; died Jul 1806, Tyron, Lincoln, North Carolina, United States; was buried 1806, Old Dutch Meeting House Cemetery, Macpelah Church, Lincoln, North Carolina, United States. [Group Sheet]

Isacc married Mary Levina Corpening 11 Aug 1841. Mary (daughter of Catherine Corpening and John J Shuford, daughter of Abraham Corpening and Lettia Estes) was born 30 Dec 1812; died 10 Apr 1887. [Group Sheet]

Infant married John George Chorpening 2 Mar 1776, Washington County, Maryland. John (son of Robert Lee Bradshaw, son of Hendrick Courpenning) was born 1750, United Netherlands; died 1804, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

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These sketches were originally written by Col Thomas George Walton

(1815-1905). 1st published in the old Morganton Herald in 1894

"DANIEL, the youngest son of Major JACOB FORNEY, was the "bravest of the

brave" I ever knew; giving evidence of this truth on more than one occasion

during the late war. When the notorious KIRK captured Camp Vance in 1863, I

was organizing a force of citizens to repel, as fast as could be done, his

sacking the town. This he learned by some means. Hurriedly leaving the camp

with his prisoners and plunder, he crossed the river made a beeline for

Tennessee, by way of the SUDDERTH place. Sending a mounted part of 25 or 30

men and placing them under the command of Lieutenants FRANK CRAIG and THOMAS

McENTIRE, who were here on a furlough from the army, I directed them to be

governed by DANIEL FORNEY in endeavoring to get ahead of KIRK, and by

ambuscade annoy and hold him in check until the footmen could overtake him.

FORNEY, being familiar with the paths and nearcuts through the mountains, as

well as the best points for attacking the enemy, succeeded in heading him at a

gap on the south end of the Brown Mountain. FORNEY advised taking a position

in a large cluster of alders, within 20 yards of the road, but the men without

dissent, said there was great danger of their force (small as compar

KIRK's) being captured. KIRK's forces were estimated at two thousand.

FORNEY, being overruled, the men took a position safer for them and nearer

their horses. KIRK was marching at the head of the column. When fired upon,

his men, panic stricken, left the road. KIRK was shot in the arm, and a

number of the prisoners escaped. I was afterwards shown by Mr. . FORNEY where

he had proposed to place his men. It looked to me hazardous, but he would

have run the risk and, being so near, KIRK would have, in all probability,

been killed. About the time of Gen. Lee's surrender, four raiders, said to

belong to Vaughn's Tennessee command, were passing through the country taking

the best horses and mules from the people by force of arms. Having robbed Mr.

HUNT, who lived at Quaker Meadows at the time, they learned from some b

persons that DANIEL FORNEY had a fine mare. It was dark when they reached his

house, which was enclosed by a plank fence. A large gate led to the stable.

They rode up to the fence and hollered. FORNEY, coming out, asked what they

wanted. "We want your mare", they replied. "You'll not get her", responded

FORNEY. "If you attempt to go through that gate, some of you will be shot."

Immediately they commenced firing at him with their revolvers. FORNEY never

flinched, but returned fire with his double-barrel shotgun charged with

buckshot. At length one of the marauders called out, "Oh, Lord! I am killed;

don't shoot any more." Sending for his neighbor, DR. JOHN C. MCDOWELL, they

went in pursuit and found the rascals at Cherry Fields, in an outhouse of Mrs.

CALDWELL's. The wounded man, unable to ride, compelled them to stop. They

were armed with Colt army revolvers, and had a considerable amount of

greenbacks, the first I had ever seen. The wounded man had received eight or

ten buckshot in the face and breast. I told DANIEL his gun was not good, or

the man would have been killed. He said he could only account for it by it's

having been loaded for a long time, and the powder had lost it's strength. I

don't hesitate to say that there is not one man in ten, under all

circumstances, that would not have surrendered the mare. It is an old saying

that "blood will tell whether man or beast." In FORNEY's veins coursed the

blood of his grandfather, JACOB FORNEY, Sr., who according to WHEELER's

history, at one time kept at bay twelve or fifteen Indians for several hours,

protecting his wounded friends until a fort two miles distant was safely

reached."

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These sketches were originally written by Col Thomas George Walton (1815-1905). 1st published in the old Morganton Herald in 1894

Major JACOB FORNEY,(Jr.) an old pioneer, was the son of JACOB FORNEY who came to the United States from the Canton of Berne in Switzerland. Landing in Pennsylvania, he moved to Lincoln County, North Carolina, then Tryon County, in 1754. He married a Swiss girl, MARIA BERGNER. By her he had three sons, JACOB, PETER and ABRAM. JACOB, the oldest son, was the owner of a splendid tract of land on Upper Creek, now divided and owned by his descendants. Major JACOB FORNEY, Jr., (born in 1754 and died in 1840) was one of the first settlers of Burke County, and married MARY CORPENING (born in 1788 and died in 1867), the eldest daughter of ALBERT CORPENING. His good wife, as well as himself, were much esteemed by the best people of the county. They lived happily together for many years, blest with a numerous family, enjoying life, and reaping the fruits of their probity and industry from their land, literally "flowing with milk and honey". At the time of his becoming a resident of Burke County, game of every species abounded. The buffalo, elk, deer, and the beaver had not been extinguished by the white man; and the Major would tell of his escape from a wounded buffalo by climbing a tree, rifle in hand, to a fork in the tree, and from this place of refuge, shooting the mad bull. I have seen well defined traces of beaver dams at Col. AVERY's place on the north Toe River, and have been told by him that within his recollection, the last beaver caught in Burke County was near this place, and the last elk was killed by JONAS DAVENPORT, on a ridge leading to the Roan or Yellow mountain, named from that fact, the "Elk Hollow Ridge." It's horns were so ponderous that they were never removed, and were seen for many years afterwards. Major FORNEY, by his wife, Mary, had seven sons and four daughters, THOMAS, NEWTON, HERVEY, ALBERT, MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE, BERGNER, DANIEL, FATIMA, MARY, SONORA, AND ONE OTHER WHO DIED IN CHILDHOOD. Although marrying late in life, he lived to see his children grown. They were both buried at the family homestead."

Buried:
Find A Grave Memorial# 24353872

Died:
Aged 86 years and 1 day

Jacob married Mary E. aka Polly Corpening WFT Est 1806 1832. Mary (daughter of Coley Conners and John Perkins, daughter of Albert F. Corpening and Barbara Propst) was born 19 Oct 1778; died 24 May 1867. [Group Sheet]

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(Llocated in Lincoln County, NC-From Lowesville Hwy 16 take Old Plank Rd. SR1511 2.8 miles,Left on Mariposa Rd. SR1412 0.4 miles- Site is in woods 100yds to Left.) On his tombstone the following words are inscribed "To the memory of General Peter Forney, who was born April 21st, 1756 and died February 1st, 1834. In Public life the deceased acquitted himself with reputation as a useful and efficient member of Cong

Peter married Nancy Catherine Abernethy 27 Feb 1783, Jacksonville, Benton Co. (now Calhoun), Alabama. Nancy was born 1764, Lincoln, North Carolina; died 1 May 1834, Lincoln, North Carolina, United States; was buried , Peter Forney Cemtery, Lincoln, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Abraham married Elizabeth Corpening 11 Aug 1841. Elizabeth (daughter of Elizabeth Mason and Jacob Forney, Jr, daughter of Abraham Corpening and Lettia Estes) was born WFT Est 1802 1822; died WFT Est 1843 1909. [Group Sheet]

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SOURCE: http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/burk/cem037.htm

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REFERENCE: Find A Grave Memorial # 24353836 and http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/burk/cem037.htm

Died:
SOURCE: http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/burk/cem037.htm