From: ECol91234@aol.com
Subject: Irwin Family
Date: 1999-07-17 21:44:41
In an earlier e-mail, Joseph asked about Mary Irwin's parents (as in Mary Irwin b. ca 1807 in Cumberland Co. KY (now Clinton Co.), who married James Dutton of Walker Co., son of John Dutton, grandson of Zach, Sr.) She was the daughter of William Irwin, Sr. and Elizabeth Forester. William Irwin Sr. was born 1775/1781 in Cumberland Co. PA, the son of John Irwin, a Revolutionary War soldier who fought the British at Trenton and grandson of William Irwin of Ireland who emigrated to Cumberland Co.PA and died there. William Irwin, Sr. migrated to Clinton County (formerly Cumberland Co.) PA and married Elizabeth Forester, (born ca 1888 in Tennessee, - d. 15 Nov 1844 in Walker Co. AL). She was the daughter of Robert Forester, a Revolutionary War soldier from Virginia whose pension application records his once delivering a sealed letter to Gov. Patrick Henry. William, Sr. and Elizabeth IRWIN settled in Stockton's Valley in Cumberland (now Clinton) Co. KY where the first of their children were born. Children born after 1820 were born in Lawrence Co. AL. While in KY, William Irwin Sr. fought in the War of 1812 and was in the battle across Lake Erie in Canada in which the great Indian Chief Tecumseh was killed. He is found in the 1820 Lawrence Co. AL U.S. census and in the 1840 census at age 70-80. Later he migrated to Walker Co. where his wife, Elizabeth died. His son William, Jr. was living in Walker Co. sometime before 1845. William Irwin, Sr. died in Clark County, Arkansas on 14 Nov. 1849, the first of nine to die in a party of families traveling together migrating to Texas. They died of cholera. His son William, Jr. and three of his children also died in Clark Co. AR of cholera, but his wife Susan Ann (Herring) and daughter, Martha Jane Irwin, survived their bouts with the disease and returned to Morgan Co., AL to the home of Susan Ann's father, Joseph Herring, where in 1850 the youngest child Susan W. Irwin was born, some months after the death of her father. Martha Jane Irwin later married James A. Lollar and they reared a family in Walker Co. where Susan Ann is found in their household in the 1870 census of Walker Co. She along with Martha and James Lollar are buried at Dutton HIll Cemetery, Walker Co. AL. Children of William Irwin Sr. and Elizabeth Forester (and siblings of Mary Irwin Dutton): 1. Mary "Polly" IRWIN b. ca 1807 in Cumberland Co. KY, d. after 1880 in Walker Co. AL md in 1832 in Lawrence Co. AL -James DUTTON b. ca 1807 in Granville, NC d. 30 Apr. 1883 in Walker Co. AL. They are thought to be buried in unmarked graves at Dutton Hill Cemetery in Walker Co. AL 2. Lovey IRWIN b. ca 1808 Cumberland Co. KY md on Oct 2 1826 in Lawrence Co. AL. -Thomas BROWN b. 1871 in Walker Co. AL; came to Walker Co. about 1835 and settled west of Jasper 3. Margaret IRWIN. One source says she died as a young child. Another reported that she married 16 Dec. 1819 in Lawrence Co. AL to Tollerson HAMPTON (there was a marriage of two persons by that name on that day.) 4. Francis Cunningham IRWIN b. ca 1814 md Debby BEAMS. Married 23 July 1835 in Lawrence Co. AL 5. John IRWIN b. ca 1815 in KY & Martha___________ 6. William IRWIN, Jr. b. 5 Nov. 1816 in Cumberland Co. KY-d. 19 Nov. 1849 in Clark Co. AR md. 6 Dec 1842 in Morgan Co. AL to Susan Ann HERRING, b. 8 Nov. 1823 - d. 31 Mar 1894 in Walker Co. AL, buried at Dutton Hill Cemetery, Walker Co. AL 7. Alexander "Alex" Hart IRWIN b. ca 1817 in either KY or Lawrence Co. KY?? d. 1856/1860 in MS md ca 1838 in Walker Co. AL to Ellen "Nellie" BROWN (a sister to the John B. Brown that Mary Pernelia Dutton (dau. of Jarrett Dutton & Charity McDaniel) married. Mary Dutton and John B. Brown also went to MS. Ellen BROWN was born ca 1821 in Lawrence Co. AL and died after 1880 in Itawamba Co. MS. (Do not know if there is a family relationship between John B. Brown and Ellen BROWN to the Thomas BROWN who married Lovey IRWIN, but I assume there probably was one---Joseph, do you know? 8. Simeon Bramlet IRWIN b. ca 1822 in Lawrence Co. AL 9. Elizabeth IRWIN, b. ca 1824 in Lawr. Co. AL. Never married. Found in the household of her sister Mary Irwin Dutton (and James Dutton) in 1860. 10. Robert Foster/Forester/Forest IRWIN, b. 21 May 1826 in Lawrence Co. AL-moved to Texas about 1852 and is found living in Cherokee To., TX by 1860 - d. 1900 in Jacksonville, Cherokee Co. TX. He married Sarah Ann WELLS, daughter of Wylie WELLS in Walker Co. AL 4 Mar 1849. They migrated to TX after the birth of their first daughter. 11. George Washington IRWIN