Elizabeth Edmiston1

FatherWilliam Edmiston Sr.1,2 d. 1789
MotherAgnes Holmes1 d. aft Dec 1788
Marriagecirca 1780 Elizabeth Edmiston married Mathew Buchanan, son of Andrew Buchanan and Joanna Hay, circa 1780.1,2 
Residence Family tradition (1920) states that Mathew built the first house on the old Buchanan farm and that it was raised on the day of the Battle of Kings Mtn.2 
  Three of Mathew and Elizabeth's children (William, Mary and Martha) married 3 children of Benjamin Keys and Betsy Stewart.2 

Research Comment:

Early Southwest Virginia Families lists an additional daughter named Margaret for Mathew and Elizabeth. Jean Keys Buchanan's earlier manuscript on the family (1929) does not include a daughter Margaret.

Margaret is buried at Moore Cemetery as are several of Mathew and Elizabeth's known children, however members of at least one other Buchanan family are buried there as well.

Family

Mathew Buchanan b. say 1760
The birth order of the children is not known. 
Children
Last Edited3 Mar 2012

Citations

  1. [S5] Elizabeth Kelly Allison, Early Southwest Virginia Families, p. 55.
  2. [S2272] Jean Keys Buchanan, The Buchanans, manuscript, 1928.
  3. [S1198] Virgil Lewis, "Residents of Washington County," in Virginia and Virginians, p. 705.