Margaret MENDENHALL
- Born: 5 Aug 1807, Gaston County, North Carolina
- Died: 13 Mar 1870, Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina at age 62
 General Notes:
ANCESTRY: Descended from Warinus de la Strode (born 1020 in Bretagne, France), a French knight who lived at the time of William the Conqueror
ANCESTRY: 6th Great-Grandchild of John Mildenhall Jr. (born 1560), the only Englishmen to visit both royal courts of the Emperors Akbar and Jahangir, and the first Englishmen to be buried in India
ANCESTRY: Great-Niece of John Bartram, the "Father of American Botany"
ANCESTRY: First-Cousin (Twice Removed) to William Bartram, "America's first Ornithologist"
ANCESTRY: Second-Cousin (Once Removed) to Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (born 1841), Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier's namesake
NOTEWORTHY: Margaret never married. According to her Will, her Negro slave Patsy, was to stay with her choice of brothers Nathan or John and the one that she chose was to get nothing else from Margaret's estate. She also specified that if either attempted to sell Patsey they would be entirely cut out of the Will. Margaret left her big spinning wheel to Patsy.
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