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Jemima <I>Petrie</I> Colvin

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Jemima Petrie Colvin

Birth
Chester County, South Carolina, USA
Death
5 Jun 1872 (aged 86)
Unionville, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Mineral Springs, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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Based on information on Ancestry.com,Jemima was born in Chester County, South Carolina to Peter Petrie from the Orkney Islands,St. Andrew's, Scotland and Susannah Hardwick from Prince George Island, VA. Peter Petrie served as a private in the SC militia during the Revolution. He received a military pension and died in Kentucky in 1841.

Jemima and Andrew raised 13 children. All of them lived to adulthood. Their home was between Chester and Feasterville SC. Andrew Feaster was served as a private from 1771-1778 from Fairfield, SC. The military information comes from an approved membership application for the DAR.

After the death of her husband, Jemima moved to North Louisiana. In the 1860 census, she is 78 years old and resides between the property of Ainsley Colvin and Maybury Colvin.

She was considered an intelligent woman, a woman knowledgeable in the Bible and an expert midwife.

One of her grandsons, Calhoun, who often visited with her remembered Jemima as an interesting lady who was full of energy. She was fond of honey and wholesome food.(Information from an exerpt from Colvin and Allied Families: Ethel and Baker Colvin. Library of Congress)


Jemima died while visiting her son John Colvin and is buried with other Colvin family members in Mineral Springs Cemetery in Union Parish, Louisiana.
Based on information on Ancestry.com,Jemima was born in Chester County, South Carolina to Peter Petrie from the Orkney Islands,St. Andrew's, Scotland and Susannah Hardwick from Prince George Island, VA. Peter Petrie served as a private in the SC militia during the Revolution. He received a military pension and died in Kentucky in 1841.

Jemima and Andrew raised 13 children. All of them lived to adulthood. Their home was between Chester and Feasterville SC. Andrew Feaster was served as a private from 1771-1778 from Fairfield, SC. The military information comes from an approved membership application for the DAR.

After the death of her husband, Jemima moved to North Louisiana. In the 1860 census, she is 78 years old and resides between the property of Ainsley Colvin and Maybury Colvin.

She was considered an intelligent woman, a woman knowledgeable in the Bible and an expert midwife.

One of her grandsons, Calhoun, who often visited with her remembered Jemima as an interesting lady who was full of energy. She was fond of honey and wholesome food.(Information from an exerpt from Colvin and Allied Families: Ethel and Baker Colvin. Library of Congress)


Jemima died while visiting her son John Colvin and is buried with other Colvin family members in Mineral Springs Cemetery in Union Parish, Louisiana.

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  • Maintained by: PKA Mack
  • Originally Created by: Joe Pearce
  • Added: Oct 10, 2011
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78062631/jemima-colvin: accessed ), memorial page for Jemima Petrie Colvin (5 Sep 1785–5 Jun 1872), Find a Grave Memorial ID 78062631, citing Mineral Springs Cemetery, Mineral Springs, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, USA; Maintained by PKA Mack (contributor 47343422).