Habersham County GaArchives Photo Tombstone.....McCollum, Daniel & Susannah Miller McCollum
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Old Blue Creek Baptist Church cemetery near Cleveland, GA

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dniel.jpg McCOLLUM, Daniel 
            The photo is of the recently placed tombstone of Daniel McCollum, 
who served in North Carolina during the Revolution, 
but died in Habersham County Georgia in 1850. 
That area of Habersham County became White County in 1857. 
The marker is located in the Old Blue Creek Baptist Church cemetery near Cleveland, 
on land originally owned by his son William, whose wife was 
the first person buried there. 
     Daniel McCollum was born in 1760 in Somerset County, New Jersey 
to a Scots family whose immigrant ancestor arrived in New Jersey in 1685. 
By the 1770s Daniel was in Rowan County North Carolina, 
where he served as a militiaman in the company of 
Captain David Caldwell, which was in the regiment commanded by Colonel Francis Locke. 
Daniel moved to the Pendleton District of South Carolina about 1785 
and from there to Habersham County, Georgia in February 1826. 
Daniel resided with his daughter and son-in-law Elizabeth and John Stovall 
from at least 1840 until his death in 1850. 

He received a pension for his service from 1831 until his death. 
His grave remained unmarked, except for a stone wall,  until July 4, 2002 
when his descendants dedicated a government-provided marker commemorating 
his Revolutionary War service. 
  
Daniel was the ancestor of a number of McCollum families who settled in 
Habersham, White, Franklin, Walton, Cherokee, Coweta, Cobb, 
Bartow, Milton and Fulton counties. 
It is believed, but not documented, that the McCollums of 
Dade and Chattooga counties are also Daniel's descendants. 

Five generations of his descendants are buried in the family plot at Blue Creek. 

McCollum1.jpg  Susannah Miller McCollum
         The tombstone in the foreground is that of Susannah Miller McCollum, wife of William "Billy" McCollum, 
and daughter-in-law of Daniel McCollum, whose Revolutionary War 
tombstone is in the background. 
     The tombstone was placed on Susannah's grave by her grandchildren, probably in the late 1870s. 
The identical style of tombstone was placed on the Milton County graves of 
William and his second wife, Esther Edwards McCollum. 

     The stone reads: 
"Our Grandmother Susan, wife of Wiliam McCollum, died June 30, 1824, age 36 years" 

     William and Susannah moved to then Habersham County Georgia from 
Pendleton District South Carolina in 1823.