Cabarrus County NcArchives Biographies.....Cline, Marie Misenheimer 
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Marie Misenheimer Cline
Wife of George Cline

These are my 4th great grandparents

George Cline, Sr., was born ca. 1762 in Mecklenburg County, N.C., married ca. 
1785 to Maria (called Mary) Misenheimer, born 22 Apr. 1763, died 8 Feb. 1859, 
daughter of Johann Jakob and Margaretha Misenheimer, who had moved their 
family to N.C. about 1775, or earlier, since in October of that year Jakob 
obtained 170 acres of land from his neighbors, Michael and Catherine Cline on 
Adams Creek. Much of the history of those early pioneer days was preserved for 
us by Mary, as she told of the early days of her life to her great-grandsons 
in the 1850s. Her memory was still clear when she was in her nineties and ran 
back to her girlhood in Pa.

Since she spent most of her time sitting beside the big fireplace knitting 
during the years she lived in the home of her grandson, Wiley Cline, the boys 
affectionately called her "Knitting Granny". A grandmother of the boys also 
lived at the home did the housework and cooking so the boys found a name for 
her--"kitchen Granny".

It was fascinating to these boys to have "Knitting Granny" sit by the fire on 
winter nights and tell them of things that were going on back in the days of 
George Washington and of the old colonial days before our country came into 
being.

When they left Pa., Maria was large enough to ride horseback and she told of 
the wagon train trip from Berks County, (near Reading), across the Susquehenna 
River and down through Virginia. Most of the time she rode horseback on the 
long journey. 

During the Revolutionary War, several of Mary's brothers, as well as their 
Blackwelder cousins, who were neighbors, enlisted in the army and went off to 
Cowpens to meet the wing of the British army in the Battle of Cowpens, in 
which our troops were defeated. According to her version, when the order to 
retreat was given, her long-legged brothers and cousins didn't take time to 
run around the scrub pine trees at the battlefield, but straddled over the top 
of them. However, many of men were captured and taken to the British prison at 
Camden, S.C. Their relatives and friends made trips to visit the "boys" while 
prisoners, making the long trip on horseback or in buggies or wagons. An 
epidemic of smallpox broke out among the prison inmates, many of whom died. 
Some of the visitors also contacted the dread disease.

George and Mary lived on the part of the farm willed to him by his father, 
Michael Cline, about 4 miles east of Concord on the old Gold Hill road. This 
farm remained in the Cline families through six generations, the last of its 
owners being Ralph Cline. He sold it about 1965. 

George died in the late 1840s and Mary on 8 Feb. 1859, according to her marker 
in the cemetery of St. John's Lutheran Church, six miles east of Concord. The 
grave of George has no marker at present, if it ever had one.

The above from the book "Descendants of Michael Klein" by A. Campbell Cline


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