Individual Details
(Abt, 1766 - )
"William Cantrell married Elizabeth Wilkens in 1788 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. She was a daughter of Col. William and Elizabeth Wilkens and was born August 11, 1771. The Wilkens family were among the first setlers of Spartanburg County. They settled in the vicinity of Goucher's Creek, before the Revolutionary War and William Wilkens served as a colonel. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Terrell, of the Terrell family of Culpepper County, Virginia. William Cantrell purchased land on Goucher's Creek, November 30, 1797, and a few years later on the North Pacolet River, adjoining land owned by William Wilkens. He accumulated considerable property on the fork of Pacolet River, adjoining Buck Creek, and it is said that he was called "Billy Cantrell, Gentleman" because he owned so much land and so many slaves. He made deeds, November 2, 1827, for over 1300 acres of land to William Cantrell, Jr. The witnesses being Milly Duncan, Catherine Jones and Col. William Wilkens. Sometime about 1840, or later, all his children moved to Georgia and Alabama." (THE CANTRILL - CANTRELL GENEALOGY, 1908, by Susan Cantrill Christie, page 122.)
Events
| Birth | Abt, 1766 | Rockingham County, North Carolina | | | |
| Marriage | 1788 | Spartanburg County, South Carolina - Elizabeth Wilkens | | | |
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