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John stones

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The sun was fading fast that evening as I sped past a small cemetery in rural North Carolina. I was losing light, but something about the stones caught my eye, so I turned around to see what I could capture before the day slipped away. This marker stood out right away because of its shape and symbols. But it wasn’t until I got home and looked closer that I realized it was actually a double gravemarker, something you don’t see very often. Curious, I started digging into the lives of the two people buried here, John and Catherine McNair. Here is what I found: John McNair came to America in 1770 after the death of his first wife, crossing the ocean with his two small children. Part of a wave of Highland Scots who settled throughout the Cape Fear region of North Carolina, he purchased a plantation in Anson County before later moving to an area along Drowning Creek. John was also a Patriot during the Revolutionary War and received payment for the aid he provided in 1783. One story I found described his early life in Scotland. He was born in 1735 in a small village in the Parish of Kilkenny, the youngest son of Neill MacNair. After losing his first wife, Jennet Smylie, in 1769, he emigrated to North Carolina the following year. In 1772, he married his second wife, Catherine Buie McFarland, the daughter of Scottish immigrant Donald Buie. Together they built a family until Catherine’s death in 1787. Standing there at their shared gravemarker, two names side by side, I felt the weight of their story: loss, resilience, migration, the building of a new life on unfamiliar soil, and how it tied into the bigger story unfolding in this region at the time. It is amazing what you can learn when a single stone makes you turn around.

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