John Armour LYNN poses a bit of a problem.  A John Armour LYNN is buried in 
Hill Prairie Cemetery.  Also buried there are his two wives, Martha REDPATH 
and Ann HAYS, and his five children.  John Armour LYNN appears in Mrs. 
TORRENS' work, but not in Mr. DUNWOODY's material.  Nor does a John Armour 
LYNN appear with his apparent parents, John LYNN and Mary Jane ARMOUR, in the 
1850 or 1860 Federal Censuses when he would have been only 4 and 14 years old 
respectively.  John Armour LYNN and Martha REDPATH were married on 26 Oct 
1871 and had three children, William R. (1874-1858) and twins, John and 
Martha, both of whom died as infants in 1877.  John Armour LYNN and Ann HAYES 
were married about 1878 and had two children, Margaret (1879-1882) and Martha 
(1881-1949).

 3.  Eleanor H. LYNN          b. 10 May 1847, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                    d. 6 July 1848, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                     i. Hill Prairie Cemetery, Sparta, 
Randolph Co., IL

 Eleanor H. is interred in the same group as John and Mary Jane.

 4.  Harriet LYNN               b. 1849, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                             d. 

                                             s. Matthew W. GILLESPIE 

Spouseā€(tm)s name is according to Mr. DUNWOODY, or perhaps W. P. GILLESPIE as 
noted by Mrs. Torrens.

 5.  John Calvin LYNN         b. 10 May 1851, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                             d. 4 June 1934

 John Calvin LYNN is identified by Mr. DUNWOODY and must be the Rev. J. C
LYNN, retired minister of the United Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, 
Missouri, with whom William Hemphill MILLEN was corresponding in 1919, as 
cited in Edith Elizabeth LYNN's book.[28]  There is also a reference to John 
LYNN becoming a minister in "History of Jordan's Grove Church".[29]

 6.  Maria LYNN                 b. 18 Sep 1852, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                             d. 31 Jan 1934, Seattle, 
Washington

                                             s. The Rev. Theodore Cameron 
McKELVEY

                                             b. 17 July 1854, Coulterville, 
Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                             d. 18 Sep 1929

 Maria (or Marian) and the Rev. McKELVEY, were married on 9 June 1881, had 
three children and left Illinois.  Mr. DUNWOODY is descended from this couple.

 7.  James H. LYNN            b. 28 Aug 1855, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                    d. 31 Mar 1859, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                     i. Hill Prairie Cemetery, Sparta, 
Randolph Co., IL

 James H. LYNN is also interred in the same group as John and Mary Jane.

 8.  Robert Renwick LYNN    b. 27 Oct 1856, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                    d. 1 Apr 1924

                                    .i. Hill Prairie Cemetery, Sparta, 
Randolph Co., IL

                                    s. (1)  Sarah Jane HOUSTON

                                    b. 28 Feb, 1860

                                    d. 4 Apr 1901, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                    s. (2)  Eliza D. DAVIS

                                    b. 28 July 1867

                                    d. 14 Nov 1952, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                     i. Hill Prairie Cemetery, Sparta, 
Randolph Co., IL

 Robert Renwick LYNN and Sarah Jane were married 4 Dec 1879 and had seven 
children: William Wyman (1882-1974) Robert Russell (1884-) Albert A. 
(1885-1964) James Henry (1887- 1914) John William (1891-1947) Allen (1891-) 
and Thomas J. (1895-1973).  William Wyman LYNN and his wife Bertha TAYLOR, 
Albert A. LYNN and his wife Martha M, and James Henry LYNN are all buried in 
Caledonia Cemetery.  Thomas J. LYNN and his wife Marguerite McMURTRIE are 
buried in Hill Prairie Cemetery.  Robert Renwick LYNN and Eliza D. DAVIS 
married 9 Apr 1903 and had one child, Mary Jean (1906-1912) who is buried in 
Hill Prairie Cemetery.

 9.  William Melville LYNN     b. 31 May 1858, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                    d. 28 Mar 1881, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                    i. Hill Prairie Cemetery, Sparta, 
Randolph Co., IL

 10.  Henry C. LYNN           b. 11 July 1860, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                    d. 19 Nov 1860, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                     i. Hill Prairie Cemetery, Sparta, 
Randolph Co., IL

 11.  Eleanor LYNN            b. 17 Sep 1861, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                    d. 4 June 1926, Sparta, Randolph Co., IL

                                     i. Caledonia Cemetery, Sparta, Randolph 
Co., IL

                                    s. James A. ALEXANDER

                                    b. 22 Jan 1847, Eden, Randolph Co., IL

                                    d. 21 June 1925

                                     i. Caledonia Cemetery, Sparta, Randolph 
Co., IL

 Eleanor and James were married 20 Nov 1890 and had three children, Frank 
(1894-1895) Dorothea (1897-1898) and Doris (1898- ).  Their first child, 
Lowell (1891-1955) died in Cincinnati, Ohio.

 Another Family: William LINN and Rebecca IRWIN

 Mrs. TORRENS also has some information on the descendants of William LINN 
who was born in Ireland and also moved to the Sparta area from South Carolina 
in the 1830s.[30]  William is age 75 in the 1850 census and 90 in the 1860 
Federal Census of Sparta, Randolph Co., Illinois.  Mrs. TORRENS states 
"tradition says [William] lived to be 100 yrs. old".  William purchased land 
in 1839 in the same township as Eleanor (McGarragh) LYNN, in section 26.  His 
son Robert purchased land in section 34 and his son William J. in section 21 
of the same township.  These lands are very close to the land purchased by 
Eleanor's son, John LYNN.  One of William's sons, Charles E. LINN, is buried 
in Caledonia Cemetery along with his wife, Nancy Rebecca DESPAR, and some of 
their children.

 One cannot help but wonder if this William LINN is related to the John LYNN 
who migrated from County Antrim to South Carolina in 1772.

* James H. LYNN, 904 Rand Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada  K1V 6X4.  E-mail: 
[email protected]

Last Updated: July 30, 2000

[1] National Archives of Ireland, Church of Ireland Consistorial Will Book: 
Connor (1853-1858) will no. 9006.  Family History Library film no. 100,903.

 [2] The story of the migration is told by Jean Stephenson in Scotch-Irish 
Migration To South Carolina, 1772 (Rev. William Martin and His Five Shiploads 
of Settlers) (Strasburg, Virginia: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1971).

 [3] Kellswater is in the townland of Carnaghts in the Parish of Connor.  See 
Kellswater Reformed Presbyterian Church, Co. Antrim, A Short History, by 
Robert Buchanan, published by The Congregational Committee, Kellswater 
Reformed Presbyterian Church, 21 Grove Road, Shankbridge, Ballymena, Northern 
Ireland, BT42 3DP, June 1989.  The Rev. William Martin is listed as the 
Minister from 1760 to 1772.

 [4] Edith Elizabeth LYNN, Descendants of John  (LINN) LYNN, County Antrim, 
Ireland and Chester County, South Carolina, 1738-1830 (Easley, S.C.: Southern 
Historical Press, 1983).

[5] Overton H. CRAWFORD, Our Family: A Record of Some of the Descendents of 
John LYNN I, Born 1763, Died Sept. 1820; Daniel Jones, Born Feb. 16, 1768, 
Died May 7, 1845.  Unpublished, no date; copy at The Chester District 
Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 336, Richburg, S.C. 29729.

 [6] Edith Elizabeth LYNN, op. cit., p 13, states that Jane is buried in a 
plot next to that of her husband, but I could not find John in any of the 
cemetery transcriptions.

 [7] Mrs. Frank S. Torrens and her daughter, Louise M. Torrens, Family 
Genealogies of Sparta, Illinois, 10 vols. typescript, c.1956, FHL film no. 
1,033,992.

 [8] Mr. DUNWOODY's letter and attached material were passed on by Edith 
Elizabeth LYNN to Phyllis Bauer and by Phyllis on to me.

 [9] Edith Elizabeth LYNN, op. cit., p. 2.  There does not appear to be any 
documentation regarding the birthplace of Mathew LYNN.  A local historian 
suggested that John LYNN and the Rev. Mathew LYNN were related: "In 1787 Rev. 
Matthew LYNN, one of the Reformed Presbyterians who entered into the union 
which formed the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, visited the region 
of country near Richburg.  In this community there lived a John LYNN, a 
relation of Rev. Matthew LYNN.  John LYNN came to America in 1772 in company 
with Rev. William Martin.  At the house of John LYNN, Rev. Matthew LYNN began 
to preach."  A Historical Sketch of Union A. R. P. Church, Chester County, 
South Carolina By Rev. R. Lathan, D. D., 1888, Reprinted by the Chester 
County Genealogical Society, Richburg, South Carolina, 1980, p. 11

 [10] Stephenson, op. cit., p. 15. 

 [11] Eleanor's father, the Rev. William McGARRAGH, emigrated from County 
Down and succeeded the Rev. William MARTIN as Minister to the Covenanters in 
Rocky Creek, S.C.  See "Sketch of the Covenanters of Rocky Creek, South 
Carolina About 1750-1840", Transcribed by Phyllis J. Bauer, LYNN/LINN 
Lineage, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Winter 1992) p.95.  Stephenson, op. cit., p. 24, 
notes that the only daughter of the Rev. William MARTIN married a John McCAW 
of York Co. SC and predeceased him.  McCAW later moved with his family to 
Randolph Co., Illinois.

 [12] Transcribed from the Chester News & Reporter (no date) in The Bulletin, 
Chester District Genealogical Society, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Sept. 1978) p.49.

 [13] From an article written by the Rev. Robert Lathan and published in the 
Associate Reformed Presbyterian, September 13, 1888.  Reprinted in The 
Bulletin, Chester District Genealogical Society, Vol. 1, No. 2 (June 1978) 
p.3. 

 [14] Combined History of Randolph, Monroe and Perry Counties, Illinois, With 
Illustrations Descriptive of Their Scenery and Biographical Sketches of some 
of their Prominent Men and Pioneers, Published by J. L. McDonough & Co., 
Philadelphia, 1883.  See also "Abbeville Scotch Irish", Trails, quarterly 
journal of the Randolph County, Illinois Genealogical Society, vol. 2, no. 4 
(1992).  The Randolph County Genealogical Society has published Randolph 
County, Illinois History 1795-1995, but I have not had an opportunity to read 
it.

 [15]  Wm. Cuthbertson, "Presbyterian Pioneers of CRAWFORD County, Kansas who 
Migrated From Near Sparta, Illinois", Seeker, quarterly journal of the 
CRAWFORD Genealogical Society, vol. 11, no. 3 (Fall 1981) p. 49.  Some 
descendants of Jean LYNN and John McGUIRE are cited in this article.

 [16] For LYNNs/LINNs in Randolph County in the 1850 Census, see the 
compilation by Phyllis Bauer, "LYNN/LINNs Found In The 1850 Federal Census of 
Illinois", LYNN/LINN Lineage Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Fall 1987) p. 75.  
Phyllis also sent me an extraction of LYNN/LINNs from the 1860 Census.

 [17] See the extraction by Phyllis Bauer of LYNNs indicating volume and page 
numbers from the State of Illinois, Archives Division, Public Domain Sales 
Land Tract Record Listing in LYNN/LINN Lineage Quarterly, Vol. XII, N. 4 
(Winter 1998) pp. 102-107.  These records, which provide the purchase date, 
can be obtained from the Illinois Archives at: 
http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/data.lan.html.  The same 
information can be obtained from the Bureau of Land Management - Eastern 
States, General Land Office at: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov .  The BLM Land 
Patent Report includes a document number and provides the signature date, 
which may be a few years after the purchase date.  A copy of the land patent 
document can be downloaded from the site.

 [18] Randolph County cemetery inscriptions have been transcribed by Lucille 
Wiechens, Cemeteries of Randolph County, 5 vols. c.1989, FHL film no. 
2,055,284.  Descendants of John LYNN and Jennet MALCOLM in Hill Prairie 
Cemetery are found in Vol. I, pages 182-183 of the FHL film, and those in 
Caledonia Cemetery in Vol. 3, p. 54 of the FHL film.  Mrs. Frank S. TORRENS 
also transcribed Randolph County cemetery inscriptions, but at an earlier 
date.  Inscriptions can now be found on the Randolph County Web Site at 
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ilrandol/.

 [19] "McGUIRE" in Family Genealogies of Sparta, Illinois, compiled by Mrs. 
Frank S. Torrens and her daughter, Louise M. Torrens, typescript, c. 1956, 
vol. 7.  FHL film no. 1,033,992, pp. 1253-1258.

 [20] "Bible Record; The 'McGUIRE' Family Bible", ibid, p. 1123.  It is not 
clear whether the reference to Jane LINN having been born in Connor Parish is 
in the transcription from the Bible or in Mrs. TORRENS' introduction to the 
transcription.

 [21] In Experiences of Early Settlers, collected and typed by Mrs. Frank S. 
Torrens, 2 Aug. 1956, FHL microfiche 6,100,063 (three microfiche) pp. 84-91.  
Mr. E. B. McGUIRE of Sparta, Illinois, would appear to be Elihu B. McGUIRE 
(1844-1932) a grandson of John McGUIRE and Jane LYNN.

 [22] Edith Elizabeth LYNN, op. cit., p. 17, states that Martha McHATTON died 
29 Sep 1893.  Mrs. TORRENS states she died 20 Jan 1908.  Cemetery 
transcriptions for Caledonia Cemetery list a Martha McGUIRE born 16 Jun 1816, 
died 20 Jan 1908, but indicates she was "w/J. C."

 [23]"LYNN" in Family Genealogies of Sparta, Illinois, compiled by Mrs. Frank 
S. Torrens and her daughter, Louise M. Torrens, typescript, c. 1956, FHL film 
no. 1,033,992, pp. 981-982.

 [24] Tombstone Records of Chester County, South Carolina and Vicinity, 
Volume I, p. 136, compiled by Louise Kelly Crowder, 157 York Street, Chester, 
S.C., 1970.  John LYNN and Jennet MALCOLM and other members of their family 
are also buried in Paul's Graveyard.

 [25] Ibid, p. 136.

 [26] See:  http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/marriages.html 

 [27] See "Sketch of the Covenanters of Rocky Creek, South Carolina About 
1750-1840", Transcribed by Phyllis J. Bauer, LYNN/LINN Lineage Quarterly, 
Vol. 6, No. 4 (Winter 1992) p. 95-96.

 [28] Edith Elizabeth LYNN, op. cit., p. 36.

 [29] Robert McMurtry, "History of Jordan's Grove Church", in Experiences of 
Early Settlers, collected and typed by Mrs. Frank S. Torrens, 2 Aug. 1956.  
FHL microfiche no. 6,100,063 (3 microfiche), pp. 35-43.

 [30] "LINN" in Family Genealogies of Sparta, Illinois, compiled by Mrs. 
Frank S. Torrens and her daughter, Louise M. Torrens, 10 vols. typescript, 
c.1956, FHL film no. 1,033,992, pp. 955-956.

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