Notes for Mr. Unknown Ryan
[Moses’ Tichenor’s] widow [Margaret] remarried, as evidenced by Margaret Tichenor Ryan’s will recorded in Hardy Co., (W) Virginia October 19, 1818.
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Hardy Co. is now in West Virginia
[Moses’ Tichenor’s] widow [Margaret] remarried, as evidenced by Margaret Tichenor Ryan’s will recorded in Hardy Co., (W) Virginia October 19, 1818.
8another source says: b. 1745
171Margaret Jackson (1761-1818) may have had a life of comparative luxury in Morristown, New Jersey, but she had to endure the problems of raising children, run their farm while her husband Moses was away fighting in the Revolutionary War. Then she had to leave the life of comparative luxury in Morristown to move to an unknown frontier community in Virginia where she then helped build a log cabin or cabins to live in, plow and plant a new farms, worry about her son David fighting in the Revolutionary War
while serving as a substitute for his father and two other men. She moved three or four times during the 16 years they lived on the frontier in Virginia and Maryland, each time starting over again. Moses died early, leaving her at age 50 with many business deals under way but not completed, two adult sons fighting over the land and business, a 14 year old son and four young daughters to raise alone. She was forced to remarry in order to raise her children and finish out her life.