Daughter of Johann Jacob Misenheimer, II
& Anna Margaretha [Reiter] Misenheimer

Married George Klein
1785

Mother of:
Leah [Cline] Blackwelder
George Cline
Elizabeth [Cline] Fisher
Christina Cline
Michael Cline
Jacob Cline
Joseph Cline


The following is an account of Maria's
story as posted by Brady Kerr on his
rootsweb site:
Much of the history of those early pioneer
days was preserved for us by Mary, as
she told of the early days to her
great-grandsons in the 1850's.
Those boys include three Cline brothers,
the sons of Wiley Cline.
Her memory was still clear when she was in
her nineties, and ran back to her girlhood
in Pennsylvania.
When they left, Maria was large enough to
ride horseback on the long journey from
Pennsylvania.
She told of the wagon train trip from Berks
Co. (near Readling), across the Susquehenna
River and down through Virginia. 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".
It was fascinating to the boys to have
"Knitting Granny" sit by the fire on winter
nights and tell them of things that went on
back in the days of George Washington, and
of old colonial days before our country came
into being. 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, SC to meet the win of the British
Army in the Battle of Cowpens, in which our
boys were defeated.
According to her version, when the order to
retreat was given by General Daniel Morgan,
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 our men in this story are
the same ones abducted by the David
Fanning Gang, or it could be that they were
instead captured at "Gates Defeat" at the
Battle of "Gum Swamp" near Camden, SC.
It is the opinion of this writer, based on the
evidence researched, that Meisenheimers
and/or Blackwelders did fight at both
"Gum Swamp" and "Cowpens".
Their relatives and friends made trips to
visit these boys while prisoners, making
the long trip on horseback or in buggies
or wagons.
An epidemic of smallpox broke out among the
prison inmates, and many of them died.
Some of the visitors also contracted the
dreaded disease.

NOTE:
Location of grave is unknown.