Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical / Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous Information, Much of It Never before Published

by C. L. Hunter

CHAPTER V.

LINCOLN COUNTY

Battle of Ramseur's Mill—Route of the British Army through Lincoln
county—Gen. Joseph Graham—Brevard Family—Col. James Johnston—
Genealogy of Col. James Johnston—Jacob Forney, Sr.—Gen. Peter
Forney—Major Abram Forney—Remarks—Genealogy of the Forney Family.