General Notes

Notes for MARGARET KEAHEY: from Larry D. Keahey FTM site
Margaret and her two sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, went to live with Grandma Patterson. In 1836 John C. Currie came to the community to teach school. He fell in love with one of his pupils, Margaret, and married her. He was typical of the Scots who inhabited that part of North Carolina. Most of them spoke only Gaelic, but John was educated in English also. He was a devout Presbyterian; Rev. William Angus McLeod recalls his grandfather as rather stern, but Margaret was beautiful and angelic in disposition. No man surpassed John Currie in regard for the true and good. He loved righteousness and hated iniquity, while Margaret loved righteousness, but pitied iniquity. He was the "law" and she was the "gospel." John was a modest man, and though he was eminently qualified, he never sought nor would accepted public or Church office. He was a Major in the Militia; in politics (says Rev. McLeod ) he was a Democrat, however, before Democracy had so completely fallen into the hands of scums of the foreign elements of the big cities. A sentiment which has been echoed by many other Keahey descendants who have felt that the Democratic party left all its principles, before many of its members began to leave it.