Historic Families of Kentucky by Thomas Marshall Green, Cincinnati, 1889, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1959. p. 12. [Boyle county]. THE MITCHELLS. Margaretta, the second daughter of Ephraim McDowell, married James Mitchell, also born in Ireland, and, from his name, probably one of those who came over in the "George and Ann." Removing to North, and then to South Carolina, in the latter state they prospered and accumulted large wealth. Many children were born to them, of whom one, Mary, married, as stated above, James Greenlee. Inheriting the fighting qualities of their rugged progenitor, the old Presbyterian Ephraim, they were all the staunchest of Whigs in the Revolution. Four of Margaretta's son were officers of the line in that struggle. Two laid down their lives at Camden. A third there received the ghastly wound from which he died after agonized lingering. A fourth, Major Mitchell, was captured at Charleston. Among the respectable and reputable families of South Carolina, none are more so than the Mitchells and the descendants of Margaretta McDowell bearing other names. In Kentucky, there is but one branch of her descendants known to the writer - that of Mr. Thomas Mitchell, the former venerable cashier of the Bank of Kentucky, at Danville. One of his sons, in wedding the beautiful Mary Marshall, married back among his McDowell kindred. His only daughter, Louisa Mitchell, is the wife of Rev. Thomas Clelland, the Presbyterian minister at Springfield, Missouri - from a family which has given many ministers to the church. Mitchell Greenlee Marshall Clelland = Ireland NC SC NJ MO http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/boyle/mitchell.txt