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Note for Grizzell McKenzie Occupation
During her long widowhood Grizzel continued to operate the public house founded in the 1780's by her brother-in-law David McCall.  The early history cited before (whose author, Dr Maurice Moore, was for a time a boarder in her establishment) states that Grizzel in her youth was a schoolmate of Andrew Jackson in the academy at Bethel, and that when Moore once met and talked with the President from the Waxhaws, "of none did he (Jackson) inquire with more affectionate interest, than 'a blooming lass of his school days at Bethel named Grizzy McKinney'.  At the time of the conversation with General Jackson, she was my loved and respected landlady..."