Norman McDonald and his wife, Nancy came to North Carolina from Scotland in the early 1770's. Daughter, Mary was small at the time and was left at home in Scotland with relatives. Thirty years later, she and her husband, Murdoch Ferguson joined her family.
The McDonald family cemetery was begun with the death of Norman McDonald in 1796. [Janet MacDonald Neville, Families of Murdoch and John Ferguson of Moore County, North Carolina]