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A  HISTORY 


OF 


MARION  COUNTY. 


SOUTH  CAROLINA, 


From  Its  Earliest  Times  to  the  Present,  190U 


By  W.  W.  SELLERS,  Esq., 

of  the  Marjon  Bar. 


Columbia,  S.  C. 

Thk  R.  I,.  Bkyan  Company, 

1902. 


v-ll    11     1    /  1^^ 


Copyright,  1902, 
By  John  C.  Sbi<i.BRS. 


CONTENTS 

Chapter  I. 

Settlement    i 

Chapter  II. 

Section  I.  Location  and  Boundaries 6 

Section  II.  Its  Surface  and  Soil,  Its  Rivers  and  Lakes,  Its  In- 

Land  Swamps   iS 

Section  III.  Its  Soil  and  Productions Vj 

Section  IV.  Stock  Raising 29 

Chapter  III. 

Section  I.  Its  Educational,  Political  and  Judicial  History 33 

Graduates   of   Colleges 50 

Political    History    52 

Queensboro  Township 78 

Plat  of  the  Welch  Grant  (First) 81 

The  Early  Settlement  of  Marion  County 104 

Some  Families  mentioned : 

Godbold 117 

Evans    125 

Giles    13s 

Britton,  Fladger.  etc 137 

Crawford   142 

Murfees    147 

Berry 148 

Saunders    I57 

Gibson    159 

Page    162 

Ayres 166 

Ford    167 

Hays    170 

Elvington  173 

Scott   I7S 

Owens    17s 

Gaddy   176 

Lupo  and  Arnett   178 

Rogers    178 

Perritt    183 

Edwards    i8s 

Nichols  189 

Hutchinson   191 

Barfield    191 

Goodyear  192 

Tart    193 

Bryant    I97 

Watson 199 


IV  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

R<>aves     206 

208 


Grice 

Roberts  209 

EUerbee    ^^3 

Fore : 218 

Mace   221 

Finklea  223 

Haselden    ^^3 

Bass  22s 

Hamer    232 

McKenzie    ^35 

Manning •' 238 

Jones    241 

Cottinghara   246 

Hamilton   247 

Braddy   249 

Clark 252 

Harrelson    255 

Martin    258 

Henry   261 

Huggins   263 

Hayes    267 

Dew    271 

Nicholson 275 

Jackson  276 

Galloway    281 

Sherwood 281 

Alford 282 

Greenwood    284 

Mclnnis    285 

Stafford    287 

Blue    289 

Baker    290 

McPriest    291 

McKellar   291 

McKay   292 

McCormick   293 

McArthur    299 

Mclntyre    300 

McKinly  307 

McLellan    308 

Sinclair    314 

McDuifie    315 


Campbell    320 

Butler   327 

Moody  330 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  V 

Harllee    342 

Woodberry    355 

Stackhouse    358 

Wayne    366 

Legette    369 

Gasque    373 

Brown    373 

Gilchrist   382 

Easterling    384 

Lane    386 

Bethea    395 

McMillan  ; 421 

Miller    425 

Spencer    * 427 

Williamson    429 

Wall    432 

McEachern    435 

Carmichael    437 

Baker  445 

Davis    448 

Stanley   . . . '. 455 

Harrel,   in   Britten's   Neck 456 

Altman   456 

Whaley    457 

Richardson    457 

Stevenson    462 

Craven   463 

Thompson  464 

Kirton    464 

Philips 465 

Owens 466 

Rowell   468 

Giles    471 

Coleman  472 

Norton  475 

Lewis    480 

Fowler    483 

Shooter    484 

Campbell   (of  Maiden  Down) 486 

Atkinson    488 

Fladger  49i 

Smith    492 

Flowers  502 

Mullins  , 506 

Gregg  510 

Collins    ' 512 


VI  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Wiggins,  of  Wahee  Si" 

Shaw  ■ Si8 

Dozier  S2i 

Foxworth  and  Boatwright 5^2 

White  and  Monroe   S25 

Sniipes    528 

Wilcox   536 

Young    537 

Johnson    538 

Sellers  543 

The  Negro 546 

Towns  of  the  County 55° 

Marion 551 

Nichols  and  Mullins   553 

Latta  and   Dillon 555 

Hamer  and  Sellers  559 

The  Denominational  Churches 560 

Clerks  of  Court  for  Marion  County,  from  1800  to  1900 564 

Sheriffs  for  Marion  County  from  1800  to  1900 565 

Representatives  in  the  Legislature 566 

Senators  from  1800  to  igoo 568 

Ordinaries  and  Probate  Judges  from  1800  to  1900 568 

Proprietary  Governors   568 

Lawyers  practicing  at  Marion  from  1800  to  1900 570 

Volunteers  in  Confederate  Army 572 

Company  L,  21st  Regiment  Infantry,  C.  S.  A : .  572 

Company  H,  Orr's  Regt.  Rifles  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 577 

Company  F,  4th  Regt.  Cav.  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 581 

Company  E,  Gregg's  i«t  Regt.  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 585 

Company  I,  8th  Regt.  Inf.  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 590 

Company  H,  8th  Regt.  Inf.  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 593 

Company  I,  ist  Regt.  Inf.  (Hagood's)  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A. .  596 

Company  L,  loth  Regt.  Inf.  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 599 

Company  L,  8th  Regt.  Inf.  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 602 

Company  I,  21st  Regt.  Inf.  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 605 

Company  E,  23d  Regt.  Inf.  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 609 

Company  Gregg's  Battery,   Co.  D,  Manigault's  Battalion 

Artillery  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 613 

Company  H,  23d  Regt.  Inf.  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A. 620 

Company  D,  loth  Regt.  Inf.  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 626 

Company  F,  loth  Regt.  Inf.  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 628 

Company  I,  6th  Regt.  Cav.  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 631 

Company  D,  2Sth  Regt.  Inf.  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 632 

Company  E,  26th  Reg.  Inf.  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 636 

Company  I,  loth  Regt.  Inf.  S.  C.  V.,  C.  S.  A 639 

Company  D,  7th  Battalion  S.  C.  Reserves 642 

Company  of  Militia,  last  called  into  service 644 


PREFACE 

Within  the  last  ten  or  twelve  years  the  author  has  been 
solicited  to  write  a  history  of  this,  Marion  County,  and  by 
many  whose  opinions  and  judgment  he  much  valued ;  but  then 
being  much  engaged  in  the  practice  of  the  law,  he  could  not 
find  the  time  to  engage  in  and  complete  such  a  work.  Further- 
more, he  felt  a  diffidence  in  his  abilities  to  perform  the  task 
with  satisfaction  and  credit  to  himself.  January,  1898,  he 
concluded  to  retire  from  the  active  practice  of  his  profession, 
for  the  reason,  first,  that  his  sense  of  hearing  became  much 
impaired;  and  secondly,  because  of  his  age,  then  near  eighty 
years  old.  He  retired,  and  since  that  time  has  taken  no  new 
case,  and  confined  himself  only  to  old  cases  then  pending  in  the 
Courts  of  Marion,  Florence  and  Horry  Counties;  cases,  too, 
that  his  junior  partner  had  had  nothing  to  do  with  and  knew 
but  little  about.  Those  cases  were  in  due  time  mostly  ended. 
After  this  work  in  the  Courts  was  practically  accomplished, 
and  having  fair  health  aiid  strength  for  one  of  his  age,  physi- 
cally and  mentally,  he  determined  to  undertake  the  work,  and 
for  the  last  eighteen  months  has  been  engaged  principally  in 
its  performance,  and  he  herewith  submits  it  to  the  people  of  the 
county,  and  it  will  be  for  them  to  say  whether  he  has  succeeded 
well  or  has  failed  to  meet  expectations.  Such  as  it  is,  it  is  his 
own  work.  Its  subject  matter,  the  language  used,  the  style, 
manner  and  composition  are  all  his  own.  He  has  not  borrowed 
from  another  author  without  giving  to  that  other  full  credit 
by  placing  the  language  used  in  quotation  marks,  and  referring 
to  the  author  by  name  and  page.  He  acknowledges  his  indebt- 
edness to  Dr.  Ramsay's  History  of  South  Carolina,  to  Bishop 
Gregg's  History  of  the  Old  Cheraws,  to  the  Lives  of  General 


VIII  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Marion  written  by  M.  L.  Weems,  and  General  Horry,  and  the 
same  by  W.  Gilmore  Sims,  to  the  Statutes  at  Large  as  pub- 
lished by  Dr.  Thomas  Cooper,  and  to  perhaps  other  sources. 
He  is  further  indebted  to  many  of  our  citizens  for  information 
as  to  families  that  he  could  not  otherwise  have  obtained. 

It  may  be  found  that  he  has  made  mistakes.  It  will  be  a 
wonder  if  it  is  not  so  found.  He  expects  no  other.  In  men- 
tioning families,  it  is  mainly  genealogical.  All  genealogy  is 
history,  and  he  trusts  that  families  for  the  next  three  or  four 
generations,  at  least,  may  be  able  to  trace  their  ancestry  back 
to  and  including  what  is  herein  written;  that  it  will  not  be 
then,  as  he  has  found  it  in  his  inquiries  of  persons,  when 
writing  this  history,  that  some  of  them  of  superior  intelligence 
did  not  know  who  their  grands-father  was.  Many  of  the  old 
families  have  become  extinct  by  death  or  removal.  The  author 
may  have  omitted  to  notice  some  that  now  exist.  Where  that 
is  the  case,  it  was  because  the  author  knew  nothing  or  but  little 
about  them,  and  could  not  ascertain  anything  in  reference  to 
them.  He  tried  to  get  a  list  of  the  graduates  of  literary  col- 
leges from  Marion  County,  but  some  of  them  did  not  answer 
inquiries.  Hence  he  had  to  depend  on  memory.  Marion  may 
well  congratulate  herself  on  the  number  and  character  of  her 
young  and  older  men  of  learning.  She  is  fast  coming  to  the 
front  in  that  line,  as  well  as  in  many  other  lines.  He  has 
furnished  a  list  of  all  the  Clerks  of  the  Court,  Sheriffs  and 
Probate  Judges  or  Ordinaries  from  the  earliest  times  of  her 
existence  as  a  Judicial  District.  Also,  a  list  of  her  Senators 
in  the  Legislature  and  Representatives.  Further,  a  list  of  all 
the  lawyers  that  have  practiced  in  Marion  since  1800.  He  has 
also  procured  and  inserted  a  list  of  all  the  Governors  of  the 
province,  proprietary  and  royal,  while  a  province,  and  all  after 
it  became  an  independent  State  down  to  the  present  time,  and 
last,  but  not  least  in  importance  and  in  its  numbers,  a  list  of  all 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  IX 

the  companies  that  went  from  Marion  to  the  Confederate  War. 
This  list  embraces  West  Marion,  including  all  company  officers, 
what  became  of  them,  killed  in  battle  or  died  of  disease  or 
wounds ;  whether  living  or  dead  now,  so  far  as  is  known,  and 
much  other  information  concerning  our  brave  boys  during  that 
momentous  struggle.  All  of  which  the  author  trusts  may  be 
of  interest  to  many,  very  many,  of  the  present  generation. 

The  author,  now  in  his  eighty-fourth  year,  submits  what  he 
has  done  in  this  regard  as  his  last  work  on  the  stage  of  life.  It 
has  been  a  labor  of  love,  for  the  county  in  which  he  has  spent 
most  of  his  life,  and  for  any  errors,  omissions  and  failures  he 
asks  the  indulgence  of  its  people,  to  wliom  he  herein  and  hereby 
respectfully  dedicates  the  result  of  his  labors. 

W.  W.  Sbi,i.BRS. 

Sellers,  S.  C,  August  27tih,  1901. 


A  History  of  Marion  County 


CHAPTER  I. 

The  first  permanent  settlement  made  in  South  CaroHna  was 
by  a  few  emigrants  from  England,  under  the  direction  and 
patronage  of  William  Sayle,  at  or  near  Port  Royal,  in  1670. 
William  Sayle  was  their  first  Governor.  These  colonists,  for 
some  reason  or  another,  became  dissatisfied  with  their  location 
at  Port  Royal.  They  removed,  in  1671,  up  the  coast  and  set- 
tled on  the  west  side  of  the  Ashley  River,  opposite  the  present 
site  of  the  city  of  Charleston,  and  there  laid  the  foundation 
of  old  Charleston.  This  site  was  not  wisely  chosen,  as  it 
could  not  be  reached  by  ships  of  heavy  burden,  and  therefore 
it  was  abandoned.  "A  second  removal  took  place  to  Oyster 
Point,  formed  by  the  confluence  of  Ashley  and  Cooper  Rivers. 
There,  in  1680,  the  foundation  of  the  present  city  of  Charleston 
was  laid,  and  in  one  year  thirty  houses  were  built."  Of  the 
number  and  names  of  these  first  settlers  of  South  Carolina,  no 
records  have  been  kept  and  preserved;  only  two  names  have 
come  down  to  us,  that  of  William  Sayle  and  Joseph  West. 
William  Sayle  dying  in  1671,  Joseph  West  was  appointed  as 
his  successor,  August  28,  1671.  He  was  succeeded  by  Sir 
John  Yeamans,  April  19th,  1672,  and  he  was  succeeded  by 
Joseph  West,  13th  August  1674,  who  held  the  office  till  26th 
September,  1682,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  Joseph  Morton, 
and  on  September  6th,  1684,  Joseph  West  was  appointed 
Governor  for  the  third  time,  (i  vol..  Statutes  at  Large,  pp. 
17,  18  and  19.)  The  first  slaves  introduced  in  South  Carolina 
were  brought  hither  by  Sir  John  Yeamans  from  Barbadoes, 
one  of  the  West  India  Islands,  in  1671.  Sir  John  Yeamans  was 
an  Englishman,  though  he  came  from  Barbadoes  to  Carolina. 
Had  he  not  been  an  Englishman,  he  would  not  have  been 
appointed  Governor  of  the  province.  The  writer  infers  that 
he  left  England  at  or  about  the  time  the  emigrants  left  England 
under  William  Sayle  for  Carolina,  and  who  landed  at  Port 


2  A  HISTORY  0^  MARION  COUNTY. 

Royal  the  year  before,  to  wit :  1670.  The  writer  further  infers 
that  Sir  John  Yeamans  went  by  Barbadoes  for  the  purpose  of 
getting  a  cargo  of  slaves  to  be  carried  to  Carolina,  and  that 
Yeamans  and  Sayle  understood  one  another.  A  sad  day  for 
the  country !  Thus  the  .germ  of  near  two  hundred  years'  con- 
tention in  America  was  planted,  which  culminated  in  a  bloody 
four  years  war  between  the  States  of  America,  from  1861  to 
1865.  The  results  of  this  nucleus  of  slavery  are  still  felt 
among  us,  and  is  perplexing  the  brain  of  our  best  and  ablest 
men,  and  will,  perhaps,  for  ages  to  come.  There  is  no  doubt 
a  providence  is  in  it  all,  and  He  who  rules  and  determines  the 
destinies  of  men  and  nations,  may  and  will  bring  good  out  of 
the  seeming  evil. 

The  government  of  Carolina  (both  North  and  South  Caro- 
lina) had  been  granted  by  two  charters  by  King  Charles  the 
Second,  to  certain  English  noblemen,  to  wit :  to  "Edward,  Earl 
of  Clarendon,  High  Chancellor  of  England,  and  George,  Duke 
of  Albemarle,  Master  of  our  Horse  and  Captain  General  of  all 
our  forces,  and  well  beloved  William  Lord  Craven,  John 
Ivord  Berkley,  our  right  trusty  and  well  beloved  Counsellor, 
Anthony  L,ord  Ashley,  Chancellor  of  our  Exchequer,  Sir 
George  Content,  Kn't  and  Baronet,  Vicp  Chamberlain  of  our 
household,  and  our  trusty  and  well  beloved  Sir  William  Berk- 
ley, Kn't,  and  Sir  John  Colleton,  Knight  and  Baronet,  being 
excited  with  a  laudable  and  pious  zeal  for  the  propagation  of 
the  Christian  faith,  and  the  enlargement  of  our  empire  and 
dominions,  have  humbly  sought  leave  of  us  by  their  industry 
and  charge  to  transport  and  make  an  ample  colony  of  our 
subjects  natives  of  our  Kingdom  of  England  and  elsewhere 
within  our  dominions,  unto  a  certain  country  hereafter  de- 
scribed in  the  parts  of  America  not  yet  cultivated  or  planted, 
and  only  inhabited  by  some  barbarous  people  who  have  no 
knowledge  of  Almighty  God."  This  charter,  of  which  the 
above  quotation  is  the  first  section,  was  granted  24th  March, 
1663 ;  and  on  the  30th  June,  1665,  the  said  Charles  the  Second 
granted  to  the  said  parties  named  in  the  first  charter  the  same 
territory,  to  wit:  all  the  lands  lying  between  the  31st  and  36th 
degrees  of  north  latitude,  and  between  the  Atlantic  Ocean  on 
the  east  and  the  South  Seas  (Pacific  Ocean)  on  the  west,  in- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  3 

eluding  what  is  now  the  States  of  North  CaroKna  and  South 
Carolina,  giving  to  the  said  named  proprietors  larger  rights 
and  powers  than  in  the  first  charter.  (See  ist  and  2d  charters, 
I  vol.,  Statutes  at  Large  of  South  Carolina,  pp.  22  to  31,  and 
pp.  31  to  40.) 

Under  these  charters,  the  Lords  Proprietors  drew  up,  or  had 
it  done,  five  different  constitutions  for  the  government  of  the 
province,  but  it  does  not  appear  that  any  one  of  them  was 
ever  adopted  and  ratified  by  the  Assembly,  except  in  part,  and 
except  those  drawn  up  by  the  celebrated  John  Locke,  and  then 
only  in  part;  but  notwithstanding  the  rejection  of  parts  of  all 
of  them  by  the  Assembly,  the  government  established  by  them 
moved  along  with  some  success,  and  without  serious  friction, 
for  a  period  of  forty-nine  or  fifty  years,  until  17 19,  when  a 
revolution  (bloodless)  took  place  under  the  administration  of 
Robert  Johnson,  Esq.,  as  Governor,  and  threw  off  and  repu- 
diated the  government  of  the  Lords  Proprietors,  thinking  they 
would  be  better  protected  in  their  rights  under  the  King. 
They  first  offered  the  government  to  Governor  Robert  John- 
son, provided  he  would  administer  it  in  the  name  of  the  King, 
instead  of  in  the  name  of  the  Lords  Proprietors.  He  refused 
so  to  do,  whereupon  the  Assembly  offered  the  governorship 
to  Col.  James  Moore,  son  of  the  former  Governor,  who  ac- 
cepted the  position  and  took  upon  himself  the  government  of 
the  province.  Accounts  of  the  trouble  in  the  province  being 
sent  to  England,  King  George  the  First  appointed  Francis 
Nicholson  Governor  of  the  province,  to  act  until  the  matter 
was  decided  between  the  Lords  Proprietors  and  the  King. 
Facilities  for  communicating  and  conferring  together  across 
the  Atlantic  were  not  what  they  are  now,  and  it  took  several 
years  to  consider  and  come  to  an  agreement.  At  last,  in  1729, 
the  second  year  of  the  reign  of  George  the  Second,  they  came 
to  an  agreement  by  wWch  seven  of  the  proprietors  agreed 
to  surrender  to  the  Crown  their  title  and  interest  in  the  prov- 
ince, which  agreement  was  duly  signed  by  the  several  Lords 
Proprietors,  and  which  surrender  was  confirmed  by  an  Act  of 
Parliament.  Robert  Johnson  was  commissioned  under  the 
broad  seal  of  England  as  Governor  of  the  province,  and  his 
Excellency  arrived  in  the  province  in  December,  1730;  and 


4  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

henceforth  for  more  than  fifty  years  the  government  of  the 
province  was  administered  under  the  Crown  of  England. 

Lord  Carteret  (afterwards  Lord  Granville),  the  eighth  Pro- 
prietor, resigned  on  the  17th  September,  1744.  all  pretensions 
to  the  government  and  his  eighth  part  of  the  right  to  the  soil 
of  Carolina.  Commissioners  were  appointed  on  his  part  and 
on  the  part  of  the  King  to  lay  off  his  part  to  him,  which  they 
did  next  adjoining  Virginia.  In  1729,  the  province  of  Caro- 
lina was  divided  into  North  and  South  Carolina,  and  the 
boundaries  between  the  two  provinces  were  fixed  by  an  order 
of  the  British  Council. 

Hardship  and  privation  were  doubtless  the  lot  of  the  first 
settlers  of  the  province,  so  numerous  that  all  cannot  even  be 
imagined  in  this  day  and  time.  The  number  of  the  first  emi- 
grants were  unknown,  as  no  record  of  them  has  been  kept. 
There  could  not  have  been  many :  "There  could  not,  however, 
been  many,  for  all  of  them  together  with  provisions,  arms  and 
utensils  requisite  for  their  support,  defence  and  comfort,  in  a 
country  inhabited  only  by  savages,  were  brought  from  Eng- 
land to  Carolina  in  two  vessels."  (Ramsay's  History  of  South 
Carolina,  vol.  i,  p.  i.)  To  increase  the  population  was  the 
general  primary  object.  Think  of  it.  A  country  of  vast  ex- 
tent, and  a  vast  wilderness  roamed  over  by  savages  and  wild 
animals ;  no  roads  or  bridges  across  the  rivers  and  other  inland 
streams ;  nowhere  to  go ;  no  means  of  communication  with  the 
rest  of  the  world  except  by  the  stormy  Atlantic,  and  to  cross  it 
took  from  one  to  two  months.  The  first  settlers  were  of  neces- 
sity taught  that  valuable  lesson,  self-reliance.  They  were 
obliged  to  go  to  work  building  rude  houses  for  habitation,  also 
to  cut  down  and  clear  up  lands  for  cultivation,  to  make  crops 
for  another  year.  They  were  necessarily  obliged  to  stay  close 
together,  by  the  laws  of  self-preservation,  being  surrounded 
by  hostile  and  murderous  savages.  Wherever  they  were  or  at 
whatever  they  were  engaged,  they  had  to  carry  their  arms,  and 
be  always  on  the  lookout  for  an  attack  from  their  savage 
enemies.  In  Ramsay's  History  of  South  Carolina,  pp.  18  and 
19 :  "They  were  obliged  to  stand  in  a  constant  posture  of  de- 
fence. While  one  party  was  employed  in  raising  their  little 
habitations,  another  was  always  kept  under  arms  to  watch  the 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  5 

Indians.  While  they  gathered  oysters  with  one  hand  for  sub- 
sistence, they  were  obliged  to  carry  guns  in  the  other  for  self- 
defence.  The  only  fresh  provisions  they  could  procure  were 
fish  from  the  river  or  what  game  they  could  kill  with  their 
guns." 

The  young  colonists  being  thus  situated  and  necessarily  con- 
fined within  such  narrow  limits,  were  extremely  anxious  that 
other  settlers  should  come  in.  The  proprietary  and  regal 
governments  were  also  anxious  to  the  same  end,  and,  therefore^ 
they  held  out  great  inducements  to  the  people  in  Europe  and 
elsewhere  to  migrate  to  the  new  province  of  Carolina,  by  offer- 
ing bounties  in  money  and  land  to  all  (being  Protestants)  and 
especially  poor  Protestant  families,  to  emigrate  to  Carolina. 
By  the  inducements  held  out  to  the  people  of  the  old  world  by 
various  parties,  many  emigrants  were  induced  to  venture  into 
the  province  from  England,  Scotland,  Wales,  France  and  Ger- 
many— transportation  and  supplies  in  many  instances  fur- 
nished. The  several  bodies  of  emigrants  coming  into  the 
province  at  different  times,  from  different  countries,  and  other 
provinces  or  States,  besides  individual  emigration  or  families 
from  the  more  northern  States,  and  the  natural  increase  of  the 
population,  raised  the  number  of  the  inhabitants  from  the  mere 
handful  that  came  in  1670,  as  hereinbefore  stated,  to  345,591  in 
130  years,  or  in  1800.  (Ramsay,  i  vol.,  p.  14.)  During  this 
period,  130  years,  the  government  was  first  proprietary,  then 
regal,  and  lastly  from  regal  to  a  representative  government, 
a  "government  by  the  people  and  for  the  people,"  under  which 
we  are  now  living  and  have  lived  for  124  years,  and  which  the 
writer  hopes  will  be  perpetual  for  all  time  to  come.  From 
1696  to  1730,  there  were  not  any  a:dditions  made  to  the  popula- 
tion of  the  province  by  the  emigration  to  it  of  any  large  bodies 
of  settlers,  only  by  an  occasional  adventurer  to  the  province 
from  other  provinces. 

I  have  here  given  a  general  view  of  the  State  in  its  first 
settlement;  the  hardships  and  privations  of  its  early  inhabi- 
tants ;  its  changes  of  government,  &c.,  without  going  into  de- 
tails, as  preliminary  to  the  subject  to  be  brought  to  view  in  the 
proposed  history  of  this,  Marion  County. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 


CHAPTER  II. 


Location  and  Boundaries — Surface  and  Soil— Its  Rivers  and 
Lakes — Its  Inland  Creeks  or  Swamps. 

SECTION  I. 

Marion  County,  as  originally  laid  out,  is  in  about  latitude  34 
north,  and  longiture  3  west  from  Washington.  A  line  com- 
mencing at  a  stake  on  the  North  Carolina  line,  about  one  and 
a  half  miles  from  Mclnnis'  Bridge  over  Little  Pee  Dee  River, 
running  a  southwest  course  to  and  across  the  Great  Pee  Dee 
River  to  Lynch's  Creek  (river),  dividing  it  from  Marlborough 
County,  on  the  east  side  of  the  Great  Pee  Dee,  and  from  Dar- 
lington County,  on  the  west  side  of  said  river.  From  the  point 
w'here  said  line  intersects  Lynch's  River — said  Lynch's  River 
is  the  line  down  to  its  confluence  with  the  Great  Pee  Dee  on 
its  west  side ;  thence  down  the  said  Great  Pee  Dee  to  its  conflu- 
ence with  Little  Pee  Dee ;  thence  up  the  Little  Pee  Dee  to  its 
confluence  with  Lumber  River ;  thence  up  Lumber  River  to  its 
intersection  with  the  North  and'  South  Carolina  line;  thence 
up  the  said  North  Carolina  line  to  the  beginning  stake  above 
Mclnnis'  Bridge.  Its  boundaries  may  be  thus  described:  on 
the  north  by  Marlborough  County ;  on  the  northwest  by  Dar- 
lington County ;  on  the  west  and  southwest  by  Lynch's  River ; 
on. the  southwest  and  south  by  Great  Pee  Dee;  on  the  east  by 
Little  Pee  Dee  and!  Lumber  River ;  on  the  north  and  northeast 
by  North  Carolina. 

Since  the  formation  of  Florence  County,  in  1888,  Great  Pee 
Dee  forms  its  southern  and  southwestern  boundary.  It 
covers  between  nine  and  ten  hundred  square  miles  (estimated) 
now,  or  since  the  formation  of  Florence  County.     In  length, 

from  the  northwest  to  southeast,  it  is  about  seventy  miles 

some  of  our  people  have  to  travel  thirty-five  or  forty  miles  to 
reach  the  Court  House.  In  breadth,  from  east  and  northeast  to 
west  and  southwest,  it  is  about  thirty  miles,  on  the  line  of  the 
Atlantic  Coast  Line  Railroad ;  from  that  line  southward  it  grad- 
ually narrows  to  a  point  at  the  confluence  of  the  two  Pee  Dees. 
The  line  between  Marion  and  Marlborough  is  estimated  at 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  7 

eighteen  to  twenty  miles  long,  and  on  the  North  Carolina  side 
at  thirty-one  or  thirty-two  miles  (estimated).  For  political 
and  county  government  purposes  it  is  divided  into  fourteen 
(formerly  eighteen)  townships,  as  nearly  equal  in  area  as  may 
be,  having  regard  to  creeks  or  swamps,  public  roads  and  other 
well  known  marks  or  division  lines.  Their  names  are  Marion, 
Reaves,  Hillsboro,  Carmichael,  Manning,  Harlleesville,  Bethea, 
Moody,  Kirby,  Wahee,  Rowell,  Legette,  Britton's  Neck  and 
Woodberry.  Of  these,  Marion,  Reaves,  Harlleesville  and 
Manning  are  the  most  populous,  and  have  the  greatest  amount 
of 'taxable  property  within  them.  These  townships  were  laid 
out  under  the  State  Constitution  of  1868,  and  Acts  of  the 
General  Assembly  made  in  pursuance  thereof,  and  are  yet  con- 
tinued under  the  Constitution  of  1895,  and  subsequent  legisla- 
tion. The  taxable  property  of  these  several  townships,  includ- 
ing the  two  graded  schools  in  Marion  and  Manning  Townships, 
is  hereto  appended,  as  shown  from  the  County  Auditor  and 
County  Treasurer's  books  for  the  year  1899.  Also,  the  popula- 
tion of  each  of  said  townships : 

Taxes  1899. 

Bethea  Township  $209,701 

Britton's  Neck  Township 99.659 

Carmichael  Township    282,910 

Harlleesville  Township  . . . ; 418,039 

Hillsboro  Township   287,542 

Kirby  Township   296,429 

Legette  Township    136,661 

Manning  Township   498,605 

Marion  Township 745,235 

Moody  Township  260,147 

Reaves  Township  434,107 

Rowell  Township  79>o65 

Wahee  Township 3i5>37i 

Woodberry  Township   18,298 

$4,081,768 

The  above  shows  the  total  taxable  property  for  Marion 
County  in  the  year  1899,  exclusive  of  poll  taxes.     There  are  at 
least  two  thousand  in  the  county,  at  one  dollar  each,  $2,000. 
2 


8  A  HISTORY  O^  MARION  COUNTY. 

Never  before  in  the  history  of  the  State  were  townships  or 
subdivisions  of  the  counties  made  or  laid  out  for  civil  pur- 
poses, but  only  for  military  and  church  purposes.  Our  people, 
from  the  earliest  settlement  of  the  State  down  to  the  present 
time,  'have  been  a  military  people,  as  the  legislation  of  the 
State  showis.  From  the  very  first,  when  the  first  Legislature, 
or  Parliament  as  it  was  then  called,  met  in  Charleston  (1674), 
they  provided  as  best  they  could  with  their  scanty  means  for 
the  defence  of  the  colony  against  the  hostile  incursions  of  the 
Indians.  Although  no  Act  or  Acts  of  the  provincial  Legisla- 
ture of  the  province  are  to  be  found  until  1682 — eight  years 
after  the  first  Legislature,  in  1674 — yet  we  are  bound  to  infer 
that  there  were  during  that  period  some  Act  or  Acts  passed 
for  thie  protection  of  the  infant  colony  against  hostile  attacks 
from  the  bordering  savages,  which  were  hovering  round  and 
watching  for  an  opportunity  to  successfully  attack  and  destroy 
Ihe  pale-faced  intruders  from  off  the  land,  and  whom  the  In- 
dians thought  to  be  enemies,  and  whose  presence,  in  their 
estimaition,  bodted  no  good  to  them.  Hence  we  may  infer 
that  the  attention  of  the  first  legislators  was  directed  to  the 
organization  of  the  militia  by  apix)inting  a  Commander-in-Chief 
or  General,  Colonels,  Captains,  Lieutenants,  &c.,  and  for  an 
enrolment  of  the  militia.  From  that  time  on  to  the  Revolution, 
numberless  enactments  of  the  Legislature  were  passed  perfect- 
ing the  organization  of  the  militia  of  the  former,  as  may  be 
seen  on  examination  of  the  Statutes  at  Large,  by  Dr.  Thomas 
Cooper,  under  authority  of  the  Legislature,  and  on  down  to 
1841,  when  the  compilation  of  Dr.  Cooper  was  published,  and 
even  dawn  to  the  present  time,  1900.  The  tenth  volume  of  said 
compilation  is  an  index  to  the  nine  preceding  volumes.  The 
index  to  the  militia  laws  of  the  province,  and  now  the  State, 
covers  twenty  pages.  Our  people  have  always  manifested  a 
martial  spirit,  not  only  on  paper  by  legislation,  but  in  actual 
service  in  times  of  war.  I  will  not  herein  undertake  to  enu- 
merate the  valiant  deeds  of  her  sons  in  all  the  wars  through 
which  they  have  freely  spilled  their  blood — in  all  of  which, 
whether  in  the  right  or  not,  they  believed  they  were  right. 

In  1832  and  1833,  Acts  were  passed  reorganizing  the  militia 
of  the  whole  State.     By  those  Acts  the  muster  beats  (town- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  9 

ships)  in  every  county  were  laid  out,  and  a  thorough  reorgani- 
zation of  the  militia  of  the  State  effected.  Every  muster  beat 
formed  a  company,  eight  companies  formed  a  regiment,  four 
regiments  formed  a  brigade,  two  brigades  formed  a  division, 
and  five  divisions  covered  the  State.  For  each  division  a 
Major  General  was  elected,  for  each  brigade  a  Brigadier 
General  was  elected,  and  for  each  regiment  a  Colonel,  a 
Lieutenant  Colonel  and  a  Major  were  elected,  and  for  each 
company  a  Cat>tain  and  three  Lieutenants  were  elected ;  also,  a 
staff  for  each  field  officer  was  appointed.  The  field  officers  for 
divisions  and  brigades  were  elected  by  the  Legislature.  Colo- 
nels of  regiments  and  all  officers  below  him  were  elected  by  the 
people.  An  Adjutant  was  appointed  for  each  regiment,  and 
an  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General  for  the  wihole  State  was 
elected.  The  Governor  for  the  time  being  was  Commander- 
in-Chief  of  the  militia  of  the  whole  State,  including  cavalry 
and  artillery  regiments.  Brigade  encampments  were  provided 
for  in  each  of  the  two  brigades,  to  be  held  for  five  and  six  days 
every  two  years.  The  brigade  encampment  for  the  8th  bri-' 
gade,  in  which  the  regiment  (32d)  from  Marion  was,  was  held 
every  two  years  on  the  west  side  of  Great  Pee  Dee,  near 
Godfrey's  Ferry.  At  these  brigade  encampments  the  Governor 
and  his  staff;  the  Major  General  and  his  staff  of  this  (4th) 
division;  the  Brigadier  General  and  his  staff;  the  Colonels  of 
the  eight  regiments  composing  the  8th  brigade ;  all  the  Adju- 
tants of  the  several  regiments;  the  Lieutenant  Colonels  and 
Majors ;  all  the  Captains  and  Lieutenants  of  all  the  companies 
in  the  brigade,  were  required  to  attend,  each  in  his  prescribed 
uniform,  from  Lieutenant  up  to  Governor.  These  brigade  en- 
campments were  for  drill,  exercise  and  inspection.  The  horses 
of  the  field  officers  were  required  to  be  richly  caparisoned, 
according  to  rank,  the  higher  the  officer  the  richer  the  uniform 
and  horse-trappings.  They  had  their  tents  and  camp  equipage. 
The  expense  of  all  this  was  borne  by  each  officer,  so  far  as  his 
uniform  and  horse-trappings  were  concerned.  The  transporta- 
tion of  all  this  equipage  was  in  wagons  (no  railroads  in  those 
times). 

The  subdivisions  of  the  district  into  company  beats  (town- 
ships) in  Marion  District  were  as  follows:  High  Hill,  Maiden 


10  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Down,  Berry's  Cross  Roads  and  Harlleesville  formed  what  was 
the  upper  battahon ;  Marion  or  Gilesboro,  Britton's  Neck,  Big 
Swamp  and  Jeffreys  formed  the  lower  battalion.  The  com- 
panies in  each  beat  were  required  to  meet  for  "drill,  exercise 
and  parade"  every  two  months,  or  six  times  in  the  year.  In 
each  battalion  there  had  to  be  a  battalion  muster  once  a  year, 
and  a  general  muster  of  the  regiment,  composed  of  the  two 
battalions,  was  required  to  be  held  once  a  year.  Every  able- 
bodied  man  in  each  beat  was  enrolled  and  required  to  do 
militia  service,  between  the  ages  of  eighteen  and  forty  years. 
Many  other  requirements,  not  necessary  to  mention,  were  con- 
tained in  the  law.  The  organization  was  seemingly  perfect — 
at  least  on  paper — and  continued  to  exist  until  the  Confederate 
war.  The  offices,  from  highest  to  lowest,  were  eagerly 
sought — our  people  were  ambitious  to  obtain  military  honors 
or  distinction,  notwithstanding  they  were  mere  empty  titles. 
There  was  no  money  or  pay  in  any  of  them,  except  the  Adjutant 
and  Inspector  General  of  the  State.  Every  officer  equipped 
'himself  and  served  bis  country  at  his  own  expense.  As  a 
general  rule,  they  took  pride  in  their  positions  and  showed  off 
to  best  possible  advantage — and  especially  the  field  officers. 
The  writer  recollects  an  illustrative  remark  made  by  the  late 
John  C.  Bethea,  in  reference  to  the  late  Col.  James  R.  Bethea, 
while  he  was  Colonel  of  this  (the  32d)  regiment.  He  bought 
a  fine  horse  for  $200  and  fine  horse-trappings,  a  uniform  for 
himself  of  fine  material,  trimmed  in  the  manner  prescribed  by 
law  for  an  officer  of  his  rank.  The  total  outfit  cost  him  from 
$400  to  $500.  He  was  elected  Colonel  while  a  single  man. 
He  was  also  fond  of  hunting,  and  kept  a  kennel  of  hounds^ 
five  or  six.  Pending  his  colonelcy  he  married,  and  in  dfae 
process  of  time  his  wife  bore  him  a  son,  whom  he  named 
Jesse;  the  Colonel  was  very  proud  of  his  boy.  There  were 
four  objects  which  the  Colonel  delighted  in  above  all  things 
else,  to  wit :  his  wife,  Mary ;  his  son,  Jesse ;  his  horse,  Hugh- 
warra,  and  his  dogs — these  were  his  pets  and  neairest  his 
heart.  John  C.  Bethea,  a  relative  and  neighbor  of  the  Colonel, 
observing  these  idols  of  his,  said :  "It  was  difficult  to  tell  which 
of  the  four  the  Colonel  worshipped  most."  Said  though,  "he 
thought  the  boy,  Jesse,  was  first,  and  his  horse,  Hughwarra, 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  11 

was  next;  and  he  did  not  know  which  came  next,  whether  it 
was  Mary  or  the  dogs."  This  play  of  humor  upon  Col.  Bethea 
illustrates  the  martial  pride  and  spirit  of  the  whole  State, 
inclusive  of  Marion  District.  It  permeated  the  whole  people. 
Tihe  higher  militia  offices  were  sought  most  generally  by  men 
of  means,  able  and  willing  to  incur  the  concomitant  expense. 
They  were  sometimes  sought  by  men  of  small  means,  but  such 
was  the  militia  mania  of  the  people  and  times,  that  men  with 
little  means  would  stake  all  they  had  or  could  procure  for  the 
sake  of  the  empty  honors  consequent  upon  military  titles  and 
preferments.  Some  of  the  bitterest  contests  that  ever  occurred 
in  Marion  District  for  office,  were  inspired  by  this  military 
spirit.  This  was  much  more  commendable  than  the  scramble 
of  the  present  day,  between  scheming  politicians  for  office  be- 
cause of  the  money  there  is  in  it.  From  1833  to  i860,  Marion 
District  had  her  full  share  of  the  high  positions  in  the  military 
of  the  Staite.  I  will  name  such  of  them  as  are  remembered 
since  1833 :  Before  1833,  Marion  had  her  Brigadier  Generals, 
Thomas  Godbold  and  William  Woodberry;  Brigadier  General 
E.  B.  Wheeler,  Brigadier  General  William  Evans,  Brigadier 
General  Elly  Godbold;  Major  General  W.  W.  Harllee;  Colonel 
Thomas  Harllee,  Colonel  James  R.  Bethea,  Colonel  John 
J»  George;  Majors  W.  H.  Moody,  William  Ford,  D.  J. 
Taylor,  Samuel  McPherson,  R.  G.  Howard,  James  S. 
Rogers,  John  A.  Breeden,  Woodward  Manning  and  D.  W. 
Edwards.  The  Majors  and  Brigadier  Generals  went  up 
by  regular  gradations  from  the  lower  positions  of  Major 
and  Colonel.  The  Colonels  rose  from  lower  position  to 
that  of  Colonel.  All  except  Colonel  Thomas  Harllee,  who  was 
the  first  Colonel  elected  upon  the  reorganization  of  the  militia 
under  the  Acts  of  1832  and  1833.  He  was  elected,  as  the 
writer  has  always  understood,  from  the  ranks.  By  those  Acts, 
all  previous  commissions  were  vacated.  The  election  was  just 
after  the  heated  struggle  for  and  against  Nullification.  In 
Marion  District,  the  parties  for  and  against  Nullification  were 
about  equal  in  strength.  The  Nullifiers  carried  the  District 
by  a  narrow  majority.  In  1834,  when  the  reorganization  actu- 
ally took  place,  the  smouldering  fires  of  the  Nullification 
struggle  were  again  lighted  up  and  burned  with  their  original 


12  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

fury.  Each  party  put  up  their  supposed  strongest  man  for 
Colonel.  The  Nullifiers  brought  out  Thomas  Harllee,  a  modest 
and  unassuming  man— a  man  who  had  never  asked  for  office, 
and  never  did  afterwards  (he  had  previously  been  elected  a 
delegate  to  the  Nullification  Convention  in  1832,  unsought,  by 
him).  He  was  a  man  of  great  natural  popularity,  a  magnetic 
man.  The  Opposition  or  Union  party  brought  out  as  their 
candidate  for  Colonel,  John  T.  Ervin,  then  a  resident  citizen  of 
Marion  District,  but  afterwards  moved  to  Darlington.  He 
was  a  man  of  wealth,  with  winning  and  graceful  manners,  a 
magnetic  man.  They  both  had  many  strong  and  monied 
friends — either  could  command  as  much  money  as  he  wanted. 
These  two  champions  entered  the  race — ^the  most  heated  and 
exciting  race,  perhaps,  the  county  has  never  had.  The  district 
was  stirred  from  centre  to  its  utmost  limits ;  in  every  nook  and 
corner,  the  aged  and  decrepit  were  hunted  up  and  brought  to 
the  polls  on  the  day  of  election.  Doubtless,  much  money  was 
spent  by  the  respective  parties  during  the  campaign,  and  on 
the  day  of  election.  When  the  votes  were  counted,  it  was 
ascertained  that  Ervin  had  beaten  Harllee  one  vote.  The  elec- 
tion was  protested  by  Harllee's  friends,  and  of  course  more 
than  one  illegal  vote  was  found.  The  election  was  set  aside 
and  another  election  was  ordered.  The  parties  entered  the 
second  race  with  renewed  determination  and  vigor,  nothing 
left  undone  that  was  within  human  compass.  The  second  elec- 
tion was  held,  and  when  the  voltes  were  counted,  it  was  ascer- 
tained and  so  declared  that  Harllee  had  beaten  Ervin  by  twenty- 
six  votes.  No  protest  was  made,  and  Harllee  became  Colonel 
of  the  32d  Regiment.  Colonel  Thomas  Harllee  was  not  fitted 
for  such  an  office — it  was  not  congenial  to  his  nature.  He  held 
the  office,  however,  with  credit  to  himself  and  satisfaction  to 
his  numerous  friends  for  a  few  years,  and  resigned  and  re- 
turned to  the  pursuits  of  private  life.  He  was  of  a  retiring 
dispositon,  modest  and  unassuming — the  district  honored  itself 
in  honoring  him.  He  was  older  than  the  late  General  W.  W. 
Harllee,  and  never  married.  In  1844  or  1845,  he  sold  out  at 
Harlleesville  and  went  to  Charle'ston,  and  there  went  into  a 
factorage  and  commission  business  with  a  man  named  Carson, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Carson  &  Harllee.     He  lived  only  a 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  13 

short  while  after  this,  and  died  universally  loved  and  respected 
wherever  he  was  known. 

Among  the  Majors  of  the  two  battalions,  the  oldest  by  virtue 
of  his  seniority  became  Lieutenant  Colonel.  The  writer  may 
not  have  mentioned  all  the  Colonels  and  Majors  in  Marion 
District  since  the  reorganization  in  1834 — the  omission  arises 
not  from  intention,  but  from  his  want  of  memory — he  has  no 
record!  to  look  at. 

Other  heated  contests  were  common  in  companies  and  bat- 
talions. The  most  noted  of  these  was  between  Captain  John  J. 
George,  of  Berry's  Cross  Roads  beat,  and  Captain  H.  B.  Cook, 
of  llie  Maiden  Down  beat,  for  Major  of  the  upper  battalion, 
which  occurred  by  the  promotion  of  Major  James  R.  Bethea  to 
the  Colonency  of  tihe  regiment.  This  was  about  1842  or  1843. 
The  first  election.  Captain  Cook  beat  Cajitain  George  six 
votes.  George  protested  the  election,  which  was  set  aside  and 
another  election  ordered.  At  the  second'  election,  George  beat 
Cook  seven  votes.  It  was  protested  and  set  aside,  and  a  third 
election  ordtered — at  which  Captain  Cook  declined  to  enter 
the  race,  and  Captain  Henry  Rogers,  of  the  High  Hill  beat, 
became  the  candidate.  At  this  third  election.  Captain  George 
was  elected  by  a  hundred  majority.  This  contest,  though  con- 
fined to  the  upper  battalion,  was  exciting,  and  a  full  vote  was 
polled.  Major  George  was  finally  promoted  to  the  Colonelcy 
of  the  regiment,  which  he  held  for  several  years. 

Enough  has  been  said  to  show  the  martial  spirit  of  our  people 
even  in  times  of  peace,  and  it  continues  down  to  the  present 
day — ^though  it  seeras  to  the  writer  that  the  present  organiza- 
tion of  the  militia  of  the  State  is  not  calculated  to  awaken  and 
arouse  and  foster  the  martial  ardor  and  spirit  of  the  people  as 
did  the  former  organization  of  the  State  militia,  and  especially 
that  of  1833  and  1834,  which  the  writer  thinks  the  best  ever 
devised  here  or  elsewhere  for  a  citizen  militia.  As  already 
stated,  every  able-bodied  man  from  eighteen  to  forty  years  of 
age  was  enrolled  At  each  petty  muster  the  roll  was  called, 
and  defaulters  marked  and  afterwards  court  martialed;  and 
unless  he  had  an  excuse  deemed  sufficient  by  the  court,  he  was 
fined,  and  if  not  paid  an  execution  was  issued  against  his  prop- 
erty and  lodged  with  the  Sheriff ;  and  if  no  property  suiificient 


14  A  HISTORY  Ot  MARION  COUNTY. 

to  satisfy  the  execution  and  costs,  he  could  be  arrested  and  put 
in  jail,  and  kept  there  until  he  was  thence  discharged  according 
to  law.  This  provision  of  the  law  forced  attendance,  and  there 
were  few  defaulters  without  sufficient  excuse.  Along  in  this 
line  a  ludicrous  occurrence  once  happened  at  roll-call  at  Harl- 
leesville  on  a  petty  muster  occasion,  which  I  will  relate. 
During  roU-call  the  name  of  Ephraim  Taylor,  the  father  of  our 
late  respectable  fellow-citizen,  Morgan  Taylor,  was  called;  he 
did  not  answer— was  not  present.  Ephraim's  brother,  Thomas, 
was  in  line,  and  he  (Thomas)  hollered  out,  "He  could  not 
come,  he  had  no  breeches  to  wear."  This  produced  a  general 
laugh  along  the  whole  line. 

Another  incident,  at  the  same  muster  ground,  of  a  different 
character,  had  a  sad  ending.  In  July,  1842  or  1843,  at  a  petty 
muster,  one  Yates  Cottingham,  the  grand-father  of  our  Henry 
C.  Cottingham,  at  Dillon,  was  at  the  muster  that  day.  The  old 
gentleman,  a  harmless  man,  ha;d  one  failing,  and  but  one — ^he 
was  passionately  fond  of  liquor;  if  he  had  any  other  failing, 
the  writer  never  heard  of  it.  He  went  up  to  a  cart  or  wagon 
where  whiskey  was  to  sell  (for  in  that  day  any  one  might  sell 
liquor  with  impunity,  although  against  the  law),  several  were 
stanlding  round;  old  man  Yates  expressed  a  strong  desire  for 
some  liquor,  and  said  he  could  drink  a  quart,  if  he  had  it, 
without  taking  it  from  his  head ;  whereupon  some  one  in  the 
crowd  said  to  him,  "Yates,  if  you  will  drink  it  I  will  pay  for 
it."  The  whiskey  was  measured  in  a  quart  cup  and  handed  out, 
the  old  gentleman  took  it  and  turned  it  up  to  his  mouth,  and 
there  held  it  until  he  had  drained  the  quart  cup.  After  drink- 
ing it,  lie  turned  and  walked  off  towards  Colonel  Thos.  Harl- 
lee's  store,  a  few  steps  off,  walked  up  the  steps  and  to  a  long 
board  in  the  piazza ;  he  lay  down  on  the  board  and  never  rose 
again.  In  the  afternoon  the  people  broke  up  and  left  for  their 
homes.  About  sunset,  after  the  people  had  all  gone.  Colonel 
Harllee  closed  up  the  store  and  went  up  to  his  house,  perhaps 
a  hundred  or  more  yards  away.  Colonel  Harllee  said  when  he 
closed  his  front  door,  he  saw  old  man  Yates  lying  there  on  the 
bench ;  did  not  go  to  him  nor  did  he  call  him — that  the  old  man 
was  only^tight  and  was  asleep ;  that  the  old  gentleman  would 
wake  up  during  the  night  and  go  home,  only  a  mile  or  so  away. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  15 

That  he  had  seen  him  many  times  drunk  and  asleep  upon  that 
bench ;  that  the  old  gentleman  would  wake  up  during  the  night 
and  go  home.  Col.  Harllee  heard  or  knew  no  more  till  the 
next  morning,  when  a  negro  went  to  his  house,  and  told  him 
the  old  man  was  dead.  He  immediately  went  down  to  the 
store  and  found  the  old  man  dead  and  rigid — so  much  so  that 
they  concluded  that  he  died  before  night  the  evening  before. 
An  inquest  was  held  and  the  facts  found  about  as  herein 
stated.  The  old  man,  Yates  Cottingham,  was  the  uncle  by 
marriage  of  Colonel  Harllee — Yates'  wife  was  his  aunt.  It 
is  supposed  that  there  are  not  many  now  living  who  were  there 
that  day,  hence  the  writer  speaks  of  it  as  a  sad  occurrence 
at  a  petty  muster  in  that  day  and  time,  and  that  the  incident 
may  be  transmitted  to  posterity  and  have  an  influence  for  good 
upon  the  present  and  future  generations. 

SECTION  II. 

Its  Surface  and  Soil,  Its  Rivers  and  Lakes,  Its  Inland  Swamps. 

The  surface  of  Marion  County  is  generally  level.  It  is 
undulating  gently  in  the  upper  portion  of  the  county,  and  is 
undulating  more  or  lesis  on  the  rivers  and  inland  swamps  in 
every  part  of  the  county,  which  afifords  fall  enough  for  proper 
and  effective  drainage,  but  not  enough  to  produce  damage  to 
the  cleared  land  by  washing  from  excessive  floods  of  rain.^  It 
is  a  well  watered  region.  It  has  on  its  west  side  Great  Pee 
Dee,  its  western  boundary,  and  its  tributary  streams.  It  is 
intersected  in  its  whole  length  by  Little  Pee  Dee,  where  said 
river  is  not  a  boundary,  and  Lumber  River  is  a  boundary  in 
part  on  the  east.  In  the  upper  part  of  the  county  it  has  the 
two  Reedy  Creeks,  Big  and  Little  Reedy  Creek.  They  both 
rise  in  Marlboroug'h  County,  and  running  in  a  southeasterly 
direction  come  together  just  above  the  town  of  Latta,  and  make 
Buck  Swamp,  which  continues  to  run  the  same  course,  or 
rather  a  little  more  east,  for  fifteen  or  more  miles,  and  pours 
its  waters  into  Little  Pee  Dee,  near  or  just  above  what  was 
formerly  called  Norton's  Landing,  and  is  now  known  by  that 
name,  though  long  since  it  has  ceased  to  be  a  public  landing. 
These  creeks  and  Buck  Swamp  have  several  small  tributaries 


16  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

laterally  emptying  themselves  into  them,  to  wit:  Hannah 
Betbea's  Mill  Branch  into  the  Big  Creek;  the  Clark  Mill 
Branch  and  Cana  Branch  into  Uttle  Reedy  Creek ;  Gin  House 
Branch  and  Peter's  Branch  into  Buck  Swamp;  Robert's  Mill 
Branch  and  Maiden  Down,  with  its  tributaries,  into  Buck 
Swamp,  lower  down.  There  are  good  lands  on  all  these 
streams,  and  well  watered  by  them.  There  are,  perhaps,  other 
small  tributaries  not  herein  mentioned.  There  are  many  trib- 
utaries to  Little  Pee  Dee,  on  both  sides,  which  water  the  sec- 
tions through  which  they  flow.  Shoe  Heel  is  one  almost  as 
large  as  Little  Pee  Dee ;  Hays'  Swamp  another ;  Maple  Swamp 
another;  Catfish,  another  inland •  swamp,  has  its  rise  in  Marl- 
borough County,  and  traverses  for  near  forty  miles  the  county 
from  north  to  northwest  to  south  and  southeast,  and  empties 
into  Great  Pee  Dee  seventeen  or  eighteen  miles  below  Marion 
C.  H.  It  has  some  tributaries,  not  so  many  as  Buck  Swamp, 
to  wit :  E.  J.  Moody's  Mill  Creek,  Smith's  Swamp,  Bull  Swamp 
and  others.  Catfish  waters  a  large  portion  of  the  country,  and 
has  some  very  fine  lands  (mostly  sandy)  watered  by  it  and 
its  tributaries.     . 

Lumber  River  has  a  large  tributary  from  the  upper  end  of 
Marion,  to  wit:  Bear  Swamp,  with  its  tributaries,  Gaddy's 
Mill  Creek,  Cowper's  Swamp  and  Alligator  Swamp.  It 
empties  into  Ashpole,  and  Ashpole  empties  into  Lumber  River 
just, above  Nichols'  Depot,  in  the  eastern  portion  of  the  county. 
There  are  two  Reedy  Creeks,  with  their  tributaries,  below 
Marion,_  coming  together  above  Legett's  Mill,  emptying  into 
Little  Pee  Dee.  There  is  the  Back  Swamp,  which  breaks  out 
of  Little  Pee  Dee  not  far  below  Gilchrist's  Bridge,  and  runs 
down  somewhat  parallel  with  the  river  for  ten  or  fifteen  miles 
and  flows  into  the  river  again.  This  swamp  may  have  been  ■ 
originally,  or  in  the  long  past,  the  river  itself.  Reasons  for  this 
theory  are  only  conjectural,  not  conclusive.  Lower  down  is 
Cypress  Creek,  flowing  into  Little  Pee  Dee  from  the  west. 
Upon  all  of  these  streams  are  good  lands,  with  sufficient  natu- 
ral drainage,  and  aided  by  the  many  artificial  ones,  makes  the 
lands  adjacent  most  desirable  for  agricultural  purposes.  Na- 
ture has  done  as  much  for  us  in  Marion  County  as  perhaps  any 
other  county  in  the  State,  with  as  few  drawbacks,  and  it  re- 


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I 

mains  for  its  people  to  avail  themselves  of  these  many  natural 
advantages,  and  to  improve  upon  them ;  and  if  the  same  prog- 
ress and  improvements  are  made  for  the  next  fifty  years  as  has 
been  made  for  the  last  fifty,  the  county  will  probably  take  the 
highest  stand,  agriculturally,  among  the  many  agricultural 
counties  in  the  State.  They  are  already  vieing  with  each  other 
for  the  highest  distinction.  An  ambition  to  excel  in  agricul- 
tural life  is  everywhere  apparent,  not  only  here  in  Maron,  but 
all  over  the  State. 

SECTION  III. 

Its  Soil  and  Productions. 

Tihe  soil  of  the  county  is  varied,  some  parts  sandy  and  light, 
other  parts  a  dark  gray  soil  or  loam,  others  a  dark  brown  soil, 
and  some  places  black.  The  different  soils  here  mentioned 
rest  on  a  clay  foundation,  except  the  sandy  or  light  soils,  and 
even  some  of  these  are  underlaid  with  clay.  The  different  soils 
vary  in  thickness,  as  also  in  fertility,  from  one  inch  to  six 
inches,  and  in  some  places  even  more  than  six  inches,  to  wit: 
in  swamp  or  bay  lands.  The^  lands  of  every  description  are 
more  or  less  fertile,  and  respond  more  or  less  abundantly  to 
the  labor  of  man  in  plentiful  harvests.  The  sandy  or  light 
lands  lie  mostly  on  Catfish  and  Little  Pee  Dee.  The  gray  soil 
is  mostly  found  on  Buck  Swamp,  and  its  tributaries ;  and  below 
Marion  in  all  parts  or  neighborhoods  after  leaving  Catfish  and 
Little  Pee  Dee  for  two  or  three  miles,  also  in  the  MuUins 
region,  and  in  Hillsboro  and  Carmichael,  after  getting  off  from 
the  river  as  above  indicated.  The  dark  brown  soil  is  mostly 
near  the  Great  Pee  Dee  River,  and  the  Grove  lands  in  Wahee 
Township.  The  black  in  swamps  and  bays.  The  agricultural 
productions  of  the  county  are  varied — most  or  all  of  the  cereals, 
sudi  as  corn,  wheat,  rye,  oats,  rice  and  barley.  Vegetables  in 
great  abundance  are  successfully  grown  in  every  portion  of  the 
county,  made. for  domestic  use  and  some  for  shipment;  of  the 
latter,  peas,  beans,  cabbage  and  strawberries  are  becoming, 
over  and  a;bove  domestic  use,  a  money  crop.  Strawberries,  in 
particular,  are  raised  for  shipment  with  reasonable  profit,  and 
are  increasing  in  value  every  year.     The  cultivation  of  these 


18  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

vegetable  crops  for  shipment  gives  needed  employment  to 
many  that  otherwise  would  be  unemployed.  Women  and 
Children  find  work  to  do,  which  they  can  perform,  and  thus, 
become  contributors  to  their  own  support,  rather  than  con- 
sumers only.  Irish  and  sweet  potatoes  are  generally  made 
mostly  for  domestic  use,  some  for  shipment.  Watermelons  and 
cantaloupes  grow  well  here,  only  f6r  domestic  use.  The  great 
money  crops  are  cotton  and  tobacco.  It  is  only  within  the  last 
few  years  that  tobacco  has  been  grown  here  as  a  money  crop, 
and  its  production  has  been  rapidly  increased,  giving  employ- 
ment to  hundreds  that  formerly  were  unemployed  from  July 
1st  to  September  in  every  year.  In  the  cultivation,  curing 
and  grading  tobacco,  to  which  stemming  has  Tecently  been 
added,  hundreds  in  the  county,  every  season,  are  busily  em- 
ployed. There  are  perhaps  hundreds  of  tobacco  barns  in  the 
county  and  others  are  now  going  up.  At  MuUins,  there  are 
tlhree  tobacco  warehouses;  ait  Nichols,  one;  at  Marion,  two; 
at  Latta,  two,  and  at  Dillon,  two,  with  prize  houses  at  each 
point  named,  in  number  and  size  sufficient  to  accommodate  the 
business  need's  of  the  trade.  It  i's  estimated  that  there  were 
made  and  sold  at  these  different  tobacco  warehouses  in  1899 
ten  millions  of  ix)unds;  many  of  the  farmers  shipped  their 
tobacco  to  Danville,  Va.,  Richmond,  and  other  markets.  To- 
bacco is  fast  becoming  one  of  the  staple  crops  of  Marion 
County,  and  there  is  no  telling  to  what  proportions  it  may 
attain. 

Tobacco  has  been  raised  as  a  money  crop  for  export  in  this 
country,  ever  since  the  first  settlement  at  Jamestown,  Va.,  in 
1607.  Its  cultivation  in  this  State  began  only  a  few  years  ago, 
and  still  later  in  this,  Marion  County.  It  has  so  far,  in  this 
county,  brought  fairly  good  prices,  which,  together  with  the 
low  price  of  cotton,  stimulates  its  production.  Most  of  the 
arable  lands  in  the  county  are  well  adapted  to  its  growth  and 
maturity,  and  much  of  the  land  makes  tobacco  of  a  very  fine 
quality,  and  it  commands  the  highest  prices.  Its  cultivation 
as  a  money  crop  has,  pe  Aaps,  come  to  stay.  The  leading  staple 
crop  of  the  county  is  cotton— the  lands  are  well  adapted  to  its 
growth  and  maturity.  Its  production  prior  to  1793  was  quite 
limited,  not  only  in  Marion  County,  but  in  the  State,  and  we 
might  say  throughout  the  cotton  belt. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  19 

From  the  first  settlement  of  the  State,  in  1670,  to  1793,  for 
near  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  years,  the  export  of  agri- 
cultural products  was  confined  to  rice  and  indigo.  The  rice 
crops  were  mostly  raised  on  the  coast  or  in  tide-water  lands, 
where  it  is  yet  the  leading  money  crop.  It  was  never  raised'  to 
much  extent  in  Marion  County;  only  raised  for  domestic  use. 
A  few  old  rice  plantations  were  in  the  lower  part  of  the  county, 
contiguous  to  the  river.  Rice  was  shipped  thence  to  Charles- 
ton, the  only  market  for  it  in  the  State,  and  thenoe  shipped  to 
Europe. 

Cotton  tes  been  the  chief  money  crop  of  the  State  for  one 
hundred  years  or  more.  It  succeeded  indigo.  Althougli  cot- 
ton has  been  known  for  more  than  two  thousand  years,  or  since 
the  days  of  Herodotus,  who  wrote  that  "Gossypium  (cotton) 
grew  in  India  which  instead  of  seed  prod^uced  wool"  (Ram- 
say's, vol.  2,  p.  119),  yet  through  all  ages  from  that  remote 
period  cotton  was  grown  only  for  domestic  use.  Now  it  is  an 
article  of  universal  use,  and  it  may  be  said,  clothes  the  world. 
Of  cotton,  there  are  two  kinds — ^the  long  staple,  or  black  seed, 
and  the  short  staple.  The  former  is  restricted  as  to  produc- 
tion to  confined  limits,  to  the  sea  islands  and  parts  adjacent. 
The  lint  is  easily  separated  from  the  seed,  and  is  used  for 
manufacturing  the  finer  classes  of  goods.  The  latter,  or  short 
staple  cotton,  grows  well  in  all  the  cotton  belt  in  this  country, 
and  is  used  in  making  the  coarser  fabrics,  such  as  are  in  com- 
mon use  everywhere,  and  the  lint  is  hard  to  separate  from  the 
seed,  and  can  be  done  with  facility  only  by  the  use  of  saw  gins. 
The  difficulty  of  separating  the  lint  from  the  seed  furnishes  the 
reason  it  was  not  planted  and  cultivated  as  a  money  crop  in 
South  Carolina  till  about  tihe  first  of  the  nineteenth  century,  or 
about  one  hundred  years  ago.  The  saw  gin  was  invented 
in  1793,  by  Eli  Whitney,  a  Connecticut  school  teacher,  then 
teaching  in  Georgia.  This  invention,  and  its  success  in  the 
purpose  for  which  it  was  intended,  suddenly  gave  a  stimulus 
to  the  production  of  cotton  in  the  South.  "Whitney's  invention 
has  had  more  influence  on  the  industry,  wealth  and  political 
condition  of  this  country  than  any  other  labor  saving  machine 
ever  constructed  in  America."  Previous  to  that  time  only 
small  quantiites  of  cotton  had  been  made  in  the  South.     Almost 


20  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

every  one  planted  a  little  patch  for  domestic  use,  and  that  little 
was  freed  from  the  seed  by  the  fingers.  A  grown  hand  could 
not  pick  more  than  a  pound  a  day,  and  did  well  to  pick  that 
much.  This  was  tedious,  and  so  expensive  that  none  but  the 
.rich  oQuli  aflford  to  buy  it.  (American  History,  by  Mont- 
gomery, p.  196)  :  "By  the  use  of  Whitney's  machine,  one  man 
could  clean  in  a  single  day  a  thousand  pounds."  Now,  at  this 
writing,  40,000  pounds  may  be  cleaned  of  seed  and  packed  and 
hooped  for  market  in  one  dky.  The  same  author  says:  "In 
1784,  we  had  exported  (from  the  cotton  belt)  eight  bags,  or 
about  3,000  pounds  of  cotton  to  Liverpool.  The  cotton  was 
seized  by  the  English  custom  officers  on  the  ground  that  the 
United  States  could  not  have  produced  such  a  prodigious 
quantity,  and  that  the  captain  of  some  vessel  must  have  smug- 
gled it  from  some  other  country.  Ten  years  after  Whitney 
had  put  his  machine  into  operation  ( 1803),  we  were  exporting 
over  100,000  bags  of  cotton,  or  more  than  40,000,000  pounds, 
and  every  year  saw  an  enormous  increase.  The  effect  at  home 
was  equally  marked.  Hundreds  of  cotton  mills  for  the  manu- 
facture of  cotton  cloth  were  built  in  New  England.  At  the 
South,  the  raising  of  cotton  became  immensely  profitable,  and 
planters  gave  more  and  more  land  to  it.  Up  to  this  period, 
many  men  in  both  sections  of  the  country  had  deplored  the 
holding  of  slaves.  They  bad  earnestly  discussed  how  to  rid 
the  country  of  what  was  felt  to  be  both  an  evil  of  itself  and  a 
danger  to  the  nation.  The  invention  of  the  cotton  gin  put  a 
stop  to  the  discussion  in  great  measure ;  for  now  the  Southern 
planters  and  Northern  manufacturers  of  cotton  both  found  it 
to  their  interest  to  keep  the  negro  in  bondage,  since  by  his 
labor  they  were  both  rapidly  growing  rich.  Few,  even  of  the 
ablest  minds,  of  that  time  realized  what  we  all  see  to-day ;  that 
in  the  end  free  labor  is  cheaper,  safer  and  better  than  any 
either."  The  author  says :  "To  sum  up,  Whitney's  great  inven- 
tion of  1793  did  four  things:  (i)  It  stimulated  the  production 
of  cotton  and  made  it  one  of  the  leading  industries  of  the 
country.  (2)  It  increased  our  exports  immensely.  (3)  It 
caused  the  building  of  great  numbers  of  cotton  mills  at  the 
North.  (4)  It  made  a  large  class,  both  North  and  South, 
interested  in  maintaining  slave  labor."     In  a  note  to  the  fore- 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  21 

going  quotation,  the  author  says:  "Whitney  received  fifty 
thousand  dollars  for  his  invention  from  South  Carolina,  be- 
sides something  from  several  other  Southern  States."  Such 
was  the  impetus  given  to  the  production  of  cotton  by  the  inven- 
tion of  Whitney,  that,  in  the  sihort  space  of  two  years.  South 
Carolina,  in  1795,  exported  to  England  cotton  to  the  value  of 
£1,109,653  (Ramsay's  History  of  South  Carolina,  vol.  II.,  p. 
120).  What  an  enormous  increase !  The  author  does  not  say 
bow  many  bags  or  how  many  pounds  were  shipped,  nor  wihat 
it  brought  per  pound — lie  only  gives  the  totail  value,  which  is 
equivalent  to  $5,000,000.  The  increase  in  production  must 
have  been  fabulous,  or  prices  of  the  staple  must  have  been  fab- 
ulous. We  suppose  South  Caiolina  must  have  g^ne  into  its 
production  with  a  vim,  as  she  bouglit  the  riglit  to  use  it  for 
$50,000,  and  "Munificently  threw  open  its  use  and  benefit  to 
all  its  citizens."  (Ramsay,  II.  vol.,  121.)  The  invention  of  the 
Whitney  saw  gin  was  and  is  the  greatest  invention  of  modern 
times.  From  tihat  time  to  this  it  has  been  the  means  of  expand- 
ing our  commerce  to  vast  proportions.  Has  been  the  means 
not  only  of  clothing  the  civilized  world,  but  it  gives  remuner- 
ative employment  to  millions,  and  by  which  they  obtain  their 
daily  bread.  It  overshadows  every  other  invention  of  any 
age,  ancient  or  modern.  Many  other  inventions  since  Whit- 
ney's, of  immeftse  use,  are  now  to  be  counted,  but  they  sink 
into  insignificance  when  compared  with  the  result  of  the  Whit- 
ney saw  gin.  Machinery  for  the  manufacturing  of  cotton 
cloth  soon  followed,  first  in  England,  then  in  the  United 
States,  and  they  are  now  to  be  found  in  every  civilized  country 
of  the  world.  It  has  enterprized  and  vitalized  almost  every 
other  useful  art  which  contributes  to  the  happiness  of  man 
in  every  clime.  Its  production  has  increased  from  eight 
small  bags  crudely  put  up,  exported  previous  to  Whitney's 
invention,  and  which  was  seized  by  the  custom  house  officials 
in  L/iverpool,  on  the  ground  that  so  much  cotton  could  not 
have  been  made  and  exported  in  the  United  States,  and,  there- 
fore, was  smuggled  from  some  other  country,  to  the  prodigious 
number  of  11,000,000  bales  much  heavier  than  those  seized  as 
smuggled.  Cotton  has  been  called  "King;"  and  that  is  no  mis- 
nomer.    The  writer  will  not  now  enter  into  a  discussion  of  the 


22  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

question  as  to  whether  cotton  is  entitled  to  j:hat  high  distinc- 
tion to  wear  the  title  of  "King." 

Marion  County,  if  she  has  not  been  magna  pars  fui,  she  has 
been  minime  pars  fui,  not  in  a  disparaging  sense  of  the  latter 
term.  She  has  done  and  is  doing  her  full  share  in  utilizing  the 
benefits  of  Whitney's  inventive  brain.  From  a  wilderness,  say, 
170  yeairs  ago,  s'he  has  converted  much  of  her  territory  to  fertile 
field's,  and  including  that  part  of  her  territory  now  in  Florence 
Ckmnty,  she  makes  at  least  50,000  bales  of  cotton. 

The  first  great  article  of  export  from  Carolina  was  rice, 
raised  mostly  on  tidewater  lands.  The  second  was  indigo. 
The  first  indigo  seed  was  introduced  into  South  Carolina  by 
"Miss  Eliza  Lucas,  the  mother  of  Major  General  Charles  Cotes- 
worth  Pinckney.  Her  father,  George  Lucas,  Governor  of 
Antigua  (one  of  the  West  India  Islands),  observing  her  fond- 
ness for  the  vegetable  world,  frequently  sent  her  tropical  seeds 
and  fruits  to  be  planted  for  her  amusement  on  his  plantation  at 
Wappoo  (near  Charleston).  Among  others  be  sent  her  some 
indigo  seed  as  a  subject  of  experiment.  She  planted  it  in 
March,  1741  or  1742;  it  was  destroyed  by  frost.  She  repeated 
the  experiment  in  April ;  this  was  cut  down  by  a  worm.  Not- 
withstanding these  discouragements,  she  persevered,  and  her 
third  attempt  was  successful.  Governor  Lucas  (her  father), 
on  hearing  that  the  plant  had  seeded  and  ripened,  sent  from 
Montserrat  a  man  by  the  name  of  Cromwell,  who  had  been 
accustomed  to  the  making  of  indigo,  and  engaged  him  at  high 
wages  to  come  to  Carolina  and  let  his  daughter  see  the  whole 
process  for  extracting  the  dye  from  the  weed.  This  professed 
indigo  maker  built  vats  on  the  Wappoo  Creek,  and  there  made 
the  first  indigo  that  was  formed  in  Carolina.  It  was  but  indif- 
ferent. Cromwell  repented  of  his  engagement  as  being  likely 
to  injure  his  own  country,  made  a  mystery  of  the  businesis, 
and  with  the  hope  of  deceiving,  injured  the  process  by  throw- 
ing in  too  much  lime.  Miss  Lucas  watched  him  carefully,  and 
also  employed  Mr.  Deveaux  to  superintend  his  operations. 
Notwithstanding  the  duplicity  of  Cromwell,  a  knowledge  of 
the  process  was  obtained.  Soon  after  Miss  Lucas  had  com- 
pletely succeeded  in  this  useful  project  she  married  Charles 
Pinckney,  and  her  father  made  a  present  of  all  the  indigo  on 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  23 

his  plantation,  the  fruit  of  her  industry,  to  her  husband.  The 
whole  was  saved  for  seed.  Part  was  planted  by  the  proprietor 
next  year  at  Ashepoo,  and  the  remainder  given  away  to  his 
friends  in  small  quantities,  for  the  same  purpose.  They  all 
succeeded.  From  that  time  the  culture  of  indigo  was  common, 
and  in  a  year  or  two  an  article  of  export.  Soon  after  the  dye 
was  successfully  extracted  from  the  cultivated  plant,  Mr. 
Cattel  made  a  present  to  Mr.  Pinckney  of  some  wild  indigo, 
w'hich  he  had  just  discovered  in  the  woods  of  Carolina.  Ex- 
periments were  instituted  to  ascertain  its  virtues.  It  proved 
to  be  capable  of  yielding  good  indigo,  but  was  less  productive 
than  what  had  been  imported.  The  attention  of  the  planters 
was  fixed  on  the  latter.  They  urged  its  culture  with  so  much 
industry  and  success,  that  in  the  year  1747  a  considerable  quan- 
tity of  it  was  sent  to  England;  which  induced  the  merchants 
trading  in  Carolina  to  petition  Parliament  for  a  bounty  on 
Carolina  indigo  *  *  *  Aooordingly,  an  Act  of  Parliament  was 
passed  in  the  year  1748  for  allowing  a  bounty  of  six  pence  per 
pound  on  indigo  raised  in  the  British  American  plantations, 
and  imported  directly  into  Britain  from  the  place  of  its 
growth.  In  consequence  of  this  Act  the  planters  applied 
themselves  with  double  vigor  and  spirit  to  that  article,  and 
seemed  to  vie  with  each  other  who  should  bring  the  best  kind 
and  greatest  quantity  of  it  to  market.  Some  years  indeed 
elapsed  before  they  found  out  the  nice  art  of  making  it  as  good 
as  the  French;  but  every  year  they  improved  in  the  mode  of 
preparing  it  and  finally  received  great  profit  as  the'reward  of 
their  labors.  While  many  of  them  doubled  their  capital  every 
tlhree  or  four  years  by  planting  indigo ;  they,  in  process  of  time, 
brought  it  to  such  A  diegree  of  perfection  as  not  only  to  supply 
the  mother  country,  but  also  to  undersell  the  French  at  several 
European  markets.  It  proved  more  really  beneficial  to  Caro- 
lina than  the  mines  of  Mexico  or  Peru  are  or  have  been  either 
to  old  or  new  Spain.  In  the  year  1754,  the  export  of  indigo 
from  the  province  amounted  to  216,924  pounds,  and  shortly 
before  the  American  Revolution  it  had  a/risen  to  1,107,660 
pounds.  In  the  Revolutionary  War  it  was  less  attended  to 
than  rice.  In  the  year  1783,  it  again  began  to  be  more  culti- 
vated— 2,051  casks  of  indigo  was  exported,  and  it  continued  to 

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24  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

form  a  valuable  export  for  some  years ;  but  large  importations 
of  it  from  the  East  Indies  into  England  so  lowered  the  price 
as  to  make  it  less  profitable.  Near  the  close  of  the  eighteenth 
century  it  gave  place  to  the  cultivation  of  cotton."  ( Rarnsay, 
II.  vol.,  ii8  and  119.)  Eli  Whitney's  invention  of  the  saw 
gin,  in  1793,  put  a  complete  stop  to  the  making  of  indigo — just 
so  soon  as  the  Whitney  invention  was  introduced.  From  1747 
to  1793,  many  fortunes  were  made  by  raising  and  exporting 
indigo.  It  is  true,  that  in  this  part  of  the  province  (what  is 
now  Marion  County),  other  pursuits  were  remunerative. 
Stock  raising  was  a  money  making  business,  and  that,  with 
indigo,  during  the  period  indicated,  made  many  men  rich — 
rich  for  that  day  and  time  and  especially  in  the  lower  end  of 
the  county  and  on  the  Great  Pee  Dee  River,  where  the  range  for 
stock  was  seemingly  inexlhaustible,  and  where  the  lands  were 
well  adapted  to  the  production  of  indigo.  As  late  as  1876,  and 
since  that  time,  the  writer  hereof,  on  a  visit  to  old  Ark  Church, 
thirty-three  miles  below  Marion  Court  House,  in  some  old 
fields  which  had  been  thrown  out  on  what  was  formerly  Gene- 
ral Woodberry's  plantation,  saw  stalks  of  indigo  growing  about 
in  those  old  fidds  four  or  five  feet  high,  limbed  out  vigorously, 
so  much  so  that  it  attracted  his  attention.  On  getting  to  the 
"Ark,"  where  he  met  a  crowd  of  ihe  citizens,  and  during  his 
stay  he  inquired  of  some  one — he  thinks  William  Woodberry, 
son  of  the  old  General  Woodberry — how  it  was  that  there  was 
so  mudh  indigo  growing  in  those  old  fields.  The  answer  was, 
that  in  former  times  the  people  planted  much  indigo  in  thaft 
region  for  market,  and  although  its  culture  had  been  aban- 
doned for  years,  yet  it  had  perpetuated  itself  from  year  to 
year,  and  was  there  regarded  as  wild  indigo.  The  writer  has 
seen  it  in  various  places  in  the  county  and  in  Robeson  County, 
N.  C,  adjoining  Marion  County,  when  a  boy  and  even  since 
manhood;  but  always  supposed  it  to  be  wild  indigo,  until 
better  informed  by  reading  the  early  history  of  the  State,  and 
What  he  was  told  by  Mr.  William  Woodberry  in  1876  as  to  that 
then  growing  in  that  part  of  the  county.  In  1848,  the  writer 
bought  the  place  on  whidi  he  soon  afterwards  settled,  in  the 
fork  of  the  two  Reedy  Creeks,  about  three  miles  above  the 
town  of  Latta.     Most  of  the  lands  that  had  been  cleared  had 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  25 

been  thrown  out; 'that  one.  field,  which  it  was  said  had  been 
cleared  more  than  a  hundred  years,  not  a  stump  in  it,  right 
in  the  Big  Creek,  and  a  point  of  the  field  ran  down  as  it  were 
into  the  creek,  so  that  the  creek  was  on  three  sides  of  the  point. 
On  that  point  the. writer  saw  several  stalks  of  indigo  very- 
luxurious  in  growth ;  the  land  was  rich,  and  he  then  supposed 
it  was  wild  indigo.  The  land  was  soon  taken  in  and  tJie  indigo 
destroyed.  He  now  supposes  it  was  the  cultivated  indigo,  and 
that  it  perpetuated  itself  as  did  that  in  Woodberry  Township. 
Old  Colonel  Eli^a  Bethea,  who  was  born  and  raised  near  by, 
informed  the  writer  that  the  Murfies,  from  Greiat  Pee  Dee, 
of  whom  more  will  be  said  hereinafter,  used  to  bring  their  stock 
out  there  on  account  of  the  reed  range  in  those  creeks  every 
winter;  that  they  penned  them  in  that  field  above  spoken  of, 
and  it  was  said  marked  300  calves  every  spring.  Old  Colonel 
Elisha  Bethea  further  said  that  his  father,  old  Buck  Swamp 
John  Bethea,  of  whom  more  will  be  said  hereafter,  after  he 
came  there  marked  often  100  calves  every  spring.  It  is  not 
difficult  to  infer  that  some  of  the  previous  owners  of  the  place 
planted  and  raised  indigo  for  market  on  those  lands,  and  when 
abandoneid  and  the  land  thrown  out,  the  indigo  sprang  up  every 
year,  and  thus  perpetuated  itself,  and  had  continued  to  do  so 
year  after  year  till  1850,  when  the  writer  saw  it  there,  as  above 
set  forth.  It  is  certain  that  indigo  was  planted  and  cultivated 
as  a  money  crop  within  the  bounds  of  what  was  afterwards 
Marion  District  and  is  now  Marion  County.  "Fortunes  were 
made  rapidly  by  its  cultivation."  (Gregg's  History  of  the 
Old  Cheraws,  p.  112.)  In  a  note  appended,  the  same  author 
(Gregg)  says:  "As  an  illustration  of  the  value  of  the  crop, 
it  may  be  mentioned  that  General  Harrington  sent  three  four- 
horse  wagon  loads  to  Virginia,  and  with  the  proceeds  of  the 
sale  boug'ht  from  fifteen  to  twenty  negroes."  The  same 
author  (p.  112)  says:  "It  brought  at  one  time  $4  to  $5  per 
pound."  In  a  note  to  the  same  he  says :  "The  account  sales  of 
one  cask  of  indigo  shipped  to  Ix>ndon  from  the  Pee  Dee  in 
1766,'  shows  that  it  commanded  2s.  and  3d.  per  pound,  amount- 
ing to  £37  4s.  and  3d.,  the  bounty  oh  it,  £3  13s.  and  4d. ;  the 
total  expense  of  the  shipment  from  Charleston  £3  6s.  and  4d." 
Many  people  in  the  county  continued  to  plant  it  for  domestic 


26  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

use  long  after  it  was  abandoned  in  1793  as  a  money  crop.  Our 
mothers  and  great-grand-motbers  were  necessarily  obliged  to 
keep  up  its  culture,  with  which  to  dye  their  thread  w(hich  was 
woven  into  cloth  to  clothe  their  families  wi*h.  In  the  laiter 
part  of  the  eighteenth  and  first  part  of  the  nineteenith  centuries, 
there  were  no  cotton  mills;  every  family  had  to  manufacture 
its  own  cloth,  whether  of  wool  or  cotton.  It  was  not  until  far 
in  the  nineteenith  century  that  manufactured  cloth  could  be 
bougiht  because  of  its  scarcity  and  because  of  its  price,  and  a 
vast  majority  of  our  grand-mothers  were  thus  forced  to  make 
their  own  cloth,  and  many  of  them  preferred  the  domestic 
article  to  the  manufactured.  They  were  provided  with  their 
spinning  wheels  and  cotton  cards,  their  reels  and  warping  bars, 
their  slags  and  weaving  harness  and  their  looms.  Every 
family  was  of  necessity  possessed  of  these  implementts  for 
making  cloth,  and  indigo  blue  was  indispensible  in  coloring 
their  thread,  and  hence  every  family  had  their  annual  patdh  of 
indigo,  and  all  were  familiar  with  the  process  of  extracting 
the  dye  from  the  indigo  weed.  All  were  scientisits  to  that 
extent.  As  a  safeguard  to  this  species  of  domestic  property, 
the  law  of  the  lanid  threw  around  it  its  protecting  aegis.  In 
1823,  our  State  I^egislature  passed  an  Act  exempting  from 
levy  and  sale  under  execution  to  every  family  certain  property 
of  the  execution  debtor,  to  wit :  One  pair  of  cards,  one  spinning 
wheel  and  loom,  and  other  articles  (I  have  not  the  Adt  before 
me),  showing  the  necessity  of  these  articles  to  every  family. 
Many  of  our  mothers  did)  not  give  up  the  making  of  cloth  for 
their  family's  use  for  many  years  after  1823,  and  a  few  not 
until  after  'the  Confederate  War,  and  there  may  be  some  that 
yet  continue  to  make  their  own  homespun.  Every  mother 
had  her  indigo  patch ;  it  was  as  indispensible  to  her  as  was  her 
vegetable  garden.  The  writer's  mother  never  did  abandon  the 
home  industry  of  making  cloth  entirely,  up  to  the  time  of  her 
death,  in  1868;  she  had  her  little  indigo  patch  every  year;  she 
spun  and  wove  her  own  cloth  while  she  lived.  The  blockade 
of  the  war  did  not  affect  her  in  that  regard — she  had  her  wheel 
and  cotton  cards,  loom,  &c.,  and  she  knew  how  to  use  them. 
Being  cut  off  from  all  oommerce  with  the  outside  world  for 
four  years,  many  of  our  people  were  put  to  it  to  supply  cloth- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  27 

ing  to  their  families.  They  had  no  implements  for  making 
cloth  for  domestic  use.  To  get  cards  was  the  greatest 
trouble — they  could  not  be  had  except  through  blockade  run- 
ners, and  only  at  enormous  prices.  Few  had  any  of  the  old 
spinning  wheels  or  looms  and  other  necessary  implements  for 
making  cloth,  and  when  they  were  procured  or  made,  many 
did  not  know  how  to  use  them.  These  troubles  of  our  people 
are  better  remembered  by  many  now  living  than  can  be  ex- 
pressed. In  the  writer's  mother's  case,  ^he  was  in  no  way 
nonplussed,  as  she  had  all  the  apparatus  for  making  cloth, 
and  knew  how  to  use  them.  Sudh  women  were  in  demand 
during  the  war  blockade.  They  could  teach  their  less  provi- 
dent neighbor  women  how  to  make  indigo  and  how  to  extract 
the  dye ;  how  to  card  and  spin  the  cotton  into  thread,  andl  how 
to  dye  it,  not  only  with  indigo  blue  but  with  other  improvised 
dyes ;  how  to  warp  it  and  put  it  through  the  slays  and  harness, 
and  then  how  to  weave  it.  We  cannot  now  well  see  how  the 
people  could  have  gotten  along  without  these  domestic  and 
provident  mothers  and  grand-mothers.  Bless  their  memory! 
Though  many  of  them  are  dead,  yet  they  live  in  recollection  at 
least,  "honored  and  sung."  The  prettiest  dtesses  for  ladies, 
the  writer  ever  saw,  were  of  homespun  tastefully  streaked 
and  striped  with  domestic  dye,  and  made  in  the  style  of  the 
times,  and  worn  by  our  mothers  and  daughters  on  public 
occasion,  at  church,  &c.,  only.  They  were  adtmired  by  all  and 
appreciated  by  all.  This  latter ,.  sentiment  was  what,  in  the 
main,  imparted  to  them  beauty  and  high  adornment.  For  the 
first  thirty  years  or  more  of  the  nineteenth  century,  the  house- 
wives of  the  country  made  cloth  to  sell  to  the  merchants,  who 
in  that  day  and  time  bought  it,  especially  where  it  was  paid 
for  in  trade.  The  writer's  mother,  when  he  was  a  boy,  would 
make  cloth,  and  carry  it  to  Fair  Bluff,  Iveesville  and  L,umber- 
ton,  N.  C,  and  sell  it  or  barter  it  for  other  goods  with  the 
merdhants.  The  prices  paid  for  it  were  remunerative,  depend- 
ing on  the  quality  of  the  cloth,  ranging  from  25  cents  to  $2 
per  yard — the  latter  price  for  the  finest  jeans  cloth.  In  con- 
nection with  this  subject,  the  making  and  selling  or  bartering 
of  home-made  cloth,  I  will  relate  an  incident  which  occurred 
when  I  was  a  boy,  from  the  year  1828  to  1832.     My  mother 


28  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

and  one  Susan  Rosier,  a  maiden  lady  rather  above  the  mar- 
riageable age,  a  near  neighbor  and  wtio  went  by  the  name  of 
"Sookey  Rosier,"  and  though  near  neighbors,  the  State  line 
divided  them,  my  mother  living  on  the  North  Carolina  side  of 
the  line  and  Miss  Rosier  on  the  South  Carolina  side.  Each 
made  a  piece  of  cloth  for  sale.  They  carried  it  to  Fair  Bluff, 
iST.  C,  and  offered  and  did  sell  it  to  a  merchant  doing  business 
there,  by  the  name  of  Colin  McRae,  a  young  man  from  Marl- 
borough District.  My  mother  sold  hers,  I  think,  at  30  cents 
per  yard,  and  Miss  Rosier  was  offered  40  cents  per  yard  for 
hers.  She  said  she  could  not  take  that  for  hers ;  the  merchant 
said  that  was  all  he  could  give  for  it.  She  said  she  set  her 
price  on  her  cloth  before  she  left  home,  and  if  she  did  not  get 
that,  she  would  carry  it  back  home.  McRae,  the  merchant, 
asked  what  was  the  price  fixed;  she  replied,  "A  quarter  and 
seven  pence  a  yard,"  and  if  she  did  not  get  that  she  would  carry 
it  back  home.  McRae,  the  merchant,  said  to  her,  "Madam,  I 
have  offered  you  more  than  that — ^that  40  cents  was  more  than 
'a  quarter  and  seven  pence ;'  "  to  which  she  replied,  "You  can't 
fool  me;  if  I  do  not  get  "a  quarter  and  seven  pence'  for  it,  I 
will  carry  it  back  home."  My  mother,  standing  by,  said  to 
her,  "He  has  offered  you  more  than  that;"  to  which  Miss 
Rosier  replied,  "I  know  better  than  that ;  I  am  not  going  to  be 
fooled  by  any  of  you."  Whereupon  McRae  said  to  her,  "Well, 
I  will  give  you  'a  quarter  and  seven  pence'  a  yard  for  -your 
cloth  ralther  than  you  shall  carry  it  back  home  with  you,"  which 
was  her  price.  And  she  went  home  satisfied.  A  remarkable 
instance  of  gross  ignorance  (crassa  ignorantia).  "A  quarter 
and  seven  pence"  wais  only  thirty-seven  and  a  half  cents. 
However,  notwithstanding  h^r  gross  ignorance,  she  knew  how 
to  make  good  cloth — she  had  been  trained  in  that  ait.  The 
family,  not  many  years  afterward,  sold  out  and  removed  to 
some  other  parts,  and  so  far  as  that  family'  is  concerned,  the 
name  has  become  extinct  in  Marion  County.  S.  S.  Rozier  at 
Dillon,  we  think,  is  of  a  different  family.  The  family  of 
"Sookey"  Rosier  lived  on  Cowpen  Swamp,  which  rises  in 
North  Carolina,  and  runs  south  and  empties  into  Bear  Swamp, 
jus.t  below  Page's  Mill,  and  just  above  Bear  Swam^  Baptist 
Church.     The  Rozier  place  was  on  the  west  side  of  said  Cow- 


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pen  Swamp,  and  was  afterwards  bought  by  Zany  Rogers,  an 
older  brother  of  our  respected  fellow-citizen.  Captain  Robt. 
H.  Rogers ;  and  I  suppose  Zany  Rogers  died  there.  The  writer 
has  not  seen  the  place  in  sixty-five  or  more  years.  It  is  a  fine 
region  in  upper  Marion,  in  Hillsboro  Township,  and  was,  when 
the  writer  last  saw  it,  almosit  wholly  undeveloped,  but  now,  it 
is  learned,  that  it  is  greatly  developed  and  fast  coming  to  the 
front. 

SECTION  IV. 

Stock  Raising. 

From  the  first  settlements  in  South  Carolina  down,  even  to 
the  present  time,  a  period  of  more  than  two  hundred  years, 
stock  raising  for  market  has  been  a  profitable  pursuit  in  all  the 
State,  and  especially  in  the  lower  or  eastern  portions  of  the 
State,  in  which  Marion  County  is  located.  Initerseoted  as  it 
is,  by  the  Pee  Dee  and  Lumber  Rivers,  with  numerous  inland 
creeks,  swamps  and  bays,  it  afforded  a  splendid  and  extensive 
range  for  cattle  and  hogs.  Luxurious  bodies  of  reeds  were 
in  the  swamps  and  low  grounds  of  the  three  rivers,  and  in 
the  inland  swamps  and  bays  of  the  county;  the  uncleared 
uplands  everywliere  covered  with  a  heavy  annual  crop  of  nutri- 
tious grass  in  summer  for  cattle  to  browse  up>on ;  the  swamps, 
and  especially  the  river  swamps,  teeming  with  acorns,  and 
the  pine  woods  bearing  every  year  cpiantities  of  mast — ^pure 
mast.  The  enterprising  and  sagacious  settler  quickly  saw  the 
money  in  it,  and  at  once  utilized  the  bounties  of  nature  around 
him,  which  'he  could  do  without  much  labor.  All  he  had  to  do 
was  to  watch  and  attend  to  his  stocks  of  cattle  and  hogs,  and 
feed  them  just  enough  to  keep  them  gentle.-  The  range  was 
suflficient  to  maintain  and  fatten  for  market  large  droves  of 
cattle  and  hogs  with  little  or  no  expense  or  labor.  In  the  first 
instance,  he  had  to  have  a  road  to  market,  and  the  means  of 
crossing  rivers  aiid  other  inland  streams.  With  these  facili- 
ties he  was  in  easy  reach  of  Charleston,  his  only  market  in  the 
State.  These  facilities  were  not  long  in  being  procured  and 
established.  Bishop  Gregg,  in  his  history,  page  76,  says: 
"Stock  raising  was  the  most  profitable  business,  and  laid  the 
foundation  of  fortunes  which  rapidly  increased."     Stock  rais- 


30  A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY. 

ing  in  Marion  County,  from  its  earliest  settlement,  was  a 
common  and  very  profitable  business,  and  some  of  the  largest 
fortunes  made  in  the  territory  now  embraced  in  this  county 
were  made  by  raising  stock  and  carrying  it  to  market.  In 
Bishop  Gregg's  History,  p.  i  lo,  he  says :  "The  stock  was  driven 
to  Charleston  and  other  places  on  the  coast,  as  well  as  to  more 
distant  markets.  Large  numbers  of  cattle  were  sent  from  Pee 
Dee  to  Philadelphia."  The  same  author  further  says,  on  page 
68 :  "Stock  raising  was  the  most  profitable  business,  Charleston 
affording  a  good  market  for  all  that  the  industrious  settlers 
could  carry  tihither."  This  was  about  1735.  In  a  note  to  page 
no,  the  same  author  says:  "It  is  relaJted  of  Malachi  Murphy, 
w'ho  drove  many  beeves  annually  to  Philadelphia,  that  on  one 
occasion  he  was  the  owner  of  a  famous  beast  called  'Blaze 
Face,'  of  great  size  and  unusual  sagacity,  which  he  sold  in 
Philadelphia.  On  the  night  of  his  return  home  to  Pee  Dee, 
and  soon  after  his  arrival  he  heard  the  low  of  'Blaze  Face.'  He 
had  escaped  and  followed  close  upon  the  track  of  his  owner, 
swimming  rivers  and  distancing  all  pursuers.  Mr.  Murphy 
drove  him  a  second  time  to  Philadelphia,  and  again  he  returned. 
Sudh  a  spirit  was  worthy  of  a  better  fate,  but  did  not  shield 
the  bold  rover.  He  was  taken  a  third  time  to  Philadelphia  and 
came  back  no  more.  This  was  related  to  the  author  by  the 
late  John  D.  Witherspoon,  of  Society  Hill."  This  same  Mala- 
chi Murphy  (Murfee,  originally  spelled),  was  one  of  the  four 
brothers,  who  settled  on  the  Great  Pee  Dee  about  1735,  at  a 
place  then  called  Sandy  Bluff,  afterwards  known  as  Solomon's 
Ivanding,  and  is  just  above  the  railroad  crossing,  and  of  whom 
more  may  yet  be  said — became  very  wealthy  from  stock  raising, 
and  of  whom  Bishop  Gregg,  p.  72,  says :  "Of  these,  Malachi 
became  the  most  wealthy.  He  is  said  to  have  given  one  hun- 
dred slaves  to  each  of  three  sons.  He  died  before  the  Revolu- 
tion." He  took  up  large  bodies  of  land  up  and  down  the  Pee 
Dee  River.  Malachi  Murphy,  senior,  had  also  three  daughters. 
It  is  naturally  to  be  supposed  that  he  provided  for  his  daughters 
as  well  as  for  his  sons,  and  if  so,  he  was  certainly  the  wealth- 
iest man  in  the  Pee  Dee  section  of  the  province.  We  have  no 
account  that  he  made  his  money  in  any  other  way  than  by 
stock  raising,  yet  we  are  bound  to  suppose  that  having  as  many 


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slaves  as  he  had,  he  employed  them,  or  most  of  them,  in  other 
pursuits,  perhaps  in  raising  and  preparing  indigo  for  market, 
at  thait  time,  from  1747  to  1793,  a  lucrative  business.  He  must 
have  been  an  extraordinary  man,  full  of  pluck  and  energy, 
together  with  sound  judgment.  It  was  related  to  the  writer 
fifty  years  ago,  when  he  first  settled  in  the  fork  of  the  two 
Reedy  Creeks  which  make  Buck  Swamp,  by  Colonel  Elisha 
Bethea,  that  in  former  times  the  Murfees  (suppose  Malachi) 
drove  their  stock  to  that  place  to  raise  them  on  the  range  in 
the  two  creeks  and  Buck  Swamp,  which  was  then  very  fine  and 
is  yet  good.  That  Malachi  Murfee  would  or  did  mark  and 
trim  as  many  as  300  calves  there  in  a  spring.  And  he  further 
told  the  writer  that  his  father  (Buck  Swamp  John  Bethea)  in 
early  times  marked  and  trimmed  as  many  as  100  calves  of  a 
spring,  and  raised  a  great  many  hogs  in  the  swamp  every  year, 
and  drove  to  Charleston  every  year  a  large  drove  of  cattle  and 
hogs.  That  the  hog  range  kept  good  until  the  "big  storm"  of 
1822,  w'hich  blew  down  most  of  the  oaks,  and  thus  the  acorn 
crop  was  destroyed  or  cut  off.  Old  Buck  Swamp  John  Bethea 
became  wealthy,  mostly  from  raising  stock  for  market.  He 
died  in  182 1.  More  will  be  said  of  the  Murfees  and  Buck 
Swamp  John  Bethea  hereafter. 

We  suppose  stock  raising  was  the  business  of  most  of  the 
early  settlers  of  the  county,  and  especially  in  that  part  of 
Marion  County  called  Britton's  Neck.  The  settlers  down  in 
that  region  became  wealthy,  and  outstripped  the  upper  end 
of  the  county  for  near  a  hundred  years  in  the  pursuit  and 
accumulation  of  wealth.  When  the  writer  can  first  remember, 
the  wealth  of  the  county  was  mostly  in  its  lower  end,  and  the 
upp>er  end  of  the  county  was  comparatively  poor.  These  con- 
ditions are  now  and  'have  been  for  the  last  half  century 
reversed.  The  greater  wealth  is  to  be  found  in  the  upper  end 
of  the  county.  This  state  of  things  may  be  accounted  for,  in 
great  part,  because  of  the  greater  agricultural  enterprise  among 
its  people,  and  because  of  the  failing  of  the  stock  range  in  the 
lower  end  of  the  county;  and  because  of  the  more  numerous 
and  better  schools  in  the  upper  end,  and  the  more  general  dif- 
fusion of  knowledge  among  the  people  of  that  section;  and 
lastly,  the  facilities  of  transportation  and  commerce  and  trade 


32  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

conditions  are  better,  and  have  been  so  for  a  period  of  years, 
than  in  the  lower  section.  For  the  last  few  years,  however, 
the  lower  section  of  the  county  shows  signs  of  upheaval  in 
these  respects,  and  ere  long,  if  she  progresses  as  she  has  for 
the  last  fifteen  or  twenty  years,  she  may  claim  her  place,,  her 
section  of  the  county,  to  be  equal  with  that  of  the  northern 
section.  She  has  lands  of  equal  fertility,  and  all  they  need  is 
intelligent  and  energetic  culture,  and  to  build  up  and  foster  her 
schools,  public  and  private. 

Pursuits,  other  than  stock  raising,  and  other  than  agricul- 
tural, have  necessarily  occupied  the  attention  of  the  people  of 
Marion  County,  nnore  or  less,  for,  perhaps,  one  hundred  and 
sixty-five  years,  subordinate  to  and  consequent  upon  those 
leading  pursuits.  Tradesmen  of  various  kinds  have  sprung 
up  amongst  us.  Blacksmiths,  until  within  the  last  few  years, 
were  to  be  found  in  every  community,  were  in  great  demand, 
and  found  constant  and  remunerative  employment.  They 
have  been  supplanted  of  late  by  imported  work  from  outside  the 
county.  This  imported  work  is  better  adapted  to  the  uses  of 
the  farmer  than  the  former  domestic  work,  hence  the  black- 
smith is  driven  out;  and  the  same  of  the  wheelwright — his 
occupation  is  gone;  his  work  is  superseded  by  imported  pro- 
ductions along  his  line  of  work,  and  hence  he  is  driven  out. 
The  'house  carpenter  and  brick  mason  holds  his  own ;  they  yet 
find  remunerative  employment,  and  thereby  make  a  living. 
The  turpentine  and  lumber  industry  in  the  county  are  and 
have  been  very  extensive.  How  many  of  them  have  succeeded 
in  making  money,  is  not  known.  It  may  be  said  only  a  few 
have  made  a  fortune.  While  they  have  succeeded  admirably 
in  destroying  our  very  extensive  and  beautiful  pine  forests  to 
such  an  extent  as  to  threaten,  and  in  the  near  future  to  bring 
about  a  timber  famine.  To  the  writer  it  looks  like  vandalism. 
The  face  of  the  whole  county  will  soon  be  denuded  of  timber, 
and  neither  the  county  as  a  section  of  the  country  nor  its 
people  will  have  anything  to  show  for  it.  No  valid  considera- 
tion left  in  its  place,  no  quid  pro  quo. 


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CHAPTER  III. 

SECTION  I. 

Its  Educational,  Political  and  Judicial  History. 

No  scheme  was  ever  inaugurated  in  South  Carolina  for  the 
general  education  of  the  public,  until  it  was  provided  for  in 
the  Constitution  of  1868.  The  reconstruction  was  made  and 
adopted,  not  by  the  intelligence  of  the  State,  but  under  the 
restraints  of  the  sword  by  "carpet-baggers"  and  a  few  rene- 
gade whites,  contemptuously  called  "scallawags,"  and  igno- 
rant negroes.  Yet,  with  respect  to  education,  it  was  quite  an 
improvement  upon  the  Constitutions  of  1790  and  1865,  neither 
of  which  fundamentally  made  any  provision  for  the  education 
of  the  masses.  From  the  earliest  times  it  seems  to  have  been 
a  matter  of  concern  to  establish  and  to  have  schools  for  the 
education  of  the  masses.  As  early  as  1710,  the  Provincial 
Legislature  passed  an  Act  to  found  such  schools;  and  again  in 
1712,  another  Act  was  passed,  extending  and  amplifying  the 
system.  In  both  of  these  Acts  there  was  a  provision  that  no 
one  should  be  employed  as  a  teacher  or  schoolmaster  in  the 
public  schools  of  the  province  unless  he  belonged'  to  the  English 
or  Episcopal  Church.  ( Statutes  at  Large,  vol.  II.,  p.  342,  and 
vol.  II.,  p.  390.)  Under  each  of  these  Acts,  sixteen  persons 
were  named  as  Commissioners,  every  one  of  whom  belonged 
to  the  Church  of  England,  and  who  were  empowered  and  di- 
rected to  found  said  schools,  to  buy  land,  to  erect  school  houses, 
to  employ  teachers,  and  so  forth,  and  to  be  paid  for  out  of  the 
public  treasury.  These  two  Acts,  or  rather  the  latter  one, 
remained  the  law  for  free  sdhools  in  the  province  and  the  State 
till  181 1,  when  another  Act  was  passed).  (V.  Statutes  at 
Large,  p.  639.)  The  title  of  this  Act  is  as  follows:  "An  Act 
to  establish  free  schools  throughout  the  State."  The  first  sec- 
tion of  this  Act  reads  as  follows :  "Be  it  enacted  by  the  Honor- 
able Senate  and  House  of  Representatives,  now  met  and  sitting 
in  General  Assembly,  and  by  the  authority  of  the  same,  That 
immediately  after  the  passing  of  this  Act,  there  shall  be  estab- 
lished in  each  election  district  within  this  State  a  number  of 


34  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

free  schools  equal  to  the  number  of  members  which  such  dis- 
trict is  entitled  to  send  to  the  House  of  Representatives  in  the 
Legislature  of  the  State."  Under  this  Act,  Marion  District, 
a  large  district  territorially,  could  only  have  two  free  schools 
within  her  borders,  as  sihe  then  was  only  entitled  to  two 
Representatives  in  the  State  Legislature ;  but  the  little  parishes 
in  the  lower  part  of  the  State,  some  of  them  not  having  more 
than  twenty-five  or  thirty  voters  in  them,  could  have  three  free 
schools,  as  each  of  them,  by  the  Constitution  of  1790,  was 
entitled  to  three  Representatives  in  the  State  Legislature. 
(Constitution  of  1790,  I.  vol.  Statutes,  p.  184,  and  amendments 
sequens.)  Those  parishes  were  the  creation  of  the  Church  of 
England,  under  the  proprietary  and  regal  governments  of  the 
province,  and  their  power  and  influence  were  retained  by  the 
Constitution  of  1790.  In  the  Convention  of  1790,  its  members 
equaling  tihe  number  of  Senators  and  Representatives  in  the 
Legislature  to  which  each  parish  and  district  or  county  was 
entitled  under  the  Constitution  of  1778,  was  158  of  the  Church 
of  England  (Episcopal),  and  68  belonged  either  to  that  church 
or  to  some  other.  Thus  it  is  easy  to  see  what  influence  domi- 
nated the  Convention  of  1790,  that  made  the  Constitution  of 
thlt  year.  The  Constitution  of  the  United  States  and  its 
amendments,  made  in  1787,  and  ratified  by  a  Convention  of 
South  Carolina,  May,  1788 — Article  L  of  its  amendments  reads 
thus :  "Congress  shall  make  no  law  respecting  an  establishment 
of  religion  or  prohibiting  the  free  exercise  thereof."  This 
amendment  made  it  necessary  for  South  Carolina  to  disestab- 
lish her  estaiblishment  of  the  Church  of  England.  Article  VIIL 
reads  thus  on  that  subject:  "The  free  exercise  and  enjoyment 
of  religious  profession  and  worship  without  discrimination 
or  preference  shall  forever  hereafter  be  allowed  within  this 
State  to  all  mankind;  provided,  that  the  liberty  of  conscience 
hereby  declared  shall  not  be  so  construed  as  to  excuse  acts  of 
licentiousness,  or  justify  practices  inconsistent  with  the  peace 
or  safety  of  this  State."  (Vol.  L,  Statutes  at  Large,  p.  191.) 
For  near  one  hundred  years  the  people  of  the  State,  including 
all  Dissenters,  had  been  taxed  to  buy  lands  (glebe)  for  Episco- 
pal Churches  to  build  churches  in  the  different  parishes,  and 
to  pay  the  rectors  or  preachers  of  that  church  their  salaries. 


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Dissenters  were  deprived  of  the  rig'ht  to  hold  office  and  of  the 
right  to  various  employments  within  the  State,  w'hile  a  member 
of  the  Church  of  England  had  the  exclusive  right  by  law  to 
seek  and  to  hold  office,  and  to  enter  into  and  assume  any 
employment  whatever.  The  first  step  taken  towards  the  estab- 
lishment by  law  of  the  Ghurcli  of  England  in  the  province  of 
Carolina  was  in  1698,  when  an  Act  "to  settle  maintainance  on  a 
minister  of  the  Church  of  England  in  Charlestown,"  was 
passed.  This  Act  did  not  seem  to  awaken  any  suspicion  and 
alarm  among  the  Dissenters ;  but  the  precedent  thus  set  paved 
the  way  for  furtber  Acts  in  favor  of  that  church.  In  Dr. 
Ramsay's  History  of  South  Carolina  (vol.  2,  pp.  3  and  4),  we 
find  the  following,  and  the  author  can  do  no  better  than  to 
give  it  in  his  own  words:  "In  the  year  1704,  when  the  white 
population  of  the  province  was  between  5,000  and  6,000,  when 
the  Episcopalians  had  only  one  church  in  the  province,  and  the 
Dissenters  three  in  Charleston  and  one  in  the  country,  the 
former  were  so  far  favored  as  to  obtain  a  legal  establishment. 
Most  of  the  proprietors  and  public  officers  of  the  province,  and 
particularly  the  Governor,  Sir  Nathaniel  Johnson,  were  zeal- 
ously attached  to  the  Church  of  England.  Believing  in  the 
current  creed  of  the  times,  that  an  established  religion  was 
essential  to  the  support  of  civil  government,  they  concerted 
measures  for  endowing  the  church  of  the  mother  country  and 
advancing  it  in  South  Carolina  to  a  legal  prominence.  Pre- 
paratory thereto  they  promoted  the  election  of  members  of 
that  churth  to  a  seat  in  the  provincial  Legislature,  and  suc- 
ceeded by  surprise  so  far  as  to  obtain  a  majority.  The  recently 
elected  members  soon  after  they  entered  on  their  legislative 
functions  took  measures  for  perpetuating  the  power  they  had 
thus  obtained ;  for  they  enacted  a  law  which  made  it  necessary 
for  all  persons  thereafter  chosen  members  of  the  House  of 
Commons  to  conform  to  the  religious  worship  of  the  Church 
of  England,  and  to  receive  the  sacrament  of  the  Lord's  Supper 
according  to  the  rights  and  usages  of  that  church.  This  Act 
passed  the  lower  House  by  a  majority  of  one  vote.  It  virtually 
excluded  from  a  seat  in  the  Legislature  all  w'ho  were  Dis- 
senters, erected  an  aristocracy,  and  gave  a  monopoly  of  power 
to  one  sect  though  far  from  being  a  majority  of  the  inhabitants. 


36  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

The  usual  consequences  followed.  Animosities  took  place  and 
spread  in  every  direction.  Moderate  men  of  the  favored 
church  considered  the  law  as  impolitic  and  hostile  to  the  pros- 
perity of  the  province.  Dissenters  of  all  denominations  made 
a  common  cause  in  endeavoring  to  obtain  its  repeal."  They 
used  every  means  within  their  power  to  obtain  its  repeal.  They 
not  only  tried  to  get  their  own  Legislature  to  repeal  the  obnox- 
ious law,  but  they  petitioned  the  Lords  Proprietors,  and  failing 
there,  they  went  to  the  House  of  Lords  in  Parliament,  and 
finally  to  Queen  Anne,  but  all  to  no  purpose.  The  law  re- 
mained of  force  until  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  even  down 
to  the  time  of  the  Constitution  of  1790.  And  it  will  be  seen 
that  that  Constitution  did  not  afford  entire  and  complete  relief ; 
that  through  its  parochial  system  of  representation  in  the  Sen- 
ate and  House  of  Representatives,  the  Episcopal  Church  has 
to  a  great  extent  controlled  the  legislation  of  the  State  from 
that  time,  1790,  all  the  way  down  to  1868;  when  by  that 
Constitution  the  parish  system  was  broken  up  and  the  State 
freed  from  the  domination  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  Though 
the  white  people  of  the  State  had  no  sympathy  with  the  Con- 
vention that  made  the  Constitution  of  i868,  yet  many  of  its 
provisions  are  a  great  improvement  upon  the  Constitution  of 
1790 — ^notably  the  destruction  of  the  parish  system ;  the  eman- 
cipation of  married  women  as  to  their  rights  of  property,  and 
perhaps  other  improvements  not  necessary  to  mention.  Such 
legislation  betokens  superlative  arrogance  and  self-assumption. 
It  was  oppressive  and  a  tyranny.  When  the  government  prop 
is  knocked  from  under  them  they  fall.  They  have  had  to 
stand  upon  their  merits  for  the  last  hundred  years,  and  they 
have  dwindled  down  to  a  small  element  in  the  body  politic, 
their  members  are  a  mere  handful  when  compared  with  the 
members  of  the  various  dissenting  denominations.  All  honor, 
however,  to  many  of  the  noble  people  who  were  and  are  iden- 
tified with  that  branch  of  God's  church.  Their  position  of 
undue  influence  in  the  State's  affairs  was  the  result  of  early 
environments,  and  its  best  and  most  conservative  followers 
recognized  the  injustice  of  the  system  in  vogue  before  the  war, 
and  were  willing  that  it  should  be  abolished,  as  it  was  inimical 
to  the  best  interests  of  their  church. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  37 

Under  the  Act  of  1811,  $300  was  appropriated  to  each 
school.  Under  the  Act  of  18 14,  $37,000  was  appropriated  for 
the  free  public  schools,  and  continued  from  year  to  year  up  to 
the  war.  How  much  of  this  $37,000  appropriated  for  free 
schools  since  18 14  was  apportioned  to  Marion  District  is 
unknown,  as  no  permanent  record  thereof  seems  to  have  been 
kept  by  the  Commissioners.  If  any  was  kept,  it  is  inacces- 
sible— it  was,  however,  a  mere  pittance,  and  did  but  little  good. 
The  four  counties — Beaufort,  Colleton,  Charleston  and  George- 
town— having  most  of  the  parishes  within  their  borders,  and 
having  the  greater  representation  in  the  Legislature,  hence  they 
shared  most  of  the  appropriation,  while  the  rest  of  the  State 
got  but  little  of  it,  and  were  little  benefited  by  it.  It  was  pro- 
vided in  said  Act  of  181 1,  that  all  should  send  to  said  schools, 
rich  and  poor  alike,  free  of  expense;  and  further,  that  if  the 
money  appropriated  was  insufficient  to  pay  for  all  attending 
said  schools,  a  preference  should  be  given  to  the  poor,  or  the 
children  of  indigent  parents.  The  result  was  that  the  poor  in 
many  instances  did  not  attend  those  schools,  parents  were  not 
able  to  furnish  books  and  clothing  for  their  children ;  and  many 
of  them  being  poor  and  ignorant  themselves,  were  careless  and 
indifferent  about  educating  their  children.  Whether  there 
were  any  public  schools,  public  or  private,  in  Liberty  or  Marion 
District  prior  to  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth  century,  we 
cannot  say,  nor  can  we  with  certainty  say  there  were  schools 
in  Marion '  District  before  1814.  We  can  only  say  there  was 
legislation  to  that  end  as  to  free  public  schools,  but  whether 
our  people  availed  themselves  of  it  or  not,  we  can  only  conject- 
ure. We,  however,  suppose  their  little  "old!  field"  schools  were 
opened  for  short  terms  in  some  neighborhoods,  with  teachers 
possibly  competent  to  teach  the  rudimentary  branches  of  an 
education,  and  which  each  succeeding  generation  has  improved 
upon  during  the  whole  of  the  nineteenth  century,  and  has 
brought  it  up  to  its  present  high  standard;  and  as  evidence 
thereof,  the  log  cabin  school  houses  with,  in  many  instances, 
only  a  dirt  floor,  have  been  succeeded  by  large  and  commodious 
school  buildings,  and  in  some  places  brick  buildings,  in  almost 
every  section  of  the  county,  and  they  are  all  well  patronized; 
and  we  have  teachers  fully  competent  to  instruct  and  to  prepare 


Oo  A  HISTORY  01?  MARION  COUNTY. 

the  youth  of  both  sexes  for  college.     The  progress  in  educa- 
tional enterprise  has  kept  pace  with  the  progress  in  material 
and  industrial  enterprise.     Much  might  be  said  in  amplifying 
the  contrast  between  our  conditions  educationally  now  and  one 
hundred  years  ago,  but  space  will  not  permit  and  the  field  is 
too  large.     In  1814,  the  Marion  Academy  Society,  at  Marion 
Court  House,  was  given  the  power  of  escheators  and  also  its 
perquisites  up  to  $2,000.     It  seems  it  had  been  incorporated 
before,  but  the  writer  has  not  been  able  to  find  the  Act  of  incor- 
poration, and  hence  he  cannot  give  the  names  of  the  corpora- 
tors, t  A  school  was  established  there  under  its  provisions,  and 
has  been  kept  up  with  more  or  less  success  from  that  time  to 
the  present.     At  that  school  many  men  of  the  past  generation 
who  have  been  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  the  county  and  State, 
and  in  the  industrial  walks  of  life,  were  educated,  and  it  exerted 
an  influence  for  good  all  over  the  county.     The  writer  can  only 
mention  a  few  of  the  many  who  went  there,  and  got  the  educa- 
tion and  training  that  fitted  them  for  life  and  its  activities  and 
responsibilities.     All  of  them  have  passed  off  the  stage  of  life. 
Hugh  Godbold,  General  William  Evans,  Dr.  Charles  Godbold, 
Asa  Godbold,  General  E.  B.  Wheeler,  Colonel  Eevi  Legette,  C. 
D.  Evans,  Colonel  D.  S.  Harllee,  Dr.  Robert  Harllee,  General 
W.  W.  Harllee,  John  C.  Bethea,  Elisha  C.  Bethea,  W.  B. 
Rowell,  General  Elly  Godbold,  Nathan  Evans,  General  N.  G. 
Evans,  Reddin  W.  Smith,  all  men  of  mark  and  character,  and 
a  host  of  others  younger,  all  of  whom  got  their  training  and 
early  impressions  from  that  school,  taught  by  such  men  as  the 
Rev.  Joseph  F.  Travis,  Rev.  Tracy  R.  Walsh,  and  W.  H. 
Witberow.     We  are  not  yet  done  harvesting  from  the  seeds 
planted  and  cultivated  in  that  school ;  its  fruits  are  still  being 
gathered.     And  it  has  been  succeeded  by  one  of  the  best  and 
most  successful  graded  schools,  perhaps,  in  the  State.     A  large 
and  commodious  brick  building  has  been  erected,  and  the  school 
established  under  the  laws  prescribing  the  manner  of  regulat- 
ing such  schools.     It  is  largely  patronized,  and  has  a  strong 
corps  of  teachers,  and  is  equal,  perhaps,  in  its  curriculum  and 
course  of  study  to  one  of  our  colleges  a  hundred  years  ago. 
There  a  young  man  or  woman  is  prepared  to  enter  the  Fresh- 
man Class  in  the  South  Carolina  College,  or  any  other  college 

quite  an  advance  on  the  schools  of  the  eighteenth  century. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  39 

Not  many  years  after  this — ^perhaps  in  the  thirties — an 
ajcademy  was  built  at  Harlleesville,  and  a  school  established 
there,  and  for  more  than  sixty  years  a  good  school  has  been 
kept  up  'at  that  point.  It  has  told  upon  the  intelligence  and 
high  standing  of  that  community.  Its  teachers  have  gene- 
rally been  men  of  learning,  character  and  scholarly  ability.  It 
has  awakened  a  spirit  of  industrial  pursuits  and  industrial  arts, 
perhaps,  unsurpassed  anywhere.  It  has  moulded  character — 
high  character — ^in  both  male  and  female.  It  has  energized 
its  citizens  and  made  them  the  peer  of  the  citizens  of  any 
community.  They  have  no  cause  to  blush  when  they  say,  "I 
am  from  I;ittle  Rock,  Marion  County."  They  are  proud  of 
their  citizenship  and  homes.  The  school  was  founded  by 
Herod  Stadkhouse,  Isaac  Stackhouse,  Allen  Gaddy,  Cade 
Bethea,  John  Braddy,  and  last,  but  not  least,  by  Colonel  Thomas 
Harllee — ^though  he  never  married  and  had  no  children  to  send 
to  school,  yet  he  was  liberal  to  any  call  for  the  betterment  of  his 
people,  the  uplifting  of  them  and  putting  them  upon  a  higher 
plane  in  civilized  life.  His  hand  and  heart  were  ever  open  to 
any  such  enterprise.  Those  substantial  and  open-hearted  men 
have  been  succeeded  by  a  better  informed  community,  their 
efiforts  have  been  crowned  with  success  far  beyond  expectation. 
They  are  all  gone  to  their  reward,  but  their  works  survive,  and 
yet  remain  to  bless  and  build  up  generations  yet  to  come. 

The  next  high  school,  in  the  order  of  time,  in  the  county  was 
Pine  Hill  Academy,  near  Sellers,  on  the  Florence  Railroad, 
built  in  1841.  It  was  erected  hy  Major  James  Haselden,  John 
C.  Ellerbe,  Isham  Watson,  Henry  Berry,  James  Tart  and  the 
Widow  Moses  Mace,  and  perhaps  others.  The  first  teacher 
in  that  school  was  John  H.  McDonald,  a  brother  of  D.  J. 
McDonald,  who  afterwards  merchandised  at  Marion  for  years, . 
and  who  married  a  Miss  Crawford,  a  sister  of  the  late  W.  H. 
Crawford.  The  next  teacher  at  Pine  Hill  was  the  late  A.  Q. 
McDuffie,  Esq.,  who  taugiht  there  several  years  and  had  a  large 
and  flourishing  school.  The  writer  hereof,  in  1842,  went  to 
school  there  to  John  H.  McDonald,  and  in  1844,  to  A.  Q. 
McDuffie.  The  latter  was  his  last  teacher.  The  old  academy 
yet  stands  as  a  monument  to  the  enterprising  men  who  built 
and  established  it,  still  dispensing  its  influence  for  good  to  the 
4 


40  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

third  and  fourth  generations  of  the  men  who  founded  it.  It 
has  done  much  for  the  oommunity  in  which  it  is  located,  and 
ha&  furnished  many  men  and  women  who  have  been  prominent 
in  the  affairs  of  the  State  and  county,  and  among  them  our 
Governor,  the  late  Williami  H.  Ellerbe. 

The  next  high  school,  in  the  order  of  time,  was  Hofwyl 
Acadtemy.  It  was  built  in  1853,  and  was  burned  by  an  incen- 
diary in  1855.  T'his  academy  was  built  and  the  school  estab- 
lished there  by  Captain  E.  C.  Bethea,  Colonel  James  R.  Bethea, 
John  R.  Bethea,  Rev.  Samuel  J.  Bethea,  Stephen  Fore,  Captain 
C.  J.  Fladlger,  Joseph  D.  Bass  and  W.  W.  Sellers--all  of  whom 
have  passed  "over  the  river  of  death"  except  the  writer.  After 
the  burning  in  1855,  another  and  better  building  was  erected 
on  the  same  spot  by  the  same  parties,  at  once,  and  the  school 
reopened  with  competent  teachers,  and  was  very  popular  in  its 
day.  It  attracted  patronage  from  beyond  the  limits  of  its 
immediate  neighborhood.  From  below  Marion  Court  House, 
the  late  W.  F.  Richardson  sent  two  of  his  daughters  up  there — 
Miss  Augusta,  who  afterwards  married  James  H.  Godbold, 
and  who  now  resides  about  fifteen  miles  below  Marion,  and 
Miss  Alice,  who  afterwards  became  the  second  wife  of  John 
H.  Hamer,  of  Little  Rock.  She  is  now  dead,  leaving  five  child- 
ren surviving  her,  Ed.  Hamer,  of  Little  Rock,  and  Dr.  Tristram 
B.  Hamer,  now  in  the  far  West,  Mrs.  Neill  A.  Berry,  of 
Sellers,  and  Mrs.  Lawrence  Manning,  in  the  Little  Rock  sec- 
tion, and  John  H.,  now  about  twenty-one  years  old.  Also,  G. 
W.  Wood'berry,  of  Britton's  Neck,  sent  his  daughter,  Julia,  to 
the  Hofwyl  School.  She  afterwards,  I  think,  married  a  Mr. 
Brown,  and  is  yet  living,  and  reared  a  nice  family.  James 
Jenkins  sent  his  daughter,  Ella,  his  only  child,  to  Hofwyl. 
She  afterwards  married  B.  F.  Davis,  below  Marion;  they 
raised  a  large  family  of  sons  and  daughters ;  the  mother  died 
some  years  ago.  Miss  Mary  E.  Watson,  daughter  of  the  late 
James  Watson,  near  Marion,  went  up  to  the  Hofwyl  School. 
She  afterwards  married  Jessie  H.  Gibson,  below  Marion ;  both 
are  now  livin'g,  and  have  raised  a  family  of  sons  and  daughters 
ready  to  take  their  places  in  society,  and  to  fill  them  with  re- 
spectability and  success,  as  their  parents  have  done.  Dr.  F. 
M.  Monroe  went  to  school  there,  perhaps  the  last  school  he 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  41 

I 

ever  attended  before  reading  medicine ;  he  boarded  at  Captain 
James  W.  Bass',  together  with  one  Willie  Sbeckelford,  son  of 
Jotin  B.  Sheckelford,  below  Marion.  He  came  to  a  sad  end 
in  North  Carolina.  Dr.  Monroe  is  now  well  known  in  the 
county  as  one  of  our  best  physicians,  a  respecta:ble  and  promi- 
nent citizen  of  hich  character  and  a  Christian  gentleman. 
From  the  L,ittle  Pee  Dee  section  there  were  H.  M.  Stackhouse, 
now  a  very  prominent  citizen  of  Marlborough  County,  lately 
its  State  Senator,  a  progressive  and  successful  farmer,  well 
posted  in  the  concerns  of  his  county,  State  and  nation.  Also, 
his  brother,  Robert  E.  Stackhouse,  who  died'  while  a  young 
man  a  few  years  afterwards — very  promising.  J.  G.  Haselden, 
who  died  a  few  days  ago,  near  Sellers,  attended  the  Hofwyl 
School,  perhaps  the  last  scliool  to  which  he  ever  went.  He 
became  a  prominent  and  useful  citizen,  a  progressive  farmer, 
raised  a  family  of  four  children,  three  sons  and  a  daughter,  all 
of  whom  survive  him.  He  represented  his  county  one  term 
in  the  State  IvCgislature.  His  sons  are  the  Hon.  J.  D.  Hasel- 
den, L.  M.  Haselden  and  L.  B.  Haselden,  now  in  Clemson 
College ;  and  his  daughter,  Carrie  Haselden.  His  son,  L.  M. 
Haselden,  took  a  literary  course  ir\  the  South  Carolina  College, 
and  another  in  the  law  department  of  that  institution,  from 
which  he  graduated  with  highly  distingui^ed  honors.  F.  M. 
Godbold  also  went  to  school  at  Hofwyl  at  the  same  time  that 
J.  G.  Haselden  was  there.  They  both  boarded  at  the  writer's 
house.  Soon  after  leaving  the  Hofwyl  School,  F.  M.  Godbold 
went  to  the  Cokesibury  School,  in  Abbeville  District,  where  he 
soon  married  a  Miss  Vance,  had  several  children  as  the  fruit 
of  the  marriage,  when  his  wife  died.  He  afterwards  married 
another  Miss  Vance,  a  cousin  of  his  former  wife,  and  they  now 
together  live  three  miles  above  Marion  Court  House.  He  is 
now  farming.  Others  from  the  Little  Pee  Dee  section  came  to 
the  Hofwyl  School,  to  wit :  John  C.  Clark  and  his  brother,  R. 
K.  Clark.  John  C.  se:emed  at  school  to  be  a  cowardly  boy; 
other  boys  in  school,  it  was  said,  imposed  on  him  more  than 
ordinary  among  school  boys,  and  he  would  not  assert  himself 
so  much  as  to  resent  it.  Afterwards,  when  the  war  com- 
menced, John  Calvin  Clark  volunteered  in  Company  L,  8th 
regiment  South  Carolina  troops,  and  was  Second  Lieutenant 


42  A  HISTORY  Ot  MARION  COUNTY. 

in  that  company.  In  one  of  the  many  battles  in  wliich  that 
regiment  was  engaged,  Jdhn  Calvin,  for  some  reason  or  other, 
was  in  command  of  his  company,  and  was  killed  in  advance  of 
his  command,  while  calling  on  his  men  to  follow  him,  telling 
them  to  come  on,  not  to  go  on.  Thus  a  truly  brave  boy  fell 
at  the  head  of  his  comimand,  in  a  position  that  tried  men's 
souls;  wliile  others  of  his  command,  perhaps,  in  sdiool,  and 
then  in  battle  with  him,  if  they  did  not  exactly  show  the  "white 
feather,"  did  not  manifest  the  bravery  of  schoolboy  days.  All 
honor  to  the  true,  manly  courage  of  John  Calvin  Clark.  R. 
K.  Clark,  a  brother.  Who  went  to  sdiool  at  Hofwyl,  grew  up 
to  manhood  and  went  into  the  war  towards  the  last  of  it,  and 
from  the  writer's  knowledge  of  him  was  equally  as  brave  in  the 
performance  of  duty  as  was  his  brother,  John  Calvin.  After 
the  war  he  married  Miss  Nannie  Stackhouse,  a  daughter 
of  the  then  late  Wesley  Stackhouse.  He  went  to  farming, 
which  he  continued  to  follow  with  some  success  till  1876, 
when  'he  was  nominated  in  that  memorable  campaign  for 
Clerk  of  the  Court,  and  was  elected.  He  served  four  years 
in  that  position  with  credit,  and  made  an  excellent  Clerk.  At 
the  end  of  his  term  he  was  a  candidate  for  renbmin'ation,  but 
failed  to  get  the  nomination,  and  J.  Albert  Smith  was  nominated 
and  elected.  For  reasons  which  it  is  not  necessary  to  state,  he 
failed  to  get  the  nomination.  It  was  not  that  he  had  not  made 
an  efficient  Clerk.  He  was  soOn  afterwardis  appointed  County 
Treasurer,  which  position  he  filled  with  great  credit  and  to  the 
entire  satisfaction  of  his  people.  He  held  it  for  a  year  or  two, 
and  resigned  it  and  moved  UfK>n  his  plantation  in  upper 
Marion,  where  he  successfully  farmed  until  1888,  when  he  died, 
leaving  his  widow,  who  has  since  died,  and  three  sons  and 
four  daughters,  of  whom  Luther  Clark,  now  in  Marion,  is  one, 
and  Hon.  W.  A.  Brown's  wife  is  another.  Do  not  know  of 
the  remaining  five. 

There  is  another  batch  of  Hofwyl  pupils  from  abroad  that  I 
must  notice.  They  were  from  Marlborough  County,  viz: 
Joseph  Steed,  who  died  at  old  man  Philip  Bethea's,  where  he 
boarded  while  going  to  school.  There  was,  also,  R.  Y.  Hene- 
gan,  son  of  ex-Governor  B.  K.  Henegan,  Henry  Baggett  and 
Peter  Baggett.     R.  Y.  Henegan  is  yet  living,  near  Florence, 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  43 

and  is  one  of  the  many  good  citizens  of  that  county,  and  promi- 
nent in  his  community;  married,  I  think,  a  Miss  Waring,  a 
highly  respectalble  family.  The  writer  saw  Bob  a  few  days 
ago,  with  his  daughter,  a  beautiful  girl,  at  Florence.  Time  is 
snowing  on  the  head  of  R.  Y.  Henegan,  the  Hofwyl  schoolboy. 
The  two  Baggett  boys,  Henry  and  Peter,  the  writer  knows 
nothing  of.  Thinks  Henry  Baggett  went  to  Charleston  after 
the  war,  and  went  into,  perhaps,  a  factorage  and  commission 
business,  unaeir  the  firm  name  of  J.  H.  Baggett  &  Co.  I  think, 
Peter  Baggett  was  killed  or  died  in  the  war.  All  these  from 
abroad  showed  the  popularity  of  the  school.  Such  was  its 
efficiency  that  it  drew  to  it  the  favor  and  patronage,  not  only 
of  its  neighborhood,  but  others  frcan  a  distance.  The  first 
teacher  in  that  school  was  William  McDuffie,  a  cousin  of  the 
late  A.  Q.  McDuffie,  Esq.  The  next  was  Harris  Covington,  a 
very  scholarly  man  and  a  good  teacher.  He  had  his  sister  with 
him  one  or  two  years  of  his  three  or  four  years.  The  next 
was  the  late  W.  J.  McKerall,  for  two  years.  He  had  his  sister 
with  him  the  last  year,  1859.  Harris  Covington  succeeded  W. 
J.  McKerall  in  i860  and  1861.  During  1861,  Covington  vol- 
unteered in  C.  J.  Fladger's  company,  was  First  L;ieutenant  in 
that  company  and  went  off  to  the  war.  Then  followed  Archi- 
bald McGrogan,  a  young  man  from  North  Carolina,  who  con- 
tinued the  school  till  1865.  Next  was  Colonel  J.  W.  St.  Clair, 
Who  continued'  till  1868.  John  C.  Sellers  taught  the  school  in 
1869.  John  A.  Kelly  taught  there  in  1870,  and  Philip  Y. 
Bethea,  in  1871,  which  was  the  last  school  taught  at  Hofwyl. 
The  community  became  bare  of  children — so  much  so,  that  it 
was  deemed  proper  to  close  it,  and  no  school  has  been  taught 
there  since.  The  school  made  its  mark  there,  and  for  about 
twenty  years  was  the  pride  of  the  community,  and  did  much  in 
building  up  the  neighborhood.  It  turned  out  many  boys  and 
girls  that  made  our  best  citizens,  surpassed  nowhere.  The 
writer,  it  is  to  be  hoped,  will  be  pardoned  for  having  said  so 
much  about  the  Hofwyl  School.  He  was  magna  pars  fui,  one 
of  its  founders,  and  one  of  its  constant  promoters  and  patrons. 
All  his  children  except  the  youngest  were  educated  at  that  cele- 
brated school,  the  foundation  was  laid  there.  Two  of  his  sons 
graduates,  one  at  the  South'  Carolina  College,  the  other  at 


44  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Wofford  College,  both  citizens  among  you,  and  stand  in  charax:- 
ter  and  attainments  the  peers  of  any.  He  has  a  right  to  talk, 
to  feel  proud,  to  be  grateful,  that  he  lived  wlien  he  did  and 
was  enabled  to  accomplish  the  little  be  did  for  his  community 
and  for  bis  own  children.  Let  the  coming  generation  do  as 
well — ^yea,  better — for  their  posterity  than  did  the  Hofwyl 
community  in  their  day  and  time.     So  may  it  be. 

The  next  high  school,  in  chronological  order,  was^the  Mullins 
School,  established  some  twenty-five  or  thirty  years  ago.  This 
school  for  several  of  its  first  years  did  not  prosper  or  succeed 
well.  Owing  to  dissensions  and  some  ill  feeling  among  its 
patrons ;  but  time  with  its  soothing  and  harmonizing  influence 
has  hushed  its  bickerings,  and  mollified  and  wiped  out  the 
former  ill  feeling  that  existed  among  its  patrons,  and  it  now 
presents  a  harmonious  and  united  front,  and  they  have  a  school 
there  now  of  high  standing  and  equal,  perhaps,  to  any  in  the 
county,  well  attended,  jx>pular  and  doing  a  good  work,  a  great 
deal  for  that  community.  They  have  a  corps  of  competent 
teachers,  -and  no  reason  why  it  should  not  continue  to  prosper 
and  grow  in  its  power  for  good.  It,  with  other  influences  for 
the  uplifting  of  the  community,  is  making  the  Mullins  people 
a  great  people,  a  moral  and  Christian  community.  The  school, 
the  two  Sunday  Schools  there,  one  Baptist,  the  other  Metho- 
dist, the  two  churches.  Baptist  and  Methodist,  under  the  hand 
of  the  highest  supreme  power,  have  achieved  a  revolution  for 
good,  so  mudh  so,  that  the  most  sanguine  among  them  twenty- 
five  years  ago  never  dreamed  or  thought  of.  The  writer  will 
not  draw  and  present  the  contrast  any  further.  It  is  easier  to 
conceive  it  than  to  tell  it. 

The  next  high  school,  in  the  order  of  time,  as  remembered, 
was  at  Dalcho,  near  the  Catfish  Baptist  Church,  in  Bethea 
Township.  It  is  a  part  of  the  old  Hofwyl  Academy.  It  was 
established  some  twelve  or  fifteen  years  ago,  has  been  and  is 
yet  a  very  flourishing  school.  It  is  well  attended,  they  Jiave 
kept  the  best  of  teachers  there  and  it  is  tellinig  for  good  on  that 
wbole  community,  raising  the  .standard  of  morality,  widening 
the  circle  of  social  life,  elevating  and  inspiring  Cbristian 
character  and  Cbristian  endeavor.  The  school  bas  much  to 
do  with  it. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  45 

The  next  school  (high  school),  in  chronological  order,  is  the 
Dotihan  School,  another  part  of  the  old  Hofwyl  Academy.  It, 
too,  is  a  school  of  high  standing,  well  patronized;  they  employ 
and  keep  the  best  teachers  in  it.  Some  years  ago  the  promoters 
and  principal  patrons  built  a  large  and  commodious  academy 
building  there  at  a  cost  of  $i,6oo.  A  year  or  two  after  it  was 
constructed,  they  had  some  public  school  exercises  there  one 
night  in  very  waitn  weather — ithey  had  no  fire  except  liglited 
lamps ;  it  was  burned  down  about  i  or  2  o'clock,  together  with 
books,  seats,  blackboards  and  other  school  furniture,  a  total 
loss  with  no  insuranoe.  It  was  and  is  yet  believed  that  it  was 
an  incendiary  fire.  Not  daunted  there'by,  they  went  back  into 
the  old  school  house  near  by,  a  house  less  pretentious  and  less 
commodious,  and  continued  the  school,  and  have  kept  it  up  to 
the  present  day.  It  is  in  a  good  community.  They  are  doing 
a  goodi  wrork  there,  training  and  fitting  the  youth  of  that  place 
for  higiher  education,  if  they  desire  it,  and  to  take  their  respec- 
tive places  in  future  society  and  in  future  business  life. 

The  next  high  school,  in  the  order  of  time,  is  the  Hopewell 
School,  situated  in  the  "For*k"  neighborhood,  between  Little 
Pee  Dee  and  Buck  Swamp.  This  school  the  -writer  has  heard 
is  a  first  class  school.  Its  chief  promoters  and  patrons  are  D. 
D.  McDuffie,  Dempsy  Lewis,  T.  B.  Rogers,  Ferdinand  Rogers, 
David  S.  Edwards  and  perhaps  others.  It  is  well  attended, 
has  a  strong  corps  of  teachers,  is  doing  much  in  building  up 
and  improving  the  community,  and'  giving  to  its  people  a 
higher  and  better  tone,  inspiring  their  local  pride  and  promo- 
tive of  good  morals. 

Another  high  school  estaiblished  about  the  same  time  was  the 
Gaddy  School,  located  near  or  at  Caddy's  Mills,  in  Hillsboro 
Township.  Its  chief  patrons  are  Captain  R.  H.  Rogers,  Jo- 
seph R.  Oliver,  Barfield  Rogers,  T.  B.  Hays,  W.  S.  Lupo,  A. 
B.  Carmichael,  Samuel  T.  Caddy,  B.  F.  Edwards  and  perhaps 
others.  They  keep  a  good  school  there,  employ  good  teachers, 
and  are  doing  much  for  building  up  and  elevating-  their  com- 
munity. The  school,  together  with  the  two  churches,  Piney 
Grove  (Baptist)  and  Union  (Methodist),  are  improving  the 
morals  of  that  community,  and  qualifying  and  fitting  the 
present  rising  generation  for  a  favorable  entrance  upon  life's 
arena. 


46  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

The  next  High  school,  in  the  order  of  time,  is  the  school  at 
Latta.  A  school  had  been  established  there,  or  just  above  the 
town,  some  years  before  the  Florence  Railroad  was  constructed, 
not  very  pretentious,  but  was  said  to  be  a  good  country  school. 
It,  too,  was  a  part  of  old  Hofwyl.  When  a  town  sprang  up 
(Latta),  it  seemed  to  quicken  and  inspire  an  ambition  for 
better  and  larger  schod  facilities,  and  hence  the  establishment 
of  the  present  popular  high  school.  The  writer  does  not  know 
wheth'er  it  is  called  "a  graded  school"  or  not,  he  has  since 
learned  that  it  is  a  graded  school.  It,  'however,  does  not 
matter — the  school  is  established  and  has  a  high  character. 
They  have  a  good  building,  well  attended,  and  the  school  is  in 
high  favor  with  the  town  and  surrounding  country.  They 
have  a  first  class  teacher  at  its  head,  who  is  sowing  the  seeds  of 
knowledgethere  that  will  spring  up  and  bear  good  fruit  in  that 
community  years  to  come  in  the  rising  and  coming  generation. 
They  are  touching  chords  that  will  vibrate  not  only  in  future 
years  but  in  and  through  eternity.  That  school,  with  the  three 
churches  (Methodist,  Baptist  and  Presbyterian)  located  there, 
will,  in  the  near  future,  if  they  continue  to  nurse  them  and 
strengthen  them,  elevate  that  people  far  above  present  concep- 
tions, and  future  generations  will  echo  with  the  praises  of  their 
ancestry.  It  being  a  growing  town,  it  is  difificult  to  say  who 
are  the  leaders  in  their  school  enterpris'e ;  therefore,  the  writer 
will  ascribe  it  to  all  the  good  citizens  of  that  place. 

At  Dillon,  on  the  Florence  Railroad,  is  a  most  excellent 
graded  school.  It  is  only  of  few  years  standing,  and  already 
will  compare  favorably  with  any  like  school,  perhaps,  in  the 
State.  The  town  of  Dillon  itself  is  only  eleven  or  twelve 
years  of  age.  It  has  now  from  800  to  1,000  inhabitants.  It 
is  a  very  enterprising  place,  located  in  a  fine  section  of  the 
county,  and  surrounded  on  all  sides  by  one  of  the  best  farming 
regions  in  the  State,  its  prospects  for  becoming  a  city  in  the 
near  future  are  bright  and  cheering.  They  have  started  right. 
They  have  established  a  fine  graded  school,  and  built  a  com- 
modious brick  building  for  the  school.  The  school  is  largely 
attended.  They  keep  a  corps  of  good  teachers,  who  are  doing 
a  good  work,  giving  entire  satisfaction  to  the  patrons.  The 
•  session  now  closing  for  the  present  scholastic  year,  1899  ^^^ 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  47 

1900,  discloses  the  fact  that  the  enrolment  of  scholars  in  the 
white  school  for  this  session  is  i8o.  What  will  it  he  ten  years 
hence?  Doubled,  if  the  town  continues  to  grow  as  it  has  in 
the  last  ten  years. 

All  the  foregoing  schools  are  and  were,  including  Hofwyl, 
which  no  longer  exists,  first  class  schools,  largely  attended,  ran 
for  tihe  whole  year  and  from  year  to  year.  At  any  one  of 
them  a  boy  could  be  prepared  to  enter  the  Freshman  Class  in 
any  college  in  the  State,  and  even  higfher  than  that — ^to  enter 
the  Sophomore  Class,  as  was  done  in  one  instance  at  least. 

It  will  be  noted  that  all  these  first  class  schools  are  in  the 
upper  end  of  the  county — Marion  is  in  the  centre — ^and  goes 
to  verify  w'hat  the  writer  said  in  a  former  part  of  this  book, 
contrasting  the  progress  made  by  the  upper  end  as  compared 
with  that  of  the  lower  end.  It  is  there  said  that  one  of  the 
causes  was  that  the  upper  end  had  more  and  better  schools 
th'an  in  the  lower  end.  The  writer  would  not  say  a  word  in 
disparagement  of  the  people  in  the  lower  end,  but  he  is  merely 
stating  what  is  apparent  to  any  one — a  fact,  the  truth.  Far 
from  it,  the  writer  hopes  that  by  stating  this  particular  fact, 
the  people  of  the  lower  end  will  be  stirred  up  to  follow  the 
example  set  them  by  their  fellow-citizens  of  upper  Marion. 
Thus  far,  in  pursuing  this  subject,  the  educational  history  of 
the  county,  the  writer  has  only  referred  to  the  high  schools, 
some  near  a  'hundred  years  old,  others  a  half  century  and  more, 
and  others  for  a  shorter  period.  It  is  not  to  be  inferred  from 
this  that  there  are  and  were  not  other  schools  all  over  the 
county  of  less  note,  and  which  have  done  a  great  deal  of  good, 
and  are  still  doing  so.  Those  schools  may  be  said  to  be  auxili- 
aries to  the  higher  schools.  They  are  not  only  to  be  found  in 
upper  Marion,  but  in  lower  Marion  as  well,  and  they  are  as 
useful  in  their  limited  sphere  as  are  the  higher  schools.  In 
them,  limited  in  duration  and  in  calibre  as  they  are,  they  teach 
and  instruct  the  youth  attending  them  in  the  fundamentals  of 
an  education.  In  them  the  foundation  is  laid  for  the  super- 
structure. If  they  go  no  further,  that  much  is  effected,  and  by 
self-effort  and  self-improvement,  such  may  become  useful  and 
intelligent  citizens,  otherwise  the  foundation  thus  laid  gets  no 
higher  and  the  recipient  relapses  back  to  his  natural  condition. 


48  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

and  his  ambition,  if  he  had  any,  is  dwarfed,  and  he  never  rises 
any  higher  than  "a  hewer  of  wood  and  a  drawer  of  water," 
lives  in  the  very  lowest  walks  of  life  unnoticed  and  dies  in  the 
same  way.  The  common  schools  have  been  in  the  county  from 
the  earliest  times — at  least,  from  the  writer's  earliest  recollec- 
tion. He  went  to  school  in  this  county  (upper  Marion),  on 
the  roajd  leading  from  Ha;rlleesville  to  Fair  Bluff,  N.  C,  be- 
tween Bear  Swamp  and  the  North  Carolina  line,  in  1832,  near 
seventy  years  ago,  and  he  remembers  seeing  the  late  General 
Woodberry  pass  there.  He  was  electioneering  for  Sheriff. 
He  stopped  at  the  sdhool  house  and  talked  with  the  teacher, 
Daniel  McLellan,  an  uncle  of  our  present  County  Auditor,  F. 
T.  McLellan,  also  to  some  young  men  there,  scholars  and 
voters,  to  wit :  the  late  Blgat  Horn,  Daniel  Horn  and  Alexander 
Johnson,  all  now  dead.  General  Woodberry  was  in  fine  humor 
and  adapted  himself  to  his  then  surroundings.  He  was  elected 
Sheriff  and  went  into  office  in  April,  1833,  and  served  his  term, 
four  years,  as  the  Sheriff's  office  shows.  By  the  then  Consti- 
tution (1790),  he  was  not  eligible  for  a  second  term,  until  the 
expiration  of  another  four  years.  That  was  the  only  time  the 
writer  ever  saw  General  Woodberry,  a  man  of  great  versatility 
and  of  marked  character.  More  may  be  said  about  General 
Woodberry  in  a  subsequent  part  of  this  book.  That  school 
house  was  built  of  logs,  about  twenty  feet  long  and  sixteen  feet 
wide,  a  dirt  floor,  a  dirt  chimney.  One  log  Was  cut  out  of  the 
back  end  so  as  to  give  light ;  the  log  below  that  had  some  holes 
bored  in  it  with  a  two-inch  auger.  I^arge  pegs,  a  foot  or  more 
long,  were  driven  into  those  auger  holes,  and  then  a  plank  laid 
on  those  pegs  and  nailed  to  them.  This  served  for  our  writing 
desks.  That  schol  building  and  its  appliances  were  about  such 
as  were,  in  that  day  and  time,  used  in  many  or  most  of  the 
schools  in  the  country.  The  means  of  the  people  were  limited, 
and  the  spirit  of  progress  and  improvement  was  equally  as 
limited.  Occasionally  you  would  find  a  man  of  more  elevated 
views,  as  to  schools,  but  standing  alone,  he  could  do  nothing 
to  improve  the  prevailing  conditions.  It  was  not  until  about 
1840,  that  signs  of  a  better  day,  in  these  respects,  began  to  show 
themselves,  and  from  that  time  to  the  present  signs  of  improve- 
ment have  been  multiplying  and  spreading,  until  the  whole 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  49 

country  is  penneated  with  a  spirit  of  education,  even  in  sections 
of  the  county  where,  heretofore,  great  indifference  was  mani- 
fested. A  wholesome  sentiment  on  the  subject  is  prevaiUng. 
The  fundamental  provisions  in  the  Constitution  of  1868  and  of 
189s  have  been  and  are  potent  factors  in  kindling  and  energiz- 
ing a  stronig  and  healthy  sentiment  in  favor  of  education.  The 
L,egislature  has  wisely  and  liberally  constructed  the  machinery 
for  public  education.  The  laws  foster  and  care  for  the  com- 
mon schools ;  the  common  'schools  evolute  the  higher  schools, 
and  by  am  ascending  gradation  the  higher  schools  evolute 
colleges.  There  is  no  excuse  now,  nor  can  there  be  any,  for 
illiteracy  and  ignorance  among  our  people,  white  la.nd  colored. 
Both  races,  under  the  law,  share  equally  in  the  liberal  appro- 
priations made  by  the  Legislature  for  school  purposes,  and  the 
funds  provided  seem  to  be  equitably  distributed.  School  funds 
raised  by  taxation  and  in  some  other  forms,  for  the  year  1899, 
and  distributed  under  the  law  to  the  schools  of  Marion  County, 
amounted  to  $11,502.13.  In  this  amount  is  included  $1,500 
pdll  tax;  this  last  item  is  an  estimate,  as  the  precise  amount 
oould  not  be  arrived  at.  The  county  is  laid  off  into  fifty-five 
school  districts  and  schools  estaJblished  in  each  school  district. 
They  are  designated  by  numbers  from  one  to  fifty-five.  Ac- 
cording to  the  report  of  the  County  Superintendent  of  Educa- 
tion, there  were  enrolled  in  the  different  schools  through  the 
year  7,638  attending  those  schools,  white  and  colored-.  The 
school  funds  collected  and  paid  out  as  above  stated  are  nearly 
one-third  as  much  as  was  the  appropriation  for  the  public 
schools  each  year  for  the  whole  State  a  year  from  1811  to  the 
war.  And  besides  the  amount  thus  callected  and  paid  to  the 
public  schools  of  the  county,  in  which  rich  and  poor  share 
alike,  in  many  neighborhoods  there  are  pay  schools,  that  are 
kept  up  from  year  to  year;  or  after  the  public  funds  are  ex- 
hausted, the  schools  are  continued  oni  and  paid  for  by  th€ 
private  funds  of  the  patrons.  Thus  it  is  easy  to  be  seen  how 
much  greiater  are  the  educational  advantages  of  to-day  than 
they  were  fifty  years  ago  and  before  that  time.  Few  there  were 
a  half  century  ago  that  had  an  opportunity  to  "rub  their  backs 
against  a  college  wall."  Now  our  college  graduates  may  be 
counted  by  the  dozens.     Our  young  men  and  women,  too,  are 


50  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

fitted  to  fill  any  station  in  life,  public  or  private.  What  im- 
provement! Rapid  strides  are  making  towards  the  goal  of 
universal  knowledge.  In  the  next  generation  there  will  be 
found  few  who  cannot  read  and  write. 

Graduates  of  CotLEGes. 

From  Davidson  College,  N.  C. 

A.  Q.  McDuffie  (dead). 
William  McDuffie  (dead). 
D.  W.  Bethea  (dead). 
D.  W.  Bethea,  Jr. 

From  Chapel  Hill,  N.  C. 
Gewood  Berry,  1846  (dead). 
J.  Hamilton  Evans,  1854  (dead). 
John  H.  Hamer,  1856. 
Missouri  R.  Hamer. 
William  D.  Carmichael,  Jr. 

From  Greenville  University,  S.  C. 
Rev.  Joseph  H.  Dew,  1890. 
W.  C.  Allen,  1900. 

From  the  Citadel  Academy,  Charleston,  S.  C. 
Lieutenant  Colonel  W.  P.  Shooter,  1859  (dead). 
A.  J.  Howard,  J.  T.  Coleman,  1886. 
A.  G.  Singletary,  1890. 
A.  S.  Manninig,  1892. 
S.  W.  Reaves,  1895. 
T.  W.  Carmichael,  1896. 
Herbert  Rogers,  1900. 

Wofford  College,  S.  C. 
There  have  been  ninety  matriculates  from  Marion  County. 
The  following  graduated : 
Bond  E.  Chreitzburg,  1869. 
Marcus  Stackhouse,  1871. 

James  T.  Brown,  William  A.  Brown,  Wilbur  F.  Smith,  1874. 
W.  J.  Montgomery,  1875. 
Henry  M.  Wilcox,  T.  B.  Stackhouse,  1880. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  51 

Philip  B.  Sellers,  1882. 

W.  M.  I^ester,  1884. 

J.  E.  EUerbe,  J.  Marion  Rogers,  1887. 

E.  P.  Taylor,  1888. 

R.  Iv.  Rogers,  1889. 

J.  G.  Baker,  1890. 

P.  P.  Bethea,  1892. 

P.  H.  Ed^ward's,  W.  M.  EUerbe,  1894. 

J.  R.  Rogers,  B.  B.  Sellers,  W.  F.  Stackhouse,  1895. 

C.  H.  Barber,  C.  C.  Leitner,  L,.  B.  Smith,  1896. 

T.  L,.  Manninig,  W.  B.  Evans,  1897. 

C.  H.  Leitner,  1898. 

G.  E.  Edwards,  1899. 

South  Carolina  College. 

From  this  College  I  have  no  report.  My  son,  John  C.  Sel- 
lers, wrote  to  Professor  R.  Means  Davis,  who  was  a  classmate 
of  his  in  that  College,  for  a  report.  The  Professor  replied  that 
he  would  do  so,  but  has  never  sent  it.  My  grand-son,  Wallace 
D.  Sellers,  who  was  in  the  South  Carolina  College  in  1899- 
1900,  procured  a  catalogue  of  the  Euphradian  Society  up  to 
1859,  which  shows  the  matriculates  from  Marion  County,  but 
who  and  how  many  of  them  graduated  is  not  shown,  as  follows : 
Robert  H.  •  Gregg,  1808 ;  Ezra  M.  Gregg,  1817 ;  Jeremiah 
Brown,  1819;  Charles  Godibold,  1819;  D.  Reese  Gregg,  1825; 
John  H.  Latta,  1826;  C.  D.  Evans,  1836;  G.  Cooper  Gregg, 
1836;  O.  S.  Gregg,  1838;  R.  G.  Howard,  1848;  Evander 
Gregg,  1837;  E.  M.  Davis,  1848;  R.  C.  Mclntyre,  185 1 ;  G.  M. 
Fairlee,  1853;  J.  C.  McClenaghan,  1854;  D.  Mclntyre,  1854; 
S.  A.  Gregg,  1855;  W.  J.  Singletary,  1856;  Walter  Gregg, 
1857 ;  C.  E.  Gregg,  1859.  Those  of  the  above  who  it  is  cer- 
tainly known  graduated  are:  C.  D.  Evans,  R.  G.  Howard,  R. 
C.  Mclntyre,  G.  M.  Fairlee,  W.  J.  Singletary.  Those  gradua- 
ting there  since  the  war  are :  John  C.  Sellers,  Hezekiah  John- 
son, Robert  P.  Hamer,  Jr.,  W.  M.  Hamer,  P.  A.  Wilcox,  J. 
S.  McLucas,  Walter  H.  Wells,  Luther  M.  Haselden,  Henry 
Mullins. 

Wake  Forrest,  N.  C. 

The  graduates  from  this  College,  as  ascertained,  are :  Dr.  C. 


52  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

T.  Ford,  Rev.  Rufus  Ford,  Julian  Dew,  Baker  Ford,  Lila 
Ckjitingham. 

The  graduates  from  Marion  in  female  colleges  are  equally  as 
numerous  as  in  the  male  department^.  I  have  not  the  list  of 
them.  In  education,  Marion  (bounty  will  rank  as  high,  accord- 
ing to  her  population,  as  any  county  in  the  State.  She  is  now 
fully  awake  to  her  interest  in  that  regard. 

Political  and  Judicial  History  of  Marion  County. 

The  first  divisions  of  the  territory  of  the  Province  (State) 
were  for  purposes  of  "Church  and  State,"  to  wit:  parishes, 
counties  and  districts,  partly  political  for  representation  in  the 
lyCgislature,  and  partly  judiciaJl  for  the  establishment  of  courts 
of  justice  for  the  convenience  of  the  people  and  the  adm,inis- 
tration  of  law,  in  conformity  to  the  then  existing  laws  of 
England,  and  for  military  purposes  and  the  protection  of  the 
colonists  against  the  hostile  incursions  of  the  Indians. 

As  early  as  1682,  twelve  years  after  the  first  settlement  of 
the  province,  it  was  deemed  advisable  to  "divide  the  province, 
or  rather  the  settled  portions  of  it,  into  counties,  and  accord- 
ingly there  were  laid  out,  Berkeley,  embracing  Charleston  and 
the  space  around  the  capitall,  extended  from  Seewee  (Santee) 
on  the  north  to  Stono  Creek  on  the  south.  Beyond  this  to  the 
northward  was  Craven  County,  and  to  the  southward  Colleton 
County,  all  extendimg  thirty-five  miles  from  the  coast.  Shortly 
after  this  Carteret  County  was  added."  Subsequently  Craven 
County  was  greatly  extended,  so  as  to  embrace  all  the  territory 
between  Santee  River  and  the  Wateree  up  to  the  North 
Carolina  province  line;  thence  down  the  dividing  line  between 
North  and  South  Carolina  to  the  Atlantic  Ocean,  and  thence 
the  seacoast  to  the  mouth  of  S&ntee  River.  At  the  time 
of  this  division,  Craven  County  was  much  the  largest  of 
any  of  these  counties,  and  was  so  sparsely  settled  that  it  was 
not  particularly  noticed.  But  twenty  years  afterward  it  was 
described  as  being  pretty  well  inhabited,  the  Huguenots  having 
settled  on  the  Santee.  About  which  time  it  sent  two  members 
to  the  General  Assembly  of  the  province.  It  took  its  name 
from  William,  Earl  of  Craven,  one  of  the  Lords  Proprietors, 
and  long  retained  it.     (_Gregg's  History  of  the  Old  Cheraws, 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  53 

pp.  31  and  32.)  The  same  author  says:  "The  first  parochial 
organization  in  Craven  County  was  under  the  Act  of  Assembly 
of  1706,  commonly  called  the  Church  Acts,  passed  for  the 
establishment  of  religious  worship  according  to  the  Church  of 
England  and  for  erecting  churches.  It  divided  the  province 
into  ten  parishes,  of  which  Craven  County  constituted  one,  by 
•the  name  of  St.  James  Santee."  (Statutes  at  L,arge,  vol.  II., 
p.  330.)  The  Circuit  or  District  Court  Act  of  1768  divided 
the  provinces  into  seven  judicial  districts,  to  wit:  Charleston, 
Beaufort,  Orangeburg,  Georgetown,  Camden,  Cheraw  and 
Ninety-Six.  (Statutes  at  L,arge,  vol.  VII.,  p.  199,  section  II.) 
Each  one  of  those  districts  covered  three  or  more  counties.  By 
the  Act  of  1785,  those  districts  were  divided  into  counties. 
One  district,  Georgetown,  was  divided  into  four  counties — 
Winyaw,  Willianisiburg,  Kingston  and  Liberty.  (Act  of  1785, 
Statutes  at  Large,  vol.  IV.,  pp.  662  and  663,  section  I.)  By 
the  County  Court  Act  of  1785  (vol.  VII.,  Statutes  at  Large,  p. 
211),  County  Courts  were  established  with  limited  jurisdiction. 
Courts  to  be  held  every  three  months  in  each  county  where 
established,  by  seven  Justices  of  the  Peace,  or  a  majority  of 
*hem.  The  Circuit  Courts  for  our  county  (Liberty)  were 
held  in  Georgetown.  No  County  Court  was  ever  held  in  any 
of  the  counties  composing  the  Georgetown  District.  The  nth 
section  of  the  County  Court  Act  of  1785,  appoints  and  em- 
powers the  County  Court  Judges  to  select  sites  for  court  houses 
and  jails  of  the  several  counties,  and  to  contract  for  and  build 
the  same.  As  no  County  Court  was  established  in  Liberty 
County  (now  Marion),  no  court  house  or  jail  was  built  therein. . 
No  one  had  any  power  to  contract  for  and  to  build,  hence  it 
was  not  until  years  afterwards  that  a  court  house  and  jail  were 
erected  in  Liberty  or  Marion  County.  The  Constitution  of 
1778  fixed  the  representation  for  the  dlistrict  east  of  the  Wateree 
at  two  members  in  the  Legislature,  which  so  continued  until 
the  Constitution  of  1790.  The  district  east  of  the  Wateree 
includied  Lancaster,  Kershaw,  Sumter,  Clarendon,  Darlington, 
Chesterfield,  Marlborough,  Marion,  Williamsburg,  Kingston 
and  Georgetown,  and  also  included  the  parishes  of  St.  James 
Santee,  Prince  George  Winyaw,  All  Saints,  Prince  Frederic 
and  St.  David,  to  each  of  which  Representatives  were  assigned 


54  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

as  follows:  St.  James  Santee,  six;  to  Prince  George  Winyaw, 
four;  to  All  Saints,  two;  to  Prince  Frederic,  six,  and  to  St. 
David,  six — making  twenty-four  Representatives  from  the 
parishes  named  as  within  the  district  east  of  the  Wateree ;  while 
the  whole  district,  exclusive  of  the  said  parishes,  had  only  ten 
Representatives.  (I.  vol..  Statutes  at  Large,  p.  140,  13th  sec- 
tion.) By  the  said  Constitution  of  1778,  each  parish  and  elec- 
tion district  throughout  the  State  elected  a  Senator.  No  pro- 
vision was  made  for  the  district  east  of  the  Wateree,  except 
Prince  George  Winyaw  and  All  Saints.  They  together  could 
elect  a  Senator.  There  were  some  few  other  exceptions.  No 
Senator  or  Representative  was  eligible  unless  he  professed  the 
Protestant  religion.  There  is  no  evidence  of  any  change  in 
the  law  or  Constitution  in  regard  to  representation  until  the 
Constitution  of  1790  was  made  and  adopted,  and  which  became 
necessary  in  order  to  make  our  Constitution  conform  to  the 
Con'stitution  of  the  Unitedl  States. 

The  Act  of  1785  had  created  or  established  Liberty  County 
(now  Marion).  The  Constitution  of  1790  recognized  it,  so 
far  as  to  assign^  to  it  two  Representatives  in  the  House,  and 
assigned  to  it  and  Kingston  (Horry)  together  one  Senator. 
Whilst  all  the  little  parishes  in  the  low  country  each  had  three 
Representatives,  except  All  Saints,  which  had  but  one,  and 
Charleston,  including  St.  Philip  and  St.  Michael,  had  fifteen 
Representatives.  Such  counties  as  Williamsburg,  Marlbor- 
ough, Chesterfield,  Darlington,  Chester,  Fairfield,  Richland, 
Lancaster,  Kershaw,  Claremont,  Clarendon,  Union,  Spartan- 
,burg  and  Greenville  had  only  two  Representatives  each.  In 
the  Senate,  Charleston  (including  St.  Philip  and  St.  Michael), 
had  two  Senators,  each  and  every  parish  had  a  Senator,  while 
Winyaw  and  Williamsburg  together  had  one.  Liberty  and 
Kingston  one,  Marlboroug'h,  Chesterfield  and  Darlington  to- 
gether had  two  Senators.  Fairfield,  Richland  and  Chester 
together  had  one.  Lancaster  and  Kershaw  together  had  one. 
Claremont  and  Clarendon  together  had  one.  (See  article  I., 
sections  3  and  7,  Constitution  1790,  L  vol.,  Statutes  at  Large, 
pp.  184,  185  and  186.)  Article  XL  reads  as  follows:  "No 
Convention  of  the  people  shall  be  called  unless  by  the  concur- 
rence of  two-thirds  of  both  branches  of  the  whole  representa- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  55 

tion.  No  part  of  this  Constitution  shall  be  altered,  unless  a 
bill  to  alter  the  same  shall  have  been  read  three  times  in  the 
House  of  Representatives  and  three  times  in  the  Senate,  and 
agreed  to  by  two-thirds  of  both  branches  of  the  whole  repre- 
sentation ;  neither  shall  any  alteration  take  place  until  the  bill 
so  agreed  to  be  published  three  months  previous  to  a  new  elec- 
tion for  members  of  the  House  of  Representatives ;  and  if  the 
alteration  proposed  by  the  Legislature  shall  be  agreed  to  in  the 
first  session  by  two-thirds  of  the  whole  representation  in  both 
branches  of  the  Legislature  after  the  same  shall  have  been  read 
three  times  on  three  several  days  in  each  House,  then,  and 
not  otherwise,  the  same  shall  become  a  part  of  the  Coristitu- 
tion."     (L  Vol.,  Statutes  at  Large,  page  192.) 

The  Constitution  of  1790  was  of  force,  and  the  people  of  the 
State  lived  under  it,  without  alteration  or  amendment,  for 
twenty  years.  The  amendlment  ratified  iu  December,  1808, 
which  did  not  go  into  effect  till  1810,  made  some  change  in  the 
basis  of  representation.  Population  and  taxation  were  the 
basis,  and  if  there  was  a  deficiency  in  either  population  or 
taxation,  or  of  both,  there  was  a  provision  for  some  represen- 
tation, as  will  be  seen.  And' representation  varied  every  ten 
years,  according  to  the  population  as  shown  by  the  census  every 
tenth  year,  which  was  provided  for,  and  the  taxation  for  each 
decade  might  show.  The  amendment  of  December,  1808,  was 
as  follows :  "The  House  of  Representatives  shall  consist  of  one 
hundred  and  twenty-four  members,  to  be  apportioned  among 
the  several  election  districts  of  the  State  according  to  the  num- 
ber of  white  inhabitants  contained  and  the  amount  of  all  taxes 
raised  by  the  Legislature,  whether  direct  or  indirect  or  of 
whatever  species  paid  in  each,  deducting  therefrom  all  taxes 
paid  on  account  of  property  held  in  any  other  district,  and 
adding  thereto  all  taxes  elsewhere  paid  on  account  of  property 
held  in  such  district.  An  enumeration  of  the  white  inhabitants 
for  tfhis  "purpose  shall  be  made  in  the  year  one  thousand  eight 
liundred  and  nine,  and  in  the  course  of  every  tenth  year  there- 
after, in  such  manner  as  shall  be  by  law  directed ;  and  Repre- 
sentatives shall  be  assigned  to  the  different  districts  in  the 
above  mentioned  proportion  by  Act  of  the  Legislature  at  the 
session  immediately  succeeding  the  above  enumeration. 
5 


56  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

"If  the  enumeration  herein  directed  should  not  be  made  in 
the  course  of  the  year  appointed  for  the  purpose  by  these 
amendments,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Governor  to  have  it 
effected  as  soon  thereafter  as  shall  be  practica;ble. 

"In  assigning  Representatives  to  the  several  districts  of  the 
State,  the  Legislature  shall  allow  one  Representative  for  every 
sixty-second  part  of  the  whole  number  of  white  inhabitants  in 
the  State;  and  one  Representative  also  for  every  sixty-second 
part  of  the  whole  taxes  raised  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State. 
The  IvCgislature  shall  further  allow  for  such  fractions  of  the 
sixty-second  part  of  the  white  inhabitants  of  the  State,  and  of 
the  sixty-second  part  of  the  taxes  raised  by  the  Legislature  of 
the  State,  as  when  added  together  they  form  a  unit. 

"In  every  apportionment  of  Representatives  under  these 
amendments,  which  shall  take  place  after  the  first  apportion- 
ment, the  amount  of  taxes  shall  be  estimated  from  the  average 
of  the  ten  preceding  years ;  but  the  first  apportionment  shall  be 
founded  upon  the  tax  of  the  preceding  year,  excluding  from 
the  amount  thereof  the  whole  produce  of  the  tax  on  sales  at 
public  auction. 

"If,  in  the  apportionment  of  Representatives  under  these 
amendments,  any  elective  district  shall  appear  not  to  be  en- 
titled, from  its  population  and  its  taxes,  to  a  Representative, 
such  election  district  shall,  nevertheless,  send  one  Represen- 
tative ;  and  if  there  should  still  be  a  deficiency  of  the  number 
of  Representatives  required  by  these  amendments,  such  defi- 
ciency shall  be  supplied  by  assigning  Representatives  to  those 
election  districts  having  the  largest  surplus  fraction,  whether 
those  fractions  consist  of  a  combination  of  population  and 
taxes,  or  of  population  or  of  taxes  separately,  until  the  number 
of  one  hundred  and  twenty-four  members  be  provided. 

"No  apportionment  under  these  amendments  shall  be  con- 
strued to  take  effect  in  any  manner,  until  the  general  election 
which  shall  succeed  such  apportionment. 

"The  election  districts  for  members  of  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives shall  be  and  remain  as  heretofore  esta:blished. 

"The  Senate  shall  be  composed  of  one  member  from  each 
election  district  as  now  established  for  the  election  of  members 
of  the  House  of  Representatives,  except  the  district  formed  by 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  57 

the  parishes  of  St.  Philip  and  St.  Michael,  to  which  shall  be 
allowed  two  Senators  as  heretofore." 

Such  was  the  Constitution  of  1790  and  amendments  of  1808, 
made  with  reference  to  representation  in  the  State  Legislature. 
Taking  into  consideration  the  time  when  it  was  framed  and  the 
circumstances  which  brought  it  about,  the  persons  composing 
the  Convention  and  the  historic  facts  antecedent  thereto  and 
leading  up  to  it,  the  most  casual  reader  cannot  fail  to  see  its 
purpose.  It  was  to  secure  and  perpetuate  the  power  of  those 
who  had  dominated  the  State  from  1704  up  to  that  time 
(1790)  a  period  of,  say,  eighty-five  years.  It  is  well  under- 
stood) by  those  who  have  read  and  kept  up  with  the  history  of 
the  State,  to  what  party  allusion  is  here  made.  The  Church 
of  England,  the  Episcopal  Church,  is  meant.  In  1704,  that 
church  secured  legal  establishmient.  (Vol.  II.,  Statutes  at 
Large,  page  236,  et  sequens.) 

The  caption  of  the  Act  is,  "An  Act  for  the  establishment  of 
religious  worship  in  the  provinces  according  to  the  Church  of 
England,  and  for  the  erecting  of  churches  for  the  public  wor- 
ship of  God,  and  also  for  the  maintenance  of  ministers  and  the 
building  convenient  houses  for  them."  There  are  thirty-five 
sections  of  the  said  Act,  covering  ten  pages.  The  said  several 
sections  cannot  here  be  given  in  full,  for  the  want  of  space.  It 
was,  however,  provided  that  lands  should  be  taken  up  or  bought 
upon  which  to  erect  the  churches  and  for  church-yards,  ceme- 
teries, out-houses,  &c.,  and  to  have  built  thereon  the  church 
and  all  necessary  out-buildings,  together  with  convenient  and 
commodious  parsonages  and  chapels  of  ease,  and  to  employ 
ministers  or  rectors  at  sucfh  salary  as  might  be  agreed  on, 
and  all  to  be  paid  for  put  of  the  public  treasury.  At  this  time 
there  was  only  one  Church  (of  England),  St.  Philip,  in 
Charleston,  and  the  same  provisions  were  made  for  all  such 
Episcopal  Churches  that  migiht  be  erected  in  future ;  thoug<h  at 
that  time,  and,  perhaps,  at  all  times  since,  the  Episcopalians 
were  greatly  in  the  minority,  yet  they  managed  to  hold  to  this 
adivantage,  laying  off  parishes  till  the  Revolution,  and  erecting 
churches  to  the  number  of  twenty-four,  mostly  on  the  coast  or 
in  the  low  country.  (Ramsay,  II.  vol.,  p.  5.)  Thus  the  Epis- 
copal Church  gained  political  ascendancy  and  held  it  till  the 


58  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Revolution  or  until  1790,  having  all  their  church  expenses  paid 
by  the  public,  besides  other  advantages,  their  religion  costing 
them  but  little  comparatively,  vvhile  dissenting  denominations 
had  to  build  and  maintain  their  own  churches  or  do  without 
them,  if  too  poor  to  buy  and  build  and  support  their  own  min- 
isters— a.  most  iniquitous  arrangement,  unjust  and  tyrannical. 
Many  amendments  to  the  law  were  subsequently  made,  but 
none  to  weaken  their  political  power  and  advantage.  They 
held  it  with  a  death-like  grip.  The  Revolutionary  War 
brought  no  change  in  the  law.  It  may  have  dirhinished  some 
of  its  rigors,  but  no  repeal  of  the  obnoxious  law.  No  disposi- 
tion was  manifested  after  the  Revolutionary  War  ended  to  re- 
peal the  unequal  and  unjust  laws.  There  is  a  considerable 
difference  between  "skinning  and  being  skinned."  They  had 
been  extracting  money  from  the  people  to  support  their  re- 
ligion for  more  than  one  hundred  years — very  pleasant  to  them, 
but  very  unpleasant  to  the  taxpayers.  The  Constitution  of  the 
United  States  was  made  in  1787,  and  was  submitted'  to  the 
States  for  ratification  or  rejection.  The  Convention  of  South 
Carolina  called  for  the  purpose  ratified  and  adopted  the  United 
States  Constitution  in  May,  1788.  Having  ratified  that  instru- 
ment, she  of  necessity  was  obliged  to  put  herself  in  line  with  it. 
Hence  a  Convention  of  the  State  to  frame  another  Constitution 
was  called,  and  the  Constitution  of  June,  1790,  was  the  result. 
South  Carolina  was  in  a  dilemma.  She  had  either  to  give  up 
her  legislation  in  favor  of  the  Episcopal  Church — so  dtear  to 
the  hearts  of  its  adherents,  though  iniquitous  and  oppressive 
to  all  other  classes — or  remain  out  of  the  Union  formed  by  the 
Constitution  of  the  United  States.  She  chose  between  the  two 
evils  the  former,  and  retained  the  latter  position  which  she  had 
assumed  in  1788,  by  ratifying  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States.  Being  shorn  of  her  discriminating  power,  hitherto 
exercised  in  favor  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  to  the  discom- 
fort and  injury  of  all  dissenting  denominations,  she  determined 
to  hold  on  to  the  political  power  she  had  obtained  and  wielded 
for  near  a  century.  She  had  the  Convention  of  1790  called  to 
frame  a  new  Constitution,  and  in  that  to  perpetuate  her  politi- 
cal power  and  influence,  through  parochial  representation. 
The   low   county   parishes   dominated   that   Convention.     Its 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  59 

membership  was  composed  of  delegates  from  each  parish  and 
district  as  provided  for  representation  in  the  Legislature  under 
the  Constitution  of  1778,  as  hereinbefore  stated.  They  out- 
numbered all  other  delegations  at  least  two  to  one ;  they  could 
and  did  make  a  Constitution  just  such  as  suited  the  views  of 
the  low  country,  and  thereby  in  the  fundamental  law  of  the 
State  f>eri>etuated  their  power  and  influence  in  the  Legislature. 
They  fixed  repr.esentation  so  as  thus,  under  the  forms  of  law, 
to  control  and  influence  the  legislation  of  the  State.  The  Con- 
stitution of  '1790  in  this  regard  is  "iron  bound"  and  "rock 
ribbed."  No  future  Convention  of  the  people  could  be  called, 
or  any  amendment  or  alteration  made  in  that  Constitution, 
unless  it  was  by  bill,  introduced  in  the  Legislature,  and  read 
three  times,  on  three  several  days,  in  both  the  Senate  and  House 
of  Representatives,  and  upon  its  second  and  third  readings, 
must  be  agreed  to  by  two-thirds  of  the  whole  representation  in 
each  house.  And  this  is  not  all.  The  proposed  alteration  or 
amendment,  after  being  thus  agreed  to,  must  be  publisihed  pre- 
vious to  a  new  election  for  memibers  of  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives ;  and  if  the  alteration  proposed  by  the  Legislature 
shall  be  agreed  to  in  their  first  session  by  two-thirds  of  the 
whole  representation  in  each  branch  of  the  Legislature,  after 
the  same  shall  have  been  read'  on  three  several  days  in  each 
house,  then,  and  not  otherwise,  the  same  shall  become  a  part 
of  this  Constitution.  Thus  it  is  seen  that  the  low  country, 
by  means  of  their  parochial  representation,  secured  to  them- 
selves the  ix>wer  to  control  the  legislation  of  the  State,  and  also  ■ 
to  prevent  any  legislation  which  looked  to  the  curtailment  of 
their  power.  They  kept  and  maintained  their  power  until  after 
the  war  between  the  States,  the  Confederate  War.  First  by 
the  Constitution  of  1865,  made  under  the  auspices  of  Governor 
B.  F.  Perry,  and  under  the  proclamation  of  Andrew  Johnson, 
then  President  of  the  United  States.  The  Constitution  of 
1865  broke  up  the  parish  system  of  the  low  country  and  de- 
stroyed its  power,  so  long  enjoyed  and  originally  so  oppres- 
sively exercised.  We  were  not  allowed  to  live  under  the 
Constitution  of  1865.  A  maddened  and  fanatical  Congress  of 
the  United  States  disagreed  with  Andrew  Johnson,  the  Presi- 
dent, as  to  his  method  of  restoring  the  late  seceding  States  to 


60  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

I 

proper  relations  to  the  Union,  and  passed  the  Reconstruction 
Acts  of  Congress,  putting  the  South  under  a  military  govern- 
ment. The  President,  Andrew  Johnson,  vetoed  those  Acts, 
and  the  Congress  readopted  and  passed  them  over  his  veto  by  a 
two-thirds  vote  of  that  body.  Those  Acts  divided  the  South- 
em  States  into  military  divisions,  and  put  a  commanding 
general  over  each  division,  to  carry  out  at  the  point  of  the 
bayonet,  if  necessary,  those  Acts.  Many  among  us  remember 
too  well  the  hardships  and  rigors  of  the  enforcement  of  those 
Acts.  Burdensome  and  annoying  as  they  were,  our  people, 
with  a  fortitude  unequaled,  bore  them  all  in  mute  obedience  to 
the  "powers  that  be"  until  they  were  consummated  by  the  Con- 
stitution of  1868 — a  Constitution  made  by  carpetbaggers,  scal- 
awags and  negroes.  That  Constitution,  odious  as  it  was,  and 
with  it  at  the  time  the  intelligence  of  the  State  bad  no  sym- 
pathy, yet  it  did,  as  did  the  Constitution'of  1865,  strike  a  death- 
blow to  parochial  representation  in  the  Legislaturewof  the  State, 
and  thereby  the  citizens  everywhere  in  the  State  were  relieved 
of  the  parish  system,  and  its  unjust  and  discriminating  power — 
in  the  interest  of  a  favored  class,  and  against  all  others  equally 
concerned  and  equally  entitled  to  a  fair  share  of  the  benefits  of 
legislation. 

It  may  be  asked,  why  so  much  space  is  given  to  the  discus- 
sion of  this  subject?  It  is  answered  by  saying  that  it  affected 
the  people  of  Marion  County  to  her  injury.  Marion  County 
was,  and  has  been  all  the  time,  an  integral  part  of  the  State, 
and  whatever  affected  the  State,  affected  her  pro  tanto.  To 
some  few  people,  the  revelations  here  made  are  news,  and  to 
many  they  are  already  familiar.  Such  political  machinery  can 
never  again  set  itself  up  in  South  Carolina.  The  schoolmaster 
is,  and  has  been,  abroad  in  the  land.  The  people  are  too 
intelligent,  and  know  and  appreciate  their  rights  too  well  ever 
to  allow  of  such  again. 

The  first  legislative  notice  taken  of  Marion  District  by  that 
name  is  to  be  found  in  the  Act  of  1798,  ist  section,  7th  vol. 
Statutes  at  Large,  page  283,  by  which  the  name  was  changed 
from  Liberty  County  to  Marion  District,  on  page  284  of  the 
said  7th  vol.  of  the  Statutes  at  Large.  In  the  said  first  section 
of  the  said  Act  are  the  following  words :  "One  other  district 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  61 

to  be  named  Marion  District,  to  comprehend  the  county  now 
called  Liberty  County,  according  to  its  present  limits."  This 
section  of  the  Act  changes  the  name  in  some  instances,  as  well 
as  also  the  counties,  to  be  called  districts  for  the  whole  State. 
By  section  II.  of  the  said  Act,  Courts  were  established  in  the 
following  words :  "That  in  each  of  the  said  districts  by  this  Act 
established,  there  shall  be  held,  from  and  after  the  first  day  of 
January,  in  the  year  of  our  Ivord  one  thousand  eight  hundred, 
by  one  or  more  of  the  Associates  Judges  of  this  State  for  the 
time  being,  and  at  such  places  as  shall  be  appointed  by  or  under 
this  Aot,  a  Court  of  Sessions,  and  a  Court  of  ^Common  Pleas, 
to  possess  and  exercise,  respectively,  each  Court,  in  its  respec- 
tive district,  the  same  i)ower  and  jurisdiction  now  held  and 
exercised  by  the  several  Circuit  or  District  Courts  of  this  State 
in  their  respective  districts,  and  shall  sit  at  the  times  following, 
that  is  to  say :  for  Marion  District,  at  Marion  Court  House,  on 
the  first  Mondays  in  March  and  October  in  every  year."  The 
fourth  section  of  the  Act  distributed!  the  Courts  into  circuits. 
"And  that  the  several  Courts  of  Marion  District,  Darlington 
District,  Marlborough  District,  Chesterfield  District,  Fairfield 
District,  Kershaw  District,  and  Sumter  District,  shall  form 
one  other  Circuit,  to  be  named  the  Northern  Circuit,  and  that 
the  Solicitor  of  the  said  Northern  Circuit  Shall  attend  each  of 
the  Courts  of  the  said  Northern  Circuit,  and  prosecute  therein, 
respectively,  all  suits  and  prosecutions  on  behalf  of  the  State, 
according  to  the  usage  and  custom  of  the  existing  Circuit 
Courts  of  the  State."  These  Courts  were  made  Courts  of 
record,  juries  provided  for.  Clerks  and  Sheriffs  to  be  appointed, 
and  their  duties  prescribed.  The  County  Courts  after  ist  Jan- 
uary, 1800,  to  have  no  jurisdiction,  original  or  appellate,  of 
any  causes,  civil  or  criminal,  and  after  1800,  all  causes,  civil 
or  criminal,  pending  in  the  County  Courts  were  transferred  to 
the  Court  of  Sessions  or  Common  Pleas,  as  the  case  might 
be,  to  the  Courts  hereby  established.  It  was  further  enacted, 
"That  from  and  after  the  first  day  of  January,  one  thousand 
eight  hundred,  the  several  Courts  of  General  Sessions  of  the 
Peace,  Oyer  and  Terminer,  Assize  and  General  Gaol  Delivery 
and  of  Common  Pleas,  now  established  and  held  in  this  State, 
shall  be,  and  the  same  are  hereby,  forever  abolished ;  and  that 


62  A  HISTOKY  O?  MARION  COUNTY. 

all  suits,  appeals  and  iDdictments  then  depending  in  any  of 
the  said  Courts  (except  the  Court  of  Charleston  District,  in 
which  the  business  already  commenced  shall  be  continued  in 
the  District  of  Charleston,  established  by  this  Act),  shall  be 
transferred  in  the  manner  following,  that  is  to  say :  when  any 
dSstrict  shall  contain  two  or  more  of  the  districts  established  by 
this  Act,  the  suits,  appeals  and  indictments  depending  in  the 
superior  Courts  of  law  of  such  districts  shall  be  transferred  to 
that  new  district  established  by  this  Act,  within  such  district, 
wherein  the  defendant  or  appellee  resides ;  and  where  there  are 
two  or  more  defendants  or  appellees  residing  in  different  new 
districts  within  the  limits  of  such  district,  then  to  such  one  of 
the  said)  new  districts  as  the  plaintiff  or  appellor  shall  direct, 
and  where  more  of  the  defendants  or  appellees  reside  in  such 
district,  then  to  such  of  the  new  district  therein  as  the  plaintiff 
or  appellant  shall  direct ;  and  all  indictments  to  the  new  district 
where  the  offence  was  committed,  and  all  the  said  suits  and 
indictments  shall  be  continued,  proceeded  on  and  determined 
in  the  respective  Courts  to  which  they  shall  be  transferred  as 
aforesaid;  and  all  records  of  the  said  Superior  Courts  hereby 
abolished  shall  be  transferred  to  the  nearest  district  estaJblished 
by  this  Act,  there  to  be  kept  and  continued." 

(Section  XL  of  Act  of  1798,  7th  vol.  Statutes  at  Large,  an 
Act  to  es'^ablish  an  uniform'  and  more  convenient  system  of 
judicature.)  Section  XXIII.  of  said  Act  appoints  Commis- 
sioners to  locate  court  houses  and  gaols,  and  to  superintend 
building  the  same,  and  for  Marion  District,  the  following 
named  gentlemen  were  appointed:  "Colonel  John  McRae, 
Dr.  Thomas  Wickham,  John  Ford,  John  Orr,  Benjamin  Har- 
relson,  James  Crawford,  Thomas  Harley  and  James  Rie; 
that  they  be,  and  are  hereby,  appointed  Commissioners  for 
the  purpose  of  fixing  on  a  convenient  and  central  location 
whereon  to  establish  and  build  a  court  house  and  gaol  in 
the  District  of  Marion,  and  to  superintend  the  building  of 
the  same."  A  very  good  Commission  as  is  supposed.  The 
men  appointed  set  about  the  work  they  were  appointed  to 
perform.  They  only  had  the  year  1799  to  perform  the  work 
assigned  them — ^the  time  was  too  short,  with  the  facilities  then 
to  be  had  for  such  undertakings.   ^By  the  terms  of  the  Act,  the 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  63 

rst  Court  was  to  be  held  first  Monday  in  March,  1800.  Tra- 
ition  informs  us,  that  the  first  Court  held  in  the  county, 
nd  under  the  terms  of  this  Act,  was  held  about  two  miles 
elow  the  present  court  house,  just  across  Smith  Swamp,  On 
tie  plantation  owned  and  occupied  by  Colonel  Hugh  Giles, 
fterwards  owned  and  occupied  by  the  late  Samuel  Stevenson, 
nd  now  by  W.  W.  Baker.  The  very  spot  where  the  house 
tood  was  shown  the  writer  by  Mr.  Stevenson  while  he  owned 
t.  The  new  court  house  then  in  course  of  construction  was  not 
ti  condition  to  be  used ;  therefore,  this  little  log  house,  probably 
ixteen  feet  square,  was  improvised  for  holding  the  first  Court 
ver  held  in  the  county.  Philip  Bethea,  the  father-in-law  of 
he  writer,  told  him  often  that  he  attended  the  first  Court  held, 
t  is  supposed  that  the  court  house  was  completed  during  the 
'ear — that  court  house  is  still  in  existence  and  in  a  good  state 
>f  preservation.  It  was  located  somewhere  on  the  public 
quare  not  far  from  wliere  the  present  court  house  stands — a 
vooden  building.  It  was  occupied  as  a  court  house  until  1823, 
vhen  it  was  replaced  by  a  brick  building,  which  was  built  that 
'ear  and  was  located  about  the  place  where  the  new  fire-proof 
tuilding,  lately  constructed  for  the  Clerk's  office  and  for  the 
'robate  Judge  now  stands.  The  recordls  in  their  offices  are 
leemed  most  important,  and  hence  this  latter  building,  made 
ire-proof  for  the  protection  and  safe  preservation  of  those 
ecords.  The  court  house  erected  in  1823  of  brick  was  of 
[ood  material,  but  was  found  to  be  too  small  and  contracted 
or  convenience,  and  not  adapted  to  the  requirements  of  the 
prowing  county ;  hence  the  present  commodious  and  substantial 
trick  building  was  constructed  in  1853  and  1854,  and  it  is  well 
I'dapted  to  the  purposes  for  which  it  was  built,  except  that  the 
ntrance  dioor  should  have  been  placed  in  the  northern  end  of 
he  building  instead  of  the  eastern  side,  where  it  is.  The 
hrong^coming  in  and  going  out  where  it  now  is,  produces  noise 
.nd  confusion — very  often  to  the  disturbance  of  the  Court,  to 
.ttorneys,  parties  and  witnesses  engaged.  Furthermore,  a 
old  east  wind,  when  the  door  is  open,  comes  rushing  in  from 
he  door,  to  the  great  discomfort  and  annoyance  of  all  within, 
nd  necessitates  keeping  the  door  closed,  which  it  is  almost 
tnpossible  to  do,  as  persons  are  frequently  passing  in  and  out. 


64  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

and  the  opening  and  closing  the  door  every  minute  causes  con- 
fusion. If  the  entrance  was  at  the  north  end,  much  or  all  of 
these  objections  would  be  obviated. 

As  already  stated,  the  first  court  house  was  a  wooden  struct- 
ure, which,  doubtless,  did  very  well  as  an  initiatory  court 
house,  but  was  soon  found  to  be  insufficient  for  the  purposes  of 
its  erection,  and  the  powers  that  then  were,  had  the  brick  one 
of  1823  built.  Who  the  contractor  was  for  the  one  built  in 
1800,  we  have  not  been  able  to  find  out.  The  contractor  for 
the  one  built  in  1823  was  Enos  Tart,  a  prominent  man  in  his 
day.  The  court  house  of  1800  was  sold  or  given  to  the  late 
Thomas  Evans,  St.,  who  moved  it  out  of  the  public  square  and 
reconstructed  it  on  his  own  lot,  and  converted  it  into  a  com- 
modious dwelling.  The  house  still  stands  on  said  lot,  and  now 
belongs  to  the  Hon.  T.  C.  Moody,  and  is  occupied  at  this  writ- 
ing by  said  Moody  and  Stephen  G.  Miles  and  family.  The 
house,  though  one  hundred  years  old,  seems  to  be  perfectly 
sound  and  still  in  a  good  state  of  preservation.  The  writer 
supposes  it  was  built  of  the  very  best  material;  if  it  had  not 
been  it  would  have  gone  to  decay  before  this  time.  It  was 
built  before  the  day  of  turpentine  vandalism.  It  is  an  evident 
fact,  that  the  timber  from  w'hich  .{he  turpentine  has  been  ex- 
tracted soon  rots — its  very  life  is  taken  from  it.  It  is  like 
taking  the  blood  from  the  animal,  man  includled;  life  is  de- 
stroyed, and  soon  goes  into  a  state  of  decay.  One  hundred 
years  ago  the  uses  of  turpentine  had  not  been  discovered,  nor 
had  the  cupidity  of  man  been  excited  to  the  destruction  of  our 
pine  forests. 

The  court  house  of  1823  remained  intact  for  about  ten  years 
after  the  new  or  present  court  'house  was  erected.  The  rooms 
below  were  rented  by  the  Commissioners  of  Public  Buildings 
to  lawyers  and  others  for  offices.  They  were  occupied  as  such 
until  the  year  of  1861.  Who  the  Commissioners  were  is  not 
now  remembered.  In  the  winter  of  1864  and  1865,  one  O.  R. 
Smith,  claiming  to  be  a  quartermaster,  was  stationed  at 
Marion,  and  was  there  during  the  year  1864  and  1865,  till  the 
surrender  of  General  Lee.  During  the  latter  part  of  his  stay 
he  claimed  to  have  bought  for  $S,ooo  (Confederate  money)  the 
old  court  house  (of  1823),  upon  condition  that  he  was  to 


'  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  65 

move  it.  He  took  down  the  building  and  shipped  off  the 
ick,  iron  and  stone  steps,  &c.,  that  he  did  not  sell  to  individ- 
ds  in  town.  What  he  received  for  it  is  unknown,  whether 
lything  or  not.  Whether  he  ever  paid  for  it  or  not,  and  to 
hom  paid,  is  also  unknown.  There  tos  never  been  any  ac- 
►unting  for  its  proceeds,  or  any  accounting  called  for,  by  the 
ourt  or  other  authority.  In  the  minds  of  many  it  has  been 
)ubted  whether  he  ever  paid  anything  for  it.  There  was  no 
le  authorized  to  sell  it.  No  Commissioners  of  Public  Build- 
gs  were  then  in  existence.  If  there  were  any,  they  were 
sorganized  and  had  no  power  to  sell.  The  old  court  house 
>ld  was  built  by  the  State  and  not  by  the  county,  hence  it 
ilonged  to  the  State  and  not  to  the  county.  The  Legislature 
one  had  the  power  to  sell  or  to  authorize  and  direct  its  sale, 
hich  the  Legislature  had  not  done.  The  pressure  of  the  war 
as  upon  us.  Civil  affairs  were  not  much  looked  after  or  at- 
nded  to.  Ever3^hing  in  relation  to  civil  affairs  were  much 
isorganized,  it  may  be  said  were  disintegrated.  Confusion 
id  disorder  prevailed  everywhere.  Matters  more  vital  occu- 
ied  our  attention — our  very  existence  was  threatened.  Some 
lere  were  who  took  advantage  of  the  conditions  then  existing ; 
ley  were  on  the  make,  and  were  not  very  scrupulous  as  to 
>w  they  made  it.  We  do  not  say  that  this  old  court  house 
ansaction  was  one  of  those  cases,  but  we  do  say  that  the 
rcumstances  surrounding  and  attending  the  transaction  are 
lough  at  least  to  excite  a  reasonable  suspicion.  The  said  O. 
.  Smith,  the  so-called  Confederate  Quartermaster,  left  just 
hen  Sherman's  raid  passed  through  the  upper  end  of  the 
)unty,  and  carried  two  wagons  loaded  with  corn  and  bacon, 
hich  he  had  not  gathered  as  an  official,  but  took  it  from  the 
arehouse  at  Marion,  and  which  had  been  gathered  and  stored 
lere  by  the  Post  Quartermaster's  Department,  the  writer 
;reof  being  in  charge  of  it,  and  who  remonstrated  with  said 
mith  about  it.  Smith's  reply  to  him  was  with  an  oath,  "That 
y\i,  corn,  bacon  and  all,  would  be  in  the  hands  of  the  Yankees 
i  two  weeks.  D — n  it  all,  he  was  going  to  take  care  of  him- 
Jf;  he  was  going  to  get  away  and  carry  what  he  could." 
his  prediction  of  Smith  then  seemed  probable.    The  writer 


66  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

saw  Smith  about  four  or  five  years  afterwards,  and  has  heard 
since  that  he  was  dead.     He  was  from  Warrenton,  N.  C, 

The  first  jail  was  built  about  the  time  the  first  court  house 
was  built ;  it  is  not  known  by  whom  it  was  built.  It  is  supposed 
the  Commissioners  appointed  for  the  purpose  by  the  Act  of 
1798,  supra,  had  the  jail  built  as  early  as  practicable.  It  was 
located  northwest  of  the  present  court  house  on  the  public 
square.  The  writer  saw  it  while  standing.  Did  not  then 
observe  it  as  he  would  now.  It  remained  there  and  was  used 
until  about  1846,  when  it  was  replaced  by  the  present  jail, 
located  at  the  lower  end  of  Main  street. 

The  court  house  and  jail  located  according  to  the  Act  of 
1798,  formed  or  made  a  nucleus  for  the  building  up  a  county 
town,  at  and  around  the  court  house.  We  do  not  know  who 
resided  near  the  county  seat  before  the  court  house  was  erected ; 
as  we  are  informed  by  tradition,  Colonel  Hugh  Giles,  a  distin- 
guished character  during  the  Revolutionary  War,  lived  just 
over  Smith's  Swamp,  south  of  the  site  of  Marion  Court  House. 
It  was  for  him  that  the  village  of  Marion  was  first  called  Giles- 
boro,  and  was  so  called  till  away  up  into  the  thirties,  and  even 
after  that  by  some  of  the  older  people.  The  town  of  Marion 
was  not  incorporated  until  long  after.  At  the  time  of  which 
we  are  now  writing,  we  suppose  others  were  in  the  vicinity. 
These  were  descendants  of  John  Godbold,  who  settled  jiist  be- 
low where  Marion  Court  House  now  stands,  of  w'hom  more 
will  be  said  hereinafterwards ;  also,  the  descendants  of  Nathan 
Evans,  who  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  that  region,  of 
whom  more  will  yet  be  said.  In  connection  with  the  name  of 
Giles'boro,  the  writer  will  relate  what  his  father-in-law,  Philip 
Bethea,  told  him.  Before  Marion  Court  House  was  located 
and  established  as  the  county  seat,  there  were  no  public  roads 
leading  to  it,  from  the  upper  end  of  the  county.  The  court 
house  being  located  there,  it  became  necessary  to  lay  out  and 
build  roads  to  the  seat  of  justice  The  road  now  leading  from 
Marion  up  by  Moody's  Mill,  and  on  up  by  what  is  now  Eben- 
ezer  Church,  and  on  up  by  John  Bethea's  (now  John  C. 
Bethea's  plantation),  and  on  up  to  Harlleesville  (now  Little 
Rock),  then  owned  by  Gibson  (Stephen,  the  writer  believes), 
was  ordered  by  the  road  authorities  to  be  laid  out,  opened  and 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  67 

ut  in  condition  for  travel.  In  cutting  out  and  opening  the 
>ad,  the  overseer  in  charge  of  the  work  had  much  trouble  in 
etting  those  liable  to  perform  road  duty  to  work;  the  hands, 
le  poorer  white  people,  alleging  that  they  did  not  want  to 
'ork  and  build  a  road  for  old  Colonel  Giles  and  John  Smith, 
-■ho  lived  where  Moody's  Mill  now  is,  to  go  up  to  old  John 
iethea's  to  drink  cider  (old  John  Bethea  made  quantities  of 
ider  and  peach  and  apple  brandy) ;  that  no  one  else  wanted  the 
>ad  or  would  use  it,  the  white  hands  alleging  that  they  did  not 
rant  the  road.  He  said  that  such  was  the  opposition  that  it 
Imost  amounted  to  a  rebellion,  and  that  the  law  had  to  be  in- 
oked  in  order  to  get  the  work  done.  The  road  is  one  of  the 
lost  useful  roads  we  have  in  the  county,  and  none  so  poor  that 
e  would  not  'be  affected  by  closing  it  up,  and  would  not  have  it 
bandoned.  The  writer's  informant,  Philip  Bethea,  was  a  man 
Town  at  the  time,  and  a  son  of  old  John,  the  cider  maker,  and 
ne  of  the  road  hands.  We  have  a  few  such  people  among  us 
et,  and  perhaps  always  will  have  them — men  having  no  public 
pirit,  and  care  for  no  one  but  themselves. 

Courts  of  Equity,  prior  to  the  Revolution,  were  held  by  the 
lOvernor  and  'his  Majesty's  Council,  or  a  majority  of  them. 
>y  the  Act  of  1721  (VII.  vol.  Statutes  at  Large,  p.  163),  it  was 
rovided  that  the  Court  of  Chancery  should  always  be  open  for 
le  transaction  of  business  within  the  jurisdiction  of  that 
k>urt,  "but  the  days  and  times  of  full  and  solemn  hearing  shall 
e  four  times  in  every  year,  that  is  to  say,  on  every  Thursday 
ext  after  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  is  directed  to  meet  and 
it  in  Charleston,  and  shall  at  such  times  sit  de  die  in  diem 
ntil  the  blisiness  ready  for  said  Court  shall  be  finished."  It 
?as  fprther  provided,  "that  all  the  officers  of  the  said  Court 
hould  reside  in  Charleston."  All  Courts  were  held  then  only 
1  Charleston.  This  was  an  ample  arrangement  at  the  time 
nd  answered  all  the  purposes  of  said  Courts.  Charleston  was 
ien  the  State,  and  at  that  time  was  convenient  to  the  settled 
arts  of  the  province.  Some  modifications  or  amendknents 
3  the  Act  of  1 72 1  were  made  in  1746,  which  it  is  not  necessary 
5  notice.  In  regard  to  the  Courts  of  Equity,  no  special 
hanges  were  made  until  1784,  after  the  Revolution.  In  that 
ear  the  Legislature  passed  an  Act  abolishing  the   former 


68  A  HISTORY  OF  MABION  COUNTY. 

Courts  or  Equity  and  conferring  all  its  powers  and  duties  on 
three  Judges  or  Chancellors,  to  be  elected  by  the  General  As- 
sembly, and  to  be  commissioned  by  the  Governor.  (It  will  be 
remembered  that  in  1784  there  was  no  such  thing  at  "His 
Majesty's  Counsel.)  The  powers  and  duties  of  the  Courts 
were  the  same  as  under  the  Act  of  1721.  The  change  was 
made  to  suit  the  conditions  then  existing.  The  Court  estab- 
lished by  this  Act,  1784,  was  to  be  held  only  in  Charleston. 
The  three  Chancellors  provided  for  in  this  Act,  and  elected 
by  the  Legislature,  were  John  Rutledge,  Richard  Hudson  and 
John  Matthews. 

The  next  Act  of  the  Legislature  to  establish  a  Court  of 
Equity  within  this  State  is  the  Act  of  1791.  (VII.  vol.  Statutes 
at  Large,  p.  258.)  The  first  section  of  which  provides :  "That 
all  laws  now  of  force  for  establishing  the  Court  of  Chancery 
within  this  State,  be,  and  they  are  hereby,  declared  to  be  and 
continue  of  force  in  this  State,  until  altered  or  repealed  by  the 
Legislature  thereof,"  &c. 

The  second  section  of  this  Act,  1791,  after  reciting  the  great 
inconveniences  to  the  remote  inhabitants  of  this  State  resulting 
from  the  fact  that  the  Court  of  Equity  is  held  only  in  one  place 
within  the  State,  to  wit:  Charleston,  enacts:  "That  all  future 
sittings  of  the  Court  of  Equity  for  the  full  and  solemn  hearing 
of  cases  shall  be  held  at  the  times  and  places  hereinafter  di- 
rected, that  is  to  say :  At  Columbia,  for  all  causes  wherein  the 
defendant  shall  reside  in  Camden,  Orangeburg  or  Cheraw  Dis- 
tricts, on  the  15th  days  of  May  and  December;  at  Cambridge, 
for  all  causes  wherein  the  defendant  shall  reside  within  the 
District  of  Ninety-Six,  on  the  sth  days  of  May  and  December ; 
and  at  Charleston,  for  all  causes  wherein  the  defendant  shall 
reside  in  either  of  the  Districts  of  Charleston,  Beaufort  or 
Georgetown  (our  district),  on  the  second  Monday  in  March, 
the  second  Monday  in  June,  and  the  third  Monday  in  Septem- 
ber, and  the  same  days  in  every  succeeding  year,"  &c.  It 
further  provided  that  each  and  every  Judge  should  ride  the 
Circuit,  unless  prevented  by  sickness  or  other  unavoidable  dis- 
ability. 

The  next  Act  in  regard  to  the  Equity  Courts  is  the  Act  of 
1799  (VII.  vol.  Statutes  at  Large,  at  page  297),  which  divides 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  69 

the  districts  as  then  established  into  four  Equity  Circuits,  to  be 
called  the  Eastern,  Northern,  Western  and  Southern.  Marion 
County  was  placed  in  the  Eastern  Circuit ;  the  Courts  of  Equity 
for  this  Circuit  were  to  be  held  for  Marion  and  Georgetown, 
at  Georgetown,  on  the  first  Monday  in  February  in  each  and 
every  year. 

The  next  Act  in  reference  to  the  Courts  of  Equity  is  that  of 
1808  (VII.  vol.  Statutes  at  Ivarge,  p.  304).  Section  i  of  said 
Act  divides  the  State  into  three  Equity  Circuits,  viz :  the  South- 
ern, Northern  and  Western.  Our  county,  Marion,  is  placed  in 
the  Northern  Circuit,  composed  of  Georgetown,  Horry,  Marion 
and  Williamsburg,  which  shall  form  one  other  Equity  District, 
to  be  called  the  Georgetown  District,  the  Courts  of  Equity  for 
which  shall  be  held  at  Georgetown,  on  the  first  Monday  in  Feb- 
ruary and  June  in  every  year.  This  Act  of  1808  also  provides 
for  the  election  of  two  additional  Chancellors  to  be  commis- 
sioned and  perform  the  same  duties  as  the  present  Chancellors. 
The  two  elected  were  Henry  Wm.  DeSaussure  and  Theodore 
Gaillard. 

The  Act  of  1824  established  an  Appeal  Court  for  both  law 
and  equity,  to  consist  of  three  Judges.  It  also  divided  the 
State  into  four  Equity  Circuits.  Marion  District  was  assigned 
to  the  Fourth  Circuit,  and  the  Courts  to  be  held  for  "George- 
town, at  Georgetown,  for  the  Districts  of  Williamsburg, 
Horry,  Marion  and  Georgetown,  on  the  first  Monday  after 
the  fourth  Monday  in  January,  to  sit  for  two  weeks,  should  so 
much  be  necessary."  (VII.  vol.  Statutes  at  Large,  section  IX., 
p.  327.)  From  which  it  appears  as  well  by  this  Act  of  1824 
as  by  the  Act  of  1808,  supra,  that  from  and  after  the  year  1799, 
the  business  of  the  Equity  Courts  for  this  section  of  the  State 
was  on  the  decrease,  for  by  the  Act  of  1799,  only  Georgetown 
and  Marion  were  united  for  equity  purposes ;  while  by  the  Act 
of  1808  and  1824,  Georgetown,  Marion,  Williamsburg  and 
Horry  were  united  for  the  same  purpose. 

The  Act  of  1825,  VII.  vol.,  p.  330,  was  amended  so  far  as 
to  allow  the  Court  of  Equity  to  sit  twice  a  year  for  the  George- 
town (Marion)  Equity  District  instead  of  but  once,  one  week 
at  each  term,  if  so  much  be  necessary. 

By  the  Act  of  1833,  it  appears  that  Marion  and  Williamsburg 


70  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Districts  were  detached  from  the  Georgetown  Equity  District, 
and  that  the  Court  sat  in  each  separately,  to  wit :  for  Marion 
District,  to  commence  the  Thursday  after  the  first  Monday 
after  the  fourth  Monday  in  January,  and  to  continue  in  session 
three  days,  unless  the  business  be  sooner  disposed  of."  The 
Act  of  1833,  for  the  first  time  in  the  judicial  history  of  Marion 
District,  recognized  Marion  as  a  coequal  in  her  relations  to  the 
Courts  of  Equity  with  the  other  districts  of  the  State. 

The  Act  of  1824,  entitled  "An  Act  to  revise  and  amend  the 
judiciary  system  of  this  State,"  with  some  amendments  thereto, 
continued  to  be  the  law  regulating  both  the  Courts  of  law  and 
equity,  together  with  the  Court  of  Appeals,  composed  of  three 
Judges,  until  1835,  when  the  Act  of  that  year,  1835,  entitled 
"An  Act  to  reform  and  amend  the  judiciary  system  of  this 
State,"  was  passed.     By  this  latter  Act,  the  Appeal  Court  as 
then  existing  was  abolished,  and  its  powers  and  duties  were 
transferred  to  a  Court  of  Appeals,  composed  of  all  the  law 
Judges  and  all  the  Chancellors  in  the  State,  sitting  in  banc; 
that  no  Chancellor  or  law  Judge  who  had  tried  the  cause  on 
Circuit  should  sit  upon  hearing  the  appeal  thereon.     That  the 
Courts  of  Common  Pleas  and  General  Sessions,  and  also  the 
Equity  Courts,  should  be  arranged  into  circuits.     One  circuit  ■ 
was  called  the  Eastern  Circuit,  in  which  Marion  was  placed. 
Courts  of  Common  Pleas  and  General  Sessions  were  to  be  held 
at  Marion  Court  House  for  Marion  District,  on  the  third  Mon- 
day after  the  fourth  Monday  in  March  and  October  each  and 
every  year  thereafter  for  one  week  at  each  term,  unless  the 
business  of  the  said  Courts  respectively  shall  be  sooner  dis- 
patched.    And  the  several  Courts  of  Equity  in  the  State  shall 
hereafter  ibe  holden  twice  annually  at  the  following^  periods, 
that  is  to  say :"  *  *  *  and  "at  Marion  Court  House,  for  Marion 
District,  on  the  Thursday  next  after  the  second  Monday  after 
the  fourth  Monday  in  January,  and  the  Thursday  next  after  the 
third  Monday  in  June,  in  every  year,  for  three  days  at  eatfh 
term,  unless  the  business  of  the  said  Courts  shall,  respectively, 
be  sooner  despatched.     (Act  of  1835,  VH.  vol.  Statutes,  pp. 
335  and  336.) 

Another  Act  of  1836  was  passed,  entitled  "An  Act  to  organ- 
ize the  Courts  of  this  State.     That  the  several  Courts  of  law 


A-  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  71 

and  equity  in  this  State  shall  hereafter  be  held  at  the  times  and 
places  as  follows,  that  is  to  say :  For  the  Eastern  Circuit,  at 
Marion  Court  Hause,  on  the  fourth  Monday  in  March  and 
October."  This  was  for  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  and 
General  Sessions.  For  the  Court  of  Equity,  "at  Marion  Court 
House,  on  the  third  Monday  in  January."  By  this  Act,  "all 
appeals  from  the  Courts  of  law  shall  be  heard  and  determined 
in  a  Court  of  Appeals,  consisting  of  the  law  Judges,  and  that 
all  appeals  in  equity  shall  be  beard  and  determined  in  a  Court 
of  Appeals,  consisting  of  the  Chancellors.  That  said  Courts 
shall  meet  at  the  same  time  and  be  held  as  follows,  that  is  to 
say:  at  Charleston,  on  the  first  Monday  in  February,  and  at 
Columbia,  on  the  first  Monday  in  May,  and  fourth  Monday  in 
November."  (Act  of  1836,  VII.  vol.  Statutes,  339  and  340.) 
By  this  Act  also  was  created  the  Court  of  Errors,  as  follows : 
"That  upon  all  constitutional  questions  arising  out  of  the  Con- 
stitution of  this  State  or  the  United  States,  an  appeal  shall  lie 
to  the  whole  of  the  Judges  assembled  to  hear  such  appeal. 
That  an  appeal  shall  also  lie  to  the  whole  of  the  Judges  upon  all 
questions  upon  which  either  of  the  Courts  of  Appeal  shall  be 
divided,  or  when  any  two  of  the  Judges  of  the  Court  shall 
require  that  a  cause  be  further  heard  by  all  the  Judges.  That 
the  Judges  of  law  and  equity,  when  assembled  as  aforesaid  in 
one  chamber,  shall  form  a  Court  for  the  correction  of  all  errors 
in  law  or  equity  in  the  cases  that  may  be  heard  before  them, 
and  that  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Judges  to  make  all  proper 
rules  and  regulations  for  the  practice  of  the  said  Courts,"  &c. 
In  this  latter  Court,  Marion  District  figured  in  two  of  the  cases, 
involving  the  constitutionality  of  the  stay  law,  as  it  was  called, 
passed  in»December,  1861,  and  continued  from  year  to  year  till 
1866,  inclusive.  The  two  cases  were  the  State  vs.  Carew,  13 
Richardson  Law  Reports,  p.  398,  represented  by  Mr.  Ivord,  of 
Charleston,  and  the  case  of  Barry  vs.  Iseman,  14  Richardson 
Law  Reports,  p.  161,  represented  by  A.  C.  Spain  for  plaintiff- 
appellant,  and  W.  W.  Harllee  and  W.  W.  Sellers  for  defend- 
ant-respondent, from  Marion.  The  cases  were  argued  together 
in  the  Court  of  Errors  before  all  the  Judges  and  Chancellors 
"assembled  in  the  same  room,"  at  May  Term,  1866,  in  Colum- 
bia, S.  C.  As  to  the  case  of  the  State  vs.  Carew,  opinion  by  the 
6 


72  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

venerable  Chancellor  Duncan,  then  Chief  Justice,  the  stay  law 
was  held  to  be  unconstitutional.  Judge  A.  P.  Aldrich  dissent- 
ing. As  to  the  case  of  Barry  vs.  Iseman,  from  Marion,  opinion 
by  Judge  Monroe,  the  stay  law  was  held  to  be  constitutional. 
No  dissent.  The  essential  difference  between  the  two  cases 
was  this :  in  the  case  of  the  State  vs.  Carew,  the  contract  was 
made  'before  the  passage  of  the  stay  law,  hence  its  passage  was 
held  to  be  an  impairment  of  the  obligation  of  the  contract.  In 
the  case  of  Barry  vs.  Iseman,  the  contract  was  made  after  the 
passage  of  the  stay  law,  and  hence  its  passage  was  held  not  to 
be  an  impairment  of  the  obligation  of  the  contract,  and,  there- 
fore, constitutional.  The  contract  was  made  in  reference  to 
existing  law.  (Constitution  of  the  United  States,  article  I., 
section  lo;  Constitution  of  the  State,  1790,  article  IX.,  section 

2.) 

The  Circuit  Courts,  'both  of  law  and  equity,  continued  about 
the  same,  as  provided  by  the  Act  of  1836,  supra,  until  the  war. 
In  1859,  a  separate  Court  of  Appeals,  consisting  of  three 
Judges,  was  again  established)  for  the  hearing  and  decision  of 
all  cases  of  appeal,  either  at  law  or  equity.  The  Court  of 
Errors  remained  as  before.  The  Judges  of  the  Court  of  Ap- 
peals, as  organized  in  1859,  were  John  Belton  O'Neall,  Chief 
Justice,  Job  Jdhnston  and  F.  Wardlaw,  Associate  Justices. 
F.  Wardlaw  died  in  i860  or  1861.  Chief  Justice  O'Neall  and 
Job  Johnston  died  during  the  war,  upon  which  Chancellor  B. 
F.  Dunkin  was  elected  Chief  Justice,  and  D.  L,.  Wardlaw  and 
John  A.  Inglis  were  elected  as  Associate  Justices,  which  posi- 
tions they  held  with  distinguished!  ability,  until  the  upheavals 
of  reconstruction  put  tbem'  out.  It  can  be  truthfully  said  that 
the  judiciary  of  South  Carolina  from  the  earliest  times  as  a 
State,  have  been  filled,  both  Circuit  and  Appeal  Courts,  by  men 
of  high  character,  distinguished  alike  for  integrity,  dignity, 
learning  and  ability.  Many  of  them  would  have  done  credit  to 
any  country,  in  any  age  of  the  world.  Their  names  stand 
prominent  on  the  rolls  of  fame.  Such  a  galaxy  of  eminent 
names  is  scarcely  to  be  seen  anywhere.  Where  all  are  so  emi- 
nent, it  would  seem  to  be  invidious  to  mention  any.  Without 
disparaging  others,  the  writer  cannot  forbear  to  mention  some. 
From  the  Revolution  down  to  the  war  of  the  States,  John 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  73 

Rutledige,  Henry  Wm.  DeSaussure,  Hugh  Rutledge,  Thomas 
Waties,  Joseph  Brevard,  Samuel  Wilds,  Jr.,  Abraham  Nott, 
Charles  Jones  Colcock,  Langdon  Oheves,  William  Harper, 
David  Johnson,  John  S.  Richardson,  Joihn  Belton  O'Neall,  Jo- 
seph J.  Evans,  Joib  Johnston,  B.  F.  Dunkin,  D.  L,.  Wardlaw, 
Frank  Wardlaw,  John  A.  Inglis  and  George  W.  Dargan.  To 
this  list  of  eminent  jurists  others  might  be  added.  Of  such  an 
array  of  legal  talent  as  this,  any  people  might  justly  be  proud 
Most  of  these  Judges  performed  circuit  as  well  as  appeal  duty. 
Their  names  are  imperishable.  It  may  be  said  that  the  judicial 
system  of  the  State  was  perfected  with  and  by  the  Act  of  1836. 
Some  slight  amendlments  were  made  to  it  in  after  times,  and  up 
to  "reconstruction."  That  unparalleled  event  affected  great 
and  radical  changes  in  the  judiciary  system  of  the  State.  It 
abolished  the  Court  of  Equity  as  a  separate  Court,  and  with 
it  the  venerable  name  of  Chancellor.  It  transferred  all  its 
powers,  jurisdiction  and  duties  to  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas. 
The  same  Judge  administers  both  law  and  equity — the  former 
with  a  jury,  the  latter  without  a  jury — the  conscience  of  the 
Judge  being  in  place  of  a  jury.  A  Court  of  General  Sessions, 
which  has  jurisdiction  of  all  criminal  matters,  is  also  estab- 
lished, and  is  administered  by  the  same  Judge.  Hence,  we  now 
have  a  three-sided  Court;  one  side  is  called  the  law  side, 
another  side  is  called  the  equity  side,  and  another  side  is  called 
the  criminal  sidte.  Thus  centering  in  one  man's  hand  jurisdic- 
tion of  every  possible  right  or  wrong  to  be  redressed,  cogniz- 
able among  a  highly  civilized  p>eople.  Whether  for  the  better 
or  not,  such  is  the  now  judicial  administration  of  law  in  our 
State,  and  such  it  'has  been  for  more  than  thirty  years — so  since 
the  making  of  the  Constitution  of  1868.  That  Constitution 
was  made  and  adopted  for  the  government  of  the  people  by  a 
class  of  men  who  did  not  understand  the  situation  or  the  wants 
of  the  people  of  the  State.  Those  who  were  well  qualified  by 
ediucation  and  a  knowledge  of  the  needs  of  the  people,  were 
shut  out  of  the  Convention  of  1868,  called  to  make  an  organic 
law  for  the  State.  It  was  made  by  a  few  foreigners  called 
"carpet-baggers,"  a  few  white  men,  natives  of  the  State,  rene- 
gades, called  "scalawags,"  and  a  horde  of  ignorant  negroes — 
whom  the  carpet-baggers  voted  like  so  many  cattle.     It  was 


74  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

made  really  only  by  fifteen  or  twenty  men,  vv^ho  had  no  sym- 
pathy with  or  for  the  heretofore  ruling  element  of  the  State. 
It  was  made  rather  to  humiliate  and  punish  the  better  class  of 
the  people  than  for  their  future  benefit.  Its  purpose  was  to 
perpetuate  the  power  of  themselves,  to  aggrandise  and  enrich 
the  "carpet-bag"  and  "scalawag"  few,  out  of  the  hard  earnings 
of  the  former  rulers,  the  former  owners  of  the  property  of  the 
people.  In  other  words,  it  was  to  put  the  "bottom  rail  on  top" 
and  keep  it  there.  The  Constitution-makers  of  1868  did  make 
some  improvement  upon  the  Constitution  of  1790  in  the  aboli- 
tion of  the  parish  system  of  representation  in  the  State 
Legislature,  in  emancipating  married  women  as  to  their  owner- 
ship of  property  and  their  right  to  control  it  independent  of 
their  husbands. 

Marion  County  has  been  an  essential  factor  in  all  this. 
Whatever  affected  the  State  for  good  or  evil  affected  her. 
She  has  'borne  her  troubles  and  misfortunes  with  marked  equa- 
nimity— ^she  has  subordinated  herself  to  the  powers  that  be, 
and  has  ever  been  in  favor  of  law  and  order.  Her  people  are 
a  law-abiding  people — lynch  law  finds  no  place  among  us.  Her 
citizenship,  as  a  whole,  are  composed  of  honest,  industrious 
men,  who  live  by  honest  means,  who  are  enterprising,  each  in 
his  vocation  trying  to  live  and  let  others  live.  She  is 
fast  coming  to  the  front  among  her  sister  counties  in  the  race 
for  distinction  and  preferment — a  model  county.  If  she  pro- 
gresses through  the  twentieth  century,  as  she  has  during  the 
nineteenth  century  now  closing,  she  will  have  attained  a  promi- 
nence in  everything  that  makes  a  people  great,  prosperous  and 
happy.  Her  resources  are  unbounded  and  not  yet  half  devel- 
oped. These,  used  as  they  may  and  will  be,  by  her  people  for 
another  century,  will  make  her  a  star  of  first  magnitude  among 
the  many  stars  of  the  commonwealth,  and  her  citizens,  when 
they  travel,  will  be  proud  to  say,  "I  am  from  Marion  County, 
S.  C."  The  officials  of  the  county.  Senators  and  Representa- 
tives in  the  State  Legislature,  her  Clerks  of  Court,  her  Sheriffs, 
her  Ordinaries  and  Probate  Judges,  her  Commissioners  and 
Masters  in  Equity,  will  be  hereinafter  given,  and,  perhaps,  the 
names  of  other  county  officials,  since  days  of  "reconstruction." 


A  HISTORY  OP  MAKION  COUNTY.  75 

Political  History. 

Prior  to  the  Revolutionary  War,  the  territory  now  embraced 
in  the  County  of  Marion,  including  that  portion  of  it  on  the 
west  side  of  the  Great  Pee  Dee,  now  embraced  in  the  County 
of  Florence,  was  unknown  as  a  political  or  judicial  division  of 
the  State,  then  a  province  of  Great  Britain.  Bishop  Gregg,  in 
his  History  of  the  Old  Cheraws  (a  tribe  of  Indians),  does  not 
mention  Marion  County  or  District  as  of  early  formation. 
Wherever  he  speaks  of  it,  he  speaks  of  it  as  what  it  was  at  the 
time  of  his  writing ;  for  instance,  as  what  is  "now  called  Marion 
District."  Tha;t  eminent  writer's  purpose  was  mainly  to  write 
a  history  of  Chesterfield,  Marlborough  and  Darlington,  and 
what  he  says  about  Marion  County  is  only  incidental. 

The  English  government,'  from  the  earliest  settlement  of  the 
province  of  Carolina,  had  manifested  a  deep  interest  in  the 
colony,  and  was  anxious  to  strengthen  it  by  emigration.  Great 
inducements  were  held  out  to  the  poor  of  European  nations  to 
emigrate  to  Carolina  in  various  ways — ^by  offering  bounties  in 
lands  and  in  other  ways.  Prior  to  1730,  there  were  few,  if  any, 
settlements  in  what  is  now  Marion  County.  It  appears  by  well 
authenticated  tradition  that  there  were  a  few  settlements  within 
its  territory,  concerning  which  notice  will  be  taken  hereinafter- 
wards.  Bishop  Gregg,  in  his  history,  on  page  42,  says :  "From 
i6g6  to  1730,  although  its  population  gradually  increased,  no 
large  addition  was  made  at  any  one  time  to  the  inhabitants  of 
Carolina.  About  the  latter  year  (1730),  a  new  scheme  was 
adopted  to  promote  the  settlement  of  the  province,  which 
proved  successful  beyond  the  most  sanguine  expectations  of 
the  government.  Governor  Johnson  was  instructed  'to  mark 
out  eleven  townships,  in  square  lots,  on  the  sides  of  rivers, 
consisting  eadi  of  twenty  thousand  acres,  and  to  divide  the 
land  within  them  into  shares  of  fifty  acres,  for  each  man, 
woman  and  child  that  should  come  over  to  occupy  and  improve 
them.  Each  township  was  to  form  a  parish,  and  all  the  inhabi- 
tants were  to  have  an  equal  right  to  the  river.  As  soon  as  the 
parish  should  increase  to  the  number  of  one  hundred  families, 
they  were  to  have  the  right  to  send  two  members  of  their  own 
election  to  the  Assembly,  and  to  enjoy  the  same  privileges  as 


76  A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY. 

the  parishes  already  established.  Each  settler  was  to  pay  four 
shillings  a  year  for  every  hundred  acres  of  land,  excepting  the 
first  ten  years,  diuring  which  term  they  were  to  be  rent  free.' 
Governor  Johnson  issued  a  warrant  to  St.  John,  Surveyor 
General  of  the  province,  empowering  him  to  go  and  mark  out 
these  townships ;  but  he  having  demandedi  an  exorbitant  'sum 
of  money  for  his  trouble,  the  members  of  the  Council  agreed 
among  themselves  to  do  this  piece  of  service  for  their  country." 
(Noble  on  the  part  of  the  Council.)  "Accordingly,  eleven 
townships  were  marked  out  by  them  in  the  following  situa- 
tions :  two  on  the  River  Altamaha,  two  on  Savanna,  two  on 
Santee,  one  on  Pee  Dee,  one  on  Wackamaw,  one  on  Wateree 
and  one  on  Black  River."  The  writer  does  not  understand 
how  it  was  that  two  townships  were  to  be  laid  out  "on  the 
River  Altamaiha,"  as  that  is  a  river  of  the  afterwards  Province 
of  Georgia,  and  Georgia  was  not  then  settled,  1 730-1 731,  and 
was  not  settled  until  two  years  afterwards  (1733).  The 
Province  of  South  Carolina  did  not  at  that  time,  nor  at  any 
time  since,  have  any  jurisdiction  beyond  the  Savannah  River. 
It  must  have  been  the  Edisto  River,  which  may  have  been  at 
that  time  called  the  "Altamaha  River."  The  writer  cannot 
otherwise  account  for  it.  "The  township  on  the  Pee  Dee  was 
called  Queensborough,  and  to  the  time  of  its  being  marked  out, 
1 73 1 -1732,  or  a  period  a  little  subsequent,  is  to  be  assigned  the 
date  of  our  first  settlements.  There  was  no  delay  in  the  exe- 
cution of  this  work  (of  marking  out  the  townships),  which 
had  'been  committed  to  the  Governor  by  his  Majesty's  govern- 
ment, for  'building  up  its  waste  places  and  the  more  speedy  set- 
tlement of  the  province."  Bishop  Gregg  further  says,  on  page 
44 :  "From  the  annexed  plot  or  draft,  Queensborough  appears 
to  have  been  laid  out  on  the  Great  Pee  Dee,  but  a  short  distance 
above  the  mouth  of  Little  Pee  Dee  River,  embracing  a  part  of 
what  has  since  been  known  as  Britton's  Neck  (a  narrow  strip 
of  land  between  the  two  rivers),  and  extending  also  on  the 
west  side  of  the  Great  Pee  Dee."  He  says  further:  "But  for 
this  plot,  most  unexpectedly  found,  the  exact  location  of 
Queensborough  Township  could  not  have  been  determined." 
On  page  45,  he  further  says :  "On  the  14th  February,  1734,  it 
was  ordered  that  the  several  persons  who  have  laid  out  the 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  77 

several  townships  do  prepare  a  rough  draft  or  plan  of  a  town 
to  be  laid  out  in  each  township  containing  about  800  acres,  out 
of  wliich  a  common  of  300  acres,  to  be  laid  out  in  the  back 
part,  and  the  remaining  500  to  be  laid  out  in  half-acre  lots,  to 
be  a  convenient  distance  from  the  river."  This  was  dtone 
accordingly,  and  the  town  for  Queensborough  Township  was 
located  on  the  west  sidte  of  the  Great  Pee  Dee,  as  the  wrLter 
supposes,  not  far  from  Godfrey's  Ferry.  The  township 
covered  20,000  acres,  and  lay  on  both  sides  of  the  river.  How 
far  it  extended  up  the  river  is  unknoiwn,  nor  how  far  on  each 
side,  as  the  plot  does  not  s'how  the  number  of  chains  to  the  mile. 
The  town  Khus  laid  out  and  located  on  the  west  sidte  of  the 
river  in  Queensboroug*h  Township  seems  never  to  have  been 
settled  as  a  town.  Bishop  Gregg  says  that  up  to  1734  no 
settlement  was  made  in  Queensborough  Township. 


78 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Queensborough  Township. 


This  township,  together  with  ten  others  in  different  parts  of 
the  Province  of  South  Carolina,  laid  off  in  1731-1732. 

Bishop  Gregg  says,  on  page  45  :  "The  inducements  held  out 
in  connection  with  the  township,  appear  to  have  led  to  a  visit 
of  some  of  the  Welsh  from  Pennsylvania  for  the  purpose  of 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  79 

exploration  and  settlement,  and  to  removal  very  shortly  after  of 
the  colony,  wliich  was  destined  to  form  so  important  an  element 
in  the  history  and  progress  of  the  region  of  the  upper  Pee  Dee." 
He  says,  on  page  47 :  "The  first  visit  of  the  Welch  to  Pee  Dee 
appears  to  ihave  been  made  in  the  latter  part  of  1735  or  early  in 
the  following  year.  It  led  to  a  remarkable  act  of  favor  on  the 
part  of  the  Council,  to  induce  the  colony  to  come.  Wishing  on 
tlieir  arrival  to  settle  in  a  body,  and  be  possessed  of  ample  and 
exclusive  privileges  as  to  the  occupancy  of  the  soil,  they  peti- 
tioned the  government  that  an  extensive  tract  of  land  might  be 
appropriated  to  their  sole  benefit  for  a  certain  period.  This 
appears  from  a  message  of  the  Lieutenant-Governor  to  the 
lower  House  of  Assembly,  2  February,  1737,  in  which  he  said: 
'The  late  Lieutenant-Governor,  with  the  advice  of  his  Majesty's 
Council,  thought  it  would  tend  to  the  service  and  strengthening 
of  the  province  to  grant  the  petition  of  several  natives  of  the 
principality  of  Wales,  in  behalf  of  themselves  and  others  of 
their  countrymen,  who  intended  to  settle  in  this  province  from 
Great  Britain  and  Pennsylvania,  praying  the  land  near  the  fork, 
above  the  township  (Queens'boroug'h)  on  Pee  Dee  River, 
miglit  be  reserved  and  set  apart  for  their  uses,  and  Mr.  John 
Ouldfield  being  thought  a  very  proper  person,  was  employed 
for  that  service.'  The  petition  here  referred  to  bore  date  Au- 
gust 13th,  1736,  having  been  fevorably  received  by  the  Council, 
his  Majesty's  Surveyor-General,  James  H.  St.  John,  Esq.,  was 
instructed  to  have  the  said  tract  laid  out.  Accordingly  he 
directed  a  precept  to  John  Ouldfield,  bearing  date  November 
16th,  1736,  'to  admeasure  and  lay  out  for  the  Welsh  families 
that  were  to  be  imported  to  this  province  a  tract  of  land,  con- 
taining in  the  whole  one  hundred  and  seventy-three  thousand 
eight  hundred  and  forty  acres,  situated  and  being  in  Craven 
County.  Ten  thousand  acres,  being  part  thereof,  lying  within 
the  limits  of  the  township  of  Queensborough,  on  the  north 
side  of  Pee  Dee  River.  The  remainder  of  said  tract  lying  on 
the  south  side  of  said  river  and  abutting  and  bounding  to 
southeast  on  the  reserved  land  of  the  said  township  of  Queens- 
borough,  and  all  other  sides  on  vacant  lands,  as  are  supposed.' 
The  survey  was  made,  and  a  plot  thereof  returned  29th  Nov., 
1736,  of  which  a  copy  is  annexed."     The  tract  thus  surveyed 


80  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

extended  up  the  'river  on  both  sides  only  a  short  distance  above 
Mar's  Bluff.  It  was  not  adapted  to  the  wants  of,  the  Welsh 
people,  the  petitioners.  They  petitioned)  again  the  government 
ior  a  further  extension  of  the  tract  up  the  river,  and  after  due 
consideration  of  this  petition,  the  authorities  granted  it,  by 
vVhich  it  was  extended  up  the  river,  to  and  even  above  the 
North  Carolina  State  line,  to  the  branches  of  said  river,  to  wit : 
"Yadkin  and  Uwhare  or  Yadkin  and  Rocky  River,"  a  distance 
of  over  one  hundred  miles  by  the  course  of  the  river,  and 
included  a  territory  of  eight  miles  on  each  sidie  of  the  river  the 
whole  way.  Thus  the  Welsh  hadi  exclusive  privileges  over  an 
immense  territory,  probably  half  million  of  acres.  This  proves 
both  the  anxiety  and  benevolence  of  the  government,  and  the 
Welsh  were  not  slow  in  availing  themselves  of  such  unprece- 
dented advantages.  This  extension  of  their  grant  was  dated 
8th  February,  1737.  This  first  grant  to  the  Welsh  was  after- 
wardte  extended  up  to  North  Carolina  line,  eight  miles  on  each 
side  of  Pee  Dee  River. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 


81 


A  Plat  of  the  Welch  Grant  (First). 

Containing  173,840  acres.     November  i6th,  1736.     Scale  of 
copy  Plat,  320  chains  per  inch. 


"South  Carolina. 

"By  virtue  of  precept  to  me  directed  by  James  H.  Johns, 
Esq.,  His  Majesty's  Surveyor  General,  bearing  date  i6th  No- 
vember, 1736,  I  have  measured  and  laid  for  the  Welsh  familys 
that  are  to  be  imported  to  the  province,  a  tract  of  land  contain- 
ing in  the  w'hole  one  hundredi  and  seventy-three  thousand  eight 
hundred  and  forty  acres,  situate  and  being  in  Craven  County. 
Ten  thousand  acres  being  part  thereof,  lying  within  the  limits 
of  the  township  of  Queensborough  on  the  north  side  of  Pee 
Dee  River.  The -remainder  of  said  tract  lying  on  'both  sides  of 
said  river.  Butting  and  bounding  to  the  southeast  on  the 
reserved  lands  of  the  said  township  of  Queensborough,  and  all 
other  sides  vacant  lands  as  is  supposed,  and  hath  such  shape, 
form  and  marks  as  are  represented  by  this  delineated  plot 


82  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

thereof.     Given  Under  my  hand,  29th  day  of  November,  1736, 

per  me.     (Signed) 

"Deputy  Surveyor." 

NoTB. — This  copy  made  May  22,  1859,  from  original  plat  in 
Secretary  of  State's  ofiRce  by  White  &  Ramsay,  Deputy  Sur- 
veyors. 

These  bodies  of  land  were  not  civil  or  political  divisions,  but 
only  tracts  laid  out  to  induce  emigrants  to  come  in  and  settle 
them.  It  was  to  increase  the  population,  to  begin  the  develop- 
ment of  the  vast  resources  of  the  soil,  to  raise  products  not  only 
for  home  consumption  but  for  exportation  to  Charleston  and 
to  England. 

As  to  Queensborough  Township,  the  laying  it  off  was  for 
the  double  purpose  of  inducing  emigrants  to  come  in  and  settle 
it  up  and  to  obtain  lands  cheaply,  and  in  the  Act  or  order  of 
the  Governor  and  Council  for  laying  it  and  ten  other  townships 
ordered  to  be  laid  out  at  the  same  time,  it  was  provided  that  so 
soon  as  the  population  in  any  township  should  amount  to  a 
hundred  families,  that  such  township  should  constitute  a 
parish,  and  be  entitled  to  two  representatives  in  the  General 
Assembly.  To  this  extent  it  was  a  civil  or  political  division. 
Whether  any  of  the  eleven  townships  laid  off  at  that  time, 
1 73 1 -2,  availed  themselves  of  this  political  provision  or  not,  is 
not  known.  It  is  very  certain  that  Queensborough  Township 
did  not. 

Marion  County  was  designated  for  the  first  time  as  a  civil 
or  political  division  by  the  Act  of  1785,  and  was  called  Liberty. 
Prior  to  that  time,  it  formed  part  of  the  large  county  of 
Craven;  but  Craven  County,  as  such,  never  had  any  represen- 
tation in  the  General  Assembly.  For  political  purposes,  it  was 
called  the  District  East  of  the  Wateree,  and  as  such  was  entitled 
to  two  Representatives.  (Constitution  of  1778, 1,  vol.  Statutes 
at  Large,  page  140,  section  13.) 

The  politics  of  the  Province  of  South  Carolina  up  to  the 
Revolutionary  War  were  intensely  British.  After  the  Revo- 
lution, they  did  not  take  definite  shape,  as  far  as  can  now  be 
gathered,  until  about  the  date  of  1800,  when  her  policy  tended 
to  support  the  views  of  Alexander  Hamilton — who,  though  an 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  88 

advocate  for  the  adoption  of  the  Federal  Constitution  of  1787, 
and  a  Federalist,  yet  he  believed  in  a  latitudinous  construction 
of  that  instrument.  He  believed  in  a  strong  executive  govern- 
ment. Hamilton  was  not  ailone ;  many  able  andl  truly  patriotic 
men  had  the  same  views.  John  Adams  and  the  Pinckneys,  of 
South  Carolina,  ranged  themselves  on  that  side.  They  were, 
doubtless,  honest  in  their  opinions,  laboring  for  the  good  of 
the  country.  In  the  presidential  campaign  of  1800,  the  contest 
was  bitter  and  intensely  exciting.  Thomas  Jefferson,  the  great 
apostle  of  Republicanism  (Democratic)  of  that  day,  and  John 
Adams,  Aaron  Burr  and  perhaps  others,  headed  the  two 
parties.  Republicans  and  Federalists.  There  was  no  election 
by  the  people;  hence,  under  the  Constitution,  the  election  de- 
volved upon  the  House  of  Representatives,  in  which,  as  the 
writer  understands  it,  they  voted  by  States ;  each  State  counted 
one  vote,  and  in  that  way  the  small  States  of  Rhodfe  Island  and 
Delaware  were  as  strong  as  the  larger  States — Virginia  and 
New  York.  The  House  balloted  thirty-seven  times  before  an 
election  was  made.  The  race  in  the  House  was  between  Jef- 
ferson and  Burr,  each  getting  eight  votes — South  Carolina 
voting  for  Burr.  On  the  thirty-seventh  ballot.  South  Carolina 
and  Tennessee  voted  blank ;  the  result  was,  eight  for  Jefferson 
and  six  for  Burr.  Jefferson  was  declared  elected  President 
and  Burr  was  declared  elected  Vice-President.  It  thus  appears 
that  South  Carolina  voted  for  thirty-six  ballots  for  Burr  and 
against  Jefferson,  the  great  leader  of  the  Democracy  of  1800. 
And  though  dead  for  three-quarters  of  a  century,  Jefferson  is 
now  the  beau  ideal  of  the  Democracy  of  1900.  How  it  was 
that  they  then  voted  with  the  Federalists  and  against  Democ- 
racy, has  never  been  explained.  Such  is  the  record  of  history. 
In  every  presidential  election  since  that  time,  except  one  in 
1832,  South  Carolina  has  invariably  voted  for  the  Democratic 
candidiate. 

We  have  no  means  of  ascertaining  what  were  the  politics  of 
Marion  County  in  1800,  but  we  presume  they  were  in  line  with 
the  balance  of  the  State.  On  several  occasions  since  that  time, 
the  people  of  Marion  County  have  been  divided  on  political 
issues,  and  have  had  some  very  bitter  contests  among  them- 
selves.    The  first,  in  the  order  of  time,  was  in  1832,  on  the 


84  A  HISTORY  Of  MARION  COUNTY. 

question  of  Nullification^ — ^that  is,  to  decide  whether  or  not 
South  Carolina  should  nullify  and  make  void  within  this  State 
the  tariff  laws  passed  by  Congress,  and  to  resist  by  force,  if 
necessary,  the  collection  of  the  Federal  revenue  within  this 
State.  It  raised  a  storm,  a  very  tempestuous  one,  from  the 
mountains  to  the  seaboard,  Marion  included.  One  party  was 
called  Nullifiers  and  the  other  Union  men.  Marion  District 
was  aroused  as  it  had  never  been  before  from  its  centre  to  its 
utmost  limits.  Each  party  had  its  candidates  for  delegates 
to  the  Convention.  I  do  not  know  who  the  candidates  were 
on  the  respective  sides,  but  do  know  who  were  elected.  The 
Nullifiers  carried  the  county  by  a  few  votes — say  thirty. 
Coloneil  Thomas  Harllee,  General  William  Evans  and  Alex- 
ander L,.  Gregg,  from  West  Marion,  were  ^elected.  The  Con- 
vention convened  in  Columbia  on  the  19th  November,  1832,  and 
passed  and  adopted  an  ordinance  of  Nullification  on  the  24th 
November,  1832.  (I.  vol.  Statutes  at  Large,  pp.  329-333.) 
This  Convention  had  in  it  many  able  men,  and  true  patriots, 
such  as  R.  W.  Barnwell,  Pierce  M.  Butler,  C.  J.  Colcock,  F.  H. 
Elmore,  Robert  Y.  Hayne,  William'  Harper,  Job  Johnston, 
George  MacDuffie,  Stephen  D.  Miller,  Charles  C.  Pinckney, 
Thomas  Pinckney,  John  Lide  Wilson,  F.  H.  Wardlaw,  R. 
Barnwell  Smith  (Rhett)  and  many  others.  Most  of  the  Union 
delegates  refused  to  sign  the  ordinance.  The  Convention 
issued  a  strong  and  stirring  address  to  the  people,  setting  forth 
their  grievances  and  their  rights  and  the  proposed  remedy. 
The  die  was  cast.  Preparations  to  resist  by  force  were  hastily 
made,  war  seemed  imminent.  Andrew  Jackson  was  President 
of  the  United  States.  He  issued  a  proclamation,  Congress 
passed  a  force  bill  and  everything  looked  like  war.  South 
Carolina  seemed  determined,  and  set  about  making  the  best 
preparation  possible  for  defence.  Turmoil' and  strife  existed 
and  permeated  the  w'hole  State — brother  arrayed  against 
brother,  father  against  son,  neighbor  against  neighbor.  Those 
were  fearful  times.  The  more  thoughtful  among  us  were 
scheming  how  to  throw  oil  on  the  troubled  waters,  and  to  avoid 
a  collision.  Just  at  this  juncture  of  affairs  a  ray  of  hope 
dawned  upon  us.  The  State  of  Virginia,  seeing  the  danger, 
intervened  in  the  interest  of  compromise  and  peace.     With  a 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  85 

view  to  its  accomplishment,  she  sent  as  an  agent  or  a  commis- 
sion to  South  Carolina  the  Hon.  Benjamin  Watkins  Leigh,  and 
he,  with  the  aid  of  Hon.  Henry  Clay,  the  great  pacificator  of 
the  United  States  in  Washington,  stayed  the  advance  of  grim- 
visaged  war  so  close  upon  us,  and  brought  about  a  compro- 
mise. Congres's  passed  an  Act  for  the  gradual  reduction  of 
the  tariff,  the  casus  belli,  down  to  a  revenue  standard — which 
South  Carolina  accepted,  and  repealed  her  ordinance  of  Nulli- 
fication. Thus  was  averted,  for  a  period  of  near  thirty  years, 
a  bloody  fratricidal  war.  (I.  vol.  Statutes  at  Large,  p.  390, 
et  sequens.) 

In  repealing  the  ordinance,  the  Convention  excepted  from 
its  operation  the  Act  entitled  "An  Act  further  to  alter  and 
amend  the  militia  laws  of  this  State,  passed  by  the  General 
Assembly  of  this  State  on  the  20th  day  of  December,  1832." 
Thus  preserving  and  manifesting  a  military  spirit,  which  has 
ever  characterized  the  State.  The  stirring  times  of  the  Nulli- 
fication struggle  intensified  the  military  ardor  of  our  people, 
referred  to  more  at  large  in  the  former  part  of  this  history,  and 
opened  the  way  for  the  contest  a  year  or  two  later,  in  this 
(Marion)  district,  between  Thomas  Harllee  and  John  F.  Ervin 
for  the  colonelcy  of  the  newly-organized  32dl  regiment  of  the 
South  Carolina  militia,  and  gave  an  impetus  to  and  fanned  into 
a  flame  the  military  spirit  of  the  people,  which  continued  with 
unabated  ardor  for  years,  and  culminated  in  the  founding  of 
the  Arsenal  Academy  in  Columbia,  and  Citadel  in  Charleston. 
The  Arsenal  was  preparatory  to  the  Citadel,  and  they  were 
largely  patronized  until  they  were  broken  up  by  the  war  of 
1861-1865.  Those  schools  turned  out  many  useful  and  distin- 
guished men,  versed  in  military  affairs,  and  prepared  to  take 
the  lead  in  the  bloody  contest  of  1861-1865.  Since  the  war 
(1882),  the  Citadel  has  been  reorganized  and  is  doing  well, 
has  an  extensive  patronage,  and  is  turning  out  every  year 
young  men  well  educated  and,  especially  in  the  arts  of  military 
life,  prepared  and  equipped  for  service  in  any  rank  of  military 
life,  and  competent  to  fill  the  highest  positions  in  the  army  or 
honorable  positions  in  civil  life.  It  is  one  of  the  best  schools 
in  the  State.  The  names  of  the  sons  of  Marion  County  gradu- 
ating therein  are  hereinbefore  given. 


86  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Not  long  after  the  Nullification  struggle,  the  Whig  party  in 
the  United  States  was  formed.  In  1836,  that  party  nominated 
for  the  Presidency  Hugh  L.  White,  of  Tennessee,  and'  the 
Democrats  nominated  Martin  VanBuren,  of  New  York.  Van- 
Buren  was  elected.  In  that  campaign.  South  Carolina  was  not 
much  divided — she  voted  for  VanBuren.  In  1840,  the  Whig 
party  had  become  very  formidable.  They  nominated  for  the 
Presidency  that  year,  William  Henry  Harrison,  of  Ohio,  and 
for  the  Vice-Presidency,  John  Tyler,  of  Virginia.  The  Demo- 
crats nominated  Martin  VanBuren,  of  New  York,  for  a  second 
term,  and  Richard  M.  Johnson,  for  the  Vice-Presidency.  This 
campaign  was  called  the  "Log  Cabin,  Hard  Cider,  Coonskin 
and  Red  Pepper"  campaign.  In  Nashville,  Tenn.,  they  actU'-* 
ally  built  a  log  cabin,  put  it  on  wheels,  with  a  barrel  of  hard 
cider  planted  in  the  top  of  it,  a  picture  of  their  candidate  pic- 
tured on  it  astraddle  of  the  barrel  with  a  quill  in  his  mouth 
sucking  the  cider  from  the  bung  of  the  barrel ;  coon-skins  and 
red  pepper  were  hung  all  round  the  cabin,  and  the  whole  drawn 
through  the  streets  of  Nashville  by  four  white  horses.  It  was 
said  in  the  newspapers  of  the  day  that  Parson  Brownlow,  a 
Methodist  preacher,  and  editor  of  a  leading  newspaper  in 
Nashville,  rode  on  top  of  the  cabin,  sucking  cider  out  of  the 
barrel  with  a  quill,  and  gnawing  the  coon-skins — ^thus  parading 
himself  and  his  candidates  through  that  refined  city.  And 
such  emblems  and  "clap-trap"  as  that  carried  the  election,  not 
only  in  Tennessee,  but  in  the  United  States.  William  Henry 
Harrison  was,  doubtless,  a  patriot  and  good  man.  The  whole 
thing  was  gotten  up,  promulgated  and  carried  through  by  his 
partisans,  who  were  hungry  for  the  "plums"  of  Federal  pat- 
ronage. Unfortunately  for  the  Whig  party.  President  Harri- 
son lived  only  a  month  after  his  inauguration,  and  John  Tyler, 
the  Vice-President,  became  President,  and  proved  to  be  about 
as  good  a  Democrat  as  most  public  men  belonging  to  the  party! 
It  is  said  that  history  repeats  itself.  John  Tyler  was  with  the 
Whig  party  only  on  one  question,  that  of  internal  improvements 
by  the  government,  and  was  nominated  for  the  Vice-Presidiency 
as  a  matter  of  policy — that  is,  to  carry  Virginia,  then  a  large 
State,  in  the  electoral  college.  Virginia  then  included  what  is 
now  West  Virginia.     So  in  1864,  during  the  war,  the  Repub- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  87 

licans  nominated  Andrew  Johnson,  a  war  Democrat,  for  the 
Vice-Presidency  on  the  ticket  with  Abraham  Lincoln,  as  a 
matter  of  policy  to  mollify  the  South  and  to  carry  not  only 
Tennessee,  Johnson's  State,  but  perhaps  other  Democratic 
States,  against  George  B.  McClellan,  the  Democratic  candidate. 
They  succeeded  in  the  election,  but  Lincoln  lived  oflly  a  little 
over  a  month  after  inauguration,  and  Andirew  Johnson  became 
President.  The  Republican  Congress  was  caught  just  like  the 
Whig  Congress,  elected  in  1840,  was  by  John  Tyler.  Tyler 
vetoed  the  favorite  Acts  of  the  Congress  of  1841-2,  and  the 
party  in  Congress  were  not  strong  enoug'h  to  pass  them'  over 
the  veto  by  a  two-thirds  vote.  Not  so  in  Andrew  Johnson's 
case.  He  vetoed  the  Reconstruction  Acts  of  Congress,  and 
the  Republicans  were  strong  enough  to  pass  them  over  the 
veto  by  a  two-thirds  majority.  Johnson  did  all  he  could  to 
save  the  South  from  the  horrors  of  reconstruction,  but  the 
Congress  was  too  strong  for  him.  They  tried  to  impeach  him, 
and  came  within  one  vote  of  succeeding  in  their  mad  effort. 
Andrew  Johnson  was  far  from  being  the  man  the  South 
would  have  wanted  for  President.  The  South,  however,  owes 
him  a  debt  of  gratitude,  though  in  his  grave,  for  what  he 
strove  to  do  in  her  favor.  Too  many  Thad.  Stevens  then  in 
Congress,  whose  hearts  were  bent  on  revenge. 

In  the  Log  Cabiji,  Coon-skin  and  Red  Pepper  campaign  of 
1840,  Marion  District  was  about  equally  divided  between  the 
Democrats  and  the  Whigs.  There  were  strong  men  on  both 
sides.  The  Whig  candidates  were,  for  the  State  Senate,  Ben- 
jamin Cause,  and  for  the  House,  Davidi  Palmer,  Henry  Davis 
and  Dr.  Daniel  Gilchrist.  The  Democratic  candidates  were, 
for  the  Senate,  Addison  L.  Scarborough,  and  for  the  House, 
John  C.  Bethea,  Hugh  Godbold  and  William  T.  Wilson.  The 
people  were  wrought  up  to  the  highest  point.  VanBuren's 
administration  of  the  government  was  too  extravagant.  His 
administration  of  the  government  had  cost  on  an  average 
$60,000,000  a  year.  That  was  paraded  in  the  newspapers  and 
all  through  the  country  as  being  enormous.  Another  fad  cir- 
culated was  that  he  slept  on  a  $1,500  bedstead,  and  had  other 
conveniences  in  proportion.  When,  now  sixty  years  after  that 
period,  an  administration  of  the  government  costs  on  an  aver- 
7 


88  A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY. 

age  of  $500,000,000  a  year,  when  not  engaged  in  a  foreign 
war.  Our  people  are  standing  all  this  reckless  expenditure  of 
money  now,  when  our  fathers  and  grand-fathers  could  not  stand 
$60,000,000.  President  VanBuren's  extravagant  administra- 
tion, together  with  the  coon-skin  and  'hard  cider  "clap-trap," 
hurled  VanBuren  from  power.  What  shall  be  done  now  in  the 
campaign  of  1900?  In  1840,  the  result  in  Marion  District  was 
the  election  of  Benjamin  Gause  to  the  Senate  by  eighteen  votes ; 
David  Palmer,  Henry  Davis  and  John  C.  Bethea  were  elected 
to  the  House.  Among  the  six  candidates  for  Representatives, 
there  were  not  fifty  votes  between  the  highest  and  the  lowest 
of  the  six. 

In  the  campaign  of  1844,  the  Whigs  and  Democrats  had 
another  contest  in  Marion  District.  The  respective  parties  had 
each  its  candidate  for  the  Presidency.  James  K.  Polk  headed 
the  Democratic  party,  and  Henry  Clay  led  the  Whig  party. 
Polk  was  elected  President.  The  respective  parties  had  each 
its  candidates  in  Marion.  Ex-Governor  Dr.  B.  K.  Henagan 
was  the  Democratic  candidate  for  the  Senate ;  John  C.  Bethea, 
Barfield  Moody  and  Chapman  J.  Crawford  were  the  Democratic 
candidates  for  the  House  of  Representatives.  Senator  Benja- 
min Gause  was  a  candidate  for  re-election  to  the  Senate  as  the 
Whig  candidate;  William  H.  Grice,  John  Woodberry  and  N. 
Philips,  Esq.,  were  the  Whig  candidates  for  the  House.  The 
campaign  was  conducted  with  spirit  and  dogged  determina- 
tion— every  exertion  jx)ssible  was  made  by  each  party  for 
success.  The  result  was  that  the  Democratic  ticket  carried 
the  county  by  a  majority  of  200  or  more.  The  writer  remem- 
bers that  Henagan's  majority  over  Gause  was  204.  The 
campaign  that  year  (1844)  lacked  the  "Coon-skin  and  Red 
Pepper"  clap-trap  of  1840  to  give  it  success.  The  class  of  men 
carried  by  such  clap-trap  in  1840  were  generally  such  as  could 
be  swerved  and  seduced  from  that  path  by  silent  and  effective 
influences,  no  doubt  used,  which  were  powerless  in  1844.  The 
writer  remembers  hearing  a  remark  made  by  Colonel  W.  H. 
Grice,  one  of  the  defeated  candidates  for  the  House,  at  Marion 
on  the  second  day  of  the  election,  when  it  was  ascertained 
that  the  Democratic  ticket  was  elected  entire,  to  this  effect: 
That  such  a  thing  had  never  .before  been  beard  of — ^the  entire 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  89 

delegation  from  a  district.  Senator  and  Representatives,  all  be- 
longed to  one  family.  The  Senator,  Dr.  B.  K.  Henagan,  and 
Representatives,  Bethea,  Moody  and  Crawford,  were  all  con- 
nected with  each  other  by  blood  or  marriage.  The  wife  of 
Barfield  Moody  was  the  aunt  of  John  C.  Bethea  and  Chapman 
J.  Crawford,  Bethea  and  Crawford  were  first  cousins ;  Craw- 
ford's father  and  Bethea's  mother  were  brother  and  sister, 
and  Moody's  wife  was  a  sister  of  Crawford^'s  father  and  also 
of  John  C.  Bethea's  mother ;  Bethea's  name  was  John  Crawford 
Bethea.  The  Senator-elect,  Dr.  B.  K.  Henagan's,  mother  was 
a  Bethea.  The  result  of  the  election  verified  Colonel  Grice's 
remark;  yet  it  was  not  a  precoflcerted  arrangement, — it  was 
only  a  happen  so. 

The  election  laws,  at  that  time  and  for  years  before  and  after 
until  the  war,  providted  that  elections  should  be  held  one  day  at 
each  poll,  including  the  court  house  poll,  in  the  district,  and  on 
the  next  day  the  election  should  continue  to  be  held  at  the 
court  house.  That  on  the  second  day,  the  managers  from  the 
out  or  country  polls,  or  a  majority  of  them,  were  required  to 
carry  in  the  votes  from  the  out  polls,  respectively,  to  be  counted 
whilst  the  election  was  going  at  the  court  house  poll,  and  at  the 
close  of  the  court  house  poll  it  was  counted  and  the  result  for 
the  whole  district  was  then  declared.  The  practical  operation 
of  this  arrangement  of  the  election  laws  of  the  State  opened 
the  door  to  all  sorts  of  combinations  on  the  second  day  at  the 
court  house  poll.  Many  times  the  candidate  or  candidates 
elected  on  the  first  day  of  election  were  beaten  on  the  second 
day.  Not  more  than  half  the  votes  would  be  polled  at  the 
court  house  on  the  first  day,  and  many  from  the  out  polls  would 
not  vote  the  first  day,  but  would  go  to  Marion  the  second  day, 
and  after  hearing  from,  perhaps,  all  the  polls  in  the  district 
as  to  how  the  election  went  the  day  'before,  were  ready  to  form 
combinations  to  elect  or  to  defeat  certain  -candidates,  and  vote 
accordingly.  A  heavy  vote  was  thereby  cast  on  the  second 
day.  It  was  not  then,  as  now,  an  elector  could  vote  at  any 
precinct  in  the  county,  provided  he  could  identify  himself  to 
the  satisfaction  of  the  managers,  and  take  the  required  oath 
that  he  had  not  voted  in  the  election  at  any  other  voting  pre- 
cinct.    The  having  one  day's  election  at  the  out  polls  and  two 


90  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

at  the  court  house,  was  wrong  in  policy,  as  it  often  operated  to 
defeat  the  will  of  the  people;  but  allowing  an  elector  to  vote 
at  any  poll  in  the  district,  wherever  he  might  happen  to  be 
on  day  of  election,  was  right  and  good  policy,  and  ought  to  be 
so  now  in  1900,  provided  he  showed  his  registration  certificate 
and  takes  the  required  oath.  And  it  ought  to  be  extended 
further.  An  elector  ought  to  be  allowed  to  vote  at  any  precinct 
in  the  State  for  Governor  and  other  State  officers,  and  for  a 
Representative  in  Congress  at  any  voting  precinct  in  his  Con- 
gressional District,  provided  he  identifies  himself  to  the  satis- 
faction of  the  managers  by  the  production  of  his  registration 
certificate  and  by  other  evidences,  and  takes  the  required  oath. 
It  often  happens  that  a  man's  business  or  family  necessities 
compel  him  on  day  of  election  to  be  somewhere  else  other  than 
at  his  own  poll.  If  so,  by  the  law  as  it  now  is,  he  is  disfran- 
chised, he  is  deprived  of  his  right  to  vote.  Our  election  and 
registration  laws  ought  to  be  amended  so  as  to  avoid  such  dis- 
franchisement. Every  man  ought  to  have,  and  does  have,  the 
right  to  have  his  voice  in  choosing  the  makers  and  adtainistra- 
tors  of  the  law  under  which  he  lives,- unless  by  crime  or  other 
disability  he  has  forfeited  that  rig'ht. 

After  the  campaign  of  1844,  there  was  a  lull  in  party  strife, 
and  each  party  seemed  to  merge  into  the  other  party ;  discrimi- 
nation ceased  and  men  were  seemingly  elected  to  office  without 
any  reference  to  past  party  affiliations  till  1851  and  1852.  In 
1 85 1,  it  was  proposed  to  hold  a  Convention  of  the  Southern 
or  slave-holding  States  at  Montgomery,  Ala.,  to  consult  as  to 
the  most  advisable  course  to  protect  themselves  against  the 
aggressions  of  the  North  on  the  institution  of  slavery.  South 
Carolina  was  for  separate  State  action,  whether  any  other  State 
joinedi,in  or  not.  When  I  say  South  Carolina  was  for  separate 
State  action,  I  mean  that  was  the  proposition — Separate  State 
Secession  or  Co-operate  Secession — Secession  or  Co-operation. 
A  popular  election  was  held  to  elect  delegates  to  the  proposed 
Convention  at  Montgomery,  Ala.  It  aroused  a  furor  in  the 
State.  Excitement  and  strife  permeated  the  whole  State,  from 
the  mountains  to  the  seaboard.  The  Co-operation  party,  as  it 
was  called,  was  in  favor  of  secession,  provided  they  could  get 
the  co-operation  of  the  other  slave  States,  or  a  majority  of 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  91 

them;  the  Separate  State  Action  party  were  in  favor  of  the 
secession  of  South  Carolina,  Virhether  any  other  Southern  State 
seceded  or  not.  Each  party  put  out  their  respective  candidates 
for  delegates.  T'he  contest  was  bitter  and  strong ;  animos'ities 
were  engendered,  party  feeling  was  strained  to  its  utmost 
tension.  I  do  not  recollect  who  the  respective  candidates  were. 
The  Co-operation  party  carried  the  district  by  thirty-five 
majority,  and  that  party  carried  the  State  by  a  considerable 
majority.  The  Montgomery  Convention  was  never  held,  and 
thus  the  matter  ended;  but  the  feelings,  the  animosities  and 
jealousies  engendered  and  aroused  were  not  allayed,  or  seem- 
ingly modified,  but  continued  through  the  next  year,  1852,  as 
bitter  and  unrelenting  as  ever.  Each  party  was  unwilling  to 
trust  the  dther,  and  each  party  had  out  its  candidates  'for  the 
Senate  and  House  the  next  year,  1852,  in  this,  Marion  District, 
and  it  was  so  throughout  the  State.  Dr.  Robert  Harllee  was 
the  candidate  of  the  Secession  party  for  the  Senate,  and  C.  J. 
Crawford  was  the  candidate  of  the  Co-operation  party  for  the 
same  office.  I  do  not  remember  the  names  of  the  candidates 
for  the  House.  Dr.  Harllee  was  elected  to  the  Senate  over 
Crawford  by  171  majority.  Dr.  William  R.  Johnson,  Colonel 
W.  W.  Durant  'and  William  S.  MuUins  were  elected  to  the 
House  of  Representatives.  Dr.  Johnson  was  Secessionist, 
Durant  and  Mullins  were  Co-operationists.  The  Secession 
party  had  four  candidates  for  the  House  to  carry,  and  hence 
they  elected  but  one  of  their  ticket,  Dr.  Johnson.  The  bitter- 
ness engendered  by  the  campaign  gradually  cooled  down,  and 
harmony  and  good  feeling  were  restored.  The  party  for 
Separate  State  Action  believed  and  felt  assured  that  if  South 
Carolina  acted  alone,  the  other  slave  States  would  of  necessity 
follow.  The  Co-operation  party  thought  otherwise — that 
South  Carolina  should  act  only  in  conjunction  with  the  other 
slave  States.  Both  parties,  doubtless,  were  honest.  One 
party  wanted  to  act  at  once,  the  other  party  wanted'to  go  slow, 
being  more  cautious.  The  writer  believes  that  if  we  had  acted 
then,  either  separately  or  unitedly,  there  would  have  been  no 
attempt  at  coercion.  The  anti-slavery  feeling  of  the  North 
was  not  then  as  strong  as  it  was  in  i860  and  1861.  It  was 
intensified  and  became  more  fanatical  in  each  succeeding  year 


92  A  HISTORY  0]f  MARION  COUNTY. 

from  1852  to  i860.  Franklin  Pierce  was  elected  President  in 
1852,  and  a  Congress  in  accord  with  the  views  of  Pierce.  In- 
stead of  coercion,  some  scheme  of  compromise  would  have  been 
suggested  and  adopted,  by  which  war  would  have  then  been 
averted,  at  least  for  a  time,  and  maybe  for  all  time.  Slavery 
was  bound  to  go,  sooner  or  later,  either  peacefully  or  by  the 
scourge  of  war.  After  185 1  and  1852,  there  were  no  questions 
or  issues  to  divide  our  people  in  South  Carolina.  But  for  the 
constant  agitation  of  the  slavery  question  in  Congress,  the 
people  of  the  State  were  quiet  and  at  ease.  No  division  among 
themselves,  nothing  to  disturb  their  equanimity  of  a  political 
character. 

Marion  District,  during  the  last  decade  before  the  war  be- 
tween the  States,  was  steadily  progressing  on  the  different  lines 
of  civilized  life  to  that  proud  eminence  to  which  she  has  since 
attained,  and  which  she  now  occupies.  When  the  tocsin  of 
war  was  sounded,  she  responded  to  the  call  of  her  section  with 
an  alacrity  and  an  enthusiasm  not  excelled  by,  perhaps,  any 
district  in  the  State.  However  much  she  may  have  heretofore 
been  divided  and  torn  by  factional  issues  and  factional  strife, 
she  was  almost  a  solid  unit  for  the  war,  as  the  rolls  of  the 
companies  from  Marion  District  will  show,  hereinafter  pub- 
lished. It  is  true,  there  were  a  few  5n  Maple  Swamp  and  in 
the  lower  part  of  Hillsboro  Township,  and  perhaps  a  few  in 
the  Great  Pee  Dee  slashes  in  Kirby  Township,  who  failed  and 
refused  to  respond  to  their  country's  call,  but  the  great  bulk 
of  the  young  and  middle-aged,  and  some  passed  the  age  of 
active  military  service,  obeyed  their  country's  call  from  motives 
of  patriotism,  and  went  to  whatever  place  they  were  assigned, 
and  wherever  the  exigencies  of  the  times  and  service  required, 
and  sealed  and  demonstrated  their  devotion  to  their  country's 
cause  with  their  life's  blood.  Many  left  home  and  family  and 
friends,  never  to  return.  The  casualties  of  our  late  war  with 
Spain  and  now  going  on  in  the  Philippines,  are  but  a  bagatelle 
to  the  casualties  in  the  Confederate  War.  In  some  of  the  great 
battles  in  Virginia  and  elsewhere,  the  casualties  on  each  side  ran 
up  into  the  thousands.  The  casualties  were  generally  much 
greater  in  the  Federal  army  than  in  the  Confederate  army.  All 
were  Americans — all  had  learned  the  arts  of  warfare  in  the 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  93 

same  school,  and  why  should  the  casualties  have  been  greater 
in  the  Northern  army  than  in  the  Southern?  The  Northern 
army  had  greatly  the  advantage  in  numbers,  in  the  character 
and  calibre  of  their  arms,  in  equipment  of  their  soldiers  and  in 
their  means  and  resources  of  every  kind  for  successful  war. 
It  can  be  accounted  for  only  upon  the  assumption  that  the 
Southern  people  as  a  whole  have  more  pluck,  more  indomitable 
courage,  more  intrepidity  and  more  diogged  endurance  than 
has  the  Northern  people.  With  equal  means,  equal  numbers 
and  resources,  the  South  would  have  won,  and  the  war  could 
not  have  lasted  more  than  two  years.  Above  all,  our  cause 
was  just;  the  slavery  question,  although  the  proximate  cause 
of  the  war,  was  subordinate  to  the  great  cause  of  the  right  of 
self-government,  self-control.  The  Southern  people  were  and 
are  a  homogeneous  people,  a  chivalrous  people — more  of  the 
Cavalier  than  the  Puritan  or  Round-head,  and  under  equal 
conditions  make  the  best  soldiers.  Hence  it  was  that  the  South 
resisted  the  overpowering  forces  of  the  North  so  successfully 
for  so  long  a  period — four  years.  The  North  never  did  whip 
the  South  by  combat  on  the  field,  but  by  exhausting  us  and  our 
resources.  The  world's  history  does  not  furnish  a  single 
example  of  such  heroic  endurance  against  such  odds  so  suc- 
cessfully for  so  long  a  time,  and  Marion  District  did  her  full 
share  in  every  way  during  the  unparalleled  struggle.  She  may 
truthfully  say,  magna  pars  fui,  to  the  full  extent  of  her  capa- 
bilities. The  war  over,  her  men  who  had  escaped  the  casualties 
and  diseases  and  deaths  incident  and  consequent  upon  it, 
having  lost  all,  save  honor,  returned  to  their  desolated  and 
impoverished  homes,  with  nothing  to  begin  life  again  but 
strong  arms  and  stout  hearts.  They  found  property  gone  (and 
what  little  remained  had  but  little  value),  destitute  homes, 
ragged  children,  in  many  cases  no  bread  and  other  necessaries 
of  life,  and  nothing  to  buy  with.  Their  condition  in  many 
instances  was  deplorable  indeed.  Their  poverty  and  want  were 
more  appalling  than  the  enemy  they  had  faced  for  four  long 
years.  The  prospect  foe  living,  for  recuperation,  was  most 
gloomy.  Our  people,  nothing  daunted,  went  to  work  with 
such  scanty  means  as  they  had  or  could  procure,  entered  the 
school  of  hardship  and  self-denial  with  a  hearty  good  will,  and 


94  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

in  a  comparatively  short  time  acquired  the  means  necessary  to 
supply  their  natural  needs,  and  continuing  to  ply  their  energies 
under  adverse  circumstances,  the  horrors  of  reconstruction 
under  an  insolent  soldiery,  the  people  of  the  district  gradiually 
recuperated,  and  not  only  supplied  natural  and  pressing  wants, 
but  after  reconstruction,  though  on  a  radical  basis,  began  to 
accumulate  the  means  of  life,*  as  well  as  many  of  its  comforts 
and  enjoyments,  and  occasionally  a  surplus.  Our  troubles  did 
not  end  by  reconstruction,  so-called,  and  the  State  Constitution 
of  1868.  The  institution  of  civil  government  did  not  displace 
the  military,  but  it  was  continued  for  eight  or  nine  years,  or  till 
April,  1877.  Before  every  election,  and  at  the  meeting  of  the 
Legislature,  so-called,  a  body  of  armed  soldiers  was  sent  here, 
for  the  purpose  of  intimidation,  and  to  awe  our  citizens  at  the 
polls  and,  as  the  "powers  that  be"  said,  to  protect  the  voters  of 
the  Republican  party  at  elections,  and  to  prevent  as  many 
Democrats  as  possible  from  exercising  their  right  to  vote.  And 
on  the  meeting  of  the  Legislature,  the  soldiers  were  the  door- 
keepers, and  allowed  no  one  to  enter,  as  a  member,  except  such 
as  were  known  Republicans;  and  some  from  counties,  for  in- 
stance, Horry  County,  where  after  the  first  three  or  four  years 
it  was  impossible  to  elect  a  Republican.  The  soldiers  were 
the  judges  of  the  election  and  election  returns,  and  were  the 
actual  returning  boards  of  both  county  and  State ;  were  judges 
of  not  only  the  election  of  members  to  the  House  and  Senate, 
but  also  of  their  qualifications ;  and  the  only  qualification  neces- 
sary for  admission  to  a  seat  in  either  House,  if  a  white  man, 
was  that  he  was  a  Republican,  a  "carpet-bagger"  or  "scala- 
wag ;"  if  a  negro,  that  his  skin  was  blac!k  or  tan  colored.  So 
far  as  the  negro  member  was  concerned,  he  was  nothing  more 
than  a  puppet  in  the  hands  of  those  who  led  and  controlled  the 
body,  and  at  least  five-sixths  of  the  members  were  negroes. 
There  were  a  few  leading  negroes,  such  as  W.  J.  Whipper,  of 
Beaufort,  Beverly  Nash,  of  Richland,  S.  A.  Swails,  of  Wil- 
liamsburg, Henry  E.  Hayne,  of  Marion,  H.  J.  Maxwell,  of 
Marlborough,  and  some  other  negroes,  who  were  the  lieuten- 
ants of  such  men  as  Scott,  Moses,  Leslie,  John  J.  Patterson,  H. 
C.  Corbin  and  the  Mackeys,  and  perhaps  some  others.  These 
latter  did  the  planning  as  to  when  and  how  to  steal,  and  their 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  95 

lieutenants  put  the  plans  into  execution.  The  ignorant  rabble 
in  the  Legislature  were  voted  as  occasion  might  require.  Such 
a  carnival  of  plunder,  under  the  forms  of  law,  was  never  wit- 
nessed before.  Open  and  shameless  bribery  was  the  order  of 
the  day,  and  the  bribes  were  paid  from  the  pubHc  treasury. 
Every  man  had  his  price — verifying  the  assertion  of  Robert 
Walpole,  of  England.  The  'bribes  paid  in  South  Carolina  were 
from  $S,ooo  down  to  $200.  Every  man  was  paid  according  to 
his  supposed  influence.  Henry  E.  Hayne,  first  a  Senator  from 
Marion  County,  and  then  Secretary  of  State,  built  a  fine  house 
in  Marion,  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Mr.  James  Baker,  and 
had  it  finely  furnished.  Whilst  he  was  hauling  up  the  furni- 
ture from  the  depot  at  Marion,  the  writer  heard  him  say  that  it 
(the  furniture)  was  a  present  to  his  mother  from  a  friend  of 
hers.  Each  one  of  those  mentioned  above,  including  B.  F. 
Whittemore,  a  Massachusetts  carpet-bagger,  representing  Dar- 
lington County  in  the  Senate,  received  $5,000;  others  $2,000, 
$1,000,  $500  and  $200.  I  would  mention  the  names  of  some 
of  the  scalawags  in  Marion,  but  out  of  respect  to  the  families 
or  descendants  of  some  of  them,  the  writer  forbears,  knowing 
that  the  present  generation'  is  not  responsible  for  what  was 
then  done. 

When  the  white  people,  the  taxpayers  of  the  State,  got  pos- 
session of  the  Legislature  and  the  executive  departments  of  the 
government  by  the  election  in  1876  (ever  to  be  remembered) , 
a  Fraud  Commission  was  appointed  to  investigate  and  unearth 
the  frauds  and  stealage  for  the  then  past  eight  years.  One 
Josephus  Woodruff,  who  had  been  and  was  Clerk  of  the  Senate, 
turned  evidence  against  his  party,  or  against  the  party  who 
had  been  in  power.  It  seems  he  kept  a  little  book,  called  at  the 
time  a  "whirligig  book,"  in  which  many  of  the  stealings  were 
entered — I  suppose  it  was  stenographically  entered — each 
man's  name,  and  how  much  he  was  paid,  and  what  he  had 
been  paid.  When  that  Committee  made  its-  report,  our  own 
people  were  astonished.  They  knew  that  fraud  and  stealing 
had  been  going  on,  but  to  what  extent  was  unknown.  A  stam- 
pede from  the  State  of  many  of  the  leaders,  white  and  colored, 
took  place  at  once.  Whittemore,  then  in  the  State  Senate  from 
Darlington,  fled  never  to  return ;  the  same  of  Moses  ( F.  J.,  Jr. ) , 


96  A  HISTORY  Of  MARION  COUNTY. 

R.  K.  Scott,  H.  E.  Hayne,  S.  A.  Swails,  and',  in  short,  the 
whole  gang  of  the  leaders,  the  biggest  rogues,  fled  the  State, 
and  in  a  few  months  time  they  were  all  gone.  "A  guilty  con- 
science makes  cowards  of  us  all."  Henry  E.  Hayne  left  Co- 
lumbia and  went  down  to  Marion,  his  home,  and  where  his 
mother  lived,  and  was  so  badly  frightened  that  he  did  not 
spend  the  night  there,  but  left  the  same  night  and,  as  the  writer 
understands  it,,  has  never  returned.  "He  left  his  country  'for 
his  country's  good."  We  can  spare  him.  The  particular 
stealings  aibov^  mentioned  were  not  all,  by  many,  that  occurred 
during  the  eight  years  of  radical  rule  and  high  carnival.  These 
were  the  bribes  given  and  taken  to  pass  a  certain  financial 
scheme  by  which  the  State  was  robbed  and  to  be  robbed  of 
millions.  In  the  early  part  of  their  career  they  did  not  seem 
so  rapacious^ — ^more  modest  in  their  actings  and  doings ;  but  as 
time  went  on,  the  disguise  was  thrown  off,  and  they  became 
familiar  with  crime  and  theft;  and  growing  more  rapacious, 
they  did  not  hesitate  to  take  it  by  thousands,  when  at  first  they 
were  afraid  of  being  caught,  and  being  somewhat  squeamish, 
they  would  take  only  by  littles,  by  hundreds ;  now  in  or  near 
the  end  of  their  reign,  they  could  and  did  take  it  by  thousands ; 
and  no  doubt  thinking  that  their  hold  on  the  State  could  not  be 
broken — that  their  lease  of  power  was  well  secured  to  them  for 
all  time  to  come,  or  at  least  for  a  long  time — ^they  were  the 
more  ready  to  embark  into  stealing  enterprises  on  a  large  scale. 
Hence  this  voracious  greed  for  money  could  not  be  satiated 
with  small  amounts.  It  took  more  and  more  to  satisfy  them. 
Wresting  the  State  from  them  in  1876  was  a  complete  surprise 
to  them — they  had  no  idea  of  defeat.  On  the  15th  August, 
1876,  D.  H.  Chamberlain,  their  candidate  for  Gtovernor,  said  in 
a  public  speech  in  Marion  that  day,  that  the  Republican  party 
would  carry  the  State  by  40,000  majority.  In  other  words, 
that  be  would  be  elected  by  that  majority.  There  are  many 
now  living  who  heard  him  say  it.  Hence  the  Hampton  cam- 
paign success  was  a  great  and  fatal  surprise  to  them. 

In  1868,  at  the  first  election  under  the  Constitution  of  that 
year,  Henry  E.  Hayne,  a  mulatto  negro,  was  elected  to  the 
State  Senate.  I  am  not  certain  as  to  who  were  elected  as 
Representatives,  but  think  it  was  B.  E.  Thompson,  Ebben  Hays 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  97 

(white)  and  W.  S.  Collins  (white) ;  the  white  men  were  called 
scalawags.  In  1870,  only  Representatives  were  elected.  The 
Democrats  put  out  a  ticket  that  year  and  succeeded  in  electing 
it,  to  wit :  Rev.  Joel  Allen,  F.  A.  Miles,  Dr.  Thomas  R.  Bass 
and  John  C.  Sellers.  They  were  elected  by  a  majority  of  from 
150  to  180.  They  would,  doubtless,  have  been  counted  out 
by  the  Returning  Board  for  the  county,  had  they  not  been  put 
in  fear.  Some  half  dozen  or  more  of  our  citizens,  headed  by 
Major  S.  A.  Durham,  waited  upon  R.  F.  Graham,  C.  Smith 
and  others,  leading  lights  of  the  Radical  party,  the  night  before 
the  returns  of  election  were  to  'be  canvassed  the  next  day,  and 
told  them  that  they  knew  the  Democratic  ticket  entire  was 
elected,  and  if  they  were  counted  out,  the  lives  of  the  canvassers 
would  be  taken  at  once.  Major  Durham  and  his  associates 
were  appointed  a  committee  to  wait  on  the  Board  of  Canvass- 
ers, and)  so  say  to  them,  by  an  impromptu  meeting  of  citizens 
in  the  town  of  Marion.  This  prompt  action  on  the  part  of  the 
Democrats  had  the  desired  effect,  and  thus  saved  Democratic 
representation  to  and  from  the  county.  Our  Representatives 
could  do  nothing  in  the  I,egislature  when  they  were  there. 
They  could  only  watch  the  Radicals  and  block,  as  far  as  pos- 
sible, any  hurtful  legislation  atteriipted.  There  were  only 
about  twenty  Democrats  in  that  Legislature. 

In  1872,  the  Democrats  and  Republicans  each  had  their 
tickets  in  the  field  for  Marion  County.  A  strong  effort  was 
made,  but  the  Republicans  having  the  whole  machinery  of  elec- 
tion in  their  hands,  succeeded  by  fraud  and  by  counting  in  their 
candidates.  Williaan  S.  MuUins  was  the  candidate  for  the 
Senate  on  the  part  of  the  Democrats,  and  C.  Smith  on  the 
part  of  the  Radicals.  Henry  E.  Hayne,  the  former  Senator, 
was  elected  that  year  Secretary  of  State.  The  Democrats 
elected  every  one  of  their  candidates,  but  they  were  all  counted 
out,  and  the  Radicals  counted  in.  Kukluxism  had  been  doing 
its  bloody  wt>rk  in  some  parts  of  the  State,  and  the  power  of 
the  United  States  was  being  invoked  to  suppress  and  punish 
it,  and  that  to  some  extent  awed  our  people  and  deterred  them 
from  going  as  far  in  1872  as  they  would  have  gone  in  1870. 
Hence  the  counting  out  of  our  candidates  in  1872  was  submit- 
ted to.     We  had  a  full  Radical  set  of  county  officers  and  Sena- 


98  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

tor  and  Representatives.  Incompetency  in  office  and  greed  for 
money  ruled  the  times.  Crime  was  everywhere  rampant,  not 
only  in  Marion  County,  but  throughout  the  State.  The  State 
was  called  the  "prostrate  State" — ^she  was  powerless  every- 
where. In  1872,  three  negroes,  Jonas  Deas,  Lawrence  Mills 
and  Enos  Reeves,  were  elected  County  Commissioners  for 
Marion  County.  Ignorant  and  corrupt,  they  knew  nothing 
whatever  about  the  duties  of  the  office,  nothing  about  finances, 
except  to  steal  them.  For  the  year  1874,  they  fixed  the  county 
taxes  so  high  that  they,  with  the  State  levy,  made  the  taxes  for 
Marion  County  $100,000,  whereas  they  should  not  have  ex- 
ceeded $40,000,  county  and  State.  In  consequence  of  which  a 
public  meeting  of  the  citizens  and  taxpayers  was  held  at  Marion 
on  salesday  in  January,  1874.  The  Legislature  was  then  in 
session ;  our  situation  was  discussed,  and  resulted  in  appointing 
a  committee  of  our  citizens  to  go  to  Columbia  and  memorialize 
the  Legislature  on  the  subject,  and  to  pray  that  body  for  relief. 
The  committee  appointed  to  perform  that  duty  was  comfK>sed  of 
Major  A.  J.  Shaw  (afterwards  Judge),  A.  Q.  McDuffie,  J.  M. 
Johnson,  T.  C.  Moody  and  W.  W.  Sellers.  The  committee  re- 
paired to  Columbia.  We  consulted  our  own  delegation  and  the 
leaders,  or  some  of  them,  in  the  House  and  Senate,  and  heard 
their  suggestions.  We  drew  up  a  strong  memorial  for  the 
House  and  Senate,  setting  forth  our  grievances  and  the  relief 
sought,  in  a  respectful  manner,  avoiding  or  refraining  from 
saying  anything  that  would  give  offence  or  exhibit  any  partisan 
feeling — remembering  the  old  adage,  "that  when  your  hand 
is  in  the  lion's  mouth,  it  won't  do  to  twist  his  tail."  We  had 
the  memorial  printed  and  placed  copies  in  the  hands  of  our 
delegation,  and  they  were  introduced  simultaneously  into  the 
House  and  Senate,  and  were  referred  to  the  respective  Judici- 
ary Committees  of  the  House  and  Senate.  By  appointment 
of  those  Committees  we  went  before  them  and  were  courteously 
received.  Major  A.  J.  Shaw,  the  Chairman  of  our  committee, 
was  our  spokesman  before  the  Judiciary  Committees.  The  facts 
were  very  fully  stated,  both  in  the  memorials  and  in  the  state- 
ments made  by  Major  Shaw.  We  remained  in  Columbia  about 
a  week,  talking  with  different  members  of  other  delegations 
and  with  our  own,  when  we  left  and  returned  home,  feeling 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  99 

very  well  assured  that  our  mission  there  woflld  be  successful. 
The  final  result  was  the  passing  of  an  Act  for  our  relief,  and 
a  reduction  was  made  of  the  taxes  for  that  year  from  fifty  to 
sixty  per  cent.,  and  was  so  arranged  as  to  benefit  only  those 
taxpayers  whose  property  was  valued  too  high.  For  on  inspec- 
tion of  the  Auditor's  books,  there  were  those  whose  property 
was  not  valued  too  high  and,  of  course,  those  did  not  share  in 
the  reduction.  It  saved  some  of  our  people  a  great  deal,  while 
it  saved  to  others  less.  It  saved  to  General  William  Evans 
over  $200,  to  William  S.  EUerbe  near  $250 ;  one  Mr.  Sinclair 
(w^hose  first  name  is  not  remembeied)  was  assessed  at  $89 
amount  to  be  paid,  and;  by  the  reduction  made  it  was  less  than 
$30.  Thus  it  1-an,  some  saving  much  and  some  less.  All  this 
trouble  and  expense  were  incurred'  by  the  ignorance  and  incom- 
petency of  the  three  negro  County  Commissioners  for  the 
county,  and  it  is  not  improbable  that  they  desired  a  heavy 
collection  of  taxes  that  they  might  have  a  larger  pile  to  steal 
from.  This  is  inferred  from  the  fact  that  they  were  afterwards 
indicted  for  embezzlement  of  the  public  funds,  tried  by  a  Re- 
publican Court,  prosecuted!  by  a  Republican  Solicitor  and  a 
jury,  a  majority  of  whom  were  negroes,  and  were  convicted 
and  sentenced  to  terms,  each,  of  imprisonment  for  a  number 
of  months  not  now  remembered' — some  for  longer  terms  than 
others.  Jonas  Deas,  the  Chairman  of  the  Board,  got  the 
longest  term. 

In  1874,  there  was  a  sort  of  compromise  in  Marion  County 
between  the  parties,  by  which  the  white  people  of  the  county 
had  two  Representatives  and'  the  Republicans  two.  The  Rep- 
resentatives elected'  that  year  were  ex-Chancellor  W.  D.  John- 
son and  Colonel  R.  G.  Howard,  and  William  E.  Hayne  and 
Anthony  Howard — the  two  former  for  the  whites  and  the  two 
latter  for  the  Republicans.  During  that  legislative  term  Judge 
Green  (a  Republican)  died,  which  left  the  Third  Circuit  with- 
out a  Judge.  His  place  was  filled  by  the  election  of  A.  J. 
Shaw,  Esq.,  then  a  resident  citizen  of  Marion,  and  a  Democrat. 
The  Representatives  from  Marion  voted  for  him,  and  it  was 
said,  and  truthfully  said,  that  W.  E.  Hayne,  one  of  the  Repub- 
lican Representatives  from  Marion,  did  his  best  for  the  election 
of  Shaw  as  Judge,  and'  was  fully  appreciated  by  the  citizens  of 


100  A  HISTORY  OJP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Marion  and  of  the  Third  Judicial  Circuit,  and  also  by  the  people 
of  the  State.  Daniel  H.  Chamberlain,  Republican,  was  Gover- 
nor from  1874  to  1876,  and  during  his  term  as  Governor  there 
were  two  other  vacant  judgeships,  and  W.  J.  Whipper  and 
Franklin  J.  Moses,  Jr.,  were  elected  to  fill  those  vacancies,  at 
which  the  whole  State  was  very  much  mortified  and  humiliated ; 
but,  to  the  surprise  and  great  relief  of  the  white  people  of  the 
State,  Governor  Chamberlain  refused  to  commission  them,  on 
the  ground  of  their  want  of  moral  character,  and  thus  the  State 
was  saved  from  the  infliction.  Chamberlain  was  a  man  of 
courage,  otherwise  he  would  not  have  dared  to  refuse  their 
commissions.  Chamberlain  was  a  decent  Republican  and  a 
gentleman.  He  had  been  first  elected  Attorney  tieneral  of  the 
State  and  then  Governor  by  the  Republican  party.  It  took 
courage  to  oppose  the  will  of  the  Legislature  expressed  in  the 
election  of  said  men  as  Judges.  Very  few  in  the  party,  if  any, 
would  have  thus  flown  in  the  face  of  the  party  as  Chamberlain 
did.  He  was  a  Northern  man,  a  graduate  of  Yale  College,  a 
fine  scholar  and  a  brainy  man.  He  did  many  things  while 
Governor  which  the  white  people  favored,  and  by  which  he 
ingratiated  himself  into  the  favor  of  many  of  our  good  and 
leading  men.  In  the  campaign  of  1876,  Chamberlain  was 
again  nominated  by  the  Republicans  for  a  second  term  as  Gov- 
ernor. The  people  of  the  State  were  sick  and  tired  of  Radical 
carpet-bag  rule,  and  anxious  to  make  the  fight  for  its  over- 
throw. Many  good  men  in  the  State  were  fearful  that  if  the 
fight  was  made  that  it  would  fail,  and  our  condition  would 
thereby  be  madte  more  intolerable;  that  as  Chamberlain  had 
made  a  pretty  good  Governor,  we  had  better  acquiesce  in  his 
nomination  and  election,  than  to  run  the  risk.  This  was  the 
idea  of  many  very  good  men,  who  were  opposed  to  making  the 
contest.  "The  Straightouts,"  as  they  were  called,  were  for 
making  the  contest,  and  gain  all  or  lose  all ;  that  if  they  were 
beaten,  it  could  not  and  would  not  make  our  condition  any 
worse.  Strong  men  were  on  each  side  of  the  question.  A 
Democratic  State  Convention  was  called  to  meet  in  Columbia 
on  15th  August,  1876.  Each  and  every  county  in  the  State 
was  represented  in  the  Convention,  and  the  election  of  a  Chair- 
man or  President  of  the  Convention  was  made  the  test  of  the 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  101 

Strength  of  the  respective  sides.  The  "Straightouts"  nomi- 
nated General  W.  W.  Harllee,  of  Marion,  for  .Chairman,  and 
the  Chamberlain  men  nominated  C.  H.  Simonton,  of  Charles- 
ton (now  Judge),  for  Chairman.  Upon  a  strict  party  vote. 
General  Harllee  was  elected  Chairman  by  thirteen  majority. 
The  Convention  made  nominations  for  Governor,  Lieutenant- 
Governor  and  State  officers,  including  Solicitors,  and  perhaps 
Congressmen.  General  Wade  Hampton  was  nominated  for 
Governor  and  W.  D.  Simpson  for  Lieutenant-Governor.  The 
Chamberlain  men  wheeled  right  into  line.  They  were  just  as 
good  men  as  the  "Straightouts,"  only  were  not  as  sanguine  as 
to  results  as  were  the  "Straightouts."  The  delegation  from 
Marion  were  all  "Straightouts,"  the  only  county  in  the  Pee 
Dee  section  that  sent  such.  The  whole  State  was  a  unit,  and 
in  a  blaze  with  enthusiasm.  Never  before  within  the  memory 
of  the  writer  was  there  such  unanimity  and  such  united  effort. 
The  campaign  meetings  were  attended  by  the  whole  people 
throughout  the  State.  No  "coon-skins,  hard  cider  or  red 
pepper  clap-trap"  were  resorted  to.  Nothing  but  red  shirts, 
and  cavalcades,  and  bands  of  music,  marked  the  campaign.  To 
defeat  the  Radical  party  and  to  rescue  the  State  from  its 
clutches  were  the  aim  and  end  to  be  attained.  To  do  this,  it 
was  necessary  to  carry  a  great  portion  of  the  negro  vote,  and 
we  did  carry  enough  of  it  to  turn  the  scale.  A  red  shirt  was 
the  badge,  and  it  was  not  uncommon  in  Marion  to  see  in  the 
cavalcades  of  the  day  as  many  as  fifty  to  a  hundred  negroes, 
mounted  on  horseback  in  the  cavalcades,  with  red  shirts  on,  in 
procession  with  the  white  folks.  The  red  shirts  and  horses  in 
most  instances  were  furnished  them  by  the  white  people.  He 
was  then  committed  to  the  Hampton  ticket,  and  could  not  go 
back  on  it.  The  business  of  the  country  was  for  the  time  pretty 
much  abandoned.  Men  rode  day  and  night  with  the  red  shirt 
insignia  of  the  times  on.  No  doubt,  that  some  excesses  were 
committed  by  the  less  considerate  of  our  people,  but  not  often 
to  the  injury  of  the  common  cause.  Speech-making  to  gather- 
ings of  the  people  was  the  order  of  the  day,  and  they  were 
attended  by  the  people  in  crowds.  Never  before  in  the  memory 
of  man,  had  there  been  such  intensified  determination  mani- 
fested.    It  was  not  much  less  than  a  struggle  for  life.     Cham.- 


102  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

berlain,  the  Republican  candidate  for  Governor,  in  a  speech 
delivered  at  Marion  on  the  very  day  of  the  meeting  of  our 
Convention  in  Columbia,  said  that  he  would  carry  the  State  by 
40,000  majority,  we  suppose  he  was  about  correct,  counting 
every  n«gro  voter  a  Republican.  To  elect  our  ticket  we  must 
carry  with  us  more  than  20,000  negro  voters — and  we  think 
that  many  were  carried.  The  Hampton  ticket  was  on  white 
paper,  the  Radical  ticket  was  on  pink  colored  paper — all  kept 
secret  from  the  opposite  party.  A  few  days  before  the  election, 
Captain  Daggett,  of  Horry,  managed  to  get  hold  of  one  of  their 
tickets,  it  was  immediately  sent  to  Charleston  (News  and 
Courier),  thousand's  of  them  were  printed  with  the  names  of 
our  candidates  on  them,  and  on  the  morning  of  election  day 
they  were  at  every  voting  precinct  in  the  State.  That  discovery 
and  its  immediate  sequel  was  a  protection  to  the  negro  voter 
for  the  Hampton  ticket.  There  were  many  negroes  willing  to, 
and  wanted  to,  vote  that  ticket,  but  were  afraid  to  do  so — were 
afraid  of  their  own  people,  and  especially  of  their  neighbor- 
hood leaders ;  and  dbubtless  thousands  of  those  red  tickets,  with 
the  Hampton  candidates'  names  upon  them,  were  that  day  (7th 
November,  1876),  voted.  Those  red  tickets  turned  the  elec- 
tion, by  which  the  people  of  the  State  were  redeemed  from  the 
curse  and  hateful,  ruinous  rule  of  the  carpet-bagger,  scalawag 
and  the  ignorant  negro.  How  or  by  what  means  Captain 
Daggett  came  into  possession  of  that  red  ticket,  with  its  eagle 
emblem  upon  it,  we  do  not  know,  nor  do  we  care  to  know. 
The  tickets  were  sent  to  leaders  in  every  county  in  the  State, 
with  an  injunction  of  secrecy,  to  let  no  White  man  see  them  or 
to  get  hold  of  them.  No  doubt  Captain  Daggett  knew  the 
leaders  in  his  county,  Horry — ^he  knew  who  was  approachable 
and  'by  what  means.  He  accomplished  his  purposes  for  the 
good  of  his  adopted  State,  and  thereby  his  State  was  redeemed. 
To  him  should  be  erected  a  monument  in  the  hearts  of  the 
people  of  the  State  more  enduring  than  brass  and  marble.-  He 
was  afterwards  honored  by  the  citizens  of  Horry  with  a  seat 
in  the  State  Senate,  an  honor  not  at  all  commensurate  with  the 
daring  courage  which  animated  his  patriotic  bosom  to  do  or  to 
die.  Captain  Dagget  has  been  dead  for  several  years,  has 
gone  to  his  reward — "Requiescat  in  pace."    The  election  in  the 


A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY.  103 

State  for  Gtovernor  was  pretty  close.  Hampton's  majority,  as 
claimed  and  his  claim  was  sustained,  was  1,134.  Marion 
County  was  carried  overwhelmingly  for  the  Hampton  ticket. 
Marion  did  her  full  share  in  the  contest  and  she  did  no  more 
than  the  other  counties  in  the  State — all  were  strained  to  the 
utmost.  There  were  elected  in  the  State,  also,  majorities  for 
the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives.  There  were  bitter 
contests  in  the  Supreme  Court  for  the  offices.  Chamberlain  and 
State  officers  on  his  ticket  claimed  to  have  been  elected.  For  a 
While  there  were  two  Houses  of  Representatives,  each  organ- 
ized with  a  Speaker  and  other  officers.  Both  bodies,  for  two 
or  three  days,  had  possession  of  the. Representative  Hall,  both 
Speakers-elect  occupied  the  Speaker's  chair.  William  H. 
Wallace  was  Speaker  of  the  Democratic  House,  afterwards  a 
Judge.  E.  W.  M.  Mackey,  of  Charleston,  was  Speaker  of  the 
Republican  House.  They  clashed  and  blocked  each  other  for 
two  or  three  days  and  nights  without  leaving  the  House — took 
their  meals  there,  furnished  by  the  respective  friends  outsidte. 
In  the  meantime,  thousands  of  our  people  had  assembled  out- 
side the  State  House.  Every  man  was  well  armed  and  ready 
for  the  fray.  A  company  of  United  States  soldiers  were  sta- 
tioned in  Columbia,  and  a  detachment  of  them  was  in  the  State 
House  with  their  guns  and  bayonets.  General  Hampton  made 
a  speech  from  the  steps  of  the  Capitol  to  our  people,  in  whidi 
he  assured  them  he  would  be  Governor,  and  advised  that  they 
commit  no  act  of  violence  nor  provoke  any  hostilities.  His 
head  was  cool  and  level.  Such  was  the  confidence  the  people 
had  in  him,  they  took  his  advice  and  left  for  their  homes.  Our 
legislative  House  quietly  withdrew  from  the  Capitol  building 
and  went  to  some  other  house  in  town  and  held  their  sessions 
there.  The  Court  was  composed  of  F.  J.  Moses,  Chief  Justice, . 
a  Republican,  A.  J.  Willard,  a  carpet-bag  Judge,  though  an 
able  man,  and  J.  J.  Wright,  a  negro  Judge.  This  Court,  con- 
stituted as  it  was,  or  a  majority  of  them,  decidted  the  various 
questions  springing  out  of  the  late  elections  in  favor  of  the 
Democrats,  and  when  Rutherford  B.  Hayes,  the  President- 
elect, was  inaugurated  to  the  Presidency,  the  military  troops 
were  ordered  to  leave  Columbia,  and  did  leave.  Chamberlain 
at  once  vacated  the  executive  chamber,  and  left  the  whole 
8 


104  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

State  House  open  for  the  Democratic  Legislature  and  Demo- 
cratic State  officials.  Thus  ended  the  struggle,  and  thus 
ended  the  reign  of  the  carpet-bag  government,  to  the  great  joy 
and  satisfaction  of  the  people.  This  consummation  proved  the 
sagacity  and  wisdbm  of  our  leader,  Wade  Hampton,  when  he 
advised,  in  his  speech  above  alluded  to,  the  people  to  do  nothing 
rash,  to  be  quiet  and  to  go  home,  with  his  assurance  that  he 
would  be  Governor.  But  for  the  magic  of  his  name  and 
character,  the  State  might  have  been  till  this  day  under  Repub- 
lican rule,  and  maybe  the  rule  of  the  bayonet.  This  much  has 
been  said  about  carpet-bagism,  reconstruction,  the  profligacy 
of  the  Radical  regime,  and  the  State's  redemption  in  1876,  not 
so  much  for  the  present  generation,  as  most  of  them  were  the 
subjects  and  actors,  and  participants  in  the  governmental  occur- 
rences of  the  last  twenty-five  or  thirty  years,  but  that  some  faint 
sketch  of  it  might  be  put  in  book  form,  for  the  sons  and 
diaughters  of  the  next  and  future  generations  to  read  and 
ponder.  The  one-hundredth  part  has  not  been  told — in  fact, 
it  can  never  all  be  told. 

The  Barly  Settlement  of  Marion  County. 

This  part  of  the  Province  of  South  Carolina,  Craven  County, 
was  not  much  settled  until  about  1735.  When  Queensborough 
Township  was  laid  off  wholly  in  Marion  County,  in  1731  and 
1732,  there  was  not  a  settlement  within  it ;  but  below  that  town- 
ship, and  between  the  two  rivers,  Great  and  Little  Pee  Dee, 
according  to  well  authenticated  tradition,  there  were  some  set- 
tlements before  that  time.  Mr.  M.  M.  Lowrimore,  of  Wood- 
berry  Township,  has  furnished  the  writer  with  some  interest- 
ing facts  about  the  first  settlement  of  that  part  of  the  county, 
Britton's  Neck,  below  the  old  Britton's  Neck  Church  of  the 
present  day  (about  which  church  more  may  be  said  herein- 
after). The  writer  is  also  indebted  to  Mrs.  Margaret  F. 
Johnson,  widow  of  the  late  Hugh  R.  Johnson,  near  Nichols,  S. 
C,  and  who  was  the  daughter  of  the  late  General  William 
Woodberry,  of  Britton's  Neck,  for  valuable  and  interesting 
information  about  the  Woodberry  family.  From  these  two 
sources,  viz:  letter  of  Mr.  M.  M.  Lowrimore  and  letter  of 
Mrs.  Margaret  F.  Johnson,  the  writer  gleans  the  following: 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  105 

"Some  time  in  the  early  part  of  1700,  there  came  from  Ireland 
some  people  by  the  name  of  Michalls,  'not  McAU,'  and 
settled  on  a  point  of  land  now  called  the  'Tan-yard.'  Their 
occupation  in  their  native  land  was  that  of  tanners.  After 
coming  to  this  country,  finding  gcune  so  numerous,  they  be- 
came great  hunters,  and  to  carry  on  their  trade  they  erected  a 
tan-yard  just  one  mile  a:bove  the  mouth  of  Little  Pee  Dee 
River,  on  the  bank  of  the  Great  Pee  Dee.  They  killed  game, 
then  plentiful  of  all  kinds  and  sorts,  bought  hides  from  others, 
tanned  them  and  sold  the  leather  to  the  early  planters  in  that 
region  and  on  the  Waccamaw  Neck.  What  became  of  the 
Michalls  is  unknown;  the  signs  of  the  tan-yard  erected  by 
them  were  there  for  many  years  afterwards,  and  may  be  seen 
there  even  yet.  The  place  is  known  now  as  the  'tan-yard.' 
The  name  of  Michall  is  now  extinct  in  the  county."  Mr. 
Lowrimore  says:  "About  17 10,  there  came  over  a  goodly 
number  from  Great  Britain,  and  thereby  they  were  called  the 
Brittons  or  Brittains."  This  would  imply  that  the  whole  col- 
ony, whatever  might  be  their  individual  names,  were  called  the 
"Brittons"  or  "Brittains."  The  time  of  this  settlement  ante- 
dates the  settlement  made  twenty-five  years  afterward,  as 
spoken  of  by  Bishop  Gregg  in  his  book,  p.  69  There  possibly 
may  have  been  two  emigrations  in  those  early  times  to  that 
part  of  the  county  (Craven).  Mr.  Lowrimore  says:  "They 
commenced  settling  at  the  lower  mouth  of  Jordan's  Lake. 
Their  occupations  were  planting  corn,  peas,  potatoes,  rye,  oats, 
wheat  and  flax,  raised  hogs,  sheep,  goats  and  cattle ;  lived  high 
on  fish  and  honey,  and  wore  otter-skin  coats."  If  Mr.  Lowri- 
more is  correct,  and  the  writer  sees  no  reason  to  discredit  him, 
this  applies  to  the  colony  of  1710,  called  "Brittons"  or  "Brit- 
tains." Mr.  Lowrimore  further  says:  "About  1734,  a  number 
of  Lowrimores  with  their  wives  came  over  from  Ireland. 
Their  trade  was  blacksmith  and  house  carpentering.  My 
great-grand-father  was  the  blacksmith.  Some  of  them  went 
off  to  the  rice  countries  and  got  rich,  and  lost  it  all  by  bad 
management.  My  grand-father,  W.  James  Lowrimore,  was  a 
blacksmith,  which  trade  my  father,  Robert  Lowrimore, 
learned."  The  writer  regrets  that  he  has  not  been  able  to  see 
Mr.  Lowrimore,  and  learn  more  of  the  Lowrimore  family — 


106  A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY. 

whom  they  married,  how  many  children  they  raised,  and  their 
names,  and  what  their  successes  in  life  were,  and  what  has 
become  of  them.  The  writer  has  met  with  the  present  M.  M. 
Lowrimore  in  times  past,  but  not  lately.  He  is  advancing  in 
life,  perhaps  seventy  years'  old,  an  excellent  man,  in  fact,  no 
ordiinary  man,  considering  his  want  of  opportunities  and  his 
environments.  He  and  his  immediate  family  are  the  only  ones 
by  the  name  known  now  to  be  in  the  county.  In  his  very 
interesting  letter  to  the  writer,  he  says  nothing  about  his  fam- 
ily, except  as  above  quoted,  and  nothing  at  all  about  his  own 
immediate  family,  or  whether  he  has  any  children  or  otherwise. 
There  are  several  of  the  name  in  Horry  County,  who  the 
writer  supposes  to  be  lineally  or  collaterally  related  to  him. 
M.  M.  Lowrimore  is  a  patriot  and  true  man;  if  he  has  any 
family  of  his  own,  he  is  too  modest  to  say  anything  about  them. 
He  is  a  remarkable  antiquarian,  and  it  is  natural  with  him,  not 
acquired,  as  his  early  educational  opportunities  were  quite 
limited.  Mr.  Lowrimore  continues :  "Later  on  came  a  Capps, 
a  farmer;  next  a  family  of  Augustines,  bee-tree  hunters 
and  hunters  generally.  This  is  on  a  lonely  island  between 
Jordan's  Lake  and  the  Great  Pee  Dee.  Also  an  adjacent 
island  was  settled  by  a  family  of  Hunters,  a  hunter  by  name  and 
by  trade.  These  islands  go  by  the  names  of  Augustine  and 
Hunter's  Islands.  In  1734,  came  in  a  family  of  Kibber  (or 
Kibler),  occupation  as  others.  All  this  on  the  Great  Pee  Dee. 
On  Little  Pee  Dee,  a  man  from  England  settled  near  its  waters, 
by  the  name  of  Parker.  Next  a  family  of  Colemans  and  a 
man  by  the  name  of  Jerry  Touchberry ;  the  Brittons  at  Hickory 
Hill.  Next  on  the  Little  Pee  Dee  River,  a  family  of  the  Wood- 
berrys,  who  raisied  hogs  and  cattle  fof  market,  made  indigo, 
met  the  trading  vessels  and  changed  off  indigo  pound  for 
pound  of  negro  weighed  naked  (so  much  for  the  Woodberrys). 
Next  the  Okes  did  likewise  also.  About  1760,  the  Munner- 
lyns  (Irish),  farmers  and  stock  raisers,  planted  indigo,  rice, 
oats,  wheat  and  tobacco,  raised  orchards,  beat  cider."  Mr. 
Lowrimore  proceeds:  "Next  was  a  number  of  Williams^ — I 
know  not  where  from.  They  lived  chiefly  by  raising  stock 
and  driving  it  to  market.  Near  the  Great  Pee  Dee,  a  family 
of  Rays,  near  the  place  that  you  know  that  is  called  Ray's 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  107 

Causeway,  on  the  road  leading  from  Britton's  Neck  to  the  Ark 
Church.  Also,  the  old  Jenkins  lived  in  there,  too.  There  is 
where  old"  Mrs.  Jenkins  drank  the  toast  to  the  British  officer, 
when  she  told  him  she  had  three  sons  in  the  war,  and  she 
wished  that  she  had  three  thousand.  Another  settlement  which 
I  forgot  to  note  was  old  James  Crockett,  an  old  Englishman, 
came  and  settled  on  Little  Pee  Dee,  near  what  is  known  as 
Pawley's  Camps,  the  place  where  old  Tory  Pawley  hid  when 
old  General  Marion  was  ransacking  this  part  of  the  country  for 
the  Tories.  But  the  said  Crockett  obtained  a  warrant,  and  in 
1734,  he  took  up  and  had  granted'  to  him  a  tract  of  land.  I 
have  had  the  old  plat  and  grant  in  my  hand  many  times.  This 
then  was  called  Craven  County.  I  have  not  gone  above  the 
road  leading  to  Britton's  Neck  Ohurch.  The  Graves  that  lived 
on  the  road,  you  can  get  knowledge  of  than  and  the  old  Davises 
and  Mapp  Claff."  The  old  gentleman,  Mr.  M.  M.  Lowrimore, 
closes  above  quoted  letter  in  these  words,  verbatim  et  literatim: 

"Mr.  Sellers,  I  take  great  pleasure  in  replying  to  you  it  was 
a  Great  strain  on  the  mind,  I  did  as  best  I  could  under  the 
present  circumstance  please  write  to  me  if  it  is  any  profit  to 
you  or  not,  excuse  mistakes  and  blunders,  as  I  am  no  Gramma- 
reon  In  those  old  days  the  rattlesnakes  were  numberous  I  give 
you  a  receipt  for  the  cure  of  Rattlesnake  bite  take  one  handful 
of  parsley  leaves  one  of  Hoar  hound  leaves,  beat  up  and  squice 
(or)  squix  through  one  pint  of  new  milk,  add  a  lump  of  allum 
as  big  as  a  hulled  hickory  nut,  give  at  draught"  (he  doesn't  say 
how  much)  "When  this  you  remember  an  old  friend."  Yours 
M.  M.  Lowrimore." 

"address  Smiths  Mills,  S.  C." 

The  writer  cannot  adequately  express  his  appreciation  of  the 
above  quoted  letter,  coming  from  the  man  it  did.  Now  as  to 
the  different  settlers  mentioned  in  Mr.  Lowrimore's  letter. 
The  Michalls,  of  "tan-yard"  notoriety,  have  long  since  disap- 
peared. It  is  not  improbable  that  the  name  Michall,  as  given 
by  Mr.  Lowrimore,  is  the  same  as  Mikell  (a  family),  noticed 
by  Bishop  Gregg,  pages  89  and  90,  and  notes,  as  coming  to  the 
Upper  Pee  Dee  in  1756,  two  brothers,  John  and  William.  The 
difference  is  in  the  spelling,  but  idem  sonans.  One  of  these 
was  killed  during  the  Revolutionary  War  by  a  Tory ;  the  other 


108  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

survived  that  struggle.  John,  the  elder  brother,  settled  on  the 
west  side  of  the  river,  a  few  miles  above  Long  Bluff.  Gregg 
says  hfe  became  a  Major  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  was  a 
man  of  decided  character.^  It  is  not  stated  by  Gregg  where 
the  Mikells  came  from,  and  it  may  be  when  the  Michalls  broke 
up  from  the  "tan-yard,"  that  they  moved  up  the  river  on  the 
west  side  in  1756,  as  stated  by  Bishop  Gregg.  At  any  rate, 
the  suggestion  is  made  for  what  it  is  worth.  There  are  no 
Michalls  in  Britton's  Neck  now,  nor  has  there  been  within  the 
memory  of  the  writer.  As  to  the  Lowrimores,  the  writer  has 
already  said  all  he  knows  about  them.  Now  as  to  the  colony 
of  English  spoken  of  by  Lowrimore  as  coming  into  Britton's 
Neck  about  the  year  1710,  and  coming  from  England, 
"thereby"  called  "Brittons"  or  "Brittains."  They  were  differ- 
ent from  the  Brittons  by  name,  as  settling  down  there  about 
1735  or  1736,  by  Bishop  Gregg  (page  69),  who  says:  "About 
the  time  John  Godbold  came  to  Pee  Dee,  two  important  settle- 
ments were  made  in  that  region.  One  of  these  was  in  Britton's 
Neck,  twenty  miles  below  Mar's  Bluff  and  forty  miles  above 
Georgetown."  "It  was  composed  of  the  families  of  Britton, 
Graves,  Fladger,  Davis,  Tyler,  Giles  and  others.  They  came 
directly  from  England  as  one  colony."  Further  notice  of  this 
colony  will  be  taken  by  the  writer  hereinafter.  As  to  the 
"Brittons"  mentioned  by  Mr.  Lowrimore,  of  1710,  and  those 
mentioned  by  Bishop  Gregg,  of  1735,  are  they  the  same,  or 
were  there  two  emigrations  by  the  name  of  Britton?  Both 
may  be  correct,  or  one  of  them  is  in  error,  and  if  so,  which  one? 
Neither  Bishop  Gregg  nor  Mr.  L/owrimore  were  cotemporaries 
with  the  Brittons,  and,  therefore,  both  dependted  on  informa- 
tion derived  from  tradition.  Bishop  Gregg  was  a  man  of 
scholarly  ability ;  Mr.  Lowrimore  was  to  the  "manor  born,"  a 
lineal  descendant  of  some  of  the  "Lowrimores  with  their 
wives,"  who  came  there  in  1734  from  Ireland,  and  M.  M.  Low- 
rimore got  his  information  in  the  traditions  of  his  family, 
handed  down  from  the  great-grand-father  to  the  grand-father, 
and  from  him  to  the  father,  Robert  Lowrimore,  and  from  the 
father,  Robert,  to  the  son,  M.  M.  Lowrimore.  Bishop  Gregg 
obtained  his  information  (traditional)  from  the  late  Hugh 
Godlboldi,  of  Marion  District — says  so,  in  a  note  on  page  69. 


-  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  109 

The  writer  will  not  undertake  to  decide  between  them,  but 
leaves  it  to  the  reader  to  decide  for  himself. 

As  to  the  Capps,  spoken  of  by  Mr.  L,owrimore  as  coming 
later,  who  he  says  was  a  farmer,  the  writer  supposes  he  is  and 
was  the  progenitor  of  the  family  by  that  name  now  living, 
and  has  been  for  a  century,  below  Marion  Court  House.  If  he 
was  not  the  progenitor  of  them,  it  is  altogether  unknown  what 
became  of  the  one  mentioned  by  Mr.  lyowrimore.  As  to  the 
Augustines  and  Huntets,  mentioned  by  Mr.  Lowrimore  as  set- 
tling there  in  those  early  times,  the  writer  knows  nothing ;  he 
is  not  informed  as  to  what  became  of  them.  No  such  name  as 
Augustine  is  now  in  Marion  Ck>unty,  nor  has  there  been  since 
his  recollection.  The  name  has  disappeared;  as  also  the 
Hunters,  so  far  as  Marion  County  is  concerned.  There  are 
Hunters  in  Florence  and  Darlington  Counties,  who,  it  is  not 
improbable,  descended  from  the  Hunter  family  or  families, 
mentioned  by  Mr.  Lowrimore  as  settling  in  Britton's  Neck. 

Mr.  Lowrimore  says,  in  1734,  a  family  by  the  name  of 
"Kibler  or  Kibber"  came  in  and  settled  there ;  that  name  is  also 
extinct  in  Marion  County.  He  says  all  the  foregoing  settle- 
ments were  made  on  the  Great  Pee  Dee.  He  says :  "On  Little 
Pee  Dee,  a  man  from  England  settled  near  its  waters  by  the 
name  of  Parker.  Next  a  family  of  Coleman,  and  a  man  by  the 
name  of  Jerry  Touchberry;  the  Brittons  at  Hickory  Hill." 
Parker  is  a  name  that  has  been  long  and  favorably  known  in 
Marion  County;  the  Parker  family  reside  on  the  west  side  of 
the  Great  Pee  Dee,  in  w'hat  is  now  Florence  County,  formerly 
in  Marion.  There  is  also  a  family  of  Parkers  in  Marlboroug'h 
County,  quite  respectable.  The  family  in  both  counties  have 
extensive  connections,  and  are  here  to  stay.  In  the  absence 
of  other  information,  it  is  probable  that  the  family  in  both 
counties  sprang  from  the  one  who  settled  about  1734  in  Brit- 
ton's Neck.  The  name  of  Touchberry  is  not  in  Marion  County 
now.  The  name  of  Britton  is  also  extinct  in  this  county,  and 
has  been  for  years,  though  they  have  connections  here  not 
bearing  the  name.  Time  and  circumstantial  conditions  effect 
wonderful  changes — ^at  least,  in  165  years — and  often  leave  no 
trace  or  remembrance  of  families  or  conditions.  All  terrestrial 
things  are  transitory  and  passing  into  the  shades  of  oblivion. 


110  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Mr.  Ivowrimore  says :  "Next  on  Little  Pee  Dee  River,  a  family 
of  the  Woodlberrys  (came),  who  raised  hogs  and  cattle  for 
market,  made  indigo,  met  the  trading  vessels  and'  changed  off 
indigo  pound  for  pound  of  negro  weig'hed  naked." 

The  writer  received  a  letter  from  Mrs.  Hugh  R.  Johnson, 
who  was  a  daughter  of  the  late  General  Wm.  Woodberry,  of 
Britton's  Neck,  in  which  she  says:  "The  Woodherrys  (two 
brothers),  Richard  and  Jionah,  came  from  Socastee — I  can't 
give  the  date ;  they  settled  in  Britton's  Neck,  where  they  found 
several  brothers  by  the  name  of  Britton,  who  were  large  land 
and  slave  owners.  Richard  Woodberry,  my  grand-father, 
married  Miss  Lizzie  Balloon,  on  Black  River.  They  brought 
up  two  sons  and  three  daughters;  one  of  the  sons  was  my 
father,  the  well  known  General  Wm.  Woodberry.  General 
Woodberry  was  born  January  loth,  1788,  and  died  January 
31st,  1851.  I  have  beard  my  father  say  that  about  1815,  the 
Brittons  sold  out  and  moved  to  Sumter  County,  except  Dr. 
Tom  Britton,  who  had  married  Margaret,  one  of  the  General's 
sisters ;  she  died  childless.  Fannie,  another  one  of  the  sisters, 
married  Sam.  Wilson;  she  also  died  without  children.  The 
other  sister  married  the  Rev.  Jeremiah  Norman,  of  North  Caro- 
lina ;  Mrs.  John  Woodberry  and  Mrs.  James  Jenkins,  and  Sam- 
uel Norman,  of  Horry,  were  their  children.  Richardi  Wood- 
berry, the  General's  only  brother,  married  Miss  Desda  Davis; 
their  children  were  John  and  Washington,  Mrs.  Benjamin 
Gause  and  Mrs.  John  Gause.  General  Woodberry's  first  wife 
was  Miss  Hannah  Davis;  they  had  four  children,  all  dying 
quite  young.  His  second  wife  was  Miss  Sarah  Johnson,  of 
Horry ;  they  brought  up  four  sons  and  four  daug'hters,  all  of 
whom  except  one  daughter  married  and  reared  families,  but  I 
expect  you  know  as  much  about  them  as  I  do." 

Mr.  Lowrimore  says:  "Next  the  Okes  did  likewise  all" — 
that  is,  as  I  construe  it,  they  did  like  the  Woodberrys — "raised 
hogs  and  cattle  for  market,  made  indigo,  met  the  trading  ves- 
sels and  changed  off  indigo  pound  for  pound  of  negro  weig'hed 
naked."  As  to  this  name,  "Okes,"  there  is  no  record  of  such 
name  in  the  county  anywhere,  as  the  writer  has  ever  seen. 
The  name  may  be  included  in  the  word  "others,"  mentioned  by 
Bishop  Gregg,  on  p.  69,  where  he  mentions  the  settlement  in 


A  HISTORY  OF  MAmON  COUNTY.  Ill 

Britton's  N©ck  of  1735,  and  gives  the  names  of  several  of 
those  early  settlers  there  and  concludes  with  the  words  "and 
others."  The  name  has  entirely  disappeared,  if  it  ever  existed. 
Mr.  Lowrimore  says:  "About  1760,  the  Munnerlyns  (Irish), 
farmers  and  stock  raisers,  planted  indigo,  rice,  oats,  wheat  and 
tobacco,  raised  orchards,  beat  cider."  They  settled  in  Brit- 
ton's Neck ;  there  are  none  there  now  by  that  name.  It  is  very 
probable  that  the  Munnerlyn  family,  the  Rev.  Thomas  M.  Mun- 
nerlyn,  who  lived  up  near  Ariel  Church  for  many  years,  and 
raised  a  family  there,  and  died  there  some  twenty  years  ago, 
was  a  descenidlant  of  the  Munnerlyn  spoken  of  by  Mr.  Lowri- 
more. The  Rev.  Thomas  M.  Munnerlyn  had  a  son,  Thomas 
W.  Munnerlyn,  who  became  an  itinerant  Methodist  preacher, 
and  who  died  in  1898  and  was  buried  at  Smithville,  S.  C. 
(Minutes  of  the  Conference,  1899,  held  at  Orangeburg,  S.  C), 
a  son  named  George,  who  emigrated  West  some  years  ago, 
and  a  daughter,  who  married  the  late  R.  Z.  Harllee ;  he  and  wife 
are  both  dead„  The  Munnerlyn  family  were  quite  respectable 
in  their  day;  none  bearing  the  name  now  in  the  county,  that 
the  writer  is  aware  of.  A  branch  of  the  old  Munnerlyn  family 
is  in  Georgetown.  B.  A.  Munnerlyn,  of  Georgetown,  is  a  first 
class  business  man  and  stands  high  with  all  who  have  business 
with  him.  Mr.  Lowrimore  mentions  the  Williams  as  being 
early  settlers  in  Britton's  Neck,  on  the  Great  Pee  Dee;  that 
they  raised  stock  and  drove  it  to  market.  There  are  several 
Williams  down  ia  that  region  or  portion  of  the  county  now,  but 
the  writer  has  no  personal  acquaintance  with  them.  They 
have  the  reputation  of  being  a  peaceable  and  quiet  people,  un- 
ostentatious, and  unpretending  in  their  manners  and  habits. 

Mr.  Lowrimore  mentions  a  family  of  Rays,  who  settled  near 
the  place  that  is  called  Ray's  Causeway,  on  the  road  leading 
from  Britton's  Neck  to  the  "Ark"  Church.  There  are  no  Rays 
down  in  that  section  now.  There  are  Rays  in  the  upper  end 
of  the  county,  but  they  are  not  of  that  family.  What  became 
of  them  is  unknown.  Mr.  Lowrimore  further  says:  "Also, 
the  old  Jenkings  lived,  in  there,  too,  there  is  where  old  Mrs. 
Jenkins  drank  the  toast  to  the  British  officer,  when  she  told 
him  she  had  three  sons  in  the  army,  and  she  wished  she  had 
three  thousand."    This  colloquy  between  Mrs.  Jenkins,  who  it 


112  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

seems  .was  at  that  time  a  widow,  and  the  British  officer,  is  re- 
lated in  full  in  the  Life  of  Marion,  written  by  Brigadier  General 
Horry  and  Rev.  M.  L.  Weems,  pages  220-222.  It  is  as  fol- 
lows :  "It  was  not  for  the  British  and  Marion  to  lie  long  at  rest 
in  the  same  neighborhood.  After  a  short  repose.  Colonel 
Watson,  with  a  stout  force  of  regulars  and  Tories,  made  an 
inroad  upon  Pee  Dee,  which  was  no  sooner  known  in  our 
camp,  than  Marion  pushed  after  him.  We  presently  struck 
their  trail ;  and  after  a  handsome  day's  run,  pitched  our  tents 
near  the  house  of  the  excellent  widow,  Jenkins,  and  on  the 
very  spot  which  the  British  had  left  in  the  morning.  Colonel 
Watson,  it  seems,  had  taken  his  quarters  that  night  in  her 
house;  and  learning  that  she  had  three  sons  with  Marion,  all 
active,  young  men,  he  sent  for  her  after  supper,  and  desired 
her  to  sit  down  and  take  a  glass  of  wine  with  him.  To  his 
request,  a  good  old  lady  of  taste  and  manners  could  have  no 
objection;  so  waiting  upon  the  Colonel,  and  taking  a  chair 
which  be  handed  her,  she  sat  down  and  emptied  her  glass  to 
his  health.  He  then  commenced  the  following  conversation 
with  her:  'So,  Madam,  they  tell  me  you  have  several  sons  in 
General  Marion's  camp;  I  hope  it  is  not  true.'  She  said,  'It 
was  very  true,  and  was  only  sorry  that  it  was  not  a  thousand 
times  truer.'  'A  thousand  times  truer.  Madam!'  replied  he, 
with  great  surprise.  'Pray,  what  can  be  your  meaning  in 
that  ?'  'Why,  sir,  I  am  only  sorry  that  in  place  of  three,  I  have 
not  three  thousand  sons  with  General  Marion.'  'Aye,  indeed ! 
Well,  then.  Madam,  begging  your  pardon,  you  had  better  send 
for  them  immediately  to  come  in  and  join  his  Majesty's  troops 
under  my  command ;  for  as  they  are  rebels  now  in  arms  against 
their  king,  should  they  be  taken  they  will  be  hung  as  sure  as 
ever  they  were  born.'  'Why,  sir,'  said  the  old  lady,  'you  are 
very  considerate  of  my  sons ;  for  which,  at  any  rate,  I  thank 
you.  But,  as  you  have  begged  my  pardon  for  giving  me  this 
advice,  I  must  beg  yours  for  not  taking  it.  My  sons,  sir,  are 
of  age,  and  must  and  will  act  for  themselves.  And  as  to  their 
being  in  a  state  of  rebellion  against  their  king,  I  must  take  the 
liberty,  sir,  to  deny  that.'  'What,  Madam!'  replied  he;  'not 
in  rebellion  against  their  king?  Shooting  and  killing  his 
Majesty's  subjects  like  wolves!     Don't  you  call  that  rebellion 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  113 

against  their  king,  Madam  ?'  'No,  sir,'  answered  she ;  'they  are 
only  doing  their  duty,  as  God  and  nature  commanded  them,  sir.' 
'The  d — 1  they  are,  Madam.'  'Yes,  sir,'  continued  she,  'and 
what  you  and  every  man  in  England  would  glory  to  do  against 
the  king,  were  he  to  dare  to  tax  you  contrary  to  your  own 
consent,  and  the  Constitution  of  the  realm.  'Tis  the  king,  sir, 
who  is  in  rebellion  against  my  sons,  and  not  they  against  him. 
And  could  right  prevail  against  might,  he  would  as  certainly 
lose  his  head  as  ever  King  Charles  the  First  did.'  ~  Colonel 
Watson  could  hardly  keep  his  chair  under  the  smart  of  this 
speech ;  but  thinking  it  would  never  dio  for  a  British  Colonel  to 
be  rude  to  a  lady,  he  filled  her  glass,  and  saying,  'he'd  be  d — d 
if  she  were  not  a  very  plain  spoken  woman  at  any  rate,'  insisted 
she  would  drink  a  toast  with  him  for  all  that.  She  replied  she 
had  no  objection.  Then  filling  the  glasses  round,  he  looked 
at  her  with  a  constrained  smile,  and  said,  'Well,  Madam,  here 
is  George  the  Third.'  'With  all  my  heart,  sir,'  and  turned  off 
her  bumper  with  a  good  grace.  After  a  decent  interval  of 
sprightly  conversation,  he  called  on  the  widow  for  a  toast,  who 
smartly  retorted,  'Well,  sir,  here's  George  Washington.'  At 
which  he  darkened  a  little,  but  drank  it  off  with  an  officer-like 
politeness.  The  next  morning  early,  we  left  the  good  Mrs. 
Jenkins,  and  burning  with  impatience  to  give  Watson  another 
race,  we  drove  on  Jehu-like."  Mrs.  Jenkins  was  a  noble  lady, 
full  of  the  fires  of  patriotism,  and  had  the  courage,  inspired  by 
it,  to  speak  her  mind  in  almost  the  presence  of  royalty — at  least, 
in  the  presence  of  and  to  a  representative  of  it — and  yet  she 
did  not  forget  the  proprieties  of  her  sex.  She  did  not  hesitate 
to  express  her  sentiments,  though  pointed,  yet  with  the  calm 
dignity  of  a  true  and  virtuous  woman.  She  assuredly  got 
the  better  of  Colonel  Watson,  which  he  did  not  rudely  resent. 
It  may  be  inferred  from  his  rank  and  position  that  he  had 
the  instincts  of  a  gentleman,  and  though  she  stung  him  to 
the  core,  he  treated  her  with  much  respect  and  due  consider- 
ation. She,  doubtless,  loved  her  sons  with  all  the  ardt>r  of  her 
soul,  yet  she  was  willing  to  surrender  them  to  her  country's 
call,  to  resist  its  invaders,  to  fight  for  its  liberties  and,  if  needs 
be,  to  die  in  its  cause.  The  writer  does  not  know  how  many 
sons  she  had;  he  does  know,  however,  that  she  had,  in  addi- 


114  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

tion  to  the  three  noble  boys  in  Marion's  army,  another  boy, 
James,  then  a  lad  of  fourteen  or  fifteen  years,  who  at  an  early 
age  entered  into  the  ministry,  joined  the  Methodist  Conference, 
and  engaged  in  a  warfare  against  the  devil  and  sin — a  much 
more  formidable  enemy  than  was  the  King  of  Great  Britain. 
He  joined  the  Conference  in  1792,  and  was  an  itinerant 
preacher  for  the  balance  of  his  life,  or  as  long  as  he  was  physi- 
cally able.  He  was  a  pioneer  preacher.  In  those  early  times 
of  Methodism,  the  South  Carolina  Conference  included  the 
States  of  North  Carolina,  South  Carolina  and  Georgia.  Pre- 
vious to  1800,  there  was  but  one  Presiding  Elder's  District 
covering  the  whole  territory  of  the  Conference.  In  that  year, 
the  whole  State  of  South  Carolina  was  made  a  District,  and 
James  Jenkins  was  appointed  the  Presiding  Elder.  He  became 
a  strong  preacher,  and  was  distinguished  through  life  for  his 
great  pulpit  strength,  and  for  his  deep  and  devoted  piety.  He 
was  an  effective  preacher  wherever  he  went,  and  filled  the  most 
important  positions  in  his  Conference.  He  lived  to  the  age  of 
eighty-three.  In  his  old  age  he  became  blind,  and  had  to  be 
led  about  by  some  one.  The  writer  saw  him  and  heard  him 
preach  two  masterly  sermons  at  a  camp  meeting  in  Browns- 
ville, Marlborough  County,  S.  C,  in  1841.  It  seemed  to  the 
writer  that  he  knew  the  Bible  and  hymn  book  by  heart.  He 
gave  his  h)rmns  as  though  he  was  reading  them  from  the  book, 
and  would  state  the  number  and  page,  and  during  the  sermon 
would  quote  from  the  Bible,  book,  chapter  and  verse.  It  was 
simply  wonderful.  It  was  evidence  that  he  had  made  the  Bible 
and  its  contents  a  lifelong  study.  He  died  24th  June,  1847, 
and  was  buried  in  Camden,  S.  C.  A  distinguished  son  of 
Marion  County,  'born  and  reared  by  a  noble  and  historically 
distinguished  mother ;  thus  verifying  the  adage,  that  "all  great 
men  had  great  mothers."  W.  J.  Crosswell,  Superintendent  of 
Southern  Express  Company,  of  Wilmington,  N.  C,  and  J.  J. 
Crosswell,  Route  Agent  of  same  company,  Fayetteville,  N.  C, 
are  grandhsons  of  the  Rev.  James  Jenkins. 

Mr.  lyowrimore  gives  us  the  name  of  another  early  settler 
in  Britton's  Neck,  by  the  name  of  James  Crockett,  in  the  fol- 
lowing words :  "Another  settlement  which  I  forgot  to  note  was 
old  James  Crockett,  an  old  Englishman,  came  and  settled  on 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  115 

Little  Pee  Dee,  near  what  is  known  as  Pawley's  Camp,  the 
place  where  old  Tory  Pawly,  hidi,  when  old  General  Marion 
was  ransacking  this  part  of  the  country  for  the  Torys ;  but  the 
said  Crockett  obtained  a  warrant,  and  in  1734,  he  taken  up 
and  had  granted  to  him  a  tract  of  land.  I  have  had  the  old 
plat  and  grant  in  my  hand  many  times."  This  was  probably 
the  progenitor  of  the  celebrated  David  Crotkett,  of  frontier 
fame  in  the  wild  West,  seventy-five  or  eighty  years  ago. 
Davy  Crockett  was  a  great  hunter  in  those  early  times.  He 
wrote  a  book  containing  his  own  biography — ^his  life  and  ad- 
ventures with  the  Indians  and  wild,  ferocious  animals,  his 
hair-'breadth  escapes,  always  the  hero  of  his  own  stories;  his 
candidacy  for  and  election  to  Congress ;  a  ludicrous  account  of 
his  introduction  to  and  interview  with  President  Andrew  Jack- 
son. Crockett  was  exceedingly  humorous,  and  could  tell  most 
ludicrous  stories.  His  dress  was  made  of  the  skins  of  the  ani-- 
mals  he  killed ;  wore  a  cap  made  of  a  coon-skin,  with  the  tail 
hanging  down  his  back.  It  has  been  forty  or  fifty  years  since' 
the  writer  read  his  book,  and  remembers  some  of  his  exploits 
as  he  told  them,  but  cannot  tell  any  of  them  like  Crockett  told 
them  in  his  book.  He  cannot  put  the  "spice  in  and  gravy  on," 
as  Crockett  did.  He  will,  however,  venture  to  insert  one  of  his 
exploits  here.  Crockett  says  one  day  he  was  hunting  in  a 
swamp  or  bog,  and  he  found  a  den  of  young  bears.  They  were 
in  a  large  hollow  stimip  some  twenty  feet  or  more  high;  he 
could  hear  the  young  bears  in  the  stump.  He  determined  to 
get  at  them  and  destroy  them.  He  sat  "Betsy,"  his  rifle,  whidi 
he  called  Betsy,  down  against  a  tree,  and  then  climbed  up  the 
hollow  stump  to  the  top.  He  looked  down  the  hollow  and 
could  see  the  young  bears  in  their  bed  at  the  bottom,  but  he 
could  not  reach  them.  He  got  into  the  top  of  the  hollow,  his 
feet  downwaTds,  and  with  his  hands  hold  of  the  top  of  the 
broken  tree — like  going  down  into  a  well  feet  foremost; 
swinging  by  the  top  of  the  curb  with  Tiis  hands,  he  let  himself 
dbwn  as  low  as  he  couldi — his  feet  not  reaching  to  the  bottom ; 
he  turned  loose  and  dbwn  he  dtoppedi  in  among  the  young 
bears.  The  young  bears  became  frightened  at  his  intrusion 
among  them,  and  set  up  a  terrible  screaming.  The  old  she 
bear  being  off  a  little  distance  in  the  swamp.     The  mother 


116  A  HISTORY  0^  MARION  COUNTY. 

bear,  hearing  the  distress  cries  of  her  young,  came  to  see  what 
was  the  matter.  She  climbed  up  the  stump  and  looked  down 
to  see  her  young  ones  and  to  see  what  was  the  matter,  and  saw 
Crockett  down  there  among  them ;  she,  enraged,  turned  tail 
downward  and  climbed  down.  Crockett  was  in  a  very  serious 
dilemma — a  maddened  mother  bear  coming  down  upon  him 
among  her  young  ones.  Crockett,  always  ready  with  some 
expedient,  jerked  out  of  a  side  pocket  in  his  clothes  his  hunting 
knife,  which  he  always  carried,  and  which  was  long  and  sharp- 
pointed,  then  made  ready  for  the  contest  with  the  maddened 
mother  bear.  As  soon  as  she  approached  near  enough,  he 
grabbed'  her  by  the  tail  with  one  hand  and  with  the  knife  in  the 
other,  he  plunged  it  into  her  hind  parts.  She  tried  to  turn 
upon  him,  but  could  not  do  so ;  he  kept  plunging  the  knife  into 
her.  She  made  for  the  top  of  the  hollow,  in  order  to  extricate 
herself  from  Crockett  and'  the  knife,  Crockett  hanging  on  to 
her  tail  and  using  the  knife  constantly;  she  soon  carried  him 
out.  She  went  down  the  stump  to  the  ground,  carrying  her 
tormenter  with  her.  He  turned  her  loose  and  sprang  to 
"Betsy,"  his  rifle,  close  by,  and  fired  on  h*,  and  thus  dispatched 
her.  The  above  is  substantially  the  story  as  told  by  Crockett, 
but  is  not  related  as  Crockett  himself  told^ — in  fact,  no  one 
could  tell  it  as  he  did.  His  book  was  full  of  such  stories — ^he 
was  always  the  hero.  He  may  be  a  descendant  of  the  Britton's 
Neck  Crocketts.  If  so,  he  has  immortalized  the  name.  This 
"Nimrod"  of  the  West  was  a  unique  character,  a  wonderful 
man.  The  name  is  now  extinct  in  Marion  County ;  what  has 
become  of  them  is  unknown.  It  is  likely  that  the  family  re- 
moved West,  and  hence  the  celebrated  "Davy  Crockett." 

There  are  other  families  in  Woodberry  Township,  but  the 
writer  is  little  acquainted  in  that  region,  and,  therefore,  can  say 
nothing  about  them.  The  Hucks  family,  down  there — W.  W. 
Hucks  and  his  brother,  Robert  Hucks — are  prominent  men  in 
their  community,  indusflrious  and  thriving  citizens;  they  are 
'in  middle  life,  have  families,  and  are  doing  well  and  quite 
respectable.  They  are  sons  of  the  late  John  R.  Hucks,  who 
has  been  a  resident  citizen  for  many  years.  I  think  he  came 
from  Horry  County.  The  old  gentleman  was  a  very  patriotic 
man;  voluntered  in  1837,  i"  ^  company  raised  in  Horry,  and 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  117 

went  in  Geneiral  Harllee's  Battalion  to  the  Seminole  War  in 
Florida ;  and'  when  the  Confederate  War  came  on,  though  past 
age,  he  volunteered  into  the  Confedei-ate  service  and  went  to 
Virginia  and  remained,  as  the  writer  thinks,  in  the  service  to 
the  end.  Few  there  are  who  would  have  done  so ;  as  he  was 
not  subject  to  conscription,  and  is,  therefore,  entitled  to  the 
greater  honor.  I  think  he  is  dead — died  lately  in  his  ninetieth 
year.  His  sons  and  family  are  and  may  be  justly  proud  of 
him.  I  think  the  old  gentleman  Hucks  had  some  daughters, 
but  how  many,  and  who  they  married  and  where  they  are,  is 
unknown  to  the  writer. 

GoDBOLD. — ^John  Godbold  was  the  first  who  came  to  the 
region  of  Marion  Court  House.  Bishop  Gregg,  p.  68,  says: 
"He  was  an  Englishman,  and  had  been  long  a  sailor  in  the 
British  service.  Though  advanced  in  years  at  the  time  of  his 
arrival,  such  was  his  enterprising  energy  that  he  succeeded  in 
accumulating  what  for  that  day  was  a  large  property.  He 
settled  in  1735,  about  a  half-mile  below  the  site  of  the  present 
village  of  Marion,  being  the  first  adventurer  to  that  locality." 
*  *  *  "During  the  French  and  Indian  wars,  Mr.  Godbold  was 
plundered  of  almost  all  the  personal  property  he  had  gathered. 
Of  thirty  negroes,  twenty-two  were  taken  from  him  and  never 
recovered ;  a  trunk  of  guineas,  the  fruits  of  many  years'  labor, 
was  rifled.  He  married,  after  his  arrival  on  Pee  Dee,  Eliza- 
beth McGurney,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons,  John,  James  and 
Thomas,  and  two  daughters,  Elizabeth  and  Anne,  from  whom 
the  extensive  connexion  in  Marion  have  descended."  To  this 
Bishop  Gregg  appends  a  note,  in  which  he  says :  "Of  his  sons, 
John,  the  oldest,  married  Priscilla  Johes,  and  had  three  sons, 
Zachariah,  John  and  Jesse.  Of  these,  Zachariah  was  a  Captain 
in  the  Revolution;  James,  the  second  son  (of  the  first  John), 
married  Mourning  Elizabeth  Baker,  by  whom  he  had  six  sons, 
John,  James,  Zachariah,  Cade,  Abram  and  Thomas.  Of  these, 
John  and  Zachariah  were  Lieutenants  in  the  Revolution. 
Thomas,  the  youngest  spn,  was  the  father  of  the  late  Hugh 
Godbold,  of  Marion.  Thomas,  the  third  son  (of  the  first  old 
John),  married  Martha  Herron,  and  had  four  sons,  Stephen, 
David,  Thomas  and'  EHy.     Of  these,  Thomas  was  the  father 


118  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

of  Asa  Godbold,  of  Marion,  and  Elly,  who  left  a  son  bearing 
his  name."  Bishop  Gregg,  in  a  note  to  this  note,  acknowledges 
that  he  got  his  information,  and  also  much  other  valuable  in- 
formation, from  the  late  Hugh  Godbold,  and  to  whom  the 
Bishop  pays  a  very  high  compliment.  Thus  it  will  be  seen 
that  all  the  Godbolds  now  in  the  county,  or  that  have  been 
for  many  years  in  IJhe  county,  and  connections  through  the 
females,  are  derived  directly  from  the  first  old  John,  who  was 
an  Englishman,  and  not  only  in  the  county,  but  in  the  State  and 
perhaps  in  the  United  States.  Many  of  the  descendants  of 
old  John  emigrated  to  the  Western  States.  More  than 
forty  years  ago  the  writer  was  in  Alabama  and  Mississippi, 
and  he  found  God'bolds  in  those  States ;  also  in  Texas,  thirty 
years  ago.  The  writer  supposes  that,  counting  the  seven  or 
eight  generations  of  them  down  to  the  present  time,  they,  per- 
haps, would  number  thousands.  There  are  not  very  many  now 
in  the  county  bearing  the  name,  but  their  connexions  are 
numerous,  and  could  scarcely  be  counted,  if  the  attempt  to  do 
so  was  made.  As  a  family,  they  have  always  stood  high  as 
men  of  decided  character,  pluck  and  energy.  General  Thomas 
God'bold,  the  grand-son  of  the  first  old  John,  had  three  sons, 
John,  Hugh  and  Charles,  all  now  dead;  yet  were  and  are 
known  to  many  now  living.  The  late  Hugh  Godbold  was  a 
remarkable  man.  The  writer,  on  one  occasion,  heard  the  late 
Julius  Dargan,  of  Darlington,  say  of  Hugh  Godbold,  that  he 
had  mind  enougth,  if  he  had  been  educated,  to  be  President 
of  the  United  States — a  very  high  compliment,  coming  from 
the  source  it  did:  Charles  Godbold  was  a  graduate  of  the 
South  Carolina  College ;  studied  medicine,  but  died  soon  after 
graduation;  never  married.  Neither  Hugh  nor  Charles  left 
any  children.  John,  the  other  son,  never  amounted  to  much — 
his  habits  were  not  good;  his  matrimonial  connection  was  not 
such  as  to  promote  his  social  standing.  He  lived  to  a  ripe  old 
age.  Some  of  his  grand-children  are  among  us  now.;  and 
some  of  them  are  doing  much  to  elevate  their  branch  of  the 
family.  The  first  old  John  Godbold,  Bishop  Gregg  says,  lived 
to  be  more  than  a  hundred  years  old,  and  died  in  1765,  a 
member  of  the  Church  of  England.  Thomas,  the  third  and 
youngest  son  of  the  first  old  John,  and  who  married  Martha 


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Herron,  had  four  sons,  Stephen,  David,  Thomas  and  EUy. 
Stephen  was  the  father  of  the  late  Stephen  G.  Godbold,  was  a 
well-to-do  citizen,  and  lived  in  Wahee  Township,  I  think,  on 
the  place  where  Dr.  D.  F.  Miles  formerly  lived ;  he  died  there. 
He  left  but  two  children ;  married  twice ;  the  late  Stephen  G. 
God'bold  was  a  son  of  the  first  wife,  and  by  the  second  wife  he 
had  a  daughter,  who  is  now  the  widow  of  the  late  John  F. 
Spencer,  and  owns  and  resides  upon  her  father's  patrimony. 
The  late  Stephen  G.  Godbold,  a  most  worthy  and  estimable 
man,  settled  near  by  his  father ;  married  and  had  an  only  child, 
a  daughter,  who  married  the  late  Francis  A.  Miles.  Mrs. 
Miles  inherited  the  entire  estate  of  her  father,  Stephen  G. 
Godbold.  Mrs.  Miles  was  the  mother  of  several  children; 
three  sons,  David  Franklin,  Samuel  A.  C.  Miles  and  Stephen 
G.  Miles,  and,  I  think,  two  daughters,  Mrs.  W.  L.  Durant  and 
Mrs.  Lide,  of  Darlington.  Of  these,  Dr.  SamueL  A.  C.  Miles 
and  Mrs.  I^ide  are  dead;  both  leaving  children.  Dr.  D.  F. 
Miles  is  now  Clerk  of  the  Court  at  Marion,  and  resides  there, 
has  a  farm  in  Wahee;  is  an  amiable,  worthy  gentleman,  and 
a  very  efficient  and  accommodating  Clerk.  Stephen  G.  Miles 
is  merchandising  at  Marion,  resides  there,  and  has  a  farm 
in  Wahee,  which  seems  to  be  run  successfully;  a  very  ener- 
getic, worthy  citizen.  Mrs.  Durant  was  left  a  widow,  with  . 
six  or  seven  children  (small) ;  she  lives  on  lands  inherited 
from  her  mother;  has  raised  her  children  respectably,  and 
it  is  said  they  are  promising ;  Mrs.  Durant  is  a  very  excellent 
lady — a  woman  of  strong  sense  and  full  of  energy.  These 
Miles  are  the  great-grand^^hildren  of  old  Stephen  God'bold, 
who  was  the  grand-son  of  the  first  old  John  Godbold.  Mrs. 
Spencer,  the  daughter  of  old  Stephen  Godbold,  and  who  lives 
on  lands  he  gave  her,  has  ten  living  children,  all  grown,  and 
air  married,  except  a  son,  Nathan.  Mrs.  Spencer  is  a  worthy 
lady,  of  sound,  practical  sense,  and  very  energetic;  she  is  a 
great-grand-daughter  of  the  first  old  John  Godbold.  Thomas, 
a  brother  of  old  man  Stephen,  married  I  do  not  know  whom ; 
but  he  had  a  son  named  Thomas,  w'ho  married  Nancy  Gasque. 
The  fruits  of  this  marriage  were  a  daughter,  who  married  a 
Mr.  Harrington,  I  think,  of  Georgetown ;  and  sons,  Asa  God- 
bold, Jehu,  Robert,  Thomas,  Alexander,  Charles,  Thomas  and 
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120  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

William  H.,  and  another  daughter,  named  Martha  Ann.  Tho- 
mas Godbold,  the  father  of  these  latter,  died  in  1836  or  '7. 
Asa  Godbold,  the  eldest  son  of  this  family,  married,  in  1828, 
Miss  Sarah  Cox,  a  most  excellent  lady ;  the  fruits  of  this  mar- 
riage were  Mary  Jane,  James,  Thomas  W.,  Asa,  Sarah,  Anne, 
Eliza  and  F.  Marion.  Asa  Godbold,  Sr.,  was  a  very  energetic, 
persevering  man,  sharp  and  shrewd,  was  elected  Ordinary 
after  the  death  of  General  E.  B.  Wheeler,  in  1859,  which  posi- 
tion he  held  by  successive  elections  until  the  reconstruction 
period,  and  he,  like  all  others  of  the  old  regime,  was  relegated 
to  the  rear.  His  daughter,  Mary  Jane,  married  Captain  Mat. 
Stanly,  of  Mexican  War  and  Confederate  reputation,  and 
resides  ten  or  twelve  miles  below  Marion  Court  House.  Cap- 
tain M.  B.  Stanly  is  an  importation  from  Darlington.  When 
a  young  man  he  volunteered  and  went  to  the  Mexican  War, 
was  with  General  Taylor  in  the  several  battles  around  the  city 
of  Mexico,  and  in  the  storming  and  capture  of  that  city. 
When  the  Confederate  War  began,  he  was  made  Captain  of 
the  first  company  that  left  Marion,  4th  January,  1861,  and 
went  to  Charleston  and  joined  the  first  regiment  (Maxcy 
Gregg's),  and  remained  Captain  of  the  company  until  after 
the  reduction  of  Fort  Sumter,  13th  April,  1861.  Captain 
Stanly  has  several  children,  two  sons  and  one  daughter,  who 
are  the  men  and  women  of  the  present  generation,  and  all 
dioing  well.  James  Godbold,  son  of  Asa,  Sr.,  married  a 
daughter  of  the  late  W.  F.  Richardson,  below  Marion.  He 
has  reared  a  family  of  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  the  names 
of  whom  the  writer  does  not  know.  Asa  Godbold,  Jr.,  married 
Miss  Sallie  EHerbe,  sister  of  the  late  Captain  W.  S.  EUerbe; 
he  died  a  few  years  ago,  leaving  a  large  family  of  sons  and 
daughters ;  the  sons  are  Walter,  William,  James  C,  Lawrence 
and  Luther;  the  daughters,  Alice,  Mollie,  Anne,  Victoria,  Bes- 
sie and  Daisy ;  of  the  sons,  Walter  and  William  are  married ; 
of  the  daughters,  Alice,  Mollie,  Anne  and  Victoria  are  mar- 
ried; Bessie  and  Daisy  are  unmarried.  Of  the  sons,  Walter 
married  a  Miss  Williams,  near  Nichols,  S.  C. ;  William  married 
his  cousin,  Lucy  EHeAe,  sister  of  the  late  Governor  EUerbe. 
Of  the  daughters,  Miss  Alice  married  Rev.  J.  Thomas  Pate, 
now  stationed  at  Florence ;  Miss  Mollie,  J.  B.  Moore,  of  Latta, 


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S.  C. ;  Miss  Annie  married  James  Harrel,  of  Cheraw,  S.  C. ; 
Miss  Victoria  married  W.  H.  Breeden,  of  Campbell's  Bridge, 
S.  C.  T'he  late  Thomas  W.  Godbold,  another  son  of  Asa  God- 
bold  (senior),  was  no  ordinary  man;  clear-minded,  energetic 
and  industrious ;  never  married;  died  about  a  year  ago,  at  the 
age  of  sixty-five.  F.  M.  Godbold,  the  youngest  son  of  Asa 
Godbold  (senior),  married,  first,  a  Miss  Vance,  in  Abbeville 
County,  to  which  county  he  removed,  and  there  ranained  till 
a  few  years  ago,  when  he  returned  to  his  native  county,  where 
he  now  resides ;  by  his  first  wife  he  ha'd  several  children ;  and 
she  dying,  he  married  another  Miss  Vance,  a  cousin  of  the  first 
wife.  Sarah  Godbold,  second  daughter  of  Asa  (senior),  mar- 
ried Colonel  E.  B.  Ellerbe,  uncle  of  the  late  Governor  Ellerbe; 
he  some  years  back  moved  to  Horry  County,  where  he  now 
resides ;  has  a  large  family.  Annie  Eliza  Godbold,  the  young- 
est diaughter  of  Asa  (senior),  married  Edwin  A.  Bethea,  now 
of  Latta ;  they  have  several  children,  sons  and  daughters ;  one 
diaughter  married  to  W.  C.  McMillan,  of  Marion,  but  now 
residing  in  Columbia,  and  is  said  to  be  doing  well ;  one  son, 
Asa  Bethea,  is  in  Texas;  the  other  children  are  all  with  their 
parents  at  L,atta. 

We  have  noticed  the  families  of  St^hen  and  Thomas  God- 
bold, grand-sons  of  the  first  old  John.  Stephen  and'  Thomas 
had  two  other  brothers,  David  and  EUy.  What  became  of 
David  Godbold  and  his  family,  if  he  had  any,  is  unknown  to 
the  writer.  The  other  brother,  Elly,  had  and  left  a  son 
named  Elly,  and  one  named  Stephen,  usually  called  Captain 
Stephen,  and  one  named  Ervin  M.  The  son,  EUy,  afterwards 
kno;wn  as  Sheriff  Elly,  and  then  as  General  EUy  (jodbold,  was 
bom  in  1804.  His  early  educational  opportunities  were  very 
limited;  he  could  scarcely  write  his  name.  The  writer  had 
hundreds  of  business  transactions  with  him  while  Sheriff  for 
three  terms,  and  never  knew  him  to  write  anything  but  his 
name — ^never  saw  any  writing  said  to  be  his,  except  his  name ; 
he  could  barely  write  it,  yet  he  was  the  most  remarkable  of 
men ;  nature  had  endowed  him'  with  strong  intellectual  powers, 
mental  acumen  and  astuteness;  he  was  well  versed  in  human 
nature ;  could  look  in  a  man's  face  and  know  all  about  him — 
could  almost  read  his  thoughts.     He  was  elected  Sheriff  for 


122  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

three  terms,  and  served)  in  that  office  for  four  years  each  term, 
with  entire  satisfaction  to  the  people  and  with  credit  to  himself. 
During  those  terms  the  business  of  the  office  was  very  heavy, 
as  his  books  will  show.  He  was  a  model  Sheriflf,  though  he 
could  do  nothing  in  the  office  himself — ^never  pretended  to  make 
a  settlement  with  any  party ;  be  had  his  clerk  to  do  all  the  office 
business;  don't  think  his  handwriting  appears  in  or  on  any 
book  kept  in  his  office  during  his  three  terms,  nor  on  paper 
belonging  to  the  office,  except  in  matters  where  it  was  required 
by  law  for  him  to  sign  his  name  in  propria  persona.  He  was 
run  a  fourth  time  for  Sheriff,  during  the  Radical  regime  in 
1872,  by  the  white  people  of  the  county,  and  elected,  but,  like 
all  others  of  bis  party  in  that  election,  was  counted  out.  He 
was  a  successful  manager  of  men ;  he  knew  every  man,  knew 
his  inclinations  and  almost  his  thoughts;  he  knew  his  weak 
points,  as  well  as  his  strong  ones,  hence  he  knew  how  to  turn 
his  innate  knowledge  of  men  to  advantage.  He  had  military 
ambition,  and  rose  in  the  militia  of  that  day  by  regular  grada- 
tions from  the  Captaincy  of  a  company  to  Brigadier  General 
of  the  Eighth  Brigade,  S.  C.  militia,  and  performed  the  dtities 
of  that  position  with  satisfaction  to  all  concerned  (see  supra). 
He  was  twice  married ;  first,  to  Miss  Flowers,  by  whom  he  had 
three  sons,  Huger,  David  and  Zachariah,  and  two  daughters. 
Huger  married  a  daughter  of  Stephen  White,  by  whom  he  had 
several  children,  sons  and  daughters,  when  his  wife  died  and 
left  him  with  her  children;  the  sons,  or  rather  two  of  them, 
went  West ;  one,  Waties,  is  here  yet,  and  married,  and  lives  over 
Catfish,  in  Wahee  Township;  one  of  the  daughters  married 
a  Mr.  Game,  and  another  married  Truman  Foxworth ;  a  third 
•one  is  yet  single.  The  father,  Huger,  though  a  widbwer  for 
thirty  years,  has  not  married  again;  he  is  about  seventy-five 
jears  of  age,  has  been  in  Washington  for  eight  or  ten  years ;  is 
in  the  public  printing  office.  Though  seventy-five  years  old,  he 
looks  about  as  young  as  he  did  thirty  years  ago ;  sprightly  as  a 
T)oy,  has  no  gray  hairs.  General  Elly  Godbold's  son,  David,  was 
an  the  Confederate  War,  and  was  killed  or,  died  in  it.  His  son, 
Zack,  married  and  had  four  children ;  his  wife  died ;  he  went 
off,  left  his  children,  all  small,  married  again — don't  know 
what  has  become  of  him.     His  son,  D.  E.  Godbold,  the  eldest. 


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grew  up,  took  care  of  his  sisters;  one  of  the  sisters  married 
some  one ;  another  sister  died,  a  young  woman ;  the  youngest 
sister  is  yet  single ;  D.  E.  Godbold  is  now  at  Mullins,  merchan- 
dising, in  partnership  with  W.  McG.  Buck,  and  seems  to  be 
doing  fairly  well.  D.  E.  Godbold  married  a  Miss  Young, 
daughter  of  the  late  Johnson  B.  Young ;  he  is  Mayor  of  the 
town  of  Mullins,  is  steady,  a  first  rate  business  man  and  is 
bound  to  succeed.  He  is  very  much  like  his  grand-father. 
General  Godbold ;  he  deserves  much  credit  for  his  success,  so 
far,  and  especially  for  the  care  he  has  taken  of  his  orphan 
sisters.  General  Elly  Godbold  was  a  successful  man ;  he  accu- 
mulated a  large  property.  He  toild  the  writer  just  before 
the  war  that  he  ihad  fifty  negroes  (children)  that  were  not 
large  enough  to  work  in  the  field  His  wife  died  some  years 
before  the  war.  He  remained  a  widower  until  the  i6th  Febru- 
ary, 1874,  when  he  married  the  Widow  Kelly,  then  in  Marion; 
she  was  forty-five  years  old  and  he  was  seventy — ^born  in  1804. 
He  died  suddenly,  12th  June,  1874,  not  quite  four  months  after 
the  second  marriage.  What  became  of  the  General's  brother, 
Stephen  T.,  or  Captain  Stephen,  as  he  was  called,  the  writer 
knows  not.  He  was,  by  no  means,  such  a  man  as  his  brother, 
the  General.  Ervin  M.  married  Miss  Foxworth;  is  dead; 
left  several  children.  Recurring  back  to  the  sons  and  grand- 
sons of  the  old  first  Joihn,  a  majority  of  them  must  have 
died  childless  or  removed  to  other  parts.  The  old  first  John, 
as  has  already  been  stated,'  had  three  sons,  John,  James  and 
Thomas.  John  had  three  sons,  Zachariah,  John  and  Jesse. 
What  became  of  these  last  three  is  not  stated,  and  is  altogether 
unknown.  The  second  son  of  old  John  was  James;  James 
had  six  sons,  John,  James,  Zaohariah,  Cade,  Abraham  and 
Thomas.  No  account  whatever  is  given  as  to  these  or  their 
posterity,  except  Thomas,  the  youngest,  who  was  the  father 
of  the  late  Hugh  Godbold,  as  before  stated,  and  who  became 
a  Brigadier  General  of  the  militia,  and  was  quite  a  prominent 
man  in  his  day;  he  died  in  1825.  Thus,  five  of  the  grand- 
sons of  the  old  first  John  seem  to  have  no  representatives  or 
descendants  in  this  country.  The  third  son  of  the  old  first 
John  was  named  Thomas,  and  he  had  a  son  named  Thomas., 
This  latter  Thomas  was  the  father  of  Asa  Godbold  (senior), 


124  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

of  whom  we  have  already  had'  something  to  say.  It  seems  that 
this  last  Thomas  had  seven  sons,  who  have  already  been  named ; 
only  three  of  them  were  married;  Asa  (senior),  Robert  and 
William  H. ;  the  others  lived  in  single  blessedness,  and  they 
are  all  dead,  leaving  no  representatives.  Robert  married  and 
died,  leaving  only  a  daughter.  Of  Asa.  (senior)  and  his 
family,  we  have  already  spoken.  The  only  one  not  yet  noticed 
is  William  H.,  the  youngest ;  he  was  a  doctor,  and  a  most 
excellent  and  worthy  man ;  he  married,  first,  a  Miss  Menden- 
hall,  of  North  Carolina ;  she  died  in  about  a  year,  leaving  no 
offspring;  after  the  usual  lapse  of  time  in  such  cases,  the 
Doctor  married  a  second  time,  a  Miss  Hunt  (Mary  E.),  from 
about  High  Point,  N.  C,  a  highly  accomplished  lady — a 
woman  of  a  fine  and  a  cultivated  mind.  By  her  the  Doctor 
had  four  children,  two  sons,  Thomas  N.  and  William  H.,  and 
two  daughters,  Mattie  and  Mary  L,. ;  the  Doctor  died  when 
these  children  were  all  small ;  the  mother,  with  the  courage  of 
a  Spartan,  with  her  limited'  means,  raised  her  children  respect- 
ably, and  gave  them  all  a  fairly  good  education;  she  is  yet 
living.  After  some  years  she  married  Captain  J.  C.  Finklea 
(Confederate),  by  whom  she  had  one  child,  a  son;  who  died, 
however,  at  the  age  of  four  or  five.  The  eldest  son,  Thomas 
N.  Godbold,  married  on  the  loth  January,  1888,  the  youngest 
daug'hter,  Mary,  of  the  writer.  She  has  three  children  living, 
Thomas  Carroll,  Anna  and  Mary  E.  The  second  son  of  Dr. 
W.  H.  Godbold,  who  was  named  for  his  father,  married,  about 
1886,  a  Miss  Mattie  Beaty,  daughter  of  Hon.  James  C.  Beaty, 
of  Horry  County.  About  seven  years  ago,  he  disappeared 
from  home,  and  has  not  been  heard  of  since;  he  left  his  wife 
and  four  small  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters ;  his  wife 
and  the  children  are  doing  fairly  well.  Dr.  Godbold's  oldest 
daughter,  Mattie,  married  J.  E.  Stevenson;  she  died  three  or 
four  years  ago,  and  left  three  children,  two  sons  and  a 
daughter ;  Mary  L.,  the  youngest  daughter  of  the  Doctor,  mar- 
ried Richard  Davis,  below  Marion ;  they  are  doing  very  well. 

There  is  one  circumstance  worthy  to  be  noted  in  the  Godbold 
family,  and  that  is  the  name  Thomas.  The  first  old  John  had 
a  son  by  that  name ;  and  his  son,  James,  who  had  six  sons,  one 
of  whom  was  named  Thomas,  and  who  became  General  Tho- 


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mas  Godibold.  The  third  son  of  old  first  John  was  named 
Thomas,  and  he  had  a  son  named  Thomas,  called  "Tom  Cat," 
not  in  derision,  but  to  distinguish  him  from  his  cousin,  Thomas 
(the  General) ;  and  in  most  branches  of  the  family,  from  those 
early  days  till  the  present  time,  the  name  Thomas  is  to  be 
found,  and  now  at  this  time  there  are  four  or  five  Thomas 
Godbolds  in  the  family.  The  late  Ervin  Godbold,  youngest 
brother  of  General ,Elly,  as  already, stated,  married  a  Miss  Fox- 
worth,  by  whom  he  had  five  or  six  children;  he  was  a  quiet, 
inoffensive  man,  unaspiring,  and  had  the  respect  and  confi- 
dence of  his  fellow-citizens.  One  of  his  daughters  became  the 
wife  of  the  late  S.  G.  Owens,  Clerk  of  the  Court ;  she  died,  and 
Owens  died.  Ervin  M.  Godbold  left  a  son,  Thomas,  keeping 
up  that  name.  The  writer  has  dwelt  upon  the  Godbold  family 
to  a  greater  extent  than  he  otherwise  would,  because  the  first 
settlement  made  about  Marion  Court  House  was  made,  as  here- 
inbefore stated,  by  John  Godbold.  It  runs  over  a  period  of 
165  years,  and  yet  the  Godbolds  are  here,  by  themselves  and 
by  their  respectable  connections,  while  many  who  came  and 
settled  in  other  parts  of  the  county,  about  the  same  time  and 
before  and  after,  have  disappeared;  their  names  have  become 
extinct,  either  by  misfortune,  deaths  or  removals. 

Evans. — The  next  family  the  writer  will  notice,  is  the  Evans 
family.  Bishop  Gregg  says,  on  page  75  :  "Nathan  Evans  was 
a  Welshman,  and  settled  on  Catfish.  He  either  came  from  the 
Welsh  Neck  above,  soon  after  his  arrival  there,  or  was  one  of 
those  who  went  first  to  the  lower  part  of  the  Welsh  tracts,  and 
remained:  there.  Lands  in  the  neighborhood  of  Tart's  Mill 
(now  Moody's)  were  granted  to  Nathan  Evans."  Bishop 
Gregg,  in  a  note  on  same  page,  says :  "Nathan  Evans  was  the 
grand-father  of  the  late  Thomas  Evans  and  General  William 
Evans,  of  Marion.  The  father  of  General  Evans  was  also 
"-"^M  Nathan,  and  was  a  man  of  upright  character  through 
Nathan  Evans'  arrival  and  settlement  on  "Catfish"  was 
ifter  the  arrival  and  settlement  of  John  Godbold,  in  1735. 
Gregg  further  says:  "David  Evans,  a  son  of  Nathan,  was  a 
Captain  in  the  Revolution,  and  a  man  of  note.  He  died  child- 
less.    About  the  same  time,  two  families  of  James  and  Lucas 


126  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

came  down  the  river  and  settled  on  Catfish ;  with  the  latter  of 
these  the  Crawfords  and  Evans  intermarried.  Soon  after  a 
family  of  Bakers  came  from  Newtern,  N.  C,  to  Pee  Dee. 
One  of  this  name  married  a  daughter  of  Nathan  Evans.  Wil- 
liam Baker  was  prominent  in  the  Revolution,  and  marked  for 
his  devotion  to  the  cause  of  liberty."  Thus  the  foundation  of 
the  Evans  family,  so  far  as  Marion  County  is  concerned,  is  laid 
in  old  Nathan  Evans.  We  are  not  informed  whether  he  had 
sons  other  than  David  and  Nathan,  and  no  account  of  any 
daughter,  except  that  one  of  the  name  of  Baker  married  a 
daughter  of  Nathan  Evans.  His  son,  Nathan,  was  the  only 
one  to  perpetuate  the  name.  The  writer  thinks  he  married 
twice  (the  second  Nathan).  His  first  wife  was  a  Godbold,  by 
whom  he  had  a  son,  the  late  Thomas  Evans,  and  two  daughters, 
Mrs.  R.  J.  Gregg  and  Mrs.  Colonel  Levi  Legette,  there  may 
have  been  other  children  of  the  first  marriage.  Nathan  Evans' 
second  wife  was  a  Miss  Rogers  (first  name  not  known),  a 
daughter  of  old  Lot  Rogers,  of  upper  Marion.  By  his  second 
wife  he  had  three  sons  and  a  daughter.  The  sons  were  the 
late  General  William  Evans,  Nathan  Evans  and  Gamewell 
Evans;  the  daughter,  Elizabeth  A.,  married  Alexander  Mur- 
dock,  of  Marlborough  County.  The  late  Thomas  Evans 
married  a  Miss  Daniel,  a  Virginia  lady,  a  most  excellent 
woman,  and  a  woman  of  more  than  ordinary  culture  for  her 
day  and  time ;  the  fruits  of  this  marriage  were  ten  sons  and  one 
daughter.  The  father,  Thomas  Evans,  was  quite  a  prominent 
man  in  his  day — Representative  and  Senator  from  his  county 
in  the  State  Legislature,  Commissioner  in  Equity,  and  a  useful 
man  generally ;  he  died'  in  middle  life — I  think,  in  1845 ;  the 
names  of  his  sons,  as  remembered,  were  Chesly  D.,  Thomas, 
Nathan  G.,  James,  Beverly,  Jackson,  William,  Asa,  Alfred  and 
Woodson ;  the  daughter,  Sarah,  who  married  R.  L.  Singletary, 
on  the  west  side  of  Great  Pee  Dee,  who  has  children  grown  and 
married.  Chesly  D.  Evans  graduated  at  the  South  Carolina 
College,  I  think,  in  1839,  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1841 ;  went  into  practice,  and  was  electedl  Commissioner 
in  Equity,  which  position  he  held  for  years ;  he  was  a  delegate 
to  the  Secession  Convention  in  i860,  was  quite  a  scholarly  man 
and  a  good  lawyer,  though  not  much  of  an  advocate ;  he  mar- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  127 

ried,  in  1850  or  1851,  Miss  Jane  Haselden,  and  reared  a  family 
of  seven  sons  and  one  daughter.  The  sons  were  Junius  H., 
Chesly  D.,  Walker,  Samuel,  Frank,  Leon,  Nathan  and  David 
(called  Tris  Magistas) ;  and  a  diaughter,  Bettie.  Of  these, 
Junius  is  a  practicing  lawyer  at  Marion ;  married  Miss  Florence 
Durant,  and  has  three  or  four  children.  Chesly  D.  married  a 
Miss  Wells ;  he  is  dead,  and  left  three  children.  Samuel  Mar- 
ried an  English  lady,  and  is  dead;  he  left  two  children. 
Walker  married  a  Miss  McDougal,  in  upper  Marion,  and  is 
farming  and  doing  well.  Frank  is  in  Spartanburg  at  the  head 
of  a  graded  school,  and  is  highly  esteemed.  Where  the  other 
two,  Nathan  and  David,  are  unknown,  having  left  Marion. 
L,eon  died  when  a  youth.  Chesly  died  in  May,  1897,  at  the 
advanced  age  of  eighty  years,  being  born  loth  January,  1817. 
Thomas  Evans,  second  son  of  Thomas  Evans  (senior),  grew 
up,  studied  law,  practiced  for  several  years,  and  was  appointed 
(I  think,  by  President  Pierce,)  United  States  District  Attorney 
for  South  Carolina,  which  position  he  filled  for  four  years  with 
credit  to  himself  and  satisfaction  to  the  public.  He  married 
late  in  life  (don't  rememiber  whom),  settled  down  in  Britton's 
Neck  at  a  place  called'  Oakton,  and  soon  thereafter  removed 
West  and  died  there.  Nathan  G.  Evanfe,  and  third  son  of 
Thomas  Evans  (senior),  was  educated  at  West  Point  and  went 
into  the  regular  army  of  the  United  States,  and  when  the  war 
between  the  States  broke  out,  loyal  to  his  section,  he  threw 
himself  on  the  sidfe  of  the  South  and  was  soon  appointed  by 
President  Davis  a  Brigadier  General,  and  won  distinction  on 
many  fields,  and  especially  at  the  battle  of  L,eesburg  or  Ball's 
Bluff,  where  he  pursued  the  Federals  to  the  river,  completely 
routed  them,  and  besides  killing  many,  others  sprang  off  the 
bluff  into  the  river  and  were  either  drowned  or  killed  in  the 
water.  (Rise  and  Fall  of  the  Confederate  Government,  i  vol., 
437.)  General  N.  George  Evans  (called  Shanks  at  home), 
married  about  the  close  of  the  war  a  Miss  Gary,  of  Edgefield, 
or  Abbeville,  and  by  her  had  sons  and  daughters,  the  number 
and  names  unknown,  think  three  sons;  one  of  whom,  John 
Gary  Evans,  is  now  an  ex-Governor  of  the  State ;  he  removed 
to  Edgefield  after  his  marriage,  and  died  there  several  years 
ago.     A  true  South  Carolinian  and  a  gallant  soldier,  his  face 


128  A  HISTORY  Of  MARION  COUNTY.     " 

was  ever  to  the  front.  James  E.  Evans,  another  son  of 
Thomas  Evans  (senior),  was  a  doctor,  and  did  service  in  the 
war  as  asurgeon;  married  a  Virginia  lady,  and  after  the  war 
returned  to  South  Carolina,  located  as  a  physician  at  Little 
Rock,  in  his  native  county,  and  remained  there  doing  a  good 
practice  for  several  years ;  then  removed  to  Florence,  and  con- 
tinued his  practice  there  till  the  present  time.  He  is  eminent  in 
his  profession,  is  Secretary  to  the  State  Board  of  Health,  and 
President  of  the  State  Board  of  Medical  Examiners  for  the  ex- 
amination of  applicants  to  practice  in  the  State,  as  required  by 
law — quite  a  distinguished  position;  he  is  a  man  of  high 
character  and  of  excellent  morals;  has  a-  family,  children 
grown,  the  numher  and  names  unknown;  has  a  daughter 
married  to  Hon.  F.  B.  Gary,  present  Speaker  of  the  House  of 
Representatives  of  the  South  Carolina  IvCgislature,  and  at 
present  a  candidate  for  Governor  of  the  State.  Another  son 
of  Thomas  Evans  (senior),  William,  who  was  in  the  navy 
under  Admiral  Semmes  on  the  Alabama,  during  the  war,  and 
an  officer  of  what  rank  is  now  unknown,  and  was  perhaps  a 
graduate  of  the  Naval  Academy  at  Annapolis,  Md. ;  he  was  a 
brave  Carolinian,  and  a  staunch  supporter  of  the  Confederacy ; 
he  never  married,  and  died  some  years  ago  and  was  buried  in 
his  native  town.  Two  other  sons  of  Thomas  Evans  (senior), 
Jackson  and  Beverly,  left  this  country  years  ago  and  went 
West;  they  were  unmarried  when  they  left  Marion;  don't 
know  what  has  become  of  them.  Another  son.  Captain  A.  L. 
Evans,  now  Deputy  Clerk  of  the  Court,  of  Thomas  Evans 
(senior),  volunteered  early  in  the  war,  and  remained  in  it  to 
the  last,  a  gallant  soldier,  contending  for  the  rights  of  his 
section ;  he  was  Adjutant  in  his  brother's,  N.  G.  Evans,  brigade, 
and  went  through  all  the  battles  in  which  it  was  engaged  during 
the  war,  from  Virginia  to  Mississippi,  always  at  his  post  and 
did  his  full  duty;  he  married  a  daughter  of  the  late  Horatio 
McClenaghan,  and  by  her  has  had  five  children,  two  sons  and 
three  daughters;  one  daughter  married.  Two  other  sons  of 
Thomas  Evans  (senior),  were  Alfred  and  Woodson.  Soon 
after  the  war,  Alfred,  a  young  man,  went  West;  I  have  lost 
sight  of  him,  and  cannot  say  what  has  become  of  him.  Wood- 
son, the  youngest  son,  just  as  he  was  entering  into  manhood. 


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sickened  and  died.  That  family  of  Evans  did  much  for  the 
"lost  cause ;"  their  whole  soul  was  in  it  and  went  down  with  it, 
not  whipped,  but  simply  overcome  by  the  number  and  resources 
of  the  enemy. 

General  William  Evans,  a  son  of  Nathan,  the  second,  by  his 
second  marriage,  was  bom  in  1804,  grew  up  to  manhood  and 
married  Miss  Sarah  Ann,  Godbold,  daughter  of  General 
Thomas  Godbold;  settled  down  at  the  place  just  north  of 
Marion,  and  went  to  farming ;  he  succeeded  well  in  his  chosen 
occupation  and  amassed  a  large  property;  he'  had  only  two 
sons,  James  Hamilton  and  William  Thomas ;  the  latter  is  now 
the  Sheriff  (second  term)  of  the  county;  and  seven  daughters, 
viz:  Catharine,  Mary,  Eliza  Jane,  Louisa,  Ann  M.,  Rosa  and 
Margaret.  The  oldest  son,  James  Hamilton,  was  a  gradtiate 
of  the  University  of  North  Carolina.  He  married  Miss  Amelia 
Legette,  daughter  of  Rev.  David  L/egette,  and  lived  to  a.  ffew 
years  back  and  died  childless.  William  Thomas  grew  up  to 
manhood,  just  in  time  to  strike  the  war ;  he  was  in  college,  left 
it  and  came  home,  volunteered  and  went  into  the  war  and 
made  a  good  soldier,  remained  in  it  till  the  last;  came  home 
and  married  a  Miss  Stith,  of  Wilson,  N.  C. ;  by  her  he  had  one 
child,  a  daughter ;  soon  after  his  wife  died ;  he  has  not  remar- 
ried; his  daughter,  however,  grew  up,  raised  by  her  grand- 
mother, Evans,  and  married  Henry  I.  Gasque ;  had  two  children 
for  him,  a  daughter  and  a  son;  she  died  three  or  four  years 
ago,  leaving  her  two  children  and  husband.  Thus  it  appears 
that  the  name  of  Evans,  so  far  as  the  sons  of  the  General  are 
concerned,  will  become  extinct,  unless  the  Sheriff,  W.  T. 
Evans,  should-  marry  again  and  thereby  perpetuate  his  name. 
General  Evans'  oldest  daughter,  Catharine,  died  not  long  after 
reaching  her  womanhood,  unmarried;  his  daug'hter,  Mary, 
married  A.  J.  Requier,  a  lawyer,  who  afterwards  moved  to 
Mobile,  where  Requier  became  distinguished  as  a  lawyer,  a 
man  of  erudition ;  his  wife,  Mary,  died  in  Mobile,  Ala.,  I  think, 
childless ;  his  daughter,  Eliza  Jane,  married  Dr.  Dixon  Evans, 
of  Fayetteville,  N.  C. ;  by  the  marriage  she  did  not  change  her 
name,  but  preserved'  her  identity  as  an  Evans.  Dr.  Dixon 
Evans  died  at  Marion  a  few  years  ago,  leaving  three  sons  and 
three   daughters;  of  the   sons,   Charles   E.    Evans,   now   of 


130  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Marion,  is  the  eldest,  who  married  Sophie  Miles,  daughter 
of  Dr.  D.  F.  Miles,  Clerk  of  the  Court.  The  next  son, 
William  A.,  grew  up  and  went  West;  his  whereabouts  is 
unknown  to  the  writer.  The  third  and  last  son  of  Dr. 
Dixon  Evans  is  named  Joseph,  a  young  man,  unmarried. 
Of  Dr.  Evans'  daughters,  the  eldest  is  the  wife  of  B.  R. 
Mullins,  of  Marion;  the  second  daughter,  Kate,  married  W. 
H.  Cross,  Cashier  of  the  Merchants  and  Farmers  Bank  at 
Marion;  she  died  three  or  four  years  ago,  and  left  two  or 
three  children.  Another  daughter,  Amelia,  married  a  Mr. 
Glover,  of  Payetteville,  N.  C.  General  Evans'  daughter, 
Ivouiza,  married,  first,  a  Mr.  McEacshern,  of  North  Carolina; 
by  him  she  had  two  daughters,  when  McEachern  died.'  The 
widow,  in  a  few  years,  married  Rev.  W.  C.  Power,  an  itin- 
erant Methodist  minister,  and  by  him,  I  think,  she  has  six 
chfldren,  three  sons  and  three  daughters;  one  daughter  and 
two  sons,  W.  C.  and  John  M.,  married,  but  do  not  know  to 
whom.  Rev.  W.  C.  Power  married  in  1867.  He  has  con- 
tinued in  the  itinerancy  thence  to  the  present  time ;  stands  high 
in  the  Conference,  has  filled  many  important  stations,  has  been 
a  Presiding  Elder  for  twenty  years ;  he  is  a  close  thinker  and 
an  able  minister,  a  very  methodical  man.  I  have  heard  it  re- 
marked by  several  that  he  ought  to  have  been  a  bank  presi- 
dent— ^he  is  a  good  financier.  The  two  McEachern  daughters 
both  married;  the  eldest,  Lilly,  married  John  M.  Power,  a 
nephew  of  the  Rev.  W.  C.  Power;  I  do  not  know  what  has 
become  of  them;  the  younger  McEachern  daughter,  Mary, 
married  a  Mr.  Tesky,  of  Charleston;  he  is  a  merchant  in  his 
home  city,  and  is  said  to  be  a  prosperous  man.  General 
Evans'  daughter,  Anna  M.,  married  Colonel  John  G.  Blue,  of 
North  Carolina ;  he  was  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  North 
Carolina  and  a  lawyer ;  Colonel  Blue  was  a  man  of  good  sense 
and  mentally  much  above  the  ordinary,  and  especially  when 
aroused ;  and  had  he  applied  himself  to  his  profession,  as  some 
do,  he  doubtless  would  have  attained  an  enviable  position  in 
the  profession ;  he  would  have  been  where  there  is  always  room 
plenty — ^that  is,  at  the  top ;  he  went  into  the  war  early  as  a  pri- 
vate, and  rose  by  successive  steps  to  a  Lieutenant  Colonelcy; 
be  was  brave  and  patriotic;  bad  a  high  sense  of  duty;  very 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  131 

tatnperate  in  all  his  habits  except  one,  and  in  that  was  very 
intemperate,  and  that  was  in  the  use  of  tobacco,  and  its  exces- 
sive use  probably  shortened  his  life;  he  was  a  candidate  for 
the  Legislature  in  1876  and  was  elected  and  was  a  member  of 
the  famous  "Wallace  House"  of  that  year,  and  was  re-elected 
for  several  terms  thereafter,  and  was  a  very  useful  member  of 
that  body ;  he  was  very  cool  and  deliberate,  and  his  judgment 
good ;  he  had  the  confidence  of  his  fellow-members.  Some  ten 
or  twelve  years  ago  his  health  failed  him,  and  after  lingering 
for  several  months  he  died  in  Richmond  County,  N.  C,  his  old 
home  place,  to  which  he  had  gone  for  recuperation;  he  died 
rather  unexpectedly;  his  widow  and  the  younger  mem'bers  of 
her  family  live  on  their  homestead,  near  Marion.  Colonel 
Blue  raised  three  sons  and  five  daughters ;  his  eldest  son,  Wil- 
liam E.  Blue,  is  yet  single  and  lives  with  his  mother,  and 
carries  on  the  farm,  and  is  now  County  Treasurer;  he  is  a 
young  man  of  fine  talents  and  of  good  character.  Another  son, 
Rupert,  is  a  doctor,  and  has  for  several  years  been  a  surgeon 
in  the  United  States  Army,  and  stands  well  as  such ;  he  is,  or 
was,  somewhere  in  the  West,  attending  to  the  duties  of  his 
position.  Another  son,  Victor,  graduated  some  years  ago,  in 
the  Naval  Academy  at  Annapolis,  Md.,  and  has  been  in  the 
navy  ever  since  his  graduation,  and  is  now  Flag  Lieutenant,  and 
has  gone,  it  is  said,  in  the  newspapers,  on  a  war  ship  to 
China  as  Flag  Lieutenant.  He  acquired  celebrity  and  distinc- 
tion by  heroic  deeds  in  the  late  Spanish-American  War,  and  is 
well  on  the  road  to  an  Admiralship,  the  highest  honor  that  can 
be  attained  in  that  branch  of  his  country's  service — a  Marion 
boy,  of  whom  Marion  and  the  whole  State  are  justly  proud; 
be  is  a  fine  specimen  of  manhood  physically ;  he  recently  mar- 
ried a  daughter  of  some  naval  Captain.  Of  Colonel  Blue's 
daughters,  one.  Miss  Sallie,  married  Peter  John,  of  Marl- 
borough .County ;  another.  Miss  Ida,  married  Mr.  James  John, 
of  North  Carolina,  a  brother  to  Peter.  The  Johns  are  good 
men  and  well-to-do.  Another  daughter.  Miss  Effie,  married 
Edward  B.  Wheeler,  of  Marion,  a  very  worthy  native  and 
citizen.  The  two  other  daughters.  Miss  Kate  and  Miss  Hettie, 
are  unmarried — worthy  of  some  good  man.  Miss  Kate  has 
obtained  some  celebrity  as  a  writer,  and  is  quite  literary  in  her 


132  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

taste.  Another  daughter  of  General  Evans,  Miss  Rosa,  mar- 
ried Captain  Duncan  Mclntyre;  did  not  hve  long, after  her 
marriage,  and  died  childless.  The  youngest  daughter  of 
General  Evans,  Miss  Margaret,  or  Maggie,  as  she  was  called, 
married  in  the  latter  part  of  the  war  the  late  Major  S.  A. 
•  Durham,  and  by  him  she  had  three  children,  two  daughters 
and  a  son.  The  son,  Cicero  A.  Durham,  now  living  in  Marion, 
married'  Miss  Kate  McKerall,  daughter  of  the  late  Captain  W. 
J.  McKerall;  they  have  no  children.  The  two  daughters  of 
Major  S.  A.  Durham,  Miss  Eunice  and  Miss  Marguerette, 
are  unmarried. 

General  William  Evans  was  a  prominent  man  in  his  day. 
He  was  a  large  and  active  man,  handsome  and  of  fine  address, 
and  much  of  a  man  physically.  He  was  chosen  as  one  of  the 
delegates  to  the  Nullification  Convention  in  1832,  and  was  one 
of  the  signers  to  the  Ordinance  of  Nullification  passed  by  that 
body.  About  that  time  he  was  elected  Brigadier  General  of 
the  militia.  In  1838,  he  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Represen- 
tatives from  his  county  and  served  a  term;  he  was  again 
elected  to  the  same  position  in  1846,  and  served  another  term. 
General  Evans  was  a  man  of  fine  sense,  but  not  a  scholar ;  he 
devoted  himself  almost  exclusively  to  his  farm',  at  which  he 
succeeded  well,  made  a  large  property  in  lands  and  slaves,  and 
kept  out  of  debt.  At  the  time  of  emancipation  he  owned 
over  one  hundred  slaves.  It  seemed  that  everything  he 
touched  "turned  to  gold" — it  prospered  in  his  hands.  He  died 
sitting  on  the  steps  of  his  front  piazza,  suddenly,  on  the  6th 
June,  1876,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years. 

Nathan  Evans,  a  younger  brother  of  General  Evans,  and  a 
grand-son  of  the  first  old  Nathan,  was  'born  in  1805 ;  was  a 
worthy  man  and  an  excellent  citizen ;  a  gentleman  of  fine  taste, 
affable  and  very  popular  with  everybody;  he  married  a  Miss 
Baker,  below  Marion,  a  daughter  of  William  and.  Annise 
Baker ;  by  whom  he  had  four  children,  two  so^ns,  William  B. 
and  Nathan,  and  two  daughters,  Lizzie  and  Ann  Eliza.  The 
Baker  wife  died.  After  a  reasonable  time,  he  married  again. 
Miss  Harriet  Braddy,  of  upper  Marion;  by  her  he  had  four 
children,  two  sons,  Julius  and  Lawrence,  and  two  daughters, 
Martha,  called  "Pat,"  and  Fannie.    His   second  wife  died 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  133 

about  1878  or  1879,  of  cancer;  she  suffered  for  a  long  time 
the  most  intense  agonies.  He  married  no  more,  lived  on 
his  farm  until  12th  February,  1885,  when  he,  too,  passed 
away.  His  son,  William  B.  Evans,  was  a  Captain  in  the 
war,  a  true  and  valiant  soldier.  In  one  of  the  battles  in 
Virginia  he  was  badly  wounded,  shot  through  one  of  his 
lungs — which  at  the  time  was  thought  to  be  mortal;  but  to 
every  one's  surprise,  he  recovered.  After  recovery  he  re- 
turned to  his  command  and  continued  therein  to  the  surrender 
of  Johnston's  army,  26th  April,  1865.  He  came  home  and 
soon  after  married  Miss  Maggie  Haselden,  a  daughter  of 
Major  James  Haselden;  she  lived  but  a  short  while  and  died 
childless.  He  afterwards  married  Miss  Sue  Berry,  a  d^aughter 
of  Elihu  Berry,  a  niece  of  his  first  wife,  by  whom  he  has  had 
three  sons  and  five  daughters.  The  sons  are  William  Boyd, 
James  Aubrey  and  Thomas  Baker;  the  daughters  are  Mamie, 
Emma,  Nellie,  Lucy  and  Gary  Ivee,  all  unmarried,  except  his 
oldest  son,  William  Boyd  Evans,  who  has  recently  married  a 
Miss  Heyward,  in  Charleston.  W.  Boyd  Evans  is  a  graduate 
of  Wofford  College;  he  was  Private  Secretary  to  Governor 
Ellerbe  up  to  the  death  of  the  Governor,  2d  June,  1899 ;  he  has 
also  recently  graduated  in  the  law  department  of  the  South 
Carolina  College.  With  it  all,  including  his  recent  marriage, 
he  is  well  equipped  for  life,  and  sets  out  on  its  tempestuous  sea 
with  ballast,  rudder  and  sails.  The  other  children,  sons  and 
daughters,  of  Captain  Evans,  are  all  with  him ;  the  sons  and 
two  eldest  daughters  are  grown,  the  rest  are  small.  Captain 
Evans  is  a  very  worthy  citizen,  a  man  of  good  morals,  and  a 
good  man  in  his  family — in  short,  he  is  a  high-toned  gentle- 
man; he  is  a  farmer. 

Nathan  Evans'  daughter,  Lizzie,  by  his  first  wife,  married 
the  late  W.  W.  Braddy,  and  by  him  had  several  children ;  they 
are  all  dead,  except  two — Sue,  the  wife  of  Professor  Coleman, 
in  the  Citadel  Academy,  in  Charleston,  .and  a  son,  Wightman 
Braddy,  a  young  man  just  grown.  Mrs.  Lizzie  Braddy  had  a 
daughter  named  Walker,  who  married  J.  W.  Davis,  of  Marion. 
They  moved  to  Alabama,  where  Walker  died,  as  is  said,  and 
left  three  sons,  Willie,  Hicks  and  Elbert.  Their  father,  J.  W. 
Davis,  has  married  twice  since  his  first  wife.  Walker  Braddy, 


134  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

died.  These  three  Davis  boys  are  direct  descendants  of 
Nathan  Evans,  whose  family  we  are  now  noticing.  Nathan 
Evans  had  another  son  by  his  Baker  wife,  named  Nathan ;  he 
grew  up  to  manhood  and  died  unmarried.  He  had  also 
another  daughter  by  the  Baker  wife,  named  Ann  Eliza;  she 
married  a  man  by  the  name  of  Cole  and  died  childless.  As 
already  stated,  Nathan  Evans  (the  third)  had  by  his  second 
wife,  Harriet  Braddy,  two  sons,  Julius  and  Lawrence;  and 
two  daughters,  Martha  (called  Pat)  and  Fannie.  Julius  grew 
up  to  manhood,  merchandised  a  few  years  at  Marion,  in  part- 
nership with  his  brother-in-law,  Richard  Jordan,  who  had  mar- 
ried his  sister,  "Pat."  The  firm  was  not  successful.  In  the 
meantime,  he  had  married  a  Miss  by  w'hom  he  has 

had  four  sons  and  a  daughter.  He  removed  to  Tallahassee, 
Florida,  where  he  now  resides. 

Richard  Jordan,  of  Horry,  married  Miss  "Pat"  Evans,  ana 
after  the  failure  of  the  mercantile  firm  of  Jordan  &  Evans,  as 
above  indicated,  Mr.  Jordan  remained'  in  Marion  a  few  years, 
variously  engaged,  and  then  removed  to  Georgia  and  started 
a  business  there  (turpentine  and  merchandise) ,  at  which,  it  is 
said,  he  has  succeeded  well.  He  has  a  considerable  family, 
seven  daughters  and  one  son.  Mr.  Jordan  is  a  first-rate  busi- 
ness man,  full  of  push  and  energy — 'by  no  means  an  idler ;  if 
he  cannot  succeed  at  one  thing,  he  tries  another ;  he  tries  again 
and  does  not  give  up.  Nathan  Evans'  (the  third)  son,  L,aw- 
rence,  married  some  girl  in  Horry  County  some  years  ago,  and 
has  been  lost  sight  of.  Miss  Fannie,  the  youngest  daughter 
of  Nathan  Evans,  by  second  wife,  went  out  to  Georgia  with 
her  brother-in-law,  Jordan,  and  married  a  Mr.  Applewhite ;  she 
has  also  been  lost  sigiht  of. 

Nathan  Evans  (the  third)  was  one  of  nature's  noblemen; 
had  great  good  sense,  was  energetic  and  upright  in  every  re- 
spect ;  always  lent  his  ear  to  a  tale  of  suffering;  had  a  kind  and 
sympathetic  heart,  and  would  help  his  neighbor  in  distress,  if  it 
was  in  his  power,  often  to  his  own  injury;  he  injured  himself 
and  family  by  becoming  surety  for  others.  He  lived  on  his 
splendid  farm,  which  he  managed  to  keep,  till  his  death;  he 
was  a  very  popular  man,  more  so  than  his  brother,  the  General ; 
yet  he  never  aspired  to  the  honors  of  office  but  once,  and  then 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  135 

not  of  his  own  motion;  but  being  urged  by  his  numerous 
friends,  he  became  a  candidate  for  Representative  in  the  State 
Legislature  in  1858,  and  though  the  contest  was  heated,  he  was 
triumphantly  elected  at  the  head  of  the  ticket,  and  served  a 
term  in  the  House.  Faithful  to  his  trust,  he  retired  from  public 
life  in  the  full  confidence  of  his  people,  and  could  never  after 
be  induced  to  become  a  candidate  again — he  loved  his  home 
and  family  too  well ;  the  pursuits  of  home  life  were  more  con- 
genial to  his  nature. 

"About  1735,"  as  stated  by  Bisfhop  Gregg,  p.  69:  "two  im- 
portant settlements  were  made  in  that  region  (Marion  Dis- 
trict) ;  one  of  these  was  in  Britton's  Neck,  twenty  miles  below 
Mar's  Bluff,  and  forty  miles  above  Georgetown.  It  was 
composed  of  the  families  of  Britton,  Graves,  Fladger,  Davis, 
Tyler,  Giles  and  others.  They  came  directly  from  England  as 
one  colony;  and  being  members  of  the  Established  Church, 
one  of  their  first  acts  was  to  erect  a  house  for  the  worship  of 
God.  Their  minister.  Dr.  Robert  Hunter,  came  with  them, 
and  is  supposed  to  have  died  there.  He  was  succeeded  by  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Allison."  In  a  note  on  the  same  page.  Bishop 
Gregg,  in  regard  to  the  church  built  there  at  that  time,  1735, 
says :  "This  building  was  of  black  cypress,  with  a  brick  foun- 
dation, and  is  still  to  be  seen  (1859),  ^^  ^^  ^  ^^^  years  since, 
in  a  good'  state  of  preservation,  on  the  road  leading  from  Port's 
Ferry  to  Potato  Bed  Ferry,  on  Little  Pee  Dee.  About  the  year 
1780,  the  congregation  having  long  been  without  a  minister, 
and  doubtless  very  much  broken  up  by  the  troublous  times  of 
the  Revolution,  united  with  the  Methodist,  and  the  building 
passed  into  the  hands  of  the  latter,  by  whom  it  has  since  been 
retained.  Charles  Wesley  is  said  to  have  once  preached  in  it. 
The  name  of  one  of  these  families  subsequently  became  dis- 
tinguishd  in  the  person  of  Hugh  Giles,  who  took  a  prominent 
part  in  this  region  during  the  Revolution.  He  was  the  son  of 
Robert  Giles." 

Giles. — Of  Colonel  Hugh  Giles,  something  has  already 
been  said  in  these  pages,  and  something  more  may  yet  be  said 
herein.  Of  the  church  here  spoken  of,  it  is  the  Britton's 
Neck  Methodist  Church   now — of  course,   not  the  original 

ID 


136  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  CpUNTY. 

building,  but  on  the  same  plat  of  ground,  and  is  supposed  to  be 
the  oldest  church  in  the  county.  I  think  it  likely  that  Francis 
Asbury  (Bis'hop)  in  his  travels  round  and  through  the  country 
preached  in  it  more  than  once.  The  writer  has  not  the  life  of 
Bishop  Asbury  now  before  him,  but  he  read  it  years  ago,  and 
remembers  the  fact  stated  in  it,  that  be  preached  in  the  Brit- 
ton's  Neck  Church  perhaps  more  than  once.  Bishop  Gregg 
says  it  was  built  of  black  cypress,  with  a  brick  foundation. 
The  question  may  arise  in  the  mind  of  the  reader,  where  did 
they  get  the  brick  from  ?  Had  they,  then  and  there,  the  appli- 
ances for  making  bricks  ?  The  answer  is,  they  had'  not ;  they 
brought  the  brick  with  them  from  England.  Many  of  the  first 
brick  houses  or  brick  chimneys  in  Charleston  and  other  portions 
of  the  low  country,  were  made  of  brick  imported  from  Eng- 
land, and  some  of  the  first  settlers  brought  the  brick  with  them. 
Brick  afforded  a  capital  ballast  for  the  ships,  then  sailing  ves- 
sels. The  writer,  in  the  spring  of  1900,  visited  Jacksonboro, 
in  Colleton  County,  thirty-seven  miles  below  Charleston,  to 
see  his  youngest  daughter,  Mary  S.  Godbold.  He  stayed  there 
three  weeks,  and  while  there  he  was  invited  one  afternoon  to 
take  a  carriage  ride  into  the  country  with  old  Mrs.  Gioodman 
and  her  daughter.  Miss  Edith,  and  a  Miss  Cobum,  school 
teacher;  of  course,  he  accepted  the  invitation;  went  out  west- 
ward about  five  miles  to  the  ruins  of  an  old  Episcopal  Church 
in  what  was  formerly  known  as  St.  Bartholomew's  Parish. 
The  two  side  walls  were  both  down  and  most  of  the  brick  had 
been  removed';  the  back  end  wall  was  to  a  great  extent  down 
and  bricks  removed;  the  front  end  wall  was  nearly  intact. 
The  old  lady  Goodman  said  the  bricks  were  brought  from  Eng- 
land— ^that  was  the  tradition.  They  seemed  to  be  as  hard  as 
iron ;  the  writer  tried  to  make  an  impression  on  or  an  incision 
with  his  knife,  but  could  not  do  so.  The  cement  between  them 
was  equally  as  hard.  Upon  the  front  wall,  about  fifteen  or 
twenty  feet  from  the  ground,  was  an  inscription  dimmed  by 
the  action  of  time  so  that  the  writer  could  not  read  it;  but 
those  in  our  party  whose  eyes  were  younger  could  read  it  thus : 
"i2th  November,  1754."  Those  brick,  said  to,  have  been  made 
in  England,  are  much  harder  than  any  brick  now  made  in  this 
Southern  country.     The  brick  of  this  old  St.  Bartholomew 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  137 

[Church,  put  there  some  twenty  years  after  the  old  brick  in  the 
Britton's  Neck  Church,  spoken  of  by  Bishop  Gregg,  corrobo- 
•ates  the  tradition  that  in  the  early  times  of  the  Province  of 
South  Carolina,  the  settlers  either  brought  their  brick  with 
:hem  from  England,  or  imported  them  from  that  country 
ifter  their  arrival. 

BrittoNj  FivAdger,  Etc. — Of  the  Brittons  we  have  already 
spoken;  none  of  the  name  now  in  the  county.  The  Graves 
have  also  become  extinct  in  the  county;  tradition  says  they 
were  a  good  people  and  prosperous.  The  name  Fladger  has 
also  become  extinct  in  the  county,  except  one  female,  a 
daughter  of  the  late  C.  J.  Fladger,  named  Sallie  Maria,  unmar- 
ried, and  lives  with  her  half-sister,  Mrs.  R.  B.  Game,  near 
Mullins.  Of  the  Fladgers,  however,  they  may  be  noticed 
herein  further  on.  Of  the  Davis,  of  whom  there  are  many, 
they  will  be  noticed  further  on.  Of  the  Tylers,  they  must 
have  removed  or  disappeared  many  years  ago,  as  the  writer  has 
never  heard  the  name  in  the  county ;  there  are  some  of  the  name 
in  Horry  County,  who  probably  are  descendants  of  those  spoken 
of  by  Bishop  Gregg.  Of  the  Giles,  something  has  already  been 
said,  and  more  may  be  said  of  them  hereafter.  "And  others," 
a  term  used  by  Bishop  Gregg,  does  not  afford  us  much  light. 
It  may  mean  many  or  it  may  be  only  a  few ;  nor  does  the  term 
identify  any  one  in  particular.  "And  being  members  of  the 
Established  Church,  one  of  their  first  acts  was  to  erect  a  house 
for  the  worship  of  God.  Their  minister.  Dr.-  Robert  Hunter, 
came  with  them,  and  is  supposed  to  have  died  there.  He  was 
succeeded  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Allison."  It  will  be  remembered 
that  hereinbefore  it  has  been  stated  on  the  information  of  Mr. 
M.  M.  Ivowrimore,  that  a  family  of  Hunters,  huni}ers  by  trade 
as  well  as  by  name,  about  this  time,  1735,  came  and  settled 
down  there  on  Hunter's  Island,  so  named  from  the  Hunters 
settling  there.  This  is  corroborative  of  what  Bishop  Gregg 
says,  as  above  stated.  No  one  of  that  name  has  been  known 
in  the  present  limits  of  Marion  County  for  years ;  but  families 
by  that  name  have  been  known  in  West  Marion,  now  in  Flor- 
ence County,  in  all  these  years,  and  there  may  be  some  over 
there  now  by  that  name.     It  is  probable  that  the  family  first 


138  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

settling  in  Britton's  Neck,  in  the  progress  of  time,  moved 
higher  up  the  river  on  the  west  side,  and  those  over  there  are 
descendants  of  the  Hunters  of  Britton's  Neck.  "Dr.  Robert 
Hunter  came  with  them,  and  is  supposed  to  have  died  there. 
He  was  succeeded  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  AlHson."  The  Allisons 
have  been  long  known  on  the  lower  Pee  Dee.  The  late  James 
H.  Allison,  a  very  reputable  genttleman,  lived  and  reared  a 
family  on  Great  Pee  Dee — I  suppose,  on  the  west  side,  and 
died  there  some  years  ago.  One  of  his  sons  or  grand-sons 
married  a  daughter  of  our  late  fellow-citizen,  Captain  William 
H.  Crawford,  and  moved  out  to  Georgia  some  few  years  back, 
and  it  is  said  he  is  very  prosperous  there  in  his  business — is 
getting  rich.  It  is  an  old  and  respectable  name  of  the  county, 
though  the  name  is  extinct  in  the  county  now,  so  fas  as  is 
known.  A  ferry  on  the  Great  Pee  Dee,  just  above  Port's 
Ferry,  or  just  below,  bears  the  name  of  "Allison's  Ferry." 
The  two  ferries  are  not  more  than  a  mile  apart. 

Bishop  Gregg,  page  70,  says :  "The  other  settlement  referred 
to  was  made  at  a  point  on  the  east  bank  of  the  river  called 
Sandy  Bluff,  two  and  a  half  miles  above  Mar's  Bluff.  A  few 
traces  of  it  are  yet  to  be  seen  at  several  points  immediately  on 
the  high  bank  of  the  river.  The  families  of  Crawford,  Saund- 
ers, Murfee,  Crosby,  Keig'hly,  Berry,  and  shortly  after  the 
Gibsons,  made  up  this  community.  Sandy  Bluff  extended  up 
the  river  about  three  miles.  With  the  fertile  uplands  running 
out  for  some  distance,  and  a  rich  swamp  on  the  opposite  side, 
and  supplied,  too,  with  numerous  springs  of  good  water,  this 
locality  was  in  many  respects  admirably  adapted  to  the  wants 
of  the  infant  colony."  *  *  *  "These  settlers  built  their  houses, 
as  did  the  Welsh  above,  immediately  on  the  bank  of  the  river, 
and  in  close  proximity  to  eadh  other,  for  the  convenience  of 
water,  of  social  intercourse,  and  their  mutual  protection  against 
the  Indians.  It  was  also  more  healthy  than  locations  further 
from  the  river,  as  experience  has  proved.  They  were  from 
England  and  Ireland,  and  having  landed  at  Charleston,  found 
their  way  to  Georgetown,  and  thence  up  the  river,  attracted 
by  the  bounties  which  the  government  had  offered.  Like  their 
neighbors  in  Britton's  Neck,  they  erected  a  building  for  public 
worship  according  to  the  rites  of  the  Established  Church. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  139 

Faint  traces  of  this  early  structure  were  to  be  seen  a  few  years 
since.  The  brick  used  for  the  foundation  were  brought  up  the 
river  (the  settlers  thus  transporting  themselves  and  their 
stores),  and  were  of  superior  quality.  The  Rev.  Wm.  Turlje- 
ville  came  with  this  colony,  and  was  their  pastor.  He  was  a 
well  educated  man,  and  had  a  high  reputation  as  a  preacher. 
Eminent  also  for  piety  and  devotion  to  his  work,  he  retained  the 
confidence  and  affection  of  the  people  in  an  extensive  region  of 
the  country  to  the  close  of  a  long  life.  One  of  the  incidents 
related  in  connexion  with  him  is  singularly  illustrative  of  this 
feeling.  Such  was  the  genral  confidence  in  his  piety  and  the 
efficacy  of  his  prayers,  that  he  was  sent  for  from  considerable 
distances  during  the  pressure  of  any  general  calamity,  to  make 
intercession  to  God  in  behalf  of  the  people.  On  one  occasion, 
about  the  year  1760,  during  the  prevalence  of  a  fearful  drought, 
there  was  a  general  meeting  at  Bass'  Mills  to  pray  for  rain." 
(I  suppose  then  known  as  Hulon's  Mills.)  "Mr.  Turbeville 
was  sent  for.  He  answered  the  summons  and,  as  tradition 
relates,  before  the  sufferers  had  reached  their  homes,  the 
heavens  were  opened  and  copious  rains  came  down.  Mr. 
Turbeville  had  no  children.  Several  brothers  came  with  him, 
of  whom  some  descendants  are  now  (1859)  to  be  found  in 
Marion.  He  lived  at  Sandy  Bluff  until  after  the  year  1800, 
then  removed  to  the  west  side  of  the  river,  near  Mar's  Bluff, 
where  he  married  a  second  time,  and  died  a:bout  1810,  at  the 
advanced  age  of  103  years."  Bishop  Gregg  says  further,  in  a 
note,"  page  71 :  "Mr.  Turbeville  was  a  poor  man  through  life. 
It  is  said  that  William  AUston,  grand- father  of  Governor 
Allston,"  (I  suppose,  R.  F.  W.  AUston,)  "who  lived  at  that 
time  near  the  Wahees,"  (a  few  miles  below  Mar's  Bluff,) 
"complained  to  Mr.  T.,  on  one  occasion,  of  his  wearing  such 
coarse  garments.  Mr.  T.  told  him,  he  got  but  little  for  preach- 
ing and  could  not  afford  to  dress  better.  Whereupon  Mr. 
Allston  gave  him  a  black  suit  and  silk  gown,  on^  condition  that 
he  was  not  to  use  them  except  in  preaching  andl  on  other  public 
official  occasions." 

This  last  is  a  most  remarkable  story.  Here  is  a  man  of  fine 
edHacation,  young  and  vigorous,  with  a  wife,  but  no  children  to 
support  and  educate,  preaching  for  what,  we  suppose,  was  and 


140  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

became  a  rich  church — a  church,  too,  supported  by  taxation  and 
a  church  to  which,  I  suppose,  AUston  himself  belonged,  or  at 
least  attended,  lived  near  by,  and  the  Murfees,  Saunders,  Craw- 
fords  and  Gibsons,  all  rich  men,  so  says  Bishop  Gregg,  and  yet 
did  not  pay  their  pastor  enough  to  enable  him  to  appear  decent 
in  the  pulpit.  This  presents  a  strange  condition  of  affairs, 
and  does  not  speak  well  for  his  congregation ;  though  rich,  yet 
niggardly  stingy,  and  very  much  detracts  from  their  otherwise 
high  standing.  Mr.  Turbeville,  in  his  apparent  poverty,  was 
in  truth  more  wealthy  than  all  of  them  put  together.  He  evi- 
dently had  the  saving  grace  of  God  in  his  heart,  and  in  his 
physical  make  up  had  the  elements  of  an  unusually  long  life, 
which  was  abundantly  more  valuable  than  gold  and  costly 
apparel.  He,  after  suffering  poverty  and  its  pangs  here  for 
one  hundred  and  three  years,  was  taken  into  "Abraham's 
bosom."  What  became  of  his  wealthy  parishioners,  is  not 
known.  Bishop  Gregg  says :  "Mr.  Turbeville  had  no  children. 
Several  brothers  came  with  him,  of  whom  some  diescendants 
are  now  to  be  found  in  Marion."  These  were  the  foundation 
and  origin  of  the  Turbeville  family  in  Marion.  Of  these,  old 
William  Turbeville,  then  in  the  prime  of  life,  sixty  years  ago, 
lived  in  the  neighborhood  of  Bbenezer  Methodist  Church, 
within  the  bounds  of  what  was  then  called  the  Cross  Roads 
Beat  Company — a  military  division.  The  writer  remembers 
very  distinctly  a  very  spirited  contest  for  the  Captaincy  of  the 
Cross  Roads  Beat  Company,  in  1840  or  early  '41,  between 
William  Turbeville  and  W.  H.  Moody.  The  respective  candi- 
dates and  their  friends  worked  for  their  favorites  as  zealously 
as  if  the  election  had  involved  the  safety  of  the  State  or  an 
income  of  thousands  of  dollars.  The  military  spirit  of  the 
State,  in  those  times,  has  been  noted  in  preceding  pages  of  this 
book.  The  result  of  the  election  was  in  favor  of  W.  H.  Moody 
by  thirteen  votes.  There  were  three  brothers  of  that  genera- 
tion of  Turt)evilles — William,  Absalom  and  John.  William, 
not  long  after  the  contest  for  the  Captaincy  of  the  Cross  Roads 
militia  company,  moved  down  into  Britton's  Neck,  and  there 
died  in  a  good  old  age,  left  a  son,  Asa,  and  one  named  William. 
Asa  Turbeville  is  one  of  our  most  respected  citizens  in  the 
Britton's  Neck  section.     A  daughter  of  his  married  J.  H.  Bos- 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  141 

tick,  in  that  section,  another  worthy  and  upright  man,  and  is 
doing  well.  Absalom  Turbeville,  a  brother  of  old  William, 
lived  on  and  owned  the  place  just  below  Ebenezer,  where  the 
late  John  C.  Campbell  lived  and  died.  Absalom  left  one 
daughter.  John  Turbeville  lived  and  owned  the  place  on  the 
northeast  side  of  Ebenezeir,  died  only  a  few  years  ago ;  he  left 
sons  and  daughters.  Of  his  sons,  George  and  Samuel  are  still 
living,  but  not  on  the  lands  of  their  father.  The  late  William 
Dillon,  a  brother  of  J.  W.  Dillon,  of  the  town  of  Dillon,  married 
a  daughter  of  John  Turbeville,  and  by  her  had  several  sons 
and  daughters.  William  Dillon  and  wife  are  both  dead,  and 
I  think  most  of  their  children' — parents  and  children  all  died  of 
consumption.  I  do  not  know  that  all  are  dead,  but  many  of 
them  are.  Another  branch  of  the  Turbeville  family  was  the 
father  of  the  late  old  William  Turbeville,  of  Marion;  he  is 
dead.  Bethel  Turbeville,  another  brother,  is  also  dead.  One 
of  them,  do  not  remember  which,  left  a  son,  Edward,  called 
Ned  Turbeville,  a  blacksmith,  who  died  young,  leaving  a  fam- 
ily ;  what  has  become  of  them  is  unknown.  There  was  another 
brother  of  Bethel,  who  lived  over  Catfish,  in  Wahee,  a  very 
noisy  man,  especially  at  elections,  when  enthused  by  the  spirits 
of  the  occasion ;  his  name  was  Robert,  familiarly  called  Bob ; 
he  is  dead.  Recurring  to  the  William  Turt>eville  who  ran  for 
the  Captaincy  in  1840,  as  before  stated,  he  left  another  son, 
named  Stephen,  who  is  one  of  our  most  worthy  citizens ;  lives 
on  Buck  Swamp.  The  wife  of  the  late  Samuel  Johnson  was  a 
daug'hter  of  old  "Captain"  William,  and  is  still  living,  but  has 
no  children.  Beverly  Culbreatih,  merchant  of  Marion,  married, 
first,  a  daugliter  of  Asa  Turbeville,  and  she  died,  and  he  has 
married  another  daughter.  These  three  old  Turbevilles  about 
Ebenezer  Church  were  not  rich,  yet  they  were  not  poor — "they 
lived  at  home  and  boarded  at  the  same  place,"  as  the  saying 
goes.     They  were  honest,  hard-working  men. 

Of  the  settlement  at  Sandy  Bluff,  the  names  Saunders, 
Crosby  and  Keighly,  as  also  that  of  Murfee,  are  now  extinct 
in  Marion  County.  Never  have  heard  of  the  name  Keighly; 
that  family  must  have  removed  to  other  parts.  The  name 
Crosby,  the  writer  has  heard  of;  in  fact,  he  has  seen  a  man 
by  that  name  from  Alabama,  who  said  he  was  bom  in  Marion 


142  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

County,  and  was  a  half-brother  of  the  late  John  C.  Legette,  of 
West  Marion ;  this  was  fifty  years  ago ;  his  name  was  William 
Crosby.  The  name  Saunders  has  long  since  disappeared  from 
the  county.  I  have  been  informed,  however,  there  is  a  Peter 
Sanders,  who  lives  below  Marion  Court  House,  who  is,  doubt- 
less, a  descendant  of  the  Saunders  spoken  of;  he  is  a  good 
citizen  and  has  been  Assistant  Door-keeper  of  the  House  of 
Representatives  in  Columbia  for  the  last  several  years.  The 
writer  in  his  law  practice  for  more  than  fifty  years  has  seen 
grants  of  large  bodies  of  land  in  Marion  District  to  John 
Sanders,  supposed  to  be  a  descendant  of  the  family  at  Sandy 
Bluff ;  the  grants  spoken  of  were  for  lands  lying  between  Cat- 
fish and  Great  Pee  Dee,  in  the  neighborhood  of  Antioch 
Churcih  and  Berry's  Cross  Roads. 

Bishop  Gregg,  p.  71,  says :  "Of  the  settlers  at  Sandy  Bluff, 
the  Murfees,  Sanders,  Gibsons  and  Crawfords  accumulated 
the  largest  properties,  and  became  most  prominent.  John 
Crawford,  the  first  of  that  name,  had  three  sons — ^James,  John 
and  Hardy.  James,  the  eldest  of  them,  amassed  a  large  for- 
tune for  that  day,  and  maintained  through  life  a  high  character 
for  integrity.  He  was  a  Captain  in  the  Revolution,  and  a  val- 
iant soldier  in  the  cause  of  liberty."  In  a  note,  the  Bishop 
says :  "He  was  the  grand-father  of  the  late  Chapman  J.  Craw- 
ford, of  Marion."  Thus  we  have  the  origin  of  the  once 
extensive  family  of  Crawfords,  so  far  as  Marion  County  is 
concerned — ^to  whom  they  married  and  what  children  they  had, 
we  are  pretty  much  in  the  dark.  Bishop  Gregg  says,  on  p.  75 : 
"About  the  same  time,  two  families  of  James  and  Lucas,  came 
down  the  river,  and  settled  on  Catfish.  With  the  latter  of 
these,  the  Crawfords  and  Evans  intermarried."  Who  of  the 
Crawfords  intermarried  with  the  Lucas  family,  and  whether 
they  were  males  or  females,  is  now  unknown,  and  perhaps 
past  finding  out,  and  the  same  may  be  said  of  the  Evans  and 
James. 

Crawford. — James  Crawford,  the  grand-father  of  the  late 
Chapman  Crawford,  had  a  son  named  James,  the  father  of 
Chapman;  whether  there  were  other  sons  or  not,  is  not  now 
known ;  there  were  daughters — ^the  wife  of  old  Osborne  Lane 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  143 

was  one;  the  first  wife  of  old  William  Bethea  was  another, 
who  was  the  mother  of  the  late  John  C.  Bethea;  another 
daughter  married  a  man  by  the  name  of  Porter ;  §he  was  the 
grand-mother  of  Robert  P.  Porter,  now  living  at  Marion. 
James  Crawford,  the  father  of  Chapman  J.  Crawford,  married 
Miss  Rachel  Nevils,  and  by  her  bad  two  sons,  Chapman  J.  and 
William  H.,  and  three  or  four  daughters ;  one  married  Peter  P. 
Johnson,  of  Fayetteville,  N.  C. ;  one  married  D.  C.  Milling,  of 
Darlington,  and  one  married  D.  J.  McDonald,  long  a  merchant 
at  Marion,  and  Representative  from  Marion  in  the  State  Legis- 
lature in  1850,  and  finally  failing  in  his  business,  removed  to 
Arkansas.  James  Crawford,  the  second,  was  a  very  prosper- 
ous man,  left  a  large  estate,  and  died  in  the  prime  of  life.  His 
widow,  Rachel,  married  Dr.  Cherry,  and  by  him  had  several 
daughters;  one  of  them  married,  first.  Dr.  Richard  Scar- 
borough, of  Marion;  he  soon  died  childless,  and  his  widow 
then  married  Major  O.  P.  Wheeler,  and  after  some  years  he 
died,  and  she  remained  his  widow  for  several  years,  when  she 
died.  Another  daughter  of  Mrs.  Cherry  became  the  wife  of 
the  late  C.  Graham,  of  Marion ;  she  died  before  he  did,  and  left 
an  only  child,  a  son,  Herbert  C.  Graham,  now  residing  in 
Marion.  Another  daughter,  Sarah  Jane,  became  the  wife  of 
Dr.  J.  Hamilton  Wheeler,  who  died  and  left  her  a  widow  with 
two  children,  Ed.  B.  Wheeler  and  Tiston  C.  Wheeler,  now 
residing  in  Marion ;  their  mother,  Sarah  Jane,  still  lives.  Dr. 
Cherry,  a  most  excellent  and  upright  man,  died  away  back  in 
the  '40's ;  he  was  a  well-to-do  man.  The  sons  of  James  Craw- 
ford, the  second,  were  Chapman  J.  and  William  H.  Crawford. 
Chapman  was  an  ambitious,  energetic  and  enterprising  man; 
married,  first,  a  Miss  Jolly,  an  only  child  of  Joseph  Jolly,  a 
very  wealthy  man  in  West  Marion ;  she  died,  leaving  an  only 
child;  he  married  again,  and  the  second  wife  died,  and  he 
married  a  third  time.  I  think  he  had  two  or  three  children 
in  all.  Dr.  Ross  married  the  daughter  by  the  Jolly  wife; 
Junius  H.  Law,  of  Darlington,  married  a  daughter  by  one  of 
his  other  wives.  By  his  energy  and  push  and  by  his  mar- 
riages, he  made  property  and  left  a  large  estate  at  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  November,  1852,  when  only  in  the  prime  of 
life;  he  lived  fast  (not  in  the  sense  of  a  dissipated  life)  and 


144  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

went  through  life  in  a  hurry.  His  younger  brother,  Wm.  H. 
Crawford,  grew  up  and  married  a  Miss  Durant,  sister  of  Rev. 
H.  H.  Durant,  of  the  South  Carolina  Conference  of  the  South- 
ern Methodist  Church;  he  married,  loth  February,  1840,  the 
same  day  of  Queen  Victoria's  marriage  to  Prince  Albert. 
Captain  Crawford  started  out  in  life  with  fine  prospects;  he 
went  into  a  large  mercantile  business  at  Marion,  in  partnership 
with  his  brother-in-law,  D.  J.  McDonald,  who  had  had  some 
training  for  such  business — a  man  of  push  and  enterprise,  but 
lacking  in  business  judgment.  The  firm  seemed  to  do  well  for 
a  few  years  and  then  began  to  go  down,  and  finally  failed  alto- 
gether, and  Captain  Crawford's  whole  property  was  swept  out, 
and  he  with  his  family  were  left  penniless.  McDonald  emi- 
grated, to  Arkansas,  and  was  said  to  have  built  up  again;  but 
Captain  Crawford  remained  poor  to  the  day  of  his  death ;  he 
lived  in  Marion  until  three  or  four  years  ago,  when  he  moved 
to  Georgia,  and  died  there  about  two  years  ago,  eighty  years  of 
age.  Captain  Crawford  was  a  good  man,  but  the  reverses  to 
which  he  had  been  subjected  soured  his  disposition,  and  he 
became  apathetic  as  to  all  mankind;  he  left  two  sons,  George 
and  William,  who  are  the  only  hope  of  perpetuating  the  name 
in  that  branch  of  the  Crawford  family.  George  Crawford  is 
married  and  has  children,  whether  sons  or  daughters,  is  un- 
known to  the  writer ;  William  is  yet  single.  The  connexion  is 
yet  large,  but  the  name,  like  many  others,  may  become  extinct 
at  least  in  that  branch  of  the  family,  in  another  generation  or 
two.  What  changes  are  wrought  in  one  hundred  and  sixty 
years!  The  first  James  Crawford  married  a  second  time, 
and  had  a  daughter,  Sallie,  who  became  the  wife  of  the  late 
Barfield  Moody,  a  prominent  man  in  his  day  in  Marion,  of 
wihom  more  may  be  said  hereinafter.  Recurring  to  the  late 
Chapman  J.  Crawford,  it  is  proper  to  say  that  he  was  elected 
to  the  lower  House  of  the  Legislature  in  1844,  as  hereinbefore 
stated,  and  again  in  1846,  and  served  two  terms.  In  1852,  he 
was  a  candidate  for  the  Senate  against  Dr.  Robert  Harllee,  and 
after  a  very  heated  campaign,  he  was  beaten  by  171  majority, 
and,  like  Horace  Greeley  in  1872,  did  not  survive  the  campaign 
more  than  a  month.  It  was  thought  and  said  by  some  that  his 
defeat  killed  him  or  contributed  to  his  death ;  he  was  a  very 
ambitious  man. 


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We  have  traced  oue  branch  of  the  family  pf  old  John  Craw- 
ford, who  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  at  Sandy  Bluff  (after- 
wards called  Solomon's  Landing,  and  perhaps  later  called 
Bird's  Landing) .  Old  John  Crawford  had  three  sons,  James, 
John  and  Hardy.  We  have  traced  it  through  James,  the  eld- 
est; of  John  and  Hardy's  posterity  we  know  not  how  they 
ran.  There  have  been  other  Crawfords  here,  but  whether 
from  John  or  Hardy,  or  both,  we  can't  say ;  for  instance,  James, 
called  Cype,  lived  upon  and  owned  the  grove  lands,  now 
owned  by  the  estates  of  Governor  EHerbe  and  James  G.  Hasel- 
den ;  Cype  Crawford  died  there,  back  in  the  '40's ;  never  mar- 
ried. He  had  a  brother,  Willis  Crawford,  who  married  Sallie 
Bethea,  and  raised  a  large  family,  and  died  in  185 1,  in  what  is 
now  Bethea  Township;  his  sons  were  James,  Hardy  B., 
Thomas  C,  Willis  G.,  William  and  Gibson  G.  Crawford;  his 
daughters  were  Rhoda  and  Margaret.  Of  Willis  Crawford's 
sons,  James  died  before  he  was  grown;  Hardy  B.  married  a 
Miss  Piatt,  and  went  to  Mississippi  years  ago,  and  is  yet  living, 
and  is  said  to  be  doing  well ;  Thomas  C,  well  known  and  now 
living  in  Florence  County,  and  one  of  the  best  of  her  citizens, 
married,  first,  a  Miss  Morgan,  of  Charleston,  who  died  a  year 
or  two  after  marriage,  childless ;  he  married  again,  i6th  May, 
1866,  Miss  Carrie  R.  McPherson,  in  West  Marion  (now 
Florence),  where  Thomas  C.  Crawford  has  ever  since  resided, 
and  where  he  now  resides.*  His  wife  died  suddenly  about  a 
month  ago,  childless.  Willis  G.  Crawford  was  a  doctor ;  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Morgan,  of  Charleston,  a  sister  of  his  brother 
Thomas'  wife.  Not  long  after  his  marriage  he  was  on  a  fox 
chase,  and  galloping  his  horse  through  the  woods,  his  horse 
bogged  down  and  threw  the  doctor,  whose  gun  was  lying 
across  his  front,  and  in  the  fall  of  his  horse  and  himself,  the 
gun  was  discharged  and  he  was  killed ;  he  left  no- child.  Wil- 
liam Crawford  died  unmarried,  some  years  after  the  war.  Gib- 
son G.  Crawford  married  a  daughter  of  the  late  Colonel  James 
R.  Bethea ;  the  fruits  of  the  marriage  were  two  sons,  James  G. 
and  Samuel  B.,  and  two  daughters,  Jessie  and  Mary;  the  sons 
are  now  young  men.  James  G.  married,  a  week  or  two  ago, 
a  Miss  Evans,  of  Society  Hill;  the  daughter,  Jessie,  married 

*Thomas  C.  Crawford  died  since  writing  the  above. 


146  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

W.  Ellis  Bet!hea,  who  lives  at  lyaitta ;  Samuel  B.  and  Mary  are 
yet  single,  and  live  at  Latta  with  their  father,  G.  G.  Crawford. 
Of  the  two  daughters  of  Willis  Crawford,  Rhoda  married 
Henry  Easterling,  about  1850,  and  he  was  killed  in  the  war; 
the  widow,  Rhoda,  is  also  dead ;  she  left  three  sons,  Willis  C, 
Thomas  and  Frank;  and  two  daughters,  Ella  and  Florence. 
The  three  sons  are  married — Willis  C.  to  a  Miss  Legette ;  they 
have  a  family,  some  of  them  grown  and  married.  J.  Frank 
Easterling  married  a  Miss  Watson,  daughter  of  the  late  Samuel 
Watson.  Thomas  Easterling  went  to  Florida,  where  he  mar- 
ried, has  children,  and  is  Sheriff  of  the  county  in  which  he 
lives.  The  Easterling  boys  are  men  of  character  and  doing 
fairly  well.  Of  the  two  daughters  of  Henry  Easterling  and 
his  wife,  Rhoda,  Ella  married  Iveroy  Bethea,  a  son  of  Captain 
D.  W.  Bethea ;  they  live  in  Marlborough,  and  are  doing  well ; 
I  know  not  of  their  family.  Florence  Easterling,  the  other 
daughter,  married  Robert  McPherson,  in  West  Marion;  she 
is  dead ;  left  one  child,  a  son.  Margaret  Crawford,  the  young- 
est daughter  of  Willis  Crawford,  nevfer  married;  she  died  a 
few  years  ago.  "Cype"  and  Willis  Crawford  had  another 
brother — think  he  was  a  brother — named  Gadi.  The  writer 
never  saw  him ;  he  died  unmarried.  There  was  another  family 
of  Crawfords,  dtescendants  of  old  John,  but  in  a  different 
branch  of  the  family — Hal  Crawford  and  a  brother,  named 
John,  and  two  sisters,  the  wife  of  Cross  Roads  Henry  Berry, 
and  Mercy  Bass,  wife  of  Joseph  Bass  (senior).  Berry's  wife 
was  named  Charity.  Hal  Crawford  married  and  went  West; 
John  Crawford  never  did  marry.  I  suppose  they  are  both 
dead.  "Cype"  and  Willis  Crawford  had  a  sister,  named 
Rhoda,  who  became  the  wife  of  the  late  Hugh  Godbold ;  she  has 
been  dead  some  years,  and  left  no  «hildTen.  There  were  two 
Crawford  brothers  from  Alabama  of  the  same  family,  named 
John  H.  Crawford  and  Dr.  James  Crawford;  they  were  here 
during  the  '40's.  John  H.  married  a  Sarah  Ann  Moody,  oldest 
daughter  of  the  late  Barfield  Moody.  They  went  back  to  Ala- 
bama. The  wife  of  John  H.  died,  leaving  a  son,  named 
Albert,  but  was  called  Dock  Crawford;  he  came  back  to  this 
State  and  lived  here  for  years ;  was  a  merchant  at  Marion,  and 
was  County  Auditor  for  a  while,  but  resigned  the  office.     It 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  147 

was  said  he  went  crazy  or  became  a  lunatic,  and  in  a  lucid  in- 
terval went  or  started  back  to  Georgia,  and  dlied,  it  was  said, 
crazy  in  the  woods.  He  was  the  nephew  of  our  fellow-citizen, 
E.  J.  Moody. 

MuRFEE. — Bishop  Gregg,  p.  71,  says :  "Of  the  Murfees  there 
were  four  brothers,  Moses,  Malachi,  Maurice  and  Michael. 
Of  these,  Malachi  became  the  wealthiest.  He  is  said  to  have 
given  one  hundred  slaves  to  each  of  three  sons ;  he  died  before 
the  Revolution.  Maurice  had  a  son  bearing  his  name,  who 
was  destined  to  occupy  a  prominent  place  in  the  subsequent 
history  of  the  Pee  Dee."  Maurice  Murfee,  of  the  second  gen- 
eration, was  a  Colonel  in  the  Revolution,  and  did  valiant  ser- 
vice for  his  country.  He  was  an  ardent  Whig,  of  daring  and 
reckless  courage ;  he  was  a  man  of  violent  passion,  so  much  so, 
as  to  lead  him  to  the  commission  of  violent  and  brutal  acts; 
he  killed  his  uncle,  Gideon  Gibson,  in  a  fit  of  anger,  and  for 
which  he  had  no  valid  excuse  or  even  palliation;  he  was  a 
violent  man  through  life,  and  finally  died  in  prison  for  debt. 
Malachi  Murfee,  of  the  second  generation,  was  a  Captain  in 
the  Revolution ;  he  was  wounded  and  escaped  at  Bass'  Mill  in 
a  fight  with  the  Tories;  another  account  says  he  was  killed. 
He  was  a  first  cousin  of  Colonel  Maurice  Murfee.  The  Mur- 
fee family  must  have  been  numerous,  not  only  in  the  name, 
but  also  in  its  connections.  There  were  four  brothers  of  them 
to  start  with;  they  all  had  descendants,  males  as  well  as 
females.  They  intermarried  with  the  best  families  in  both 
ways,  males  and  females,  and  by  the  third  and  fourth  genera- 
tions must  have  been  numerous.  We  have  no  account  of  their 
emigration  to  other  parts,  and  yet  in  a  period  of  one  hundred 
and  fifty  years,  the  name  (from  that  family)  has  entirely  dis- 
appeared, and  their  connections  are  unknown.  The  last  one 
of  them  has  disappeared.  Mrs.  Arline  Mooneyham,  nee  Mur- 
fee or  Murphy,  died  childless,  about  ten  years  ago,  in  the  Pee 
Dee  slashes ;  she  was  the  last ;  she  had  no  children  or  known 
relations  to  inherit  her  lands — some  600  or  800  acres  in  the 
slashes ;  she  made  a  last  will  and  gave  all  she  had  to  Dr.  J.  E. 
Jarnigan;  he  attended  her  in  her  last  illness.  Such  are  the 
results  of  the  action  of  time.     Change  and  decay  pervade  all 


148  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

things  terrestrial.  The  present  actors  in  the  drama  of  life,  in 
a  few  years  will  have  passed  into  the  forever  beyond,  and  their 
successors  will  not  know,  in  many  instances,  that  a  particular 
one  lived. 

Berry. — Another  settler  at  Sandy  Bluff  (Solomon's  Land- 
ing), mentioned  by  Bishop  Gregg,  was  a  Berry.  He  does  not 
say  what  his  name  was,  or  anything  else  about  him.  The 
writer  takes  it  for  granted  that  he  is  the  progenitor  of  the  ex- 
tensive family  by  that  name,  in  the  county,  and  such  suppo- 
sition is  not  in  conflict  with  the  traditions  of  that  family,  but 
rather  corroborate  it.  The  writer  a  few  years  ago,  and  not 
long  before  her  death,  talked  with  old  Mrs.  Pama  Tart,  who 
died  in  her  ninety-fourth  year,  and  who,  as  she  said',  was  the 
grand-daughter  of  the  first  Berry  in  this  region  of  country,  and 
she  said  his  name  was  Andrew  Berry — a  small  man  in  stature ; 
he  settled  at  Sandy  Bluff,  on  Pee  Dee  River.  How  long  he 
remained  or  who  he  married,  is  not  known ;  but,  according  to 
Mrs.  Tart's  statement,  he  had  and  raised  a  family  of  ten 
children,  six  sons  and  four  daughters.  From  the  Berry  family 
and  its  connections  is  derived  much  of  our  citizenship.  The 
sons  of  old  Andrew  were  six.  Henry  and  Stephen  were 
both  known  to  the  writer.  Henry  was  a  man  of  family,  and 
had  lands  granted  to  him  on  lyittle  Reedy  Creek  in  1786;  he 
married  a  Miss  Hays,  and  settled  on  said  Reedy  Creek;  he 
raised  two  sons,  Dennis  and  Slaughter,  and  four  daughters. 
Dennis  and  Slaughter  married  sisters,  two  daughters  of  David 
Miles,  an  old  citizen  of  upper  Marion.  Of  the  four  daughters, 
Elizabeth  married  Bryant  Jones;  Fama  married  Nathan 
Tart;  Martha,  called  Pattie,  married  John  M.  Miles;  and  Mary 
married  William  Rogers.  The  father,  Henry  Berry,  was  a 
capital  man  and  intelligent  for  his  day  and  time;  he  served  as 
Justice  of  the  Peace  for  some  years,  evidenced  by  his  official 
signature  to  the  probate  of  deeds  for  record  seen  by  the  writer ; 
he  accumulated  a  good  property  for  his  time;  he  founded  or 
built  the  Catfish  Baptist  Church,  not  where  it  now  stands,  but 
back  from  its  present  location  on  Little  Reedy  Creek.  In  his 
old  age  he  divided  out  his  property  among  his  children,  and 
then  lived  among  them  himself  till  his  death,  about  1853  or 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  149 

1854;  he  was  over  ninety  years  of  age  at  his  death.  His 
brother,  Stephen,  also  lived  to  a  great  age — perhaps  as  old  as 
his  brother,  Henry.  I  do  not  know  whom  he  married;  he 
raised  a  considerable  family,  only  two  sons,  and  several 
daughters ;  his  sons  were  Henry  (known  in  later  times  as  Cross 
Roads  Henry),  and  Andrew  Stephen  Berry;  he  was  a  good 
citizen,  an  honest  man,  bore  a  good  character  through  life,  but 
not  as  useful  a  man  as  was  his  brother,  Henry — ^perhaps,  not 
so  well  educated;  he  dSed  about  1862.  Dennis  Berry,  the  old- 
est son  of  old  Henry,  raised  only  one  son,  Frank  A.  Berry,  who 
died  childless,  a  few  years  ago.  Dennis  Berry  lived  to  an 
advanced  age,  over  eighty ;  he,  too,  was  a  Justice  of  the  Peace 
in  his  diay — ^but  few  in  his  locality  competent  for  such  position, 
and  still  fewer  in  his  father's  day.  The  second  son  of  old 
Henry  Slaughter,  and  youngest  child,  as  before  stated,  married 
a  Miss  Miles ;  he  raised  a  small  family — two  sons,  Charles  and 
Henry,  and  two  da.ughters;  he  and  his  family  removed  to 
Florida  in  1854  or  1855.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  old  Henry, 
married  Bryant  Jones,  the  father  of  our  fellow-citizen,  Henry 
Jones,  and  the  late  F.  D.  Jones  and  James  E.  Jones ;  the  two 
latter  are  dead.  James  E.  never  married ;  and  two  daughters, 
Nancy  and  Polly.  Fama  Berry,  who  married  Nathan  Tart, 
born  in  1791,  and  died  in  1884,  was  a  most  remarkable  woman, 
physically  and  mentally.  The  writer  went  to  see  her  a  year  or 
so  before  she  died ;  she  was  very  large  and  corpulent,  suppose 
she  weighed  250  or  more ;  she  said  she  had  never  in  her  life 
been  sick  but  little,  and  had  never  taken  any  medicine,  except 
what  she  prescribed  for  and  could  procure  for  herself;  her 
mental  powers  were  unimpaired  and  her  memory  of  persons, 
families  and  events  excelled  anything  of  the  kind  I  ever  met 
with.  I  wrote  her  obituary  and  published  it  in  the  "Marion 
Star"  newspaper,  soon  after  her  death.  She  was  not  sick 
when  she  died,  as  it  was  told  the  writer  by  her  son-in-law, 
Wilson  Hays — ^who  called  in  a  physician  to  see  her,  who  said 
the  fat  had  overgrown  the  heart  so  as  to  prevent  its  action,  and 
no  relief  was  possible.  Fama  Tart  raised  several  sons,  Enos, 
James  H.,  H.  Tart,  Thomas  E.  and  Gadie,  and  several 
daughters.  The  sons  are,  perhaps,  all  dead;  also  the  daugh- 
ters, except  Jane,  who  married  Willis  Waters,  who  lives  in 


150  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Florence  County;  and  Wilson  Hays'  wife.  H.  H.  Tart,  who 
was  an  excellent  and  energetic  man  of  high  character  in  his 
sphere  of  life,  died  last  year,  about  seventy-eight  years  of  age. 
Fama  Tart's  children  and  great-grand-children,  and  even 
another  generation  of  them,  are  numerous.  Pattie  Miles  has 
been  dead  for  years,  the  third  daughter  of  old  Henry.  If  there 
are  any  of  her  children  or  grand-children  now  in  the  county,  it 
is  unknown  to  the  writer,  except  the  widow  of  H.  H.  Tart, 
dieceased,  and  her  children  and  grand-children,  all  of  whom 
are  unknown.  Mary,  called  Polly  Rogers,  wife  of  the  late 
William  Rogers,  has  been  dead  for  more  than  twenty  years; 
she  was  the  youngest  daughter  of  old  Henry  Berry;  she  has 
several  descendants  now  in  the  county,  to  the  third  and  fourth 
generations.  Our  good  citizens,  Philip  B.  Rogers  and  Lot  B. 
Rogers,  are  sons  of  hers ;  and  of  her  daughters,  Mrs.  Mastin 
Stackhouse,  Mrs.  D.  F.  Berry  and  Mrs.  Maggie  Ivey  are  still 
living.  Of  the  dead  and  the  living  they,  perhaps,  number 
more  than  a  hundred,  among  the  Hays,  Stackhouses,  Lewis, 
Adams,  Berrys  and  others,  her  descendants  are  to  be  found. 
To  trace  all  from  old  Andrew  down  through  males  and  females 
is  and  would  be  an  impossibility ;  if  it  could  be  done,  it  would 
run  up  into  thousands.  Heretofore  in  this  work  the  writer 
has  in  most  cases  pursued  that  course — ^that  is,  commencing 
with  the  first  settler  and  tracing  it  down  through  every  branch 
of  the  family  to  the  present  generation,  male  and  female — 
which  in  many  instances  is  very  difficult  and  in  some  cases 
impossible,  for  want  of  knowledge ;  but  he  will  have  to  aban- 
don that  mode  for  want  of  space  and'  time,  and  in  a  book  of  the 
size  contemplated,  the  fourth  part  could  not  be  told.  Andrew 
Berry,  a  grand-son  of  the  first  Andrew,  and  brother  of  Cross 
Roads  Henry,  lived  to  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-nine,  and 
died  only  a  few  years  ago;  was  a  harmless,  inoffensive  man; 
raised  by  two  wives  several  sons  and  daughters — Captain 
Stephen  F.  Berry  and  Bright  Berry  by  the  first  marriage — 
(the  latter  of  whom  is  now  dead,  leaving  a  considerable  family, 
sons  and  daughters,  names  unknown),  and  by  the  second  mar- 
riage, Henry,  Nathan,  Joseph  and  two  other  sons,  nicknamed 
"Close"  and  "Tight."  Nathan  married  a  daughter  of  Daniel 
A.  Piatt,  and  died,  leaving  a  son  named  David.     Joseph  Berry 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  151 

married  his  brother  Nathan's  widow,  and'  has  a  considerable 
family.  Of  the  brothers,  "Close"  and  "Tight,"  the  writer 
knows  nothing,  and  can,  therefore,  say  nothing  more.  An- 
drew Berry  had  several  daughters,  but  knows  not  to  whom 
they  married ;  no  doubt  but  that  there  is  a  numerous  progeny 
from  Andrew  (second)  Berry,  but  they  are  unknown  to  the 
writer.  Cross  Roads  Henry  Berry,  a  grandi-son  of  the  first 
■settler,  Andrew,  and  a  brother  of  Andrew,  the  second,  became 
the  most  noted  of  any  of  the  Berry  family,  except,  perhaps,  his 
Uncle  Henry,  already  referred'  to.  He  was  bom  January  13th, 
1796,  and  died  9th  July,  1876,  and  was  cremated,  July  nth, 
1876,  near  his  home. 

Cross  Roads  Henry  Berry  was  a  man  of  fine  business  sense, 
honest  and  upright  in  all  his  various  dealings  Avith  his  fellow- 
man;  he  applied  himself  strictly  to  his  own  business  (farm- 
ing) and  succeeded  therein,  not  for  show  and  ostentation  at 
county  and  State  fairs,  but  for  profit.  He  settled  on  150  acres 
of  land,  acquired  through  his  wife,  Charity  Crawford  (then 
unimproved),  and  with  very  little  means  otherwise  began  life 
at  the  Cross  Roads,  afterwards  and  yet  called  Berry's  Cross 
Roads,  where  he  lived  and  where  he  spent  his  whole  life,  and 
there  and  thereabouts  made  his  large  property.  He  entered 
into  no  schemes  of  speculation ;  he  at  first  acquired  slowly  but 
surely ;  he  took  care  of  what  he  made  and  kept  adding  to  it, 
making  it  larger  and  larger  year  by  year ;  lived  well  at  home, 
but  without  ostentation;  made  most  of  what  he  used  on  his 
plantation ;  he  acquired  a  large  landed  estate  around  him,  more 
than  ten  thousand  acres,  most  of  which  he  deeded  to  his 
children  before  his  death;  his  land's  were  very  valuable;  he 
avoided  debt  through  life ;  he  raised  to  be  grown  fiye  sons  and 
three  daughters.  The  sons  were  Cade,  Gewood,  Elihu,  James 
and  Stephen,  all  of  whom  are  now  dead,  except  James,  who 
lives  on  the  old  homestead  of  his  father.  Cade  Berry,  the  old- 
est son,  never  married;  he  died  more  than  twenty-five  years 
ago ;  Gewood,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  North  Carolina, 
and  the  only  one  of  the  family  to  whom  a  collegiate  education 
was  given,  married  Joanna  EUerbe,  a  daughter  of  the  late  John 
C.  Ellerbe,  and  a  sister  of  the  late  Captain  W.  S.  EUertje;  the 
fruits  of  this  marriage  were  five  sons  and  a  daughter;  the 
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152  A  HISTORY  OK  MARION  COUNTY. 

daughter  died  in  childhood,  the  sons  were  all  raised  to  be 
grown.  Three  of  the  sons,  John  H.,  Edward  Burke  and 
Thomas  Wickham  Berry,  are  among  our  best  and  most  re- 
spected citizens ;  the  two  others,  William  E.  and  Ashton,  emi- 
grated West ;  William  E.  Berry  is  dead,  leaving  a  family  some- 
where in  the  Western  States.  Ashton  lives  in  Florida,  and  is 
doing  well,  as  is  said.  Elihu  Berry  married,  first.  Miss  Jane 
Haselden;  and  she,  after  having  three  children,  Sallie,  Sue 
and  James  H.,  died.  Elihu  married,  a  second  time,  to  Miss 
Mary  Ellen  Hays,  a  daughter  of  the  late  John  C.  Hays^  and  by 
her  had  four  daughters  and  two  sons.  The  sons  are  E.  L,ide 
Berry  and  Eugene  Berry,  the  latter  now  a  minor;  the 
daughters,  Telatha,  Emma,  Lucy  and  Leila.  Telatha  married 
J.  W.  Davis,  of  Marion,  removed  West,  and  is  now  dead, 
leaving  two  little  daughters,  twins,  who  are  now  being  raised 
by  their  Grand-mother'  Berry ;  Emma,  the  next  daughter,  mar- 
ried Dow  Atkinls,  who  is  one  of  our  good  citizens ;  Lucy  and 
Leila  are  both  young  girls — one  at  the  Columbia  Eemale  Col- 
lege, the  other  at  Rock  Hill.  E.  Lide  Berry,  a  very  worthy 
young  man,  is  yet  single.  James  Berry,  a  son  of  Cross  Roads 
Henry,  the  only  survivor  of  the  family,  resides  on  his  father's 
old  homestead,  advancing  far  into  life,  sixty-seven  years  of  age, 
a  very  successful  farmer  and  exemplary  citizen;  be  married 
Miss  Harriett  Alford,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Neill  Alford,  and 
has  raised  a  large  family  of  sons  and  daughters.  The  sons  are 
Robert  A.,  Neil  A.,  Henry,  James,  Quincy  and  Downing;  the 
daughters  are  Telatha,  Julia,  Florence  and  Etta — all  married, 
except  Florence  and  Downing.  Robert  A.  and  James  are 
doctors,  residing  and  practicing  their  professions  in  Birming- 
ham, Ala.,  and  are  said  to  be  doing  well.  Robert  A.  married 
a  Virginia  lady,  a  Miss  McChesney;  James  married  a  Miss 
Carpenter,  of  Charleston;  Henry  married  a  Miss  Deer,-  of 
Marion;  Quincy  married  a  Miss  Oliver,  of  Marion,  and 
daughter  of  Squire  D.  J.  Oliver ;  Downing  is  yet  single.  Of 
the  daughters  of  James  Berry,  Telatha  married  a  Mr.  Guy 
Lovejoy,  and  is  in  some  of  the  Western  States ;  Julia  married 
Mr.  Ed.  R.  Hamer,  who  resides  at  Little  Rock;  Miss  Etta 
married  a  Mr.  Drayspring,  of  Birmingham,  Ala. ;  Miss  Flo- 
rence is  yet  unmarried.    Of  Elihu  Berry's  children  by  his  first 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  153 

wife,  Jane  Haselden,  Miss  Sallie  married  Willis  Fore;  they 
raised  five  children,  three  sons  and  two  daughters.  The  sons 
are  Linwood,  Tracy  and  Willis.  Linwood  married  a  Miss 
Dudley,  of  Marlborough;  Tracy  married  a  Miss  Hays, 
daughter  of  our  fellow-citizen,  H.  R.  Hays ;  Willis  is  yet  un- 
married. Of  the  two  daughters,  Janie  married  James  Dudley, 
of  Marlborough ;  Rebecca,  the  younger  daughter,  married  John 
C.  Hays.  The  second  daughter  of  Elihu,  Sue,  married  our  re- 
spected fellow-citizen.  Captain  W.  B.  Evans ;  they  have  several 
children,  sons  and  daughters,  noted  among  the  Evans  family. 
Of  the  children  of  Elihu  Berry  by  his  first  wife,  is  a  ran,  James 
H.  Berry,  one  of  our  energetic  and  prosperous  fanmers ;  he  has 
been  married  twice.  His  first  wife  was  Miss  Mollie  Stack- 
house,  daughter  of  the  late  Colonel  E.  T.  Stackhouse ;  she  died 
some  years  ago,  leaving  seven  children;  the  husband,  James 
H.  Berry,  married,  a  second  time,  a  daughter  of  John  H.  Davis, 
of  Marion.  Of  the  sons  of  the  late  Gewood  Berry,  John  H. 
married  Miss  Madge  Fore,  a  daughter  of  Tracy  R.  Fore ;  they 
have  only  one  child  living,  a  daughter.  Edmund  Burke  mar- 
ried Miss  Mary  Manning,  daughter  of  the  late  Thomas  J. 
Manning;  they  have  only  one  child  living,  a  boy,  named  for 
his  father,  Edmund  Burke.  Thomas  Wickham  Berry,  the 
youngest  son  of  Gewood  Berry,  married  Miss  Tommie  Man- 
ning, a  sister  of  Edmund  Burke's  wife;  they  have  several 
children,  all  girls ;  they  are  in  the  L,ittle  Rock  community. 
Stephen  Berry,  the  youngest  son  of  Cross  Roads  Henry  Berry, 
married  Miss  Euphemia  Watson,  a  daughter  of  the  late  old 
Isham  Watson;  Stephen  died  in  about  a  year  after  his  mar- 
riage, childless.  His  widow  married  the  late  F.  D.  Jones,  of 
Marion,  and  raised  a  family  of  five  daughters  and  one  son, 
about  whom  more  may  be  said  hereafter;  Mrs.  Jones  is  also 
dead.  Of  the  daughters  of  Cross  Roads  Henry  Berry,  Mary, 
the  eldest,  married  Stephen  Fore,  20th  February,  1845.  The 
writer  was  one  of  his  best  men  upon  that  pleasant  occasion. 
Stephen  Fore  and 'wife  are  both  dead;  he  died  nth  March, 
1881 ;  Mrs.  Fore  died  some  four  or  five  years  ago ;  the  fruits 
of  their  marriage  were  five  daughters  and  four  sons,  viz: 
Flora,  Amanda,  Florence,  Annie  and  Ida ;  the  sons  are  George, 
Oliver  Cromwell,  J.  Russell  and  Clarence.     Flora,  the  eldest 


154  A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY. 

daughter,  married  James  D.  Bethea,  who  survives  her,  she 
having  died  two  or  three  years  ago ;  she  left  several  daughters 
and  three  sons,  viz:  Mary,  Blanche,  Maude,  Clara,  Maggie 
and  Iveslie,  all  of  whom  are  grown.  Blanche  and  Maude  are 
married' — ^the  former  to  Dan  Dillon,  the  latter  to  Chalmers 
Biggs;  the  other  girls  are  single.  The  sons  are  Kemper, 
Charles  and  Lonnie;  of  these,  Kemper,  the  writer  thinks,  is 
married,  and  is  in  the  city  of  Washington,  in  the  employ  of 
the  government  in  some  of  its  departments ;  Charles  is  about 
grown ;  be  and  his  younger  brother,  Lonnie,  remain  with  their 
father  and  unmarried  sisters.  Amanda,  the  second  daughter 
of  Stephen  Fore  and  wife,  Mary,  married  David  S.  Allen ;  she 
died  some  years  back,  and  left  at  her  death  four  girl  children, 
the  oldest  of  whom,  Mary,  is  the  wife  of  John  D.  Coleman,  a 
very  excellent  man  and  worthy  citizen ;  her  three  sisters  all  live 
with  her.  D.  S.  Allen,  the  father,, married  a  second  time;  his 
wife  is  the  sister  of  his  son-in-law,  John  D.  Coleman.  The 
writer  is  curious  to  know  what  kin  the  children  of  D.  S.  Allen, 
by  his  second  wife,  are  to  the  children  of  John  D.  Coleman, 
the  son-in-law  of  D.  S.  Allen  ?  The  third  daughter  of  Stephen 
Fore  and  wife,  Mary,  Florence  by  name,  married  D.  McL,. 
Bethea;  she  died  in  May  last,  leaving  seven  children,  six 
daughters  and  one  son,  named  James  Stephen;  the  daughters 
are  Estelle,  Nellie,  Lutie,  Annie,  Ida  and  Florence  AUine; 
Nellie,  the  second  daughter,  lately  married  Mr.  Maurice  Man- 
ning, a  promising  young  man ;  the  other  children  are  with  their 
father,  the  youngest  about  two  years  old;  the  son,  James 
Stephen,  is  about  fifteen  or  sixteen  years  of  age.  D.  McL. 
Bethea  is  a  very  prosperous  man.  Annie,  the  fourth  daughter 
of  Stephen  Fore,  married  Willie  Watson,  son  of  William  Wat- 
son, deceased;  they  have  ten  children,  seven  sons  and  three 
daughters;  the  sons  are  Lawton,  Julian,  Burke,  Hoyt,  Jasper, 
Pratt  and  Memory;  the  daughters  are  Nora,  Pauline  and 
Alma — all  single  and  live  with  their  parents.  The  two  oldest 
sons,  Lawton  and  Julian,  are  in  Wake  Forrest  College,  in 
North  Carolina.  Ida,  the  fifth  daughter  of  Stephen  Fore, 
married  Mr.  Evmerson  M.  Duffie,  at  Marion,  who  is  a  genius 
in  machinery,  and  is  the  owner  of  the  extensive  iron  works  in 
the  town  of  Marion ;  he  is  not  only  a  useful  man  in  his  profes- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  155 

sion,  which  he  took  up  within  himself  and  brought  it  up  to  its 
present  perfection  without  serving  any  apprenticeship ;  he  may 
truthfully  be  called  a  natural  genius,  but  he  is  a  most  excellent 
man  every  way — full  of  energy,  pluck  and  perseverance,  re- 
liable in  every  phase  of  life.  They  have  five  or  six  children  of 
both  sexes,  none  grown,  names  unknown  to  the  writer.  The 
oldest  son  of  Stephen  Fore  is  George  Fore,  one  of  our  best 
and  most  worthy  citizens;  he  married  a  Miss  Ford,  daughter 
of  the  late  Elias  B.  Ford.  George  Fore  has  three  children; 
two  sons.  Baker  and  Joseph,  and  one  daughter,  Kate — -all 
grown  and  unmarried.  The  oldest  son.  Baker,  is  a  graduate 
of  Wake  Forrest  College,  and  is  a  promising  young  man.*  The 
second  son  of  Stephen  Fore  is  J.  Russel  Fore ;  he  and  the  fourth 
son,  Clarence  Fore,  have  never  married;  they  live  together  on 
the  father's  old  -homestead ;  one  of  James  D.  Bethea's  daugh- 
ters, their  niece,  stays  with  them  and  keeps  house.  Each  of 
these  boys  has  his  own  place,  runs  his  own  farm,  and  makes 
his  own  money.  J.  Russel  is  reputed  to  have  money  ahead; 
he  is  much  older  than  Clarence,  and  has  been  working  for 
himself  much  longer,  and  hence  has  accumulated  more  money. 
Oliver  Cromwell  Fore,  the  third  son  of  Stephen  Fore,  married 
Miss  Jennie  Lassiter,  a  very  smart  woman,  as  well  as  a  good 
woman;  they  have  four  children,  two  boys  and  two  girls,  all 
small ;  Cromwell  has  been  in  the  iron  works  of  his  brother-in- 
law,  McDuffie,  for  several  years,  and  is  supposed  to  have 
learned  much  about  machinery  and  how  to  make  or  repair  it. 
Cross  Roads  Henry  Berry's  second  daughter,  Telatha,  married 
Dr.  Willis  Fore,  a  brother  of  Stephen  Fore,  supra;  she  lived 
only  a  few  years,  and  died  childless ;  Dr.  Fore  himself  survived 
his  wife  only  a  few  years,  when  he  died,  not  having  remarried. 
Cross  Roads  Henry  Berry's  third  and  youngest  daughter,  Vir- 
zilla  by  name,  married  the  late  John  Mace;  the  fruits  of  the 
marriage  were  two  daughters,  Lucindia  M.  and  Maggie  Ellen ; 
their  mother  died  when  they  were  quite  young,  aged  eight  and 
and  six  years  respectively ;  they  were  raised  without  any  mother 
by  their  father;  he  never  remarried;  the  girls  grew  up  to 
womanhood,  and  the  younger,  Maggie  Ellen,  married  John  C. 
Sellers,  23d  December,  1869;  four  years  afterwards,  Lucinda 
*Sihce  writing  the  above,  George  Fore  has  died. 


156  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUi^TY. 

M.  married  William  G.  Edwards ;  both  Lucinda  M.  and  Maggie 
E.  are  dtead;  the  latter  died  26th  April,  1888,  the  former  died  in 
1896.  Maggie  left  six  children  surviving  her,  viz :  Lucy,  Ben- 
jamin B.,  Annie,  Wallace  D.,  lyeila  and  Maggie  Ellen  (called 
Pearl),  the  latter  only  three  days  old  at  her  mother's  death; 
she  was  taken  by  her  aunt,  Rachel  Norton,  who  has  kept  her 
till  the  present  time ;  she  is  now  thirteen  years  old.  Lucinda 
M.,  wife  of  William  G.  Edwards,  left  at  her  death  five  children, 
three  daughters  and  two  sons ;  the  daughters  are :  Mary,  now 
the  wife  of  J.  Dudley  Haselden;  she  has  two  children,  both 
sons;  also,  Maggie  and  Carrie  Edwards.  The  two  sons  are 
Henry  A.  Edwards  and  Samuel  Edwards.  Henry,  the  elder 
son,  after  taking  a  two  years  course  in  Wofford  College,  went 
to  Vanderbilt  University,  Tenn.,  arid  took  a  three  or  four 
years  course  in  the  medical  department  of  that  well  equipped 
institution,  and  is  now  a  young  "M.  D."  . 

Captain  Stephen  F.  Berry,  son  of  the  late  Andrew  Berry, 
and  nephew  of  Cross  Roads  Henry,  married  a  Miss  Jones,  and 
raised  a  large  family  of  sons  and  daughters,  the  names  of 
whom  (or  all  of  them)  the  writer  does  not  know.  His  oldest 
son,  Henry,  married  a  Miss  Cottingham,  and  has  a  fajnily; 
another  son,  Wylie,  married  a  daughter  of  H.  C.  Dew,  and  is 
doing  fairly  well;  he  has  one  child,  a  daughter.  Another 
son,  Benjamin  O.,  was  for  a  while  an  itinerant  Methodist 
preacher ;  married  some  lady,  to  the  writer  unknown ;  he  did 
not  do  well,  was  finally  expelled  from  the  Conference  and 
has  disappeared.  Another  son,  G.  Raymond  Berry,  married 
a  Miss  Mclntyre,  and  having  a  fair  education,  he  has  taught 
school  most  of  the  time  since,  his  majority,  and  has  a  good 
reputation,  both  as  a  citizen  and  as  a  teacher ;  he  is  very  popu- 
lar, and  has  lately  been  elected  as  County  Superintendent  of 
Education.  Captain  Berry  has  other  sons  unmarried  and 
living  with  him,  names  unknown — ^think  one  of  them  is  named 
Wade  Hampton ;  he  has  four  married  daughters ;  one  married 
Albert  Rogers,  who  is  doing  well  and  a  good  citizen,  has 
children — how  many  is  unknown.  Another  married  John  B. 
Hamer,  a  very  energetic,  pushing  man ;  I  think  he  has  five  or 
six  children.  Another  married  James  S.  Hays,  and  is  doing 
well ;  Hays  is  an  energetic,  persevering  man,  and  prosperous ; 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  157 

he  has  several  children.  Another  daughter  married  a  man  by 
the  name  of  Wright,  who  recently  died  at  Latta ;  don't  think  he 
left  any  children. 

Another  family  of  Berrys  may  be  noted,  to  wit:  Samuel  J. 
Berry's  faniily.  The  first  old  Andrew,  that  settled  with  the 
Sandy  Bluff  colony  about  1736  or  1737,  it  will  be  remembered, 
had  six  sons  and  four  daughters,  according  to  tradition, 
through  old  Mrs.  Fama  Tart,  a  grand-daughter  of  old  Andrew. 
Mrs.  Tart  was  a  living  walking  genealogical  dictionary,  and  a 
memory  equally  as  wonderful.  Of  the  six  brothers,  four  lived 
to  be  grown  and  raised  families,  to  wit:  Henry,  her  father, 
Stephen,  John  and  Andrew ;  I  think  another  was  named  Sam- 
uel; the  sixth  name  not  remembered.  The  Samuel  J.  Berry's 
family,  mentioned  above,  was  a  direct  descendant  from  either 
John  or  Andrew.  Samuel  J.  Berry  died  some  years  ago,  leav- 
ing a  family  of  three  sons,  Madison,  Wilson  and  Stephen,  and 
perhaps  some  daughters ;  he  was  a  volunteer  soldier  in  the 
Florida  Seminole  War,  in  a  company  from  Marion,  com- 
manded by  Captain  and  formed  a  part  of  the  bat- 
talion commanded  by  Major  W.  W.  Harllee.  The  writer  pro- 
cured a  pension  for  Samuel  J.  Berry's  widow,  which  she  yet,  if 
living,  receives  from  the  United  States  government.  Samuel 
J.  Berry  was  an  unpretentious  man,  a  quiet  and  peaceable  citi- 
zen, honest  to  the  cent,  but  little  known  outside  his  neighbor- 
hood ;  his  three  sons,  Madison,  Wilson  and  Stephen,  are  of  like 
character,  honoring  their  departed  father  and  perpetuating  his 
name  and  many  virtues.  There  are  other  Berrys,  descend- 
ants of  the  first  old  Andrew,  of  less  note  than  those  herein 
mentioned,  and  unknown  to  the  writer.  Their  connections, 
through  the  female  line,  are  very  extensive  and  permeate  pretty 
much  the  whole  of  the  upper  end  of  the  county;  many  have 
gone  West.  The  name  will  not  soon  become  extinct.  Of  the 
four  daughters  of  the  old  first  Andrew  Berry,  two  of  them 
married  Dews,  one  of  them  a  Hays,  and  the  other  did  not 
marry — ^if  she  did  it  is  not  known  to  whom.  Of  these  more 
will  be  said  hereafter. 

Saunders. — In  the  settlement  made  at  Sandy  Bluff,  the 
name   of    Saunders    appears.    John,    George    and    William 


158  A  HISTORY  OT^  MARION  COUNTY. 

Saunders  were  the  first  of  the  name  there.  Bishop  Gregg,  on 
p.  71,  says:  "Of  the  "settlers  at  Sandy  Bluff,  the  Murfees, 
Saunders,  Gibsons  and  Crawfords  accumulated  the  largest 
properties."  The  name  Saunders  has  become  extinct  in 
Marion  County — not  one  of  the  name  in  the  county,  to  the 
knowledge  of  the  writer.  One  John  Saunders  took  up  large 
grants  of  land  between  Catfish  and  Great  Pee  Dee.  "They 
came  from  England.  John  Saunders  had  two  sons,  George 
and  Thomas.  George  was  the  father  of  Nathaniel  Saunders, 
who  became  a  man  of  some  note,  and  was  the  father  of  the  late 
Moses  Saunders  and  Jordan  Saunders,  in  Darlington"  (Gregg, 
p.  73).  In  a  note  to  the  same  page,  the  Bishop  says:  "George 
Saunders  came  to  an  untimely  end;  in  connection  with  which 
a  singular  incident  is  related.  He  was  engaged  on  a  Sunday 
in  cutting  down  a  bee  tree,  a  cypress,  in  the  swamp  on  the 
opposite  side  of  the  river.  As  the  cypress  fell,  the  limb  of  an 
ash  was  broken  off,  and  being  thrown  with  violence  on  the 
head  of  Saunders,  killed  him  instantly.  An  ash  afterwards 
came  up  at  the  head  of  his  grave  and  grew  to  a  large  tree, 
being  regarded  by  the  people  as  a  standing  monument  of  the 
judgment  sent  upon  him  for  the  violation  of  the  Lord's  day, 
which  led  to  his  end.  It  is  but  a  few  years  since  that  the  last 
vestige  of  this  famous  ash  was  to  be  seen.  Near  the  spot  are 
faint  traces  of  the  burial  ground  of  the  Sandy  Bluif  settle- 
ment." The  descendants  of  this  Saunders  family  have  all 
played  out.  Between  fifty  and  sixty  years  ago,  Tobias  Saun- 
ders and  Smithey  Saunders,  brother  and  sister  (neither  one 
ever  married),  lived  on  the  road  leading  from  Berry's  Cross 
Roads  to  Marion,  near  the  end  of  Pigeon  Bay,  just  below 
where  the  Florence  Railroad  crosses  said  bay;  they  were  de- 
scendants of  old  John  Saunders,  to  whom  much  land  had  been 
granted ;  the  little  hut  of  a  house  in  which  they  lived  stood  on 
land  granted  to  their  ancestor ;  they  were  invalids,  and  lived  by 
begging  and  by  the  dharity  of  the  neighbors.  The  writer 
used  to  see  them  at  his  father-in-law's  many  times  begging, 
and  the  old  man  would  give  them  a  shoulder  of  meat  and  half 
bushel  of  meal,  as  much  as  they  could  carry.  The  sister  was 
the  stronger  of  the  two ;  they  were  imbecile,  and  especially  the 
brother,  and  harmless ;  they  ultimately  died  there.  Such  are 
the  sad  changes  in  families. 


A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY.  159 

Gibson. — ^Among  the  early  settlers  at  "Sandy  Bluff"  were 
the  Gibsons.  Gregg,  p.  73,  says :  "Of  the  Gibsons,  Gideon  and 
Jordan  were  brothers.  Tihe  latter  (Jordan)  went  to  the  West 
as  a  companion  of  Daniel  Boone.  Gideon  Gibson  came  with 
his  father  from  Virginia  to  Pee  Dee.  There  is  a  public  record 
of  a  grant  to  him  for  550  acres  of  land  as  early  as  April,  1736. 
He  settled  at  a  place  called  Hickory  Grove,  five  miles  from 
Sandy  Bluff,  on  a  large  and  fertile  body  of  land,  long  after 
noted  as  the  most  valuable  in  that  region."  In  a  note  to  the 
same  page,  Gregg  says :  "He  (Gideon  Gibson)  was  the  grand- 
uncle  of  the  late  Captain  John  Gibson,  of  Darlington.  Gideon 
Gibson  had  three  sons"  (p.  74) ;  "of  these,  Stephen  became 
wealthy,  and  removed  to  Georgia  about  the  year  1800.  Roger, 
another  son,  removed  to  the  West  before  the  Revolution." 
-Bishop  Gregg  says  nothing  about  the  third  son  of  Gideon  Gib- 
son, does  not  even  mention  his  name.  The  writer  supposes  his 
name  was  Tobias  Gibson,  who  became  a  Methodist  traveling 
preacher,  joined  the  Conference  in  1792,  from  Marion  County, 
and  died  in  1804,  at  the  age  of  thirty  years,  and  was  buried  at 
Natchez,  Miss.  (Minutes  of  the  iiith  session  of  the  South 
Carolina  Annual  Conference  of  the  M.  E.  Church,  South,  held 
in  Abbeville,  S.  C,  December  9-14,  1899.)  According  to  this, 
he  was  born  in  1774 ;  he  may  have  been  a  g<rand-son  of  Gideon 
Gibson.  In  1 781  (February),  Gideon  Gibson  was  killed  at  his 
own  house  by  Colonel  Maurice  Murfee ;  Gideon  Gibson  was  the 
uncle  of  Murfee.  Colonel  Maurice  Murfee,  though  a  staunch 
Whig  and  a  daring  and  gallant  soldier,  yet  was  a  very  violent 
man,  and  especially  so  when  in  liquor.  Bishop  Gregg,  p.  354, 
says :  "Lower  down,  on  the  east  side  of  the  river,  the  Tories 
made  frequent  incursions  from  Little  Pee  Dee,  finding  co- 
operation on  the  part  of  some  in  that  immediate  region.  The 
Whigs  were  driven  in  some  instances  to  acts  of  cruel  retalia- 
tion. One  instance  of  the  kind  is  related  of  Colonel  Maurice 
Murphy.  He  was  a  man  of  ungovernable  passion,  which  was 
often  inflamed  by  strong  drink.  On  the  occasion  alluded  to, 
he  went  to  the  house  of  a  noted  Tory,  named  Blackman,  then 
somewhat  advanced  in  years,  and  inoffensive.  He  had,  how- 
ever, several  sons  who  were  active  against  the  Whigs.  Mur- 
phy's real  object,  doubtless,  was  to  discover  where  these  and 


160  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

others  of  their  companions  were.  Having  tied  Blackman,  he 
asked  him  who  he  was  for;  and  upon  his  replying  'for  King 
George,'  gave  him  fifty  lashes.  The  question  was  repeated, 
with  the  same  reply,  and  the  like  punishment  inilictedi  until  the 
fourth  time,  when,  upon  finding  the  old  man  unyielding. 
Murphy  was  compelled  to  desist.  Blackman  lived  on  Catfish, 
and  the  place  is  yet  called  'Tory's  Camp.'  Gideon  Gibson,  the 
uncle  of  Murphy,  blamed  hitn  for  his  conduct  on  the  occasion. 
Subsequently,  Murphy  stopped,  with  his  company,  at  Gibson's 
for  breakfast,  and  while  there  the  subject  was  resumed.  A 
quarrel  ensued,  and  as  Murphy  mounted  his  horse  to  start  off, 
Gibson  followed  him  to  the  dbor  and  said  something  offensive, 
whereupon  Murphy  shot  him  dead.  Three  of  Gibson's  sons 
were  present  in  Murphy's  company,  and  were  men  of  un- 
daunted courage;  but  knowing  his  violent  temper  and  des- 
perate resolution,  did  not  interfere.  Nothing  was  done  to 
Murphy  afterwards  on  account  of  it."  Frorp  this  it  would 
appear  that  Jordan  Gibson,  the  brother  of  Gideon,  must  have 
been  the  grand-father  of  the  "late  Captain  John  Gibson,  of 
Darlington."  Jordan  Gibson'  went  off  "West  as  a  companion 
of  Daniel  Boone,"  but  we  suppose  he  returned  to  Carolina, 
Gregg  says,  supra,  that  Gideon  Gibson  was  "the  great-uncle  of 
Captain  John  Gibson,  of  Darlington."  Stephen  Gibson  was  a 
son  of  Gideon ;  he  lived  prior  to  1800,  and  owned  a  large  body 
of  land  in  and  around  Harlleesville,  in  this  county.  About  the 
latter  date,  he  sold  his  lands  there  and  removed  to  Georgia 
(Gregg).  The  writer  remembers  in  his  long  practice  of  law 
to  have  seen  the  deeds  from  Stephen  Gibson  to  Thomas  Harl- 
lee.  He  may  have  been  the  father  of  Tobias  Gibson,  the 
preacher  hereinbefore  referred  to.  Captain  John  Gibson  lived 
in  Marion  County  and  owned  large  bodies  of  land  therein,  near 
Mars  Bluff  Ferry,  on  both  sides  of  the  river ;  he  had  two  sons, 
Ferdinand  S.  Gibson  and  James  S.  Gibson;  I  think  he  married 
a  Miss  Savage.  The  lands  on  the  east  side  of  the  river,  and 
perhaps  some  on  the  west  side,  went  to  his  son,  Ferdinand, 
whose  first  wife  was  a  Miss  Godfrey,  and  his  second  wife  was 
Miss  Constantine  McClenaghan ;  he  died  at  Marion  Court 
House,  I2th  May,  1867,  childless.  He  was  considered  very' 
wealthy  before  the  war,  had  two  hundred  or  more  slaves;  he 


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was  involved  in  debt,  his  lands  were  sold  under  proceedings 
to  marshal  his  assets  and  for  the  payment  of  his  debts,  and 
thus  that  valuable  property  'has  passed  entirely  out  of  the  hands 
of  the  family ;  his  widow  got  dower  out  of  it ;  she  afterwards 
became  the  wife  of  Dr.  D.  S.  Price ;  she  died  some  years  "back, 
leaving  some  four  or  five  children — think  three  sons  and  a 
daugihter ;  the  latter  is  now  the  wife  of  W.  G.  Mullins. 

James  S.  Gibson,  brother  to  Ferdinand  S.,  married  a  Miss 
DuBose,  of  Darlington;  he  inherited  from  his  father,  Captain 
John  Gibson,  that  large  and  valuable  plantation,  on  the  west 
side  of  Great  Pee  Dee,  near  Mars  Bluff  Ferry.  James  S.  Gib- 
son died  not  long  after  his  brother,  Ferdinand ;  he  was  a  better 
manager,  or  at  least  more  fortunate  in  the  results  of  the  war, 
and  saved  his  large  landed  estate  for  his  two  sons.  Knight  and 
Nathan  S. ;  the  latter  is  now  in  possession  of  those  lands. 
Knight  Gibson  married  a  daughter  of  Dr.  C.  H.  Black,  by 
whom  he  had,  I  think,  four  children ;  Knight  Gibson  died  in 
the  latter  part  of  1885  or  1886 ;  what  has  become  of  his  child- 
ren is  unknown.  Nathan  S.  Gibson  is  certainly  rich  in  lands 
and  may  be  so  otherwise;  he  is  unmarried,  and  is  almost  fifty 
years  of  age.  This  is  in  Florence  County,  formerly  Marion 
County.  » 

Another  quite  respectable  family  of  Gibsons  are  below 
Marion  Court  House.  The  first  known  of  them  was  Squire 
David  Gibson,  who  was  a  very  worthy  man  and  good  citizen. 
Think  'he  came  from  Scotland — at  any  rate,  he  was  a  Scotch- 
man ;  his  tongue  betrayed  'his  nationality.  It  has  been  siaid  of 
him  that  he  was  on  the  stand  as  a  witness  in  some  case,  that 
the  occasion  and  circumstances  suggested  the  question  to  be 
asked  him,  if  be  believed  in  ghosts,  spirits,  &c.,  and  the  old 
gentleman,  in  the  honesty  of  his  heart,  replied  that  he  could 
not  say  that  he  did,  but  that  when  he  passed  by  a  graveyard  at 
night  he  always  kept  a  sharp  lookout.  The  writer  does  not 
know  whom  he  married,  but  he  raised  four  sons,  if  no  more, 
James,  Allen,  Jessee  and  Albert ;  the  first  and  last  of  these  are 
dead,  but  left  families;  Allen  and  Jessee  yet  survive,  and  are 
among  our  best  people,  quiet  and  unpretentious,  honest  and 
straightforward  in  all  their  movements  and  dealings  with  their 
fellow-men;  engage  in  no  local  strife  or  bickerings;  keep  clear 


162  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

of  lawsuits ;  attend  strictly  to  their  own  business  and  let  the 
business  of  others  stridtly  alone ;  it  may  be  said,  "with  masterly 
inactivity."  Observation  teaches  that  it  takes  a  pretty  smart 
man  to  do  this.  Jessee  Gibson  and  Allen  Gibson  married 
sisters,  daughters  of  the  late  James  Watson,  and,  doubtless, 
make  good  housewives,  and  are  raising  up  families  "in  the  way 
they  should  go."  James  Gibson  died  many  years  ago  and  left 
six  or  seven  children;  his  oldest  son,  about  twenty  years  of 
age,  was  killed  on  Main  street,  in  Marion,  more  than  twenty 
years  ago ;  a  horse  ran  away  with  a  cart  wihich  the  jroung  man 
was  driving,  and  threw  him  out  near  where  the  Bank  of 
Marion  now  stands,  his  head  striking  an  elm  root  on  the  side- 
walk, which  crushed  his  skull.  The  writter  was  in  fifteen 
feet  of  him  when  he  fell,  and  was  the  first  one  to  get  to  him ; 
others  soon  came  up  and  among  them  a  doctor;  he  breathed 
sturtously  for  five  or  ten  minutes  and  then  expired.  A  sad  and 
sudden  ending.  Albert  Gibson  died  a  few  years  ago,  leaving 
a  family  of  children,  none  grown  at  the  time;  he  was  one  of 
our  progressive,  good  citizens;  his  family  are  not  known  to 
the  writer. 

Page. — ^Another  pretty  extensive  family  in  the  county  are 
the  Pages ;  they  are  mostly  on  Bear  Swamp  and  Ashpole,  near 
the  State  line,  and  Buck  Swamp  and  L,ittle  Pee  Dee.  Of  the 
old  Pages  known  to  the  writer,  there  were  Joseph,  Solomon 
and  Thomas,  and  perhaps  David.  Joseph  died  about  the  first 
of  the  nineteeath  century,  leaving  three  sons  and  several 
diaughters;  his  wife  was  a  Miss  Horn;  his  sons  were  Joseph 
and  Abram  and  John  W.  The  son,  Joseph,  settled  on  the 
paternal  homestead,  just  across  the  State  line,  in  North  Caro- 
lina, owning  lands,  however,  in  both  States;  he  married  a 
Miss  Connerly,  a  North  Carolina  lady;  died  many  years  ago, 
quite  a  thrifty  man,  leaving  two  sons,  Joseph,  and  Timothy,  and 
four  daughters;  his  large  landed  property  descended  to  his 
two  sons,  Joseph  and  Timothy.  Joseph  is  dead,  leaving  sons 
and  daughters,  unknown  to  the  writer.  Timothy  raised  a 
considerable  family,  sons  and  daughters,  and  is  still  living. 
Timothy's  sisters,  all  older  than  he  and  his  brother,  Joseph, 
married  well ;  one  an  Elvington,  one  a  Lewis,  one  a  Connerly, 


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and  another,  the  youngest.  Civil,  married  William  H.  Oliver, 
of  North  Carolina,  and  became  the  mother  of  two  of  our  most 
respected  and  worthy  citizens,  to  wit :  the  late  Joseph  R.  Oliver 
and  the  late  Dr.  Wm.  A.  Oliver,  both  quite  prominent,  wihose 
descendants,  sons  and  daughters,  married  and  single,  are 
among  us  now,  treading  in  the  footsteps  of  their  honored  and 
beloved  sires.  Abram  Page,  the  second  son  of  the  first  old 
Joseph,  marnied  Miss  Alice  Nichols,  of  Columbus  County,  N. 

C,  and  sister  to  our  late  respected  fellow-citizen,  Averett 
Nichols,  of  Nichols,  S.  C.  He  settled  on  Ashpole,  below  the 
mouth  of  Bear  Swamp,  on  the  place  now  owned  by  the  Widow 
T.  B.  Braddy,  and  where  she  resides.  Abram  Page  raised 
five  sons  and  one  diaughter;  the  sons  were  David  N.,  Averett, 
Abram  B.,  Joseph  N.  and  Dock,  as  he  was  called,  and  one 
daughter,  Ava.  David  N.  died  in  early  manhood;  I  do  not 
think  he  married ;  Averett  moved  into  North  Carolina ;  I  do  not 
know  whom  he  married,  nor  of  his  family;  Abram  B.  Page, 
well  known  by  his  cotemporaries,  settled  and  merchandised  for 
many  years  at  Nichols,  S.  C,  and  apparently  did  well  for  years, 
but  finally  failed,  lost  his  mind,  was  carried  to  the  Asylum  at 
Columbia,  S.  C,  and  after  staying  there  for  a  while,  returned 
home  and  soon  thereafter  died;  he  never  married;  his  fine 
property  in  and  about  Nichols  was  all  sold  and  has  gone  into 
other  hands.  Joseph  N.  Page,  of  Page's  Mill,  settled  there 
many  years  ago;  he  married  a  daughter  of  the  late  Elias  B. 
Ford,  by  whom  he  had  and  raised  only  one  child,  a  daughter, 
who  in  recent  years  married  a  Mr.  L.  W.  Temple,  of  Raleigh, 
N.  C,  who  has  a  family  of  several  children.  Joseph  N.  Page 
was  a  very  safe  man,  accumulated  a  considerable  property, 
which  was  all  clear  at  his  death,  a  few  years  ago.  Dock  Page, 
the  youngest  brother,  and  who  inherited  the  old  homestead, 
married  Miss  Addie  Ayres,  daughter  of  Thos.  W.  Ayres,  and 
lived  on  the  old  homestead  until  a  year  or  two  ago,  when  he 
sold  it  to  Mrs.  Braddy,  as  herein  stated,  who  now  occupies  it. 
Dock  Page  has  a  considerable  family,  unknown  to  the  writer. 
Ava  Page,  the  only  daughter  of  Abram  Page,  married  James 

D.  Oliver,  many  years  ago ;  they  removed'  to  Texas ;  nothing 
further  is  known  of  them.  John  W.  Page  died  in  middle  life, 
and  left  two  children,  a  son,  Augustus  Page,  and  a  daughter. 


164  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

who  married  the  late  Aaron  Oliver.  Augustus  Page  married 
a  Miss  Page ;  he  died  childless.  Solomon  Page  lived  and  died 
on  Bear  Swamp,  on  the  road  from  L,umberton,  N.  C,  to 
Nichols,  S.  C. ;  his  wife  was  a  Miss  Ford ;  he  raised  a  consid- 
erable family,  sons  and  daughters ;  the  sons  were  Eli,  Joseph, 
James  E.,  David  and  John  F.,  all  of  whom  were  our  citizens 
thirty  or  forty  years  ago,  but  all  now  dead,  each  leaving  a 
family  of  sons  and  daughters.  They  and  their  desoendlants 
and  connections  are  numerous,  and  especially  in  that  part  of 
the  county.  Three  of  the  sons,  EH,  John  F.  and  David,  mar- 
ried three  sisters.  Misses  Bennett — somewhat  remarkable. 
Thomas  Page  married  and  settled  on  the  south  side  of  Little 
Pee  Dee,  on  the  place  where  S.  L.  Page  now  resides ;  I  do  not 
know  who  his  wife  was ;  he  raised  one  son,  an  only  child,  his 
name  was  William ;  he  married  a  Miss  Smith,  daughter  of  old 
Samuel  Smith,  who  lived  and  died  about  1843,  just  below 
"Temperance  Hill,"  on  the  road  from  Buck  Swamp  Bridge  to 
Marion  Court  House.  That  marriage  connects  the  Page  and 
Smith  families.  Captain  William  Page  was.  an  excellent  citi- 
zen and  a  very  successful  farmer,  and  accumulated  a  large 
property ;  he  died  in  1859 ;  he  left  four  sons,  Samuel  T.,  John 
S.,  William  J.  and  Pinckney  Page;  the  latter  married  a 
daughter  of  the  late  John  L.  Smjth;  he  was  killed  or  died  in 
the  war ;  left  three  children,  I  think,  a  son  and  two  daughters ; 
I  do  not  know  much  about  them.  John  S.  Page  married  Miss 
Louisa  Bass,  and  died  about  the  beginning  of  the  war,  and  left 
four  or  five  children.  William,  a  son  of  John  S.,  was  killed  in 
1873  or  '4,  in  a  posse  of  Sheriff  Berry's,  in  trying  to  make 
an  arrest.  One  of  the  daughters  is  now  the  wife  of  C.  J. 
McColl,  a  cotton  buyer  at  MuUins,  S.  C.  The  oldest  son  of 
Captain  William  Page,  Samuel  T.,  got  into  some  trouble,  in 
1865,  with  the  military  authorities  then  stationed  in  Marion; 
he  sold  out  his  plantation,  now  owned  by  J.  Robert  Reaves; 
eluding  the  "Yankees,"  he  went  West,  and  for  years  it  was  not 
.  generally  known  where  he  was — ^he  was  in  Mississippi ;  he  re- 
mained there  for  twenty  years  or  more,  when  he  returned  to 
Marion  with  his  wife ;  she  soon  died,  and  he  has  been  with  his 
son,  John  K.  Page,  and  still  lives  with  him ;  he  is  in  his  eighty- 
third  year.    John  K.  Page,  with  whom  the  old  gentleman  lives. 


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is  a  very  trustworthy  man,  a  good  manager  and  very  prosper- 
ous. William  J.  Page,  another  son  of  Captain  William  Page, 
resides  on  his  father's  old  homestead ;  he  married,  first,  a  Miss 
Grice,  by  whom  he  had  eighteen  children,  and  raised  sixteen  of 
them  to  be  grown,  sons  and  aiighters,  most  of  whom  are  mar- 
ried ;  they  are  all  unknown  to  the  writer,  except  the  oldest  son, 
J.  Lawrence  Page,  a  Magistrate  for  years,  and  a  very  good 
one,  and  a  useful  man ;  he  lives  on  the  homestead  of  his  great-- 
grand-father,  Thomas  Page;  he  has  children  grown  and  mar- 
ried unknown  to  the  writer,  except  the  second  wife  of  John  K. 
Page.  William  J.  Page  is  over  three  score  years  and  ten,  but 
vigorous  and  active,  a  good  citizen.  Old  Captain  William 
Page  had  several  daughters;  one  married  Joseph  Deer  (the 
name  now  extinct  in  Marion  County)  ;  Deer  died,  and  the 
widow  married  Rev.  John  B.  Piatt,  of  the  South  Carolina  Con- 
ference; I  think  she  had  two  sons  and  three  daughters  by  the 
Deer  marriage;  Wm.  P.  Deer  and  John  were  the  sons;  Mrs. 
William  Watson,  one  of  the  daughters,  still  survives;  one 
other  daughter,  Ellenora,  never  married,  and  is  dead ;  the  last 
daughter,  Elizabeth,  married  John  E.  Elvington.  By  the  Piatt 
marriage,  she  had  a  son,  R.  B.  Piatt,  a  Magistrate,  near  Mul- 
lins,  S.  C,  and  two  daughters,  Mrs.  B.  Gause  Smith,  and  the 
late  Mrs.  Dr.  C.  T.  Ford;  they  all  have  large  families. 
Another  daughter  of  Captain  William  Page  married  D.  W. 
Piatt;  they  moved  to  Mississippi,  fifty  years  ago  or  more. 
Another  daughter  married  George  J.  Bethea,  and  still  survives ; 
she  had  two  sons,  William  A.  Bethea  and  John  D.  Bethea,  and 
several  daughters;  I  do  not  know  whom  they  married,  except 
that  one  married  W.  B.  Ellen  and  one  married  W.  Joseph 
Watson,  and  is  dead,  leaving  several  children.  Another 
daughter  of  Captain  William  Page  married  the  late  Samuel 
Watson,  and  is  dead ;  she  left  at  her  death,  W.  Joseph  Melton, 
S.  P.  and  Stonewall  C.  Watson,  and  two  daughters,  Sophronia 
and  Maggie.  W.  Joseph  Watson  removed  to  North  Carolina. 
Melton  is  dead,  without  child  or  children;  he  married  a 
daughter  of  the  late  Charles  Moody,  who  still  survives.  So-  . 
phronia  was  the  first  wife  of  John  K.  Page ;  she  left  two  sons, 
Samuel  and  Ernest.  Maggie  married  Frank  Easterling,  a 
very  worthy  citizen,  and  is  doing  well.    Another  daughter  of 


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old  Captain  William  Page  married  Levi  H.  Hays,  and  was  the 
mother  of  our  very  worthy  fellow-citizen,  W.  B.  Hays,  in 
Hillsboro  Township. 

Ayres. — ^Another  family  in  the  northeastern  section  of  the 
county  is  the  Ayres  family.  Of  this  family  the  first  known  to 
the  writer  was  the  Rev.  William  Ayres,  and  two  brothers, 
Darius  and  John,  usually  called  Jack  Ayres.  Rev.  William 
Ayres  was  a  Baptist  preacher;  stood  well  among  his  clerical 
brethren,  and  was  dearly  beloved  by  the  laity  of  his  church; 
he  married  a  Miss  Shaw ;  the  fruits  of  the  marriage  were  our 
esteemed  fellow-citizens,  Thomas  W.  Ayres  and  Enoch  S. 
Ayres,  and  several  daughters — three  or  four.  Thomas  W. 
Ayres  is  well  known  to  the  county ;  was  County  Commissioner 
perhaps  two  terms,  some  years  ago,  and  a  prominent  member 
of  ihe  Baptist  Church ;  he  did  valiant  service  in  the  war — he 
and  two  of  his  sons  were  in  the  war  together;  his  two  sons 
were  killed,  as  the  writer  has  been  informed,  on  the  same  day 
and  in  the  same  battle.  Thomas  W.  Ayres  married  a  Miss 
Williamson,  in  the  Gapway  neighborhood,  a  sister  of  Joseph 
Williamson.  Besides  the  two  sons  killed  in  the  war,  he  has 
three  other  sons,  John  and  Pendleton  G.  Ayres,  two  excellent 
citizens,  and  a  younger  son,  named  Robert;  he  has  several 
daughters,  one  married  Dock  Page,  as  hereinbefore  stated,  and 
one  named  Sallie,  who  died  while  off  at  school  at  Limestone 
Springs ;  not  known  as  to  the  other  daughters.  Pendleton  G. 
Ayres  married  a  Miss  McMillan,  in  the  Mullins  community. 
John  Ayres  married  Miss  Susan  Page,  a  daughter  of  Timothy 
Page,  and  has  a  house  full  of  children,  so  said.  Robert  Ayres 
has  gone  to  Georgia  and,  I  think,  has  married  out  there. 
Enoch  Ayres,  one  of  our  best  citizens,  youngest  son  of  Rev. 
William  Ayres,  married  a  Miss  Tyler,  in  Horry  County;  the 
fruits  of  the  marriage  are  three  sons  and  four  or  five 
daughters;  the  sons  are  William,  Elias  and  Lennon;  his 
daughters  all  married  but  one,  Erma ;  two  in  Kentucky,  or  are 
there  now;  one  of  them  married  a  Baptist  preacher  named 
Rockwell;  she  was  reputed  to  be  a  very  intellectual  lady. 
Another  daughter  married  a  Mr.  Renfroe,  of  North  Carolina. 
Of  the  daughters  of  Rev.  William  Ayres,  one,  Catharine,  mar- 


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ried  Major  H.  B.  Cook;  they  moved  to  Horry,  raised  a  consid- 
erable family,  sons  and  daughters ;  both  are  now  dead.  Another 
daughter  married  Buck  Watson;  they  moved  to  Horry  just 
after  the  war;  both  are  dead.  Another  daughter  married 
Levi  Grainger,  of  Horry.  I  think  another  daughter  died  un- 
married, during  the  war,  with  smallpox — I  am  not  sure  of  it. 
Rev.  William  Ayres  and  wife  both  died  of  smallpox  during  the 
war.  His  brother.  Jack  Ayres,  came  home  from  the  army,  and 
after  getting  home  the  disease  broke  out  on  him  and  he  died  of 
it,  whence  it  spread  in  the  neighborhood,  and  several  others, 
perhaps  a  dozen  or  more,  died  of  it.  Jack  Ayres  never  mar- 
ried. Darius  Ayres,  brother  of  Rev.  William,  died  in  early 
life,  leaving  two  sons,  Darius  and  another,  whose  name  the 
writer  has  forgotten  (they  both  went  to  school  to  him).  The 
elder  boy,  Darius,  grew  up,  and  the  last  heard  of  him  by  the 
writer  he  was  a  Baptist  preacher  in  North  Carolina.  I  do  not 
know  whence  the  Ayres  sprang;  I  think,  from  the  name,  and 
their  complexion  and  their  general  make-up,  that  their  pro- 
genitors were  from  Wales,  in  South  England,  and  may  have 
been  part  of  the  Welsh  settlement  on  Great  Pee  Dee,  who  came 
from  Pennsylvania  and  Delaware  to  South  Carolina,  in  1735 
or  '6,  and  afterwards. 

Ford. — The  Ford  family,  in  upper  Marion,  were  among  the 
first  settlers  in  upper  Marion.  In  the  appendix  to  Ramsay's 
History  of  South  Carolina,  on  page  302,  volume  2,  he  says: 
"There  have  been  many  instances  of  longevity  in  the  county 
between  Little  Pee  Dee  and  Catfish  Creek,  about  sixty  miles 
north  of  Georgetown;  six  very  old  men  died  there  since  the 
year  1800.  One  of  them,  James  Ford,  died  in  or  near  1804, 
at  the  age  of  one  hundred  years.  The  others  are  James  Mun- 
nerlyn,  Moses  Martin,  Rockingham  Keene,  Michael  Mixori 
and  William  Watson,  who  all  died  upwards  of  eighty  years  of 
age,  James  Munnerlyn  served  in  the  office  of  Constable  at 
eighty-six  years,  walked  fifty  miles  to  serve  a  process  and  re- 
turned hoirie  again  in  less  than  thre  days."  Where  the  Fords 
of  Marion  originally  came  from,  is  unknown.  The  James 
Ford  mentioned  above  by  Dr.  Ramsay,  must  have  been  here 
two*hundred  years  ago ;  and  without  better  or  other  informa- 
12 


168  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

tion,  the  writer  will  assume  that  either  he  or  some  other  con- 
temporary Ford  were  the  progenitor  or  progenitors  of  the  ex- 
tensive family  by  that  name.  The  first  one  known  to  the 
writer,  in  about  1830,  was  Preserved  Ford,  universally  called 
Zarv  Ford ;  he  was  then  seventy-five  or  eighty  years  of  age, 
may  be  older ;  he  lived  on  the  west  side  of  Caddy's  Mills,  then 
called  Ford's  Mills.  It  was  at  an  association  held  at  the  old 
Saw  Mill  Church,  on  the  east  side  of  the  mills— the  church  was 
old  and  dilapidated.  It  was  there  that  I  first  saw  him,  and 
never  saw  him  afterwards.  He  was  a  well-to-do  man,  and 
prominent  in  his  day;  he  had  three  sons,  Jessee,  William  and 
"Charles.  Major  Jessee  Ford,  the  eldest  son,  represented  the 
district  in  the  Legislature  in  the  twenties — I  do  not  know  the 
precise  date.*  He  was  Major  in  the  militia ;  his  first  wife  was 
a  Miss  Townsend,  of  Robeson  County,  N.  C. ;  by  her  he  had 
two  sons,  the  late  Elias  B.  Ford  and  Allen  Ford ;  his  second 
wife  was  a  MisiS  Watson,  a  daughter  of  Scarcebook  Watson, 
above  Nichols,  on  the  road  from  Nichols  to  Lumberton,  N.  C. ; 
by  the  second  wife  he  had  several  sons  and  daughters ;  the  sons, 
as  their  names  are  remembered,  were  Watson,  Jessee,  Thomas, 
David  and  Charles  Ford.  The  war  and  emigration  have  re- 
moved them  all,  except  Jessee,  who  is  now  an  old  and  respect- 
able citizen  in  the  community  of  his  birth,  and  has  raised  a 
family,  unknown  to  the  writer.  The  daughters  of  Major  Jesse 
Ford,  as  remembered,  were  Elizabeth,  Mary,  Caroline  and 
Virginia.  Elizabeth  married  William  H.  Hays;  by  him  she 
had  several  children;  Mary  married  John  I.  Gaddy,  and  died  in 
a  year  or  two  childless;  Caroline  married  Dr.  George  E. 
Shooter,  and  raised  a  large  family,  unknown ;  I  do  not  remem- 
ber what  became  of  Virginia.  Major  Jesse  Ford  may  have 
had  other  daughters.  Elias  B.  Ford,  a  most  excellent  and 
kind  hearted  man,  born  in  1809,  married,  9th  February,  1830, 
Miss  Jane  Herring,  of  Robeson,  N.  C,  a  woman  of  good  prop- 
erty and  one  of  the  best  of  women ;  the  fruits  of  this  marriage 
were  three  sons.  "Sandy"  Ford,  for  a  long  time  in  Marion, 
and  very  prominent  as  a  business  man,  now  resides  in  Ander- 

i^Jessee  Ford  was  elected  a  Representative  in  1820.     See  list  of  Repre- 
sentatives in  latter  part  hereof. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  169 

son  County.*  Dr.  C.  T.  Ford,  of  Mullins,  and  Rev.  Rufus 
Ford,  a  prominent  minister  of  the  Baptist  Church,  and  now 
resides  in  Marlborough,  and  several  diaughters.  Neill  C. 
McDuffie,  Sheriff,  married  two  of  them ;  D.  D.  McDuffie  mar- 
ried one ;  Joseph  N.  Page  married  one,  and  George  Fore  mar- 
ried one ;  one  unmarried  and  one  dead,  names  not  remembered. 
Elias  B.  Ford  lost  his  wife,  the  mother  of  these  children,  and 
he  married,  a  second  time,  the  Widbw  Helen  Pitman,  who  had 
four  Pitman  .children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters;  the  sons 
were  killed  or  died  in  the  war,  and  one  of  the  daughters  died 
during  the  war,  all  unmarried ;  the  other  daughter,  the  young- 
est, Amanda,  married  the  late  Joseph  R.  Oliver,  and  had  by 
inheritance  a  good  property.  Elias  B.  Ford  had  no  child  or 
children  by  his  second  marriage;  he  died  some  years  ago, 
greatly  missed  by  the  poor  of  his  neighborhood.  Allen  Ford, 
the  second  son  of  Major  Jessee  Ford  by  his  Townsend  wife, 
married  a  Miss  Falk,  of  Robeson ;  she  died  childless  in  a  few 
years,  and  he  removed  to  the  West  many  yeaVs  ago.  Major 
William  Ford,  the  second  son  of  old  man  "Zarv"  Ford,  married 
a  Miss  Thompson;  he  was  a  well-to-do  man;  had  not  many 
children;  the  writer  does  not  remember  but  one,  a  daughter, 
Sallie,  who  had  a  personal  distinction,  seldom,  if  ever,  met 
with — she  had  a  black  eye  and  a  blue  one;  a  very  pretty  girl; 
she  married  John  R.  Waitson,  who  occupied  and  owned  his 
father's  homestead,  on  the  road  from  Nichols  to  Lumberton, 
N.  C. ;  he  died,  leaving  six  or  seven  children  together  with  his 
widow;  the  children  all  small;  the  widow  managed  well  and 
raised  a  very  nice  family,  sons  and  daughters — ^mostly  daugh- 
ters; the  mother  died  some  years  ago,  much  respected  while 
living.  Major  William  Ford  may  have  had  a  son,  not  now 
recollected;  he  had  another  daughter,  as  now  remembered, 
who  became  and  is  now,  the  wife  of  Captain  R.  H.  Rogers. 
Old  man  "Zarv"  Ford's  third  and  youngest  son,  Charles,  died 
after  arriving  at  manhood,  unmarried.  There  was  another  old 
Ford,  by  name  of  George,  who  lived  just  below  Tabernacle 
Church,  on  the  road  leading  from  Bear  Swamp  to  Allen's 
Bridge,  on  Little  Pee  Dee ;  he  was  related  to  those  other  Fords, 
at  least  collaterally ;  'he  was  a  very  energetic  man  and  accumu- 

*Moved  to  Texas. 


170  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

lated  some  property.;  I  never  knew  much  of  him;  he  was  not 
a  very  old  man  when  he  died.  I  know  that  he  left  two  sons, 
William  and  Nelson  Ford,  and  know  that  he  had  three 
daughters,  if  no  more,  to  wit;  second  wife  of  William  Good- 
year, Sr. — her  name  was  Elizabeth ;  also  the  wife  of  the  late 
Benjamin  Shooter — her  name  was  Mary ;  she  was  the  mother 
of  the  Shooter  family,  a  numerous  family,  and  among  them 
the  gallant  Colonel  W.  P.  Shooter,  who  was  killed  in  the  severe 
battle  of  Spottsylvania  Court  House,  in  May,  1864.  A  family 
noted  for  its  gallantry  in  the  war.  Colonel  Wm.  P.  Shooter 
and  two  of  his  brothers  (names  not  remembered)  fell  on  the 
same  day  and  in  the  same  fight.  Another  daughter  was  the 
wife  of  Anthony  Cribb,  and  became  the  mother  of  our  W.  T. 
Cribb  and  of  Dempsy  Cribb,  Jr. ;  the  latter  is  dead.  W.  T. 
Cribb  is  a  respectable  and  good  citizen,  a  brave  soldier  in  the 
struggle  for  the  "Lost  Cause,"  and  so  was  his  brother,  George 
T.  Cribb.  He  lost  a  leg  in  the  contest,  and  yet  lives.  Of  the 
sons  of  George  Ford,  William  (familiarly  called  "Little  Bill 
Ford"),  as  now  remembered,  married,  first,  a  Miss  Lupo;  he 
raised  some  family  by  her,  the  names  and  number  not- now 
known  to  the  writer.  "Little  Bill  Ford"  has  been  dead  some 
years,  and  perhaps  his  Butler  wife.  Nelson  Ford  lived  to  an 
advanced  age,  eighty  or  more,  has  not  been  dead  many  years; 
he  was  a  most  excellent  man  and  worthy  citizen ;  he  married  a 
Miss  Lupo,  and  raised  a  family,  how  many  is  not  known;  one 
of  his  sons,  named  Hardy,  lives  near  Nichols,  and  is  a  most 
excellent  man  and  one  of  our  best  citizens.  The  Ford  family, 
as  a  whole,  were  good  people,  and  extend  down  two  or  three 
generations  further  than  herein  traced ;  for  the  want  of  infor- 
mation and  personal  acquaintance,  the  writer  can  go  no 
further.  They  did  their  duty  fully  in  the  war,  and  demon- 
strated to  their  country  a  patriotism  and  courage  of  which  the 
present  and  coming  generations  may  be  proud.  Their  connec- 
tions are  extensive. 

Hays. — Another  family  of  note  in  Hillsboro  Township  is  the 
Hays  family.  The  common  ancestor  of  that  family  was  Ben- 
jamin Hays;  I  do  not  know  who  his  wife  was;  he  raised 
a  considerable  family  of  sons  and  daughters;  the  sons,  as  re- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  171 

membered,  were  James,  Jessee,  William  H.,  Joseph  B.  and 
Ivevi  H.  Hays ;  the  daughters,  as  remembered,  were  Mrs.  Elias 
Allen,  the  mother  of  the  late  Rev.  Joel  Allen,  and  Thompson 
Allen,  of  Marlborough  County;  Mrs.  Samuel  Smith,  of  Buck 
Swamp,  who  died  in  1857,  and  Mrs.  John  Martin,  of  Buck 
Swamp  and  Maiden  Down;  there  may  have  been  other 
daughters.  These  sons  and  daughters  are  all  dead,  some  of 
them  for  many  years,  but  were  the  stock  of  a  numerous 
progeny — ^down  to  a  second  and  third  and  even  to  a  fourth 
generation ;  many  of  them  unknown  to  the  writer,  and,  there- 
fore, can  say  but  little  about  them.  James  Hays  married  a 
daughter  of  Matthew  Jones,  of  Robeson;  he  raised  a  large 
family  of  sons  and  daughters ;  the  names  of  these  sons,  as  re- 
membered, were  Reaves,  Henry  and  James  R. ;  they  were 
older  than  the  writer,  and  all  are  dead.  One  of  them  was  the 
father  of  our  respected  fellow-citizen,  above  Buck  Swamp 
Bridge,  W.  D.  B.  Hays — the  upper  bridge  is  meant.  There 
are  several  bridges  across  Buck  Swamp  now.  The  bridge  near 
Page's  was,  for  a  long  time,  the  only  bridge  on  the  swamp,  and 
acquired  the  name  of  Buck  Swamp  Bridge ;  and  when  we  say 
Buck  Swamp  Bridge,  that  bridge  is  meant.  I  do  not  know 
to  whom  these  sons  of  James  Hays  were  married.  Jessee 
Hays  married  a  Miss  Elvington,  and,  raised  a  large  and  respect- 
able family.  William  H.  Hays  married,  first,  a  Miss  Thomp- 
son, and  from  that  marriage  sprang  children,  one  named  Lewis, 
as  now  remembered;  his  wife  died,  and  he  then  married  Miss 
Elizabeth  Ford,  daughter  of  Major  Jessee  Ford ;  this  wife  had 
children  unknown  to  the  writer;  the  Ford  wife  died,  and  he 
married,  a  third  time,  a  Miss  Elvington,  by  whom  he  had 
children,  how  many  is  unknown.  Joseph  B.  Hays,  the  father 
of  our  much  respected  and  substantial  fellow-citizen,  T.  B. 
Hays,  married  a  Miss  Gaddy,  daughter  of  old  Ithamer  Gaddy, 
near  Gaddy's  Mills ;  the  fruits  of  this  marriage  were  three  sons, 
as  now  remebered,  E.  Wilson  Hays,  Aleck  and  T.  B.  Hays; 
E.  Wilson  Hays  is  now  dead ;  he  married,  first.  Miss  Elizabeth 
Ann  Rogers,  a  sister  of  our  fellow-citizen.  Lot  B.  Rogers ;  he 
had  several  children  by  this  marriage ;  one  of  them  is  Gamewell 
Hays,  who  has  removed  to  the  West,  and  another  is  O.  C. 
Hays,  who  lives  near  Little  Rock;  he  married  a  daughter  of 


172  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Owen  Jackson,  in  the  Judson  section  of  the  county,  and  he  has 
a  large  family ;  Wilson  Hays  married,  a  second  time,  a  daughter 
of  the  late  Matthew  Martin;  she  bore  some  children^  to  him, 
how  many  is  unknown.  E.  Wilson  Hays  was  a  very  respectable 
man  and  excellent  citizen ;  he  died  a  few  years  ago  of  a  cancer 
on  his  face.  T.  B.  Hays  married  Sarah  Nance,  daughter  of 
Everet  Nance,  of  Robeson  County,  N.  C,  and  by  her  had  four 
children,  Orilla,  now  the  wife  of  Olin  Edwards,  Ina  Rembert 
and  Tristam.  Rembert  recently  graduated  at  Wofford  Col- 
lege, and  is  now  engaged  in  farming;  the  first  wife  dying,  T. 
B.  Hays  married,  a  second  time,  his  cousin.  Miss  Walker  Hays, 
daughter  of  Wm.  B.  Hays,  by  whom  he  has  one  child.  Aleck 
Hays  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  the  late  Colonel  John 
Roberts,  and  lives  at  the  forks  of  the  road  just  below  the  resi- 
dence of  Captain  Wm.  J.  Page;  he  raised  a  large  family,  all 
of  whom  are  grown ;  one  of  his  sons  (name  not  remembered), 
married  a  daughter  of  Hiram  Lee;  another,  Murray,  married 
a  daughter  of  Mrs.  Zilpha  Floyd ;  Mattie  married  a  D.  V.  Cole- 
man, of  Columbus  County,  N.  C,  and  removed  to  Georgia 
several  years  ago;  Annie  and  Fanny  are  unmarried.  Joseph 
B.  Hays  had  some  daughters;  I  do  not  know  how  many;  one 
married  the  late  T.  B.  Rogers,  in  the  Fork,  and  is  still  living; 
they  raised  a  considerable  family;  of  the  sons,  J.  Marion 
Rogers  is  a  preacher  of  the  South  Carolina  Conference,  Meth- 
odist Church,  South ;  he  graduated  with  distinction  at  Wofford 
College  some  years  past;  another  son,  Herbert,  graduated  in 
the  Citadel  Academy  last  year,  1899.  Another  daughter  of  J. 
B.  Hays  married  a  Mr.  Booth ;  think  she  is  a  widow.  Another 
daughter  of  Joseph  B.  Hays  became  the  wife  of  Solomon  Ed- 
wardls,  in  the  Fork ;  she  has  an  only  daughter,  who  is  now  the 
wife  of  that  excellent  citizen,  Kirkland  Fort,  with  whom  Mrs. 
Edwards  lives,  her  husband  having  died  many  years  ago. 
Another  daughter,  rather  late  in  life,  married  Archie  Thomp- 
son, and  resides  in  Robeson  County,  N.  C.  Joseph  B.  Hays  was 
•a  useful  man  in  his  day  in  his  community;  he  was  a  Magistrate 
for  many  years.  Levi  H.  Hays,  the  youngest  son  of  old  Ben- 
jamin, married  a  daughter  of  Captain  William  Page,  near 
Buck  Swamp  Bridge;  he  raised  a  family,  how  many  is  not 
known ;  our  respected  and  highly  esteemed  fellow-citizen,  WiU 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  173 

liam  B.  Hays,  is  a  son  of  Levi  H.  Levi  H.  Hays  was  a  most 
excellent  man  and  useful  citizen  in  his  neigihborhood  in  his 
day;  he  served  as  a.  Magistrate  for  several  years,  and  gave 
general  satisfaction  in  that  responsible  and  indispensable  posi- 
tion ;  he  preceded  some  of  his  older  brothers  to  the  grave. 

The  Hays  family,  of  Hillsboro,  have  held  their  own  about  as 
well  as  any  family  in  the  county.  They  are  and  ever  have  been 
a  peaceable,  orderly  and  law-abiding  people;  honest,  industri- 
ous and  frugal,  attend  strictly  to  their  own  business,  and  do  not 
meddle  with  the  business  of  others ;  their  name  seldom  api>ears 
on  the  journals  of  the  Courts.  An  incident  may  here  be  related 
in  reference  to  the  old  man,  Benjamin,  told  to  the  writer  sixty- 
five  years  ago.  It  runs  thus :  At  a  night  meeting  held  in  the 
neighborhood,  some  brother  was  called  upon  to  pray  (the  name 
forgotten),  and  in  his  prayer,  among  his  many  petitions,  one 
was  that  the  good  Lord  would  send  down  a  thunderbolt  from 
heaven  and  strike  old  Ben  Hays'  heart  and  make  him  sell  his 
"backer"  (tobacco)  cheaper.  From  this  incident  several  in- 
ferences may  be  drawn.  The  reader  is  left  to  draw  his  own 
conclusions.  There  is  another  family  of  Hays  in  Hillsboro, 
perihaps  related  collaterally;  if  so,  they  have  greatly  degener- 
ated from  their  common  ancestry — at  any  rate,  so  little  is 
known  of  them  that  the  writer  cannot  trace  them. 

There  is  another  family  of  Hays  in  Kirby  Township,  which 
will  be  noticed  herein  further  on. 

Elvington. — The  Blvington  family  are  to  be  found  in  Hills- 
boro. There  were  two  old  Elvingtons,  brothers,  of  some  note 
in  Hillsboro — John  and  Jessee.  The  descendants  of  both,  with 
their  connections,  are  numerous;  some  of  them  are  in  the 
West.  Old  John  Elvington  lived  on  the  road  from  Gaddy's 
Mills  to  Nichols ;  he  raised  a  large  family,  sons  and  diaughters ; 
of  the  sons,  Zadoc  Elvington  still  survives,  and  lives  near  the 
old  homestead;  has  no  children;  had  two  sons,  whom  he  lost 
in  the  war.  In  some  respects  he  is  a  prodigy,  which  will  not 
be  further  alluded  to.  He  has  made  and  has  money,  which  it 
is  said  he  does  not  much  enjoy,  except  the  satisfaction  of 
knowing  that  he  has  it.  He  married  one  of  the  ten  daughters 
of  the  late  John  Goodyear  (all  of  whom,  it  is  said,  were  good 


174  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

women,  and  made  industrious  and  frugal  housewives).  Old 
man  John  Elvington  was  a  good  citizen.  His  other  sons  were 
William,  John  (commonly  called  Jack),  and  Owen.  They  are 
all  dead.  Ow'en  was  the  father  of  our  excellent  and  thrifty 
good  citizen,  George  W.  Elvington ;  there  may  have  been  an- 
other son  or  two,  not  now  remembered.  He  had  several 
daughters ;  one  the  wiie  of  the  late  Henry  Huggins ;  one  the 
wife  of  the  late  James  Scott  (she  still  survives) ;  one  the  wife 
of  the  late  Eli  Scott,  and  perhaps  others.  The  old  gentleman 
was  remarkable  m  one  respect;  he  told  the  writef,  when  he 
was  over  seventy  years  of  age,  that  he  never  saw  a  seed-tick  or 
a  red-bug  in  his  life ;  spectacles  did  him  no  good,  yet  his  eye- 
sight had  not  failed  him  and  he  could  see  as  well  in  his  old  age 
as  he  ever  could;  his  eyes  were  very  peculiar — did  not  look 
like  the  ordinary  eye — they  sparkled  or  twinkled.  Old  man 
Jessee  Elvington  lived  and  died  on  Bear  Swamp;  he  was  an 
old  man  seventy  years  ago ;  a  good  manager  and  snug  farmer ; 
he  raised  a  considerable  family,  sons  and  daughters.  Three 
sons,  Giles,  Hug'hey  and  John  E.  Giles  Elvington  married 
Miss  Mary  Ann  Page,  daughter  of  Joseph  Page,  just  in  North 
Carolina;  Giles  Elvington  lived  till  after  the  war,  and  died 
an  old  man,  after  having  married  a  second  time.  By  his  first 
wife  he  raised  several  children,  sons  and  daughters,  none  of 
whom  are  now  known  to  the  writer.  Giles  Elvington  owned 
the  plantation  where  Dr.  William  A.  Oliver  lately  died ;  he,  like 
his  father,  was  a  good  manager — at  least,  during  his  first  wife's 
lifetime,  and  he  and  family  were  hig'hly  respected.  Hughey 
Elvington  married  one  of  the  ten  girls  of  John  Goodyear,  here- 
inbefore mentioned,  and  she  is  now  the  wife  of  Wilson  Lewis, 
of  Horry,  and  weighs  260  pounds,  as  she  recently  told  the 
writer.  Hughey  Elvington  was  a  good  citizen.  John  E.  El- 
vington married  a  Miss  Deer  (Elizabeth  Ann),  daughter  of 
Joseph  Deer ;  her  mother  was  a  Page,  and  he  inherited  the  old 
homestead  of  his  father ;  he  has  been  dead  several  years ;  raised 
a  family  quite  respectable.  A  daughter  of  his  is  now  the 
wife  of  William  J.  Williamson,  who  it  is  supposed  has  grown 
children.  The  several  daughters  of  old  Jesse  Elvington  mar- 
ried; one  married  the  late  Elgate  Horn,  who  raised  a  large 
family,  entirely  unknown;  another  daughter  married  William 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  175 

B.  Grantham,  of  North  Carolina ;  they  are  both  dead  and  died 
childless.  I  do  not  know  Whom  the  other  daughter  of  old 
man  Jessee  married.  The  Elvingtons  and  their  connections  are 
numerous,  and  all  sprang  from  the  two  old  men,  John  and 
Jesse  Elvington. 

Scott. — ^The  Scott  family,  in  Hillsboro,  are  not  very  exten- 
sive. Old  man  Pharaoh  Scott  lived  near  Tabernacle  Church, 
on  the  road  from  Gaddy's  to  Nichols;  he  was  a  harmless, 
honest  and  inoffensive  man;  he  raised  three  sons,  Thomas, 
James  and  Ely.  Thomas  married  and  moved  West,  many  years 
ago;  James  married  Miss  Sallie  Elvington,  daughter  of  old 
John  Elvington ;  James  Scott  is  dead,  but  his  wife,  Sallie,  still 
survives ;  he  raised  a  large  family,  sons  and  daughters,  all  un- 
known except  the  oldest  son,  Giles  Scott,  who  is  now  a  worthy 
citizen  of  that  community.  Ely  Scott  also  married  Miss 
Appie  Elvington,  daughter  of  old  man  John  Elvington ;  by  her 
he  had  one  daughter ;  his  wife  died,  and  he  married  another  one 
of  the  ten  daughters  of  John  Goodyear — an  excellent  woman 
she  was ;  I  think  she  is  dead ;  she  left  two  daughters ;  Ely  Scott 
is  also  dead.  Old  Pharaoh  Scott  had  one  daughter,  named 
Patience;  she  married  Jerry  Campbell,  near  Mullins;  Jerry 
and  wife  are  both  dead;  they  left  two  sons,  K.  M.  Campbell 
and  Rev.  Ely  Campbell,  citizens  of  Reaves  Township,  and 
much  respected.  Pharaoh  Scott  had  a  brother  up  about  the 
Hig'h  Hill,  whose  name  is  forgotten;  he  had  sons,  William 
and  Ervin,  and  perhaps  others,  and  there  are  members  of  thait 
family  now  in  that  neighborhood,  two  of  whom,  John  L.  and 
William,  are  known.  Erviii  Scott  married  a  daughter  of  old 
Jessee  Elvington;  he  was  an  energetic,  persevering  man;  he 
died  in  middle  life,  and  left  a  family.  I  know  nothing  of 
them — nor  is  anything  known  of  William  Scott's  family. 

Owens. — The  writer  knows  but  little  of  the  Owens  family, 
in  Hillsboro.  Reddin  Owens,  who  died  two  years  ago,  at  the 
advanced  age  of  ninety-four,  was  a  son  of  old  Shadrack  Owens, 
of  the  Fork  community;  he  had  another  son,  named  Lot 
Owens;  he  was  in  Hillsboro  for  the  last  sixty  years  or  more, 
and  raised  a  considerable  family ;  he  was  an  honest,  well  mean- 


176  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

ing  man ;  of  his  family  nothing  is  known,  except  a  grand-son, 
James  Owens,  who  resides  near  where  his  grand-father  died. 

Gaddy. — Another  family  in  Hillsboro,  is  the  Gaddy  family. 
Old  man  Ithamer  Gaddy  was  the  first  known ;  his  wife,  Char- 
ity, was  a  Miss  Pitman,  sister  of  old  man  Hardy  Pitman,  who 
seventy-five  years  ago  lived  near  by,  and  was  a  prominent  citi- 
zen ;  the  name  Pitman  is  not  found  in  the  county.  Old  man 
Ithamer  Gaddy  was  a  most  excellent  man,  quiet  and  inoffen- 
sive, a  Christian  gentleman ;  he  raised  a  large  family,  five  sons 
and  two  daughters;  the  sons  were  William,  James,  Hardy, 
Allen  and  Silas;  the  daughters  were  Elizabeth  and  Mary 
(Polly,  as  she  was  called).  William  Gaddy  married  Miss  Sal- 
lie  Jones,  on  Catfish,  daughter  of  old  man  John  Jones ;  raised 
a  large  family  of  sons  and  daughters,  to  wit:  John  I.,  L/evi, 
Israel,  Joseph,  Samuel  T.  and  Charles  B. ;  the  daughters  were 
Elizabeth,  Ann,  Mary  and  Sarah.  John  I.  Gaddy  married 
Miss  Mary  Ford;  he  and  his  wife  both  died  in  a  few  years, 
perhaps  childless.  Levi  Gaddy  was  a  very  steady,  level-headed 
young  man,  and  bid  fair  to  succeed  well  in  life;  he  went  into 
the  war,  and  was  killed  or  died  of  disease  or  wounds,  never 
came  back.  Israel  Gaddy  married  in  North  Carolina  and  set- 
tled there ;  know  nothing  of  his  family,  if  he  had  any ;  Joseph 
died  unmarried;  Samuel  T.  Gaddy,  one  of  our  good  citizens, 
married  a  daughter  of  the  late  Harman  Floyd,  of  Nichols,  S. 
C,  the  fruits  of  the  marriage  are  one  son.  Walker,  and  two 
daughters — one  the  wife  of  W.  B.  Atkinson,  the  other  the  wife 
of  Franklin  Rogers ;  the  son,  Walker,  married  a  lady  in  North 
Carolina.  Charles  B.  Gaddy,  the  youngest  son  of  William 
Gaddy,  married  one  of  Colonel  John  Roberts'  daughters ;  three 
sons  and  one  daughter  are  the  results  of  the  marriage. 
Charles  B.  Gaddy  died  suddenly,  a  few  weeks  ago,  on  the  old 
homestead  of  his  father.  Of  the  daughters  of  William  Gaddy, 
Elizabeth  Ann,  the  eldest,  married  Elias  Grantham,  wiho  was 
killed  near  Campbell's  Bridge,  in  the  discharge  of  his  duty 
during  the  war,  it  was  said,  by  Nicholas  Gaddy,  a  first  cousin 
of  his  wife.  They  raised  a  family  of  several  children,  sons 
and  daughters,  who  are  now  living  on,  and  near,  the  place  of 
their  birth;  the  mother  died  a  year  or  two  ago.     William 


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Gaddy's  second  daughter,  Mary,  married  a  Mr.  Inman,  of 
North  Carolina;  I  know  nothing  further  of  her.  Sarah,  the 
youngest  daughter,  married  D.  C.  McKinly,  who  is  dead ;  she 
has  two  sons,  William  and  John  McKinly,  living,  and  one 
daughter  married,  anoither  dead.  William  Gaddy  and  wife 
died  in  a  few  days  of  each  other,  of  typhoid  fever,  in  August, 
1850 ;  William  Gaddy  was  an  industrious,  energetic  and  trust- 
worthy citizen.  James  Gaddy  married  Elizabeth  Jones,  an- 
other daughter  of  old  man  John  Jones;  he  settled  just  across 
the  State  line,  in  Robeson  County;  raised  a  large  family;  I 
know  nothing  further  of  them.  Hardy  Gaddy  married  Miss 
Winnie  Humphrey,  of  Robeson,  a  very  smart,  business  woman ; 
they  are  both  dead;  they  raised  a  family,  four  sons  and  three 
daughters;  the  sons  were  Nicholas  W.,  J.  Maston,  Richard 
M.  and  Duncan ;  the  daughters  were  Anna  Jane,  Charity  and 
Lizzie.  Richard  M.  went  to  Virginia  some  years  ago,  and 
is  now  a  citizen  of  that  State;  Nicholas  M.  removed  several 
years  ago  to  North  Carolina,  and  is  now  a  resident  citizen  of 
that  State;  J.  Maston  died  a  few  years  ago,  at  Marion  Court 
House,  and  left  one  son,  William,  and  two  daughters — one 
the  wife  of  Joseph  A.  Baker,  the  other  the  wife  of  Thomas. 
Monroe,  of  Marion ;  I  do  not  know  what  has  become  of  the  son, 
William.  J.  Maston  Gaddy  married  twice;  first,  a  Miss 
Fladger,  the  mother  of  his  children;  the  second  wife  was  a 
Widow  Gregg,  daughter  of  General  Elly  Godbold ;  she  is  also 
dead.  Duncan  Gaddy,  youngest  son  of  Hardy  Gaddy,  married 
a  Miss  Miller,  and  lives  near  Gaddy's  Mills ;  I  know  nothing  of 
his  family.  Of  the  daughters  of  Hardy  Gaddy,  Anna  Jane 
married  a  Mr.  Inman,  of  Robeson;  Lizzie  married  A.  B.  Car- 
michael,  son  of  old  Sheriff  Carmichael,  and  lives  on  the  home- 
stead of  her  grand-father,  Ithamer  Gaddy,  and  has  a  fjunily ;  I 
know  nothing  of  the  family.  Charity  married  our  good  fel- 
low-citizen, R.  L.  Lane,  who  resides  near  Dillon,  S.  C. ;  he  has 
several  sons  and  one  daughter.  Hardy  Gaddy  was  an  excel- 
lent and  very  safe  man,  prudent  and  successful  in  his  vocation. 
Allen  Gaddy  married  a  Miss  Stackhouse,  an  aunt  of  Colonel 
E.  T.  Stackhouse,  and  raised  a  considerable  family;  he  and 
wife  have  both  been  dead  for  years ;  I  know  not  much  of  the 
family;  had  a  son,  Herod  Gaddy;  I  do  not  know  what  has 


178  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

become  of  him — think  he  is  in  Marlborough ;  another  son,  John 
W.,  who  is  a  good  citizen  and  lives  now  at  Bingham ;  another 
son,  named  Tristran,  I  don't  know  what  has  become  of  him. 
The  widow  of  the  late  David  Ellen  was  a  daughter  of  Allen 
Gaddy;  she  married  twice;  first,  a  Manship,  of  Marlborough, 
and  after  his  death  she  married  the  late  David  Ellen,  an  old 
man  when  she  married  him ;  he  died  in  1876 ;  she  lives  with  her 
son,  John  H.  Ellen,  a  very  energetic  and  prosperous  farmer,  in 
the  Dothan  neighborhood;  she  had  two  daughters  by  the 
Manship  marriage — one  is  the  wife  of  Peter  P.  McCormac, 
the  other  the  wife  of  Woodberry  Norton.  Silas  Gaddy,  the 
youngest  son  of  old  Ithamer  Gaddy,  marrjed  a  Miss  Caldwell, 
in  North  Carolina,  and  first  settled  near  his  father;  after  the 
birth  of  several  children,  he  emigrated  Westward.  Of  the 
daughters  of  Ithamer  Gaddy,  the  oldest  married  Joseph  B. 
Hays,  as  hereinbefore  stated;  the  second  daughter,  Mary  (or 
Polly),  married  Lysias  Stackhouse,  son  of  Herod  Stackhouse; 
they  raised  one  son,  John  W.  Stackhouse,  and  some  daughters, 
perhaps  only  two.  The  son,  J.  W.  Stackhouse,  has  been  dead 
about  thirty  years ;  left  a  family,  all  grown ;  one  of  the  daugh- 
ters married  Thomas  Ammons,  a  descendant  of  Joshua 
Ammons,  of  Revolutionary  fame ;  I  do  not  remember  who  the 
other  daughter  married ;  the  third  and  last  daughter  married 
Owen  Grantham,  of  Robeson  County,  N.  C. ;  some  of  her 
descendants  are  now  living  in  Marion ;  the  wife  of  W.  C.  Fox- 
worth  is  a  grand-daughter  of  Owen  Grantham  and  wife, 
Elizabeth  Grantham,  nee  Gaddy.  The  writer  has  seen  six  or 
seven  generations  of  that  Grantham  family. 

Lupos  AND  Arnetts.— There  is,  and  was,  a  family  of  Lupos 
and  Arnetts  in  Hillsboro,  but  do  not  know  enough  of  them 
to  trace  their  genealogy.  Some  of  them  went  to  school  to  the 
writer,  sixty-six  years  ago — 1834  and  1835.  They  were  an 
honest  and  hard-working  people,  primitive  in  their  modes  of 
living  and  habits,  as  most  people  were  in  that  day  and  time. 
What  is  said  about  the  Lupos  and  Arnetts  may  be  said  about 
the  Horn  family. 

Rogers.— The  Rogers  family,  in  Hillsboro,  is  a  very  exten- 


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sive  family,  taken  in  connection  with  the  Rogers  in  the  Fork 
and  Mullins  region,  whence  they  all  sprang;  there  is,  perhaps, 
not  a  more  extensive  family  in  the  county.  Dew  Rogers,  a 
way  back  in  the  twenties,  went  from  the  Fork  over  into  what 
is  now  called  Hillsboro,  having  married  over  there,  a  Miss 
Mary  Barfield;  he  bought  land  and  went  to  work;  he  was  a 
very  energetic,  persevering  and  frugal  man;  made  money, 
bought  other  lands,  negroes,  &c.,  and  raised  children;  the 
children  reached  the  number  of  sixteen  or  nineteen,  mostly 
sons ;  the  names  of  some  of  them,  as  remembered,  was  Zany, 
Jesse,  Henry,  Ebenezer,  Dew,  Barfield  and  others,  and  lastly, 
our  esteemed  and  worthy  fellow-citizen,  Captain  Robert  H. 
Rogers — the  youngest  son ;  some  of  them  are  yet  living,  and  it 
may  be  supposed  they  are  keeping  up  the  name  and  perpetu- 
ating it  to  the  second,  third  and  fourth  generations.  Captain 
Henry  Rogers  (familiarly  called  "Captain  Tarleton"),  a 
brother  of  old  Dew,  married  a  Miss  Thompson,  and  came  over 
from  the  Fork  about  the  same  time  Dew  Rogers  came,  and 
settled  on  the  Lewis  Thompson  homestead,  his  wife's  father, 
and  lived  and  died  there  some  years  ago ;  he  also  raised  a  large 
family  of  sons  and  daughters,  and  about  them  the  writer 
knows  but  little.  R.  R.  Hays,  of  Dillon,  is  a  grand-son  of 
"Captain  Tarleton."  These  two  old  Rogers  are  the  trunks  of 
the  family,  so  far  as  Hillsboro  is  concerned.  They  had  two 
brothers  left  in  the  Fork,  Ebenezer  and  Alfred ;  the  latter  was 
a  Baptist  preacher ;  I  do  not  think  he  ever  married.  Ebenezer 
Rogers  died  in  the  Fork  a  few  years  ago,  leaving  a  numerous 
progeny.  The  Rogers  family  in  Hillsboro,  in  the  Fork  and  in 
the  Mullins  region  are  all  related  to  each  other  in  greater  or 
less  degree — had  a  common  ancestor,  whose  name  is  unto  the 
writer  unknown.  The  numerous  branches,  each  becoming,  as 
it  were  a  new  trunk,  are  so  varied  that  it  is  impossible,  with 
the  limited  information  at  hand,  to  take  each  branch  up  seria- 
tim and  trace  them,  with  their  numerous  descendants,  down 
to  the  present  time ;  want  of  time  and  space,  together  with  the 
want  of  information,  forbid  the  undertaking.  As  a  family 
they  are  peaceable,  harmless,  inoiifensive  and  law-abiding;  in 
so  large  a  family,  of  course,  there  are,  and  must  be,  some 
exception,  but  they  do  not  affect  the  general  rule.    As  a  family, 


180  A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY. 

they  are  honest  in  their  sentiments  and  convictions;  in  their 
modes  of  life  they  are  somewhat  primitive  and  unostentatious ; 
patriotic  to  the  core,  as  evidenced  by  the  numbers  they  and 
their  connections  furnished  to  the  Southern  army  in  the  war. 
Their  names  do  not  often  appear  upon  the  dockets  of  the 
Courts,  civil  or  criminal,  and  this  said,  is  saying  much  for  so 
large  a  family.  There  are  two  other  families  of  Rogers  in 
the  county — one  in  the  Dothan  neighborhood  and  one  in  Brit- 
ton's  Neck ;  neither  of  which,  or  both  together,  are  not  so  large 
and  numerous  as  the  family  just  mentioned.  Of  the  Britton's 
Neck  family,  the  writer  knows  but  little.  There  was,  years 
ago,  an  old  gentleman  in  the  Britton's  Neck  section  by  the 
name  of  Silas  Rogers ;  of  his  family  the  writer  knows  nothing ; 
also.  Major  James  S.  Rogers  (militia  Major),  lived  and  died 
a  few  years  ago  in  that  section — ^a  man  rather  prominent  in 
his  day,  a  good  citizen  and  quite  reputable,  and  was  for  years 
a  fair  representative  of  his  family  and  of  his  section;  he  left 
some  family,  but  of  them  the  writer  knows  nothing;  nor  does 
he  know  whether  be  was  lineally  or  collaterally  related  to  old 
man  Silas  Rogers,  or  not,  and,  therefore,  can  say  nothing 
more.  Of  the  Dothan  family,  one  Lot  Rogers,  from  Virginia, 
came  to  South  Carolina  about  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary 
War;  he  married  a  sister  of  old  Buck  Swamp  John  Bethea, 
named  Nannie,  whether  before  his  arrival  in  South  Carolina 
or  after,  is  not  now  known;  he  settled  and  lived  and  died  just 
above  Dothan  Church,  on  the  road  leading  from  Dothan  to 
Little  Rock,  formerly  called  Harlleesville ;  he  raised  a  large 
family — think,  mostly  sons ;  of  these,  only  Timothy  and  Wil- 
liam were  known  to  the  writer ;  others  of  them  went  West ;  one 
daughter  only  known  to  the  writer;  she  became  the  wife  of 
Nathan  Evans,  and  the  mother  of  the  late  General  William 
and  Nathan  Evans,  as  hereinbefore  mentioned.  Timothy 
Rogers,  a  most  excellent  man  and  worthy  citizen,  married 
Sarah  Bethea,  a  daughter  of  Sweat  Swamp  John  Bethea,  and 
settled  where  Dr.  J.  F.  Bethea  now  lives;  they  raised  a  large 
family  of  sons  and  daughters;  of  the  sons,  John  B.  Rogers 
emigrated  to  the  West  many  years  ago — not,  however,  until 
after  he  married  a  Miss  McRee,  and  had  some  family.  Tres- 
tram  B.  Rogers  married  a  Miss  Parnell ;  had  some  family  when 


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he  removed  West,  and  Ivot  B.  Rogers  married  a  Miss  Thwing, 
had  some  family  and  removed  to  Texas,  I  think.  These  three 
all  dead ;  I  know  nothing  of  their  posterity.  Two  other  sons, 
Jesse  and  Cade  B.  Rogers.  Jesse  married,  first.  Miss  Harriet 
Bethea,  daughter  of  the  late  Parker  Bethea,  by  whom  he  had 
three  children,  two  sons  and  one  daughter.  Two  sons,  David 
S.  Rogers,  of  "Free  State,"  who  married  a  Miss  Pipkin,  of 
Marlborough,  and  who  has  had  twenty  children  born  to  him 
by  the  same  wife,  seven  of  them  are,  however,  dead;  D.  S. 
Rogers  is  quite  a  good  citizen  and  prosperous  man.  Albert  S. 
Rogers,  the  other  son,  married-  a  daughter  of  Captain  Stephen 
F.  Berry,  has  a  considerable  family,  sons  and  daughters,  how 
many  is  unknown.  Albert  Rogers  is  also  doing  well.  Their 
sister,  Alice  Rogers,  married  Holden  Bethea;  they  live  in  the 
"Free  State,"  and  are  said  to  be  doing  well ;  have  a  family  of 
children.  Jesse  Rogers  married,  a  second  time,  the  Widow 
Anna  Rogers,  below  Marion;  his  wife  was  the  widow  of  his 
cousin,  Evan  Rogers,  who  will  be  mentioned  hereinafterwards ; 
he  (Jesse)  died,  leaving  no  issue  by  his  second  marriage. 
Cade  B.  Rogers,  the  youngest  son  of  old  man  Timothy  Rogers, 
still  survives,  and,  as  far  as  is  known,  the  only  survivor  of  that 
large  family;  he  married,  firs't,  a  Miss  George  (Nancy) ;  by 
her  he  had  two  daughters  and  one  son;  one  of  the  daughters 
married  a  Mr.  Butler,  on  north  side  of  Little  Pee  Dee ;  can  say 
nothing  of  their  family,  if  they  had  any;  the  other  daughter 
married  Herod  Gaddy,  and  lives  in  Marlbdlx)ugh.  The  son, 
Henry  G.  Rogers,  married  a  Miss  Pipkin,  settled  in  Marl- 
boroug'h,  and  is  dead ;  I  can  say  nothing  of  his  family.  Cade 
B.  Rogers'  first  wife  died,  and  he  married  a  second  time,  a 
Widow  Morris,  of  Florence  County ;  no  children  by  this  latter 
marriage.  Of  the  many  daughters  of  old  man  Timothy 
Rogers,  the  oldest  married  Daniel  Mclnnis;  both  dead  and 
childless;  the  second,  Mary,  married  the  late  Rev.  Samuel  J. 
Bethea,  and  is  dead;  the  next,  Miranza,  married  Thomas  C. 
Bethea;  the  next,  Harriet,  married  Arch'd  K.  McLellan;  the 
next,  Elizabeth,  married  Daniel  A.  Piatt ;  the  next  (name  for- 
gotten) married  Levi  Gasque;  and  the  next  (name  forgotten) 
married  William  E.  Brown,  of  Marlborough;  all  dead,  and 
left  families  except  Mrs.  Mclnnis.     Mrs.  T.  C.  Bethea,  Mrs. 


182  A  HISTORY  01?  MARION  COUNTY. 

Levi  Gasque  and  Mrs.  William  E.  Brown  went  West  many 
years  ago;  those  remaining  here  raised  large  families,  and 
they  and  their  descendants  now  form  a  good  portion  of  our 
population.  Old  Lot  Rogers'  youngest  son,  William,  and 
perhaps  his  youngest  child,  born  in  1799,  inherited  the  old 
homestead  of  his  father,  and  is  now  owned  by  his  youngest 
son,  our  good  fellow-citizen.  Lot  B.  Rogers;  he  married  the 
youngest  daughter  (Mary)  of  old  Henry  Berry,  as  hereinbe- 
fore stated;  he  and  wife  lived  and  died  on  his  father's 
homestead  at  an  old  age — not  many  years  ago;  the  fruits  of 
the  marriage  were  sons,  Charles,  Evan,  Frank,  Philip  B.  and 
Lot  B.,  and  daughters,  Elizabeth  Ann,  Mary  Ann,  Nancy  and 
Margaret.  Of  the  sons,  Charles  emigrated  West,  and,  doubt- 
less, is  dead ;  nothing,  however,  is  known  of  'him  by  the  writer ; 
Evan  grew  up  and  married  Miss  Anna  Legette,  daughter  of 
Colonel  Levi  Legette,  below  Marion,  and  where  Evan  Rogers 
settled.  He  was  killed  on  Sunday,  ist  of  October,  1855,  by  a 
man  by  the  name  of  Harrelson,  who  was  tried  the  next  week 
after  at  Court  in  Marion,  and  very  ably  defended  by  the  late 
Chancellor  Inglis  and  Julius  A.  Dargan,  two  very  eminent  and 
able  lawyers,  and  was  convicted  and  sentenced  to  be  hanged  on 
a  certain  day  fixed ;  before  the  day  appointed  for  his  execution 
he  escaped  from  jail;  a  large  reward,  two  hundred  dollars  or 
more,  was  offered  for  his  recapture  and  delivery  at  the  jail  in 
Marion  by  General  Elly  Godbold,  then  Sheriff;  great  efforts 
were  made  to  find  and  recapture  him,  but  all  in  vain;  about 
eig'hteen  months  thereafter  he  was  recaptured  in  Columbus 
County,  N.  C,  brought  back  and  lodged  in  the  jail  in  Marion, 
and  at  the  succeeding  Court,  in  March,  1857,  ^^  was  re- 
sentenced or  a  new  day  assigned  for  his  execution,  and  he 
was  accordingly  hanged  by  the  then  Sheriff,  N.  C.  McDuffie, 
on  the  5th  day  of  June,  1857.  The  third  son,  Frank,  grew  up 
to  manhood  and  went  to  Louisiana,  and  died  there  many  years 
ago.  Philip  B.,.the  fourth  son,  now  one  of  our  prosperous 
fellow-citizens,  married  a  Miss  Gaddy,  daughter  of  Allen 
Gaddy,  and  raised  a  considerable  family,  sons  and  daughters, 
who  are  among  us  now  as  citizens  and  wives  of  our  citizens, 
and  are  known.  Philip  B.  Rogers'  wife  died  some  two  or 
three  years  ago;  he  is  now  a  widower — I  do  not  know  how 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  183 

long  he  will  remain  such.*  Lot  B.  Rogers,  the  youngest  son 
of  William  Rogers,  is  now  a  leading  and  successful  farmer 
among  us;  he  married  Miss  Adaline  Townsend,  daughter  of 
the  late  Jacob  Townsend,  and  sister  of  D.  A.  Townsend,  of 
Union,  one  of  the  Circuit  Judges  of  the  State;  by  that  mar- 
riage a  large  family  resulted,  of  sons  and  daughters,  and 
among  them  are  four  sets  of  twins — all  the  latter  are  living 
except  one — some  grown  and  some  married,  and  some  of  them 
yet  minors.  Having  succeeded  well  in  life.  Lot  B.  Rogers  has 
so  far  educated  his  children  well,  and  they  are  promising;  he 
himself  has  represented  his  county  in  the  State  Legislature, 
besides  holding  other  public  positions  in  the  county  by  the 
suffrages  of  his  fellow-citizens,  and  in  every  one  of  them  has 
discharged  his  duty  faithfully  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  his 
friends.  William  Rogers  died  in  1874,  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
five  years ;  his  wife  survived  him  a  few  years  and  she  died. 

Pbrritt. — Another  numerous  family  of  the  county  is  the 
Perritt  family.  Of  the  old  Perritts,  there  were  four  brothers 
known  to  the  writer,  viz:  David,  Joseph,  Jesse  and  John. 
David  only  has  left  posterity;  he  married  a  Miss  Smith,  a 
sister  of  old  Mr.  Hugh  Smith,  and  he  in  turn  married  a  sister 
of  David  Perritt  (this  latter  is  according  to  information,  may 
be  wrong).  The  old  man  Perritt  raised  a  family,  mostly  sons, 
David  B.,  Needham,  William,  Bennett,  Jesse,  John  E.  and 
Asa,  and  one  daughter,  if  no  more.  David  B.  Perritt  married 
Miss  Martha  Edwards,  daughter  of  the  late  Rev.  David  Ed- 
wards, and  by  her  had  several  children,  sons  and  daughters; 
and  they  in  turn  have  perpetuated  the  name  and  connections 
to  a  second  and,  perhaps,  third  generation,  and  of  whom  the 
writer  knows  nothing.  Needham  Perritt  married  a  Miss 
Moody,  sister  of  the  late  Joshua  W.  Moody,  a  man  highly 
esteemed  for  his  many  good  qualities  and  noble  traits  of  char- 
acter. Needham  Perritt  is  dead ;  he  left  a  considerable  family, 
sons  and  daughters,  and  they  (the  children)  have  become 
fathers  and  mothers,  and  extending  down  to  another  genera- 
tion or  more.  William  Perritt  married  a  Miss  Carmichael, 
daughter  of  the  late  Dugald  C.  Carmichael,  of  Buck  Swamp 

*PhiUp  B.  Rogers  has  since  married  to  a  lady  in  North  Carolina. 
13 


184  .     A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

and  Maiden  Down;  William  Perritt  is  dead,  and  left  a  son, 
Morgan,  and  three  daughters,  who,  it  is  supposed,  are  among 
the  present  inhabitants  of  the  country,  unknown  to  the  writer. 
Bennett  Perritt  married  a  Miss  Powers,  sister  of  our  esteemed 
fellow-citizen,  Mitchell  Powers;  he  raised  a  family,  about 
whom  the  writer  knows  but  little ;  one  daughter  married  James 
Sanderson,  who  has  been  dead  for  years ;  his  widow  still  lives, 
and.  has  raised  her  family  respectably,  and  is  said  to  be  doing 
well;  she  has  two  sons  grown;  one  daughter  married  Hugh 
Price,  a  prosperous  citizen  in  that  neighborhood ;  he  has  a  fam- 
ily, about  whom  the  writer  knows  nothing.  Another  daughter 
married  Frank  Huggins ;  he  and  she  have  both  left  the  country, 
and  their  whereabouts  unknown.  If  Bennett  Perritt  had  any 
sons,  it  is  unknown  to  the  writer.  Jesse  Perritt,  another  son 
of  old  David,  the  writer  has  not  been  able  to  get  anything  con- 
cerning him ;  whom  he  married  and  whether  he  had  any  family 
or  not,  is  unasoertainable ;  it  is  said  that  he  is  dead.  Another 
son  of  old  David  Perritt  is  our  very  worthy  fellow-citizen, 
John  E.  Perritt ;  he  married,  first,  a  Miss  Campbell,  a'  daughter 
of  the  late  Wm.  S.  Campbell,  and  raised  a  large  and  respectable 
family,  mostly  daughters,  and  two  sons,  A.  J.  A.  Perritt  and 
Arvjngton  Perritt.  A.  J.  A.  Perritt  moved  to  Darlington 
County  some  years  ago,  and  since  he  has  been  there  has  held 
several  positions  of  honor  and  trust,  to  wit :  County  Superin- 
tendent of  Education,  Representative  in  the  State  Legislature 
and  a  member  of  the  State  Constitutional  Convention,  all  of 
which  positions  he  has  filled  with  credit  to  himself  and  satis- 
tory  to  his  constituents ;  he  married  a  daughter  of  the  late  Rev. 
John  W.  Murray,  of  the  South  Carolina  Conference  of  the 
Methodist  Church,  South.  Arvington  Perritt  left  the  county 
a  single  man  and  went  to  Texas ;  nothing  further  is  known  of 
him.  Of  John  E.  Perritt's  daughters,  one  married  our  excel- 
lent fellow-citizen,  Jerry  Lambert;  another  married  W.  C. 
Bracy,  of  Dillon ;  another  married  a  Mr.  Keith ;  another  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  Smith,  below  Marion,  think  a  son  of  Reddin  W. 
Smith.  I  think  there  is  another  one  or  two  daughters,  whether 
married  or  not,  is  not  known.  Asa  Perritt,  the  youngest  son 
of  old  David,  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Captain  S.  A.  Durham's 
company  in  the  late  war;  he  married  a  daughter  of  the  late 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  185 

■Rev.  David  Edwards,  and  removed  West  not  long  after  the 
war ;  nothing  further  is  known  of  him.  Of  the  three  brothers 
of  old  David  Perritt,  Joseph  never  married;  he  has  been  dead 
many  years.  Jesse  married  Mary  Dew,  daughter  of  old  Chris- 
topher Dew ;  they  had  no  children ;  she  died,  and  he  married  a 
second  wife,  the  widow  of  Elias  Townsend;  she  had  been  the 
widow  of  Alfred  Kirven,  and  was  originally  Elizabeth  Tart, 
daughter  of  old  Enos  Tart,  a  notable  man  in  his  day,  and  of 
whom  something  may  be  said  hereinafter ;  by  her  he  had  no 
child  or  children ;  both  have  been  dead  for  some  years.  John 
Perritt,  the  youngest  brother  of  old  David  Perritt,  died  in 
1840  or  1841,  a  young  single  man,  from  the  bite  of  a  rattle- 
snake ;  he  was  with  a  surveying  party  about  the  Marlborough 
line,  and  in  toward  the  Great  Pee  Dee  River,  when  the  snake 
bit  him;  there  was  no  house  near  them  and  no  doctor  near; 
he  was  carried  two  miles  to  the  nearest  house  and  a  doctor  was 
finally  procured,  but  too  late;  he  died  that  same  night;  a 
young  man  of  fine  character  and  good  habits,  and  was  spoken 
well  of  by  all  who  knew  him.  Thus  it  seems  that  the  very 
large  family  of  Perritts  and  their  many  connections  of  the 
present  day,  and  now  in  the  county,  sprang  from  old  David 
Perritt,  on  or  near  the  Ten  Mile  Bay;  he  was  an  energetic 
and  persevering  man,  exceedingly  frugal  and  thoughtful; 
would  not  be  in  debt,  paid  as  he  went,  and  made  a  good  prop- 
erty by  saving  it;  was  a  good  and  law-abiding  citizen;  he  lost 
his  wife  in  his  old  age;  married  some  one,  name  not  remem- 
bered, and  left  her  a  widow ;  I  think  she  drew  a  pension  after 
his  death  for  his  services  in  the  War  of  1812 — I  think  he  drew 
it  in  his  lifetime.  Few  men  anywhere  have  a  larger  connection 
than  he  has  from  himself.  They  and  the  Perritt  connections 
are  numerous,  and  are  an  honest,  well-meaning  people ;  ambi- 
tious only  to  live  honestly  and  to  let  others  live,  and  are  primi- 
tive in  their  modes  of  life. 

Edwards. — The  Edwards  family,  on  Buck  Swamp,  is 
another  family  of  some  note.  Tradition  informs  us  that 
Richard  Edwards  came  to  South  Carolina  from  Virginia  soon 
after  the  Revolutionary  War;  that  he  was  originally  from 
England,,  or  rather  his  ancestors ;  that  during  the  Revolution 


186  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

he  was  shot  in  the  head  and  his  skull  was  fractured ;  that  the 
fracture  was  trepanned  with  gold,  and  from  that  fact  was 
generally  called  "Gold-headed  Richard  or  Dick  Edwards." 
We  are  not  informed  who  his  wife  was ;  he  raised  a  family  of 
sons  and  perhaps  daughters,  the  daughters  are  unknown;  his 
sons  were  Richard,  David,  Samuel  and  Henry — who  became 
stocks  for  families,  more  or  less  numerous,  now  in  the  county ; 
they  settled  on  Buck  Swamp.  Their  father,  "Gold-headed 
Dick,"  lived  to  a  great  age,  and  was  a  man  of  some  means. 
Richard,  the  oldest  son,  a  local  preacher  of  the  Methodist 
Church,  had  only  two  children — a  son,  the  late  Captain  L,.  M. 
Edwards,  and  another,  whether  a  son  or  daughter,  is  unknown. 
Captain  L.  M.  Edwards  was  noted  in  his  day;  he  died  a  few 
months  ago,  and  left  a  large  family,  sons  and  daughters ;  he 
was  married  twice ;  his  first  wife  was  a  Miss  Martin,  sister  of 
the  late  A.  Martin  and,  I  think,  a  cousin  of  Captain  Edwards ; 
by  her  be  had  sons  and  daughters ;  sons,  Richard,  Albert,  Enos 
and  Hamilton,  all  of  whom  are  married,  and  have  families,  are 
good  citizens  and  doing  fairly  well.  By  Captain  Edwards'  sec- 
ond wife,  the  Widow  Fort,  originally  a  Miss  Lewis,  he  had 
sons — P.  H.  Edwards,  Marion,  Olin  and  Bonnie;  of  these, 
Marion  is  dead ;  P.  H.  Edwards  married  a  daughter  of  Dr.  C. 
T.  Ford ;  Olin  married  a  daughter  of  T.  B.  Hays ;  Bonnie  is  yet 
single.  Captain  Edwards  had  some  daughters  by  each  wife; 
one  married  Samuel  Roberts;  one  married  a  Nicholson;  and 
perhaps  other  daughters,  unknown.  Of  his  first  sons,  Richard 
married  a  Miss  Martin,  his  first  cousin ;  Albert  Edwards  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Roberts;  Enos  Edwards  married  Miss  Hays,  and 
Hamilton  Edwards  married  Miss  Ida  Smith.  These  are  all  now 
citizens  of  the  county,  and  performing  their  duties  as  such. 
Rev.  David  Edwards,  second  son  of  "Gold-headed  Dick,"  a 
capital  man,  married  into  the  extensive  family  of  the  Rogers ; 
his  wife  was  a  sister  of  "Captain  Tarleton"  and  of  Dew 
Rogers,  both  of  them  before  spoken  of  herein ;  by  his  marriage 
he  had  and  raised  fourteen  children,  six  sons  and  eight  daugh- 
ters; the  sons  were  Carey,  Andrew,  David,  Richard,  Robert 
and  William;  the  daughters  were  Harriet,  Elizabeth,  Sallie, 
Martha,  Nancy,  Alice,  Emaline  and  Mary.  Of  the  sons,  An- 
drew, Richard  and  Robert  are  dead ;  of  the  daughters,  Sallie, 


A  HISTORY  OJP  MARION  COUNTY.  187 

Martha,  Alice  and  Emaline  are  dead ;  the  dead  ones,  however, 
all  married  and  left  families.  I  do  not  know  who  Andrew 
married ;  he  \yas  a  Baptist  preacher ;  he  left  the  county ;  I  know 
nothing  of  his  family.  Richard  married  Miss  Caroline  Martin, 
and  left  two  sons,  B.  F.  Edwards  and  Austin  Edwards.  Rob- 
ert married  Sarah  I^ewis,  and  left  two  sons,  George  and 
Stanly;  they  went  to  Texts  some  years  ago;  George  died  in 
Texarkana,  and  was  Mayor  of  that  city  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
and  was  otherwise  a  prosperous  man;  he  being  a  single  man, 
his  property  was  inherited  by  his  only  brother,  Stanly  Ed- 
wards, who  was  also  in  Texas,  is  yet  there,  and  is  said  to  be 
wealthy  and  a  good  citizen  of  the  "L,one  Star"  State.  Of  the 
dead  daughters,  Sallie,  the  wife  of  Stephen  H.  Martin,  left 
two  sons  and  a  daughter;  the  sons  were  Mack  Martin  and 
David  Martin.  The  daughter  married  Perry  J.  Williams,  and 
is  dead.  Martha  Edwards  married  David  B.  Perritt,  and 
is  dead,  leaving  a  considerable  family.  Alice  married  Solo- 
mon Bryant,  and  is  dead — died  in  the  Asylum.  Emaline  mar- 
ried Hugh  Bryant,  and  is  dead ;  she  also  died  in  the  Asylum  in 
Columbia.  Alice  and  Emaline  both  left  families,  who  are  now 
among  us.  Of  the  sons  of  David  Edwards,  only  three  survive, 
to  wit:  Cary,  David  W.  Edwards,  of  Mullins,  and  William. 
D.  W.  Edwards  married  a  Miss  Carmichael,  daughter  of  old 
Dugal  Carmichael,  on  Buck  Swamp,  and  has  three  children; 
two  sons,  E.  C.  Edwards,  our  very  excellent  felloW-citizen, 
and  County  Superintendent  of  Education,  and  Melvin  Ed- 
wards, also  a  good  citizen ;  and  a  daughter,  Catharine,  who  is 
now  the  wife  of  Robert  Rogers,  a  prosperous  farmer.  D.  W. 
Edwards  married  a  second  time ;  her  name  is  unknown.  Wil- 
liam Edwards  married  Miss  Nancy  Owens,  of  the  Fork. 
William  Edwards,  like  two  of  his  sisters  above  mentioned,  is 
afflicted  with  lunacy,  and  has  been  in  the  Asylum  two  or  three 
times,  but  is  now  at  home;  he  has  a  family.  The  oldest 
daughter,  Harriet,  married  the  late  Richard  Moody;  she  still 
survives,  with  a  numerous  family.  Carey  Edwards,  the  oldest 
son,  married  Miss  Martha  Mace,  5th  March,  1845 — the  writer 
was  at  the  wedding;  four  children  are  the  fruits  of  said  mar- 
riage, two  sons,  John  and  James,  and  two  daughters,  Melvina 
and  Jane — ^the  latter  is  dead,  died  in  the  Asylum.     Carey  Ed- 


188  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

wards  still  survives,  an  old  man,  and  lives  writh  his  son,  John; 
his  Wife  has  been  dead  many  years.  James  married  a  Miss 
Davis,  in  Wahee;  he  has  a  family  of  four  children.  Melvina 
is  an  old  maid,  enjoying  the  sweets  of  single  blessedness. 
John  married  his  cousin,  a  daughter  of  Solomon  Bryant,  and 
lives  on  the  homestead  of  his  mother.  Elizabeth  married  John 
Thompson,  of  Britton's  Neck.  Thompson  is  dead;  of  his 
family  little  is  known.  Nancy  married  Asa  Pruitt,  and  re- 
moved West  many  years  ago.  Mary  married,  first.  Ebb. 
Smith ;  he  went  into  the  war  and  was  killed  or  died  of  disease — 
has  never  returned;  his  widow  married  George  Lane,  and  be- 
tween the  two  husbands  raised  a  considerable  family,  who  are 
now  among  our  citizens ;  the  writer  knows  but  little  of  them. 
Samuel  Edwards,  the  third  son  of  "Gold-headed  Dick,"  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Martin,  sister  of  Matthew,  Jr.,  and  the  late  Aaron 
Martin;  he  lived  and  died  in  the  Fork,  and  raised  a  family, 
how  many  the  writer  does  not  know ;  he  was  a  prosperous  and 
excellent  man.  He  had  a  son,  Renselaer,  who  died  some  years 
ago,  and  left  a  family — ^the  number  is  not  known,  nor  do  I 
know  who  the  mother  was.  He  has  another  son,  David  S. 
Edwards,  now  a  prominent  and  prosperous  farmer  in  the  Fork ; 
he  has  a  large  family  of  sons  and  daughters ;  I  think  his  wife 
was  a  Miss  Carmichael.  D.  S.  Edwards  is  an  enterprising  and 
public-spirited  man;  he  is  doing  a  good  part  by  his  children 
in  the  way  of  education ;  one  of  his  sons,  G.  Emory  Edwards, 
graduated  in  Woff ord  College  recently  with  distinction ;  since 
his  graduation  he  has  been  teaching  at  Dothan,  and  gives  full 
satisfaction  to  his  patrons.  D.  S.  Edwards  has  two  daughters, 
promising  girls  and  graduates  of  the  Winthrop  Female  Col- 
lege ;  he  is  doing  abundantly  better  for  his  children  than  those 
of  the  former  generations.  It  is  greatly  to  be  wished  that  we 
had  many  more  like  him  with  regard  to  education.  Another 
son  of  Samuel  Edwards  was  Solomon,  who  died  many  years 
ago;  he  married  a  daughter  of  Joseph  B.  Hays  and  left  one 
daughter,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  Kirkland  Fort.  Samuel  Ed- 
wards had  a  daughter,  Civil,  who  married  Daniel  W.  Carmi- 
chael, and  they  have  raised  a  numerous  family  of  sons  and 
daughters,  who  will  be  further  noticed  when  we  come  to  speak 
of  the  Carmichaels.     Samuel  Edwards,  I  think,  had  another 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  189 

daughter,  who  married  an  Owens,  in  the  Fork;  nothing  is 
known  of  them.  Another  son  of  "Gk>ld-headed  Dick,"  named 
Henry,  the  youngest,  married  a  Miss  Gerald,  and  had  one  son, 
L,evi,  who  lives  in  the  Gapway  neighborhood.  Henry  Ed- 
wards' habits  were  not  good;  he  drank  excessively,  never  did 
much  in  life,  and,  no  doubt,  was  a  source  of  much  trouble  to 
his  relations.  It  seems  to  the  writer  that  there  was  another 
son  of  "Gold-headed  Dick,"  perhaps  the  oldest  one,  by  the 
name  of  Solomon;  nothing,  however,  is  known  of  him  or  of 
his  family,  if  he  had  any — I  am  not  certain  there  was  such  an 
one.  The  Edwards  family  and  its  connections  are  numerous ; 
they  are  quite  respectable,  and  stand  fair  among  their  fellow- 
citizens;  seldom  in  the  Courts.  Since  writing  the  foregoing 
account  of  the  Edward's  family,  the  writer  has  learned  that 
Captain  L.  M.  Edwards  had  a  brother,  named  Enos,  who  mar- 
ried and  died,  leaving  a  son,  Frank  Edwards,  who  lives  in  the 
Pleasant  Hill  neighborhood,  and  is  one  of  our  good  citizens. 
It  may  be  further  added,  that  B.  F.  Edwards,  in  the  Gaddy 
neighborhood,  and  Austin  Edwards,  in  the  Latta  community, 
great-grand-sons  of  "Gold-headed  Dick"  Edwards,  are  promi- 
nent and  thriving  men  of  our  county. 

NiCH0i<s. — The  Nichols  family,  so  far  as  the  county  is  con- 
cerned, sprang  from  old  Averett  Nichols,  of  Columbus  County, 
N.  C.  His  youngest  son,  Averett,  born  8th  March,  1803,  set- 
tled in  Marion  County  in  1830 ;  he  married  a  Miss  Burney,  of 
Columbus  County,  N.  C. ;  he  located  near  what  is  now  called 
Nichols,  in  the  woods,  apparently  a  poor  place,  lived  there 
during  his  long  life,  and  died  there  at  the  age  of  near  ninety- 
three,  on  the  7th  January,  1896;  he  raised  a  family  of  ten 
children,  eight  daughters  and  two  sons ;  the  sons,  McKendree 
(called  Kendree)  and  Averitt  Burney.  Kendree  was  a  very 
promising  young  man,  unmarried;  went  into  the  Southern 
army  as  a  Lieutenant,  and  was  killed,  as  I  think,  in  second  , 
Manassas,  30th  August,  1862.  A.  B.  Nichols,  a  prominent 
and  progressive  citizen,  merchant  and  farmer  at  Nichols,  S. 
C,  married  a  Miss  Sophronia  Daniel,  and  has  a  family  of  child- 
ren, how  many  is  unknown — be  is  doing  his  full  duty  in  that 
respect,  as  well  as  in  every  other ;  he  is  a  first  class  man,  and 


190  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

safe  in  every  way.  Averitt  Nichols'  oldest  daughter,  Mary, 
married  Isham  H.  Watson,  and  is  now  a  widow,  and  childless ; 
his  daughter,  Lucy,  married  a  Mr.  Lawson ;  they  emigrated  to 
Texas  many  years  ago,  and,  I  suppose,  are  contributing  their 
share  to  the  population  and  wealth  of  that  great  State.  Sarah 
(or  Sallie)  married  our  modest  but  successful  fellow-citizen, 
J.  Thomas  Jones;  she  has  been  dead  many  years,  but  left 
several  sons  and  daughters,  all  of  whom  are  now  among  us ; 
I  do  not  know  the  names  of  all  the  sons ;  Eli  is  one,  Beverly 
another,  Kendree,  Evander  and  Robert  Boyd,  maybe  another 
one  or  two.  There  are  four  daughters,  Lucy  Ellen,  who  mar- 
ried J.  B.  Williams;  Lola,  who  married  William  E.  Hewit; 
Catharine,  married  David  N.  Bethea;  and  Miss  Fannie  is  yet 
single.  Of  this  family,  it  may  be  said,  they  are  all  first  class 
citizens,  doing  well  and  law-abiding.  Anne  Nichols  married 
the  late  T.  B.  Braddy,  who  was  killed  by  D.  W.  McLaurin,  in 
1881 ;  he  left  a  son,  Oscar  Braddy,  by  his  Nichols  wife ;  he  and 
his  mother  reside  in  Hillsboro  Township,  and,  I  suppose,  arc 
doing  fairly  well.  Fannie  Nichols  married  our  respected  fel- 
low-citizen, Jacob  W.  Smith,  and  has  several  children;  I  do 
not  know  how  many ;  he  lives  in  Latta.  I  know  his  son,  Alonzo 
Smith,  who  is  a  progressive  and  first  class  young  business 
man,  and  promises  to  become  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the 
county.  Miss  Rebecca  Nichols,  youngest  daughter  of  Averitt 
Nichols,  never  married ;  she  was,  after  the  death  of  her  mother, 
the  controling  spirit  and  manager  of  the  female  department  of 
the  household  until  a  few  years  ago,  she  unexpectedly  and  sud- 
denly died;  she  was  a  charming  young  woman,  just  the  sort 
to  have  made  a  good  housewife.  There  were  two  other 
daughters,  who  died  about  maturity  and  unmarried.  Averitt 
Nichols  was  a  very  exemplary  man ;  he  had  the  faculty  in  large 
degree  of  attending  to  his  own  business  and  of  letting  other 
people's  business  severely  alone;  the  result  was  that  he 
amassed  a  large  property,  raised  a  large  and  respectable  family ; 
would  not  go  in  debt — paid  as  he  went ;  he  was  never  in  a  hurry 
or  in  a  flurry  about  anything ;  had  in  the  Bank  of  New  Han- 
over, Wilmington,  N.  C,  several  thousand  dollars  when  it 
failed  some  seven  or  eight  years  ago,-  and  which  was  mostly 
lost.     In  his  later  days  the  old  gentleman  partially  lost  his 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  191 

mind,  and  his  affairs,  financial  and  otherwise,  were  managed 
by  his  son,  A.  B.  Nichols.  The  old  man  was  never  informed 
of  the  loss  of  his  money  by  the  failure  of  the  bank ;  he  died  not 
knowing  anything  about  it. 

Hutchinson. — There  is  a  family  near  Nichols,  by  the  name 
of  Hutchinson.  John  Hutchinson  is  a  very  worthy  citizen. 
I  do  not  know  anything  of  his  ancestry,  or  where  he  came 
from ;  he  has  children  grown  and  married ;  a  daughter  married 
a  Barfield,  who  lives  in  the  neighborhood,  and  is  doing  well. 

Barfield. — The  Barfield  family,  in  part,  live  in  Hillsboro. 
They  are  descendants  of  Barrett  Barfield,  who  in  the  thirties 
resided  in  Hillsboro,  just  below  Gaddy's  Mill,  and  on  the 
plantation  now  owned  by  his  grand-son.  Captain  R.  H.  Rogers ; 
he  had  by  the  same  wife,  and  raised  them  to  be  grown,  twenty- 
two  children,  sons  and  daughters ;  he,  with  most  of  his  family, 
removed  West.  Writ  Barfield,  a  son,  and  an  excellent  citizen, 
remained,  and  several  of  his  daughters,  who  had  married — one 
to  Dew  Rogers,  one  to  Ebenezer  Rogers  in  the  Fork,  one  to 
Love  Goodyear — they  also  remained  and  all  raised  large  fam- 
ilies. Writ  Barfield  was  a  very  worthy  citizen,  raised  a  con- 
siderable family,  several  sons ;  they  and  their  posterity  now  are 
among  our  people,  not  personally  known  to  the  writer ;  and  he 
supposes  that  old  Barrett  Barfield,  their  ancestor,  was  a  son, 
or  brother,  or  nephew  of  the  celebrated  Tory,  Captain  Barfield, 
of  Revolutionary  fame;  which  appellation,  Tory,  is  now  no 
longer  a  derisive  name — at  least,  so  far  as  the  Barfield  family 
is  concerned ;  some  of  the  best  soldiers  we  had  in  our  late  Con- 
federate War  were  of  that  family,  of  that  name  and  its  connec- 
tions of  Barfield  blood.  The  writer  may  have  something  to 
say  further  on  in  this  book  in  regard  to  the  word  Tory,  as  an 
appellation  of  derision  or  contempt.  Captain  Barfield  as  a 
leader,  though  on  the  losing  side  in  the  Revolution,  is  spoken 
of  as  a  brave  man,  fighting  for  what  he  believed  to  be  right. 
A  distinctive  characteristic  of  the  Barfield  family,  and  especi- 
ally of  the  females,  was  their  beauty — perfect  in  form  and 
features,  of  medium  size  and  great  activity.  The  men  were 
as  agile  as  a  deer.     It  was  said  of  one  of  the  sons  of  old  Bar- 


192  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

rett,  named  Thompson,  that  he  could  cut  a  double  summer- 
sault— that  he  could  walk  along  and  cut  a  dozen  without 
stopping.  In  a  tustle  or  a  fight,  they  were  hard  to  handle,  even 
by  larger  men  and  of  greater  strength.  Miss  Appey  Barfield, 
the  youngest  daughter  of  old  man  Barrett,  was  as  beautiful  a 
woman  as  ever  the  writer  looked  at,  weighed  about  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  or  thirty,  was  perfect  in  form  and  as  pretty  as 
the  fabled  Venus.  The  last  time  the  writer  saw  her  was  in 
February,  1835,  not  long  before  her  father  left  this  country. 
Writ  Barfield,  the  father  of  the  Barfields,  now  in  Hillsboro, 
lived  to  be  more  than  eighty  years  of  age. 

Goodyear. — The  Goodyear  family,  so  far  as  Marion  County 
is  concerned,  sprang  from  William  Goodyear,  who  died  in  1800. 
His  wife,  I  think,  was  a  Ford  or  a  Grainger ;  his  sons  or  grand- 
sons were  the  late  John  Goodyear  and  Love  Goodyear,  both 
dead.  John  Goodyear  had  only  one  son,  who  was  killed  or 
died  in  the  war;  he  raised  ten  daughters,  of  whom  something 
has  already  been  said  herein.  Love  .Goodyear  died  in  185 1, 
and  left  a  family  of  sons  and  perhaps  daughters ;  the  sons,  as 
remembered  and  known,  were  William,  Elias  and  Harman. 
William  Goodyear,  now  an  old  man  and  very  worthy  citizen, 
lives  near  Nichols,  and  has  raised  a  family  who  are  now  among 
our  people  and  known.  I  do  not  know  what  became  of  Elias, 
whether  dead  or  alive;  Harman,  I  think,  is  dead.  There  is 
one,  Madison  Goodyear,  if  alive,  whose  son  he  is,  or  was,  is 
not  now  remembered.  Some  six  or  eight  years  ago,  the  writer 
received  a  letter  from  a  lady  in  the  State  of  Washington  or  one 
of  the  Dakotas,  the  wife  of  a  Lieutenant  in  the  regular  army 
of  the  United  States,  stationed  out  there  in  the  far  West,  who 

signed  her  name  "Grace  Goodyear ■ "  (the  last  name 

not  remembered,  and  the  correspondence  is  mislaid).  This 
lady  said  she  belonged  to  the  family  of  Goodyears  in  this 
county,  or  was  collaterally  related  to  them ;  that  she  had  been 
referred  to  me  as  an  antiquarian  and  genealogist ;  she  said  she 
was  trying  to  trace  her  family,  the  Goodyear  family,  back  to  a 
Goodyear  (John,  I  believe),  who  was  Lieutenant-Governor  of 
Connecticut,  then  a  province  of  Great  Britain,  about  1690.; 
The  writer  made  what  investigation  he  could,  and  wrote  the 


A  HISTORY  O?  MARION  COUNTY.  193 

result  to  her,  which  she  received  and  acknowledged  its  receipt 
in  very  complimentary  and  appreciative  terms.  I  have  heard 
nothing  from  her  since.  The  Goodyear  family  are,  doubtless, 
of  English  extraction,  and  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  the 
country.  There  is  now  in  the  city  of  New  York  a  very  wealthy 
family  of  that  name,  and  a  strong  company  called  "The  Good- 
year Rubber  Company,"  and  the  Goodyears  of  this  county  are, 
doubtless,  of  the  same  family. 

Tart. — The  Tart  family  was  formerly  a  very  noted  family — 
at  least,  in  the  person  of  old  Enos  Tart.  There  were  three 
brothers  of  them  as  known  to  the  writer,  Enos,  John  and  Na- 
than. Of  these,  Enos  was  the  most  prominent ;  he  lived  on,  and 
owned  the  plantation  and  mill  latterly  known  as  E.  J.  Moody's. 
Who  the  father  of  these  three  brothers  were,  is  not  known  to 
the  writer.  When  that  mill  was  built,  and  by  whom,  is  not 
known.  In  Gregg's  History  it  is  spoken  of  as  "Tart's  Mill, 
about  six  miles  above  Marion  Court  House."  It  is  reasonable 
to  presume  it  was  among  the  first  mills  in  the  county,  except, 
perhaps,  "Hulins,"  on  Catfish,  afterwards  Bass'  Mill.  (Gregg, 
P-  359- )  The  mill  was,  before  the  Revolution,  the  property  of 
John  Smith,  whose  daughter,  tradition  informs  us,  was  the 
mother  of  Enos  Tart  and  brothers.  This  John  Smith  was  the 
progenitor  of  most  of  the  Smiths  (numerous)  now  and  since 
that  time  in  the  county.  Enos  Tart  was  a  most  remarkable 
man,  a  giant  in  strength  and  size,  weighing  about  three  hun- 
dred pounds  and  not  over  corpulent.  It  is  related  of  him  that 
he  could  interfere  between  two  men  fighting,  and  take  one  com- 
batant with  one  hand  in  the  collar  and  with  the  other  hand  the 
other  combatant,  and  hold  them  apart ;  they  could  not  break  his 
hold,  and  he  would  hold  them  apart,  until  each  promised  him 
that  they  would  desist,  and  each  go  his  way  and  quit  the  fight. 
He  was  a  man  of  such  remarkable  equanimity  of  temper,  that 
a  man  might  curse  and  abuse  him  for  everything  he  could  think 
of,  and  call  him  all  sorts  of  contemptuous  names,  and  he  would 
not  resent  it,  but  laugh  at  his  would-be  adversary.  It  is  re- 
lated of  him  that  on  one  occasion  old  man  Cade  Bethea  so 
cursed  and  abused  him  at  Marion  Court  House,  calling  him  by 
every  contemptuous  name  in  the  catalogue,  and  daring  Tart 


194  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

to  resent  it,  which  Tart  did  not  do,  and  as  usual  laughed  at  old 
Cade.  On  that  night,  as  Tart  was  going  home,  he  came  up 
with  old  man  Cade  by  the  side  of  the  road,  down  dead  drunk. 
Tart  alighted,  went  to  him  and  took  him  home  with  him,  and 
stripped  him  and  put  him  to  bed,  old  man  Cade  being  uncon- 
scious all  the  while.  Next  morning,  the  sleeping  Cade;  so 
furious  the  day  before,  awoke  and  found  out  where  he  was; 
he  got  up  and  manfully  acknowledged  his  error;  that  he  was 
whipped  by  Tart's  kindness,  and  was  ever  afterwards  a  close 
and  constant  friend  of  Tart's.  Enos  Tart,  according  to  tradi- 
tion, was  never  known  to  strike  any  man,  and  the  reason  given 
for  it  was,  that  he  was  afraid  to  strike  a  man  for  fear  he  might 
kill  him;  Tart  knew  his  physical  power.  He  was  a  kind- 
hearted  and  generous  man,  and  befriended  all  as  far  as  he 
could;  he  was  a  very  popular  man,  and  could  not  be  beaten 
before  the  people.  He  was  more  than  once  a  Representative 
of  his  district  in  the  State  Legislature;  was  Sheriff  of  the 
county,  and  Clerk  of  the  Court  when  he  died,  in  1828.  Enos 
Tart  married  a  Miss  Susanna  Johnson,  of  the  county;  the 
results  of  the  marriage  were  four  or  five  daughters  and  three 
sons.  One  of  his  daughters  married  Jack  Finklea ;  one  married 
Willis  Finklea;  one,  Elizabeth,  married,  first,  Alfred  Kirvin, 
and  had  two  children  for  him,  two  daughters,  when  they  sep- 
arated, and  years  afterwards,  after  Kirvin  died,  she  married 
Elias  Townsend;  some  years  afterward,  Townsend  died,  and 
she  married  Jessee  Perritt ;  by  neither  of  the  last  marriages 
had  she  any  offspring ;  they  lived  together  for  some  years,  and 
they  both  died  in  a  week  of  each  other.  Of  her  Kirvin  child- 
ren, the  oldest,  Lucinda,  died  just  as  she  was  budding  into 
womanhood.  The  other  daughter,  whose  name  is  not  remem- 
bered, married  James  Fore,  and  had  four  children,  three 
daughters  and  a  son;  of  these,  two  of  the  daughters  married 
Berrys — Stephen  Berry  and  William  Berry ;  the  other  daughter 
married  Powers,  a  son  of  Mitchel  Powers.  The  son,  Thomas 
E.  Fore,  is  now  one  of  our  good  citizens,  and  has  a  family. 
Susan  Tart,  the  fourth  daughter,  married  a  Mr.  Brown,  of 
Brownsville,  in  Marlborough;  after  having  two  children,  a 
son  and  a  daughter,  the  father  and  mother  both  died ;  the  child^ 
ren  grew  up  and  emigrated  West.     Jane  Tart,  the  youngest 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  195 

daughter  of  old  Enos  Tart,  married  another  Brown,  of  the 
same  family;  he  soon  after  died,  leaving  no  offspring;  the 
widow  again  married  Humphrey  1/ester;  the  results  of  this 
marriage  were  two  children — a  daughter,  Mary,  now  the  wife 
of  M.  Stackhouse,  and  a  son,  Robert  H.  Lester,  now  among 
us,  with  an  increasing  family;  he  married  a  Miss  Proctor,  of 
Little  Rock.  Soon  after  the  birth  of  these  two  children, 
Humphrey  Lester  died,  and  Jane  became  a  widow  the  second 
time;  she  again  married  our  esteemed  fellow-citizen,  E.  J. 
Moody ;  the  fruits  of  this  latter  marriage  were  two  sons,  Tho- 
mas E.  and  Neill  C.  Moody,  and  two  daughters.  Thomas  E. 
married  a  Miss  Little,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  L.  M.  Little ;  he 
soon  died  childless.  Neill  C.  Moody  never  married,  died  three 
or  four  years  ago.  The  daughters,  Virginia  and  Maggie,  both 
married.  Virginia  married  Douglas  Mclntyre,  of  Marion — a 
noble  woman  she  was ;  she  died  some  years  ago,  leaving  three 
or  four  children,  the  oldest  of  whom,  Janie,  married  Robert 
Proctor ;  they  have  left  the  State.  Mclntyre  married  again,  a 
Miss  Fore,  and  has  his  first  children  with  him  now,  except 
Janie.  Maggie  Moody  married  Dr.  D.  I.  Watson;  they  re- 
moved to  Southport,  N.  C,  have  several  children,  and  are  said 
to  be  doing  well.  It  may  be  truthfully  said  of  Mrs.  Jane 
Moody,  who  died  some  years  ago,  that  she  was  the  excellent 
of  the  earth ;  high-toned,  and  above  all  had  a  good  and  kind 
heart,  beloved  by  all  who  knew  her ;  and  if  any  of  her  children 
or  grand-children  should  turn  out  badly,  it  will  not  be  the  fault 
or  failings  of  the  mother;  she  left  an  influence  that  will  tell 
upon  her  offspring  sooner  or  later.  Old  Enos  Tart  had  three 
sons,  Enos,  Nathan  and  Thomas  E.  Tart.  Enos,  the  oldest, 
died  a  young  man,  in  1844,  before  his  mother;  he  was  a  very 
promising  young  man,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Vir- 
ginia, a  Chesterfield  in  his  manners  and  deportment;  he  had 
many  of  the  qualities  of  his  father ;  had  he  lived,  would,  doubt- 
less, have  become  prominent,  and  filled  a  large  space  in  the 
public  eye.  Soon  after  Enos  Tart,  Jr.,  died,  Thomas  E.,  the 
youngest  brother,  accidentally  shot  himself  with  a  pistol,  from 
which  he  died  in  a  few  minutes.  Three  or  four  years  after 
that  sad  event,  Nathan  Tart,  the  middle  son,  died.  The  sons 
of  old  Enos  all  died  unmarried,  so  that  the  name,  so  far  as  old 


196  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Enos  was  concerned,  was  entirely  cut  off.  Enos  Tart  was  not 
a  very  old  man  when  he  died ;  he  was  a  man  of  business,  accu- 
mulated a  large  property  and  left  his  family  in  good  condition ; 
he  was  the  contractor  for  and  built  the  old  brick  court  house  in 
Marion,  in  1823,  which  was  torn  down  and  removed,  in ,  1864, 
during  the  war.  That  court  house  stood  about  the  spot  where 
the  new  building  lately  erected  for  the  Clerk  and  Probate 
Judge's  offices  now  stands.  There  are  many  now  living  who 
remember  the  old  brick  court  house ;  it  was  constructed  on  the 
"Mills"  plan  of  court  houses  for  that  day  and  time.  Of  the 
brothers  of  old  Enos,  John  and  Nathan,  John  Tart,  I  think, 
married  a  Miss  Crawford;  he  raised  two  sons  and  some 
daughters;  the  sons  were  James  and  Enos  Tart — ^the  name 
Enos  runs  down  to  the  present  generation  in  every  family. 
James  Tart's  brother,  Enos,  was  called  "Dog  Enos,"  for  dis- 
tinction. Why  they  gave  him  so  unsavory  a  name  is  not  now 
known.  The  writer  has  seen  him,  or  saw  him,  about  sixty 
years  ago ;  he  was  regarded  as  a  bully  on  the  muster  fields  of 
that  day ;  I  do  not  know  what  became  of  him.  James,  the  older 
brother,  was  a  very  respectable  man  and  good  citizen ;  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Julia  Ann  Smith,  and  raised  a  large  family  of  sons 
and  daughters,  all  of  whom  are  now  dead,  except  the  youngest 
son,  Enos  Murchison  Tart,  who  married  in  Columbus  County, 
N.  C,  where  he  settled  and  now  resides.  John  W.  Tart,  the 
oldest  son  of  James,  married  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  J. 
Bethea,  raised  a  large  family  of  sons  and  daughters,  who  are 
now  among  us  as  citizens  of  the  county ;  he  died  on  April  14th, 
1875,  of  a  cancer  on  the  tongue.  A  daughter  of  James  Tart, 
Amelia,  married  the  late  John  C.  Campbell,  near  Ebenezer 
Church,  where  he  and  she  both  died  a  few  years  ago;  they 
raised  a  large  family  of  sons,  and  two  daughters,  perhaps  eight 
or  ten  sons.  Some  of  the  sons,  two  or  three,  are  dead,  leaving 
no  family,  and  one  of  the  daughters  is  also  dead,  unmarried; 
the  others  are  among  us,  and  are  respectable  citizens.  James 
Tart  died  during  the  war,  on  the  place  near  Moody's  Mill,  now 
owned  by  the  estate  of  the  late  Governor  Ellerbe.  James  Tart 
had  some  sisters,  two  of  whom  married  Birds,  Joseph  Bird  and 
Hugh  Bird,  and  one  married  a  Malloy — all  of  whom  are  dead. 
Nathan  Tart,  the  youngest  brother  of  old  Enos,  married  Kama 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  197 

Berry,  a  daughter  of  old  Henry  Berry,  as  already  herein  noted ; 
by  their  marriage  a  considerable  family  resulted  of  sons  and 
daughters.  Nathan  Tart  died  in  middle  life  and  left  his 
widow,  Fama,  and  children.  Fama  Tart,  as  heretofore  noted, 
was  one  of  the  most  remarkable  women  that  the  writer  ever 
saw.  Of  this  family  of  Tarts,  I  think  I  have  already  written. 
Nathan  and  Fama  Tart  also  had  a  son,  named  Enos,  who  was 
called  by  way  of  contradistinction,  "Russell  Enos."  The  name 
is  continued  down  for  two  or  three  generations  further. 

Bryant. — ^Another  family  may  be  here  noticed.  The  Bry- 
ant family  is  an  old  family.  Jesse  Bryant  is  said  to  have  been 
the  first  of  that  name  in  the  county ;  he  came  from  England,  as 
it  is  said ;  he  married  a  Miss  Turbeville,  supposed  to  have  been 
a  sister  of  Rev.  William  Turbeville,  who,  according  to  Bishop 
Gregg  (pp.  70  and  71),  came  over  about  1735,  and  settled  at 
Sandy  Bluff,  on  the  Great  Pee  Dee,  with  the  colony  then  and 
there  settled,  as  their  minister.  "Several  brothers  came  with 
him,  of  whom  some  descendants  are  now  to  be  found  in 
Marion."  It  may  be  presumed  that  sisters  came  too,  and  that 
one  of  them  married  old  Jesse  Bryant.  Old  Jesse  had  sons, 
William,  Stephen  and  Jesse.  Of  these,  William  married  Re- 
becca Miller ;  he  lived  and  died  some  twenty-five  or  thirty  years 
ago,  on  the  road  just  above  Ebenezer  Church,  at  the  age  of 
eighty-nine.  Whether  William,  Stephen  or  Jesse  was  the  old- 
est, is  not  known.  Old  Billy  Bryant  raised  a  large  family,  four 
sons  and  several  daughters.  Of  the  sons,  John  M.  Bryant 
was  the  oldest ;  he  died  some  years  ago,  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
three;  he  married  a  Miss  Drew,  below  Marion,  and  raised  a 
large  family — sons,  Eli,  Solomon,  David,  Pinckney  and  Hugh 
Bryant ;  and  daughters,  Mrs.  David  Johnson,  Mrs.  Hardy  John- 
son and  Mrs.  Addison  Lane.  Eli  Bryant  went  West.  Solo- 
mon Bryant  married  a  daughter  of  Rev.  David  Edwards,  first, 
and  then  a  Miss  McDonald.  I  do  not  know  who  David  mar- 
ried; he  has  a  son,  named  Curtis  Bryant.  Pinckney  Bryant 
married,  had  a  large  family  and  is  dead ;  I  don't  know  who  his 
wife  was.  Hugh  Bryant  married  a  daughter  of  the  late  Rev. 
David  Edwards,  and  has  a  family;  these  are  now  our  fellow- 
citizens,  and  are  contributing  their  share  towards  populating 


198  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

aind  improving  the  conditions  of  the  county.  John  M.  Bryant 
was  a  solid,  number  one  man,  honest,  truthful  and  reliable. 
Jesse  Bryant,  son  of  the  first  Jesse,  went  West.  Stephen  Bry- 
ant was  the  father  or  grand-father  of  F.  D.  Bryant,  Esq.,  of 
the  Marion  bar.  One  of  the  daughters  of  the  first  Jesse  was 
the  wife  of  the  late  Charles  Taylor.  One  of  the  sons  of  old 
William  Bryant,  named  William,  was  a  Baptist  preacher;  he 
went  to  Horry,  and  became  the  head  of  a  family  there.  Also, 
did  Stephen,  the  father  of  F.  D.  Bryant.  Old  man  William 
Bryant  was  a  simple-minded  gentleman,  honest  and  straight; 
he  acted  for  many  years  as  a  Constable ;  and  I  heard  it  related 
of  him  that  on  one  occasion,  having  a  Magistrate's  execution 
to  levy  on  the  property  of  another,  the  old  man  went  to  the 
cowpen  of  the  execution  debtor  to  levy  upon  a  bull  yearling 
therein ;  that  the  old  man's  idea  was,  that  in  order  to  make  the 
levy,  as  required  by  the  mandate  of  the  execution,  he  had  to 
lay  the  execution  upon  the  back  of  the  yearling.  Accordingly, 
the  old  man  went  into  the  cowpen,  armed  with  the  execution, 
and  took  after  the  yearling,  and  after  running  him  a  while 
caught  him  by  the  tail,  and  he  and  the  old  man  had  it  round 
and  round  the  pen,  the  yearling  bellowing ;  at  last  the  old  man 
got  him  hemmed  in  a  jamb  of  the  fence  and  held  him,  till  he 
laid  the  execution  on  the  yearling's  back;  when  the  old  man 
said,  "I  levy  upon  this  yearling  in  the  name  of  the  State  of 
South  Carolina."  Another  incident  showing  the  simplicity  of 
the  old  gentleman  was,  that  he  used  to  plant  and  cultivate  two 
and  three  stalks  of  corn  in  a  hill.  Some  one  asked  him  why  he 
did  so,  saying  to  him  that  one  stalk  in  a  hill  would  make  more 
corn  than  the  two  or  three.  The  old  gentleman  replied,  that 
when  he  cultivated  only  one  stalk  in  a  hill,  he  never  made  com 
enough  to  do  him ;  but  when  he  cultivated  two  and  three  stalks, 
he  always  made  plenty ;  that  when  he  fed  his'  horse,  he  always 
gave  him  ten  ears  at  a  bait ;  that  ten  little  ears  would  go  as  far 
as  ten  large  ones;  that  two  or  three  stalks  in  a  hill  would 
make  more  in  number  than  one  stalk.  Many  of  the  Bryants 
of  Marion  have  emigrated  to  other  sections  of  the  country. 
The  writer  is  not  reasonably  certain  that  this  account  of  the 
Bryant  family  is  correct  in  every  particular — it  is,  however, 
in  accord  with  the  information  obtained. 


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Watson. — ^Another  family  that  may  here  be  noticed,  is  the 
Watson  family.  The  progenitor  of  this  family,  so  far  as 
Marion  County  is  concerned,  was  Barnabas  Watson,  on  Buck 
Swamp,  who  was  the  great-grand-father  of  our  now  fellow-cit- 
izens of  the  county.  Old  man  Isham  Watson  was  the  founder, 
it  may  be  said,  of  the  family  on  Catfish,  in  name  and  fortune. 
Barny  Watson,  his  father,  was  married  twice ;  whether  he  had 
a  child  or  children  other  than  Isham,  by  his  first  wife,  is  not 
known.  Isham  Watson  married  and  settled  on  Catfish,  near 
where  Antioch  Church  now  stands,  in  the  first  part  of  the  nine- 
teenth century,  a  poor  man;  his  wife  was  Miss  Mary  Hays,  a 
sister  of  the  late  John  C.  Hays ;  the  results  of  the  marriage  were 
five  sons,  Matthew,  James,  Isham  H.,  Samuel  and  William; 
and  seven  daughters,  Nellie,  Nancy,  Elizabeth,  Mary,  Verzella, 
Fama  and  Jane ;  all  raised  to  be  grown  and  all  married,  and  all 
now  dead,  except  the  daughters,  Mary  and  Jane.  Matthew 
Watson  married  Miss  Celia  Easterling,  in  1839;  and  raised  a 
large  family  of  sons  and  daughters;  the  sons  are  David  E-. 
Isham  E.,  Silas,  Enos  and  Robert;  and  daughters,  Martha, 
Lavina,  Kate  and  Hortensia.  David  E.  Watson  married  Miss 
Rose  Bass,  and  has  now  living  two  sons  and  one  daughter. 
Silas  Watson  married  a  Miss  Page,  daughter  of  W.  J.  Page, 
and  has  a  family  of  sons  and  daughters,  some  of  them  grown. 
Isham  E.  Watson  married  Miss  Beulah  Emanuel ;  he  moved  to 
Florence  and  has  several  children,  sons  and  daughters;  he  is 
in  the  dairy  business.  Enos  Watson  married  Miss  Theodocia 
Emanuel,  sister  of  Isham  E.  Watson's  wife ;  the  two  brothers 
married  two  sisters — ^both  married  the  same  evening.  Enos 
Watson's  wife  is  dead,  leaving  five  children,  the  oldest  of 
whom,  Henry,  by  name,  went  into  the  Cuban  war,  thence  to 
the  Philippines,  and  perhaps  now  in  China.  Robert  Watson 
married  a  Miss  Walling ;  he  died  four  or  five  years  after  mar- 
riage, and  left  two  or  three  children ;  the  whereabouts  of  his 
.widow  and  children  are  unknown.  Martha,  the  eldest  daughter 
of  Matthew  Watson,  married  the  Rev.  Alfred  Pitman,  in 
North  Carolina,  and  resides  there.  Lavina,  the  second  daugh- 
ter, married  a  Mr.  McNeill,  in  North  Carolina,  and  is  dead, 
leaving  children.  Kate  Watson  married  Tracy  R.  Fore,  they 
have  several  children,  one,  a  daughter,  married  to  John  H. 
14 


200  A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY. 

Berry.  Hortensia  Watson  married  Thomas  J.  Bass,  who  was 
killed  some  years  ago  by  the  falling  of  a  tree,  leaning  over  the 
path  which  he  was  traveling ;  he  left  four  sons,  all  young  men, 
now  among  us ;  their  mother  resides  at  Latta.  James  Watson, 
the  second  son  of  Isham  Watson,  married  Miss  Elizabeth 
Jones,  daughter  of  Bryant  Jones,  of  Wahee;  the  fruits  of  the 
marriage  were  several  sons  and  daughters.  James,  the  eldest, 
married  Miss  Flora  Lane,  and  has  several  children,  sons  and 
daughters.  Edward  B.  Watson  married  Miss  Addie  Bethea, 
a  daughter  of  the  late  John  R.  Bethea ;  they  have  several  child- 
ren. Joseph  F.  Watson,  a  physician,  married  in  Darlington; 
I  don't  know  to  whom.  Cicero  Watson,  I  think,  is  still  single. 
Charles,  I  think,  is  married,  and  he  and  two  single  sisters  live 
together  on  the  old  homestead  of  his  father.  James  Watson's 
oldest  daughter,  Mary,  married  Jesse  Gibson,  below  Marion; 
they  have  a  family,  how  many  is  not  known.  The,  next 
daughter,  Sarah,  married  Allen  Gibson,  brother  of  Jesse ;  they 
also  have  a  family,  of  how  many  is  not  known  to  the  writer. 
Another  daughter  married  W.  H.  Daniels,  of  Mullins;  they 
have  two  or  three  children.  Two  daughters  of  James  Watson, 
Telatha  and  Drusilla,  are  yet  single,  and  live  with  their  brother 
on  the  old  homestead.  Isham  H.  Watson,  the  third  son  of  old 
man  Isham,  married  a  Miss  McDuffie,  sister  to  the  late  Sheriff 
McDuffie;  by  her  he  raised  three  children,  two  sons  and  a 
daughter;  the  sons  were  George  E.  and  Duncan  I.,  the  latter 
named  for  his  two  grand-fathers,  Isham  Watson  and  Duncan 
McDuffie;  the  daughter  (Janie),  married  our  fellow-citizen, 
J.  D.  Montgomery.  Isham  H.  Watson's  first  wife  died  of 
small-pox  during  the  war;  he  married  again.  Miss  Mary 
Nichols,  who  survives  him,  childless.  George  E.  Watson  went 
West,  and  married  there;  some  months  after  marriage,  Geo. 
E.  died  suddenly,  and  left  his  widow,  to  whom  a  posthumous 
daug'hter  was  born,  who  takes  and  has  the  name  of  her 
father,  George  Elmore ;  the  widow  and  daughter  are  both  now 
in  Marion.  Samuel  Watson,  the  fourth  son  of  old  Isham, 
married,  first,  a  Miss  Page,  and  by  her  had  sons,  W.  J.  Watson, 
Melton,  S.  P.  Watson  and  S.  C.  Watson,  and  two  daughters, 
Sophronia  and  Maggie.  W.  J.  Watson  married  his  first 
cousin,  a  Miss  Bethea,  moved  to  Mt.  Airy,  N.  C. ;  his  wife  is 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  201 

dead ;  he  'has  seven  children.  Melton  Watson  married  a  Miss 
Moody,  daughter  of  the  late  Charles  Moody,  and  soon  after 
died  childless;  his  widow  still  survives.  Samuel  Watson's 
first  wife  died,  and  he  married  a  Miss  Roberts,  daughter  of  the 
late  Rowland  Roberts,  and  by  her  had  five  children,  when  she 
died ;  he  married  a  third  time,  a  Miss  Price,  sister  of  the  Rev. 
Willie  Price,  of  the  Baptist  Church ;  by  her  he  had  one  child,  a 
boy,  named  Albert.  The  children  of  his  last  two  marriages  are 
unknown  to  the  writer ;  they  are,  however,  here  among  us,  and 
are  of  the  present  generation.  S.  P.  Watson,  third  son  of  Sam- 
uel, married  a  Miss  Bryan,  near  Little  River,  in  Horry  County ; 
is  a  physician;  he  left  a  few  days  ago,  with  his  family,  for 
Oklahoma ;  he  practiced  medicine  in  Latta,  and  left  his  beauti- 
ful and  comfortable  home  in  Latta  unsold;  he  sold  his  planta- 
tion  to  J.  K.  Page;  he  has  seven  children;  he  made  a  trip  to 
that  far  off  land  last  winter,  and  bought  thirty  acres  of  land 
in  the  suburbs  of  Oklahoma  City,  at  $90  an  acre;  the  city  is 
growing  so  fast  that  his  place  is  no  longer  in  the  suburbs,  but 
is  now  in  the  city;  his  purchase  has  already  quadrupled,  and 
there  is  no  telling  what  his  thirty  aches  of  land  will  be  worth  in 
the  near  future;  the  city  now  has  20,000  inhabitants.  S.  C. 
Watson,  the  fourth  son  of  Samuel  Watson  and  youngest  by  his 
first  wife,  married  a  Miss  Stackhouse,  daughter  of  Wm.  R. 
Stackhouse;  he  has  five  children.  William  Watson,  the  fifth 
son  and  youngest  of  old  man  Isham's  sons,  married  Miss 
Cherry  Deer,  daughter  of  Joseph  Deer ;  the  results  of  the  mar- 
riage were  four  sons,  John  G.,  William  E.,  Furman  and  D. 
Maxcy  Watson;  and  three  daughters,  Ellen,  Pauline  and 
Norma.  William  Watson,  the  father,  died  some  years  ago. 
The  son,  John  G.  Watson,"  married  a  Miss  Emanuel,  and  by  her 
has  several  children ;  he  resides  in  Marion,  and  is  now  one  of 
the  division  chief  liquor  constables  of  the  State.  William  E. 
Watson,  the  second  son  of  William  Watson,  deceased,  married 
Miss  Annie  Fore,  daughter  of  the  late  Stephen  Fore,  and  by 
her  has  had  twelve  children,  one  dead,  eight  sons  living  and 
three  daughters.  Furman  Watson  married  Miss  lyinnie  Bond, 
and  has  two  children,  two  sons.  D.  Maxcy  Watson,  the 
youngest  son  of  the  late  William  Watson,  married  Miss  Lucy 
B.  Sellers,  daughter  of  John  C.  Sellers,  and  grand-daughter  of 


202  A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY. 

the  writer;  they  have  no  children.  Of  the  daughters  of  the 
late  William  Watson,  the  eldest,  Ellen,  married  Addison  Bass ; 
they  have  several  children,  sons  and  daughters.  The  second 
daughter,  Pauline,  married,  first.  Rev.  Mr.  Price,  a  Baptist 
minister ;  he  died  a  few  years  ago,  leaving  one  child,  a  daughter, 
named  Annie  Hamer;  the  widow  married,  a  second  time, 
Charles  W.  Wiggins,  of  Dillon;  they  have  no  children. 
Norma,  the  youngest  daughter,  married  Benj.  B.  Sellers,  son 
of  John  C.  Sellers;  they  have  two  children,  a  son  and  a 
daughter — Harry  and  Margaret  Ellen.  As  to  the  two  daugh- 
ters of  the  late  Samuel  Watson  by  his  first  marriage,  Sophro- 
nia  and  Maggie,  Sophronia  married  John  K.  Page,  a  first  class 
citizen ;  she  died  some  four  years  ago,  leaving  two  sons,  Sam- 
uel and  Ernest.  Samuel  is  now  in  Baltimore,  in  a  medical 
college;  Ernest,  a  lad,  is  yet  at  home.  The  second  daughter, 
Maggie,  married  Frank  Easterling,  a  very  worthy  man;  they 
have  two  children,  sons,  Rupert  and  Henry.  Of  the  daughters 
of  old  Isham  Watson,  Nellie,  the  oldest,  married  Frank  A. 
Berry,  in  1839;  she  died,  together  with  her  infant,  in  1840; 
both  were  buried  together  in  the  same  grave.  Frank  A.  Berry 
lived  a  widower  for  perhaps  thirty  years  or  more,  when  he 
married  Verzilla  Waitson,  sister  of  Nellie,  then  an  old  maid; 
she  died  childless,  a  few  years  ago;  her  husband  preceded  her 
to  the  grave  a  year  or  two.  Nancy,  the  second  daughter,  mar- 
ried Rev.  Joel  Allen;  they  raised  a  large  family  of  sons  and 
daughters;  the  sons  were  James  (killed  in  the  war),  William, 
Joel  I.,  David  E.  and  Frank ;  the  daughters  were  Annie,  Maria, 
Eugenia  and  Alice.  Of  the  sons,  William  married  a  Miss 
Cox,  of  Florence;  they  have  a  large  family  of  children,  sons 
and  daughters,  and  live  on  the  old  homestead.  Joel  I.  married, 
first.  Miss  Helen  Bass ;  she  died,  and  left  four  or  five  children, 
sons  and  daughters;  Joel  I.  married,  a  second  time,  a  lady 
near  Ridgeway,  S.  C,  named  Lulie  Meredith ;  by  her  he  had 
three  children,  when  she  died,  and  he  is  now  a  widower  again, 
with  two  sets  of  children,  eight  in  number.  Joel  I.  Allen,  like 
his  father,  is  a  Baptist  preacher,  and  has  charge  of  the  Baptist 
Church  at  Dillon,  and  resides  there ;  is  a  fair  preacher,  and  has 
one  quality  that  many  preachers  do  not  have — ^his  sermons  are 
short  and  sensible,  and  when  he  gets  through  he  quits — ^he 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  203 

does  not  turn  round  and  thrash  the  straw  over  again  or  rehash 
it;  he  is  a  good'  man.  David  E.  Allen  married  Elizabeth 
(Bettie)  Bethea,  a  daughter  of  Philip  W.  Bethea;  has  raised  a 
family  of  eight  or  nine  children,  sons  and  daughters ;  some  of 
them  are  married  and  have  families.  Frank  Allen  emigrated 
some  years  ago  to  Greenwood,  S.  C,  and  married  there — can't 
say  to  whom ;  he  is  a  first  class  man.  The  Allen  boys  are  all 
good  men,  straightforward  and  reliable.  Of  the  daughters  of 
the  Rev.  Joel  Allen,  Annie  Maria,  the  oldest,  married  Dr. 
Andrew  J.  Bethea,  son  of  Rev.  S.  J.  Bethea;  he  died  in  1881, 
and  left  three  sons  and  two  daughters ;  the  sons  are  Herbert, 
Percy  and  Andrew,  and  are  all  young  men  of  fine  character. 
Andrew  is  now  in  Wake  Forrest  College,  N.  C. ;  all  unmar- 
ried.* Of  the  daughters,  the  oldest,  Nettie  Bethea,  married 
Rev.  Pierce  F.  Kilgo,  a  Methodist  preacher  of  the  South  Caro- 
lina Conference,  and  is  now  stationed  at  Williamston  and  Bel- 
ton,  and  is  said  to  be  a  fine  preacher ;  they  have  several  child- 
ren. Georgia,  the  younger  daughter,  married  W.  T.  Bethea, 
her  first  cousin,  who  is,  and  has  been,  for  several  years,  agent 
for  the  Atlantic  Coast  Line  Railroad  Company  at  Dillon,  and 
has  been  Mayor  of  the  town  for  three  or  four  years.  They 
have  three  children,  sons,  and  are  doing  well.  W.  T.  Bethea 
is  the  grand-son  of  the  writer.  Eugenia,  a  daughter  of  Rev. 
Joel  Allen,  married  Preston  L.  Dew;  they  moved  to  Green- 
wood several  years  ago,  and  are  said  to  be  doing  well;  they 
have  several  children.  Alice  Allen,  the  remaining  daughter  of 
Rev.  Joel  Allen,  married  her  cousin,  Furman  Allen,  of  Marl- 
borough; they  are  doing  well,  and  have  a  large  family,  sons 
and  daughters'.  The  Allen  family  under  consideration  herein 
are  most  respectable,  good  citizens,  worthy  to  be  emulated. 
Elizabeth  Watson,  third  daughter  of  old  man  Isham,  married 
the  late  George  W.  Reaves,  being  his  third  wife;  by  him  she 
had  five  children,  three  of  whom  died  children;  two  were 
raised  a  son,  J.  R.  Reaves,  and  a  daughter,  Mary  E.  Robert 
Reaves  is  one  of  our  leading  fdlow-citizens,  on  Buck  Swamp ; 
he  married  a  Miss  McMillan,  in  the  MuUins  community, 
and  has  raised  a  large  family — I  think,  thirteen  or  fourteen 

*Herbert  Bethea  has  recently  married  Miss  Eva  Manning,  daughter  of 
the  late  Houston  Manning. 


204  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTV, 

children,  sons  and  daughters;  he  is  doing  a  good  part  by 
his  children  in  the  way  of  education.  Charles  is  a  leading 
merchant  of  Mullins.  Samuel  W.  is  a  graduate  of  the  Cita- 
del, and  is  a  promising  young  man*  Robert,  another  son,  is 
a  graduate  of  a  dental  school,  and  has  located  in  Marion  for 
the  practice  of  his  profession;  he  is  also  a  promising  young 
man.  Of  J.  R.  Reaves'  daughters,  the  older  ones  are  well 
educated  and  stand  well ;  one  or  two  of  them  married,  to  whom 
unknown;  several  not  yet  grown.f  Mary  married  Dr.  N.  C. 
Murphy,  who  died  several  years  ago;  she  is  a  practical  busi- 
ness woman,  a  good  manager  in  her  business  and  farm  affairs ; 
she  has  three  sons  and  two  daughters ;  both  daughters  are  mar- 
ried, one  to  a  Mr.  McMillan,  the  other  to  a  Mr.  Cain,  of  St. 
'  Matthews.  Mary,  the  next  daughter  of  Isham  Watson,  mar- 
ried James  B.  Ivegette,  and  still  survives ;  they  raised  a  large 
family,  mostly  girls — only  two  sons,  Salathiel  and  Andrew. 
The  oldest  daughter,  SaraJh  Ellen,  married  a  Mr.  Cadell,  a 
one-legged  man ;  they  left  the  county — I  think  they  are  now  in 
Florence ;  they  have  a  family,  how  many  not  known.  Another 
daughter  married  D.  S.  Cottingham,  and  is  doing  well ;  of  their 
family  the  writer  knows  nothing.  Another  married  W.  C. 
Easterling,  of  "Free  State;"  they  have  several  children,  five 
daugihters  and  two  sons;  the  oldest  daughter  married;  I  do 
not  know  anything  of  their  family.  Of  the  two  sons  of  James 
B.  Legette  and  Mary,  his  wife,  the  oldest,  Salathiel,  acciden- 
tally shot  himself  several  years  ago,  unmarried.  The  younger 
orie,  Andrew,  married  a  Miss  Moore,  a  daughter  of  Alfred 
Moore,  of  Marlborough ;  he  lost  his  wife  some  months  ago,  and 
left  him  with,  I  think,  seven  children.  Fama  Watson,  another 
daughter  of  old  man  Isham  Watson,  married,  first,  Stephen 
Berry,  youngest  son  of  Cross  Roads  Henry  Berry;  he 
lived  about  a  year,  and  died  childless ;  the  widow  afterwards 
married  the  late  Fred.  D.  Jones,  of  Marion;  the  fruits  of  this 
marriage  were  one  son,  Presley,  and  five  daughters.  Presley 
Jones  married  a  Miss  Sparks,  of  Marlborough,  and  has  four 
children.  The  oldest  daughter,  Costa,  married  a  Mr.  Hunter, 
of  Marlborough,  who  died  a  few  months  ago,  and  left  five 

*S.  W.  Reaves  is  now  a  professor  in  Clemson  College. 

tMary  Reaves,  a  graduate  of  Winthrop.  died  of  tvphoid  fever  recently. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  205 

or  six  cliildren.  Alice  Jones  married  L.  W.  Oliver,  of 
Marion.  Sallie,  Theodocia  and  Cora,  young  ladies,  are  yet 
single,  and  live  at  the  old  homestead.  The  father  and  mother 
are  both  dead.  Jan«  Watson,  the  youngest  daughter  of 
old  Isham,  married  John  M.  Mace,  and  yet  survives;  they 
live  in  the  Friendship  neighborhood,  and  have  a  large  family 
of  sons  and  daughters ;  the  sons  are  Thadeus,  Stephen,  Moses, 
Samuel,  John  C.  and  Cornelius,  and  one  son  dead ;  daughters, 
Elizabeth  (Bettie)  and  Mary.  Thadeus  married  a  Miss 
Eugenia  Gasque,  daughter  of  our  excellent  fellow-citizen, 
Arny  Gasque,  and  Moses  Mace  married  another  daughter.  Miss 
Emma.  Stephen  Mace  married  Miss  Julia  Philips,  daughter  of 
our  late  fellow-citizen,  F.  Marion  Philips.  Samuel  Mace  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Carter,  and  John  C.  Mace  married  a  Miss  Griffith, 
I  think,  of  Edgefield  County.  Neill  Mace  is  yet  unmarried. 
Of  these  sons  of  John  M.  Maee,  Jo^hn  C.  Mace  and  Samuel 
are  both  doctors ;  one,  John  C,  located  at  Marion,  and  running 
a  drug  store,  and  is  Coroner  of  the  county ;  Samuel  Mace  is 
located  at  L,oris,  in  Horry  County,  and  is  said  to  be  doing 
well  there,  and  is  a  fine  physician.  Of  the  two  daug'hters  of 
John  M.  Mace,  the  oldest,  Bettie,  is  married  to  Furman  Wall ; 
the  younger  one,  Mary,  is  yet  unmarried.  It  is  supposed  (the 
writer  does  not  know)  that  all  these  young  Maces  that  are 
man  led  have  families,  more  or  less  numerous,  perpetuating 
the  name  and  family  connections,  and  also  contributing  to  an 
increase  in  the  population  of  the  county,  and  industriously 
adding  to  the  county's  wealth  and  prosperity.  This  closes  the 
notice  of  the  Watson  family,  so  far  as  is  diescended  from  the 
old  man,  Isham.  In  many  respects,  the  old  man,  Isham,  was  an 
extraordinaTy  man ;  he  made  a  large  fortune,  raised  his  large 
family  respectably — industry,  frugality  and  economy  were  the 
prominent  characteristics  of  his  career;  these,  with  his  great 
good  sense,  gave  him  success  in  life;  he  died  of  erysipelas,  in 
1864,  over  three-score  and  ten  years  of  age.  Barney  Watson, 
his  father,  married  a  second  time,  I  do  not  know  to  whom ;  by 
this  marriage  he  had  two  sons,  Barney  and  Meredith,  and  some 
daughters.  Barney  and  Meredith  are  both  dead,  and  left 
families,  about  whom  the  writer  knows  nothing.  Barney  and 
Meredith  were  hard-working,  honest  men,  but  did  not  succeed 


206  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

in  life  as  did  their  older  half-brother,  Isham.  The  father,  old 
man  Barney,  had  two  brothers,  Needham  and  Thomas;  I  do 
not  know  what  became  of  Thomas.  Needham  Watson  married 
and  had  a  family — at  least,  one  son,  named  Wickham,  who 
lived  in  the  Temperance  Hill  neighborhood.  Wickham  mar- 
ried and  had  a  family,  how  many  is  unknown ;  one  son,  named 
Kerigan — what  became  of  him  is  unknown;  he  was  not  re- 
markable for  his  beauty ;  if  there  had  been  such  a  club  as  an 
"Ugly  Club,"  he  would  have  stood  a  fair  chance  to  have  been 
its  president.  Wickham  Watson  was  a  remarkable  man  phy- 
sically, in  respect  to  which  the  writer  will  say  nothing.  There 
are  some  Watsons  in  Britton's  Neck,  whether  related  to  these 
Watsons  on  Catfish  is  not  known ;  of  them,  however,  the  writer 
knows  nothing.  There  was  another  family  of  Watsons  in  w^hat 
is  now  known  as  Hillsboro  Township,  and  of  whom  something 
has  already  herein  been  incidentally  said.  Seacebook  Watson 
came  from  Virginia,  and  settled  on  the  road  leading  from 
Nichols  to  L,umberton,  N.  C,  more  than  one  hundred  years 
ago;  he  succeeded  well  in  life,  raised  a  large  family,  sons 
and  daughters;  the  sons,  Michael,  Thomas  and  John  R., 
were  known  to  the  writer.  Michael  and  Thomas  went  to 
North  Carolina,  married  sisters.  Smithy  and  Kitsey  Ham,  very 
excellent  women,  and  each  raised  respectable  families;  they 
were  just  across  the  line,  and  many  of  their  descendants  are 
now  in  South  Carolina.  John  R.  Watson,  the  youngest  son, 
married  Miss  Sallie  Ford,  who  had  the  phenomenon  of  a  black 
eye  and  a  blue  one;  they  lived  on  the  old  homestead  of  his 
father,  and  had  a  large  family  of  four  sons  and  several 
daughters.  John  R.  Watson  died  in  middle  life,  and  left  his 
widow  and  children,  many  of  them  small ;  the  widow  managed 
well  and  raised  her  family  respectably,  and  died  a  few  years 
ago ;  some  of  them  are  now  in  the  county,  and  among  our  best 
people.  If  all  these  Watsons  and  their  thrice  multiplied  con- 
nections, hereinabove  referred  to,  were  destroyed,  it  would  cut 
a  mighty  swathe  in  our  county  population.  There  may  be,  and 
perhaps  are,  some  few  families  larger  or  more  numerous,  but 
not  many — ^the  name  will  not  soon  become  extinct. 

RgAvies. — Another  family  to  be  here  noticed  is  the  ReaVes 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION,  COUNTY.  207 

family.  The  first  known  of  this  family  was  Solomon  Reaves, 
a  Baptist  preacher.  The  writer  heard  him  pr«ach  when  a  boy, 
about  1829,  at  an  association  at  Porter  Swamp  Church,  in  Co- 
lumbus County,  N.  C,  about  five  miles  from  Fair  Bluff,  N.  C. ; 
he  was  then  an  old  man,  white  hair  and  red  face ;  he  had  a  son, 
named  "Charles — ^he  may  have  had  other  sons,  but  Charles  is 
the  only  one  that  concerns  Marion  County ;  he  married  a  Miss 
Hodge,  sister  of  the  late  Dr.  Samuel  Hodge,  in  the  Gapway 
neighborhood ;  by  her  he  had  two  sons,  George  W.  and  Robert 
H.  Reaves;  he  may  have  had  other  sons  and  daughters.  His 
first  wife  dying,  he  married  Miss  Mary  Griffin,  of  North  Caro- 
lina, near  Fair  Bluff;  no  oflfspring  by  this  second  marriage. 
Charles  Reaves  died  in  1861  or  1862,  leaving  his  widow  and 
a  large  estate  of  lands  and  negroes ;  he  died  intestate,  his  prop- 
erty, real  and  personal,  descended  under  the  law  to  his  widow 
and  two  sons,  one-third  each,  the  widow  getting  the' old  home- 
stead. Some  years  after  that,  the  widow  married  the  late  Col- 
onel John  T.  Harrington,  who  died  some  years  back,  and  left 
Mrs.  Harrington  a  widow  for  the  second  time;  no  child  or 
children;  she  still  survives  and  is  still  a  widow  on  the  old 
Reaves  homestead,  now  in  her  eighty-seventh  year — somewhat 
a  remarkable  woman  for  her  age.  Of  the  sons,  George  W. 
Reaves  married  four  times — ^not  being  a  very  old  man  at  the 
time  of  his  fourth  marriage;  he  was  born  in  181 1,  and  died,  I 
think,  in  1896  or  1897;  his  first  wife  was  a  Miss  Carmichael,  of 
what  is  now  Carmichael  Township,  a  sister  of  the  late  Neill 
C.  Carmichael ;  she  lived  only  about  a  year,  and  died  dhildless ; 
he  married,  a  second  time,  a  Miss  Brown ;  by  her  he  had  some 
children,  how  many  is  not  known.  There  were  one  or  two 
sons  by  this  marriage,  who  were  killed  or  died  in  the  war,  and 
a  daughter,  who  married  some  one,  and  soon  became  a  widow ; 
I  know  nothing  more  of  her.  His  Brown  wife  died,  I  think, 
in  1846  or  7;  he  married  in  a  few  months.  Miss  Elizabeth 
Watson,  who  has  hereinbefore  been  spoken  of ;  by  her  he  raised 
two  children,  James  Robert  Reaves  and  Mary  E.  Reaves,  now 
Mrs.  Murphy — heretofore  noticed.  The  Watson  wife  died, 
and  he  married  a  Miss  Rogers,  of  the  Fork,  a  daughter  of  the 
late  Captain  John  Rogeirs ;  by  her  he  had  and  raised  four  sons, 
George  R.  Reaves,  John  Reaves,  William  Reaves  and  Edward 


208  A  HISTORY  0?  MARION  COUNTY. 

Reaves ;  the  latter  is  a  Baptist  preacher  of  high  standing,  and 
is  pastor  of  some  church  in  the  upper  part  of  the  State.  These 
sons  of  George  W.  Reaves  are  all  respectable  and  valued  citi- 
zens, and  are  a  part  of  the  bone  and  sinews  of  the  county, 
married  and  contributing  their  full  share  to  the  citizenship  and 
general  prosperity  of  the  county.  The  father,  George  W. 
Reaves,  was  a  good  citizen  and  a  prominent  church  man, 
weighed,  avoirdupois,  three  hundred  pounds,  or  more.  His 
brother,  Robert  H.  Reaves,  was  for  many  years  a  prominent 
merchant  at  Marion ;  he  married  a  daughter  of  old  Colonel  W. 
H.  Grioe,  who  still  survives,  and  lives  upon  and  owns 
her  patrimonial  estate  in  Wa'hee  Township.  R.  H.  Reaves, 
the  last  years  of  his  life,  retired  from  mercantile  pursuits, 
and  went  on  his  farm  in  Wahee,  where  he  accidentally 
fell  from  his  piazza  some  years  ago  and  broke  his  neck;  he 
raised  a  family  of  four  sons  and  perhaps  two  daughters ;  of  the 
sons,  two,  Henry  and  Thomas,  died  young  rnen,  unmarried; 
Augustus  and  James  still  survive ;  the  former  unmarried,  lives 
with  his  mother;  the  latter  married,  and  lives  in  Sumter 
County;  has  a  family,  and  is  said  to  be  doing  well.  Of  the 
daughters.  Miss  Sallie,  the  oldest,  has  never  married,  and  lives 
with  her  mother.  The  younger  one,  name  not  remembered, 
married  a  Mr.  Lide,  in  Darlington.  R.  H.  Reaves  was  a  good 
and  successful  merchant  for  many  years,  but  in  the  wind-up  of 
his  mercantile  affairs,  did  not  seem  to  have  made  much,  but 
saved  his  plantation  and  negroes;  he  was  a  man  of  equable 
temperament,  and  never  seemed  to  be  in  a  hurry ;  he  represented 
the  district  in  the  Legislature  just  after  the  war  in  1866 — ^before 
Reconstruction  commenced  or  before  it  got  under  way. 

Grice. — ^Just  here  may  be  noticed  the  Grioe  family,  to  which 
Mrs.  Reaves  belonged.  Colonel  W.  H.  Grice  was  originally 
from  Horry  County;  he  came  to  Marion  away  back  in  the 
twenties  or  thirties.  In  former  times  he  had  represented  Horry 
in  the  House  and  had  been  Senator  from  lyiberty  (Marion) 
and  Kingston  before  1810 ;  he  was  a  well  read  man  for  his  day; 
he  had  three  diildren,  one  of  whom  was  Mrs.  Reaves,  above 
spoken  of.  His  youngest  daughter,  Ellen,  became  the  third 
wife  of  the  late  Colonel  W.  W.  DuRant,  well  known  in  Marion, 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  209 

having  been  in  the  town  perhaps  all  his  life ;  she  was  respected 
by  all  who  knew  her,  and  loved  for  her  many  good  qualities ; 
she  raised  several  daughters  and  one  son  to  be  thirteen  or 
fourteen  years  of  age  (Thadeus,  I  believe),  who  accidentally 
shot  himself  twelve  or  fifteen  years  ago.  These  daughters  of 
Colonel  DuRant  have  all  married  and  have  families,  except, 
perhaps,  two,  who  reside  in  the  old  DuRant  homestead,  near 
the  town,  all  dtring  well  and  quite  respectable.  Colonel  Wil- 
liam H.  Grice  had  only  one  son,  Augustus  E.  Grice,  quite  a 
literary  man  and  a  fine  speaker ;  he  was  elected  Sheriff  of  the 
county  in  1876 ;  he  lived  about  two  years,  and  died  during  his 
term  of  softening  of  the  brain ;  he  married,  late  in  life,  a  Miss 
Tanner,  and  left  a  considerable  family.  Perseus  L,.  Grice,  our 
present  fellow-citizen,  and  quite  respectable,  is  one  of  his 
sons — ^perhaps  the  oldest ;  one  of  his  daughters  is  the  wife  of 
J.  T.  Dozier,  the  late  nominee  of  the  Democratic  party  of 
Marion  for  County  Supervisor.*  Of  the  others  of  the  family 
of  Sheriff  Grice,  the  writer  knows  nothing.  Colonel  William 
H.  Grice  died  in  1854,  leaving  a  good  property  in  'both  town 
and  country  to  his  children ;  he  was  up  to  the  times  in  his  day, 
a  very  honest  and  reliable  man,  very  cautious  and  prudent. 
The  old  court  house  of  1823  hadi  a  large  crack  in  its  northwest 
comer,  and  such  was  t!he  prudence  of  Colonel  Grice — excited, 
perhaps,  by  his  fear — ^that  he  would  not  go  up  into  the  court 
room  when  it  was  crowded,  unless  from  strong  business  com- 
pulsion; whether  it  was  dangerous  or  not,  the  writer  cannot 
say ;  he  was  in  it  many  times  wlien  it  was  packed  with  people. 

Roberts. — The  next  family  now  to  be  noticed  is  the  Roberts 
family.  The  first  of  them  known  to  the  writer  was  Redden 
Roberts  and  Norton  Roberts.  They  settled  on  Buck  Swamp, 
near  Buck  Swamp  Bridge.  I  do  not  know  who  the  wife  of 
either  was,  but  both  married  and  raised  families.  Redden 
Roberts  had  sons,  William  D.,  James,  Rowland  and  Giles.  The 
latter  went  into  the  Confederate  army,  and  died  of  disease,  un- 
married. William  D.  Roberts  married  Lishia  Manning,  a 
daughter  of  old  John  Manning,  and  had  and  raised  a  consider- 
able family,  sons — ^John  M.  Roberts  and  William  Roberts ;  they 
*J.  T.  Dozier  was  elected  anji  is  now  the  County  Supervisor. 


210  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

both  have  families  unknown.  Daughters  of  Wm.  D.  Roberts — 
Penelope,  and  perhaps  another,  married  sons  of  Charles  Tay- 
lor, both  of  wihich  Taylors  were  killed  or  died  in  the  Confed- 
erate War.  Another  daughter,  Julia  Ann,  married  A.  H.  Har- 
relson,  who  has  a  family  of  several  children.  Another,  Lispia 
Ann,  married  Captain  Thomas  E.  Tart ;  Tart  is  dead.  Another 
(name  not  remembered)  married  Dugal  C.  Mclntyre;  Mcln- 
tyre  is  dead ;  left  a  family  of  several  children,  and  the  widow 
still  survives.  Another  married  an  Avant;  he  is  dead,  his 
widow  survives ;  there  were  no  children.  And  one  other  daugh- 
ter (name  not  remembered)  still  unmarried.  James  Roberts, 
second  son  of  old  man  Reddin  Roberts,  married  Sallie  Good- 
year, only  child  of  old  Mr.  William  Goodyear ;  he  raised  a  con- 
siderable family;  he  is  and  was  a  very  excellent  citizen;  little 
is  known  of  his  family.  A  son  of  his,  Henry  Roberts,  is  a 
capital  man  and  good  citizen;  I  do  not  know  whether  he  is 
married  or  not ;  I  think  he  lives  on  his  father's  old  homestead. 
One  of  James  Roberts'  daughters  married  A.  C.  Oliver,  of 
Robeson  County,  N.  C. ;  they  have  considerable  family.  An- 
other daughter  married  Albert  Edwards,  of  this  county ;  think 
they  have  but  one  child,  a  daughter,  who  is  said  to  be  quite  a 
scholar  and  a  fine  teacher.  Another  daughter  is  the  wife  of 
Albert  Shooter.  James  Roberts  had  other  children,  not 
known  to  the  writer.  James  Roberts  was  a  good  man  and 
unexceptional  citizen — ^honest  and  truthful.  Rowland  Rob- 
erts, third  son  of  Reddin  Roberts,  married  Miss  Mary  Smith, 
daughter  of  the  late  Samuel  Smith,  senior,  of  Buck  Swamp'; 
they  raised  a  family  of  sons  and  daughters — ^the  oldest,  I  think, 
was  Pinckney,  who  went  into  the  Confederate  War,  and  was 
killed  or  died  of  disease,  unmarried.  Roger  married,  first,  a 
daughter  of  Colonel  John  Roberts ;  they  had  four  or  five  child- 
ren, boys  and  girls,  when  their  mother  died,  and  Roger  married 
again — I  do  not  know  whom.  Giles,  another  son,  married 
Miss  Hays,  daugbter  of  Wilson  Hays.  Samuel  and  Stephen,  I 
think,  both  married  daughters  of  Captain  L.  M.  Edwards ;  they 
all  have  families,  are  good  citizens,  and  are  doing  their  share 
towards  building  up  and  forwarding  the  interest  and  welfare 
of  the  county.  Rowland  Roberts'  daughters,  twO'  of  whom  are 
only  known  by  the  writer;  one  married  the  late  Samuel  Wat- 


A  HISTORY  01?  MARION  COUNTY.  211 

son  (his  second  wife,  I  think) ;  her  name  was  Bettie;  she  died 
some  years  ago,  leaving  five  children,  named  Mary,  Lamar, 
Judson,  Elliott  and  Carrie.  Mary  is  married  to  Albert  Allen, 
a  son  of  Elmore  Allen,  of  Marlborough  County.  Albert  Allen 
resides  in  North  Carolina.  Elmore  C.  Allen,  of  Latta,  married 
the  other  da,ughter  of  Rowland  Roberts,  named  Sallie ;  resides 
at  Latta,  and  has  several  children,  neither  age  or  sex  is  known. 
Elmore  Allen  is  one  of  the  well-to-do  citizens  of  the  town  and 
county ;  he  and  his  wife  are  first  cousins,  their'  mothers  being 
sisters.  Of  the  daughters  of  old  Reddin  Roberts,  one  married 
Harllee  Bethea,  who  removed  to  Florida  miany  years  ago — 
know  but  little  of  his  family ;  had  a  son  named  Reddin,  a  very 
promising  young  ma,n.  Another  daughter  married  Henry 
Hays,  of  Hillsboro,  who  has  been  dead  several  years ;  he  left  a 
son,  our  good  fellow-citizen,  W.  D.  B.  Hays,  near  Mount 
Andrew  Church;  he  married  his  first  cousin,  a  daughter  of 
Harllee  Bethea;  they  have  only  one  child,  a  daughter;  I  sup- 
pose she  is  grown,  name  not  known.  Another  daughter  of  old 
man  Reddin,  his  youngest,  named  Zilpha,  married  C.  P.  Floyd, 
of  Nichols ;  be  was  killed  on  the  railroad  between  MuUins  and 
Nichols,  some  twenty-five  or  thirty  years  ago;  he  left  several 
children,  sons  and  daughters.  Mrs.  Floyd  now  lives  on  the 
homestead  of  her  father,  an  excellent  lady  and  capital  man- 
ager; has  raised  her  children  in  credit  and  respectability — 
three  ■sons  and  three  or  four  daughters.  The  sons  were 
Charles  P.,  Henry  Bascom  (called  Battie),  and  Giles  R.  Floyd. 
Charles  P.  was  killed  some  twenty  or  more  years  ago  by  a  man 
by  the  name  of  Anderson,  near  Campbell's  Bridge.  The  writer 
was  employed  to  prosecute  Anderson,  who  was  convicted  of 
manslaughter  and  sentenced  to  two  years  in  the  State  peniten- 
tiary. Henry  Bascom  married  a  Miss  Stackhouse,  daughter  of 
the  late  Wm.  R.  Stackhouse,  and  is  one  of  our  good  citizens. 
I  believe  Giles  R.  is  married;  don't  know  to  whom;  he  is  af- 
flicted with  asthma.  The  writer  can  truly  sympathise  with  him, 
as  he  has  had  that  most  distressing  of  diseases,  off  and  on,  for 
twenty-five  years.  Of  her  daughters,  the  two  oldest,  Cornelia 
and  Minnie,  married  North  Carolina  men,  where  they  residfe, 
and,  therefore,  cannot  tell  anything  about  their  families. 
Think  Minnie  is  dead.     Roberta  married  Lewis  S.  Bethea, 


212  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

above  Latta,  and  is  doing  well.  There  is  one,  perhaps,  two 
daughters  yet  unmarried,  and  yet  with  their  mother.  Reddin 
Roberts  had  another  daughter,  who  never  married;  her  name 
was  Martha  Arm ;  she  is  dead.  Old  man  Reddin  Roberts  was 
an  excellent,  quiet  citizen;  was  wealthy  before  the  war, 
especially  in  negro  property.  It  was  said  of  him  that 
when  he  married  he  had  one  negro  girl  about  grown,  that 
his  wife  bad  one,  and  on  the  night  of  their  marriage,  his 
wife's  girl  had  a  child ;  that  from  these  two  girls,  at  emanci- 
pation, he  had  and  had  given  off  some  to  his  children  together 
eighty  slaves;  that  during  his  married  life  he  had  sold 
two  and  had  bought  three,  or  vice  versor— showing  how  for- 
tunes might  be  made  by  raising  negroes.  It  was  said  he  did 
not  work  his  negroes  hard,  and  fed  and  clothed  them  well, 
hence  his  negro  women  "bred  like  rabbits,"  as  the  saying  is. 
He  was  an  exemplary  man,  lived  at  home  and  kept  out  of  debt. 
Norton  Roberts  resided  on  the  first  settled  place  south  of  Buck 
Swamp  Bridge ;  don't  know  to  whom  he  married — think,  how- 
ever, his  wife  was  a  Miss  Johnson ;  be,  with  all  bis  family,  ex- 
cept his  oldest  son.  Colonel  John  M.  Roberts,  went  to  Louisi- 
ana a  way  back,  perhaps,  in  the  forties,  and  it  is  said,  don't 
know  with  how  much  truth,  that  one  of  his  sons  became  Gov- 
ernor of  Louisiana.  I  have  learned  from  the  Hon.  James 
Norton,  that  Norton  Roberts'  mother  was  a  Miss  Norton,  sister 
of  James  Norton's  grand-father,  hence  his  name,  Norton  Rob- 
erts. Norton  Roberts  married  Martha  Norton,  who  was  the 
mother  of  Colonel  John  M.  Colonel  John  M.  Roberts,  his  old- 
est son,  married  Miss  Franky  Mace;  by  her  he  had  seven 
daughters  and  no  son.  One  of  his  daughters  died  unmarried. 
His  oldest  daughter,  Elizabeth,  married  Alexander  Hays,  son 
of  Joseph  B.  Hays,  and  brother  to  our  T.  B.  Hays ;  they  have 
raised  a  large  family  of  sons  and  daughters,  unknown  to  the 
writer.  Another  daughter,  Joanna,  married  Thomas  Finklea, 
a  son  of  old  "Corn-making  Willis  Finklea."  Finklea  is  dead ; 
suppose  they  raised  a  family.  Another  daughter  married 
Roger  Roberts,  already  mentioned  herein.  Another  daughter 
married  Charles  B.  Gaddy,  who  died  a  few  weeks  ago,  sud- 
denly, hereinbefore  m'entioned.  Another  daughter,  Louisa, 
married  John  M.  McCoU,  now  one  of  our  best  and  most  reliable 


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citizens ;  they  have  only  one  child,  a  daughter,  Fannie ;  married 
to  a  Mr.  McNeill,  of  North  CaroUna.  One  other  daughter, 
named  Emelia  or  Mille,  has  never  married,  and  still  living. 
Colonel  Roberts  was  eminently  a  good  citizen,  a  successful 
man  every  way,  with  only  an  ordinary  common  school  educa- 
tion. In  the  late  unpleasantness,  he  volunteered  early,  raised 
a  company  and  went  into  the  war  as  a  Captain,  and  upon  the 
reorganization  of  the  regiment  was  promoted  to  Major,  and 
then  to  Lieutenant  Colonel.  In  the  battle.  Seven  Days  Fight 
around  Richmond,  or  at  Second  Manassas,  or  at  Sharpsburg, 
in  1862,  was  wounded  in  the  thigh  by  a  Minie  ball  or  piece  of 
shell.  He  came  home,  the  wound  'became  gangrenous,  and 
he  died,  to  the  regret  of  all  who  knew  him,  both  in  and  out  of 
the  army ;  he  was  a  good  soldier,  a  good  officer,  beloved  by  his 
company  and  regiment,  a  growing,  rising  man  at  home  and  in 
the  army ;  and  though  comparatively  a  young  man,  had  accu- 
mulated a  good  property,  and  left  it  unencumbered  and  his 
family  in  good  condition.  Had  he  lived,  there  was  no  public 
position  within  the  gift  of  the  people  that  he  might  have  as- 
pired to,  that  he  could  not  have  obtained ;  he  was  exceedingly 
popular. 

Eli<ERbE. — ^Tihe  next  family  to  be  noticed  is  the  Ellerbe  fam- 
ily. Two  brothers,  Thomas  and  John  Ellerbe,  came  to  South 
Carolina  about  1740.  Thomas  Ellerbe  applied  to  the  Council 
for  lands,  about  which  he  had  some  trouble ;  and  Bishop  Gregg 
says,  on  page  63 :  "Mr.  Elerby  was  doubtless  successful  in  the 
end,  as  he  remained  in  that  neighborhood  and  became  the 
owner  of  extensive  landed  possessions,  a  large  portion  of 
which  has  remained  in  the  family  to  the  present  day."  And  in 
a  note  to  this,  Gregg  says :  "The  mill  site  referred  to  in  the 
petition  of  Thomas  Elerby  was,  doubtless,  that  on  Juniper 
Creek,  of  which  some  signs  yet  remain,  near  the  road  lading 
from  Cheraw  to  Society  Hill.  A  grist  and  saw  mill,  at  all 
events,  were  there,  and  in  successful  operation  some  time  be- 
fore the  Revolution."  Resuming  the  -text,  Bishop  Gregg 
further  says :  "John  Elerby,  a  brother  of  Thomas,  came  with 
him  to  Pee  Dee,  and  settled  on  the  east  side  of  the  river.  He 
either  returned  to  Virginia  or  removed  elsewhere  at  an  early 


214  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

period.     Thomas  Elerby  brought  a  good  property  with  him 
and  was  probably  the  first  slaveholder  on  the  upper  Pee  Dee. 
Some  years  prior  to  the  Revolution  be  had  a  large  number, 
at  least  for  that  day.     This  family  emigrated  from  England  to 
Virginia.    The  name  is  still  known  in  England,  and  is  spelt 
as  it  appears  in  our  early  records.     Not  long  afterwards,  how- 
ever, it  was  changed  to  its  present  form,  Ellerbe.     Thomas 
Elerby,  wiho  married,  as  already  stated,  Obedience  Gillespie, 
had  two  sons,  Thomas  and  William,  from  whom  the  extensive 
family  on  the  Pee  Dee  have  descended."     In  a  note  to  this, 
page  63,  Bishop  Gregg  traces  the  progeny  of  William  and 
Thomas  Ellerbe  down  to  his  own  d&y  and  time,  or  near  it.     So 
far  as  Marion  County  is  concerned,  the  first  of  the  name  in  this 
county  was  John  C.  Ellerbe,  of  the  same  family  spoken, of 
above.     He  married  a  Miss  Wickham,  daughter  of  Dr.  Thomas 
J.  Wickham,  a  man  of  much  note  in  his  day  in  Liberty  or 
Marion;  she  was  wealthy  and  perhaps  the  only  child;  at  any 
rate,  John  C.  Ellerbe  married  her  and  came  down  into  Marion 
and  settled  on  her  property,  and  lived  and  died  there ;  he  re- 
tained her  property  and  increased  it ;  not  an  old  man  when  he 
died — he  died  some  time  in  the  forties;  his  widow  survived 
him,  and  afterwards  married  ex-Governor  B.  K.  Henagan ;  no 
offspring  from  the  marriage;  they  both  died  in  a  few  years. 
John  C.  Ellerbe  left  his  family  in  good  condition;  his  large 
property  went,  as  the  law  then  was,  mostly  to  the  Henagans — 
that  is,  the  personal  property;  the  large  landed  estate  went  to 
the  heirs  of  the  widow,  who,  I  think,  survived  him.     By  John 
C.  Ellerbe's  marriage,  be  had  and  raised  three  sons  and  three 
daughters.     The  sons  were  William  S.,  Richard  P.  and  Ed- 
ward B. ;  the  daughters  were  Joanna,  Julia  and  Sallie.     The 
son,   William,   married   Miss   Sarah   Haselden,   daughter  of 
Major  James  Haselden ;  the  fruits  of  this  marriage  were  four 
sons  and  nine  daughters.     Of  the  sons,  William  H.  Ellerbe 
married  Henrietta  Rogers,  daughter  of  the  late  Henry  Rogers, 
of  Marlborough  County;  the  fruits  of  this  marriage  were  six 
children,  five  sons  and  one  daughter ;  one  son  dead.     He  was 
a  very  successful  man  in  more  ways  than  one — succeeded  well 
in  his  occupation  as  a  farmer  in  the  acquisition  of  property. 
In  the  political  revolution  of  1890,  he  was  on  the  winning 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  215 

side,  and  by  the  help  of  good  friends,  to  the  manor  born,  was 
nominated  and  elected  Comptroller  General  of  the  State ;  was 
re-elected  without  opposition  in  1892.  At  the  end  of  his 
term,  in  1894,  he  was  a  candidate  for  Governor,  but  was  de- 
feated by  John  Gary  Evans,  of  Aiken.  In  1896,  John  Gary 
Evans  not  being  a  candidate  for  re-election  as  Governor,  Wm. 
H.  Ellerbe  was  again  a  candidate,  with  opposition,  and  was  tri- 
umphantly elected.  In  the  meantime,  a  new  State  Constitution 
had  been  made,  which  changed  the  time  for  the  meeting  of  the 
General  Assembly,  so  that  Governor  Ellert)e  was  not  inaugu- 
rated till  January,  1897.  With  his  administration  there  was 
much  dissatisfaction;  his  health  had  failed  him,  and  in  1898, 
he  was  again  a  candidate  for  re-election,  but  had  numerous  and 
strong  opposition — so  much  so,  that  he  failed  to  get  the  nomi- 
nation in  the  first  primary,  but  led  all  others.  In  a  second 
primary  he  was,  however,  nominated  by  over  4,000  votes.  In 
November  afterwards,  at  the  general  election,  he  was  elected 
to  a  second  term.  Miles  B.  McSweeney,  of  Hampton  County, 
was  elected  Lieutenant-Governor.  They  were  inaugurated  as 
Governor  and  Lieutenant-Governor,  i8th  January,  1899. 
Such  by  this  time  was  the  Governor's  state  of  health,  that  he 
could  do  but  little  work  in  his  laborious  ofifice,  and  lingered 
from  bad  to  worse  till  2d  June,  when  he  expired  in  his  old 
home — ^the  home  in  which  he  was  raised.  Thus  his  eventful 
career  was  ended,  and  the  Lieutenant-Governor,  by  operation 
of  the  Constitution,  became  Governor,  and  took  the  oath  of 
office  on  the  night  of  the  4th  June,  1899,  and  has  filled  out  the 
unexpired  term  of  the  deceased  Governor  Ellerbe.  Mc- 
Sweeny  has  just  been  elected  to  the  next  full  term.  Thus  the 
world  goes.  This  was  the  second  death  of  a  Governor  while 
in  office  in  the  history  of  the  State — Governor  Patrick  Noble 
died  in  office,  in  1840,  and  Dr.  B.  K.  Henagan,  then  of  Marl- 
borough, afterwards  of  Marion,  being  the  Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor, filled  out  Governor  Noble's  unexpired  term.  J.  E. 
Ellerbe,  the  next  son  of  the  late  Captain  W.  S.  Ellerlbe,  and 
now  one  of  our  fellow-<:itizens,  has  not  been  as  successful,  in 
any  way,  as  his  deceased  brother,  the  late  Governor  Ellerbe; 
be  has  great  energy  and  persistent  pluck,  and  is  an  impressive 
public  speaker;  he  married  Miss  Nellie  Elford,  of  Spartan- 
15 


216  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

burg,  an  elegaiit  lady;  the  fruits  of  the  marriage  are  four 
children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters.  J.  E.  EUerbe  is  yet 
comparatively  a  young  man;  has  represented  his  county  in 
the  lower  House  of  the  Legislature ;  was  (ihosen  as  a  delegate 
to  the  State  Convention  for  making  a  new  Constitution  for  the 
State,  and  served  in  that  body ;  he  '1ms  three  times  been  a  candi- 
date for  Congress,  but  has  failed  to  receive  the  nomination ;  his 
opportunities  have  been  better  than  those  of  his  brother,  the  late 
Governor ;  he  graduated  in  1887,  at  Wofford  College ;  the  Go- 
vernor only  spent  two  years  in  college  (Wofford)  ;  neverthe- 
less, he  outstripped  his  younger  brother  in  the  race  of  life  for 
wealth  and  honors.  Dont  know  what  J.  E.  EUerbe  may  do 
or  become  in  the  lines  indicated  in  the  future.  Cash  EUerbe, 
the  third  son  of  Captain  W.  S.  Ellert)e,  is  a  young  single  man, 
highly  respectable,  a  good  farmer  and  business  man,  and  prom- 
ises to  be  a  first  class  man  every  way — nothing  to  hinder  it. 
Herbert  EUerbe,  the  fourth  and  youngest  son,  about  twenty- 
five  years  of  age,  unmarried,  was  unfortunately  killed  on  the 
railroad,  on  the  3d  or  4th  of  August,  1899.  Of  the  daughters 
of  Captain  W.  S.  EUerbe,  the  oldest,  Mary,  married  Dr.  EUerbe, 
of  Cher  aw;  by  him  she  had  two  sons,  W.  M.  EUerbe  and 
Thomas,  and  a  daughter,  Estelle,  when  he  died  suddenly,  w*hile 
his  children  were  yet  small ;  the  widow  has  raised  and  educated 
them,  who  are  all  now  grown ;  her  sons  are  promising  young 
men,  and  the  daughter  a  charming  young  lady,  all  unmarried. 
Another  daughter  (don't  know  the  names  of  some  of  them  nor 
the  order  in  which  they  come,)  married  her  cousin,  James  H. 
Manning,  and  has  a  large  family,  sons  and  daughters ;  Man- 
ning is  a  very  prosperous  farmer.  Another  married  Charley 
Rogers,  of  Marlborough,  in  the  Brownsville  neighborhood, 
likewise  a  prosperous  man;  they  have  a  famUy,  how  many  is 
not  known.  Another  married  Stephen  G.  MUes,  a  good  farmer, 
and  is  a  merchant  at  Marion;  they  have  a  large  family,  sons 
and  daughters — I  think,  mostly  daug'hters.  Another  married 
Dr.  S.  A.  C.  Miles,  who  is  dead ;  the  widow  has  four  chUdren, 
all  daughters.  Another  married  her  cousin,  Willie  Godbold, 
who  is  not  wanting  in  push  and  energy ;  they  have  some  two  or 
three  children.  Another  married  Hon.  T.  C.  Moody,  of 
Marion,  and  is  dead,  childless.     Two  daughters.  Misses  Omega 


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and  Eva,  are  yet  unmarried.  The  Widow  Ellerbe  and  her 
family,  the  Widow  Miles  and  her  family,  together  with  their 
brother.  Cash  Ellerbe,  and  two  single  girls,  all  live  together  on 
their  father's  homestead.  Richard  P.  Ellerbe,  second  son  of 
old  John  C.  Ellerhe,  married  Elizabeth  Lamb,  a  very  pretty 
woman  and  quite  a  belle  in  her  day;  they  remained  here  for 
several  years,  and  had  several  children;  he  did  not  succeed 
well ;  some  years  ago  they  went  to  Florida,  where  Mrs.  Ellerbe 
died;  what  has  become  of  Richard  P.  or  his  children  is  not 
known.  Edward  B.  Ellerbe,  the  youngest  son  of  old  John  C, 
inherited  the  old  homestead  of  his  father,  where  J.  E.  Ellerbe 
now  resides,  a  very  fine  plantation;  he  married  Miss  Sarah 
•  Godbold,  a  daughter  of  old  Asa  Godbold ;  he  did  not  succeed 
well ;  sold  his  place  to  his  brother,  William,  and  moved  off,  and 
finally  went  to  Horry  County,  where  he  now  resides ;  raised  a 
large  family,  sons  and  daughters^  about  whom  the  writer 
knows  but  little.  John  C,  his  eldest  son,  is  in  Venezuela, 
South  America,  as  the  writer  has  been  informed.  Of  the 
daughters  of  old  John  C.  Ellerbe,  Joanna,  the  oldest,  married 
the  late  Gewood  Berry;  the  results  of  which  were  five  sons 
raised,  viz :  John  H.,  William  E.,  Edmund  Burke,  Ashton  and 
Thomas  Wickham  Berry;  of  these,  John  H.,  Edmund  Burke 
and  Thomas  Wickham  are  now  among  us,  and  are  among  our. 
best  citizens,  doing  well  and  highly  respected.  Julia  Ellerbe, 
second  daughter  of  old  John  C.  Ellerbe,  married  our  respected 
fellow-citizen,  Charles  Haselden;  by  this  marriage  is  three 
daughters;  one  married  and  dead;  Anne  and  Mary  both  yet 
single;  and  six  sons,  James,  C.  Edgar,  Samuel,  Thomas, 
Alonzo  arid  Guy.  Of  these,  James  and  C.  Edgar  are  married ; 
James  married  a  daughter  of  the  late  F.  C.  Dew,  lives  in  the 
"Slashes."  C.  Edgar  married  a  Miss  Dusenberry  in  Horry. 
Samuel  has  gone  West.  Thomas,  a  fine  and  much  respected 
young  man,  suicided  last  winter  at  Clio,  S.  C. ;  no  cause 
known.  Alonzo  is  here,  a  very  nice  young  man,  unmarried. 
Guy,  the  youngest,  is  said  to  be  in  Florida.  The  youngest 
daughter  of  old  John  C.  Ellerbe  married  Asa  Godbold,  Jr.,  and 
is  now  a  widow;  she  has  ten  or  twelve  children.  Of  this 
family  the  writer  has  already  hereinbefore  spoken,  and  it  is 
not  necessary  to  be  repeated  or  added  to.     The  late  Captain  W. 


218  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

S.  Ellerbe  was  a  most  excellent  man  and  a  capital  manager  of 
affairs ;  he  attended  to  his  own  business,  and  left  his  family  in 
good  condition ;  his  wife  survived  him  but  a  short  while. 

FoRe. — The  Fore  family  will  be  next  noticed.  The  first 
Fore  known  to  the  writer  was  Joel  Fore ;  he  was  an  exemplary 
man',  and  a  good  quiet  man,  unpretentious,  and  strictly  honest — 
a  man  who  seemed  to  measure  every  word,  an,d  practical  in 
his  management  in  every  day  life ;  he  married  a  Miss  Finklea, 
and  raised  a  considerable  family,  sons  and  daughters.  Five  of 
his  sons,  Thomas,  Daniel,  Willis,  Stephen  and  Alfred,  were  best 
known  in  the  county.*  Others  of  them,  when  young,  went 
West,  and  one  of  them,  named  Jam'cs,  it  was  said,  became  very 
wealthy.  Thomas,  the  eldest  of  the  sons,  was  bom  in  1805 ; 
he  lived  to  a  great  age — I  think  the  age  of  eighty-eight.  Tho- 
mas married  a  Miss  Gasque,  and  settled  on  a  little  place  on  the 
northeast  side  of  Catfish,  at  what  is  now  called  EUerbe's  cross- 
ing, and  there,  on  about  sixty-four  acres  of  land,  he  raised  a 
family  of  eight  sons  and  three  daughters,  and  did  it  respectaibly ; 
he  purchased  other  lands  after  his  children  were  practically 
raised;  his  sons  were  EHy,  Thomas,  Daniel,  James,  Tracy  R., 
Willis  and  Edward  M.  Fore;  his  daughters  were  Elizabeth 
Ann,  Rebecca  Jane  and  Eugenia.  Of  his  sons,  EUy,  Thomas 
and  Daniel  emigrated  to  Louisiana,  young  men.  James  Fore, 
a  son,  married,  first,  a  Miss  Kirvin,  and  by  her  had  three 
daughters  and  a  son,  Thomas  E.  Fore ;  the  latter  is  now  living 
on  the  place  where  his  grand-father  settled.  Of  James  Fore's 
daughters,  they  have  already  herein  been  noticed  in  the  notice 
of  the  Tart  family.  His  Kirvin  wife  dying,  he  married  a 
daughter  of  the  late  Bryant  Lane,  named  Henrietta ;  by  her  he 
has  some  children,  how  many  is  not  known ;  they  have  removed 
to  Columbus  County,  N.  C.  Tracy  R.  Fore  married  Miss  Kate 
Watson,  daughter  of  the  late  Matthew  Watson,  who  has  here- 
inbefore been  noticed  in  the  notice  of  the  Watson  family. 
Willis  Fore  married  Miss  Sallie  Berry,  daughter  of  the  late 
Elihu  Berry;  they  have  five  children,  three  sons  and  two 
daughters;  the  sons  are  Linwood,  Tracy  and  Willis.;  the 
daughters  are  Janie  and  Rebecca.  Willis  Fore's  family  has 
♦John,  Joel  and  James,  three  others,  went  West. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  219 

already  been  noticed  in  the  notice  of  the  Berry  family.  Willis 
Fore  was  killed  some  years  ago,  by  a  fall  in  getting  off  of  a 
moving  train  at  Marion  depot.  Edward  M.  Fore  married  a 
daughter  of  Charles  Haselden,  named  Maggie;  they  had  four 
children,  one  daughter  and  three  sons;  he  was  murdered  in 
the  Slashes  some  years  ago;  his  widow  did  not  turn  out  well, 
and  died ;  the  daughter  is  married  and  in  Columbia ;  the  sons 
are  scattered.  Of  the  daughters  of  old  man  Thomas  Fore, 
Elizabeth  Ann,  the  oldest,  married  the  late  Colonel  E.  T.  Stack- 
house;  they  are  both  dead ;  raised  a  large  family — ^sons,  James, 
William  land  Walter  F.  Stackhouse ;  daughters,  one  the  wife  of 
James  H.  Berry,  dead ;  left  seven  children ;  another,  the  wife  of 
Houston  Manning ;  she  and  her  husband  both  dead ;  left  three 
children,  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  Austin  and  Maurice;  the 
latter  married  Nellie  Bethea,  daughter  of  D.  McL.  Bethea. 
The  daughter,  named  Eva,  unmarried.*  Another  the  wife  of 
Neill  Alford;  they  have  several  children.  Another  the  wife 
of  W.  J.  Montgomery,  Esq.,  of  the  Marion  bar;  they  have 
several  children,  mostly  girls.  Another  the  wife  of  T.  C.  Cov- 
ington ;  they  have  several  children.  Of  the  sons,  James  Stack- 
house  married  a  Miss  McAlister;  they  have  several  children. 
One  son,  Laneau,  married  Mary  Miles,  the  daughter  of  Dr. 
D.  F.  Miles,  the  efficient  Clerk  of  the  Court.  There  are  other 
sons  and  daughters,  how  many  and  names  unknown,  except  a 
son  named  Lacy.  William  Stackhouse,  of  Dillon,  married  a 
daughter  of  B.  F.  Davis ;  they  have  some  children,  how  many 
is  not  known.  .  James  Stackhouse  is  Senator-elect  from  Marion 
to  the  State  Senate.  W.  F.  Stackhouse,  the  youngest  son  of 
Colonel  E.  T.  Stackhouse,  lately  married'  a  Miss  Waller,  of 
Greenwood,  S.  C. ;  is  a  member  of  the  Marion  bar,  and  promises 
to  attain  to  a  place  in  the  front.  The  second  daughter  of  old 
man  Thomas  Fore,  Rebecca  Jane,  married  Dr.  W.  W.  Hamil- 
ton, of  Marion,  a  dental  surgeon  and  farmer,  and  a  first  rate 
man ;  they  have  only  one  child,  a  son,  named  Thomas,  and  now 
Hearing  manhood.  The  third  and  last  daughter,  Eugenia, 
never  married;  she  died  a  few  years  ago.  Daniel  Fore,  an- 
other son  of  old  man  Joel,  was  a  tailor  by  trade — ^which  in  his 
day  was  a  profitable  business ;  he  made  a  suit  for  the  writer  in 

*Miss  Eva  Manning,  since  writing  the  above,  married  Herbert  Bethea. 


220  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

1843.  He  did  not  marry  till  somewhat  late  in  life ;  he  married, 
first,  the  Widow  White,  who  was  the  daughter  of  old  man 
Isaac  Stackhouse,  and  sister  of  the  late  Colonel  E.  T.  Stack- 
house;  by  her  he  had  one  child,  a  daughter,  the  wife  of  Rev. 
Maston  Gasque;  when'  she  died,  he  married,  a  second  time,  a 
Miss  McDuffie,  sister  of  the  late  A.  Q.  McDuffie;  by  this 
marriage  he  had  two  sons,  John  A.  Fore,  now  of  Dillon,  and 
one  named  Baker,  who  died  a  young  man,  and,  I  think,  three 
daughters ;  one  of  them  dead ;  another  became  the  second  wife 
of  Douglas  Mclntyre,  and  has  some  children ;  another  daughter 
yet  single — she  and  her  mother  live  with  Mr.  Mclntyre.  Dan- 
iel Fore  died  some  y^rs  ago,  in  a  good  old  age ;  his  son,  John 
A.  Fore,  married  a  Miss  Gibson,  daughter  of  the  late  Albert 
Gibson,  below  Marion;  they  have  five  children,  sons  and 
daughters.  Dr.  Willis  Fore,  another  son  of  old  man  Joel 
Fore,  married  Miss  Telatha  Berry ;  she  lived  only  a  few  years, 
and  died  childless;  he  lived  a  widower  for  several  years,  and 
died  in  1864.  Another  son  of  old  man  Joel  was  Stephen,  who 
married  Miss  Mary  Berry,  the  oldest  daughter  of  Cross  Roads 
Hjpnry  Berry ;  his  family  has  already  been  noted  in  the  notice 
of  the  Berry  family  hereinbefore.  Alfred  Fore,  the  youngest 
son  of  old  Joel,  married  Miss  Martha  Ann  Mace,  daughter  of 
the  late  Moses  Mace ;  they  had  some  children,  don't  know  how 
many;  one  son  I  knew,  A.  M.  Fore,  a  promising  and  growing 
man ;  he  died  a  few  years  ago — left  some  family.  Alfred  Fore, 
the  father,  went  into  the  Confederate  army,  and  was  killed  or 
died.  Of  the  daughters  of  old  Joel  Fore,  there  were  two,  Mary 
Ann  and  Elizabeth.  Mary  Ann  married  Samuel  Campbell, 
and  died,  leaving  one  child.  Elizabeth  married  Hugh  Finklea, 
her  cousin ;  he  died,  left  her  a  widow,  without  any  child ;  she 
again  married,  Bennett  Jordan,  below  Marion;  they  had  no 
child  or  children;  she  died  some  years  ago.  The  Fores, 
as  a  family  from  old  Joel  down,  had  the  peculiarity  of  being 
particular  and  exceedingly  cautious  in  all  they  said  or  did, 
either  in  social  or  home  life;  honest,  truthful  and  upright, 
straight  in  all  their  dealings  with  the  world  around  them,  eco- 
nomical, industrious  and  frugal — ^they  came  as  near  living  to 
themselves  and  of  themselves  as  any  family  within  the  writer's 
knowledge. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  221 

Mace. — ^Another  family  will  now  be  noticed,  the  Mace 
family.  The  grand-father  of  the  late  John  Mace  was  named 
John  Mace,  who  came  from  Maryland  in  the  time  of  the  Revo- 
lutionary War,  being  a  widower,  with  one  child,  a  son,  named' 
John,  then  a  small  boy;  the  old  gentleman  married  a  Widow 
Crawford ;  by  her  he  had  no  offspring ;  he  died  and  his  widow 
again  married  a  Mikell.  The  son,  John,  grew  up  and  married, 
first,  a  Miss  Franky  Finklea,  a  sister  of  old  "Corn-making 
Willis  Finklea;"  by  this  marriage  he  had  five  children,  Mat- 
thew, Moses,  Eliza;beth  (Betsy),  Mary  (Polly)  and  Martha 
(Patsy)  ;  his  first  wife  died,  and  he  married  again,  a  sister  of 
his  first  wife,  named  Martha  (Patsy)  ;  by  the  second  marriage 
he  had  Franky,  John,  Massey,  Sallie,  James  and  Rhoda;  of 
all  these  children  by  both  marriages,  Matthew,  the  oldest,  never 
married,  and  died  with  a  good  property,  about  1853.  Moses 
married  Miss  Drusilla  Miles,  a.  daughter  of  David  Miles,  the 
grand-father  of  Dr.  D.  F.  Miles ;  by  this  marriage  he  had  six 
children,  Martha  Ann,  John  M.,'  Verzilla,  Gregory,  James  and 
Mary.  Martha  Ann  has  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the 
Fore  family,  and  John  M.  was  noticed  in  or  among  the  Watson 
family.  Verzilla  married  William  C.  Bethea,  and  after  having 
several  children,  they  moved  to  Texas,  where  father  and 
mother,  and  perhaps  some  of  the  children,  died  in  an  epidemic 
of  yellow  fever ;  and  Frank  A.  Miles  and  others  of  their  friends 
made  up  money  and  sent  out  to  that  far-off  State  (Dallas, 
Texas,  I  believe,)  and  brought  the  surviving  children  back  to 
this  State  and  county;  they  have  grown  up,  but  what  has 
become  of  them  is  not  known  to  the  writer.  Dr.  Gregg  Mace 
and  his  brother,  James,  both  went  to  the  Confederate  War,  and 
both  were  killed  or  died  of  disease,  both  unmarried.  Mary 
Mace  married  a  man  by  the  name  of  Adams,  and  left  the  State ; 
don't  know  anything  further  of  her.  Elizabeth  Mace  married 
the  late  John  H.  Moody ;  by  this  marriage  there,  was  only  one 
child,  a  daughter ;  she  grew  up  and  married  the  late  Major  S. 
A.  Durham ;  only  one  child,  a  daughter,  was  the  result  of  this 
latter  marriage;  she  grew  up  and  married  a  Mr.  Gorham,  of 
North  Carolina,  to  which  State  they  went ;  nothing  further  is 
known  of  them.  Mary  (Polly)  married  Hal  Crawford,  and 
went   West;   nothing   further   is   known   of   them.     Martha 


222  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

(Pattie)  married  Gary  Edwards;  of  her  and  her  family  notice 
has  already  been  taken  in  or  among  the  Edwards  family. 
Eranky,  the  oldest  child  by  the  second  marriage  of  old  John 
Mace,  married  Colonel  John  Roberts;  of  their  family  notice 
has  already  been  taken  in  or  among  the  Roberts  family.  John 
Mace  (the  late)  married  Verzilla  Berry,  of  whom  notice  has 
already  been  taken  in  or  among  the  Berry  family.  Massey, 
a  daughter,  married  the  late  David  Monroe ;  by  her  he  had  one 
child,  a  daughter,  when  his  wife  died ;  the  daughter  grew  up, 
and  married  a  Mr.  King,  in  North  Carolina;  nothing  further  is 
known  of  her.  Sallie  Mace  married  Wesley  White;  by  this 
marriage  was  a  son,  James  White,  and  several  daughters. 
James  White  is  still  unmarried.  Another  son,  William,  older 
tha:n  James,  was  killed  or  died  in  the  war.  Of  the  daughters, 
one  married  Hugh  Davis,  and  is  a  widow,  with  several  child- 
ren ;  another  daugliter,  Susan,  married  Joseph  Game,  and  has 
no  children ;  another  married  Benjamin  Philips,  and  is  now  a 
widow,  with  several  children;  another  married  Thomas  Har- 
grove ;  they  have  several  children ;  and  there  are  two  unmarried 
daughters,  Martha  and  Sallie.  James  Mace,  brother  to  the 
late  John  Mace,  died  in  1846,  when  a  young  man,  unmarried. 
Rhoda  Mace,  the  youngest  by  old  John  Mace's  second  mar- 
riage, married  William'  S.  Lewis ;  by  this  marriage  five  children 
were  born  and  raised,  Sarah,  Evan,  Joel,  Wesley  and  Anne. 
Sarah  Lewis  married  Robert  Edwards,  and  has  been  noticed 
in  or  among  the  Edwards  family.  Evan  Lewis  did  not  marry 
till  late  in  life;  he  married  a  Miss  Avant,  and  I  suppose  has 
some  children;  he  is  one  of  our  good  citizens.  Joel  Lewis 
went  West,  and  is  said  to  be  doing  well.  Wesley  Lewis  mar- 
ried Miss  Addie  Potter,  of  Marion,  turned  out  badly,  and  has 
gone  West ;  his  wife  is  now  at  Marion ;  she  has  three  children, 
a  son,  Charles,  who  is  in  Georgia,  but  provides  for  his  mother 
and  sisters — a  dutiful  son;  the  two  daughters  are  with  their 
mother,  living  on  a  place  in  town,  which  her  son,  Charley, 
bought  for  her,  and  paid  $300  for  it,  and  provides  for  her  in 
other  ways.  All  the  sons  and  daughters  of  old  John  Mace 
are  dead.  One  daughter  of  Rhoda  Lewis  above  forgotten; 
her  name  was  Anna ;  a  charming  woman,  as  it  was  said ;  she 
married,  first,  Marion  Avant,  who  was  killed  or  died  in  the 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  223 

war,  left  one  child;  the  widow,  after  the  war,  went  to  Wil- 
mington, and  there  married  a  Mr.  Wilson,  by  whom  she  has 
one  child,  a  daughter,  now  a  grown  young  lady ;  her  son,  Willie 
Avant,  was  a  locomotive  engineer  for  the  Atlantic  Coast  Ivine 
for  many  years ;  he  died  last  August,  leaving  a  widow  and  some 
children.  Moses  Mace  died  in  1836  or  1837.  John  Mace  died 
in  1885.  Matthew  Mace  died  about  1854,  and  James  Mace 
died  about  1846.  The  Maces  as  a  family  are  and  were  ener- 
getic and  prudent  managers  of  affairs,  economical  and  frugal, 
held  to  what  they  had  and  added  to  it  all  they  could,  peaceable 
and  quiet  people,  not  ambitious  of  public  favor. 

FiNKi,BA. — Another  family,  once  numerous  and  somewhat 
prominent,  but  now  reduced  in  numbers  to  but  a  few,  are  the 
Finkleas ;  they  have  been  much  reduced  by  emigration.  There 
were  two  old  Finkleas  in  the  early  times  in  the  county — ^John 
Finklea  and  "Corn-making  Willis."  John  Finklea,  whose 
wife  was  a  Crawford,  with  his  numerous  family,  went  to  Ala- 
bama, and  died  there  about  1850.  Captain  J.  C.  Finklea,  a 
grand-son,  now  in  Wahee  Township,  is  the  only  representative 
of  that  branch  of  the  family.  Of  "Corn-making  Willis"  fam- 
ily, the  only  remaining  ones  bearing  the  name  are  Hardy 
Finklea,  of  Latta,*  who  has  one  son,  named  Willis ;  and  Alfred 
Finklea,  who  has  three  sons,  John,  Alfred  and  Hugh;  and  a 
son  of  Thomas  Finklea,  deceased,  named  Neill.  Upon  these 
depend  the  perpetuation  of  the  name  in  the  county,  and  not 
only  the  name,  but  the  reputation  of  it.  Captain  J.  C.  Finklea 
is  sixty-three  years  of  age,  and  has  no  child  or  childTen,  and  it 
is  not  presumable  that  he  ever  will  have  any. 

Haseldbn. — ^Another  family  to  be  noticed  is  the  Haselden 
family.  There  were  three  Haseldep  brothers,  John,  William 
and  James;  don't  know  which  was  the  older,  nor  is  anything 
known  of  their  ancestors.  John  Haselden  married  Elizabeth 
Godbold,  daughter  of  old  General  Thomas  Godbold;  by  this 
marriage  three  children  were  born  and  raised,  Cyrus  B.  Hasel- 
den, Hugh  G.  Haselden  and  Jane  Haselden ;  don't  know  which 
was  the  older.     John  Haselden,  the  father,  died,  and  the  widow 

*Hardy  Finklea,  since  writing  the  above,  died. 


224  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

married  the  late  David  Monroe,  and  by  her  had  two  sons,  Col- 
onel James  Monroe,  of  Confederate  fame,  and  our  respected 
fellow-citizen.  Dr.  F.  M.  Monroe,  of  Latta.  Cyrus  B.  Hasel- 
den  married  Miss  Labennon  Bass,  daughter  of  the  late  old 
Joseph  Bass;  by  this  marriage  one  child  was  born,  and  the 
mother  died,  and  a  few  months  afterwards  the  child  died.  The 
grand-father,  Bass,  had  died  before  the  death  of  Mrs.  Hasel- 
den.  Thus,  by  three  successive  deaths,  Cyrus  B.  Haselden, 
the  husband  and  father,  became  the  heres  f actus,  one  of  the 
heirs  of  the  large  estate  of  Joseph  Bass,  and  as  such,  received 
in  property  and  money  from  $10,000  to  $15,000.  There  were 
ten  of  the  Bass  heirs,  including  C.  B.  Haselden ;  he  soon  after 
married  Miss  Sallie  Finklea,  a  niece  of  the  writer's  wife,  and 
by  her  he  had  five  children,  Lucy,  John,  Maggie,  Fannie  and 
Frank.  In  the  meantime,  Cyrus  B.  Haselden  went  through 
with  all  bis  property,  and  whilst  his  children  were  all  small,  the 
youngest,  Frank,  about  two  years  old,  he  took  the  train  one 
night  (not  letting  his  family  know  anything  about  it)  and  left; 
he  went  to  Arkansas,  and  has  not  been  seen  in  this  country 
since.  His  wife  and  her  children  were  taken  by  her  mother, 
Mrs.  Margaret  Finklea,  and  the  children  were  raised  respect- 
ably and  in  good  credit;  they  all  married  respectably  and  all 
doing  well.  The  other  brother,  Hugh  G.  Haselden,  volun- 
teered in  the  Confederate  army,  and  was  killed  or  died  in  the 
same;  he  married,  I  think,  a  Miss  Foxworth,  and  had  some 
children,  one  or  two  sons,  who  are  among  us,  but  whose  name 
or  names  is  or  are  unknown.  Jane  Haselden,  a  very  pretty 
girl,  married,  in  1850,  Hon.  C.  D.  Evans,  of  the  Marion  bar, 
and  has  had  and  raised  seven  sons  and  one  daughter;  they 
have  been  noticed  hereinbefore  in  or  among  the  Evans  family. 
Mrs.  Jane  Evans  is  now  a  widow,  and  an  excellent  lady  she  is. 
Of  William  Haselden's  family,  the  writer  can't  say  anything ; 
they  are,  if  living,  in  Darlington,  Florence  and  Williamsburg 
Counties.  Of  Major  James  Haselden  and  family,  the  writer 
can  speak  with  some  certainty.  Major  James  Haselden  mar- 
ried Mary  Godbold,  another  and  the  youngest  daughter  of  old 
General  Thomas  Godbold;  the  fruits  of  the  marriage  were 
Charles,  Anna,  Sarah,  Jane,  James  G.  and  Maggie — all  now 
dead  except  Charles  and  Anna.     Charles  Haselden  married 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  225 

Miss  Julia  Elkrbe,  and  notice  of  their  family  has  already  been 
taken  herein  or  among  the  Ellerbe  family,  not  necessary  to 
repeat  it;  and  the  same  may  be  said  as  to  Sarah's  family, 
already  spoken  of  among  the  Ellerbes.  Of  Jane  and  her  fam- 
ily, notice  has  already  been  taken  in  and  among  the  Berry 
family.  Of  James  G.  Haselden  and  his  family,  now  here 
among  us— he  married  Miss  Rebecca  Dudley,  of  Marlborough 
County,  an  excellent  lady ;  the  fruits  of  the  marriage  are  James 
Dudley  Haselden,  Carrie  Haselden,  Luther  M.  Haselden  and 
Lawrence  Benton  Haselden ;  of  these  none  are  married  except 
James  Dudley  Haselden;  he  married  Miss  Mary  Edwards,  a 
very  nice  girl ;  they  live  in  her  patrimonial  home,  and  have  two 
children,  sons,  named  J.  Dudley  and  William  E.  Haselden,  an 
infant.  The  grand-father.  Major  James  Haselden,  and  the 
son,  James  G.  Haselden,  and  the  grand-son,  J.  Dudley  Hasel- 
den, have  all  been  honored  by  the  people  of  the  county  with  ^ 
seat  in  the  State  Legislature — ^the  latter,  or  grand-son,  twice. 
James  G.  Haselden  died  at  his  home  on  the  20th  April,  1900. 
Major  James  Haselden  died  in  1864,  at  the  age  of  fifty-nine. 
Major  Haselden  in  many  respects  was  a  model  man,  and  excel- 
lent farmer,  a  good  neighbor  and  a  very  successful  man;  he 
was  modest  and  unassuming;  a  man  of  fine  sense  and  good 
humor,  of  good  habits  and  genteel  in  demeanor  and  appear- 
ance ;  he  accumulated  a  large  property,  wholly  unencumbered 
at  his  death,  and  was  divided  among  his  heirs  with<jut  the 
intetposition  of  any  Court ;  he  was  greatly  missed  in  his  com- 
munity. The  Haselden  family  are  not  long-lived.  The  writer 
heard  Charles  Haselden  say  when  he  was  sixty-nine,  that  he 
was  the  oldest  Haselden  he  ever  knew.  J.  G.  Haselden  was 
sixty  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Bass. — ^The  Bass  family  will  'be .  next  noticed.  The  first 
Bass  of  which  the  writer  has  any  information  was  Joseph 
Bass;  he  married  a  Miss  Jones,  sister  of  John  Jones,  Bryant 
and  Thomas  N.  Jones.  By  the  older  people,  her  contempora- 
ries, she  was  spoken  of  in  very  high  terms  as  an  excellent  lady, 
industrious  and  frugal,  ever  looking  with  a  keen  eye  to  the 
welfare  of  her  household,  and  with  all,  and  above  all,  was  a 
pious,  good  woman — truly  a  "mother  in  Israel;"  they  settled 


226  A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY. 

on  Catfish,  on  the  road  leading  from  Berry's  Cross  Roads  to 
Harlleesville,  now  the  property  of  James  Berry,  and  is  yet 
called  the  "old  Bass  place;"  they  raised  a  family  of  sons  and 
daughters ;  the  sons  were  Joseph,  Bryant  and  Robert,  and  three 
or  four  daughters,  names  unknown.  The  old  people  accumu- 
lated a  good  property  for  that  day  and  time.  Of  the  sons, 
Joseph,  the  oldest,  married  Miss  Massey  Crawford,  and  first 
settled  just  below  the  present  town  of  Latta,  on  the  place  now 
owned  by  the  Widow  Thomas  J.  Bass  and  her  four  sons ;  after- 
wards he  moved  to  the  place  where  the  late  Captain  James  W. 
Bass  lately  lived  and  died.  Joseph,  the  second,  raised  five 
sons  and  six  daughters.  The  sons  were  James  W.,  Joseph  R., 
Enos,  Thomas  R.  and  John  C.  Bass ;  the  daughters  were  Eliza- 
beth, Harriet,  Laura,  Helen,  Adarezer  and  Lebanon.  Of  the 
five  sons,  James  W.  Bass  married  late  in  life  Miss  Lucy 
Moody,  daughter  of  the  late  Barfield  Moody ;  by  this  marriage 
they  had  and  raised  to  be  grown,  C.  G.  Bass,  Edgar,  Robert, 
George  P.,  T.  Leon,  Lucius  and  Rufus.  The  widow,  Lucy, 
died  a  few  years  ago,  suddenly.  The  second  son,  Joseph  R., 
married  Miss  Amelia  Moody,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Eliza- 
beth Moody,  of  Buck  Swamp,  and  settled  on  the  land  now 
covered  in  part  by  the  town  of  Latta,  and  died  there  in 
1866,  leaving  four  children,  two  daughters  and  two  sons — 
Araininta  and  Rosa,  and  Addison  L.  and  Thomas  J.  Ara- 
minta,  the  oldest,  married  Hugh  Ellis,  and  lived  only  a  year 
or  two,  and  died  childless.  Rosa  married  our  fellow-citizen, 
DavidI  E.  Watson,  and  has  already  been  noticed  in  or  among 
the  Watson  family.  Addison  L.  Bass  married  Miss  Ellen 
Watson,  daughter  of  the  late  William  Watson,  resides  now 
at  Latta,  and  has  been  already  noticed  in  or  among  the  Watson 
family.  Thomas  J.  Bass,  the  youngest  son,  married  Miss  Hor- 
tensia  Watson,  daughter  of  the  late  Matthew  Watson,  who  has 
already  been  somewhat  noticed  herein  in  or  among  the  Watson 
family.  But  his  death  was  so  tragic  and  unusual  that  I  deem 
it  proper  in  this  place  to  notice  it  more  particularly.  He  was 
a  juryman  in  Marion,  at  a  June  term  of  the  Court,  about  fifteen 
years  ago,  and  was  discharged  from  the  Court  on  Tuesday 
evening;  he  went  home  in  perfect  health  and  vigor.  On  the 
next  afternoon  he  left  home  to  go  to  the  postoffice,  just  across 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  227 

Buck  Swamp,  at  the  Bailey  Ford,  and  went  a  footpath  around 
the  plantations  next  to  the  swamp,  it  being  a  nearer  way — a 
path  that  I  suppose  he  had  traveled  five  hundred  times.  He 
passed  by  a  negro  house  by  the  side  of  the  swamp  and  went  to 
the  well  and  drew  some  water  and  drank  it;  a  negro  woman 
saw  him  at  the  well.  He  left  the  well  andl  went  some  two  or 
three  hundred  yards  to  a  point  where  a  pine  tree  had,  years 
before,  fallen  and  lodged  on  the  limb  of  another  tree,  over  the 
path,  and  as  he  passed  under  the  lodged  tree,  it  broke  loose 
from  its  moorings  and  fell  upon  him ;  and  he  was  found  that 
night,  on  the  ground  under  the  fallen  tree,  which  fell  upon  him 
and  crushed  him  to  instant  death.  The  tree  where  it  struck 
was  more  than  a  foot  through  and  was  heavy^don't  suppose 
he  knew  what  struck  him.  It  is  supposed  that  he  had  walked 
under  that  lodged  tree  perhaps  five  hundred  times.  Such  a 
thing  would  not  happen  again  in  perhaps  a  million  of  times. 
Thus  was  the  tragic  end  of  Thomas  J.  Bass,  the  youngest  son 
and  dhild  of  Joseph  Bass,  the  third.  He  'left  his  widow  and  four 
sons,  Carl,  Tracy,  Luther  and  Thomas,  now  promising  young 
men.  Tracy  is  now  the  agent  of  the  railroad  ait  Sellers,  S.  C. 
The  father  was  an  energetic  and  persevering  man^ — cut  off  in 
middle  life.  Again  recurring  to  James  W.  Bass'  family,  his 
son,  C.  G.  Bass,  a  boy  scarcely  grown  at  the  death  of  his 
father,  in  1876,  took  charge  of  the  family  and  its  circum- 
stances ;  his  father  was  much  in  debt  at  the  time  of  his  death ; 
he  had  been  the  guardian  of  his  infant  niece,  Helen  Bass,  who 
had  a  good  property ;  she  had  grown  up  and  married  the  now 
Rev.  Joel  I.  Allen,  about  the  time  of  Captain  James  W.  Bass' 
death.  Captain  Bass'  widow  administered  upon  his  estate. 
Joel  I.  Allen  called  upon  the  administratrix  for  a  settlement  of 
his  guardianship  account  with  his  ward,  Helen,  and  which 
Allen  estimated  at  near  $10,000  due  his  ward — cash  received, 
negro  hire,,&c.  One  item  in  the  account  was  $3,315  cash  re- 
ceived at  one  time  from  the  Commissioner  in  Equity,  in  March, 
i860,  which,  with  interest,  amounted  to  about  $8,000.  Allen, 
not  wishing  to  break  up  Captain  Bass'  family,  offered  to  take 
$3,315,  without  interest,  and  receipt  in  full.  The  then  advisers 
of  the  administratrix,  not  being  safe  and  good  advisers,  she 
declined    Allen's    proposition.     He    then    filed    a    complaint, 


228  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

against  her  as  administratrix  and  her  children  for  an  account 
of  the  guardian's  transactions,  and  after  two  or  three  years' 
stifif  litigation,  a  decree  was  rendered  in  favor  of  the  ward  for 
about  $8,000.  Defendant  threatened  an  appeal  and  neglected 
to  prosecute  it  till  it  was  too  late,  submitted  to  the  decree. 
Allen,  then,  in  the  magnanimity  of  his  heart,  not  desiring  to 
break  up  and  beggar  Captain  Bass'  family,  offered  to  take 
the  $3,315  as  at  first  offered,  without  interest — ^notwithstanding 
the  hot  litigation  and  the  hundreds  paid  out  in  counsel  fees, 
loss  of  time  and  so  forth,  much  to  Allen's  credit.  Defendants 
agreed  to  pay  the  compromise.  There  were  other  debts  of 
Captain  J.  W.  Bass — one  to  F.  W.  Kerchner,  of  Wilmington, 
N.  C,  in  judgment,  I  think,  for  about  $1,400,  compromised 
for  $800.  C.  G.  Bass,  then  hardly  grown,  took  charge  of  the 
farm,  and  by  his  untiring  energy  and  good  management  in  three 
years'  time  paid  up  the  indebtedness  of  his  father's  estate,  and 
saved  his  valuable  plantation,  lands  and  other  property  for  his 
mother,  himself  and  younger  brothers.  These  things  are  men- 
tioned herein  to  the  everlasting  credit  of  Rev.  Joel  I.  Allen 
and  Cornelius  G.  Bass.  Notwithstanding  this  sacrifice  on  the 
part  of  these  two  gentlemen,  they  both  have  prospered,  and  are 
among  our  best  citizens.  C.  G.  Bass  married  his  cousin.  Miss 
lyula  Deer ;  the  result  of  their  marriage  is  one  son,  yet  a  little 
boy.  Enos  Bass,  the  third  son  of  Joseph  the  second,  died  a 
young  man,  unmarried,  before  his  father.  Thomas  R.  Bass, 
the  fourth  son  of  Joseph  the  second,  grew  up  and  studied  med- 
icine, and  located  in  West  Marion  (now  Florence  County),  on 
Ivynch's  River ;  married  a  Miss  Carter,  raised  a  nice  family  of 
sons  and  daughters,  and  accumulated  a  large  property,  educated 
his  children,  was  a  good  citizen  and  useful  man ;  was  a  Repre- 
sentative from  Marion  County  in  the  Legislature  of  1870 ;  died 
some  years  ago,  much  respected  and  largely  regretted  by  his 
people ;  his  family  is  scattered — don't  know  enough  about  them 
to  particularize.  John  C.  Bass,  the  fifth  and  youngest  son  and 
child  of  Joseph  the  second',  born  in  March,  1835,  yet  survives, 
and  lives  near  Latta ;  he  is  the  only  survivor  of  that  large  fam- 
ily, male  or  female;  he  married,  first.  Miss  Hannah  Jane 
Bethea,  daughter  of  the  late  Ivcvi  Bethea ;  they  lived  together 
for  many  years,  when  she  died,  childless ;  he  married,  a  second 


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time,  a  lady  whose  name  is  not  now  remembered ;  she  died  at 
her  first  accouchement,  neither  she  nor  the  child  surviving; 
John  has  not  married  again — apparently  the  name  will  die  out 
or  disappear,  so  far  as  he,  John  C.  Bass,  is  concerned.  Of  the 
daughters  of  Joseph  the  second,  the  oldest,  Elizabeth  A.,  mar- 
ried Rev.  S.  J.  Bethea,  his  second  wife ;  only  one  child  to  live, 
was  the  fruit  of  this  marriage,  born  October  7th,  1857,  now 
the  Rev.  S.  J.  Bethea,  of  the  South  Carolina  Conference  of 
the  M.  E.  Church,  South;  she  wa^  a  most  excellent  woman, 
died  a  year  or  two  ago.  Harriet,  the  second  daughter,  married 
the  late  John  R.'  Bethea,  2d  February,  1842.  The  writer  was 
one  of  the  guests  ^t  the  marriage.  The  results  of  this  mar- 
riage were  two  daughters,  Almira,  now  the  wife  of  Joseph 
Allen,  of  Latta,  and  Addie,  now  the  wife  of  Ed.  B.  Watson; 
and  five  sons,  Joseph  J.  Bethea,  our  well  known  and  much  re- 
spected fellow-citizen  of  Latta,  who  married  his  distant  cousin, 
Carrie  Bethea;  they  have  no  children.  Lewis  S.  Bethea, 
whose  first  wife  was  a  Miss  McPherson,  of  West  Marion,  and 
who  died  some  years  ago,  leaving  five  or  six  children ;  Lewis 
married,  a  second  time.  Miss  Roberta  Floyd,  a  daughter  of 
Mrs.  Zilpha  Floyd,  near  Campbell's  Bridge;  there  are  two  or 
three  children  from  this  last  marriage.  Harris  C.  Bethea,  a 
third  son,  became  a  Methodist  traveling  preacher,  and  after 
traveling  for  several  years,  by  some  means  or  other,  unknown 
to  the  writer,  he  quit  the  Methodist  Church  and  ministry, 
joined  the  Baptist  Church,  and  became  and  is  now  a  minister 
in  that  denomination ;  he  married  some  lady  in  Sumter  County, 
and  there  now  resides ;  know  nothing  of  his  family.  Another 
son,  Walter  E.  Bethea,  now  a  citizen  of  Latta,  married  a  Miss 
Rouse,  of  Williamsburg  County,  an  excellent  woman;  they 
have  no  children.  Thomas  C,  the  fifth  and  youngest  son  of 
the  late  John  R.  Bethea,  sickened  and  died  when  about  twenty- 
one  years  of  age.  Laura  Bass,  the  third  daughter  of  Joseph 
the  second,  married  her  first  cousin,  David  S.  Bass ;  she  had 
and  left  one  child  only,  Helen,  when  she  died;  that  child 
from  early  girlhood  was  raised  by  her  guardian.  Captain  James 
W.  Bass,  and  became  the  first  wife  of  Rev.  Joel  I.  Allen,  as 
hereinabove  mentioned ;  she  left  five  children.  David  S.  Bass 
afterwards  married  a  Miss  Powers,  and  went  oflf  to  George- 


230  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

town  County ;  know  nothing  further  of  him.  Helen  Bass,  the 
fourth  daughter  of  Joseph  the  second,  married  W.  H.  Smith, 
of  Buck  Swamp ;  by  him  she  had  two  children,  daughters,  and 
then  died;  those  daughters  grew  up,  and  one  married  Law- 
rence Sessions ;  they  raised  a  considerable  family,  now  young 
people  among  us,  quite  respectable;  the  other  married  a  Mr. 
Moody,  son  of  the  late  Hugh  Moody,  whose  name  the  writer 
has  forgotten ;  know  nothing  further  of  them.  Adarezer,  the 
fifth  daughter  of  Joseph  Bass  the  second,  married  her  first  cou- 
sin, James  E.  Coxe,  of  Marlborough,  and  raised  a  family  of 
four  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters;  Mrs.  Coxe  died 
in  the  spring  of  1900 ;  they  being  in  Marlborough,  the  writer 
can  trace  the  family  no  further.  Lebanon  Bass,  the  sixth  and 
youngest  daughter  of  Joseph  the  second,  married  Cyrus  B. 
Haselden,  as  hereinbefore  stated  in  and  among  the  Haselden 
family,  to  wliich  reference  is  made.  Joseph  Bass  the  second, 
notwithstanding  his  large  family  of  eleven  children,  all  raised 
to  be  grown,  by  his  energy  and  frugality  amassed  a  large 
fortune  for  his  day  and  time;  he  died  intestate,  in  1854; 
his  estate  was  valued  at  $150,000,  unencumbered;  his  wife, 
Massey,  preceded  him  to  the  grave,  in  December,  1846.  The 
Bass  family,  back  to  Joseph  the  first,  including  all  the  descend- 
ants, as  far  as  known,  have  been  noted  for  their  large  hospital- 
ity. Joseph  the  second,  gave  away  more  at  his  table  in  one 
year  than  some  of  his  equally  welHo-do  neighbors  did  in  a 
whole  lifetime ;  he  and  all  his  sons  were  close  and  tight  on  a 
trade,  exacting  to  the  last  cent;  but  go  to  their  homes,  and 
their  hospitality  was  most  lavish.  Of  the  eleven  children, 
John  C.  Bass,  now  sixty-five  years  old,  only  survives.  Of  the 
other  sons  of  Joseph  the  first,  Bryant  Bass  married  Miss  Jane 
Kogers,  daughter  of  old  EH  Rogers ;  by  her  he  had  five  child- 
ren, three  sons  and  two  daughters,  and  died  before  reaching 
middle  life,  well-to-do  and  prosperous.  Of  his  sons,  David 
S.  has  already  been  spoken  of;  the  other  two  sons,  William 
and  Robert,  emigrated  West  in  early  manhood ;  know  nothing 
further  of  them.  Of  the  two  daughters,  Louisa  and  Anna,  the 
former  married  John  S.  Page,  who  died  in  first  of  the  war, 
as  already  noticed  in  or  among  the  Page  family ;  he  left  some 
sons  and  two  daughters ;  one  of  the  sons,  William,  was  killed 


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in  Sheriflf  Berry's  posse,  twenty-five  or  thirty  years  ago,  as 
already  stated;  think  another  son  or  two  went  to  parts  un- 
known. One  daughter  married  Joseph  Smith,  from  whom  she 
was  divorced  in  the  seventies,  while  that  law  was  in  force; 
don't  know  where  she  is  or  what  has  become  of  her.  The 
other  daughter  of  John  S.  Page  and  wife  married  C.  J.  McCoU, 
DOW  of  MuUins,  a  prosperous  man  and  good  citizen ;  has  been 
a  cotton  buyer  for  years  and  is  still  thus  engaged ;  they  have  a 
family  of  children  to  the  writer  unknown.  Robert  Bass,  the 
third  son  of  Joseph  the  first,  married  Miss  Mahala  Deer;  by 
her  he  had  four  children,  one  son  and  three  daughters ;  he  died 
when  quite  a  young  man ;  like  his  brothers,  he  was  prospering 
at  the  time  of  his  death ;  the  widow  married  again ;  don't  re- 
member to  whom;  they  removed  West  in  the  forties;  know 
nothing  of  them  since.  Of  the  daughters  of  Joseph  the  first, 
one  married  old  Daniel  Piatt,  who  died  in  1839  or  '40;  she  was 
the  progenitress  of  all  the  Platts  in  the  county,  from  that  time 
until  now,  and  there  have  been  many  and  their  connections, 
yet  the  name  Piatt  is  now  extinct  in  the  county,  except  R.  B. 
Piatt  and  children  of  Mullins.  Another  daughter,  Nancy, 
married  a  Mr.  Coxe,  of  Marlborough ;  Coxe  died,  leaving  her 
a  widow,  well-to-^o,  with  three  sons,  Edwin,  James  and  Rob- 
ert ;  the  eldest  and  youngest  both  died  unmarried ;  Robert  was 
a  doctor;  James  Coxe  is  still  living,  a  well-to-do  citizen  and 
highly  respectable.  Another  daughter  of  old  Joseph  the  first, 
Dicey,  married  a  Tart,  whose  name  is  now  forgotten;  they 
went  West.  Recurring  to  the  children  of  Bryant  Bass:  his 
youngest  daughter,  Anna,  married  Samuel  Smith,  son  of  old 
Samuel  Smith,  on  Buck  Swamp;  she  is  still  living,  and  has 
raised  several  children,  daughters  and  sons ;  one  the  wife  of 
Dr.  Connelly;  one  the  wife  of  R.  B.  McLean,  of  Dillon — 
McLean  married  two  of  them ;  she  has  three  sons,  young  men, 
unknown  to  the  writer.  Bryant  Bass'  widow  married  Salathiel 
Moody,  and  by  him  had  two  children,  a  son  and  a  daughter; 
the  son  was  idiotic  and  died;  the  daughter  grew  up,  and  mar- 
ried Mack  Martin;  think  they  went  West — at  any  rate,  have 
lost  sight  of  them.  Recurring  to  the  family  of  Captain  James 
W.  Bass ;  his  second  son,  Edgar,  married,  a  few  years  ago,  a 
Miss  Mclntyre,  of  Carmichael  Township,  and  immediately 
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232  A  HISTORY  OF. MARION  COUNTY. 

left  for  Georgia ;  it  was  said  that  at  the  time  of  their  marriage 
their  joint  weight,  avoirdupois,  was  over  500  pounds.  The 
third  son  of  Captain  J.  W.  Bass,  Robert  A.,  is  a  physician; 
married  his  first  cousin,  a  daughter  of  Robert  Moody,  of  Rich- 
mond, Va. ;  resides  at  Latta,  and  has  two  or  three  children; 
George  F.  and  Lucius  Bass,  sons  of  Captain  J.  W.  Bass,  have 
gone  from  the  county,  and  can  say  nothing  about  them.  T. 
Leon  Bass  married  Miss  Beulah  McColl  ;*  has  only  one  child, 
a  son,  resides  at  Dillon,  is  a  dispenser  of  liquor,  under  the  law, 
and  is  also  merchandising ;  he  is  apparently  doing  well ;  sober 
and  a  very  pleasant  gentleman  and  highly  respectable,  except 
so  far  as  the  odium  which  attaches  to  liquor  sellers  affects  him. 

Hamer. — The  next  family  to  be  noticed  is  the  Hamer  family. 
So  far  as  Marion  County  is  concerned,  the  Hamer  family  is  an 
importation  from  Marlborough  County.  The  late  Robert  C. 
Hamer,  son  of  John  Hamer  and  wife,  Mary  (Polly),  of  Marl- 
borough, married,  in  1830,  Mary  (Polly)  Bethea,  daughter  of 
Tristram  Bethea,  in  this  (Marion)  County,  and  settled  on  the 
road  leading  from  Harlleesville  to  Rockingham,  about  five 
miles  above  Harlleesville,  where  he  resided  till  his  death,  Feb- 
ruary, 1878  or  1879 ;  by  the  marriage  he  raised  three  children 
to  be  grown ;  Elizabeth  Ann,  John  H.  and  Robert  P.  Hamer ; 
he  had  another  son,  named  Tristram,  who  when  about  grown 
sickened  and  died ;  his  wife  died  when  Robert  P.  was  quite  a 
child ;  the  father  never  married  again,  but  remained  a  widower 
until  his  death ;  a  maiden  sister  of  his  kept  house  for  him,  and 
looked  after  his  children.  His  daughter,  Elizabeth  Ann 
(Betsey  Ann,  as  she  was  called,)  married  a  Mr.  Thompson,  of 
Robeson  County,  N.  C. — think  bis  name  was  John ;  he  died  and 
left  his  widow  with  three  children,  one  daughter  and  two  sons. 
The  daughter  (MoUie,  I  believe,)  married  her  cousin,  L.  D. 
Hamer,  of  Marlborough ;  of  the  two  sons,  John  C.  Thompson 
married  a  Miss  Smith,  of  Alabama;  the  other  son,  Tristram 
Thompson,  married  Miss  Flora  Bethea — daughter  of  Dr.  J. 
F.  Bethea;  by  this  marriage  two  sons  were  born.  Prank  and 
Tristram ;  their  father  died  six  or  eight  years  ago,  with  measles^ 
or  rather  a  relapse  of  that  disease ;  his  widow  moved  to  Dillon, 
*She  is  now  dead. 


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and  she  died  suddenly  some  two  years  ago,  leaving  her  two 
boys  surviving ;  their  grand-father,  Dr.  J.  F.  Bethea,  took  them 
to  his  home,  where  they  now  are.  The  widow,  Elizabeth  A. 
Thompson,  married  Lemuel  Thompson,  a  cousin  of  her  first 
husband ;  by  this,  her  second  marriage,  she  had  and  raised  three 
children,  two  daughters,  Mary  and  Charlotte  (Lottie),  and  one 
son,  Robert.  Mary  is  the  wife  of  Adolphus  Stackhouse,  now 
a  resident  citizen  of  Sumter  County.  Charlotte  married  Dr. 
P.  N.  Timmerman,  of  Edgefield  or  Bamberg  County,  but  now 
a  resident  citizen  of  Marion  County.  Lemuel  Thompson,  a 
most  worthy  man  and  quiet,  unpretending  citizen,  died  about  a 
year  ago,  leaving  "Betsey  Ann"  a  widow  for  a  second  time. 
Her  son,  Robert  Thompson,  married  a  Miss  Woodley,  of 
Marlborough,  and  is  among  our  best  and  most  progressive  citi- 
zens, a  young  man  of  promise.  John  H.  Hamer,  the  oldest  son 
of  old  Robert  C,  married,  first.  Miss  Missouri  Bethea, 
daughter  of  the  late  William  S.  Bethea;  she  died  in  a  year  or 
two,  leaving  an  infant  son,  Missouri  Robert,  now  one  of  our 
best  citizens,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  North  Carolina, 
and  who  married  a  Miss  Townsend,  of  Robeson;  they  have 
only  one  child,  a  son,  named  John  David,  for  his  two  grand- 
fathers, John  H.  Hamer  and  David  Townsend.  After  the 
death  of  his  first  wife,  John  H.  Ham;er  married  Miss  Alice 
Richardson,  daughter  of  the  late  Wm.  F.  Richardson,  below 
Marion ;  by  this  marriage  he  had  five  children,  three  sons  and 
two  daughters ;  the  sons  are  Edward  R.,  Tristram  and  John  H. ; 
the  daughters  are  Mary  and  Orianna.  Of  the  sons,  Edward 
R.  married  Miss  Julia  Berry,  daughter  of  James  Berry ,'  they 
have  several  children.  Tristram  Hamer  is  a  physician,  and 
left  the  county  a  few  years  ago,  a  single  man,  and  went  to 
Texas,  where  he  still  is,  as  it  is  said.  John  H.,  Jr.,  is  a  young 
mjtn,  and  still  resides  with  his  father.  His  daughter,  Mary, 
married  Neill  Berry,  one  of  our  progressive  citizens,  and  has 
three  children.  Orianna  Hamer  is  the  second  wiie  of  Law- 
rence Manning;  they  have  no  children.  After  the  death  of 
his  Richardson  wife,  John  H.  Hamer  married  the  Widow  Fan- 
nie Lyles,  of  Anson  County,  N.  C. ;  she  was  originally  a 
Fladger,  of  Marion,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Captain  C.  J. 
Fladger.    Robert  P.  Hamer,  the  youngest  son  of  old  Robert 


234  ,A  HISTORY  Of  MARION  COUNTY. 

C.  Hamer,  lives  at  old  HarlleesviUe,  now  called  Little  Rock; 
he  married  a  Miss  McCall,  of  West  Marion,  a  daughter  of  old 
William  McCall.  Robert  P.  "has  raised  a  large  family  of  ten 
or  twelve  children,  sons  and  daughters ;  think  he  has  lost  a  'son 
and  a  daughter,  both  grown  or  about  so.  His  older  sons: 
Robert  P.  Hamer  married  a  Miss  McCoUum,  daughter  of  the 
late  Brown  McCoUum,  and  lives  at  Hamer,  on  the  "Short-cut" 
Railroad,  and  is  one  of  the  most  thorough-going,  progressive 
men  of  the  county ;  though  a  young  man,  is  already  a  rich  man 
for  our  section  of  the  country ;  he  has  some  four  or  five  child- 
ren. James  Hamer,  another  son  of  Robert  P.,  married  a  Miss 
Breeden,  of  Marlborough ;  don't  know  whether  they  have  any 
offspring  or  not.  Brooks  Hamer,  another  son  of  Robert  P., 
married  a  Miss  Bennett,  daughter  of  John  Bennett,  in  upper 
Marion;  don't  know  whether  they  have  any  children  or  not. 
William  M.  Hamer,  another  son  of  Robert  P.,  yet  single,  is 
quite  prominent  in  business  circles,  is  reputed  to  have  made 
money,  and  very  clear-headed  in  business — a  promising  young 
man.  A  daughter  of  R.  P.  Hamer  married  T.  B.  Stackhouse, 
of  Dillon,  Cashier  of  the  Bank  of  Dillon ;  also  has  a  good  farm 
near  by ;  well  qualified  for  business,  a  first  class  business  man 
every  way,  and  stands  fair  with  all  who  know  him;  he  has  one 
child,  a  daughter.  Robert  P.  Hamer  has  other  sons  and  several 
daughters,  unmarried,  some  grown.  Old  Robert  C.  Hamer 
was  a  very  successful  man  in  life ;  he  accumulated  a  large  prop- 
erty, and  left  his  children  in  good  condition  for  the  battle  of 
life,  so  far  as  means  are  concerned.  In  his  numerous  dealings 
with  men  be  was  always  prompt  and  strictly  honest,  acting  "on 
the  plumb  and  parting  on  the  square ;"  he  was  frugal  and  eco- 
nomical, and  made  his  money  by  gradual  accretions;  liberal 
in  his  views  of  life  and  with  his  means  to  every  commendable 
project  for  the  gOod  of  his  community  and  advancement  of  his 
people.  Much  more  might  be  said  of  him,  but  space  will  not 
permit.  It  is  not  in  good  taste  to  speak  of  the  virtues  and 
good  traits  of  the  living,  remembering  the  old  adage,  "Never 
speak  of  one's  virtues  to  his  face,  nor  of  his  faults  behind  his 
back;"  but  as  to  this  family  I  will  venture  one  remark: 
wherever  you  find  a  Hamer,  phrenologically  speaking,  you  will 
find  the  bump  denoting  acquisitiveness  fully  developed,  strong 


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and  prominent;  and  when  it  is  mixed  with  old  William  Mc- 
Call's  family,  it  adds  to  its  development  and  strength.  Another 
branch  of  the  Hamer  family,  imported  from  Marlborough,  is  a 
Widtow  Hamer  and  sons,  John  B.  Hamer,  Charles  Hamer  and 
Jesse  Hamer,  with  a  deaf-mute  sister,  in  Kirby  Township. 
John  B.  Hamer  was  first  -imported  and  married  a  daughter 
of  Captain  Stephen  F.  Berry ;  by  her  he  has  several  children ; 
he  lives  in  Bethea  Township.  Charles  Hamer  recently  mar- 
ried a  daughter  of  Wilson  Berry.  Jesse  and  the  mute  sister 
live  with  their  >mother.  This  branch  of  the  family  are  collater- 
ally related  to  those  in  Harlleesville  community ;  they  all  came 
from  the  same  common  stock,  old  man  John  Hamer,  of  Marl- 
borough, whose  wife  was  a  daughter  of  old  Thomas  Cochrane, 
and  sister  to  the  writer's  mother-in-law,  Rachel  Bethea.  This 
branch  of  the  Hamer  family  seems  not  to  have  succeeded  in 
life  so  well  as  the  Harlleesville  branch,  yet  they  have  many  of 
the  same  characteristics. 

McKenziB. — ^Another  family  will  here  be  noticed — ^the 
McKenzie  family.  The  first  known  was  old  Robert  McKen- 
zie ;  he  settted  and  lived  there  till  he  died,  near  where  Dothan 
Church  now  stands;  don't  know  who  his  wife  was;  he  raised 
a  family,  some  of  whom  the  writer  knows  nothing  of.  He  had 
a  son  named  John  and  one  named  Asa;  he  had  a  daughter 
named  Dilla  and  one,  his  youngest  child,  named  Mary  (Polly) ; 
may  have  had  others,  perhaps  did  have.  Old  "Bobby,"  as  he 
was  familiarly  called,  was  one  of  the  principal  founders  of 
Dothan  Church,  where  first  located,  and  also  where  it  now 
stands.  It  was  first  located  on  the  road  from  Harlleesville  to 
Mars  Bluff,  opposite  the  dwelling  of  John  C.  Bethea,  and  for 
several  years  in  the  first  of  the  nineteenth  century  camp  meet- 
ings were  held  there;  the  camp  ground  was  above  the  road 
leading  to  Harlleesville,  between  the  cross  of  the  roads  and 
Little  Reedy  Creek ;  it  was  called  Bethea  Camp  Ground ;  camp 
meetings  were  held  there  as  late  as  1808  and  1809.  The 
grand-father  and  father  of  the  writer  was  there  at  a  camp 
meeting  in  August,  1808  or  1809.  This  the  writer  got  from 
his  father,  Jordan  Sellers.  The  circumstances  as  related  were, 
that  they  were  at  camp  meeting  there  and  heard  that  Levin  , 


236  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Sellers,  a  brother  of  my  father,  and  traveling  preacher  of  the 
Methodist  Church,  had  died  on  Cypress  Circuit,  in  the  low 
country,  and  my  grand^father  proposed  going  down  there  after 
his  dead  son's  horse,  books,  clothing,  &c. ;  that  old  John 
Bethea,  Robert  McKenzie  and  others  dissuaded  him,  on  ac- 
■  count  of  his  age  and  the  hot  weather,  from  going,  but  to  send 
his  son,  my  father,  which  he  did,  and  my  father  went  accord- 
ingly, and  got  his  brother's  horse,  saddle-bags,  &c.,  and  carried 
them  home.  This  church  building  was  not  then  called  Dothan, 
was  then  called  Bethea's  Church.  About  1830,  most  of  the 
congregation  moved  to  the  place  now  and  since  called  Dothan, 
and  first  built  a  log  church.  The  writer  was  there  at  church 
in  1832,  then  a  lad,  and  saw  old  "Bobby  McKenzie;"  he  was 
a  very  pious  man.  Of  his  sons,  John,  called  "Jackey,"  married 
Emery  Jackson,  a  daughter  of  old  Ed'ward  Jackson,  the  first 
of  that  name  on  Catfish.  "Jackey"  and  Emery  raised  a  con- 
siderable family,  as  remembered — Robert,  James,  Elisha  and 
David  J.,  and  several  daughters,  names  not  remembered. 
Jackey  died  and  left  Emery  a  widow,  with  her  children,  and 
who  died  a  very  old  lady,  since  the  Confederate  War.  Robert, 
the  oldest  son,  married  a  Miss  Sallie  Kenady,  and  raised  a  con- 
siderable family,  mostly  sons,  John  W.,  Eli,  Allen,  Frank  and 
David,  and  two  daughters,  Sarah  Ann,  the  name  of  the  other 
not  remembered.  John  W.  McKenzie  married,  first,  a  Miss 
Brigman,  daughter  of  the  late  Thomas  Brigman,  who  had 
several  children,  and  died;  he  married,  a  second  time,  I  don't 
know  to  whom.  Eli  McKenzie  married  a  Miss  Spivey, 
daug'hter  of  Isaac  Spivey;  think  she  is  dead,  leaving  several 
children.  Allen  McKenzie  married  another  daughter  of  Isaac 
Spivey ;  she  died,  leaving  several  children,  and  he  married 
again,  a  Miss  Jackson,  daughter  of  the  late  Reuben  B.  Jackson, 
who  has  one  child.  Erank  McKenzie  married  a  Miss  Spivey 
also.  David  McKenzie  married  a  Miss  Allen,  daughter  of 
ffhe  late  Joseph  Allen,  of  Buck  Swamp ;  he  and  his  wife  are 
both  dead,  leaving  some  children,  don't  know  how  many;  the 
children  are  cared  for  by  their  uncle  and  guardian,  Herod  W. 
Allen.  Of  the  daughters  of  Robert  McKenzie,  the  oldest, 
Sarah  Ann,  married  Ervin  M.  Jackson;  she  had,  perhaps,  two 
children,  a  son,  Thomas  Jackson,  who  now  lives  in  the  Dillon 


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community ;  she  died  some  years  ago.  The  other  daughter  of 
Robert  McKenzie  married  Kenneth  Hargrove;  know  nothing 
more  of  them.  Robert  McKenzie  and  his  wife,  Sallie,  both 
died  some  years  ago ;  the  sons  are  all  industrious  and  progres- 
sive men,  all  successful  farmers  and  good  managers.  Of  old 
"Bobby  McKenzie's"  other  son,  Asa,  the  writer  knows  nothing ; 
of  his  daughters,  Dilla,  married  Owen  Jackson,  a  hard-work- 
ing, honest  man;  he  lived  and  died  on  the  road  from  Dothan 
Church  to  Harlleesville,  on  the  place  now  owned  and  occupied 
by  Missouri  Hamer;  he  raised  a  considera:ble  family  of 
daughters  and  one  son,  Ervin  M.  His  oldest  daughter,  Eliza- 
beth, never  married ;  two  daughters  married  William  T.  Jack- 
son, and  died  childless;  another  one  is  the  wife  of  Hugh  P. 
Price,  and  has  no  children.  I  think  there  were  other  daugh- 
ters, not  now  remembered.  His  son,  Ervin  M.,  married 
Sarah  Ann  McKenzie,  as  already  stated.  Old  "Bobby  Mc- 
Kenzie's" youngest  daughter,  Mary  (Polly),  married  the  late 
David  Ellen,  of  grateful  memory;  the  fruits  of  this  marriage 
were  Ritta,  Zimri,  Robert  M.,  William  B.,  Wesley,  Elijah, 
Mary  Jane  and  Martha  Ann.  Ritta  married  Isaac  Price,  who 
many  years  ago  emigrated  to  Mississippi  with  his  family,  and 
died;  I  think  his  widow  is  still  living,  and  it  is  said  that  she 
and  her  children  are  all  doing  well  and  are  highly  respected. 
Isaac  Price  (called  Peter)  was  an  older  brother  of  Hugh  P. 
Price,  of  Maple  notoriety.  Zimri  M.  Ellen  married  Miss  Mar- 
garet Little,  a  sister  of  the  late  Rev.  John  R.  Little;  was  an 
industrious,  thriving  man ;  he  died  in  November,  1890,  child- 
less ;  his  widow,  a  first-rate,  good  woman,  still  survives,  and  is 
doing  well.  Robert  M.  Ellen  married  Miss  Mary  Wilson,  of 
Marlborough,  sister  of  Rev.  John  B.  Wilson,  a  Presiding  Elder 
now  in  the  South  Carolina  Conference;  Robert  M.  died  some 
twenty  years  ago,  leaving  two  or  three  children;  his  widow 
went  back  to  Marlborough;  married  again — don't  know  to 
whom,  or  what  has  become  of  her  or  her  children.  Wesley 
and  Elijah  Ellen  both  went  into  the  war,  young  single  men, 
and  both  were  killed  or  died.  William  B.  Ellen  married  Miss 
Amatida  Bethea,  daughter  of  George  J.  Bethea;  he  owns  the 
old  Ellen  homestead  at  Dothan;  has  raised  a  family  of  five 
children,  three  sons  and  two  daughters ;  he  is  a  hard-working. 


238  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

well-to-do  man,  and  a  good  citizen  in  every  way;  don't  know 
the  names  of  his  children,  except  the  oldest  son,  James ;  he  is 
married,  don't  know  to  whom ;  he  is  depot  agent  and  telegraph 
operator  somewhere — I  think,  on  the  Central  Road,  in  Claren- 
don County.  Mary  Jane  did  not  marry ;  Martha  Ann  married 
William  Bundy,  of  Marlborough;  have  lost  sight  of  her  and 
Mary  Jane — they  are  somewhere  in  Marlborough  County,  near 
Red  Bluflf.  Mary  (Polly)  Ellen,  first  wife  of  David  Ellen, 
was  no  ordinary  woman  for  business ;  she  died  14th  November, 
1854.  Old  man  David  married  again,  17th  September,  1857, 
the  Widow  Charles  Munship;  the  fruit  of  the  marriage  was 
and  is  John  H.  Ellen,  near  Dothan,  an  excellent  manager  and 
successful  farmer  and  a  first-class  citizen;  he  married  a  Miss 
Moody,  daughter  of  the  late  Richard  Moody,  of  Buck  Swamp ; 
has  three  children,  a  son  now  in  Wofford  College. 

Manning. — ^Another  family  now  to  be  noticed  is  the  Man- 
ning family.  The  first  known  of  them  was  old  John  Manning ; 
he  came  from  Virginia ;  married  a  sister  of  old  Buck  Swamp 
John  Bethea,  whether  before  or  after  his  arrival  in  South 
Carolina,  is  not  known — perhaps,  before  he  came.  Nothing  is 
known  of  his  family  or  progeny,  except  one  son,  whose  name 
was  John;  who  John,  Jr.,  married  is  not  known,  but  he  mar- 
ried some  lady  arid  settled  where  his  father  lived,  on  Buck 
Swamp,  where  John  D.  Bethea  now  lives.  It  is  now  remem- 
bered that  his  wife  was  a  Miss  Lee,  a  name  now  almost 
extinct  in  the  county.  There  yet  remains  James  W.  L,ee  and 
his  son,  Calvin  Ivee,  fairly  good  citizens  of  the  county.  If 
there  are  others  of  the  name  in  the  county,  the  writer  knows 
not  of  them.  John  Manning,  Jr.,  raised  a  considerable  family 
of  sons  and  only  one  daughter,  Lisha,  who  became  the  wife  of 
the  late  William  Roberts,  and  who  has  been  somewhat  noticed 
in  or  among  the  Roberts  family.  Of  the  several  sons  of  John, 
Jr.,  none  will  be  noticed  here  except  Meely  and  Woodward,  as 
the  others,  Ira,  James  and,  I  think,  one  named  John,  emigrated 
West.  Meely  married  Miss  Mary  (Polly)  Kinney,  of  Marl- 
borough, and  settled,  lived  and  died  in  that  county.  Woodward 
married  a  sister  of  Meely's  wife,  and  first  settled  on  Buck 
Swamp,  but  afterwards  moved  to  Marlborough  and  lived  there 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  239 

for  years,  and  then  moved  back  to  Marion,  and  lived  on  his 
father's  old  homestead  till  he  died,  some  years  ago.  Meely 
Manning  raised  a  large  family  of  sons  and  two  daughters; 
the  sons  were  Eli,  Thomas  J.,  William,  James,  John,  Frank, 
Houston  and  Holland.  These,  though  born  and  raised  in 
Marlborough,  many  of  them  came  back  to  Marion  and  became 
citizens  of  their  mother  county.  The  two  daughters  were 
Sarah  Jane  and  Gerona.  Eli,  the  oldest,  married  Miss 
Amanda  Bethea,  a  daughter  of  Tristram  Bethea,  of  Floral 
College;  he  settled  and  lived  in  Marion  County,  raised  two 
sons,  Thomas  B.  and  Eli.  Thomas  was  a  doctor ;  he  practiced 
medicine  some  years  at  Little  Rock ;  he  married  a  Miss  Carnes, 
of  Sumter;  he  emigrated  Westward.  Eli,  a  promising  young 
man,  went  West.  EH  Manning  was  an  excellent  man  and 
citizen;  he  died  some  years  ago;  think  his  widow  went  West 
with  her  sons.  Thomas  J.  Manning  married  Miss  Anna  Hasel- 
den,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Major  James  Haselden.  Thomas 
J.  Manning  was  killed  by  the  deserters,  whom  he,  with  others, 
was  hunting  in  Donahoe  Bay,  in  the  latter  part  of  the  war ;  he 
left  his  widow,  Anna  Manning,  and  five  children,  three  daugh- 
ters and  two  sons,  in  good  condition,  so  far  as  the  means  of 
life  were  concerned ;  the  widow  managed  well,  and  raised  her 
children  quite  respectably,  and  all  are  married  and  doing  well. 
Her  oldest  daughter,  Lettie,  married  Dr.  J.  H.  David,  now  of 
Dillon,  S.  C,  an  excellent  business  man  and  very  prosperous; 
they  have  five  or  six  children.  The  next  daughter,  MoUie, 
married  E.  Burke  Berry,  an  excellent  citizen  and  very  prosper- 
ous man ;  they  have  but  one  child,  a  son,  who  bears  his  father's 
name,  E.  Burke,  Jr.  The  youngest  daughter,  Tommie,  mar- 
ried Thomas  Wickham  Berry,  and  has  four  or  five  children, 
all  daughters;  he,  too,  is  doing  well  and  prospering.  The 
eldest  son,  James  H.  Manning,  a  thorough-going  business  man 
and  prt^ressive  farmer,  married  his  cousin,  a  Miss  EUerbe, 
daughter  of  the  late  Captain  W.  S.  EUerbe;  they  have  several 
children,  unknown  to  the  writer.  The  younger  son,  Lawrence 
Manning,  one  of  our  good  citizens  and  reliable  men,  married, 
first,  a  Miss  Malloy,  of  Chesterfield ;  she  died  childless,  and  he 
married,  a  second  time.  Miss  Orianna  Hamer,  daughter  of 
John  H.  Hamer;  they  have  no  children.     Mrs.  Ann  Manning 


240  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

yet  survives,  and  stays  with  her  son,  Lawrence.  William 
Manning  married  Miss  Martha  Jane  Stackhouse,  daughter  of 
the  late  Wesley  Stackhouse,  about  the  beginning  of  the  war, 
settled  in  Marion  County ;  'he  went  into  the  war  early,  and  was 
killed  at  second  Manassas,  29th  or  30th  August,  1862;  he  left 
one  child,  a  daughter,  named  Willie;  her  mother  afterwards 
married  her  cousin,  Milton  Stackhouse,  of  Marlborough — or, 
rather,  they  went  to  Marlborough  and  still  reside  there;  her 
daughter,  Willie  Manning,  was  well  educated,  and  is  now  a 
professor  or  teacher  in  some  'high  sdhool  or  college;  has  not 
married;  James  Manning  married  a  Miss  Covington,  and 
lived  in  Marion  for  years,  and  then  went  back  to  Marlborough ; 
have  lost  sight  of  him  and  his  family.  Houston  Manning 
married  a  daughter  of  Colonel  E.  T.  Stackhouse,  resided  in 
Marion  till  his  death,  some  years  ago;  he  died  in  Baltimore 
under  a  surgical  operation  there  and  then  performed  on  him ; 
he  was  one  of  o»r  best  citizens;  he  left  'his  widow,  who  has 
since  died,  and  three  children,  two  sons  and  a  daughter.  One 
of  the  sons,  Maurice,  recently  married  Miss  Nellie  Bethea, 
(feughter  of  D.  Mcl^.  Bethea.  Austin,  the  older  brother,  is 
yet  single;  both  are  promising  young  men.  The  daughter, 
Miss  Eva,  is  yet  unmarried,  and  is  a  pretty  girl.  Holland 
Manning  married,  first,  a  Miss  Gibson,  of  Richmond  County, 
N.  C,  or  of  Marlborough  County,  S.  C. ;  he  settled  and  lived 
in  upper  Marion  until  after  the  death  of  'his  wife,  by  whom  he 
had  four  or  five  children ;  he  then  married  Miss  Clara  Bethea, 
daughter  of  the  late  Colonel  James  R.  Bethea ;  since  that  mar- 
riage he  has  resided  ou'  his  second  wife's  place,  still  retaining 
his  place  in  upper  Marion ;  he  has  two  children  by  his  second 
marriage,  both  daughters;  three  or  four  of  his  first  children 
are  married — don't  know  to  whom.  Meely  Manning's  oldest 
daughter,  Sarah  Jane,  married  Captain  D.  W.  Bethea ;  by  this 
marriage,  two  sons,  Le  Roy  and  D.  W.  Bethea,  Jr.,  bearing  his 
father's  name,  were  raised.  I^e  Roy,  the  older  one,  resides  in 
Marlborough,  on  his  mother's  patrimony;  D.  W.,  Jr.,  resides 
on  his  father's  homestead,  in  Marion.  Sarah  Jane,  the  mother, 
died  more  than  twenty  years  ago.  Le  Roy  and  D.  W.  Bethea, 
Jr.,  both  have  families ;  are  good  citizens  and  promising  young 
men.     Their  father,  D.  W.   Bethea,   St.,  married,  a  second 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  241 

time,  a  Miss  Brunson,  of  Darlington ;  no  offspring  as  a  result 
of  the  marriage;  lie  died  a  year  ago.  Of  the  sons  of  Meely 
Manning  remaining  in  Marlborough,  are  John,  who  became  a 
Methodist  preacher,  and  Frank  Manning,  who  was  a  Captain 
in  the  war,  and  has  two  or  three  times  represented  his  county 
in  the  IvCgislature.  The  youngest  daughter,  Gerona,  married 
a  Mr.  McLean,  has  a  large  family,  and  resides  in  Marlborough. 
Meely  Manning  amassed  a  large  property,  died  during  the 
war,  negroes  were  emancipated;  his  large  landed  estate  was 
unencumbered;  he  left  his  family  in  good  condition.  Wood- 
ward Manning  left  but  two  children,  daughters,  Rebecca  and 
Sallie;  he  had  a  son.  Who  lived  to  be  grown,  named  Robert, 
but  who  died  in  early  manhood,  before  the  war.  Rebecca,  his 
oldest  daughter,  married,  first,  Frank  Bethea,  who  died  Janu- 
ary 2d,  i860,  leaving  one  child,  a  son,  who  died  soon  after  his 
father.  The  widow  married,  a  second  time,  Simeon  P. 
McCorniac ;  by  him  she  had  three  sons.  Simeon  went  to  the 
war  and  died  of  measles,  and  her  three  boys  all  died  in  one 
week  with  diphtheria;  so  far  as  children  were  concerned,  she 
was  where  she  started — childless.  After  the  war  some  time, 
she  married  a  third  time,  James  Mclntyre ;  by  him  she  had  an 
only  son,  who  is  now  one  of  our  fellow-citizens.  Woodward 
Manning  Mclntyre,  a  large,  fine-'looking  man ;  he  married  a 
Miss  Atkinson,  of  North  Carolina,  and  has  one  or  two  child- 
ren. Rebecca,  his  mother,  still  lives,  and  is  an  excellent 
woman.  Sallie  Manning  married  John  D.  Betbea;  they  live 
on  the  old  Manning  homestead ;  they  have  four  or  five  children, 
don't  know  whether  sons  or  daughters.  Woodward  Manning 
died  some  years  ago,  and  left  his  two  daughters  in  Comfortable 
condition;  he  did  not  make  property  like  his  brother,  Meely; 
they  were  'both  harmless,  inoffensive  men  and  attended  to  their 
own  business ;  for  years  Woodward  drank  excessively,  but  quit 
entirely  a  few  years  before  his  death. 

Jones. — The  Jones  family  will  next  'be  noticed.  The  writer 
has  some  difficulty  in  ascertaining  and  assigning  properly  the 
remote  ancestry  of  the  Jones  family  in  Marion  County.  To 
the  writer  three  old  Jones — ^John,  Bryant  and  Thomas  M. 
Jones — were  known;  but  Bishop  Gregg,  in  his  history,  goes 


242  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

further  back  than  the  writer's  knowledge,  and  if  Bishop  Gregg 
is  correct,  the  father  of  the  three  aJ)ove  named  was  John  Jones, 
a  brother  of  the  noted  Tory,  Captain  Joseph  Jones,  who  led 
the  Tory  party  to  the  killing  of  Colonel  Kolb,  in  April,  1781. 
Time,  the  great  leveler,  together  with  the  conduct  of  our  people 
during  the  late  war,  has  measurably  put  an  end  to  the  odious 
distinction  between  Whig  and  Tory  of  the  Revolution,  and 
properly  so,  too.  The  descendants  of  many  of  the  Tories  of 
the  Revolutionary  War  are  now  among  our  best  people,  and  of 
highest  respectability ;  and  further,  many  of  the  soldiers  in  our 
late  war,  descendants  of  Tories,  were  as  good  soldiers  as  the 
Confederacy  had.  I  need  not  specify,  because  it  is  generally 
known  and  well  understood,  and  hence  the  term,  Tory,  as  a 
derisive  term,  ought  to  be  no  longer  named.  Bishop  Gregg 
says,  on  page  360:  "Accordingly  a  company  of  about  fifty 
Tories  collected  at  the  place  now  known  as  Tart's  Mill,  six 
miles  above  Marion  Court  House.  The  leader  was  Captain 
Joseph  Jones,  a  native  of  that  neighborhood,  &c."  This  com- 
pany, led  by  Joseph  Jones  as  Captain,  went  over  to  where 
Society  Hill  now  stands,  and  killed  Colonel  Kolb,  plundered 
and  burned  his  house.  In  a  note  to  page  361,  Gregg  says: 
"John  Jones,  a  brother  of  the  Tory  Captain,  was  seen  on  the 
return  of  the  party  as  they  passed  old  John  Bethea's,  riding 
Colonel  Kolb's  horse  and  saddle,  with  a  feather-bed  tied  before 
him."  Bishop  Gregg,  on  page  367,  further  says:  "Captain 
Jones,  the  leader,  which  surprised  Colonel  Kolb,  was  a  man  of 
some  note.  He  possessed  a  good  property,  and  was  ingenious 
to  a  remarkable  degree.  He  is  said  to  have  made  the  first 
surveyor's  compass  ever  used  in  Marion  District.  Notwith- 
standing his  course  during  the  Revolution,  he  continued  to  live 
on  Catfish  until  about  1802,  and  then  removed  to  Colleton 
District,  where  he  died  not  very  many  years  since."  It  is  pre- 
sumed (in  the  absence  of  more  definite  information)  that  either 
Captain  Joseph  Jones,  or  his  brother,  John  Jones,  was  the  pro- 
genitor of  these  Jones  on  Catfish,  or  the  family  in  question. 
Rather  suppose  it  was  John  and  not  Joseph  Jones.  The  killing 
of  Colonel  Kolb  in  the  manner  in  which  it  was  done,  and  the 
plundering  of  his  premises,  was  most  certainly  a  horrid  crime, 
and  a  severe  blow  to  the  cause  of  independence  in  South 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  243 

Carolina — ^at  least,  for  a  while ;  but  yet  we  are  obliged  to  admit 
that  it  was  not  without  provocation.  It  was  merely  retalia- 
tory. Colonel  Kolb  with  his  men  had  just  been  down  on 
Catfish,  in  the  region  of  the  Jones,  and  had  killed  several  of 
the  Tories,  so  that  if  honors  were  not  even,  conduct  and  con- 
ditions were  about  equal.  The  writer  takes  it  for  granted 
that  one  of  these  Jones  was  the  father  to  the  three  brothers, 
John  Jones,  Bryant  Jones  and  Thomas  M.  Jones.  John  Jones 
lived  on  the  road  leading  from  Isfham  Watson's  crossing  of 
Catfish  to  Marion  Court  House,  not  more  than  half  a  mile  from 
the  crossing.  The  writer  stayed  all  night  at  his  house  in  1838, 
went  there  in  company  with  the  late  William  Gaddy,  a  son-in- 
law  of  old  man  Jones.  Old  man  Jones  had  two  sons,  John  D. 
and  Samuel  (if  there  were  other  sons,  the  writer  never  knew  or 
heard  of  them) .  There  were  two  daughters,  Sallie  and  Eliza- 
beth, who  married  two  of  the  Gaddys,  William  and  James,  and 
have  already  been  noticed  among  the  Gaddy  family.  John  D. 
Jones  married,  first,  a  Miss  Avant,  below  Marion,  and  settled 
on  the  north  side  of  Little  Pee  Dee,  where  his  son,  John 
Thomas  Jones,  now  resides;  he  was  a  local  preacher  in  the 
Methodist  Church,  and  a  most  excellent  man  and  manager  of 
affairs ;  he  raised  only  three  children,  a  daughter,  Mary,  and 
two  sons,  James  A.  and  John  Thomas.  The  two  latter  went 
to  school  to  the  writer  in  1834  and  1835.  James  A.,  the  older, 
married  a  Miss  Huggins,  a  daughter  of  Solomon  Huggins,  and 
by  her  had  several  children — one  a  son,  J.  O.  Jones,  a  prom- 
ising and  worthy  man,  the  others  not  known.  The  father, 
James  A.,  went  into  the  Confederate  War,  and  was  either  killed 
or  died  in  the  war ;  his  family  are  about  Nichols.  John  Thomas 
Jones  married  Miss  Sallie  Nichols,  as  hereinibefore  stated  in 
the  notice  of  the  Nichols  family;  is  yet  living,  a  first-rate, 
practical  man  and  a  worthy  citizen ;  he  raised  a  family  of  six 
sons  and  four  daughters.  The  sons  are  Evander,  Eli,  Beverly, 
Kendree,  R.  Boyd  and  another,  name  forgotten,  all  young  men 
of  promise ;  four  of  them  have  families,  two  unmarried — good 
people.  Of  the  daughters,  one  married  J.  B.  Williams,  of 
Nichols;  one  W.  L.  Hewit,  of  Marion;  one  D.  N.  Bethea,  in 
upper  Marion,  and  Miss  Fannie  is  unmarried.  Taken  alto- 
gether, there  are  no  better  people  in,  the  county  than  they  are. 


244  .     A  HISTORY  0]P  MARION  COUNTY. 

Mary  Jones,  the  daughter  of  John'D.  Jones,  married  John 
Hug-gins  (famiHarly  called  Jack)  ;  they  raised  several  children. 
He  (John  Huggins)  was  a  local  preacher  in  the  Methodist 
Church,  a  capital  and  good  man;  he  died  years  ago,  suddenly 
one  morning,  as  he  rose  from  his  knees  at  family  prayers ;  he 
raised  a  considerable  family,  mostly  sons,  George  W.,  Johji, 
Dock  and  Charles — ^may  have  been  others.  George  W.  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Porter,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  A.  Porter ;  he  moved 
to  Georgia  some  years  since;  know  nothing  further  of  him. 
Dock  Huggins  married  a  Miss  Johnson,  daughter  of  the  late 
Hugh  R.  Johnson ;  they  have  a  family,  names  and  number  un- 
known— a  well-to-do  citizen.  Don't  know  to  whom  John  and 
Charles  married,  if  at  all.  Know  of  but  two  daughters,  Zilpha 
and  Miss  Louisa,  now  at  Dillon ;  Zilpha  married  a  man  by  the 
name  of  Blackwell ;  he  and  family  have  gone  to  parts  unknown. 
A  daughter  of  Blackwell,  raised  by  her  aunt.  Miss  Lou  Hug- 
gins, married  Mr.  E.  L.  Moore,  of  Dillon.  Miss  Louisa  Hug- 
gins, a  nice  woman,  has  never  married.  "Jack"  Huggins  may 
have  had  other  sons  and  daughters,  unknown  to  writer.  Old 
John  Jones  had  another  son,  Samuel ;  he  emigrated  West  many 
years  ago.  John  D.  Jones  married,  a  second  time,  to  the  Widow 
Walters ;  by  her  he  had  no  children ;  she  survived  him — don't 
know  what  has  become  of  her.  Bryant  Jones  married,  late  in 
life,  Elizabeth  Berry,  daughter  of  old  Henry  Berry  the  first,  as 
hereinbefore  stated,  and  settled  down  in  Wahee  on  the  "Grove" 
lands ;  they  raised  a  family  of  three  sons  and  three  daughters. 
The  sons  were  Henry  B.  Jones,  Frederic  D.  Jones  and  James  E. 
Jones ;  the  daughters  were  Elizabeth,  Nancy  and  Mary  (Polly). 
Henry  B.,  the  only  survivor  of  the  family,  married  a  Miss 
Hood,  second  cousin  to  him,  and  lives  on  his  patrimonial 
estate;  he  raised  a  family  of  six  children,  two  sons  and  four 
daughters ;  the  sons  are  Frank  and  Charles.  Frank  married  a 
Miss  Sessoms,  and  has  a  coming  family,  is  a  quiet,  good  citizen. 
Charles  is  unmarried.  One  daughter,  Hattie,  married  a  Mr. 
Bowen,  a  son  of  Dr.  Bowen;  don't  know  where  they  are  or 
what  they  are  doing.  The  other  three  daughters  are  single 
and  with  their  parents.  Frederic  D.  Jones  married  the  Widow 
Stephen  Berry,  whose  maiden  name  was  Fama  Watson.  Fred. 
D.  Jones  and  his  family  have  already  been  noticed  in  or  among 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  245 

the  Watson  family.  James  E.  Jones  died  some  years  ago,  un- 
married. Elizabeth  Jones  married  the  late  James  Watson,  and 
has  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Watson  family. 
Nancy  Jones  married  William  A.  Brown;  they  raised  five 
children,  three  sons  and  two  daughters.  One  of  the  daughters 
married  Calvin  Dew;  she  and  her  husband  are  both  dead, 
childless.  The  other  daughter  died  unmarried,. though  grown. 
Of  the  sons,  Edward  is  a  physician  and  citizen  of  Latta;  he 
married  Miss  Victoria  Martin ;  they  have  some  children ;  don't 
know  how  many.  John  Brown,  the  second  son,  married  a 
Miss  Turbeville,  daughter  of  our  good  citizen,  Stephen  Turbe- 
ville.  William  Brown  married  a  Miss  Bowen,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Bowen,  of  Florence  County,  and  have  several  small  children. 
Mary  Jones  (called  Polly)  married  B.  W.  Jarnigan,  of  North 
Carolina;  he  lived  and  died  in  the  neighborhood  of  his 
marriage,  three  or  four  years  ago;  his  wife  also  died  soon 
after;  they  had  and  raised  two  children,  a  son  and  a  daugh- 
ter— Dr.  J.  E.  Jarnigan  and  Sarah  Ellen.  Dr.  Jarnigan 
married  Miss  Alice  Bailey,  of  Fairfield  County;  his  wife 
lived  several  years,  and  died  childless.  The  Doctor  still 
remains  a  widower,  muoh  to  his  own  disgust  and  surprise 
to  his  friends ;  he  was  physician  to  the  State  Penitentiary  for 
three  or  four  years,  and  was  Consul  to  Honduras,  appointed  by 
President  Cleveland,  for  two  or  three  years,  and  was  recently 
elected  to  represent  the  county  in  the  State  Legislature;  has 
had  much  experience  in  affairs  and  more  of  observation  in  his 
life,  and  is  well  equipped  for  the  position  he  now  occupies. 
His  sister,  Sarah  Ellen,  married  A.  J.  Matheson,  of  Marlbor- 
ough, who  is  now  a  very  wealthy  man,  engaged  in  mercantile 
and  agricultural  pursuits — succeeds  in  everything  he  touches, 
and  turns  it  to  gold ;  they  have  eight  children  living,  sons  and 
daughters — several  of  them  married.  Thomas  M.  Jones  emi- 
grated with  his  family  to  Alabama  more  than  fifty  years  ago. 
A  sister  of  John  and  Bryant  Jones  married  old  John  Blackman, 
became  his  second  wife.  Another  sister  married  Christopher 
Dew  the  second,  and  by  him  she  had  two  children,  Frederic  C. 
and  John  A.  Dew,  both  dead.  Frederic  left  several  children, 
son's — John  Foster,  Philip  and  Christopher;  and  daughters — 
don't  know ;  one  the  wife  of  James  Haselden.    John  A.  Dew 


246  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

married  a  Miss  Hays,  daughter  of  old  Levi  Hays,  but  had  no 
children;  his  widow  still  survives. 

CoTTiNGHAM. — The  Cottingham  family  will  next  be  noticed. 
Andrew  Cottingham  and  his  brother,  Daniel  Cottingham,  are 
importations   from  Marlborough   County.    Andrew   Cotting- 
ham was  the  son  of  Conner  Cotting'ham,  bom  the  4th  January, 
1818,  as  he  told  the  writer  himself,  and'  is  still  active  and  strong 
for  a  man  of  his  age — a  first  rate  citizen ;  married,  I  think,  a 
Miss  Sinclair;  has  made  a  good  living;  has  raised  six  enter- 
prising and  respectable  sons,  J.  C.  Cottingham,  Daniel  C.  Cot- 
tingham, A.  J.   Cottingham,   Elkanah   Cottingham,   William 
Cottingham  and  A.  J.  C.  Cottingham;  most  or  all  of  them, 
except  A.  J.  C,  are  married  or  have  been  married.     Elkanah 
settled  and  lived  in  West  Marion ;  his  wife  died  two  or  three 
years  ago ;  don't  know  whether  he  has  remarried  or  not — think 
he  has  several  children.     Daniel  C.  Cottingham  married  a  Miss 
Legette,  daughter  of  the  late  James  B.  Legette,  and  lives  in  the 
"Free  State"  section  of  the  county — a  good  citizen  and  is  doing 
well.     J.  C.  Cottingham  married  a  Miss  Legette,  of  Marlbor- 
ough County ;  has  raised  a  nice  family,  doing  well ;  has  a  son, 
promising  young  man,  a  graduate  of  Wake  Forrest  College, 
N.  C.    A.  J.  C.  Cottingham  lives  at  Dillon,  one  of  the  leading 
merchants  of  the  town;  has  made  money — enterprising  arid 
progressive;  be  does  not  marry  fast — ^pays  a  great  deal  of 
attention  to  ladies,  and  especially  to  the  younger  ones,  but 
never  gets  to  the  "sticking  point."     The  Cottinghams  are  all 
first  class  citizens,  energetic  and  progressive,  doing  their  share 
in  the  general  make-up  of  the  county,  so  far  as  the  development 
of  the  county's  resources  are  concerned.     We  would  like  to 
make  other  such  importations  from  Marlborough  County  or 
elsew'here  as  the  Cottingham  family  have  proven  themselves  to 
be.    Andrew  Cotting'bam  raised  one  daughter,  who  married 
W.  J.  Carter,  of  Dillon,  a  worthy  and  useful  man ;  they  have 
several  children,  sons  and  daughters,  and  are  prosperous.     If 
there  are  other  daughters,  the  writer  does  not  know  them.  - 
Daniel  Cottingham,  a  brother  of  Andrew,  is  another  good  citi- 
zen of  the  county,  but  I  dtm't  know  enough  about  them  to 
specify  and  give  them  a  place  herein  seriatim.     One  of  Daniel 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  247 

Cottingliam's  daughters  married  Henry  Berry,  a  son  of  Cap- 
tain Stephen  F.  Berry.  Another  is  the  wife  of  our  progressive 
fellow-citizen  of  Latta,  John  L.  Dew ;  have  only  one  child. 

There  is  another  family  of  Cottinghams,  not  of  recent  im- 
portation, that  must  have  a  place  herein.  I  mean  old  Yates 
Cottingham,  whose  sad  end  has  already  been  noticed.  Yates 
Cottingham  married  a  sister  of  old  Thomas  Harllee ;  where  he 
came  from  is  not  known;  his  only  fault  was  that  he  inordi- 
nately loved  liquor ;  by  his  marriage  he  had  a  son,  Stewart  Cot- 
tingham; there  may  have  been  others — never  heard  of  any 
others.  Old  Yates  had  daughters  also — one,  at  least,  the 
mother  of  the  polite  and  accommodating  barber  now  at  Dillon, 
Henry  Cottingbam ;  don't  know  who  his  father  was.  Stewart 
Cottingham  was  a  very  reliable  and  very  worthy  man;  don't 
know  wlio  his  wife  was;  he  had  a  son  (and,  perhaps,  others), 
named  Thomas  (a  Harllee  family  name),  who  married  and 
raised  a  family,  unknown  to  the  writer;  he  died  a  few  years 
back. 

Hamilton. — ^Another  family  to  be  noticed  is  the  Hamilton 
family.  This  is  an  old  family  in  the  county,  never  noted  for 
being  over-pretentious,  but  plain,  honest,  hard-working  people. 
As  known  to  the  writer,  there  were  two  brothers,  William  and 
John,  in  the  prime  of  life  a  hundred  years  ago ;  don''t  know  to 
whom  either  of  them  was  married.  Of  William  Hamilton  and 
his  family  the  writer  knows  more  than  of  John  and  his  family. 
William  Hamilton  had  two  sons,  Whittington  and  William. 
Whittington  married  a  Miss  Herring,  by  whom  he  had  several 
sons,  John,  Arthur,  Stephen,  Tobias,  William  Warren  and 
Whittington ;  and  some  two  or  three  daughters.  Of  the  sons, 
John  married  and  raised  several  children,  sons  and  perhaps 
daugbters ;  the  sons  were  Allen,  Perry,  Ira,  John  H.  and  Bryant. 
Allen  married  a  Miss  Price,  by  whom  he  has  a  large  family  of 
children,  how  many  not  known.  Perry  died  unmarried.  Ira 
married  a  Miss  Surls,  daughter  of  A.  B.  Surls,  of  Dillon.  Bry- 
ant is  unmarried.  Arthur  Hamilton  married  a  Miss  Hyatt,  and 
by  her  had  only  one  child,  a  daughter,  now  the  wife  of  Talley 
Martin ;  know  nothing  of  Martin's  family.  Stephen  Hamilton 
married  and  has  sons,  Dayton  V.  and  William  K. ;  a  daughter, 
17 


248  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

the  wife  of  Angus  Moore ;  they  all  have  families.  Tobias  went 
to  Horry  after  the  war;  never  married;  accumulated  a  nice 
property,  which  went  mostly  to  his  brothers  and  sisters.  Dr. 
William  W.  Hamilton,  now  of  -Marion,  married  Miss  Rebecca 
J.  Fore,  daughter  of  the  late  Thomas  Foi-e,  by  whom  he  has 
only  one  child,  a  son,  named  Thomas  F.,  now  nearing  man- 
hood, with  a  fine  prospect  for  life  ahead  of  him.  Whittington 
Hamilton  married  his  cousin,  a  daughter  of  Henry  Jackson, 
and  by  her  has  several  bhildren,  two  sons  and,  perhaps,  three 
daughters.  The  sons  are  Whittington,  Jr.,  and  Warley. 
Whittington,  Jr.,  married,  but  his  wife  died  childless,  a  year  or 
so  ago ;  Whittington,  Jr.,  is  now  a  widower.  Warley  married 
a  Miss  Waters,  and  has  some  two  or  three  children ;  he  resides 
at  Dillon,  an  energetic  and  enterprising  young  man.  Whit- 
tington Hamilton's  daughters — ^two  or  three  are  married,  but 
to  whom  is  not  known ;  has  one  single  one  with  him.  Of  old 
man  John  Hamilton's  family,  the  writer  knows  but  little;  he 
had  two  sons,  John  and  Tristram,  both  are  dead.  John_  mar- 
ried a  daughter  of  old  man  Alexander  Henderson,  a  unique 
character  fifty  years  ago;  by  the  marriage  there  are  two 
sons,  Jasper  and  Tristram,  two  excellent  men  and  good  citi- 
zens; both  married.  Who  Jasper's  wife  was  is  not  known. 
Tristram  married  Miss  Nellie  Bethea,  a  daughter  of  E.  Bethea, 
of  Latta,  S.  C. ;  they  reside  at  Dillon ;  have  two  or  three  child- 
ren, and  are  doing  well.  Of  the  daughters  of  old  John,  also  of 
his  son  John,  or  of  Tristram,  I  know  nothing,  and,  therefore, 
can  say  nothing  about  them.  William  Hamilton,  a  son  of  old 
William,  married  twice ;  who  his  first  wife  was  is  not  known ; 
his  last  wife  was  a  Miss  Moody,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Rev. 
Hugh  Moody ;  by  her  he  had  and  left  several  children ;  know 
nothing  further  of  them.  Of  the  daughters  of  old  William, 
I  can  only  speak  of  two  of  them.  One  married  William  Jack- 
son>  called  "Fire-coal  Bill;"  both  are  dead.  "Fire-ooal  Bill" 
had  six  sons  in  the  war,  and  all  gallant  soldiers — Robert,  I^evi, 
Owen,  Malcolm,  others,  names  not  remembered.  Another 
daughter  married  Elisha  McKenzie,  and  raised  a  large  family, 
sons  and  daughters ;  but  of  their  children  the  writer  is  not  in- 
formed and  can  say  nothing.  The  Hamilton  family,  taken  as  a 
whole,  are  good  people,  taking  into  consideration  their  time 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  249 

and  environments.  They  lived  on  Maple  Swamp  and  its  bord^ 
ers,  and  that  region  of  the  county  was,  up  to  1!he  war,  the  "dark 
corner"  of  the  county — not  scarcely  civilized.  Since  the  war 
a  new  order  of  things  has  obtained  on  Maple,  and  it  is  now 
one  of  the  best  sections  of  the  county,  a  progressive  and  up-to- 
date  population.  The  Hamilton  family  was  true  to  the  Con- 
federacy from  beginning  to  the  end.  "Fire-coal  Bill"  Jack- 
son had  six  boys  (half  Hamilton)  in  the  war,  and  no  better 
soldiers  followed  the  flag  than  they.  Dr.  W.  W.  Hamilton 
went  into  it  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  and  came  out  as  a  Captain 
of  his  company.  Heard  one  of  his  comrade  Captains  say  of 
him,  that  he  (Captain  Hamilton)  was  one  of  the  coolest  men 
he  ever  saw  in  battle;  that  he  went  on  all  occasions  without 
hesitation  and  without  trepidation  wherever  he  was  ordered, 
it  mattered  not  how  dangerous  the  position.  He  is  a  kind- 
hearted  man  and  a  real  gentleman,  and  is  an  honor  to  his  name 
and  family ;  and  while  saying  this,  the  writer  would  not  dispar- 
age others  of  his  family. 

Braddy. — The  Braddy  family  will  now  be  noticed.  John 
Braddy,  the  first  known  in  the  county,  married  Martha  (Patty) 
Bethea,  daughter  of  John  Bethea,  and  sister  to  old  Tristram 
and  Cade  Bethea ;  he  raised  a  considerable  family  of  sons  and 
daughters.  The  sons  were  John  B.,  lyUton  C,  Tristram  B., 
William  W.  and  Robert  B.  Braddy,  and  of  these,  Robert 
B.  alone  survives  ;*  the  daughters  were  Elizabeth,  Harriet  and 
Kittie.  John  B.  Braddy  married  Miss  Mary  Crawford,  a 
lovely  girl,  raised  by  Hug'h  Godbold,  a  niece  of  his  wife, 
Rhoda;  they  remained  a  few  years  in  Marion  and  then  went 
to  Alabama;  had  two  children  when  they  left.  Braddy  and 
wife  are  both  dead.  Luton  C.  Braddy  grew  up  and  studied 
medicine  and  located  near  Holmesville,  on  the  North  Carolina 
line ;  he  was  a  young  man  of  fine  presence  and  promise,  a  pic- 
ture of  health,  robust  and  strong ;  he  took  brain  fever  and  died 
therefrom  ins  three  or  four  days,  unmarried.  T.  B.  Braddy 
married,  first,  a  Miss  McKinnon,  of  Robeson  County,  N.  C.,- 
and  by  her  had  three  sons,  Daniel  McK.  Braddy,  Luton  C. 
Braddy  and  Adolphus  Braddy,  and  a  daughter,  Alice  Braddy, 

*Now  dead. 


250  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

when  his  wife  died ;  and  he  married,  a  second  time,  Miss  Anne 
Nichols,  a  daughter  of  old  Averitt  Nichols,  and  by  her  he  had 
one  son,  Oscar,  who  has  already  been  mentioned  among  the 
Nichols  family.  T.  B.  Braddy  was  shot  and  killed  by  D.  W. 
McLaurin,  in  November,  1881.  McLaurin  was  tried  for  it  on 
the  charge  of  murder,  and  was  acquitted.  As  the  writer  was 
employed  by  the  sons  of  Braddy  to  assist  the  Solicitor  (Dar- 
gan)  in  the  prosecution  of  the  case,  he  will  forbear  saying  any- 
thing further  of  the  homicide.  Daniel  McK.  Braddy  married, 
and  tlhey  have  now  only  one  child,  a  daughter.  Luton  C. 
Braddy  married,  and  has  several  children,  all  girls  but  one, 
Adolphus  Braddy,  who  died  suddenly  some  few  years  ago, 
unmarried.  The  daughter  of  T.  B.  Braddy,  Miss  Alice,  is  still 
unmarried.  Daniel  McK.  and  Luton  C.  Braddy  are  excellent 
^  and  good  citizens,  energetic  and  prosperous.  William  W. 
Braddy,  a  fine  specimen  of  the  physical  man,  married  Miss 
Lizzie  Evans,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Nathan  Evans,  by  whom 
he  h&d  several  children,  sons  and  daughters.  Walker  Braddy, 
his  oldest  daughter,  married  J.  W.  Davis,  of  Marion ;  they  emi- 
grated to  Alabama,  where  she  died,  leaving  some  children. 
William,  his  oldest  son,  died  about  the  time  of  his  majority, 
unmarried.  Another  son,  Robert,  died  when  a  lad.  His 
daughter,  Susan,  married  J.  T.  Coleman,  a  professor  in  the 
Citadel  Academy,  in  Charleston;  they  reside  there,  and  have 
one  son,  named  Walker.  His  youngest,  a  son,  named  Wigbt- 
man,  two  weeks  old  at  his  father's  death,  is  a  young  single 
man  in  Charleston,  and  belongs  to  the  "Grip-sack  Brigade"  of 
commercial  travelers,  and,  I  suppose,  is  doing  fairly  well;  his 
mother  still  survives.  W.  W.  Braddy  was  elected  Clerk  of 
the  Court  in  1868,  and  held  that  position  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  November  29th,  1872.  S.  G.  Owens  had  been  elected  as 
his  successor  in  office,  but  had  not  qualified  and  entered  upon 
the  duties  of  the  office  at  the  time  of  Braddy's  death,  but  did 
so  in  a  short  time  afterwards.  Horace  Greeley  died  the  same 
day  that  Braddy  did,  29th  November,  1872.  R.  B.  Braddy, 
the  youngest  child  and  son  of  old  John  Braddy,  still  lives ;  he 
married,  first,  a  Miss  McKay ;  she  had  one  child  for  him,  a 
daughter,  and  then  died.  After  some  years  he  married  again, 
a  Miss  Wishart,  of  North  Carolina ;  they  had  five  or  six  child- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  251 

ren,  sons  and  daughters.  The  oldest  daughter  married  a  Mr. 
McQueen,  of  Horry,  where  they  now  reside.  Another  daugh- 
ter, named  Hattie,  married  to  some  one  not  now  known.  His 
youngest  daughter  was  an  infant  when  her  mother  died;  she 
was  taken  by  Mrs.  J.  R.  N.  Tenhet,  of  Marion,  and  raised ;  is 
now  a  young  lady,  and  instead  of  taking  her  true  name, 
Braddy,  she  takes  the  name  of  Tenhet — Miss  Ethel  Tenhet,  so 
her  name  appears  in  the  Columbia  College  catalogue,  where 
she  graduated.  His  sons,  Edgar  and  Otho,  and  another,  have 
left  the  county  and  perhaps  the  State,  all  unmarried.  The  old 
gentleman  moves  about  among  his  (Children.  His  daughter  by 
his  first  wife  married  some  gentleman  in  North  Carolina ;  saw 
her  father  a  few  weeks  ago  coming  up  from  Marion  on  the 
train,  he  and  his  son,  Edgar,  were  on  their  way  to  see  her  in 
North  Carolina.  The  eldest  daughter  of  old  John  Braddy, 
Elizabeth,  married  Mr.  Jefferson  Williams,  of  Marlborough, 
in  February,  1830;  by  this  marriage  several  children  were 
born ;  only  one,  Benjamin,  now  survives ;  he  formerly  lived  in 
Marion,  a  merchant,  failed;  he  went  to  Sumter  County,  and 
there  married  a  Miss  McFadden,  an  only  child  of  her  parents ; 
he  resides  in  Sumter,  on  the  patrimony  of  his  wife,  and  is  said 
to  be  succeeding  well.  "Ben,"  as  he  was  called,  liad  a  good 
•deal  of  the  "get-up''  in  him,  and  was  an  honorable  boy.  The 
second  daughter  of  old  John  Braddy,  Harriet,  was  a  very 
pretty  girl,  very  popular,  but  did  not  marry  young ;  she  finally 
married  Nathan  Evans,  a  widower,  below  Marion,  and  lived 
and  died  there,  where  B.  F.  Davis  now  resides ;  by  her  marriage 
she  had  four  children,  two  sons,  Julius  and  Lawrence,  and 
two  daughters,  Martha  (Patty)  and  Fannie;  she  died  about 
1879,  wi'th  cancer.  Her  oldest  daughter  married  Richard 
Jordan,  of  Horry,  a  first-rate  business  man;  he  merchan- 
dised several  years  with  his  brother-in-law,  Julius  Evans,  as  a 
partner ;  they  finally  failed,  and  each  at  different  times  went  to 
Georgia  or  Florida.  It  is  said  that  Jordan  has  succeeded  well 
in  his  new  home,  and  has  raised  a  nice  family,  mostly  girls ;  two 
of  them  were  here  on  a  visit  to  their  uncle.  Captain  W.  B. 
Evans,  in  1899 ;  they  were  fine  looking.  Julius  Evans  married 
and  went  to  Florida,  and  is  said  to  be  doing  well ;  one  of  his 
daughters.  Miss  Edna,  was  also  on  a  visit  to  her  undle.  Captain 


252     ■  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Evans,  in  the  summer  of  1900,  on  her  way  home  from  Win- 
throp  College.  Lawrence  Evans,  the  second  son  of  Harriet 
Evans,  nee  Braddy,  married  in  Horry,  don't  know  what  has 
become  of  him.  The  younger  daughter,  Fannie,  went  out  to 
Georgia  with  her  sister,  Mrs.  Jordan,  and  married  some  one 
out  there;  have  lost  sight  of  her.  The  Braddys,  as  a  family, 
were  very  ardent  in  their  disposition  and  attachments,  and 
were  very  good  citizens,  and  self-asserting. 

Clark. — Another  family  to  be  noticed  is  the  Clark  family, 
Malcolm  and  Kenneth,  two  brothers,  citizens  on  Little  Pee 
Dee,  near  where  the  town  of  Dillon  now  is.  The  writer  can 
trace  them  no  further  back  than  themselves;  but  is  satisfied 
they  were  of  Scotch  origin ;  they  both  had  and  raised  families. 
Malcolm  married  a  Miss  McCollum,  of  Robeson  County,  N. 
C,  aibout  1839  or  1840,  a  very  excellent  lady,  a  sister  of  the  late 
Brown  McCoUum's  father;  don't  know  how  many  children 
they  had — think  there  were  three  sons  and  two  daughters — 
Martin  Luther,  John  Calvin  and  Robert  Knox  Clark.  The 
two  daughters  (names  not  known),  one  married  the  Rev.  Dun- 
can McDuffie ;  she  died,  leaving  some  children ;  one  son,  named 
Archie.  Duncan  McDuffie  married  again,  and  now  lives  in 
Florence  County;  has  been  School  Commissioner  of  that 
county;  a  worthy,  good  man.  The  other  daughter  of  old 
Malcolm  married  a  Mr.  Gasque,  from  about  Marion,  who  died 
in  a  few  weeks  after  his  marriage;  his  widow  had  a  posthu- 
mous son,  named  Robert  K.  Gasque;  don't  know  what  has 
become  of  either  him  or  his  mother.  Of  the  sons  of  old  Mal- 
colm, Martin  Luther  died  when  about  grown,  unmarried. 
John  Calvin  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Confederate  War,  and 
was  in  command  of  his  company  in  some  battles  in  Virginia, 
and  was  killed  in  front  of  his  command,  calling  out  to  his  men, 
"Come  on,  come  on,"  not  go  on ;  he  was  one  of  the  many  brave 
men  from  Marion  in  that  eventful  struggle,  made  by  the  South 
for  Southern  independence.  John  Calvin  Clark,  when  a  boy 
at  school  at  Hofwyl  Academy,  was  considered  by  his  school 
comrades,  or  some  of  them,  at  least,  as  a  coward,  and  was  so 
branded;  yet  he  was  anything  else  but  cowardly  when  duty 
required  the  exercise  of  true  courage;  his  courage  was  not  of 


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the  school-boy  'sort  or  the  muster  field  kind ;  but  was  true  cour- 
age— the  courage  to  do  right,  the  courage  to  do  his  duty,  how- 
ever dangerous  the  position  might  be.  Rc>bert  Knox  Clark, 
late  Clerk  of  the  Court,  was  the  second  son  of  old  man  Mal- 
colm, well  known  to  many  now  living;  he,  too,  was  not  a 
coward,  either  in  war  or  in  peace;  he  married  Miss  Nannie 
Stackhouse,  daughter  of  the  late  Wesley  Stackhouse;  by  the 
marriage  they  had  three  sons  and  four  daughters.  The  sons 
were  Martin  Luther,  Robert  Knox  and  John  Calvin' — ^the  same 
names  that  his  father,  old  Malcolm,  gave  to  his  sons.  The 
four  daughters  were  Dora,  Eliza,  Lilly  and  Nannie,  the  latter 
about  two  years  old  when  her  father  died,  in  1888.  Martin 
Luther  Clark,  the  oldest  son,  is  now  at  Marion,  editor  of  the 
"Marion  Star"  newspaper.  The  next  two  sons,  Robert  K. 
and  John  Calvin,  the  writer  has  lost  sight  of ;  don't  know  what 
has  become  of  them.  Of  the  oldest,  Dora,  has  never  married. 
Eliza,  the  second  daughter,  married  the  Hon.  William  A. 
Brown,  below  Marion,  and  has  several  Children.  Lilly,  the 
third  daughter,  married  a  Dr.  Smith,  son  of  Dr.  E.  B. .  Smith, 
below  Marion' ;  don't  know  the  results  of  the  marriage.  John 
Calvin,  the  youngest  son,  and  Nannie,  the  youngest  daughter, 
are  harely  grown.  It  is  due  to  the  memory  of  the  late  R.  K. 
Clark  to  say  that  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  he  volunteered  and 
went  into  the  army  in  Captain  C.  J.  Fladger's  company,  and  in 
January,  1863,  was  transferred  to  the  Arsenal  Academy,  in 
Columbia ;  remained  there  that  year  and  in  January,  1864,  was 
transferred  to  the  Citadel,  in  Charleston,  and  remained  there 
during  the  year  1864,  and  was  then  transferred  back  to  the 
army,  where  he  remained  till  about  the  end  of  the  war,  when 
he  came  home  and  undertook  to  avenge  his  father's  death — 
who  was  killed  by  deserters  on  12th  March,  1865 — ^which  he  in 
great  part  succeeded  in  doing.  It  was  after  this  he  was  mar- 
ried. In  1876,  he  was  elected  Clerk  of  the  Court,  which  posi- 
tion he  filled  with  credit  to  himself,  for  four  years ;  he  was  then 
appointed  County  Treasurer,  which  position  he  held  for  one 
or  two  years,  and  resigned,  and  retired  upon  his  farm,  where 
he  lived  till  1888,  and  died  thereon ;  he  was  likewise  a  man  of 
true  courage ;  he  had  the  courage  to  say  no,  which  every  man 
does  not  possess.     The  old  man,  Malcolm,  died  game.     He 


254  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

was  passing  up  the  road  from  Marion,  on  Sunday  after  Sher- 
man's "bummers"  had  passed  through  the  upper  end  of  the 
county,  I2th  March,  1865,  and  came  upon  a  crowd  of  deserters, 
who  were  cooking  in  Samuel  Page's  lane,  near  where  J.  R. 
Reaves  now  lives.  The  old  man  had  his  gun,  and  on  approach- 
ing the  crowd  cooking,  and  recognizing  who  they  were,  one  of 
them,  the  leader,  said  to  him,  "Old  man,  put  down  your  gun 
and  surrender."  He  did  neither,  but  fired  in  among  them ;  the 
one  he  aimed  at  jumped  behind  his  horse,  and  Clark's  load 
entered  the  horse,  and  killed  him;  whereupon  others  of  the 
crowd  seized  their  guns  and  fired  upon  the  old  man  and  killed 
him.  The  deserters  left  him  and  the  dead  horse  there  in  the 
road,  and  they  lay  there  two  days  before  they  were  removed. 
The  few  old  men  then  in  the  community  were  terrorized  by 
■  Sherman's  bummers  and  the  emboldened  deserters  to  such  an 
extent  that  they  were  afraid  to  remove  old  man  Clark  and  the 
dead  horse  out  of  the  road,  and  give  the  old  man  a  burial.  The 
circumstances  of  the  killing  were  told,  afterwards,  by  one  of 
the  deserters  to  a  friend,  and  that  friend  informed  the  writer. 
Kenneth  Clark,  a  brother  of  old  Malcolm,  was  a  first-rate  man 
and  good  citizen ;  don't  know  whom  he  married ;  he  had  a  son, 
John  Clark,  and  one  or  more  daughters ;  the  old  gentleman  is 
dead.  His  son,  John,  is  on  the  old  homestead,  a  first-class  citi- 
zen, a  good  soldier  in  the  war,  has  never  married ;  is  prosperous 
and  quite  respectable,  drives  a  fine  horse  and  a  fine  buggy,  is 
fully  able  to  take  care  of  some  man's  daughter  as  a  wife,  but 
does  not  seem  to  have  much  fancy  for  such  a  life.  Old  man 
Kenneth  Clark  was  also  a  brave  man- — could  here  relate  an 
incident  in  his  life  in  proof  of  his  courage,  but  space  will  not 
permit.  Those  who  knew  him  will  indorse  him,  not  as  a  cow- 
ard, but  as  a  brave  man. 

There  is  another  Clark,  Pinckney  Clark,  two  or  three  miles 
east  of  Marion;  don't  know  anything  of  his  parentage,  or 
where  he  came  from ;  he  has  a  family,  think  grown  and  mar- 
ried, sons  and  perhaps  daughters ;  he  is  obscure,  makes  no 
noise  in  the  world,  inoffensive  and  works  for  his  living.  His 
family,  now  poor  and  obscure,  may  in  the  future  develop  into 
prominence — who  can  tell!  The  writer  could  name  parents 
within  his  day,  who  were  as  obscure  as  Pink  Clark's  family, 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  ZOO 

vs/hose  children  are  now  prominent  citizens  among  us.  Such 
developments  often  occur.  It  also  happens  that  those  promi- 
nent in  the  present,  go  down  into  obscurity  and  dwindle  away 
in  the  second  and  third  generation — "There  is  a  providence 
that  shapes  our  ends,  rough-hew  them  as  we  may." 

HarrElson. — Another  family  now  to  be  noticed  is  the  Har- 
relson  family.  Of  this  family,  on  Buck  Swamp  and  Maiden 
Down,  the  writer  cannot  say  much,  for  the  want  of  informa- 
tion; he  cannot  trace  them  gen«alogically.  They  are  some- 
what numerous  in  name  and  in  their  connections,  and  in  former 
times  more  prominent  than  they  now  seem  to  be.  In  1798, 
Lewis  Harrelson  and  John  Ford  were  elected  as  Representa- 
tives of  Liberty  County  (now  Marion)  in  the  State  Legislature. 
(Gregg's  History,  page  459.)  Also,  in  the  Acts  of  the  Legis- 
lature of  1798  (section  7,  p.  289,)  we  find  Commissioners  ap- 
pointed "for  the  purpose  of  fixing  on  a  convenient  and  central 
situation,  whereon  to  establish  and  build  a  court  house  and 
gaol  for  the  District  of  Marion  and  to  superintend  the  building 
of  the  same;"  and  among  them  we  find  the  name  of  Benjamin 
Harrelson ;  and  it  may  be  supposed  that  he  and.  Lewis  Harrel- 
son, the  member  of  the  Legislature  that  year  from  Liberty  or 
Marion,  were  brothers,  and  it  is  to  be  presumed  that  the  best 
men  were  selected  for  the  Legislature  and  for  locating  and 
building  the  court  house  and  gaol  for  the  county.  Hence  the 
Harrelson  family  of  that  day  was  prominent  and  among  the 
first  people  of  the  county.  From  these  two  Harrelsons,  and, 
perhaps,  others  of  the  family  whose  names  have  not  been  pre- 
served in  the  records  of  the  times,  have  descended  all  the  Har- 
relsons of  the  county  from  that  time  to  the  peesent.  The 
writer  only  wishes  that  he  could  trace  them  down  to  the  pres- 
ent generation.  The  writer  remembers  that  in  July,  1835,  he 
ate  supper  one  night  at  the  house  of  an  old  man,  Hugh  Harrel- 
son (I  believe,  was  his  name),  where  the  Widow  Lewis 
Harrelson  now  resides,  near  the  lowest  bridge  on  Buck  Swamp ; 
he  had  daughters  grown.  The  writer  could  tell  why  he  was 
there  and  who  went  there  with  him,  and  the  circumstances  of 
the  occasion,  and  what  happened  in  that  family  two  or  three 
years  afterwards,  in  connection  with  one  who  went  there  with 


256  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

him,  but  all  that  is  not  necessary  in  a  book  of  this  kind.  The 
writer  was  then  only  seventeen  years  of  age.  These  old  Har- 
relsons  were  men  of  high  character  and  stood  well  among  their 
iJeople,  and  from  them  descended  the  large  family  with  their 
connections,  which  now  inhabit  the  county.  Although  those 
of  the  present  day  may  not  be  as  prominent  as  their  ancestors, 
yet  all  the  way  through,  they  have  been  law-abiding,  indus- 
trious and  honest  people,  part  of  the  bone  and  sinew  of  the 
county.  The  late  Lewis  Harrelson,  near  Miller's  Church, 
married  Miss  Mahala  Rogers,  and  by  her  had  six  or  seven 
children,  sons  and  daughters,  all  minors  at  his  death.  The 
oldest  son,  Charles,  is  quite  a  promising  young  man ;  the  names 
of  the  others  not  remembered;  they  are  soon  to  take  their 
places  in  society.  The  late  Lewis  Harrelson  had  a  brother, 
J<jhn  Harrelson,  who  died  or  was  killed  in  the  war ;  he  left  two 
daughters,  both  married  and  have  families;  their  names  not 
remembered.  Lewis  and  John  Harrelson  had  a  sister,  Mary 
Jane,  who  married  our  capital  citizen,  W.  T.  Cribb ;  she  died  a 
few  years  ago,  childless.  There  are  other  Harrelsons  in  the 
county,  collaterally  related.  George  Harrelson,  near  MuUins, 
is  an  exceptionally  good  man,  and  is  doing  well.  Another 
branch  of  the  family  is  on  the  Back  Swamp,  above  Ariel.  Old 
man  Hugh  Harrelson,  down  there,  was  a  well^o-do  man; 
married  a  Miss  Smith,  of  Horry,  and  raised  a  family  of  five 
sons  and  five  daug'hters.  John  E.,  Hugh  G.,  David  J.,  Samuel 
and  another  not  now  remembered;  the  daughters  were  Mrs. 
William  J.  Atkinson,  Mrs.  James  Atkinson,  Mrs.  Prudence 
Johnson,  Mrs.  John  D.  Sessions,  and  Miss  Theresa,  Who  died 
unmarried  before  her  father.  The  old  gentleman  left  a  last 
will  and  testament  and,  by  means  which  it  is  not  necessary  to 
state,  it  got  into  the  Courts,  and  it  wag  in  some  form  or  another 
in  the  Circuit  and  Supreme  Courts  of  the  State  for  twelve  or 
fourteen  years.  This  is  stated  from  the  personal  knowledge 
of  the  writer,  as  he  had  to  do  with  the  litigation  from  start  to 
finish.  Of  the  old  man  Hugh  Harrelson's  sons,  Hugh  G.  mar- 
ried, I  think,  a  Miss  Williamson,  and  died  young,  leaving  his 
widow  and  some  children;  don't  know  what  has  become  of 
them.  John  Ellis  Harrelson  married,  and  raised  a  large  family 
of  children,  sons  and  daughters,  who  are  aniong  our  citizens 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  '^01 

now ;  some  unknown,  but  those  that  are  known  are  good  men 
and  prospering.  Ham  Harrelson,  a  son,  is  one  of  the  leading 
citizens  of  his  community.  John  E.  Harrelson  died  about  two 
years  ago ;  he  was  an  energetic  and  persevering  man,  and  sub- 
stantially a  good  citizen.  The  other  sons  of  old  Hugh  Harrel- 
son all  died  unmarried  and  childless.  It  is  assumed  that  these 
Back  Swamp  Harrelsons  are  of  the  same  family  as  the  Buck 
Swamp  Harrelsons ;  that  they  are  all  collaterally  related ;  that 
they  all  had  the  same  common  ancestor.  L,ewis,  Hugh  and 
Benjamin  seem  to  be  family  names  from  the  early  times  down 
to  the  present ;  that  events  and  circumstances  separated  them, 
though  not  far  apart,  in  the  same  county.  In  the  absence  of 
other  and  better  information,  the  writer  is  bound  to  assume 
that  they  are  all  of  the  same  family  originally,  and  sprang  from 
a  common  ancestor  in  the  first  settlement  of  this  part  of  the 
State,  Marion  County.  At  all  events,  they  are  here  and  have 
been  from  time  immemorial,  and  have  been  and  are  quite 
respectable.  Another  branch  of  the  same  family  are  those  on 
the  north  side  of  Little  Pee  Dee  River.  They  are  certainly 
of  the  same  family  as  those  on  Buck  Swamp  and  Maiden 
Down.  Zephaniah  and  Stephen  Harrelson,  two  old  men, 
resided  on  Bear  Swamp  and  Cainey  Branch,  near  the  Gaddy 
Mills,  sixty-five  or  seventy  years  ago.  Stephen  Harrelson 
raised  a  large  family  of  sons,  nine  or  ten,  who  are  among  us 
now,  and  are  respectable,  good  citizens ;  don't  know  the  names 
of  all  of  them,  but  name  such  as  are  remembered — ^John  R., 
Alfred  H.,  James  W.,  Joel  and  Hugh  only  are  remembered; 
another  one  is  a  Baptist  preacher.  Of  these,  Alfred  H.  Har- 
relson married  a  daughter  of  William  Roberts,  and  has  a  fam- 
ily of  sons  and  daughters ;  he  is  an  industrious  and  prosperous 
man  and  a  law-abiding  citizen.  James  W.  lives  near  MuUins, 
is  also  a  quiet  and  worthy  citizen.  John  R.  (called  Jack) 
raised  a  considerable  family,  died  years  ago.  One  of  his 
daughters  was  the  second  wife  of  Dr.  George  E.  Shooter; 
another  is  the  wife  of  John  Altman.  Joel  Harrelson  has  raised 
a  family,  is  a  progressive,  good  citizen,  and  is  well  to  do ;  don't 
know  to  whom  he  married.  They  were  all  good  soldiers  in  the 
war,  did  their  duty  there  and  are  doing  the  same  now,  in  time 
of  peace.     Don't  know  anything  of  old  man  Zephaniah  Harrel- 


258  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

son's  progeny ;  he  died  many  .years  ago,  a  respectable,  good 
man  in  his  day ;  don't  think  he  had  many  children.  A  daughter 
of  Stephen  H.  married  Neill  B.  McQueen;  is  now  a  widow; 
she  is  an  extra  smart  woman,  if  alive  yet. 

Martin. — Another  family  will  here  be  noticed,  to  wit :  the 
Martin  family.  This  family  is  somewhat  extensive,  both  in 
name  and  its  connections.  The  first  Martin  in  the  county,  of 
which  the  writer  has  any  knowledge  or  information  was 
Matthew  Martin ;  have  not  been  able  to  learn  who  his  wife  was. 
He  lived  in  the  Maiden  Down  section,  and  raised  a  family  of 
four  sons  and  two  daughters,  and,  perhaps,  other  daughters, 
to  the  writer  unknown ;  he  was  a  thrifty  man,  and  accumulated 
a  good  property  as  a  farmer  for  his  day  and  time.  His  sons 
were  John,  Matthew,  Stephen  H.  and  Aaron;  daughters' 
names  unknown.  John  Martin  married  a  Miss  Hays,  daughter 
of  old  man  Benjamin  Hays,  on  north  side  of  Little  Pee  Dee; 
by  her  he  had  and  raised  a  family,  how  many  is  unknown. 
He  had  a  son,  Alexander  Martin,  now  in  Horry  County;  he 
married  a  Miss  Cribb,  daughter  of  Anthony  Cribb;  he  went 
years  ago  to  Horry  County,  raised  a  family  and  they  are  in  that 
counity.  John  M'artfin  "had  some  daughtters.  One  married 
Dempsey  Cribb,  Jr. ;  another  married  a  Mr.  Baker,  and  another 
married  a  Mr.  Lovet;  know  nothing  further  of  them.  John 
Martin  died  before  the  war,  freezed  to  death.  Matthew  Mar- 
tin, Jr.,  married  a  daughter  of  Captain  John  Rogers,  in  the 
Fork;  by  this  marriage  he  had  and  raised  four  daughters, 
names  not  known.  One  married  Jesse  Butler,  who  moved  to 
Darlington,  and  is  dead ;  he  had  a  family  of  several  children — 
one  son,  named  Charles ;  suppose  they  are  all  in  Darlington  now. 
Another  daughter  married  E.  W.  Hays,  of  Hillsboro,  and  is 
now  a  widow ;  $he  has  some  children.  Another  daughter  mar- 
ried R.  B.  Piatt;  she  is  dead;  think  she  left  some  three  or 
four  children.  Another  daughter  married  a  Mr.  Nicholson 
(Archie) ;  they  are  raising  a  family,  prospering  and  doing  well. 
Aaron  Martin,  the  youngest  son  of  old  Matthew,  Sr.,  married 
a  daughter  of  Captain  John  Rogers,  in  the  Fork ;  they  are  now 
both  dead,  but  left  a  family  of  two  sons  and  seven  daughters ; 
the   sons   were   Mitchel   M.    Martin   and   Valentine   Martin. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  259 

Mitchell  married  Miss  Lizzie  Smith,  daughter  of  the  late 
Stephen  Smith;  the  fruits  of  the  marriage  are  four  sons — 
Vance,  Victor,  Clyde  and  Mitchell.  Of  these,  Vance  married 
Miss  Florence  Owen,  daughter  of  the  late  Rev.  John  Owen, 
who  was  accidentally  shot  and  killed  a  few  weeks  ago;  they 
have  two- children,  a  son  and  a  daughter.  Victor  Martin  lately 
married  a  Miss  Pepper,  of  Southport,  N.  C.  The  two  younger 
boys,  Clyde  and  Mitchell,  are  with  their  mother.  Mitchell 
Martin  died  some  years  ago,  at  Mullins,  S.  C,  where  his  widow 
now  resides.  Valentine  Martin,  the  youngest  son  of  Mr. 
Aaron  Martin,  married  Miss  Margaret  Norton,  daughter  of 
the  late  John  Norton;  to  this  marriage  twelve  children  have" 
been  born,  ten  of  whom  are  living — seven  daughters  and  three 
sons.  One  son,  Donald,  is  grown;  and  five  daughters,  Lilly, 
Pensy,  Maggie,  Kate  and  May ;  the  other  names  not  known. 
Of  the  daughters  of  Aaron  Martin,  the  eldest,  Anne,  married 
her  first  cousin,  Richard  Edwards,  a  notice  of  whom  has 
already  been  taken  in  or  among  the  Ed'wards  family.  The 
second  daughter,  Louisa,  married  W.  H.  Daniel,  of  Mullins; 
for  him  she  had  three  children — one  son,  Robert,  and  two 
daughters,  Katie  and  Mary.  Katie  married  George  Reaves, 
and  has  two  or  three  children.  Robert  Daniel  married  Minnie 
Be^hea,  a  daughter  of  Dr.  John  J.  Bethea,  who  died  childless, 
and  Robert  is  now  a  widower.  Mary  Daniel,  the  youngest, 
died  in  early  womanhood,  unmarried — quite  a  charming  young 
lady.  Katie  Mantin  married  Perry  J.  Williams,  of  Nichols,  S. 
C.  -;  by  him  she  had  two  or  three  children,  when  the  father  died 
and  left  her  a  widow ;  she  afterwards  married  and  went  off  to 
Georgia.  Emma  Martin,  another  daughter  of  Aaron  Martin, 
married  J.  Oscar  Daniel,  of  Mullins,  by  whom  she  had  several 
children,  when  he  died ;  she  afterwards  married  William  Leith ; 
whether  there  was  any  offspring  by  the  Leith  marriage,  the 
writer  does  not  know ;  she  died,  and  Leith,  after  a  time  went 
off  West;  don't  know  what  became  of  her  children  by  Oscar 
Daniel.  Ida  Martin  married  B.  F.  Elliott,  of  Marion,  and  by 
this  marriage  a  daughter  and  a  son  were  born.  The  daughter 
is  very  promising,  and  is  now  in  the  Salem,  JST.  C,  Female 
School.  The  son  is  a  mere  boy;  name  not  known.  Victoria 
Martin  married  Dr.  Edward  Brown,  now  of  Latta,  S.  C. ;  by 


260  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

this  marriage  three  sons  and  one  daughter  are  born,  all  yet 
children.  Mary  Martin  married  a  Mr.  Oole,  from  North  Caro- 
lina; they  left  immediately  for  Georgia;  don't  know  anything 
further  of  them.  Stephen  H.  Martin,  a  brother  of  John, 
Matthew  and  Aaroji  Martin,  not  mentioned  in  the  order  of 
their  ages,  married  a  daugihter  of  the  late  David  S.  Edwards, 
and  by  her  'had  several  children,  and  then  died.  Two  of  his 
sons,  "Mack"  Martin  and  David  Martin,  grew  up,  and  "Mack" 
married  Miss  Josephine  Moody,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Salathiel 
Moody;  they  had  some  family,  how  many  is  not  known — a 
son,  named  Robert,  who  was  rather  an  extra  keen  and  sensible 
young  man.  The  family  went  West  some  years  ago,  and  it  is 
said  are  doing  well  in  that  region.  David  Martin  went  West 
also;  have  heard  nothing  of  him  since.  Stephen  H.  Martin 
had  a  daughter,  named  Sue,  who  married  Perry  J.  Williams, 
of  Nichols  (first  wife) ;  she  had  some  three,  or  four  children, 
and  died  very  suddenly,  without  any  apparent  cause.  "Mack" 
Martin,  her  brother,  became  the  guardian  of  her  children,  and 
took  them  and  raised  them;  the  oldest,  a  daughter,  Maggie, 
became  the  wife  of  Benjamin  M.  Carmichael;  they  are  raising 
a  family.  "Mack"  Martin,  their  guardian  and  uncle,  managed 
in  some  way  to  turn  the  boys,  three  (I  think),  and  their  means 
over  to  Carmichael  and  wife,  and  went  West ;  after  this  Car- 
michael and  wife  have  had  charge  of  them.  The  writer  has 
understood  that  two  of  the  boys  are  graduates  of  Wofford  Col- 
lege, or  if  they  did  not  graduate  they  matriculated  in  that  col- 
lege, and  went  for  a  while,  perhaps,  two  years  or  more.  Hope 
they  will  do  well,  as  they  were  orphans,  indeed.  Two  daugh- 
ters of  Matthew  Martin,  Sr.,  are  only  known  of ;  don't  know 
their  names.  One  married  the  late  Samuel  Edwards,  and  the 
other  married  his  nephew.  Captain  L.  M.  Edwards;  both  of 
whom  have  herein  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the 
Edwards  family.  The  Martin  family  thus  far  noticed  are  an 
unpretending  people,  hard-working,  honest,  good  citizens,  sat- 
isfied with  themselves,  regardless  of  what  others  might  think 
or  say.  Matthew,  Jr.,  and  Aaron  married  sisters,  good 
^omen,  and  by  industry  and  frugality  accumulated  a  good 
property,  and  left  it  unencumbered  for  their  children. 

There  are  other  Martins  in  the  same  section  of  the  county. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  261 

and  the  writer's  information  is  (whether  true  or  not)  that  they 
are  no  relation  to  those  above  mentioned;  some  of  them  I 
know  nothing  -about,  and,  therefore,  can  say  nothing  concern- 
ing them.  The  late  William  Martin  married,  first,  a  daughter 
of  the  late  Rev.  Moses  Coleman — a  mighty  good  woman,  as  it 
is  said ;  she  had  for  him  several  children ;  don't  know  how 
many.  The  sons,  Daniel,  William  P.  and  Charles  Betts  Mar- 
tin, now  among  our  good  citizens,  and  doing  well.  Daniel 
Martin  married  a  Widow  Chreitzberg,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Game,  a  daughter  of  our  excellent  man  and  fellow-citizen, 
Robert  B.  Game;  they  have  no  children.  Daniel  is  a  hard 
worker,  a  goodfman,  and  is  doing  well.  William  P.  Martin, 
another  brother,  is  and  has  been  for  several  years  in  the  rail- 
road service  as  section  master  at  and  near  MuUins ;  has  made 
some  money  and  saves  it;  he  married  a  Miss  Rushing,  the 
daughter  of  Henry  Rushing,  also  a  railroad  man ;  they  have,  as 
I  am  informed,  several  children,  whether  sons  or  daughters 
the  writer  does  not  know.  Charles  Betts  Martin,  another 
brother,  is  one  of  our  citizens,  but  whether  married  or  not  is 
not  known.  Their  father,  William  Martin,  married  a  second 
time,  but  to  whom  is  not  known ;  he  died  a  year  or  so  ago,  and 
left  a  widow  with  children,  about  whom  the  writer  knows 
nothing.  William  Martin  had  by  his  first  wife  a  daughter 
(may  have  had  more),  named  Julia;  she  married  Joseph  M. 
Price,  a  nephew  of  the  writer ;  think  they  have  five  or  six  child- 
ren, sons  and  daughters.  Price  is  now  above  Columbia  in  the 
railroad  service  as  section  master.  There  are  other  Martins 
in  the  community  that  the  writer  would  like  to  notice,  but  for 
the  want  of  knowledge  or  information  he  cannot  do  so.  The 
Martins  and  their  connections  are  very  numerous,  and  many 
of  them  quite  respectable. 

Henry. — ^Another  now  to  be  noticed  is  that  of  our  respected 
fellow-citizen,  John  E.  Henry.  This  family  is  not  very  exten- 
sive in  name  or  connections.  The  grand-father  of  John  E. 
Henry  was  named  John;  I  suppose  he  lived  at  Marion;  he 
married  some  lady,  I  think,  a  Miss  Dudley,  sister  of  the  late 
Colonel  Dudley,  a  prominent  member  of  the  bar  for  years  at 
Bennettsville,  S.  C. ;  by  the  marriage  two  children  were  born — 


262  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

a  son,  the  late  David  S.  Henry,  and  a  daughter,  whose  name  I 
have  forgotten.  The  father  died,  and  the  late  Addison  L. 
Scarborough  married  the  Widow  Henry,  and  for  him  she  had 
two  children — a  son  and  a  daughter — Richard  and  Mary  F. 
Richard  Scarborough  became  a  doctor,  married  a  Miss  Craw- 
ford or  Cherry ;  died  a  young  man,  childless,  and  his  widow 
afterwards  married  the  late  Major  O.  P.  Wheeler;  both  are 
dead  and  left  no  child.  Mary  Scarborough  married  the  late 
James  J.  Harllee,  a  member  of  the  Marion  bar,  but  did  not 
practice  much  after  his  marriage — devoted  himself  mainly  to 
his  large  farm  near  Marion,  which  his  wife  inherited  from  her 
father,  A.  L.  Scarborough.  In  1861,  J.  J.  Harllee  and  wife 
•sold  their  plantation,  near  Marion,  now  owned  by  the  daughters 
of  the  late  Fred.  D.  Jones,  and  took  their  negroes  and  money, 
&c.,  and  emigrated  to  Arkadelphia,  Ark.,  where  they  remained, 
I  suppose,  during  the  war.  J.  J.  Harllee  was  killed  about  that 
time,  as  it  was  said,  by  a  horse  running  away  with  him;  his 
widow,  Mary  F.,  was  left  poor  by  the  war  and  by  other 
causes — extravagance  mainly,  as  it  is  said.  A  girl  that  had 
never  known  what  it  was  to  need  or  want  anything,  both  before 
and  after  her  marriage,  was  reduced  to  penury  and  want.  This 
the  writer  knows  from  correspondence  with  her  after  the  war 
and  information  obtained  from  others.  Our  correspondence 
was  in  reference  to  her  claim  for  dower  in  certain  lots  in  the 
town  of  Marion,  which  he  brought  action  for  and  recovered, 
and  sent  the  money  to  her.  She  had  no  child ;  she  afterwards 
married  a  "Yankee"  officer  from  Wisconsin,  a  widower,  with 
four  children,  whose  name  was  F.  M.  Chrisman.  This  mar- 
riage, I  suppose,  took  place  during  the  Reconstruction  period 
in  Arkansas.  David.  S.  Henry,  the  son  of  John  Henry,  grew 
up  and  married  a  Miss  Telatha  Flowers,  and  by  her  had  only 
one  child,  a  son,  our  energetic  and  enterprising  fellow-citizen, 
John  E.  Henry,  who  married  Miss  Charlotte  Bethea,  a  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  Levi  and  Mary  Ann  Bethea;  they  have  several 
children,  sons  and  daughters — ^one  son  named  Sheppard,  one 
named  John  (called  Jack),  and  Patrick,  and  a  daughter  named 
Mary,  who  married  Mr.  Augustus  Aiford ;  they  moved  to  Geor- 
gia, have  several  children,  and  are  said  to  be  doing  well.  The 
sons,  Sheppard  and  Jack,  emigrated  West  somewhere,  and,  I 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  263 

siippose,  looking  out  for  themselves.  John  E.  Henry  and  wife 
have  another  daughter  grown,  whose  name,  I  believe,  is  Ella; 
besides  these  there  are  other  children,  younger.  John  E. 
Henry  is  an  enterprising  man,  and  is  apparently  doing  well; 
they  own  and  occupy  the  old  homestead  of  Mrs.  Henry's  pater- 
nal grand-father,  old  William  Bethea.  The  sister  of  David  S. 
Henry  married  the  Rev.  Tracy  R.  Walsh,  a  strong  preacher  in 
thfe  Methodist  Conference,  who  is  dead;  his  family  are  scat- 
tered through  Marlborough  and  Chesterfield  Counties. 

HuGGiNS. — ^Another  family  may  here  be  noticed — the 
Huggins  family.  The  first  known  of  this  family  were  John 
Huggins  and  Willis  Huggins,  not  brothers,  but  first  cousins.* 
Old  John  Huggins  lived  at  Huggins'  Bridge,  on  Little  Pee 
Dee ;  he  married  a  Miss  Campbell,  sister  of  Gadi  and  Theophi- 
lus ;  he  raised  a  considerable  family  of  sons  and  one  daughter — 
if  there  were  other  daughters,  the  writer  never  heard  of  them ; 
the  sons  were  Solomon,  Henry,  John,  Theophilus,  George, 
Enos  and  Ebben.  Solomon  Huggins  married  some  one  to  the 
writer  unknown,  and  raised  a  family,  of  whom  I  know  nothing. 
Henry  Huggins  married  a  Miss  Elvington,  daughter  of  old 
man  John  Elvington,  of  whom  mention  has  already  been  made 
herein.  Henry  Huggins  had  a  son,  Theophilus,  now  one  of 
our  good  citizens,  on  Little  Pee  Dee;  he  married  some  one  to 
the  writer  unknown,  and  has  raised  a  considerable  family. 
Henry  Huggins  raised  one  daughter,  Martha,  and,  perhaps, 
others.  Martha  married  James  A.  Jones,  an  older  brother  of 
our  excellent  fellow-citizen,  J.  T.  Jones,  and  her  family  has 
already  been  mentioned  herein,  in  or  among  the  Jones  family. 
There  may  have  been  other  sons  and  daughters  of  Henry  Hug- 
gins ;  if  so,  the  writer  knows  nothing  of  them.  Henry  Huggins 
and  wife  died  many  years  ago.  Another  son  of  Henry  Hug- 
gins is  now  remembered,  Thomas  A.  Huggins,  who  married 
and  raised  a  family,  not  known  to  the  writer;  Thomas  A. 
Huggins  died  a  few  years  ago,  quite  an  old  man.  John  Hug- 
gins, Jr.  (Jack,  as  he  was  called),  has  already  been  mentioned 

*John  Huggins  and  Willis  were  first  cousins.     Their  fathers  were 
brothers;  their  grand-father  was  the  common  ancestor,  and,  I  suppose, 
was  the  first  Huggins  in  the  county,  about  1740  or  1750. 
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264  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

in  and  among  the  Jones  family;  his  wife  was  Mary  Jones,  a 
sister  of  our  J.  T.  Jones.  Theophilus  Huggins  and  George  W. 
Huggins  became  Methodist  traveling  preachers  in  the  South 
Carolina  Conference,  and  both  died  therein.;  George  W. 
Huggins  never  married,  and  died  young — in  Conway  or 
Horry — to  which  circuit  he  was  then  assigned,  in  1835.  In 
the  minutes  of  the  Conference  of  1899,  in  the  chapter  entitled 
"The  dead  of  the  South  Carolina  Conference,  1788  to  1900," 
George  W.  Huggins  is  put  down  as  joining  the  Conference  in 
1833 ;  that  he  died  October,  1835,  at  the  age  of  twenty-seven, 
and  was  buried  in  Horry  County.  As  to  the  place  of  his 
burial,  it  is  a  mistake;  he  was  buried  at  Huggins  Bridge,  on 
Little  Pee  Dee — not  more  than  a  hundred  yards  from  the  place 
of  his  birth.  The  writer  attended  his  funeral  and  knows 
whereof  he  speaks.  Theophilus  Huggins  continued  in  the 
itineracy  until  his  death ;  he  married  some  one  unknown  to  the 
writer ;  think  he  died  in  the  North  Carolina  Conference.  Enos 
Huggins,  a  very  vigorous  and  athletic  young  man,  sickened  and 
died  when  young,  unmarried.  Dr.  Ebben  Huggins,  a  dental 
surgeon,  married  and  settled  in  Horry  County,  just  below  Gal- 
ivant's  Ferry;  he  raised  a  large  family— or,  rather,  had  one — 
he  dying  before  the  younger  ones  were  raised.  Old  John 
Huggins'  daughter,  Mary  (Polly  as  she  was  called),  married 
the  late  Stephen  Smith;  by  the  marriage  several  sons  and 
daughters  were  born;  the  sons  were,  and  are,  Ebenezer, 
George  W.,  S.  Elmore,  Benjamin  Cause,  S.  W'hiteford  and  J. 
Emory  Smith,  and  another,  named  Augustus,  who  was  killed 
during  the  war  on  a  train  near  Florence ;  and  daughters,  Mrs. 
Mitchell  Martin,  Mrs.  George  W.  Rogers,  Mrs.  J.  C.  Harrelson 
and  Mrs.  Celia  Atkinson.  Ebb  Smith  was  killed  or  died  of 
disease  in  the  war.  George  W.  Smith,  one  of  our  steady  and 
progressive  citizens,  married  a  Miss  Nance;  the  fruits  of  the 
marriage  are  several  sons  and  daughters ;  some  of  them  mar- 
ried and  have  families  coming  on,  the  names  of  all  of  whom  are 
not  known.  One  daughter  of  George  W.  Smith  married  Allen 
Lewis.  A  son,'  Augustus,  at  Mullins,  married  a  Miss  Dill. 
Bonham  Smith  married  a  Miss  Lewis.  Another  daughter 
married  Hampton  McMillan ;  another  daughter  married  a  Mr. 
Nye.     Benjamin  Gause  Smith,  another  progressive  and  pros- 


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parous  citizen,  married  a  Miss  Piatt,  daughter  of  the  late  Rev. 
John  B.  Piatt ;  they  have,  I  think,  ten  children,  seven  sons  and 
three  daughters;  the  older  sons  are  L,.  Boyd  Smith,  Rembert 
Smith  and  others,  names  not  remembered.  The  two  oldest' 
daughters,  Florence  and  Leila,  are  married.  Florence  to  W. 
F.  Norton ;  they  have  no  children.  Leila  married  P.  S.  Cooper, 
a  first-rate  business  man  at  Mullins ;  they  have  had  two  child- 
ren, both  dead.  The  third  daughter,  Polly,  liamed  for  her 
grand-mother,  now  a  little  girl.  L.  Boyd  Smith  married  a 
Widow  Gibbes,  in  Macon,  Ga. ;  they  are  living  at  Mullins ;  he 
is  in  the  saw  mill  business ,'  is  a  graduate  of  Woflord  College. 
S.  Elmore  Smith,  a  first-class  business  man  and  an  excellent 
citizen,  married  a  Miss  Montgomery,  of  Williamsburg  County ; 
has  a  large  family,  sons  and  daughters,  mostly  daughters.  Has 
one  daughter  married ;  she  married  a  Mr.  Love,  of  Wilming- 
ton ;  think  they  are  now  residing  in  Mullins ;  has  a  son  grown, 
named  Eugene;  has  other  daughters  grown.  S.  Whiteford 
Smith  married  a  Miss  Boatwright,  daughter  of  the  late 
Thomas  W.  Boatwright;  by  this  marriage  are  two  children — 
a  son,  Fleming,  who,  I  think,  is  married,  and  a  daughter,  whose 
name  is  Bessie ;  think  she  has  arrived  at  womanhood.  White- 
ford  Smith  is  a  business  man  and  good  farmer;  was  County 
Superintendent  of  Education  for  four  or  six  years;  retired 
from  that  position  and  was  immediately  elected  as  a  Repre- 
sentative of  his  county  in  the  State  Legislature.  In  whatever 
position  he  has  been  placed,  he  has  met  public  expectation — a 
man  of  strict  integrity  every  way,  and  perfectly  reliable.  J. 
Emory  Smith,  the  youngest  son  of  old  Stephen  and  Polly 
Smith,  married  a  Miss  Williamson,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Wil- 
Uamson,  and  has  a  family  coming  on.  It  seems  that  J.  Emory 
has  not  succeeded  so  well  as  his  older  brothers ;  he  is-  young 
and  may  yet  win,  outstrip  them  in  the  race  of  life.  Mrs. 
Lizzie  Martin  and  her  family  of  four  sons  have  already  been 
noticed  herein  or  among  the  Martin  family.  Mrs.  George  W. 
Rogers,  another  daughter  of  Polly  Smith,  nee  Huggins,  has 
raised  a  nice  family  of  sons  and  one  daughter;  the  writer  is 
not  posted  as  to  the  particulars  of  this  family.  I  know  three  of 
the  sons,  Leroy,  Lucean  and  Chalmers;  they  are  promising 
young  men,  and  in  the  race  of  life  will  be  very  apt  to  be  among 


266  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

the  winners  in  the  race.  Leroy  married  a  Miss  Gore,  in  Wil- 
mington; she  died  a  few  days  ago,  leaving  an  infant.  Chal- 
mers Rogers  married  Miss  Laura  Smith ;  they  have  two  child- 
'ren.  Willis  Huggins,  the  cousin  of  old  John  Huggins,  whose 
progeny  we  have  been  tracing,  was  a  very  respectable  and  good 
citizen;  married  some  one  and  raised  a  family — one  son  and 
three  daughters.  The  son,  Jesse  Huggins,  was  a  promising 
young  man ;  was  Captain  of  the  Maiden  Down  militia  company, 
a  position  then  much  sought  by  our  best  men;  he  was  killed 
by  John  Martin,  hereinbefore  mentioned;  he  never  married. 
Willis'  daughters  were  Nancy,  Elizabeth  and  Polly.  Nancy 
Huggins  married  the  late  John  Norton,  father  of  the  Hon. 
James  Norton ;  she  had  three  children,  one  son  and  two  daugh- 
ters. The  son  is  John  W.  Norton,  now  of  Mullins;  he 
married,  first,  a  Miss  Carmichael;  by  her  he  had  one  child,  a 
daughter,  named  Ira,  who  was  killed  by  the  band-wheel  of  a 
^in,  vvhen  a  girl;  he  afterwards  married  the  Widow  Car- 
michael ;  by  her  he  had  one  daughter,  named  Minnie,  who  died 
-when  about  grown.  The  second  wife  died,  and  he  married,  a 
third  time,  a  Miss  Ivey;  by  whom  he  now  has  four  children, 
Ttwo  sons  and  two  daughters,  all  small.  John  W.  Norton  went 
through  the  'Confederate  War.  Some  years  before  the  war  he 
^enlisted  in  the  regular  army  of  the  United  States  and  served 
in  the  frontiers  for  five  years:  Lizzie  Norton  married  Aaron 
Oliver,  of  Robeson  County,  N.  C,  by  whom  she  had  three 
sons  and  four  daughters.  One  of  the  latter  died  unmarried; 
another  daughter  is  now  the  second  wife  of  John  C.  Sellers. 
Mrs.  Lizzie  Oliver  is  dead.  The  second  daughter  of  old  John 
^Norton  and  his  wife,  Nancy,  married  Lewis  Huggins;  her 
name  was  Caroline;  they  had  several  children,  sons  and 
•daughters.  Lewis  Huggins  and  family  emigrated  to  Georgia 
■some  years  ago ;  have  lost  sight  of  them.  Elizabeth,  the  second 
daughter  of  old  Willis  Huggins,  married,  first,  a  Mr.  Lupo; 
Xupo  died  childless,  and  his  widow  married  John  Hill,  for 
whom  she  had  two  children — a  son,  Charles,  and  a  daughter, . 
Adaline,  when  the  mother  died.  Charles  Hill  is  on  Bear 
Swamp.  Adaline  married  a  Mr.  McCormic,  of  Cotton  Valley ; 
know  nothing  further  of  them.  Polly,  the  youngest  daug'hter 
of  old  Willis  Huggins,  never  married,  and  is  dead.     There  are 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  267 

Other  Huggins  in  the  county,  of  whom  the  writer  knows  but 
little.  The  Huggins  family  and  their  connections  are  exten- 
sive, and  especially  the  descendants  of  old  John.  The  old 
house  he  lived  in  and  raised  his  family  stands  yet,  near  Hug- 
gins' Bridge ;  it  is  a  unique  old  building,  weather-boarded  with 
shingles — ^was  very  old  and  dilapidated.  The  other  Huggins 
alluded  to  above  are  sons,  and,  perhaps,  daughters,  of  the  late 
Neill  C.  Huggins  (I  think  that  was  his  name)  ;  he  married  a 
daughter  of  old  Squire  Neill  Carmichael,  near  Carmichael's 
Bridge,  on  Little  Pee  Dee ;  he  has  long  since  died,  either  in  the 
war  or  soon  after,  from  wouyds  received  in  the  war  or  from 
exposure;  he  left  a  good  large  family;  was  a  coming  man, 
doing  well ;  his  sons,  as  known  to  the  writer,  are  t).  A.  Hug- 
gins, Neill  Huggins  and  Judson  Huggins,  who  are  among  our 
citizens ;  whether  the  mother  is  dead  or  alive,  is  unknown  to 
the  writer. 

Hayes. — The  next  family  to  be  here  noticed  is  the  Hayes 
family,  of  Kirby  Township.  The  first  of  this  family  in  this 
county  were  James  Hayes,  John  Hayes,  William  Hayes  and 
Ebben.  Of  these,  Ebben  did  not  remain  here,  but  emigrated 
West;  nothing  further  is  known  of  him.  They  all  came  from 
Virginia,  and  were  of  English  descent.  The  other  three  mar- 
ried and  settled  in  this  county.  This  family  came  here  during 
or  before  the  Revolutionary  War.  Don't  know  who  any  of 
these  old  Hayes  married.  James  Hayes  had  four  sons,  whose 
names  were  Levi  H.  Hayes,  William  Hayes,  John  G.  Hayes 
and  Mills  Hayes.  The  first,  William  Hayes,  had  three  sons, 
Ebben,  Dwight  and  Henry  Hayes.  Ebben  Hayes,  known  to 
many  living,  was  a  local  Methodist  preacher,  and  represented 
his  county  in  the  State  Legislature  after  the  war  and  during 
the  Reconstruction  period;  he  was  twice  elected,  served  two 
terms  or  four  sessions  of  the  Legislature,  and  died  at  an  ad- 
vanced age  a  few  years  ago.  Dwight  Hayes,  a  brother  of 
Ebben,  became  a  Baptist  preacher  of  some  note ;  he  died  many 
years  ago.  Henry  Hayes  grew  up  and  married  Miss  Marina 
Dew,  a  daughter  of  old  Christopher  Dew ;  his  wife  was  a  sister 
of  his  brother  Ebben's  wife;  he  died  comparatively  young, 
leaving  a  widow  and  several  children,  who  with  their  children 


268  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

and  grand-children  are  now  among  us.  We  have  thus  traced 
the  sons  of  the  three  brothers  (leaving  ^bben  out,  who  went 
West),  James  Hayes,  William  Hayes  and  John  Hayes.  Of  old 
James  Hayes'  children,  Levi  H.  Hayes  married  a  Miss  Whit- 
tington,  and  by  her  had  seven  sons,  James  N.,  Levi  G.,  Benja- 
min P.,  Erastus  W.,  Hamilton  R.,  A.  G.  and  Robert  H.  Hayes. 
Levi  H.  Hayes  had  two  daughters,  if  no  more.  One  became 
the  wife  of  Joel  Meggs,  who,  perhaps,  raised  a  considerable 
family;  only  two  sons,  William  H.  and  John  L.  Meggs,  are 
known  to  the  writer ;  and  a  daughter,  who  married  Dr.  N.  C. 
McLeod.  Another  daughter  of  I^evi  H.  Hayes,  named  Ann 
Elizabeth,  married  John  A.  Dew,  who  died  and  kft  his  widow 
childless;  she  still  lives.  Of  the  sons  of  Levi  H.  Hayes, 
James  N.  and  Erastus  W.,  are  dead,  but  left  families.  Levi 
G.  Hayes  married  a  Miss  Jackson,  and  went  West  many  years 
ago.  A.  G.  Hayes  married,  also,  a  Miss  Jackson,  sister  to  his 
brother  L.  G.  Hayes'  wife.  A.  G.  Hayes,  called  G.  Hayes, 
died  or  was  killed  in  the  war.  Erastus  W.  Hayes  married  a 
Miss  George;  think  he  died  in  the  war.  James  N.  died  some 
time  before  the  war.  B.  F.  Hayes  married  a  Miss  Dew, 
daughter  of  Wilson  Dew ;  has  only  one  child,  a  son,  .our  good 
fellow-citizen.  Rich  Hayes.  Hamilton  R.  Hayes  married  a 
Miss  Harper ;  has  four  sons,  Charles  W.,  James  Adger,  Hum- 
bert and  Hamilton  R.  Hayes,  Jr;  and  six  daug'hters,  names  not 
known.  One  married  W.  H.  Meggs ;  one  married  Rich  Hayes ; 
one  married  Tracy  Fore ;  one  married  Andrew  Tart ;  one  mar- 
ried a  Napier ;  one  married  Wilson  Berry ;  and  one  is  unmar- 
ried. Of  his  sons,  Chatles  W.  married  a  Miss  Hill;  James 
Adger  married  a  Miss  Napier ;  Hamilton  R.,  Jr.,  and  Humbert 
are  unmarried.  William  Hayes,  a  son  of  old  James,  married 
some  one,  but  do  not  know  to  whom ;  he  has  been  dead  many 
years;  and  of  John  G.  Hayas  and  Mills  Hayes  the  writer 
knows  nothing.  The  late  Ebben  Hayes  married  a  daughter  of 
old  Ohristopher  Dew,  as  before  related ;  he  had  seven  sons  and 
several  daughters;  the  sons  were  Jessee  H.,  Ebben,  Wilson, 
Joseph  D.,  Nicholas  W.  and  John  David ;  these,  with  their  sis- 
ters, are  all  married,  have  children  and  grand-children,  and 
are  among  our  many  good  citizens.  Old  John  Hayes,  one  of 
the  first  comers,  married  a  Miss  Berry,  an  aunt  of  Cross  Roads 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  269 

Henry,  and  raised  a  family;  his  sons  were  Newton,  Coburn, 
John  C.  and  David  S.  Hayes.  Of  Coburn,  nothing  is  known. 
Newton  married  a  Miss  Clark,  andJiad  a  family  of  sons  and 
daughters,  but  of  them  nothing  is  known.  Newton  Hayes 
died  some  twenty  years  ago,  over  eighty  years  of  age.  John 
C.  Hayes  married  a  Widow  Lindsay,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Mary  Ann  Stubbs,  an  excellent  woman  she  was ;  by  this  mar- 
riage he  had  five  sons,  who  lived'  to  be  grown — L,ewis  E., 
Henry  C,  James  S.,  Thomas  C.  and  John  C. ;  the  latter  was 
born  one  month  after  the  death  of  his  father ;  these  are  all  now 
living,  and  among  our  best  citizens.  Of  the  daughters  of 
John  C.  Hayes,  Sarah  Jane  first  married  aii  Adams,  of  Marl- 
borough, who  died  in  a  year  after  the  marriage,  leaving  her 
with  one  child,  a  daughter,  named  Dora,  who  is  now  the  wife 
of  Jasper  C.  George,  and  who  has  now  five  sons.  The  Widow 
Adams  afterwards  married  the  late  James  DuPre ;  she  still  sur- 
vives. Another  daughter  of  John  C.  Hayes — ^Ann  Eliza,  I 
think,  ^as  her  name — married  Philip  B.  Meekins ;  they  went  to 
North  Carolina;  know  nothing  more  of  them.  Another 
daughter,  Mary  Ellen,  married  Elihu  Berry;  by  this  marriage 
were  born  one  son,  named  Elihu  L,ide  Berry,  and  another  son, 
Thomas,  both  of  whom  are  single ;  and  four  daughters,  Tela- 
tha,  Emma,  Lucy  and  Leilah ;  of  whom  Telatha  married  J.  W. 
Davis,  went  West,  and  died,  leaving  twin  daughters,  whom  her 
mother  now  has,  and  is  raising.  Emma  Berry  married  Mont- 
calm Dow  Atkins;  they  have  now  two  children.  Another 
daughter  of  John  C.  Hayes  married  Charles  Miles ;  they  moved 
to  North  Carolina.  Another  daughter  married  Sydney  E. 
Jackson ;  they  now  live,  at  Dillon,  and  have  seven  or  eight  child- 
ren, two  daughters  grown.  Jackson  is  a  good  citizen  and 
doing  well.  Another  daughter,  Addie,  married  James  Green- 
wood ;  had  one  child,  and  died ;  the  child  then  died ;  Greenwood 
is  a  widower  of  ten  or  fifteen  years;  he  inherited  the  entire 
estate  of  his  wife,  is  a  business  man  and  is  doing  well.  Of 
the  sons  of  John  C.  Hayes,  Lewis  E.  married  a  widow  (name 
forgotten).  Henry  C.  Hayes  married  a  Miss  Legette,  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  James  B.  Legette;  they  have  a  family,  don't 
know  how  much.  Thomas  C.  Hayes  is  yet  unmarried.  John 
C.  Hayes,  Jr.,  married,  first,  a  Miss  Stubbs,  of  Sumter;  she 


270  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

died  a  few  months  ago,  leaving  five  or  six  children,  one  quite 
an  infant;  he  married  a  few  days  ago,  the  secx>nd  time,  Miss 
Rebecca  Fore,  daughter  of  the  late  Willis  Fore.  David  S. 
Hayes,  the  youngest  son  of  old  John  Hayes,  married,  rather 
late  in  life,  a  Miss  Fladger,  daughter  of  old  Hugh  Fladger ;  by 
this  marriage  two  daugliters  -were  born ;  one  died  unmarried,  at 
about  twenty  years  of  age.  The  oither,  named  Ida,  is  the  wife 
of  John  B.  Moore,  of  Latta ;  they  are  doing  very  well,  and  have 
some  children;  don't  know  how  many,  a  daughter  grown. 
David  S.  Hayes  died  some  twenty  years  ago,  and  left  a  good 
landed  estate  to  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Moore.  The  information 
the  writer  obtained"  as  to  the  old  Hayes  did  not  extend  to  the 
females;  but  was  confined  exclusively  to  the  males.  The 
writer  knows  from  other  sources  that  old  John  Hayes  had  one 
daughter,  at  least,  named  Mary;  she  became  the  wife  of  old 
man  Isham  Watson,  and  in  turn  became  the  progenitress  of 
most  of  the  Watsons  in  the  county,  and  their  connections, 
hereinbefore  mentioned.  I  will  close  this  notice  of  the  Hayes 
family  with  the  relation  of  an  incident  in  that  family,  as  told 
to  the  writer  some  years  ago  by  old  Aunt  Fama  Tart,  who 
was,  in  many  respects,  the  most  remarkable  woman  with  whom 
he  ever  met ;  old  Aunt  Fama  was  a  grand-daughter  of  James 
Hayes.  She  related  that  during  the  Revolutionary  War  in 
Virginia,  her  grand-uncle,  William  Hayes,  was  drafted  to  go 
into  the  war ;  that  his  wife  was  a  large  and  portly  woman,  and 
had  considerable  beard  upon  her  upper  lip ;  that  when  the  time 
came  for  her  husband,  William  Hayes,  to  report  to  his  com- 
pany to  go  into  camp,  she  donned  his  clothes,  cut  off  her  hair 
in  man's  style,  and  went  and  reported  to  the  officer  as  William 
Hayes ;  she  was  accepted,  went  into  camp,  and  for  several  days 
performed  all  the  duties  of  a  soldier  in  camp  life,  until  such 
time  as  she  thought  her  husband  had  gotten  out  of  the  reach  of 
the  officials,  when  she  disclosed  her  sex  to  the  officer  in  charge. 
She  was  discharged  from  service,  made  her  way  back  home, 
and  in  the  progress  of  time  got  a  hearing  from  her  husband  in 
South  Carolina,  where  he  had  fled,  and  she  then  made  her  way 
to  him.  From  this  narrative,  the  writer  infers  that  James 
Hayes,  an  older  brother,  had  previously  came  to  South  Caro- 
lina, and  that  William  fled  from  Virginia  to  South  Carolina, 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  271 

to  join  his  older  brother,  James,  there ;  and  as  soon  as  the  wife, 
left  in  Virginia,  ascertained  that  be  had  made  good  his  escape 
and  had  reached  his  brother,  James,  that  she  then  put  off  to 
join  him.  According  to  the  account  we  have  of  the  family, 
this  heroine  of  a  wife  was  the  mother  of  the  late  Ebben  Hayes, 
and  the  grand-mother  of  all  his  children  and  also  of  Henry 
Hayes'  children. 

Dew. — Another  family  may  be  noticed  here — ^the  Dew  fam- 
ily, once  pretty  extensive,  but  not  so  much  so  now.  The  two 
old  Dews,  of  whom  the  writer  has  any  knowledge,  were 
Christopher  and  Absalom.  The  writer  has  heard  of  one  old 
John  Dew,  but  what  ibecame  of  him  or  of  his  family,  if  he  had 
one,  he  knows  not.  Cross  Roads  Henry  Berry  bought  his  land 
more  than  sixty  years  ago,  and  he  seems  to  have  disappeared 
from  the  county.  Old  Christopher  Dew  seems  to  have  been 
a  man  of  some  note  in  his  day;  he  bought  and  owned  a  vast 
barony  of  lands  on  the  Great  Pee  Dee  River  and  in  and  out  of 
the  "Slashes;"  he  lived  on  the  Pocosin,  and  died  there,  i8th 
December,  1827.  The  late  Bryant  Lane  married  his  youngest 
daughter,  Henrietta,  that  day,  whilst  her  father  lay  a  corpse  in 
the  house.  This  remarkable  coincidence  was  related  to  the 
writer,  many  years  ago,  by  old  Bryant  Lane  himself ;  hence  the 
precise  date  is  remembered  and  here  stated.  Old  Christopher 
was  a  prosperous  man ;  he  married  a  Miss  Berry,  daughter  of 
the  first  old  Andrew  Berry,  who  was  in  the  settlement  at 
"Sandy  Bluflf,"  about  1735,  as  hereinbefore  stated.  That  it 
may  be  better  known,  old  Christopher's  wife  was  the  aunt  of 
Cross  Roads  Henry  Berry;  they  raised  a  family  of  three  sons 
and  five  daughters,  as  known  to  the  writer;  the  sons  were 
Wilson,  Christopher  and  Abraham  Dew;  the  daughters  were 
Marina,  Nancy,  Mary  (Polly),  Charity  and  Henrietta.  Wil- 
son Dew  married  his  cousin,  a  daughter  of  old  Stephen  Berry, 
and  sister  of  Cross  Roads  Henry  Berry;  he  raised  a  family; 
only  one  son  is  known,  Christopher  T.  Dew,  called  "Little 
Chris,"  who  married  some  one  not  known  to  the  writer ;  had 
a  family  of  several  sons  and,  perhaps,  daughters;  he  moved 
to  Horry  many  years  ago,  with  his  family ;  was  alive  a  year  or 
so   ago — an  old   man,    eighty  or   more.     Wilson   Dew   had 


272  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

daughters,  how  many  is  not  known.  One  married  her  first 
cousin,  the  first  wife  of  the  late  Captain  S.  D.  Lane;  she  died 
childless,  some  forty  years  ago;  and  in  November,  1865,  he 
married  again,  Miss  Flora  Bethea,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Rev. 
S.  J.  Bethea.  Captain  Lane  died  childless,  5th  July,  1899,  and 
his  widow.  Flora,  died  a  month  or  so  ago.  Another  daughter 
of  Wilson  Dew  married  B.  F.  Hayes,  as  has  been  already 
stated  herein ;  they  have  only  one  child,  a  son.  Rich  Hayes ;  I 
think  another  daughter  married  the  late  Samuel  Berry ;  if  so, 
it  is  already  noticed  herein  in  or  among  the  Berry  family. 
Christopher  Dew,  Jr.,  son  of  old  man  Christopher,  married  a 
Miss  Jones,  sister  of  Bryant  Jones,  which  has  already  been 
noticed  in  or  among  the  Jones  family.  Abraham  Dew,  the 
third  son  of  old  Christopher,  lived  to  a  good  old  age  in  a  state 
of  single  blessedness.  Of  the  daughters  of  old  Christopher, 
Marina  and  Nancy  have  already  been  noted  herein,  in  or  among 
the  Hayes  family.  Charity  married  a  Mr.  Wise,  and  he  died, 
leaving  her  with  several  children,  James  C,  Finklea  G.  and 
Thomas  Aquilla ;  and,  perhaps,  some  daughters — one,  I  know, 
a  Mrs.  Wetherford,  and,  I  believe,  another,  the  wife  of  John 
G.  Kirby.  James  C.  Wise  died  a  few  years  back,  at  an  old  age, 
eighty  years  or  more,  leaving  a  large  family.  Finklea  G. 
Wise  lives  in  Wahee,  a  very  old  man;  don't  know  to  whom 
he  married — think  his  wife  is  dead ;  he  raised  some  family.  A. 
G.  Wise,  of  Wahee,  a  son  of  his,  is  one  of  the  best  citizens  of 
that  township,  a  very  reliable  man  every  way ;  he  has  a  family 
of  several  children,  sons  and  daughters,  grown ;  they  are  quite 
respectable.  Thomas  Aquilla  Wise  was  idiotic;  he  had  some 
property,  and  Finklea  G.  Wise  was  appointed  by  the  Court  a 
committee  to  look  after  him  and  his  property;  Aquilla  died 
some  years  ago.  Another  daughter  of  old  Christopher  Dew, 
Mary  (Polly),  marrie  Jesse  Perritt;  she  died  childless,  years 
ago,  as  has  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Perritt  family. 
The  youngest  daughter  of  old  Christopher,  Henrietta,  married 
Bryant  Lane,  as  above  stated,  the  day  of  her  father's  death; 
they  made  a  good  living,  raised  a  family  of  four  sons — Stephen 
D.,  Joseph,  Robert  L.  and  Bryant.  Stephen  D.  Lane  married, 
first,  his  cousin,  Miss  Dew,  daughter  of  Wilson  Dew;  she 
died  childless,  and  he  married  again,  Miss  Flora  Bethea,  as 


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above  stated ;  he  was  a  first-class,  good  citizen.  Joseph  Lane 
was  killed  in  the  war,  or  was  wounded  and  died.  Robert  L- 
Lane,  now  of  Dillon,  another  first-class  good  citizen,  married. 
Miss  R.  C.  G'addy,  daughter  of  the  late  Hardy  Gaddy ;  by  this 
marriage  six  or  seven  children  have  been  born,  mostly  sons, 
none  of  whom  are  known  to  the  writer,  except  the  oldest,  Ver- 
ner,  who  was  one  of  the  late  volunteers  in  the  2d  South  Caro- 
lina Regiment  for  the  Spanish  War.  His  uncle,  Stephen  D. 
Lane,  willed  to  Verner  his  home  place,  which,  I  suppose, 
Verner  will  soon  occupy,  with  a  Miss  Somebody  as  a  helpmate. 
Bryant  Lane,  Jr.,  was  an  idiot,  and  died  a  few  months  ago,  at 
his  brother's,  R.  L.  Lane,  who  was  committee  for  him  and 
his  property.  The  daughters  of  Bryant  Lane  and  wife  were 
four — Miss  Kesiah,  now  an  old  maid,. Mary  (called  Polly), 
Anne  and  Flora  Ellen  Lane.  Hartwell  C.  Dew,  one  of  our  best 
citizens,  married,  first,  Mary  (Polly),  and  had  by  her  six  or 
seven  children — Preston  L.,  John  L.,  Duncan  M.  and  Joseph 
H.  Dew,  and  two  daughters,  Roberta  and  Dora.  Preston  L. 
Dew  married  Miss  Eugenia  Allen,  daughter  of  Rev.  Joel  Allen ; 
they  moved  to  Greenwood  some  years  ago,  having  several 
children.  John  L.  Dew,  now  of  Latta,  married  a  Miss  Cot- 
tingham,  daughter  of  Daniel  Cottingham,  and  has  one  child,  a 
son;  is  ait  Latta,  merchant  and  fK>stmaster.  Duncan  M.  Dew 
.  married,  first,  a  Miss  Thornton;  she  had  one  child,  and  died, 
afterwards  the  child  died ;  and  he  married,  a  second  time,  a  Miss 
Chappel;  don't  know  where  from;  they  reside  at  Latta,  and 
have  some  children;  he  is  one  of  the  leading  merchants  at 
Latta — a.  man  of  fine  character,  wholly  reliable  and  trustworthy. 
Joseph  H.  Dew,  as  will  be  seen  elsewhere  in  this  book,  is  a 
graduate  of  Furman  University,  and,  I  believe,  of  the  Baptist 
Seminary  at  Louisville,  Ky. ;  is  a  preacher  of  reputation  in  the 
Baptist  denomination;  married  some  lady  foreign  to  this 
county ;  stands  well  among  his  people ;  don't  know  where  he  is. 
Miss  Roberta  Dew  married  Wylie  Berry;  they  reside  at 
Latta;  have  one  child,  a  daughter;  they  are  doing  fdirly 
well.  Dora  Dew  married  H.  E.  K.  Smith,  on  Buck  Swamp ; 
he  is  a  successful  farmer,  doing  well;  have  some  children, 
don't  know  how  many.  Hartwell  C.  Dew  lost  his  first  wife, 
Mary  (Polly),  and  he  married  again  to  Anne  Lane,  a  sister 


274  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

of  his  first  wife ;  by  her  has  had  several  children — Mollie,  Isla, 
Julian,  Lawton,  Janie,  Harvey  and  another  son,  name  not 
.known;  his  second  wife,  Anne,  died;  he  survives,  and  has  not 
again  married.  Hartwell  C.  Dew  is  one  of  our  plain,  honest 
and  successful  men ;  has  amassed  a  good  property,  is  well  ad- 
vanced in  life — I  suppose,  over  seventy  years  old.  His  daugh- 
ter, Mollie,  by  the  last  wife,  married  a  Dr.  Baker,  from  Georgia, 
and  resides  there.  Isla  married  Rev.  Mr.  Grumpier,  who  died 
in  a  year  or  two,  leaving  her  a  widow,  with  one  child.  Janie 
married  a  Mr.  Kinard,  of  Newberry ;  they  reside  in  thajt  county. 
Julian,  Ivawton,  Harvey  and  L,awrence,  are  all  unmarried,  and 
still  remain  under  the  parental  roof.  Flora  Ellen  Lane,  the 
youngest  daughter  of  Bryant  Lane  and  wife,  married  James  R. 
Watson ;  they  now  reside  in  Dillon,  and  have  already  been  no- 
ticed in  or  among  the  Watson  family.  The  other  old  Dew,  men- 
tioned in  the  beginning  of  this  notice  of  the  Dew  family,  was 
Absalom  Dew.  Whether  he  was  brother  to  old  Christopher 
Dew  or  not,  is  not  known  to  the  writer — think,  however,  that 
he  was ;  he  also  married  a  Miss  Berry,  daughter  of  the  first  old 
Andrew,  of  the  "Sandy  Bluff"  settlement,  and  sister  to  the  wife 
of  old  Ghristopher,  and  aunt  of  Gross  Roads  Henry  Berry. 
Never  knew  or  heard  of  but  two  of  his  children,  sons,  named 
William  and  Alexander.  William  Dew  married  a  Miss  Cole- 
man, sister  to  the  Rev.  John  D.  Coleman,  well  known  in  this 
county  as  a  Baptist  minister ;  by  this  marriage  there  were  three 
sons,  Leonard  M.,  Har'twell  C.  and  John,  and  two  daughters, 
Ann  Eliza  and  Martha.  Of  the  sons  of  William  Dew,  the 
oldest,  Leonard  M.,  married  a  Miss  Miles,  a  daughter  of  John 
M.  Miles;  by  this  marriage,  three  sons,  Calvin  (called  Gad), 
Frank  and  Dennis,  and,  perhaps,  a  daughter,  were  born,  when 
the  father  died,  and  left  his  widow  and  children;  she  being 
what  is  usually  called  a  smart  woman,  raised  her  children 
creditably;  they  moved  some  years  ago  to  North  Carolina. 
Calvin  married  Mary  Jane  Brown,  daughter  of  the  late  Wil- 
liam'M.  Brown;  she  died  -within  a  yea;r  or  two,  and  left  no 
child;  Calvin  himself  died  a  few  months  ago.  Know  nothing 
of  the  other  two  boys,  Frank  and  Dennis.  Hartwell  G.  Dew 
has  already  been  noticed  above  herein.  John  Dew,  the  young- 
est son  of  old  William,  went  off  into  the  war,  and  has  never 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  275 

been  heard  of  since.  Ann  Eliza  Dew  married  Mr.  John  Atkin- 
son, below  Marion,  and  had  one  child,  Thomas  Atkinson,  when 
she  died.  Thomas  Atkinson  married  a  daughter  of  the  late 
Stephen  A.  Hairgrove,  and  is  now  one  of  our  good  citizens. 
Martha  Dew  married  another  Atkinson,  below  Marion,  and  by 
him  she  had  a  son,  W.  B.  Atkinson,  when  Atkinson  died,  and 
left  her  a  widow ;  she  still  survives  and  has  not  remarried ;  her 
son,  W.  B.  Atkinson,  resides  with  her  on  the  old  William  Dew 
homestead,  and  is  one  of  our  most  enterprising  and  successful 
citizens ;  he  married  a  Miss  Gaddy,  daughter  of  Samuel  T. 
Gaddy,  and  has  a  considerable  family ;  think  they  have  already 
been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Gaddy  family.  This  closes  the 
notice  of  the  Dew  family,  an  old  and  respectable  family  of  the 
county.  Much  more  might  be  said  of  some  of  them,  but  space 
will  not  permit ;  enough  has  been  said  to  enable  future  genera- 
tions to  trace  their  ancestry. 

NiCHOi<soN. — The  next  family  to  be  noticed  is  the  Nicholson 
family.  The  first  of  the  name  known  in  the  county  was  John 
M.  Nicholson;  he  came  direct,  as  I  think,  from  Scotland; 
don't  know  how  it  was  that  he  came  to  South  Carolina,  but 
think  be  came  with  some  of  the  old  Sinclairs.  He  was  a  black- 
smith ;  whether  he  learned  that  trade  in  Scotland  or  after  he 
came  to  this  country,  is  not  known ;  he  was  a  large,  strong  and 
muscular  man,  unpretentious,  made  no  display,  personally  or 
otherwise;  honest  and  upright  in  his  dealings  with  others, 
jealous  of  his  own'  rights,  while  he  accorded  to  every  man  the 
same  rights  which  he  claimed  for  himself;  was  not  querulous, 
but  would  not  be  imposed  upon ;  was  of  equable  temperament, 
until  he  was  aroused,  then  an  antagonist  might  look  out; 
physically  he  was  a  powerful  man.  He  married,  I  think,  a 
Miss  Sinclair,  and  had  and  raised,  as  known  to  the  writer,  three 
sons,  Archibald,  Duncan  and  Walter  Nicholson — may  have 
had  other  sons ;  these  are  all  that  the  writer  ever  knew.  He  had 
one  daughter,  Nancy ;  she  married  Mr.  Elly  Greenwood,  a  sec- 
ond wife  of  his ;  they  have  some  family.  Old  man  Nicholson 
may  have  had  other  daughters.  Archie  Nicholson,  now  in  the 
MuUins  region,  married  a  Miss  Martin,  daughter  of  Matthew 
Martin,  and  by  her  has  several  children,  and  is  doing  well — a 


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276  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

good,  industrious  and  law-abiding  citizen.  Duncan  Nicholson 
married  a  Miss  Edwards,  daughter  of  Captain  L,.  M.  Edwards, 
and  by  her  has  several  children ;  he,  likewise,  is  an  industrious, 
progressive  and  prosperous  citizen;  such  men  constitute  the 
bone  and  sinew  of  the  country,  and  its  hope  for  the  future. 
Walter  Nicholson  is  unmarried,  but,  like  his  brothers,  is 
attentive  to  his  business — keeps  it  before  him,  and  is  perfectly 
reliable  in  every  respect. 

Jackson. — The  Jackson  family  will  next  be  noticed.  This 
family  is  and  has  been  very  extensive  in  name  and  in  its  con- 
nections in  the  county.  The  first  old  Jackson  was  from  Vir- 
ginia, his  name  was  Edward;  said  to  have  been  a  very  small 
man  in  size — somewhat  like  the  late  Dr.  James  C.  Mullins ;  he 
settled  on  Catfish ;  his  wife  was  a  Miss  Manning,  of  Virginia, 
or  it  may  be  that  Miss  Mannning  was  the  wife  of  his  son,  Ed- 
ward ;  he  raised  a  considerable  family  of  sons  and,  perhaps, 
daughters;  of  the  latter,  the  writer  knows  nothing;  the  sons 
were,  Edward,  Jr.,  William,  John,  Reuben,  Owen  and  Ervin 
Jackson.  I  cannot  trace  all  these  different  sons  seriatim,  for 
the  want  of  information,  but  will  do  so  as  far  as  I  can.  Ed- 
ward, Jr.,  the  oldest  son,  married,  if  not  a  Miss  Manning, 
some  other  lady — I  think,  though,  a  Manning — and  had  and 
raised  a  considerable  family  of  sons,  and,  perfiaps,  daughters ; 
the  sons  were,  as  known  to  the  writer,  William  R.,  Edward 
M.  and  Warren  R.  Jackson.  William  R.  Jackson  married 
a  Miss  Hayes,  daughter  of  John  Hayes,  and  a  sister  of 
old  man  Isham  Watson's  wife ;  he  raised  a  considerable  fam- 
ily— one  son,  William  R.,  and  other  sons,  whose  names  are  not 
remembered;  some  daughters  also,  only  one  of  whom  is  re- 
membered, Mary,  who  became  the  wife  of  the  late  Stephen  A. 
Hairgrove,  and  they  raised  a  considerable  family  of  sons  and 
daughters.  Only  one  son  survives,  Thomas  H.  Hairgrove, 
now  of  Wahee.  One  daughter  married  Thomas  Atkinson, 
who  has  some  family — I  think,  two  daughters.  Miss  Huldah 
Hairgrove  also  survives;  she  has  never  married.  Think  all 
the  sons  of  William  R.  Jackson,  Sr.,  went  West.  William  R. 
Jackson,  Jr.,  went  to  the  Mexican  War;  I  saw  him  after  his 
return;  he  then  went  West.     William  R.  Jackson,  Sr.,  died 


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more  than  sixty  years  ago;  old  man  Isham  Watson  adminis- 
tered on  his  estate.  Their  wives  were  sisters.  Edward  M. 
Jackson,  son  of  Edward,  Jr.,  and  his  brother,  Warren  R.  Jack- 
son, married  sisters,  Ellen  Adams  and  Anne  Adams,  daughters 
of  old  Elias  Adams,  whose  wife  was  a  sister  of  old  Thomas 
Harlke.  Misses  Ellen  and  Anne  Adams  were  first  cousins  of 
the  late  General  W.  W.  Harllee.  Edward  M.  and  Warren  R. 
Jackson  both  raised  quite  respectable  families.  Edward  M. 
moved  West  many  years  ago,  and  carried  his  whole  family — 
though  some  of  them,  perhaps,  two  or  three,  were  married; 
two  of  his  sons  became  Baptist  preachers.  Warren  R.  Jack- 
son raised  sons,  Anderson  W.,  James  R.,  Jefferson  A.  and 
Sydney  E.  Jackson,  and  one  boy  killed  accidentally  by  another 
boy,  and,  I  think,  two  daughters,  Agenora  and  Missouri ;  an- 
other daughter,  Amelia,  died  when  a  girl.  Anderson  W.  Jack- 
son married  a  Miss  Flowers ;  he  became  a  Methodist  itinerant 
preachei",  traveled  for  some  years  within  the  South  Carolina 
Conference,  finally  superannuated  on  account  of  eyes  failing, 
and,  I  think,  now  lives  in  Williamsburg  County;  he  had  and 
raised  two  or  three  sons  and,  perhaps,  one  daughter — all  of 
whom,  I  think,  are  married.  He  had  one  son,  Preston  B.,  who 
became,  also,  a  Methodist  preacher,  and  attained  much  distinc- 
tion as  such  in  the  Conference ;  he  married  a  lady  in  Darling- 
ton, and  after  traveling  for  several  years,  was  transferred  to 
California;  I  can  follow  him  no  further.  James  R.  Jackson 
married  a  Greenville  lady;  was  waylaid  one  night  on  the  road 
from  Marion  and  shot  within  a  mile  or  so  of  his  home ;  he  died 
from  the  wounds  in  a  week  or  so.  It  was  pretty  well  under- 
stood who  was  the  assassin,  but  no  proof  could  be  made.  Jef- 
ferson A.  Jackson  married  and  had  a  family;  he  became  a 
Baptist  preacher  of  some  note,  and  moved  off  to  Texas,  and  in 
some  town  there  had  charge  of  a  church  for  several  years,  and 
stood  high  in  his  calling ;  he  died  there  some  five  or  six  years 
ago ;  don't  know  about  his  family.  Sydney  E.  Jackson  married 
a  Miss  Hayes,  daughter  of  the  late  John  C.  Hayes;  has  seven 
or  eight  children — ^two  daughters  grown ;  he  left  his  excellent 
farm  on  Catfish  some  five  or  six  years  ago,  and  moved  to  Dil- 
lon, because  of  better  school  facilities  there;  he  is  a  carpenter 
by  tradt,  and  it  is  supposed  that  as  Dillon  is  a  growing  and 


278  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

progressive  town  be  is  doing  well  at  his  trade;  the  income  from 
it,  together  with  the  rents  of  his  farm,  enables  'him  to  support 
his  large  family.  The  oldest  daughter  of  Warren  R.  Jackson, 
Agenora  A.,  married  the  late  Colonel  John  J.  George;  the 
fruits  of  the  marriage  were  seven  children,  four  sons  and  three 
daughters.  One  son  died  -when  about  arriving  at  manhood; 
the  other  sons  are  Jasper  C.  George,  John  J.  George  and  Wil- 
liam Warren  George.  Jasper  C.  George  married  Dora  Adams, 
a  grand-daughter  of  the  late  John  C.  Hayes;  they  have  five 
sons.  The  oldest,  Percy,  is  grown  and  now  at  Clemison  Col- 
lege. Jasper  C.  George  is  one  of  our  most  energetic,  perse- 
vering citizens;  is  doing  well,  and  making  money — a  good 
farmer.  John  J.  George,  named  for  his  father,  married,  first, 
a  Miss  Bethea,  daughterjof  E.  Bethea;  she  died  childless;  then 
he  married  a  Miss  Rogers,  daughter  of  Philip  B.  Rogers ;  is 
raising  a  family,  a  farmer,  and  is  doing  well.  William  Warren 
George  married  a  Miss  Ellen  Gaddy,  daughter  of  John  Gaddy ; 
he  is  and  ever  has  been  a  merchant,  now  at  Latta,  S.  C. ;  a  man 
of  indomitable  pluck  and  enterprise;  has  failed  once  or  twice, 
and  was  apparently  down  to  stay  down;  but  not  so,  he  rises 
and  comes  again;  has  done  more  for  Latta  than  any i man  that 
has  been  in  it,  according  to  his  means,  in  building  it  up  and 
booming  the  town — such  a  man  cannot  be  kept  down ;  he  has 
no  children.  The  daughters  of  Colonel  J.  J.  George  and  wife 
were  three.  Mary  Ann  married  Michael  Finnega-n ;  they  have 
several  children,  one  or  two  married ;  Michael  Finnegan  is  one 
of  our  best  and  most  progressive  citizens,  doing  well,  and  rais- 
ing a  nice  family;  such  men  tell  upon  the  prosperity  of  the 
country.  Delia  George,  another  daughter  of  Colonel  J.  J. 
George  and  wife,  married  John  Haselden ;  they  have  a  family, 
two  sons  and  two  daughters ;  they  have  moved  to  Horry,  and 
are  said  to  be  doing  well.  Aurelia  George,  the  youngest 
daughter,  married  Henry  Berry,  a  widower;  they  have  no 
children;  Berry  is  a  good  citizen.  Colonel  J.  J.  George  died 
soon  after  the  war,  having  lost  a  leg  in  the  last  battle  at 
Bentonville,  above  Fayetteville,  N.  C,  just  before  General  Joe 
Johnston's  surrender;  he  left  his  wife,  Agenora,  with  seven 
little  children,  and  no  property  except  a  little  farm,  perhaps, 
200  acres  poor  land ;  she  was  an  extra  smart  woman ;  they  went 


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to  work,  she  soon  began  to  gain ;  they  made  ample  support  and 
some  money;  she  raised  her  family  in  credit,  and  they  are  all 
doing  well ;  she  died  two  or  three  years  ago ;  she  lost  one  son, 
Henry.  Missouri  Jackson,  youngest  dtoghter  of  Warren  R. 
Jackson,  married  Frank  Dew;  they  went  to  North  Carolina, 
where  she  now  resides,  Frank  being  dead ;  she  has  six  or  seven 
children,  some  of  them  grown ;  know  nothing  further  of  them. 
Warren  R.  Jackson  died  in  1857,  leaving  his  wife,  Anne,  with 
her  several  small  children;  his  estate  was  involved,  and  much 
litigation  ensued  both  in  the  Circuit  and  Appeal  Courts,  she 
finally  was  successful,  and  saved  the  estate  from  utter  wreck 
and  ruin.  The  writer  knoweth  whereof  he  speaks,  being 
mixed  up  in  it  as  her  attorney  from  beginning  to  end.  Of  the 
sons  of  Edward  Jackson,  Sr.,  William  married  a  Miss  Man- 
ning, also  settled  on  Catfish,  and  raised  a  family ;  don't  know 
how  many — ^two  sons  only  were  known  to  the  writer,  Reuben 
and  John  M.  Jackson.  Of  Reuben  and  his  family,  little  is 
known ;  he  is  dead ;  don't  know  what  has  become  of  his  family. 
John  M.  Jackson  married  a  Miss  Miles,  a  daughter  of  old 
David  Miles  and  sister  of  the  late  Francis  A.  Miles ;  he  settled 
on  his  father's,  William  Jackson,  homestead,  and  lived  and 
died  there;  he  raised  one  son,  Frank  M.,  and  three  or  four 
daughters ;  his  wife  died ;  he  lived  for  several  years  a  widower, 
and  died.  His  son,  Frank,  married  a  Miss  Miles,  his  first 
cousin,  a  daughter  of  Charles  Miles,  Sr.  The  daughters  of 
John  M.  Jackson,  after  the  death  of  their  father,  moved  off, 
perhaps,  to  Georgia.  Frank  M.  Jackson  then  took  possession 
of  the  old  homestead  and  lived  on  it  for  several  years,  then 
sold  it  and  moved  into  North  Carolina,  and  thus  he  has 
been  lost  sight  of.  Of  John  Jackson,  son  of  Edward,  Sr., 
nothing  is  known  as  to  what  became  of  him.  Reuben  married 
some  one  and  settled  on  Maple ;  raised  a  family,  of  whom  the 
writer  knows  nothing,  except  two  sons  of  his,  James  and  John 
Jackson.  James  Jackson  married  a  Miss  Herring,  and  raised  a 
family  of  sons  and  daughters.  Of  his  sons,  Arthur  and  John 
became  notorious  during  the  war.  James  Jackson  and  his 
brother  John  were  killed",  just  after  the  close  of  the  w.ar,  on 
account  of  their  sons,  and  especially  Arthur  and  John,  by 
parties  in  revenge.  The  writer  has  ever  thought  that  these  two 
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280  A  HISTORY  O^  MARION  COUNTY. 

old  men,  James  and  John  Jackson,  were  wrongfully  killed ;  but 
it  was  done  at  a  time  when  human  life  was  cheap,  and  in  very- 
troublesome  times.  Another  brother  of  old  James  and  John 
Jackson  was  Henry  Jackson.  The  three  brothers  married 
three  sisters.  Misses  Herring,  sisters  of  old  Whittington  Ham- 
ilton's wife,  and  Whittington,  Jr.,  married  a  daughter  of  Henry 
Jackson ;  she  was  a  first  cousin  to  him.  While  not  much  can 
be  said  in  favor  of  this  branch  of  the  Jackson  family,  yet  there 
are  worse  men  than  these  three  old  brothers.  Old  Edward 
Jackson,  St.,  had  a  son,  Owen  Jackson,  who  married  Dilla 
McKenzie,  a  daughter  of  Robert  McKenzie;  he  lived  upon 
and  owned  the  lands  where  Missouri  R.  Hamer  and  Philip  B. 
Rogers  now  live  and  own ;  he  was  a  simple-minded  old  man, 
worked  hard,  was  strictly  honest  and  law-abiding,  and  strictly 
attended  to  his  own  affairs;  he  raised  a  considerable  family, 
mostly  daughters,  and  two  sons  only  known.  Hugh  P.  Price's 
wife  is  one  of  the  daughters,, and,  like  her  father,  stays  at  home 
and  mind's  her  own  business ;  she  has  no  children.  One  son, 
William  Jackson,  called  "Fire-coal  Bill,"  married  a  daughter 
of  old  man  William  Hamilton,  and  who  has  already  been  men- 
tioned herein,  in  or  among  the  Hamilton  family.  Another  son, 
Ervin  M.  Jackson,  married  Sarah  Ann  McKenzie,  who  died 
a  few  years  back,  leaving  an  only  child,  a  son,  Thomas  Jackson, 
who  has  already  been  noticed  herein,  in  or  among  the  McKen- 
zie family.  Old  man  Owen  Jackson  may  have  had  another 
son,  if  so  it  has  escaped  the  memory  of  the  writer ;  and  as  to 
his  other  daughters,  the  writer  has  lost  sight  of  them.  Ervin 
Jackson,  the  youngest  son  of  old  Edward,  Sr.,  married  a  Miss 
Watson,  on  Hayes  Swamp,  near  the  North  Carolina  line ;  they 
settled  near  the  father,  old  Mark  Wa;tson,  and  by  industry  and 
frugality  amassed  a  good  property,  and  raised  quite  a  respect- 
able family.  Owen  Jackson,  Jr.,  a  son  or  a  grand-son  of  old 
Ervin,  married  a  sister  of  the  late  Duncan  Murchison ;  he  died 
a  few  years  ago;  made  a -considerable  property,  raised  a  very 
respectable  family  of  sons  and  daughters,  some  of  whom  are 
among  the  leading  men  of  Marlborough  County.  One  son  is 
known  to  the  writer,  John  M.  Jackson,  as  a  leading  merchant 
and  business  man  in  Bennettsville.  They  reflect  credit  upon 
the  Jackson  name.     There  is  also  a  John  R.  Jackson,  grand-son 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  281 

of  old  Ervin,  now  a  kading  man  in  the  community  of  his  an- 
cestors. There  may  be  others  of  the  name  in  some  one  or 
other  of  the  many  branches  of  the  Jackson  family  not  men- 
tioned, but  they  are  not  known,  or,  rather,  their  genealogy  is 
not  known,  and  hence  not  especially  mentioned. 

Galloway. — The  Galloways  may  here  be  mentioned,  four 
of  them.  They  are  importations  from  Marlborough,  and  our 
county  would  not  be  hurt  by  many  more  such  importations — 
James  T.,  William,  Samuel  T.  and  Joseph  Galloway  are  their 
names.  James  T.  Galloway  married  Miss  Louisa  Bethea, 
daughter  of  Levi  and  M'ary  Ann  Bethea,  just  after  the  war, 
and  has  been  in  this  county  ever  since  his  marriage ;  he  has  a 
considerable  family,  has  succeeded  well  in  life.  Has  one  son, 
Henry,  married,  don't  know  to  whom-^— I  think,  a  Miss  Barren- 
tine,  of  Marlborough.  One  daughter  married  to  Mr.  Maxcy 
McCown,  of  Florence  County.  His  other  children  are  with 
him ;  he  is  one  of  our  most  substantial  citizens.  William  Gal- 
loway, a  later  importation,  a  brother  of  James  T.,  has  bought 
land  in  upper  Marion.  A  comparison  of  his  place  with  what 
it  was  fifteen  years  ago  will  show  that  he  is  a  farmer  right; 
he  is  a  hustling  man ;  know  nothing  of  his  immediate  family, 
and  the  same  may  be  said  of  Samuel  T.  and  Joseph  Galloway, 
a  late  importation,  who  have  bought  land  on  Catfish,  near 
EUerbe's  Crossing,  and  are  moving  ahead,  first  class  men  and 
excellent  citizens;  know  nothing  of  their  immediate  families. 
Samuel  T.  Galloway  married  Johny  Carmichael,  and  Joseph 
married  a  daughter  of  Elmore  Allen,  of  Marlborough  County. 
I  knew  their  father  and  mother,  James  Galloway  and  Rebecca, 
his  wife ;  she  was  a  Townsend,  daughter  of  .old  Jabish  Town- 
send,  and  sister  of  the  late  Meekin  Townsend,  of  Marlborough. 

Sherwood. — The  Sherwoods  will  next  be  noticed.  The  first 
Sherwood  known  in  the  county  was  John  Sherwood,  an  old 
man,  more  than  sixty  years  ago ;  he  was  a  great  church  man 
and  exceedingly  pious;  he  had  two  or  three  sons  and  one 
daughter.  Of  the  sons,  nothing  is  known,  except  as  to  James. 
James  Sherwood  married  Miss  Martha  (Patsy)  Bethea,  a 
daughter  of  William  Bethea,  near  Harlleesville ;  by  the  mar- 


282  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

riage  three  sons  were  born  and  raised' — ^Cade,  Postell  and  John. 
Cade  Sherwood  owns  the  old  'homestead  of  his  grand-father, 
John  Sherwood.  James  Sherwood  died  and  left  his  widow 
with  her  children  small;  the  widow  married  again — do  not 
remember  to  whom.  Cade  and  Postell  grew  up,  and  Cade 
bought  the  old  homiestead  of  his  grand-father,  and  married 
a  Miss  Ivegette,  of  Marlborough,  daughter  of  James  S.  Le- 
gette.  Cade  Sherwood  has  one  of  the  best  plantations  in 
upper  Marion,  an  excellent  manager  and  farmer;  everything 
about  his  house  and  premises  denotes  comfort  and  convenience 
not  excelled  by  any  one  in  the  county.  Postell  Sherwood, 
of  Mullins,  married  his  .first  cousin,  Miss  Lou  Scarborough, 
daughter  of  the  late  Rev.  L/ewis  Scarborough,  many  years  an 
itinerant  preacher  in  the  South  Carolina  Conference,  and  sister 
of  the  Hon.  R.  B.  Scarborough,  of  Conway.  Postell  is  doing 
well ;  has  a  small  family,  two  daughters,  but  has  not  succeeded 
like  his  brother,  Cade  Sherwood.  John  Sherwood  is  unmar- 
ried. 

Ai<if0ED. — The  late  Neill,  James  L.  and  L,odwick  B.  Alford, 
brothers,  were  importations  from  North  Carolina,  and  were 
quite  an  acquisition  to  the  moral,  social  and  material  prosperity 
of  the  county — men  of  high  character,  and  contributed  much  to 
the  upbuilding  of  the  county;  would  be  glad  to  have  many 
more  similar  imporltations.  Neill  Alford  married  a  Miss 
McPherson,  S'ettled  on  the  Big  Reedy  Creek,  near  where  the 
Reedy  Creek  Presbyterian  Church  now  stands ;  by  his  marriage 
he  had  and  raised  a  large  family  of  five  sons  and  ten  daughters ; 
William  McD.,  Henry,  Robert,  John  and  Walter  L.  Alford. 
William  McD.  Alford  married  a  Miss  McLean,  of  North  Caro- 
lina, and  has  raised  a  large  family  of  sons  and  daughters,  five 
of  eaoh  sex;  the  sons  arfe  McLean  (called  Mack),  Yancy,  Rob- 
ert, Plummer  and  William.  Mack  and  Yancy  only  are  mar- 
ried; don't  know  to  whom.  Yancy  Alford  is  a  practicing 
physician  in  Sumter  County.  One  of  Wm.  McD.  Alford's 
sons  is  a  practicing  dental  surgeon ;  think  his  name  is  Plummer 
or  Robert.  None  of  his  daughters  are  married ;  one  of  them, 
Miss  Ella;,  I  believe  was  a  teacher  for  some  time  in  the  Co- 
lumbia Female  College.     Wm.  McD.  Alford  has  performed 


A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY.  283 

lis  duty  in  the  relations  of  life,  and  one  specially-^that  is, 
le  has  educated  his  children  well,  and  exceedingly  so, 
or  a  man  of  his  somewhat  limited  means  and  the  number  of 
lis  children ;  he  and  family  are  among  our  best  people — a  man 
)f  high  character,  indomitable  will  and  energetic ;  no  task  too 
leavy,  and  no  difficulty  insurmountable;  the  words  "fail"  or 
'I  can't,"  are  not  in  his  vocabulary.  The  people  of  his  county 
ippreciating  his  many  good  qualities  have  made  him  their  Rep- 
■esentative  in  the  State  Legislature.  He  is,  as  it  were,  rele- 
gated to  the  rear,  because  for  the  last  ten  years  he  has  not  been 
n  line  with  the  dominant  party  in  the  State — ^many  of  our  best 
nen  are  in  the  same  category.  W.  McD.  Alford  is  one  of  our 
eading  and  most  progressive  farmers.  Henry  Alford,  a 
)rother,  married  in  North  Carolina,  and  resides  about  Floral 
;k>llege,  in  Robeson  County.  Robert  Alford,  another  brother, 
lied  a:bout  1868 ;  he  was  a  promising  young  man.  John 
md  Walter  S.  Alford  have  never  married,  though  both  are  old 
;nough  to  enter  upon  that,  to  them,  untried  relation  in  life. 
Df  the  ten  daughters  of  old  man  Neill  Alford,  two  are  yet  un- 
narried  and  may  be  called  "old  maids."  Two  of  the  married 
►nes,  Mrs.  McLucas  and  Mrs.  DuBose,  are  dead;  Mrs. 
ilclvucas  childless;  don't  know  as  to  Mrs.  DuBose.  Three 
lied  unmarried.  Of  the  married  ones,  three  are  living — Mrs. 
^urrie,  Mrs.  James  Berry  and  Mrs.  Benjamin  McKibben.  Of 
kirs.  James  Berry's  family,  they  have  already  been  noticed  in 
Kr  among  the  Berry  family.  James  L,.  Alford  married  a  Miss 
i/[cPhaul  or  McFail;  by  the  marriage,  twelve  children'  were 
om,  six  sons  and  six  daughters.  Of  the  sons,  two  are  dead ; 
hose  living  are  Daniel  M.,  Frierson,  Neill  and  Manton.  Dan- 
si  M.  Alford  married  a  Miss  Walter;  they  reside  at  Dillon; 
lave  a  family,  one  daughter  grown ;  don't  know  as  to  others  of 
lis  family.  Frierson  Alford  married  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Wil- 
iam  J.'  David ;  resides  in  upper  Marion,  and  is  one  of  our  good 
itizens;  has  a  family,  some  grown  children.  Neill  Alford,  a 
uiet  and  inoffensive  man,  married  a  Miss  Stackhouse,  daugh- 
er  of  the  late  Colonel  E.  T.  Stackhouse ;  they  have  a  consider- 
ble  family,  some  grown;  don't  know  how  many  grown  or 
therwise;  they  reside  at  Marion.  Manton  Alford  married 
n  Alabama  lady,  and  resides  in  upper  Marion^ — one  of  our 


284  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

nost  respectable  and  worthy  citizens.  Of  James  L,.  Alford's 
-ix  daughters,  only  one  survives,  Dian  or  Dianna,  who  mar- 
ried Dr.  McLean,  in  upper  Marion ;  they  have  one  daughter, 
the  wife  of  Clarence  McLaurin;  are  said  to  be  doing  well. 
Not  one  of  her  five  sisters  ever  married.  Loderick  B.  Alford, 
brother  of  Neill  and  James  L.,  also  came  from  North  Carolina, 
with  his  brothers,  but  did  not  remain  long,  he  went  to  Ten- 
nessee, and  married  there  a  Miss  Hall;  after  some  years  he 
returned  with  his  family  to  upper  Marion,  and  died  there  along 
in  the  fifties.  He  raised  a  considerable  family — the  names  of 
only  two  of  them  are  remembered.  Althea,  his  oldest  child, 
who  married,  first,  James  P.  Mclnnis,  who  died  and  left  her  a 
widoiw ;  she  afterwards  became  the  second  wife  of  Colonel  Levi 
Legette,  and  still  survives ;  think  she  had  one  child  by  Mclnnis, 
a  daughter,  who  married  W.  D.  Oarmichael,  now  one  of  the 
citizens  of  the  county  below  Marion.  The  late  Warren  L. 
Alford  married,  and  raised  a  considerable  family;  the  names 
of  only  two  of  his  children  are  known  to  the  writer.  Dock 
Alford  married  a  Miss  Harrelson,  daughter  of  the  late 
John  E.  Harrelson,  and  has  a  family  of  sons  and,  perhaps, 
daughters,  names  unknown.  A  daughter  of  Warren  L.  Al- 
ford, named  Delia,  has  never  married ;  she  may  be  classed  now 
as  an  old  maid.  Warren  L.  Alford,  a  peaceable,  quiet  and 
harmless  man,  died  a  fe^y  years  past;  his  family  are  four  or 
five  miles  below  Marion',  on  the  Galivant's  Ferry  road. 

GrBEnwood. — Of  this  family,  William  and  Frank  Green- 
wood were  known  to  the  writer,  sixty  years  ago.  He  once  saw 
their  mother,  old  Mrs.  Greenwood.  William  Greenwood  mar- 
ried a  sister  of  Cross  Roads  Henry  Berry ;  only  two  children  of 
this  marriage  were  known  to  the  writer — there  may  have  been 
others — Dawson  Greenwood  and  a  daughter,  w^hose  name,  I 
believe,  was  Mary.  Dawson  married  an  illegitimate  daughter 
of  old  John  Manning,  on  Buck  Swamp ;  think  they  went  West 
or  elsewhere.  The  daughter,  Mary  (or  other  name),  became 
the  wife  of  the  late  David  R.  Owens ;  by  him  she  had  and  raised 
two  sons,  Stephen  G.  and  Leonard  R.,  and  two  daughters.  Of 
the  sons,  Stephen  G.  married  a  Miss  Godbold,  daughter  of 
Ervin  Godbold ;  had  two  sons,  one  of  them  dead.     Stephen  G. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  285 

Owens  was  elected  Clerk  of  the  Court  in  1872,  and  filled  that 
position  for  four  years ;  the  upheaval  in  1876  defeated  him  for 
re-election.  He  was  a  very  competent  man,  but  became  a  luna- 
tic some  years  afterwards,  and  died  in  the  Asylum.  Leonard 
R.  Owens  married  a  Miss  Wall,  and  has  considerable  family  at 
Marion — ^names  not  known,  except  oldest  son,  Paul,  who  is  said 
to  be  very  bright ;  one  daughter  grown.  Leonard  Owens  is  a 
very  competent  business  man;  was  postmaster  for  four  years 
under  the  Hairrison  administration,  and  four  years  a  deputy 
under  D.  Mclntyre,  during  Cleveland's  second  term ;  was  again 
appointed  by  McKinley,  and  served  two  or  three  years,  when 
he  got  into  some  trouble  and  was  removed  from  office.  He 
seems  to  be  under  a  doud — yet  resides  in  Marion.  Don't 
know  whether-  his  mother  is  dead  or  alive.  Of  the  two 
daughters  of  Mrs.  David  R.  Owens,  one  married  George  Wall, 
brother  of  L.  R.  Owens'  wife.  They  live  at  Marion,  and  have 
a  family,  about  whom  nothing  is  known.  Don't  know  what 
became  of  the  other  daughter  of  David  R.  Owens.  Frank 
Greenwood  died  a  few  years  ago,  a  very  old  man;  he  raised 
some  fajmily;  was  a  harmless,  inoffensive  ahd  good  citizen; 
don't  know  who  his  wife  was;  he  had  three  sons  and  one 
daughter;  the  sons  are  EHy  B.,  James  and  Donaldson.  EUy 
married,  first,  a  Miss  Piatt,  daughter  of  Daniel  A.  Piatt;  by 
her  he  had  no  children ;  she  died,  and  be  married  again,  a  Miss 
Nicholson,  who  has  already  been  mentioned-  in  or  among  the 
Nicholson  family ;  he  has  by  this  marriage  some  family,  don't 
know  how  much;  James  Greenwood  married  Miss  Addie 
Hayes,  youngest  daughter  of  the  late  John  C.  Hayes,  who  has 
already  been  mentioned  in  or  among  the  Hayes  family;  his 
wife  died,  then  her  child  died,  and  he  became  heir  to  her  prop- 
erty; he  has  not  remarried;  is  a  first-rate  business  man,  and 
resides  at  Latta.  Donaldson  Greenwood  has  never  married; 
is  harmless  and  inoffensive,  a  good  young  (old)  man.  The 
daughter,  Amanda  Greenwood,  married  Henry  Berry,  a  wid- 
ower; she  had  some  children,  don't  know  how  many,  when 
she  died.  Berry  has  married,  the  third  time.  Miss  Aurelia 
George ;  no  children  'by  this  marriage. 

McInnis. — The  Mclnnis  family,  in  the  Carolina  neighbor- 


286  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

hood,  will  next  be  noticed.  Of  this  family,  the  first  known 
was  Duncan  Mclnnis,  who  was  a  most  excellent  man  and 
worthy  citizen.  He  is  thought  to  have  been  a  Scotchman, 
though,  perhaps,  born  in  this  country.  He  married  some 
Scotch  lady,  settled  in  the  Carolina  neighborhood,  raised  a 
considerable  family,  four  sons  and  four  or  five  daughters ;  the 
sons  were  Neill,  John  L,.,  Miles  and  another,  name  not  remem- 
bered. The  two  latter  emigrated  to  Texas  some  years  ago, 
together  with  John  L.  Mclnnis.  John  L.  married  in  Texas, 
a  Texas  lady,  and  some  years  after  returned'  to  this  State,  and 
now  occupies  and  owns  the  old  homestead  of  his  father;  he 
had  two  sons  born  in  Texas,  William  and  one,  name  unknown. 
William  Mclnnis  has  a  family;  married  his  cousin,  a  Miss 
McDonald,  and  has,  perhaps,  two  or  three  children;  is  a  first 
class  man,  of  high  character,  good  habits,  and  has  proper  ideas 
of  life ;  if  misfortune  should  overtake  him,  he  ^would  still  be  a 
man.  His  brother,  younger  than  himself,  unmarried.  Neill 
Mclnnis  died  a  few  years  ago;  he  left  a  family,  unknown  to 
the  writer;  he  was  a  most  excellent  man  and  worthy  citizen, 
and  will  be  mucK  missed  not  only  by  his  family,  but  by  his 
community.  Miles  Mclnnis  and  another  brother  are  in  Texas. 
Of  the  daughters  of  Duncan  Mclnnis,  two  of  them  married 
McLaurins,  whether  in  Marion  or  Marlborough  County,  is 
unknown;  they  both  have  families,  number  and  names  un- 
known. One  daughter  married  our  respected  fellow-citizen, 
A.  J.  McDonald ;  they  have  children  grown  and  married,  and, 
perhaps,  grand-children,  but  for  want  of  information  can  say 
nothing  about  them.  Another  daughter  married  one  James 
McDonald,  I  think,  of  Marlborough;  they  seem  to  be  doing 
well.  Another  daughter  is  yet  unmarried.  There  was,  a  way 
back  in  the  forties  or  fifties,  one  James  P.  Mclnnis,  who  mar- 
ried Miss  Althea  Alford,  daughter  of  Lodwick  B.  Alford,  who 
has  already  been  mentioned  in  or  among  the  Alfords;  he  did 
not  live  long  after  marriage;  seemed  to  be  an  energetic  and 
pushing  man.  Whether  he  was  any  relation  of  the  "Carolina" 
Mclnnises  or  not,  is  unknown  to  the  writer.  Another  Mclnnis 
(Miles),  who  has  been  dead  many  years,  lived'  in  upper 
Marion;  he  married  a  Miss  Townsend,  a  sister  of  old  man 
Light  Townsend,  a  well  known  citizen  of  Marlborough  County. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  287 

Old  Miles  Mclnnis  was  a  harmless  and  inoffensive  man; 
raised  a  considerable  family,  of  whom  nothing  is  now  known. 
Don't  know  whether  he  was  related  to  the  "Carolina"  Mcln- 
nises  or  not ;  but  Miles  seems  to  be  a  family  name ;  as  John  L. 
Mclnnis  has  a  brother  by  that  name,  I  infer  that  old  Miles 
Mclnnis,  of  whom  I  am  now  writing,  was  of  the  same  family — 
perhaps,  a  brother  of  old  Duncan  Mclnnis.  Old  man  Miles 
Mclnnis  has  'been  dead  many  years ;  he  was  not  a  man  of 
much  energy,  though  full  of  native  Scotch  honesty. 

Stafford. — The  first  Stafford  in  the  county  known  to  the 
writer  was  the  late  Malcolm  Stafford ;  don't  know  anything  of 
his  parentage  or  -whence  toe  came ;  he  was  a  Scotchman,  a  man 
of  more  than  ordinary  intelligence,  better  educated  than  most 
men  of  "his  day,  a  Christian  gentleman,  and  a  very  useful  man  in 
his  neighborhood;  was  much  missed  therein  after  his  death, 
which,  I  think,  occurred  some  time  in  the  fifties.  He  married 
Miss  Jeanette  Campbell,  daughter  of  old  man  Duncan  Camp- 
bell, on  north  side  of  Little  Pee  Dee,  in  what  is  now  called  Car- 
michael  Township;  he  settled  on  the  south  side  of  that  river, 
near  where  Stafford's  Bridge  now  stands ;  he  raised  a  consider- 
able family — 'three  sons,  James  Harvey,  Duncan  C.  and  Neill 
E.,  and  three  daughters.  Of  the  sons,  not  one  of  them  ever 
married.  James  Harvey  Stafford  died  a  few  months  ago,  I 
suppose,  near  seventy  years  of  age;  be  was  one  of  our  best 
citizens,  accumulated  a  large  property,  bad  a  fine  plantation, 
upon  which  he  built  a  palatial  residence,  and  had  everything 
about  him  necessary  for  comfort  and  the  enjoyment  of  life, 
except  a  wife  and  Children.  He  had  $5,000  stock  in  the  Dillon 
factory;  a  large  stockholder  also  in  the  Bank  of  Dillon,  and 
president  of  the  same.  He  lost,  some  years  ago,  by  the  failure 
of  the  Bank  of  Hanover,  in  Wilmington,  N.  C,  $3,000,  and  his 
maiden  sister,  Laura,  lost  therein  $10,000;  they  were  very 
prosperous.  Captain  James  H.  Stafford  was  no  ordinary  man. 
The  following  is  from  the  pen  of  Captain  A.  T.  Harllee,  in 
reference  to  Captain  Stafford :  "He  was  a  man  of  superior  intel- 
ligence, and  traveled  much  in  his  time.  In  1856,  he,  with  a 
number  of  other  young  men  from  the  State,  went  to  the  then 
Territory  of  Kansas,  and  was  engaged  in  what  was  called 


288  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

fJie  pro-slavery  war,  in  which  old  John  Brown,  afterwards 
hung  at  Harper's  Ferry,  Va.,  Jim  Lane  and  other  Abolition- 
ists were  c»nspicuous  figures.  Matters  becoming  somewhat 
settled  at  the  theatre  of  war,  Captain  Stafford  betook  himself 
away  out  on  the  frontier  of  the  territory  on  the  Big  Blue  River, 
200  miles  from  the  settlement,  and  pre-empted  a  claim  of  160 
acres  of  land;  but  the  winters  were  too  severe,  and  after 
remaining  a  year,  he  returned  to  his  home  in  South  Carolina. 
At  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  he  raised  a  company  with  John 
W.  Harllee  as  First  Lieutenant,  Duncan  Murphy,  Second  Lieu- 
tenant, and  William  Manning  as  Brevet  Second  Lieutenant. 
The  two  latter  were  killed  in  Virginia,  and  Lieutenant  Harllee 
was  permanently  disabled  for  field  service  by  a  wound  in  the 
knee.  His  company  saw  much  service  in  Virginia  in  Jenkins' 
famous  brigade.  Since  the  war  he  lived  most  of  his  time  on 
his  old  home  place;  but  having  purchased  and  built  a  fine 
residence  on  his  plantation  on  the  North  Carolina  State  line, 
at  'Lone  Home,'  he  resided  there  till  his  death>  a  few  weeks 
ago,  his  sister,  Laura,  living  with  him."  He  was  postmaster 
at  "Lone  Home."  Captain  J.  H.  Stafford  was  an  extensive 
farmer,  and  succeeded  well  in  his  vocation.  He  was  elected, 
without  seeking  it,  a  Couilty  Commissioner  in  1880,  served 
very  acceptably  one  term,  and  never  after  sought  any  office. 
Duncan  C.  Stafford,  the  second  son,  was  killed  in  the  trenches 
by  a  sharpshooter,  in  1863;  he  was  Second  Lieutenant  in 
Captain  A.  T.  Harllee's  company  of  the  8th  Regiment.  He 
was  an  excellent  young  man,  of  fine  character  and  very  prom- 
ising. Neill  E.  Stafford,  the  youngest  son,  lives  at  the  old 
homestead,  near  Dillon ;  he  is  a  graduate  of  Davidson  College, 
is  a  well  informed  man,  went  into  the  war  at  fifteen  years  of 
age  and  was  a  gallant  soldier;  has  never  married,  lives  a 
bachelor's  life.  Of  the  daughters  of  Malcolm  Stafford,  the 
eldest,  Delitha,  married  the  late  William  R.  Stackhouse,  near 
Dillon;  by  this  marriage,  three  daughters  and  one  son  were 
born.  The  eldest  daughter  is  yet  unmarried.  Another  daugh- 
ter, Fannie,  married  Stonewall  Watson ;  she  has  five  children, 
three  daughters  and  two  sons.  Another  daughter  married  H. 
B.  Floyd,  near  Campbell's  Bridge ;  they  have  a  young  family. 
The    son,    Duncan    Stackhouse,   married    a    Miss    Williams, 


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daughter  of  J.  B.  Williams,  of  Nichols,  S.  C.  Evaline  Staf- 
ford, daughter  of  old  Malcolm  Stafford,  married  D.  J.  McKay ; 
by  this  marriage,  six  daughters  were  born  and  raised ;  four  of 
these  daughters  married,  one  of  whom  is  dead ;  don't  know  to 
whom  these  daughters  married.  The  two  youngest  daughters 
of  D.  J.  McKay  and  wife  are  single,  and  live  with  their  parents. 
Miss  Laura  Stafford,  another  daughter  of  Malcolm  Stafford, 
has  never  married ;  she  lived  with  her  brother,  James  H.,  until 
his  death,  a  few  weeks  ago,  and  still  resides  there,  in  a  state  of 
single  blessedness.  Old  man  Malcolm  Stafford  Avas  a  sur- 
veyor, an'd  did  much  in  that  line.  The  writer  has  seen  many 
of  his  plats,  wliich  were  characterized  'by  accuracy  and  neat- 
ness; has  also  seen  wills  and  deeds  drawn  by  (him;  in  these 
respects  he  was  a  very  useful  man. 

Blue. — William  Blue,  first  of  the  name  in  upper  Marion,  on 
north  side  of  Little  Pee  Dee  and  Shoe  Heel  Creek ;  he  was  the 
original  grantee  of  the  lands  on  which  he  and  his  descendants 
have  ever  since  lived.  William  Blue  had  only  two  sons,  Alex- 
ander and  Daniel,  and  several  daughters.  Daniel  Blue  married 
a  Miss  McArthur,  and  raised  a  large  family,  all  girls  but  one, 
William  Blue,  who  was  killed  in  battle  in  Virginia,  in  Captain 
J.  H.  Stafford's  company  of  ist  Regiment  South  Carolina,  Ha- 
good's  Brigade,  early  in  the  war.  Of  the  daughters  of  Daniel 
Blue,  Mary  married  Duncan  N.  McCall,  who  was  a  gallant  sol- 
dier of  the  Confederacy,  and  now  resides  on  part  of  the  Daniel 
Blue  homestead,  and  has  two  children,  both  girls — one  of  whom 
is  the  wife  of  Albert  M.  Baker,  a  live  and  progressive  farmer 
of  that  section  of  the  county.  Another  daughter,  Sarah,  mar- 
ried Milton  McPhaul,  of  North  Carolina ;  he  and  his  wife  are 
both  dead ;  their  children  have  moved  to  Georgia.  The  young- 
est diaughter,  Nancy,  married  a  Mr.  Miran,  of  N^Drth  Carolina ; 
he  died  soon  after  their  marriage,  and  she  lives  on  the  old 
homestead,  with  her  three  sisters,  Martha  Ann,  Flora  and 
Catharine — all  of  them  now  well  advanced  in  years.  Alex- 
ander Blue,  the  younger  of  the  two  brothers,  was  one  of  the 
staunchest  citizens  of  the  county ;  he  was  from  early  manhood 
to  his  death  one  of  the  ruling  elders  in  Ashpole  Presbyterian 
Church,  just  across  the  State  line  from  where  he  lived,  and 


290  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

he  rarely  ever  missed  a  service  at  that  church ;  he  was  beloved 
and  respected  by  all  viho  knew  him.  He  married  Ann  Alford, 
a  daughter  of  Major  Sion  Alford,  a  prominent  citizen  of 
Robeson  County,  N.  C,  when  'a  young  man ;  two  children  were 
the  issue  of  ithe  marriage,  daughters.  The  eldest,  Mary  Ann, 
just  after  the  war,  married  Captain  A.  C.  Sinclair,  who  was  the 
surviving  commander  of  Fairlee's  old  company  of  Orr's  Rifles, 
and  they  now  reside  on  the  Alexander  Blue  homestead,  and 
have  a  family  of  five  grown  up  children.  The  youngest 
daughtdr,  Bettie,  married  Nathaniel  McNair,  of  North  Caro- 
lina, wlio  died  in  1894,  leaving  her  with  one  child,  a  daughter, 
married  to  Edwin  Smith,  a  lawyer  of  Red  Springs,  N.  C, 
where  he,  his  wife  and  Mrs.  McNair  now  reside.  One  of  the 
daughters  of  old  William  Blue  and  a  sister  of  Daniel  and 
Alexander  Blue,  married  Daniel  McDuffie;  by  this  marriage 
only  one  child  was  born,  a  son,  named  William  McDuffie,  who 
was  a  very  promising  young  man;  he  graduated  at  Davidson 
College  with  distinction,  and  died  soon  after  graduation,  in 
i860.  Many  in  the  Hofwyl  Academy  neighborhood  will  re- 
member William  McDuffie,  as  a  teacher  in  that  academy  for 
two  or  more  sessions,  about  1855  or  1856 — ^may  be  1854.  He 
was  a  close  student,  bent  on  education — ^his  close  application  to 
study  may  have  shortened  his  days.  The  writer's  older  child- 
ren went  to  sdhool  to  him  at  Hofwyl.  Another  daughter  of 
old  William  Blue  married  a  Mr.  Campbell,  and  had  one 
daughter,  but  she,  too,  died  young.  His  other  daughters 
never  married,  but  lived  to  be  very  old  ladies;  all  are  now 
dead.  The  name  of  Blue,  so  far  as  this  family  is  concerned,  is 
already  or  about  to  become  extinct  in  the  county. 

Bakbr. — The  Baker  family,  in  North  Marion,  will  next  be 
noticed.  Squire  Neill  Baker,  the  first  known  in  that  section, 
was  a  sturdy  Scotchman  and  an  excellent  citizen  of  the  north- 
ern section  of  the  county;  he  married  Polly  McArthur,  and 
left  many  descendants  in  his  section.  One  of  his  grand-sons, 
A.  M.  Baker,  hereinbefore  mentioned  as  a  prosperous  and 
progressive  man,  owns  the  old  homestead.  One  of  his  sons, 
Edmund  Baker,  married  a  Miss  McGist ;  he  died  without  issue. 
Another  son,  James  Baker,  married  a  Miss  Bracy,  and  moved 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  291 

to  North  Carolina,  where  he  died,  and  left  a  family  of  several 
children.  An  older  son,  John  D.  Baker,  married  Miss  L/Ovedy 
McPriest,  and!  died,  leaving  her  with  two  sons — Albert  M. 
Baker,  above  spoken  of,  and  Neill  A.  Baker.  The  widow, 
Ivovedy  Baker,  lives  with  her  son,  Neill  A.  Baker,  in  Georgia. 
Old  man  Neill  Baker  had  but  two  daughters.  The  oldest  mar- 
ried William  McKay,  of  Nortli  Carolina,  and  moved  to  Missis- 
sippi, where  his  wife  died.  The  other  daughter,  Jeannette, 
married,  just  at  the  close  of  the  war.  Captain  Gilbert  W. 
McKay,  who  was  at  one  time  Captain  of  Fairlee's  old  com- 
pany, and  who  may  be  remembered  by  many  who  now  live  in 
the  town  of  Marion,  as  be  lived  there  when  he  went  into 
the  war.  Both  are  now  dead,  leaving  two  children  surviv- 
ing— John  W.  McKay,  who  lives  at  McCall,  S.  C,  and  Mary, 
who  married  John  Millsaps,  and  moved  to  Georgia,  where  they 
now  reside. 

McPriest. — Alexander  McPriest,  a  good  citizen  and  staunch 
old  Scotchman,  lived  in  the  same  section  of  the  county ;  he  mar- 
ried a  Miss  McKellar,  raised  a  large  family  of  children,  all 
girls,  but  one,  named  Peter  E.  McPriest,  who  served  through 
the  war,  but  is  now  dead.  One  daughter  married  John  D. 
Baker,  as  already  mentioned.  Another  married  William 
Braddy  Lester,  who  also  served  through  the  war  in  Orr's 
Rifles ;  he  and  his  wife  are  both  living.  Two  other  daughters, 
Katie  and  Mary  Ann,  never  married,  and  are  living  on  their 
portion  of  their  father's  old  homestead. 

McKei<i<ar. — Peter  McKellar  was  among  the  first  settlers  of 
this  section  of  the  county.  He  raised  a  large  family;  some  of 
whom  moved  away,  but  many  of  tlheir  descendants  still  remain 
and  own  portions  of  the  old  McKellar  lands.'  A.  McKellar 
Trawick  and  his  brother,  William,  grand-sons  of  Archie 
McKellar  and  great-great-grand-sons  of  the  original  Peter 
McKellar,  now  own  one  of  the  finest  plantations  in  Carmichael 
Township,  adjoining  the  plantations  of  Captain  A.  C.  Sinclair, 
Captain  A.  T.  Harllee  and  R.  P.  Hamer,  Jr.,  the  latter  owning 
a  portion  of  the  McKellar  lands,  and  Captain  D.  J.  McKay 
another  portion  of  the  same.    Archie  McKellar,  a  grand-son 


292  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

of  old  Peter,  married  a  Miss  McCormick,  of  North  Carolina, 
and  raised  a  large  family  of  daughters,  and  two  sons,  Peter  and 
John,  both  of  whom  were  killed  in  battle  in  Virginia  early  in 
the  war.  AH  the  daughters  died  single,  but  one,  Elmyra,  who 
married  David  Trawick,  who  was  also  killed,  leaving  her  with 
the  two  sons  above  mentioned,  "Mack"  and  William,  with 
whom  she  lives ;  neither  of  them  are  married.  Captain  D.  J. 
McKay,  as  noted  above,  lives  on  the  John  McKellar  homestead, 
near  "Ivone  Home/'  in  this  section ;  he  has  been  and  still  is  one 
of  the  most  progressive  of  the  many  progressive  farmers  of  his 
section  of  the  county;  by  industry  and  perseverance  he  has 
amassed  a  comfortable  living,  and  is  one  of  the  substantial  and 
wealthy  farmers  of  the  county.  He  volunteered  in  the  com- 
mencement of  the  war,  and  was  First  Lieutenant  of  Co.  D, 
25th  S.  C.  Regiment,  McKerraJl's  old  company,  and  served  to 
the  close  of  the  war ;  be  was  severely  wounded  and  still  suffers 
at  times  from  his  old  wounds. 

McKay. — Daniel  McKay,  the  grand-father  of  Captain  D.  J. 
McKay,  came  to  this  county  direct  from  Scotland,  at  what  time 
is  not  known;  he  had  and  raised  two  sons,  John  and  Archie. 
John  McKay  married  Katie  Alford,  a  daughter  of  Major  Sion 
Alford,  of  North  Carolina,  by  whom  he  bad  and  raised  three 
sons.  Captain  G.  W.  McKay,  Alford  McKay,  who  died  just  as 
he  attained  manhood,  and  D.  J.  McKay,  and  three  daughters. 
Flora  Ann,  Bettie  and  Clarkey.  Of  the  sons,  G.  W.  McKay 
married  a  Miss  Baker,  as  already  related,  and  he  and  wife 
are  both  dead,  as  herein  stated.  Captain  D.  J.  McKay,  just 
after  the  close  of  the  war,  married  Miss  Evaline  Stafford, 
daughter- of  Malcolm  Stafford,  as  herein  already  stated  in  or 
among  the  Stafford  family.  D.  J.  McKay  is  an  Elder  in  the 
Ashpole  Presbyterian  Ohurdh,  a  regular  attendant;  he  has, 
from'  early  manhood,  been  an  enthusiastic  Mason,  and  has  sev- 
eral times  been  Master  of  the  lodges  of  which  he  was  a  member. 
Of  the  daughters  of  John  McKay,  Flora  Ann,  the  eldest,  mar- 
ried Colonel  John  A.  Rowland,  of  L,umberton,  N.  C,  whose 
eldest  son,  Hon.  Alfred  Rowland,  was  a  Representative  in 
Congress  for  two  terms,  from  the  Sixth  Congressional  District 
of  North  Carolina,  and  declined  a  re-election  on  account  of  his 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  293 

health,  and  died  soon  after  the  expiration  of  his  term.  Bettie 
McKay,  daughter  of  John  McKay,  married  Dr.  John  K.  Al- 
ford,  of  North  Carolina,  and  had  one  son ;  and  after  the  death 
of  her  husband,  moved  with  her  son  to  Texas,  where  she  died ; 
her  son  is  now  a  prominent  lawyer  of  the  "Lone  Star  State." 
Clarkey,  the  youngest  daughter,  married  Henry  Alford,  of  Sel- 
kirk, S.  C,  a  son  of  the  late  Neill  Alford ;  they  moved  to  North 
Carolina,  Where  they  raised  a  family,  two  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters; the  sons  are  successful  business  men  at  Maxton,  N.  C, 
and  Henry  Alford's  wife  has  been  dead  several  years,  which 
leaves  Captain  D.  J.  McKay  the  only  survivor  of  John  McKay's 
children.  Archie  McKay,  brother  of  John,  married'  a  daugh- 
ter of  Jo^hn  Drake,  of  Robeson  County,  N.  C.  Archie  McKay 
was  the  father  of  the  late  Hector  T.  McKay,  who  married  a 
sister  of  Hon.  James  McRae,  as  his  first  wife;  and  James 
McRae,  for  his  first  wife,  married  a  sister  of  Hector  T. 
McKay ;  another  sister  of  H.  T.  McKay  married  R.  B.  Braddy, 
who  died,  leaving  one  child,  a  daughter,  who  married  a  Mr, 
Morrison,  of  North  Carolina.  Hector  T.  McKay  married,  as  a 
second  wife,  the  widow  of  Dr.  McKinnon.  John  J.  McKay 
and  his  sister,  Janie  (don't  know  whether  by  the  first  or  second 
marriage),  are  the  only  surviving  children'  of  Hector  T.  Mc- 
Kay, and  live  on  his  old  homestead.  Hedtor  T.  McKay  was 
one  of  the  first  men  of  the  county;  well  informed,  of  good 
habits,  indiustrious  and  frugal,  kind-'hearted  and  liberal  minded, 
thought  for  himself,  and  allowed  the  same  privilege  to  others ; 
he  was  a  man  of  well-rounded  character  every  way;  never 
aspired  to  political  preferment,  was  elected  and  served  one 
term  as  County  Commissioner  without  seeking  it;  he  was  an 
exemplary  citizen.  Would  like  to  dwell  more  on  his  many 
good  qualities,  but  space  will  not  permit. 

McCoRMiCK. — The  McCormick  family  and  history  of  Little 
Rock  will  next  be  noticed,  and  is  from  the  pen  of  Captain  A.  T. 
Harllee :  "John  McCormick,  better  known  to  every  one  in  his 
day  as  'Little  Mack,'  was  another  old  settler  of  the  upper  sec- 
tion of  the  township,  on  Shoe  Heel  Creek  and  the  North  Caro- 
lina State  line,  and  lived  in  the  immediate  section  of  the  Blues, 
Bakers,  McKellars  and  McArthurs ;  he  was  a  jolly  old  Scotch- 


294  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

man  and  everybody  admired  'him ;  he  married  a  daughter  of 
Duncan  McEachem,  on  Wilkinson  Swamp,  in  North  Carolina, 
and  raised  a  family  of  five  sons,  but  no  daugliters.  His  two 
eldest  sons,  Neill  and  Allen,  married  in  Anson  County,  N.  C, 
and  moved  there  and  have  lived  there  ever  since,:  raising  large 
families.  His  sons,  Malcolm  and  Archie,  died  when  young 
men.  Duncan  E.  McCormick  was  the  youngest  of  his  sons ;  he 
married  and  lived  all  his  life  in  Marion  County ;  he  was  well 
known  all  over  the  county,  having  held  the  office  of  Tax  Col- 
lector and  various  other  stations  of  a  public  character ;  he  was 
a  good  business  man,  and  started  out  in  life  as  a  clerk  in  the 
store  of  Colonel  Thomas  Harllee,  at  old  Harlleesville,  which  is 
now  Little  Rock;  he  afterwards  taught  school,  and  was  one 
of  the  pioneers  in  business  at  what  is  now  called  Little  Rock. 
The  business  of  all  that  section  before  was  done  at  the  bridge, 
near  where  R.  P.  Hamer,  Sr.,  now  lives,  and  the  postoffice 
was  Harlleesville,  and  had  been  since  the  days  of  Thomas 
Harllee,  Sr.,  who  was  the  original  owner  of  most  of  the  lands 
around  there  for  several  miles.  Duncan  E.,  with  Tristram  B. 
Walters,  bought  some  lots  from  Enoch  J.  Meekins,  not  far 
from  the  church  and  school  house,  which  had  been  given  the 
public  by  Thomas  Harllee,  Sr.,  for  church  and  school  pur- 
poses; and  they  built  on  the  lands  they  bought  dwellings, 
storehouse  and  a  large  hotel  building,  and  thus  launched  the 
town  of  Little  Rock,  named  it  after  a  rock  that  protrudes  above 
the  ground  some  three  or  four  feet,  and  weighs,  perhaps,  500 
pounds,  and  now  stands  in  the  fork  of  the  roads,  one  leading 
to  Mars  Bluff  and  the  other  to  Marion  via  Dillon.  They  went 
to  work  and  got  the  postoffice  removed  there,  and  the  name 
changed  from  Harlleesville  to  Little  Rock.  No  opposition 
developing  to  the  removal  or  change  of  names,  as  some  parties 
who  had  procured  a  lot  close  at  hand  started  a  grog  ship ;  and 
those  who  would  have  protested  under  other  conditions  and 
circumstances,  were  glad  of  the  change  of  name;  the  grog 
shop,  however,  was  short-lived,  and  there  has  never  been  one 
there  since.  It  must  not  be  inferred  that  Duncan  E.  was 
favorable  to  or  a  promoter  of  the  grog-shop,  for  he  was  not, 
and  was  and  always  remained  until  his  death  a  strictly  temper- 
ate and  moral  man.     Little  Rock  boomed  for  a  while.    At  one 


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time  there  were  eight  or  ten  stores  in  full  blast  and  a  large 
amount  of  business  was  done  there.  J.  W.  Dillon  commenced 
business  at  that  point  and  accumulated  much  of  his  large  for- 
tune there;  he  remained  there  until  the  railroad  was  projected 
and  the  town  of  Dillon  established,  and  he  removed  all  his 
business  to  that  point.  Duncan  E.  McCormick  first  married 
Martha  Beckwith,  and  raised  a  family  of  three  sons  and  two 
daugliters.  Mary,  the  eldest,  married  John  McGirt,  of  Robe- 
son County,  N.  C. ;  they  have  a  large  family  of  sons  and 
daughters.  Flora  married  John  C.  Hargrove,  son  of  Asa 
Hargrove ;  he  first  moved  to  North  Carolina,  and  then  to  Mis- 
sissippi, where  they  now  live,  and  have  several  sons  and  daugh- 
ters, all  grown.  Duncan  E.  had  three  sons,  John,  Philip  and 
General  (nick-name),  all  of  whom'  were  gallant  soldiers  of  the 
Confederacy,  and  after  the  war  all  of  them  removed'  to  Texas, 
where  they  are  good  citizens.  Duncan  E.  McCormick's  second 
marriage  was  to  Harriet  Walters,  the  widow  of  William 
Walters;  she  was  the  daugliter  of  one  Ridgell,  and  in  her 
marriage  with  William  Walters  had  two  daughters  and  one 
son.  The  eldest  daughter,  Bettie,  married  Daniel  W.  Alford, 
and  they  live  at  Dillon,  S.  C,  and  have  two  daughters  and 
one  son.  The  youngest  daughter,  Willie  (Walters),  married 
R.  A.  Brunson,  after  the  war,  and  had  two  daughters  and  one 
son ;  she  is  now  dead.  Augustus  J.  Walters,  the  son,  married 
Sallie,  the  daughter  of  Alfred  Edino;  they  now  live  at  For- 
reston.  Clarendon  County,  S.  C,  and  have  two  sons  and  one 
daughter,  all  grown — ^the  latter  married.  In  his  second  mar- 
riage, Duncan  E.  had  one  son  and  three  daug'hters.  The  son, 
A.  P.  McCormick,  was  a  brilliant  young  man,  was  a  lawyer  and 
died  soon  after  his  admission  to  the  bar.  His  eldest  daughter 
(by  the  second  marriage),  Georgianna,  married  Duncan 
McLaurin,  one  of  Dillon's  most  prominent  and  progressive 
citizens ;  he  was  the  first  settler  in  the  new  town,  was  its  first 
Postmaster,  and  on  the  organization  of  the  town  was  its  first 
Mayor  or  Intendant ;  he  owns  three  fine  plantations ;  one  near 
the  town  of  Dillon,  one  on  the  east  side  of  Little  Pee  Dee,  in 
Carmichael  Township,  and  one  above  Little  Rock,  which  in- 
cludes the  old  William  Walters  homestead ;  he  is  a  large  stock- 
holder in  the  Dillon  Tobacco  Warehouse,  in  the  Dillon  Bank, 
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296  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

oil  mill  and  the  new  cotton  factory ;  he  has  three  children,  two 
sons  and  one  daug'hter,  all  of  whom  are  living  with  him.  The 
other  two  daughters  of  Duncan  E.  McCormick,  Ada  and  Ellen, 
the  youngest  children,  and  were  twins.  Ellen  died  when  about 
grown.  Ada  married  W.  Boone  White,  and  they  live  in  For- 
reston,  in  Clarendon  County,  S.  C.  "Little  Mack  McCor- 
mick," so-called,  I  suppose,  to  distinguish  him  from  some  other 
larger  Jdhn  McConmick,  was  a  capital  man  and  of  unique 
character;  he  loved  whiskey  and  sometimes  drank  too  much, 
perfectly  harmless  when  drinking,  and  at  such  times  was  very 
religious,  and  talked  religion  a  great  deal.  On  one  occasion, 
in  the  fall  of  1839,  the  writer  chanced  to  spend  the  night 
together  with  "L,ittle  Mack"  and  his  wife  at  old  man  Gilbert 
McEachern's  on  Hayes  Swamp.  "Little  Mack"  married  the 
sister  of  old  Gilbert,  who  at  the  time  had  a  lot  of  hard  cider  on 
hand.  It  was  on  Saturday  night.  During  the  afternoon  and 
evening  the  cider  was  passed  around  pretty  frequently,  and 
"Little  Mack"  got  pretty  tight.  The  writer  in  those  days  did 
not  drink  cider  or  anything  stronger — besides,  I  went  there  to 
see  Miss  Margaret  Ann,  a  diaughter  of  old  man  Gilbert,  and  a 
nice  girl  she  was,  too — 'hence  I  did  not  join  in  the  cider  drink- 
ing. At  a  late  hour  we  all  retired.  Before  day  the  next 
morning  (Sunday),  I  was  awaked  by  "Little  Mack,"  who  slept 
in  a  room  adjacent  to  mine,  singing  aloud  so  as  to  be  heard 
throug'h  the  w'hole  house,  the  following  familiar  lines : 

'  'Sweet  is  the  day  of  sacred  rest, 
No  mortal  care  shall  seize  my  breast; 
O  may  my  heart  in  tune  be  found 
Like  David's  harp  of  solemn  sound,"  &c. 

He  did  not  stop  at  singing  one  verse,  but  kept  on  until  the 
whole  hymn  was  sung,  and  aroused  the  whole  house — to  which 
he  gave  a  lecture  on  Sabbath  observance.  Another  instance 
of  his  religious  zeal  when  "in  his  cups"  is  related  as  follows: 
Away  back  in  the  thirties,  there  was  a  circuit  preacher  on  this 
circuit  by  the  name  of  Mahoney.  At  one  of  his  revival  meet- 
ings or  a  camp  meeting,  which  were  very  common  in  that  day, 
"Little  Mack"  professed  religion.  Some  years  afterward, 
Mahoney  paid  a  visit  to  his  people  about  Harlleesville,  and  had 
an  appointment  to  preach  at  Liberty  Chapel,  as  it  was  then 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  297 

called.  Mahoney  was  very  popular  when  he  was  on  the 
circuit,  and  consequently  a  great  many  went  to  hear  and  to  see 
him,  and  among  them'  was  "Little  Mack" — 'he  went  pretty 
tight.  On  meeting  Mahoney,  he  grabbed  his  hand  and  said, 
"O,  Brother  Ma'honey ;  I  am  so  glad  to  see  you.  I  never  will 
forget  yoa,  for  you  were  the  one  that  converted  my  soul." 
To  which  Mahoney  replied,  "It  looks  like  some  of  my  bung- 
ling work;  if  God  had  converted  your  soul,  you  would  not 
have  been  here  to-day  drunk."  Notwithstanding  this  stinging 
reply  of  Mahoney,  "Little  Mack"  was  not  nonplussed  in  the 
least,  but  insisted  that  his  conversion  was  genuine,  and  Brother 
Mahoney  was  the  instrument.  There  were  worse  men  than 
"Little  Mack,"  if  he  did  drink ;  he  has  been  dead  fifty  years  or 
more — requiescat  in  pace. 

Another  family  of  McCormicks  will  next  be  noticed.  Neill 
McCormick,  known  as  Squire  Neill,  was  the  elder  brother  of 
"Little  Mack,"  and  lived  in  the  fork  of  Hays  and  Persimmon 
Swamps,  adjoining  the  McKellars  and  the  McArthurs ;  his  old 
homestead  is  now  owned  by  D.  J.  McKay;  he  married  Katie 
McDonald,  a  direct  descendant  of  Flora  McDonald,  of  Revo- 
lutionary fame,  and  her  grand-daughter,  Bettie  McCorenick, 
married  another  descendant  of  the  same  heroine,  Hugh  A. 
McDonald,  who  now  lives  at  Dillon,  S.  C.  Squire  Neill  had 
eight  sons  and  one  daughter.  His  elder  sons,  Daniel,  Joe  and 
John,  went  West — the  first  to  Mississippi,  the  two  latter  to 
Texas,  where  they  all  married  and  raised  families.  Randall 
and  Wylie  died  soon  after  reaching  manhood,  and  the  three 
others,  James,  Thomas  and  Frank,  were  all  killed  in  battle  in 
Virginia.  James  and  Thomas  were  in  Fairlee's  old  company, 
Orr's  Rifles;  Frank  was  in  Captain  Stafford's  company. 
Thomas  and  Frank  were  both  killed  in  the  second  battle  of  Ma- 
nassas, at  about  the  same  time,  and  James  was  killed  at  Gaines' 
Mill.  The  latter  married  Drusilla  McCormick,  of  North 
Carolina,  and  left  a  family  of  two  sons  and  four  daughters. 
The  eldest,  Warren  Alford  McCormick,  married  a  Miss  Wise, 
and  moved  to  Marlboroug'h,  where  they  now  live.  The  other 
married  Virgie  Legette,  the  great^grand-daughter  of  old  James 
McArthur,  and  lives  on  his  old  home  place.  One  of  the 
■daughters.  Flora  Amanda,  married  T.  R.  McLellan,  who  is 


298  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

dead ;  but  she,  with  a  large  family  of  sons  and  daug'hters,  sur- 
vives. Laura,  another  daughter,  married  Henry  Barnes,  of 
North  Carolina.  Another  married  Richard  Atkinson,  of  North 
Carolina,  and  they  live  at  McCoU,  S.  C. ;  and  the  youngest,  as 
noted  above,  married  Captain  Hugh  A.  McDonald,  of  Cumber- 
land County,  N.  C. ;  he  was  a  gallant  soldier  of  the  Confed- 
CTacy ;  they  now  live  at  Dillon,  S.  C,  and  have  a  large  family  of 
children.  The  one  daughter  of  Squire  Neill  McCormick,  Ma- 
nila, married  Neill  McEachern,  and  they  left  two  daughters 
and  three  sons.  One  of  the  daughters,  Manila,  married 
Charles  Altman,  and  they,  with  a  grown  up  family  of  five  child- 
ren, live  in  Horry  County.  The  other  daughter.  Flora,  mar- 
ried James  McKellar,  both  of  whom!  are  dead,  and  left  several 
children — ^the  youngest  son,  Peter  McKellar,  being  a  pros- 
perous merchant  at  Bemiettsville,  S.  C,  where  he  married  a 
niece  of  Hon.  Joshua  H.  Hudson.  Of  the  three  sons  of 
Neill  McEachern,  William  died  just  as  he  was  grown.  Ed- 
mund Q.  served  through  the  war,  and  died  soon  after.  John 
C.  McEachern  is  still  living ;  he,  too,  was  one  of  the  heroes  who 
served  from  the  beginning  to  the  end  in  the  cause  which  was 
lost;  he  was  a  private  in  Fairlee's  company,  and  bears  the 
lionorable  marks  of  service  on  his  person ;  soon  after  the  war 
he  married  Jennie,  a  daughter  of  "Hatter"  John  Carmichael, 
and  they  have  raised  a  family  of  four  sons  and  two  daughters, 
and  he  and  his  family  live  on  his  fine  farm  in  the  fork  of  Little 
Pee  Dee  and  Hayes  Swamp.  The  widow  of  Squire  Neill  Mc- 
Cormick lived  to  a  very  great  age,  and  died  on  his  homestead 
since  the  war.  Neill  McEachern  after  the  death  of  his  wife, 
Manila,  again  married,  Sallie  McCall,  of  North  Carolina,  by 
whom  he  raised  a  family  of  four  sons  and  two  daughters. 
Neill  Duncan,  the  eldest,  married  Margaret  McDuffie,  daughter 
of  Neill  McDufifie,  and  has  a  family  of  four  daug'hters ;  he  lives 
at  McColl,  S.  C.  Robert  Bruce,  the  next  son,  married  Ama- 
rantha,  daughter  of  A.  S.  Buie,  and  bas  a  family  of  one  son  and 
three  daug'hters;  they  live  near  Hamer,  S.  C.  Peter  G.  and 
Edmund  Bishop  McEachern,  the  two  youngest  sons,  live  on 
their  fine  plantation,  near  Hamer,  and  their  mother  and  two 
sisters  live  with  them ;  neither  of  them>  have  married ;  they  are 
up-to-date,  progressive  farmers,  and  it  is  said  of  them  that  no 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  299 

matter  how  high  the  price  of  cotton  may  rule,  they  always 
keep  a  lot  for  a  better  price.  The  writer  heard  a  candidate 
who  visited  these  McEachems  say  that  he  saw  eleven  fat 
Chester  hogs  there  that  would  average  400  pounds  each,  be- 
sides a  number  of  smaller  ones — that  was  some  three  years 
ago;  they  owe  no  one  anything;  they  have  much  more  to  sell 
than  to  buy. 

McArthur. — James  McArthur  was  one  of  the  original  set- 
tlers on  the  north  side  of  Hays  Swamp  and  on  the  North  Caro- 
lina State  line;  he  married  a  Miss  Campbell  and  raised  a 
family  of  three  sons  and  four  daughters.  The  eldest  daughter, 
Effie,  married  Gadi  Braswell,  and  her  only  son,  Richard  H. 
Braswell,  now  owns  and  lives  upoU'  a  part  of  the  old  McArthur 
lands  or  homestead,  just  across  the  State  line.  Mary,  another 
daughter,  married  Richard  J.  Millsaps,  and  moved  to  another 
part  of  tihe  McArthur  lands  or  homestead  in  North  Carolina; 
they  had  one  daughter,  Mary  Jane,  who  married  T.  J.  L,egette, 
and  she  now  lives  at  Rowland,  N.  C.  Her  four  daughters,  the 
eldest,  Louise,  married  Joseph  A.  McEachern,  and  she  died,  I 
think,  childless.  The  next  oldest  married  Robe  Bond ;  the  third 
to  James  A.  McCormi-ck,  and  the  fourth  and  youngest  to  W.  A. 
Ivey,  who  lives  at  Dillon,  S.  C. — all  of  them  owning  part  of 
the  McArthur  lands.  The  other  two  daughters,  Katie  and 
Jennie,  never  married,  and  both  of  them  died  at  advanced  ages 
since  the  war.  Alexander,  John  and  James  were  his  three  sons. 
The  two  former  lived  to  be  old  men  and  never  married,  and 
died  since  the  war ;  both  of  them  were  too  old  for  service  in  the 
army,  but  were  patriotic  citizens  and  contributed  all  in  their 
power  to  the  success  of  the  cause  that  was  lost.  James,  the 
youngest  son,  married  Sarah  McDonald,  daug'hter  of  Neil! 
McDonald,  in  the  "old  Fork,"  which  is  known  in  that  region 
as  such,  being  the  territory  in  the  fork  of  S'hoe  Heel  Creek  and 
Wilkinson  Swamp  and  Little  Pee  Dee  River;  they  had  one 
child,  a  daughter,  EUa,  wbo  married  George  R.  Campbell,  of 
North  Carolina,  and  they  live  on  their  father's  old  homestead, 
or  a  part  of  it;  Mr.  Campbell  is  a  good  farmer  and  a  good 
citizen.  James  McArthur  went  to  the  front  in  the  beginning 
of  the  war,  in  Captain  Stafford's  company;  was  sent  to  the 


300  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

hospital,  sick,  at  Culpeper  C.  H.,  and  was  never  heard  from 
after  being  sent  from  his  company,  and  it  is  supposed  that  he 
died  there,  and  is  one  of  the  many  unknown  dead  whose  re- 
mains repose  in  the  soil  of  old  Virginia.  His  widow,  in  1873, 
married  M.  M.  Watson,  of  North  Carolina,  who  was  a  gallant 
soldier  in  the  Confederate  army,  and  lost  a  leg  in  the  service ; 
he  was  one  of  our  most  respected  adopted  citizens  at  his  death, 
and  his  widow  died  soon  after;  they  left  two  sons  and  one 
daug'hter,  and  they  live  on  another  part  of  the  old  McArthur 
homestead,  and  are  progressive  and  industrious  young  men. 

McIntyrE. — Dougald,  Daniel,  Duncan  and  Archie  Mclnltyre, 
four  brothers,  came  from  Scotland  to  Marion  County  in  the 
early  part  of  the  nineteenth  century — say  from  1815  to  1820; 
all  of  them  grown  young  men.  Dougald,  ithe  eldest,  married  in 
Scotland ;  his  wife  was  Lilly  Campbell ;  they  settled  on  the  place 
where  they  lived  and  died,  and  where  their  diaughters,  Jennette 
and  Lilly,  now  reside ;  they  raised  a  family  of  twelve  children, 
six  sons  and  six  daughters — ^the  two  eldest  of  whom,  Elizabeth 
and  John  B.,  were  bom  in  Scotland ;  the  sons  were  John  B., 
Dougald  C,  Joseph,  Duncan  ET.,  James  and  William  Wallace 
Mclntyre — none  of  them  are  now  living;  the  daughters  were 
Elizabeth,  Jennette,  Nancy,  Margaret,  Lilly  and  Mary.  John 
B.,  the  eldest  son,  was  a  tailor  by  trade ;  moved  to  North  Caro- 
lina; he  married  Civil  Legette,  and  lived  until  after  the  war, 
when  he  acquired  the  farm  near  Hamer,  where  he  remained 
until  his  dteath;  he  raised  six  children — three  sons  and  three 
diaughters ;  the  sons  were  Jdhn  A.,  Cousar  and  Dougald ;  and 
the  dauifhters  were  Sarah,  Mary  and  Margaret.  John  A.  lives 
in  North  Carolina,  and  is  unmarried.  Dougald  married  Lilly 
Faulk,  of  Selkirk,  and  lives  in  North  Carolina.  Cousar  mar- 
ried Fannie  Willis,  and  moved  to  Georgia.  Sarah,  the  eldest 
daughter  of  John  B.,  married  John  W.  McMillan.  Mary 
married  John  W.  McLean,  and  is  still  a  resident  of  the  neigh- 
borhood. Margaret  is  unmarried,  and  lives  with  her  brother, 
Dougald,  in  North  Carolina.  Dougald  C,  second  son  of  old 
Dougald,  moved  to  Robeson  County,  N.  C,  when  quite  a  young 
man,  and  remained  there  during  his  life ;  he  was  a  leading  spirit 
in  many  benevolent  and  public  enterprises  in  his  county,  and 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  801 

for  a  long  time  filled  the  office  of  School  Commissioner  and 
also  -that  of  Magistrate ;  his  widow  and  several  children  and 
many  grand-children  survive  him,  and  are  among  the  most 
highly  respected  people  of  Robeson  County.  Joseph,  the  third 
son  of  old  Dougald,  was  an  energetic  and  active  farmer ;  at  the 
outbreak  of  the  war  he  volunteered  and  went  to  the  front, 
where  he  remained  until  the  surrender;  be  married  Emaline 
Carmichael,  a  daughter  of  Sheriff  Archie  Carmichael,  and 
settled  on  the  place  near  Hamer,  where  they  lived  and  where 
they  both  died,  leaving  a  family  of  seven  children — ^three  sons 
and  four  daughters;  the  sons  are  Duncan,  Archie  and  Leigh- 
ton;  the  daughters  are  Nettie,  Ivizzie,  Isla  and  Blanche,  and 
have  all,  with  one  exception,  removed  elsewhere.  Duncan 
went  to  Texas.  Archie  married  Katie  McLellan,  daughter 
of  Timothy  R.  McLellan,  and  settled  on  a  place  ad^joining  that 
of  bis  aunt.  Leig^hton  is  an  invalid,  and  lives  with  his  sister. 
Nettie,  the  eldest  daughter,  married  J.  Edgar  Bass ;  they  live 
in  Florida;  this  couple  when  they  marriedi  weighed  over  five 
hundred  pounds  avoirdupois.  L,izzie,  Isla  and  Blanche  are 
single,  and  live  in  Dillon,  with  their  invalid  brother,  Leighton. 
Duncan  E.,  the  fourth  son  of  old  Dougald,  was  a  Presbyterian 
minister ;  he  was  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Helena, 
Ark.,  when  the  war  commenced ;  he  returned  to  his  old  home, 
and  in  order  that  his  brother,  James,  who  was  the  business 
manager  and  dependence  of  his  widowed  mother,  mig'ht  remain 
with  her  and  his  sisters,  be  went  to  the  front  as  a  substitute 
for  his  brother,  James,  and  died  while  in  service.  James,  the 
fifth  son  of  old  Dougald,  was  a  man  of  some  sterling  qualities, 
was  noted  for  his  kindness  of  heart,  and  his  affectionate  care 
for  those  dependent  upon  him ;  he  lived  with  his  mother  until 
after  the  war,  when  his  younger  brother,  Wallace,  succeeded 
him;  he  married  Mrs.  Rebecca  McCormick,  a  daughter  of 
Woodward  Manning,  and  removed  to  his  late  residence  on 
Buck  Swamp ;  his  widow  and  one  son  survive  him ;  the  son's 
name  is  W.  M.  Mclntyre.  William  Wallace,  the  sixth  son  of 
old  Dougald,  the  youngest  of  the  six  brothers,  was  an  active 
and  progressive  farmer ;  he  lived  with  his  mother  and  sisters, 
managing  the  farm,  and  also  owned  the  place  near  Hamer, 
now  the  property  of  Frank  Edens ;  he  served  through  the  war 


302  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

in  Co.  I,  Tenth  Regiment,  S.  C.  V.  The  daughters  of  old 
Dougald  Mclntyre,  Elizabeth,  Jennette,  Nancy  and  Lilly,  never 
married.  Elizabeth  and  Nancy  are  dead.  Jennette  and  Lilly 
are  living  on  the  old  homiestead.  Margaret  married  A.  C.  Mc- 
Kenzie,  and  lives  in  North  Carolina.  Daniel  Mclntyre,  one  of 
the  four  brothers  from  Scotland,  was  a  farmer;  he  settled  on  a 
place  adjacent  to  that  'of  his  brother,  Dougald,  where  he  lived 
and  died ;  he  married  Mary  Carmichael,  a  daughter  of  "Com- 
modore" Dougald  Carmichael,  and  had  three  sons — Etougald 
W.,  John  C.  and  Duncan  A.  Mclntyre — none  of  whom'  are  now 
living.  Dougald  W.  was  a  farmer  and  surveyor ;  he  was  twice 
married ;  first,  to  Margaret  McArthur,  of  North  Carolina ;  she 
died,  leaving  three  children — one  son.  Palmer,  and  two  daugh- 
ters, Celestia  and  Rosanna ;  both  of  whom  are  married  and  live 
in  North  Carolina.  His  second  wife  was  Katie  Roberts ;  she 
died,  leaving  six  children' — one  son,  Donald,  and  five  daughters, 
Margaret,  Kittie,  Delia,  Lilly  and  Cora;  all  are  single,  and 
with  their  elder  brother.  Palmer,  and  live  on  the  homestead  of 
their  father.  John  C,  second  son  of  Daniel  Mclntyre,  was  by 
occupation  a  farmer ;  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  he  enlisted 
in  the  Confederate  army  and  went  to  the  front ;  he  was  severely 
wounded  in  battle,  from  which  he  never  entirely  recovered ;  he 
mairried  Sarah  Ann  Carmichael,  a  daughter  of  Captain  Neill 
M.  Carmichael,  and  settled  on  the  0I4,  homestead  of  his  Grand- 
father Carmichael,  on  Pee  Dee,  where  he  lived  for  several  years ; 
afterwards  moved  to  the  home  of  his  father,  whose  failiijg 
health  required  the  care  and  attention  he  and  'his  kind-hearted 
wife  couM  give  him ;  his  father  died  soon  after,  leaving  to  him 
the  place,  but  he  survived  his  father  but  a  short  while ;  his  wife, 
also,  is  dead;  they  had  five  children,  two  sons  and  three 
daughters;  the  sons  are  Jefferson  D.  and  Daniel  Frank;  the 
daughters  are  Loretta,  Mary  Catling  and  Orella.  Jefferson  is 
an  energetic  and  progressive  farmer;  he  lives  on  his  farm, 
near  Hamer;  he  married  Louise  Carmichael,  a  daughter 
of  Archie  M.  Carmichael.  Daniel,  Frank  and  his  eldest 
sister,  Loretta,  are  single,  and  live  on  the  homestead  of 
their  father.  Mary  Cutting  married  G.  Raymond  Berry,  and 
they  live  at  Dillon,  S.  C.  G.  Raymond  Berry  is  now  the  County 
Superintendent  of  Education.     Orella  married  Peter  Stewart, 


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of  North  Carolina,  and  they  live  on  their  farm,  near  Carmi- 
chael.  Duncan  A.,  third  son  of  Daniel  Mclntyre,  was  a  man 
of  some  education  and  business  attainments ;  he  was  engaged 
in  teaching  school  at  the  outbreak  of  the  war ;  he  enlisted  in  the 
Confederate  army  and  served  through  the  war;  after  the  war 
,he  accepted  a  clerkship  with  S.  A.  Durham  &  Co.,  of  Marion, 
where  he  remained  several  years ;  he  married  Anne  Legette,  a 
daughter  of  Dr.  A.  S.  Legette,  of  Centenary,  and  removed  to 
Centenary,  but  died  soon  after,  leaving  one  son,  Daniel 
Mclntyre.  Duncan  and  Archie,  brothers  of  Dougald  and 
Daniel  Mclntyre.  Duncan  was  a  Presbyterian  preacher;  he 
died  unmarried,  while  still  a  young  man.  Archie  married  Miss 
Effie  McCollum',  of  North  Carolina — I  believe,  an  aunt  of  the 
late  Brown  McCollum — and  settled  on  land  adjoining  his 
brother,  Daniel ;  and  after  Ijaving  four  or  five  children,  sold  his 
land,  175  acres,  to  the  writer,  in  1836,  for  $225,  and  moved  to 
Alabama.  Mary  Mclntyre,  daughter  of  old  Dougald,  mar- 
ried Joseph  W.  Williamson,  and  they  settled  on  their  home- 
stead, near  Kentyre  Church,  where  they  lived,  and  where 
they  both  died  in  the  prime  of  life,  leaving  a  family  of  seven 
children,  several  of  whom  were  quite  small.  In  connection 
with  the  Mclntyres  of  Carmichael  Township,  another  -family 
of  the  same  name  in  the  county  will  here  be  noticed — I  mean 
the  Mclnltyres  of  the  town  of  Marion.  Archie  Mclntyre 
was  the  first  known  of  this  family — don't  know  where  he  came 
from  or  anything  of  his  parentage ;  he  was,  doubtless,  a  Scotch- 
man; he  was  a  tailor  by  trade — this  in  former  times  was  a 
lucrtitive  trade;  he  married  Miss  Sophia  Howard,  of  West 
Marion,  daughter  of  old  man  Richard  Howard,  of  that  section, 
who  was  both  wealthy  and  prominent  in  his  day.  Archie 
Mclntyre  settled  in  Marion,  and  lived  there  all  his  life ;  by  his 
marriage  he  had  seven  sons  and  three  daughters,  that  were 
raised;  the  sons  were  Richard,  Robert  C,  Duncan,  Archie, 
George  A.,  Joseph  and  Douglas ;  the  daughters  were  Matilda, 
Rebecca  and  Sallie.  Of  the  sons,  Richard  married  Miss 
McCoU,  and  settled  in  West  Marion;  he  had  one  son,  named 
Richard  (may  have  had  other  children)  ;  Richard,  Sr.,  died, 
while  yet  young,  and  his  widow  married  Rev.  D.  E.  Frierson, 
a  Presbyterian  minister  of  some  note,  and  went  to  Anderson 


304  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

County.  Richard  Mclntyre,  Jr.,  grew  up  and  married  a 
Miss  McPherson,  daughter  of  Robert  McPherson,  of  West 
Marion ;  he  had  some  family,  don't  know  how  many  or 
of  w'hat  sex ;  he  died  a  few  years  ago,  and  left  his  widow  and 
family  on  the  homiestead,  and  they  are  still  there.  Think  Rich- 
ard (senior)  was  a  graduate  of  the  South  Carolina  College, 
and  a  young  man  of  promise.  Robert  Charles,  the  second  son, 
was  also  a  graduate  of  the  South  Carolina  College ;  he  married, 
first,  a  Miss  M-urdoch,  of  Marlborough  County ;  she  died  in  a 
few  years,  childless,  when  he  married,  a  second  time,  a  sister 
of  his  first  wife.  These  Murdoch  girls  had  two  brothers,  who 
both  died  young,  unmarried ;  'hence  the  fine  plantation  of  their 
father,  near  "Beauty  Spot,"  in  Marlborough,  fell  to  Mrs. 
Mclntyre;  they  moved  up  there  and  raised  a  considerable 
family  of  sons  and  daughters,  all  of  whom  are  now  grown. 
The  mother  died,  and  Robert  Charles  and  his  family  surviving, 
reside  thereon.  Robert  Charles  Mclntyre  was  quite  a  literary 
man,  was  a  Magistrate  for  some  years  in  Marion,  soon  after 
the  close  of  the  war ;  he  was  very  capable  and  filled  that  posi- 
tion very  acceptably.  Duncan  Mclntyre,  the  third  son  of 
Archie  Mclntyre,  married,  first,  Miss  Rosa  Evans,  a  daughter 
of  General  William  Evans ;  she  died,  childless,  after  a  year  or 
so,  and  he  married  again,  the  widow  of  John  C.  McClannaghan, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Betts,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Charles 
Betts,  of  grateful  m'emory ;  they  have  no  offspring,  and  live  in 
West  Marion  or  Florence  County.  In  the  early  part  of  the 
war,  Duncan  Mclntyre  raised  a  company  as  Captain,  which 
formed  a  part  of  the  Eighth  South  Carolina  Regiment,  and 
gallantly  went  through  the  war;  he  also  went  to  the  South 
Carolina  College,  but  think  his  educational  course  in  that 
institution  was  interrupted  by  the  war;  be,  though,  is  a  well- 
informed  man.  Archibald  Mclntyre,  the  fourth  son  of  Archie 
Mclntyre,  Sr.,  grew  up,  and  married  Miss  Martha  Betts, 
another  daughter  of  Rev.  Charles  Betts,  about  the  commence- 
ment of  the  war ;  Archie,  notwithstanding  his  recent  marriage, 
volunteered  in  the  first  company  (Captain  M.  B.  Stanley's) 
that  left  Marion  for  Morris  Island,  near  Charleston,  the 
4th  January,  1861.  After  the  capture  of  Fort  Sumter  by  the 
Confederate  forces,  the  company  was  reorganized,  and  W.  P. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  305 

S'booter,  who  was  First  Lieutenant  in  the  original  company, 
was  elected  Captain,  in  which  Ardiie,  Jr.,  was  a  member ;  they 
went  to  Virginia,  and  in  some  of  the  early  battles  in  that  fron- 
tier State  was  fatally  wounded  and  died — a  more  gallant  soldier 
was  not  in  the  Confederate  army.  Dr.  A.  Mclntyre,  now  in 
the  town  of  Marion,  a  prominent  practicing  physician,  was 
born,  I  think,  a  short  time  after  his  father's  death ;  the  widow 
married,  a  second  time,  Dr.  E.  B.  Smith,  an  able  physician,  and 
a  most  excellent  farmer,  below  Marion,  who  has  a  family  of 
sons  and,  perhaps,  daughters;  one  or  two  of  Dr.  Smith's  sons 
are  practicing  physicians.  George  A.  Mclntyre,  the  fifth  son 
of  Archie,  Sr.,  was  a  young  man  at  the  beginning  of  the  war, 
was  also  a  Lieutenant  in  Captain  Stanley's,  afterwards  Captain 
Shooter's  company ;  voilunteered  and  went  to  the  front,  and  re- 
mained in  the  service  till  he  lost  his  arm ;  he  became  Captain  of 
the  company  after  the  promotion  of  Captain  Shootfer  to  a  Lieu- 
tenant Colonelcy.  After  Captain  G.  A.  Mclntyre  became  dis- 
abled for  active  service  by  the  loss  of  an  arm,  he  was  appointed 
enrolling  officer  and  assigned  to  Marion,  and  continued  to  per- 
form the  duties  of  that  ix>sition  to  the  end  of  the  war.  Soon 
after  the  war.  Captain  McInt)Tre  married  Miss  Emma  Young, 
daugliter  of  Major  Johnson  B.  Young,  and  settled  on  a  part 
of  his  mother's  fine  plantation,  on  the  west  side  of  Catfish,  and 
has  succeeded  well  in  his  calling.  At  one  time  since  the 
redemption  of  the  State  from  carpet-bag  and  scallawag  rule, 
in  1876,  Captain  Mclntyre  was  appointed  County  Treasurer, 
which  position  he  honestly  and  faithfully  filled  for  three  or  four 
years,  when  'he  resigned,  or  declined  a  further  appointment; 
since  whidh  time  he  has  been  in  retirement  upon  his  excellent 
farm,  and  may  be  truthiuUy  said  to  be  one  of  our  best  citizens ; 
he  has  raised  a  considerable  family,  mostly  or  all  girls.  One 
married  W.  C.  Foxworth,  who  lives  near  him,  and  I  think, 
another  one  is  also  married,  but  to  whom  is  not  remembered. 
Captain  Mclntyre  is  a  model  man  and  is  what  is  termed  the 
noblest  work  of  God,  "an  honest  man."  Joseph  Mclntyre,  the 
sixth  son  of  Archie,  Sr.,  went  into  the  war  and  was  a  gallant 
soldier;  married  Miss  Mary  Mullins,  ol-dest  daughter  of  the 
late  Colonel  W.  S.  Mullins;  they  first  settled  over  Catfish,  on  a 
part  of  the  late  Daniel  F.  Berry's  lands,  where  he  farmed  for 


306  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

several  years  with  as  much  success  as  might  be  expected  on 
such  a  place ;  after  a  Avhile  there  was  a  division  of  the  large 
body  of  the  MuUins  lands,  near  Mullins,  and  the  old  Mullins 
homestead  was  allotted  to  Mrs.  Mclntyre,  to  which  they  moved 
and  now  own,  and  are  doing  fairly  well;  they  have  several 
children,  how  many  or  of  what  sex  is  unknown.  Douglas 
Mclntyre,  the  seventh  and  youngest  son  of  Archie,  St.,  is  a 
prominent  and  leading  merchant  of  Marion,  and  has  been  for 
several  years ;  he  married,  first.  Miss  Jennie  Moody,  a  daughter 
of  E.  J.  Moody ;  by  the  marriage  three  children  were  born,  as  I 
think,  two  daughters  and  one  son,  or  vice  versa;  his  first  wife 
dying,  he  married  a  Miss  Fore,  daughter  of  the  late  Daniel 
Fore,  by  whom  he  has  some  children,  all  small.  His  oldest 
daughter,  Jennie,  by  his  first  marriage,  married  Robert  Proc^ 
tor,  and  they  have  gone  West.  Douglas  Mclntyre,  in  addition 
to  his  large  ihercantile  interest,  has  a  large  farm  nearby  town, 
which  he  successfully  runs ;  he  is  full  of  energy  and  enterprise 
and  a  model  citizen;  he  was  honored  some  few  years  ago  by 
his  fellow-citizens  with  a  seat  in  the  Representative  branch  of 
the  State  L/Cgislature,  which  position  he  filled  with  credit  to 
him'self  and  satisfaction  to  his  people.  Archie  Mclntyre,  Sr., 
had  three  daug'hters.  The  eldest,  Matilda,  married  Ezra  M. 
Davis,  of  West  Marion,  a  well-ito-do  man;  they  raised  a  con- 
siderable family,  but  the  writer  does  not  know  enough  of  them 
or  about  them  to  say  more.  Rebecca,  the  second  daughter, 
married  Rev.  J.  E.  Dunlap,  a  brave  and  daring  soldier  of  the 
Confederacy,  in  which  he  obtained  the  title  of  Colonel,  and  was 
and  is  a  preacher  of  the  Presbyterian  Church — an  able  preacher 
he  is;  they  raised  a  family  of  several  children,  sons  and 
daughters ;  his  wife  died  some  years  ago,  and  Colonel  Dunlap 
has  had  the  misfortune  to  lose,  by  death,  two  or  three  of  his 
grown  and  promising  children.  Some  years  ago.  Colonel 
Dunlap  resigne'd  his  pastorate  of  the  Presbyterian  Chur<3h  in 
Marion,  and  moved  to  Williamsburg  County,  and  has  charge 
of  two  or  more  churches  in  that  county ;  he  has  not  remarried, 
is  yet  a  widower ;  his  children  are  all  grown.  Colonel  Dunlap 
is  a  large-hearted  man,  brave  as  "Julius  Caesar;"  thinks  for 
himself,  and  generally  thinks  right — no  deceit  in  his  make-up ; 
a  friend  to  the  poor  and  a  warm  sympathiser  with  the  dis- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  307 

tressed — ^a  friend  indeed.  Sallie  Mclntyre,  the  third  and 
youngest  daughter  of  Archie,  St.,  a  charming  lady,  married 
Dr.  D.  F.  Miles,  our  present  and  efficient  Clerk  of  the  Court, 
personally  a  very  popular  man;  has  just  been  elected  to  the 
third  term;  has  been  honored  twice  with  a  seat  in  the  State 
Legislature;  he  has  a  farm  some  four  or  five  miles  from 
Marion ;  they  have  had  five  children — ^three  daughters  and  two 
sons ;  the  daughters  are  Sophia,  Mary  and  L,illian — all  married. 
Sophia  ma.rried  Charles  E.  Evans;  they  have  three  or  four 
children.  Mary  married  Lanneau  Stackhouse ;  they  have,  per- 
haps, two  children.  Lillian  married  a  Mr.  Owens,  first  name 
not  remembered;  they  all  reside  in  Marion,  and  are  good 
women.  Dr.  Miles  and  his  wife,  Sallie,  had  two  sons,  Frank 
and  Lanneau.  Frank,  just  at  manhood,  sickened  and  died,  in 
1899 ;  so  they  have  but  one  son  left,  spes  gregis,  who, is  a  lad — 
hope  he  will  live  and  help  keep  up  and  perpetuate  the  name. 
Archie  Mclntyre,  Sr.,  though  he  began  life  as  a  tailor,  man- 
aged well  and  accumulated  a  large  property,-  and  left  it  unen- 
cumbered for  his  widow  and  children;  several  of  his  children 
were  small  when  he  died,  but  the  widow  was  a  good  manager 
also,  and  kept  the  estate  free  from  debt,  and  at  her  death 
transmitted  the  same  to  them  unencumbered.  Archie  Mcln- 
tyre, Sr.,  though  a  tailor,  like  Andrew  Johnson,  of  Tennessee, 
and  who  became  President  of  the  United  States,  was  no  ordi- 
nary man;  he  and  his  wife,  Sophia,  raised  a  family  of  high 
standing  in  every  way.  Of  such  a  parentage  their  children 
and  grand-children  ought  to  be  proud. 

McKiNLY. — ^John  McKimly  and  his  wife,  who  was  Catharine 
McNish,  and  their  children,  Daniel,  Duncan  and  Neill,  Mary 
and  Jennette, came  from  Scotlandyand  settled  on  the  homestead, 
where  they  lived  and  died,  and  later  where  their  children,  Neill 
and  Jennette,  lived  and  died.  Daniel,  the  oldest,  was  twenty- 
one  years  old  when  they  landed,  and  Neill,  the  youngest,  was 
six.  Daniel  married  a  Miss  McCormic,  of  North  Carolina,  and 
settled  on  the  place  adjacent  to  the  homestead  of  his  father, 
where  he  lived  and  died ;  he  applied  himself  to  his  chosen  occu- 
pation with  energy  and  perseverance,  was  a  farmer  on  the  in- 
tensive system  of  farming,  and  attained  considerable  success ; 


308  A  HISTORY  O-e  MARION  COUNTY. 

he  had  only  one  child,  a  son,  Duncan  C.  McKinly ;  he  was  like- 
wise a  farmer,  and  settled  on  his  fine  farm  near  Kentyre 
Church;  he  married  Saraih  Gaddy,  a  daughter  of  William 
Gaddy;  they  had  four  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters; 
the  sons  are  William  D.  and  John  D. ;  the  daughters  are  Leo- 
nora and  Mary.  William  D.  removed  elsewhere.  John  D. 
married  Florence  McKenzie,  a  daughter  of  David  J.  McKenzie ; 
they  live  in  Dillon.  Mary  is  dead.  Leonora  married  Hugh 
McLean,  and  they  moved  to  Florida.  Duncan  C.  McKinly,  the 
father,  is  dead.  Duncan,  the  son  of  old  John,  engaged  in  com- 
mercial pursuits  and  moved  to  Mississippi,  where  he  accumu- 
lated a  large  property,  but  never  married,  and  is  dead.  Neill 
McKinly  never  married,  nor  did  his  sister,  Jennette ;  they  lived 
and  died  on  the  homestead  of  their  father,  John  McKinly. 
Duncan  C.  ultimately  got  all  the  property  of  his  Uncle  Duncan, 
of  Mississippi,  all  his  father's,  and  all  his  Uncle  Neill's  and 
Aunt  Jennette's ;  but  it  seemed  not  to  do  him  or  his  family  any 
good— only  whilst  it  was  going ;  he  died  poor.  Mary,  the  old- 
est daughter  of  old  John  McKinly,  died  unmarried,  soon  after 
attaining  to  womanhood. 

McLELtAN. — Alexander  McLellan  and  his  brother,  Mal- 
colm, came  to  this  country  from  Scotland,  in  the  close  of  the 
eighteenth  century,  and  settled  on  the  lands  on  which  some  of 
their  descendants  now  live  and  own.  Alexander  was  married 
in  Scotland,  to  Mary  McKinnon,  and  lived  thefe  for  some  time 
after  his  marriage,  and  several  children  were  born  to  them 
there,  who  died  in  infancy ;  one,  a  lad,  named  John,  died  after  he 
settled  here ;  he  resided  on  the  place  recently  the  'home  of  J.  W. 
Williamson,  where  Daniel  Walker  Campbell  now  lives,  and  he 
died  there  in  1838  or  1839 ;  he  devoted  himself  to  farming  and 
stock  raising,  accumulating  considerable  wealth ;  of  his  children 
who  reached  maturity,  there  were  four  sons,  Danidl,  Duncan, 
Archie  K.  and  Colin ;  and  one  daughter.  Flora.  Daniel  lived  on 
the  homestead  of  his  father;  never  married  and  died  in  i860. 
Duncan  lived  on  a  farm  adjacent  to  his  brother  and  a  part  of 
his  father's  old  homestead ;  he  never  married,  and  died  in  1872. 
The  plantation  where  Duncan  lived  has  been  divided — z  part 
owned  by  R.  P.  Hamer,  Sr.,  another  part  by  R.  P.  Hamer,  Jr., 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  309 

and  still  another  part  by  Neill  McDuffie,  and  on  which  he  now 
resides.  Archie  K.  McLellan  married  Miss  Harriet  Rogers,  a 
daughter  of  Timothy  Rogers,  4th  December,  1833  (where  Dr. 
J.  F.  Bethea  now  resides).  The  writer  attended  the  wedding; 
there  were  more  people  there  than  he  ever  saw  convened  on 
such  an  occasion — ^the  cavalcade  that  accompanied  the  groom 
was  over  one  hundred.  He  settled  on  lands  adjoining  his 
brothers,  Daniel  and  Duncan,  and  near  his  father's  homestead, 
and  resided  there  for  many  years,  and  then  removed  to  North 
Carolina,  remaining  there  till  after  the  death  of  his  brother, 
Duncan,  and  inheriting  the  homestead  tract  of  his  brother,  he 
returned  to  South  Carolina,  and  lived  until  his  death,  in  1887 ; 
he  raised  a  large  family  of  children — nine  sons  and  five  daugh- 
ter; the  sons  were  Malcolm,  Alexander,  Timothy  R.,  Daniel, 
John  B.,  Archie  K.,  Jr.,  F.  Tristram,  Duncan  and  Robert. 
Malcolm  moved  to  Pollard,  Ala.,  when  quite  a  youth;  was 
married  there  to  Miss  Celia  Jernagen,  and  lived  and  died  there. 
Alexander  was  a  brave  and  gallant  soldier  in  a  North  Carolina 
regiment;  he  was  captured  and  died  in  prison.  He  married, 
during  the  war.  Miss  Roxanna  Gaddy,  but  left  no  children. 
Timothy  R.  married  Flora  Amanda  McCormick,  daughter  of 
James  Hunt  McCormick ;  he  resided  near  the  old  homestead  of 
his  father  until  his  death,  in  1897 ;  his  widow  and  eight  child- 
ren, four  sons  and  four  daughters,  survive  him.  Daniel  lived 
with  his  father  until  his  death,  and  remained  there  until  the  old 
homestead  was  broken  up  and  sold  for  division;  he  married 
Miss  Sallie  Legette,  of  North  Carolina,  in  1888;  after  her 
death,  in  1892,  he  removed  to  North  Carolina,  where  he  now 
lives.  John  B.,  on  attaining  his  majority,  went  to  Benton, 
Ala.,  where  he  remained  during  his  life;  he  was  a  man  of 
splendid  ability,  and  was  elected  to  an  important  office  of  public 
trust,  which  he  filled  for  many  years ;  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Patty  Blackshear,  of  Alabama,  who,  with  three  daughters,  sur- 
vive him.  Archie  K.,  Jr.,  lives  in  North  Carolint,  and  is 
unmarried.  F.  Tristram  is  at  present  writing  the  very  efficient 
Auditor  of  Marion  County,  to  which  he  was  elected  in  1896, 
and  again  in  1898,  and  resides  at  Marion  C.  H. ;  he  married, 
in  1899,  Miss  Harrelson,  of  this  county.  Duncan  formerly 
lived  in  this  county,  but  removed  to  North  Carolina;  he  has 


810  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

been  twice  married;  first,  to  Miss  Hannah  Wiggins,  and  then 
to  a  Miss  Willis ;  his  first  wife  left  two  children,  a  son  and  a 
daughter.  The  son,  John  Robert,  was  adopted  by  his  Uncle 
Tristram,  and  is  the  Assistant  Auditor  of  the  county ;  he  is  a 
bright  and  intelligent  youth.  The  daughters  of  Archie  K.,  Sr., 
were  Sarah,  Margaret,  Mary  Ann,  Flora  and  Moranza.  Mar- 
garet married  Allen  Seely,  and  moved  to  North  Carolina. 
Mary  Ann  married  Archie  Stewart,  and  also  moved  to  North 
Carolina.  The  other  daughters,  Sarah,  Flora  and  Moranza, 
are  all  unmarried,  and  live  with  their  brother,  Archie  K.,  Jr., 
in  North  Carolina.  Flora,  the  daughter  of  old  Alexander 
McLellan,  married'  Dougald  B.  Carmichael ;  they  both  lived  on 
the  place  they  settled  upon,  and  died  there;  it  is  now  owned 
and  occupied  by  their  youngest  son,  Malcolm  C.  Carmichael; 
she  died  at  an  advanced  age,  in  1877,  her  husband  having  died, 
in  1857,  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight;  the  fruits  of  their  mar- 
riage were  two  daughters,  Mary  Ann  and  Catharine,  and  five 
sons,  Alexander  A.,  Duncan  C,  Daniel,  John  L.  and  Malcolm  C. 
Mary  Ann,  the  oldest  daughter  (and,  I  believe,  the  oldest 
child),  married  Neill  McDuffie;  both  are  still  living,*  in  far 
advanced  age;  they  and  their  numerous  family  will  be  further 
noticed  among  the  McDuffie  family,  sequeus.  The  daughter, 
Catharine,  married  Neill  B.  McQueen ;  she  lived  only  a  short 
time,  and  died ;  it  is  not  known  whether  she  left  any  offspring. 
The  five  sons  all  volunteered  in  the  early  part  of  the  war ;  three 
of  them,  Alexander  A.,  Daniel  and  John  L.,  were  killed  or  died 
in  the  service;  the  other  two  remained  in  service  to  the  end, 
and  returned  home;  Duncan  C.  and  Malcolm  C.  still  live,  and 
are  energetic  and  progressive  farmers;  have  fine  lands  and 
are  successful.  Duncan  C.  Carmichael  (farniliarly  called 
"Red  Duncan"),  married,  first,  Miss  Sallie  McKinnon,  of 
North  Carolina;  she  died,  leaving  two  children — one  son, 
Dougald  A.,  and  one  daughter,  Charlotte.  Dougald  A.  went 
to  Georgia,  where  he  still  lives.  Charlotte  married  NeiU  J. 
Carmichael;  he  married,  the  second  time,  Lemantha  Walters, 
of  North  Carolina;  she  has  four  children,  none  of  whom  are 
grown.     Malcolm  C.  Carmichael,  fifth  son  of  Dougald  B.  and 

*She  (Mary  Ann  McDuffie)  died  a  short  time  ago;  her  husband,  Neill 
McDuffie,  yet  survives,  eighty-three  years  of  age,  15th  March,  1901. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  311 

Flora,  married  Miss  Amanda  Carmichael,  daughter  of  "Hatter 
John;"  they  have  eight  children — ^four  sons,  Albert  E.,  John 
L.,  Neill  C.  and  Walter;  four  daughters.  Flora  C,  Ann 
Murphy,  Martha  and  Mary.  Albert  E.  and  Neill  C.  moved  to 
Mississippi,  where  they  are  prosperously  engaged  in  the  tur- 
pentine business.  John  L.  died  when  about  eight  years  old. 
Walter,  the  youngest  son,  is  still  at  school.  Flora  C,  the  eldest 
daughter,  married  S.  A.  McQueen,  of  North  Carolina;  they  live 
at  Red  Springs,  N.  C.  Ann  Murphy  married  Alexander 
McLellan,  and  they  live  at  Dillon.  Martha  and  Mary  are  still 
single,  and  are  with  their  parents.  Dougald  B.  Carmichael, 
the  husband  and  father,  was  a  very  quiet,  peaceable  man,  of 
lymphatic  temperament  and  a  man  of  remarkable  equanimity ; 
he  was  a  blacksmith  by  trade — 'a.  good  trade  in  those  days ;  he 
did  a  great  deal  of  work  in  the  shop,  whilst  his  wife,  Flora, 
looked  after  the  'house  department  and  somewhat  after  the 
farm;  and  after  his  death  she  looked  after  it  all,  except  the 
blacksmith  shop;  Mrs.  Carmichael  was  no  ordinary  woman; 
she  had  mind  enough  to  grasp  anything  and  everything  in  the 
affairs  of  life ;  a  woman  of  fine  physique,  her  mental  qualities 
were  of  a  superior  order ;  of  sanguine  temperament,  a  cheerful 
disposition,  of  boundless  ambition,  and  had  the  energy  to  back 
it  up;  made 'her  hospitable  home  the  seat  of  comfort ;•  method 
and  order  were  displayed  in  all  the  household  affairs ;  she  took 
the  troubles  of  the  war,  the  death  of  her  daughter,  Catharine, 
and  husband,  the  loss  of  three  sons  in  the  struggles  of  war, 
philosophically,  and  with  heroic  courage  set  to  work  to  repair 
the  losses  in  property  and  means  as  far  as  s'he  could,  and  help 
and  render  comfortable  her  surviving  children ;  she  succeeded 
well  in  so  doing,  and  left  them  not  only  in  homes  of  their  own, 
but  also  left  them  her  virtuous  example,  which  is  worth  more 
than  gold  and  silver.  Colin  McLellan,  the  youngest  son  and 
youngest  child  of  old  Alexandter  McLellan,  married  Rebecca 
Bethea,  oldest  daughter  of  "Buck  Swamp"  William  Bethea ;  he 
settled  on  the  place  where  he  lived  and  died,  in  1858 ;  he  was 
a  successful  farmer ;  he  raised  a  family  of  four  children,  two 
sons  and  two  daughters ;  the  sons  were  William  and  Daniel ; 
the  two  daughters  were  Mary  and  Flora.  The  sons  were  Con- 
federate soldiers  and  served  through  the  war  in  Captain  Ful- 
21 


312  A  HISTORY  0:P  MARION  COUNTY. 

more'6  company,  Fifty-first  Regiment,  North  Carolina  Volun- 
teers. Daniel  died  at  the  old  home,  in  1868,  when  quite  a 
young  man.  William  moved  to  North  Carolina,  and  married 
Victoria  McCormick,  a  daughter  of  James  McCormick;  he 
settled  on  lands  inherited  from  his  father  in  North  Carolina, 
and  was  a  successful  farmer ;  but  in  a  personal  difficulty  with 
an  employee,  Thomas  Gilchrist,  he  was  shot  and  killed,  in  1872. 
Mary,  the  eldest  daughter,  married  Carl  Faulk,  and  moved  to 
North  Carolina,  and  died  a  few  years  ago.  Flora  married 
Richard  Faulk,  and  resided  for  several  years  on  her  father's 
old  homestead,  on  Buck  Swamp,  but  removed  to  North  Caro- 
lina a  few  years  ago,  where  she  now  lives. 

There  was  and  is  another  family  of  McLellans  in  the  county. 
The  first  of  them  known  to  the  writer  was  Rev.  Archie 
McL,ellan,  and  a  blacksmith;  he  lived  on  the  south  side  of 
Catfish,  on  Pigeon  Bay;  he  was  a  local  Methodist  preacher; 
had  a  small  farm,  which  he  cultivated;  he  was  a  good  man — 
the  "salt  of  the  earth ;"  he  married  a  Miss  Buie ;  had  and  raised 
a  considerable  family  of  several  sons  and  daughters;  he  hud 
also  two  orphan  nephews,  sons  of  a  deceased  brother,  whom  he 
raised' — their  names  were  John  and  Angus  McLellan.  Just 
before  the  war,  the  old  gentleman  sold  his  place  on  Pigeon  Bay, 
and  moved  off  to  Britton's  Neck,  and  bought  another  place, 
where  he  lived  and  died  some  time  after  the  war ;  by  his  re- 
moval the  writer  lost  sight  of  his  family.  Two  sons,  Peter 
and  Enos,  are  remembered,  and  only  two  daughters  are  remem- 
bered^— one  named  Elizabeth,  the  other  name  not  remembred, 
but  she  married  a  Mr.  Moore.  His  two  oldest  children,  Eliza- 
beth and  Peter,  together  with  his  nephews,  John  and  Angus, 
went  to  school  to  the  writer  in  1840,  sixty  years  ago.  Peter 
Mcl/ellan  was  also  a  blacksmith ;  he  married  a  Miss  Lane,  a 
daughter  of  the  late  James  C.  Lane,  and  lived  and  followed  his 
trade  for  some  years  at  Little  Rock,  S.  C. ;  he  died  and  left 
some  family;  of  them,  however,  nothing  is  known.  Enos, 
another  son,  married  a  Miss  Myers,  of  West  Marion,  and  now 
lives  at  Dillon,  a  widower — his  wife  having  died  some  years 
ago ;  he  has  not  remarried^ ;  he  has  four  or  five  daughters,  some 
of  whom  are  grown ;  he  is  a  poor  man,  but  a  man  of  fine  char- 
acter, strict  integrity  and  a  hard  worker.     Elizabeth,  the  oldest 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  318 

child,  has  never  married.  Mrs.  Moore  was  made  a  widow, 
about  the  time  of  General  Lee's  surrender,  by  the  atrocious 
murder  of  her  husband,  at  Little  Rock.  Moore  was  a  good 
soldier  of  the  Confederacy,  was  at  home  at  the  time,  near  Little 
Rock,  on  furlough,  with  a  broken  arm  in  a  sling — fresh  from  a 
battle,  in  which  his  arm  had  been  broken  by  a  Minie  ball  or 
piece  of  shell ;  he  went  up  to  Little  Rock,  one  afternoon,  where 
he  met  with  some  parties  who  had  imbibed  spirits  other  than 
the  patriotic  spirit  of  the  times,  and  they  charged  him  with 
being  a  spy  for  the  deserters  of  Maple  Swamp  notoriety,  which 
he  denied  most  vigorously — yet  they  shot  and  broke  his  other 
arm ;  he  fell,  and  they  walked  up  to  him  arid  cut  his  throjat, 
dragged  him  off  a  few  steps,  and  partially  buried  him  in  the 
jamb  of  a  fence.  His  distressed  wife,  after  the  garrison  came 
to  Marion,  went  to  the  commandant  for  redress ;  they  said  they 
had  no  jurisdiction  in  the  matter,  but  they  advised  her  to  go  to 
the  civil  authorities  and  get  a  warrant  for  the  arrest  of  the 
parties  accused ;  she  accordingly  did  so,  and  the  warrant  was 
lodged  with  the  Sheriff ;  but  no  arrests  were  made,  for  reasons 
of  State  policy — ^that  is,  the  authorities  high  in  official  life  did 
not  countenance  prosecutions  for  murder  committed  during  the 
war  or  just  after  the  surrender — ^because,  if  the  door  was 
opened  to  such  prosecutions,  it  would  work  both  ways  and 
would  involve  many  of  our  best  citizens ;  hence  the  warrant  in 
question  was  never  executed.  It  was,  nevertheless,  an  inex- 
cusable murder;  the  parties  charged  are  all  now  dead,  and 
have  been  for  several  years.  I  could  specify  more  particularly 
as  to  the  policy  of  the  State,  and  as  to  the  offense  and  the 
parties  charged,  but  these  things  are  already  known.  The 
widow  remained  in  the  neighborhood  for  two  or  three  years 
and  disappeared — at  least,  so  far  as  is  known  to  the  writer.  A 
girl  raised  by  the  late  Samuel  Stevenson  (called  Bettie  Steven- 
son), and  who  married  a  Mr.  Dozier,  son  of  the  late  Dr.  T.  J. 
Dozier,  of  Britton's  Neck,  was  the  daughter  of  Mr.  Moore,  the 
man  murdered — whether  by  a  former  marriage  or  by  the 
McLellan  marriage,  the  writer  knoweth  not.  Old  Archie 
McLellan,  the  preacher  and  blacksmith,  -was  a  Scotchman,  and, 
perhaps,  related  to  the  McLellans,  of  Carmichael  Township; 
he  was  an  upright  and  just  man. 


814  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

S1NC1.AIR.— Archie  Sinclair  was  a  resident  of  Harlleesville 
Township,  above  Little  Rock ;  he  came  from  Scotland,  in  1820, 
and  settled  on  the  place  wliere  he  lived  and  died ;  his  youngest 
daughter,  Mary,  now  owning  and  living  on  his  old  homestead, 
and  one  of  his  grand-sons,  A.  M.  McColI,  living  with  her.  (A. 
M.  McColl  died  a  few  days  ago,  unmarried).  He  married,  in 
Scotland,  Catharine  McGilvray,  and  they  raised  five  sons  and 
three  daughters.  The  eldest  son,  John  C,  was  born  in  Scot- 
land, and  when  he  attained  manhood  here,  was  married  to  the 
Widow  Jennette  MeLucas ;  he  died  in  1852.  Duncan  removed 
to  Georgia,  and  married  and  died  there,  leaving  a  family  of 
grown-up  children.  Captain  Daniel  C.  was  the  third  son;  he 
served  throughout  the  war  in  cavalry ;  was  one  of  the  'best  farm- 
ers in  the  county,  and  a  pioneer  in  the  development  of  the  now 
famous  Contrary  Swamp  section  of  Carmichael  Township ;  he 
accumulated  by  his  farming  operations  a  handsome  property; 
he  never  married,  and  died  in  1882.  The  fourth  son.  Captain 
A.  C.  Sinclair,  has  already  been  mentioned  in  or  among  the  Blue 
family.  The  fifth  son,  Malcolm,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Confeder- 
ate army,  in  Fairlee's  company,  Orr's  Rifles,  and  died  in  the 
hospital  in  Charlottesville,  Va.  His  eldest  daughter,  Nancy, 
married  John  L.  McCall,  Esq.,  of  Marlborough,  and  they  had  a 
large  family.  Colonel  C.  S.  McCall,  of  Bennettsville,  is  the  eld- 
est ;  he  is  one  of  the  most  successful  men  in  the  Pee  Dee  section 
of  the  State;  conducts  the  largest  mercantile  business  in  this 
section,  and  owns  several  large  plantations  in  Marlborough, 
which  he,  with  his  next  oldest  brother,  T.  Dickson  McColl, 
manage  very  successfully ;  he  has  been,  since  1876,  three  times 
elected  State  Senator  from  Marlborough,  and  on  account  of 
his  manifold  business  connections,  declined  further  service  in 
the  Senate ;  he  has  been  frequently  mentioned  and  solicited  to 
become  Governor  of  the  State;  he  has  never  married.  His 
other  brothers,  J.  G.  B.  McColl  and  A.  M.  McColl  (both  now 
dead),  own  and  successfully  conduct  the  famous  "Contrary 
Swamp"  plantation,  formerly  owned  by  their  uncle.  Captain 
D.  C.  Sinclair;  neither  of  them  have  ever  married.  The 
youngest  son,  John,  is  blind,  but  is  a  remarkably  bright  young 
man  and  a  fine  musician ;  he  and  his  mother  live  near  Bennetts- 
ville.    Since  the  death  of  Squire  McCall,  their  eldest  daughter 


A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY.  815 

married  John  A.  Pate,  and  they  live  in  Bamherg,  S.  C.  The 
second  daughter,  Pocahontas,  married  a  Mr.  Roper,  and  lives 
in  Williamsburg  County.  The  third  daughter,  Kate,  married 
Hon.  H.  H.  Newton,  and  lives  in  Bennettsville.  The  youngest 
daughter,  Sallie,  married  Joe  Edens,  and  lives  near  Clio,  S. 
C.  The  second  daughter  of  old  Archie  Sinclair,  Sallie,  never 
married,  and  died  in  1869.  The  youngest  daughter,  Mary 
Sinclair,  as  elsewhere  herein  imentioned,  never  married,  and 
lives  on  the  old  Archie  Sinclair  homestead.  There  are  but 
few  of  this  family,  but  what  there  are  of  them  seem  to  prosper 
in  everything  except  in  the  matrimonial  field — they  don't  marry 
much. 

McDuFFiE. — Alexander  McDuffie,  with  his  brothers,  Dun- 
can, George  and  Daniel,  were  the  sons  of  Archie  McDuffie,  who 
came  from  Scotland,  and  settled  on  the  Raft  Swamp,  in  North 
Carolina,  and  died  there,  his  sons  and  two  diaughters  removing 
to  this  county  after  his  death.  Alexander,  the  eldest,  settling 
on  what  is  now  known  as  the  old  "McDuffie  place,"  on  Little 
Pee  Dee,  where  the  Rev.  J.  H.  Moody  now  lives ;  he  married 
Jennette  McQueen,  and  had  seven  sons  and  two  daughters. 
Mary,  the  eldest  daughter,  married  Daniel  Fore,  on  Spring 
Branch,  who  has  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Fore 
family.  The  eldest  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Mary  Fore  married 
Douglas  Mclntyre,  who  has  already  been  mentioned  in  or 
among  the  Mclntyres.  Margaret,  the  other  daughter  of  Alex- 
ander McDuffie,  married  Edward  D.  Carmichael,  a  son  of 
"Hatter  John,"  and  had  one  child,  a  daughter,  also  named  Mar- 
garet, and  she  lives  with  her  aunts,  Nancy  and  Katie  Carmi- 
chael, on  the  old  homestead  of  "Hatter  John"  Carmichael. 
Hon.  A.  Q.  McDuffie  was  the  oldest  son,  he  was  a  lawyer,  a 
graduate  of  Davidson  College,  and  before  he  read  law  taught 
school  for  several  years.  The  writer  went  to  school  to  him  at 
Pine  Hill  Academy,  during  the  year  1844.  He  settled  and  lived 
and  died  at  Marion  Court  House,  and  was  for  a  long  time  the 
partner  of  General  W.  W.  Harllee,  and  in  their  day  had  the 
finest  practice  of  any  firm  at  that  bar ;  he  married  the  widow 
of  Dr.  James  R.  McQueen,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Captain 
Singletary,  one  of  the  old  landmarks  of  Marion ;  by  this  mar- 


316  A  HISTORY  0^  MARION  COUNTY. 

riage  three  children  were  born,  a  son,  named  Alexander,  who 
died  when  two  or  three  years  old,  and  two  daughters,  L,izzie 
and  Jennie;  both  are  yet  living,  and  unmarried.  Lizzie,  the 
eldest,  is  or  was  the  finest  female  scholar  in  her  day  in  the 
town  of  Marion ;  she  graduated  at  Due  West  Female  College 
in  one  year  after  matriculation,  and  was  then  elected  one  of  its 
professors ;  she  accepted  the  position  and  held  it  for  one  year, 
and  on  account  of  her  failing  health,  resigned  and  came  home. 
Jennette  was  also  well  educated,  and  after  their  father's  death, 
31st  March,  1889,  they  'both  engaged  in  teaching,  which  they 
continued  at  intervals  till  after  their  mother's  death ;  they  own 
a  plantation  in  Woodberry  Township;  don't  think  they  reside 
on  it,  but  rent  it  out ;  When  last  heard  of,  they  were  in  Hampton 
or  Colleton  County,  both  teaching  school ;  they  are  unmarried. 
"A.  Q."  McDuffie,  as  he  was  familiarly  called  by  everybody, 
was  for  eight  or  ten  years  before  bis  being  stricken  with  paraly- 
sis, and  of  which  he  died,  after  living  two  or  three  years, 
Master  in  Equity  for  M'arion  County.  Just  after  the  war, 
in  1866,  under  Andrew  Johnson's  proclamiation,  during  Gover- 
nor B.  F.  Perry's  administration  of  the  State  government,  at 
one  election  held  throughout  the  State  for  Senators  and  Rep- 
resentatives in  the  Legislature,  "A.  Q."  McDuffie  was  elected 
Senator  for  or  from'  Marion  District,  and  served  one  session  of 
the  Legislature — which  election  and  all  the  legislation  of  .that 
session  of  the  Legislature  was  made  void  by  the  Reconstruc- 
tion Acts  of  Congress — his  senatorship  was  vacated  or  set  aside. 
"A.  Q."  McDuffie,  being  a  very  diffident  man,  was  not  an 
effective  public  speaker,  but  he  was  a  good  office  lawyer  and 
a  safe  adviser.  Neill  McDuffie  was  the  second'  son  of  Alexan- 
der ;  he  is  the  oldest  citizen  now  living  in  Carmichael  Township, 
now  nearing  eighty-three,  but  is  hale  and  healthy,  and  remark- 
ably active  for  a  man  of  'his  age;  he  was  too  old  for  active 
service  in  the  war,  but  he  volunteered  and  was  a  Lieutenant 
in  the  reserves,  and  saw  much  service  about  Georgetown  and 
Charleston,  S.  C,  and  Savannah,  Ga.  He  married,  in  early 
life,  Mary  Ann,  the  oldest  daughter  of  Dougald  B.  Carmichael, 
and  they  have  raised  six  sons  and  six  daughters;  the  sons 
are  Alexander,  Dallas,  George,  John,  Daniel  and  Dougald. 
George  and  John  are  dead,  all  the  others  are  living  with  their 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY;  317 

father  and  mother.  Dougald,  being  a  skillful  first  class  me- 
chanic, is  much  of  his  time  away.  The  other  three  are  indus- 
trious, persevering  young  men,  and  are  farmers;  they  run  a 
store  of  general  merchandise  at  Hamer,  in  connection  with 
their  farming  operations;  they  are  all  unmarried.  The  six 
daughters  are  Katie,  Nancy,  Flora,  Margaret,  Martha  and 
Sallie.  Margaret  married  Neill  Duncan  '  McEachem ;  they- 
have  four  daughters,  all  nearly  grown,  and  live  at  McColl,  S. 
C.  Sallie  died  when  about  grown ;  the  other  four  are  unmar- 
ried, and  live  with  their  father.  Of  the  next  sons  of  old 
Alexander  McDuffie,  John  and  George,  the  latter  a  physician, 
went  West,  and  both  are  dead ;  neither  of  them  were  married. 
Alexander,  the  next  son,  died  at  his  home,  when  about  grown. 
Daniel,  the  next  one,  was  a  brave  and  gallant  soldier  in  Captain 
A.  T.  Harllee's  company  of  the  Eighth  South  Carolina  Regi- 
ment ;  he  was  Second  Sergeant  of  the  company ;  he  was  mor- 
tally wounded  2d  July,  1863,  at  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  and 
died  the  next  morning.  Duncan  McDuffie  was  the  youngest 
son  of  old  Alexander,  graduated  at  Oglethorpe  College,  in 
Georgia ;  he  is  a  Presbyterian  preacher,  and  now  lives  in  Flo- 
rence County,  S.  C,  and  has  been  School  Commissioner  of  that 
county;  he  married  Margaret  Clark,  a  daughter  of  Malcolm 
Clark,  and  they  raised  a  family  of  four  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters, all  grown ;  his  first  wife  died,  and  he  has  married  again  in 
Florence  County.  Alexander  McDuffie  had  two  sisters,  who 
lived  with  him.  The  eldest,  Margaret,  married  John  Murphy, 
and  had  three  sons,  viz :  Archie,  Edward  J.  and  Malcolm.  The 
two  latter  died  while  young.  Edward  J.  Murphy  was-  a  grad- 
uate of  some  college  in  Virginia,  and  was  a  young  man  of  more 
than  ordinary  ability  and  promise.  Archie  Murphy  married 
Nancy  Carmichael,  daughter  of  Duncan  Carmichael,  and  sister 
of  Dugald  B. ;  he  was  a  hatter  by  trade,  and  settled  on  Little 
Pee  Dee,  Enos  Moody  now  owning  the  place  and  living  upon 
it ;  he  died  there ;  they  had  three  sons,  John,  Duncan  and  Dr. 
Neill  C.  Murphy — all  of  them  were  in  the  Confederate  army ; 
John  was  in  Captain  W.  D.  Carmiohael's  company  of  the 
Eighth  Regiment ;  Duncan  was  Second  Lieutenant  in  Captain 
Stafford's  company,  and  was  killed  in  battle  in  Virginia ;  Dr. 
Neill  C.  Murphy  was  Assistant  Surgeon  of  the  Tenth  Regi- 


818  A  HISTORY  Oi  MARION  COUNTY. 

ment.  Dr.  Murphy  married,  since  the  war,  Mary,  the  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  George  W.  Reaves,  and  he  lived  and  died  at 
Marion  Court  House,  4th  September,  1886 ;  his  widow  survives 
him  and  lives  at  his  old  home,  near  Marion ;  they  raised  three 
sons  and  two  daughters.  The  elder  daughter  married  a  Mr. 
McMillan,  and,  I  think,  they  live  in  Clarendon  County.  Ed- 
ward Murphy,  one  of  the  sons,  is  a  popular  teacher  of  the 
county.  Nancy,  the  other  sister  of  old  Alexander  McDufifie, 
married  Malcolm  Carmichael,  and  removed  to  Alabama  soon 
after  their  marriage;  they  raised  a  large  family  of  children, 
many  of  them  wealthy  and  prominent  citizens  of  that  State, 
one  of  them  having  been  a  Judge  of  the  Courts  there.  Duncan 
McDuffie,  brother  of  old  Alexander,  married  Mary  Carmichael, 
sister  of  Sheriff  Archie  and  "Hatter"  John ;  they  had  four  sons, 
viz :  Archie  B.,  who  never  married,  was  a  prominent  commis- 
sion merchant  in  Wilmington,  N.  C,  and  is  now  dead.  Neill 
C.  was  Sheriff  of  the  county  before  the  war,  and  without  dis- 
paraging' other  Sheriffs,  will  say  he  was  one  of  the  best  Sheriffs 
Marion  has  ever  had.  He  raised  a  company  as  Captain  and 
went  into  the  Twenty-third  Regiment,  and  served  through  the 
war.  In  January,  1865,  was  again  elected  Sheriff,  and  after  a 
protest  against  his  election  was  decided  in  his  favor,  he  went 
into  the  office  again  in  April,  1865 ;  he  held  the  office  for  two 
years,  when  he  resigned.  The  office  was  not  worth  much  at 
that  time,  under  bayonet  rule ;  his  reasons  for  resigning,  as  he 
told  the  writer,  were,  that  if  he  held  on,  he  would  have  to  hurt 
his  sureties  or  let  his  family  suffer,  hence  the  resignation.  He 
married,  first.  Miss  Lizzie  Ford,  daughter  of  Elias  B.  Ford, 
and  after  her  death  he  married  her  sister.  Miss  Fannie;  he 
raised  a  family  of  children,  sons  and  daughters.  One  of  the 
daughters  married  Prof.  Kenedy,  of  Clinton,  S.  C.  Another 
marf-ied  Dr.  William  A.  Oliver,  who  was  a  few  years  ago  a 
Representative  in  the  Legislature  from  Marion  County,  a  fine 
physician  and  a  good  farmer;  he  was  the  pioneer  in  tobacco 
culture  in  Hillsboro  Township;  he  is  now  dead.  Another  of 
Neill  C.'s  daughters  married  Shepherd  Oliver,  of  Robeson 
County,  N.  C,  and  he  has  several  times  represented  his  county 
in  the  Legislature  of  that  State.  Another  of  his  daughters 
married  Johnson  Gilchrist;  they  live  at  Gilchrist  Bridge,  on 


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Little  Pee  Dee ;  they  have  some  children.  Another  daughter, 
Madge,  married  a  Mr.  Herring,  of  North  Carolina.  Of  N.  C. 
McDuffie's  sons,  one,  Julius,  is  a  Baptist  preacher  in  North 
Carolina.  Another  son,  D.  K.  McDuffie,  who  lives  at  MuUins, 
an  excellent  nian  every  way,  and  successful  business  man  at 
that  place,  married  Miss'  Maggie  Haselden,  daughter  of  the 
late  Cyrus  B.  Haselden;  they  have  two  children,  a  daughter 
and  a  son,  not  grown.  Two  other  Sons  of  Neill  C,  twins, 
Watson  and  Ellerbe,*  have  removed  elsewhere — think  they  are 
both  married.  And  still  another  son,  the  youngest,  named  for 
his  father,  Neill  C,  is  also  married,  and  lives  in  Williamsburg 
County,  S.  C.  Duncan  D.  McDuffie,  the  third  son  of  Duncan, 
his  father,  married  Miss  Penelope  Ford,  another  daughter  of 
Elias  B.  Ford,  and  is  now  living  on  his  father's  old  homestead, 
in  the  "Fork,"  between  Buck  Swamp  and  Little  Pee  Dee;  he 
has  raised  a  family  of  several  children.  One  son,  Duncan,  in 
El  Paso,  Tex.  Another  son,  name  not  remembered — ^Jasper, 
I  believe — died  a  young  man.  Another  son,  Emerson,  the 
leading  machinist  in  this  part  of  the  State,  and  owning  and 
running  an  iron  foundry  and  machine  works  at  Marion.  Dun- 
can D.  McDuffie  served  throughout  the  war,  and  was  a  Lieu- 
tenant in  the  Tenth  South  Carolina  Regiment,  in  Manigault's 
Brigade,  of  the  Western  army.  D.  D.  McDuffie  is  one  of  our 
best  citizens  and  a  leading  man  in  his  neighborhood;  he  has 
some  daughters,  to  th,e  writer  unknown ;  think  he  has  educated 
his  daughters  well.  George  Alexander,  another  son  of  Dun- 
can, moved  to  Horry  County,  and  married  a  Miss  Alford  there, 
but  moved  back  to  the  old  homestead  and  died  there.  Nancy, 
the  only  daughter  of  Duncan,  married  Isham  H.  Watson,  who 
was  once  the  Coroner  of  the  county  and  a  good  citizen ;  he  and 
his  first  wife  are  both  dead — she  died  of  small-pox,  i6th  Janu- 
ary, 1864;  he  married  again.  Miss  Mary  Nichols,  who  has  no 
children;  he  had  two  sons,  George  Elmore  and  Duncan  J. 
Watson,  and  one  daughter,  now  the  wife  of  J.  D.  Montgomery. 
These  have  already  been  mentioned  in  or  among  the  Watson 
family.    George,  the  third  brother  of  old  Alexander,   died 

*Ellerbe  McDuffie  was  killed,  by  the  blowing  up  of  a  steam  saw  mill 
recently  in  Williamsburg  County,  a  prosperous  young  man.  His  remains 
were  brought  to  MuUins  and  buried  there,  near  his  father. 


320  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

while  a  young  man ;  he  was  a  hatter  by  trade,  and  never  mar- 
ried. Daniel,  the  youngest  of  the  four  brothers,  married  a 
Miss  Blue,  and  they  left  a  son,  William.  These  have  already 
been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Blue  family. 

Campbei^l. — Edward  Campbell  was  the  first  of  the  family  of 
that  name  that  settled  north  of  Little  Pee  Dee.  He  came  from 
Scotland  with  a  family  of  children,  and  settled  near  where 
Hamer  station,  on  the  Florence  Railroad,  is  located ;  the  land  on 
which  he  lived  is  now  owned  by  Neill  McDuffie.  He  was  a 
sturdy  old  Scotchman ;  his  wife  was  Mary  McLellan,  and  others 
of  her  name  and  quite  a  colony  came  across  the  ocean  with  old 
Edward — some  of  them  settling  in  Cumberland  and  Robeson 
Counties,  N.  C,  others  settled  in  Marion  County,  S.  C.  Old 
Edward,  after  living  here  many  years,  went  West,  and  all  his 
family  went  with  him  except  his  son,  Duncan  Campbell,  who 
had  married  and  settled  on  Little  Pee  Dee,  where  his  son,  Dan- 
iel, now  lives.  Duncan  Campbell  was  another  old  settler  on  the 
east  side  of  Little  Pee  Dee,  south  of  Hayes  Swamp ;  he  came 
from  Scotland  with  his  father,  Edward,  and  owned  a  large 
body  of  land;  he  married  Margaret  McEachem,  and  they 
raised  a  family  of  three  sons  and  five  daughters-  Edward  and 
Neill  both  died  long  before  the  war.  Edward  married  Martha. 
J.  McCollum,  daughter  of  Dougald  McCollum,  of  North  Caro- 
lina, and  they  had  one  child.  Flora  Margaret,  who  married 
George  J.  Bethea,  of  Buck  Swamp,  near  Latta,  where  they  now 
live,  and  have  raised  a  large  family  of  children.  Neill  Camp- 
bell never  married.  The  youngest  son,  Daniel,  is  among  the 
oldest  and  staunchest  citizens  of  that  community,  and  lives  on 
the  old  homestead  where  he  was  born  and  raised,  and  where 
his  father  lived  and  died.  It  is  a  notable  fact  that  may  be  here 
noted,  that  throughout  Carmiohael  Township  there  are  but 
four  men  who  live  upon  and  own  the  homesteads  of  their 
fathers,  who  were  the  original  settlers  of  said  homesteads,  and 
who  are  owning  and  living  upon  the  same,  viz :  Daniel  Camp- 
bell, Malcolm  C.  Carmiohael,  Daniel  M.  Carmichael  and  Cap- 
tain A.  T.  Harllee,  although  much  of  the  lands  in  the  township 
are  owned  by  and  lived  upc>n  by  the  descendants  of  the  original 
settlers.     Daniel  Campbell  served  throughout  the  war  in  the 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  321 

company  of  his  nephew,  Captain  J.  H.  Stafford,  and  was  a  true 
and  brave  soldier,  undergoing  many  hardships  from  which  he 
is  still  a  sufferer ;  before  the  war,  he  married  Eliza,  the  eldest 
daughter  of  "Hatter"  John  Carmichael  (the  name  by  which 
that  old  Scotchman  loved  to  be  called),  and  has  raised  a  large 
family  of  sons  and  daughters,  two  of  the  latter  being  married 
to  industrious  and  worthy  citizens  of  North  Carolina ;  the  two 
youngest,  with  his  two  youngest  sons,  Neill  Murdoch  and 
Oscar,  living  with  him;  his  two  eldest  sons,  Duncan  M.  and 
John  Edward,  both  died  several  years  ago.  Another  son,  Dan- 
iel Walker,  married  the  eldest  daughter  of  Joseph  W.  William- 
son ;  they  live  near  Kentyre  Church,  he  being  one  of  the  RuKng 
Elders ;  he  is  also  an  earnest  Mason  of  the  lodge  at  Dillon,  also 
a  Knight  of  Phythias  of  the  lodge  there,  a  School  Trustee  of 
the  township,  and  a  sturdy,  staunch  and  progressive  citizen. 
Another  son,  William  Simeon,  is  largely  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture and  shipping  of  shingles  to  the  northern  markets ;  he, 
too,  is  a  worthy  young  man  and  up-to^ate  citizen;  he  was 
quite  recently  married  to  Miss  Sue  Campbell,  the  youngest 
daughter  of  Hugh  Campbell,  formerly  a  citizen  of  Cumberland 
County,  N.  C,  but  for  many  years  past  a  citizen  of  this  county. 
Old  Duncan  Campbell  raised  five  daughters.  The  eldest  mar- 
ried Malcolm  Stafford,  as  already  noticed  in  or  among  the 
Stafford  family.  Another  daughter,  Mary,  married  Leonard 
Walters,  and  removed  to  Alabama,  and  raised  a  large  family, 
her  sons  being  among  the  wealthiest  men  about  Montgomery, 
Ala.  Christian,  another  daughter,  married  A.  S.  Buie,  who, 
in  his  lifetime,  was  a  peaceable,  industrious  and  Christian 
gentleman;  they  had  three  daughters.  The  eldest,  Louisa, 
married  Gilbert  Butler;  both  are  dead.  The  next,  Margaret, 
married  Calvin  C.  Carmichael,  and  are  living.  Nancy  married 
Robert  Monroe,  of  North  Carolina ;  both  are  dead.  Margaret, 
the  youngest,  died  when  about  grown,  ffom  yellow  fever, 
which  she  contracted  from  going  with  her  father  to  Charleston, 
in  the  month  of  August,  with  a  drove  of  sheep  and  turkeys ; 
several  of  the  negroes  who  went  with  him  also  contracted  the 
disease,  and  some  of  them  died ;  Duncan  Campbell  himself  took 
the  fever  and  died  also;  he  left  a  large  estate  unencumbered 
for  his  widow  and  children.     There  are  other  families  of  the 


322  A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY. 

name  of  Campbell  in  the  township  in  no  way  related  to  each 
other.  Duncan  Campbell  was  the  original  settler  in  that 
region;  he  was  a  unique  character.  It  was  told  of  him,  that 
once  he  was  drawn  to  serve  on  the  jury  at  Marion,  twenty-five 
miles  away ;  that  on  Sunday  night,  while  at  the  supper  table,  he 
said  to  his  wife  that  she  must  he  up  before  day  and  get  him 
breakfast  before  he  started  to  Marion.  He  still  sat  at  the  table 
talking  about  the  trip  to  Marion ;  that  he  must  be  there  by  lo 
o'clock;  that  he  must  have  his  breakfast  early,  and  so  forth; 
at  last  he  said  to  his  wife,  "Peggy,"  as  he  called  her,  "if  you 
will  get  it,  I  will  eat  it  now — it  will  be  in  me  and  I  can  get  up 
and  start  when  I  please." 

There  are  other  families  of  Campbells  in  the  county.  Camp- 
bell is  a  very  populous  name.  Such  as  I  know  and  know  of 
will  now  be  mentioned.  The  family  of  the  Campbells  that 
formerly  lived  (and  some  of  them  may  be  there  now),  about 
Campbell's  Bridge,  were  old  Peter  Campbell,  who  came  from 
Scotland,  about  1800,  and  settled  on  the  east  side  of  I<ittle  Pee 
Dee,  near  where  Campbell's  Bridge  now  is;  don't  know  who 
his  wife  was ;  he  had  and  raised  six  sons — ^Alexander,  Archie, 
Duncan,  James,  Hugh  and  David — who  are  all  long  since  dead. 
Alexander  Campbell  lived  on  the  east  side  of  Little  Pee  Dee; 
don't  know  who  his  wife  was ;  he  had  one  son,  John  J.  Camp- 
bell, who  married  a  daughter  of  John  D.  McRae,  in  Marl- 
borough; he  disappeared  or  was  lost  sight  of  after  the  war; 
his  father  was  a  jolly  old  Scotchman,  was  a  farmer,  who  had 
some  property,  but  was  not  considered  rich,  yet  he  lived  at  his 
own  home  and  had  plenty  to  live  on ;  he  died  many  years  ago — 
think  John  J.  was  his  only  child.  Archie  Campbell  lived  on  the 
west  side  of  the  river,  not  far  from  Campbell's  Bridge;  he 
married  a  Miss  Paul ;  he  raised  four  sons,  John  P.,  Peter,  Wil- 
liam P.  and  Alexander.  John  P.  and  one  of  his  sisters,  Sarah 
Ann,  I  believe,  together  with  his  brother,  Peter,  lived  on  the 
old  homestead  together  before  and  during  the  war ;  neither  of 
whom  ever  married,  and  all  died  since  the  war.  Alexander 
married  and  had  a  family,  and  lived  just  below  Campbell's 
Bridge ;  don't  know  who  he  married  or  how  many  children  be 
had,  nor  what  has  become  of  them.  William  R.,  the  most 
active  and  most  prominent  one  of  the  sons  of  old  Archie,  mar- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  323 

ried  a  sister  of  Wm.  S.  Camipbell,  who  lived  and  died  near 
Ebenezer  Church  and  Temperance  Hill ;  they  had  one  son  only, 
who  died  with  typhoid  fever,  about  1855,  after  being  down 
with  it  for  four  months,  the  only  child.  Wm.  P.  Campbell 
was  Deputy  Sheriff  for  Neill  C.  McDuffie  during  his  term  of 
office,  from  1857  ^  1861,  and  was  very  effective  as  Deputy, 
and  was  also  very  popular  personally;  he  was  elected,  in  Jan- 
uary, 1861,  as  successor  to  McDuffie.  Under  the  then  Con- 
stitution of  the  State  (Constitution  of  1790),  a  Sheriff  was 
not  re-eligible  to  election  to  a  succeeding  term  of  four  years — 
hence  McDuffie  could  not  succeed  himself.  Wm.  P.  Campbell 
went  into  office,  in  April,  1861,  just  as  the  war  was  commenc- 
ing. It  was  a  trying  time  to  a  Sheriff,  but  Campbell,  never- 
theless, discharged  his  duty  faithfully  and  satisfactorily  until 
the  fall  of  1863,  when  he  was  killed,  near  the  home  of  his  birth, 
one  night  just  after  dark,  and  when  he  was  actually  in  the 
discharge  of  a  public  duty,  by  the  leader  of  a  gang  of  Maple 
Swamp  deserters.  He  was  in  his  buggy,  and  there  were  two 
buggies  along  in  a  path  that  led  through  a  thick  woods,  from 
one  road  to  another ;  two  of  the  company  were  carrying  a  light 
before  them  or  on  each  side  (a  very  unwise  act  to  have  the 
light,  as  it  enabled  the  assassin  to  pick  his  man,  the  Sheriff) ; 
when  his  buggy  passed,  the  assassin  stepped  in  the  road  behind 
him  and  shot  him  in  the  back;  Campbell  did  not  fall  out  of 
the  vehicle,  but  he  was  d«ad,  and  his  brother,  Peter,  got  up 
into  the  buggy  with  him  and  held  him  therein  till  they  got  to 
the  house,  two  or  three  hundred'  yards  off.  He  had  gotten  an 
order,  as  Sheriff,  from  the  authorities,  either  civil  or  military, 
to  arrest  those  Maple  Swamp  deserters,  so  as  to  send  them  to 
the  army;  he  obeyed  the  order,  as  he  did  all  orders,  and 
gathered  some  men  to  go  with  him  up  there  to  hunt  for  and 
to  arrest  them — ^don't  remember  who  all  the  men  were  that 
were  with  him;  Captain  Samuel  T.  Page  was  one  of  them, 
and  who  yet  lives  and  can  tell  about  it,  although  in  his  eighty- 
third  year.  Thus  an  efficient  officer  and  a  good  man  was 
assassinated  in  the  dark.  The  county  was  then  without  a 
Sheriff ;  Is'ham  H.  Watson  was  then  Coroner  and  by  operation 
of  law  became  Sheriff  and  conducted  the  office  until  the  next 
general  election  for  Sheriff  came  on,  in  January,  1865,  when 


324  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Neill  C.  McDuffie  was  again  elected,  and  went  into  office,  in 
April,  1865,  as  hereinbefore  stated.  Campbell's  widow,  child- 
less, went  to  her  people,  and  died  a  few  years  after  the  war. 
There  are  many  yet  living  who  gratefully  remember  Wm.  P. 
Campbell.  In  the  early  fifties,  the  Campbell  brothers  went 
into  a  mercantile  business  at  CampbeH's  Bridge,  under  the  firm 
name  of  A.  Campbell  &  Co.  The  business  was  not  successful, 
and  they  failed  about  1855 ;  it  was  managed  mainly  by  Alex- 
ander ;  they  were  harassed  for  a  few  years  by  creditors  in  the 
Courts,  but  managed  some  way  to  save  their  homes.  Hugh 
Campbell,  one  of  the  six  brothers,  married  Miss  Absala 
Bethea,  daughter  of  Buck  Swamp  William  Bethea,  and  settled 
at  and  owned  the  land  at  Campbell's  Bridge — the  bridge 
was  so  called  because  the  Campbells  lived  around  it,  and 
owned  all  the  lands  round  about.  Hugh  Campbelll  settled 
and  lived  and  died  where  his  grand-son,  William  Hugh  Bree- 
den,  with  his  mother,  now  lives ;  he  in  a  short  while  died,  leav- 
ing his  widow  and  one  child,  a  daughter,  Adaline.  The  widow 
continued  to  reside  there,  and  raised  her  daughter;  she  also 
prospered  and  was  well-to-do.  Adaline  married,  about  1848, 
John  A.  Breeden,  a  native  of  Marlborough  County,  and  first 
cousin  of  J.  B.  Breeden  and  his  brothers,  Joseph  and  others. 
John  A.  Breeden  was  in  some  respects  a  remarkable  man,  of 
very  quick  and  acute  perceptions ;  his  habits  were  not  good,  yet 
he  managed  well  and  kept  his  property ;  he  lived  on  the  place 
with  his  mother-in-law  till  her  death ;  after  which  he  remained 
there  till  his  death,  some  fifteen  or  twenty  years  ago ;  he  raised 
a  family  of  three  daughters  and  one  son,  William  H.  Breeden. 
The  oldest  daughter,  Mollie,  married  Wesley  Stackhouse ;  they 
have  a  considerable  family,  sons  and  daughters,  some  of  whom 
are  grown ;  they  live  at  Dillon.  The  second  daughter,  Jackey, 
married  Frank  Edens;  they  live  in  North  Carolina,  and  have 
eight  or  ten  children,  some  of  them  grown — a  first  class  family 
and  are  well-to-do.  The  third  daughter,  Absala,  named  for 
her  grand-mother,  but  called  "Appey,"  married  Faulk  Floyd, 
of  Robeson  County,  N.  C,  who  was  Sheriff  of  that  county  at 
the  time  of  the  marriage ;  they  live  in  Robeson,  and  have  only 
one  child,  a  diaughter.  Pearl.  The  son,  William  H.  Breeden, 
a  capital  citizen,  married  Miss  Victoria  Godbold,  daughter  of 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  325 

the  late  Asa  Godbold,  Jr. ;  they  reside  with  his  mother,  AdaUne, 
who  yet  Hves,  at  the  old  homestead  of  Hugh  Campbell,  his 
grand-father.  William  H.  Breeden  has  no  children ;  is  a  very 
quiet  man  and  well  informed  on  most  subjects.  The  name 
Breeden  is  likely  to  become  extinct  in  the  county.  James 
Campbell,  son  of  old  Peter,  married  in  North  Carolina,  and 
moved  to  that  State.  Duncan  Campbell,  another  son  of  old 
Peter,  married  and  settled  just  above  Campbell's  Bridge,  on  the 
west  side  of  the  river;  don't  know  who  he  married;  he  had 
and  raised  two  children^  a  son,  named  Hugh,  and  a  daughter, 
Mary  Ann.  Mary  Ann  married  Hugh  Dove,  near  Campbell's 
Bridge,  and,  I  think,  had  two  or  three  children ;  her  husband, 
Hugh  Dove,  was  killed,  about  1855,  by  her  brother,  Hugh 
Campbell — a  wilful  and  premeditated  murder.  Hugh  Camp- 
bell fled  from  the  country  and  has  not  been  heard  of  since. 
David  Campbell,  another  son  of  old  Peter,  married  some  lady 
in  North  Carolina,  and  went  to  that  State  and  died  there ;  know 
nothing  further  of  him. 

Another  family  of  Campbells  to  be  next  noticed  are  those 
living  in  the  Ebenezer  and  Temperance  Hill  community.  The 
first  known  of  this  family  was  William  S.  Campbell,  who  was 
one  of  our  best  and  most  respected  citizens — unpretending,  no 
display,  but  gave  close  attention  to  his  business,  and  treated 
that  of  others  with  "masterly  inactivity ;"  he  married, 

and  raised  three  daughters  and  two  sons,  John  C. 
and  Samuel.  The  eldest  daughter,  Flora,  married  Stephen  L. 
Lane,  who  was  killed  in  the  last  battle  fought  during  the  war, 
at  Smithfield,  in  North  Carolina ;  they  had  and  raised  a  family 
of  sons  and  daughters;  the  widow  managed  well  after  the 
death  of  her  husband ;  took  care  of  the  property  and  perhaps 
added  to  it ;  she  died  some  few  years  ago ;  she  had  a  son,  named 
William,  and  a  daughter,  that  became  the  second  wife  of  Mere- 
dith Watson.  Another  daughter  married  our  fellow-citizen, 
now  at  Marion,  W.  J.  B.  Campbell,  and  who  is  merchandizing 
there ;  she,  perhaps,  had  other  children,  unknown  to  the  writer. 
Another  daughter  of  old  Wm.  S.  Campbell,  married  John  E. 
Perritt,  whose  family  has  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the 
Perritt  family.  And  still  another,  the  third  daughter,  I  think, 
her  name  was  Mary,  married  David  Perritt,  a  nephew  of  John 


326  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  GOUNTY. 

E.  Perritt;  he  died'  soon  and  left  her  a  widow;  don't  know 
if  she  had  any  child  or  children.  John  C.  Campbell,  the  older 
son,  married  Miss  Amelia  Tart,  a  daughter  of  old  James  Tart, 
who  lived  and  died  just  above  E.  J.  Moody's  mill,  now  owned 
by  Governor  Ellerbe's  estate.  By  this  marriage  nine  sons  were 
bom  and  two  daughters;  the  sons  were  Byroii,  Preston,  Val- 
cour,  Samuel,  Frank,  W.  J.  Beauregard,  Thomas  LeGrande 
and  another  whose  name  is  not  remembered.  Of  the  sons, 
Valoour,  Frank  and  Thomas  are  dead — died  unmarried; 
Byron  went  to  Texas ;  Preston  married  some  one  to  the  writer 
unknown ;  also  the  same  of  Samuel ;  W.  J.  Beauregard  married 
his  first  cousin,  the  daughter  of  Stephen  L,ane  and  Flora,  his 
wife,  aibove  mentioned.  W.  J.  Beauregard  Campbell  owns  the 
old  homestead,  or  the  greater  part  of  it,  situate  just  below 
Ebenezer  Church,  eight  miles  above  Marion ;  don't  know  if  he 
has  any  children.  LeGrande  is  yet  single,  and  is  also  merchan- 
dising at  Marion.  Of  the  two  daughters  of  John  C.  Campbell, 
Roberta  and  Romine,  one  of  them'  died  unmarried,  but  grown 
and  very  handsome ;  the  other  married  Samuel  L,ane  and  lives 
near  by.  Samuel  Campbell,  the  younger  son  of  old  William 
S.,  married,  first,  a  Miss  Fore,  and  has  already  been  noticed  in 
or  among  the  Fore  family ;  she  had  one  daughter,  who  married 
Herod  W.  Allen,  and  is  dead.  Samuel  Campbell  married,  a 
second  time,  a  Miss  Hays,  daughter  of  Levi  H.  Hays,  and  sister 
of  W.  B.  Hays,  of  Hillsboro  Township ;  by  this  marriage  three 
daughters  were  born  to  them,  names  unknown.  One  married 
James  L,ane ;  they  have  some  family,  how  much  is  not  known. 
Another  daughter  married  Thomas  A.  Lamb;  they  had  four 
or  five  children,  two  or  three  years  ago,  when  they  left  here  and 
went  to  Florida,  where  they  are  now.  The  other  daughter 
married  some  one  and  went  off ;  don't  know  what  has  become 
of  her.  Samuel  Campbell's  widow  still  survives,  and  is  on 
the  old  homestead.  John  C.  Campbell  and  his  wife  are  both 
dead.  Old  William  S.  Campbell  was  no  ordinary  man ;  quiet 
and  unassuming,  thought  right  and  acted  right;  prudent  and 
seldom  made  mistakes ;  neither  of  bis  sons  were  equal  to  him ; 
he  made  a  good  property  and  transmitted  it  by  will  to  his  child- 
ren unencumbered. 

There  are  other  Campbells  in  the  county,  but  the  writer 


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knows  nothing  about  them.  There  is  a  family  near  Hamer, 
Hugh  Campbell, ;  think  he  came  from  North  Carolina ;  have 
been  told  that  he  has  six  sons  and  two  daughters.  The  elder 
daughter  married  John  B.  McEachem,  near  Hainer,  a  very- 
substantial  man  and  a  good  farmer;  they  have  one  or  two 
children.  The  younger  daughter,  Sue,  a  charming  girl,  has 
lately  married  William  Simeon  Campbell,  a  son  of  Daniel 
GaiiipbeUi  who  has  already  been  mentioned  herein.  Hugh 
Campbell  has  six  sons,  but  the  writer  knows  only  two  of  them 
by  name — ^John,  I  think,  the  oldest,  and  James,  perhaps,  the 
youngest,  who  was  recently  telegraph  operator  and  dq>ot  agent 
at  Sellers,  on  the  Florence  Railroad,  for  some  time,  now  at 
Elrod,  on  the  same  road. 

Butler. — The  Butler  family  will  next  be  noticed.  They 
live  on  Hays  Swamp  and  Little  Pee  Dee,  and  they  are  the  de- 
scendants of  old  Isham  Butler,  who  was  one  of  the  first  settlers 
of  that  region  of  the  county ;  he  was  the  father  of  Stephen  and 
Isham  Butler  of  later  times,  and  had  six  daughters.  Annie, 
the  oldest,  never  maTried,  but  lived  and  died  at  the  homestead 
of  her  brother,  Isham.  Laney  married  her  cousin,  Dempsy 
Butler,  and  they  have  one  son,  Alfred  W.  Butler,  who  has  a 
large  family  of  grown-up  children,  and  lives  on  the  plantation 
formerly  owned  by  Neill  McDuffie,  near  Stafford's  Bridge. 
Patience,  the  third  daughter,  married  Green  Watson,  and 
moved  to  Alabama.  Polly  married  Stephen  Moody,  and 
moved  to  Tennessee.  Zilla  married  Reuben  Paul,  and  he  and 
she  both  died  before  the  war,  without  issue.  The  youngest, 
Susan,  died  unmarried,  when  about  eighteen  years  old.  Ste- ' 
phen  Butler  was  the  oldest  son  of  old  Isham,  and  he  and  his 
brother,  Isham,  lived  near  each  other ;  J.  W.  Dillon  &  Son  own 
the  old  homestead  of  Isham,  and  R.  P.  Hamer,  Jr.,  a  part  of 
that  of  Stephen,  which  was  sold  a  few  years  ago  for  division ; 
the  descendants  of  Stephen  live  on  the  other  parts  of  his  old 
homestead.  Stephen  Butler  married  Katie  McEachem,  and 
had  three  sons,  Gilbert,  Silas  and  Thomas,  all  of  them  good 
soldiers — Gilbert  and  Thomas  in  Captain  Stafford's  company, 
and  Silas  in  Captain  W-  D.  Carmichaers  company.  Eighth 
Regiment.     Silas  came  home  on  sick  furlough,  and  died  in  one 

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828  A,  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

week  after  reaching  home.  Gilbert  married,  first,  before  the 
war,  Ivouisa,  the  eldest  daughter  of  A.  S.  Buie ;  they  are  both 
dfead,  and  left  three  children,  all  grown.  The  youngest  daugh- 
ter is  a  deaf-mute,  but  was  well  educated  at  the  Cedar  Springs 
Institute,  and  is  a  young  woman  of  remarkable  intelligence; 
she  lives  with  her  brother,  in  North  Carolina.  Thomas  Butler, 
the  youngest  son,  married  Mary,  the  daughter  of  Cade  B. 
Rogers ;  both  of  them  are  dead,  but  left  a  family  of  four  daugh- 
ters and  two  sons,  who  are  living  on  a  portion  of  the  old 
Stephen'  Butler  homestead.  Of  the  four  daughters  of  Stephen 
Butler,  the  eldest,  Jennie,  married  William  Blue,  before  the 
war;  he  was  killed  in  battle  in  Virginia,  in  Captain  Stafford's 
company,  and  his  widow  survives  and  lives  at  McCoU,  S.  C. 
Clarissa,  the  next  oldest  daughter,  married  Allen  Stephens, 
and  both  of  them  are  dead,  but  their  sons,  Stephen,  Gilbert, 
Allen,  Preston  and  Silas,  are  all  living  near  each  other,  in  the 
Bermuda  section  of  Carmichael  Township,  and  are  amongst 
the  foremost  citizens  of  their  section;  all  of  them  married'  and 
are  raising  large  families  'of  children,  and  all  of  them  progres- 
sive farmef'S  and  first  class  citizens.  Charity,  the  third  daugh- 
ter, married  Washington  W.  Norman,  generally  known  as 
"Colonel  Norman,"  by  reason  of  his  being  the  best  fisherman 
on  Little  Pee  Dee,  and  is  one  of  the  sturdy  citizens  of  the 
section ;  they  live  on  a  portion  of  the  old  Stephen  Butler  home- 
stead ;  they  have  three  grown  daughters  living  with  them ;  they 
had  two  sons,  but  both  were  drowned  in  Ivittle  Pee  Dee,  while 
bathing  near  their  home,  several  years  ago — one  of  them  nine 
and  the  other  eleven  years  old.  "Colonel  Norman"  is  a  good 
farmer,  and  a  kind  and  hospitable  citizen.  Miss  Flora  A.  But- 
ler was  another  daughter,  older  than  Charity,  and  owned  and 
lived  and  died  a  few  years  ago,  on  the  old  homestead,  where 
her  father  lived  and  died.  Isham  Butler,  the  brother  of 
Stephen,  had  but  one  child,  a  daughter,  Mary,  who  married 
Nathan  McCormick,  her  cousin,  and  he  was  a  gallant  soldier 
of  Fairlee's  company,  in  the  war ;  both  of  them  are  living,  and 
have  six  sons  and  three  daughters,  all  of  them  grown.  Nathan 
Butler,  son  of  old  Isham,  was  another  of  the  first  settlers ;  he 
had  four  sons.  Dempsy,  the  eldest,  married  his  cousin,  Laney ; 
Solomon  married  Polly  Brasswell  and  had  no  childTen;  Sam- 


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uel  married  Milly  Brasswell,  and  went  to  Georgia;  James,  the 
youngest,  married  the  Widow  Jane  Davis — ^all  of  them  are 
dead.  Laney,  the  wife  of  Dempsy,  according  to  the  census 
return  of  her  son,  Alfred,  in  1890,  was  110  years  old ;  she,  too, 
is  now  dead.  As  to  the  age  of  Laney,  as  above,  the  writer 
has  something  to  say.  Dempsy  Buller,  her  husband,  was 
killed  by  a  man  by  the  name  of  McCormipk,  in  1859.  I  was  a 
Magistrate  at  the  time,  and  was  sent  for  to  hold  an  inquest; 
I  went  and  held  it ;  it  was  right  on  the  North  Carolina  State 
line,  and  as  the  line  was  shown  to  me  by  those  present,  the  kill- 
ing was  about  five  feet  in  South  Carolina;  he  was  killed  by  a 
stab  with  a  knife,  in  the  abdomen.  Dempsy  Butler,  from  ap- 
pearance (I  had  seen  him  often  before  he  was  killed),  was  a:bout 
forty-five  years  of  age ;  his  wife,  Laney,  was  also  present,  and 
would  judge  her  to  be  younger,  not  older.  According  to  this 
she  could  not  have  been,  in  1890,  more  than  seventy-five  or 
seventy-six — ^there  must  be  some  mistake  about  her  age,  sure. 
Nathan  also  had  five  daughters.  The  eldest,  Viney,  married 
Benjamin  Locke,  and  had  a  large  family  of  children,  one  of 
whom  is  our  good  citizen,  William  Locke,  who  lives  on  a  part  of 
the  old  McDufifie  homestead,  on  Little  Pee  Dee.  Willie,  a 
daughter,  married  John  McConnick,  who  had  several  children, 
all  of  them_  dead  but  Charles,  who  lives  at  McCoU,  S.  C,  and 
Nathan,  who  still  lives  in  that  section.  Sallie  married  Philip 
Rouse,  and  Ada  married  William  Abbott.  Geriah,  the  young- 
est, never  married.  All  of  them  are  dead,  but  have  left  numer- 
ous descendants  living  here  and  in  the  West.  The  writer  knew 
Benjamin  Locke  back  in  the  thirties ;  he  was  the  greatest  rail- 
splitter  he  ever  knew ;  have  often  said  and  now  think  he  split 
rails  enough  to  make  a  fence  half  around  the  county ;  he  split  • 
rails  for  that  whole  section,  and  it  mattered  not  how  far  he 
was  from  home  at  work  in  his  chosen  avocation,  he  would  go 
home  every  night — he  would  brave  any  weather  to  get  home; 
he  was  a  hard  working,  honest  and  harmless  man. 

Recurring  again  to  the  Haseldens.  The  writer  has  learned 
that  the  progenitor  of  Major  James  Haselden  and  his  brothers, 
John  and  William,  was  William  Haselden ;  he  lived  and  owned 
the  place  where  Dr.  D.  F.  Miles  now  owns  and  farms ;  he  had, 
in  addition  to  the  sons  already  herein  mentioned,  four  daugh- 


380  A  klStORY  Oi  MARION  COUNTY. 

ters.  The  eldest  married  a  Mr.  Cox,  who  had  only  one  child, 
a  daughter,  Sarah ;  her  father  and  mother  both  died  and  left 
her ;  she  was  raised  'by  some  of  her  people,  grew  up,  and  mar- 
ried Asa  Godbold,  about  1828.  His  family  and  hers  have 
already  been  noticed  hterein.  Another  daughter,  Anne,  I  be- 
lieve, was  her  name,  married,  first,  a  Mr.  Brown,  of  Marl- 
borough ;  he  died  in  a  short  time,  childless,  and  the  widow 
married  Cyrus  Bacot,  of  Dairlingtoh  County;  they  lived  to- 
gether some  years,  and  Baeot  died,  and  left  her  with  consid- 
erable property,  and  by  her  will  (she  had'  no  children),  she 
gave  some  of  it,  said  to  be  $2,000,  to  'her  nephew,  Cyrus  BacOt 
Haselden,  who  was  named  foir  her  husband — ^which  has  already 
been  mentioned  herein.  The  third  daughter  of  old  William 
Haselden  married  Stephen  G.  Godbold,  who  only  raised  one 
child,  a  daughter,  who  married  Francis  A.  Miles;  they  had 
and  raised  three  sons  and  two  daughters,  as  already  noticed 
herein.  The  fourth  daughter  of  old  William  Haselden  died  or 
disappeared ;  no  account  of  her  is  obtainable.  The  Haseldens, 
as  a  family,  seem  to  be  s'hort-lived>  as  has  already  been  stated. 

Moody. — The  Moody  family  will  next  be  noticedt  Robert 
Moody  arid  Barfield  Moody,  two  brothers,  were  only  known  to 
the  writer  as  one  branch  of  the  family.  Another  branch  of 
the  family  is  headed  by  the  Rev.  Tapley  Moody,  and  there  is 
still  another  branch  whose  bead  in  this  county  is  not  known  to 
the  writer ;  James  A.  Moody,  of  Marion,  belongs  to  this  branch. 
These  branches  are  all  collaterally  related  to  each  other.  All 
collateral  relations  have  a  common  ancestor  somewhere,  either 
proximate  or  remote ;  Robert  Moody  married  Elizabeth  Smith, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Smith,  Sr. ;  'he  lived  and  died  just  below 
Temperance  Hill,  on  the  road  to  Marion ;  she  was  a  sister  of 
Samuel,  Jr.,  as  he  was  called,  back  in  the  twenties,  who  lived 
and  died  on  Buck  Swamp ;  to  this  marriage  were  born  several 
sons  and  daughters;  the  sons  were  Hugh,  Richard,  Salathiel 
and  Charles;  can't  give  the  names  of  all  the  daughters — ^as 
remembered,  they  were  Milly,  Celia,  Smithy,  Evaline  and 
another  one  or  two^— ^have  just  learned  that  one  was  named 
Mary.     Hugh  Moody  married  Miss  and  raised 

one  son  and  several  daughters.     The  son  was  named  John 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  331 

Thpmas,  w'ho  married  his  first  cousin,  Sarah  Ann  Moody, 
daughter  of  Richard  Moody ;  they  had  and  raised  a  family- 
two  sons,  Dayid  and  Robert,  and  several  daughters,  number 
and  names  not  known.  His  son,  David  Moody,  married  a 
daughter  of  Peter  Parley  McCormic,  and  lives  at  Dillon. 
Robert  married  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Sawyer.  Hugh  Moody, 
the  grand- father,  has  one  daughter  that  married  William  Ham- 
ilton, as  a  second  wife,  and  has  several  children ;  Hugh  was  a 
farmer,  and  was  a  loc^l  Methodist  preacher ;  also  a  Magistrate 
for  a  number  of  years,  and  was  a  useful  man  in  his  community ; 
his  influence  was  for  good,  always  in  favor  of  right  and  justice; 
he  died  some  twenty  years  ago  or  more.  Richard  Moody,  the 
next  younger  brother,  married  Miss  Harriet  Edwards,  daugh- 
ter of  Rev.  David  S.  Edwards,  and  had  and  raised  four  sons 
and  four  daughters;  the  sons  were  Thomas  D.,  Richard  J., 
Hugh  and  Barfield;  the  daughters  were  Martha,  Sarah  Ann, 
Helen  and  Sophia.  Of  the  sons,  Thomas  D.  married  a  daugh- 
ter of  Needham  Perrit ;  had  only  one  child,  and  she  is  grown 
and  married.  Richard  J.  Moody  married  a  daughter  of  Reu- 
ben B.  Jackson,  and  has  a  family,  already  mentioned  in  or 
among  the  Jackson  family.  Hugh  Moody,  Jr.,  married  Miss 
Mass^y  Smith,  a  daughter  of  the  late  William  H.  Smith,  of 
Buck  Swamp;  they  have  a  family,  how  large  or  small  is  un- 
known. Barfield  Moody,  Jr.,  married  a  daughter  of  Bennett 
Perritt,  and  has  some  family.  Of  the  daughters  of  Richard 
Moody,  St.,  Martha,  the  oldest,  married  William  McKenzie, 
of  the  Maple  Swamp  region ;  they  have  a  family,  how  many  is 
not  known.  Sarah  Ann  married  John  Thomas  Moody,  as 
above  stated.  The  daughter,  Sophia,  married  John  H.  Ellen, 
of  the  Dothan  section,  who  is  one  of  the  most  progresisive 
farmers  in  the  county ;  they  have  three  children,  a  son  in  Wof- 
ford  College;  don't  know  the  sex  of  the  other  two  children. 
The  daughter,  Helen,  is  unmarried.  The  third  son  of  Robert 
Moody,  Salathiel,  married  in  March,.  1843,  the  Widow  Jane 
Bass,  up  on  Catfish ;  she  was  the  widow  of  Bryant  Bass,  herein- 
before mentioned ;  they  had  only  two  children,  a  son,  who  was 
idiotic  and  died  before  maturity,  and  a  daughter,  Josephine, 
who  married  Mack  Martin,  who  has  already  been  noticed  in  or 
among  the  Martin  family.     Charles,  the  fourth  and  youngest 


332  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

son  of  Robert  Moody,  married  a  Miss  Monroe,  of  North  Caro- 
lina, and  settled  and  lived  and  died  on^  a  part  of  the  homestead 
of  his  grand-father,  Samuel  Smith,  Sr. ;  they  raised  a  family 
of  three  sons  and  one  daughter ;  the  mother  died  many  years 
ago.  The  daughter  married  Milton  Watson,  already  spoken 
of  in  or  among  the  Watson  family ;  he  soon  died,  childless ;  the 
widow  went  back  to  her  father,  and  remained  with  him  until 
his  death,  a  few  years  ago,  and  still  remains  there  with  her 
brothers — all  of  whom  are  unmarried,  and  names  not  remem- 
bered. Of  the  daughters  of  Robert  Moody,  Mary,  the  oldest, 
married  a  Mr.  Edwards,  who  died  soon  and  left  her  with  one 
child,  a  daughter,  who  grew  up  and  became  the  first  wife  of 
Meredith  Watson ;  she  soon  died,  and  left  two  children,  a  son, 
who  was  imbecile  and  weak  and  soon  died ;  the  daug'hter  mar- 
ried and  has  some  family,  unknown  to  the  writer.  Robert 
Moody's  daughter,  Celia,  married  William  Bryan,  in  Robeson 
County,  N.  C,  where  they  resided  till  both  died;  as  to  their 
family,  the  writer  only  knows  of  a  son,  Quincy  Bryant  or 
Bryan,  who  came  back  to  this  county,  and  married  his  first 
cousin.  Miss  L,izzie  A.  Moody,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Joshua 
T.  Moody.  Quincy  Bryant  is  one  of  our  most  worthy  citizens, 
and  resides  six  miles  below  Marion;  they  have  a  family  of 
several  children,  sons  and  daughters — a  son,  named  Marvin, 
who  is  now  a  promising  young  man;  a  daughter  grown,  and  I 
think,  married;  know  nothing  of  the  other  members  of  the 
family.  Milley,  another  daughter,  married  Joseph  D.  Bass, 
who  has  already  been  noticed  herein  in  or  among  the  Bass 
family.  Smithy,  another  daug'hter,  married  Evander  Brig- 
man,  of  Marlborough,  who  has  raised  a  considerable  family ; 
one  of  her  sons,  an  energetic  and  prosperous  man,  now  lives  at 
Dillon ;  I  think  Mrs.  Brigman  yet  lives ;  if  so,  she  is  the  sole 
survivor  of  the  children  of  Robert  Moody.  Another  daugh- 
ter, the  youngest,  Evaline,  married  Joshua  T.  Moody;  in  the 
latter  part  of  his  life  he  resided  on  his  farm,  near  Ariel,  nine 
miles  below  Marion ;  they  raised  only  two  children,  Lizzie  and 
James  A.  Lizzie  married  her  cousin,  M.  Q.  Bryant,  as  above 
sitated.  James  A.  is  unmarried,  though  twice  old  enough ;  is 
and  has  been  for  several  years  past  merchandizing  at  Marion ; 
he  condticts  his  business  on  a  safe  plan,  buys  and  sells  only  for 


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cash,  is  close  and  hoards  his  money ;  if  he  makes  but  little,  he 
holds  on  to  that  little  with  tenacity ;  think  he  and  Mrs.  Bryant, 
his  sister,  still  hold  on  to  their  father's  lands,  near  Arial.  Rob- 
ert Moody  died  more  than  sixty  years  ago;  he  made  a  good 
property,  and  his  widow  and  children  held  on  to  it  to  the  old 
Ijady's  death,  just  before  the  war ;  their  land  on  Buck  Swamp 
was  valuable;  had  about  fifty  negroes.  The  lands  are  now 
owned  by  Mrs.  Lucy  Godbold,  wife  of  Willie  A.  Godbold,  and 
Js  much  more  valuable  now  than  when  in  the  hands  of  the  old 
lady  Moody.  Barfield  Moody,  a  brother  of  Robert,  whether 
older  or  younger  is  not  known,  was  a  very  prominent  man  in 
this  county  from  1830  to  i860,  when  he  died ;  he  was  very  popu- 
lar before  the  people,  though  sometimes  'beaten ;  he  was  elected 
twice  as  Representative  of  the  county  in  the  Legislature.  After 
the  death  of  General  Wheeler,  in  1859,  he  was  elected  Clerk  of 
the  Court ;  but  on  account  of  his  failing  health,  he  could  not  per- 
form the  duties  thereof  in  person,  and  he  deputed  his  young 
son,  Thoipas  C,  and  placed  him  in  as  dteputy,  who  discharged 
the  duties  of  the  office  until  the  death  of  his  father,  7th  April, 
i860.  Barfield  Moody  was  a  Magistrate  for  many  years,  and 
he  did  not  run  that  office  as  it  is  run  in  these  latter  days,  for  the 
money  that  was  in  it,  but  mostly  as  an  arbiter  among  his 
neighbors  as  to  their  civil  rights  and  a  pacificator  in  their 
quarrels  and  fig'hts — ^niaking  peace  many  times  and  hindet;ing 
prosecutions  in  the  criminal  courts — which  is  regarded  as  one 
of  the  first  and  best  qualifications  of  a  Magistrate ;  he  was  also 
a  good  surveyor,  and  was  called  to  its  practice  often.  The 
writer,  in  his  extensive  land  law  practice  in  the  county,  has  had 
occasion  to  see  and  scrutinize  his  work  as  a  surveyor ;  his  plats 
were  neat  and  mathematically  correct,  in  most  instances.  He 
was  a  useful  citizen  in  many  ways,  did  a  great  deal  of  survey- 
ing for  poor  people  without  charge,  and  in  suits  before  him  as  a 
Magistrate  would  often  charge  no  costs,  and  especially  in  cases 
compromised  or  settled.  Barfield  Moody  married  Miss  Sallie 
Crawford,  a  sister  of  James  Crawford,  who  lived  at  Spring 
Branch,  four  miles  above  Marion — she  was  only  a  half-sister ; 
(tjhey  had  and  raised  five  sons  and  four  daughters;  the  sons  were 
William  H.,  Evander  J.,  Robert  B.,  Thomas  C.  and  Albert  C. ; 
William  H.  and  Robert  B.  are  dead.     Of  these  sons,  William 


884  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

H.  married  a  Miss  Lamb,  of  Marlborough.  Afterwards  the 
L,amb  family  moved  into  Marion,  having  bought  the  late  Craw- 
ford plantation,  four  miles  above  Marion,  and  they  all  lived  and 
died  there,  except  those  who  went  West.  The  Lamb  name  is 
now  extinct  in  the  county.  Barfield  Moody  settled  on  the 
north  side  of  Catfish,  opposite  Watson's,  and  William  H.,  after 
a  while,  settled  on  a  part  of  the  Lamb  plantation,  where  his 
■widow  now  resides.  William  H.  and  his  wife  had  and  raised 
several  sons  and  daughters;  the  sons  were  Sandy,  Clarence, 
Jiames  C,  Bartow,  Rhett  and  Theodore;  the  daugliters  were 
Lucy  and  Sue.  Of  the  sons,  Sandy  went  to  Kershaw  County, 
.and  there  married;  know  nothing  further  of  him.  Clarence 
died  a  few  years  ago,  unmarried.  Rhett  emigrated  to  parts 
■unknown.  James  C.  is  unmarried,  though  twice  old  enough; 
he  was  County  Auditor  for  several  years,  and  now  has  some 
State  employment;  he  is  a  competent  man  for  any  business 
position.  Bartow  married,  a  few  years  ago,  a  Miss  Cotting- 
ham ;  they  may  have  some  family.  Theodore  died  just  as  he 
was  arriving  at  manhood.  Miss  Lucy  married  a  Mr.  Mclnr 
tyre,  of  North  Carolina ;  both  are  dead,  and  left  two  children,  a 
son  and  a  daughter,  who  stay  with  their  grand-parents  in 
North  Carolina.  Miss  Sue  married  Joseph  Bruoe,  of  Marl- 
borough; suppose  they  have  some  family,  how  many  is  un- 
.known.  William  H.  Moody  died,  maybe  twenty  years  ago; 
he  was  a  good  citizen.  Before  the  war  he  first  held  a  Captain's 
commission  in  the  Berry's  Cross  Roads  militia  company,  and  as 
hereinbefore  stated,  the  contest  for  the  Captaincy  of  said  com- 
pany, in  1840  or  1 84 1,  was  spirited  and  hot,  but  Moody  was 
elected  by  thirteen  votes.  Afterward,  when  Major  James  R. 
Bethea  was  elected  Colonel  of  the  regiment,  the  Majorship  of 
.the  upper  battalion  became  vacant,  and  William  Moody  was 
elected  Major  of  the  upper  battalion,  which  position  he  held 
with  credit  to  himself  for  several  years;  he  never  aspired  to 
any  other  position.  Evander  J.  Moody,  the  second  son  of  Bar- 
field  Moody,  grew  up,  and  first  married  Miss  Florence  Smith, 
a  daughter  of  Samud  Smith,  of  Buck  Swamp;  she  had  one 
child,  a  daughter,  named  Florence,  and  died.  Florence,  the 
child,  was  raised  by  her  Grand-mother  Smith  while  she  lived, 
and  after  the  death  of  her  grand-mother  she  went  back  to  her 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  335 

■father,  who  in  the  meantime  ihad  married  again,  to  the  Widow 
Lester  (twice  a  widow,  her  rnaiden  name  was  Jane  Tart) ,  and 
remained  with  him  until  17th  May,  187 1,  when  she  married  Dr. 
J.  C.  MuUins  (a  second  wife) ;  by  this  marriage  three  sons  and 
one  daughter  were  born — Randolph,  Frank  and  Woods;  the 
daughter  is  also  named  Florence,  and  is  approaching  woman- 
hood. Frank  MuUins  died  a  young  man,  unmarried.  Ran- 
dolph has  emigrated  to  Greenville,  and  is  in  the  drug  business. 
Woods  and  Florence,  Jr.,  are  with  their  mother,  at  Maripn. 
Dr.  J.  C.  Mu'llins  died  about  three  years  ago.  By  E.  J. 
Moody's  second  marriage,  he  had  and  raised  two  sons,  Thomas 
E.  and  Cornelius  G.  Thomas  E.  grew  up  and  married  a  Miss 
Eittle,  daughter  of  Rev.  Lewis  H.  Little ;  he  gave  promise  of 
being  an  energetic  and  progressive  man,  but  suddenly  died  soon 
after  his  marriage,  childless ;  his  widow  remained  for  a  year  or 
itwo  with  E.  J.  Moody's  family,  and  then  returned  to  her  own 
people.  Cornelius  G.  never  married;  he  was  a  very  steady, 
fevel4ieaded,  straightforward  young  man,  and  gave  promise  of 
success  and  good  citizenship ;  but,  alas !  he  took  sick  and  died 
some  three  or  four  years  ago.  The  two  daughters  of  E.  J. 
Moody,  by  his  last  marriage,  were  Virginia  and  Maggie.  Vir- 
ginia married  Douglas  Mclntyre,  of  Marion,  and  has  already 
been  noticed  herein  in  or  among  the  Mclntyre  family.  Maggie 
married  Dr.  D.  I.  Watson,  now  of  Southpprt,  N.  C,  and  has 
already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Watson  family ;  they  have 
several  children.  E.  J.  Moody  has  been  and  is  yet  a  large- 
hearted  man,  hospitable  to  a  fault;  has  been  a  man  of  aflfairs, 
ferming  and  merchandizing  all  his  life,  and  during  his  long- 
life  (he  is  now  seventy-five  years  of  age)  he  has  given  away 
at  his  table  and  house  enough  to  make  a  small  fortune;  his 
wife,  Jane,  was  one  of  the  noblest  of  women ;  she  died  several 
years  ago,  after  which  her  husband  kept  house  with  his  son, 
Cornelius  (called  Neill),  for  a  while,  and  then  broke  up,  and 
E.  J.  Moody  since  that  time  has  been  staying  with  children 
(surviving)  and  other  relatives;  he  has  an  income  sufficient 
■for  his  support;  he  has  done  his  part  in  developing  the  re- 
sources and  bringing  up  the  county  to  its  present  high  position, 
and  has  nothing  now  to  do  but  to  ruminate  on  the  past  and  ,to 
prepare  for  his  approaching  end.     Robert  B.  Moody,  the  third 


336  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

son  of  Barfield,  grew  up  and  early  volunteered  for  service  in 
the  Confederate  army,  rose  to  a  Lieutenantcy  therein,  and  con- 
tinued to  the  end  of  the  -yvar ;  he  went  first  in  Captain  Stanley's 
icompany,  and  on  its  reorganization  left  it  and  went  into  Cap- 
tain Finklea's  company  as  Lieutenant,  which  composed  part  of 
the  Twenty-third  Regiment,  South  Carolina  Volunteers. 
After  the  war  he  married  Miss  Delilah  Wyche,  of  Virginia, 
who  came  down  into  this  county  to  teach  school ;  upon  his  mar- 
riage he  repaired  with  his  wife  to  her  home  in  Virginia 
(Greenfield  or  Westfield),  where  he  settled  and  lived  for 
many  years ;  he  had  but  one  child,  a  daughter,  who  grew  up, 
and  after  her  mother's  death  married  her  first  cousin.  Dr.  Rob- 
ert A.  Bass,  of  Latta,  S.  C,  and  who  now  resides  at  Latta,  and 
has  three  or  four  children ;  her  father,  after  some  time,  married 
again,  a  widow  lady,  with  one  child,  a  daughter;  they  went 
to  Richmond,  Va.,  where,  in  1891,  they  were  keeping  a  large 
hotel — whether  it  belonged  to  his  wife  or  whether  it  was 
rented,  the  writer  knoweth  not,  but  rather  thinks  it  belonged 
to  his  wife.  The  writer  spent  one  day  and  night  with  them 
very  pleasantly,  in  the  summer  of  1891 ;  when  he  went  to  leave, 
he  asked  for  his  bill,  and  "Bob,"  as  we  used  to  call  him,  said 
it  was  nothing ;  he  insisted  upon  paying  it,  but  he  and  his  wife 
absolutely  refused  it.  They  showed  me  much  attention  while 
?n  Richmond,  got  a  ^carriage  with  two  horses  and  took  me 
with  his  wife  over  the  city  to  various  places  of  interest  and 
among  them  the  "White  House  of  the  Confederacy,"  where  the 
lamented  Winnie  Davis,  the  daughter  of  the  Confederacy,  was 
born.  We  went  into  every  room  in  the  house,  and  Mrs.  Moody 
pointed  out  the  room  in  which  Winnie  was  born — a  sacred 
'Spot  to  every  Southerner.  The  house  was  then  unoccupied; 
the  key  to  it  was  obtained  from  its  keeper^  a  colored  man.  It 
is  in  a  very  eligible  spot,  not  far  from  the  Capitol.  I  suppose 
it  has  been  much  adorned  and  beautified  since  that  time. 
Some  four  or  five  years  after  that  time,  "Bob"  came  out  here 
to  see  his  friends  and  relatives,  and  was  sick  and  died  at 
Latta,  with  a  cancer  oYi  his  lip,  and  he  was  buried  here  in  the 
land  of  his  birth.  Peace  be  to  his  ashes.  He  had  no  child  by 
the  last  wife.  Thomas  C;  Moody,  the  fourth  son  of  Barfield 
Moody,  was  in  the  Clerk's  office  as  his  father's  deputy,  at  his 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  337 

father's  death,  in  April,  i860 — when,  as  a  matter  of  course,  he 
had  to  retire.  Asa  Godbold,  the  then  Ordinary,  became  Clerk 
until  a  successor  to  the  dead  Clerk  was  elected  and'  qualified ; 
this  was  then  existing  law.  An  election  for  Clerk  was  ordered 
by  the  proper  authorities  to  be  held  in  June  following.  At  this 
election  the  young  deputy  was  a  candidate  for  the  office  against 
five  others,  every  one  of  whom  was  much  more  competent  than 
"Tom,"  as  he  was  called,  and  is  so  called  yet;  he  was  then 
twenty-three  years  of  age,  with  but  little  education,  no  experi- 
ence in  such  matters,  a  verdant,  green,  country  youth — could 
not  write  legibly — ^yet  led  the  ticket  at  the  election  by  seventy 
,  votes.  One  of  his  supporters  in  that  election  was  the  writer. 
It  was  thought  by  many  that,  on  account  of  his  youth  and  inex- 
perience, he  would  not  be  able  to  properly  perform  the  duties 
of  the  office.  This  is  said,  not  in  disparagement  of  Mr. 
Moody,  but  it  is  said  to  bis  credit,  as  the  sequel  will  show.  He 
qualified  and  took  charge  of  the  office  and  held  it  till  the  next 
regular  election,  when'  he  was  again  elected,  and  held  the  sec- 
ond term  until  he  was  ousted  by  reconstruction.  As  time 
rolled  along,  be  improved,  and  became  a  very  efficient  Clerk 
and  performed  its  duties  satisfactorily.  As  an  evidence  of  his 
ihefficiency  on  account  of  his  lack  of  experience,  I  will  relate 
an  incident  of  what  occurred  in  Court  shortly  after  Mr.  Moody 
went  into  office — I  think,  the  October  term,  i860.  The  Clerk, 
as  required  by  law,  made  up  the  dockets  for  the  Court.  Judge 
W'hitner  presided ;  and  in  calling  the  cases  on  the  dt)cket  the 
Judge  mistook  the  letter  '^C"  for  "G,"  which  made  quite  a  dif- 
ference in  the  name  or  word.  Some  member  of  the  bar  spoke 
to  the  Judge  and  corrected  the  call.  The  Judge  looked'  at  it 
more  critically  and  said,  "I  would  never  call  that  a  'C  "  He 
then  spoke  to  fhe  Clerk,  and  said  to  him,  "Come  up  here,  you 
are  a  young  Clerk,  and  let  me  show  you  how  to  make  a  'C  " 
The  Clerk,  of  course,  went  up  to  the  Judge  and  the  Judge  took 
up  his  pen,  and  made  a  "C"  for  the  Clerk's  guidance.  This  is 
also  related  to  the  credit  of  Mr.  Moody.  "Tom"  was  again  a 
candidate  for  Olerk,  in  1872,  and  was  elected,  but  the  then 
powers  that  be  counted  every  Democratic  candidate  (and  all 
were  elected)  out.  "Tom"  kept  improving  as  time  advanced, 
and  after  the  redemption  of  the  State  in  1876,  he  was  elected 


338  A  HISfORY-  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

to  the  lower  House  of  the  State  Legislature  (don't  remember 
what  year) ;  he  served  a  term  in  that  house,  and  in  1884  was 
nominated  and  elected  Senator  from  the  county  in  the  Ivegis- 
lature ;  he  served  four  years,  was  again  nominated  and  again 
elected  to  the  Senate,  in  1888,  and  served  a  second  term,  till 
11892.  The  upheaval  in  the  State  that  year  relegated  every 
man  to  the  rear  that  did  not  ohime  in  with  the  views  of  B.  R. 
Tillman.  During  Mr.  Moody'si  first  term  in  the  Senate,  or 
just  before,  he  married  Miss  Eliza  Ellerbe,  a  daughter  of 
Captain  W.  S.  Ellerbe,  and  sister  to  the  late  Governor  Ellerbe ; 
they  had  no  children,  and  she  died  in  1896  or  1897 ;  he  did  not 
marry  till  late  in  life,  and  he  has  not  remarried ;  and  lives  a  life 
of  retirement  and  "splendid  leisure,"  he  having  acquired  a 
loompetency  to  live  on ;  he  is  now  sixty-four  years  of  age.  T. 
C.  Moody  is  a  kind-hearted  man  and  very  considerate  of  the 
poor,  and  after  he  went  out  of  the  Clerk's  office  kept  many  a 
poor  fellow  from  going  to  jail  by  going  on  his  bond  for  his 
appearance  at  Court;  his  sympathies  were  not  hard  to  arouse 
in  favor  of  the  distressed.  Could  say  much  more  favorable  to 
Mr.  Moody,  but  space  will  not  permit.  Albert  C.  Moody,  the 
fiftli  and  youngest  son  of  old  Barfield  Moody,  grew  up  just 
in  time  for  the  war ;  he  volunteered,  went  into  the  service  early 
in  the  war  and  remained  to  tflie  last ;  when  he  came  home  from 
the  army  he  went  to  Lumberton,  N.  C,  and  there  married  a 
daughter  of  Sheriff  King,  and  remained  there  until  King's 
dieath.  King  was  murdered,  as  it  was  said,  by  the  Lowry 
gang— na  gang  which  terrorized  Robeson  County  for  several 
years  after  the  war,  robbing  and  killing  many  of  the  citizens.. 
The  State  troops  were  called  out  to  suppress  them,  but  they 
were  of  little  avail.  Sheriff  King  was  a  wealthy  man  and  re- 
puted to  have  plenty  of  money — which,  no  doubt,  was  the 
inducement  to  his  murder.  Albert,  with  his  wife,  came  from 
there  to  this  county,  and  settled  about  six  miles  above  Marion, 
on  the  road  leading  to  Buck  Swamp  Bridge;  has  raised  a  con- 
siderable family  of  sons  and  daughters,  some  of  them  grown. — 
a  daughter,  who  married  a  Mr.  Hunter ;  he  lost  a  grown  son 
by  death  a  few  years  ago.  Albert  is  a  farmer,  and  though  not 
very  progressive,  yet  manages  to  support  his  family.  Barfield 
Moody  had  four  daughters,  Sarah  Ann,  Lucy,  Julia  and  Lizzie. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  839 

Tlie  eldest,  Sarah  Ann,  a  very  aooomplished  lady,  married  John 
Crawford,  of  Alabama,  a  relative  of  hers  through  her  mother ; 
soon  after  the  marriage  they  went  to  Alabama ;  she  had  one 
fchild,  a  son,  named  Albert-,  familiarly  called  here  "Dock ;"  she 
died,  and  Albert,  or  "Dock,"  was  raised  by  his  people  in  Ala- 
bama and  by  those  here — especially  the  latter  part  of  his  rais- 
ing ;  he  was  intelligent  and  promising ;  he  merdhandised  a  while 
at  Marion,  but  did  not  succeed  well ;  he  was  appointed  County 
Auditor.  It  was  soon  discovered  that  he  was  incompetent,  his 
habits  not  good,  and  finally  he  was  removed  or  resigned  his 
office,  and  was  sent  to  the  Asylum  for  treatment ;  after  staying 
in  the  Asylum  for  some  months,  he  was  discharged  and  sent 
home ;  he  was  unmarried ;  he  left  for  Georgia  or  Alabama  and 
died  in  Georgia — doubtless  a  victim  of  the  drink  habit.  A 
lesson  for  all  young  men  Who  are  cognizant  of  his  case.  The 
third  daughter  of  old  Barfield  Moody,  Lucy,  married  Captain 
James  W.  Bass ;  a  good  woman  she  was,  but  she  has  already 
been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Bass  family.  Julia,  the  fourth 
daugihter,  married  William  P.  Deer,  just  at  the  beginning  of 
the  war ;  he  volunteered  and  went  through  the  war ;  the  fruits 
of  the  marriage  were  two  daughters,  Blanche  and  Lula. 
Blanche  married  Henry  Berry,  and  lives  upon  the  Deer  home- 
stead ;  they  have  two  or  three  children,  all  small.  Lula  mar- 
ried her  first  cousin,  C.  G.  Bass ;  they  have  only  one  child,- and 
have  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Bass  family.  Wm. 
P.  Deer  left  or  disappeared  some  fifteen  or  twenty  years  ago, 
and  'he  has  not  been  heard  of  since,  as  the  writer  has  been 
informed  lately  by  his  sister,  Mrs.  William  Watson.  Mrs. 
Lucy  Bass  and  Mrs.  Deer  are  both  dead.  The  second  daugh- 
ter of  Barfield  Moody  (omitted  in  the  order  of  births),  Lizzie, 
married  Major  W.  D.  Lamb,  then  a  citizen  of  the  county ;  they 
had  and  raised  seven  sons,  names  not  remembered;  their 
mother  died  some  years  ago ;  the  boys  grew  up  and  one  by  one 
they  emigrated  to  Florida ;  and  finally  the  father  went  and  soon 
after  died  in  Florida.  The  sons  are  all  there.  Major  Lamb 
was  a  character,  but  space  will  not  permit  a  further'  notice  of 
him. 

Rev.  Tapley  Moody,  an  old  man  sixty  or  seventy  years  ago, 
was  the  head  of  another  brandh  of  the  Moody  family  in  this 


340  A  HISTORY  O^  MARION  COUNTY. 

county.  Old  "Tap,"  as  he  was  called,  was  an  excellent  man, 
0.  Christian  gentleman,  a  local  Methodist  preacher,  and  a  man 
of  no  ordinary  ability — if  he  had  been  educated,  he,  doubtless, 
would  have  been  a  power.  The  writer  has  (heard  him  preach 
many  times — he  was  a  strong  preacher.  In  some  parts  of  a 
sermon  he  became  truly  eloquent;  the  confidence  the  people 
had  in  his  piety  gave  effect  to  his  sermon.  He  was  greatly 
beloved  by  all,  whether  in  the  church  or  out  of  it — was  univer- 
sally popular;  married  more  couples  than  any  other  man  of 
his  day  or  since  his  time — was  sent  for  far  and  near  to  marry 
people.  He  was  a  poor  man,  and  had  and  raised  a  large  family 
of  sons  and  daughters — ^he  raised  them  right  and  respectably ; 
don't  know  that  I  can  name  all  of  his  sons ;  they  were,  as  now 
remembered,  John  H.,  Stephen,  Daniel,  Tapley,  Wesley  and 
James  R.  Ervin ;  may  have  'been  another  one  or  two,  and  some 
daughters — three  or  four;  don't  know  who  his  wife  was,  but 
think  she  was  a  Miss  Herring.  All  the  sons  were  good  men 
and  made  good  citizens;  think  they  are  all  dead.  John  H., 
the  oldest,  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Mace,  already  mentioned 
in  or  among  the  Mace  family.  Stephen'  married  Miss  Obeda 
Butler,  a  daughter  of  Elias  Butler,  in  the  Gaddy  neighborihood ; 
they  had  and  raised'  a  family,  don't  know  how  many — know 
but  one,  Enos  M'oody,  a  capital  citizen  of  Carmiohael  Town- 
ship, near  Dillion ;  he  has  a  family,  not  known  of ;  his  mother, 
Obeda,  still  lives.  The  name,  in  that  family  of  Butlers,  I 
^hink,  is  extinct.  Daniel  Moody  married  the  Widow  Mary 
Edwards,  a  daughter  of  the  "Widow  Betsy  Moody,"  on  Buck 
Swamp;  think  they  are  both  dead.  Tapley  married  some  one 
not  known ;  so  did  Wesley.  James  R.  Ervin  married,  first,  a 
widow,  whose  maiden'  name  was  Mary  Crawford,  a  niece  of 
Cross  Roads  Henry  Berry's  wife ;  she  died ;  think  she  left  two 
children;  he  married  again,  a  Miss  Finklea,  daughter  of  the 
late  Willis  Finklea,  and  had  some  family,  how  many  not 
known ;  he  is  dead.  Of  the  daughters  of  old  Tapley  Moody, 
one  married  the  late  Jessee  Hays,  of  Reaves  Township;  she 
had  one  ohild,  a  daughter,  who  married  some  one  unkhown. 
Jessee  Hays  was  a  good  citizen ;  he  and  his  wife  are  both  dead ; 
don't  know  anything  of  the  other  daughters  of  old  Tapley 
Moody,  who  was  a  Mason,  and  died  in  1843 ;  was  at  his  funeral 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  341 

(Masonic) ;  he  was  buried  on  the  plantation  of  Wm.  D  Rob- 
erts, on'Bu'ck  Swamp. 

Another  branch  of  ithe  Moody  family  was  represented  by 
three  brothers,  Josiah,  John  W.  and  Joshua  T.  Moody.  They 
were  related  to  all  the  foregoing  Moodys,  but  what  it  is,  is  not 
known.  Josiah  Moody  went  to  school  at  Pine  Hill,  in  1842 
and  1844 — ^the  writer  went  to  school  there  at  the  same  time; 
he  was  a  genial  young  man  and  full  of  the  spice  of  life ;  he  was 
then  grown;  he  afterwards  married  the  Widow  Polly  Piatt, 
widtow  of  old  Daniel  Piatt,  who  lived  just  below  Latta;  she 
had  six  or  seven  children.  In  1854,  he  and  Hugh  Haselden 
built  a  large  hotel  at  Marion,  as  Moody  &  Haselden ;  the  hotel 
was  near  the  depot,  and  is  remembered  by  many  now  living. 
It  was  intended  for  a  railroad  house — was  built  just  as  the 
railroad  was  finished,  but  did  not  run  long;  they  sold  it  to 
Philip  P.  Bethea.  Of  course,  a  barroom  was  appended  to  it. 
Bethea  and  Gilbert  W.  McKay  ran  it  till  about  the  beginning 
of  the  war,  when  they  sold  it  to  Woodward  Manning.  It  is 
not  necessary  to  trace  its  history  any  further.  John  W. 
,Moody  emigraied  with  his  family,  or  as  many  of  them  as 
would  go,  to  Texas ;  know  nothing  further  of  him.  John  W. 
Moody,  when  quite  young,  went  to  clerking  for  Wyatt  Fuller, 
at  Allen's  Bridge ;  and  suoh  was  his  aptitude  for  business  that 
Fuller  kept  him  until  his  (Fuller's)  death,  which,  I  think, 
occurred  in  the  last  of  the  forties  or  early  fifties,  and  for  the 
last  two  or  three  years  of  Fuller's  life,  he  being  unable  to  attend 
to  it,  the  whole  business  was  run  by  John  W.  Moody,  and 
apparently  with  success.  Moody  was  well  up  to  such  business 
and  was  trustworthy.  In  the  meantime,  he  married  Miss 
Shooter,  ■  the  only  daughter  of  Benjamin  Shooter.  After 
Fuller's  death  and  his  affairs  wound  up,  Moody's  wife  having 
died  in  the  meantime,  he,  I  think,  went  to  Texas  also — ^^he  dis- 
appeared, and  have  heard  that  he  was  dead ;  don't  know  if  he 
had  any  children.  Joshua  T.  Moody,  the  youngest  brother, 
was  well  known  in  this  county ;  he  was  also  a  genial  gentleman, 
])arge-Jhearted  and  liberal  to  a  fault ;  he  would  make  any  per- 
sonal sacrifice  to  accommodate  a  friend ;  honest  and  honorable 
in  all  his  dealings,  full  of  life  and  buoyancy,^  and  of  gushing 
hospitality ;  he  merchandized  a  while,  run  a  barroom  a  while. 


842  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

and  filially  bought  a  part  of  the  John  J.  Collins  land,  near  Ariel, 
and  for  several  of  the  last  years  of  his  life  he  farmed  on  it,  and 
succeeded  .very  well ;  he  married  Miss  Evaline  Moody;  a  rela- 
<tjve,  as  herein  already  stated;  they  had  two  children,  Lizzie 
and  James  A.  Lizzie  married  McQuincy  Bryant,  as  already 
•stated,  and  has  a  family.  James  A.  Moody  has  not  married ; 
he  is  a  worthy  son  of  a  noble  father  and  mother,  both  of  whom 
are  dead — the  father  died  first ;  the  place,  as  I  suppose,  belongs 
ip  James  A.  and  his  sister,  Mrs.  Bryant.  There  was  another 
Moody,  named  Jessee,  who  belonged,  as  said,  to  this  branch  of 
the  Moody  family ;  he  was  an  excitable  and  over-religious  man, 
an  exhorter  in  the  Methodist  Church ;  his  hair  curled  as  much 
as  I  ever  saw ;  the  old  man  would  shout  when  he  felt  like  it, 
and  I  heard  one  of  the  clerical  brethren  once  say  of  him,  that 
when  old  Jessee  got  happy  in  church,  that  his  hair  was  so  kinky 
tJhat  it  would  lift  him  off  the  floor ;  suppose  he's  dead. 

HarlleS. — The  name,  Harllee,  is  a  change  in  the  orthog- 
raphy, retaining  nearly  the  same  pronunciation  as  the  original 
name,  Harley,  which  the  ancestor  of  the  Harllees  bore.  These 
descended  from  a  younger  branch  of  the  house,  which  was 
represented  by  Robert  Harley,  Earl  of  Oxford,  during  the 
reign  of  Queen  Anne.  The  younger  brother,  Peter  Harley,  the 
ancestor  of  the  present  Harllees,  espoused  the  cause  of  the 
exiled  house  of  Stewart,  and  was  among  those  active  in  at- 
tempting to  restore  the  "Pretender"  to  the  throne  of  England. 
A  price  was  put  on  his  head  as  a  penalty  of  this  prominence 
in  the  Jacobin  cause,  and  he  was  compelled  to  remain  concealed 
uritil  his  kinsmen  obtained  for  him  a  pardon  from  the  govern- 
ment; but,  probably  at  the  suggestion  of  the  Earl  of  Oxford 
hiniself,  who  was  anxious  to  sever  all  connection  with  one  of 
the  unpopular  party,  the  condition  of  the  pardoti  was  that  Peter 
Harley  should  change  his  name.  He  agreed  to  alter  the  spell- 
ing of  the  name,  but  to  retain  the  sound  as  nearly  as  possible — 
so  thenceforth  he  became  Peter  Harllee.  Througth  the  patron- 
age of  his  then  powerful  kinsman  he  obtained  an  appointment 
in  the  navy  for  his  only  son,  Peter,  who  was  subsequently 
f)romoted  to  the  Captaincy  of  a  British  man-of-war.  Peter 
remained  in  this  position  until  his  sixtieth  year,  when,  owing 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  343 

to  his  failing  healfh  and  on  account  of  a  wound,  he  resigned 
his  commission,  retired  on  his  pension  and  settled  in  Virginia, 
then  a  British  colony  about  the  year  1758.  He  had  remained 
a  bachelor  until  this  time,  but  the  following  year,  when  sixty- 
one  years  old,  ihe  married  Ann  Leake,  of  Goochland  County, 
Va.,  a  maiden  lady,  forty-five  years  old ;  the  result  of  this  mar- 
riage was  four  children — Ellen,  Jane,  John  and  Tihomas. 
Ellen  married  William  A(te.ms,  for  whom  Adamsville,  in  Marl- 
borough County,  is  named ;  Jane  married  Thomas  Cottingham ; 
John  died  in  youth ;  Thomas,  the  youngest,  was  just  sixteen 
years  old  at  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis,  at  Yorktown, 
1 78 1.  His  father  having  a  contract  with  the  commissary  of 
Washington's  army  to  supply  'beeves,  sent  his  sons,  with  some 
negro  slaves,  in  charge  of  a  herd  of  cattle  to  Yorktown ;  they 
reached  there  on  the  eve  of  Cornwallis'  surrender.  The  boy 
witnessed,  and  in  after  years  often  related  the  circumstances 
to  his  children.  The  son  was  too  young  to  serve  in  the  army, 
and  the  father  too  old,  being  then  over  eighty  years  of  age. 
Peter  Harllee  died  soon  after  the  close  of  the  war,  leaving  his 
iamily  impoverished,  not  only  through  the  loss  of  his  British 
pension,  but  because  that  portion  of  Virginia  had  suffered  de- 
vastation at  the  hands  of  both  armies.  Thomas  moved'  with 
his  mother  and  sisters  to  South  Carolina.  He  often  related 
to  his  children,  that,  being  very  poor,  he  engaged  in  manual 
labor  beyond  his  strength  to  obtain  money  to  forward  a  claim 
to  the  British  government  for  the  renewal  and  the  arrears  of 
pension  due  to  his  father.  This  claim,  made  through  our  Min- 
ister to  Great  Britain,  was  refused,  the  authorities  asserting 
that  Captain  Peter  Harllee  had  been  a  rebel,  and  had  aided  the 
colonies  in  their  revolt,  and  had  thus  forfeited  all  claims  upon 
Great  Britain.  Finding  himself  without  other  resources  than 
those  of  youth,  health  and  energy,  he  literally  became  the 
architect  of  his  own  fortunes.  He  had  settled  on  Little  Pee 
Dee  River,  where  R.  P.  Hamer,  Sr.,  now  lives.  Agriculture 
being  in  its  infancy  in  that  section,  offered  little  hopes  of  live- 
lihood; but  having  considerable  mechanical  skill,  he  engaged 
in  boat  and  flat  making  and  found  it  very  profitable.  By  this 
means  he  laid  the  foundation  of  the  large  property  which  he  '^ 
possessed  at  his  dealth.  He  sold  his  flats  to  the  rice  planters, 
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344  A  HISTORY  0?  MARION  COUNTY. 

and  loadted  his  pole-'boats  with  merchandise  for  his  store  on 
Little  Pee  Dee.  This  was  the  only  store  between  Marion 
Court  House  and  Cheraw.  He  engag^  largely  in  farming 
and  stock-raising,  and  entered  all  the  lands  for  several  miles 
around  him  on  both  sides  of  the  river.  With  an  education  so 
limited  that  when  he  came  to  Soulth  Carolina,  he  could  only 
read  and  write,  his  ambition  stimulated  him  to  educate  himself. 
Being  too  poor  to  buy  candles,  often,  after  a  hard  day's  work, 
he  situdied  for  hours  by  a  fire  of  blazing  lightwood;  thus  he 
acquired  the  rudiments  of  knowledge  and  mad^e  sufficient 
progress  in  mathematics  to  begin  surveying,  and  did  much 
of  this  work ;  was  employed  by  the  State  to  survey  several  dis- 
tricts in  the  eastern  pant  of  the  State  for  a  large  map  of  the 
State.  This  map  is  sitill  extant  and  very  accurate.  He  was 
aided  in  this  work  by  his  eldest  son,  John,  who  became  one  of 
■the  best  surveyors  in  the  State.  He  continued  to  enter  and  buy 
land  as  he  accumulalted  the  funds  to  do  so,  paid  for  it  in  coin 
weighed  by  avoirdupois,  as  was  then  customary.  He  pros- 
pered in  everything  in  which  he  engaged.  He  often  told 
his  children  that  he  attributed  the  blessings  of  Providtence 
upon  his  undertakings  to  his  life-long  respect,  affection  and 
devotion  for  his  aged  mother,  who  continued  to  live  with  him 
until  her  death  in  1810,  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-six 
years ;  she  had  retained  Itbe  most  extraordinary  vigor  of  mind 
and  body.-  When  Marion  was  first  organized  as  a  district, 
Thomas  Harllee  represented  it  in  the  IvCgislature ;  he  was  for 
many  years  Clerk  of  tihe  Court  for  Marion  District,  having  in 
his  office  a  poor  iboy  from  Lumberton,  N.  C,  as  assistant,  E.  B. 
Wheeler,  who  succeeded  his  benefactor  as  Clerk)  and  held  the 
office  continuously  until  his  death  in  1859.  Thomas  Harllee, 
when  young,  married  a  girl  of  Scotch  parentage,  named  Eliza- 
beth Stuart;  her  fa'ther,  David  Stuart,  emigrated  from  Scot- 
land and  seittled  in  Richmond  County,  N.  C.  He,  with  his  two 
sons,  David  and  Hardy,  foughlt  through  the  Revolutionary 
War  under  General  Marion.  David  Stuant,  Sr.,  died  about 
tihe  close  of  the  war,  but  his  two  sons  survived  him ;  neither  of 
tjhose  sons  left  descendants.  David  Stuart,  Jr.,  was  taken 
prisoner  by  the  British,  and  was  one  of  the  few  who  survived 
•tihe   terrible   incarcerations    in   the   British   prison   ships    in 


A  HISTORY  Ot  MARION  COUNTY.  845 

Charlesiton  harbor.  In  this  connection  it  may  be  mentioned 
tihalt  in  the  lower  part  of  Barnwell,  Hampton  and  Orangeburg 
Counties,  there  is  a  large  family  of  Harleys,  between  whom 
and  the  Harllees  of  the  Pee  Dee  section  is  a  very  striking 
nesemblance — so  marked  is  this  resemblance,  that  at  one  time 
before  the  war,  when  Dr.  Robert  Harllee  represented  Marion 
County  in  the  State  Senate,  and  Dr.  Robert  Harley  represented 
Barnwell  in  the  same  body,  the  presiding  officer  of  the  Senate 
frequently  mistook  the  one  for  the  other.  There  were  bom  to 
Thomas  Harllee  and  wife  ten  children — John  Anne,  Elizabeth, 
David  S.,  Peter,  Robert,  Thomas,  Harriet,  William  W.  and 
Lucretia ;  the  last  died  in  childhood ;  the  others  all  attained  to 
manhood  and  womanhood — some  of  them  living  to  advanced 
ages,  rearing  large  families  of  children;  but  all  of  them  are 
now  dead — General  W.  W.  Harllee,  the  youngest,  being  the 
last  one  to  die — hie  died  in  1897,  at  the  age  of  eighty-five  years. 
The  oldest  son.  Major  John  Harllee,  was  a  well  known  man 
throughout  the  Pee  Dee  section ;  he  was  a  man  of  fine  mind  and 
splendid  intellect.  In  his  youth  he  was  appointed  a  Lieutenant 
in  the  United  States  army;  he  saw  much  service  with  the  In- 
dians and  with  General  Jackson  against  the  British  at  New 
Orleans.  While  stationed  on  the  frontier,  which  was  then 
Louisiana,  he  became  involved  in  a  j)ersonal  difficulty  with  a 
fellow-Lieutenant,  and  the  lartter  challenged  him  to  mortal 
com'bat — duelling  in  those  days,  especially  among  army  officers, 
A^as  very  common.  Lieutenant  David  E.  Twiggs,  afterwards 
a  Major  General  of  the  United  States  army,  and  Who  distin- 
guished himself  in  the  war  with  Mexico,  was  the  second  of 
Lieutenant  Harllee  in  the  affair.  They  fought  with  rifles  at 
forty  paces ;  Lieutenant  Harllee  threw  away  his  shot  at  a  sap- 
ling in  the  opposite  direction  from  his  challenger.  After  the 
latter  had  fired,  he  taunted  Lieutenant  Harllee  with  being 
afraid  to  shoot  at  him,  and  demanded  another  shot,  which  was 
accorded  him,  and  ait  the  word  fire,  the  rifles  cracked  and  the 
challenger  fell  dead — shot  through  the  hips.  Soon  after  this 
affair  of  honor,  which  he  ever  after  deplored.  Lieutenant  Harl- 
lee resigned  from  the  army  and  returned  to  his  home,  where 
he  engaged  in  surveying  and  teaching  school,  until  he  became 
an  old  man.     He  was  an  expert  and  very  correct  surveyor,  but 


346  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

did  not  work  at  that  employment  constantly.  He  was  an  ex- 
cellent and  pains-taking  teacher,  but  did  that  work  also  spas- 
modically. During  his  long  vacaiions  his  visits  to  his  brothers' 
and  sisters'  families,  where  he  spent  these  intervals,  were  wel- 
come events  to  the  children  of  the  families,  especially  his 
quaint  and  original  expressions  and  narrations  of  his  varied 
career,  all  of  which  were  enjoyed  by  everybody,  and  can  never 
be  forgotten  by  those  who  knew  him.  In  early  life  he  was  a 
keen  sportsman,  but  as  age  grew  upon  him  he  could  only  in- 
dulge in  fishing,  which  seemed  to  be  a  ruling  passion ;  this  and 
reading  were  his  only  occupations  in  his  last  years.  His  lit- 
erary talents  led  him  to  read  everything ;  he  could  quote  pages 
and  pages  from  his  favorite  poets,  and  had  rare  poetic  gifts 
himself — he,  indeed,  had  in  himself  the  elements  of  a  grand 
and  original  character.  He  was  never  married,  and  spent  his 
last  years  in  comfort  at  the  home  of  his  niece,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
McRae,  at  Argyle,  N.  C.,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
nine  years. 

Colonel  David  Stuart  Harllee  was  the  second  son.  His 
father  settled  him  near  him  on  lands  now  owned  by  M.  R.  and 
E.  R.  Hamer.  He  was  Sheriff  of  the  county,  while  he  lived 
there,  but  soon  sold  out  his  lands  and  moved  to  Cheraw,  S.  C, 
where  for  a  long  period  he  was  a  leading  merchant  of  the 
town.  He  finally  sold  out  his  mercantile  business,  bought  a 
large  plantation  in  Marlborough  County,  moved  and  lived 
there  till  he  died.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  laite  in  life,  at 
the  age  of  fifty-one  years — ^he  and  the  writer  were  both  ad- 
mitted in  the  same  class ;  he  became  a  good  lawyer.  He  mar- 
ried Harriet  Barnes,  of  Ro^beson  County,  N.  C,  and  they  raised 
a  family  of  three  sons  and  four  daughters.  The  eldest  son. 
Major  James  J.  Harllee,  was  a  lawyer ;  he  began  the  practice 
of  his  profession  at  Marion  Court  House,  but  soon  gave  up  the 
law  to  devote  his  entire  aittention  to  his  large  farming  interest, 
near  town.  He  married  the  only  daughter  of  A.  L.  Scar- 
borough. Just  before  the  civil  war,  he  sold  out  his  land  and 
moved  to  Arkansas ;  he  owned  a  large  number  of  slaves,  and  he 
carried  them  with  him  to  Arkansas.  He  was  a  successful 
planter  until  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war.  He  fought 
through  the  war  in  the  cavalty,  and  after  the  surrender  the 


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government,  through  the  Freedman's  Bureau,  seized  several 
hundred  bales  of  cotton  belonging  to  him.  After  a  long  con- 
troversy, he  gained  back  his  cotton,  and  on  the  day  he  suc- 
ceeded in  his  suit  for  his  cotton,  he  mounted  his  horse,  in  the 
town  of  Arkadelphia,  to  return  to  his  home,  a  few  miles  dis- 
tant, but  his  horse  becoming  frightened  became  unmanageable, 
threw  him  and  killed  him.  He  was  married  before  leaving 
Soutlh  Carolina,  but  left  no  children.  Dr.  William  F.  Harllee, 
was  the  second  son.  He  first  married  a  Miss  Medley,  in  Anson 
County,  N.  C,  and  after  her  death,  a  Miss  McRae,  daughter  of 
General  McRae,  of  Newberne,  N.  C.  He  raised  several  child- 
ren, and  died  several  years  ago.  He  was  an  Assistant  Surgeon 
in  the  Confederate  army  during  the  entire  war.  The  young- 
est son  of  Colonel  D.  S.  Harllee  is  Thomas  Henry  Harllee,  Sr., 
who  lives  ait  Florence,  S.  C.  He  married  Margaret  McCoU, 
daughter  of  William  McCbll,  near  Florence,  S.  'C. ;  they  have 
raised  a  family  of  three  sons  and  iour  daughters,  all  of  whom 
are  now  living.  Two  of  his  'sons,  Thomas  H.,  Jr.,  and  David 
S.,  are  popular  conductors  on  the  Atlantic  Coast  Line  Railroad. 
The  eldest  daughter  of  Colonel  D.  S.  Harllee,  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried, first,  Dr.  Neill  McNair,  of  Robeson  County,  N.  C. ;  they 
had  one  son,  Harllee  McNair,  who  entered  the  Confederate 
service,  and  was  stationed  at  Wilmington,  N.  C,  where  he  died 
early  in  the  war.  After  the  death  of  Dr.  McNair,  his  widow 
married  Alex.  McRae,  of  Wilmington,  N.  C. ;  they  lived  at 
Argyle,  their  country  home,  until  the  death  of  Mr.  McRae. 
Mts.  McRae  now  lives  in  Wilmington,  N.  C,  with  her  step- 
daughter, Mrs.  Emily  Payne;  she  is  quite  an  intellectual 
woman ;  most  of  'her  time  is  given  to  missionary  work  for  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  mountains  of  North  Carolina. 
The  second  daughter  of  Colonel  D.  S.  Harllee,  Mary  Ann, 
married  B.  H.  Covington,  of  Richmond  County,  N.  C. ;  they 
raised  a  family  of  several  sons  and  one  daughter.  One  of  the 
sons.  Rev.  J.  E.  Covington,  is  an  able  minister  of  the  Baptist 
Church,  and  lives  in  the  upper  part  of  South  Carolina.  An- 
other son,  Frank  F.  Covington,  of  Marion,  S.  C,  is  the 
efficient  sitenographer  of  the  Fourtli  Circuit,  and  is  Chief  Clerk 
in  the  enrolling  depaHtment  of  the  General  Assembly ;  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Nora  Aycock,  of  Wedgefidd,  S.  C,  and  has  a  family 


348  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

of  four  children.  The  youngest  son,  Benjamin  Harllee  Cov- 
ington, married  a  Miss  Cox,  and  Hves  in  Marlborough,  on  his 
grand-faither's  plantation.  The  daughter,  Hallie,  married  Mr. 
William  Lawson,  an  Englishman,  who  is  now  a  prominent 
merchant  in  Birmingham,  Ala.  The  third  daughter  of 
Colonel  D.  S.  Harllee,  Julia,  married  Colonel  John  N.  McCall, 
of  Mars  Bluff,  S.  C.  After  the  war  .they  removed  to  States- 
ville,  N.  C,  where  Colonel  McCall  died,  and  where  his  widow 
still  lives.  They  raised  a  large  family  of  children.  Colonel 
McCall  represented  the  County  of  Marion  in  the  Legislature 
before  the  war ;  he  was  a  large  planter  and  owned  a  great  many 
slaves.  On  the  same  night  that  Julia  was  married,  EUen,  her 
youngest  sister,  was  married  at  the  residence  of  their  brother, 
James  J.  Harllee,  at  Marion,  to  Robert  F.  Graham,  who  was 
theu  a  young  lawyer  of  fine  talent  and  large  praotice,  associated 
with  General  W,  W.  Harllee;  he  had  graduated  with  high 
honors  at  the  South  Carolina  College ;  he  entered  tihe  army  and 
was  Colonel  of  the  Twenty-first  Regiment.  After  the  sur- 
render, he  allied  himself  with  the  Republican  party  in  the 
State,  and  was  one  of  the  leaders  from  1868  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  from  yellow  fever,  in  Charleston,  in  1874;  he 
was  Judge  of  the  First  Circuit  at  tihe  time  of  his  death.  He 
had  several  sons  and  daughters.  His  widow  married  Dr. 
Muckenfuss,  and  they  reside  at  Summerville,  S.  C.  Colonel 
Thomas  Harllee  was  the  third  son  of  Thomas  Harllee,  Sr.  He 
inherited  the  old  homestead,  where  he  continued  the  mercan- 
tile businesis  near  the  river  for  a  long  time,  and  condiicted  the 
large  farm.  He  sold  out  his  possessions  to  John  A.  McRae 
and  John  B.  McDaniel,  of  Clio,  S.  C,  and  tihey  afterwards 
sold  to  Elias  Townsend,  who  in  turn  sold  to  R.  C.  Hamer.  R. 
C.  Hamer  gave  it  to  his  son,  Robert  P.  Hamer,  Jr.,  who  now 
lives  upon  it,  on  the  very  spot  where  Thomas  Harllee  first  set- 
tled and  bulk.  Colonel  Thomas  Harllee  was  a  very  popular 
man  and  was  beloved  by  all  who  knew  him ;  he  represented  the 
county  in  the  Legislature  in  the  olden  times.  Later  in  life, 
after  selling  ouit  Harlleesville,  he  removed  to  Charleston,  where 
he  did  business  as  a  commission  merchant  until  his  death,  in 
1855 ;  he  never  married.  The  fourth  son  of  Thomas  Harllee, 
Sr.,  was  Captain  Peter  Harllee,  who  inherited  the  plantation  on 


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the  east  side  of  the  river  from  Harlleesville,  where  he  lived  and 
died,  and  where  his  son,  Captain  Andrew  T.  Harllee,  now 
lives.  This  is  the  only  land,  ouit  of  the  vast  possessions  origi- 
nally entered  and  owned  by  Thomas  Harllee,  Sr.,  now  owned 
and  lived  upon  by  his  descendanits.  Captain  Peter  Harllee 
married,  in  1830,  Ann  Fulmore,  of  Robeson  County,  N.  C. ; 
they  raised  a  family  of  four  sons  and  four  daughters ;  Captain 
Peter  Harllee  died  in  i860.  All  four  of  his  sons  being  in  the 
army,  the  widow  successfully  conducted  the  farms  with  the 
slaves,  and  raised  and  furnished  large  quantities  of  provisions 
for  the  soldiers,  until  her  death,  in  1863.  The  oldest  son, 
Capltain  Robert  Z.  Harllee,  married  Susan  A.  Munnerlyn, 
daughter  of  Thomas  M.  Munnerlyn;  they  had  four  sons  and 
two  daughters.  The  eldest  son,  Thomas  M.  Harllee,  lives  in 
St.  Louis,  Mo.;  he  won  the  prize  in  New  Orleans  for  b^ing 
the  most  rapid  typewriter  in  the  United  States.  John  W. 
Harllee  is  Captain  of  a  steamer  running  out  of  Georgetown, 
S.  C.  Peter  Zack,  the  third  son,  is  the  superintendent  of  an 
oil  mill  at  Gibson,  N.  C. ;  and  the  youngest  son,  Robert  E.,  of 
one  at  Darlington,  S.  C.  The  eldest  daughter,  Sallie,  married 
Edwin  J.  Wall,  and  they  have  a  large  family  of  children ;  they 
live  in  Georgetown,  S.  C.  The  youngest  daug<hter,  Anne,  mar- 
ried Joseph  O.  Wilson,  who  owns  and  runs  a  steamer  out  of 
Georgetown,  where  they  live.  Captain  Robert  Z.  Harllee 
served  throughout  the  war  in  Bragg's  army,  and  was  Captain 
of  Company  D,  of  the  Tenth  South  Carolina  Regiment,  Mani- 
gault's  brigade.  He  commanded  the  regiment  at  the  battle 
of  Atlanta,  on  July  28th,  1864,  and  was  severely  wounded  in 
that  battle;  he  also  commanded  the  regiment  in  the  series  of 
battles  through  North  Carolina  just  before  the  close  of  the 
war,  and  surrendered  at  Greensboro.  He  preserved  the  regi- 
mental flag  by  hiding  it  under  his  saddle  blanket,  and  it  escaped 
capture.  He  died  at  the  residence  of  his  brother.  Captain 
Andrew  T.  Harllee,  on  the  17th  April,  1900;  his  wife  died  in 
1896.  Captain  Andrew  T.  Harllee,  when  quite  a  youth,  went 
with  a  number  of  young  men  from  the  Stfate  to  Kansas  Terri- 
tory, in  1855 ;  he  remained  there  for  a  year,  fighting  under 
Atchison,  Stringfellow  and  other  pro-slavery  leaders,  against 
old  Jdhn  Brown  (Ossauwatomie),  afterwards  hung  at  Harp- 


350  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

er's  Ferry,  Jim  Lane  and  others  of  the  Abolition  party — hence 
he  was  no  stranger  to  the  whisitling  of  bullets  from  Sharp's 
rifles  (Beecher's  Bible),  when  the  civil  war  began.  After  the 
failure  of  Kansas  to  be  made  a  slave  State,  he  returned  to  his 
native  State,  but  soon  after  got  an  appointment,  through  his 
patron,  Thomas  A.  Hendricks,  in  the  Interior  Department,  in 
Washington,  and  held  this  position  until  South  Carolina  se- 
ceded, w'hen  he  resigned  and  returned  to  Charleston,  where  he 
was  appointed  Assistant  Quartermaster  on  the  staff  of  Gover- 
nor Pickens,  with  the  rank  of  Captain ;  discharged  the  duties 
of  this  office  until  the  fall  of  Fort  Sumter,  when  he  resigned^ 
to  raise  Company  I,  of  the  Eighth  Regiment,  South  Carolina. 
He  went  with  that  company  to  Virginia,  and  fought  through 
the  first  'battle  of  Manassas  with  a  rifle.  After  that  battle. 
Lieutenant  R.  H.  Rogers  having  resigned,  he  was  promoted 
to  fill  the  vacancy,  and  on  the  reorganization  of  the  company 
he  was  elected  Captain,  and  served  as  such  till  the  surrender. 
He  was  'several  times  wounded — twice  severely;  first  at  the 
capture  of  Harper's  Ferry,  on  Maryland  Heights,  through 
both  thiglis,  and  then  at  Geittysiburg,  in  the  right  thigh  again. 
After  the  surrender  he  went  to  Florida,  remained  there  for 
three  years,  and  then  returned  to  his  home,  where  he  has 
resided  ever  since ;  he  is  a  farmer  and  a  bachelor ;  he  has  held 
many  places  of  public  trust — was  a  Trial  Justice  from  1876  to 
1886,  was  a  delegate  to  the  National  Democratic  Convention 
in  1884,  is  commander  of  Camp  Harllee  of  Confederate  Vet- 
erans at  Dillon,  S.  C.  John  W.  Harllee  was  the  third  son  of 
Peter  Harllee.  He  was  First  Lieutenant  of  Captain  Staffordi's 
company  of  Hagood's  brigade,  and  was  a  good  officer.  He 
was  wounded  twice — the  last  time  he  was  permanently '  dis- 
abled by  a  resection  of  the  knee  joint,  at  the  battle  of  the 
Wilderness,  and  his  was  the  first  successful  operation  of  the 
kind  performed  in  Lee's  army,  as  the  medical  record  shows; 
being*  disabled  for  active  service,  he  performed  the  duties  of 
enrolling  officer  until  the  close  of  the  war,  having  been  pro- 
moted to  Captain.  After  the  war  he  removed  to  Florida,  and 
married  there  Mary  Ellen  Curry;  his  wife  died  after  the 
birth  of  his  fourth  son,  and  he  never  married  again;  he  accu- 
mulated a  handsome ,  fortune  in  the  mercantile  business,  an^ 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  351 

died  in  1887,  of  yellow  fever;  he  left  four  sons — the  eldest, 
John,  is  a  wholesale  and  retail  hardware  merchant  in  Havana, 
Cuba.  His  next  two  sons,  Horax;e  E.  and  Andrew  C,  are 
merchants  and  fruit  and  truck  farmers  in  Manatee  County, 
Fla.,  at  the  town  Palmetto.  His  youngest  son,  William  C, 
left  West  Point  Military  Academy  when  half  through  his 
course,  and  went  to  the  Philippines  as  a  private  in  the  Thirty- 
third  United  States  Volunteer  Infantry.  After  two  months' 
service  there  he  was  promoted  to  Lieutenant  in  the  United 
States  Marine  corps,  and  he  is  now  with  his  command  en  route 
for  China,  and  was  promoted  to  First  Lieutenant,  23d  July, 
1900.  Peter  Stuart  Harllee  is  the  fourth  and  youngest  son  of 
Peter  Harilee.  He  joined  the  army  of  the  Confederacy  at 
fifteen  years  of  age,  and  served  until  the  surrender  in  his 
brotiher.  Captain  A.  T.  Harllee's  company,  of  the  Eighth  Regi- 
ment; he  was  in  many  of  the  battles  in  which  the  company 
engaged,  but  escaped  without  injury.  After  the  war,  he  re- 
mained at  home  with  his  sisters  until  4ie  return  of  Captain  A. 
T.  Harllee  from  Florida,  w'hen  he  went,  first,  to  Texas,  and 
then  to  Florida;  he  married,  in  Florida,  Miss  Alice  Bullock, 
and  they  have  several  children;  he  is  a  large  stock  and  fruit 
and  vegetable  grower,  and  has  fine  possessions  along  the  Mat- 
inee River,  in  Tampa,  and  the  interior  of  the  State.  Ann  Eliza 
was  the  oldest  daughter;  she  was  a  lady  of  remarkaible  intelli- 
gence ;  died  in  1895.  Amelia  is  the  second  daughter ;  she  lives 
with  her  brother,  Andrew,  at  the  old  place  where  they  were 
bom' — sihe  and  her  brother  being  joint  owners  of  the  old  home- 
stead. Agnes,  the  third  daughter,  married  Captain  W.  D. 
Carmichael,  and  they  live  three  miles  west  of  Harlleesville ; 
they  have  six  sons  and  four  daughters,  nearly  all  of  whom  are 
grown.  Their  eldest  son,  William  D.,  graduated  with  distinc- 
tion at  the  University  of  North  Carolina,  in  1897,  and  he  is 
now  the  Principal  of  the  Durham  High  School,  where  he  has 
been  teaching  since  his  graduation ;  he  married,  in  1899?  Mar- 
garet Mae  Robert  McCaull,  daughter  of  Colonel  John  A. 
McCaull,  of  New  York  city ;  he  is  a  young  man  of  fine  talent. 
Captain  Carmichael  has  one  daughter,  Jessie,  married  to 
Walter  Tatum,  one  of  the  leading  merchants  of  McColl,  S.  C. 
The  youngest  daughter  of  Captain  Peter  Harllee,  Bettie,  was 


352  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

a  very  accomplished  and  superior  young  lady,  a  favorite  with 
everybody;  she  died  just  after  reaching  womanhood,  in  1882. 
Dr.  Robert  Harllee  was  the  fifth  son  of  old  Thomas  Harllee  ; 
he  graduated  in  medicine  and  settled  at  Marion  Court  House, 
and  while  he  practiced  there  his  profession,  he  had  a  very 
extensive  practice  all  over  the  county.  He  married,  first.  Miss 
Ann  Gurly,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Gurly ;  she  died  in  a  short 
time,  childless;  he  afterwards  married  Mrs.  Amelia  Howard, 
widow  of  Charles  Howard,  of  West  Marion — her  maiden  name 
was  Cannon,  a  daughter  of  old  Major  Cannon,  of  Darlington ; 
she  had  two  children,  a  daughter,  Melvina,  and  a  son,  Richard 
G.  Howard,  when  she  married  Dr.  Harllee;  he  (Dr.  Harllee) 
raised  a  family  of  four  sons  and  three  daughters.  His  eldest 
son,  Robert  Armstrong,  was  a  good  soldier  in  the  Eighth  South 
Carolina  Regiment;  he  died  in  camp,  near  Manassas,  in  1861, 
of  pneumonia.  The  next  oldest  son,  Walter  C,  is  a  com- 
mercial traveler;  he  lives  in  Florence,  S.  C.  The  third  son, 
Harry  T.,  is  a  farmer;  he  lives  near  Florence;  he  married  a 
Miss  McCall,  and  they  have  a  family  of  grown  children.  The 
youngest  son  of  Dr.'  Harllee,  Arthur,  is  a  lawyer;  he  lives  in 
New  Mexico,  and  is  unmarried.  The  second  daughter,  Sallie, 
just  after  the  war,  married  Dr.  J.  F.  Pearce,  and  they  have  one 
son,  Robert  H.,  who  is  now  associated  with  his  father  in 
business.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Pearce  had  one  daughter,  Anne,  who 
married  a  Mellichamp,  of  Charleston,  and  they  now  live  in 
Atlanta,  Ga.  After  the  death  of  his  first  wife.  Dr.  Pearce 
married  her  sister,  L/ouisa,  and  they  live  on  a  part  of  Dr. 
Dr.  Harllee's  homestead.  Dr.  Pearce  is  well  known  through- 
out the  State.  He  and  his  son  are  progressive  and  successful 
farmers  as  well  as  eminent  physicians.  Dr.  Pearce  represented 
his  county  (Marion)  once  in  the  Legislature,  and  declined  re- 
election. Hattie,  the  youngest  daughter  of  Dr.  Harllee,  mar- 
ried Hon.  Marsden  Bellamy,  of  Wilmington,  N.  C,  where  they 
reside,  and  have  a  large  family  of  children.  Dr.  Harllee  was 
an  exceedingly  popular  man;  he  was  several  times  a  Repre- 
sentative in  the  lower  House  and  for  two  terms  a  Senator 
before  the  war ;  he  died  after  the  war,  at  the  age  of  sixty-five. 
General  W.  W.  Harllee  was  the  sixth  and  youngest  son  of 
Thom.as  Harllee,  Sr. ;  he  read  law  with  Chancellor  Dargan,  of 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  353 

Darlington,  and  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Marion 
Court  House.  He  volunteered  for  service  in  the  Florida  War 
with  the  Indians,  and  commanded  la  battalion  from  South  Caro- 
lina in  that  war;  he  was  Brigadier  and  Major  General  of  the 
militia  long  before  the  war.  He  represented  his  county  in  the 
Legislature  twice  before  the  war,  and  since  the  war  was  elected 
Senator,  and  served  one  term,  and  while  Senator  was  elected 
President  pro  tern,  of  the  Senate ;  he  was  President  of  the  Wil- 
mington and  Manchester  Railroad  for  five  years,  from  its 
organization  to  its  completion ;  it  was  due  to  his  untiring  efforts 
that  the  road  was  built ;  he  was  delegate  to  the  Secession  Con- 
vention of  the  State,  in  i860,  and  was  Lieutenant-Governor 
at  the  'beginning  of  the  war;  he  was  the  commander  of  the 
"Harllee  Legion,"  that  was  stationed  near  Georgetown. 
When  a  young  man,  he  married  Miss  Martha  Shakelford,  of 
Charleston ;  they  raised  three  sons  and  three  daughters.  Ed- 
ward Porcher,  his  eldest  son,  was  a  brilliant  young  man;  he 
was  a  gallant  officer  on  the  staff  of  Generals  Kershaw  and  Ken- 
nedy. He  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  but  preferred  journalism 
to  law,  and  until  a  short  time  before  his  death  was  on  the  edito- 
rial staff  of  the  New  Orleans  Picayune;  he  fell  a  victim  to 
overwork,  had  softening  of  the  brain  as  a  result,  and  died, 
unmarried,  in  the  prime  of  life.  Charles  Stuart,  the  second  son 
of  General  Harllee,  was  also  in  the  army,  and  did  gallant  ser- 
vice. He  removed  to  Texas  after  the  war ;  married  there  and , 
died,  leaving  three  children,  who,  with  their  mother,  live  in 
Texas  now.  James,  the  youngest  son,  also  went  to  Texas, 
married,  and  is  living  there  now.  Florence  and  Lizzie,  the  two 
oldest  daughters,  have  never  married ;  they  are  teachers,  and 
live  at  Florence,  with  their  mother;  the  city  was  named  for 
the  eldest  daughter,  Florence,  it  having  been  esatblished  at  the 
time  of  the  building  of  the  Wilmington  and  Manchester  Rail- 
road, of  which  her  father  was  then  President.  The  third  and 
youngest  daughter,  Mattie,  married  Frank  Coachman,  of 
Georgetown,  and  they  have  a  large  family  of  children,  who 
live  with  their  father,  at  PlantersviUe,  S.  C,  since  the  death  of 
their  mother.  Their  eldest  daughter,  Helen,  married  Mr. 
LaBruce,  a  large  rice  planter  of  that  section.  The  three 
daughters  of  Thomas  Harllee,  Sr.,  were  Annie,  Elizabeth  and 


354  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Harriet.  Annie  married  John  McNeill,  and  settled  on  the  east 
side  of  Little  Pee  Dee  River,  on  Hays  Swamp,  but  they  soon 
moved  to  Wilcox  County,  Ala. ;  they  raised  a  large  family  of 
children,  some  of  whom  are  now  prominent  in  their  State. 
Mrs.  McNeill  lived  to  he  eighty  years  of  age.  Elizabeth,  the 
next  oldest,  married  Parker  Bethea,  and  they  lived  and  died 
near  where  they  first  settled,  near  what  is  now  called  Mineral 
Springs;  they  raised  two  sons  and  four  daughters.  Their 
eldest  son,  Harllee,  married  Elizabeth  Roberts,  a  daughter  of 
Reddin  Roberts,  on  Buck  Swamp ;  they  moved  to  Florida,  and 
died  there.  One  of  their  daughters  married  her  first  cousin, 
W.  D.  B.  Hays,  a  good  citizen  and  farmer;  they  live  on  Buck 
Swamp.  The  other  children  live  in  Florida.  Benjamin 
Parker  Bethea,  their  youngest  son,  was  an  officer  from  the  be- 
ginning to  the  end  of  the  war,  and  was  a  gallant  and  brave 
soldier.  After  the  war,  he  married  a  Miss  Woolvin,  of  Pender 
County,  N.  C,  below  Wilmington,  to  which  place  he  removed 
and  now  resides,  and  is  a  successful  farmer;  his  products  are 
principally  peanuts;  he  has  a  family  of  group-up  children. 
The  eldest  daughter  of  Parker  Bethea  and  wife,  Elizabeth, 
married  a  Mr.  Henderson,  of  North  Carolina,  and  they  had  one 
son,  Robert,  who  was  a  good  soldier;  he  and  his  mother  are 
both  dead.  The  second  daughter,  Harriet,  married  Jesse 
Rogers,  and  both  of  them  are  dead.  Their  sons,  David  S.  and 
Albert,  are  successful  farmers  of  the  county.  The  third 
daughter,  Laura,  married,  late  in  life,  Mr.  Thompson  Allen,  of 
Marlborough  County;  and -the  youngest  daughter,  Maria,  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  Harris,  and  they  moved  to  North  Carolina.  Har- 
riet, the  youngest  daughter  of  Thomas  Harllee,  Sr.,  married 
George  L  W.  McCall,  of  Darlington,  and  they  raised  a  family 
of  three  daughters.  Hannah  Jane,  the  youngest,  has  never 
married.  Rebecca  and  Caroline  both  married  gentlemen  by 
the  name  of  Saunders,  of  Sumter  County,  and  they  have 
numerous  descendants  living  in  Sumter  and  Darlington 
Countira,  many  of  whom  are  prominent  in  business  and  social 
circles  in  those  counties. 

The  foregoing  notice  of  the  Harllee  family  was  furnished 
to  the  writer  by  Captain  A.  T.  Harllee,  which  has  been  copied 
herein,  in  extenso  verbatim  et  liberatim,  except  in  a  few  in- 


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stances  in  the  phraseology  has  'been  changed,  and  a  few  omis- 
sions and  additions  made,  at  the  expense  of  space.  It  is  a 
history  of  which  the  family  may  'be  proud  as  also  the  county. 

WooDBERRY. — Two  brothers,  Richard  and  Jonah  Wood- 
berry,  came  to  Britton's  Neck  from  Socastee,  in  the  early  part 
of  the.  eighteenth  century ;  where  they  came  from  to  Socastee 
is  not  known,  but  it  is  supposed  they  came  from  Wales  or  else- 
where in  England.  Richard  Woodberry  selttled  in  what  is 
now  called  Woodberry  Township,  and  married  Miss  Lizzie 
Balloone,  on  Black  River;  they  raised  two  sons,  Richard 
and  William.  Richard  Woodberry,  Jr.,  married  Miss  Desda 
Davis,  and  they  had  and  raised  two  sons  au'd  two  daughters ; 
the  sons  were  John  and  George  W. ;  the  daughters  were  Mrs. 
Benjamin  Gause  and  Mrs.  John  Gause.  The  three  daughters 
of  old  Richard,  St.,  were  Margaret,  who  married  Dr.  Thomas 
Britton ;  she  died  childless ;  another  daughter,  Fannie  married 
Samuel  Wilson,  and  she  died  childless;  another  daughter 
(name  not  known),  married  Rev.  Jeremia!h  Norman,  of  North 
Carolina;  they  had  and  raised  Mrs.  John  Woodberry  (first 
wife),  Mrs.  James  Jenkins  and  Samuel  Norman.  The  latter 
grew  up  and  went  to  Horry,  and  married  a  Miss  Beaty, 
sister  of  Colonel  James  Beaty,  of  Conway,  who,  before 
her  death,  in  1882,  was  universally  called  "Old  Aunt  Nor- 
man." She  kept  a  public  house;  was  born  in  1791 — a  remark- 
able woman;  she  had  and  raised  a  family,  mostly  daughters, 
and  one  son,  who  was  a  doctor — his  name  not  remembered; 
married  and  died  some  years  ago.  The  husband  of  "Old 
Aunt  Norman"  died  many  years  before  she  died;  she  was 
a  hustler  in  business ;  kept  a  good  house — the  writer  knows 
whereof  he  speaks.  John  Woodberry,  son  of  Richard,  Jr., 
married,  first,  his  cousin.  Miss  Norman  (Mary),  and  they  had 
and  raised  sons,  Franklin,  William,  Norman,  Benjamin  Gause ; 
and  daughters,  Eloise  'and  Martha;  know  nothing  of  any  of 
these  chil'dren,  except  Benjamin  Gause  Woodberry ;  he  is  now 
in  Britton's  Neck ;  he  married,  first,  a  widow  lady ;  sihe  had  one 
child,  a  daughter,  who  married  a  few  years  ago,  and  is  among 
us  now.  Benjami'n  Gause  Woodberry  married,  a  second  time, 
a  Miss  Brown,  in  Britton's  Neck,  and'  they  live  down  there. 


856  A  HISTORY  O?  MARION  COUNTY. 

John  Woodberry  married,  a  second  time,  Miss  Ann  Gregg, 
daughter  of  our  late  venerable  R.  J.  Gregg ;  she  had  two  sons, 
John  and  Waddy ;  I  think  Waddy  is  dead.  John  Woodberry,  the 
son,  married  a  niece  of  Mrs.  Sturges,  at  Florence,  and  lives  in 
Florence  County ;  he  is  a  genial  gentleman  and  has  a  good  deal 
of  the  "get  up"  in  him,  which  will  count  for  him  in  days  to 
come.  George  Washington  Woodberry  married  a  Miss 
Brown,  sister  of  the  late  T.  F.  Brown,  and  had  and  raised  three 
sons  and  three  daughters ;  the  sons  are  Travis  Foster,  James 
and  Edward;  the  daughters  are  Dora,  Mary  and  Julia.  Julia 
went  to  school  at  Hofwyl  Academy,  in  1857 — a.  charming  girl, 
about  grown ;  she  married  some  one ;  I  have  lost  sight  of  her ; 
can  trace  the  others  no  further.  General  William  Woodberry, 
the  brother  of  Richard,  Jr.,  a  very  noted  and  prominent  man  in 
his  day,  was  born  loth  January,  1788,  and  died  31st  January, 
1851 ;  he  married,  first.  Miss  Hannah  Davis;  they  had  four 
children,  all  dying  quite  young;  his  second'  wife  was  Miss 
Sarah  Johnson,  of  Horry ;  hy  this  marriage  four  sons  and  four 
daughters  were  iborn,  all  of  whom,  except  one  daughter,  mar- 
ried and  raised  families.  General  Woodberry's  sons  were 
Richard,  William,  Evander  Mclver  and  Joseph  Alston.  Rich- 
ard Woodberry,  the  third,  married  Miss  Joanna  Balloone ;  had 
two  children,  toth  died  in  infancy.  William  married  twice ; 
had  three  children  by  the  first  wife  and  five  by  the  last;  his 
oldest  son,  Richard,  4th,  married'  a  Miss  Britton ;  a  daughter, 
Venetia,  married  a  Mr.  Pope ;  another  daughter,  Agnes,  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  Mcllveen ;  William,  a  son,  married  a  Miss  Cannon ; 
another  son,  Benjamin  Gause,  married  a  Miss  Hucks;  another 
son,  Harrison,  also  married  a  Miss  Hucks ;  another,  Joseph  A., 
also  married  a  Miss  Hucks,  and  a  daughter,  Martha,  married 
Arthur  Hucks  (the  Hucks  seemed  to  be  popular  with  the 
Woodberrys)  ;  they  all  have  families,  about  whom  I  know 
nothing.  Evander  Mclver  Woodberry  married  a  Miss  Scott; 
they  had  two  children.  Joseph  A.  also  married  a  Miss  Scott, 
and  had  three  sons  and  two  daughters.  General  Woodberry's 
oldest  daughter,  Elizabeth  Ann,  married  William  H.  Johnson ; 
they  had  three  sons  and  five  daughters.  Another  daughter, 
Mary,  married  Rollen  Kimball;  they  had  two  sons  and  one 
daughter.     Margaret  F.,  the  youngest  daughter,  married  the 


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late  Hugh  R.  Johnson,  who  Hved  and  died  near  Nichols,  S.  C. ; 
they  had  and,  raised  five  sons  and  two  daughters ;  the  sons  are 
Whiteford  F.,  Richard  Olin,  Samuel  A.,  William  Woodberry 
and  Edward  Evander.  Whiteford  married  Miss  Ella  Page, 
daughter  of  the  Widow  Pinckney  C.  Page,  near  CaTmichael's 
Bridge,  on  Little  Pee  Dee ;  they  have  some  children.  White- 
ford is  the  only  one  of  the  five  sons  married.  The  daughters 
of  Margaret  F.  are  Sallie  and  Maggie  May.  Sallie  married  E. 
T.  Huggins;  they  have  considerable  family,  some  grown. 
Maggie  May  married  Thomas  J.  Capet,  of  Marlborough ;  they 
have  a  young  family.  General  William  Woodberry  was  a  very 
popular  man  in  his  day ;  he  filled  several  important  positions 
of  honor,  profit  and  trust,  and  filled  all  with  credit  to  himself 
and  came  out  with  unstained  official  integrity ;  he  was  Briga- 
dier General  of  the  militia,  and  was  several  times  elected  to 
the  lower  House  of  the  Legislature;  he  was  Sheriff  of  the 
county  from  April,  1833,  to  April,  1837;  he  was  hospitable  to  a 
fault,  kind-hearted  and  liberal,  especially  to  the  poor;  he  was 
full  of  wit  and  humor,  and  could  tell  a  story  with  great  zest ;  a 
great  hand  to  perpetrate  a  joke  and  to  play  innocent  tricks  on 
people.  The  writer  has  heard  of  many  of  them — one  as  to 
how  he  made  the  Methodist  preacher  bail  the  canoe  with  his 
fine  beaver  hat,  as  the  General  was  putting  him  across  the 
river;  another,  how  he  accidentally  (purposely)  turned  over 
the  canoe,  in  putting  the  venerable  and  reverend  James  Jenk- 
ins across  the  river,  and  luckily  saved  the  old  man  from 
drowning ;  another  of  his  adventures  with  an  old  gobbler,  when 
a  boy,  with  a  red  cqat  on ;  wherever  he  went  he  drew  a  crowd 
around  him  by  his  wit  and  humorous  stories,  which  he  could 
tell  with  the  greatest  glee,  to  the  great  amusement  of  the  listen- 
ers ;  with  all  his  wit,  humor  and  innocent  frivolity,  he  was  a  man 
of  great  good  sense;  he  was  a  man  of  wealth,  and  managed 
his  farm  and  financial  affairs  with  great  success ;  his  home  was 
ever  crowded,  and  his  table  substantially  supplied,  and  was 
free ;  he  left  no  son  his  equal ;  his  daugihter,  the  youngest,  Mrs. 
Margaret  F.  Johnson,  approaches  nearer  to  her  falther  and  in- 
herited more  of  his  humorous  fun,  and  perhaps  more  of  his 
towering  intellect,  than  any  other  of  his  children ;  and  I  don't 
mean,  by  thus  saying,  to  disparage  her  other  sisters,  w'hom  I 


358  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

have  never  seen,  or  any  other  member  of  the  family.  As 
already  stated,  the  first  Woodberrys  in  the  county  were  Rich- 
ard and  Jonah ;  as  to  Jonah,  he  disappeared  or  emigrated  to 
Other  parts ;  nothing  further  is  known  of  him  or  his  posterity, 
if  he  had  any.  They  had  a  sister,  who  married  General  Wade 
Hampton,  of  Revolutionary  fame,  the  grand-father  of  our 
present  General  Hampton.  The  name  Hampton  will  ever  be 
remembered  in  South  Carolina  with  grateful  recollection  and 
pride. 

Stackhouse. — ^John  Stackhouse,  the  progenitor  of  the 
Stackhouse  family  in  the  county,  came  'here  from  Virginia, 
before  the  Revolutionary  War;  he  married  a  widow,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Bethea,  a  sister  of  old  Buck  Swamp  John 
Bethea;  ithey  had  and  raised  two  sons,  John  and  William; 
don't  know  if  tlhere  were  any  daughters.  William,  I  believe, 
at  any  rate,  one  of  them,  emigrated  to  other  parts ;  the  other, 
John,  remained  in  the  county ;  he  was  the  grand-father  of  our 
fellow-citizen,  T.  F.  Stackhouse ; .  don't  know  to  whom  he 
married: — ^he  did  marry,  however,  and  had  and  raised  five  sons 
and  one  daughter;  the  sons  were  Herod,  Isaac,  John,  Hugh 
and  Tristram;  tlhe  daughter's  name  not  remembered.  Herod 
Stackhouse,  a  very  public-spirited  man,  a  good  man  and  a  suc- 
cessful farmer,  married  Miss  Nancy  Roper;  they  had  and 
raised  two  sons,  Lysias  and  Wesley,  and  one  daughter,  Mary 
Ann.  Lysias  married  Miss  Mary  Gaddy,  daughter  of  old 
Ithamer  Gaddy,  and  who  has  been  noticed  in  or  among  the 
Gaddy  family.  Wesley  Stackhouse,  the  second  son  of  Herod, 
was  a  most  excellent  man  and  citizen,  a  good  business  man, 
well  qualified  by  education  and  training;  married  the  Widow 
Lucretia  Meekins,  whose  maiden  name  was  Bethea,  a  sister 
of  the  laite  Samuel  J.  Bethea ;  she  had  no  children  by  her  first 
marriage;  by  her  marriage  with  Wesley  Stackhouse,  two 
daughters  were  born  and  raised,  Martha  and  Nannie,  and  one 
son,  Wesley,  now  of  Dillon,  S.  C.  His  daughter,  Martha, 
marrie)d  Lieutenant  William  Manning,  who  was  killed  at  the 
second  battle  of  Manassas,  29th  August,  1862 ;  by  him  she  had 
one  child,  a  daughter,  who,  I  think,  was  born  after  her  father's 
death,  and  was  named  for  him,  "Willie ;"  her  mother  soon  after 


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married  'her  cousin,  H.  Milton  Stackhouse,  now  of  Marlbor- 
ough, and  its  late  Senator  in  the  State  Legislature,  and  a  first 
class  man  every  way ;  they  have  had  and  raised  four  sons  and 
one  d3.ughter ;  the  sons  are  R.  E.  Stackhouse,  now  a  first  class 
preacher  in  the  South  Carolina  'Conference  of  the  Methodist 
Church ;  Wade,  a  first  class  physician,  and  is  married  to  a  Miss 
Steed,  daughter  of  the  late  W.  H.  Steed,  of  upper  Marion; 
George  F.,  who  is  a  Paymaster  in  the  United  States  navy,  in 
the  Philippines,  and  who  married  Miss  Texia  Young,  of 
Marion,  S.  C. ;  and  another  son,  whiose  name  is  not  known, 
and  who,  I  presume,  is  yet  with  his  parents,  and  one  daughter 
(name  not  known),  who  married  Mr.  J.  C.  Dunbar,  who  is 
now  a  member  of  the  Legislature  from  Marlborough  County. 
Miss  Willie  Manning,  the  daughter  by  her  first  husband,  was 
well  educated  in  the  best  schools  in  the  South,  and  a  highly 
accomplished  lady,  is  unmarried,  and  makes  teaching  a  busi- 
ness, and  is  somewhere  in  the  State  following  her  vocation, 
and  has  been  thus  engaged  ever  since  her  graduation.  Nan- 
nie, the  second  daughter  of  Wesley  Stackhouse,  married  Knox 
Clark,  late  Clerk' of  the  Court  and  County  Treasurer — a  man 
of  nerve  and  force,  and  the  power  to  say  no,  which  many  men 
cannot  or  do  not  say — a  sober,  progressive  man ;  he  died  in  the 
prime  of  life,  in  September,  1888,  and  left  Nannie  a  widow, 
with  some  children,  three  sons  and  four  daughters — the  young- 
est not  two  years  old.  Nannie  Clark,  the  widow,  survived 
her  husband  only  a  few  years ;  she  died,  and  left  all  her  child- 
ren unmarried,  except  Mrs.  Brown.  Wesley  Stackhouse,  the 
only  son  of  his  father,  Wesley,  grew  up  and  married  Miss 
Mollie  Breeden,  daughter  of  the  late  John  A.  Breeden;  they 
live  at  Dillon,  and  have  a  family  of  seven  or  eight  children, 
some  of  them  grown.  Unfortunately,  Wesley's  habits  were 
not  good;  "he  dissipated  a  great  deal,  and  did  nothing  for 
several  years — spent  his  inheritance  and  came  down  pretty 
low ;  but  for  the  last  eight  or  ten  years  he  has  abstained — is 
now  and  has  been  for  that  time  a  sober  man,  and  is  trying  to 
rebuild  his  lost  fortune,  in  which  it  is  hoped  he  will  succeed ; 
he  now  has  a  heavy  load  to  carry.  He  has  a  nice  and  very 
interesting  family.  His  father  died  Christmas  day,  1864. 
Mary  Ann  Stackhouse,  the  only  daughter  of  old  Herod,  mar- 
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360  A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY. 

nied  Evander  R.  Bethea,  a  very  successful  farmer ;  they  had 
and  raised  one  son,  Jasper,  and  three  daughters,  Josephine, 
Carrie  and  Nannie.  The  son  grew  up,  and  after  some  years 
went  to  Texas,  where  he  married  and  where  he  now  Uves ;  he 
has  no  children.  The  eldest  daughter,  Josephine,  married  her 
cousin,  William  B.  Stackhouse,  Who  -was  a  very  progressive 
man  and  farmer,  and  was  at  one  time  elected  as  County  Com- 
missioner, and  served  one  term  very  acceptably ;  he  died  some 
years  after,  leaving  Josei^hine  and  four  or  five  children  surviv- 
ing, mostly  girls.  The  oldest.  Miss  Cora,  is  well  educated, 
and  is  one  of  the  teachers  in  the  Latta  Graded  School.  The 
widow  is  doing  well  on  her  fine  farm.  The  second  daughter, 
Carrie,  married  Joseph  J.  Bethea,  who  resides  and  merchan- 
dizes at  Latta ;  he  has  also  a  good  farm  near  by ;  he  is  a  very 
successful  man  in  affairs;  they  have  no  children.  The  third 
daughter,  Nannie,  married  Rev.  Samuel  J.  Bethea,  who  is  a 
regular  itinerant  Methodist  preacher  in  the  South  Carolina 
Conference — stands  fair ;  they  have  but  one  child,  a  son,  Sam- 
uel J.  Isaac  Stadkhouse,  the  ibrother  of  old  Herod,  also  mar- 
ried another  daughter  of  old  man  John  Roper,  a  sister  of  old 
Herod's  wife;  he,  as  well  as  old  Herod,  resided  on  his  fine 
place,  below  Harlleesville,  on  Little  Pee  Dee,  all  his  lifetime. 
This  pair  was  more  prolific  than  Herod  and  his  wife;  they 
had  and  raised  six  sons  and  one  daughter ;  the  sons  were  Mas- 
ten  C,  Eli  T.,  William  R.,  Tristram  F.,  Milton  and  Robert  B. ; 
the  daughter's  name  not  reimembered.  The  oldest  son,  Mas- 
ten  C.  Stackhouse,  married  Mary  Ann  Rogers,  a  daug'hter  of 
William  Rogers.  Hasten  C.  Stackhouse  was  a  very  quiet 
man,  a  farmer,  and  managed  well ;  they  had  and  raised  a  con- 
siderable family  of  sons  and  daughters;  the  sons  are  Mark, 
John  R.,  William  B.  and  L  P.  Stackhouse,  as  remembered ;  one 
daughter,  Janie,  one  Florence,  and  one  Charlotte,  the  other 
name  not  known.  Mark  or  Marcus  was  the  first  graduate  of 
Woff'ord  College  from  Marion  County ;  he  graduated  in  1871 ; 
he  married  Miss  Mary  Lester,  an  excellent  woman,  step- 
daughter of  E.  J.  Moody ;  they  have  three  sons  grown,  named 
Walter,  Edward  and  Robert,  all  unmarried.  Don't  know  who 
John  R.  Stackhouse  married ;  he  lives  and  is  doing  business  at 
Mullins.     William    B.    married   Josephine    Bethea,    and   has 


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already  been  mentioned.  I.  P.  StacMiouse  married  his  first 
cousin,  a  Miss  Rogers,  daughter  of  Philip  B.  Rogers;  they 
have  children,  don't  know  how  many;  he  lives  near  Moody's 
Mill,  six  miles  above  Marion' — is  a  farmer,  and  one  of  the 
registers  of  voters  in  Marion  County.  One  of  the  daughters, 
Janie,  married  Dempsy  Lewis,  in  the  "Fork,"  now  of  Mullins ; 
he  is  an  excellent  manageE  of  his  farm,  and  is  now  also 
merchandizing  at  Mullins;  they  have  ten  children,  eight  of 
them  'boys  and  two  girls — they  have  five  grown  children.  One 
of  the  daughters  of  Masten  C.  Stackhouse  married  a  Mr. 
Edens ;  another  one  married  her  first  cousin,  William  Rogers ; 
they  live  at  Mullins ;  one  married  Fet  Bethea ;  one  married  a 
Mr.  Pipkin,  in  Marlborough,  and  one  is  unmarried ;  there  may 
be  others.  E.  T.  Stackhouse,  the  second  son  of  Isaac,  was 
born  27th  March,  1824;  his  birthday  was  the  same  as  the 
.writer's — 'six  years  younger;  he  grew  up  and  married  Eliza- 
beth Ann  Fore,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Thomas  Fore ;  they 
raised  three  sons  and  five  daughters.  Of  the  sons,  James 
Stackhouse  is  the  oldest;  he  married  a  Miss  McAliSter,  of 
North  Carolina;  they  have  a  considerable  family,  sons  and 
daughters — two  sons  grown.  One,  Lanneau,  married  Miss 
Mary  Miles,  daughter  of  Dr.  D.  F.  Miles,  Clerk  of  the  Court ; 
they  have  some  two  or  three  children.  The  other  grown  son. 
Lacy,  not  married;  other  children  small.  James  Stackhouse 
runs  a  livery  stable  (sale  and  feed)  ;  in  early  life  he  tried 
mercihandizing  and  hotel  business,  but  failed;  he  then  went 
into  the  livery  business,  and  has  succeeded  well — this  business 
suits  him ;  he  is  emphatically  a  horseman ;  he  now  represents 
the  county  in  the  State  Senate.  The  second  son,  William 
Stackhouse,  at  Dillon,  married  a  daughter  of  B.  F.  Davis,  just 
below  Marion;  they  have  some  children,  dk>n't  know  how 
many — they  are  small;  he,  too,  is  in  the  livery  business,  and 
seems  to  ibe  doing  well ;  he  is  a  capital  citizen,  and  will  doubt- 
less succeed.  The  third  and  youngest  son,  Walter  F.  Stack- 
house,  is  a  graduate  of  Wofford  College,  in  the  class  of  1895 ; 
has  studied  law  and  is  associated  with  W.  J.  Montgomery,  his 
brother-in-law,  in  its  practice,  at  Marion;  he  married,  a  few 
months  ago,  a  lady  of  Greenwood,  and  lives  at  Marion ;  he  is 
United  States  Commissioner  at  Marion;  a  man  of  business, 


362  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

and  is  quite  promising.  Of  the  daug'htters  of  Colonel  E.  T. 
.Stackhouse,  the  eldest,  Mary,  married  James  H.  Berry,  and 
has  already  been  noticed  among  the  Berrys.  Another  daughter, 
Mattie,  married  Houston  Manning,  and  has  already  been 
noticed  among  the  M'annings.  Another,  called  "Duck" 
(though  not  her  name),  married  Neill  Alford,  who  has  already 
been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Alfords.  Another,  Anna,  mar- 
ried W.  J.  Montgomery,  Esq.,  of  Marion;  they  have  several 
.dhildren,  one  or  two  grown — mostly  girls.  Mr.  Montgom- 
ery graduated  at  Wofford  College,  in  1875;  came  home  and 
studied  law  with  General  Harllee,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and 
practiced  some  few  years  with  that  veteran  of  the  law ;  they 
dissolved  partnership,  and  Mr.  Montgomery  set  up  for  him- 
self; he  has  succeeded  admirably,  has  'become  a  fine  lawyer 
and  made  money ;  is  President  of  the  Merchants  and  Farmers 
Savings  Bank  of  Marion,  and  has  been  ever  since  its  organiza- 
tion, ten  or  twelve  years  ago — the  bank  has  prospered  under 
his  administration  of  its  affairs;  he  'has  been  Mayor  of  the 
town.  Representative  of  the  county  in  the  Legislature,  and  also 
a  delegate  from  the  county  to  the  Constitutional  Convention  of 
.the  State,  in  1895;  he  is  a  man  of  affairs,  and  succeeds  at  all; 
deserves  the  more  credit,  as  he  was  raised  as  poor  as  anybody. 
Much  imore  might  be  said  of  him,  but  space  will  not  allow  it. 
Anotiher  and  youngest  daughter  of  Colonel  Stackhouse,  called 
"Pet"  (not  her  real  name),  married  T.  C.  Covington,  his 
second  wife;  they  'have  some  children,  small  yet.  Mr.  Cov- 
ington is  a  high-minded,  honorable  gentleman,  of  fine  address, 
and  magnetic;  he  merchandized  for  a  while,  but  did  not  suc- 
ceed well;  is  now  farming  in  the  "Free  State"  section — it 
remains  to  be  seen  how  he  will  succeed  in  the  farming  role. 

Colonel  E.  T.  Stackhouse  deserves  more  than  a  passing 
notice.  He  was  raised  on  a  farm  and  received  only  a  common 
school  education.  After  he  was  married,  he  settled  on  the 
place  where  he  ever  after  lived ;  he  was  a  farmer,  a  good  and 
very  successful  one — farmed  on  the  intensive  system ;  his  farm 
was  like  a  garden — all  his  house  and  farm  arrangements  were 
complete  and  adapted  to  comfort  and  convenience;  his  farm 
was  a  model  one.  When  the  war  commenced,  he  raised  a 
company  of  which  he  was  made  Captain ;  his  company  formed 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  863 

part  of  the  Eiglnth  South  Carolina  Regiment ;  he  went  through 
the  war  to  Appomattox,  and  came  out  Lieutenant  Colonel  of 
the  regiment. '  He  was  twice  elected  to  the  Legislature  of  the 
State.  When  the  "Farmers  Alliance"  began  to  'boom,  Colonel 
Stackhouse  went  into  it  with  all  his  might — it  seemed  to  be  in 
accord  with  his  chosen  occupation,  and  operated  for  the  benefit 
of  the  farmer  and  its  votaries.  He  became  President  of  the 
State  Alliance  and  held  that  position  for  one  or  two  terms. 
Whatever  may  "have  been  the  purpose  and  intentions  of  the 
founders  of  the  Alliance,  it  was  popular  and  flourished  for  a 
time ;  but  the  politicians  got  hold  of  it  and  worked  it  for  their 
benefit,  made  it  a  stepping-stone  to  office  and  killed  it,  much 
to  the  regret  of  those  honest  people  who  ha;d  gone  into  it  to 
better  their  condition  as  farmers.  Under  its  influence  and 
auspices.  Colonel  Stackhouse  became  a  candidate  for  Congress, 
in  1890,  and  was  overwbelmingly  elected ;  be  took  his  seat  in 
that  body,  in  December,  1891,  and  died  suddenly,  in  Washing- 
ton, 14th  June,  1892.  Between  the  meeting  of  Congress,  first 
Monday  in  December,  1891,  and  his  death,  in  June  following, 
his  good  wife  died.  The  complete  reversal  of  the  habits  of 
his  life,  together  with  his  ambition  to  get  into  the  routine  of 
business  as  done  in  Congress,  so  as  to  be  able  to  do  something 
for  his  people,  was  too  much  for  him,  for  one  of  his  age — 
he  being  sixty-eigfht  years  old  in  March  preceding  his  death. 
A  young  man  may  change  or  reverse  his  habits  with  impunity, 
but  an  old  man  dare  not  do  it.  It  is  higbly  probable  that,  if 
Colonel  Stackhouse  had  remained  at  home  on  his  farm,  he 
miglht  have  been  living  to-day.  He  was  a  model  citizen  and 
a  model  farmer.  William  Roper  Stackhouse,  the  third  son 
of  Isaac,  died  a  few  weeks  ago,  a  retiring  and  unassuming  man, 
a  good  farmer  and  successful  man ;  ihe  married  a  Miss  Stafford, 
daughter  of  Malcolm  Stafford,  and  has  already  been  noticed 
in  or  among  the  Stafford  family.  Tristfam  F.  Stackhouse,  the 
fourth  son  of  Isaac,  one  of  our  very  best  citizens,  married  Miss 
Mary  Ann  Bethea,  a  daughter  of  the  late  old  man.  Cade 
Bethea;  he  settled  on  the  place  near  where  he  was  born,  now 
near  tihe  town  of  Dillon ;  they  had  and  raised  three  sons,  Tris- 
tram Bascom,  Adolphus  and  Lawrence.  The  oldest  son,  T. 
Bascom  Stackhouse,  is  a  graduate  of  Wofford  College,  in  the 


364  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

class  of  1880 ;  he  married  a  Miss  Hamer,  daughter  of  Rdbert 
P.  Hamer,  Sr.,  and  settled  near  his  father,  between  Harllees- 
ville  and  Dillon ;  has  a  large  farm  there  and  is  succeeding  well 
thereon,  although  be  gives  it  but  little  of  his  personal  attention ; 
he  is  Cashier  of  the  Bank  of  Dillon,  w'hich  requires  most  of  his 
time ;  he  is  a  first  class  business  man  every  way— is  up-to-date 
in  almost  every  branch  of  commercial  and  financial  life ;  he  has 
only  one  child,  a  daughter,  I  think.  Adolphus  Stackhouse,  a 
younger  brother,  married  Miss  Lucy  Thompson,  a  daughter  of 
the  late  Lemuel  S.  Thompson ;  they  first  settled  near  Harllees- 
ville,  and  after  a  few  years  he  sold  out  and  moved  to  Sumter- 
County,  know  nothing  as  to  their  family — think  he  has  been 
in  the  Legislature  from  Sumter  and  in  the  Constitutional  Con- 
vention in  1895 ;  it  is  said  his  wife  is  a  most  excellent  lady,  and 
the  same  may  'be  said  of  him  as  a  man.  Lawrence,  the  young- 
est son  of  T.  F.  Stackhouse,  is  unmarried — unfortunately  he 
is  afflicted  with  epilepsy ;  everything  possible  has  been  done  for 
him,  but  to  no  avail ;  suppose  he  is  twenty-four  or  twenty-five 
years  old,  lives  with  his  father.  T.  F.  Stackhouse  lost  his  wife 
some  years  ago ;  he  has  not  remarried ;  his  niece  and  her  hus- 
band. Hasten  Gasque,  with  their  family,  live  with  him  and 
keep  house  for  him  and  also  runs  his  farm.  T.  F.  Stackhouse 
is  a  modest,  unassuming  man  and  a  capital  citizen ;  he  has  a 
large  and  splendid  farm,  and  is  well  fixed  for  living;  he  has 
been  twice  consecutively  elected  to  the  lower  House  of  the 
General  Assembly,  and  is  now  serving  a  second  term — a  man 
of  good  judgment  and  fine  sense.  If  our  county  was  filled  up 
with  such  men  there  would  be  little  use  for  courts  or  lawyers. 
H.  Milton  Stackhouse,  the  fifth  son  of  Isaac,  has  already  been 
incidentally  mentioned  above  with  his  wife,  who  was  a 
daughter  of  Wesley  Stackhouse,  of  the  Herod  branch  of  the 
family.  Rdbert  B.,  the  sixth  son  of  Isaac,  was  a  promising 
young  man ;  sickened  and  died  soon  after  coming  out  of  the 
war — a  young  man  of  promise.  Hugh  Stackhouse,  a  younger 
brother  of  old  Herod  and  Isaac,  was  drowned  in  Little  Pee 
Dee  River,  about  1837  or  1838 ;  was  unmarried — n  young  man. 
The  circumstances  were  these:  there  had  been  a  tremendous 
freshet  in  Little  Pee  Dee,  and  it  floated  the  planks  off  each  end 
of  Stafford's  Bridge,  and  as  soon  as  the  freshet  went  down 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  865 

low  enough,  A.  Q.  McDuffie,  who  lived  near  by,  and  then  a 
young  man,  together  with  Hugh  Stackhouse,  and  a  negro  man, 
took  a  canoe  and  went  d'own  the  river  hunting  up  the  planks, 
so  as  to  bring  them  back  and  put  them  on  the  bridge  again ;  in 
going  down  the  river,  their  canoe  struck  or  got  into  a  whirl  in 
the  river,  whidh  (the  river  being  very  full)  was  strong,  so 
much  so  as  to  turn  the  canoe  over.  McDufEe  was  a  good 
swimmer;  Stackhouse  could  swim  but  little,  and  the  negro 
could  not  swim  at  all.  'Stackhouse  soon  sank;  McDuffie, 
seeing  it,  managed  to  sustain  himself  in  the  whirl,  till  Stack- 
house  rose  to  the  top,  when  McDuffie  made  for  him  and  oaught 
hold  of  him ;  Stackhouse,  like  all  drowning  men,  had  no  sense, 
tried  to  cling  around  McDuffie's  neck;  the  latter  knew  that 
would  not  do — ^that  both  would  be  drowned  together ;  he  tore 
loose  from  Stackhouse  and  the  latter  sank  again.  McDuf- 
fie waited  till  he  rose  the  second  time,  and  caught  him 
again,  with  the  same  result  as  at  first.  McDuffie  freed  himself 
from'  him-,  Stackhouse  sank  again,  and  he  was  seen  no  more. 
The  negro,  who  could  not  swim  at  all,  managed  to  get  hold  of 
an  overhanging  bough  of  a  tree  and  saved  himself.  McDuffie, 
several  times  in  his  life,  told  this  to  the  writer;  said  he  could 
have  saved  Stackhouse,  if  he  could  have  gotten  him  to  have 
acted  otherwise;  said  he  hollered  to  Stackhouse  with  all  his 
might,  not  to  cling  around  his  neck,  but  Stackhouse  would  not 
heed  him,  hence  he  tore  loose  from  him  and  saved  himself. 
The  question  was,  shall  both  drown  or  only  Stackhouse? 

The  Stackhouse  family  is  extensive  and  numerous  in  itself 
and  its  connections ;  yet  there  are  as  few  "dead-'beats"  in  it  as, 
perhaps,  in  any  family  in  the  county.  They  are  self-sustaining, 
all  bread-winners.  Old  Herod  and  old  Isaac  were  working 
men  and  had  right  ideas  of  life,  and,  above  all,  were  God- 
fearing men — did  all  they  could  for  the  church  and  the  cause 
of  their  Maker.  From  the  twenties  to  the  forties,  inclusive, 
there  were  annually  camp  meetings  at  or  near  Harlleesville,  and 
they  two  were  among  the  strongest  advocates  and  supporters 
of  those  meetings,  and  their  daily  life  and  intercourse  with 
their  neighbors  showed  the  same  spirit  and  was  in  strict  accord 
with  their  professions.  It  reminds  the  writer  of  the  language 
of  the  Psalmist,  David,  where  he  said,  "I  was  young,  but  now 


866  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

I  am  old,  yet  have  I  not  seen  the  righteous  forsaken,  nor  his 
seed  begging  toread."  Of  the  two  brothers  of  Herod  and 
Isaac,  to  wit :  John  and  Tristram,  John  either  died  or  went  else- 
where ;  Tristram  Stackhouse  became  a  Methodist  preadher  of 
the  South  Carolina  Conference  in  1830,  a  young  single  man, 
and  died  on  Cypress  Circuit,  Cdleton  County  or  Orangeburg, 
in  1831. 

Wayne. — This  family,  though  the  name  is  now  extinct  in 
Marion  County,  yet  its  descendants  are  numerous,  and  its 
connection  extensive — hence  it  is  now  herein  noticed.  Francis 
Asbury  Wayne,  the  first  one  known  in  this  county  (born  in 
1787  and  died  in  1870),  was  the  second  son  of  William  Wayne, 
who  was  a  first  cousin  of  General  Anthony  Wayne,  was 
brought -up  with  the  General  in  the  latter's  family.  William 
was  a  brave  Revolutionary  soldier,  and  after  the  war  (Revo- 
lutionary), moved  to  Georgetown  S.  C,  where  he  lived  and 
died,  about  1820.  It  is  recorded  in  Asbury's  journal  (which 
I  have  not  now  before  me) ,  that  William  Wayne  was  the  only 
Methodist  at  Georgetown,  when  the  Bis'hop  first  visited  that 
place.  He  married  Esther  Trezevant  (a  Huguenot),  and  I 
suppose  a  sister  of  Judge  Lewis  Trezevant,  who  was  elected  a 
Judge,  lOth  February,  1800,  and  died  15th  February,  1808 
(vol.  I.,  Statutes  at  Large,  page  439),  and  both  he  and  bis  wife 
were  buried  under  the  Methodist  Church  at  Georgetown,  S. 
C. — 'a  wide  mart)le  slab  now  covering  both  their  graves.  Other 
children  of  William  Wayne  were  progenitors  of  Mrs.  Eleanor 
Gregg,  widow  of  the  late  Wesley  W.  Gregg,  of  Marion,  the 
Mellichamps,  of  Sumter,  a  family  of  Elliotts  and  Daniel  G. 
Wayne,  and  the  Von  Kolnitzs,  of  Charleston.  Francis  As- 
bury  Wayne  came  to  this  county  from  Georgetown,  and  mar- 
ried, first,  the  widow  of  old  Nathan  Evans  and  mother  of  the 
late  General  William  Evans ;  she  was  a  sister  of  the  late  Wil- 
liam Rogers,  of  Dothan ;  the  fruit  of  this  marriage  was  an  only 
daughter,  Martha,  who  married  Alexander  Murdoch,  of  Marl- 
borough, and  became  the  mcJther  of  the  two  wives  of  Robert 
Charles  Mclntyre,  whidh  has  already  been  noticed  in  or  among 
the  Mclntyres,  and  of  two  sons,  John  and  Kenneth,  both  of 
whom  died  young  and  unmarried.     The  first  wife  dying,  F. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  367 

A.  Wayne  married,  a  second  time,  Miss  Elizabeth  Marjory 
Ivegette,  daughter  of  Jessee  Legette,  Sr.,  a  sister  of  Captain 
David  Legate,  Jessee,  Jr.,  and  Ebenezer,  and  of  Mrs.  Ann 
Snow  and  Jane  Legette;  there  was  another  sister,  Theresa 
Ann,  who  married  a  Palmer.  By  this  marriage  they  had  and 
raised  six  daughters  and  three  sons.  Of  the  daughters,  the 
eldest,  Jane  Trezevant,  married  Jeremiah  Sessions,  of  Horry; 
they  had  and  raised  two  sons.  Ivawrence  Trezevant,  who  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Smith,  daughter  of  the  late  William  H.  Smith,  by 
his  first  wife.  Miss  Helen  Bass,  and  by  this  marriage  were  bom 
six  or  seven  children,  sons  and  daughters.  This  wife  died,  and 
he  married  again,  I  think,  a  Miss  Campbell.  Of  the  children. 
of  Lawrence  T.  Sessions,  the  writer  does  not  know  their 
names,  though  some  of  them  are  young  men  grown,  except  the 
youngest,  Clyde,  who  vras  an  infant  wlien  his  mother  died,  and 
he  was  taken  and  raised  by  his  cousin,  J.  J.  Bethea,  of  Latta ; 
he  is  now  nearly  grown.  Laurens  Trezevant  Sessions  is  a  cap- 
ital man,  good  citizen  and  a  good  farmer.  The  other  son  was 
Percy  Sessions,  who  became  a  dental  surgeon,  and  settled  in 
Williamsburg  County.  Caroline  Anna  Wayne,  the  next  oldest 
daughter,  married  tihe  late  John  Wilcox,  of  Marion;  she  had 
two  children  for  him,  John  and  George — don't  know  which  was 
the  older;  she  died,  and  afterwards  her  son,  George,  died. 
John  Wilcox,  now  of  Marion,  is  her  only  surviving  child ;  he 
married  Miss  Leila  Smith,  daughter  of  the  late  J.  Albert 
Smith ;  they  have  four  or  five  dhildren,  all  boys.  John  Wilcox 
is  one  of  the  most  efficient  business  men  we  have ;  he  has  been 
well  trained,  first  as  clerk  for  the  Sheriff,  I  think,  about  eleven 
years;  then  as  Sheriff  of  the  county  for  two  years;  then  as 
Deputy  Clerk  of  the  Court  for  two  years ;  then  as  Clerk  of  the 
Court  for  ten  years.  In  all  these  varied  positions  he  acquitted 
himself  with  credit,  and  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  his  people ; 
in  each  and  all  these  places  of  trust  he  maintained  the  utmost 
official  integrity,  and  wlien  he  was  beaten,  in  1892,  for  re-elec- 
tion to  the  Clerk's  office,  it  was  not  'because  of  any  charges 
made  against  his  competency  or  official  integrity,  but  solely 
because  he  would  not,  or  did  not,  wear  the  badge  of  Tillman- 
ism;  fortunately  for  the  county,  the  people  got  another  good 
man  in  his  place  in  the  person  of  our  present  efficient  and 


368  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

gentlemanly  Clerk,  Dr.  D.  F.  Miles.  The  next  daughter  of  old 
man  Wayne,  Elizabeth,  married  Wyatt  Fuller;  by  this  mar- 
riage three  children  were  born — ^two  sons,  Frank  and  George, 
and  one  daughter ;  Fuller  and  his  wife  are  both  dead.  Of  the 
sons,  Frank  was  merchandizing  in  Florence,  the  last  the  writer 
knew  of  him ;  he  married  a  Miss  Collins.  George  Fuller  either 
went  off  or  died — disappeared  as  to  the  writer.  The  daug'hter, 
Sallie  Fuller,  married  Daniel  J.  Oliver,  now  of  Marion, 
Magistrate  and  merchant;  they  have  several  children.  The 
eldest,  a  son,  L.  Wyatt  Oliver,  married  Miss  Alice  Jones, 
daughter  of  the  late  Fred.  D.  Jones,  of  Marion ;  he  runs  a  farm 
and  some  mercantile  business;  think  they  have  one  or  two 
children.  The  eldest  daughter  of  D.  J.  Oliver  and  wife,  Mary, 
married  Quincy  Berry,  and  lives  near  Berry's  Cross  Roads; 
they  have  no  c'hild.  There  are  four  Mary  Berrys  in  the  Cross 
Roads  community,  and  they  are  distinguished  from  each  other 
by  the  names,  "Mary  Elihu,"  "Mary  Burke,"  "Mary  Neill" 
and  "Mary  Quince."  D.  J.  Oliver  bas  another  son  grown  and 
married,  whose  name  is  not  remiembered,  and  other  younger 
children.  The  next  daughter,  Sarah  Wayne,  married  Dr.  O. 
J.  Bond ;  they  had  several  'dhildren,  sons  an'd  daughters ;  they 
removed  to  Chester  County  some  years  ago— think  both  are 
dead;  their  sons  were  Bernard,  James  and  Harper  Bond.  Of 
these,  James  graduated  in  the  Citadel  Academy  some  years 
ago,  and  stood  so  well  that  he  was  elected  one  of  its  profes- 
sors— suppose  he  is  there  yet.  Of  the  others,  the  writer  knows 
nothing.  The  next  daughter  of  old  man  Wayne  was  Catha- 
rine Maria,  who  married  Rev.  Osgood  A.  Chreitzberg ;  he  died 
childless;  she  went  West,  perhaps  to  Florida,  and  married 
some  one,  know  not  whom.  Mary  Adelaide,  the  youngest 
daughter  of  old  man  Wayne,  first  married  her  first  cousin,  Dr. 
Armand  C.  IvCgette,  who  afterwards  became  a  Methodist 
preacher  of  the  South  Carolina  Conference ;  he  traveled  here  a 
few  years  and  was  transferred  to  the  Florida  Conference, 
where  he  died  in  a  s'hort  time,  and  his  widow  married  another 
minister,  named  Younge ;  he  died,  and  she  has  recently  married 
another  preacher  of  the  same  Florida  Conference,  whose  name 
is  not  known ;  how  many  children,  if  any,  she  has,  is  not  known. 
The  writer  can  say  this  of  her :  when  she  was  a  single  lady,  she 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  369 

was  the  most  elastic  and  agile  untrained  woman  he  ever  saw ; 
she  could  walk  along  by  the  side  of  a  horse  of  ordinary  height, 
and  lay  her  hand  upon  his  withers  and  spring  from  the  ground 
into  the  saddle — he  saw  'her  perform  this  feat  once,  and  it 
seems  she  is  expert  in  catching  Methodist  preachers.  Of  the 
sons  of  old  man  F.  A.  Wayne,  Gabriel  I.,  the  eldest,  married, 
first,  a  Widow  Britt ;  by  the  marriage  was  bom  and  raised  one 
child,  a  daughter,  Julia,  who  married,  first,  George  C.  Bethea ; 
they  lived  together  several  years,  when  he  died,  childless ;  the 
widow  married  again,  a  Methodist  preacher,  then  belonging  to 
the  Florida  Conference,  by  the  name  of  Nathan  Wiggins,  but 
now  of  the  South  Carolina  Conference ;  they  have  two  children, 
as  I  am  informed.  Gabriel  I.  Wayne's  first  wife  died,  and  he 
married  a  second  time,  and  lives  now  in  Florence  County;  he 
is  a  farmer.  The  old  gentleman,  Francis  Asbury  Wayne,  set- 
tled, lived  and  died  near  Marion  Court  House,  near  or  on  the 
place  now  owned  by  J.  M.  Johnson,  Esq.  Intellectually  he  was 
far  above  the  ordinary ;  he  was  in  some  respects  an  oddity — 
truthful  and  honest. 

L/EGETTE. — There  were  three  old  I/egettes,  of  whom  the 
writer  has  knowledge — David,  Jesse  and  Abner  Legette.  Old 
David  Legette  married,  I  do  not  know  to  whom,  but  he  had  and 
raised  three  children.  Colonel  L/evi  Ivegette,  Abner  IvCgette,  Jr., 
and  Mrs.  General  Wheeler.  Colonel  Ivevi  Legette  married,  first, 
a  Miss  Evans,  sister  of  Thomas  Evans,  Sr.,  and  half-sister  of 
General  William  Evans ;  the  fruits  of  this  marriage  were  three 
or  four  sons  and  three  daughters ;  don't  know  the  names  of  all 
the  sons  or  what  has  become  of  them.  One  son  was  named 
Morgan,  who  it  was  said  was  a  very  promising  young  man; 
he  was  very  muscular  and  athletic ;  he  volunteered  early  in  the 
war  and  went  into  the  Confederate  service ;  during  the  war  he 
was  killed  in  some  one  of  the  battles  in  Virginia,  or  died  from 
disease  contracted  in  service.  Another  son,  Levi,  grew  up  and 
married  some  one,  and  may  be  in  the  county  now,  but  is  un- 
known; he  may  have  had  other  sons.  Colonel  Levi  Legette 
had  and  raised  three  daughters,  Anna,  Mary  and  Melvina. 
Anna  married,  first,  Ebben  Rogers,  of  the  Dothan  community ; 
he  settled  below  Marion,  and  was  killed  in  October,  1855,  by  a 


370  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

man  named  Harrelson,  as  already  mentioned  herein.  By  this 
marriage,  two  children  were  born,  a  son,  named  Bbben,  and  a 
daughter,  name  not  remembered,  and  who  is  the  wife  of  Addi- 
son J.  Snipes,  below  Marion.  Ebben  went  off  to  parts  un- 
known. Snipes  and  wife  have  a  family,  how  many  is  not 
known,  and  perhaps  grand-children ;  one  of  Snipes'  daughters 
married  A.  P.  Johnson,  of  Horry.  The  Widow  Anna  Rogers 
married  again  to  Jessee  Rogers,  a  first  cousin  of  her  first  hus- 
band; no  fruit  of  this  marriage;  both  are  dead.  Mary,  the 
second  daughter  of  Colonel  L,egette,  married  Mr.  Edward  C. 
Collins ;  they  had  and  raised  several  sons  and  two  daughters ; 
don't  know  the  names  of  either  sons  or  daughters,  except  one 
son,  Lawrence,  who  is  clerk  for  the  dispensary  at  Florence. 
One  of  the  daughters  married  Erank  Fuller;  they  reside  in 
Florence.  Think  the  other  daughter  is  dead.  Melvina,  the 
youngest  daughter,  married  William  Loyd ;  they  have  a  family, 
of  how  many  is  unknown;  think  they  'have  two  sons,  names 
unknown;  they  live  'below  Marion,  and  are  said  to  be  doing 
well.  After  the  death  of  Colonel  Eegette's  first  wife,  he  mar- 
ried the  widow  of  James  P.  Mclnnis,  of  upper  Marion,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Althea  Alford,  a  daughter  of  Lodwick  B. 
Alford;  they  had  no  children;  Colonel  Legette  died  in  1871, 
at  the  age  of  seventy-six  years ;  his  widow  still  survives. 
Colonel  Legette  was  a  man  of  marked  individuality — there  was 
but  one  Levi  Legette ;  'he  was  a  good  surveyor  and  did  a  great 
deal  of  work  in  that  line;  had  a  fair  education  for  his  day; 
was  a  farmer,  and  represented  his  county  in  the  lower  House 
of  the  Legislature  for  one  term.  Abner  Legette,  Jr.,  a  brother 
of  Colonel  Levi,  was  one  of  nature's  men^  he  was  rough  and 
outspoken,  a  man  of  great  personal  independence ;  don't  know 
of  his  family,  if  he  had  any ;  have  not  seen  him  in  many  years — 
he  has  disappeared,  by  death  or  removal.  The  only  daughter 
of  old  David  Legette,  Clara  L.,  married  General  E.  B.  Whee- 
ler, as  well  known  in  his  day  as  per*haps  any  man  in  the  county ; 
he  was  Clerk  of  the  Court  for  thirty  years  consecutively;  he 
died  in  1859 — ^he  was  no  ordinary  man ;  the  fruit  of  the  mar- 
riage was  an  only  son,  who  became  Dr.  James  Hamilton  Whee- 
ler. He  married  Miss  Sarah  Jane  Cherry,  a  daughter  of  Dr. 
Cherry,  of  Spring  Branch;  the  fruits  of  the  marriage  were 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  371 

two  sons,  our  present  fellow-citizen,  Ed.  B.  Wheeler,  and  L,is- 
ton  C.  Wheeler,  of  Marion.  Their  father  died  when  his  two 
sons  were  quite  small ;  his  widow,  their  mother,  still  survives, 
and  lives  at  Marion ;  she  is  a  most  amiable  woman.  The  widow 
of  General  Wheeler  died  some  years  ago,  leaving  her  money 
and  little  property  to  her  two  grand-sons,  E.  B.  and  Listen  C. 
Wheeler,  to  w'hom  she  was  passionately  devoted  in  her  latter 
days.  Ed.  B.  Wheeler  married  Miss  Efifa  Blue,  daughter  of 
the  late  Colonel  John  G.  Blue,  of  Marion ;  two  or  three  children 
are  the  fruits  of  the  marriage ;  they  reside  in  Marion.  Liston 
C.  Wheeler  married  Miss  Carrie  Boyd,  daughter  of  the  late 
Rev.  J.  Mariion  Boyd,  who  some  years  ago  was  the  Presiding 
Elder  of  this,  the  Marion  District,  and  who  thereafter  died 
suddenly  on  the  Spartanburg  District,  a  very  able  preacher; 
the  fruit  of  this  marriage  is  an  only  child,  I  believe,  a  son ;  they 
reside  in  Marion. 

Old  Jesse  Legette,  Sr.,  "had  three  sons,  as  known  to  the 
writer;  don't  'know  who  his  wife  was;  the  three  sons  were 
Jessee,  Jr.,  Ebenezer  and  David;  he  also  had  four  daughters, 
Elizabeth,  Marjory,  Ann,  Jane  and  Theresa  Anna.  Of  the 
sons  of  Jesse,  Sr.,  Jesse  and  Ebenezer  were  Methodist  preach- 
ers, traveling  for  several  years ;  don't  know  to  whom  they  mar- 
ried, but  they  did  marry;  and  Ebenezer,  after  location  in  the 
Conference,  settled  in  Marion,  and  merchandized  for  a  while, 
when  he  died ;  Jesse,  Jr.,  his  brother,  died  also ;  know  nothing 
of  the  family  of  either.  Rev.  David  Legette  (called'  Captain 
David),  the  next  or  third  son  in  the  order  named,  married  a 
Miss  Richardson,  daug'hter  of  John  Richardson  ("King 
John")  and  sister  of  t!he  late  William  F.  Richardson,  and  set- 
tled on  the  place  now  known  as  Legette's  Mill,  ten  or  twelve 
miles  below  Marion,  where  he  lived  and  died ;  the  fruits  of  this 
marriage  were  two  sons,  Hannibal  and  Kossuth,  and  three 
daugliters.  Of  the  sons,  the  eldest,  Hannibal,  a  very  promis- 
ing young  man,  volunteered  in  the  early  part  of  the  war  and 
entered  the  Confederate  service — I  think  he  was  a  Lieuten- 
ant— and  was  killed  or  fatally  wounded  and  died  early  in  the 
war;  he  was  a  brave  man,  and  his  memory  sihould  be  and 
doubtless  is  cherished  by  all  who  knew  him.  Kossuth  Legette, 
the  younger  son,  grew  up  and  settled  on  part  of  his  father's 


372  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

plantation,  on  the  west  side  of  the  mill,  on  the  road  leading 
from  Marion  to  Britton's  Ferry,  on  Great  Pee  Dee ;  he  married 
rather  late  in  life  a  daughter  of  Allen  Gibson ;  they  are  rais- 
ing a  family — all  young ;  he  is  one  of  the  progressive  farmers 
of  that  section  of  the  county,  and  is  succeeding  well — a  quiet 
and  law-abiding  citizen.  Of  the  daughters  of  Captain  David 
Legette,  the  eldest,  Amelia,  married  James  Hamilton  Evans, 
who  died  a  few  years  ago,  childless ;  the  widow  lived  at  Marion 
since  his  death,  and  owns  still  a  house  and  lot  on  Godbold 
street;  an  orphan  girl,  Lizzie  Bond,  whom  she  raised,  lately 
married  a  Mr.  Douglas,  of  Fairfield  County,  and  Mrs.  Evans 
has  gone  with  her  into  that  county.  A  second  daughter  of 
Captain  David  Legette  (name  not  known)  married  Rev.  Wm. 
B.  Baker,  of  the  South  Carolina  Conference ;  they  have  a  fam- 
ily, how  many  and  their  sex  and  size  unknown.  Rev.  Baker 
is  said  to  be  a  very  good  man  and  an  effective  preacher.  The 
third  daughter  of  Captain  D.  Legette  married  A.  R.  Oliver, 
now  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Registration  of  Voters ;  he  is  a 
successful  farmer  and  an  excellent  citizen;  the  fruits  of  the 
marriage  are  several  sons  and  daughters ;  don't  know  the  names 
of  all  of  them.  His  daughter,  Eveline,  married  L.  M.  Gasque, 
of  Marion ;  she  died,  leaving  one  Child,  and  he  married  another 
one,  Lizzie,  who  is  now  his  wife.  He  has  another  daughter, 
named  May,  who  is  grown  and  unmarried' — there  may  be 
others ;  he  has  several  sons,  some  of  them  grown ;  one,  named 
Haskell ;  has  one  son,  Eugene,  in  the  South  Carolina  College ; 
another  son,  Robert,  gone  out  West ;  another,  named  Langdon. 
Of  the  daughters  of  old  Jessie  Legette,  Sr.,  the  eldest,  Eliza- 
beth Marjoray,  married  Francis  A.  Wayne,  and  she  and  her 
family  have  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Wayne  fam- 
ily. Another  daughter  of  Jessie  Legette,  sr.,  named  Ann,  mar- 
ried a  man  by  the  name  of  Snow,  of  the  low  country ;  he  died 
and  left  her  with  two  children,  a  daughter  and  a  son;  the 
daughter  was  named  Ida,  don't  remember  the  son's  name — be 
was  younger;  they  lived  in  Marian,  in  the  early  70's,  in  the 
house  afterwards  owned  and  occupied  by  the  writer,  who  pur- 
chased it  in  1874;  Mrs.  Snow  moved  out  of  it  just  before  the 
writer  went  in ;  don't  know  what  became  of  them — saw  Miss 
Ida  in  Marian  some  few  years  after.     Jane,  the  third  daughter 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  373 

of  Jessie  Legette,  Sr.,  married  her  first  cousin,  Ashley  S.  Le- 
gette,  who  lately  died  (Ashley),  over  eighty  years  of  age.  Dr. 
A^ley  Legette  and  wife,  Jane,  had  and  raised  five  sons — Dr. 
Arman  C,  Major  Ringold,  Virgil,  William  and  Woodson,  and 
two  daughters,  Theresa  A.  and  Elizabeth.  Of  the  sons.  Dr.  Ar- 
man C.  Legette  married  his  first  cousin,  Mary  Adelaide  Wayne, 
who  has  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Wayne  family. 
The  other  sons  of  Dr.  Ashley,  the  writer  does  not  know 
whether  they  are  married  or  single.  Of  the  daughters,  Theresa 
Ann  married,  first,  Duncan  Mclntyre,  who  lived  but  a  short 
time;  he  left  her  with  one  child,  a  son,  who  has  already  been 
mentioned  herein  in  or  among  the  Mclntyres ;  she  afterwards 
married  Mr.  T.  J.  Ledingham,  who  now  live  in  the  Legette 
neighborhood,  and  are  bringing  up  a  family;  know  but  little 
about  Mr.  Ledingtiam — he  has  been  a  Magistrate  for  several 
years,  and  seems  to  be  an  intelligent  gentleman.  The  daugh- 
ter, Elizabeth,  married  a  Mr.  Vaught,  about  whom  the  writer 
knows  nothing,  nor  of  his  family,  or  his  or  their  whereabouts. 
The  writer  has  seen  a  young  lady,  said  to  be  his  daughter,  a 
pretty  girl.  Dr.  Ashley  S.  Legette  had  a  brother.  Nelson 
Legette,  who,  I  think,  died  many  years  ago — whether  married 
or  unmarried,  fihe  writer  knows  not.  The  father  of  Dr.  Ashley 
and  Nelson  was  Abner  Legette,  Sr.,  brother  of  old  David  and 
Jesse,  Sr. 

There  are  some  Legettes  in  Wahee  Township.  Their  father 
was  John  Legette,  called  Jack  Legette — whether  they  are  of 
kin  to  the  other  Legettes  below,  is  not  known.  The  Legette 
family  is  one  of  the  old  families  of  the  county,  and  have  ever 
been  men  at  the  front  as  citizens.  Captain  David  Legette  was 
no  ordinary  man^ — was  above  the  ordinary — a  man  of  great 
energy  and  perseverance ;  he  was  a  local  preacher  in  the  Metho- 
dist connection;  he  was  also  a  dental  surgeon.  The  Legette 
family  have  always  stood  well  in  the  county.  Legette  Town- 
ship was  named  thus  for  the  Legette  family.  Recurring  back 
to  Captain  D.  Legette's  children — one  was  overlooked,  a  daugh- 
ter, who  married  J.  Clement  Davis;  they  have  five  children. 
Mr.  Davis  is  one  of  our  best  and  most  progressive  citizens. 

GasquB. — The  Gasque  family  will  next  be  noticed.     Samuel 


374  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Gasque,  the  first  known,  settled  opposite  Marion,  over  Catfish, 
before  the  Revolutionary  War.  He  had  five  sons,  Archie, 
Samuel,  Henry,  John  and  Absalom,  and  one  daughter,  Nancy ; 
the  mother  of  these  was  a  Dozier.  Archie  and  Samuel  went 
West.  Archie  has  not  been  heard  from  or  what  become  of 
him.  Samuel  raised  a  family,  one  son  of  whom,  named  Sam- 
uel, died  a  few  years  ago,  in  Louisiana,  unmarried,  and  had  an 
estate,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  worth  ten'  or  twelve  thousand 
dollars,  which  was  divisible  among  his  first  cousins,  many  of 
whom  or  all  of  them  were  of  this  county.  W.  B.  Gasque,  Mas- 
tin  Gasque,  Charles  F.  Godbold  and  others  in  the  same  degree 
of  relationship,  shared  in  the  division,  and  got  $400  each  net, 
clear  of  expenses.  The  deceased  had  been  or  was  County 
Judge  in  Ivouisiana.  Henry  Gasque  married  three  times ;  first, 
Miss  Mourning  Brown,  and  by  her  had  Henry,  Elly,  Elizabeth 
and  Rebecca ;  his  second  wife  was  Nancy  Brown,  and  had  two 
children — Nancy,  who  married  Drury  Thomas,  and  Edith,  who 
married  a  Mr.  Brown.  His  third  wife  was  Milley  Bryant,  and 
by  her  had  ten  children,  viz :  sons.  Love,  William  B.,  Alfred, 
Wilson,  Addison  and  Mastin ;  daughters,  Nellie,  who  married  a 
Mr.  Brown  in  North  Carolina,  and  is  dead ;  Olive,  who  married 
a  Mr.  Hucks,  in  Horry ;  and  Martha,  who  married  a  Mr.  Frye, 
and  went  to  Horry  County;  they  all  have  families.  John 
Gasque  married  a  Miss  Crawford,  and  had  three  sons  and  two 
daughters';  the  sons  were  James  C,  Samuel  and  John,  all  dead, 
and  none  of  their  descendants  are  in  the  county.  Of  the  two 
daughters,  Caroline,  the  mother  of  Rev.  Sumter  Gasque,  now 
of  the  Western  North  Carolina  Conference,  she  married  a  Mr. 
Foxworth,  who  died  about  the  first  of  the  war,  a  felo  de  se; 
Mrs.  Mary  Harrel,  of  Marion,  was  the  result  of  the  marriage, 
who  has  several  children — sons,  James,  Joe,  Frank  and  Fred, 
and  three  daughters,  one  of  whom  lately  married  Robert 
Boyd  Jones,  of  Marion.  These  are  descendants  of  old  John 
Gasque.  His  daughter,  Mrs.  Foxworth,  still  survives,  eighty- 
two  years  of  age,  and  lives  with  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Harrel,  at 
Marion.  Another  daughter  of  old  John  Gasque,  Ann,  was  the 
mother  of  the  late  Jessie  C.  Rowell's  wife.  Mrs.  Rowell  is  an 
excellent  woman,  the  "salt  of  the  earth ;"  she  has  a  large  family 
of  sons  and  daughters.  These  are  descendants  of  old  John 
Gasque. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  375 

Absalom  Gasque,  the  old  Court  crier  before  the  war,  was 
married  twice;  first,  a  Miss  Dozier,  by  whom  he  had  sons, 
James  W.,  Archie,  John  D.  and  Henry  A.,  and  daughters,  Celia, 
who  became  the  wife  of  Atkinson ;  Olive,  who  became  the 
wife  of  Ebbie  Atkinson ;  Polly,  who  became  the  wife  of  Benj. 
Richardson-;  Ann,  who  became  the  wife  of  David  J.  Rowell, 
and  Sarah,  who  became  the  wife  of  John  Tyler.  Absalom's 
second  wife  was  a  Miss  Davis,  and  had  Susan,  the  wife  of  Val. 
Dozier  Ervin,  killed  at  Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  in  1864.  Samuel 
married  Cade  Thomas'  daughter,  and  lives  in  Britton's  Neck. 
James  W.  moved  to  Georgetown.  John  D.  died  suddenly,  the 
day  of  the  'bombardiment  of  Fort  Sumter,  12th  April,  1861. 
Henry  A.  married  a  Miss  Collins,  and  had  two  children,  daugh- 
ters. Francis  married  Calvin  I^ee ;  the  other,  Sallie,  is  yet  un- 
married. The  father,  Henry  A.  Gasque,  Court  caller  for  years, 
like  his  father,  Absalom ;  he  was  a  capital  man  and  law-abiding 
citizen.  Archie  Gasque  married  Miss  Ann  Rowell;  they  had 
eight  boys,  David  A.,  Marion,  Amy  M.,  Wesley  E.,  Samuel, 
McB.  R.,  Franklin  J.,  Archie  B.,  and  five  daughters.  Monetta 
died  in  1862.  Jennette  married  John  Jones,  and  lives  at  Mc- 
Coll,  S.  C.  Susan  married  Starr  Shelly,  on  Terrel's  Bay,  and 
have  a  family.  Idella  married  Fletcher  Stalvey,  and  have  a 
family.  Mary  married  David  Dozier,  and  died — ^burned  to 
death,  in  1890,  leaving  four  children..  Marion  Gasque  was 
killed  at  Drewry's  Bluff,  Va.,  in  1864.  Samuel  died  in  prison 
at  Elmira,  N.  Y.  Marion  married  a  Miss  Davis,  and  left  three 
children — ^the  wives  of  Willis  Baxly,  Evander  Perritt  and 
Charles  B.  Martin.  David  A.  moved  to  Beaufort,  and  raised  a 
family;  now  dead.  Arny  M.  married  the  Widow  Devon, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Phillips,  and  has  five  children.  Eu- 
genia married  Thadeus  Mace.  Philip,  Boyd  M.  and  Emma 
unmarried;  and  Moses  Mace  married  Lena  Gasque.  Wesley 
Gasque  married  twice — first.  Miss  Williamson,  and  had  seven 
children,  Hannibal  L.,  Troy,  Elmore ;  of  the  daughters,  Mattie 
married  Joseph  Fowler,  Emmile,  Julia  and  Bettie  are  unmar- 
ried ;  the  sons  are  all  married.  His  second  wife  was  Ann  Wat- 
son ;  they  have  no  children ;  Wesley  died  in  1899.  William  B. 
Rowell  Gasque  married  his  cousin,  Sallie  Gasque,  and  has  six 
children,  five  daughters  and  one  son,  Cicero.  Florence  mar- 
25 


376  A  HISTORY  O^  MARION  COUNTY. 

ried  R.  H.  Begham ;  she  died  and  left  two  children.  Nannie 
married  a  Mr.  Matthews,  near  Effingham,  and  has  one  child. 
Walker  died. at  eighteen  years  of  age.  Cora  and  one  son, 
Cicero,  are  unmarried.  Franklin  J.  (called  Dock)  married 
Mary  McMillan,  and  left  children,  all  girls— Claudia,  Flossy 
and  Mary.  Dock,  the  father,  died  in  1895.  Archie  B.  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Atkinson,  and  left  no  children;  he  died  in  1875. 
Henry  Casque  married  Miss  Harriet  Porter ;  they  had  thirteen 
children,  and-raised  twelve — six  sons  and  six  daughters.  Of 
the  daughters,  Jane  married  John  A.  Hatchel,  of  Florence 
County;  Mary  married  Arthur  Hutchinson,  of  Florence 
County;  Martha  Ann  married,  first,  Benjamin  Hatchell,  and 
then  James  Farley;  she  has  two  sons  at  Dillon  (Farleys)  in 
business  there;  Rebecca  married  Jessie  Atkinson,  they  have  a 
family  of  children;  Kitty  married  Siamuel  Lane,  and  is  in 
Horry ;  Charlotte  married  Frank  Lane,  and  is  also  in  Horry — 
both  have  families ;  and  Virginia,  who  is  unmarried',  stays  with 
her  brother,  Eli.  Henry  and  Elly  Gasque  were  brave  Confed- 
erate soldiers,  and  both  died  in  the  war.  Eli  H.  married,  first, 
a  Miss  Shaw,  in  Mississippi ;  her  father,  Merdock  Shaw,  went 
from  Marion  County;  they  had  ten  children,  sons  and  daugh- 
ters; the  sons  were  Lonney  M.,  Henry  E.,  Boyd  R.,  Charles 
W.,  John  O.,  Joseph  H.,  Andrew  Stokps  and  Henry  Little ;  the 
daughters  were  Hattie  and  Edna..  Hattie  married  a  Mr.  Twiur 
ing,  of  Wilmington,  N.  C,  and  has  seven  children,  all  small.. 
Lonney  M.  married,  first,  a  Miss  Oliver,  and  secondly,  his  first 
wife's  sister,  as  already  mentioned  among  the  Legettes. 
Henry  E.  married  Miss  Nannie  Gregg,  of  Marion;  they  have 
two  or  three  children  (small),  one  son,  Andrew  Stokes,  died 
when  young.  The  other  sons  of  E.  H.  Gasque  are  all  unmar- 
ried. E.  H.  Gasque  married,  a  second  time,  Miss  Sallie  Fox- 
worth,  daughter  of  the  late  William  C.  Foxworth ;  the  fruits  of 
this  marriage  are  two  sons  and  two  daughters — Herbert  and 
Carroll,  Rena  and  Lucy  (small).  David  Gasque  married  Miss 
Anna  Smith,  daug'hter  of  the  late  John  M.  Smith,  and  has,  I 
think,  four  girls;  the  eldest  has  just  graduated  with  distinction 
in  Knoxville,  Tenn.  David  has  been  in  Columbia  for  years  in 
the  railroad  service.  Wesley  married,  don't  know  who ;  he  has 
a  family,  a  son  in  South  Carolina  College ;  he  is  a  farmer  and  is 


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doing  well ;  he  resides  in  Florence  County.  Bond  Gasque  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Rogers,  daughter  of  Nathan  Rogers ;  has  two  boys ; 
lives  at  MuUins.  William  B.  Gasque  married,  first,  a  daughter 
of  "Corn-ma:king  Willis  Finklea;"  he  had  by  her  two  children, 
a  son,  Alfred-,  and  a  daughter,  who  married  a  Mr.  Brady,  and 
they  moved  to  Kansas.  William  B.  Gasque  married,  a  second 
time,  a  Miss  Clark,  daughter  of  Kenneth  Clark,  and  by  her  had 
George  K.,  Robert,  James  and  Sallie,  now  the  wife  of  W.  B.  R. 
Gasque ;  also,  Mrs.  Jefferson  Braswell  andl  Mrs.  Mitchel  Lane. 
Addison  L.  Gasque  married  a  Miss  Frye,  who  has  a  number  of 
children,  and  lives  in  the  Gapway  section,  a  farmer,  and  is  doing 
fairly  well.  Alfred  Gasque  (son  of  old  Henry)  married  a 
daughter  of  Kenneth  Clark,  and  died  in  two  weeks  after  mar- 
riage. Wilson  Gasque  (son  of  old  Henry)  married  a  daughter 
of  Malcolm  Clarke ;  he  died  in  prison  during  the  war ;  he  left 
one  son,  R.  K.  Gasque.  Love  Gasque,  another  son  of  old 
Henry,  married  Miss  Susan  Rogers,  a  daughter  of  old  Timothy 
Rogers,  and  soon  after  moved  to  Mississippi.  Mastin  Gasque, 
another  son  of  old  Henry,  married  a  daughter  of  Daniel  Fore 
and  a  niece  of  T.  F.  Stackhouse ;  he  has  seven  or  eight  children, 
and  lives  with  T.  F.  Stackhouse  and  conducts  his  farm ;  he  is  a 
local  Methodist  preacher  and  an  excellent  man ;  his  eldest  son, 
Randolph,  died  a  year  or  two  ago,  at  El  Paso,  Texas;  some 
others  of  his  children  grown.  Randolph  left  a  wife  in  Marion 
County,  with  two  children.  The  Gasque  family  and  its  con- 
nections are  very  numerous  and  extensive,  and  quite  respecta- 
ble. Eli  H.  has  merchandised  all  his  life  except  during  the 
war ;  he  is  at  Marion,  doing  a  large  business  andi  is  well  known 
throughout  the  county — ^a  very  public-spirited  man  and  indomi- 
table in  energy  and  perseverance;  hard  to  down,  and  when 
down  will  rise  again — no  such  thing  as  holding  him  down.  The 
Gasques,  as  a  family,  did  their  full  share  in  the  war.  I  forgot 
to  note,  in  its  proper  order,  the  only  daughter  of  the  first  old 
Samuel  Gasque,  which  I  now  mention:  Nancy  Gasque,  sister 
of  old  Henry,  John  and  Absalom;  she  married  Thomas  God- 
bold  (called  "Tom  Cat"),  and  raised  a  large  family,  mostly 
sons,  who  have  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  God'bold 
family.  Many  people  called  her  Aunt  "Nancy  Cats" — she  was 
an  extraordinary  woman ;  her  husband  died  in  1836  or  '7 ;  seve- 


378  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Hal  of  her  children  were  then  small ;  she,  however,  braved  all 
difficulties,  raised  her  children  respectably  and  made  property, 
and  at  her  death,  in  1863,  left  a  large  property  in  lands  and 
slaves;  she  ran  a  public  house  in  Marion  for  thirty  or  forty 
years  with  great  success — her  table  was  ever  loaded  with  the 
substantials  of  life  and  well  prepared.  Major  Elly  Gasque,  son 
of  old  Henry  by  his  first  wife,  married,  first,  a  Miss  Brown ;  by 
her  he  had  no  children ;  he  married,  a  second  time,  the  Widow 
Montgomery,  mother  of  J.  D.  and  W.  J.  Montgomery ;  by  her 
he  had  and  left  two  sons,  Elly  A.  and  Henry  I.  Gasque.  EUy 
A.  is  a  first  class  dental  surgeon,  unmarried'.  Henry  I.  married 
Miss  Jennie  Evans,  daughter  of  Sheriff  W.  T.  Evans ;  she  died 
some  four  of  five  years  ago,  leaving  a  son  'and  a  daughter,  quite 
small ;  Henry  I.  has  not  remarried. 

Brown. — The  Brown  family  will  next  be  noticed.  The  first 
Brown  known  was  John  Brown,  "Cut-face,"  as  he  was  called ; 
came  from'  Columbus  County,  N.  C,  and  settled  below  or  east 
of  Marion ;  don't  know  to  whom  he  married ;  he  had  and  raised 
six  sons,  Richard  (Dick),  Joshua,  Thomas,  John,  Stephen  and 
William,  and  two  daughters.  MoUie  married  a  Mr.  Fowler, 
the  father  of  the  late  Jessie  Fowler,  and  Patsey  married  a  Mr. 
Campbell,  who  went  West  or  disappeared.  Ricihard  Brown 
married  a  Miss  Beach,  and  had  two  sons  and  two  daugliters; 
the  sons  were  Lewis  and  Joseph ;  the  diaughters  were  Pattie  and 
Fannie.  Lewis  married,  first,  a  Miss  Elliott  and  next  a  Miss 
James,  and  had  twenty-one  children ;  nine  grew  up  and  were 
named  Charlotte,  Ann,  Mary  (first  set) ;  W.  J.,  Rebecca  and 
Lewis  (second  set) ;  Henrietta,  Temperance  and  Frances  (third 
set).  Charlotte  married  James  Carter,  who  was  the  father  of 
our  John  Carter  (horse  trader).  The  father  was  killed  in  the 
war,  and  his  son,  John,  was  also  in  the  war,  but  came  out  un- 
hurt, and  lately  a  volunteer  in  the  Spanish  war,  Second  Regi- 
ment ;  'he  deserves  the  plaudits  and  well  done  of  his  countrymen. 
Ann  Brown  married  Frank  Capps,  and  was  the  mother  of 
David  Capps.  Mary  Brown  married  Wilson  James,  and  had  a 
number  of  daughters  and  one  son,  Preston,  who  was  killed  in 
the  war.  William'  J. 'Brown,  two  miles  below  Marion,  and  a 
most  excellent  citizen,  married  Miss  Mary  Pace,  and  has  six 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  879 

living  childTen  (names  unknown).  Lewis  Brown,  Jr.,  mar- 
ried Miss  Rachel  Flowers,  and  had  no  children ;  was  killed  in 
the  war.  Henrietta  married  Love  Flowers ;  had  three  children, 
now  living  (name  and  sex  unknown).  Temperance  Brown 
married  Baker  Lewis,  and  has  four  -sons  and  two  daughters 
living.  Frances  married  John  Drew;  they  live  in  Horry 
County.  Joshua  Brown,  son  of  the  first  old  John,  married  a 
Miss  Brown,  and  moved  to  Horry,  and  has  a  number  of  chil- 
dren and  grand-children  in  this  county.  Thomas  Brown, 
second  son  of  first  old  John,  married  a  Miss  Brown.  Most  of 
this  family  of  Browns  have  emigrated  to  other  parts.  John 
BroWn,  Jr.,  the  third  son  of  old  John,  moved  to  Georgetown, 
married  and  raised  a  family,  and  died  there.  Stephen,  the 
fifth  son  of  old  John,  married  a  Miss  Whitner,  of  North  Caro- 
lina, and  had  and  raised  two  children,  "Hon.  John  Brown,"  and 
daughter,  Jane,  who  married  Henry  Waller,  Who  was  killed  in 
the  war ;  he  left  a  family  of  three  children.  "Hon.  John"  lives 
about  two  miles  below  Mullins,  I  suppose,  on  his  father's  old 
homestead;  he  has  attained  to  some  notoriety  by  his  unique 
character,  quaint  sayings,  and  by  numbers  of  quaint  and  spicy 
letters  which  he  has  ha'd  published  in  "The  Marion  Star"  for 
the  last  thirty  years.  Any  one  who  takes  the  "Hon.  John"  to 
be  a  fool,  is  badly  sold ;  he  has  talent  for  wit  and  humor  that 
few  have,  and  if  "Hon.  John"  had  been  educated  and  had 
turned  his  powers  at  wit  and  humor  in  the  proper  channel,  he 
might  now  be  classed  with  Zeb.  Vance  and  other  distinguished 
wits  of  the  age ;  but,  alas !  John — "Hon.  John" — is  limited  to  a 
narrow  sphere  around  Mullins  and  his  native  county.  "Hon. 
John"  married  a  Miss  Rogers,  "Pat,"  and  has  raised  several 
sons,  who  are  a  credit  to  "Hon.  John,"  and  form  a  part  of  our 
good  citizenship.  I  know  only  two  or  three  of  them — Allison 
H.,  at  Latta,  Edward  W.,  of  Marion,  and  Charles  V.,  late  of 
Latta.  "Hon.  John's"  enviroimients  in  early  life,  I  suppose, 
were  not  the  best ;  it  rarely  happens  that  a  man  rises  above  his 
environments,  and  the  society  in  which  he  is  brought  up  to 
manhood,  and  the  active  realities  of  life.  William,  the  sixth 
son  of  old  first  John,  married  a  Miss  Whitter  or  Whittier ;  he 
was  the  father  of  William  A.  Brown,  on  Sister  Bay,  and  a  num- 
ber of  other  boys,  who  were  all  killed  in  the  war,  or  died  from 


880  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

disease  or  wounds.  Joseph  Brown  married  a  Miss  Richardson, 
in  Britton's  Neck,  and  had  a  son,  James,  killed  in  the  war,  and 
Evander,  Pinckney,  Washington  and  Lex,  and  two  daughters, 
Ann  and  Julia.  Ann  married  Mr.  Benjamin  G.  Woodberry. 
Julia  married  Charles  Pace ;  they  bad,  or  have,  Charles,  Joseph 
and  Mrs.  A.  P.  Hucks,  Mrs.  Richard  McRae  and  Mrs.  Sydney 
Richardson,  w<hen  Pace  died,  and  she  married  M.  H.  Collins 
(Hook)  ;  they  have  no  children.  The  Brown  family  and  con- 
nections, it  may  be  inferred  from  above  statements,  suffered 
greatly  in  the  war,  by  fatalities — as  much  or  more,  perhaps, 
than  any  'Other  family  in  the  county,  in  proportion  to  their  num- 
bers. Brown  is  a  very  popular  name  throughout  the  United 
States,  Marion  County  included.  It  may  be  here  stated  or  re- 
stated, that  old  Henry  Casque's  first  and  second  wives  were 
Browns ;  Miss  Edith  Gasque  married  a  Mr.  Brown ;  Miss  Nel- 
lie Gasque  married  a  Mr.  Brown,  of  North  Carolina;  Major 
Elly  Gasque's  first  wife  was  a  Miss  Brown ;  George  W.  Reaves' 
second  wife  was  a  Miss  Brown.  To  what  particular  families 
of  the  Browns  these  wives  and  husbands  belonged,  does  not 
appear.  Perhaps  the  present  Brown  families,  when  they  shall 
have  read  this  sketch,  can  assign  each  to  his  or  her  particular 
branch  of  the  Brown  family. 

Another  family  of  Browns,  not  related  to  the  preceding 
Browns,  will  now  be  noticed,  to  wit :  the  family  to  which  the 
Hon.  W.  A.  Brown  belongs.  Jeremiah  Brown,  the  great- 
grand- father  of  Hon.  W.  A.  Brown,  married  a  Miss  Jolly — ^the 
same  family  that  is  or  was  related  to  the  Mclntyres  of  Marion ; 
they  had  four  sons,  Jerry,  James,  William  and  John  S. — ^the 
last  named  was  in  Fanning's  army  and  was  massacred  by  the 
Mexicans,  about  1835  or  '6,  at  the  Alamo.  There  were  two 
daughters — Rebecca,  who  married  John  Graham',  and  Annie, 
who  married  another  John  Graham,  relative  of  the  other.  The 
son,  Jam'es  Brown,  was  the  grand-father  of  Hon.  W.  A. 
Brown;  he  was  born  in  West  Marion,  near  Mars  Bluff;  he 
married  Miss  Julia  Davis,  a  sister  of  Jackey  Davis  and  aunt  of 
Wm.  J.  Davis ;  they  had  only  two  children,  a  daug'hter,  Harriet, 
who  married  G.  W.  Woodberry,  and  an  infant  son,  the  late 
Travis  Foster  Brdwn,  who  was  bom  July,  1822,  and  died  De- 
cember,  1894.     Travis  Foster  Brown  married  Miss  Martha 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  881 

Oaroline  Baker,  the  youngest  daughter  of  William  and  Annis 
Baker — were  very  young  when  they  married;  they  had  and 
raised  five  children,  John  O.,  William  A.  and  James  T.  Brown, 
and  two  daughters,  Susan  A.  and  Julia  M.  Susan  A.  married 
Captain  T.  E.  Stanley;  JuHa  married  J.  E.  Stevenson;  John,0. 
married  Miss  Louisa  Brunson,  of  Darlington ;  William  A.  mar- 
ried Miss  Eliza  Clarke,  daughter  of  the  late  R.  K.  Clarke; 
James  T.  married  Miss  Louise  DuRant — all  are  living  except 
Julia,  who  died  in  1885.  J.  O.  Brown  was  delicate  from  child- 
hood; he  joined  the  Confederate  Army  when  eighteen  years 
old,  Neill  C.  McDuffie's  Company  L,  21st  Regiment,  Graham, 
Col.,  in  1861 ;  served  in  same  company  under  the  young  and 
gallant  Captain  Hannibal  Legette,  and  after  his  death,  under 
Captain  W.  B.  Baker,  and  was  captured  at  Fort  Fisher,  im- 
prisoned at  Point  Lookout,  and  remained  there  two  months 
before  Lee's  surrender.  The  father,  T.  F.  Brown,  was  in  Colo- 
nel Cash's  regiment.  Captain  W.  S.  EUerbe's  company,  while 
it  was  in  service.  T.  F.  Brown  having  lost  his  wife,  never 
more  married,  but  devoted  himself  to  the  raising  and  education 
of  his  children ;  he  was  a  widower  for  about  forty  years ;  he  and 
his  sister,  Mrs.  G.  W.  Woodberry,  were  raised  orphans  by  their 
uncle  and  aunt,  Jacky  Davis  and  Susie  Davis,  who  were  as  good 
and  kind  to  them  as  if  they  had  been  their  own  children.  T.  F. 
Brown  began  life  a  poor  boy ;  he  at  first  clerked  for  John  Henry, 
at  Marion,  for  $5  per  month,  but  soon  rose  and  was  depended 
on  everywhere.  When  ihe  married,  he  gave  up  clerking  and 
engaged  in  farming  on  a  small  scale,  near  Tabernacle  Church ; 
he  was  soon  able  to  buy  a  larger  farm  and  moved  to  it,  where  he 
spent  the  balance  of  his  life;  by  industry  and  good  judgment 
he  was  successful,  and  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  was  con- 
sidered to  be  in  good  circumstances ;  so  decided  was  he,  that  he 
never  hesitated,  but  did  the  right  as  by  intuition-;  he  was  a  life 
long  and  consistent  member  of  the  Methodist  Church.  The 
grand-parents  of  Hon.  W.  A.  Brown,  on  his  mother's  side,  were 
William  and  Annis  Baker;  his  grand^mother's  maiden  name 
was  Phillips ;  she  first  married  a  Giles,  son  of  Colonel  Hugh 
Giles,  of  Revolutionary  fame ;  by  this  marriage  she  had  only 
one  child,  Hugh  Giles,  Jr.,  when  he  died,  and  s'he  then  married 
William  Baker ;  by  this  latter  marriage  were  born  Mary,  w^ho 


882  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

married  Gause  Sweet;  Eliza,  who  married  Nathan  Evans; 
Susan,  who  married  Alexander  Owens;  Jennette,  who  died 
quite  young,  and  Martha  Caroline,  who  married  T.  F.  Brown ; 
and  sons,  James,  who  married  a  Miss  Taylor,  and  who  is  the 
mother  of  our  fellow-citizens,  Joseph  A.,  W.  W.  Baker  and 
James  Baker,  of  Marion;  their  mother  still  survives.  Old 
Mrs.  Annis  Baker  was  an  extraordinary  woman ;  her  husband 
having  died  and  left  her  many  years  before  her  death,  sihe 
managed  with  unusual  success  a  large  landed  estate  and  many 
negroes,  and  also  a  considerable  amount  of  money,  and  accumu- 
lated much  more  property  before  her  death,  and  superintended 
the  whole  in  person ;  would  not  employ  an  overseer — sihe  over- 
seed  for  herself — lived  to  a  great  age,  active  and  energetic  to 
the  last;  she  divided  her  property  among  her  grand-children; 
she  was,  indeed,  a  most  remarkable  woman ;  she  had  and  raised 
another  son,  William  J.  Baker,  w^ho  lived  and  died  a  bachelor. 

Gilchrist. — The  family  of  Gilchrist  will  next  be  noticed. 
This  family  is  not  very  extensive,  neither  in  name  nor  its  con- 
nections in  Marion  County;  yet  its  respectability  and  promi- 
nence require  that  it  shall  have  some  notice,  though  it  be  short. 
The  progenitor  of  the  family  in  this  county  was  Dr.  Daniel  Gil- 
christ, a  dental  surgeon,  from  Richmond  or  Robeson  County, 
N.  C.  The  writer  recollects  seeing  Dr.  Gilchrist  w<hen  a  boy, 
in  1 83 1.  The  writer  was  going  to  school  at  Red  Bank,  N.  C, 
that  year,  and  Dr.  Gilchrist  came  along  the  road  during  a  recess 
in  the  school,  on  horseback,  with  a  pair  of  saddle-bags  under 
him,  in  which  his  dental  instruments  were  stored  or  packed — 
there  was  no  such  a  thing  as  a  buggy  in  that  day.  Two  of  the 
grown  young  men,  Archie  Baker,  afterwards  a  Presbyterian 
minister,  and  Daniel  McNeill,  knew  Dr.  Gilchrist;  he  recog- 
nized them,  stopped,  and  they  talked  a  while  with  him,  and 
among  other  things  he  said  he  was  going  down  South  to  see  if 
he  could  not  find  work  to  do  down  there.  I  suppose  he  had 
just  graduated  in  dental  surgery ;  he  was  then  a  young  single 
man.  Whilst  they  were  talking  to  him,  the  smaller  boys  in 
school,  of  whom  I  was  one,  gathered  up  around  them  to  hear 
what  was  said,  &c.  The  next  I  knew  of  Dr.  Gilchrist,  I  think, 
about  1840,  he  was  settled  and  living  at  w'hat  formerly  was 


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called  Newsom's  Bridge,  afterwards  and  now  called  Gilchrist's 
Bridge,  on  Little  Pee  Lee.  Dr.  Gilchrist  had  evidently-  found 
work  to  do  down  South,  for  he  had  married  a  Miss  Johnson,  of 
Horry  County,  had  bought  the  old  Newsom  place  and  was  liv- 
ing upon  it ;  by  his  marriage  he  had  and  raised  a  family  of  four 
sons  and  three  daughters ;  the  sons  were  Archie,  D.  E.,  Charles 
B.  and  Johnson ;  the  daughters  were  and  are  Virginia,  Georgia 
and  Ida.  Of  the  sons,  Archie  married  Miss  Augusta  Bethea, 
a  daughter  of  Captain  Elisha  C.  Bethea,  and  raised  a  family  of 
three  sons  and  three  daughters ;  the  sons  are  Eugene  B.,  Archie 
Hill  and  Claudius ;  the  daughters  are  Bessie,  Alice  and  Mary. 
Eugene  B.  married'  some  one  to  the  writer  unknown,  and  has, 
perhaps,  one  child ;  the  other  sons  not  grown.  Of  the  daugh- 
ters, Bessie  and  Alice  are  grown  and  unmarried ;  Mary  is  not 
grown.  Archie  Gilchrist,  the  father,  settled  at  Mullins  soon 
after  the  war,  and  was  engaged  in  mercantile  and  turpentine 
pursuits  for  years,  also  had  a  farm  near  by ;  he  died  some  time 
in  the  last  of  the  8o's.  D.  E.  Gilchrist,  called  "Van,"  has  never 
married;  he  was  agent  for  many  years  for  the  Atlantic  Coast 
Line  Railroad  Company,  at  Nichols ;  but  when  it  was  made  a 
telegraph  station,  he  had  to  resign  his  position  to  make  room 
for  an  operator ;  he  went  back  to  his  old  home,  and  is  there  with 
his  brother,  Charles,  who  also  has  never  married,  and  his  two 
maiden  sisters,  Miss  Georgia  and  Miss  Ida.  Johnson  Gilchrist, 
the  youngest  son  of  Dr.  Gilchrist,  married  Miss  Bettie  Mc- 
Duffie,  daughter  of  the  late  ex-Sheriff ;  they  have  two  or  three 
dhildren;  they  also  live  on  the  parental  homestead.  Who  is 
"boss"  there  is  not  exactly  clear.  The  daughter,  eldest,  Vir- 
ginia, of  Dr.  Gilchrist,  a  highly  accomplished  lady,  married  Dr. 
J.  W.  Singletary,  of  Marion,  who  was  also  a  well  educated  and 
genteel  gentleman  and  a  fine  physician;  owing  to  incompati- 
bility in  their  views  of  life,  they  did  not  agree  and  upon  suit 
brought  in  the  Court  for  divorce,  it  was  granted;  three  sons 
were  the  offspring  of  the  marriage ;  one  of  them  died  in  boy- 
hood; the  other  two,  Archie  G.  and  Joseph  W.,  were  raised. 
Archie  G.  Singletary  is  a  graduate  of  the  Citadel  Academy,  and 
after  graduation  went  to  Louisiana  and  taught  as  principal  of  a 
high  school  there,  at  $1,500  a  year,  for  several  years ;  has  stu- 
died law  and,  I  think,  is  now  practicing ;  he  is  fine-looking  and 


384  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

a  polished  gentleman — very  much  like  his  father.  His 
brother,  Joseph  W.  Singletary,  is  also  in  Louisiana,  in  the  saw 
mill  business,  and  it  is  said  is  making  money,  and  stands  fair ; 
their  mother  has  gone  out  there  and  lives,  I  think,  with  Archie. 
The  father.  Dr.  J.  W.  Singletary,  died  a  few  years  ago,  and  is 
buried  in  the  cemetery,  beside  his  father  and  mother ;  his  sister, 
Mrs.  A.  Q.  McDuffie,  has  died  since,  and  is  also  buried  there. 
D.  E.  Gilchrist  is  a  man  of  talent  and  one  of  the  best  informed 
men  we  have ;  he  is  now  advancing  in  years,  and  if  he  had  per- 
formed or  fulfilled  his  mission  in  society  and  had  not  frittered 
away  his  powers,  he  might  have  attained  to  the  highest  posi- 
tions in  the  State,  and  most  certainly  in  his  county;  and  this 
much  is  said  with  no  view  to  disparage  him.  Dr.  Daniel  Gil- 
christ was  a  very  intelligent  man  and  successful  in  his  business 
every  way;  he  married  some  property,  which  he  greatly  im- 
proved ;  he  was  one  of  the  many  good  importations  from  the 
Old  North  State.  In  politics  he  was  a  Whig,  and,  therefore, 
did  not  succeed  in  his  political  aspirations.  He  died  just  at  or 
after  the  close  of  the  war,  also  his  wife ;  his  sons,  all  that  were 
old  enough,  were  good  soldiers  in  the  war  for  Southern  inde- 
pendence, and  went  down  only  when  the  cause,  for  which  they 
fought  and  suffered  four  years  of  hardship  and  privations,  went 
down. 

Easteri^ing. — The  Easterling  family  in  Marion  County  is 
an  importation  from  Marlborough — a  very  extensive  and  re- 
spectable family  in  that  county.  James  Easterling  married  a 
Miss  Manship,  a  sister  of  Rev.  Charles  Manship,  of  Marl- 
borough, and  came  down  into  Marion  and  first  settled  near 
what  was  then  called  Bethea's  Cross  Roads,  in  the  early  part  of 
the  nineteenth  century.  After  some  years,  he  sold  his  lands  in 
the  vicinity  of  Bethea's  Cross  Roads,  now  the  Widow  Ann 
Manning's,  and  moved  on  a  place  on  the  north  side  of  Catfish, 
and  just  at  the  lower  end  of  Catfish  Bay,  where  he  lived  the 
remainder  of  his  life ;  he  raised  a  considerable  family  of  sons 
and  daughters;  his  sons  were  Enos,  Silas  and,  I  think,  John, 
Tristram,  Henry  and  James  F.,  and  several  daughters,  whose 
names  are  not  all  remembered.  Of  the  sons,  Enos  and  Silas, 
and  John,  if  there  was  a  John,  migrated  West  soon  after  they 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  386 

grew  up,  and  never  returned  except  on  a  visit.  Tristram  mar- 
ried, January  4th,  1844,  Miss  Jane  Bethea,  youngest  sister  of 
Squire  Samuel  J.  Bethea.  The  writer  was  one  of  "his  best 
men"  on  the  occasion.  He  settled  near  by  his  mother-in-law, 
on  lands  belonging  to  his  wife;  some  years  afterwards  he 
bought  the  land,  near  Harlleesville,  where  John  H.  Hamer  now 
lives  and  owns ;  in  a  few  years  he  sold  his  Harlleesville  place 
and  moved  to  Mississippi ;  he  remained  in  Mississippi  some 
years — ^his  oldest  daughter,  Martha,  married  there — when  he 
moved  back  to  Marlborough,  and  lived  near  Bennettsville. 
Whilst  there,  his  wife,  Jane,  was  killed.  She  was  drawing 
water  at  the  well ;  the  well-sweep  broke  and  fell  on  her  head, 
fracturing  the  skull,  of  which  she  died  in  a  day  or  two.  Tris- 
tram Easterling  had  and  raised  a  considerable  family,  sons  and 
daughters.  Of  the  sons  I  know  nothing.  His  second  daugh- 
ter, Lucretia  A.,  married  William  Piatt,  who  died  some  fifteen 
years  ago;  Lucretia  took  her  six  children  and  went  to  Texas, 
where  she  and  her  children  are  doing  well ;  children  all  married 
respectably  and  well.  "A  rolling  stone  does  not  gather  much 
moss,"  so  with  Tristram  Easterling;  he  was  ever  moving — is 
alive  yet  in  his  eighty-third  year,  and  is  in  Texas.  Henry 
Easterling,  the  next  son  of  old  "Jimmy,"  married  Miss  Rhoda 
Crawford,  daughter  of  Willis  G.  Crawford,  of  the  "Free  State" 
section ;  by  this  marriage  three  sons  were  born  and  raised,  Wil- 
lis C,  Thomas  C.  and  Frank,  and  two  daughters,  Ella  and 
Florence.  Willis  C.  Easterling  married  a  Miss  Legette, 
daughter  of  James  B.  Legette,  of  "Free  State,"  and  lives  now 
upon  the  Daniel  Piatt  place;  they  have  five  daughters  (one 
married)  and  two  sons.  Willis  C.  is  an  excellent  man,  kind- 
hearted,  a  straight-forward,  honest  citizen,  and  promineni):  in 
his  community.  Thomas  C.  Easterling,  when  a  young  single 
man,  went  to  Florida,  and  married  a  lady  of  that  State ;  is  now 
Sheriff  of  his  county  and  has  been  for  two  or  three  previous 
terms  and  is  doing  well ;  suppose  he  has  a  family.  Frank,  the 
youngest  son,  a  very  estimable  man,  married  Miss  Maggie 
Watson;  they  have  two  boys,  Rupert  and  Henry  (small); 
Frank  is  a  capital  man  and  doing  fairly  well.  Of  the  daughters 
of  Henry  Easterling,  Ella  married  Iveroy  Bethea,  son  of  the 
lajte  Captain  D.  W.  Bethea ;  they  have  several  children,  some  of 


886  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

them  may  be  grown ;  they  live  in  Marlborough.  Florence,  the 
younger  daughter,  married  Roibert  McPherson,  of  West 
Marion,  now  in  Florence  County,  and  'had  one  child,  a  boy.  Mc- 
Pherson Easterling  is  a  capital  and  progressive  citizen  of  that 
county.  Henry  Easterling  was  a  very  excellent  man,  full  of 
good  hard  sense,  sober  and  industrious,  and  was  making  a  good 
living,  when  he  went  into  the  war ;  he  was  killed  in  Virginia,  in 
1864 — it  was  said  he  was  literally  cut  in  two  by  a  shell  or  piece 
of  shell ;  he  was  greatly  missed  not  only  by  his  family  but  by  his 
community.  James  F.  Easterling,  the  youngest  son  of  old 
"Jimmy,"  never  married ;  he  went  into  the  war  early,  and  was 
killed  during  the  same.  Of  the  daughters  of  "Jimmy,"  one 
married  a  Fletcher — ^John  Fletcher,  I  believe,  of  Marlborough. 
Another  daughter,  Celia,  married  the  late  Matthew  Watson, 
who  has  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Watson  family. 
The  youngest  daughter,  Sallie,  a  very  pretty  girl,  went  to  Ala- 
bama with  one  of  her  brothers,  Enos  or  Silas,  and  married  in 
that  State,  near  a  town  called  Benton,  on  the  Alabama  River,  a 
man  by  the  name  of  Melton.  The  writer  passed  through  Ben- 
ton on  a  stage  in  1854,  and  on  inquiry,  heard  of  her  foUr  miles 
away,  and  was  told  she  was  doing  well  and  had  four  children. 
Think  old  "Jimmy"  had  another  daughter  or  two,  but  it  is  not 
remembered  what  became  of  her  or  them.  Old  "Jimmy"  was 
a  model  citizen,  very  social  in  his  disposition,  a  farmer,  lived  at 
home,  and  lived  as  well,  perhaps,  as  any  man  in  the  State ;  he 
raised  from  his  nursery  fruit  trees,  apples,  pears,  peaches,  &c., 
very  extensively,  and  sold  them;  he  had  a  fine  vineyard  and 
grew  all  kind  of  grapes,  made  wine  and  sold  it ;  also  a  fine  apple 
and  peach  orchard,  from  which  he  made  cider  and  brandy,  and 
sold  that,  and  yet  with  all  these  drinkables  about  him,  all  his 
sons  together  with  himself  were  sober,  temperate  men. 

IvANE. — The  L,ane  family,  with  its  many  connections,  will 
now  be  noticed.  They  all  came  from  old  Osborne  Lane,  on 
Buck  Swamp.  He  was  here,  and  a  man  grown,  with,  perhaps, 
a  family,  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  was  a  Tory ;  he  died  in 
1840.  Bishop  Gregg,  in  his  history,  page  359,  says :  "Nothing 
of  importance  occurred  until  they  reached  .'Hulin's  Mill.' " 
Note — "This  was  the  site  of  the  mill  owned  by  the  late  Joseph 


A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY.  387 

Bass,  ten  or  twelve  miles  above  Marion  Court  House."  "Here 
they  surprised  two  notorious  Tories,  John  Deer  and  Osborne 
Lane.  The  latter  was  shot  in  attempting  to  make  his  escape 
into  Catfish  Swamp,  and  got  off  with  a  broken  arm.  Deer 
was  overtaken  as  he  reached  the  swamp,  and  killed.  It  was  on 
this  occasion,  or  shortly  before,  that  Caleb  Williams,  a  desper- 
ate marauder,  noted  especially  for  house  burning,  was  taken 
by  Kolb's  party  and  hung.  After  proceeding  further,  captur- 
ing other  guilty  parties,  and  punishing  or  discharging  them 
on  promise  of  good  behavior,  Colonel  Kolb  returned  home  and 
dismissed  his  party,  feeling  secure  for  a  time  at  least  in  the 
thought  that  the  Tories  had  been  overawed,  and  would  not  soon 
renew  their  depredations.  In  this,  however,  he  was  most  sadly 
deceived,"  &c.  The  division  line  between  Whig  and  Tory  as 
made  during  the  Revolution,  and  kept  up  for  many  years  after- 
ward, should  be  forever  obliterated — in  fact,  our  late  Confede- 
rate War  knocked  that  line  into  smithereens ;  some  of  the  best 
soldiers  we  had  in  the  army  from  Marion  County  were  descend- 
ants of  Tories ;  were  it  necessary  to  do  so,  numbers  of  them 
could  be  named,  hence  it  is  no  longer  an  opprobrium  to  be 
called  a  Tory  or  the  descendant  of  a  Tory.  Many  of  the  de- 
scendants of  this  very  Osborne  Lane,  mentioned  by  Bishop 
Gregg  above,  were  and  are  among  our  best  people,  and  were 
among  the  best  soldiers  in  the  Southern  army.  Many  of  the 
old  Tories,  and  perhaps  a  majority  of  them,  were  Tories  from 
conviction,  and  thought  it  would  be  treason — ^the  highest  crime 
known  to  the  law — to  take  up  arms  against  the  king  and  his 
government ;  that  by  so  doing,  in  the  event  of  the  king's  success, 
that  they  would  all  be  hanged  as  rebels.  They  were  honest  in 
it.  The  consequence  was,  they  were  under  the  ban  of  the 
local  provincial  government.  They  were  compelled  to  take  a 
stand,  and  forced  to  leave  their  homes  and  families,  and  lie  out 
in  the  woods  and  swamps,  or  be  carried  into  a  war,  the  end  of 
which  might  make  them  amenable  to  all  the  penalties  of  high 
treason;  and  being  thus  compelled  to  lie  out,  they  could  not 
pursue  their  several  vocations  in  life  for  the  support  of  them- 
selves and  families.  In  these  circumstances,  they  were  forced 
to  steal  and  plunder  or  starve  themselves  and  families.  They 
became    thieves,    marauders,    from    compulsion,    from    high 


388  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

necessity,  and  not  from  choice.  There  was  no  moral  turpitude 
in  it,  because  they  were  forced  to  it  by  the  powers  that  be.  So 
it  was  in  our  war  from  1861  to  1865.  It  is  true,  that  many 
were  Tories,  not  from  conviction  but  from  a  desire  to  be  in  a 
position  to  live  upon  thq  labor  of  others ;  were  rogues  at  heart, 
and  only  wanted  an  opportunity  to  exercise  and  gratify  their 
thievish  inclinations.  With  all  such,  the  writer  nor  any  honest 
man  sympathizes^-they  became  thieves  and  marauders  from 
choice.  Osborne  Lane  lived  here  till  1840,  an  honest,  good 
citizen,  and  had  the  respect  of  all  who  knew  him. 

Osborne  L,ane  often  told  the  story  afterwards :  That  when 
he  was  shot  by  Colonel  Kolb's  party,  he  got  dff  into  the  swamp 
with  his  broken  arm ;  that  he  crawled  into  a  hollow  log  and  lay 
there  whilst  they  were  hunting  him,  and  after  a  while  they  came 
and  sat  down  on  the  log  into  which  he  'had  secreted  himself ; 
that  he  was  so  agitated  and  so  much  frightened  that  he  was 
afraid  they  would  hear  his  heart  beat.  If  Osborne  Lane  was 
like  his  sons,  he,  although  a  Tory  from  conviction,  was  no 
marauder  from  choice.  We  have  not  any  people  within  our 
bounds  more  honest  and  law-a'biding  than  the  descendants  of 
Osborne  Lane,  nor  did  the  Confederacy  have  any  better  sol- 
diers or  truer  patriots  in  its  armies  than  the  descendants  of  old 
Osborne.  The  many  Lanes,  Smiths  and,  more  than  all,  the 
late  John  Blackman  (Jack),  went  into  the  Southern  army  and 
stood  shoulder  to  shoulder  with  the  descendants  of  the  Whigs 
of  the  Revolution,  and  do  not  deserve  to  be  taunted  with  the 
Toryism  of  their  ancestors.  "Jack"  Blackman,  as  we  called 
him,  was  a  grand-son  by  his  mother  of  old  Osborne  Lane,  and  a 
grand-son  by  his  father  of  the  Blackman  (Tory),  whom  Colo- 
nel Maurice  Murphy  tied  up  and  gave  him  fifty  lashes,  and  this 
was  repeated  several  times,  because  Blackman  said  and  stuck 
to  it  to  the  last,  that  he  was  for  King  George  (Gregg's  History, 
p.  354).  If  Toryism  in  the  Revolution  was  odious,  and  still 
odious,  then  the  late  Jack  Blackman  was  doubly  odious — for  he 
had  it  on  both  sides.  The  whole  South  might  be  challenged  to 
produce  a  parallel  to  Jack  Blackman  for  unquestioned  patriot- 
ism and  oool  courage.  He  volunteered  in  the  Southern  cause 
at  the  age  of  fifty-nine ;  he  went  into  the  a:rmy  in  Virginia,  and 
after  staying  in  service,  was  discharged  on  account  of  his  age. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  389 

He  knocked  around  the  camp  for  three  or  four  days,  with  a 
discharge  in  his  pocket.  In  the  meantime,  a  battle  occurred. 
Jack  went  back  to  his  company,  took  his  gun  and  went  into  the 
fight,  was  shot  through  the  abdomen,  the  ball  passing  out  at  the 
rear — it  happened  not  to  cut  any  of  his  intestines,  and  Jack  sur- 
vived it ;  he  lay  in  the  hospital  for  two  or  three  months,  and 
then  returned  home.  I  will  say  nothing  of  his  future  services 
in  the  war.  Here  is  a  descendant  of  Tories  on  both  sides.  Was 
be  odious  ?  Blot  out  the  line  between  the  Whigs  and  Tories  of 
the  Revolution  and  never  mention  it  again.  Jack  Blackman 
lived  to  be  ninety  years  of  age;  in  many  respects,  he  was  the 
noblest  man  of  his  day.  I  think  this  has  already  been  men- 
tioned berein,  but  it  is  so  appropriate  to  the  purpose  just  here, 
with  the  Lane  family,  that  I  cannot  forbear  repeating.  Jack 
Blackman  ought  to  have  a  monument  erected  to  his  memory — 
it  is  already  erected  in  the  hearts  of  all  who  knew  him  and 
knew  of  him. 

Osborne  Lane  married  a  Miss  Crawford,  a  sister  of  old 
James  Crawford,  of  Spring  Branch — I  suppose,  older  than  her 
brother.  The  Crawfords  were  quite  respectable  in  that  day 
and  have  continued  to  be  so  down  to  the  present  time.  The 
fruits  of  the  marriage,  as  known,  were  eight  sons,  John, 
Thomas,  Alexander,  James,  Robert,  David,  Stephen  and  Wil- 
liam, and  two  daughters,  Kesiah  and  Elizabeth.  Of  the  daugh- 
ters, one,  Elizabeth,  married  old  John  Blackman,  a  son  of  the 
old  Tory  John,  that  Colonel  Murphy  tied  and  whipped ;  by  this 
marriage  were  three  children  born  and  raised,  as  known  to  the 
writer — Stephen  Blackman  and  John,  called  Jack ;  the  name  of 
"the  daughter  was  Elizabeth,  or  Betsey;  when  an  old  maid,  she 
became  the  second  wife  of  Rev.  John  D.  Coleman,  below 
Marion ;  both  are  dead ;  don't  know  whether  she  left  any  chil- 
dren or  not.  Stephen  Blackman  married  some  one,  to  the 
writer  not  known ;  he  died  many  years  ago,  and  left  a  son,  Wil- 
liam, called  Billy  Blackman,  and  is  now  a  middle-aged  man  and 
lives  somewhere  in  the  Latta  neighborhood ;  married,  and  has  a 
family.  Jdhn  (Jack)  Blackman  married  a  Miss  Bird,  a  sister 
of  the  late  Hugh  and  Joe  Bird,  of  the  Toby's  Creek  section ;  by 
her  he  raised  two  sons,  Joseph  A.  and  Hamilton,  who,  like  their 
father,  were  good  soldiers  in  the  war.     Hamilton  was  killed 


390  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

about  Charleston,  S.  C.     Joe  died  since  the  war,  leaving  several 
children;  his  widow  married   again,   Robert   C.   Rogers,   of 
Wahee  Township ;  know  nothing  of  Joseph  A.  Blackman's  chil- 
dren, suppose  some  or  all  of  them  are  grown.     John  (Jack) 
Blackman  was  married  a  second  time,  late  in  life,  to  Caroline 
Mears,  and  by  her  had  and  raised  one  or  two  sons — one,  named 
John,  is  as  much  like  old  John  as  it-  is  possible  for  a  young  man 
to  favor  an  old  man ;  these  sons  are  in  the  Mullins  section.  Old 
John  (Jack)  died  in  1895,  in  June,  and  was  ninety  years  of  age 
in  December  before  he  died,  as  brave  and  patriotic  as  any  man 
that  ever  lived  in  the  county,  and  as  honest  as  the  days  were 
long.     The  other  daughter,  Kesiah,  of  old  Osborne  Ivane,  mar- 
ried old  S'amuel  Smith  (three  junior),  of  Buck  Swamp;  the 
results  of  the  marriage  were  two  sons,  John  L.  and  Stephen 
Smith,  born,  respectively,  in  181 1  and  1813,  when  she  died;  and 
old  man  Samuel,  Jr.,  married  a  second  time,  Miss  Sallie  Hays, 
daughter  of  old  Ben  Hays,  of  Hillsboro  Township  (now),  and 
who  has  already  been  noticed  herein  among  the  Hays  family. 
Two  better  citizens  than  John  L.  Smith  and  Stephen  Smith  are 
hard  to  find  anywhere.    Jc^hn  L.  Smith  became  a  Methodist 
traveling  preacher,  and  after  traveling  three  or  four  years,  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Wannamaker,  of  Orange'burg  County,  and  located, 
but  continued  to  preach  in  a  local  position  up  to  a  short  time 
before  his  death;  he  was  an  exemplary,  pious.  Christian  gen- 
tleman.   John  L.  Smith  settled  in  the  Fork,  on  Buck  Swamp, 
and  accumulated  a  good  property,  which  he  left  unincumbered 
to  his  widow  by  a  second  marriage  and  his  children ;  he  raised 
five  sons  and  three  daughters ;  his  sons  were  Daniel  Asbury, 
Marcus  L.,  Jacob  W.,  John  A.  and  Wilbur  F.  Smith,  each  and 
every  one  of  whom,  except,  perhaps,  Wilbur  and  Albert,  who 
was  too  young,  went  into  the  war  early  and  remained  in  it  to 
the  end.     Marcus  L.  was  badly  wounded,  and  carries  the  evi- 
dence of  it  in  his  person  every  day  since.     Daniel  Asbury  came 
out  of  the  war  as  a  Captain ;  married,  after  the  war.  Miss  Alice 
Bethea,  a  daug'hter  of  Captain  E.  C.  Bethea;  by  the  marriage 
four  sons  were  born  and  raised,  of  whom  Dr.  Maxcy  Smith,  the 
eldest,  now  at  Page's  Mill,  is  one  and  the  only  one  in  the  State. 
The  other  three,  with  their  mother,  are  in  Birmingham,  Ala., 
all  doing  well.     Dr.  Maxcy  Smith  married  an  Alabama  lady. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  391 

and  has  three  or  four  children  (small).  Daniel  Asbury  Smith 
died  some  years  ago.  Marcus  L.  Smith  married  Miss  Mary 
Smith,  a  daughter  of  Reddin  W.  Smith,  east  of  Marion ;  they 
have  some  children;  don't  know  how  many;  has  one  or  two 
married  daughters.  Jacob  W.  Smith,  the  third  son,  married 
Miss  Fannie  Nichols,  who  has  already  been  noticed  in  or 
among  the  Nichols  family.  John  Albert  Smith,  the  fourth 
son,  married  a  widow,  Jennie  Smith,  of  Mississippi;  had  and 
raised  three  daughters  and  one  son,  Henry  Smith,  now  at  Mul- 
lins,  and  has  a  family  (small).  The  three  daughters  are  mar- 
ried— the  eldest  to  John  Wilcox,  of  Marion,  already  mentioned 
among  the  Wayne  family.  Another  daughter  married  Dennis 
Berry,  of  Marion ;  they  have  some  children,  how  many  is  un- 
known. The  youngest  daughter,  Laura,  married  Chalmers 
Rogers,  of  MuUins,  and  resides  there.  John  Albert  Smith  was 
first  appointed  County  Auditor,  which  place  he  held  with  suc- 
cess for  three  or  four  years,  when  he  was  elected  Clerk  of  the 
Court  in  1880,  as  successor  to  R.  K.  Clark;  he  held  that  office 
for  two  years,  when  he  died,  and  was  succeeded  by  John  Wil- 
cox, as  hereinbefore  stated.  The  three  daughters  of  John  L. 
Smith  were  Anna  M.,  Jane  and  Hettie.  Anna  M.  married 
Philip  W.  Bethea;  by  the  marriage,  three  sons  and  three 
daughters  have  been  raised — George  C,  L.  Asbury  and  Pickett ; 
the  daughters  are  Bettie,  Nannie  and  Lilian.  George  married 
Julia  Wayne,  the  only  daughter  of  Gabriel  L  Wayne;  they  had 
no  offspring,  and  he  died  a  few  years  ago.  L.  Asbury  never 
married,  and  died  two  years  ago.  Pickett  Bethea,  the  third 
son,  married  a  daughter  of  Captain  R.  H.  Rogers,  of  the 
Gaddy's  Mill  section ;  they  have,  perhaps,  two  or  three  children 
(small) ;  Pickett  is  a  graduate  of  Wofford  College,  and  has 
successfully  followed  teaching  ever  since  his  graduation — ^has 
been  teaching  in  the  same  school  in  Darlington  County  for  four 
or  five  years,  which  evidences  his  popularity  as  a  teacher. 
Bettie,  the  eldest  daughter,  married  David  E.  Allen,  and  has 
already  been  noticed  among  the  Watson  or  Allen  family. 
Nannie  and  Lilian  recently  married  two  Mr.  Williams, 
brothers,  saw  mill  men;  may  have  a  child  each.  The  second 
daughter  of  John  L.  Smith,  Jane,  became  the  second  wife  of 
Dr.  John  J.  Bethea,  of  Mullins;  by  this  marriage,  two  sons, 
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S92  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Lawrence  and  Julian,  and  one  daughter,  Minni^  were  born. 
Lawrence  Bethea  married  a  lady  in  Mississippi,  first,  and  by 
her  had  three  or  four  ohildren — a  son  grown,  named  John ;  a 
daughter,  Ruth,  who  married  a  Mr.  West,  from  Augusta,  Ga., 
and  who  is  now  at  MuUins,  merchandising;. and  one  daughter. 
Pearl,  who  died  before  maturity.  The  first  wife  died,  and 
Lawrence  married  a  Miss  Rogers,  daughter  of  David  S. 
Rogers,  of  the  "Free  State"  section ;  he  is  farming.  Julian  M. 
Bethea,  the  second  son  of  Dr.  John  J.  Bethea,  married  a  lady 
in  Mississippi ;  has  only  one  child,  a  daughter ;  he  is  merchan- 
dising at  MuUins.  Hettie  Smith,  the  youngest  daughter  of 
John  L.  Smith,  married  Pinckney  C.  Page,  who  was  killed  in 
the  war  or  died  of  disease,  and  left  three  children,  who  has 
already  been  noticed  herein  or  among  the  Page  family.  Wil- 
bur F.  Smith,  the  youngest  son  of  John  L.  Smith,  graduated 
at  Wofford  College,  in  1875,  and  soon  afterwards  emigrated  to 
Mississippi,  wliere  he  still  remains ;  I  suppose  he  has  a  family. 
Minnie  Bethea,  the  daughter  of  Dr.  John  J.  Bethea,  married 
Robert  M.  Daniel,  son  of  W.  H.  Daniel,  of  Mullins ;  she  died 
in  two  or  three  years  after  marriage,  childless.  Stephen 
Smith,  brother  of  John  L.  and  a  grand-son  of  old  Osborne 
Lane,  married  Polly  Huggins,  a  daughter  of  old  John  Huggins, 
of  Huggins  Bridge,  on  Little  Pee  Dee ;  by  this  marriage  seven 
sons  and  four  daughters  were  born  and  raised;  the  sons  were 
George  W.,  Ebenezer,  B.  Cause,  S.  Elmore,  S.  W.  Smith,  J. 
Emory  (all  gallant  soldiers  in  the  war),  and  another  killed  on 
the  railroad,  near  Florence,  during  the  war;  these,  together 
with  their  sisters,  have  already  been  mentioned  in  or  among  the 
Huggins  family,  the  Martin  family  and  the  Harrelson  family. 
Of  the  sons  of  old  Osborne  Lane,  it  is  not  known  which  of  the 
eight  was  the  older — I  think,  however,  John,  who  was  a  very 
old  man  in  1840  (the  year  old  man  Osfborne  died) .  John  Lane 
had  but  one  son,  John  G.  Lane;  don't  know  who  his  mother 
was ;  John  G.  Lane  married,  I  think,  a  Miss  Johnson ;  they  had 
but  one  child,  a  daughter;  don't  know  what  became  of  her; 
John  G.  Lane  died  years  ago",  was  an  excellent  man  and  good 
citizen.  The  next  son  of  old  Osborne,  Thomas,  and  whom  the 
writer  never  saw,  married  and  settled,  lived  and  died  on  a  place 
near  Sellers  Depot,  on  the  "Short  Cut"  Railroad,  now  owned 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  393 

by  B.  B.  Sellers  and  Mrs.  Lucy  B.  Watson.  Thomas  Lane  had 
and  raised  one  son  only,  Bryant  Lane,  who  married,  in  1827, 
Miss  Henrietta  Dew ;  when  his  father  died'  is  not  known. 
Since  writing  the  above,  the  writer  has  learned  that  Tihomas 
Lane  had  another  son,  named  Frederic,  who  married  and  set- 
tled within  100  feet  of  where  the  depot  at  Sellers  now  stands ; 
that  he  afterwards  emigrated  to  Alabama ;  that  his  descendants 
are  there  now ;  that  some  of  Frederic's  family  came  out  here  a 
few  years  ago,  to  visit  their  relatives,  and  tlhat  subsequently  the 
late  Captain  Stephen  D.  Lane  went  to  Alabama  to  see  his  rela- 
tives in  that  State;  that  Frederic's  family  and  descendants  are 
doing  well.  Thomas  Lane  may  have  had  a  daug'hter  or 
daughters — if  so,  where  she  or  they  are  is  unknown.  Bryant 
Lane's  family  have  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Dew 
families,  to  which  the  reader  is  referred.  Alexander  Lane,  the 
third  son  of  Osborne,  I  think,  married  a  Miss  Blackman  (in 
this  I  may  be  mistaken)  ;  he  lived  and  died  on  upper  Buck 
Swamp,  below  Latta,  and  near  wheire  his  father  lived  and  died. 
Alexander  Lane  had  and  raised  a  numerous  family  of  sons 
and  daughters,  only  a  few  of  whom  are  known  to  the  writer. 
Samuel  Lane,  the  oldest  son,  as  I  suppose,  now  a  very  old  man, 
married,  first,  Sarah  Coward,  a  daughter, of  Wilson  Coward, 
who  owned  the  lands  whereon  Dillon  now  is  situated,  and  by 
her  had  six  or  seven  children,  two  of  whom  only  were  sons, 
William  B.  and  Lane.     One  of  these  emigrated  to 

Texas  some  years  ago,  having  a  family  (increasing)  when  he 
left.  Joseph  Lane,  another  son  of  old  Alexander,  married 
twice  (don't  know  to  whom),  and  had  several  sons;  those 
known  are  Alexander,  William  and  Elisha — there  are,  perhaps, 
other  sons  and  daugthters ;  he  died  some  years  ago ;  was  an 
honest,  hatid-working  man,  a  good  soldier  in  the  war.  Osborne 
Lane,  another  son  of  Alexander,  married  a  Christmas,  and  lives 
near  Mallory,  on  Little  Reedy  Creek ;  he  has  several  sons,  the 
names  of  whom  are  unknown ;  he  is  an  honest,  hard-working 
man  and  a  good  citizen.  Another  son  of  Alexander  married  a 
Miss  Hensey,  and  has  several  sons — has  removed  to  Florence 
County,  and  it  is  said  is  well  to  do.  Another  son  of  old  Alex- 
ander, Robert  Lane,  married  a  Miss  Rogers,  and  has  a  family, 
about  whom  the  writer  knows  nothing.    Another  son  of  old 


394  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Alexander,  Leonard,  was  killed  in  the  war.  They  were  all 
good  soldiers  in  the  Confederate  war.  James  C.  Lane,  I  think, 
the  youngest  son  of  old  Osiborne,  was  a  most  excellent  man  and 
a  good  citizen ;  he  married  a  Miss  Lee,  daughter  of  old  John 
Lee,  on  the  north  side  of  Buck  Swamp,  and  settled  on  Catfish, 
just  opposite  Latta ;  he  had  and  raised  four  sons,  James  C,  Jr., 
Crawford,  John  O.  and  Stephen  L.  Lane,  and  four  daughters, 
Hapsey,  Sarah  Anne,  Orphea  and  Priscilla.  Of  the  sons, 
James  C,  Jr.,  married  a  daughter  of  old  William  Bryant,  a  sis- 
ter of  the  late  Jo^hn  M.  Bryant;  he  had  and  raised  one  son, 
David,  and  one  daughter.  The  son  married  some  one  to  the 
writer  unknown ;  he  has  a  large  family  of  sons  and  daughters, 
several  grown;  he  lives  in  Kirby  Township.  The  daughter 
married  Peter  McLellan,  and  had  several  children ;  Peter  and 
she  (Rebecca,  I  think,  was  her  name),  are  both  dead;  don't 
know  what  has  become  of  the  children — ^suppose  they  are  all 
grown.  Crawford  Lane,  second  son  of  James  C,  Sr.,  married 
a  Miss  Perritt,  daughter  of  David  Perritt,  and  settled  down  on 
the  Maiden  Down  and  Ten  Mile  Bays ;  he  raised  a  large  fam- 
ily of  sons  and  daughters ;  the  names  of  two  sons  only  are 
known — ^Addison  and  James.  Addison  married  a  daughter  of 
John  M.  Bryant,  and  has  several  sons,  two  of  whom  are  mar- 
ried, and  several  daughters,  some  grown.  James  Lane,  son  of 
Crawford  Lane,  married  a  daughter  of  the  late  Samuel  Camp- 
bell, and  has  a  family,  how  many  are  not  known.  Stephen  L. 
Lane,  tihe  youngest  son  of  James  C,  Sr.,  married  Miss  Flora 
Campbell,  a  daughter  of  the  late  William  S.  Campbell ;  he  was 
killed  in  the  last  battle  of  the  war,  just  before  Johnston's  sur- 
render, after  having  gone  through  the  whole  war ;  he  left  his 
widow.  Flora,  and  several  sons  and  daughters,  none  of  them 
personally  known  to  the  writer ;  one  son  is  named  William,  and 
one  daughter  became  the  second  wife  of  Merideth  Watson, 
There  are  several  other  children.  Another  son  of  James  C. 
Lane,  Sr.,  was  John  O.  Lane ;  he  married  a  Miss  S'weat,  daugh- 
ter of  old  George  Sweat ;  they  had  and  raised  a  family,  none 
of  them  known  to  the  writer — ^both  are  dead.  Of  the  daughters 
of  James  C,  St.,  Hapsey  married  the  late  James  Porter ;  they 
had  and  raised  a  large  family  of  sons  and  daugliters,  none  of 
wlhom  are  known  to  the  writer,  except  Robert  P.  Porter,  in 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  395 

Marion;  he  married  a  Miss  Johnson,  and  has  a  family  of 
several  children,  none  grown.  The  second  daughter  of  old 
James  C,  St.,  Sarah  Ann,  married  a  Mr.  Jones,  who  either  died 
or  left  the  country,  leaving  her  one  child,  a  daughter — ^what  has 
become  of  the  daughter  is  unknown ;  Mrs.  Jones  is  long  since 
dead.  The  third  daughter  of  James  C.  Lane,  St.,  Drphea, 
married  a  Mr.  Turbeville;  they  had  and  raised  a  family,  and 
have  grand-children,  but  none  of  them  are  known.  The 
youngest  daughter  of  James,  St.,  Priscilla,  married  "Sandy" 
Norton,  who  was  killed  or  died  in  the  war ;  they  had  and  raised 
three  sons,  Woodberry,  Houston  and  Holland  Norton,  who 
are  now  among  us  and  good  citizens — especially  Houston  Nor- 
ton, of  Latta ;  there  may  have  been  daughters — if  any,  they  are 
unknown  to  the  writer.  Another  son  of  old  Osborne  L,ane, 
William,  married,  don't  know  to  whom,  and  from  whom  are 
many  descendants  in  the  county.  Think  Rev.  William  and 
James  Lane  and  the  late  Henry  J.  Lane  are  or  were  descend- 
ants of  old  William ;  there  are  other  descendants  of  this  old 
man,  but  they  are  unknown  to  the  writer.  Of  the  three  other 
sons  of  old  Osborne  Lane,  Robert  moved  to  Barnwell ;  David 
moved  to  Union,  and  Stephen  went  to  Georgia  in  the  long  past, 
and  no  tidings  from  them. 

Bbthea. — The  Bethea  family  will  next  be  noticed.  This 
very  large  and  extensive  family,  'both  in  name  and  in  its  vast 
network  of  connections,  all  sprang  from  one  common  stock, 
John  Bethea,  who  emigrated  from  England  to  Virginia,  ait  what 
precise  time  is  not  known,  but  supposed  to  be  in  the  latter  part 
of  the  seventeenth  or  early  part  of  the  eighteenth  century. 
The  name  was  originally  spelled  Berthier,  and  is  supposed  to 
be  of  F.renc!h  origin.  The  writer  has  been  furnished,  by  Philip 
Y.  Bethea,  of  Marion,  with  a  family  tree,  and  chart  of  the  fam- 
ily from  old  "English  John"  up  to  date — at  least,  so  far  as 
Marion  County  is  concerned,  and  I  suppose  generally,  so  far 
as  can  be  ascertained.  This  chart  only  gives  the  names  of 
males,  no  females — for  the  reason  that  they  generally  lost  their 
identity  by  marriage;  yet  Hhe  females  transmit  the  blood  just 
as  much  as  the  males  do — whence  the  writer  will  hereinafter 
notice  the  females  as  well  as  the  males,  in  every  instance  where 


396  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

they  are  known.  Old  "English  John"  had  two  sons,  John  and 
Tristram.  John  settled  in  Nansemond  County,  Virginia,  and 
Tristram  settled  on  Cape  Fear  River,  in  North  Carolina,  as  is 
supposed,  in  the  early  part  of  tihe  eighteenth  century.  John, 
the  second,  had  two  sons,  John,  third,  and  William.  John, 
third,  emigrated  to  South  Carolina,  about  the  middle  of  the 
eighteenth  century,  or  a  little  later,  and  settled  on  Buck  Swamp, 
about  two  miles  above  the  present  town  of  Latta.  His  brother, 
William,  about  the  same  time,  came  to  South  Carolina  (or  they 
may  have  come  together) ,  and  settled  on  Sweat  Swamp,  three 
or  four  miles  above  Harlleesville.  These  were  the  progenitors 
of  all  the  Be*heas  and  their  numerous  connections  in  Marion 
County,  and,  I  suppose,  throughout  the  Western  States.  Here- 
inafter these  two  families  will  be  referred  to  as  the  "Buck 
Swamp  family  or  set,"  and  the  "Sweat  Swamp  family  or  set." 
The  wife  of  "Buck  Swamp  John"  was  Absala  Parker,  (hence 
their  youngest  son  was  named  "Parker."  "Buck  Swamp 
John"  settled  on  the  plantation  now  owned  by  one  of  his  de- 
scendants, John  C.  Bethea,  of  Dillon;  he  was  a  prosperous 
man — ^took  up  and  owned  at  the  time  of  his  death,  in  1821,  six 
or  eight  thousand  acres  of  land  around  him  and  in  near  by 
parts,  the  most  of  which  is  now  owned  'by  some  one  or  another 
of  his  descendants ;  he  farmed  and  raised  stock,  drove  it  to 
Charleston ;  had  and  raised  large  orchards,  raised  fruit ;  made 
cider  and  Ibrandy,  and  sold  it,  in  his  day,  without  let  or  hin- 
drance; he  accumulated  a  large  estate  for  his  day  and  time, 
wliidh  he  gave  almost  entirely  to  his  five  sons,  William,  James, 
Philip,  Elisiha  and  Parker — giving  nothing,  comparatively,  to 
his  four  daughters,  Sallie,  Pattie,  Mollie  and  Absala  (I  think, 
was  the  name  of  the  latter) .  Sallie  married  Levi  Odom,  of 
Revolutionary  fame ;  two  of  them,  Absala  and  Mollie,  married 
a  Mr.  Owens ;  and  Pattie  married  another  Mr.  Owens.  None 
of  them  except  Pattie  have  descendants  in  this  State — as  Sallie 
and  Absala  died  childless,  and  Mollie  and  her  Mt.  Owens  emi- 
grated to  Natchez,  Miss.  The  five  sons  all  settled,  lived  and 
died  in  Marion  County.  William,  the  eldest,  married,  first,  a 
Miss  Crawford;  had  ono  diild,  a  son,  Jtohm  C.  Bethea;  his 
second  wife  was  Mary  (Polly)  Sheckelford;  the  fruits  of  the 
marriage  were  five  sons,  Levi,  Willam  S.,  Frank,  George  J. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  897 

and  Evander  S.  Bethea;  the  daughters  were  Rebecca,  Absala, 
Mary,  Catharine  and  Sarah  Ann.  Levi  married  Miss  Mary 
Ann  Belthea,  a  daughter  of  John  Bethea,  of  the  "Sweat  Swamp 
set,"  and  had  two  sons,  Henry  L.  (who  died  in  youth),  and 
George,  and  four  daugihters,  Sophia,  Hannah  Jane,  Louisa  and 
Charlotte.  Of  these,  Sophia  married  WilHam  H.  Smith,  on 
Buck  Swamp,  and  had  and  raised  sons,  Samuel  O.  Smith, 
Wm.  B.,  Henry  E.  K.  and  John  B.  Smith,  and  two  daughters, 
the  wife  of  B.  S.  EUis  (first  cousins),  and  Hamilton  Edwards' 
wife.  Hannah  Jane  Belthea  married  John  C.  Bass,  and  died 
childless.  Louisa  Bethea  married  James  F.  Galloway,  and  has 
a  facnily  of  two  sons,  Henry  and  James,  and  four  daug'hters, 
Sallie,  Rebecca,  Mary  and  Rachel.  Charlotte  Bethea  married 
John  E.  Henry,  who  lives  on  the  old  William  Bethea  home- 
stead, and  has  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Henry 
family.  George  Bethea,  son  of  Levi,  married  a  Miss  Camp- 
bell, daughter  of  the  late  Edward  Campbell,  and  has  five  sons, 
Edwin,  Henry,  Gary,  Robert  and  Chalmers.  Think  Edwin 
lately  married  a  Miss  Smith,  daughter  of  Marcus  L.  Smith. 
William  S.  Bethea,  second  son  of  William  Bethea  by  his  Sheck- 
elford  wife,  married  Miss  Sarah  Ann  DeBerry,  of  Marl- 
borough ;  by  her  he  had  two  children,  a  daughter,  Missouri, 
and  a  son,  William  Henry.  Missouri  became  the  first  wife  of 
John  H.  Hamer;  she  died,  leaving  one  child,  a  son,  Missouri 
Robert  Hamer,  who  lias  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the 
Hamer  family.  .The  son,  William  Henry  Bethea,  ma!rried, 
first,  a  Miss  Wilson,  of  Wilmington,  N.  C,  and  by  her  he  had 
two  daugihters,  Adaline  and  Ella,  both  single,  and  two  sons, 
Wilson  and  Henry  (twins)  ;  Henry  died  in  1899;  Wilson  sur- 
vives, and  is  unmarried.  William  Henry's  first  wife  died,  and 
he  married,  a  second  time.  Miss  EUie  Sherwood ;  she  has  one 
son,  Evander  S.,  a  'boy  nearly  grown.  William  Henry  Bethea 
died  in  1891  or  1892,  a  felo  de  se.  Frank  Bethea  married,  late 
in  life.  Miss  Rebecca  Manning,  daughter  of  Woodward  Man- 
ning; had  one  child,  a  son;  father  and  son  (an  infant)  both 
died  the  same  year ;  the  widow,  Rebecca,  married  twice  after 
that,  and  has  already  been  mentioned  among  the  Manning  fam- 
ily. George  J.  Bethea  married  Miss  Irena  Page,  daughter  of 
Captain  William  Page ;  they  had  and'  raised  two  sons,  William 


398  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

A.  and  John  D.,  and  several  daughters,  Amanda,  Ellen,  Mary, 
Rittie  and  Belle.  William  A.  married  a  Miss  Floyd  and 
moved  to  North  Carolina.  John  D.  married  Miss  Sallie  Man- 
ning, daug'hter  of  Woodward  Manning.  Of  the  daughters, 
Amanda  married  William  B.  Ellen ;  Kittie  married  Joseph  Wat- 
son, her  first  cousin;  don't  know  who  the  others  married. 
William  A.  has  a  son,  named  Jasper,  and  John  D.  has  a  son, 
named  Herbert.  Evander  S.  Bethea,  the  youngest  son  of  old 
Buck  Swamp  William,  never  married.  The  oldest  son  of  Buck 
Swamp  William,  by  his  Crawfofd  wife,  was  named  John  C, 
born  in  1798,  and  died  January,  1863;  married,  first,  a  Widow 
Irby,  whose  maiden  name  was  Allison ;  she  had  one  child,  a 
daughter,  Elizabeth,  when  he  married  her,  who  grew  up  and 
married  Henry  Rogers,  of  Marlborough;  they  raised  a  large 
family  of  sons  and  daughters,  and  among  the  daughters  is  Hen- 
rietta, who  is  now  the  widow  of  the  late  Grovernor  W.  H.  El- 
leihe ;  by  his  marriage  with  the  Widow  Irby,  he  had  and  raised 
one  son,  Edwin  Allison,  when  she  died;  and  he  afterwards 
married  Sarah  Ann  Davis,  and  by  her  had  and  raised  one  son, 
John  C,  now  of  Dillon.  Edwin  A.  married  Ann  Eliza  God- 
bold,  youngest  daughter  of  Asa  Godibold,  Sr. ;  they  live  at 
Latta,  and  have  a  family  of  several  sons  and  daughters;  the 
sons  are  Asa,  John  C,  Edwin  and  Reed  Walker,  and  several 
daughters.  One  daughter  married  to  W.  C.  McMillan,  and  is 
in  Columbia,  S.  C.  Asa  has  gone  West;  others  all  here. 
John  C.  Bethea,  of  Dillon,  married  Miss  Hettie  Bethea,  daugh- 
ter of  W.  W-  Bethea,  of  Mississippi,  and  of  the  "Sweat  Swamp 
family;"  they  have  two  sons,  Horace  and  John  C,  and  five 
daughters,  all  small.  Of  the  sons  of  Buck  Swamp  William, 
there  was  one  noticeable  peculiarity — they  all,  except  old  John 
C,  drank  liquor  excessively,  and  when  intoxicated  or  drinking 
were  perfectly  quiet  and  harmless — much  more  so  than  when 
sober,  except,  perlhaps,  Evander  S. ;  they  were  all  capital  men, 
energetic  and  progressive  citizens.  Of  the  daughters  of  old 
William  Bethea  (Buck  Swamp),  Rebecca  married  Colin  Mc- 
Lellan,  who  has  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Mclvel- 
lans.  Absala  married  Hugh  Campbell,  already  mentioned  in 
or  among  the  Campbells.  Mary  married  William  W.  Bethea, 
of  the  "Sweat  Swamp  set,"  who  will  be  noticed  further  on. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  399 

Catharine  married  Averitt  N.  Nance,  of  North  Carolina,  and 
raised  one  son,  Daniel,  and  several  daughters.  Sarah  Ann 
married  a  Mr.  Folk,  of  North  Carolina,  and  raised  a  family  of 
two  sons  and  two  daughters,  names  unknown.  All  the  sons 
and  daughters  of  Buck  Swamp  William  are  dead;  he  himself 
died  13th  June,  1840.  James  Bethea,  the  second  son  of  old 
"Buck  Swamp  John,"  married  Miss  Margaret  Cockrane,  a 
daughter  of  Thomas  Cockrane,  of  Marlborough  County,  and 
settled  in  the  fork  of  Big  and  Little  Reedy  Creeks ;  they  had 
and  raised  to  he  grown  twelve  children,  five  sons  and  seven 
daughters;  the  sons  were  Thomas  C,  Samuel  J.,  John  R., 
David  and  Claudius;  the  daughters  were  Nancy,  Deborah, 
Sallie,  Rachel,  Lucinda,  Luoretia  and  Jane.  Thomas  C.  mar- 
ried Miss  Miranza  Rogers,  a  daughter  of  old  Timothy  Rogers, 
and  emigrated  to  Mississippi.  Samuel  J.  married  Miss  Mary 
Rogers,  another  daughter  of  old  Timothy  Rogers ;  he  was  a 
local  Methodist  preacher  for  more  than  forty  years,  a  man  of 
high  dharacter  and  a  most  excellent  citizen;  he  died  in  1877; 
he  married,  a  second  time,  Miss  Elizabeth  Bass,  daughter  of 
old  man  Joseph  R.  Bass;  by  his  first  marriage  he  had  and 
raised  to  be  grown  eleven  children — sons,  James,  Andrew  J. 
and  David  N. ;  daughters,  Sarah,  Margaret,  Harriet,  Flora  J., 
Louisa,  Lucinda,  Charlotte  and  Cattie;  and  by  his  last  wife, 
one  son,  Samuel  J.,  Jr.  Of  the  sons,  James  died  unmarried, 
just  on  arriving  at  manhood.  Andrew  J.  was  a  practicing 
physician,  and  married  Anna  Maria  Allen,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Joel  Allen,  settled  in  the  "Free  State"  section,  and  died  in 
1 88 1,  leaving  his  widow  and  five  children — all  now  grown — 
three  sons,  Herbert,  Percy  and  Andrew,  and  two  daughters, 
Mrs.  Rev.  Pearce  Kilgo,  who  has  five  children,  and  Mrs.  Wil- 
liam T.  Bethea,  who  has  three  children,  sons,  James  Earle, 
William  Thaddeus,  Jr.,  and  Philip  Osbome.  The  next  son  of 
Rev.  S.  J.  Bethea,  David  N.,  who  died  last  week,  married,  first, 
Anna  J.  Sellers,  daughter  of  the  writer,  and  settled  in  the  "Free 
State"  section;  they  had  eight  children,  three  of  whom  are 
dead,  also  the  mother;  of  the  eight,  five  were  sons  and  three 
daughters ;  the  sons  were  William  T.,  Samuel  Stoll,  David  A., 
Swinton  Legare  and  Andrew  Pearce;  the  daughters  were 
Cattie  May,  Lillian  and  Anna  Laval.     Of  these,  Samuel  Stoll, 


400  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

David  A.  and  Oattie  May  are  dead — died  before  majority. 
William  Thaddeus  married  his  cousin,  Georgia  Bethea,  as 
above  stated  and  children  as  above  stated ;  he  is  railroad  agent 
at  Dillon  and  has  been  for  more  than  ten  years,  and  Mayor  of 
the  town  for  three  years.  By  the  second  marriage  of  Rev.  S. 
J.  Bethea,  he  had  one  son,  Samuel  J.,  Jr.,  who  is  and  has  been 
for  ten  years  or  more  a  traveling  Methodist  preacher  in  the 
South  Carolina  Conference;  he  married  Miss  Nannie  Be*hea, 
of  the  "Sweat  Swamp"  family,  and  have  only  one  child,  a  son, 
Samuel  J.,  Jr.  Of  the  daughters  of  Rev.  S.  J.  Bethea,  three, 
IvUcinda,  Cattie  and  Charlotte,  all  grown  young  ladies,  died 
unmarried.  Sarah  married  James  Moore,  of  Marlborough 
County;  they  had  only  one  child,  a  son,  James  B.  Moore,  of 
Latta ;  the  father  died  when  James  B.  was  an  infant ;  the  widow 
never  married  again,  and  died  a  few  years  ago.  The  son, 
James  B.  Moore,  married  Miss  Mollie  Godbold,  daughter  of 
Asa  Godbold,  Jr. ;  they  have  three  children  living,  two  sons, 
Clancy  and  LaCoste,  and  a  daugliter,  L,orena  (small).  Mar- 
garet, the  next  daughter  of  Rev.  S.  J.  Bethea,  married  John 
W.  Tart ;  they  had  and  raised  three  sons,  James,  John  and  An- 
drew; the  father  and  mother  are  both  dead.  James  went  to 
Savannah,  married  a  Miss  Fuller,  of  Wayoross,  Ga.,  and  when 
last  heard  of  was  said  to  'be  doing  well.  John  married  a  Miss 
Bethea,  daughter  of  Elisha  Bethea,  Jr.,  of  Latta;  they  have 
some  family,  how  many  and  of  wliat  sex  is  not  known.  An- 
drew Tart  married  a  Miss  Hays,  daughter  of  Hamilton  R. 
Hays,  and  lives  near  Kirby's  Cross  Roads ;  suppose  they  have 
some  family,  how  many  and  of  what  sex  is  unknown.  Of  the 
daughters  of  John  W.  Tart  and  wife,  two  or  three  of  them  died 
unmarried,  after  maturity.  One  married  Samuel  O.  Smith,  of 
Buck  Swamp ;  they  have  a  large  family.  Their  oldest,  a  son, 
Stepihen  Lane  Smith,  lives  at  Laitta,  and  lately  married  a  Miss 
Edwards,  a  daughter  of  Austin  Edwards.  Another  daughter 
married  C.  C.  Gaillard,  and  has  three  children^-a  daughter, 
Maggie,  and  a  son,  Luther,  and  another  name  unknown ;  they 
now  live  at  Dillon;  their  children  are  grown.  Another 
daughter  married  James  Johnson,  a  nephew  of  Chancellor  W. 
D.  Johnson,  called  "Black  Jim,"  to  distinguish  him  from  J.  W. 
Jdhnson,  Esq.,  another  nephew  and  son-in-law  of  the  Chancel- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  401 

lor;  they  live  at  Fair  Bluff,  N.  C. ;  they  have  some  children, 
how  many  and  of  what  sex  is  unknown.  Another  and  young- 
est daughter  of  John  W.  Tart  and  his  wife,  Margaret,  married 
Solon  Lewis,  of  Latta ;  she  died  some  months  ago,  and  left  two 
children,  a  daughter  and  a  son,  I  think.  The  next  daughter 
of  Rev.  S.  J.  Bethea,  Harriet,  and'  the  only  survivor  of  his 
eleven  first  children,  has  never  married,  and  is  sixty-one  or  two 
years  old.  Flora,  the  next  daughter,  married  the  late  Stephen 
D.  Lane;  both  are  dead,  and  died  childless.  Louisa,  the  next 
daughter,  married  Newton  Owens,  of  North  Carolina;  they 
moved  to  Texas  several  years  ago ;  she  is  dead,  leaving  several 
children,  sons  and  daughters — pertiaps,  all  grown.  John  R. 
Bethea,  the  third  son  of  old  James  Bethea,  married  Miss  Har- 
riet Bass,  daughter  of  old  Joseph  R.  Bass.  I  think  this  family 
has  been  already  noticed  in  or  among  the  Bass  family.  The 
fourth  son  of  old  James  Bethea,  David,  died  a  young  man, 
urunarried,  in  1843.  Claudius  Bethea,  the  fifth  and  youngest 
son  of  old  James  Bethea,  married,  late  in  life.  Miss  Mary  Ann 
Miles,  daughter  of  Charles  Miles,  of  the  "Free  State"  section ; 
he  and  his  wife  are  both  dead,  childless.  Of  the  daughters  of 
old  James  Bethea,  the  eldest,  Nancy,  married  Salathd  Moody, 
an  older  brother  of  old  Barfield  Moody ;  they  had  several  chil- 
dren, sons  and  daughters,  some  grown,  when  they  broke  up 
and  moved  West.  Deborah,  the  second  daughter,  married 
James  Spears,  a  very  successful  man  in  Marlborough ;  they  had 
and  raised  a  large  family — two  sons,  Andrewr  J.  and  Edwin  A., 
and  six  or  seven  daughters ;  they  have  descendants,  grand-sons, 
in  Marion  County  now,  in  the  persons  of  Dr.  J.  H.  David  and 
Frank  B.  David,*  enterprising,  progressive  men,  with  their 
families.  They  have  many  descendants  in  Marlborough 
County.  The  two  sons,  Andrew  J.  and  Edwin  A.,  died  child'- 
less ;  Edwin  married.  Lucinda,  the  fifth  daughter  of  old  James 
Bethea,  married  Colonel  Wilie  Bridges,  of  Marlborough,  and 
emigrated  West.  Sallie,  the  third  daughter,  married  Willis 
Crawford,  from  whom  sprang  several  sons  and  two  daug'hters ; 
the  sons  were  James,  Hardy,  Thomas  C,  Willis,  William  and 
Gibson  G.  Crawford,  now  of  Latta ;  the  daughters  were  Rhoda 
and  Margaret.  Of  the  sons,  James  died  when  about  grown, 
*Frank  B.  David  died  recently. 


402  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

unmarried.  Hardy  married  a  Miss  Piatt,  and  went  West. 
Thomas  C.  married  twice,  is  well  known  in  the  county ;  mar- 
ried, the  last  time,  a  Miss  McPherson,  in  West  Marion,  and  has 
resided  there  for  more  than  thirty  years ;  his  wife  died  a  short 
time  ago,  childless ;  'he  is  a  most  excellent  man  and  a  good  citi- 
zen.* Willis  Crawford  was  a  physician;  married  a  lady  in 
Charleston,  and  was  soon  after  accidentally  killed  in  a  fox 
drive  by  his  own  gun — verifying  the  adage,  "That  more  people 
are  killed  or  hurt  at  play  than  at  work."  William  died,  a  sin- 
gle man,  after  having  gone  through  the  war  and  came  out  un- 
hurt. G.  G.  Crawford  married  Miss  Kate  Bethea,  daughter  of 
Colonel  James  R.  Bethea ;  they  had  and  raised  two  sons,  James 
C.  and  Samuel  B.,  and  two  daughters,  Jessie  and  Mary;  his 
wife  is  dead ;  he  has  not  remarried.  James  G.  has  lately  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Evans,  of  Society  Hill.  Jessie  married,  two  or 
three  years  ago,  William  Ellis  Bethea ;  no  offspring.  Samuel 
B.  and  Mary  are  yet  single.  The  oldest  daughter  of  Willis  and 
Sallie  Crawford,  Rhoda,  married  Henry  Easterling,  and  has 
already  been  noticed  among  the  Easiterlings.  Margaret,  the 
youngest  daughter,  never  married,  and  is  dead.  Rachel,  the 
fourth  daughter  of  old  James  Bethea,  married  Enoch  Meekins, 
of  Marlborougl:! ;  he,  however,  settled  and  lived  many  years 
near  Harileesville,  and  raised  a  considerrable  family  of  sons  and 
daughters,  and  finally  moved  to  North  Carolina,  where  he  and 
his  wife  both  died;  don't  know  enough  about  his  children  to 
trace  them.  He  had  one  son,  Philip  B.,  who  married  a  Miss 
Hays,  daughter  of  John  C.  Hays;  they  also  moved  to  North 
Carolina,  and  are  lost  sight  of.  One  daughter  married  John  R. 
Oarmiohael ;  he  died,  and  left  two  sons,  Alexander  and  McCoy, 
and  one  daughter,  Johny;  the  mother  still  lives.  Another 
daug'hter  married  James  McGirt ;  they  went  to  North  Carolina. 
Lucretia,  the  sixth  daughter,  first  married  Aaron  Meekins,  of 
Marlborough,  brother  of  Enoch,  wlio  had  married  Rachel; 
Aaron  Meekins  lived  but  a  short  time,  and  died  childless ;  the 
widow  afterwards  married  Wesley  Stackhouse,  who  has  already 
been  noticed  among  the  Stackhouse  family.  Jane,  the  young- 
est daughter,  married  Tristram  Easterling,  who  has  already 
been  noticed. in  or  among  the  Easterling  family.  Philip  Be- 
*Thomas  C.  Crawford  has  recently  died. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  403 

thea,  the  third  son  of  old  "Buck  Swamp  John,"  married,  in 
1 80 1,  Rachel  Cochrane,  daughter  of  old  Thomas  Cochrane,  of 
Marlborough,  and  sister  of  his  brother  James'  wife.  (As  to 
Thomas  Cochrane — ^he  was  a  Vermonter,  ran  away  from  his 
parents  in  Vermont  when  a  mere  lad,  and  married  a  Miss  Coun- 
cil, and  settled  on  Great  Pee  Dee,  just  above  the  mouth  of 
Crooked  Creek ;  raised  a  family ;  married  three  times ;  the  two 
Bethea's  wives  above  mentioned  were  daughters  of  the  first 
wife,  together  with  another  daughter,  Polly,  who  became  the 
wife  of  old  John  Hamer,  and  the  progenitress  of  the  large 
family  of  that  name  in  Marlborough  and  Marion,  and  a  son, 
named  Robert;  he  amassed  a  large  property  and  lived  to  a 
great  age.)  Philip  Bethea  settled  on  Catfish,  where  he  lived 
and  died  in  1865 ;  they  raised  to  be  grown  two  sons,  Elisha  C. 
and  James  R.,  and  three  daughters,  Clarissa,  Margaret  and 
Martha  Ann.  Of  the  sons,  Elisha  C.  married  Martha  Ann 
Walters,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  Walters,  of  upper  Marion; 
Captain  Elisha  C.  was  a  very  successful  man  as  a  farmer  and 
well  to  do  in  life ;  they  had  eleven  sons  and  four  daug'hters .;  the 
sons  were  Philip  W.,  John  J.,  Robert  C,  James  A.,  Elisha, 
Picket,  Morgan,  George,  William  W.,  Clarence  and  Julius  N. ; 
the  daughters  were  Elizabdih  Ann,  Wilmina  R.,  Augusta  B. 
and  Alice.  Of  the  sons  of  Elisha  C,  Philip  W.  married  Miss 
Anna  Smith,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  John  L.  Smith,  of  the  "Fork" 
section,  and  settled  Where  he  now  lives;  his  family  has  been 
noted  among  the  Lane  family.  The  second  son  of  Captain 
Elisha  C.  Bethea  is  Dr.  John  J.  Bethea,  at  MuUins ;  has  been 
practicing  medicine  since  1852;  he  married,  first,  Miss  Mary 
Bethea,  a  daughter  of  Tristram  Bethea,  of  Floral  Coillege,  one 
of  the  "Cape  Fear  set ;"  she  had  one  child,  a  daughter,  Emma, 
who  grew  up  and  married  Dr.  William  Harrel,  who  moved  to 
Georgia  some  years  ago,  and  had  w^hen  they  left  six  daughters 
and  no  son.  Dr.  John  J.  Bethea  married,  a  second  time,  Miss 
Jane  Smith,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  John  L.  Smith,  and  sister  of  his 
Brother  Philip's  -wife.  Owing  to  some  trouble  growing  out  of 
the  war,  Dr.  John  had  to  leave  the  county  and  State  for  fear  of 
the  Federal  garrison  stationed  at  Marion  in  1865  to  1868;  he 
went  to  Mississippi,  and  his  family  soon  followed  after  him, 
and  he  stayed  in  that  State  some  fifteen  or  twenty  years,  when 


404  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

he  came  back,  and  has  been  in  this  county  ever  since.     His 
family  have  been  noticed  in  tracing  the  Lane  family.    Robert  C. 
Bethea,  the  third  son  of  Captain  Elisha  C,  married,  some  time 
before  the  war,  a  Miss  Legette,  daughter  of  John  C.  L/egette,  of 
West  Marion ;  before  the  war,  he  removed  to  Mississippi ;  they 
had  some  little  family  before  leaving  this  county — know  noth- 
ing more  of  them ;  hie  was  also  a  physician,  and  in  his  adopted 
home  he  became  a  local  Methodist  preacher.    James  A.  Bethea, 
the  fourth  son  of  Captain  Elisha  C,  was  a  bright  young  man ; 
volunteered  in  the  early  part  of  the  war,  was  a  Lieutenant  or 
rose  to  a  lyieutenancy  in  Co.  E,  Twenty-third  Regiment,  S.  C. 
v.,  and  remained  in  the  war  to  the  end,  a  gallant  soldier.  After 
the  war  he  went  to  Mississippi ;  and  from  there  went  to  a  law 
school  at  Lebanon,  Tenn. ;  returned  to  Mississippi,  was  admit- 
ted to  the  bar,  but  soon  after  took  sick  and  died — a  worthy  and 
promising  young  man ;  he  never  married.     Elisha  Bethea,  Jr., 
the  fifth  son  of  Captain  Elisha  C,  married,  on  the  9th  March, 
1861 — ^the  writer  officiating  at  the  nuptials — ^to  Miss  Sallie 
Ellis,  daughter  of  the  Widow  Ginsy  Ellis.     He  also  volun- 
teered and  went  into  the  army,  and  remained  in  it  till  he  was 
disabled  for  field  service,  when  he  came  home,  and  for  some 
time  his  friends  supposed  he  would  not  survive  the  wounds, 
but  he  did  and  lias  been  going  on  crutches  ever  since — ^the 
wound  being  in  his  hip ;  he  yet  lives,  and  is  near  Latta,  an  ener- 
getic and  successful  man,  a  farmer.     He  had  by  his  first  wife 
several  sons  and  daughters.     His  oldest  living  son,  William 
Ellis,  is  now  merdhandising  at  Latta,  and  has  been  twice  mar- 
ried— first,  a  Georgia  lady,  who  had  three  sons,  Charles,  Robert 
and  Dallas,  and  one  daugihter,  Florence,  and  died ;  he  married, 
a  second  time.  Miss  Jessie  Crawford ;  she  has  no  children.     Ar- 
thur, his  second  son,  has  lately  married  a  Miss  Hays,  of  Hills- 
boro  Township,  a  daughter  of  William  B.  Hays;  he  teaches 
school.     Morgan,  his  third  son,  is  a  young  man,  unmarried ;  he 
teaches  school.     Of  his  daughters  by  his  first  marriage,  one, 
Mattie,  married  John  J.  George,  who  died  childless.     Another, 
Carrie,  married  John  Tart;  they  have  five  children  (small). 
Another,  Augusta,  is  unmarried.     Another,   Nellie,  married 
Tristram  Hamilton;  she  has  two  children.  Bertha  and  Sallie 
(small).     Elisha  Bethea,  Jr.,  had  another  son,  Benjamin,  and 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  405 

one  named  Elisha;  both  died  in  youth.  EHsha  Bethea's  first 
wife,  Sallie,  died;  he  married  again,  her  sister,  Mary  Ann, 
who  at  the  time  of  iher  marriage  was  the  Widow  Thomas ;  by 
this  second  marriage  he  has  one  son,  named  Power,  who  is  now 
in  Wofford  College,  and  a  daugliter,  named  Eva,  and  pertiaps 
others  ('small).  Pickett  Bethea,  the  sixth  son  of  Captain 
Elisha  C,  married  Miss  Carrie  Honour,  daughter  of  Rev.  John 
H.  Honour,  of  Charleston,  about  the  first  of  the  war ;  by  this 
marriage  two  sons  were  born.  Walker  and  Pickett.  Walker 
died  when  a  child.  Pickett  K.  grew  up  and  became  a  doctor, 
and  married  a  Miss  Davis,  of  North  Carolina,  and  has  removed 
to  Socastee,  in  Horry  County,  and  is  there  practicing  medicine, 
and  is  said  to  be  doing  well.  His  father,  Pickett,  volunteered 
early  in  the  war,  and  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Captain  McKerall's 
company,  in  25th  Regiment ;  he  was  killed  in  one  of  the  battles 
in  Virginia,  in  1863.  His  widow  married  again  to  J.  W.  Saint- 
clair,  a  school  teacher;  they  removed  West;  she  had  several 
children  for  him,  and  died.  Morgan,  the  seventh  son  of  Cap- 
tain Elisha  C,  volunteered  early  in  the  war;  he  sickened  and 
died  at  home  while  on  a  furlough ;  he  was  unmarried.  George, 
the  eighth  son,  was  killed,  when  about  thirteen  or  fourteen 
years  of  age,  by  what  was  called  a  "flying  mare" — ^another  veri- 
fication of  the  adage  "that  more  people  are  killed  or  hurt  at  play 
than  ait  work."  William  W.  Bethea,  the  ninth  son  of  Captain 
Elisha  C,  now  living  in  West  Marion,  married  Miss  Sallie 
Morrison,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Mr.  Morrison,  a  Presbyterian 
minister,  of  Anson  County,  N.  C,  a  very  estimable  and  accom- 
plished lady ;  the  fruits  of  this  marriage  are  'four  sons,  Morri- 
son, Theodore,  Oscar  and  James.  Of  these,  Morrison  is  mar- 
ried to  a  lady  of  Clinton  (name  unknown),  and  has  two  sons, 
Curtis  and'  Eugene ;  there  may  be  a  daughter  or  two  (all  small) . 
William  W.  Bethea  may  bave  daughters,  the  writer  does  not 
know.  One  of  the  sons,  Theodore  (I  believe)  is  a  graduate  of 
the  Citadel  Academy  of  Charleston — said  to  have  graduated 
with  distinction.  'Clarence,  the  tenth  son  of  Captain  Elisha  C, 
died  when  a  small  boy.  Julius  N.,  the  eleventh  son  of  Captain 
Elisha  C,  married,  first.  Miss  Anna  Shrewsberry,  daughter  of 
the  late  Edward  C.  Shrewsberry,  of  the  "Free  State"  section. 
An  incident  of  their  marriage  may  be  here  related :  They  were 


406  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

married  at  a  school  'house  near  by  her  father's,  in  the  woods  on 
a  road  not  much  frequented,  by  the  Rev.  Joel  Allen,  on  Christ- 
mas day,  in  1871 ;  he  gave  them  a  certificate  of  their  marriage 
Only  one  person  was  present  at  the  nuptials  besides  themselves 
and  the  officiating  clergyman ;  and  at  their  special  instance  and 
request,  the  marriage  was  to  be  kept  secret  until  the  19th  day 
of  April  following,  it  being  Julius'  birth-day  and  the  day  of  his 
arrival  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years.  Julius  carried  his  wife 
back  to  her  home,  half  a  mile  away,  and  left  her  there ;  he  went 
to  his  father's,  and  said  nothing  until  the  appointed  time,  19th 
April,  1872,  when  he  told  his  father  and  mother  about  it,  and 
went  to  her  father's,  and  their  marriage  was  satisfactorily  es- 
ta)blished  to  her  parents,  and  he  took  her  and  carried  her  to  his 
father's.  A  sufficient  reason,  satisfactory  to  them,  may  have 
existed  for  their  marriage  and  subsequent  secrecy,  but  it  does 
not  accord  -with  the  writer's  views  of  propriety,  nor  with  the 
conduct  of  999  out  of  1,000.  His  bride  was  a  very  intellectual 
and  well  cultivated  lady — ^far  more  so  than  many  in  that  re- 
gion; the  fruits  of  the  marriage  were  three  sons,  Hert>ert, 
Ernest  and  Adger,  and  one  or  two  daughters,  one  named  Mat- 
tie  May — suppose  they  are  all  grown.  Anna,  his  first  wife, 
died,  and  he  married,  a  second  time.  Miss  Carrie  iSessions, 
daughter  of  John  D.  Sessions,  of  Marion ;  they  reside  now  at 
Mullins;  children  of  the  last  marriage,  if  any,  are  small — 
names,  number  and  sex  unknown.  Of  the  daughters  of  Cap- 
tain Elisha  C.  Bethea,  the  eldest,  Elizabeth  Ann,  married  John 
B.  Bethea,  of  the  "Sweat  Swamp"  family;  her  mother  was  a 
half  Bethea  of  the  same  set ;  he  had  previously  gone  to  Missis- 
sippi, and  came  back  to  her  home  in  Marion  County  and  mar- 
ried ;  the  bridal  trip  was  to  be  to  Mississippi.  She  had  some 
negroes,  which  her  father  had  given  her,  and  they  with  their 
little  baggage  were  taken  along  for  the  trip.  This  was  before 
the  war,  about  1856.  When  the  bridal  party  arrived  at  Marion 
to  take  the  train,  the  groom  put  the  bride  on  board,  and  stepped 
back  to  see  to  getting  on  the  negroes — a  woman  and  some  chil- 
dren, and  whilst  thus  engaged  the  train  pulled  off  and  left  him ; 
of  course,  he  ran  after  it  and  tried  to  stop  it,  but  failed  in  his 
almost  frantic  efforts.  His  bride  went  on  to  Florence  (then  a 
small  village)  and  stopped  over  for  the  night;  the  groom  spent 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  407 

the  night  in  Marion  and  went  over  the  next  day  and  joined  his 
wife.  I  will  leave  the  reader  to  imagine  whether  Dhere  was 
intense  disappointment  or  not,  and  whether  there  was  any  curs- 
ing done  'by  the  groom.  The  bridal  party  went  to  Mississippi 
and  settled  there — I  think,  in  Smith  County.  John  B.  was  a 
very  energetic  and  persevering  man,  a  farmer ;  he  went  into  the 
war,  and  in  1863,  he  died  of  disease,  and  left  his  wife  arid  four 
sons,  Augustus  B.,  William,  Sumter  and  John — ^the  latter  born 
after  his  father's  death,  all  then  small.  After  John  B.''s  death, 
Captain  Elisha  C.  went  out  to  Mississippi  and  brought  the 
widow  and  her  children  to  this  county.  The  widow  settled  on 
a  place  given  her  by  her  father,  and  went  to  work  to  raise  and 
educate  her  sons ;  in  this  she  succeeded  well.  She  was  no  ordi- 
nary woman;  well  educated  herself  and  of  fine  literary  taste, 
and  to  this  added  her  fine  business  qualifications  and  her  suc- 
cess, placed  her  in  the  front  rank  among  women.  Much  more 
might  be  said  to  her  credit,  but  space  will  not  permit  a  further 
extended  notice.  Her  sons  grew  up  and  one  by  one  they  went 
to  Birmingham,  Ala.,  and  she  finally  followed  and,  I  think,  yet 
lives.  The  second  daughter  of  Captain  Elisha  C,  Wilmina 
Rachel,  has  never  married,  and  is  now  in  the  sixtieth  year  of 
her  age.  The  third  daughter,  Augusta  B.,  married  A.  E.  Gil- 
christ, of  Mullins,  and  has  already  been  noticed  herein  among 
the  Gilchrist  family.  Alice,  the  fourth  and  youngest  daughter 
of  Captain  Elisha  C,  married  D;  Asbury  Smith,  who  has 
already  been  noticed  among  the  Lane  family.  She,  too,  has 
gone  to  Birmingham,  Ala.,  where  three  of  her  four  sons  reside. 
According  to  the  chart  of  the  Bethea  family  in  all  its 
branches,  including  the  Nansemond  County,  Va.,  Betheas,  the 
Cape  Fear,  N.  C,  Betheas,  the  "Buck  Swamp  set,"  and  the 
"Sweat  Swamp  set,"  Captain  Elisha  C.  Bethea  "takes  the  cake" 
for  having  and  raising  the  greatest  number  of  sons,  eleven; 
while  Dr.  J.  F.  Bethea  stands  next,  with  eight.  Not  much  dan- 
ger of  extinction.  Colonel  James  R.  Bethea,  the  second  and 
youngest  son  of  old  man  Philip  Bethea,  who  has  been  men- 
tioned in  several  places  herein  before  in  connection  with  other 
matters,  married,  rather  late  in  life  (thirty-four  or  thirty-five 
years  dd),  to  Miss  Mary  McLeod,  of  Marlborottg'h,  one  of  the 
best  and  most  devotedly  pious  women  I  ever  met ;  and  should 
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408  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

any  of  ber  children  turn  out  badly  in  the  future,  it  cannot  be 
charged  to  any  fault  in  the  mother's  training,  either  by  precept 
or  example;  they  had  and  raised  (Jessie,  the  oldest,  was  near 
grcjwn  when  he  died)  six  sons  and  three  daughters ;  the  sons 
were  Jessie,  James  D.,  Philip  Y.,  Elisiha,  D.  McLeod  and 
Rdbert  Lucien;  the  daughters  were  Kate,  Clara  and  M.  Isa- 
bella. Of  the  sons,  Jessie  died  when  about  grown.  James  D., 
the  second  son,  married  Miss  Flora  Fore,  daughter  of  the  late 
Stephen  Fore;  she  is  dead.  Of  James  D.'s  family,  mention  has 
already  been  made  in  or  'among  the  Fore  family.  Philip  Y., 
the  third  son,  now  in  Marion,  a  first  dass  business  man ;  has 
been  County  Auditor,  and  is  now  and  has  been  for  ten  or  more 
years  cashier  of  the  Bank  of  Marion ;  married  Miss  Florence 
Johnson,  of  Charleston,  a  distant  relative  of  his — ^his  father  and 
Florence's  grand-mother,  Sallie  Strobel,  were  first  cousins; 
they  have  had  six  sons  (one,  Philip  Y.,  dead),  Eugene,  Arthur, 
Johnson,  Stewart,  Philip  Y.  and  Markley,  and  three  daugh- 
ters, Eloise,  Edith  and  Mary  McLeod — none  of  whom  are  mar- 
ried. Eugene,  the  eldest,  is  in  the  Philippines  or  China,  in  the 
United  States  army,  an  officer,  a  promising  young  man,  and 
may  rise  to  greater  distinction.  The  other  children  are  all  at 
home — Eloise  and  Arthur  are  grown.  Philip  Y.  has  a  very 
interesting  family ;  his  wife  is  a  superior  woman,  and  well  fitted 
by  education  and  early  training  to  raise  a  family.  Elisiha,  the 
fourth  son  of  Colonel  J.  R.  Bethea,  was  quite  a  promising 
young  man,  but  the  fates  decreed  that  he  should  not  live,  and 
he  died  when  twenty-five  or  six  years  of  age,  unmarried.  D. 
McLeod  Bethea,  the  fifth  son  of  Colonel  J.  R.  Bethea,  a  first 
class  man,  an  excellent  and  successful  farmer,  married  Miss 
Florence  Fore,  daughter  of  the  late  Stephen  Fore,  and  who, 
with  his  family,  have  already  'been  mentioned  herein  in  or 
among  the  Fore  family.  Robert  Lucien,  the  sixth  son  of 
Colonel  Bethea,  has  married  twice;  first,  a  Miss  Shaw,  of 
Bishopville ;  by  her  he  had  one  child,  a  daughter,  Leona,  who 
is  now  nearly  grown.  The  first  wife  died,  and  he  married,  a 
second  time,  to  Miss  Rosa  Carnes,  of  Bishopville,  and  by  her 
has  some  three  or  four  children ;  names  and  sex  unknown ;  they 
are  yet  children.     Robert  Lucien  lives  in  Bishopville,  and  runs 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  4U» 

a  hotel.*  Of  the  daughters  of  Colonel  J.  R.  Bethea,  the  eldest, 
Kate,  married  Gibson  G.  Crawford;  both  of  whom  and  their 
family  liave  already  been  noticed  herein  among  the  Betheas 
aJbove.  The  second  daughter  of  Colonel  Bethea,  Clara,  mar- 
ried Holland  Manning,  who  lives  on  her  patrimony,  and  are 
doing  well — in  fact,  Clara  is  an  extra  smart  and  sensible 
woman ;  they  have  two  children,  daughters,  both  children,  Mary 
Belle  and  Hope.  Holland  Manning  was  a  widower  with  five 
children,  three  of  whom  are  married ;  he  has  ^  place  of  his  own 
in  extreme  upper  Marion,  which  he  rents.  Colonel  James  R. 
Bethea  died  in  1878,  at  sixty-nine  years  of  age,  and  his  widow, 
Mary,  some  years  afterward.  The  youngest  daughter,  Isa- 
bella, or  Belle,  'has  never  married ;  she  has  a  good  farm,  which 
she  rents ;  she  also  teaches  school,  and  when  not  thus  engaged 
she  stays  with  'her  sister,  Clara  Manning. 

Colonel  James  R.  Bethea,  when  young,  imbibed  a  military 
spirit,  and  manifested  a  strong  ambition  to  attain  to  high  hon- 
ors in  the  militia  of  the  State.  Starting  as  a  private  in  his  local 
beat  company  (Cross  Roads),  he  soon  obtained  a  Lieutenancy; 
and  from  that  to  the  Captaincy  of  the  company ;  and  from  that 
to  Major  of  the  upper  battalion ;  and  by  seniority  soon  became 
Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the  regiment ;  and  from  that  by  election 
to  the  Colonelcy  of  the  Thirty^second  Regiment,  which  position 
he  held  at  the  time  of  his  marriage,  in  March,  1844,  and  con- 
tinued to  bold  that  position  for  three  or  four  years  afterward — 
and  in  the  meantime  declined  to  be  a  candidate  for  Brigadier 
General,  to  which  place  he  could  have  been  elected,  perhaps, 
without  opposition.  He  was  an  efficient  officer,  and  was  popu- 
lar as  such.  It  was  very  expensive,  and  as  he  had  a  growing 
family  he  wisely  chose  to  abandon  the  further  pursuit  of  mili- 
tary honors  (empty  as  they  were),  and  devote  his  means  to  the 
support  and  education  of  bis  fast-growing  family.  He  re- 
signed his  commission  as  Colonel,  and  Elly  Godbold  or  John  J. 
George  was  elected  in  his  place.  They  both  were  successive 
Colonels,  but  do  not  remember  which  of  the  two  were  first 
elected.  Afterwards  Colonel  Bethea  was  elected  as  a  Repre- 
sentative from  the  district  in  the  State  Legislature  (1848  to 

1850)- 

*He  is  now  at  Dillon  in  the  same  business. 


410  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Of  the  daughters  of  Philip  Bebhea,  a  son  of  old  "Buck 
Swamp  John,"  Clarissa,  the  eldest,  never  married,  and  died  in 
1861,  at  the  age  of  fifty-eigiht.  The  second  daughter,  Marga- 
ret, married  Willis  Fin'klea,  called  Arter  Willis ;  in  a  short  while 
Finklea  moved  to  Alabama;  there  they  had  several  children, 
five  of  whom  were  raised.  Willis  Finklea  was  a  drinking  man 
and  treated  his  wife  badly,  so  much  so  that  she  could  not  stand 
it;  they  separated,  and  her  father,  in  1841,  went  to  Alabama, 
Monroe  County,  in  a  wagon,  and  brought  her  and  her  five  chil- 
dren back  to  Marion  County ;  Finklea  soon  after  died ;  her  chil- 
dren were  raised  mainly  by  her  father;  there  were  two  sons, 
James  C.  and  William ;  the  daughters  were  Lucinda,  Sallie  and 
Margaret  Agnes.  James  C.  Finklea  is  now  one  of  our  fellow- 
citizens,  known  as  Captain  Finklea,  in  Wahee  Township,  and, 
in  fact,  all  over  the  county.  Captain  Finklea  volunteered  in 
Captain  C.  J.  Fladger's  Company  Et  23d  South  Carolina  Regi- 
ment, in  the  Confederate  War ;  went  off  as  a  Sei-geant  in  that 
company.  Captain  Fladger  in  a  few  months  resigned,  and 
Harris  Covington,  First  Lieutenant,  became  Captain,  the  other 
Lieutenants  went  up,  and  Captain  Finklea  was  elected  Third 
Lieutenant,  made  vacant.  Some  time  after  Covington  re- 
signed, and  the  company  was  reorganized  by  orders  from  the 
proper  authorities,  and  Captain  Finklea  was  elected  Captain  of 
the  company,  and  served  gallantly  until  the  latter  part  of  1864 
— ^having  fought  through  all  the  campaigns  from  Virginia  to 
Mississippi.  At  that  time  Captain  Finklea  was  the  senior  Cap- 
tain in  the  regiment,  when  by  the  casualties  of  war  the  Major's 
ofiSce  became  vacant,  and  according  to  rules  of  promotion.  Cap- 
tain Finklea  was  entitled  to  the  place ;  but  a  Junior  Captain  was 
promoted,  by  appointment,  not  by  dection,  to  the  Majoralty 
over  him ;  when  Captain  Finklea  resigned  and  came  home,  and 
did  not  return  to  the  service.  It  was  said  he  wias  a  good  and 
brave  Captain;  that  his  men  all  loved  and  respected  him,  but 
he  was  not  popular  with  the  higher  officers,  because  he  always 
associated  with  his  men  and  not  with  them.  Captain  Finklea 
is  known  as  a  modest,  retiring  man ;  not  self-asserting.  Had 
the  vacancy  for  Major  been  left  to  his  company,  he  would  have 
gotten  the  vote  of  every  man ;  he  sympathized  with  his  men, 
fared  as  they  fared,  and  assumed  no  superiority  over  them  on 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  411 

account  of  his  position.  As  an  evidence  of  Captain  Finklea's 
popularity,  when  he  was  first  elected  County  Commissioner,  a 
few  years  ago  (lie  was  twice  elected),  he  received  every  vote  at 
Berry's  Cross  Roads,  something  over  200.  He  is  a  man  of 
good  sense,  a  good  and  safe  manager  of  his  farm  and  home  af- 
fairs, unostentatious  and  unassuming,  rather  avoids  company — 
unfortunately,  of  late  years,  his  habits  are  not  good.  J^iter  the 
war  he  went,  first,  to  Alaibama  and  then  to  Texas,  where  he 
married  a  Miss  Kyle ;  she  had  one  child  for  him,  a  son,  who 
died  in  infancy,  and  the  mother  died;  he  then  oame  back  to 
South  Carolina,  and  married  the  widow  of  Dr.  William  H.  God- 
bold,  a  most  excellent  and  cultured  woman ;  by  her  he  had  one 
son,  named  for  his  first  wife,  a  very  promising  boy,  but  he  died 
at  the  age  of  four  or  five  years.  William  Finklea,  the  young- 
est brother,  died  when  about  grown.  Lucinda,  the  oldest 
daughter,  married  John  T.  Kinney,  of  Marlborough,  and  emi- 
grated to  Texas,  where  tbey  raised  a  family ;  both  are  dead,  and 
nothing  is  known  further  of  them.  Sallie,  the  second  daugla- 
ter,  married  Cyrus  B.  Haselden ;  they  had  and  raised  five  chil- 
dren, two  sons,  John  and  Frank,  and  three  daughters,  Lucy, 
Maggie  and  Fannie.  Cyrus  B.  Haselden  and  wife,  Sallie,  and 
family,  have  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Haseldens. 
Margaret  Agnes,  the  youngest  daughter  of  Willis  Finklea  and 
wife,  Margaret,  never  married,  and  died  of  cancer  on  the  breast, 
at  the  age  of  forty,  in  March,  1882.  A  noble  girl  she  was. 
Martha  Ann  Bethea,  the  third  and  youngest  daughter  of  old 
man  Philip  Bethea,  married  W.  W.  Sellers,  the  writer,  loth 
January,  1847,  ^^^  died  2d  February,  1893;  they  had  seven 
children,  four  sons,  John  C,  William  W.,  Benjamin  Morgan 
and  Philip  B. ;  of  these,  Benjamin  Morgan  died  a  little  under 
two  years  of  age;  three  daughters,  Anna  Jane,  Rachel  C. 
and  Mary  O.  Of  the  sons,  John  C.  is  a  graduate  of  the  South 
Carolina  College,  studied  law,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1870, 
was  elected  to  the  Legislature  in  1870,  practiced  law  only  one 
year,  and  retired  on  the  farm  where  he  now  lives ;  his  first  wife 
was  Miss  Maggie  E.  Mace,  daughter  of  the  late  Jo'hn  Mace; 
she  had  seven  children,  three  sons,  Benjamin  B.,  John  M.  and 
Wallace  Duncan ;  of  these,  John  M.  died  under  one  year  old ; 
there  were  four  daughters,  Lucy  B.,  Annie  R.,  Maggie  Leila 


412  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

and  Maggie  Ellen  (called  Pearl).  Benjamin  B.  Sellers  is  a 
graduate  of  Wofiford  College;  married  Miss  Norma  Watson, 
youngest  daughter  of  the  late  William  Watson ;  they  have  two 
children,  Harry  and  Margaret  Ellen ;  he  is  farming.  Wallace 
Duncan's  education  is  not  completed.  Of  the  daughters,  Lucy 
B.  is  a  graduate  of  the  Columbia  Female  College ;  she  married 
D.  Maxcy  Watson ;  they  have  no  children.  Annie  R.  went  to 
the  Female  College  for  more  than  a  year,  but  did  not  graduate ; 
is  unmarried.  Maggie  Leila  is  near  grown,  iis  going  to  school. 
Maggie  E.,  called  Pearl,  was  only  three  days  old  when  her 
mother  died ;  her  Aunt  Rachel  Norton  took  her  and  has  so  far 
raised  her ;  she  is  near  thirteen  years  of  age.  W.  W.  Sellers, 
Jr.,  married  Miss  Harriet  J.  McPherson,  daughter  of  C.  Ervin 
McPherson,  of  West  Marion;  they  have  had  seven  or  eight 
children,  only  three  of  whom  are  living — two  daughters,  Rachel 
Elise  and  Etta;  the  son  is  Marvin  McSwain — none  of  them 
grown.  W.  W.  Sdlers,  Jr.,  is  one  of  the  Chiefs  in  the  present 
State  Constabulary,  and  has  been  for  several  years ;  he  resides 
at  Latta.  Philip  B.  Sellers  is  a  graduate  of  Wofford  College ; 
studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1884  (May)  ;  he 
married  Miss  M.  Sue  DuBois,  daughter  of  J.  T.  DuBois,  of 
Marion,  in  December,  1886;  they  have  five  children,  three  sons, 
John  DuBois,  Philip  Bruce  and  William  Maynard,  and  two 
daughters,  Agnes  Leona  and  Mildred  Eugenia — all  children, 
none  grown ;  he  resides  at  Dillon,  and  is  actively  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  his  chosen  profession,  with  apparent  success.  Of 
the  daughters  of  the  writer  and  his  wife,  Anna  Jane,  the  eldest 
daughter  married  her  cousin,  D.  N.  Bethea ;  he  and  Anna  Jane 
and  their  family  have  been  already  noticed  in  the  same  connec- 
tion, Betheas.  The  second  daughter  of  W.  W.  Sellers  and 
wife  married  Hon.  James  Norton,  of  Mullins;  they  had  but 
two  children,  .sons,  Evan  Lewis  and  William  Fitzroy.  Evan 
Lewis,  the  eldest,  died  when  four  or  five  years  of  age.  Wil- 
liam Fitzroy  grew  up  to  manhood ;  first  went  to  Wofford  Col- 
lege, and  after  two  years  spent  there,  he  went  to  the  law  depart- 
ment of  the  South  Carolina  College  for  two  years,  graduated 
in  law,  and  ipso  facto  became  a  lawyer — ^he  does  not  practice, 
however;  be  married  Miss  Florence  Smith,  daughter  of  B. 
Cause  Smith,  at  Mullins ;  they  reside  at  Mullins,  and  have  no 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  413 

children.  Mary  O.  Sellers,  youngest  daughter  of  W.  W.  Sel- 
lers, married  Thomas  N.  Godbold,  a  son  of  Dr.  W.  H.  God- 
bold;  they  have  only  three  children  living,  Thomas  Carroll, 
Anna  and  Bessie.  Thomas  N.  Godbold  is  in  the  railroad  ser- 
vice, on  the  "Plant  System"  between  Charleston  and  Savannah. 
This  family  has  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Goldbold 
family.  Recurring  back  a  few  lines:  John  C.  Sellers,  after 
living  about  ten  years  a  widower,  married,  a  second  time,  to 
Miss  Jaquiline  Oliver,  of  North  Carolina,  2d  February,  1898 — 
a  most  excellent  woman ;  they  have  had  two  children,  boys,  who 
are  both  dead.  Elisha  Bethea,  fourth  son  of  old  "Buck  Swamp 
John,"  known  as  old  Colonel  Elisha,  never  married.  It  is  said 
of  him  that  he  was  a  very  handsome  man  in  his  young  days ;  he 
was  born  in  1787,  and  was  Captain  of  a  company  in  the  war  of 
1812-14;  he  was  better  educated  than  any  of  his  brothers — in 
fact,  better  than  most  men  of  his  day.  His  father  left  him  a  fine 
property,  his  homestead  and  a  large  number  of  negroes ;  few 
men  of  that  time  had  such  a  prospect.  He  was  very  popular 
and  had  more  natural  politeness  than  any  Bethea  I  ever  saw. 
But,  alas !  the  demon  of  intemperance  ruined  him ;  he  died  poor 
in  1854,  at  the  age  of  sixty-seven  years.  After  the  war  of 
1812,  he  became  Colonel  of  the  militia.  He  was  true  to  his 
friends  and  true  to  his  country.  It  seemed  to  be  his  delight  to 
make  others  pleasant,  happy  and  comfortable  even  at  the  ex- 
pense of  his  own  convenience.  This  was  the  man  after  he 
became  poor,  which  proved  it  to  be  natural  with  him.  His 
bearing  and  appearance  in  pK>verty  and  old  age  was  that  of  a 
nobleman,  of  a  cavalier.  Parker  Bethea,  the  youngest  son  of 
old  "Buck  Swamp  John,"  was  born  in  1790,  and  was  given  his 
mother's  maiden  name,  Parker ;  he  settled  opposite  the  head  of 
Catfish,  at  the  Cross  Roads  on  the  Marlborough  line,  twenty- 
two  miles  above  Marion,  and  died  there,  St.  John  the  Evangel- 
ist Day,  27th  December,  1867;  he  married  EHzaibeth  Harllee, 
daughter  of  old  Thomas  Harllee ;  they  .raised  two  sons,  Harllee 
and  Benjamin  Parker,  and  four  or  five  daughters.  Harllee 
had  one  son,  Reddin,  and  Benj.  P.  had  one  named  Charles. 
Harllee  moved  to  Florida  many  years  ago;  his  wife  was  a  Miss 
Roberts — Benj.  P.'s  wife  was  a  Miss  Woolvin;  he  moved  just 
after  the  war  to  Pender  or  Onslow  County,  N.  C,  thirty  miles 


414  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

on  the  coast  above  Wilmington.  These  families  have  already 
been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Roberts  family  and  the  Harllee 
family. 

One  more  remark  about  these  old  Betheas,  sons  of  "Buck 
Swamp  John."  They  all  loved  liquor  and,  except  old  Philip, 
drank  it  to  excess,  till  after  middle  life,  when  they  tapered  off, 
and  by  the  time  of  old  age  'became  perfectly  abstemious,  and 
this  was  specially  the  case  with  William,  James  and  Parker. 
They  were  all  giood  men  and  excellent  citizens,  and  did  much  in 
starting  the  development  of  the  resources  of  the  county.  The 
first  gin  'house  built  in  the  county  was  built  by  old  "Butk 
Swamp  John ;"  it  stood  on  w*hat  has  ever  since  been  called  the 
"Gin  House  Branch,"  near  the  Cross  Roads,  at  John  C.  Be- 
thea's  plantation ;  a  good  part  of  that  gin  house  is  still  in  use. 
After  the  death  of  old  "Buck  Swamp  John,"  in  1821,  the  plan- 
tation fell  to  old  Colonel  Elisha,  and  he  in  his  financial  extremi- 
ties years  afterwards  sold  the  gin  house  to  Cross  Roads  Henry 
Berry ;  he  pulled  it  down  and  hauled  it  to  Berry's  Cross  Roads, 
and  it  stands  there  now,  the  property  of  James  Berry,  between 
his  (James  Berry's)  dwelling  and  the  storehouse.  It  has  been 
there,  to  the  writer's  knowledge,  more  than  sixty  years. 

Of  the  grand-sons  of  old  "English  John,"  John  settled  on 
Buck  Swamp,  as  already  stated,  and  William  settled  on  Sweat 
Swamp ;  he  married,  and  had  four  sons,  John,  Goodman,  Philip 
and  Jessie.  Of  these,  John,  the  man  who,  after  the  Revolution, 
hung  the  Tory,  Snowden,  married,  and  'he  had  and  raised  four 
sons,  William,  Tristram,  John  and  Cade — the  latter,  no  doubt, 
is  remembered  by  many  now  living  in  upper  Marion  and  else- 
where in  the  county.  Goodman  Bethea  married  and  had  two 
sons,  Philip  and  Jessie.  Philip,  the  brother  of  Goodman,  never 
married,  or  if  he  did,  he  had  no  children.  Jessie,  the  fourth 
son  of  old  "Sweat  Swamp  William,"  had  Hugh  Goodman,  Wil- 
liam, Henry  and  Tristram.  'According  to  the  Bethea  chart 
none  of  these  latter  five  had  any  posterity.  Supposed  they 
emigrated  to  parts  unknown  or  died  in  youth.  William,  the 
grand-son  of  "Sweat  Swamp  William,"  had  seven  sons,  John, 
Tristram,  Philip,  Jessie,  William,  Thomas  C.  and  Cade.  Of 
these  latter,  John,  William,  Thomas  C.  and  Cade  had  no  off- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  415 

Spring.  Cade  is  in  upper  Marion  now  an  old  man.*  Of  the 
Other  three,  Tristram  had  one  son,  named  William ;  Philip  had 
four  sons,  Jessie,  William,  Tristram  and  Philip*— these  last  four 
seem  to  have  had  no  offspring.  Jessie,  the  great-grand-son  of 
old  "Sweat  Swamp  William,"  had  five  sons,  John,  William, 
Charles,  ^Farquehard  and  Holden ;  their  mother  was  a  Miss 
Bethune;  she  had  some  daughters,  one  the  wife  (now  dead)  of 
Patrick  Finagan.  By  the  Bethea  chart  now  lying  before  me, 
none  of  these  five  latter  Betheas  have  any  ofiEspring,  but  the 
writer  knows  to  the  contrary.  John  has  twelve  or  thirteen 
children,  'boys  and  girls.  Holden  married  Miss  Alice  Rogers, 
daughter  of  Jessie  Rogers,  and  has  some  children.  The  Be- 
thune  wife  of  Jessie  Bethea  had  a  daughter  other  than  Mrs. 
Finagan,  w'ho  was  the  wife  of  the  late  Edward  C.  Shrewsberry. 
Tristram,  the  grand-son  of  old  "Sweat  Swamp  William,"  mar- 
ried and  had  one  son,  Philip,  who  was  a  lawyer,  but  did  not 
practice  much  'here,  and  soon  went  to  Alabama,  and  his  father 
soon  after  moved  himself  there ;  father  and  son  have  been  lost 
sight  of — suppose  both  are  long  since  dead.  John,  another 
grand-son  of  "Sweat  Swamp  William,"  married  MiSs  Hannah 
Walker ;  by  the  marriage  four  sons,  William  W.,  Alfred  W., 
David  W.  and  John  B.,  were  had  and  raised,  and  five  daugh- 
ters, Sophia,  Mary  Ann,  Charlotte,  Sallie  and  Hannah.  Of 
the  soils,  William  W.  married,  first,  Mary  Bethea,  a  grand- 
daughter of  "Buck  Swamp  John;"  they  had  three  sons,  John 
F.,  Dallas  and  William ;  don't  know  of  any  daughters  by  Wil- 
liam W.'s  first  marriage ;  he  married,  a  second  time.  Miss  Mary 
Piatt,  a  daughter  of  old  Daniel  Piatt;  by  his  (Piatt's)  second 
marriage  with  Polly  Lane,  a  daughter  of  old  James  C.  Lane, 
who  was  a  son  of  old  Osborne  Lane,  I  know  of  but  two  chil- 
dren; by  William  W.  Bethea's  second  marriage,  two  daugh- 
ters— Hettie,  the  wife  of  John  C.  Bethea,  of  Dillon,  who  has 
already  been  mentioned;  the  other  daughter  married  a  Mr. 
Floyd,  a  son  of  Judge  Floyd,  of  Alabama  or  Mississippi.  J. 
F.  Bethea  (our  Dr.  Frank  Bethea)  married  his  first  cousin, 
Hannah  Jane,  daughter  and  only  child  of  Dr.  Alfred  W.  Be- 
thea ;  by  this  marriage  eight  sons,  Alfred,  Preston  L.,  Tristram, 
William,  Frank,  Charles,  Archie  and  Victor,  and,  I  think,  three 
*Died  recently. 


416  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

daughters,  Flora  and  two  others  whose  names  are  not  known, 
have  been  born.  Alfred  (I  think)  died  about  the  time  of  his 
majority.  Preston  L.  married  a  Miss  Weatherby,  daughter  of 
Colon  W.  Weatherby,  of  Bennettsville,  and  resides  at  Dillon. 
Tristram  married  a  Miss  McRae,  daughter  of  Hon.  James 
M'cRae,  of  Albriton,  in  extreme  upper  Marion;  he  resides  at 
Dillon.  Frank  married  a  Miss  Smith,  of  Alabama  or  Georgia, 
and  is  now  a  resident  of  one  of  those  States.  William  recently 
married  a  Miss  McLeod,  of  Robeson  County,  N.  C.  The  other 
three  sons  are  yet  with  their  father.  Dr.  Frank,  I  suppose,  not 
grown.  Of  the  daughters  of  Dr.  J.  F.  Bethea,  the  eldest.  Flora, 
married  Tristram  Thompson;  she  was  a  most  excellent  lady, 
loved  and  respected  by  all  who  knew  her.  The  Doctor's  two 
other  daughters  are  minors  and  still  with  him.  Dr.  J.  F.  Be- 
thea is  a  successful  man  every  way ;  as  a  farmer,  he  is  a  man  of 
affairs,  a  turpentine  and  saw  mill  man,  is  merchandizing  at  Dil- 
lon, he  and  his  sons  (don't  know  how  many  or  which),  under 
the  firm  name  of  J.  F.  Bethea  &  Co. ;  he  has  once  represented 
the  county  in  the  State  Ivegislature.  Dallas  Bethea,  brother  of 
Dr.  J.  F.  Bethea,  is  in  Mississippi ;  he  has  three  sons,  William, 
Preston  and  Franklin.  Alfred  W.,  another  great^grand-'son  of 
"Sweat  Swamp  William,"  married  Flora  Bethea,  a  daughter  of 
Tristram  Bethea,  of  Floral  College,  who  was  one  of  the  "Cape 
Fear  set,"  and  by  her  had  only  one  child,  a  daughter,  Hannah 
Jane,  who  married  Dr.  J.  F.  Bethea,  with  the  results  above 
stated.  Dr.  Alfred  W.  Bethea  was  no  ordinary  man ;  he  was 
eminent  as  a  physician,  a  good  farmer,  a  well-informed  man 
and  of  sound  practical  sense  and  judgment ;  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Secession  Convention  of  i860;  he  was  waylaid,  shot  and 
killed  by  the  deserters  in  the  last  months  of  the  war,  much  re- 
gretted by  all  who  knew  him ;  he  lived  where  Dr.  J.  F.  Bethea 
now  lives ;  the  widow,  who  survived  him,  is  now  dead.  David 
W.  Bethea,  another  great-grand-son  of  "Sweat  Swamp  Wil- 
liam," married,  first,  Miss  Sarah  Jane  Manning,  daughter  of 
Mealy  Manning,  of  Marlborough ;  by  her  he  had  two  sons,  Le- 
Roy  and  David  W.,  they  are  both  married.  LeRoy  has  two 
sons,  Henry  and  Leon — ^these  have  already  been  mentioned  in 
or  among  the  Mannings  and  Easteriings,  to  which  reference  is 
made.     David  W.,  Jr.,  has  lately  married,  I  think,  a  Miss 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  417 

Townsend,  of  North  Carolina;  gives  promise  of  becoming  a 
useful  man — is  already  so;  if  like  'his  mother  he  cannot  be 
otherwise,  as  she  was  one  of  the  best  of  women.  D.  W.  Be- 
thea,  St.,  represented  the  county  one  time  in  the  Legislature, 
1 860- 1 862 ;  he  was  a  good  citizen ;  he  married,  a  second  time,  a 
Miss  Brunson,  of  Darlington,  who  yet  survives ;  no  offspring. 
John  B.  Bethea  (the  youngest),  another  great-grand-son  of 
"Sweat  Swamp  William,"  married  Elizabeth  A.  Bethea,  a 
daughter  of  Captain  Elisha  C,  of  the  "Buck  Swamp  set ;"  they 
had  four  sons,  as  already  mentioned  among  the  "Buck  Swamp 
set,"  to  which  reference  is  made.  Of  the  daughters  of  John 
Bethea,  the  grand-son  of  "Sweat  Swamp  William,"  as  given 
herein  above,  Sophia,  the  eldest,  married  Robert  B.  Piatt,  and 
in  a  few  weeks  or  months  after  her  marriage  she  was  accideh- 
tally  burned  to  death,  and,  of  course,  died  childless.  Mary 
Ann,  the  second  daughter,  married  Levi  Bethea,  of  the  "Buck 
Swamp  set,"  and  has  already  been  herein  noticed  in  the  "Buck 
Swamp  set,"  to  which  reference  is  made.  Charlotte  and  Sallie, 
the  third  and  fourth  daughters,  both  married  the  same  even- 
ing— Charlotte  to  Zack  Fulmore  and  Sallie  to  Dr.  John  K. 
Alford,  'both  of  North  Carolina,  where  they  thereafter  lived 
and  died ;  know  but  little  of  the  family  of  either.  Hannah,  the 
fifth  and  youngest  daughter,  married  Alexander  Fulmore,  of 
North  Carolina;  they  moved  to  Alalbama;  know  nothing  of 
them.  Cade  Bethea,  the  youi^est  grand-son  of  old  "William 
of  Sweat  Swamp,"  through  his  son,  John,  married  Kittie  Be- 
thea, a  sister  of  "Floral  College  Tristram,"  and  a  great-grand- 
daughter of  Tristram,  the  son  of  "English  John,"  who  settled 
on  Cape  Fear  River,  N.  C. — ^her  father  being  Jessee  and  her 
grand-father  was  Jessee,  whose  father  was  Tristram,  the  settler 
on  Cape  Fear,  whose  father  was  old  "English  John."  This  I 
get  from  the  chart  now  lying  before  me.  Cade  Bethea'  and 
Kittie  had  and  raised  five  sons  and  three  daughters;  the  sons 
were  John  W.,  Evander  R.,  William  C,  Calvin  and  Henry ;  the 
daughters  were  Caroline,  Harriet  and  Mary  Ann.  Cade  Be- 
thea settled  on  Sweat  Swamp,  north  side,  just  opposite  the 
mouth  of  Beaver  Dam,  on  the  south  side,  where  he  lived  and 
died ;  I  think  the  place  now  belongs  to  Hon.  D.  W.  McLaurin. 
There  was  but  one  Cade  Bethea  in  regard  to  character ;  he  was 


418  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

an  incessant  talker,  and  in  his  latter  days  was  always  on  fh-e  go, 
around  among  his  kinsfolk  and  friends ;  was  a  great  complainer 
and  murmurer,  and  to  hear  him  tell  it,  he  was  going  to  come  to 
nothing — going  to  perish  to  death.  An  illustration  of  his  char- 
acter in  this  regard  may  be  here  related :  On  one  occasion,  his 
nephew,  Creek  Jessie  Bethea,  went  to  see  his  Uncle  Cade,  in  the 
month  of  July  or  August ;  the  old  gentleman  was  in  his  piazza 
— it  was  a  very  hot  day ;  the  old  man  was  compilaining  and  mur- 
muring as  usual,  that  his  crop  was  a  complete  failure,  that  he 
was  not  going  to  make  anything,  and  he  and  his  family  would 
all  perish  in  a  pile.  After  a  while,  Jessie,  his  nephew,  proposed 
that  they  would  go  out  and  look  around  his  crop ;  the  old  man 
did  not  want  to  go ;  said  he  did  not  want  to  see  it — it  made  him 
sick  to  look  at  it ;  they,  however,  went,  and  after  looking  around 
and  seeing  it  all,  Jessie  remarked  to  him,  "Well,  Uncle  Cade, 
your  crop  is  ruined — you  won't  make  anything.  I  thought  my 
crop  was  hurt  pretty  'badly,  but  not  near  as  bad  as  yours ;  I  de- 
clare you  will  not  make  bread  and  you  will  have  to  go  to  the 
poor  house."  The  old  man  Cade  replied,  "You  are  a  liar,  sir ; 
my  crop  is  as  good  as  yours,  and  I  am  not  going  to  the  poor 
house  either."  This  is  not  all  that  was  said,  but  is  the  pith  of 
it,  and  -shows  pretty  clearly  what  the  old  man  was  in  this  re- 
spect. Jessie  knew  him,  and  said  what  he  did  just  to  bring  the 
old  man  out,  and  to  hush  up  his  compilaints.  John  W.  Bethea, 
the  eldest  son  of  old  man  Cade,  married  a  Miss  McLaurin ;  they 
had  and  raised  four  sons,  Jessie,  Laurin,  Festus  and  Alonzo, 
and  one  daughter,  at  least,  who  became  the  second  wife  of 
Robert  A.  Brunson;  they  moved  to  North  Carolina.  Jessee, 
the  oldest  son  of  John  W.,  married  an  Alabama  lady ;  he  died 
four  or  five  years  ago,  at  Dillon,  and  left  his  widow,  two  sons, 
Jessie  and  Jdhn,  and  two  small  daughters,  Bessie  and  Lucile. 
John  W.  Bethea  and  wife  are  both  dead.  Evander  R.  Bethea, 
the  second  son  of  old  Cade,  married  Mary  Ann  Stackhouse, 
and  had  one  son,  Jasper,  and  three  daughters,  Josephine,  Carrie 
and  Nannie,  all  of  whom  have  already  been  noticed  in  or  among 
the  Stackhouse  family.  Laurin  Bethea,  the  second  son  of  John 
W.  Bethea,  married  a  Miss  McLaurin,  as  I  think;  he  is  a 
farmer,  and  lives  on  Buck  Swamp ;  know  nothing  of  his  fajmily. 
"Fet"  Bethea,  the  third  son,  married  a  Miss  Stackhouse,  daugh- 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  4iy 

ter  of  the  late  Mastin  C.  Stackhouse;  he  died,  leaving  his 
widow  with  some  children — the  youngest  of  whom,  a  little  girl, 
was  taken  by  Rev.  S:  J.  Bethea  and  wife,  and  tlhey  are  raising 
it.  Alonzo  Bethea,  the  youngest  son  of  John  W.  Bethea,  is 
lost  sight  of;  don't  know  whether  he  is  living  or  dead,  or 
whether  he  married  or  not — ^think,  however,  that  he  has  emi- 
grated to  other  parts,  or  is  dead.  Wm.  C.  Bethea,  t!he  third  son 
of  old  man  Cade  Bethea,  married  Miss  Virzilla  Mace,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Moses  and  Drusilla  Mace ;  they  had  two  sons,  Henry  and 
John  D.,  I  think;  they  and  their  children  have  already  been 
mentioned  in  or  among  the  Mace  family,  to  which  reference  is 
made.  Calvin  C.  Bethea,  the  fourth  son  of  old  man  Cade,  mar- 
ried Miss  Caroline  Bethea,  a  daughter  of  "Creek  Jessie ;"  they 
had  one  child,  a  son,  named  Jessie ;  the  father,  Calvin,  was  sub- 
ject to  epileptic  fits,  and  on  one  occasion,  while  crossing  a 
branch  on  Sweat  Swamp,  as  supposed,  an  epileptic  fit  struck 
him  and  he  fell  in  the  water  and  was  drowned ;  some  years  after 
his  death,  his  widow,  with  her  son,  went  to  Texas ;  the  son  is 
grown,  and  the  report  is  that  they  are  doing  well  in  that  far  off 
State.  Henry,  the  fifth  and  youngest  son  of  old  man  Cade 
Bethea,  never  married ;  he  was  killed  or  died  in  the  war.  Of 
the  daug'hters  of  old  Cade  Bethea,  the  eldest,  Caroline,  a  highly 
accomplished  lady,  as  it  was  said,  married  James  DuPre,  of 
Marlborough  County ;  she  died  childless,  in  aibout  a  year  after 
her  marriage.  Harriet,  the  second  daughter,  married  James 
McLaurin,  of  North  Carolina;  a  few  years  back,  they  bought 
land  on  Buck  Swamp  and  moved  to  it;  think  they  are  both 
dead — know  nothing  of  their  family.  Mary  Ann,  the  young- 
est daughter,  married  T.  F.  Stackhouse,  and  is  dead,  leaving 
him  surviving ;  they  'have  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the 
Stackhouse  family,  to  which  reference  is  made.  Not  one  of 
old  man  Cade  Betfhea's  immediate  family  now  survives. 

Of  the  "Cape  Fear  set,"  Tristram,  a  son  of  dd  "English 
John,"  settled  on  Cape  Fear  River,  N.  C. ;  he  had  sons,  James, 
Jessee,  Elisha  and  William.  Of  these,  Jessee,  had  Jessee,  Sim- 
eon, David  and  Jessee  (it  seems  two  sons  were  named  Jessee)  ; 
Simeon  had  Reddick,  Jessee,  William  and  Philip;  and  Jessee, 
the  elder,  had  Thomas,  Tristram  and  John — this  Tristram  was 
the  "Floral  College"  Tristram ;  and  Jessee,  the  younger,  had 


420  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

John,  Tristram,  David  and  Jessee ;  and  this  latter  Tristram  had 
Jessee  and  Noah.  William,  the  son  of  old  Tristram,  the  "Cape 
Fear"  settler,  had  John  and  William.  Of  these  latter,  John 
had  William,  John  L.,  Jessee,  David  and  Alexander ;  and  Wil- 
liam had  David,  John  and  Philip.  The  "Floral  College"  Tris- 
tram had  Jessee,  Daniel,  Tristram,  John  and  Thomas.  Of  these 
latter,  all  of  them  died  without  oflfspring.  The  eldest  of  these, 
Jessee,  was  well  known  in  Marion ;  he  was  a  graduate  of  the 
South  Carolina  College ;  studied  law,  settled  in  Marion  to  prac- 
tice his  profession,  was  a  partner  of  the  writer,  as  Sellers  & 
Bethea,  for  several  years ;  left  Marion,  abandoned  the  practice, 
never  married,  and  died ;  he  was  a  good  lawyer,  but  too  modest 
and  diffident  to  enter  into  the  "rough  and  tumble"  of  the  Court 
House — he  was  a  good  office  lawyer ;  after  leaving  Marion,  he 
went  to  Marlborough  and  died  there.  This  disposes  of  the 
"Cape  Fear  set"  of  Betheas — at  least,  as  far  as  known. 

Referring,  again,  to  the  "Sweat  Swamp"  set — old  William 
had  four  sons,  John,  Goodman,  Philip  and  Jessee — I  think,  all 
these  have  been  noticed  except,  perhaps,  Goodman.  Goodman 
had  two  sons,  Philip  and  Jessee,  and  the  latter,  Philip,  bad 
Goodman,  William  and  Philip.  Of  the  grand-daughters  of 
"Sweat  Swamp"  William,  Elizabeth  married  Jeremiah  Walters, 
and  raised  a  large  family.  Sarah  married  Timothy  Rogers,  a 
nephew  of  "Buck  Swamp"  John,  and  raised  a  large  family. 
Pattie  married  John  Braddy,  and  was  the  mcrther  of  the 
Braddys  and  their  descendants,  as  have  been  and  are  now 
known  in  the  county. 

The  writer  may  have  inadvertently  omitted  some  of  this 
numerous  and  extensive  family  as  laid  down  on  the  chart  kindly, 
furnished  him,  but  do  not  think  I  have.  From  the  original 
stock,  "Old  English  John,"  it  runs  down  to  and  includes  the 
seventh  and  in  one  instance  the  eighth  generation  among  the 
males  bearing  the  name,  and  it  is  not  improbable  that  among 
the  females  (if  they  had  been  given  and  traced),  it  would  ex- 
tend to  and  include  the  ninth  and  tenth  generations,  as  it  is  a 
well  known  fact,  that  females  generally  marry  younger  than 
males,  and  consequently  propagate  faster  than  through  the 
male  line.  If  every  family  had  a  chart  or  tree  like  this,  it 
would  be  an  acquisition  to  the  history  of  our  people.     It  is  a 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  421 

fact,  that  many  of  our  people  are  shamefully  ignorant  as  to 
their  ancestry.  It  is  a  fact,  that  the  writer  has  found  in  his 
inquiries  on  tihe  subject  among  the  people  of  Marion  County,  a 
few  instances  where  the  party  inquired  of  did  not  know,  and 
could  not  tell,  who  his  grand-father  was,  and  to  his  great  sur- 
prise he  has  found  it  of  men  otherwise  intelligent,  and  well 
posted  in  other  matters.  A  chart,  like  that  of  the  Betheas,  in 
every  family  would  forever  dissipate  such  ignorance,  and 
would  enahle  every  man  to  tell,  at  a  word,  whether  he  descended 
by  natural  and  generic  processes  from  his  own  species,  or 
evoluted  from  a  tadpole  or  a  monkey.  The  Bethea  chart  is  so 
cons^tructed  as  to  be  indefinitely  extended  ad  infinitum  to  the 
remotest  generations. 

McMillan. — The  McMillan  families  will  now  be  noticed. 
First,  the  family  in  the  Mullins  region.  The  first  known  were 
John,  Malcolm  and  Neill  V.  MacMillan,  three  brothers.  Neill 
V.  lives  in  the  Mullins  region,  and  has  a  family  of  sons  and 
daughters.  One  of  his  daughters  married,  last  week,  to  Mack 
Harrelson,  of  Buck  Swamp.  Neill  V.  McMillan  is  a  farmer,  a 
law-abiding  man,  and  a  quiet,  inoffensive  citizen;  don't  know 
to  whom  he  married  or  how  many  children  he  has.  Malcolm 
McMillan  married  a  Miss  Williamson,  daughter  of  John  Wil- 
liamson; by  this  marriage  were  born  and  raised  three  sons, 
John,  Neill  and  Malcolm.  Of  these,  John  married  Mary  Wil- 
liamson, of  Marion  County.  Neill  married  Rebecca  Brown,  of 
Clarendon  County.  And  Malcolm  married  Elizabeth  William- 
son, of  Marion  County ;  by  this  marriage  were  born  and  raised 
three  daughters  and  four  sons.  Of  the  daughters,  Sarah,  the 
eldest,  married  J.  Robert  Reaves ;  Mary  married  J.  F.  Gasque, 
and  Alice  married  Pendleton  G.  Ayres — these  all  have  families, 
greater  or  small,  some  of  whom  are  now  among  our  present 
promising  young  men  and  women,  and  are  of  energetic  and 
progressive  parents.  Of  the  sons,  John  married  Miss  Sarah 
Mclntyre,  daughter  of  John  B.  Mclntyrc,  and  grand-daughter 
of  old  Dougald  Mclntyre,  who  has  already  been  noticed  herein ; 
they  have  several  children,  some  grown  and  married — one 
daughter,  any  way,  married  to  Mayrant  A.  Falk.  Neill  mar- 
ried Eunice  Davis,  of  West  Marion,  now  Florence  County ;  and 


422  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Malcolm,  Jr.,  married  Miss  Keith,  and  has  a  family.  The  early- 
progenitors  of  these  McMillans  were  a  family  of  McMillans 
and  Pattersons,  who  emigrated  from  Scotland  before  the  Revo- 
lutionary War,  and  settled  near  Philadelphus  Church,  or  where 
Philadelphus  Church  now  is,  in  Robeson  County,  N.  C.  Of 
the  sons  of  old  McMillan,  Hector  married  Barbara  Patterson, 
and  Malcolm  married  Flora  Patterson,  both  settled  near  their 
parents.  There  were  several  daughters.  One  married  a 
McNeill ;  one  married  a  Crawford ;  one  married  John  McMil- 
lan (I  suppose,  a  brother  of  Hector  and  Malcolm)  ;  another 
married  a  Mr.  Blue ;  and  another  married  a  Mr.  Buchanan — 
some  of  these  children  were  born  in  Scotland  and  some  in 
America.  Malcolm,  the  progenitor  of  the  family  about  Mul- 
lins,  was  bom  in  Scotland,  and  was  three  years  old  when  the 
family  emigrated  to  America,  and  lived  to  be  ninety  years  of 
age  when  he  died.  This  old  Malcolm,  as  already  stated>  mar- 
ried Flora  Patterson,  and  to  them  were  born  four  sons  and  four 
daughters ;  the  naijjes  of  the  sons  were  Neill,  Daniel,  John  and 
Malcolm.  Neill  was  a  school-teacher,  and  married  Sarah 
Wilson,  of  Horry.  Daniel,  John  and  Malcolm  emigrated 
West.  The  daughters  were  Jane,  Mary,  Margaret  and  Flora. 
Don't  know  who  Jane  married;  Mary  married  Alfred  Biggs; 
Margaret  married  Archie  Smith;  Flora  married  Hugh  Lam- 
mond — the  latter  went  to  Georgia  or  Alabama.  Neill  McMil- 
lan, as  before  stated,  married  Sarah  Wilson,  daughter  of  Sam- 
uel Wilson,  of  Horry  County,  and  were  the  grand-father  and 
mother  of  Malcolm,  Neill  and  John,  now  prosperous  citizens 
of  the  Mullins  community.  There  is  a  numerous  connection 
of  them  in  this  county  and  Horry,  and  Robeson  County,  N.  C, 
and  many,  doubtless,  in  the  West. 

Another  family  of  MacMillans  are  at  Marion  Court  House. 
The  first  known  of  this  family  was  old  John  McMillan,  a  sturdy 
Scotchman,  born,  as  I  think,  in  this  country,  but  his  ancestry 
not  very  remote  came  from  Scotland.  Old  John  married  a  Miss 
Avant,  of  a  Marion  family,  and  came  and  settled  in  Marion  in 
the  latter  thirties  or  early  forties ;  he  was  Postmaster  for  some 
years  and  ran  a  drug  business.  In  those  early  times  the  drug 
business  was  not  what  it  is  now — one  or  two  stick  baskets  would 
have  held  his  stock,  and  his  was  as  large  ais  most  of  the  stocks 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  'IZQ 

of  the  kind  then  kept  in  the  country  towns  of  the  State.  He 
had  and  raised  to  be  grown  two  sons,  Sydney  E.  and  WiUiam 
Cicero,  and  three  daughters,  Sarah  and  Elizabeth. 

Of  the  sons,  Sydney  E.  married,  first,  a  Miss  Palmer,  a  daugh- 
ter of  the  then  late  Hon.  David  Palmer ;  by  this  marrigge,  one 
son,  John  C.  McMillan,  was  bom,  when  the  mother  died;  the 
child,  now  Dr.  J.  C.  McMillan,  was  taken  and  raised  by  his 
grand-parents,  the  McMillans.  Sydney  E.  McMillan,  the 
father,  married,  a  second  time,  a  Miss  Sherwood,  of  Wilming- 
ton, N.  C,  a  most  excellent  lady ;  the  fruits  of  this  second  mar- 
riage are  several  sons  and  daughters,  names  of  all  not  remem- 
bered. A  son,  S.  A.  McMillan,  called  "Lex,"  is  one  of  the 
leading  merchants  at  Latta ;  he  married  Miss  Sue  Rogers,  the 
eldest  daughter  of  Hon.  Lot  B.  Rogers ;  they  have  two  children. 
Another  son,  whose  name  is  Frank,  married  a  Miss  Smith, 
daughter  of  Hon.  J.  W.  Smith,  at  Latta.  The  eldest  daughter 
of  Major  S.  E.  McMillan,  Mary,  married  to  W.  M.  Monroe, 
one  of  the  most  successful  merchants  now  at  Marion;  they 
have  six  or  seven  children,  all  boys.  Major  S.  E.  McMillan 
has  several  other  sons  (one  Robert)  and  daughters.  'Some  of 
them  grown  and  some  not ;  those  grown  are  unmarried,  names 
not  remembered — ^the  grown  children,  especially  the  girls,  are 
nice  and  worthy;  they  cannot  well  be  otherwise,  after  being 
raised  and  trained  by  such  a  mother  as  theirs.  Major  S.  E. 
McMillan  was  Major  of  the  militia  before  the  war,  and  com- 
manded a  company  in  the  loth  South  Carolina  Regiment,  as 
Captain.  It  is  needless  to  say  to  those  who  know  him,  that 
there  is  but  one  S.  E.  McMillan  in  this  section  of  the  country. 
W.  C.  McMillan,  the  second  son  of  old  man  John,  married 
twice;  first,  a  Miss  Cameron,  daughter  of  the  late  Hector 
Cameron,  of  West  Marion ;  by  her  he  had  one  child ;  the  mother 
and  diild  both  died.  After  a  time,  W.  C.  McMillan  married 
Miss  Mattie  Porter,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  A.  Porter,  of  the 
South  Carolina  Conference;  by  this  marriage  they  had  and 
raised  ten  children,  five  sons  and  five  daughters ;  the  sons  are 
William  C,  John  P.,  Sydney,  Walter  and  Edwin ;  the  daughters 
are  Emma,  Sue,  Belle,  Louise  and  Mary.  Of  the  latter,  the 
eldest,  Emma,  who  was  a  charming  young  lady,  sickened  and 
died  in  blooming  young  womanhood.  The  next  daughter, 
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424  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Sue,  married  Samuel  A.  Blackwell,  a  young  merchant  of 
Marion ;  they  have  one  or  two  children.  The  other  three  girls 
are  unmarried — two  of  them  not  grown.  Of  the  sons  of  W.  C. 
McMillan,  the  eldest,  W.  C.  McMillan,  Jr.,  married  Miss  Sallie 
Bethea,*  daughter  of  Edwin  A.  Bethea,  now  of  Latta;  W.  C. 
McMillan,  Jr.,  is  and  has  been  in  Columbia  for  several  years, 
in  the  drug  business,  and  is  said  to  be  doing  well ;  he  is  well 
qualified  by  training  and  education  for  that  business ;  he  grad- 
uated in  a  college  of  pharmacy  in  Philadelphia,  some  years  ago, 
and  was  the  only  graduate  of  such  a  school  in  the  county  whilst 
he  was  here ;  they  have  two  children.  John  P.,  Sydney  and  the 
other  sons  of  W.  C.  McMillan,  Sr.,  are  all  unmarried,  and 
remain  with  their  mother  or  are  off  in  some  business — ^they 
may  be  said  to  be  "hustlers."  The  father,  W.  C.  McMillan, 
Sr.,  died  some  years  ago ;  he  was  a  successful  man  in  business, 
looked  closely  after  his  affairs,  and  left  a  good  estate  unen- 
cumbered; he  ran  for  years  a  successful  drug  business, 
together  with  a  farm.  Recurring  again  to  Major  S.  E.  Mc- 
Millan's family :  The  son  by  his  Palmer  wife,  John  C,  grew 
up  and  was  mainly  educated  by  his  uncle,  W.  C.  McMillan,  Sr. ; 
he  studied  medicine  and  graduated  in  a  medical  college  some 
years  ago,  and  settled  down  in  his  native  town  to  the  practice 
of  his  chosen  profession,  in  which  he  succeeds  well ;  he  married 
Miss  Mattie  Robson,  daughter  of  Major  Robson,  of  Charles- 
ton, a  most  estimable  lady — ^think  they  have  two  children,  a 
son  and  a  daughter.  Of  the  daughters  of  old  John  McMillan, 
the  eldest  married  James  Potter,  of  Georgetown,  who  died  a 
few  months  back,  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-seven  years ; 
by  the  Potter  marriage  three  children  were  born  and  raised. 
The  eldest,  Eugenia,  is  now  the  wife  of  J.  T.  DuBois,  of 
Marion,  who  have  several  daughters,  M.  Sue,  Kate,  Sallie, 
Etta,  Meta  and  Hattie.  Of  these,  M.  Sue  is  the  wife  of  P.  B. 
Sellers,  Esq.,  at  Dillon.  Kate  married  C.  S.  Herring,  of  Dil- 
lon, a  young  business  man;  they  have  two  sons  (small),  John 
and  Charles.  J.  T.  DuBois  and  wife  have  only  one  son,  Wil- 
liam J.,  who  is  at  Laurinburg,  N.  C,  in  the  bakery  business. 
The  other  daughters  of  DuBois  are  unmarried.  The  other 
daughter  of  the  Potter  marriage  married  Willie  Sheckelford, 
who  is  dead;  they  had  several  children;  the  widow  and  child- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  425 

vhen  last  heard  of  were  in  Horry  or  at  McCoU.  Evander 
iT,  the  only  son  of  the  Potter  marriage,  married  a  Miss 
ling ;  they  have  three  or  four  children ;  the  father  died  at 
ion  a  few  months  ago;  children  small.  The  second 
;hter  of  old  John  McMillan,  Sarah,  never  married.    Eliza- 

the  third  and  youngest  "daughter,  married  Robert  Gregg, 
/^est  Marion;  they  had  and  raised  one  son,  W.  C.  Gregg, 

is  now  in  the  machine  shops  of  Emerson  McDuffie  at 
ion,  and  it  is  said  is  a  fine  machinist  or  workman;  he  is 
■ied,  and  lives  with  his  mother  in  Marion;  they  have  no 
Iren. 

iLi^ER. — The  Miller  family,  in  North  Marion,  were  for- 
y  a  large  and  noted  family.  Old  man  William  Miller, 
se  wife  was  a  Herring,  was  a  stout,  athletic  man,  and  noted 
his  great  strength  and  physical  power.  They  had  and 
d  several  sons,  John,  William,  Jessee,  Edmund,  George 
Hezekiah,  all  of  powerful  physique,  and  one  daughter,  I 
7 — there  may  have  been  other  daughters.  The  writer 
/  the  parties  named  well  in  his  youth,  but  for  the  last  fifty 
3  has  known  but  little  of  them,  and  tlhe  subsequent  genera- 
1  of  the  family  are  not  known  to  him.  The  one  best  and 
est  known  was  the  second  son  of  old  William,  named 
iam,  called  "Gunger  Bill  Miller;"  he  was  an  excellent 
;n,  attended  to  his  own  business,  farming,  kept  out  of  debt, 
made  a  comfortable  living ;  he  lived  on  the  North  Carolina 
;  line,  close  to  a  large  white  pond,  suppose  three  or  four 
5  in  circumference,  and  caflled  "No  Man's  Friend;"  he 
■ied,  first,  a  Miss  Abbott,  and  by  her  had  three  children, 
sons,  John  and  Henry,  and  a  daughter,  Mary ;  don't  know 
:  became  of  Mary.  John  had  epileptic  fits,  and  died  of 
I  when  a  young  man  grown.  Henry,  now  one  of  the  good 
;ns  in  that  part  of  the  county,  grew  up  and  married  a  Miss 
d,  and  has  several  children,  sons  and  daughters ;  he  has  a 
William,  who  married  a  Miss  Townsend.  "Gunger  Bill 
;r"  lost  his  Abbott  wife,  and  married,  a  second  time,  the 
w  of  Isham  Philips,  and  by  her  had  two  sons,  David  and 
;rt,  'both  grown,  yet  single,  and  live  on  their  father's  home- 
I,  industrious  and  steady  young  men,  and  bid  fair  to  emu- 


426  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

late  their  father  in  good  citizenship.  Jessee  Miller,  the  third 
son,  was  a  good  citizen,  but  do  not  know  to  whom  he  married ; 
he  raised  a  family  of  sons  and  daughters;  know  nothing  of 
them,  except  that  one  of  (his  daughters  married  Duncan  Gaddy, 
near  Caddy's  Mills.  Edmund  Miller,  the  fourth  son  of  old 
William,  married  a  Miss  Gilchrist,  as  I  remember  it,  and  had 
but  two  daughters,  one  named  Diana,  the  name  of  the  other 
forgotten.  George  Miller,  the  fifth  son,  married  a  Miss  Snow, 
and  had  three  sons,  George,  Hezekiah  and  Allen;  had  two 
daughters — one  married  David  Rowell,  the  other  daughter  still 
single.  Hezekiah  married  and  has  one  son,  Edward,  and  one 
daughter.  Edward  married  a  Miss  Barnes;  the  daughter  is 
single.  Allen  Miller  married  Miss  Effa  Martin,  daughter  of 
Rev.  Norman  Martin,  and  raised  three  sons,  Robert  H.,  Wil- 
liam and  Alexander  Carson.  Robert  H.  married  a  Miss 
Thompson,  and  has  two  sons  and  five  daughters.  William 
married  a  Miss  Mack  Pipkin,  and  has  two  sons.  Alexander 
Carson  married  a  Miss  Bemna  Benton  McGirt  (a  relative  of 
the  writer's  children),  a  daughter  of  Joe  McGirt  and  wife; 
they  have  eight  children.  Hez^ekiah  Miller,  the  sixth  and 
youngest  son,  married  a  Miss  Hill ;  they  have  three  sons  living 
and  some  daughters.  It  is  said  this  latter  family  have  not 
turned  out  well.  These  older  Millers  were  raised  in  a  day 
when  the  muster^field  bully  was  the  most  noted  man  in  the 
community — talked  of  most,  was  honored  and  feared  more, 
much  more,  than  those  who  did  not  aspire  to  buUyship.  These 
Millers,  all  except  John  and  "Gunger  Bill,"  partook  more  or 
less  of  the  spirit  of  the  times,  and  were  ambitious  of  the  honors 
that  wreathed  the  brow  of  the  muster-field  bully.  These  were 
the  times  of  which  Judge  Longstreet  wrote  in  his  "Georgia 
Scenes,"  to  which  the  reader  is  referred,  if  he  desires  to  call  to 
mind  the  vivid  pictures  drawn  by  that  a:ble  author.  In  those 
times,  the  scenes  pictured  by  Judge  Longstreet  as  occurring  in 
Georgia  were  comon  everywhere,  and  especially  so  in  the 
South.  Those  scenes  were  drawn  by  a  master  in  the  art.  The 
writer  will  not  attem'pt  to  draw  one— they  are  much  easier  to  be 
imagined  than  to  be  described.  John  Miller  and  "Gunger 
Bill"  were  not  ambitious  for  such  honors — ^their  minds  and 
energies  ran  in  a  less  barbarous  and  more  civilized  and  praise- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  427 

worthy  channel.  Jessee  and  Edmund  were  the  bullies  of  the 
family;  George  and  Hezekiah  were  not  so  much  so.  Jessee 
and  Edmund  were  giants  in  size  and  strength;  George  and 
Hezekiah  were  of  medium  size  or  a  little  over  medium,  but 
were  very  agile.  About  1830  or  1831,  on  a  muster  day,  then 
at  Carmiohael's  Bridge,  on  Little  Pee  Dee,  the  Millers  and  the 
Barfields  and  perhaps  others  got  into  a  row  and  a  general  fight. 
In  the  melee,  Thompson  Barfield,  a  small  man,  weighing  not 
over  120  pounds,  but  active  as  a  cat  and  fierce  as  a  tiger,  cut 
Edmund  Miller  across  the  abdomen  a  gash  four  or  five  inches 
long,  and  also  one  of  his  intestines ;  his  intestines  came  out,  and 
he  caught  them  in  his  hands  and  walked  some  twenty-five  of 
thirty  yards  to  a  place  where  he  could  lie  down.  Dr.  Robert 
Harllee,  at  Marion  Court  House,  was  then  the  only  physician  in 
the  county  east  of  the  Great  Pee  Dee  River;  he  was  sent  for 
and  came ;  he  sewed  up  the  intestine  and  put  all  back  in  proper 
place,  and  then  sewed  up  the  outside  wound,  and  in  due  time 
Miller  got  well  and  strong  as  ever.  Such  occurrences  were 
common  in  that  day.  They  were  usually,  however,  only  fisti- 
cuffs—no  deadly  weapons,  and  I  suppose  the  knife  was  used 
on  this  occasion  because  of  the  great  disparity  in  size  of  the 
two  men.  'A  somewhat  similar  row  occurred  just  across  the 
State  line,  in  North  Carolina,  some  years  afterwards,  between 
the  Millers  and  Gaddys — which  was  the  foundation  of  the  suit 
between  the  Millers  and  W.  H.  Grice,  a  Magistrate  at  the  time, 
who  at  the  instance  of  old  James  Gaddy,  issued  a  warrant  for 
the  arrest  of  the  Millers,  and  under  which  they  were  arrested 
and  lodged  in  jail  in  Marion  and  kept  there  for  some  time-^the 
arrest  was  for  an  offence  committed  in  North  Carolina.  The 
suit  was  broug'ht  (I  believe,  two  of  them,)  to  recover  damages 
for  the  arrest  and  imprisonment.  The  case  or  cases  are  re- 
ported, I  believe,  in  2  Rich.  Law,  or  in  Strobhart's  Law,  i 
vol. — I  have  not  the  boojcs  before  me.  Those  old  Millers  are 
long  since  dead,  and  it  is  hoped  and  believed  the  younger  and 
present  generation  of  those  families  are  an  improvement  upon 
their  ancestors  in  this  regard.  John  and  "Gunger  Bill"  are 
excepted. 

SpEncbr. — This  family,  'bearing  the  name,  is  not  very  exten- 


428  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

sive,  'but  may  in  time  become  so.  John  F.  Spencer  (late) 
came  from  Greenville  District,  I  think,  in  1845,  then  an  old- 
young  man — at  least  thirty  years  of  age;  he  was  a  dancing 
master  and  a  most  excellent  violinist,  an  adept  in  the  art ;  he 
dressed  well  and  made  a  fine  appearance;  he  captivated  and 
married  a  Miss  Godbold,  then  only  thirteen  years  of  age,  a 
young  girl  going  to  school  in  Marion ;  she  was  the  daughter  of 
old  Stephen  Godbold,  in  Wahee;  the  marriage  created  some 
flutter  in  the  family,  as  also  in  the  community  at  the  time  (an 
elopement) ;  the  marriage  was,  however,  an  accomplished  fact, 
and  could  not  be  undone — the  status  quo  could  not  be  restored. 
Old  man  Stephen  Godbold  did  not  long  survive  the  marriage, 
and  his  lands,  where  she  now  lives,  with  a  number  of  negroes 
and  other  property,  fell  into  the  hands  of  his  daughter,  Mrs. 
Spencer.  As  the  law  then  stood,  the  whole  personal  property 
of  a  married  woman,  upon  her  marriage,  vested  in  the  husband, 
and  his  marital  rights  attached  as  soon  as  it  went  into  his  pos- 
session ;  in  this  case,  however,  his  wife  had  no  property  of  her 
own  at  the  time  of  the  marriage — it  was  only  in  prospect  upon 
her  father's  death ;  her  friends  invoked  the  power  of  the  Court 
of  Equity  for  her  protection,  and  had  the  whole  property  set- 
tled upon  her,  through  a  trustee,  appointed  by  the  Court,  and 
which  effectually  prevented  the  marital  rights  from  attaching. 
The  Court  of  Equity  was  ever  ready  to  exercise  its  jurisdiction 
in  this  regard,  for  the  protection  of  married  women  as  to  their 
property.  This  ancient  and  cherished  jurisdiction  of  the  Court 
is  not  now  necessary  to  be  invoked.  The  Constitutions,  both 
of  1868  and  1895,  emancipated  ma,rried  women  as  to  their 
property,  and  it  is  effectually  protected  and  cannot  be  taken 
for  her  husband's  debts,  although  by  him  contracted  for  the 
support  and  education  of  the  family,  except  by  her  consent.  J. 
F.  Spencer  and  wife  had  and  raised  eleven  children  to  be 
grown — ^five  sons  and  six  daughters ;;  the  sons  are  John,  Wil- 
liam, Thomas,  Henry  and  Nathan ;  of  the  daughters,  one  died 
unmarried,  when  about  grown ;  the  other  five  are  all  married — 
don't  know  to  whom,  except  one,  who  married"  a  Mr.  Sessoms ; 
it  is  said  they  are  all  doing  well.  The  sons  are  all  married, 
except  the  two  youngest,  Henry  and  Nathan,  very  promising 
young  men.    John,  the  eldest  son,  married  a  daughter  of  old 


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man  George  Turiaeville,  near  by,  and  has  a  considerable 
family — one  son,  named  John,  now  grown  and  unmarried; 
don't  know  who  the  other  two  sons,  William  and  Thomas 
Spencer,  married.  J.  F.  Spencer  became  and  was  a  good  citi- 
zen ;  (he  lived  to  a  great  age,  more  than  eighty  years  old  when 
he  died ;  for  the  last  several  years  of  his  life  he  was  paralyzed 
and  helpless  as  a  baiby ;  Mrs.  Spencer  survives,  and  is  and  has 
been  all  the  way  through  life  a  most  excellent  lady,  a  good 
mother  and  a  good  manager  of  her  affairs  and  of  her  family ; 
is  deserving  of  all  honor  and  great  credit  for  so  doing ;  she  was 
the  only  surviving  child  of  old  Stephen  Godbold,  by  his  last 
marriage.  An  elder  sister  of  her  was  unfortunately  killed  in  a 
runaway  on  the  road,  in  the  early  forties,  when  returning  in  a 
carriage  from  Carolina  Female  College,  in  Anson  County,  N. 
C,  to  her  home.  Dr.  William  H.  Godbold  was  driving  the 
carriage,  and  his  niece,  Miss  Desda  Gibson,  was  also  in  the 
carriage,  but  escaped  with  only  slight  bruises,  and  afterwards 
became  the  wife  of  C.  C.  Law,  of  Darlington. 

Wii,iviAMSON. — The  first  of  this  name  came  from  London, 
England,  some  time  before  the  Revolutionary  War.  His  name 
was  Joseph  Williamson,  was  a  merchant  either  in  or  near 
Georgetown,  and  married  the  Widow  Jordan — ^her  maiden 
name  was  Mary  Jenkins ;  to  them  were  born  two  sons,  Joseph 
and  John.  Joseph  died  when  young.  John  married  Martha 
Owens,  and  eight  children  were  born  to  them,  five  sons  and 
three  daughters ;  the  sons  were  Joseph,  John  and  William  D. ; 
the  other  sons  died  when  quite  young,  so  did  the  daughters, 
except  one,  Elizabeth  O.  Joseph  Williamson  married  Emma 
Wise,  the  daughter  of  Moses  Wise.  John  Williamson  married 
Frances  Philips.  William  D.  Williamson  married  Prudence 
Nance.  Elizabeth  O.  Williamson  married  Levi  Gerald,  the 
grand-son  of  Samuel  Gerald,  a  noted  Whig  in  the  time  of  the 
Revolutionary  War,  and  of  whom  it  is  said  the  Tories  sawed  his 
legs  to  the  bone  or  to  the  marrow,  to  make  him  tell  where  his 
money  was.  To  Joseph  Williamson  and  Emma  Wise  were 
born  ten  children,  seven  sons  and  three  daughters,  named  as 
follows :  Martha  A.,  John  J.,  Emma  J.,  Joseph  M.,  Solomon 
M.,  David  R.,  Robert  L.  and  Samuel  W. — the  other  two  having 


430  A  HISTORY  0?  MARION  COUNTY. 

died  young.  To  John  Williamson  and  Frances  Philips  were 
bom  eleven  children,  four  sons  and  seven  daughters,  named  as 
follows:  Martha  Ann,  Elizaibeth  S.,  Sarah  E.,  Leonora  $., 
Hanna  F.,  John  B.,  Bright  J.,  Mary,  Annie,  Annis  and  Joseph 
W.  To  Elizabeth  O.  Williamson  and  Levi  Gerald  were  born 
six  children,  four  girls  and  two  boys,  as  follows :  Martha  Ann, 
Kate  E.,  John  L.,  Samuel  W.,  Catharine  and  Sarah.  To  Wil- 
liam D.  Williamson  and  Prudence  Nance  were  'born  eight 
children — one  son,  Daniel  J.,  who  was  killed  in  the  war,  and 
seven  daughters :  Martha  A.  R.,  Sarah  Ann,  Susannah,  Eliza- 
beth Annie,  Prudence  Anne;  two  others  died  in  infancy. 
Martha  A.  Williamson,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Emma  Wise, 
married  Thomas  W.  Ayres.  John  J.  Williamson  married 
Mary  E.  Baker,  daughter  of  William  B.  Baker,  Sr.,  and  to 
them  were  bom  two  sons,  named  W.  Lawrence  and  John  J., 
Jr.  Emma  J.  Williamson  married  Allen  Grififin.  Joseph  M. 
Williamson  married  Elizabeth  Annie  Williamson,  his  cousin, 
and  to  them  were  born  three  sons  and  one  daughter,  named  as 
follows :  William  J.,  Gustavus  A.  and  Sydney  G. ;  the  daughter, 
Artimissia  M.  Solomon  M.  Williamson  married  Zilpha  Col- 
lins, daughter  of  John  J.  Collins,  and  to  them  were  born  two 
sons,  John  C.  and  Ferdinand  Williamson.  David  R.  William- 
son married  Jane  A.  Collins,  daughter  of  William  Collins,  and 
to  them  were  born  three  children,  one  son  and  two  daughters, 
named  as  follows :  Alice,  David  C.  and  Adra.  Robert  L.  and 
Samuel  W.  Williamson  were  killed  in  the  war  at  Fort  Fisher, 
N.  C. ;  Solomon  M.,  David  R.  and  Daniel  J.  Williamson  were 
also  killed  in  the  war.  Martha  Ann  Williamson,  daughter  of 
John  Williamson  and  Frances  Philips,  married  J.  H.  Thomp- 
son ;  they  had  no  children.  Elizaibeth  S.  Williamson  married 
Malcolm  McMillan,  as  already  stated  among  the  McMillan 
family.  Sarah  E.  Williamson  married  W.  A.  Brown,  of  the 
Sister  Bays.  Hannah  F.  Williamson  married  John  L-  Gerald. 
John  B.  Williamson  married  Martha  Coleman,  daughter  of 
James  Coleman ;  to  them  were  born  seven  children,  all  dead,  but 
one  daughter.  Mary  Williamson  married  John  McMillan. 
Annie  Williamson  married  W.  E.  Gasque.  Annis  WiUiamson 
married  N.  D.  Coary.  Joseph  W.  Williamson  married  Mary 
Kate  Mclntyre ;  to  them  were  born  eight  children ;  these  have 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  431 

already  been  mentioned  among  the  Mclntyres  (don't  know 
sex  or  names).  Leonard  S.  and  Bright  J.  Williamson  were 
-filled  in  the  war.  Martha  A.  R.  Williamson,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam D.  Williamson  and  Prudence  Nance,  married  David  J. 
Owens,  son  of  old  Solomon  Owens.  Sarah  Ann  Williamson 
married  John  D.  Jordan.  Daniel  J.  Williamson  married  Trecia 
Fowler,  daughter  of  the  late  Jessee  Fowler,  and  they  had  six 
children,  three  sons  and  three  daughters,  named  as  follows: 
Martha  P.,  Elizalbeth,  Susan,  William  D.,  Jr.,  Jessee  and 
Charley.  Susannah  Williamson  married  Daniel  M.  Car- 
michael.  Elizabeth  Anne  Williamson  married  Joseph  M.  Wil- 
siamson.  Prudence  Anne  Williamson  married  H.  G.  Harrel- 
son.  W.  Lawrence  Williamson  married  a  Georgia  lady  (don't 
know  her  name)  ;  they  had  a  family,  number  and  sex  unknown. 
John  J.,  Jr.,  died  unmarried.  William  J.  Williamson  married 
L.  M.  Tululah  Elvington,  daughter  of  John  E.  Elvington,  and 
to  them  have  'been  born  twelve  children,  five  sons  and  seven 
daughters,  as  follows :  Modanza,  Sidi,  Eulah,  Willie,  Overton, 
Ryan,  Marcellus,  Cristie,  Lolah,  Walter,  Velna  (baby),  dead. 
Gustavus  A.  Williamson  married  Francois  Belk,  daughter  of 
Rev.  Julius  Belk,  and  to  them  have  been  born  six  children,  three 
sons  and  three  daughters  (don't  know  their  names).  Sydney 
G.  Williamson  married  Mary  A.  Oliver,  daughter  of  the  Hon. 
A.  C.  Oliver,  of  North  Carolina;  they  have  eleven  children, 
nine  sons  and  two  daughters,  named  Junius,  Rembert,  Bertha, 
Wilborn,  Lonnie,  Monroe,  Grover,  Ambrose,  Layton,  Luna  and 
Charlie.  Artemissia  U.  Williamson  married  J.  Emory  Smith, 
near  Mullins ;  they  have  a  family,  number  and  name  unknown. 
John  C.  Williamson  married  a  Miss  Johnson,  and  have  eight 
children,  mostly  iboys.  Don't  know  who  Ferdinand  William- 
son married.  David  C.  Williamson  married  a  Miss  Watson; 
William  D.  Williamson,  Jr.,  married  Martha  Martin;  Charlie 
Williamson  married  Miss  Celia  Martin;  Jessee  Williamson 
married  a  Miss  James ;  Martha  Williamson  married  H.  G.  Col- 
lins ;  Elizabeth  Williamson  married  Robert  Brown ;  Susan  Wil- 
liamson married  David  H.  Shelly.  The  last  nine  or  ten  men- 
tioned above  all  have  families,  but  the  number,  sex  and  names 
are  unknown,  and  the  writer  has  no  convenient  means  of  ascer- 
taining; they  are  all  young,  and  have  not  as  yet  attained  to 


432  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

manhood  or  womanhood.  The  Williamson  family  is  large  in 
name  and  extensive  in  its  connections — is  and  ever  has  been  a 
respectaibk  name  in  the  county. 

Wali,. — This  family,  extensive  in  name  and  its  connections, 
can  be  traced  no  farther  back  than  to  Wright  Wall,  the  grand- 
father of  ex-Sheriff  William  A.  Wall.  Wright  Wall  married  a 
Miss  Rice ;  the  fruits  of  the  marriage  were  six  sons,  viz :  John, 
James,  Washington,  Hugh  G.,  Isaiah  and  Lawson.  Of  these, 
John  emigrated  West,  James  never  married.  Washington 
married  a  Miss  Vaught,  they  had  children :  Columbus,  George, 
Peter,  Martha,  Amanda,  Sarah,  Elizabeth  and  Gabriella.  Of 
these,  Coliunbus  married  in  Horry  and  resides  there  now. 
George  Wall  married  Mary  Owens,  daughter  of  the  late  David 
Owens;  they  have  three  children,  girls.  Peter  Wall  married 
in  Horry;  don't  know  to  whom — he  and  his  wife  separated, 
and  what  has  become  of  them  is  unknown.  Martha  married  a 
Mr.  Cox,  in  Horry;  nothing  further  is  known  of  them. 
Amanda  married  Barney  Collins,  son  of  the  late  Sheriff,  Robert 
Collins ;  it  is  said  they  have  several  children,  and  are  at  McCoU. 
Sarah  married  Henry  Shaw;  by  him  she  had  some  children, 
don't  knoiw  how  many';  Shaw  died,  and  the  widow  afterwards 
married  William  R.  Hux,  a  widower,  with  several  children,  in 
Horry ;  don't  think  the  two  families  agreed ;  Hux  lived  on  the 
Dog  Bluff  Road,  leading  to  Conway.  The  writer,  during  his 
long  practice  in  Horry,  passed  the  house  of  Mr.  Hux,  and  on 
one  occasion  stayed  with  him  a  night.  His  first  wife  was  then 
sick,  and  soon  after  died;  he  had  then  one  or  two  children 
grown.  Some  year  or  so  after  his  marriage  to  Mrs.  Shaw,  it 
was  observed  by  the  writer,  in  passing,  that  Mr.  Hux  had  built 
another  dwelling  house  near  by  his  residence,  and  had  put  his 
first  children'  in  it,  which  of  itself  was  evidence  of  disagree- 
ment, and  on  inquiry  was  informed  that  disagreement  was  the 
cause.  Some  time  afterwards  they  separated,  and  she  went  up 
to  Marion  to  her  sister,  Mrs.  L.  R.  Owens,  who  lived  near  the 
writer.  Mrs.  Hux  sent  for  me  to  go  over  there,  she  wanted  to 
see  me.  The  writer  went  an'd  had  a  talk  with  her,  heard  her 
statement  of  her  troubles,  and  gave  her  such  advice  as  he 
thought  proper  under  the  circumstances.     Was  informed  some 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  433 

days  afterwards  by  Mr^  Owens,  that  Hux  came  there  the  next 
evening  after  I  was  there ;  that  they  compromised  their  difficul- 
ties ;  that  Mrs.  Hux  went  home  with  him  the  next  day ;  heard 
no  more  of  the  trouble;  Hux  soon  after  sickened  and  died; 
don't  know  what  has  become  of  her  or  her  children.  After- 
wards heard  that  one  of  her  sons  by  her  first  marriage  was  in 
the  Citadel  Academy  in  Charleston,  and  was  very  smart ;  don't 
know  whether  he  graduated  or  not,  or  what  has  become  of  him 
or  the  other  children.  Elizabeth  married  a  Mr.  Cox,  in  Horry. 
Gabriella  married  L.  R.  Owens,  of  Marion ;  they  have  a  number 
of  children — ^two,  perhaps,  grown — all  bom  and  raised  in 
Marion.  Owens  was  a  very  competent  business  man ;  was  in 
the  postoffice  at  Marion  for  years — twice  under  appointment, 
and  served  one  term  (four  years)  as  assistant;  he  eventually 
got  out  of  the  office,  became  a  lunatic  and  was  sent  to  the  Asy- 
lum, where  he  now  is.  His  older  brother,  S.  G.  Owens,  died  in 
the  Asylum  some  years  ago,  who  was  also  a  very  competent 
business  man — served  one  term,  from  1872  to  1876,  as  Clerk  of 
the  Cour't,  was  a  very  efficient  Clerk.  There  seems,  however, 
to  be  a  "crazy  streak"  in  the  family.  Since  L,.  R.  Owens  has 
been  sent  to  the  Asylum,  Mrs.  Owens  and  her  children  have 
moved  to  Augusta,  Ga. ;  she  left  an  elegant  home  in  Marion — I 
think,  unsold.  Hugh  G.  Wall,  Sr.,  married,  first,  a  Miss  Davis, 
and  by  her  had  three  children,  to  wit :  Hugh  G.,  Jr.,  Albert  and 
Sarah;  he  married,  a  second  time,  a  Miss  Eagerton,  and  had 
children,  to  wit:  Henry  (killed  in  the  war),  Marion,  Edwin, 
Furman,  William  B. ;  and  daughters,  Elizabeth,  Eliza,  Laura 
and  Simpson.  Hugh  G.  Wall,  Jr.;  has  had  two  wives;  the 
first,  a  Miss  Wall  (a  cousin),  and  by  her  had  one  child,  a 
daughter,  who  grew  up  and  married  T.  C.  White — ^they  have 
some  children ;  by  the  second  wife, a  Mrs. Richardson  (widow), 
nee  Watson ;  by  her  he  has  several  children,  sons  and  daugh- 
ters, names  unknown — one  daug'hter  married,  to  whom  is  not 
known.  Albert  Wall  married  a  Miss  Wall  (a  cousin),  they 
have  no  offspring,  but  are  doing  well.  Sarah  married  Ben 
Davis;  they  have  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  all  married. 
George  Davis  married  a  Miss  Richardson.  Jefferson  Davis 
married  a  Miss  Davis ;  they  have  some  children.  Anne  Davis 
married  Nicholas  Davis;  they  have  children.    Maude  Davis 


4a4  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Married  Ervin  Richardson,  Jr. ;  they  have  offspring.  Marion 
Wall  married  a  Miss  Baker ;  they  have  two  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters. Edwin  Wall  married  a  Miss  Harllee,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Robert  Harllee ;  they  have  a  family,  number  and  names  un- 
known. Furman  Wall  married  a  Miss  Mace,  daughter  of  John 
M.  Mace.  Furman  is  dead ;  left  his  wife  a  widow  with  three 
or  four  children.  William  B.  Wall  married  a  Miss  Altman; 
they  have  three  or  four  children.  Eliza:beth  Wall  married  J. 
F.  Casque ;  they  have  two  or  three  children ;  they  moved  to 
Savannah,  Ga.  Eliza  Wall  married  F.  M.  Philips,  in  the 
"Friendship"  neighborhood;  he  is  dead,  and  left  four  or  five 
children.  Laura  Wall  married  A.  V.  Rowell,  and  had  four 
children ;  she  is  dead.  Simpson  Wall  married  Robert  Rowell, 
they  have  a  family.  Isaiah  Wall  married,  first,  a  Miss  Keith, 
and  had  two  children ;  the  wife  and  both  children  dead ;  he  mar- 
ried, a  second  time,  to  a  Miss  Casque,  a  daughter  of  old  John 
Casque — the  latter  was  quite  a  character.  It  is  said  of  old 
John  that  he  had  a  case  in  Court,  and  Ceorge  W.  Dargan  (af- 
terwards Chancellor)  was  his  lawyer.  The  other  side  put  up 
some  witness  on  the  stand,  who  swore  pretty  strongly  against 
old  man  Casque,  and  when  he  had  concluded  his  testimony,  the 
witness  was  turned  over  to  Casque's  lawyer  for  cross-examina- 
tion ;  and  as  Dargan  rose  from  his  seat,  old  man  Casque  spoke 
out  aloud  and  said:  "Tangle  him,  Dargan,  tangle  him."  To 
this  second  marriage  ten  children  were  bom,  nine  sons  and  one 
daughter;  of  the  sons,  six  are  dead;  there  were  two  named 
James — the  first  thus  named  died,  and  another  born  after  his 
death  was  also  named  James,  and  he  died ;  the  other  dead  ones 
were  Chapman,  Samuel,  Isaiah  and  Ivawson  D.  Wall — the  latter 
died  in  January,  1901,  leaving  only  one  child,  a  son,  named 
Marion ;  the  surviving  sons  are  William  A.,  Julius  and  Pressly. 
William  A.  Wall  married  Miss  Ellen  Keever,  had  six  children, 
four  sons  and  two  daughters,  one  son  dead ;  the  surviving  sons 
are  H.  Witherspoon,  William  A.,  Jr.,  and  Victor  S. ;  the  daugh- 
ters are  Wilmar  and  Mary  Ellen.  Wilmar  is  grown,  and  one 
son  nearly  so.  William  A.  Wall  has  been  for  years  quite  a 
prominent  man  in  the  county — first  a  Deputy  Sheriff  for  several 
years,  and  finally  was  elected  Sheriff  in  1888 — made  a  good 
Sheriff,  served  his  full  term;  but  the  tidal  wave,  politically 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  435 

speaking,  in  1892,  put  him  out;  he  was  succeeded  by  W.  T. 
Evans,  who  held  the  position  for  two  terms,  when  he  was  suc- 
seeded  by  B.  R.  MuUins,  the  present  Sheriff,  and  in  his  practical 
judgment  he  has  made  ex-Sheriff  Wall  his  chief  clerk  and 
deputy.  One  peculiar  trait  of  ex-Sheriff  Wall  was  and  is  his 
reticence  and  detective  power — ^you  never  know  what  his  busi- 
ness was  till  you  see  it  executed,  and  always  successful  in  mak- 
ing arrests  without  trouble,  and  was  always  successful  in  de- 
tecting crime  and  ferreting  out  criminals.  Julius  Wall  married 
a  Miss  Saunders;  they  have  one  child  only,  a  son  (small). 
Pressly  Wall  married  a  Miss  Byrd,  daughter  of  Dr.  Byrd,  near 
Scranton,  where  they  now  live;  they  have  five  children,  three 
sons  and  two  daughters  (small).  Lawson  D.  Wall,  Jr.,  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Flowers,  and  had  an  only  son,  Marion ;  the  father 
died  1st  January,  1901,  as  before  stated.  Amanda,  the  only 
daughter  of  Isaiah  Wall,  married  J.  J.  Richardson ;  they  have 
no  children.  Lawson  Wall,  Sr.,  son  of  old  Wright  Wall,  never 
married.  The  Wall  family,  as  a  whole,  were  and  are  good, 
holiest  people,  inoffensive  and  quiet  citizens,  law-abiding,  sel- 
dom or  never  in  the  Courts — and  especially  in  the  criminal 
Courts ;  trustworthy  in  every  respect. 

McEachern. — Some  of  this  name  have  been  incidentally 
mentioned  already,  but  none  of  the  family  now  to  be  noticed — 
I  mean,  the  family  near  Hamer,  on  the  "Short-cut"  Railroad. 
Neill  McEachern  emigrated  from  Scotland  with  his  then  fam- 
ily to  Marion  County,  S.  C,  in  the  first  part  of  the  nineteenth 
century;  he  married,  in  Scotland,  Miss  Effa  McKellar;  they 
had  four  sons,  Duncan,  Daniel,  Gilbert  and  John,  and  two 
daughters,  Sallie  and  Elizalbeth — I  think  four  of  his  children 
were  born  in  Scotland.  The  father,  Neill  McEachern,  was  a 
sturdy  old  Scotchman,  industrious,  economical,  energetic  and 
persevering;  was  honest,  and  accumulated  property.  Duncan 
married,  lived  and  died  in  Marlborough ;  he  married  Mary  Ann 
McGill,  and  is  yet  living;  he  settled  on  Hay's  Swamp,  one  of 
the  best  agricultural  sections  of  the  county ;  they  had  and  raised 
four  sons,  Neill,  Joseph,  John  B.  and  Duncan,  and  four  daugh- 
ters. Neill,  the  eldest  son,  never  married,  is  an  old  bachelor. 
Joseph,  the  second  son,  married  a  Miss  Legette ;  they  had  one 


486  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

son,  named  Benjamin ;  his  wife  died,  he  is  now  a  widower,  and 
is  merchandising  at  Rowland,  N.  C,  and  it  is  said  doing  a  fair 
business.  John  B.,  the  third  son,  married  a  Miss  Campbell, 
and  has  two  children  (anall) ;  he  lives  on  the  old  homestead, 
with  his  mother  and  maiden  sister,  Margaret,  who  has  never 
married;  John  B.  is  an  excellent  man,  a  good  farmer,  and  is 
succeeding  well.  Duncan,  the  youngest  and  fourth  son,  is  a 
practicing  physician ;  some  two  or  three  years  after  his  gradua- 
tion he  emigrated  to  Georgia,  where  he  married  a  Miss  Grimes, 
and  has  two  children;  it  is  said  he  is  succeeding  well  in  his 
profession.  Effa,  the  second  daughter  of  old  Daniel,  married 
Richard  Braswell,  of  North  Carolina,  just  across  the  State  line ; 
they  have  two  daughters  only,  Mary  and  Isla.  Mary  is  mar- 
ried to  Thompson  Williams,  of  North  Carolina.  Isla  is  yet 
single.  Richard  Braswell  is  doing  well.  Louise,  the  third 
daughter,  married  William  D.  Carmichael,  the  youngest  son  of 
old  Sheriff  Archie  Carmichael;  There  are  four  W.  D.  Car- 
michaels  in  the  county — whence  I  have  to  identify  this  one  by  his 
father,  old  Sheriff  Carmichael.  W.  D.  Carmichael  resides  at 
Marion ;  he  is  a  mechanic,  and  runs  a  bicycle  shop,  with  E.  H. 
Byers  as  a  partner,  and  he  and  wife  run  a  puhlic  boarding  house 
in  Marion  and  have  much  patronage ;  they  have  three  children, 
two  daughters  and  one  son ;  the  daughters  are  Nina  and  Edna. 
Nina  is  grown  and  is  now  in  school  at  Red  Springs,  N.  C. ; 
Edna  is  near  grown ;  the  son  is  named  Daniel  Archie,  for  his 
two  grand- fathers,  is  a  lad ;  the  children  are  all  very  promising, 
and  are  being  raised  right — their  mother,  Mrs.  Carmichael,  ,is 
one  of  the  many  good  women  and  an  excellent  manager  of 
affairs.  The  writer  knows  whereof  he  speaks,  as  he  boarded  in 
their  house  for  about  five  years.  Miss  Sallie  McEachern  mar- 
ried John  R.  Jackson,  who  is  one  of  the  many  progressive  farm- 
ers of  that  section  of  the  county ;  they  have  two  small  children, 
a  boy  and  a  girl. 

Another  family  of  McEachern,  no  relation  to  these  mentioned 
above,  may  be  here  noticed — ^the  family  of  Neill  McEachern, 
whom  I  knew  more  than  sixty  years  ago;  he  was  twice  mar- 
ried— one  of  his  wives  was  a  Miss  McCoU ;  he  had  several  sons 
and  some  daughters;  the  sons  are  Peter,  Edward,  John,  Ed- 
mund, William  (dead),  Neill  and  Robert;  a  daughter  named 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  437 

Manilla,  and  Flora  Catharine — ^the  latter  married  James  Mc- 
Kellar;  the  youngest  daughter  by  the  last  wife  not  married. 
The  sons,  Peter  and  Edward,  live,  together  with  their  mother 
and  two  maiden  sisters,  in  the  Hay's  Swamp  section,  and 
are  well  to  do — ^think  they  have  already  been  noticed  herein, 
and  need  not  be  repeated ;  their  father,  I  suppose,  is  dead — he 
was  a  man  with  a  family  more  than  sixty  years  ago;  of  the 
other  sons  the  writer  knows  nothing. 

Carmichaei,. — This  large  and  respectable  family  live  mostly 
on  the  north  side  of  Little  Pee  Dee  River.  They  are  a  Scotch 
people,  as  their  name  implies — ^honest  and  frugal,  industrious, 
practical  and  trustjvorthy  every  way,  ambitious  seemingly  only 
to  establish  and  to  preserve  an  unsullied  character.  This 
family  originated  in  and  came  from  Scotland  in  the  latter  half 
of  the  eighteenth  century.  There  were  three  or  four  of  them, 
first  settlers,  whether  brothers  or  relatives  does  not  clearly  ap- 
pear, but  it  is  supposed  they  were,  at  least,  in  some  degree,  re- 
lated to  each  other.  Whether  they  came  together  or  at  differ- 
ent times,  does  not  appear,  but  they  settled  in  close  proximity 
to  each  other.  Neill  Carmichael  was  one  of  them ;  he  married 
Miss  Christian  Carmichael,  a  daughter  of  one  of  the  emigrants 
— whether  he  and  his  wife  were  cousins,  does  not  appear ;  they 
had  three  sons,  Archie,  John  and  Daniel.  Archie,  known  as 
Sheriff  Carmichael,  was  born  in  1797,  and  lived  to  the  advanced 
age  of  eighty-six  years,  and  was  universally  loved  and  re- 
spected, venerable  for  his  years  and  his  high  Christian  charac- 
ter ;  he  was  twice  elected  Sheriff  of  the  district,  which  office 
then  as  now  was  for  four  years;  a  man  then  could  only  be 
elected  and  hold  the  office  in  alternate  quadreniums.  Car- 
michael's  first  quadrennium  was  from  April,  1841,  to  April, 
1845.  During  his  first  term  in  the  Sheriff's  office  there  was 
great  monetary  depression — ^the  mass  of  the  people  were  in 
debt.  Money  could  not  be  raised,  property  had  but  little  value, 
and  consequently  there  was  great  distress  among  the  people. 
Fortunately  for  the  debtor  class,  they  had  a  kind-hearted  man 
in  the  Sheriff's  office,  and  he  would  not  force  collections  by  levy 
and  sale  of  their  property  in  such  time  of  general  distress; 
some  of  the  creditor  portion,  money  sharks,  who  had  executions 


438  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

in  his  office,  had  the  Sheriff  ruled  for  not  forcing  the  collection 
of  their  demands,  and  the  result  was  that  the  rules  were  made 
absolute,  and  the  Sheriff  had  to  go  to  jail ;  he  became  a  martyr 
to  his  kindness  of  heart,  to  his  leniency  in  office.  He  was  in 
jail  for  about  twenty  months,  in  1842  and  1843;  he  and  his 
family  occupied  the  apartments  in  the  jail  provided  for  the 
jailor's  family.  He  moved  his  books,  papers.  Sec.,  into  the  jail, 
and  there  attended  to  the  business  of  his  office  just  as  though 
he  had  remained  in  his  office  in  the  court  house;  collected 
money  and  paid  it  out — he  was,  to  all  intents  and  purposes,  still 
Sheriff,  except  as  to  his  personal  liberty ;  he  did  not  put  his  foot 
on  the  ground  during  his  incarceration.  His  oldest  son,  A.  B. 
Carmichael,  was  born  in  jail.  The  creditor  party  were  not 
hurt,  they  ultimately  got  their  money,  and  have  gone  into  ob- 
livion ■with  it,  while  Sheriff  Oarmichael  multiplied  his  friends 
and  had  the  consciousness  of  having  discharged  his  duty,  and 
palliated  the  distresses  of  his  people  without  injury  to  any,  and 
lived  for  many  years  in  grateful  remembrance  by  his  fellow- 
citizens;  and  though  now  dead,  will  continue  to  live  in  the 
hearts  of  people  for  all  time  to  come.  The  people  manifested 
their  appreciation  of  his  martyrdom  by  triumphantly  electing 
him  Sheriff  again  at  the  next  alternate  election  for  Sheriff,  not- 
withstanding the  combined  opposition  of  the  money  sharks  of 
the  county,  and  served  another  term  from  April,  1849,  to  April, 
1853.  For  six  terms  of  that  office  it  may  be  said  that  it  was 
Godbold  in  and  Carmichael  out,  Garmichael  in  and  Godbold 
out.  The  sixth  term,  instead  of  Carmichael,  it  was  his  nephew, 
N.  C.  McDuffie.  Carmichael  did  not  run  again  on  account  of 
his  age,  and  the  office  was  turned  over  to  his  popular  and  effi- 
cient nephew.  Archie  Carmichael,  in  his  younger  days,  was 
elected  Captain  of  the  militia,  an  office  then  much  sought,  and 
which  place  he  filled  with  acceptability  and  much  to  his  credit — 
hence  he  acquired  the  honorary  title  of  Captain  Carmichael. 
Much  more  might  well  be  said  of  Captain  Oarmichad,  but 
space  will  not  permit.  His  private  character  was  unsullied, 
was  without  spot  or  blemish ;  he  was  in  every  way  a  Christian 
gentleman.  The  three  sons  of  old  Neill  Carmichael  were 
Archie,  John  and  Tailor  Daniel.  Captain  Archie  married,  first, 
a  Miss  Murphy,  and  by  her  had  three  children,  Archie  B.,  Mrs. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  439 

Joseph  Mclntyre  and  Mrs.  John  E.  Perritt;  his  second  wife 
was  Miss  Margaret  MeLeod,  who  still  survives,  and  by  her  had 
two  sons,  Neill  J.  and  William  D.  Carmichael.  A.  B.  Car- 
michael  married  Miss  Lizzie  Gaddy,  daughter  of  the  late  Henry 
Gad'dy ;  by  this  marriage  there  were  two  sons  born  and  raised, 
to  wit:  Clyde  and  Gaddy.  Clyde  married  Albert  Edward's 
daughter ;  Gaddy  Carmichael  is  yet  unmarried.  Emaline  Car- 
michael married  Joseph  Mclntyre,  deceased ;  to  this  marriage 
were  iborn  and  raised  seven  children.  The  eldest,  Nettie,  mar- 
ried J.  Edgar  Bass ;  they  went  to  Georgia.  Of  the  other  six 
children,  Archie  married  a  daughter  of  Timothy  R.  McLellan, 
and  Blanche  married  Henry  Farley,  of  Dillon,  the  other  four, 
Lizzie,  Duncan,  Isla  and  Layton,  are  unmarried;  their  father 
and  mother  are  both  dead.  These  may  have  already  been  men- 
tioned in  or  among  the  Mclntyres  and  McLellans.  Mrs.  John 
E.  Perritt  has  no  children.  Neill  J.  Carmichael,  oldest  son  of 
Sheriff  Carmichafel  by  his  second  marriage,  married  a  daugh- 
ter of  Duncan  C.  Carmichael,  called  "Red  Duncan,"  and  by  her 
has  ten  children,  the  eldest  of  whom  is  grown ;  the  others  less, 
down  to  the  youngest,  perhaps  a  balby.  William  D.,  the  young- 
est son  of  Sheriff  Carmichael,  married  Miss  Louise  Mc- 
Eachern,  daughter  of  Daniel  McEachem,  and  live  at  Marion ; 
they  have  three  children,  Nina,  Edna  and  Daniel  Archie.  These 
have  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  McEacherns.  John 
Carmichael,  a  jolly  Scotchman,  called  "Hatter  John,"  the  next 
brother  of  Sheriff  Carmichael,  married,  also,  a  Miss  Murphy ; 
to  them  were  born  some  eight  or  ten  children.  Edward  D. 
Carmichael,  an  excellent  man  and  good  citizen,  married  a  Miss 
Carmichael,  daughter  of  Daniel  W.  Carmichael,  of  the  Fork 
section,  and  by  her  had  several  children,  only  two  of  whom  are 
known  to  the  writer,  to  wit:  R.  J.  Carmichael,  a  graduate  of 
the  United  States  Military  Academy  at  West  Point,  N.  Y.,  now 
a  Lieutenant  in  the  regular  army  of  the  United  States,  and 
Thaddeus  Carmichael,  a  graduate  of  the  Citadel  Academy,  in 
Charleston,  S.  C,  and  who  is  a  promising  young  man.  Of  the 
other  children  of  "Hatter  John,"  James  married  Martha  Camp- 
bell, daughter  of  the  late  John  J.  Campbell.  Eliza  married 
Daniel  Campbell;  Jennette  married  John  C.  McEachem; 
Amanda  married  Malcolm  C.  Carmichael ;  Caroline  married 
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440  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Joseph  Murphy;  Martha  married  David  S.  Edwards,  of  the 
Fork  section ;  Nancy  and  Catharine  are  unmarried.  Of  these, 
it  is  supposed  they  all  have  families  of  children,  more  or  less 
numerous,  though  not  known  to  the  writer.  Martha,  who  mar- 
ried David  S.  Edwards,  has  several  dhildren  grown  and,  be  it 
said  to  their  credit,  that  their  children  are  being  educated^ — at 
least,  a  son,  G.  E.  Edwards,  is  a  graduate  of  Wofford  College, 
is  quite  a  promising  young  man,  is  engaged  in  teaching,  very 
popular,  and  is  preparing  for  the  ministry  and,  as  is  supposed, 
will  apply  to  the  next  South  Carolina  Conference  to  enter  upon 
the  duties  of  his  chosen  profession  in  the  Methodist  Church, 
South.  Mr.  D.  S.  Edwards  has,  also,  two  daughters,  gradu- 
ates of  Rock  Hill,  very  smart  and  promising  to  be  useful  as 
well  as  ornamental  to  society ;  I  tlhink,  one  or  both  of  them  is 
now  engaged  in  teaching.  What  a  contrast  between  them  and 
their  ancestors  of  fifty  and  a  hundred  years  ago!  Daniel, 
called  "Tailor  Daniel,"  the  youngest  brother  of  Sheriff  Car- 
michael,  never  married — don't  know  what  became  of  him,  but 
suppose  he  has  long  since  died.  Of  the  daughters  of  old  Neill, 
sisters  of  Sheriff  Archie,  Mary  married  Duncan  McDuifie,  who 
settled  in  the  "Fofk ;"  they  raised  a  family  of  four  sons — ^A.  B., 
Neil  C,  D.  D.  and  George  Alexander,  and  one  daughter,  the 
first  wife  of  Isham  H.  Watson,  and  who  have  already  been 
noticed  in  or  among  the  McDuffie  and  Watson  families.  Nancy 
Carmichael  married  John  Carmichael,  of  Cumberland  County, 
N.  C,  and  Catharine  married  Captain  Neill  M.  Carmichael; 
whose  father,  Duncan,  came  from  Scotland,  and  married  a 
Miss  Monroe,  and  had  six  sons,  Neill  M.,  John,  Malcolm,  Dun- 
can, William  and  Archie.  Of  these,  Duncan  married  a  Miss 
McRae ;  the  wives  of  John  and  Malcolm  are  unknown ;  William 
married  a  Miss  McRae;  Archie  married  Sarah  Harrelson. 
Diincan  Carmichael  had  sons,  William  D.,  Archie,  Mack  and 
John  R.,  and  daughters,  Mary  and  Flora.  Mary  married 
Duncan  Murchison,  and  for  him  she  had  two  sons,  William  and 
John  D.,  who  are  now  young  men  in  the  town  of  Marion ;  Wil- 
liam is  a  Representative  from  the  county  in  the  lower  House  of 
the  General  Assembly ;  both  are  unmarried.  The  other  daugh- 
ter of  Duncan  Carmichael,  Flora,  is  unmarried.  Of  William 
Carmichael's  (brother  of  Duncan)  family  nothing  is  known. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  441 

Of  Duncan  Carmichael's  sons,  William  D.  married  a  Miss 
Harllee,  daughter  of  Captain  Peter  Harllee,  and  has  a  consid- 
erable family — one  son,  I  think,  named  William,  very  promis- 
ing, a  graduate  of  the  North  Carolina  University  at  Chapel 
Hill ;  h€  acquired  distinction,  and  is  now  and  has  been  since  his 
graduation  principal  of  the  High  School  in  Durliam,  N.  C. 
William  D.  Carmichael  was  a  Captain  in  the  late  war,  and  was 
badly  wounded  in  the  jaw  and  tongue,  which  affects  his  speech ; 
he  was  a  gallant  soldier,  and  is  a  progressive  and  successful 
farmer  in  upper  Marion;  he  has  other  children  grown,  un- 
known to  the  writer.  John  R.  Carmichael,  brother  of  Captain 
W.  D.,  married  a  Miss  Meekins,  daugihter  of  E.  J.  Meekins,  of 
the  Harlleesville  section,  and  had  three  children,  one  daughter 
and  two  sons.  The  daughter,  Johny,  marriefd  Samuel  Gallo- 
way, a  farmer,  and  has  some  family,  how  many  is  unknown; 
Coy  Carmichael,  a  young  man  and  uimiarried,  and  Alexander, 
who  is  married,  and  now  lives  in  Atlanta,  Ga.  Their  father 
died  when  his  children  were  quite  young.  Archie  Carmichael 
married  a  Miss  Harrelson,  and  had  John,  Monroe,  Albert  J., 
William  and  Joel,  and  girls,  Mary,  Nancy,  Civil,  IvOU,  Hettie, 
Lilly  Mack  and  Ellen — the  latter  married  Albert  Rogers ;  she 
is  dead,  left  no  offspring.  John  married  some  one  unknown, 
also  Monroe.  Joel  married  Hattie  McLellan,  daughter  of 
Timothy  R.  McLellan,  and  has  a  family,  Mary  married  a  Car- 
michael, and  has  some  family.  Ivou  married'  Jefferson  Mcln- 
tyre.  Albert  J.,  William,  Nancy,  Lilly  Mack,  Civil  and  Hettie, 
are  all  unmarried.  Captain  Neill  M.  Carmichael,  another  of 
the  six  sons  of  old  Duncan,  married  Miss  Catharine  Car- 
michael, a  sister  of  Sheriff  Archie,  and  raised  a  family  of  eight 
sons  and  three  daughters.  The  eldest  daughter  married  John 
C.  Mclntyre,  mentioned  elsewhere  herein;  their  son,  David, 
married  Catharine  Carmichael,  daughter  of  Malcolm  Car- 
michael, and  have  no  children.  Calvin  C,  son  of  Captain  Neill 
M.,  married  Margaret  C.  Buie,  and  they  have  no  children. 
Duncan  D.  married  Julia  M.  Wright,  of  Marlborough  County ; 
they  have  five  children.  None  of  the  rest  of  Captain  Neill  M.'s 
children  ever  married.  Daniel  M.,  one  of  the  younger  sons, 
and  his  two  maiden  sisters,  Mary  and  Margaret,  live  on  and 
own  the  homestead  where  Captain  Neill  M.  lived  and  died. 


442  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.     • 

Daniel  M.  is  a  prosperous  farmer  and  merchant,  and  a  large 
and  successful  tobacco  grower.  Gilbert,  the  youngest  son, 
was  a  partner  of  Daniel  M.  in  their  various  business  enter- 
prises, and  was  a  man  of  fine  judgment;  he  was  County  Com- 
missioner for  one  term,  just  previous  to  his  death,  in  1894. 
Another  son,  Alexander,  died  in  1877.  All  of  them  were  gal- 
lant soldiers  in  the  Confederate  war,  except  Gilbert,  who  was 
too  young  to  go.  The  eldest,  Franklin,  and  the  youngest  (ex- 
cept Gilbert),  Evander,  were  killed  at  the  same  time  by  a  shell 
at  Petersburg,  Va.,  in  1864. 

An  instance  of  the  devotion  and  patriotism  of  our  Southern 
women  will  not  'be  out  of  place  here.  About  the  last  year  of 
the  war,  an  agent  of  the  government  was  through  the  country 
buying  up  corn,  meat,  &c.,  for  the  soldiers.  Captain  Neill  M. 
sold  him,  for  Confederate  money,  as  much  as  he  had  to  spare ; 
and  at  dinner  the  agent  assked  Mrs.  Carmichael  if  she  had  any 
sons  in  the  army,  and  she  promptly  answered,  "Yes,  seven  of 
them — all  but  that  little  fellow  there,"  pointing  to  Gilibert,  "and 
I  wish  he  was  old  enough,  I  would  have  him  there,  too."  In- 
stances of  like  kind  were  not  uncommon  among  Southern  mat- 
rons. 

Another  Duncan  Carmichael  came  from  Scotland,  and  set- 
•tled  in  upper  Marion ;  he  married  a  Miss  Carmichael,  and  had 
three  sons  and  three  daughters;  the  sons  were  Dougald  B., 
Neill  C.  and  Daniel;  the  daughters  were  Mary  (Polly),  Chris- 
tian and  Nancy.  Dougald  B.  married  Flora  McLellan,  and 
raised  a  consideraible  family,  who  have  already  been  mentioned 
in  or  among  the  McLellan  family.  Neill  C.  married  the  widow 
of  Edward  Campbell,  whose  maiden  name  was  Martha  Jane 
McCollum,  who  had  three  sons,  Dougald,  Chalmers  and  Lanier 
B.  Carmichael.  The  latter  was  a  fine  looking  man  and  full  of 
promise,  but  died  unmarried,  two  or  three  years  ago,  after  a 
short  illness.  The  two  former,  Dougald  and  Chalmers,  went 
West,  and,  I  suppose,  are  married.  They  had  four  daughters. 
Catharine  married  Richard  McCoU ;  they  have  a  family.  Ma- 
tilda married  William  McCollum,  and  Ha  became  the  wife  of 
William  McQueen,  in  North  Carolina.  Viola,  the  youngest,  is 
single.  Neill  C.  Carmichael,  called  "Cut-face  Neill,"  from 
severe  cuts  in  his  face  made  by  some  of  the  Millers,  when  a 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  443 

young  man,  in  a  fight  with  them,  died  many  years  ago;  his 
widow,  Martha  Jane,  being  a  thorough  business  woman,  kept 
right  on  making  money  and  raising  and  educating  her  children ; 
she  died  within  the  last  year;  as  already  stated,  she  was  the 
widow  of  Edward  Campbell;  by  him  she  had  one  daughter, 
who  became  the  wife  of  George  J.  Bethea,  on  Buck  Swamp, 
and  has  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Betheas.  The 
other  brother,  Daniel,  died,  a  medical  student  in  Charleston,  un- 
married. The  daughters  of  old  Duncan  were,  as  stated  albove, 
Polly,  who  never  married  and  lived  to  the  age  of  ainety-three 
years;  Christian  was  the  first  wife  of  George  W.  Reaves,  as 
stated  already  in  or  among  the  Reaves  family.'  Nancy  married 
Archibald  Murphy,  and  had  three  sons — ^Johni,  who  married  in 
North  Carolina;  Duncan  Murphy  was  killed  in  the  war,  and. 
was  a  Ivieutenant  in  Captain  J.  H.  Stafford's  company;  the 
third  son  was  Dr.  N.  C.  Murphy,  who  married  a  Miss  Reaves, 
and  who  died  in  Marion,  in  autumn  of  1886,  and  left  three  sons 
and  two  daughters — ^all  of  whom  have  already  been  noticed  in 
or  among  the  Reaves  or  Watson  family.  Dougald  Carmichael 
came  from  Scotland,  and  settled  in  Marion  County,  on  north 
side  of  Little  Pee  Dee ;  don't  know  to  whom  he  married,  but  he 
had  sons:  Major  Daniel,  Squire  Neill,  Michael,  Malcolm  and 
Archie.  Daniel  married  Agnes  Campbell,  had  one  son,  John 
C,  and  five  daughters.  John  C.  is  unmarried.  Squire  Neill 
married  a  Miss  McCoU,  and  settled  on  south  side  of  lyittle  Pee 
Dee,  near  Carmichael's  Bridge ;  they  had  and  raised  a  consider- 
able family,  three  sons,  Daniel  W.,  Dougald  and  Neill,  also 
three  or  four  daughters.  Daniel  W.  married  a  Miss  Edwards, 
daughter  of  Samuel  W.  Ed-wards,  on  Buck  Swamp,  settled  in 
the  "Fork,"  and  is  still  there;  they  had  Luther,  Oliver,  Gilbert, 
Samuel,  Maston  Neill  and  Baker  Carmichael,  and  daughters. 
Anne  married  Edward  D.  Carmichael ;  Martha  married  Austin 
Edwards ;  Jennie  married  a  Sinclair ;  Rebecca  married  an  Ed- 
wards; Susan  married  Asbury  Jackson;  Fannie  married  a 
Rogers.  Luther  Carmichael  married  a  Miss  Martin;  Gilbert 
married,  also,  a"  Miss  Martin ;  Oliver  married  a  Miss  Car- 
michael ;  Samuel  married  Miss  Harrelson ;  Maston  and  Baker 
married  sisters,  names  unknown ;  Neill  went  West,  married  and 
had  four  children ;  his  wife  is  dead.     Don't  know  what  became 


444  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

of  Doug^d  and  Neill,  younger  sons  of  Squire  Neill.  Squire 
Neill  was  a  Magistrate  in  his  day,  also  a  surveyor,  and  was  a 
useful  man.  Michael  Carmichael  married  and  settled  on  north 
side  of  Little  Pee  Dee,  opposite  Carmichael's  Bridge;  don't 
know  to  whom  he  married;  be  liad  a  family,  not,  however, 
kn©wn  to  the  writer.  Malcolm,  another  brother,  married  and 
settled  on  Bell  Swamp,  on  north  side  of  the  river,  but  know 
nothing  of  his  family ;  and  the  same  of  his  brother,  Archie. 

Another  family  of  Carmichaels,  on  Buck  Swamp  and  Maiden 
Down,  is  ako  to  be  noticed  among  this-  large  connection — 
whether  related  to  those  above  mentioned,  is  not  certainly 
known,  but  suppose  they  are,  and  had  a  common  ancestor  in 
Scotland,  whence  they  came.  I  allude  to  old  Squire  Dougald, 
a  prosperous  and  capital  ma.n  in  the  section  named.  Squire 
Dougald  Carmichael  married  Martha  Carmichael,  and  had 
four  sons,  James,  Alexander,  Angus  and  Daniel,  and  five 
daughters.  Flora,  Margaret,  Nancy,  Mary  and  Sarah.  Angus 
married  Miss  Pencie  Lewis ;  died  and  left  his  widow  and  one 
child,  a  daughter,  who  grew  up  and  married  John  W.  Norton ; 
she  had  one  child,  a  daughter,  named  Iva ;  when  she  was  six  or 
eight  years  old,  was  caughton  the  band  wheel  of  a  gin  and 
killed.  Alexander  Carmichael  married  a  Miss  Geve,  in  North 
Carolina,  and  by  her  had  six  children,  three  boys  and  three 
girls;  the  boys  were  Albert,  John  and  Solon;  the  girls  were 
Susan,  Nettie  and  Augusta.  Albert  never  married;  he  is  in 
Florence.  John  died  when  young,  unmarried.  Solon  is  in 
Horry  County.  Susan  married  Calvin  Morgan,  and  resides  in 
Florence.  Nettie  and  Augusta  died  unmarried.  Daniel  Car- 
michael married  a  Miss  Williamson,  and  had  a  number  of  chil- 
dren, and  among  them  was  William  D.  and  Gilbert  Carmichael, 
of  the  Ariel  section.  William  D.  married  a  Miss  Mclnnis,  of 
upper  Marion,  and  has  a  family.  Gilbert  married  a  Miss  White, 
and  also  has  a  family.  ^James  Carmichael  married  the  Widow 
Woodward,  nee  Jordan,  and  died,  leaving  one  child,  our  rising 
B.  M.  Carmichael,  who  married,  first.  Miss  Murray,  daughter 
of  Rev.  John  W.  Murray ;  she  had  one  child,  mother  and  child 
both  died;  and  he  married  a  second  time.  Miss  Maggie  Wil- 
liams, and  has  a  family  coming  up.  Polly  Carmichael  never 
married.     Flora  married  W.  L.  Lewis,  who  has  already  been 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  445 

mentioned  among  the  Lewis  family.  Margaret  married  David 
W.  Edwards,  and  has  three  children,  E.  C.  Edwards,  late 
County  School  Superintendent,  and  Melvin  Edwards — ^both  of 
whom  are  married,  have  families  and  doing  well;  Mrs.  Ed^ 
wards  is  dead ;  her  daughter  married  one  of  the  Rogers,  in  that 
region,  and  they  are  prospering  and  have  a  family.  Sarah 
Carmichael  married  Daniel  Lewis,  of  Horry,  ex-Sheriff,  an 
excellent  man  and  first  class  citizen. 

Baker. — ^This  old  and  respectalble  family  had  its  origin,  so 
far  as  Marion  County  is  concerned,  as  stated  by  Bishop  Gregg 
(P-  75)  •  "Soon  after  (1735),  a  family  of  Bakers  came  from 
Newbern,  N.  C,  to  Pee  Dee.  One  of  this  name  married  a 
daughter  of  Nathan  Evans.  William  Baker  was  prominent  in 
the  Revolution,  and  marked  for  his  devotion  to  the  cause  of  lib- 
erty." From  the  above  extract,  it  seems  they  came  here  as  a 
family — ^the  head  of  it  not  being  named.  One  of  the  name 
married  a  daughter  of  Nathan  Evans.  Whether  it  was  Wil- 
liam, that  'became  "prominent  in  the  Revolution"  or  another, 
does  not  appear ;  but  from  tradition  we  glean  the  fact  that  the 
grand-father  of  Long  Billy  Baker  and  the  late  William  J. 
Baker,  was  named  William,  and,  I  suppose,  he  is  the  "promi- 
nent" William  spoken  of  'by  Bishop  Gregg ;  and  if  he  is  not,  the 
one  that  "married  a  daughter  of  Nathan  Evans,"  it  is  not 
known  to  whom  he  did  marry,  nor  do  we  'know  how  many  chil- 
dren he  had,  except  two  sons,  William  and  John.  Tradition 
informs  us  that  William  Baker  was  the  great-grand-father  of 
Mrs.  Wm.  J.  Davis,  B.  F.  Davis  and  J.  Preston  Davis — ^but 
whether,  he  was  William  Baker,  Sr.,  or  William  Baker,  Jr.,  does 
not  appear.  We  are  further  informed  by  tradition  that  the 
grand-father  (maternal)  of  Mrs.  W.  J.  Davis  was  Joshua 
Avatit,  who  married  Miss  Catharine  Baker.  William  and  John 
Baker  are  the  proximate  progenitors  of  the  family,  as  now 
known.  This  William  Baker  married  the  Widow  Hugh  Giles, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Annis  Philips ;  by  this  marriage  there 
were  two  sons,  James  Baker  and  William  J.  Baker — ^the  latter 
was  called  "Fat  Billy ;"  he  never  married. 

I  will  relate  an  incident  that  occurred  a  few  years  before  the 
death  of  "Fat  Billy,"  in  the  Court.     On  Monday  morning  of 


446  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

the  Court,  there  were  several  jurymen  excused  or  wanting  to 
be  excused  from  serving  on  the  jury  during  that  term — some 
on  account  of  the  recent  confinement  of  their  wives,  and  some 
on  account  of  the  daily  expectation  of  confinement.  Of  these 
applications  there  were  an  unusual  number — so  much  so  that  it 
attracted  the  attention  of  Mr.  Baker,  who  had  been  drawn  and 
summoned  to  attend  as  a  juryman  for  that  term,  and  was  sitting 
in  the  jury  seats  near  by  the  writer.  Mt.  Baker  beckoned  to 
me  to  go  to  him ;  I  went,  and  he  said  to  me  he  never  heard  so 
many  applications  to  be  excused  from  service  on  account  of  the 
expected  confinement  of  their  wives ;  and  added,  "he  wanted  to 
be  excused'  himself,  and  thought  he  might  be;"  and  looking 
.down  upon  his  front,  said,  "from  appearances,  it  looked  like  he 
might  be  confined  himself  before  the  week  ended,  and  he  did 
not  want  to  be  in  Court,  when  that  event  happened."  He  was 
a  capital  man  and  a  first  class  citizen. 

James  Baker,  the  elder  brother,  married  a  Miss  Taylor,  the 
half-sister  of  Major  David  J.  Taylor ;  by  their  marriage  three 
sons,  William  W.,  Joseph  A.  and  James  M.,  were  born  and 
raised,  and  two  daughters.  Of  the  two  daughters,  one  married 
Robert  Monroe ;  they  have  no  offspring.  The  other  daughter 
married  Benjamin  Baker,  and  they  have  five  children.  Of  the 
sons,  William  W.  married,  first,  Miss  Martha  Tennent,  and  by 
her  had  seven  children  (two  of  them  are  dead)  ;  there  are  now 
three  sons  and  two  daughters ;  the  sons  are  James  Oscar,  John 
Tennent  and  Warren  Caldwell.  The  two  oldest  have  gone 
West ;  the  youngest,  Warren  Caldwell,  grown  but  unmarrired, 
remains  with  his  father.  The  two  daughters,  Mary  and  Lil- 
lian, unmarried.  William  W.  married,  a  second  time  (his  first 
wife  dying) ,  the  Widow  China,  her  maiden  name  was  Gordon, 
and  by  the  second  marriage  they  have  one  son,  named  David 
Gordon.  Joseph  A.  Baker,  the  second  son  of  James  Baker, 
married,  first,  Mary  J.  Graham,  daughter  of  James  Graham; 
they  had  two  sons,  James  G.  and  Joseph  Mary.  James  G. 
Baker  married  Anne  Monroe,  daughter  of  Dr.  F.  M.  Monroe ; 
they  have  four  children,  daughters,  all  small.  Joseph  Mary 
mar'ried  Anne  Gaddy,  daughter  of  the  late  James  M.  Gaddy; 
they  have  three  children,  two  sons  and  a  daughter.  The  first 
wife  dying,  Joseph  A.  Baker  married  a  second  wife,  Anna  M. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  447 

Graham,  and  have  two  children — one  a  son,  Marion  Taylor 
Baker,  who  married  a  Miss  Wrightson,  of  Spartanburg,  and  a 
daughter,  Mary  R.  Baker,  unmarried' — she  is  a  physician,  and 
located  at  Rock  Hill,  S.  C.  James  R.  Baker,  the  third  son  of 
James  Baker,  Sr.,  married  Miss  Mary  Monroe,  a  daughter  of 
Major  David  Monroe ;  they  had  six  children,  all  boys — one  is 
dead,  five  now  living ;  the  mother  is  dead,  and  the  father  has  not 
remarried;  'he  lives  in  Marion.  These  three  sons  of  James 
Baker,  Sr.,  are  all  progressive  farmers,  doing  well,  and  among 
them  own  a  large  landed  property,  and  are  first  class  citizens. 
William  Baker,  as  hereinbefore  stated,  married  the  Widow 
Giles,  whose  maiden  name  was  Annis  Philips ;  to  this  marriage 
were  born  a  daughter,  Mary,  who  married  Gospero  Sweet — 
they  removed  West ;  and  another  daughter,  Eliza,  who  married 
Nathan  Evans;  another  daughter,  Susan,  who  married  Alex- 
ander Gvvens;  another  daughter,  Jennette,  who  died  quite 
young ;  and  another,  Mattie,  who  married  T.  F.  Brown,  and  the 
two  sons  above  mentioned,  James  and  William  J.  The  father, 
William  Baker,  died  when  his  children  were  quite  young ;  Mrs. 
Annis  Baker  lived  to  a  very  old  age,  and  was  a  very  remarkable 
woman;  the  death  of  her  husband  did  not  seem  to  affect  her 
success  in  life  and  business  in  the  least — she  was  an  excellent 
manager  of  affairs  and  of  money,  raised  her  children  quite  re- 
spectably, and  continued  to  accumulate  property  and  amassed 
a  large  fortune,  which  she  distributed  herself  during  her  life. 
John  Baker,  brother  of  William,  above  mentioned,  married 
Katie  Evans,  and  by  their  marriage  two  children  were  bom  and 
raised,  William  B.  and  Polly.  William  B.  married  Addie 
Lenora  Davis,  a  sister  of  Wm.  J.  Davis ;  Polly  married  Hugh 
Giles.  To  William  B.  Baker,  called  "Long  Billy,"  and  wife, 
Addie  Lenora,  were  born  nine  children,  they  raised  eight ;  their 
names  were  Mary  Elizabeth,  James  D.,  W.  B.,  Jr.,  J.  E.,  Benja- 
min B.,  Susana  C.,  Rebecca  and  Thomas  D.  The  eldest  daugh- 
ter married  John  J.  Williamson ;  they  had  two  children,  Wil- 
liam L.  and  John  J. ;  the  father,  John  J.  Williamson,  died,  and 
left  these  two  children.  James  D.  never  married.  William  B., 
Jr.,  married  Lou  Legette,  daughter  of  Captain  David  Legette ; 
they  had  nine  children,  raised  six,  named  Gertrude,  Hannibal, 
Mattie,  Carry,  Pauline  and  Boyd.     John  E.  Baker  married 


448  A  HISTORY  OK  MARION  COUNTY. 

Elwood  Davis,  daughter  of  Dr.  W.  M.  Davis ;  they  had  six  chil- 
dren, named  Brockinton,  John,  Mary,  Lenora,  Neill  and  Her- 
bert. Benjamin  B.  Baker  married  Jennette  Baker,  daughter 
of  James  and  Rebecca  Baker ;  they  had  six  children,  raised  five, 
named  Robert,  Alex.  T.,  Leola,  Rebecca  and  Benjamin  B.,  Jr. 
Miss  Susan  Baker  never  married.  Rebecca  Baker  married  F. 
M.  Wall ;  they  had  seven  children,  raised  four,  named  Estelle, 
Beaty,  Nevada  and  Willoughby.  Thomas  D.  Baker  married 
Mattie  Snipes,  daughter  of  Wilson  Snipes ;  they  had  seven  chil- 
dren, named  Adger,  Eloise,  Lizzie,  Imo,  Mattie,  Cary  Lenora 
and  Thomas  Wilson.  William  B.  Baker,  Sr.,  was  a  most  ex- 
cellent man,  always  cheerful  and  pleasant,  kind-hearted  and 
obliging,  took  the  world  easy,  made  the  best  of  all  circum- 
stances in  life — and  did  not  fret  as  to  that  which  he  could  not 
control ;  honest,  straight  and  liberal  to  a  fault.  Peace  be  to  his 
ashes — his  many  virtues  are  a  rich  heritage  to  his  posterity. 

Davis. — ^The  name  Davis  is  very  common,  and  is  met  up 
with  in  almost  every  section  of  the  country.  In  Marion  County, 
it  is  very  numerous  in  name  and  in  its  connections.  The  first 
appearance  of  it  here  was  about  1735,  in  Britton's  Neck,  where 
a  colony  from  England  came  and  settled  about  Old  Neck  (now) 
Methodist  Church.  This  was  four  years  before  John  Wesley 
made  the  move  in  England,  as  the  basis  of  the  Methodist 
Church  in  the  present  day,  both  in  Europe  and  America.  One 
of  that  colony  was  a  Davis — ^what  the  given  name  was,  is  un- 
known. Bishop  Gregg,  in  his  history  (page  69),  says:  "One 
of  these  (settlements)  was  in  Britton's  Neck,  twenty  miles  be- 
low Moss  Bluff  and  forty  miles  above  Georgetown.  It  was 
composed  of  the  families  of  Britton,  Graves,  Fladger,  Davis, 
Tyler,  Giles  and  others.  They  came  directly  from  England,  as 
one  colony,  and  being  members  of  the  Established  Church,  one 
of  their  first  acts  was  to  erect  a  house  for  the  worship  of  God. 
Their  minister.  Dr.  Robert  Hunter,  came  with  them,  and  is 
supposed  to  have  died  there.  He  was  succeeded  by  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Allison."  In  a  note  to  the  above  extract,  the  Bishop  fur- 
ther says :  "This  building  was  of  black  cypress,  with  a  brick 
foundation,  and  is  still  to  be  seen  ( 1859)  >  or  was  a  few  years 
since,  in  a  good  state  of  preservation,  on  the  road  leading  from 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  449 

Port's  Ferry  to  Potatoe  Ferry,  on  Little  Pee  Dee.  About  the 
year  1780,  the  congregation  having  been  long  without  a  minis- 
ter, and  doubtless  much  broken  up  by  the  troublous  times  of 
the  Revolution,  united  with  the  Methodists,  and  the  building 
passed  into  the  hands  of  the  latter,  by  whom  it  has  since  been 
retained.  Charles  Wesley  is  said  to  have  once  preached  in  it." 
In  the  extract  above,  the  name  Davis  appears,  and  it  is  to  be 
presumed  that  he  is  the  progenitor  of  the  Davis  family  now  be- 
low Marion,  or  a  great  part  of  that  extensive  family.  The 
writer  has  made  every  effort  possible  to  trace  the  family  from 
him  down  to  the  present  generation,  but  has  not  been  able  to 
do  so ;  but  will  present  such  facts  as  he  has  been  able  to  find 
and  obtain.  First  from  William  J.  Davis  and  wife,  Susan  B. 
Davis — ^the  latter  was  a  Miss  Davis  before  her  marriage,  no 
relation  to  her  husband  (if  any,  it  is  very  remote).  William 
J.  Davis'  grand-parents  (maternal)  were  Baker  and  Evans; 
his  paternal  grand-parents  were  Harry  Davis  and  McCants. 
His  father  was  named  John  Davis,  called  "Jacky  Davis ;"  mar- 
ried Miss  Susannah  Baker ;  he  had  four  children,  two  sons,  Eli 
or  Elihu  and  William  J.,  and  two  daughters,  Laura  or  Louisa, 
who  married  William  B.  Baker,  and  Susan,  married  John  B. 
Sheckelford.  William  J.  Davis  married  Susan  Brownfield 
Davis.  Nothing  is  said  of  Elihu  Davis,  brother  of  William  J. 
Davis.  Mrs.  William  J.  Davis'  grand-father  was  Joseph  Davis, 
who  married  Anne  Keene,  and  had  eleven  children,  viz :  Daniel, 
Benjamin  S.,  William,  Joseph  and  A.  G.  Davis,  sons;  the 
daughters  were  Maria,  Mary,  Eliza,  Christianna,  Susan  and 
Rachel.  Daniel  died,  leaving  no  child  living.  Benjamiii  S. 
Davis,  the  father  of  Mrs.  W.  J.  Davis,  married  Miss  Julia 
Avant ;  they  had  six  children — three  sons,  Keene,  B.  F.  and  J, 
Preston  Davis ;  the  two  latter  are  now  leading  and  prominent 
citizens  of  Marion;  and  three  daughters— 'Catharine,  Susan 
Brownfield  and  Julia  F.  Avant  Davis.  Of  these  sons,  Keene 
Davis  died  unmarried,  when  quite  a  young  man.  B.  F.  Davis 
married,  first.  Miss  Ella  Jenkins,  the  only  daughter  and  child 
of  the  late  James  Jenkins,  and  they  had :  sons,  James,  C.  L., 
Fontaine,  Benjamin  F.  (dead),  Claudius  (dead),  Robert  L. 
and  Marvin  Warren;  and  daughters,  Lizzie,  Sallie,  Mary, 
Emma  (dead)  and  Julia.    James  C,  the  eldest  son  of  B.  F. 


450  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Davis,  married  a  Miss  Oliver,  daughter  of  A.  R.  Oliver,  and 
has  a  coming  family.  L.  Fontaine  Davis,  the  second  son, 
married  a  Miss  Stevenson,  daughter  of  the  late  James  N. 
Stevenson,  and  has  four  children,  three  girls  and  a  boy.  Rob- 
ert L.  married  Kate  Mclntyre,  daughter  of  Captain  G.  A. 
Mclntyre,  and  has  one  son.  Marvin  Warren  married  a  Miss 
Hodges,  of  Abbeville.  Lizzie  is  unmarried.  Sallie  married 
Jessee  G.  Holliday,  lives  in  Marion,  and  have  a  coming  family.* 
One  daughter,  Mary,  married  William  Stackhouse,  of  Dillon; 
they  have  three  children,  two  daughters  and  one  son.  Emma, 
a  promising  young  lady,  died  a  year  or  two  ago;  Julia,  the 
youngest  daughter,  is  unmarried.  B.  F.  Davis  is  a  prosperous 
man,  an  excellent  citizen;  has  represented  his  county  in  the 
lower  House  of  the  General  Assembly,  and  has  the  confidence 
of  all  who  know  him.  B.  F.  Davis'  first  wife  dying,  he  married, 
a  second  time.  Miss  Corinna  McCormic,  of  upper  Marion,  and 
by  her  has  one  son,  a  lad,  named  Henry  Grady.  J.  Preston 
Davis  resides  and  merchandises  at  Marion,  with  his  son,  Can- 
tey,  and  they  are  doing  a  fair  business ;  he  also  has  a  farm  be- 
low Marion ;  married  a  Miss  Cantey,  of  Clarendon  or  Kershaw 
County,  and  has  three  sons,  Cantey,  Joseph  and  Keene.  Of 
these,  Cantey  married  a  Miss  Oliver,  of  Clarendon  County,  and 
has  three  children,  two  girls  and  a  boy.  Joseph  Davis  married 
a  Miss  Hodges,  of  Abbeville,  and  has  three  children,  two  boys 
and  one  gid.  Miss  Cora,  the  eldest  daughter,  is  unmarried ;  the 
son,  Keene,  is  also  unmarried.  Mary  married  Harold  Brunson, 
of  Florence.  Mineola  married  Dr.  Thomas  P.  Baily,  of 
Georgetown,  now  professor  in  the  University  of  Chicago ;  they 
have  two  boys.  Eva  married  Albert  Guery,  and  has  one  daugh- 
ter. J.  Preston  Davis  has  the  confidence  of  his  fellow-citizens ; 
he  was  elected  some  years  ago  County  Treasurer  for  the 
county,  and  served  acceptably  one  or  two  terms ;  was  also 
elected  a  Representative  of  the  county  in  the  State  Legislature, 
and  was  faithful  to  the  trust  reposed  in  him  by  his  people. 
Abram,  or  A.  G.  Davis,  brother  of  Benjamin,  married  (name  not 
known),  and  had  three  sons,  A.  G.,  Dr.  William  M.  and  Joseph 
Davis.  Don't  know  who  A.  G.  Davis,  Jr.,  married ;  he  moved 
to  North  Carolina,  some  years  ago.     Dr.  William  M.  Davis 

*Sallie,  J.  G.  Holliday's  wife,  recently  died. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  451 

married  a  Miss  Belin,  of  West  Marion,  now  Florence,  and  lives 
in  Florence  County.  Before  the  formation  of  Florence  County, 
Dr.  Wm.  M.  Davis  represented  Marion  County  one  term  in  the 
State  Legislature;  he  has  a  family;  Joseph  Davis  married  Miss 
Ervinia  Richardson,  oldest  daughter  of  the  late  William  F. 
Richardson,  and  by  her  had  two  children,  a  son,  William  G. 
Davis,*  and  a  daughter,  Addie  Davis;  when  the  father  died, 
his  widow  married  Rev.  J.  B.  Campbell,  Of  the  South  Caro- 
lina Conference,  and  of  whom  more  will  be  said  later  on. 
Joseph  Davis,  the  grand-father  of  Mrs.  Wm.  J.  Davis,  B.  F. 
Davis  and  others,  it  seems,  had  two  other  sons,  William  and 
Joseph,  but  as  to  them  and  their  posterity,  if  any,  the  writer  has 
no  further  information.  The  grand-father,  Joseph,  had,  also, 
daughters :  Martha,  who  married  Tristram  Thomas,  of  Marl- 
borough ;  Mary  also  married  James  Thomas,  of  Marlborough 
(had  no  children)  ;  Susan  married  James  Lyles,  of  North 
Carolina ;  Anna  Maria  married  Hugh  Fladger ;  Eliza  married 
Joseph  or  James  Johnson,  the  father  of  the  late  Dr.  William 
R.  Johnson;  and  Rachel  married  James  Newson  (had  no  chil- 
dren). Benjamin  S.  Davis,  the  father  of  Mrs.  W.  J.  Davis,  B. 
F.  Davis  and  others,  had  three  daughters:  Catharine  Davis, 
who  married,  first,  John  Collins,  and  he  died  and  the  widow 
married  Hugh  James  Floyd,  of  Horry ;  Mrs.  William  J.  Davis 
and  Julia  F.  Miss  Julia  F.  is  unmarried,  and  from  her  (Julia 
F.)  the  writer  has  had  much  of  the  above  account  of  her  family. 
Harry  Davis,  the  grand-father  of  Wm.  J.  Davis,  it  seems,  had 
three  sons — ^maybe  four ;  they  were  James,  Jackey,  Harry  and 
David  Davis.  Of  Jackey's  posterity  and  old  Joseph's  we  have 
already  spoken;  now  I  will  notice  that  of  James,  brother  of 
Jackey ;  he  married  some  one  unknown,  and  had  a  son,  named 
Theodore  Gourdin  Davis,  who  married  and  lived  on  the  God- 
frey's Ferry  Road  in  Britton's  Neck.  The  sons  of  Theodore 
Gourdin  Davis  were  Edward  William,  Theodore  G.  and  Nicho- 
las Calvin.  Edward  William  Davis  lives  in  Florence  County, 
and  is  quite  a  respectalble  citizen.  Harry  Davis,  Jr.,  married 
and  had  sons.  Dr.  Oliver,  Jackson,  James  C.  and  Ervin  Davis 
(don't  know  that  these  are  stated  in  the  order  of  their  ages). 

*William  G.  Davis  died  in  1900,  leaving  his  widow  and  three  or  four 
children. 


452  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Jackson  Davis  married  and  had  three  sons,  viz:  Poster,  Ste- 
phen and  Abraham  Davis.  James  Davis  emigrated  to  Georgia. 
Ervin  never  married  (dead).  Ohver  Davis  married  Eugenia 
Richardson,  and  had  six  children — ^three  sons,  Orion,  Shep.  U. 
and  Richelieu,  and  three  daughters.  May,  Sarah  and  Lorine. 
Of  the  daughters.  May  and  Sarah  died  unmarried ;  Lorine  mar- 
ried James  Porter,  of  Georgetown.  Of  the  sons,  Orion  and 
Richelieu  went  to'  Georgia.  Shep.  U.  Davis  married,  first, 
Miss  Maggie  McWhite,  and  by  this  marriage  four  chiMren 
were  born — one  son,  Alva,  and  three  girls  (all  small)  ;  the  wife 
died,  and  he  married,  a  second  time.  Miss  Mamie  Smith,  of 
North  Carolina.  S.  U.  Davis  is  no  ordinary  man ;  only  a  few 
years  ago  he  commenced  life  with  nothing  comparatively,  but 
by  diligence  and  strict  attention  to  business  and  good  manage- 
ment, he  has  accumulated  a  comfortable  living;  yet  compara- 
tively young,  he  may  by  continued  good  management  acquire 
large  wealth ;  he  is  a  man  of  high  moral  character ;  in  1898,  he 
was  elected  as  a  Representative  of  the  county  in  the  lower 
House  of  the  General  Assembly,  and  declined  re-election  in 
1900 ;  a  worthy,  exemplary,  good  citizen  and  Christian  gentle- 
man. 

Another  branch  of  this  large  and  numerous  family  remains 
to  be  noticed — ^that  of  David  Davis.  He  was  one  of  the  old 
Davis',  a  brother  of  Harry,  Sr.,  or  Harry,  Jr.,  Jadcey  and 
James,-  David  Davis  had  two  sons,  and  may  be  others;  the 
sons  were  Frank  and  Henry.  Frank  married,  first.  Miss 
Argent  Gerald,  and  by  her  had  Marion  Davis  and  Sarah  Ann. 
Marion  Davis  married  some  lady  to.  the  writer  unknown ;  he 
died,  and  left  several  children,  none  of  them  known,  except 
Mrs.  Sturgis,  now  residing  in  Florence;  she  first  married  a 
Mr.  Timmons,  who  died  and  left  her  a  widow,  with  one  or  two 
children — one  I  know,  Miss  Annie  Timmons ;  the  widow  mar- 
ried the  late  Morgan  W.  Sturgis,  and  he  died,  leaving  his 
widow  and  one  or  two  children ;  Mrs.  Sturgis  and  daughter, 
Annie,  are  running  the  American  Hotel,  in  Florence,  which  I 
understand  they  have  bought  and  paid  for,  and  are  doing  well 
in  their  hotel  business.  Sarah  Ann,  the  daughter  of  Frank 
Davis,  married,  in  July,  1847,  John  C.  Bethea,  Sr. ;  they  had  one 
son,  John  C,  Jr. ;  his  father  died  when  John  C,  Jr.,  was  about 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  453 

two  years  old,  leaving  him  a  good  property ;  the  mother  never 
again  married ;  she  died,  9th  April,  1893,  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
five  years ;  she  was  a  remarkable  woman  in  many  respects,  of 
fine  sense,  and  managed  the  large  property  left  to  her  and  her 
son  with  much  success ;  her  son,  John  C,  Jr.,  married,  and  has 
a  family  of  seven  children,  resides  at  Dillon,  and  has  already 
been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Betheas.  Frank  Davis  married, 
a  second  time,  the  Widow  Brown,  the  mother  of  the  late  T.  F. 
Brown,  whose  maiden  name  was  Julia  Davis ;  by  her,  it  seems, 
there  were  no  children ;  his  Brown  wife  dying,  he  married,  a 
third  wife,  who  was  a  Miss  Port,  and  by  her  he  had  one  son, 
Joseph  P.  Davis,  who  never  married,  though  he  lived  to  middle 
life  or  past  it,  and  died  at  Port's  Ferry,  on  the  Great  Pee  Dee — 
which  took  its  name  from  the  Port  family.  Henry  Davis,  the 
other  son  of  David  Davis,  and  brother  of  Frank,  married  twice ; 
don't  know  who  his  first  wife  was ;  she  was  killed  in  the  blow- 
ing up  of  the  steamer  Richland,  Captain  Brock,  in  or  about 
1848,  she  had  no  child  or  offspring;  Henry  Davis  married,  a 
second  time,  a  Miss  Bostick,  of  West  Marion,  now  in  Florence 
County;  by  the  Bostick  wife,  he  had  six  sons.  The  eldest, 
John  C.  Davis,  married  a  daughter  of  William  J.  Davis;  he 
died  some  year  or  two  ago,  his  widow  surviving,  with  five 
child!ren,  daughters.  Henry,  the  next  son,  married  a  Miss 
Sistrunk;  they  have  no  children.  The  next  son,  David,  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Harrel;  he  is  dead,  leaving  his  widow  and  two 
children.  Preston,  the  next  son,  married  a  Miss  Harnagor, 
and  has  five  or  six  children.  Wardlaw,  the  next  son,  married 
a  daughter  of  William  J.  Davis ;  they  have  three  children ;  the 
youngest  son,  Joseph,  is  unmarried,  is  a  physician  and  is  in 
Georgia  or  Florida.  Henry  Davis,  Sr.,  the  father,  is  also  dead, 
and  I  think  his  widow  is  dead,  too. 

Henry  Davis  was  elected  as  a  Whig  to  the  Legislature,  in 
1840.  The  political  contest  that  year,  between  the  Democrats 
and  Whigs,  was  very  heafed  and  bitter,  not  only  in  Marion 
District,  but  throughout  the  entire  country.  It  was  the  Van 
Buren  and  Harrison  campaign,  and  may  be  designated  as  "the 
ooon-skin,  log  cabin  and  hard  cider"  campaign.  The  Whig 
party  was  successful,  and  Wm.  Henry  Harrison  was  triumph- 
antly elected  President  of  the  United  States.    The  contest 


454  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

was  very  exciting  in  Marion  District — each  party  had  its  can- 
didates. The  Democratic  candidates  were,  for  the  Senate,  Ad- 
dison L.  Scarborough,  and  for  the  House,  John  C.  Bethea, 
Hugh  Godbold  and  William  T.  Wilson.  The  Whig  candidates 
were,  for  the  House,  David  Palmer,  Henry  Davis  and  Dr. 
Daniel  Gilchrist;  and  for  the  Senate,  Benjamin  Gause.  The 
result  was  Gause  was  elected  Senator  by  eighteen  votes ;  David 
Palmer,  Henry  Davis  and  John  C.  Bethea  were  elected  as  mem- 
bers of  the  House.  Of  the  six  candidates  for  the  House,  there 
were  not  fifty  votes  between  the  highest  and  the  lowest  vote. 
John  C.  Bethea  was  the  only  Democrat  elected.  In  1842, 
Henry  Davis,  Joseph  Jolly  and  another  were  elected  without 
opposition.  The  "coon-skin,  log  cabin  and  hard  cider"  fever 
had  abated.  President  Harrison  died  in  a  month  after  his 
inauguration,  and  John  Tyler  was  President,  and  he  very  much 
dampened  the  ardor  of  the  Whig  party. 

Daniel  Davis,  a  brother  of  JaCky  Davis,  was  the  father  of 
,  Randall,  William,  George  and  -James  Davis.  George  Davis 
had  sons,  Hugh,  John  R.,  Benjamin  and  James.  William 
Davis  had  two  sons,  John  and  Wiliam.  Randall  Davis  mar- 
ried, first,  a  Miss  Avant,  and  by  her  had  two  children,  Henry 
and  Sarah ;  the  Avant  wife  dying,  he  married  a  Miss  Lucas, 
and  by  her  had  several  children.  His  son,  Henry,  married  a 
Miss  Wiggins,  first,  and  by  her  had  five  children;  his  second 
wife  was  a  Miss  Lucas,  and  by  her  has  one  child,  a  daughter. 
Sarah,  the  sister  of  Henry,  married  Ira  Avant,  and  has  two 
children,  boys  (small) ;  think  she  and  her  husband  have  sep- 
arated. Hugh  Davis  married  Miss  A.nnie  White,  daughter  of 
the  late  Wesley  White;  Hugh  is  dead;  he  left  four  children, 
Hugh  G.,  Julius  and  David,  three  sons,  and  one  daughter, 
named  Orilla.  John  R.  Davis  married  a  Miss  Shaw ;  he  died, 
and  left  several  children,  names  unknown.  William  Davis 
married,  and  had  two  sons,  John  and  William.  Know  nothing 
of  James  Davis,  brother  of  Randa:B,  nor  of  the  sons  of  William 
Davis — have  heard  they  were  killed  or  died  in  the  war ;  these 
all  live  or  did  live  in  Wahee  Township.  The  Davis  name  and 
family  are  very  numerous  and  extensive  in  its  connections,  and 
have  ever  been  prominent  and  respectable. 

Recurring  again  to  the  family  of  William  J.  Davis :  He  had 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  455 

and  raised  nine  children;  six  of  them  are  married  and  three 
single.  Ella  married  Wm.  G.  Davis;  he  died  last  year,  igoo, 
and  left  three  or  four  children ;  they  are  at  Marion.  Richard 
F.  married  Miss  Mary  Louise  Godbold,  daughter  of  Dr.  Wm. 
H.  Godbold;  they  have  two  sons  (small).  Ida  May  Davis 
married  John  C.  Davis  (dead),  as  above  stated.  William  Pres- 
ton Davis  married  Miss  Cornelia  Raysor,  daughter  of  Rev.  Dr. 
Raysor.  Viola  Davis  married  B.  F.  W.  Davis,  now  living  at 
Waycross,  Ga.  C.  Keene  Davis  married  Laura  Brockinton, 
daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  John  Brockinton,  of  Kingstree.  The 
three  single  children  are  George  Pierce,  Jennie  and  Gary  Davis. 

Stanley. — Captain  M.  B.  Stanley  and  his  brother,  Thomas 
E.  Stanley,  are  importations  from  Darlington  County.  Cap- 
tain M.  B.  Stanley  was  a  volunteer  in  the  Mexican  War  as  a 
private  soldier,  was  in  many  of  the  battles  and  came  out  un- 
scathed. After  the  Mexican  War,  he  came  to  Marion  County, 
where  he  has  since  lived;  he  married  Mary  Jane  Godbold, 
daughter  of  the  late  Asa  Godbold,  Sr.,  and  settled  where  he 
now  lives,  below  Marion,  on  the  Big  Reedy  Creek,  east  of 
Legette's  Mill.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the  late  war  between 
the  States,  he  was  elected  Captain  of  the  first  company  from 
Marion  County,  composed'  of  its  best  men,  and  left  for  Charles- 
ton harbor  4th  January,  1861,  and  his  company  was  mustered 
into  the  ist  South  Carolina  Regiment  (Maxcy  Gregg,  Colo- 
nel), and  was  stationed  on  Morris  Island,  and  participated  in 
the  first  battle  of  the  war,  which  eventuated  in  the  capture  and 
surrender  of  Fort  Sumter,  in  Charleston  harbor,  commanded 
by  Major  Anderson,  on  12th  and  13th  of  April,  1861.  This 
act  marked  the  beginning  of  the  four  years'  war  which  fol- 
lowed^— the  bloodiest  war  on  record.  Soon  after  that  action, 
owing  to  the  terms  of  enlistment  of  the  company,  it  was  reor- 
ganized for  service  in  Virginia  or  for  the  Confederacy,  and  a 
revolunteering  for  the  war.  The  greater  part  of  the  company 
revolunteered  and  formed  a  new  company,  and  the  distin- 
guished Wm.  P.  Shooter  was  elected  its  Captain.  The  new 
company  went  to  Virginia,  and  saw  hard  service  during  the 
remainder  of  the  war.  Captain  M.  B.  Stanley  did  not  enter 
the  new  company,  but  was  an  active  partisan  in  other  branches 
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456  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

of  the  service  throughout  the  bloody  struggle.  As  before 
•stated,  he  had  married  and  settled ;  he  had  and  raised  a  family 
•of  three  children — two  sons,  Elbert  B.  and  William  Edward, 
.one  daughter,  named  Charlotte.  The  eldest  son,  Elbert,  mar- 
ried, first,  a  Miss  Nesbit,  by  whom  he  had  five  children 
(small) ;  the  Nesbit  wife  dying,  he  married  Miss  Melvina 
Gregg,  daughter  of  the  late  O.  S.  Gregg,  of  West  Marion,  by 
whom  he  has  one  child.  William  Edward  married  the  only 
daug'hter  of  Robert  Godbold,  and  has  two  children,  both  girls 
(small).  Charlotte,  the  only  daughter  of  Captain  M.  B.  Stan- 
ley, married  J.  J.  Richardson;  they  have  five  children  (small). 
Captain  Thomas  E.  Stanley,  the  younger  brother  of  Captain  M. 
B.  Stanley,  came  into  the  county  just  before  the  war,  as  a  clerk 
for  C.  Graham;  he  volunteered  in  the  first  company  from 
Marion,  and  continued  in  the  service  till  the  close  of  the  war ; 
was  a  gallant  soldier,  a  very  genial  and  good  citizen ;  he  mar- 
ried, after  the  war,  a  Miss  Brown,  daughter  of  the  late  T.  F. 
Brown,  and  settled  on  Tyrrel's  Bay,  on  his  wife's  patrimony, 
and  has  an  excellent  farm ;  they  have  had  and  raised  two  sons 
and  four  daughters,  names  unknown ;  two  of  the  daughters  are 
married' — one  to  James  Godbold,  and  the  other  to  a  Mr. 
Owens ;  the  other  two  daughters  are  single — ^said  to  be  smart. 
Captain  T.  E.  Stanley  is  a  very  intelligent  man,  harmless,  hon- 
est and  a  good,  patriotic  citizen. 

Harrbi^s  in  Britton's  Neck. — Samuel  Harrel  is  eighty-two 
years  of  age;  his  father  was  Levi  Harrel,  from  North  Carolina; 
came  here  in  1806 ;  married  Elizabeth  Jones ;  his  grand-father 
was  Ephraim  Harrel,  who  married  an  Indian  woman,  on 
Roanoke  River,  in  North  Carolina,  and  moved  to  Fort  Clair- 
borne,  Ala.,  and  died  there.  Samuel  Harrel  first  married  Anna 
Isgat;  they  had  four  children,  all  dead,  but  one  daughter, 
named  Frances  Maurice,  who  is  the  wife  of  James  G.  Altman. 
Samuel  Harrel's  second  wife  was  a  Miss  Fountain ;  by  her  he 
had  one  soij,  George  W.  Harrel,  who  lives  in  Florence  County. 

AiTMAN. — ^James  D.  Altman  is  a  son  of  Thomas  Altman, 
who  married  Elizabeth  Dozier ;  had  three  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters; the  sons  were  William,  John  and  James  D.  Altman. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  457 

William  and  John  'both  died  in  the  war;  one  of  disease,  the 
other  from  wounds  received' — he  died  at  home.  James  D.  Alt- 
man  was  also  in  the  war,  in  Captain  Crawford's  company. 
Thomas  Altman  had  three  brothers,  Stephen,  William  and 
Jack.  Stephen  Altman  lived  on  "Big  Sister"  Bay,  five  miles 
east  of  Marion ;  was  a  quiett  and  inoffensive  "citizen ;  he  married 
a  daughter  of  Rev.  Moses  Coleman,  and  raised  some  family, 
don't  know  how  many — one  son,  Preston,  and  one  daughter, 
and  perhaps  other  children.  Of  old  William  and  Jack  Altman 
and  their  families,  the  writer  knows  nothing.  James  D.  mar- 
ried a  daughter  of  Samuel  Harrel ;  they  have  twelve  children, 
all  daughters,  but  three ;  one  daughter  dead ;  they  have  twenty- 
one  grand-children;  five  daughters  married — one  to  John 
West ;  one  to  Alexander  McKethan,  in  North  Carolina ;  one  to 
Alva  Todd,  in  Horry ;  one  to  John  W.  Davis ;  and  one  to  Ben- 
jamin James,  in  Williamsburg.  The  oldest  son  of  James  D. 
Altman,  Benjamin  E.,  married  a  Miss  Foxworth ;  the  other  two 
sons  not  married. 

WHAi,EY.-^John  H.  Whaley  married  Susan  Carter;  they 
had  ten  children,  six  sons  and  four  daughters.  Two  of  the 
sons  were  lost  by  the  casualties  of  war.  F.  D.  Whaley  diead ; 
left  wife  and  one  child.  Three  of  John  H.  Whaley's  sons  are 
now  living,  to  wit :  H.  J.,  D.  B.  and  W.  Manly.  H.  J.  Whaley 
married  twice;  first  wife  was  Miss  M.  F.  Altman,  who  had 
nine  children ;  his  second  wife  was  Miss  Ella  Guyton,  children 
none ;  he  has  three  daughters  married — one  married  Rev.  J.  D. 
Harrelson ;  one  married  W.  H.  Thompson,  and  the  other  mar- 
ried Rev.  H.  D.  Jones.  D.  B.  Whaley  married  Mass  Ida  Davis ; 
they  have  seven  children,  five  girls  and  two  Ijoys,  names  un- 
known. W.  Manly  Whaley  married  Miss  Frances  Regan, 
daughter  of  the  late  Charley  F.  Regan ;  they  have  three  child- 
ren (small). 

Richardson. — This  large  family  in  name  and  its  connec- 
tions, so  far  as  Marion  County  is  concerned,  had  its  origin  in 
the  names  of  William  Richardson  and  John  Richardson,  who 
came  from  Roanoke,  Va.,  just  after  the  Revolutionary  War; 
they  were  brothers — William  was  much  older  than  John.    Wil- 


458  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

liam  was  old  enough  to  go  into  the  war,  and,  as  tradition 
informs,  served  throughout  the  war  four  years  in  place  of  his 
father  and  three  years  for  himself.  John  was  too  young  to  go 
into  the  war.  The  two  brothers,  soon  after  the  war,  came  to 
South  Carolina,  married  and)  settled  in  Marion  County,  and 
from  these  two  sprang  the  large  family  and  its  connections  now 
existing  and  remaining  in  the  county — ^many  having  emigrated 
to  other  parts.  Old  William  married  (don't  know  who),  and 
had  sons.  Hardy,  John,  Hopkins  and  William,  and  two  daugh- 
ters, Polly  and  Alice ;  he  married,  a  second  time,  Nancy  Rob- 
erts, and  by  her  had  sons,  Richard,  Jadkson,  Thomas  and 
Henry,  and  three  daughters,  Martha,  Nancy  and  Betsey.  John 
M.  Richardson,  now  living,  eighty-four  years  of  age  (and  my 
informant  was  the  son  of  William,  Jr.,  who  was  the  youngest 
son  of  WilMato,  Sr.,  by  his  first  marriage) .  Hardy,  the  oldest 
son  of  William,  Sr.,  married  a  Miss  Davis,  and  went  West. 
John,  the  second  son,  married  Sallie  Johnson,  and  by  her  he 
had  Benjamin,  John,  Washington,  James  and  Ebby,  and 
daughters,  Betsy,  Sarah  Ann  and'  Catharine.  Benjamin  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Gasque,  and  had  Graves,  James,  Preston  and 
Sydney  Richardson.  Graves  married,  first,  a  Miss  Altman, 
then  a  Miss  Dill,  and  then  a  Miss  Smith.  James  married  a 
Miss  Britton,  and  has  a  family,  how  many  is  not  known.  John 
died  young.  Washington  married  in  Georgetown,  and  lived 
and  died  there.  James  never  married,  and  died  in  the  war. 
Ebby  married  a  Miss  Atkinson,  and  had  two  children;  he  died 
in  the  war.  Henry  married  a  Miss  Davis,  and  moved  to  Mis- 
sissippi. Hopkins  and  Richard  never  married.  William 
Richardson,  Jr.,  married  Eeasy  Martin,  a  sister  of  old  "Cuff 
Mose"  Martin  (well  known  in  his  day).  "Cufif  Mose"  Martin 
was  quite  a  character.  It  was  said  of  him  that  he  never  wore 
any  shoes  or  hat,  but  wore  a  cloth  cap,  which  his  wife  spun, 
wove  and  made  for  him.  This  was  his  garb  when  the  writer 
saw  him  last,  in  i860 ;  he  lived  then  on  the  west  side  of  Little 
Pee  Dee,  near  the  river  swamp,  on  the  Galivant's  Ferry  road. 
The  writer,  with  several  others,  were  on  our  way  to  the  Horry 
Court,  and  passing  Mr.  Martin's  house,  close  to  the  road,  the 
old  man  was  out  in  his  yard.  We  stopped,  and  the  old  gentle- 
man came  to  his  bars  at  the  road,  and  we  had  some  talk  with 


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him,  principally  about  his  bees  and  bee-gums.  There  was  a 
line  of  bee-gums  on  each  sidle  of  the  path  from  bis  bars  to  the 
edge  of  his  yard — forming  a  little  lane  or  street  from  the  bars 
to  his  house ;  he  said  there  were  a  hundred  gums  there,  and  said 
that  he  haid  a  hundred  other  gums  back  of  his  house  (a  little 
cabin),  on  the  side  of  the  river  swamp.  Those  bees  and  bee- 
gums  were  his  chief  crop ;  he  saved  his  honey  and  sold  it.  I 
suppose  the  old  gentleman,  in  his  apparent  poverty,  was  a 
happier  man  than  any  of  our  crowd.  He  was  then  ( i860)  an 
old  man  and  died  some  years  afterward,  at  the  age  of  ninety- 
one  years.  He  was  a  true  man,  and  as  independent  in  his 
action  and  modes  of  life  as  King  Edward  VII.  of  England.  I 
could  relate  other  incidents  in  his  life,  illustrative  of  his  unique 
character,  but  want  of  space  will  not  permit.  They  had  two 
children,  sons,  John  M.  and  William.  The  Martin  wife  died, 
and  William,  Jr.,  as  distinguished  from  the  first  old  William, 
married  a  second  wife,  a  Miss  Richardson ;  by  her  he  had  sons, 
M|Jthew,  Hopkins,  James,  Ervin,  Arna  an'd  Hampton;  he 
then  married  Miss  Chinnis,  and  by  her  had  two  children,  one 
boy  and  one  girl.  The  boy,  Edward,  dlied.  John  M.  Richard- 
son married  Polly  Drew,  and  had  three  boys,  William,  Hamil- 
ton and  Peter ;  the  Drew  wife  died,  and  then  he  married  Caro- 
line Cribb,  and  by  her  had  three  sons,  Lee,  Hampton  and  Eng- 
lish. William,  son  of  John  M.,  died  in  the  war.  Hamilton 
married  a  Miss  Deck,  and  moved  to  Horry.  Peter  married 
Milly  Richardson,  daughter  of  Ervin  Richardson,  and  by  her 
had  Walter,  Eddy,  Byrd,  Coy  and  twin  brothers,  Troy  and 
Corde.  Lee  died,  four  years  ago,  unmarried.  Hampton  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Richardson,  and  has  two  sons  (small).  English 
married  Miss  Alice  Cribb ;  has  no  children.  Matthew  married 
Miss  Sallie  Johnson,  and  had  one  son,  Marion,  who  died  in  the 
war.  William  married  his  cousin,  daughter  of  John  M.  Rich- 
aridson ;  he  has  Jessee,  Ervin  and  Franklin,  and  Ann  Eliza,  Su- 
sannah Lee,  Eugenia  and  Lena.  Hopkins,  when  a  young 
single  man,  was  thrown  by  a  horse  and  killed.  James, 
brother  of  Matthew,  married  Miss  Rebecca  Cribb,  and  had 
sons,  William,  Avery,  Arny  and  others,  names  unknown. 
Ervin  Richardson  married  Ann  Pace,  and  by  her  had  Corne- 
lius, Henry,  Preston  and  Allen ;  first  wife  dying,  he  married,  a 


460  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY, 

second  wife.  Miss  Boatwright,  and  by  her  had  a  son,  Boyd — 
no  daughters.  Avery  married  a  Miss  Pace,  and  by  her  had 
John  Calhoun,  Robert,  Sydney,  Bradley  and  Sumter.  John 
Calhoun  married  a  Miss  Foxworth,  and  has  children.  Robert 
Richardson  married  Miss  Alice  Sanders,  and  has  two  children 
(small).  Sydney  married  Miss  Nannie  Carter;  they  have  no 
children.  Bradley  married  Miss  Patsy  Baxley ;  they  have  two 
children  (small).  Sumter  is  grown  and  unmarried.  Hamp- 
ton Richardson  married,  first,  a  Miss  Atkinson,  and  has  some 
children  (unknoTvn)  ;  his  second  wife  was  a  Miss  Godbold, 
daughter  of  Vincent  Godbold;  had  two  children,  one  named 
Cicero;  his  third  wife  was  Victoria  Smith,  and  they  have 
several  children  (names  and  number  unknown)  ;  the  third  wife 
dying,  he  married,  a  fourth  one,  Nancy  Richardson ;  they  havfe 
no  children.  John  Richardson,  the  younger  brother  of  old 
William,  called  "King  John,"  married  a  Miss  Fladger,  the 
sister  of  old  Hugh  Fladger,  and  sister  of  General  Thomas 
Godbdd's  wife;  they  had  and  raised  four  sons.  Valence, 
James  J.,  William  F.  and  Andrew  Jackson  Richardson,  and 
three  daughters,  Charlotte,  Martha  and  another.  Charlotte 
married  Jessee  Legette;  Martha  married  David  Legette,  and 
the  other  married  Nelson  Legette.  Valentine  Richardson 
married  a  Miss  White  and  moved  to  Georgia.  James  J.  Rich- 
ardson became  a  Methodist  traveling  preacher ;  he  married  in 
North  Carolina.  The  South  Carolina  Conference  then  ex- 
tended into  North  Carolina,  and  included  Uncolnton,  Fayette- 
ville  and  Wilmington.  He  died  in  1833 — I  think,  at  Lincoln- 
ton,  N.  C. — engaged  in  his  ministerial  duties.  William  F. 
Richardson,  born  in  1806,  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Palmer,  a 
daughter  of  David  Palmer,  then  a  prominent  man  in  his  com- 
munity and  county;  they  had  and  raised  daughters,  Ervinia, 
Augusta  Alice,  Mary  and  Emma,  and  one  son,  James  J.  Rich- 
ardson. Ervinia,  the  eldest,  married,  first,  Joseph  Davis,  and 
by  him  she  had  two  children,  the  late  William  G.  Davis,  and  a 
daughter,  Ad'die  Davis ;  Joseph  Davis  died,  and  she  afterwards 
married  Rev.  J.  B.  Campbell,  of  the  South  Carolina  Confer- 
ence, and  by  him  she  had  two  sons,  Rev.  J.  A.  Campbell  and 
John  S.  The  former  is  a  traveling  Methodist  preacher,  is  mar- 
ried and  has  a  growing  family.    James  S.  Campbell  is  unmar- 


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ried,  and  is  a  druggist.  Mrs.  J.  B.  Campbell  has  five  daugh- 
ters, four  of  whom  are  married  and  one  single.  The  second 
daughter  of  William  F.  Richardson,  Augusta,  married  James 
Godbold,  and  settled  on  the  old  homestead  of  Wm.  F.  Richard- 
son ;  they  have  five  children — two  sons,  Wade  and  Warren,  and 
three  daughters  (names  forgotten) ;  these  sons  and  daughters 
are  all  grown  and  unmarried^ — ^they  are  smart  and  promising. 
Alice,  the  third  daughter  of  W.  F.  Richardson,  married  John 
H.  Hamer,  of  Harlleesville ;  she  is  dead;  she  had  and  left 
surviving  her  five  children,  to  wit :  Edward  R.,  Mary  C,  Tris- 
tram, Ovianna  and  John  H.  Of  these,  Edward  R.  married 
MisB  Julia  Berry,  daughter  of  James  Berry,  now  lives  at  Dil- 
lon, and  has  five  or  six  children  (small).  Mary  C.  married 
Neill  Berry,  and  has  three  children  (small).  Orianna  married 
Lawrence  Manning ;  they  have  no  children.  Tristram,  a  doc- 
tor, is  unmarried,  and  has  emigrated  to  Texas.  John  H.,  Jr., 
is  grown  and  unmarried^ — a  dentist.  Mary,  the  fourth  daugh- 
ter of  W.  F.  Richardson,  married  John  O.  Willson,  D.  D.,  of 
the  South  Carolina  Conference,  and  after  having  one  child, 
Bessie,  she  died.  Bessie  grew  up  and  married  Captain  Donald- 
son, of  the  United  States  army,  a  son  of  T.  Q.  Donaldson,  of 
Greenville,  S.  C.  Emma,  the  fifth  and  youngest  daughter  of 
W.  F.  Richardson,  married  Hon  J.  M.  Johnson,  now  serving 
his  thirteenth  year  as  Solicitor  of  the  Fourth  Judicial  Circuit 
of  South  Carolina,  and  who  resides  at  Marion ;  they  have  seven 
children.  Flora,  John  M.,  Jr.,  Palmer,  Louise,  Robert,  Rich- 
ardson and  Alice ;  the  four  first  named  are  grown  and  promis- 
ing young  people.  J.  J.  Richardson,  the  only  son  of  W.  F. 
Richardson,  married  Miss  Charlotte  Stanley,  who  has  already 
been  noticed  among  the  Stanleys ;  they  have  five  children.  Of 
the  two  old  Richardson  brothers,  William  and  John  (King 
John),  the  latter  was  the  more  prosperous,  the  former  was  the 
more  prolific  in  his  progeny.  William  F.  Richardson,  son  of 
"King  John,"  was  a  most  excellent  man,  a  solid,  good  citizen, 
of  high  character  and  remarkable  for  his  fine  sense.  The 
writer  knew  him  well ;  we  served  in  ante-bellum  days  together 
on  the  Board  of  Commissioners  of  the  Poor  for  the  county,  two 
or  three  terms ;  he  died  at  the  age  of  fifty-seven,  in  1863,  uni- 
versally loved  and  respected.    Much  more  might  truthfully  be 


462  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

said  oi  him,  and  his  many  fine  traits  of  character,  but  want  of 
space  forbids.  Andrew  Jackson  Richardson,  brother  of  Wil- 
liam F.,  married  a  Miss  Palmer,  half-sister  of  William  F.'s 
wife ;  he  moved  to  Georgetown  many  years  ago,  and  died  in 
that  old  town.     The  writer  saw  his  widow  a  few  days  ago. 

Stevbnson. — ^The  great-^grand-father  of  J.  Edwin  Steven- 
son, Benjamin  Stevenson,  came  from  Virginit,  and  was  a 
soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War  under  General  Greene.  He 
settled  in  Horry  County,  on  the  Lake  Swamp  (don't  know  to 
whom  he  married) ;  he  had  two  children,  a  daughter  and  a  son ; 
the  son  was  named  Benjamin;  the  girl  died.  Benjamin,  Jr., 
married  three  times — ^first,  a  Miss  Booth,  who  was  the  mother 
of  the  late  Samuel  M.  Stevenson ;  his  second  wife  was  a  Miss 
Anderson ;  she  had  one  son,  William,  and  two  daughters,  Anne 
and  Margaret.  Anne  married  Daniel  Oliver,  and  was  the 
mother  of  A.  R.  and  D.  J.  Oliver,  and  another  son,  named 
Samuel.  Margaret  not  known.  A.  R.  Oliver  married  a  Miss 
Ivegette,  and  has  already  been  noticed  in  or  among  the  Legettes. 
Daniel  J.  Oliver  married  Miss  Sallie  Fuller,  daughter  of  the^ 
late  Wyatt  Fuller,  and  has  several  children,  a  son,  L.  Wyatt 
Oliver,  and  another  name  un:known ;  they  also  have  a  daughter, 
Mary,  who  married  Quincy  Berry — ^the  latter  have  no  children. 
L.  Wyatt  Oliver  married  Miss  Alice  Jones ;  they  have  one  or 
two  children  (small).  Don't  know  what  became  of  William 
Stevenson.  Benjamin,  Jr.'s,  third  wife  was  Martha  Mc- 
Cracken,  and  by  her  he  had  two  sons,  James  Norton  and  Ben- 
jamin Purefoy  Stevenson.  The  latter,  if  living,  in  in  Horry 
County.  Samuel  M.  Stevenson,  the  son  by  the  first  wife,  many 
years  ago  moved  to  Marion  County,  after  marrying  a  Miss 
Sarvis,  a  sister  of  the  late  Cornelius  Sarvis,  of  Horry ;  he  lived 
and  died  where  W.  W.  Baker  now  lives ;  had  no  child,  was  suc- 
cessful in  life,  was  a  very  intelligent  man,  good  citizen  and, 
above  all,  an  exemplary  Christian  gentleman.  James  N. 
Stevenson  married,  first,  a  Miss  Hughes,  of  Horry ;  by  her  he 
had  one  child,  a  son,  J.  Edwin  Stevenson ;  his  wife  died ;  he 
came  to  Marion  and  merchandised  there  till  the  war,  with 
seeming  success ;  he  married,  a  second  time,  the  Widow  Gause, 
relict  of  the  Hon.  Benjamin  Gause;  her  maiden  name  was 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  463 

Susan  Gregg,  youngest  daughter  of  the  late  R.  J.  Gregg,  who 
was  Tax  Collector  for  Marion  District  for  thirty  years,  and 
well  known  to  every  -one  in  his  day  as  an  honest,  straightfor- 
ward. Christian  gentleman  and  faithful  official;  the  Widow 
Benjamin  Gause  had  one  child,  a  son,  Benjamin,  by  her  mar- 
riage with  Gause,  who  now  lives  in  Bennettsville.  Benjamin 
Gause,  St.,  was  quite  a  prominent  man  in  his  day,  well-to-do, 
and  was  twice  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  served  with  ability 
two  terms,  and  was  universally  loved  and  respected  by  all  who 
knew  him.  James  N.  Stevenson  married  his  widow,  and  by 
her  had  and  raised  eight  children,  four  sons  and  four  daugh- 
ters, to  wit:  Robert,  Samuel,  James  N.  and  Charles  W.,  and 
daughters,  Mary,  Anne,  Mattie  and  Susan.  Of  these,  Mary, 
Susan  and  Charley  are  married — Mary  to  L.  Fontaine  Davis, 
and  has  five  children;  Susan  married  Dixon  Gregg,  and  has 
no  child ;  Chcirles  W.  married  a  Miss  Gray,  and  has  one  child ; 
Robert,  Samuel  and  James  N.  are  unmarried ;  Anne  and  Mattie 
are  also  unmarried;  they  live  on  the  Gause  homestead.  J. 
Edwin  Stevenson,  son  by  James  N.'s  first  marriage,  married, 
first,  Miss  Julia  Brown^  daughter  of  the  late  T.  Foster  Brown ; 
by  this  marriage  five  children  were  born,  and  I  think  all  raised, 
and  perfiaps  all  married,  but  one  daughter — ^to  whom  is  un- 
known, except  one  son,  married  a  daughter  of  Captain  G.  A. 
Mclntyre ;  the  Brown  wife  dying,  J.  Edwin  Stevenson  married, 
a  second  time,  Miss  Mattie  Godbold,  oldest  daughter  of  the 
late  Dr.  William  H.  Godbdld ;  by  her  he  had  some  four  or  five 
children,  three  of  whom  survive;  the  Godbold  wife  died,  and 
he  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Sheriff  Lewis,  of  Horry,  and  has 
removed  to  that  county,  and  is  merchandising ;  is  an  energetic, 
progressive  man,  of  good  habits  and  of  high  character,  as  was 
his  father,  James  Norton  Stevenson. 

Craven. — Of  this  family  the  writer  has  not  been  able  to 
learn  anything  prior  to  William  H.  Craven,  our  present  fellow- 
citizen,  in  Britton's  Neck.  William  H.  Craven  married  a  Miss 
Richardson,  and  has  had  ten  children  (one  dead),  as  follows: 
Julius  Edward  (a  deaf  mute),  Preston,  Lane,  Henry,  Charles 
and  Boyd,  Gertrude,  Lula  and  Claude.  Julius  married  Anne 
Wall;   Preston  married  a   Miss   Shelby;   Gertrude  married 


464  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

George  Broadhurst — she  is  a  widow;  the  other  six  children 
are  single,  and  remain  with  their  parents.  William  H.  Craven 
is  an  industrious,  energetic  and  good  citi?.en,  quiet  and  inoffen- 
sive, lives  by  his  farm,  is  upright  in  his  dealings  and  a  good 
neighbor. 

Thompson. — ^John  C.  Thompson  married  a  Miss  Edwards, 
daughter  of  Rev.  David  S.  Edwards,  on  Buck  Swamp ;  he  had 
three  sons.  Chapman,  Jefferson  and  Howard.  The  two  former 
are  dead;  the  latter,  Howard,  married  twice — ^have  not  been 
alble  to  find  out  to  whom,  nor  as  to  their  children,  if  any.  John 
C.  Thompson  is  dead ;  he  was  prominent  in  his  neighborhood 
and  a  useful,  good  citizen.  Jesse  Thompson,  brother  of  John 
C,  is  an  excellent  man  in  the  Gapway  section ;  he  married,  first, 
Martha  Williamson ;  no  child  by  this  marriage ;  he  married,  a 
second  time,  a  Miss  Carter,  and  they  have  no  offspring.  There 
were  two  other  brothers,  Stephen  and  William ;  they  moved  to 
Horry. 

KiRTON. — ^William  Kirton  came  from  Ireland  to  this  country 
before  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  married  a  Miss  Avant,  and 
had  two  sons,  John  and  William.  John  never  married;  Wil- 
liam married  a  Widow  Williams,  nee  Avant;  they  had  two 
sons,  Thomas  and  Philip,  and  one  daughter,  Elizabeth. 
Thomas  Kirton  married  and  went  to  Horry  County.  Philip 
married  Miss  Olivia  Gasque-,  and  had  four  sons,  Thomas, 
Henry,  Philip  and  Samuel,  and  three  daughters,  Elizabeth, 
M'ary  and  Olivia.  Thomas  married  a  Miss  Jones,  and  went  to 
Horry,  and  was  killed  by  Jeptha  Jones,  on  the  Great  Pee  Dee 
River.  Henry  Kirton  married  the  Widow  Sinoth,  nee  Hannalh 
Philips ;  they  had  an  only  son,  Thomas  H.  Kirton,  our  worthy 
fellow-citizen',  now  near  Tyrrel's  Bay,  in  lower  Marion,  and  he 
married,  first,  a  Widow  McQueen,  nee  Gerald,  who  had  two 
McQueen  daughters — none  by  her  marriage  with  Kirton ;  one 
of  these  McQueen  daughters  is  married,  but  to  whom  is  un- 
known ;  the  other  one  still  resides  with  Kirton ;  the  McQueen 
wife  having  died,  he  married,  a  second  time.  Miss  Catharine 
N.  Floyd ;  they  have  no  child.  What  became  of  Philip  Kirton, 
brother  of  Henry,  the  writer  knows  not.    The  other  brother, 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  465 

Samuel,  I  think,  married  a  Miss  Casque,  sister  of  the  late  James 
C.  Casque,  went  to  Georgetown  and  died  there.  Of  the  sisters 
of  Henry  Kirton,  Elizabeth,  Mary  and  Olivia,  the  writer  has  no 
information.  Thomas  H.  Kirton  was  a  gallant  soldier  in  the 
Confederate  War,  and  is  a  whole-souled  man  and  an  honorable 
citizen. 

Philips. — ^John  Philips  came  from  England  long  before  the 
Revolutionary  War,  and  settled  in  this  county,  below  Marion, 
and  married  Miss  Margaret  Linton,  also  from  England,  and' 
by  her  had  an  only  son,  John,  called  "Jockey  John."  "Jockey 
John"  Philips  married  a  Miss  Kirton,  and  by  her  had  sons, 
William  L,.,  Thomes,  Jockey,  Isaac,  Jdhn  and  Zack,  and  daugh- 
ter. Annis  Philips  married  Hugh  Ciles,  son  of  Colonel  Hugh 
Ciles,  of  Revolutionary  fame,  and  by  him  had  one  son,  the  late 
Hugh  Ciles — ^about  whom  something  has  already  been'  said, 
and  who  may  again  be  noticed  among  the  Ciles  family.  An- 
other daugthter,  Elizabeth,  married  a  Rice,  and  moved  to  Ten- 
nessee. William  L.  Philips  married  Nancy  Owens,  and  they 
had  sons,  John,  William,  David  and  Palmer,  and  daughters, 
Rebecca,  Jane,  Anna  and  Hannah — ^the  latter  was  the  mother 
of  Thomas  H.  Kirton.  John  married  a  Miss  Dansey;  thej 
had  no  children.  William  married  a  Miss  Rice ;  they  had  nc 
children.  David  Philips  married  a  Miss  Owens ;  they  had  no 
children.  Palmer  Philips  married  a  Miss  Craham;  they  had 
one  daughter,  and  moved  to  Horry.  Jockey  Philips  moved 
West.  Isaac  married  a  Miss  Eagarton,  and  had  one  son,  Isaac, 
and  daughters,  Anna,  Frances  and  Elsey.  Anna  married  David 
Cibson.  Frances  married  John  Williams.  Elsy  married  Wil- 
liam Collins.  John  moved  West.  Isaac,  Jr.,  married  Miss 
Julia  Davis,  and  had  two  daughters,  Mrs.  John  A.  Atkinson 
and  Mrs.  Anna  M.  Casque.  Thomas  Philips  married  a  Miss 
Avant,  and  had  one  son,  William,  who  married  a  Miss  Marce, 
and  had  one  son,  named  Isaac.  Zadk  married  a  Miss  Lewis, 
and  had  one  son,  Zack,  and  two  daughters,  Elizabeth  and 
Celia.  Zack  Philips,  Jr.,  married  a  Miss  Rice,  and  had  four 
sons,  William  L.,  Francis  Marion,  Hugh  C  and  J.  Benjamin 
Philips.  William  L.  Philips  died  in  the  war  and  Hugh  G.  was 
killed  in  the  war.     Francis  Marion  Philips  married  Clarissa 


466  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Wall,  and  had  Francis-  Marion,  Jr.,  Percival  and  McGee,  sons, 
and  Julia,  Issora,  Vernull,  Delta  and  another,  name  unknown, 
daughters.  J.  Benjamin  Philips  married  a  Miss  White, 
daughter  of  the  late  Wesley  White,  and  had  five  children,  three 
sons,  William,  Chalmers  and  Remington,  and  two  daughters, 
Cora  and  Martha  Fleetwood.  Francis  Marion  Philips  and  J. 
Benjamin  Philips  were  good  men,  of  high  character  and  much 
respected ;  they  are  both  dead.  Elizabeth  Philips,  daughter  of 
Zack  Philips,  Sr.,  married  Richard  Collins,  and  Celia  married 
Addington  James;  have  no  information  as  to  their  posterity, 
if  they  had  any. 

Owens. — Rev.  David  Owens,  first  of  the  name  known  in  the 
county,  was  the  founder  of  Tyrrel's  Bay  and  Gapway  Baptist 
Churches — ^perhaps  the  two  oldest  Baptist  Churches  in  the 
county.  He  was  married  twice — ^first,  to  Mary  Palmer,  by 
whom  he  had  David,  Nancy,  Martha  and  Elizabeth;  and  his 
second  wife  was  tihe  Widow  Martha  Williamson,  nee  Jenkins, 
and  by  her  he  had  one  son,  Solomon.  David  married  some 
one,  but  had  no  children.  Nancy  married  William  L.  Philips 
(which  see  among  the  Philips).  Martha  married  John  Wil- 
liamson. Elizabeth  married  "Gold-headed"  Richard  Edwards. 
Solombn  married,  first,  Catharine  Gerald ;  they  had  and  raised 
Alexander,  David,  Joseph,  Elizabeth  and  Catharine.  Alex- 
ander married  Susan  Baker,  first ;  they  had  five  daughters  and 
three  sons;  the  sons  were  Albert,  Alexander  and  William  J. 
Albert  Owens  was  killed  at  Gettysburg,  was  color-bearer,  and 
had,  at  the  time  he  was  shot,  both  the  State  and  Confederate 
flags  stuck  in  his  belt — a  gallant  youth.  Alexander  Owens,  Jr., 
married  a  Miss  Harrel,  and  had  five  or  six  children.  One  of 
his  sons,  David,  married  a  daughter  of  Captain  T.  E.  Stanley. 
Willie  J.  Owens  married  a  Miss  Eaddy,  of  West  Marion;  be 
died  a  year  or  two  ago,  leaving  a  family  of  several  children, 
neither  the  number  or  sex  is  known;  had  a  son,  Lamar,  who 
married  Lillian  Miles,  daughter  of  Dr.  D.  F.  Miles,  and  live  at 
Marion.  David  Owens,  son  of  old  Solomon,  had  a  son,  Daniel, 
who  married  a  Miss  Fowler;  had  some  family,  but  has  left  the 
country.  Joseph  W.  Owens  married  a  Miss  Lambert,  and  is 
dead,  but  left  several  children — three  sons  and  three  daugh- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  467 

ters — sons,  Daniel,  David  and  Solomon.  David  married  a 
Miss  Collins ;  Leonora  married  a  Mr.  Springs,  of  Georgetown ; 
Dora  married  a  Mr.  Collins ;  Solmon  and  Maggie  are  yet  un- 
married. Solomon  Owens,  Sr.,  married,  a  second  time,  Rachel 
Brown;  by  her  he  had  one  son,  E.  B.  Owens,  who  married 
Miss  Ida  Mullins,  sister  of  the  late  Colonel  W.  S.  MuUins ;  by 
her  he  had  several  children ;  moved  some  years  ago  to  Georgia. 
Solomon  Owens,  Sr.,  married,  a  third  time.  Miss  Annie 
Flowers ;  by  her  he  had  no  children ;  he  was  a  prominent  citizen 
in  his  day. 

There  are  other  Owens  in  the  county,  about  whom  the  writer 
knows  but  little;  but  he  has  gathered  some  facts,  as  herein 
presented.  Shadrack  Owens,  an  old  man  years  ago,  perfiaps 
seventy-five  or  a  hundred,  had  three  sons,  EHsha,  Elijah  and 
"Shiver  Bill."  Elisha's  family  moved  to  Georgetown  County. 
Elijah  had  Avant  Owens,  of  political  campaign  notoriety,  Rob- 
ert and  Gourdin;  Elijah  also  had  three  or  four  daughters 
(names  unknown).  Avant  Owens  had  Memminger,  Gause 
and  Dock,  and  some  daughters  (names  unknown).  Robert 
Owens  married  a  Miss  Shelly,  and  had  several  sons  (names  not 
known).  Gourdin  Owens  married  a  Miss  Shelly,  also,  and 
had  one  son,  named  Wesley,  and  moved  to  Horry.  "Shiver 
Bill"  married  a  Miss  Ammons,  and  had  two  sons,  William  and 
Ezekiel,  and  several  daughters.  William  married  a  Miss 
Smith,  and  had  sons  and  daughters  unknown.  Ezekiel  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Holden,  and  has  a  family  unknown.  Gause  Owens 
married  a  Miss  Price,  and  has  a  family  unknown'.  Memminger 
married  a  Miss  Dozier,  and  has  no  children.  Dock  K.  married 
a  Miss  Atkinson,  and  has  a  family  (unknown). 

There  are  some  other  Owens  in  upper  Marion,  and  some  of 
them  may  have  already  been  noticed  incidentally — I  allude  to 
the  late  David  R.  Owens,  father  of  the  late  S.  G.  Owens,  and 
Leonard  R.  Owens,  late  Postmaster  at  Marion.  David  R. 
Owens  had  a  brother,  Newett  Owens,  one  of  the  most 
industrious  and  hard-working  men  I  ever  knew;  he  died  in 
middle  life,  of  typhoid  fever,  and  left  a  large  family,  who 
have  not  turned  out  well.  There  was,  fifty  years  ago  or  more, 
two  other  Owens,  some  relation  to  David  R.  and  Newett,  named 
"Wattie  and  Neddie ;"  they  had  families ;  but  who  their  imme- 


468  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

diate  ancestors  were  is  unknown,  or  what  became  of  their  fam- 
ilies. There  is  another  set  of  Owens  originally  in  the  "Fork" 
section ;  the  old  progenitor  of  Ifhis  family  was  named  Shadrach 
Owens— not  the  "Shadradi"  spoken  of  above.  Old  Shadrach 
was  an  old  man,  seventy  years  ago — was  exceedingly  supersti- 
tious, afraid  of  ghosts  and  spirits,  a  working  man,  however, 
and  harmless — raised  a  large  family ;  the  names  of  two  of  his 
sons  only  are  remembered,  Reddin  and  Ivot.  Reddin  married 
and  settled  in  Hillsboro,  and  died  two  or  three  years  ago,  at  the 
age  of  ninety-four,  and  left  many  children,  grand-dhildren  and 
great-grand-children.  Lot  married  a  Miss  Huggins,  and  died 
without  children.  Reddin  and  Lot  were  quite  respectable  men 
and  good  citizens.  Don't  know  anything  further  of  old  Shad- 
rach's  posterity. 

RowEi.1,. — The  Rowell  family  and  its  connections  are  large, 
respectable  and  influential  and  "has  been  prominent  ever  since 
Marion  became  a  district  or  county.  The  first  of  the  name,  as 
well  as  can  be  ascertained,  was  Jacob  Rowell,  the  grand-father 
of  the  present  old  gentleman,  Valentine  Rowell,  over  eighty 
years  of  age,  near  Centenary  and  Tyrrel's  Bay  Churches. 
Jacob  Rowell  was  twice  married;  his  first  wife's  name  un- 
known; his  second  wife  was  a  Miss  Palmer,  or  Poison;  they 
had  two  sons,  William  and  David.  William  went  West. 
David,  the  father  of  old  man  Val.  Rowell,  married  Rdbecca 
Philips,  and  raised  six  girls  and  four  boys;  the  boys  were 
Jacob,  William  L.,  David  and  Valentine.  Jacob  never  married. 
William  L.  married  Miss  Eliza  Landing,  and  had  Benjamin, 
Richard,  William  and  Jacob,  who  died  in  childhood;  he  had 
daughters,  Stacy  Ann,  Elizabeth,  Mary  Jane,  Sarah,  Agnes 
and  Rebecca.  Richard  was  killed,  how  or  by  whom  is  not 
stated.  Benjamin  never  married.  William  married,  and  went 
to  Georgia.  Stacy  Ann  married  Benjamin  Rogers,  had  no 
dhildren.  Elizabeth  married  Green  Williams,  and  died  child- 
less. Mary  Jane  married  Wedey  Richardson ;  she  has  a  family 
of  seven  or  eight  children  (unknown) .  Sarah  married  Stephen 
Brown,  and  has  ten  or  twelve  children.  Agnes  married  Tony 
Watson,  and  has  ten  or  eleven  Children,  all  sons  but  two. 
Reibecca  married  Thomas  Altman,  and  has  six  or  seven  child- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  469 

ren.  David  Rowell  married  Ann  Gasque,  daughter  of  old 
Absalom  Gasque;  they  had  thirteen  children — sons,  James, 
Albert,  William,  Alpheus,  Jessee,  Hugh  G.  and  Julius,  and 
daughters,  Eliza,  Rebecca,  Susan,  Emaline,  Sallie  and  Dora. 
James  married  Fannie  Gainey,  and  had  two  children,  a  daugh- 
ter and  a  son,  Oliver;  the  latter  is  married  and  has  four  or 
five  children.  Albert  and  William  both  died  in  the  war  or 
were  killed.  Alpheus  died  when  young.  Jessee  married 
Mary  Gasque,  daughter  of  Ann  Gasque ;  they  had  sons,  Samuel, 
Padl,  John,  Thomas  and  Herbert,  and  daughters,  Ann  Eliza, 
Carrie  and  Eva.  Samuel  married  Miss  Julia  Atkinson,  and 
has  four  children  (small).  Paul  married  a  Miss  Rogers,  and 
has  two  children  (small).  None  of  the  other  children  of 
Jessee  Rowell  are  married.  He  died  suddenly  at  Marion,  some 
four  or  five  years  ago ;  he  was  jailor  for  several  years,  and  was 
a  capital  and  reliable  amn.  Hugh  G.  Rowell  married  a  Miss 
Jvovell,  and  has  a  large  family  (unknown).  Julius  Rowell 
married  Ann  Glisson ;  she  had  seven  children  and  died ;  Julius 
married  again,  Miss  Lizzie  Boatwright ;  no  child  by  the  second 
marriage.  Eliza,  the  eldest  daughter  of  David  Rowell,  mar- 
died  John  Dozier;  they  had  twelve  children  (names  un- 
known), but  all  of  them  are  married,  but  to  whom  not  known. 
Rebecca,  the  second  daughter  of  David  Rowell,  married  James 
Shelly;  they  have  a  large  family  (names  unknown)  ;  some  of 
them  are  married.  'Susan,  the  third  daughter,  married  Reuben 
Shelly;  they  have  a  family  unknown.  Emaline,  the  fourth 
daughter,  married  a  Mr.  Floyd,  in  Horry  County.  Sallie,  the 
fifth  daughter,  married  a  Mr.  Edwards,  in  Florence  County. 
Dora,  the  sixth  and  youngest  daughter,  married  lycvin  Rogers ; 
he  is  dead ;  his  widow  survives,  with  five  children.  Valentine 
Rowell,  eighty-two  years  of  age,  son  of  David  Rowell,  Sr.,  mar- 
ried Mary  Collins,  daughter  of  William  Collins ;  they  have  five 
children,  four  sons  and  one  daughter — ^the  sons  are  William 
David,  Alexander  Valentine,  Robert  Charles  and  Joseph;  the 
daughter  is  Alice  Rebecca.  William  David,  the  eldest  son, 
married  Miss  Annis  Dozier;  they  have  four  children,  three 
sons  and  one  daughter;  the  sons  are  Claudius,  William  and 
Benjamin;  the  daughter,  named  Mary,  married  Boyd  Shelly; 
no  offspring.    Alexander  Valentine  married  Miss  Laura  Wall ; 


470  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

tbey  have  four  children,  Willie,  Arthur  and  Maxcy,  sons,  and 
one  daughter,  Mamie.  Robert  Charles  married  Miss  Simpson 
Wall;  they  have  eight  children,  two  sons  and  six  daughters, 
none  of  them  married.  Joseph  married  Miss  Sallie  Keever; 
they  have  ten  children,  six  sons  jmd  four  daughters ;  the  sons 
are  Joseph,  Keever,  Archie,  Bruce,  Grady  and  David  Oscar; 
the  daughters  are  Alice,  Ellen,  Eva  and  Clara — none  married. 
Old  man  Valentine  Rowell's  only  daughter,  Alice,  is  unmar- 
ried, and  lives  with  her  parents.  Major  William  B.  Rowell, 
quite  prominent  in  his  day,  was  the  son  of  Valentine  Rowell, 
and  was  born  28th  March,  1800 ;  his  father,  Valentine  Rowell, 
married  Miss  Ann  Baker,  who  became  the  mother  of  Major 
W.  B.  Rowell,  and  another  son,  whose  name  is  unknown.  Val- 
entine Rowell  was  also  prominent  in  his  day;  he  represented 
his  county  (Marion)  several  times  in  the  L,egislature,  as  will 
be  seen  in  the  list  of  Representatives  hereto  appended.  Valen- 
tine Rowell,  though  only  a  lad  in  the  Revolution,  was  with 
General  Marion  in  the  latter  part  of  the  war.  Major  W.  B. 
Rowell  had  a  fair  education,  though  not  collegiate ;  he  married 
twice ;  first,  to  Elizabeth  Avant,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Avant 
and  wife,  a  Miss  Baker ;  Major  Rowell  and  his  first  wife  were 
first  cousins ;  by  the  marriage  he  had  only  one  child,  Ann  Eliza- 
beth; the  Avant  wife  dying,  he  married,  a  second  time.  Miss 
Martha  Brantley,  by  whom  he  had  one  child,  a  daughter, 
Martha  Eliza ;  she  grew  up  and  married  Dr.  C.  D.  Rowell,  her 
cousin.  Ann  Elizabetii,  daughter  by  his  first  marriage,  mar- 
ried Major  D.  J.  Taylor;  she  had  one  child  only,  a  daughter, 
and  died  leaving  the  child  only  two  weeks  old ;  it  was  raised  by 
her  grand-father  and  his  Brantley  wife,  and  became  the  wife 
of  Captain  Huett,  by  whom  she  had  one  child,  a  son,  now  our 
fellow-citizen,  William  L,.  Huett,  late  County  Supervisor. 
Captain  Huett  was  killed  in  the  Confederate  War;  his  widow 
has  since  married  J.  T.  Jones,  of  the  Nichols  community. 
Major  Rowell's  daughter,  by  his  second  marriage,  Martha 
Eliza,  married  Dr.  C.  D.  Rowell,  a  grand-nephew  of  Major 
Wm.  B.  Rowell ;  the  fruits  of  this  marriage  were  five  sons  and 
three  daughters ;  the  sons  are  W.  B.,  R.  W.  D.,  Melvin  L,.,  C. 
Thomas  and  Percival  E.  Rowell ;  the  daughters  were  Mary  A., 
Linnie  I.  and  Mattie  E. ;  of  these,  Mary  A.,  C.  Thomas  and 


A  HISTOKY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  471 

Percival  E.  are  dead.  W.  B.  Rowell,  Jr.,  is  in  Florence,  mar- 
ried. R.  W.  D.  Rowell  is  at  Bamberg.  Melvin  L,.  is  at  Lewie- 
dale.  Lennie  I.  is  Mrs.  Hook,  and  lives  in  Lexington;  and 
Mattie  E.  is  Mrs.  Crawford,  and  lives  at  Chester.  Dr.  C.  D. 
Rowell  and  wife  are  'both  dead ;  he  raised  and  was  Captain  of  a 
company  in  the  war.  Afterwards  a  Methodist  preacher  in  the 
South  Carolina  Conference,  and  died  in  that  relation ;  his  father 
^was  named  Cornelius,  and  was  a  nephew  of  Major  W.  B. 
Rowell.  Major  W.  B.  Rowell  was  no  ordinary  man — a  South 
Carolina  gentleman  of  the  old  type ;  never  was  beaten  for  any 
position  to  which  he  aspired ;  served  four  terms,  eight  years,  in 
the  Legislature;  of  a  high  and  unspotted  character,  faithful  to 
all  trusts  committed  to  him,  was  liberal  to  all  worthy  enter- 
prises in  State  or  in  church,  and  at  home  dispensed  unbounded 
hospitality;  was  a  great  friend  of  the  church — his  house  was 
the  home  of  the  preachers ;  he  was  devotedly  pious — ^the  "salt 
of  the  earth,"  lived  it  in  his  every  day  life.  He  died  May  22d, 
1880,  eighty  years  old..  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat  of  the 
Calhoun  school,  and  I  may  say  the  idol  of  his  people — loved  by 
everybody.  There  were  and  are  some  Rowells  above  Camp- 
bell's Bridge,  whether  related  to  those  below  Marion  is  not 
known.  There  were  two  old  Rowells  up  there,  name  not 
known.  One  of  them  had  sons,  James  V.,  Jeremiah,  John  and 
David.  James  V.  died  or  was  killed  in  the  war,  left  children ; 
others  were  all  in  the  war.  Jeremiah  is  up  there  now,  is  quite 
respectable,  and  has.  a  respectable  family. 

Giles. — ^The  late  Hugh  Giles  was  the  son  or  grand-son  (the 
latter,  I  think, )  of  Colonel  Hugh  Giles,  who  played  a  conspicu- 
ous part  as  Colonel  of  a  regiment  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution. 
He  married  Polly  Baker,  sister  of  "Long  Billy  Baker;"  they 
had  ten  children,  and  raised  seven  of  them — ^their  names  are 
Catharine  and  Rebecca  (the  latter  died  when  about  three  years 
old) ;  Sarah  and  Edward  died  when  quite  young.  William  H., 
the  oldest  son,  was  killed  in  the  fight  around  Atlanta,  Ga.,  28th 
July,  1864;  he  belonged  to  the  loth  South  Carolina  Regiment, 
and  was  a  Lieutenant  of  his  company.  Abram  J.  Giles  was 
also  a  member  of  the  loth  South  Carolina  Regiment,  and  was 
captured  at  the  fight  of  Missionary  Ridge,  and  imprisoned  at 
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472  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Rock  Island  for  eighteen  months  and  seven  days.  John  B." 
Giles  was  a  member  of  same  regiment,  and  died  in  hospital  at 
Rome,  Ga.,  in  May,  1863.  Robert  B.  also  belonged  to  same 
regiment  and  company,  and  survived  the  war.  The  other  two 
daughters  were  named  Jeannette  and  Eliza  Franconia.  Catha- 
rine married  Joseph  A.  Taylor;  they  had  five  children — their 
names  are  Hugh  G.,  Charlotte  J.,  Joseph  A.,  Edward  E.  and 
Archie.  Abraham  married  Julia  Flowers,  daughter  of  Jere- 
miah John  Flowers ;  they  had  seven  children,  raised  six — their 
names  were  Mary  Eliza,  Jennette  Elizabeth,  Hugh,  John  B., 
Julia  Daisey,  Sarah  Annis  and  James  Robert.  Robert  never 
married.  Franconia  married  John  B.  Richardson — one  child 
was  born  to  them ;  after  the  death  of  Franconia,  he  married  his 
wife's  sister,  Jennette.  Hugh  Giles,  like  his  distinguished  an- 
cestors, was  or  had  the  elements  of  true  manhood  in  his  make- 
up— was  quiet,  inoffensive  and  law-abiding,  generous  and  kind- 
hearted. 

CoivEMAN. — ^^Griffin  Coleman,  the  grand- father  of  our  present 
fellow-citizen.  Griffin  B.  Coleman,  married  a  Miss  Dozier,  and 
had  and  raised  four  sons,  to  wit:  Griffin,  John  D.,  Jacob  and 
James.  Griffin,  Jr.,  married  Betsy  Whaley,  and  had  three  sons, 
Amos,  Griffin  and  Daniel.  Amos  married  a  Miss  Floyd,  and 
had  six  children.  Griffin,  Jr.,  Jr.,  married  a  Miss  Boatwright, 
and  has  eigtit  children.  Daniel,  son  of  Amos,  died  unmarried. 
John  D.  Coleman  first  married  a  Miss  Baxley,  and  by  her  he 
had  seven  sons  and  one  daughter ;  the  sons  were  Isaac  M.,  Wil- 
lian  J.,  Griffin  B.,  John  W.,  David,  Joseph  and  Daniel,  and  one 
daughter,  Mary  Ann,  who  married  David  Shelly.  Isaac  M. 
married  Martha  Waller,  and  had  William,  Augustus,  Mary, 
Donnella  and  Bettie.  His  son,  William,  first  married  a  Miss 
Richardson,  and  by  her  had  one  son,  Pressly;  the  first  wife 
dying,  he  married,  a  second  time,  a  Miss  Jones,  and  they  have 
six  children,  Fontaine,  Howard,  Iris,  Nina,  Eula  and  Eugenia. 
Augustus  married  Catharine  Floyd,  and  had  two  children,  girls, 
Mattie  and  Ijena ;  Thomas  H.  Kirton  took  the  latter  and  is  rais- 
ing her.  Isaac  M.  Coleman  married,  a  second  time,  Miss  Anna 
Jones,  and  had  by  her  two  sons,  Gary  and  Cantey  (small). 
William  J.,  the  second  son  of  John  D.,  married  Miss  Nancy 


A  HISTORY  0:P  MARION  COUNTY.  473 

Shelly,  and  hy  her  had  one  son,  Wesley,  who  married  a  Miss 
Avant.  Griffin  B.  Coleman,  third  son  of  John  D.,  married 
Celia  Baxley;  they  have  three  living  children — one  son,  John 
W.,  and  two  daughters,  Mary  Ann  and  Emma  R.  Emma  R. 
married  C.  R.  Moore ;  they  have  eight  children,  five  girls  and 
three  boys.  One  daughter,  Margaret  Parham,  married  Robert 
Eagerton,  and  have  one  child  (small) .  John  W.,  fourth  son  of 
John  D.  Coleman,  married  twice,  and  died  in  AUtbama.  David, 
the  fifth  son  of  John  D.  Coleman,  married  Miss  Angelina 
Smith ;  he  and  his  wife  died,  and  left  five  children,  all  grown 
and  married;  their  names  are  Julius,  Cornelius,  Dora,  Willie 
and  John.  Julius  married  Miss  Virginia  Pearce ;  no  offspring. 
Cornelius  married  Alma  Pearce;  they  have  four  children 
(small).  Dora  died  childless.  Willie  married  Miss  Mamie 
Cook,  and  has  one  child  (small).  John  married  Miss  Ida 
Shelly,  and  has  two  children  (small) .  Joseph,  the  sixth  son  of 
Rev.  John  D.  Coleman,  married  Mary  Drew,  and  has  one 
child,  Mattie,  who  married  Quincy  Ballard,  who  has  four  chil- 
dren (small).  Daniel,  the  youngest  and  seventh  son  of  Rev. 
John  D.  Coleman,  married  Hannah  Drew,  and  they  have  four 
sons  and  four  daughters ;  the  sons  are  John  D.,  Willie,  Major 
and  Pressly;  the  daughters  are  Mary  Ann,  Anna,  Alice  and 
Charlotte.  John  D.,  Jr.,  married  Miss  Mary  Allen,  daughter 
of  D.  S.  Allen,  and  has  three  children  (small).  Willie,  Major 
and  Pressly  are  single.  Of  the  daughters  of  Daniel  Coleman, 
Mary  Ann  married  D.  S.  Allen,  and  has  four  children  (small). 
Anne  married  Harllee  Baxley  (now  dead),  and  left  three  chil- 
dren (small).  Alice  married  Willie  Baxley,  and  has  two  chil- 
dren (small).  Charlotte  married  John  Hatchel,  and  has  one 
child  (small).  Rev.  John  D.  Coleman  married,  a  second  time. 
Miss  Polly  Sasser,  and  by  her  had  one  son,  Joel  S.  Coleman;  he 
is  in  North  Carolina ;  his  second  wife  dying,  he  married,  a  third 
time.  Miss  Elizabeth  Blackman,  and  by  her  had  seven  children, 
four  sons  and  three  daughters ;  the  sons  were  J.  P.  Coleman, 
E.  J.,  Daiyton  and  Frank';  the  daughters  were  Anna  M.,  Mar- 
tha J.  and  Sarah.  Of  these,  Martha  Jane,  Sarah,  Dayton  and 
Frank,  are  dead,  never  married.  J.  P.  Coleman  married  Miss 
Beda  Rogers,  and  moved  to  Columbia.  E.  J.  Coleman  manaed, 
first,  a  Miss  James,  who  died,  leaving  four  children,  two  of 


474  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

whom  are  married.  Cora  married  a  Lane,  and  has  two  chil- 
dren (small).  John  married  Miss  Sue  Lane,  and  has  two 
children  (small).  Lide  is  single.  E.  J.  Coleman  married,  a 
second  time.  Miss  Jane  Flowers;  they  have  seven  children 
(small),  in  Columbia.  Anna  Maria  married  Hugh  Brown,  and 
had  nine  children,  all  dead  but  two  (small).  Jacob  Coleman, 
the  third  son  of  Griffin,  Sr.,  married  Miss  Caroline  Tart,  a 
daughter  of  old  Mrs.  Fama  Tart;  they  had  many  children, 
mostly  daughters ;  had  two  sons.  Griffin  and  Enos.  Enos  is  in 
Marlborough  County,  and  Griffin  is,  or  was,  in  Texas  when  last 
heard  of.  The  family  has  scattered,  and  has  been  lost  sight  of. 
James  Coleman,  the  fourth  and  youngest  son  of  Griffin,  Sr., 
married  Miss  Leah  Baxly ;  they  had  three  sons  and  four  daugh- 
ters ;  the  sons  are  Williamson,  Jessee  and  Griffin.  Williamson 
died,  leaving  no  issue.  Jessee  married  Laura  Godbold,  daugh- 
ter of  Vincent  Godbold;  they 'have  a  family,  number  and  sex 
unknown.  Griffin  married  Miss  Ma:ry  Smith,  first,  and  had 
two  sons  and  two  daughters.  One  of  the  daughters  married 
Willie  Dozier  and  bas  three  children  (small).  Griffin  mar- 
ried, second  time,  Lizzie  Bryant ;  they  have  seven  children  liv- 
ing, three  sons  and  four  daughters  (small). 

There  is  another  family  of  Colemans  in  the  county  that  may 
be  here  noticed — whether  related  to  those  above  mentioned  or 
not,  is  not  known  to  the  writer.  Old  John  Coleman  lived  about 
four  miles  east  of  Marion ;  don't  know  who  his  wife  was ;  he 
raised  three  sons,  Moses,  John  and  Edward.  Of  these,  Moses 
married  Miss  Elizabeth  Flowers,  sister  of  Love  Flowers,  and 
by  her  had  and  raised  two  sons  and  five  or  six  daughters ;  the 
sons  were  Sampson  and  Elly;  the  daughters'  names  unknown. 
Of  the  daughters,  one  married  Stephen  Attman,  a  very  worthy 
man,  on  Sister  Bay ;  Attman  is  dead ;  left  two  sons,  Preston  and 
Davis,  who  are  married  and  have  families.  Another  married 
Wilson  Snipes  and  they  had  and  raised  several  sons  and  daugh- 
ters, to  wit :  Addison,  Willie,  Wilson  and  others,  who  will  be 
noticed-hereinafter.  Another  married  Bethel  Rogers,  who  has 
a  large  family,  quite  respectable.  Another  married  Edward 
Rogers,  who  has  a  son,  Coleman  Rogers,  and  he  married  Sallie 
Ewart,  and  has  a  coming  family.  Another  married  William 
Martin,  and  had  a  considerable  family — three  sons,  W.  P.  and 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  475 

Daniel  Martin,  enterprising  citizens  of  MuUins,  and  another, 
Charles  B.,  and  daughter.  One  daughter  married  Joseph  M. 
Price,  nephew  of  the  writer;  they  have  five  or  six  children. 
Sampson  Cokman  married  a  Miss  Huggins,  daughter  of  Rev. 
John  (Jack)  C.  Huggins;  had  no  offspring.  Elly  Coleman 
married  a  Miss  White,  and  had  one  son,  the  late  W.  D.  Cole- 
man, and  Mrs.  Chesley  D.  Jones.  W.  D.  Coleman  married  a 
Miss  White,  niece  of  Colonel  E.  T.  Stackhouse ;  they  have  three 
sons — J.  T.  Coleman,  now  a  professor  in  the  Citadel  Academy, 
Charleston;  another,  Edward,  single,  and  another  not  grown, 
name  not  known.  John  and  Edward  Coleman,  brothers  of  old 
Moses,  never  married.  Moses  Coleman  was  a  local  Methodist 
preacher,  a  man  of  high  character,  a  useful  man  in  his  day,  and 
a  man  in  whom  every  one  had  unbounded  confidence. 

Norton. — The  first  of  this  family  came  from  England  to 
New  England,  at  a  very  remote  period  in  the  past,  about  the 
first  of  the  seventeenth  century;  that  his  name  was  John;  that 
he  or  one  of  his  descendants,  named  John,  afterwards  came 
down  to  Virginia  and  settled  near  what  is  now  Alexandria,  Va. 
This  Virginia  John  had  five  sons,  all  of  whom  were  soldiers  in 
the  Revolutionary  War ;  one  of  them,  James,  served  in  Wash- 
ington's guard  as  a  Sergeant ;  another  one  of  them  was  taken 
prisoner  and  died  in  a  prison  ship,  in  Charleston  harbor,  in 
1780  or  1 781.  Their  names  were  William,  James,  John,  David 
and  Solomon.  After  the  Revolution,  the  old  man  and  two  of 
his  sons,  James  and  John,  went  to  Kentucky;  two  others  of 
them  came  to  South  Carolina — one,  William,  went  to  George- 
town, and  the  other  went  to  Beaufort.  William,  the  George- 
town one,  went  from  Georgetown  up  into  what  was  then  called 
Kingston,  now  Horry,  and  took  up  large  bodies  of  land.  One 
grant  that  the  writer  has  seen  for  3,300  acres,  below  what  is 
now  called  Green  Sea,  on  the  Iron  Springs  Swamp,  just  above 
its  confluence  with  Lake  Swamp.  William  Norton  married  a 
Widow  Miller,  maiden  name  not  known,  and  she  had  at  the 
time  of  their  marriage  four  children — two  sons,  Nathaniel  and 
Elias  Miller,  and  two  daughters,  Rebecca  and  Martha.  Na- 
thaniel Miller  gave  the  land  to  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  present  Miller  Church.     The  deed  for  it  was  made  to 


476  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Bishop  Asbury,  and  is  said  to  be  now  in  the  possession  of  Rev. 
Simeon  Campbell.  The  two  Millers  lived  and  died  near  by, 
and  are  buried  near  where  Valentine, Martin  lives.  Of  the  two 
Miller  sisters,  one,  Martha,  married  old  Moses  Wise,  and  the 
other,  Re1>ecca,  married  old  William  Bryant.  William  Norton 
married  the  Widow  Miller,  as  above  stated,  and  had  by  her  two 
sons,  William  and  James,  and  three  daughters,  Ruth,  Martha, 
and  Mary.  William,  Jr.,  married  and  settled  where  Green 
Sea,  in  Horry,  now  is,  and  was  a  prominent  man  down  there, 
and  built  and  was  one  of  the  chief  founders  of  a  Methodist 
church  there,  then  called  Norton's  Cross  Roads,  and  it  was 
then  known  as  Norton's  Church.  This  was  about  the  first  of 
1800.  William  Norton  had  two  sons,  John  W.  and  James,  and 
several  daughters.  One  of  the  daughters,  Ruth,  married  Benj. 
Sellers,  who  moved  to  Mississippi.  John  W.  and  James  both 
joined  the  South  Carolina  Conference.  John  W.  located,  and 
his  family  are  in  Georgia.  James  was  quite  prominent  as  a 
preacher ;  he  died  in  1825,  and  is  buried  in  Columbia,  Washing- 
ton Street  Church.  James  Norton,  the  other  brother,  settled  in 
Marion  District,  near  his  half-brothers,  the  two  Millers,  on 
Maiden  Down.  This  James  Norton  was  the  grand-father  of 
the  present  Hon.  James  Norton,  of  MuUins ;  he  had  two  daugh- 
ters, one  of  whom,  Martha,  married  John  Roberts ;  the  other, 
Mary,  married  Gadi  Campbell.  James,  Sr.,  had  three  sisters, 
Ruth,  Martha  and  Mary.  Ruth  married  Joel  Lewis ;  Martha 
married  Norton  Roberts,  grand-father  of  the  late  Colonel  John 
Roberts ;  and  Mary  married  a  Flood.  James  Norton,  Sr.,  mar- 
ried, first,  Jerusha  R-eaves,  and  had  one  son,  William,  and  three 
daughters,  Sarah,  Nancy  and  Martha;  his  second  wife  was  a 
Honeycut,  and  he  had  by  her  Mary,  Solomon  and  John.  Solo- 
mon married,  had  one  son,  named  John,  and  died,  and  his 
widow  married  Jack  Woods,  who  overseed  for  General  Evans, 
back  in  the  40's  or  so's,  for  several  years.  William  Norton, 
son  of  James,  Sr.,  married  Anna  Roland,  of  Camden;  by  her 
he  had  Jerusha,  Sarah  Ann,  Mary,  Nancy  and  Olive,  daughters ; 
James  and  Henry,  sons.  Jerusha  married  Anthony  Meares. 
Sarah  Ann  married  William  Bryant,  of  Horry.  Mary  married 
Evans  Bryant.  Nancy  married  Leonard  Cribb.  Olive  mar- 
ried Lewis  Huggins.     James  married  a  Miss  Moody,  went  to 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  477 

Alabama  and  died.  Henry  married  Nancy  Carmichael,  daugh- 
ter of  Squire  Dougald  Carmichael,  on  Maiden  Down  and  Buck 
Swamp;  they  had  Catharine,  Colin  Murchison,  Milton,  Vir- 
ginia and  Sarah.  'Catharine  married  S.  G.  Porter.  Colin 
Murchison  went  to  Mississippi.  Melton  married  Miss  Relda 
Proctor,  and  has  a  family — a  son  grown,  Lonney,  and  a  daugh- 
ter grown,  Bessie,  and  other  children.  Virginia  married  R.  J. 
Rogers,  and  has  a  large  family — a  son,  Henry,  grown,  and  a 
daughter,  Mary,  grown,  and  other  children.  Sarah  married 
M.  M.  Bird;  they  have  a  family  of  children,  two  grown, 
Claudius  and  Mary.  John  Norton  married  twice ;  first,  Nancy 
Huggins,  daughter  of  Willis  Huggins ;  by  this  marriage  he  had 
John  W.,  Mary  Elizabeth  and  Caroline;  he  married,  second 
time,  the  widow  of  Angus  Carmichael,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Pensy  Lewis;  by  this  marriage  he  had  Evan,  James,  Eliza, 
Martha  and  Margaret.  His  son,  John  W.,  married,  first, 
Susannah  Carmichael  daughter  of  his  second  wife,  Pensy,  by 
her  first  husband,  Angus  Carmichael;  his  wife  died,  leaving 
one  child,  a  daughter,  named  Ires,  who,  when  seven  or  eight 
years  of  age,  was  killed  in  a  cotton  gin;  John  W.  Norton 
married,  a  second  time,  the  Widow  Carmichael,  nee  Jordan; 
by  this  marriage  he  had  only  one  child,  a  daughter,  Minnie, 
who  died  when  about  grown — her  mother  having  died  before 
she  did ;  John  W.  married,  a  third  wife,  Sarah  Ivey,  and  by  her 
be  had  four  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters  (small)  ;  he 
is  now  seventy  years  of  age  or  more ;  he  was  always  a  modest 
and  retiring  sort  of  man.  Away  back  in  the  so's,  he  went  to 
Mississippi  and  enlisted  in  the  regular  army  of  the  United 
States,  Second  United  States  Cavalry  Regiment,  of  which 
Algernon  Sydney  Johnson  was  Colonel ;  Robert  E.  Lee,  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel ;  E.  Kirt)y  Smith,  Major,  and  Earle  Van  Dom, 
Senior  Captain.  J.  W.  Norton  was  in  Van  Dorn's  company, 
and  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Quartermaster  Sergeant.  All 
these  oflScers  became,  in  the  Confederate  army,  distinguished 
and  highly  distinguished  Generals.  J.  W.  Norton  served  five 
years  in  this  regiment,  and  at  the  end  of  his  service  he  was 
given  a  three  months  furlough  to  visit  his  home ;  at  the  end  of 
which  he  went  to  his  regiment,  with  a  view  to  re-enlist ;  but  just 
at  this  time  Secession  occurred ;  his  Second  Regiment  of  Cay- 


478  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

airy  was  'broken  up — its  officers  being  all  Southern  men — and 
he  came  back  to  South  Carolina,  volunteered  in  Captain  W.  P. 
Shooter's  company,  went  to  Virginia,  and  remained  in  the  Con- 
federate Army  till  its  surrender  at  the  end  of  the  war.  He 
was  wounded  twice  in  battles  with  the  Indians  while  in  the 
United  States  service,  and  again  slightly  while  in  the  Confed^ 
erate  service.  He  did  not  marry  till  late  in  life,  and  after  the 
Confederate  War ;  since  which  he  has  married  three  times,  as 
above  stated.  With  the  prestige  of  this  five  years'  previous 
service  with  and  under  officers  so  distinguished,  he  might  have 
gotten  some  soft  place  in  the  Confederate  service,  but  for  his 
modesty  and  unpretentious  disposition.  Mary  Elizabeth,  the 
eldest  daughter  of  John  Norton,  married  Aaron  Oliver,  of 
Robeson  County,  N.  C,  where  she  ever  afterwards  lived  and 
died;  she  raised  quite  a  large  family  in  that  State.  Caroline, 
the  second  daughter  of  John  Norton,  married  L,ewis  Huggins, 
and  raised  a  large  family;  they  emigrated  to  Georgia  a  few 
years  ago,  and  are  there  now.  Of  the  children  of  John  Norton 
by  his  second  marriage,  Eliza,  the  eldest  daughter,  married 
Gilbert  D.  Johnson,  a  nephew  of  the  late  Hugh  R.  Johnson; 
they  live  near  the  old  Norton  homestead,  and  have  no  children. 
The  third  and  youngest  daughter,  Margaret,  married  Valentine 
Martin ;  they  have  had  twelve  children — lost  two ;  six  are 
grown,  Don,  Lilly,  Pensy,  Maggie,  Kate  and  May ;  and  of  this 
six,  Pensy  married  Hampton  Rogers,  two  or  three  days  ago; 
the  other  five  are  not  grown.  Mattie,  the  second  daughter  of 
old  John  Norton,  married  D.  Latta  Townsend,  of  North  Caro- 
lina ;  they  have  a  large  family,  some  of  them  grown ;  they  emi- 
grated to  Georgia  some  years  ago,  and  are  now  in  that  State. 
Of  the  sons  of  old  man  John  Norton  by  his  second  marriage, 
Evan,  the  eldest,  after  the  war,  married  Miss  Ella  Powell, 
moved  to  Conway,  and  is  yet  there ;  he  has  five  children — three 
sons  and  two  daughters ;  the  sons  are  J.  O.,  James  and  John 
Clarence;  the  daughters  are  Ella  Wood  (called  Daisey)  and 
Mabel.  Of  the  sons,  J.  O.  (called  Van)  is  a  graduate  of  Wof- 
ford  College,  in  the  class  of  1895 ;  he  is  unmarried,  and  is  an 
employee  in  the  Census  Department  in  Washington.  James 
went  to  Woiiford,  but  did  not  graduate,  and  is  now  taking  his 
third  course  in  a  medical  college.     John  Clarence  is  now  a 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  479 

student  in  Clemson  College.  Of  the  two  daughters,  Ella  Wood 
(Daisey)  married  a  Mr.  Crouch,  Clerk  of  the  Court  for  Saluda 
County,  resides  in  that  place,  and  has  one  child.  Mabel,  the 
youngest,  is  grown.  The  father,  Evan  Norton,  is  a  fine  physi- 
cian, of  high  moral  character,  well  posted  and  a  man  of  great 
good  sense ;  has  never  sought  or  held  any  public  position  except 
that  of  County  Auditor  for  Horry,  but  has  declined  all  such, 
when  offered  to  him.  James,  the  youngest  brother  of  Dr.  Evan 
Norton,  married,  i8th  May,  1870,  Rachel  Cochrane  Sellers, 
the  daughter  of  the  writer,  and  located  at  Mullins,  near  where 
he  was  born  and  raised,  and  merchandised  for  several  years; 
he  had  two  children,  boys,  Evan  Lewis  and  William  Fitzroy. 
The  oldest,  Evan  Lewis,  died  when  between  four  and  five  years 
of  age.  William  Fitzroy,  the  younger,  grew  up,  and  after 
spending  a  year  or  two  in  Wofford  College,  he  entered  the 
South  Carolina  College  law  department,  and  graduated  therein, 
but  has  never  practiced;  he  married,  in  1896,  Miss  Florence 
Smith,  eldest  daughter  of  B.  Cause  Smith,  of  Mullins ;  he  runs 
a  farm  and  a  tobacco  warehouse — ^the  future  must  determine 
his  success  or  failure. 

The  career  of  Hon.  James  Norton  merits  more  than  mere 
personal  mention.  Raised  on  a  farm,  as  it  were,  between  the 
plow-handles,  and  opportunities  for  education  being  limited,  he 
went  into  the  war  as  a  private  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  and 
fought  it  through  to  the  end;  wounded  several  times  before 
1864 ;  was  thought  to  be  mortally  wounded,  being  shot  through 
one  of  his  lungs ;  he  was  f  urloughed  to  go  home,  as  soon  as  he 
was  able  to  travel ;  after  getting,  as  he  and  his  friends  thought, 
about  well  of  his  wound,  he  returned  to  his  command  in  Vir- 
ginia, and  was  soon  captured  and  carried  to  Point  Lookout,  and 
kept  there  till  July,  1865,  when  he  was  turned  out  of  prison  and 
came  home.  Not  being  physically  able  to  do  hard  work,  he  en- 
gaged in  turpentine  and  mercantile  pursuits  at  Mullins.  He 
married,  in  May,  1870,  as  before  stated,  and  in  the  fall  of  that 
year  was  nominated  and  elected  School  Commissioner  for  the 
county.  Served  a  term,  two  years,  was  again  nominated  and 
elected  for  a  second  term ;  but  he,  with  all  other  officials  elected 
that  fall  (1872),  were  counted  out  by  the  negro  scalawag  and 
carpet-bag  election  officials.     In  1886,  he  was  a  candidate  for 


480  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Representative  of  the  county  in  the  Legislature,  was  elected  at 
the  head  of  his  ticket,  and  served  during  the  term  for  which 
he  had  been  elected.  In  1890,  he  was  again  nominated  and 
elected  at  the  head  of  his  ticket  for  another  term,  which  he 
served  with  credit  to  himself  and  satisfactory  to  his  constitu- 
ents. In  the  meantime,  the  late  Governor  EUerbe  had  been 
elected  Comptroller  General  of  the  State,  and  he  appointed  Hon. 
James  Norton  as  chief  Clerk,  which  place  he  filled  with  entire 
satisfaction  to  his  chief  and  to  the  public  for  two  terms  of  that 
ofKoe ;  and  owing  to  Ellerloe's  bad  health  during  his  two  terms, 
Norton  practically  ran  the  Comptroller's  office;  he  did  it  with 
such  signal  ability  and  success,  that  he  was  triumphantly  nomi- 
nated and  elected,  at  the  expiration  of  EUerbe's  second  term,  as 
EUerbe's  successor.  He  then  held  the  office  as  Comptroller 
General  for  his  term,  two  years,  and  was  then  re-elected  for 
another  term  without  opposition,  and  EUerbe,  at  the  election 
in  1896,  was  elected  Governor.  In  May  following,  Joseph  H. 
Earle,  one  of  our  United  States  Senators,  died,  and  Governor 
EUerbe  appointed  John  L.  McLaurin  United  States  Senator,  in 
place  of  Earle — which  necessarily  vacated  McEaurin's  seat  in 
the  United  States  House  of  Representatives  for  this,  the  6th 
Congressional  District  of  South  Carolina — whereupon  James 
Norton  became  a  candidate  to  fill  the  unexpired  term  of  Mc- 
Eaurin,  and  after  a  spirited  campaign,  Norton  was  elected,  and 
again  elected  in  1898,  and  served  with  credit  to  himself  in  the 
Eifty-fifth  and  sixth  Congresses.  It  does  not  become  the  writer 
to  say  much,  as  he  is  the  father-in-law  of  Norton,  and,  there- 
fore, he  states  only  facts ;  but  will  add  that  Norton  is  no  ordi- 
nary man,  otherwise  he  could  not  have  accomplished  so  much. 

Lewis. — This  family  were  from  Ireland,  and  settled  in  Vir- 
ginia. A  son  of  this  family,  named  William,  came  to  South 
Carolina  before  the  Revolution;  he  married  Miss  Mourning 
Vampelt,  a  Hollander.  Tradition  informs  us  that  her  father 
and  she  came  from  Holland  together,  leaving  his  family  in  Hol- 
land; they  came,  as  it  seems,  prospecting,  and  got  down  into 
South  Carolina,  where  they  met  up  with  William  Lewis,  and 
soon  an  attachment  (mutual)  sprang  up  between  the  two  young 
people,  and  they  got  married;  whereupon  old  man  Vampelt 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  481 

went  back  to  Holland  for  his  family,  and  was  never  afterwards 
heard  of.  William  Lewis  settled  in  Horry  County ;  they  had 
and  raised  seven  sons  and  two  daughters ;  the  sons  were  Wil- 
liam, James,  Isaac,  Hardy,  Joel,  Jonathan  and  Patrick;  the 
girls  were  Polly  and  Zilpha.  Of  these,  Polly  married  Averitt 
Nichols,  of  Columbus  County,  N.  C,  and  was  the  mother  of 
the  late  venerable  Averitt  Nichols,  of  Nichols,  S.  C.  The  other 
daughter,  Zilpha,  married  William  Gerald,  of  Horry.  Of  the 
sons,  Hardy,  Joel  and  Jonathan  settled  in  Marion  County — 
Hardy  on  Little  Pee  Dee,  below  Gilchrist's  Bridge,  Joel  and 
Jonathan  higher  up  the  river,  on  the  south  side,  near  where  Mil- 
ler's Church  now  stands ;  and  James  at  Allen's  Bridge.  Hardy 
Lewis  married  Dicey  Floyd ;  they  had  and  raised  two  sons,  Wil- 
liam L.  and  Joel  W.  P.  Lewis,  and  four  daughters — Betsy, 
who  never  married ;  Mourning,  Margaret,  Lizzie  and  another, 
the  wife  of  James  D.  Smith.  Mourning  married  W.  H.  Grice ; 
Margaret  married  John  Price;  Lizzie  married  Henry  Price. 
Of  the  sons  of  Hardy  Lewis,  William  L.  marired  Flora  Car- 
michael,  daughter  of  Squire  Dougald,  on  Maiden  Down  and 
Buck  Swamp;  they  had  sons,  Angus,  Allen  C.  and  W.  A.  D. 
Marion  Lewis;  and  daughters,  Catharine,  Mary  and  Flora. 
Of  the  sons,  Angus  was  killed  in  the  war.  Allen  C.  married, 
first,  a  daughter  of  Hiram  Lee ;  by  this  marriage  he  had  one 
son,  Heribert,  now  in  Wofford  College,  and  Capers,  and  three 
daughters,  grown.  The  Lee  wife  dying,  he  married  a  daughter 
of  George  W.  Smith,  and  by  her  has  some  small  children.  W. 
A.  D.  Marion  Lewis,  called  Dougald,  married  a  Miss  Bullock 
in  North  Carolina,  and  lives  on  part  of  the  old  homestead ;  has 
a  family,  sex  and  number  unknown.  Catharine  married  Ran- 
dal McDaniel,  and  moved  to  Darlington.  Mary  married  Ran- 
dal Barnes ;  has  no  offspring.  Flora  married  in  North  Caro- 
lina, and  died  without  issue.  Joel  W.  P.  Lewis,  the  youngest 
son  of  old  Hardy,  married  a  Miss  Cox ;  had  two  sons,  Solon  A. 
and  Dio.  The  latter  lately  married  a  daughter  of  Duncan 
Nicholson.  Solon  A.  Lewis,  now  at  Latta,  married  a  Miss 
Tart,  youngest  daughter  of  the  late  John  W.  Tart ;  she  died  a 
year  or  so  ago,  leaving  two  children  (small),  both  daughters. 
J.  W.  P.  Lewis  has  three  single  daughters ;  he  died  a  year  or  so 
ago.     Jonathan  Lewis,  brother  of  old  Hardy,  married,  first. 


482  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Susannah  Porter,  of  Columbus  County,  N.  C. ;  by  her  he  had 
two  children,  one  son,  Evan,  and  one  daughter,  Pennsy  or 
Pennsylvania;  his  second  wife  was  Feraiba  Strickland,  and  by 
her  he  had  two  sons,  William  S.  and  Joel.  Of  the  children  by 
the  first  marriage,  Evan  Eewis  married  Miss  Margaret  Cribb, 
and  by  the  marriage  had  two  sons,  Jonathan  and  Dempsy, 
and  two  daughters,  Carrie  and  Adaline,  called  Addie.  Of  the 
daughters,  Carrie  Eewis  married  Dr.  F.  M.  Monroe,  of  the 
Latta  section;  by  this  marriage  several  children  were  born. 
Addie,  the  younger  daughter,  married  Oliver  Williams,  of 
North  Carolina;  they  have  two  sons.  Of  the  sons  of  Evan 
Lewis,  the  eldest,  Jonathan,  has  never  married — a  young  man 
about  fifty  years  of  age,  of  good  habits  and  morals,  a  well-to- 
do,  good  citizen  and  reliable  every  way.  Why  he  has  not  mar- 
ried and  made  some  good  woman  happy,  is  a  mystery,  which, 
perhaps,  will  never  be  solved!  Dempsy  Lewis,  the  younger 
brother,  married  in  early  life.  Miss  Eliza  Jane  Stackhouse, 
daughter  of  the  late  Mastin  C.  Stackhouse ;  they  have  ten  chil- 
dren, eight  sons  and  two  daughters ;  the  sons  are  Taylor,  Leon, 
Marvin,  Victor — these  are  grown ;  four  others,  Odell,  Rupert, 
Evan  and  Ernest — ^these  are  not  grown;  the  two  daughters, 
Maggie  and  Addie,  near  grown — not  one  of  the  ten  children 
married ;  he  is  a  good  man  and  substantial  citizen.  William  S. 
Lewis,  by  old  Jonathan's  second  marriage,  married  Miss  Rhoda 
Mace  (both  now  dead) ;  they  had  five  children,  Sarah,  W. 
Evan,  Anne,  Joel  J.  and  J.  Wesley.  Sarah  married  Robert 
Edwards ;  had  two  sons,  Sandy  and  George ;  the  father  is  dead. 
The  two  sons  went  to  Arkansas ;  Sandy  is  dead ;  George  is  in 
Texarkana,  and  is  Sheriff  of  that  county  or  the  one  in  which 
that  city  is  located,  and  is  well  to  do.  W.  Evan  is  on  the  old 
homestead,  married  a  Miss  Avant,  and  has  some  family 
(young) ;  is  a  good  citizen.  Anne  married,  first,  Marion 
Avant;  by  whom  she  had  one  son,  Willie,  who  grew  up  to 
manhood  and  died — a  very  promising  young  man ;  his  mother, 
the  widow,  married  again  John  A.  Wilson,  of  Wilmington, 
N.  C,  and  is,  as  it  is  said,  doing  well.  Joel  and  Wesley 
went  West;  Joel  is  said  to  be  doing  well  in  New  Orleans. 
Pennsy,  the  only  daughter  of  old  Jonathan  Lewis,  and  full 
sister  of  Evan  Lewis,  married,  first,  Angus  Carmichael,  and 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  483 

by  him  she  had  one  child,  a  daughter,  who  grew  up  and 
married  John  W.  Norton,  as  hereinbefore  stated  in  or  among 
the  Norton  family ;  Pennsy,  the  widow,  then  married  John  Nor- 
ton, the  father  of  Hon.  James  Norton,  and  who  has  already 
been  noticed  among  the  Norton  family.  Evan  Lewis  was  a 
capital  man  and  good  citizen — a  useful  man  in  his  day ;  was  a 
good  surveyor — ^plats,  made  by  him,  are  now  to  be  seen  often, 
and  bear  the  scrutiny  of  the  Courts.  He  was  opposed  to  the 
Confederate  War,  but  had  the  good  sense  to  keep  his  mouth 
shut,  and  to  "stand  to  one  side  and  let  the  procession  pass  by." 
Joel  Lewis,  the  brother  of  old  Jonathan,  and  one  of  the  seven 
brothers,  married  Ruth  Norton,  grand-aunt  of  Hon.  James 
Norton;  they  moved  to  Mississippi,  about  1818;  and  thence, 
years  afterwards,  to  Texas.  This  ascertained  from  recent  cor- 
respondence with  Mrs.  Minerva  Lewis  Jones,  the  youngest  and 
only  surviving  child  of  old  Joel  and  his  wife,  Ruth,  and  who 
resides  at  Gonzales,  Gonzales  County,  Texas.  Joel  Lewis,  the 
youngest  son  of  old  Jonathan,  by  his  second  marriage,  married 
a  Miss  Flowers,  after  he  went  to  Mississippi ;  can  follow  him 
no  farther. 

Fowler. — The  first  Fowler  known  in  the  county  was  Wil- 
liam Fowler,  who  came  from  North  Carolina,  about  the  date  of 
1800.  He  married  a  daughter  of  George  Brown,  and  lived 
near  Gapway;  he  had  some  daughters  and  one  son,  Jessee. 
Jessee  married  a  sister  of  Harrison  Lambert ;  they  had  several 
children.  Martha  married  Daniel  Williamson.  Patience  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  Keith,  and  had  one  child ;  Keith  died,  and  the  widow 
then  married  Levi  Edwards.  Sarah  married  a  Mr.  Tolar,  and 
both  died.  Mary  Fowler  never  married.  The  oldest  son.  Fur- 
man  Fowler,  married  a  Miss  White,  and  raised  a  family  un- 
known to  the  writer.  Joseph  Fowler  married,  first,  a  Miss 
Brown  and  had  a  family,  how  many  not  known — they  are 
grown ;  his  Brown  wife  died,  and  he  married  again,  a  daughter 
of  Stephen  R.  Collins,  and  had  several  children  by  her.  Ste- 
phen Fowler  married  a  Miss  Collins,  daughter  of  William  Col- 
lins and  a  sister  of  Valentine  Rowell's  wife,  and  has  a  family 
of  sons  and  daughters,  the  oldest  son  grown.  Major  Fowler 
married,  first,  a  daughter  of  Bethel  Rogers,  of  the  upper  Fork 


484  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

section ;  she  died  at  her  first  accouchement — the  child,  however, 
lived;  his  second  wife  was  a  daughter  of  Daniel  Snipes,  and 
she  has  three  or  four  children.  His  first  child,  Maggie,  mar- 
ried Daniel  Owens,  and  she  has  considerable  family,  number 
and  sex  unknown.  This  family  of  Fowlers  are  good  people. 
Few  better  men,  if  any,  can  be  found  than  old  man  Jesse  Fow- 
ler was — of  the  strictest  integrity,  scrupulously  honest  in  all  his 
dealings  with  his  fellow-men,  industrious  and  frugal;  though 
not  a  rich  man,  yet  he  acquired  by  honest  endeavor  a  comfort- 
able living ;  was  true  to  his  church,  his  God  and  his  country ; 
his  good  influence  will  tell  upon  his  children  and  his  community 
for  years  to  come. 

Shooter. — ^The  first  of  this  family  in  Marion  County  was 
old  Benjamin  Shooter  and  his  wife,  Mary;  her  maiden  name 
is  unknown.  They  came  from  Virginia  or  North  Carolina, 
about  1790.  They  had  and  raised  three  children  or  more — 
one  son,  Benjamin,  Jr.,  and  two  daughters,  names  unknown. 
One  of  the  daughters  married  old  Thomas  Rogers,  and  the 
other  married  the  late  Captain  John  Rogers,  of  the  Fork  sec- 
tion. Captain  John  Rogers,  a  capital  citizen,  had  and  raised  a 
considerable  family;  the  sons  were  Bethel,  Ferdinand,  Tris- 
tram B.  and  John  W.  Rogers ;  the  names  of  the  daughters  are 
unknown,  also  tbe  number.  One  became  the  wife  of  George 
W.  Reaves,  already  mentioned  herein  among  the  Reaves ;  an- 
other was  the  wife  of  Matthew  Martin,  and  another  was  the 
wife  of  the  late  Aaron  Martin.  These  latter  have  already  been 
noticed  in  or  among  the  Martin  family.  There  may  have  been 
other  daughters  of  Captain  John  Rogers.  Know  nothing  of 
old  Thomas  Rogers'  family.  Of  the  sons  of  Captain  John 
Rogers,  the  eldest,  Bethel,  married  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Moses 
Coleman;  he  has  raised  a  considerable  family,  who  are  now 
among  us,  and  energetic  and  respectable  people.  Ferdinand 
Rogers  married  a  daughter  of  Samuel  Edwards,  and  has  raised 
several  childtren,  who  are  now  among  us  and  respectaible  citi- 
zens. Tristram  B.  Rogers  was  a  capital  man;  he  married  a 
daughter  of  Joseph  B.  Hays ;  he  had  and  raised  a  large  family. 
One  of  his  sons,  J.  Marion  Rogers,  is  a  graduate  of  Wofford 
College,  and  a  minister  in  the  South  Carolina  Conference  of 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  485 

the  Meth6dist  Church.  Another  son,  Herbert,  is  a  graduate 
of  the  Citadel  Academy,  Charleston,  and  is  said  to  be  very 
bright  and  promising.  T.  B.  Rogers  had  other  sons  and 
daughters,  who  are  among  us  and  are  coming  people.  John 
W.  Rogers,  another  son  of  old  Captain  John,  married  a  daugh- 
ter of  old  William  Hays ;  he  died  some  years  ago,  and  left  a 
promising  family  of  sons  and  daughters,  all  doing. well.  W. 
R.  Rogers,  a  merchant  at  Marion,  is  one  of  them,  and  is  suc- 
ceeding well.  Benjamin  Shooter,  Jr.,  married  a  daughter  of 
George  Ford,  as  hereinbefore  stated  among  the  Ford  family, 
and  settled  in  the  "Fork"  section,  on  the  place  now  belonging 
to  Dempsy  Ivcwis ;  he  had  and  raised  a  family  of  eight  sons,  to 
wit:  Berry  A.,  George  E.,  W.  Pinckney,  William,  Benjamin 
Franklin,  Evander  C,  John  Milton  and  Albert  H. ;  and  one 
daughter,  Martha,  who  married  John  W.  Moody,  and  had  one 
child,  a  daughter,  and  died.  Of  the  sons.  Berry  A.  married  a 
Miss  Campbell  (I  think),  and  had  and  raised  a  family.  George 
E.  Shooter  was  a  doctor,  and  married,  first.  Miss  Caroline 
Ford,  a  daughter  of  Major  Jessee  Ford ;  and  had  by  her  several 
children,  when  she  died,  and  he  married  again,  a  Miss  Harrel- 
son,  and  by  her  had  children  also — how  many  not  known — 
when  the  father  died.  Dr.  Shooter  was  no  ordinary  man — ^he 
had  one  failing  which,  perhaps,  shortened  his  days;  I  know 
nothing  of  his  family.  W.  Pinckney  Shooter  was  the  first 
graduate  from  Marion  County  (1859)  in  the  Citadel  Academy; 
after  graduation,  he  studied  law  at  Marion  with  George  M. 
Fairlee,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  just  as  the  war  com- 
menced ;  he  was  talented  and  brilliant ;  he  volunteered  and  was 
elected  First  lyieutenant  in  the  first  company  that  went  from 
Marion.  The  company  left  Marion  4th  January,  1861,  and 
went  to  Morris  Island,  Charleston,  and  formed  a  part  of  the 
First  Regiment  under  the  command  of  Colonel  (afterwards 
General)  Maxcy  Gregg,  and  participated  in  the  capture  of  Fort 
Sumter,  in  April  ( 12th  and  13th) ,  1861 .  After  the  fall  of  Fort 
Sumter,  there  was  a  revolunteering  of  the  company  for  the  war 
and  for  the  Confederacy,  and  W.  P.  Shooter  was  elected  its 
Captain,  and  went  with  his  company  to  Virginia.  He  was  a 
brave  and  gallant  officer,  and  rose  from  Captain  to  lyieutenant 
Colonel  of  the  Regiment,  when  he  was  killed  at  Spottsylvania 


486  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

C.  H.,  in  May,  1864;  he  never  married.  B.  Frank  (killed  6tli 
May)  and  Evander  C.  (killed  12th  May,  1864),  two  of  his  bro- 
thers lost  their  lives  in  the  series  of  battles  fought  that  month 
between  Grant  and  Lee's  armies.  William  N.  Shooter,  I  think, 
married  a  Miss  Campbell,  also ;  they  have  a  family,  about  whom 
nothing  is  known.  John  Milton  married  in  North  Carolina. 
Albert  H.  Shooter,  the  youngest  son  of  Benjamin,  Jr.,  married 
Miss  Josephine  Roberts,  a  daughter  of  the  late  James  Roberts, 
and  has  a  coming  family — how  many  and  their  sex,  is  not 
known ;  he  is  one  of  our  good  citizens.  Of  the  eight  sons,  three 
were  killed  in  the  war,  and  two  have  died  since  the  war ;  the 
survivors  are  William,  John  Milton  and  Albert  H.  As  a  fam- 
ily they  were  intellectual  and  of  acute  perceptions,  brave  almost 
to  rashness,  and  full  of  pluck  and  energy.  John  Milton  and 
Albert  were  too  young  to  go  into  the  war.  Old  Aunt  Mary 
Shooter,  as  she  was  familiarly  called  sixty-five  years  ago,  the 
grand-mother  of  these  soldier  boys,  lived  to  a  great  age — over 
ninety  years. 

Campbbll  (of  Maidbn  Down). — The  progenitor  of  this 
family  was  named  James.  He  came  from  Virginia  in  the 
eighteenth  century,  married  and  had  five  sons,  John,  James,  Jr., 
Jerre,  Gadi  and  Theophilus ;  and  one  daughter,  Nancy  Ann, 
who  became  the  wife  of  old  John  Huggins,  of  Huggins'  Bridge, 
on  Little  Pee  Dee,  and  who  has  already  been  noticed  herein 
among  the  Huggins  family;  and  Mary,  who  married  Willis 
Huggins,  cousin  of  old  John,  and  Elizabeth,  who  never  mar- 
ried. James  Campbell,  Jr.,  married  Miss  Molsey  (Mary) 
Barnes,  and  had  Ebby  and  James,  and  three  daughters.  One 
of  the  latter  died  unmarried.  James  (second),  Jr.,  married 
Chloe  Rogers,  and  had  one  son,  Frank ;  his  wife  died ;  he  mar- 
ried no  more;  is  now  dead.  Frank  married  a  Miss  Jones, 
daughter  of  Ebby  Jones,  and  is  now  a  young  citizen  and  prom- 
ises well.  Ebby  Campbell  married  Charlotte  Lane,  and  has 
six  children — ^three  sons,  Spencer,  George  and  another,  name 
unknown;  one  daughter  married  Leonard  Lewis,  and  has  a 
family  (small) ;  another  daughter  married  some  one  unknown; 
think  the  other  daughter  is  single.  Jerre  Campbell  married 
Miss  Patience  Scott,  daughter  of  old  Pharoah  Scott,  in  the 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  487 

Tabernacle  section,  in  Hillsboro;  they  had  two  sons  and  four 
daughters ;  the  sons  are  Kenneth  and  Eli.  One  daughter  mar- 
ried Willis  Rogers,  and  had  Simeon,  Hampton  and  others.  Eli 
Campbell  married  Miss  Josephine  Huggins,  and  had  one  child, 
a  daughter,  who  married  Percy  Harrelson,  and  has  one  or  two 
children  (small).  One  daughter  of  Jerre  married  Lawrence 
Sessions;  she  had  three  or  four  children,  and  died.  Two  of 
Jerre's  daughters  are  unmarried.  Kenneth  Campbell  married  a 
Miss  Harrelson,  and  has  two  daughters,  unmarried."  Gadi 
Campbell  married  Mary  Norton,  sister  of  John  Norton  and  aunt 
of  Hon.  James  Norton ;  they  had  four  sons,  Warren  W.,  Charles 
Fletcher,  Theophilus  and  Benjamin  F.,  and  three  daughters, 
Martha,  Emaline  and  Elizabeth.  Of  the  daughters,  Martha 
married  James  Dudney,  and  had  and  raised  several  children,  all 
grown,  about  whom  little  is  known;  Emaline  Campbell  mar- 
ried the  late  Thomas  A.  Proctor,  and  had  several  children.  Of 
the  daughters  of  Thomas  A.  Proctor,  the  eldest  married 
Thomas  Cottingham,  and  had  one  or  two  children;  she  died 
several  years  ago.  Another  daughter,  Mary  Proctor,  married 
Major  Bird,  and  had  one  child,  and  died.  Relda  Proctor  mar- 
ried Milton  Norton,  and  has  a  family  (coming) .  Sarah  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  Williams,  and  has  a  large  family ;  they  are  in  Hamp- 
ton County ;  and  Miss  Fannie  Proctor  is  unmarried.  Elizabeth 
Campbell  married  R.  B.  Game,  arid  they  had  and  raised  a  con- 
siderable family.  Of  the  daughters  of  R.  B.  Game  and  wife, 
Hattie  married  a  Mr.  Hunter;  they  are  in  Florence  County. 
Mary  Game  married  Samuel  Rogers ;  they  have  quite  a  family ; 
they  live  in  Columbia.  Roberta  Game  married  Albert  Rogers ; 
have  a  family  (small).  Georgia  Game  married  a  Mr.  Chreitz- 
berg ;  they  had  two  children,  a  son  and  a  daughter,  Robert  and 
Lula  (small).  Chrietzberg  dying,  the  widow  married  Daniel 
Martin,  of  Mullins ;  no  children  by  her  Martin  marriage.  Lila 
Game  is  unmarried.  Of  the  sons  of  Gadi  Campbell,  Warren 
W.  died  a  young  single  man,  just  as  he  was  preparing  to  enter 
as  a  minister  in  the  South  Carolina  Conference  (Methodist). 
Charles  Fletcher  Campbell,  son  of  Gadi,  never  married;  he 
joined'the  South  Carolina  Conference  in  "1859,  3-"^  died  in  i860, 
at  the  age  of  twenty-seven.  Benjamin  F.  Campbell,  son  of 
Gadi,  never  married ;  he  died  or  was  killed  in  the  war.  Theo- 
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488  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

philas  Campbell,  son  of  Gadi,  married  Emma  Huggins;  he  is 
dead;  left  his  widow,  two  sons  and  four  daughters.  Of  the 
daughters,  Louisa  married  a  Mr.  Proctor ;  he  died  and  left  her 
with  two  children;  she  is  in -Washington — ^whether  married 
again,  the  writer  knows  not.  Dora,  the  next  daughter,  mar- 
ried T.  W.  Sellers,  the  nephew  of  the  writer ;  she  died,  and  left 
two  children,  daughters  (small).  Etta,  the  next  daughter,  is 
also  in  Washington,  D.  C. ;  said  to  be  married,  but  to  whom  is 
not  known.  Maggie,  the  youngest,  is  unmarried,  perhaps  not 
grown.  Of  the  two  sons,  Iverson  and  Capers,  they  are  with 
their  mother ;  neither  one  of  them  is  grown.  Theophilus  Camp- 
bell, son  of  James,  St.,  and  brother  of  Gadi  Campbell,  married 
Miranda  Cribb ;  had  several  children,  emigrated  to  Mississippi. 
Of  the  sons  of  Thomas  A.  Proctor,  Marion,  the  oldest,  married 
a  Miss  Shuler,  of  Orangeburg  County,  and  has  a  large  family ; 
don't  know  their  names.  George  Proctor  married  a  Miss  Mc- 
Coy, and  has  one  or  two  children  (small).  Thomas,  a  son, 
went  to  Alabama.  Robert  married  Jennie  Mclntyre,  and  has 
gone  to  Georgia.  Of  the  sons  of  Robert  B.  Game,  Simpson 
married  a  daughter  of  Huger  Godbold,  and  has  quite  a  family. 
Morgan  Game  went  to  Anderson  County,  and  married  there. 
Joseph  Bethea  Game,  the  youngest  son,  is  grown;  he  married 
in  North  Carolina;  has  a  family;  he  belongs  to  the  South 
Georgia  Conference,  and  is  now  stationed  in  Brunswick,  Ga. — 
is  said  to  be  a  fine  preacher ;  he  is  well  educated,  well  equipped 
for  his  profession.  R.  B.  Game's  Campbell  wife  died,  and  he 
married,  a  second  time.  Miss  Lizzie  Fladger,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain C.  J.  Fladger,  and  by  her  has  one  daughter,  Minnie,  who 
is  said  to  be  very  smart  and  intellectual.  John  Campbell, 
brother  of  Gadi,  Jeremiah,  &c.,  married  some  one  not  now  re- 
membered, but  had  no  offspring. 

Atkinson. — This  family,  or  rather  the  Widow  Atkinson, 
came  from  Sampson  County,  N.  C,  with  her  children,  about 
the  last  of  the  eighteenth  century,  and  settled  near  where  Mil- 
ler's Church  now  stands.  She  had  three  sons,  Jessee  and  two 
others,  names  not  a:scertainable,  and  one  daughter,  if  no 
more ;  she  married  Nat,  or  Elias  Miller,  one  of  whom  was  the 
founder  of  Miller's  Church,  and  for  whom  that  church  was 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  489 

named,  and  is  still  called  and  known  by  that  name.  It  has 
already  been  mentioned  in  or  among  the  Norton  family.  The 
eldest  son  of  the  widow  (if  not  the  oldest),  the  one  named 
Jessee,  married  a  Miss  Bryant,  first,  and  to  that  marriage  were 
born  and  raised  four  children,  three  sons  and  one  daughter ;  the 
sons  were  Jessee,  Ebby  and  Hugh;  the  daughter  was  Sarah 
Ann,  and  she  became  the  wife  of  Vincent  Godbold,  and  had  and 
raised  six  or  eight  daughters  and  one  son,  Eli  Godbold,  now  in 
Horry.  Old  Jessee  Atkinson's  second  wife  was  Miss  Margaret 
Cave,  and  by  her  had  eight  children,  to  wit:  Charlotte,  Eliza- 
beth, Eliza  Ann,  Annis,  Jane,  William  J.,  John  W.  and  Thomas. 
Of  these,  Charlotte  married  a  Mr.  Welsh;  had  no  children. 
Eizabeth  married  William  Woodward,  and  had  one  daughter, 
named  Charlotte.  They  all,  if  alive,  are  in  Richmond  County, 
N.  C.  Eliza  Ann,  the  third  daughter,  died  unmarried.  Annis, 
the  fourth  daughter,  married  Stephen  H.  Price,  of  the  Maple 
Swamp  section,  and  brother  to  one  Hugh  P.  Price,  now  in  that 
section ;  they  had  four  children,  two  boys  and  two  girls.  Ste- 
phen H.  Price  died,  leaving  those  children  all  small.  The 
eldest,  Jessee,  has  a  family,  in  Horry.  The  youngest  boy  died 
young.  The  oldest  girl  died  unmarried.  The  younger  one 
married  Mr.  Cause  Owens,  and  has  a  growing  family.  Jane, 
the  fifth  daughter,  married  Joseph  Stevens;  he  is  dead — left 
three  children,  two  sons,  Benjamin  and  Hamilton,  and  one 
girl — all  married  Ammonses.  William  J.  Atkinson,  oldest  son 
of  old  Jessee  by  his  second  marriage,  married  Martha  Jane  Har- 
relson,  daughter  of  old  Hugh  H.  Harrelson ;  died  and  left  three 
children,  Hugh  J.,  George,  and  a  daughter — ^the  latter  married 
an  Ammons.  George  married  a  Miss  Berry,  daughter  of 
Bright  W.  Berry,  near  the  Reedy  Creek  Springs,  in  upper 
Marion ;  has  some  children,  don't  know  sex  or  number.  Don't 
know  to  whom  Hugh  J.  married.  John  W.  Atkinson,  now  of 
Marion,  the  second  son  of  old  Jessee  by  his  second  marriage, 
married,  first,  Miss  Eliza  Dew,  daughter  of  old  William  Dew, 
of  upper  Marion,  near  Catfish  Baptist  Church,  and  by  her  had 
one  child,  a  son,  Thomas  J.,  when  the  wife,  Eliza,  died.  Thomas 
J.  grew  up  and  married  a  daughter  of  Squire  Stephen  A.  Hair- 
grove,  and  now  resides  in  the  Catfish  neighborhood;  he  has 
two  daughters,  Viola  and  Eilla,  who  are  the  idols  of  their  Aunt 


490  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Huldah  Hairgrove,  an  old  maiden  lady  of  fifty  years  or  more. 
Thomas  Atkinson,  the  youngest  son  of  old  Jessee  or  Jessee,  Jr., 
by  his  second  marriage  (Cave),  married  Martha  Dew,  the 
youngest  daughter  of  old  William  Dew,  above  mentioned ;  they 
had  one  child,  a  son,  William  B.  Atkinson,  who  grew  up  and 
married  a  Miss  Gaddy,  daughter  of  Samuel  T.  Gaddy,  near 
Gaddy's  Mills;  he  lives  on  the  old  William  Dew  homestead, 
with  his  mother.  William  B.  Atkinson  is  an  excellent  manager 
of  affairs,  a  good  farmer  and  prosperous ;  he  has  seven  or  eight 
children,  some  of  them  grown,  names  unknown.  His  father, 
Thomas  Atkinson,  died  when  he  was  quite  a  child ;  he  was  and 
is  the  only  child  of  his  mother,  who  yet  lives — rather  an  extra 
woman,  of  fine  sense.  John  W.  Atkinson's  wife  dying,  he 
married  the  Widow  Beaty,  nee  Hemingway,  mother  of  Rev.  L. 
F.  Beaty,  of  the  South  Carolina  Conference,  a  strong  preacher ; 
by  this  second  marriage  John  W.  Atkinson  has  no  children. 
Ebby  Atkinson,  third  son  of  Jessee,  Sr.,  son  of  the  old  widow 
from  Sampson  County,  N.  C,  married  Olive  Gasque,  daughter 
of  old  Absalom  Gasque,  the  old  court  crier,  who  was  calling 
the  Court  away  back  in  1840,  and  how  long  before  is  unknown ; 
he  continued  to  call  the  Court  while  be  lived,  and  after  his  death 
it  descended,  not  by  inheritance  but  by  appointment,  to  his 
son,  Henry  A.  Gasque,  and  he  held  it  to  1890  or  1891,  when  the 
"Tillman  boom"  lifted  him  out — reform  downwards.  Old  man 
Ebby  Atkinson  and  wife  raised  quite  a  family,  mostly  girls,  onfe 
son,  Ebby,  who  married  a  daughter  of  the  late  J.  C.  Thompson ; 
they  have  children.  One  daughter,  Celia  Ann,  married  Eli 
Godbold,  who  moved  to  Horry  County ;  they  had  several  chil- 
dren, mostly  sons,  the  three  oldest  known — Christopher  Co- 
lumbus, Ebby  and  William  Eli — and  others  not  known.  Ebby 
Atkinson  had  another  daughter,  Mary,  who  married  a  Lovel — 
and  one  married  a  Richardson — 'think  her  name  was  Minnie. 
Know  nothing  further  of  old  man  Ebby's  family  or  descend- 
ants. Hugh  Atkinson,  a  brother  of  old  Ebby,  married  a  Miss 
Goldbold,  lived  to  an  old  age  and  died  childless.  The  Atkin- 
sons, as  a  family,  are  honest  and  straight,  retiring  and  unpre- 
tending; live  at  home  and  harmless.  The  old  widow  from 
Sampson  County,  N.  C,  had  two  other  sons,  whose  names  are 
not  remembered.     The  Atkinsons  of  Georgetown  are  said  to  be 


A  HISTORY  Off  MARION  COUNTY.  491 

relatives  of  these  in  Marion,  but  what  relation  is  unknown. 
One  of  the  Georgetown  Atkinsons  was  Circuit  Solicitor  some 
twenty-five  or  thirty  years  ago ;  he  may  be  a  descendant  of  one 
of  the  widow's  sons.  Ex-Governor  Atkinson  of  Georgia  may 
also  be  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  widow's  sons — who  can  tell  ? 
The  name  is  spelled  in  the  same  way.  Her  two  sons  went 
somewhere.     Jessee  only  remained  here. 

Fladger. — Since  noting  the  families  of  Evans,  Godbold, 
Haselden  and  Richardsons  herein,  the  wiriter  has  obtained  in- 
formation that  enables  him  to  connect  branches  of  the  above 
named  families  with  the  Fladgers — a  name  now  extinct  in  the 
county,  except  one  female,  now  forty  years  of  age,  Sallie  Maria 
Fladger,  daughter  of  the  late  Captain  Charles  J.  Fladger,  by 
his  second  marriage  with  the  Widow  William  S.  Bethea.  That 
female  will  hardly  ever  marry;  and  if  she  does,  will,  perhaps, 
change  her  name  from  Fladger  to  some  other  name — so  that,  it 
is  the  remotest  possibility  that  the  name  will  continue  much 
longer  in  the  county,  once  prominent.  About  173S,  one  of  the 
first  settlements  was  made  by  a  colony,  direct  from  England,  in 
Britton's  Neck,  and  one  of  these  colonists  was  a  Fladger 
(Gregg's  History,  page  69), and  from  him  the  name  and  its  con- 
nections have  come  do^n  to  the  present  time.  The  writer  is 
indebted  to  Mrs.  Major  S.  A.  Durham,  a  descendant  of  this  old 
colonist  Fladger,  for  the  missing  link.  Hugh  Fladger  was  his 
name  (a  name  in  the  family  ever  since)  ;  to  whom  he  married 
is  unknown — he  may  have  married  in  England  and  brought 
his  wife  with  him;  he  had  a  son,  named  Henry  Fladger,  who 
married  a  Miss  Keene,  daughter  of  Brockingham  Keene,  and 
Keene's  wife  was  a  Miss  Horry,  a  sister  of  Colonel  Horry. 
Henry  Fladger  had  a  son,  named  Hugh  Fladger  (our  old 
Hugh,  whom  the  writer  has  often  seen),  and  two  daughters — 
Sarah,  who  married  General  Thomas  Godbold,  and  another, 
name  not  known,  who  married  John  Richardson  (called  "King 
John.")  Henry  Fladger  was  active  in  the  Revolution,  was 
under  General  Francis  Marion,  and  was  killed  by  the  Tories 
during  that  momentous  struggle.  The  above  sketch  being 
read  in  connection  with  the  Godbold,  Evans,  Haselden  and 
King  John  Richardson's  family,  it  will  be  seen  that  these  fam- 


492  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

ilies  and  their  descendants  are  all  related  to  each  other  col- 
laterally— their  common  ancestor  being  Henry  Fladger,  son  of 
old  Hugh,  the  colonist  to  Britton's  Neck  from  England,  about 
1735.     Kladger  blood  runs  through  all  their  veins. 

Smith. — The  name  Smith  is  almost  universal.  It  is  found, 
I  suppose,  wherever  the  English  language  is  spoken.  It  may 
fairly  be  assumed  that  all  the  Smiths  had  somewhere,  at  some 
remote  period,  a  common  ancestor — ^that  is,  an  original  stock 
whence  they  all  sprang.  To  find  it,  the  writer  thinks  is  im- 
possible, and  he  will  not  undertake  to  do  so — does  not  know 
that  he  can  do  so,  so  far  as  Marion  County  is  concerned,  but 
will  approach  as  near  to  it  as  he  can.  The  first  of  which  the 
writer  knows  or  has  any  information  concerning  was  John 
Smith,  who  settled  upon  and  lived  near  the  place  now  known  as 
E.  J.  Moody's  Mill,  long  before  the  Revolution — during  the 
Revolution  it  was  known  as  Tart's  Mill.  When  it  was  built 
or  by  whom,  is  not  known.  It  may  have  been  built  by  John 
Smith  or  by  Enos  Tart.  Enos  Tart's  mother  was  the  sister  or 
daughter  of  John  Smith.  This  old  John  Smith  had  a  family  of 
sons  and  diaughters,  but  how  many  of  each  is  not  known ;  from 
the  best  information  obtainable  this  old  John  Smith  had  sons, 
named  John,  Samuel  and  James,  and  njay  be  others ;  can't  say 
as  to  any  daughters,  but  am  pretty  sure  that  old  Enos  Tart's 
mother  was  his  daughter  rather  than  his  sister.  John  Smith, 
Jr.,  as  is  supposed,  lived  before  and  after  the  Revolutionary 
War,  between  the  two  (lower)  Reedy  Creeks,  west  of  Gapway 
Baptist  Church  and  east  of  Marion  Court  House.  It  is  told  of 
him  that  he  was  well-to-do,  and  that  during  the  war  he  buried 
considerable  money  (specie)  near  the  Little  Reedy  Creek. 
This  John  Smith,  it  is  supposed  and  believed,  was  either  the 
grand-father  or  the  father  of  Hugh  Godbold  Smith,  John 
Smith,  Willis  G.  Smith,  Leonard  Smith,  Ebby  Smith  and  two 
or  three  daughters.  One  daughter  married  a  Malloy,  and 
moved  to  Horry.  Another  married  James  Tart,  who  had  a 
considerable  family,  all  of  whom  are  dead,  except  one  son,  the 
youngest,  C.  Murchison  Tart,  in  Columbus  County,  N.  C.  Of 
these  sons,  John  and  Ebby  Smith  moved  to  Alabama  about 
1820  or  1825.     Willis  G.  Smith  married  a  Miss  Beverly,  and 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  498 

raised  a  family ;  don't  know  how  many.  One  daughter  married 
G.  W.  Smithey,  who  had  and  raised  two  children,  a  son,  J.  W. 
G.  Smithey,  and  the  wife  of  John  Smithey — "One-eyed  John." 
The  son,  J.  W.  G.  Smithey,  married  a  Miss  Malloy,  of  Conway ; 
lives  now  in  Marion,  and  has  an  interesting  and  promising 
family,  some  of  them  grown.  Leonard  Smith  married  a  Miss 
Foxworth ;  his  male  descendants  were  John,  David  and  Jerry ; 
don't  know  who  they  married  or  what  has  become  of  them  or 
their  posterity,  if  they  had  any.  Old  man  Willis  G.  Smith  was 
quite  a  character — there  was  only  one  Willis  G.  Smith;  he 
never  wore  any  socks — at  least,  the  writer  never  saw  him  with 
any;  saw  him  frequently,  and  often  in  cold,  bitter  weather, 
at  Marion,  without  any  socks — he  was  emphatically  "Sockless 
Willis ;"  he  was  very  profane,  and  in  the  habit  of  frequently 
using  words  not  suited  to  a  Sunday  School,  and  about  1846, 
when  the  project  of  building  the  Wilmington  and  Manchester 
Railroad  was  being  discussed  at  Marion,  General  EvaniS, 
General  Wheeler  and  others  were  telling  old  man  Willis  about 
how  it  was  to  be  constructed,  how  it  was  to  be  propelled,  how 
many  people  it  could  carry,  and  how  fast  it  could  run,  or  its 
rate  of  speed,  &c.,  old  man  Willis  would  swear  most  bitterly 
that  tbey  were  all  liars;  that  such  a  thing  could  not  be  and 
they  knew  it  could  not  be;  that  they  were  just  gassing  and 
trying  to  fool  him,  &c. — ^this  done  with  the  most  vehement 
expletives.  I  think  the  old  man  lived  to  see  the  road  completed 
to  Marion.  Tbey  tried  to  get  him'  to  take  a  trip  on  it,  but  he 
persistently  refused,  and  never  would  risk  himself  on  it.  If 
the  old  gentleman  oould  wake  up  now,  and  see  the  gilded 
flying  palace  cars  running  fifty  miles  an  hour,  half  a  dozen 
coaches  filled  with  passengers,  all  eating  and  sleeping  while 
thus  flying  over  and  through  the  country,  he  would  be  as- 
tounded, sure  enough — he  would  look  on  it  with  awe  and 
incredulity,  and  regard  it  as  supernatural  or  miraculous.  The 
other  brother,  Hugh  Godbold  Smith,  married  a  Miss  Wheeler, 
sister  of  General  E.  B.  Wheeler;  by  this  marriage  several 
children  were  born  and  raised' — four  sons,  Redding,  Edward, 
John  G.  and  Hugh  H.  Smith;  and  one  daughter,  Margaret 
Smith.  Redding  W.  Smith  married,  first,  a  Miss  Brown, 
whose  mother  was  a  Godbold ;  his  children  were  Dr.  Edward  B., 


494  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Zack,  Mary  E.  and  Sally  H.  Smith.  Of  these  daughters,  Mary 
E.  married  Captain  A.  H.  Ford;  they  raised  a  family,  the 
number  and  sex  unknown — some  or  all  are  grown.  They  first 
moved  to  Anderson  County,  and  after  remaining  there  for 
several  years,  they  with  their  family  emigrated  to  Texas,  where 
they  now  reside.  The  other  daughter,  Sally  H.,  married  M.  L. 
Smith,  of  Buck  Swamp ;  they  raised  a  family,  some  of  whom 
are  married  and  have  families.  Of  the  two  sons,  Zack,  the 
younger  one,  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Captain  Shooter's  company, 
I'st  Regiment  (Gregg's),  and  died  unmarried,  from  wounds 
received  in  battle  at  Hagerstown,  Md.  The  elder  son.  Dr.  E. 
B.  Smith,  married,  after  the  war,  Mrs.  Pattie  Mclntyre,  nee 
Betts,  widow  of  Lieutenant  Archie  Mclntyre,  who  was  killed 
in  September,  1862,  at  Sharpsburg,  Md. — a  brave  and  gener- 
ous young  officer;  she  was  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Charles 
Betts,  of  the  South  Carolina  Conference,  a  strong  preacher  in 
his  day.  She  had  a  son  by  Mclntyre,  Archie  Mclntyre,  named 
for  his  father,  now  an  excellent  physician  and  prominent  citizen 
of  the  town  of  Marion;  by  this  marriage  four  children  were 
born  and  raised,  to  wit :  three  sons  and  one  daughter — Charles 
B.  Smith,  in  Philadelphia ;  Dr.  Zack  Smith,  who  married  Miss 
Lilly  Clark,  daughter  of  the  late  R.  K.  Clark;  and  Richard 
Smith,  who  married  Miss  Isla  Ellerbe,  daughter  of  Colonel  E. 
B.  Ellerbe.  The  daughter.  Miss  Anna  Smith,  is  unmarried; 
the  mother  died  a  few  years  ago ;  the  doctor  has  not  remarried. 
Dr.  E.  B.  Smith  deserves  more  than  a  passing  notice ;  he  grad- 
uated in  the  medical  college  in  Charleston,  in  i860,  with  first 
distinction;  was  Assistant  Surgeon  in  the  army  during  the 
Civil  War ;  he  was,  spme  years  ago,  elected  to  the  lower  House 
of  the  General  Assembly  without  canvassing  the  county — ^he 
declined  to  canvass,  stayed  at  home  while  others  canvassed  the 
voters ;  he  is  a  very  intelligent  and  well-posted  man,  up-to-date 
in  every  way,  and  one  of  our  best  citizens.  He  is  a  model  and 
progressive  farmer — his  farm  is  a  large  one  for  these  times  and 
for  this  county,  yet  it  seemis  to  be  cultivated  like  a  garden — in 
first  class  condition;  all  the  appointments  about  it  seem  to  be 
arranged  f of  convenience  and  success ;  he  is  great  for  experi- 
ments, and,  I  suppose,  has  made  more  experiments  with  the 
application  and  use  of  fertilizers  than  any  experimental  station 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  495 

in  the  State.  Redding  W.  Smith,  the  father  of  Dr.  E.  B. 
Smith,  married  a  second  time,  and  by  that  marriage  had  a  son, 
Stonewall  Jackson  Smith,  a  druggist  at  Mullins.  John  G. 
Smith  married  a  Miss  Jordan,  and  his  sons  are  John,  EUy  and 
Ellison  H.  Smith,  and  three  daughters ;  the  sons  are  all  doing 
well,  and  are  substantial  citizens.  Elly  Smith  married,  first. 
Miss  Kate  Brown,  diaughter  of  old  C.  B.  Brown,  of  Marion, 
and  had  two  sons,  Tillman  and  LeGrande;  the  Brown  wife 
died,  and  he  married,  a  second  time,  a  daughter  of  Daniel 
Snipes ;  know  nothing  as  to  his  family  by  the  last  marriage. 
Know  nothing  of  John  and  Ellison  H.  Smith's  family,  nor  of 
the  three  daughters  of  John  G.  Smith.  Margaret  Smith,  a 
daughter  of  Hugh  Godbold  Smith,  married  Stephen  T.  Collins ; 
they  are  both  dead,  and  tlheir  children  live  in  the  Gapway 
neighborhood,  of  whom  the  writer  knows  but  little  and  that 
little  will  be  deferred  to  the  Collins  family,  when  he  comes  to 
notice  them.  Hugh  H.  Smith  married  a  Miss  Shelly,  and  had 
one  son  and  three  or  four  daughters.  Edward  Smith  married 
a  Miss  Collins,  and  by  her  had  Redding  (called  Little  Red- 
ding), Keene  Davis,  Ham  E.  G.  and  George  Smith.  This 
Redding  was  the  father  of  Edgar,  Lide,  Dr.  Frank  and  Ed- 
ward Smith,  all  in  the  Mullins  region ;  "Little  Redding's"  first 
wife  was  a  Miss  Spivey,  daughter  of  Isaac  Spivey,  in  the  Bear 
Swamp  and  Holmesville  section ;  the  Spivey  wife  died,  and  he 
lately  married  the  daughter  of  Jerry  Lambert ;  "Little  Redding" 
is  a  prosperous  and  well-to-do  citizen.  Of  the  others  of  Ed- 
ward Smith's  children  and  grand^children  by  Little  Redding 
the  writer  can  say  nothing,  for  the  want  of  information;  he 
knows  Dr.  Frendh  Smith,  at  Mullins,  a  young  single  man,  and 
is  well  spoken  of  as  a  physician,  and  no  doubt  but  that  he  will 
do  well. 

James  Smith,  one  of  the  sons  of  old  John  Smith,  will  repre- 
sent another  branch  of  the  Smith  family  as  it  now  exists  in  the 
county.  Old  man  Hugh  Smith,  remembered  by  many  now 
living,  who  lived  and  died  some  years  ago  at  or  near  Temper- 
ance Hill,  eight  miles  above  Marion,  on  the  road  leading  to 
Campbell's  Bridge,  on  Little  Pee  Dee  River,  was  a  son  of  James 
Smith,  and  through  him  a  grand-son  of  old  John ;  don't  know 
who  old  man  Hugh  Smith's  mother  or  grand-mother  was ;  old 


496  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Hugh  married  Miss  Chloe  Perritt,  a  sister  of  old  man  David 
Perritt ;  by  their  marriage  they  had  five  sons,  EUy,  Hugh  G., 
Hardy,  Willis  and  Joseph,,  and  daughters,  Sarah  Ann  (Mrs. 
James  V.  Rowell),  Betsy  (Mrs.  James  Lee),  Sallie  (Mrs.  Wm. 
Turbeville),  and  Ailsey  (Mrs.  McLean),  in  Texas.  Of  these 
daughters,  they  all,  perhaps,  have  children  and  grand-children, 
mostly  unknown  to  the  writer.  Of  the  sons,  Elly  married  in 
Mississippi ;  he  was  killed  by  a  railroad  train  running  over  him, 
some  fifteen  or  twenty  years  ago,  at  Marion ;  he  left  one  son, 
who  lives  in  Mississippi.  Willis  Smith  married  Miss  Adaline 
Powers,  and  had  six  sons,  Elly,  Augustus,  Mitchell  Andrew 
(dead),  Robert,  Foster  and  Hugh,  and  two  daughters,  Harriett 
and  Elmira.  Augustus  Smith  married  Hettie  Perritt,  and  has 
five  children  (small).  Foster  Smith  married  a  Miss  Rogers,- 
and  has  one  child,  a  son.  Hugh  G.  Smith  married  a  Miss  Tur- 
beville, and  had  one  daughter,  who  married  Lemuel  Turbeville ; 
she  is  now  dead,  leaving  several  children.  Joseph  Smith  mar- 
ried Miss  Jane  Page,  daughter  of  the  late  John  S.  Page,  and 
after  living  together  some  few  years,  they  were  divorced  (dur- 
ing existence  of  the  divorce  law) ;  they  had  no  children.  Hardy 
Smith  married  Ann  Turbeville,  and  had  Willis,  Guery  and 
several  other  children;  he  lives  in  the  Gaddy's  Mill  section. 
Mrs.  James  Lee  had  Calvin,  Willis  and  Elly,  and  daughters, 
Telatha  (Mrs.  McCrackin)  and  Lizzie  (Mrs.  George  Turbe- 
ville). Mrs.  Turbeville  has  only  one  son,  Joseph,  who  mar- 
ried a  daughter  of  Jerry  Rowell,  near  Campbell's  Bridge.  Mrs. 
James  V.  Rowell  had  two  sons,  William  and  Volentine,  and  one 
daughter,  Silsy,  who  married  a  Mr.  Bailey.  The  writer's  in- 
formation as  to  this  branch  of  the  Smith  family  is  somewhat 
meagre ;  and  can  say  no  more  concerning  it. 

Another  branch  of  the  Smith  family  in  the  county  is  derived 
from  old  John  Smith,  a  common  ancestor,  through  his  son,  Sam- 
uel Smith,  who  lived  and  died  on  the  road  from  Marion  Court 
House  to  Buck  Swamp  Bridge,  just  below ,  Temperance  Hill — 
think  he  died  in  1843,  a  very  old  man,  between  eighty  and 
ninety  years  of  age;  he  accumulated  a  large  property  for  his 
day  and  time — lands,  slaves  and  money ;  in  his  day,  channels  of 
investment  were  restricted  almost  exclusively  to  lands  and 
negroes ;  old  man  Samuel  lived  close,  managed  well,  and  hence 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  497 

he  accumulated  much.  It  was  said  of  him  (and  I  suppose  it 
was  true)  that  he  never  used  any  of  the  produce  of  his  farm 
until  it  was  a  year  old — always  looking  for  a  famine ;  be  made 
on  his  farm  what  he  and  his  family  lived  on — spent  nothing. 
It  was  further  said  of  him  that  he  never  spent  any  silver  or 
gold,  but  hoarded  it — ^that  when  he  died  he  had  a  barrel  full  of 
silver  interspersed  with  gold ;  whether  this  was  true  or  not,  is 
not  certainly  known,  but  such  is  the  traditional  reputation. 
Don't  know  to  whom  be  married — he,  however,  did  marry,  and 
had  and  raised  a  family  of  three  children,  two  daughters  and  a 
son.  Of  the  daughters,  one  (name  not  known)  became  the 
wife  of  old  Captain  William  Page,  and  the  other,  Elizabeth 
(called  Betsey),  married  Robert  Moody.  Old  Captain  Wil- 
liam Page  bad  and  raised  a  large  family,  who  have  already  been 
noticed  herein  among  the  Page  family.  Robert  Moody  lived 
and  died  on  south  side  of  Buck  Swamp,  opposite  the  bridge ;  he 
left  bis  widow,  Betsey,  and  a  large  family  of  cbildren,  who 
have  already  been  mentioned  herein  among  the  Moody  family 
and  others,  with  whom  connected.  The  son,  Samuel  (called 
Samuel  Smith,  Jr.,  while  his  father  lived),  married,  first,  a 
daughter  of  old  Osborne  Lane,  hereinbefore  mentioned ;  be  set- 
tled on  Buck  Swamp,  near  where  Mts.  Sophia  Thompson,  nee 
Sophia  Beithea,  now  lives.  By  the  L,ane  wife,  Samuel  Smith, 
Jr.,  as  then  called,  had  and  raised  two  sons,  John  L.  and 
Stephen.  I  think  these  have  already  been  mentioned  among 
the  L,anes,  and  perhaps  among  the  Huggins.  As  to  the 
latter,  John  L,.  Smith  became  a  member  of  the  South  Caro- 
lina Conference  of  the  Methodist  Church,  as  it  then  was 
( 1834  or  5),  and  after  traveling  some  three  or  four  years,  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Wannamaker,  of  Orangeburg,  and  located  and  set- 
tled on  the  north  side  of  Buck  Swamp,  opposite  his  father's, 
where  be  lived,  raised  sons  and  daughters,  and  died  there,  after 
marrying  a  second  wife,  the  Widow  Henry ;  be  died  in  1878 ; 
he  raised  five  sons,  Daniel  Asbury,  Marcus  L.,  Jacob  W.,  John 
Albert  and  Wilbur  F.,  and  three  daughters,  Anna  M.,  Mary  J. 
and  Hettie.  I  think  these  have  all  been  noticed  herein  among 
the  Lanes,  the  Betheas,  the  Nichols  and  the  Pages.  John 
Albert  married  a*Widaw  Smith,  nee  Collins,  in  Mississippi,  and 
afterwards  came  back  here,  was  elected  Clerk  of  the  Court  in 


498  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

1880,  and  died  before  his  time  expired,  leaving  three  daughters 
and  a  son.  Henry,  the  latter,  has  a  family  and  lives  at  Mullins. 
One  of  the  daughters  became  the  wife  of  John  Wilcox,  at 
Marion,  and  has  a  coming  family.  Another  daughter  became 
the  wife  of  Dennis  Berry,  and  has  five  children,  daughters 
(small)  ;  and  another,  Laura,  became  the  wife  of  Chalmers 
Rogers,  at  Mullins,  and  has  two  children.  The  widow,  Jennie 
Smith,  has  not  remarried,  and  lives  with  her  daughter,  Laura, 
at  Mullins.  Wilbur  F.  Smith,  youngest  son,  after  graduation 
in  Wofford  College,  went  to  Mississippi,  yet  remains  there,  has 
a  famil)i  These  latter  have  been  mentioned  here,  because  not 
among  the  Lanes,  Betheas,  Nichols  and  Pages.  Stephen 
Smith,  the  other  son  by  Samuel,  Jr.'s,  first  marriage,  married 
Polly  Huggins,  the  (only)  daughter  of  old  John  Huggins,  and 
I  think  he  and  his  children  have  already  been  mentioned  among 
the  Lanes  and  Huggins.  Lest  it  may  not  have  been  done,  I 
will  say,  Stephen  Smith  had  sons,  Ebby,  George  W.,  B.  Cause, 
S.  Elmore,  S.  Whiteford,  J.  Emory,  and  another  named,  as  I 
think,  Augustus,  who  was  killed  on  or  by  a  train,  near  Florence, 
during  the  war — ^he  was  a  mere  boy,  and  was  among  the  re- 
serves, on  his  way  to  service  or  returning  from  it,  when  the 
accident  that  terminated  his  life  happened.  Stephen  Smith 
had  and  raised  four  daughters — one  the  wife  of  the  late  Mitchel 
Martin;  another  the  wife  of  George  Rogers,  at  Mullins;  and 
two  others,  who  married  Nances.  One  of  the  Nances  died  or 
was  killed  in  the  war,  and  his  widow  afterwards  married  Jo^hn 
C.  Harrelson.  These  have  alrady  been  mentioned  among  Hug- 
gins, Martins  and  Rogers.  Samuel  Smith,  Jr.,  as  he  then  was 
called,  lost  his  Lane  wife,  and  he  married,  a  second  wife,  Sallie 
Hays,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Hays,  of  (now)  Hillsboro  Town- 
ship, and  by  her  had  two  sons,  William  H.  and  Samuel  Smith, 
whom  we  will  hereinafter  designate  as  Junior  and  his  father  as 
Senior,  and  daughters,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Allen,  Mrs.  Mary  Rob- 
erts, Mrs.  Ginsey  Ellis  and  Mrs.  Florence  Moody,  the  first  wife 
of  E.  J.  Moody.  All  these,  I  think,  have  already  been  men- 
tioned among  the  Hays,  Aliens,  Roberts,  Betheas  and  M'oodys. 
Samuel  Smith,  the  father,  was  an  enterprising  and  successful 
farmer,  a  good'  manager  of  his  affairs  and  accumulated  a 
large  property,  which  he  left  to  his  children,  what  he  had  not 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  499 

previously  given  them — a  large  property  entirely  unencum- 
bered, and  which  they  and  their  descendants  yet  retain,  notwith- 
standing the  ravages  of  the  war.  This  family  of  Smiths,  as  a 
whole,  are  industrious,  energetic,  frugal,  honest,  law-abiding 
and  trustworthy  citizens. 

There  is  another  family  of  Smiths,  below  Marion,  which  I 
understand  is  in  no  way  related  to  those  hereinabove  noticed — 
I  refer  to  the  late  William  B.  Smith  and  his  family.  He,  as  it 
is  said,  came  when  young  from  North  Carolina,  and  settled  be- 
low Reedy  Creek  Baptist  Church,  on  an  apparently  poor  place ; 
he  was  called  "Horse-swapping  Billy  Smith" — he  was  a  great 
horse  trader,  and  in  that  respect  his  mantle  has  fallen  upon  his 
sons,  Nat.  P.  and  Henry.  "Nat  Smith"  don't  stop  at  horses 
and  mules,  but  he  descends  to  oxen,  and,  I  suppose,  to  all  do- 
mestic quadrupeds  and,  maybe,  to  domestic  bipeds,  such  as 
chickens,  turkeys  and  geese.  William  B.  Smith,  away  back  in 
the  50's,  carried  the  mail  on  horseback  from  Marion  to  Ben- 
nettsville,  by  way  of  Catfish,  Reedy  Creek,  Harlleesville,  Sel- 
kirk, Brownesyille  and  Clio  to  Bennettsville,  and  back  the  same 
route,  once  a  week — 'at  which  time  the  writer  was  postmaster  at 
Reedy  Creek;  b6  went  up  one  day  and  came  back  the  next; 
sometimes  one  of  his  boys,  James  or  Nat,  would  carry  it.  The 
writer  remembers  on  one  occasion,  the  old  gentleman  went  up ; 
his  horse  sickened  and  died  at  Bennettsville,  and  the  next  day 
Mt.  Smith  came  back,  walking  and  carrying  the  mail  bags  on 
his  shoulders,  and  went  on  to  Marion  that  evening.  I  suppose 
he  was  then  fifty  years  of  age,  and  the  distance  traveled  on  his 
zig-zag  route  was  at  least  sixty  miles.  One  of  the  men  of  the 
present  day,  much  younger  than  Mr.  Smith,  would  not  think  of 
such  a  t-rip.  Mr.  Smith  had  much  of  the  "get  up"  in  him,  and 
whatever  he  undertook  to  do,  he  did  it,  and  if  he  failed  it  was 
no  fault  of  his ;  he  was  accustomed  to  labor  and  hardship,  hence 
it  did  not  hurt  him.  He  lived  to  be  over  ninety  years  of  age, 
and  died  only  a  few  years  ago,  much  respected.  Don't  know 
who  his  wife  was;  he  raised  a  considerable  family — four  sons, 
if  not  more,  James,  Nathaniel  P.,  William  B.  and  Henry,  and 
maybe  others — ^these  are  all  the  writer  remembers ;  don't  know 
anything  of  his  daughters,  if  he  had  any.  James  married  Miss 
Anne  Grantham,  daughter  of  Owen  Grantham,  of  North  Caro- 


500  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

lina;  by  the  marriage  three  daughters  were  bom,  Elizabeth, 
Kittie  and  Jimmy.  Jimmy,  I  think,  was  bom  after  the  death 
of  her  father,  who  was  killed  by  his  wife's  cousin,  Bright  Gran- 
tham, just  after  the  war  closed ;  be  left  his  widow  and,  it  may 
be  said,  three  little  children,  all  girls ;  the  widow  scuffled'  with 
the  privations  of  the  times  incident  to  the  war  and  reconstruc- 
tion, and  raised  her  daughters  in  credit  and  respectably.  The 
eldest,  Bettie,  married  a  Mr.  Smith — Charles,  I  believe,  is  his 
name ;  they  have  raised  a  family,  several  of  them  grown.  The 
second  daughter,  Kittie,  married'  W.  S.  Foxworth,  now  a  lead- 
ing and  prosperous  merchant  in  Marion,  a  capital  man  in  many 
ways ;  they  have  three  or  four  children,  none  grown.  Jimmy, 
the  youngest  daughter,  married  Filmore  Whitehearte,  who  is 
dead  and  left  his  widow  with  five  or  six  children,  all  small. 
Nathaniel  P.  Smith  married  a  Miss  Foxworth,  sister  of  W.  S. 
Foxworth,  of  Marion;  by  this  marriage  several  sons  and 
daughters  have  been  born.  Two  daughters  married,  don't 
know  to  whom.  The  oldest  son,  Harvey,  sickened  and  died,  a 
young  man  just  entering  life,  a  year  or  so  ago.  His  other  chil- 
dren are  with  him.  William  B.,  Jr.,  is  one  of  the  citizens  below 
Marion ;  he  married  and  has  a  family.  Gilmore  Smith,  of  Dil- 
lon, and  the  efficient  marshal  of  that  town,  is  a  son  of  W.  B. 
Smith,  Jr. ;  married,  I  think,  a  Miss  Stalvy,  and  has  a  coming 
family;  he  is  an  excellent  man  and  officer,  and  is  much  re- 
spected. C.  W.  Smith,  below  Marion,  is  another  son ;  has  a 
family,  about  which  nothing  is  known ;  he  is  also  a  good  citizen. 
Henry,  the  youngest  son,  married  a  Miss  Dozier,  a  daughter  of 
the  late  TuUy  Dozier,  and  sister  of  J.  T.  Dozier,  the  present 
County  Supervisor ;  she  died  a  few  years  ago,  and  left,  I  think, 
two  or  three  children  (small).  Henry  has  not  remarried;  he 
and  his  brother  "Nat"  are  each  running  a  livery  stable  in 
Marion,  and  are  successful  men. 

There  are  some  other  Smiths  in  the  Mullins  section  of  the 
county,  and  is  supposed'  to  be  no  relation  to  the  other.  Smiths  of 
that  community.  John  Smith,  of  Clay  Hill,  and  George  Smith, 
are  referred  to ;  they  descended  from  our  old  Moses  Smith,  who 
is  said  to  have  been  a  very  excellent  man ;  he  was  a  preacher 
(Methodist),  and  the  reputation  of  him  is,  that  he  practiced  in 
his  own  life  what  he  preached  to  others;  he  was  the  grand- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  501 

father  of  John  and  George,  now  of  that  community.  The  old 
man,  Moses,  had  three  sons,  Isaiah,  Daniel  and  James.  What 
became  of  Isaiah  and  Daniel  is  not  known  to  the  writer.  James 
married  Celia  Lewis,  daughter  of  old  Hardy  Lewis ;  they  had 
three  sons,  John,, Daniel  and  George,  and  may  have  had  daugh- 
ters— know  nothing  of  any.  John  Smith  (which  is  said  to  be 
no  name)  and  George  are  both  good,  honest,  hard-working 
men,  unpretentious ;  they  are  farmers — ^John  in  particular ;  he 
has  an  excellent  place  at  Clay  Hill,  and  the  writer  heard  him 
once  say  that  he  could  grow  anything  on  his  place  common  to 
that  region,  except  mortgages — it  would  not  grow  them ;  and 
from  that  expression,  it  may  be  inferred  what  sort  of  man  and 
farmer  he  is.  "He  lives  at  home  and  boards  at  the  same  place." 
Know  nothing  of  their  immediate  families.  John  Smith  is  as 
independent  in  his  circumstances  as  is  Vanderbilt,  and,  I  pre- 
sume, a  much  happier  man. 

The  late  Jdhn  M.  Smith,  of  Marion,  was  the  son  of  a  Metho- 
dist preacher — I  think  from  Marlborough  County;  he  was  a 
tailor  by  trade ;  he  married  a  daughter  of  James  H.  Pearce,  and 
sister  of  Dr.  James  F.  Pearce,  of  West  Marion — an  excellent 
lady  she  was ;  they  raised  a  nice  family  of  three  sons,  Robert  J., 
Colin  'and  A.  Jackson,  and  two  daughters,  Mollie  and  Anna. 
Of  the  daughters,  Mollie  never  married.  Anna  became  the 
wife  of  David  Gasque,  brother  of  E.  H.  Gasque,  of  Marion ; 
they  live  in  Columbia,  and  have  for  years ;  they  have  a  family. 
Of  the  sons,  I  think,  Robert  J.  is  dead — ^was  an  upright  busi- 
ness man,  rrioved  off  somewhere.  Colin  and  Jackson  are  in 
high  railroad  fK>sitions — Colin  in  Columbia  and  A.  Jackson  in 
Knoxville,  Tenn,  and  has  his  mother  with  him ;  they  have  been 
in  railroad  positions  ever  since  they  were  grown,  and  Colin  is 
now  a  middle-aged  man.  John  M.  Smith,  the  father,  was  the 
first  railroad  agent  at  Marion,  1854;  he  remained  in  that  posi- 
tion for  many  years — was  honest,  straight  and  harmless,  and 
one  of  the  neatest  and  most  cleanly  men  I  ever  saw ;  he  would 
wear  a  pair  of  linen  pants  in  the  summer  all  the  week  and 
handle  freight  every  day,  and  at  the  end  of  the  week  the 
iron  prints  would  not  be  out  of  his  pants.  He  lived  and  died  in 
Marion,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  or  seventy-three,  on  the  3d 
February,  1893,  without  an  enemy. 


502  A  HISTOEV  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

There  is  another  Smith  in  Britton's  Neck,  of  what  family  is 
unknown.  The  writer  only  knows  of  him — has  seen  him  at 
Marion.  I  allude  to  Scotch  Smith ;  he  is  an  energetic  and  capi- 
tal man  and  good  citizen. 

Flowers. — ^This  family  sprang  from  Henry  Flowers,  who 
came  from  England,  about  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury. He  married  Patsy  Savage,  and  settled  and  lived  where 
ex-Sheriff  W.  T.  Evans  now  lives ;  he  took  up  and  owned  large 
bodies  of  land  around  him,  many  thousands  of  acres ;  he  had 
and  raised  a  large  family ;  the  sons  were  Archie,  John,  Henry, 
William,  James,  Jacob*and  Bennett ;  the  daughters  were  MoUie, 
Betsy,  Nancy,  Sallie  and  Olive,  or  Olivia.  Of  the  sons,  the 
writer  can  get  no  definite  information,  except  as  to  Bennett, 
the  youngest  son  of  old  Henry,  who  married  Miss  Annie  Payne, 
and  had  and  raised  two  sons,  Ervin  Huger  and  John  J.,  and 
three  daughters,  Annis,  Olivia  and  Annie.  Of  the  sons,  Ervin 
Huger  married  Elizabeth  Keeffe,  and  had  one  daughter, 
Telatha,  when  the  father  died,  and  his  widow  married  Matthew 
Martin,  and  had  several  children  for  him.  Telatha  grew  up 
and  married  the  late  D.  S.  Henry,  and  by  him  had  one  son,  John 
E.  Henry,  our  present  energetic  and  progressive  fellow-citizen 
on  Buck  Swamp,  who  has  already  been  noticed  herein  among 
the  Henrys.  The  widow,  Telatha  Henry,  afterwards  married 
Rev.  John  L.  Smith,  on  Buck  Swamp ;  from  this  marriage  there 
was  no  offspring ;  Mr.  Smith  died  and  left  her  a  widow,  and  she 
is  now  seventy-two  years  of  age,  and  lives  with  her  son,  John  E. 
Henry.  Of  the  other  son  of  Bennett  Flowers,  John  J.,  the 
writer  knows  nothing  or  but  little ;  he  infers  that  he  was  the 
immediate  or  remote  progenitor  of  our  present  fallow-citizen  at 
Marion,  John  H.  Flowers,  who  married,  about  1859  <^^  i860. 
Miss  Anne  Flowers,  his  cousin,  at  Marion;  she  died  childless, 
some  years  ago ;  her  husband  still  survives.  Annis,  the  eldest 
daughter  of  Bennett  Flowers,  married  Solomon  Owens,  who 
soon  died  and  left  her  a  widow ;  she  died  childless  some  years 
after,  at  a  very  advanced  age.  Olivia,  the  second  daughter  of 
Bennett  Flowers,  married  General  Elly  Godbold,  and  by  the 
marriage  six  children  were  raised,  three  sons,  Huger,  Zack  and 
David,  and  three  daughters,  Ann,  Cherry  and  Maggie.     Huger 


A  HISTORY  Of  MARION  COUNTY.  503 

Godbold,  the  eldest  son,  married  a  Miss  White,  daughter  of 
old  man  Stephen  White;  they  had  and  raised,  I  think,  three 
sons  and  three  or  four  daughters,  who  have  already  been  no- 
ticed among  the  Godbolds.  Zack  Godbold  married  a  Miss 
Gregg,  and  had  six  or  seven  children,  three  sons  and  three  or 
four  daughters ;  his  wife  died,  and  he  married  again,  and  moved 
off.  Of  his  sons,  our  excellent  and  enterprising  fellow-citizen, 
D.  E.  Godbold,  one  of  the  leading  merchants  now  at  MuUins,  is 
the  oldest;  he  married  a  Miss  Young,  daughter  of  the  late 
Major  J.  B.  Young,  and  has  some  family  (small)  ;  he  is  Mayor 
of  the  town  of  MuUins,  at  this  writing,  is  much  respected  and  a 
very  efficient  ofiScer.  Of  his  sisters,  I  think  they  are  all  dead, 
except  Miss  Susy,  the  youngest,  who  is  with  him,  quite  an  ac- 
complished lady  and  an  efficient  business  woman.  Zack  God- 
bold raised  a  company  for  the  Confederate  Army,  and  went  into 
the  -war  as  Captain,  and  was  a  brave  and  efficient  officer.  David 
Godbold,  the  youngest  son  of  General  Elly  Godbold  and  his 
wife,  Olivia,  went  into  the  Confederate  Army,  and  was  killed  in 
battle  or  died  of  disease — a  promising  young  man.  Of  the 
daughters  of  General  Godbold  and  wife,  Ann,  the  eldest,  mar- 
ried Alexander  Gregg,  of  West  Marion,  who  was  murdered  by 
some  negroes,  on  the  morning  of  the  election,  7th  November, 
1876 — perhaps  the  most  memorable  election  ever  held  in  South 
Carolina.  Four  or  five  of  the  negroes  were  tried  for  his  mur- 
der, and  one  (Jack  Burgoyne)  was  convicted  for  it  by  a  negro 
jury,  sentenced  to  be  hanged,  and  was  hanged.  The  writer 
was  Solicitor  at  the  time,  and  knows  whereof  he  writes.  Mr. 
Gregg  was  an  excellent  and  well-to-do  citizen,  a  harmless  and 
inoffensive  man.  Those  were  troublous  times.  The  widow, 
Ann  Gregg,  still  survives ;  she  has  some  three  or  four  children, 
all  grown.  Cherry,  the  second  daughter  of  General  Godbold 
and  wife,  married  Robert  Gregg,  of  West  Marion,  who  died 
some  years  after  marriage,  childless ;  his  widow  married  then  J. 
Maston  Gaddy;  they  had  no  offspring,  Gaddy  died,  and  she 
died  soon  after.  Maggie,  the  youngest  daughter  of  General 
Godbold  and  wife,  died  at  about  eighteen  years  of  age,  unmar- 
ried. 

Henry  Flowers,  one  of  the  seven  sons  of  old  Hemry,  the  first 
comer,  was  the  father  of  the  late  L/ove  Flowers,  below  Marion ; 
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504  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

don't  know  who  the  wife  of  Henry,  Jr.,  was,  nor  is  it  known 
whether  he  had  other  sons  than  Love  nor  whether  he  had  any 
daughters.  Love  Flowers,  born  in  1790,  lived  to  be  eighty- 
four  years  old,  and  died  in  1S74;  he  married  twice;  his  first 
wife  was  Elizabeth  Brown ;  there  were  two  sons  by  this  mar- 
riage, William  and  John.  William  married  Caroline  Brown, 
daughter  of  Richard  Brown ;  he  died  about  two  years  ago,  in 
Horry  County,  leaving  a  number  of  children.  John  married 
Elizabeth  Do^er,  a  sister  of  J.  TuUey  Dozier ;  John  died  about 
three  years  ago.  Love  Flowers'  first  wife  dying,  he  married 
Martha  Baxley,  a  daughter  of  Barny  Baxley ;  by  this  marriage 
he  had  twenty-two  children,  all  of  whom  died  in  infancy,  except 
James  J.,  Henry,  Williamson,  Barny,  A.  Love,  Bennett,  Nathan, . 
Joel,  Elly,  Everett,  Samuel  S.,  Lucy  Ann  and  Rachel.  It  seems 
that  thirteen  of  the  twenty-two  were  raised.  James  J.  Flowers 
never  married ;  he  died  in  1865.  Henry  Flowers  married  Sarah 
Ann  James,  a  daughter  of  Henry  James ;  he  died  in  prison,  in 
Elmira,  N.  Y.,  1864;  he  left  a  number  of  children.  William- 
son Flowers  married,  first,  Elizabeth  Marlow ;  by  her  he  had  a 
number  of  children ;  this  wife  died,  and  then  he  married  Mrs. 
Martha  Parker;  they  have  no  children;  live  below  Marion 
Court  House.  Barny  A.  Flowers  married,  first,  Ann  Lambert, 
daughter  of  James  Lambert ;  no  children ;  she  died,  and  he  mar- 
ried, a  second  wife,  Mrs.  Ann  James,  -widow  of  Henry  L. 
James ;  they  have  five  children  ( small) .  Love  A.  Flowers  mar- 
ried Henrietta  Brown,  daughter  of  Lewis  Brown,  and  had  a 
large  family;  he  was  killed  by  lightning,  below  Marion,  in 
1872.  Bennett  Flowers  married  Miss  Mary  James,  daughter 
of  Henry  James ;  had  one  child,  and  died  of  disease  in  the  West- 
ern Confederate  Army  during  the  war.  Nathan  Flowers  mar- 
ried Miss  Ann  Marlow ;  no  children ;  he  died  in  prison  at  Rock 
Island,  111.,  about  the  close  of  the  war.  Joel  Flowers  never 
married;  he  died  in  prison  at  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  during  the  war. 
Elly  Flowers  married  Miss  Minnetta  Brown,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Brown ;  they  had  one  child ;  they  live  on  the  old  homestea4 
of  his  father,  on  Reedy  Creek,  below  Marion.  Everitt  Flowers 
married  Margaret  A.  James,  daughter  of  Henry  L-  James ;  they 
have  five  children  (small),  and  live  at  Dillon.  Samuel  S. 
Flowers  married  Susan  Best,  daughter  of  Captain  John  J.  Best, 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  505 

of  Horry;  they  had  several  children;  moved  to  Texas  eight 
years  ago ;  the  last  heard  from  them,  his  wife  was  dead  and  he 
was  in  Keaney,  Nebraska.  Lucy  Ann  Flowers  married  J. 
TuUy  Dozier ;  they  have  a  number  of  children,  among  whom  is 
our  present  County  Supervisor,  J.  T.  Dozier,  Jr.  J.  T.  Dozier, 
St.,  is  dead' ;  the  widow  is  living  with  her  son,  J.  T.,  Jr.  Rachel 
Flowers  first  married  Lewis  Brown,  Jr. ;  they  had  one  child, 
and  her  husband  died  during  the  war ;  after  the  war,  the  widow 
married  J.  C.  Price;  they  have  a  large  family,  now  in  Horry. 
Old  Love  Flowers,  a  patriarch,  had  eleven  sons  in  the  war,  in- 
cluding the  two  by  his  first  wife,  William  and'  John ;  all  his  sons 
went  to  the  war,  except  Everett  and  Samuel  S. — the  two  latter 
were  too  young.  Few  men  contributed  so  many  to  the  lost 
cause.  The  first  Methodist  Church  or  meeting  house  built  in 
the  county  was  built  (I  suppose,  of  logs,)  by  old  Henry  Flow- 
ers, and  was  located  near  the  house  of  ex-Sheriff  Evans,  about 
1783  to  1790.  Bishop  Asbury's  Journal  speaks  of  it,  which  I 
have  not  now  before  me,  but  to  which  I  refer.  Asbury  and 
Whatcoat,  in  passing  through  the  country  on  their  way  to 
Charleston,  stopped  at  Flowers'  house,  and  preached  under  the 
oak  now  standing  in  ex-Sheriif  Evans'  yard,  and  with  such  suc- 
cess as  to  induce  Mr.  Flowers  to  build  a  meeting  house,  in 
which  the  Bishop  afterwards  preached  in  his  annual  travels. 
Flowers  and  his  family  became  members  of  his  church  and 
others  also,  and  it  is  said  that  old  "Jimmy  Jenkins,"  afterward 
and  for  many  years  a  distinguished  preacher  of  that  denomina- 
tion, joined  the  church  at  that  place,  which  was  for  many  years 
thereafter  called  "Flowers'  Meeting  House."  Flowers  and  his 
seven  sons  and  five  daughters,  together  with  their  families — for 
several  of  them  had,  doubtless,  married  by  that  time — ^were 
enough  of  themselves  to  form  and  keep  up  a  respectable  church 
of  their  own  without  the  accession  of  others  to  it,  and  it  may 
be  reasonably  supposed  that  others  joined  and  worshipped 
there.  The  last  vestige  of  the  large  body  of  land  owned  there 
by  old  Henry  Flowers,  was  bought  by  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Poor  for  the  county,  in  i860,  from  John  H.  Flowers  and 
wife,  Anne,  for  a  county  poor  farm  and  house,  and  it  was  lo- 
cated and  erected  there  in  i860.  The  writer  was,  at  the  time, 
Chairman  and  Treasurer  of  the  board — ^made  the  trade  for  the 


506  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

land  (ninety-seven  acres,  I  think),  drew  the  deed,  had  it  exe- 
cuted, paid  the  purchase  price  to  the  grantors,  $970,  had  the 
buildings  construcfted,  and  established  it  as  a  home  and  farm 
for  the  poor,  and,  I  believe,  it  is  kept  up  and  used  for  that  pur- 
pose to  the  present  time.  The  deed  is  recorded,  and  if  the  orig- 
inal deed  is  examined,  it  will  be  seen  to  be  in  my  handwriting. 
The  wisdom  of  the  scheme  has  been  vindicated  by  over  forty 
years'  continued  use.  Have  not  seen  it  for  fifteen  or  twenty 
years ;  don't  know  how  it  is  managed  now. 

MuLtiNS. — This  family  is  an  importation  from  North 
Carolina,  and  a  good  importation  it  is — would  like  to  have 
several  others  such.  The  first  of  the  name  in  this  county 
was  the  late  Colonel  William  S.  Mullins,  followed  a  few 
years  later  by  his  brother,  the  late  Dr.  James  C.  Mullins,  and 
from  these  two  brothers  came  all  by  that  name  now  in  the 
county.  Their  parents  were  Fayetteville,  N.  C,  people — 
names  not  known.  It  is  said  their  father  was  a  merchant  in 
Fayetteville,  and  did  not  succeed  in  making  a  fortune  for  his 
children — only  enough  to  educate  them — ^three  sons,  William 
S.,  James  C.  and  Henry ;  one  daughter,  as  known  to  the  writer, 
Ida,  who  became  the  wife  of  E.  B.  Owens,  of  this  county,  and 
another  daughter,  who  became  the  wife  of  a  Mr.  McNeill,  who 
finally  settled  in  Horry.  It  seems  that  the  greatest  ambition 
of  their  father  was  to  educate  his  children  (a  very  laudable  am- 
bition). His  son,  William  S.,  after  graduation  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  North  Carolina,  and  after  admission  to  the  bar  of  North 
Carolina,  came  to  Marion  County,  and  married  a  Miss  Hodges, 
daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  Samuel  Hodges,  of  the  Little  Pee  Dee 
and  Gapway  section ;  by  his  marriage  he  acquired  a  large  prop- 
erty in  lands  and  negroes ;  and  having  a  competency  thus  ac- 
quired, and  the  exigencies  of  the  family  and  the  large  estate 
which  had  fallen  in  by  the  death  of  Dr.  Hodges,  and  of  his  only 
son,  William  H.,  who  died  unmarried,  he  did  not  pursue  the 
profession  of  law,  for  which  he  was  peculiarly  and  eminently 
fitted,  but  devoted  himself  to  his  farm  and  family,  to  which  may 
be  added  politics  or  state  craft,  and  he  was  much  better  adapted 
to  the  latter  than  to  farming.  Colonel  Mullins  was  first  intro- 
duced to  the  public  of  Marion  County  in  the  memorable  contest 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  507 

between  Co-operation  and  Secession,  or  Separate  State  action, 
in  1 85 1 .  The  contest  was  exciting  and  bitter — every  nerve  was 
strained  and  every  legitimate  means  used  by  each  party.  The 
county  was  carried  by  the  Co-operation  party  by  only  thirty- 
five  majority,  and  the  success  of  the  party  in  Marion  County 
was  attributed  mainly  to  the  eloquent  appeals  to  the  fears  of  the 
people  by  Colonel  Mullins ;  he  was  a  natural  born  orator,  and 
having  a  mind  well  stored  with  general  knowledge  of  affairs, 
and  especially  with  the  knowledge  of  governmental  science,  his 
stump  speeches  were  overwhelmingly  effective.  The  State  was 
also  carried  my  a  safe  majority  for  Co-operation,  and  thus  pre- 
vented, for  the  time,  the  final  issue  between  the  North  and  the 
South.  The  Secession  party  believed  then,  as  it  is  most  gene- 
rally believed  now,  if  the  State  had  then  (1851)  seceded,  there 
would  have  been  no  attempt  on  the  part  of  the  Federal  Govern- 
ment to  coerce  the  seceding  State  or  States,  as  the  case  might 
be;  that  the  fanaticism  of  the  North  had  not  been  worked  up 
to  the  point  of  war  as  it  was  in  the  next  nine  or  ten  years,  and 
the  South  would  have  been  allowed  to  depart  in  peace.  Whe- 
ther that  would  or  would  not  have  been  better  for  us,  need  not 
and  cannot  be  discussed  here.  Thus  was  Colonel  Mullins  in- 
troduced to  the  people  (publicly)  of  Marion,  and  initiated  into 
South  Carolina  politics ;  he  filled  a  large  place  in  the  confidence 
of  the  people,  it  may  be  said,  to  the  end  of  his  useful  life.  In 
1852,  there  was  a  general  election  for  Senators  and  Represen- 
tatives in  the  Ivegislature,  and'  the  contest  in  that  election  was 
about  as  lively  as  it  had  been  the  year  before — each  party  had 
its  candidates.  The  result  was  that  Dr.  Harllee  (Secession) 
was  elected  Senator  by  171  majority,  and  Dr.  W.  R.  Johnson 
(Secession)  and  W.  S.  Mullins  and  Colonel  W.  W.  Durant 
(Co-operation)  were  elected  members  of  the  lower  Houses  by 
small  majorities.  Colonel  Mullins  was  then  successively  elected 
to  the  lower  House  from  that  time  to  1868,  when  Reconstruc- 
tion put  him  out,  with  all  other  Democratic  white  jjeople. 
Colonel  Mullins  at  once  took  a  high  stand  in  the  Legislature^ — a 
strong  and  successful  debater,  was  one  of  the  then  several 
leaders  in  that  body.  During  his  career  as  a  member  of  that 
body  he  was  run  for  Speaker  against  (now)  Judge  C.  H.  Si-- 
monton,  and  was  beaten  only  by    three    votes.    There  were 


508  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Strong  men  then  in  that  body — such  men  as  James  Simmons,  B. 
F.  Perry,  C.  H.  Simonton  and  many  others.  To  be  Speaker  of 
that  House  was  no  little  honor  or  attainment.  William  S.  Mul- 
lins  was  no  ordinary  man — hence  so  much  space  (much 
needed)  in  this  book  is  devoted  to  him.  He  was  brilliant, 
quick  and  always  ready,  and  had  a  reputation  as  orator  and  leg- 
islator of  which  his  adopted  people  and  his  family,  descendants 
may  justly  be  proud.  Colonel  Mullins  was  President  of  the 
Wilmington  and  Manchester  Railroad  Company  for  one  or  two 
years ;  he  was  also  elected  Senator  to  the  Ivegislature  in  1872, 
but  was  counted  out,  as  all  other  Democrats  elected  that  year 
were  by  the  Radical  election  officials  then  in  power.  As  already 
stated,  he  married  Miss  Hodges,  and  they  raised  to  be  grown 
six  sons,  William  L.,  Frank,  Charles,  Edward,  Henry  and 
Guerry,  and  three  daughters,  Mary,  Lizzie  and  Julia.  Of  the 
sons,  Frank  and  Charles  died  young  men  and  unmarried.  Wil- 
liam L.  is  yet  unmarried.  Edward  married  a  Miss  Shaffer, 
lives  in  Marion  and,  I  think,  has  two  daughters,  not  grown ;  he 
was  so  unfortunate  as  to  be  accidentally  shot  on  Thanksgiving 
Day,  a  few  years  ago,  by  which  he  became  paralyzed  and  lost 
both  his  eyes.  Henry  married  a  Miss  Norwood,  daughter  of 
Geo.  A.  Norwood,  of  Greenville;  and  is  one  of  the  leading  mer- 
chants of  Marion ;  has  two  or  three  children  (small) ;  he  was  a 
graduate  of  the  South  Carolina  College ;  studied  law  and  entered 
upon  its  practice  with  flattering  prospects  of  success,  but  after 
two  or  three  years  abandoned  it  altogether,  engaged  in  merchan- 
dising, and  is  now  following  it,  in  partnership  with  his  brother- 
in-law,  Samuel  A.  Norwood,  at  Marion — ^apparently  doing  a 
large  business.  Guerry  Mullins,  the  youngest  son  of  Colonel 
Mullins,  married,  first,  Maggie  McKerall,  daughter  of  the  late 
W.  J.  McKerall,  Esq.,  who  died  childless,  in  about  a  year  after 
marriage ;  he  married,  a  second  time.  Miss  Emily  Price,  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  Dr.  D.  S.  Price,  of  Marion ;  think  he  has  by  her 
one  or  two  children  (small) ;  he  is  engaged  in  buying  cotton  at 
Marion.  The  eldest  daughter,  Mary,  married  Joseph  Mcln- 
tyre,  of  Marion ;  they  live  at  Mullins,  and  own  and  cultivate  the 
old  homestead  of  her  father,  W.  S.  Mullins ;  they  have  several 
children,  some  of  them  grown,  names  unknown  to  the  writer. 
Lizzie,  the  second  daughter,  married  Dr.  Archie  Mclntyre,  of 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  509 

Marion,  within  the  last  year;  they  live  in  Marion.  Julia,  the 
youngest  daughter,  is  unmarried.  Dr.  James  C.  Mullins,  the 
second  importation  from  North  Carolina,  after  graduating  in 
medicine,  came  to  South  Carolina  for  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion, about  185 1,  and  located  first  near  Parnassus,  in  Marl- 
borough County ;  he  married  there  Miss  Artemissia  DeBerry,  a 
daughter  of  old  Henry  DeBerry;  he  moved  to  Marion  just  be- 
fore the  war,  and  settled  in  the  town  for  the  practice  of  his 
chosen  profession,  and  at  once  obtained  a  good  and  lucrative 
practice ;  he  had  three  children,  sons,  Benjamin  R.,  Henry  and 
Johnson ;  be  went  to  the  war  as  an  army  surgeon,  and  remained 
therein  till  the  end  at  Appomattox ;  his  wife,  Artemissia,  died 
during  the  war — I  think,  in  1863  or  1864 ;  he  came  home  from 
the  war,  and  remained  a  widow  until  17th  May,  1871,  when  he 
married  again.  Miss  Florence  Moody,  daughter  of  E.  J. 
Moody;  by  this  marriage  he  had  three  sons,  R.  Randolph, 
Frank  K.  and  Charles  Woods,  and  one  daughter,  Florence.  Of 
these,  Frank  died  unmarried,  a  young  man.  Randolph  and 
Wood  are  both  single.  Of  the  children  of  his  first  wife,  Henry, 
a  very  promising  young  man,  died  in  Bennettsville,  where  he 
was  engaged  in  a  profitable  business,  some  ten  or  more  years 
ago.  B.  R.  Mullins,  his  oldest  son  by  first  marriage,  married  a 
daughter  of  Dr.  Dixon  Evans,  of  Marion,  and  has  several  chil- 
dren; he  is  a  capital  business  man  and  is  now  Sheriff  of  the 
county,  and  promises  well  in  that  important  position.  Johnson, 
the  youngest  son  by  his  first  marriage,  went  West  some  years 
ago.  R.  Randolph,  the  oldest  son  by  the  second  marriage,  is  in 
business  (druggist)  in  Greenville.  The  Doctor  died  some  five 
or  six  years  ago;  his  widow,  with  her  two  youngest  children. 
Woods  and  Florence,  live  in  Marion.  Dr.  Mullins  was  an'  ex- 
cellent physician ;  up  to  a  short  time  before  his  death,  he  did  an 
immense  practice  and  had  the  confidence  of  the  entire  commu- 
nity ;  for  the  last  year  or  two  of  his  life,  there  seemed  to  be  a 
failure  of  his  mind — 'his  mental  powers  gave  way.  Colonel  W. 
S.  Mullins  and  Dr.  J.  C.  Mullins,  it  was  said,  had  a  brother, 
named  Henry,  who  was  more  talented  than  either  of  his  bro- 
thers ;  he  went  into  the  war  as  Captain  of  a  company  in  a  North 
Carolina  Regiment,  and  was  killed  in  battle  in  Virginia.  The 
Mullins  were  loyal  to  their  section. 


510  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Gregg. — Robert  J.  Gregg,  formerly  of  West  Marion,  and  one 
of  the  numerous  and  respectable  family  by  that  name,  came 
over  on  the  east  side  in  1818,  and  married  a  Miss  Evans,  a 
daughter  of  old  Nathan  Evans,  and  sister  of  the  late  Thomas 
Evans,  Sr.,  and  ever  after  lived  and  died',  in  1874,  in  the  town  of 
Marion ;  he  had  and  raised  two  sons,  William  Wesley  and  Rob- 
ert Evans  Gregg,  and  several  daughters.  Of  the  daughters, 
one,  Serena,  became  the  wife  of  William  C.  Foxworth,  who 
raised  a  family,  now  among  us  as  fellow-citizens.  Another, 
Ann,  married  John  Woodberry,  of  West  Marion,  and  she 
raised',  I  think,  two  sons  (names  not  remembered).  Another 
married  the  late  William  J.  Dickson;  she  had  and  raised  quite 
a  family — four  sons,  James  J.,  Bonna  (both  dead,  unmarried), 
Wesley  and  Maxcy,  our  present  County  Auditor.  Wesley 
married  in  Darlington  and  resides  there.  Maxcy  is  unmarried 
(he  and  a  maiden  sister  live  together)  ;  and,  I  think,  four 
daughters.  The  eldest,  Ida,  married  Dr.  D.  S.  Price,  and  is 
now  a  widow,  with  some  children.  Two  other  daughters  mar- 
ried George  C.  Walsh,  and  be  and  the  latter  wife  have  gone 
West.  Of  the  two  sons  of  old  man  R.  J.  Gregg,  William  Wes- 
ley married  a  Miss  Wayne,  of  Georgetown ;  they  had  a  family 
of  the  three  sons — William,  who  was  killed  in  the  war,  Wesley 
and  Robert  James;  and  three  daughters,  Nannette,  who  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  Carter,  and  have  gone  elsewhere,  and  Anna  and 
Lizzie — 'the  two  latter  are  unmarried.  Our  fellow-citizen, 
Wesley  L,.  Gregg,  married  a  Miss  Bell,  of  Coloimbia,  an  excel- 
lent lady;  they  have,  I  think,  three  sons  (names  unknown),  all 
grown,  and  one  daughter,  whose  name,  I  think,  is  Belle.  None 
of  the  sons  of  Wesley  nor  the  daughters  are  married.  Wesley  is 
a  cotton  buyer  of  Marion.  Robert  James  Gregg,  the  younger 
brother  of  Wesley,  married  a  lady,  I  think,  of  Wilrnington,  N. 
C,  her  maiden  name  not  known ;  they  have  a  considerable  fam- 
ily ;  sex  and  mmiber  not  known,  some  of  them  are  grown ;  he  is 
merchandising  at  Marion.  The  father,  William  Wesley  Gregg, 
was  killed  or  died  of  disease  in  the  war;  his  widow  still  sur- 
vives and  is  now  well  advanced'  in  years — an  excellent  old  lady. 
Robert  Evans  Gregg,  the  younger  son  of  old  R.  J.  Gregg,  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Shaw,  sister  of  the  late  Judge  Shaw ;  they  had  sev- 
eral children,  don't  know  how  many.    A  son,  Robert  E.,  Jr., 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  511 

who  married  a  Miss  Miller,  in  Mariom;  he  died  last  year — don't 
know  whether  he  left  any  child  or  not.  Another  son,  Thomas, 
who  is  unmarried  and  lives  at  Dillon,  superintends  the  Emerson 
Hotel  in  that  town,  and  is  a  worthy  young  man.  Another  son, 
who  died  some  four  or  five  years  ago,  not  grown.  The  eldest 
daughter,  Nannie,  married  Henry  E.  Gasque;  she  is  a  very 
smart  woman — they  have  one  or  two  children;  and  another 
daughter,  Lena,  grown  and  unmarried.  If  there  are  other  chil- 
dren, they  are  unknown  to  the  writer.  Robert  Evans  Gregg 
died  two  or  three  years  ago,  at  about  seventy-five  years  of  age ; 
was  an  industrious  and  harmless  man,  honest  to  the  core.  The 
old  man,  Robert  J.  Gregg,  the  progenitor  of  all  the  Greggs 
herein  mentioned,  was  one  of  the  best  of  men — "the  salt  of  the 
earth;"  he  was  Tax  Collector  for  the  county  in  ante-bellum 
days  for  more  than  thirty  years — was  first  elected  in  1838,  and 
was  elected  every  two  years  consecutively  thereafter  till  the 
war.  The  Tax  Collector  in  those  days  took  the  tax  returns, 
which  the  Auditor  now  does,  and  then  collected  the  taxes,  and 
made  his  returns  to  and  paid  over  the  moneys  collected'  to  the 
Treasurer  of  the  Lower  Division,  in  Charleston.  And  the  old 
gentleman,  often  before  the  day  of  railroads,  walked  to  Charles- 
ton and  carried  his  returns  and  money,  paid  it  over  to  the  Trea- 
surer, and  bring  home  a  clear  receipt.  On  one  occasion,  he  and 
General  William  Evans  were  in  Charleston  together — old  man 
Gregg  a  foot  and  the  General  in  a  sulky ;  they  both  left  Charles- 
ton on  the  same  morning,  a  three  days'  travel  from  home. 
Sometimes  one  would  be  ahead  on  the  road  and  sometimes  the 
other,  and  so  they  had  it,  and  on  the  evening  of  the  third  day, 
old  man  Gregg  arrived  in  Marion  about  half  an  hour  ahead  of 
the  General.  This  was  fifty  years  ago  or  more.  Great  im- 
provements have  been  made  since  that  time — ^the  facilities  for 
travel  and  communication  with  Charleston  and  with  tiie  world 
generally  have  been  greatly  multiplied;  but  while  these  great 
improvements  have  been  made,  the  morals  of  the  county  has 
greatly  deteriorated.  No  Tax  Collector  or  County  Treasurer 
would  now  dare  take  such  a  trip  with  his  thousands  of  money 
in  his  pocket ;  he  would  be  killed  and  robbed  on  the  road,  as  was 
Treasurer  Copes  a  few  years  ago,  in  Orangeburg  County.  No 
doubt,  old  Uncle  "Jimmy  Gregg"  felt  as  safe  on  the  road  then 


512  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

as  he  did  at  home — if  he  had  felt  otherwise,  he  would  not  have 
ventured  the  trip.  During  the  long  service  of  old  "Uncle 
Jimmy  Gregg,"  as  he  was  aflfectionately  and  familiarly  called 
in  that  office,  there  were  never  any  shortages,  as  now-a-days — 
not  the  least  breath  of  suspicion  of  wrong-doing,  be  it  said  to 
his  credit  in  memory  of  him.  It  is  a  legacy  to  his  descendants 
to  be  prized  higher  than  wealth,  more  precious  and  lasting  than 
gold.  Wealth  may  take  to  itself  wings  and  fly  away,  but  char- 
acter never.  R.  J.  Gregg  was  one  of  the  extensive  family  of 
Greggs  in  West  Marion,  but  to  which  branch  of  that  family  the 
writer  knows  not. 

Collins. — Of  this  scattered  and  extensive  family  the  writer 
has  not  been  able  to  gather  sufficient  data  from  which  to  con- 
nect them  and  to  trace  their  genealogy  satisfactorily.  The  first 
now  known  of  them  were  two  brothers,  a  hundred  or  more 
years  ago — the  two  brothers  were  Thomas  and  Jonah.  Thomas 
was  the  progenitor  of  the  Collins  about  Maiden  Down  and  Mul- 
lins.  The  writer  saw  old  man  Thomas  seventy  years  ago ;  he 
lived  and  died  on  Maiden  Down  and  Martin  Swamp,  right  at 
the  junction  of  the  latter  with  the  former;  he  was  then  past 
middle  life,  and,  I  think,  was  a  Justice  of  Peace  or  Magistrate 
away  back  in  the  30's — 3.  prominent  man  in  his  day ;  he  had  a 
family,  but  do  not  know  who  his  wife  was ;  he  was  the  great- 
grand-father  of  the  late  Sheriff  Robert  Collins.  He  had  a  son, 
named  Thomas  (and  perhaps  others),  who  was  the  father  of 
John,  Solomon  and  Samuel,  and  probably  four  daughters. 
Solomon  and  John  married  sisters — ^the  sisters  of  old  Captain 
John  Rogers,  of  the  "Fork"  section ;  and  their  father,  Thomas 
Collins,  Jr.,  married,  for  a  second  or  third  wife,  another  sister ; 
thus  it  appears  that  the  father's  wife  and  the  wives  of  his  two 
sons,  Solomon  and  John,  were  sisters — and  if  they  all  had  off- 
spring by  the  respective  marriages,  it  would  be  difficult  to  tell 
what  relation  the  children  would  be  to  each  other.  John  Col- 
lins, the  grand-son  of  old  Thomas,  was  the  father  of  the  late 
Sheriff  Robert  Collins,  and  of  his  brothers,  the  late  Stephen  T. 
Collins  and  Samud  Collins ;  John  may  have  had  other  sons  and, 
perhaps,  daughters,  not  known  to  the  writer.  Don't  know  who 
Samuel  Collins  married ;  or  anything  of  the  children  ( if  he  had 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. '  518 

any)  of  Solomon  Collins.  There  are  two  very  respectable, 
good  citizens  now  in  the  Mullins  section,  by  the  name  of  John 
and  Owen  Collins — they,  perhaps,  are  sons  of  Solomon  Collins 
or  Samuel ;  they  both  have  families.  Owen  has  a  son,  married, 
who  is  called  "Romney" — that  his  true  name  is  Deuteronomy, 
a  name  taken  from  the  Pentateuch,  one  of  the  five  books  of 
Moses.  Stephen  T.  Collins,  brother  of  Sheriif  Collins  (older) , 
married  Miss  Margaret  Smith,  daughter  of  Hugh  Godbold 
Smith ;  he  raised  a  family,  how  many  and  of  what  sex  is  not 
known ;  he  had  a  son,  Hugh  Collins,  living  on  the  road  to  Mul- 
lins just  above  Gapway  Church,  who  seems  to  be  doing  well, 
and  has  a  family ;  he  also  had  a  daughter,  who  married  E.  B. 
Owens,  already  noticed  among  the  Owens  family.  Stephen  T. 
Collins  may  have  had  other  children  but  they  are  not  known  to 
the  writer ;  he  was  deputy  for  his  brother,  Robert,  while  Sheriff 
and  was  very  efficient ;  he  died  a  few  years  ago.  Robert  Col- 
lins, the  Sheriff,  married  a  Miss  Powell,  of  North  Carolina,  and 
had  and  raised  a  family  of  three  sons  and,  perhaps,  daughters. 
Of  the  three  sons,  Barney,  the  eldest,  married  a  Miss  Wall,  sis- 
ter of  George  Wall,  of  Marion;  they  have  a  family,  already 
mentioned  among  the  Walls.  John,  the  next  son,  died  a 
young  man,  at  Marion,  whilst  his  father  was  Sheriff.  Sydney, 
the  youngest  son,  married  some  one  to  the  writer  unknown, 
and  has  gone  out  of  sight — don't  know  what  has  become  of 
him.  Sheriff  Collins,  the  father,  died  some  years  ago.  The 
writer  will  here  relate  the  circumstances  under  which  he  became 
Sheriff :  In  May,  1867,  during  the  Reconstruction  period,  Neill 
C.  McDuffie,  who  was  then  Sheriff,  resigned  the  office,  and  the 
fact  of  his  resignation  was  not  known  in  Marion  to  the  public 
for  two  weeks,  when  it  became  known  in  the  following  manner : 
The  writer  one  day  received  a  letter  from  Governor  James  I,. 
Orr,  announcing  the  fact,  and  saying  that  if  we  could  get  some 
man  who  could  take  the  "iron-clad  oath,"  that  was  suited  to  the 
offipe,  that  he  thought  he  could  get  General  Canby  to  appoint 
him,  and'  urged  that  we  attend  to  it  at  onoe,  lest  General  Canby 
might  appoint  some  objectionable  negro  or  some  carpet-bagger. 
I  immediately  showed  the  letter  to  Hon.  A.  Q.  McDuffie,  Judge 
Wilcox  and  others.  It  was  agreed  among  us  that  Robert  Col- 
lins was  the  man — that  he  was  fit  for  the  office,  having  been  a 


514  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

deputy  for  several  ye&rs,  and  that  he  could  take  the  required 
oath,  as  it  was  known  to  us  that  he  was  opposed  to  the  war.  I 
saw  Mr.  Collins  that  evening  and  opened  the  matter  to  him ; 
he  said  he  could  take  the  oath  and  would  accept  the  office  if  he 
could  give  the  required  bond,  and  asked  me  to  wait  a  reply  to 
the  Governor  until  the  next  day,  when  he  would  let  me  know 
whether  he  would  accept  or  not.  The  next  day  he  saw  me  and 
said  he  could  give  the  bond  and  would  accept  the  position.  I 
immediately  replied  accordingly  to  the  Governor,  and  in  a  few 
days  the  appointment  came  from  General  Canby  through  the 
Governor;  and  thus  Robert  Collins  was  made  and  became 
■  Sheriif  of  the  county.  At  the  first  general  election  after  the 
Constitution  of  1868,  Collins  was  a  candidate  for  Sheriff,  and 
was  elected  for  four  years  more,  and  served  until  his  term  ex- 
pired; he  made  an  excellent  Sheriff,  and  especially  in  those 
troublesome  times,  but  was  not  "Radical"  enough  to  get  tlie 
nomination  of  the  dominant  party  for  a  second  term.  Daniel 
F.  Berry  received  the  Radical  nomination,  and  General  Elly 
Godbold,  the  Democratic  nomination,  in  1872.  The  latter  was 
elected,  but  was  counted  out,  and  Berry  was  counted  in,  as  was 
the  case  with  all  others  at  that  election.  Of  the  two  brothers, 
old  Collins,  Thomas  and  Jonah,  the  latter  became  the  progenitor 
of  the  Collins  below  Marion  and  the  Pee  Dee  Island  Collins ; 
don't  know  much  .about  them.  There  were  two  or  three  bro- 
thers, descendants  of  old  Jonah,  to  wit:  William,  James  and 
Jonah — ^these  were  either  sons  of  old  Jonah  or  grand-sons.  Wil- 
liam Collins  was  the  father  of  Mrs.  Valentine  Rowell ;  he  may 
have  had  other  daughters  and  sons,  of  whom  nothing  is  known. 
James  Collins  was  the  mediate  or  immediate  progenitor  of  Ben- 
jamin Collins,  of  the  Pee  Dee  Islands ;  he  may  have  had  other 
descendants.  The  late  Shadrach  Collins,  of  Pee  Dee  Islands, 
the  great  fisherman — ^the  man  that  in  late  years  supplied  the 
Marion  market  with  Little  Pee  Dee  bream  and  other  fish,  be- 
longed to  this  branch  of  the;  Collins  family.  Shadrach_  ac- 
quired the  distinction  or  sobriquet  of  being  presidentof  the  ugly 
club ;  he  was  not  a  handsome  man,  but  a  genial,  good-natured 
one ;  always  pleasant  and  in  a  good  humor ;  ambitious  only  to 
live  and  to  let  live,  did  not  want  much  of  this  world's  goods. 
In  the  contest  for  the  presidency  of  the  ugly  club,  some  twenty- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  515 

five  or  thirty  years  ago,  Shadrach  was  beaten  by  a  man  by  the 
name  of  Powell,  of  West  Marion ;  but  Powell  did  not  live  long, 
and  upon  his  demise  Shadrach  came  in  without  opposition,  and 
enjoyed  his  honors  till  his  death,  a  few  years  ago.  Under  an 
unseemly  exterior  was  a  kind,  good i heart;  he  thought  no  evil 
and  did  none,  and  was  respected  by  all  who  knew  him. 

Another  family  of  Collins,  not  related,  as  I  am  informed,  to 
those  mentioned  above,  is  that  of  the  late  John  J.  Collins,  of  the 
Ariel  section ;  know  nothing  of  his  ancestry  or  where  he  came 
from ;  he  was,  before  the  war,  a  very  substantial  man  and  citi- 
zen ;  livedi  on  a  very  poor  place,  yet  he  amassed  a  considerable 
fortune — did  so  mainly  by  raising  young  negroes.  He  was 
married,  I  think,  three  times — ^married,  first,  a  Miss  Wheeler, 
sister  of  General  E.  B.  Wheeler ;  she  had  one  son,  John  E.,  and 
perhaps  other  children.  John  E.  Collins  married'  a  Miss  Davis, 
sister  of  B.  F.  and  J.  P.  Davis,  of  Marion.  John  E.  Collins  had 
some  children,  about  whom  nothing  is  known ;  he  died,  and  his 
widow  married  a  Mr.  Floyd  in  Horry ;  the  Wheeler  wife  died, 
and  old  man  John  J.  Collins  marired  a  Miss  Howard,  aunt  of 
Colonel  R.  G.  Howard,  of  West  Marion ;  by  the  Howard  wife 
he  had  sons,  J.  Burt  and  Edward  Collins,  and  may  be  others, 
and  a  daughter,  who  married  McRae,  the  father  of  our  late 
County  Supervisor,  John  A.  McRae ;  she  also  had  another  son, 
Malcolm  D.  McRae,  and  daughters  unknown  to  the  writer. 
Edward  C.  Collins  married  a  Miss  Legetfce,  daughter  of  Colo- 
nel L,evi  L,egette,  and  by  her  had  five  or  six  sons  and  two 
daughters.  '  One  of  the  daughters  married  Frank  Fuller,  and 
resides  at  Florence.  Think  the  other  daughter  died  unmarried. 
One  of  the  sons  (Woodson)  died  in  youth;  the  other  sons  are 
scattered — some  in  this  county  and  some  in  Florence.  Mrs. 
Collins,  the  mother,  died,  and  her  husband,  Ed.  C.  Collins,  went 
to  Florida.  J.  Burt  Collins  married  Miss  Prudence  Harrel- 
son,  daughter  of  old  Hugh  H.  Harrelson,  on  the  Buck  Swamp, 
near  Ariel ;  he  was  killed  or  died  in  the  war ;  his  widow  sur- 
vived him,  and  two  daughters ;  the  widow  married  again  to  A. 
P.  Johnson ;  and  the  daughters  marriedi — one  a  Mr.  Vaught  and 
the  other  James  Turbeville.  The  war  and  its  results  seemed  to 
baffle  and  to  paralyze  the  efforts  of  old  man  John  J.  Collins ;  he 
could  not  adapt  himself  ti>  the  changed  conditions  and  did  not 


516  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

survive  the  war  long— 'he  died  in  June,  1871,  broken  in  spirit 
and  in  fortune ;  a  good  citizen  in  his  day.  This  account  of  the 
Collins  families  may  not  be  correct  in  some  particulars,  but  it  is 
given  according  to  my  knowledge  and  information — it  is  not 
satisfactory  to  the  writer,  but  is  inserted  as  it  is. 

Wiggins,  of  WAHEE.-^The  writer  has  not  been  able  to  ob- 
tain the  genealogy  of  this  family  any  further  back  than  to  old 
Micajah  Wiggins,  the  father  of  the  late  Baker  Wiggins.  Old 
Micajah  married  (don't  know  who),  and  had  and  raised  sons, 
Elias,  Daniel,  Micajah,  Jr.,  Stephen,  Benjamin  and  Baker,  and 
one  daughter,  who  married'  the  late  Thomas  Shaw,  and  raised  a 
family,  who  will  be  noticed  further  on.  Baker  Wiggins  mar- 
ried Judah  Foxworth,  a  daughter  (I  think)  of  old  Job  Fox- 
worth — if  not  a  daughter,  a  descendant ;  they  raised  three  sons 
and  two  daughters,  to  wit :  Charles,  Henry  Houston  and  Fran- 
cis Marion,  and  Virginia  and  Martha  Ann.  Charles  died  un- 
married. Henry  Houston  married  Miss  Florence  Johnson,  a 
daughter  of  the  late  William  Johnson,  of  Wahee;  they  have 
seven  children — one  son,  Harman,  grown,  the  others  not 
grown.  Francis  Marion,  a  merchant  at  Marion,  unmarried, 
but  ought  to  be.  Of  the  daughters,  Virginia  married  Corde 
Whitebeart;  they  have  four  children;  reside  at  Florence. 
Martha  Ann  married  Yancy  Thomas,  not  long  since,  of  whom 
nothing  further  is  known.  Baker  Wiggins,  the  immediate  pro- 
genitor of  the  above,  was  a  first-rate  man  and  excellent  citizen ; 
unfortunately  for  him,  he  had  no  early  opportunities  for  educa- 
tion ;  he  could  not  write  his  name,  yet  he  was  genteel  and  very 
courtly  in  his  bearing  and  manners ;  in  these  respects  he  was 
excelled  by  but  few ;  he  was  a  well-rounded  man  and  reliable  in 
his  dealings  with  his  fellow-man.  Elias  Wiggins,  brother  of 
Baker,  married,  and  had  a  family,  how  many  is  unknown — one 
son,  Jasper  Wiggins,  and  two  daughters,  Eliza  and  Susan.  The 
son  is  unmarried.  Of  the  daughters,  Eliza  married  Joseph 
Powers ;  they  have  one  or  two  children.  The  other  daug'hter, 
Susan,  is  unmarried.  Daniel  Wiggins  died,  unmarried. 
Micajah,  Jr.,  married  a  Miss  Tanner,  and  removed  to  George- 
town. Stephen  Wiggins  married  Elizabeth  Powell ;  they  had  a 
daughter,  who  married  Jerry  Holderi,  a  capital  man  and  good 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  517 

citizen,  in  Wahee  Township.  Another  daughter  in  Florida  or 
Georgia — Susan  (I  think) ;  don't  know  whether  she  is  married 
or  not.  Benjamin  Wiggins  disappeared  in  the  war — may  have 
been  killed. 

There  were  in  the  early  part  of  the  nineteenth  century  some 
other  Wiggins  on  the  Pee  Dee,  who  gave  name  to  the  "Wiggins  _ 
Landing,"  on  Great  Pee  Dee ;  they  figured  and  were  prominent 
previous  to  1820.  They  are  referred  to  as  relatives  of  old 
Mason  I^ee,  in  his  (Lee's)  will,  which  gave  rise  to  the  cele- 
brated will  case  of  Mason  Lee,  as  found  in  one  of  McCord's 
(second  volume,  I  believe)  Reports.  Lee  was  a  Marlboroug'h 
man,  and  one  of  the  most  remarkable  men  I  ever  read  of.  He 
was  wealthy,  and  gave  all  his  property  to  the  two  States  of 
South  Carolina  and  Tennessee.  He  was  never  married.  If  he 
had  died  without  a  will,  the  Wiggins  would  have  inherited  his 
property.  He  had  two  illegitimate  sons,  twins ;  one  of  them  he 
acknowledged  to  be  his,  the  other  he  would  not  acknowledge, 
and  gave  as  a  reason  that  in  crossing  a  staked  and  ridered  fence, 
that  one  of  the  boys  went  over  the  rider  and  the  other  went 
under  it.  He  stated  in  his  will  that  he  did  not  want  any  of  the 
Wiggins  to  have  any  of  his  property,  and  authorized  his  execu- 
tors to  employ  the  best  counsel  in  the  State  to  defend  his  will 
against  the  Wiggins  from  the  lower  Courts  to  the  highest 
Court.  He  further  said  that  he  would  have  given  his  property 
to  the  Penniwells,  his  two  bastard  sons,  or  the  one  he  acknow- 
ledged, but  he  was  afraid  they  did  not  have  sense  enough  to 
successf uly  contend  with  the  Wiggins ;  and,  therefore,  he  gave 
his  property  to  the  two  States  of  South  Carolina  and  Tennessee, 
who  might  be  able  to  cope  with  the  Wiggins.  The  will  was 
attacked  by  the  Wiggins,  and  it  was  carried  by  appeal  from  the 
Court  of  Ordinary  to  the  Court  of  Appeals ;  the  will  was  sus- 
tained, and  the  Wiggins  were  worsted.  One  of  them  was 
named  Baker,  and  from  that  fact  and  the  circumstances  of  their 
living  near  Wiggins'  Landing,  near  the  present  location  of  the 
Wiggins  family  hereinabove  mentioned,  the  writer  draws  the 
inference  that  the  now  existing  family  of  Wiggins  on  Great  Pee 
Dee  are  of  the  same  stock  as  those  related  to  old  Mason  Lee, 
and  against  whom  old  Mason  had  such  strong  aversion — ^this  is 
only  conjecture. 


518  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

There  are  some  other  Wiggins  in  the  county,  in  the  Gaddy 
Mill  section.  Many  now  living  knew  old  man  Charles  Wig- 
gins; his  first  wife  was  a  Miss  Johnson,  of  Black  River;  his 
second  wife  was  Molly  Britt,  of  North  Carolina ;  they  are  both 
dead.  The  first  wife  had  three  sons,  John  M.,  Henry  and  C. 
Wesley  Wiggins.  John  M.  married  Aby  Butler,  has  a  family, 
of  how  many  is  not  known ;  he  has  a  son,  Marion  Wiggins,  of 
Dillon,  who  married  a  Miss  Grantham;  has  five  children 
(small).  Henry  Wiggins  married  and  had  a  son,  named 
Charles,  and  lives  at  Dillon.  The  son  married,  and  had  two 
children ;  the  mother  died,  and  he  married,  a  second  time,  the 
Widow  Price,  whose  maiden  name  was  Pauline  Watson,  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  William  Watson;  no  offspring.  Henry  went 
West.  C.  Wesley  married  a  McCormic,  and  settled  in  the  Cot- 
ton Valley  section  of  the  county ;  he  was  doing  well  when  last 
heard  of  by  the  writer — have  not  seen  him  for  years.  The  old 
gentleman  was  a  jolly  old  soul ;  he  was  jailer  at  Marion  in  the 
early  70's ;  his  second  wife  had  no  children. 

Shaw. — ^The  first  Shaw  known  in  the  county  was  William 
Shaw,  born  in  March,  1759,  and  died  in  February,  1863,  at  the 
age  of  103  years  and  eleven  months  to  a  day,  as  his  son,  the  late 
John  D.  Shaw,  told  the  writer — a  case  of  remarkable  longevity. 
The  writer  saw  and  talked  with  the  old  gentleman  at  Marion 
Court  House,  in  1859  or  i860,  and  he  said  he  was  100  years 
old;  could  get  about  then  with  much  agility — ^much  more  so 
than  most  men  at  the  age  of  seventy  years.  In  connection  with 
old  William  Shaw,  I  will  quote  from  Bishop  Gregg's  History, 
pp.  403  and  404,  and  note :  "Another  name  which  has  no  place 
in  history  and  is  now  unknown  in  the  region  where  he  lived, 
deserves,- in  one  respect  at  least,  the  first  place  in  the  annals  of 
the  Pee  Dee,  if  not  in  the  story  of  the  Revolution  throughout 
the  thirteen  colonies.  Jacob  Brawler  gave  his  own  life  and  the 
lives  of  twenty-two  sons  to  the  cause  of  liberty  in  Carolina.  He 
removed  from  Tar  River,  North  Carolina,  to  Liberty  Precinct, 
and  settled  on  Catfish,  sixteen  miles  below  the  present  village 
of  Marion.  He  was  married  twice,  and  had  large  families  by 
both  wives,  of  whom  all  were  sons,  except  one  daughter.  After 
the  fall  of  Charleston,  some  of  his  sons  were  drafted ;  but  the 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  519 

old  man  said  there  should  be  no  division  among  them — ^that  if 
one  went  all  should  go,  and  that  he  would  accompany  them. 
Twenty- four  (three)  in  all,  they  embarked  in  the  strife,  and 
almost  incredible  to  relate,  but  one  of  the  sons  returned  to  tell 
the  tale  of  their  slaughter.  Overwhelmed  by  the  calamity,  the 
frantic  wife  and  mother  went  off,  not  knowing  whither,  in 
search  of  her  loved  ones,  but  only  to  return,  after  a  fruitless 
search,  a  broken-hearted  mourner.  She  was  eventually  put 
upon  the  parish  and  lived  to  old  age.  The  surviving  son,  who 
was  of  weak  mind  and  body,  died  a  few  years  after,  and  the 
name  became  extinct  in  Marion."  In  a  note  to  the  foregoing 
passage  the  Bishop  says:  "This  account,  which  may  appear 
almost  incredible,  was  related  to  the  author  by  the  late  Hugh 
Godbold,  of  Marion,  and  confirmed  in  every  particular  by  Wil- 
liam Shaw,  a  humble  but  worthy  and  respectable  man  who  was 
of  age  at  the  time,  lived  in  the  same  neighborhood  and  knew  the 
family  of  Brawler  well.  Mr.  Shaw  was  born  in  March,  1759, 
and  in  the  spring  of  1859,  when  the  author  spent  the  night  with 
him  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Godbold,  was  possessed  of  astonishing 
vigor  of  body  and  mind  for  one  of  his  years.  Neither  his  sight 
nor  hearing  was  very  seriously  impaired.  He  sat  up  to  a  late 
hour,  listening  with  unabated  interest  to  a  conversation  about 
the  early  days  of  the  Pee  Dee,  taking  part  himself,  and  was  as 
cheerful  as  a  man  in  his  prime.  He  said  a  red  oak  was  then 
living,  which  stood  in  Brawler's  yard.  Brawler  was  poor,  but 
ingenious.  He  adopted  the  following  method  of  catching  bears : 
Driving  sharp  nails,  pointing  downward,  in  a  bee-gum,  he 
baited  it  at  the  bottom  (with  honey),  having  secured  it  well. 
The  bear  putting  his  head  down,  would  be  caught  beyond  the 
possibility  of  extrication.  William  Shaw  had  passed  his  hun- 
dredth year  when  the  author  saw  him  for  the  first  and  last  time, 
and  considering  his  activity  was  one  of  the  most  remarkable 
cases  of  longevity  on  record." 

The  writer  has  made  these  lengthy  quotations  for  the  pur- 
pose, first,  of  showing  to  posterity  the  almost  unparalleled  case 
of  longevity  of  one  of  our  old  citizens,  William  Shaw,  and,  sec- 
ondly, to  perpetuate  the  name  and  fame  of  old  Jacob  Brawler 
and  family — a  name  that  should  ever  be  dear  to  the  people  of 
Marion  County.  Bishop  Gregg's  History  has  long  been  out  of 
34 


520  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

print,  and  is  now  read  only  by  very  few ;  but  by  giving  it  a 
place  in  this  book,  written  for  Marion  County,  the  name  and 
fame  of  Jacob  Brawler  and  family  may  be  preserved  in  the 
county  for  another  hundred  and  fifty  years— ejfo  perpefua. 

William  Shaw  married  some  one  to  the  writer  unknown ;  has 
tried  to  ascertain  her  maiden  name,  but  has  not  been  able  to  do 
so;  he  raised  three  sons  and  may  be  others,  as  well  as  daugh- 
ters— one  daughter,  Ann ;  the  sons  were  John  D.  Shaw,  who 
died  a.  few  years  ago,  at  the  age  of  eighty-nine,  and  Thomas 
Shaw,  who  married  and  died  some  years  ago,  leaving  four  sons, 
Edward  Baker,  Daniel,  Armstrong  and  Henry,  and  perhaps 
daughters.  Henry  was  a  soldier  in  the  Confederate  War ;  he 
married  a  Miss  Wall,  daughter  of  Washington  Wall,  and  sister 
of  George  Wall,  of  Marion ;  they  lived  together  several  years, 
and  had  several  children,  when  he  died  and  left  his  widow 
and  children  surviving;  the  widow  married  again,  a  Mr. 
Hux,  of  Horry  (see  the  Wall  family).  John  D.  Shaw,  the 
oldest  son  of  old  William  Shaw,  married  a  Miss  Davis,  and  had 
one  son,  our  capital  citizen,  Stewart  T.  Shaw,  and  one  daughter, 
Ann,  and  may  be  other  children.  Stewart  T.  Shaw  married  a 
Miss  Altman,  daughter  of  William  Altman,  and  has  a  family, 
not  grown.  Stewart  Shaw,  like  his  father,  John  D.  Shaw,  is  a 
most  excellent  man  and  a  substantial,  good  citizen.  His  sister, 
Ann  Shaw,  married  a  Davis,  and  has  a  family,  unknown  to  the 
writer.  Thomas  Shaw  married  a  Miss  Wiggins,  sister  of  the 
late  Baker  Wiggins ;  they  had  four  sons.  Edward  Shaw,  killed 
in  the  war.  Baker  Shaw,  who  married  Betsey  Tanner ;  he  is 
dead,  and  left  five  children,  four  girls  and  one  son,  named 
Thomas.  Daniel  Shaw  married  a  Miss  Foxworth,  and  has  five 
sons,  Willie,  Clarence,  Charley,  Joseph  and  Evander.  The 
two  latter  are  married.  Joseph  married  a  Miss  Boatwright, 
daughter  of  Foster  Boatwright.  Evander  married  a  Miss 
Shaw.  The  other  sons  are  unmarried,  and  live  with  their 
parents.  Armstrong  Shaw,  the  youngest  son  of  Thomas  Shaw, 
married  Miss  Maria  Lucas,  and  has  but  one  child,  a  daughter, 
named  Julia,  who  lately  married  McRoy  Dozier,  who  is  clerk- 
ing for  W.  S.  Foxworth,  at  Marion,  a  promising  young  man. 
Old  William  Shaw  had  one  daughter,  Ann,  who  married  Robe- 
son Tanner,  and  became  the  grand-mother  of  Mrs.  James  T. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  521 

Dozier.  The  writer  has  learned  that  John  D.  Shaw  married 
twice,  but  who,  except  the  Davis  wife,  is  not  known,  or  whether 
there  was  any  progeny  by  that  marriage  is  not  known. 

DoziER. — Of  this  family  but  little  information  has  been  ob- 
tained, yet  it  is  a  name  long  and  favorably  known  in  Marion. 
It  is  a  French  name,  and  came  to  South  Carolina  among  the 
Huguenots  (as  is  supposed).  The  first  of  the  name  as  now 
known  in  the  county  was  the  great-grand-father  of  James  Tully 
Dozier,  the  present  County  Supervisor  of  Marion  County.  His 
name  was  James  Tully  Dozier,  a  name  whidh  seems  to  have 
been  continued  in  each  succeeding  generation  to  the  present. 
Old  James  Tully  had  a  son,  James  Tully,  and  he  in  turn  had 
three  sons,  James  Tully,  John  F.  and  Henry.  Henry  Dozier 
was  very  deaf ;  he  and  his  brother,  James  Tully,  are  both  dead ; 
John  F.  still  survives.  To  whom  the  three  brothers,  James 
Tully,  John  F.  and  Henry,  married,  is  unknown  to  the  writer. 
The  late  James  Tully  Dozier  left  a  son,  James  Tully  (now 
County  Supervisor),  who  has  been  for  years  a  very  efficient 
deputy  Sheriff,  and,  I  suppose,  knows  not  only  all  the  public 
roads  in  the  county,  but  all  the  neighorhood  roads,  and  even 
many  of  the  footpaths ;  he  knows  almost  every  man  in  the 
county  above  twenty-five  years  of  age,  and  notwithstanding  his 
extensive  knowledge  in  these  respects,  he  could  not  tell  me 
much  of  the  genealogy  of  his  family — from  which  this  lesson 
may  be  learned,  viz :  that  no  man  can  be  an  adept  at  everything. 
As  already  stated,  he  is  now  our  County  Supervisor;  has  not 
been  long  in  office,  but  promises  to  make  an  efficient  officer ;  he 
married  Miss  Iris  Grice,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Sheriff,  A.  E. 
Grice,  well  remembered  by  many;  he  has  two  small  boys, 
names  not  remembered ;  he  had  a  sister,  who  married  Henry 
W.  Smith,  now  a  liveryman  in  Marion;  she  died  a  few  years 
ago,  and  left  some  three  or  four  childi-en.  There  is  one  David 
Dozier,  a  good  citizen  of  the  county,  of  tJhe  same  Dozier  family, 
but  to  which  branch  of  the  family  he  belongs,  is  not  known  to 
the  writer.  There  were  in  former  times  other  Doziers  in 
Marion.  I  think  one  of  our  first  Sheriffs  and  first  Clerks  of 
the  Court  were  Doziers.  A  public  street,  one  of  the  oldest 
streets  in  the  town  of  Marion,  was  named  and  is  now  called 


522  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Dozier  street ;  they  were  prominent  in  that  day.  There  were 
other  Doziers,  I  suppose  of  the  same  family,  here  in  the  early 
part  of  the  last  century.  One,  A.  W.  Dozier,  represented  us  in 
Congress  in  the  early  days  of  the  republic ;  he  was  a  lawyer  of 
ability  and  a  man  of  high  character;  he  lived  in  Georgetown 
or  Williamsburg — a  brother  or  uncle  of  our  highly  esteemed 
late  fellow-citizen,  Dr.  T.  J.  Dozier,  whose  family  are  now  in 
Britton's  Neck  and  muA  respected.  I  think  I  rightfully  infer 
that  all  these  Doziers  in  Marion,  Georgetown  and  Williams- 
burg had  a  common  ancestor  among  the  Huguenot  stock,  and 
are  all  collaterally  related,  either  proximately  or  remotely.  We 
had  a  young  Dozier  here,  a  lawyer,  since  the  war,  who  lived 
and  praoticed  law  in  Marion  for  two  or  three  years,  who  mani- 
fested ability ;  he  left,  however,  and  went  to  California,  and  in 
a  few  years  became  a  Circuit  Judge  in  that  great  State,  with  a 
salary  of  $3,500  or  $4,000  annually — no  mean  position,  in 
honor  or  emoluments. 

FoxwoRTH  AND  BoATwRiGHT — Of  this  family,  the  writer  is 
wanting  in  definite  information  whicb  he  has  made  efforts  to 
dbtain,  but  has  not  been  able  to  dt>  so.  There  were  two  old 
men  here  years  ago,  Stephen  and  Job  Foxworth,  and  he  pre- 
sumes that  most  or  all  of  the  name  now  in  the  county  are  de- 
scendants of  these  two  old  men — in  this,  however,  he  may  be 
mistaken.  William  C.  Foxworth,  on  west  side  of  Catfish,  was 
a  descendant  of  one  of  them;  he  was  an  exceptionally  good 
man,  was  always  on  ithe  side  of  right ;  he  married  Miss  Serena 
Gregg,  oldest  daughter  of  R.  J.  Gregg.  Old  "Uncle  Jimmy," 
as  he  was  called,  died  a  few  years  ago,  leaving  his  wife,  four 
sons,  and  two  daughters — Fdward,  William  Capers,  George 
and  Thomas,  as  I  remember  them,  and  the  two  daughters  were 
Sallie  and  Lucy.  Of  the  sons,  Edward  is  single.  William 
Capers  married  a  daughter  of  Captain  G.  A.  Mclntyre,  and  has 
a  family  of  some  children,  and  is  one  of  our  good  citizens. 
George  married  a  Miss  Watson,  a  niece  of  Major  H.  B.  Cook's 
wife,  in  Horry.  Thomas,  I  suppose,  is  not  married.  The  eldest 
daughter,  Sallie,  married  E.  H.  Gasque,  and  has  already  been 
noticed  in  or  among  the  Gasque  family.  Lucy,  the  younger 
daughter,  married  a  Mr.  Hutaff,  who  died  and  left  her  with 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  523 

two  children,  and  then  she  dlied ;  don't  know  what  became  of 
the  children.  William  S.  Foxworth  is  a  descendant  of  one  ol 
the  old  Foxworths,  don't  know  which;  think  his  father  was 
named  Charley  J. — in  this,  however,  I  may  be  mistaken.  Wil- 
liam S.  Foxwortih  is  a  leading  merchant  of  Marion;  com- 
menced there  with,  nothing,  comparatively,  twenty-five  or 
thirty  years  ago,  and  by  strict  attention  to  business  and  good 
management  has  succeeded  well,  has  accumulaited  a  large  prop- 
erty and  may  be  regarded  as  one  of  the  heavy  men,  financially, 
in  the  town  of  Marion ;  he  married  Miss  Kittie  Smith,  a  grand- 
daughter of  "Horse-Swapping  Billy  Smith,"  an  excellent  wo- 
man, and  is  raising  a  family — has  three  or  four  children.  W. 
S.  Foxworth  is  no  ordinary  man ;  he  is  W.  S.  Foxworth — does 
not  pretend  to  be  any  one  else ;  a  strictly  religious  man,  and  by 
precept  and  example  tries  to  influence  others  in  the  same  line — 
he  is  a  good  and  useful  man ;  if  we  had  more  men  like  him  the 
county  would  be  bettered.  There  is  one  Benjamin  Foxworth 
in  Wabee,  a  quiet,  hard-working  and  inoffensive  citizen,  a  de- 
scendant of  one  of  the  old  Foxworths ;  he  married  the  Widow 
Annis  Mc White;  has  two  children,  a  son,  Truman,  and  a 
daughter  (name  unknown).  Truman  married  a  Miss  Godi- 
bold,  daughter  of  Huger  Godbold;  they  have  some  children. 
The  daughter  married  some  one  about  Mullins;  don't  know 
who,  and  has  a  family.  There  is,  or  was,  a  Jack  Foxworth, 
near  Marion,  some  years  ago;  he  married  a  Miss  Johnson  or 
Meares;  raised  some  family,  don't  know  how  many  or  what 
has  become  of  them,  or  whether  Jack  is  dead  or  alive.  Jack 
was  harmless,  not  ambitious  of  wealth  or  honors — he  was  con- 
tented to  be  Jack  and  Jack  alone.  Mrs.  Goddard,  now  at 
Mairion,  is  a  sister  of  Jack.  I  suppose  they  are  descendants  of 
one. of  the  old  Foxworths,  Stephen  or  Job.  There  was,  before 
the  war,  two  Foxworths,  William  (called  "Little  Billy")  and 
James.  William,  I  think,  died  and  left  a  widow  and,  perhaps, 
children.  James  moved  off  elsewhere;  he  lived,  one  year  or 
two,  before  the  war,  in  the  "Free  State"  section,  on  a  place 
afterward  owned  by  the  writer.  As  well  as  remembered,  he 
moved  to  Sumter  Ck>unty.  These  two  latter,  "Little  Billy"  and 
James,  were,  as  is  supposed,  descendants  of  one  of  the  old  Fox- 
worths named  herein.     I  think  the  late  Ervin  Godbold's  wife 


524  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

was  a  Foxworth,  likewise  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  old  Fox- 
worths  ;  she  died  before  Ervin,  and  left  several  dhildren,  one  of 
whom  married  the  late  S.  G.  Owens,  once  Clerk  of  the  Court 
in  Marion.  Another  one,  Thomas  Godbold,  is  in  Wahee,  who, 
I  think,  lives  on  and  runs  the  farm  of  S.  G.  Miles.  I  omitted 
to  state  in  connection  with  iihe  late  William  C.  Foxworth,  that 
he  had  a  sister,  who  was  *he  wife  of  Thomas  W.  Boatwright, 
a  most  excellent,  good  woman;  she  had  only  two  children, 
daughters.  One  married  Frank  Dill,  in  Wahee;  they  have  a 
family,  don't  know  how  many.  One  daughter  of  Frank  Dill 
married  Augustus  Smith,  of  Mullins,  a  thriving,  promising 
young  man.  The  other  daughter  of  Mrs.  Boatwright  married 
Hon.  S.  W.  Smith,  of  Mullins,  whose  family,  only  two  children, 
a  son  and  a  daughter,  have  already  been  mentioned  among  the 
Smiths  or  Huggins  families.  Frank  Dill  and  S.  W.  Smith, 
the  husband  of  these  two  Boatwright  girls,  are  first  class  men 
and  leading  citizens  of  their  irespeotive  communities.  Frank 
Dill,  of  Wahee,  is  a  son  of  the  late  Bright  Dill,  of  Britton's 
Neck,  wht>  was,  I  think,  an  importation  from  Abbeville  County, 
and  a  good  importation  it  was — would  like  to  have  many  more 
such ;  he  was  none  other  than  a  Christian  gentleman.  In  con- 
nection herewith,  the  Boatwrights  may  be  noticed.  Thomas 
W.  Boatwright,  as  above  stated,  married  Miss  Foxworth,  sis- 
ter of  the  late  W.  C.  Foxworth ;  he  was  a  harmless,  inoffensive 
man- — if  he  ever  harmed  any  one,  it  was  himself,  yet  he  had 
energy  and  push  about  him;  his  wife  was  a  most  excellent 
lady;  thfey  had  but  two  children,  daughters,  who  were  well 
raised,  with  right  ideas  of  life,  have  made  good  housewives, 
and  have  raised  and  are  raising  nice  families — ^the  virtues  of 
the  parents  are  inherited  by  the  children  and  shape  their  course 
in  life.  Don't  know  anything  of  the  ancestry  of  T.  W.  Boat- 
wrig'ht,  or  of  any  other  Boatwright  in  the  county;  there  are 
other  Boatwrights  in  the  county,  or  have  been — Foster,  John 
and  Fli  Boatwright,  but  of  the  families  of  either  the  writer 
knows  nothing,  nor  wihat  relation  they  are  to  each  other,  if  any, 
is  not  known ;  they  are  humble  and  peaceable  citizens,  content 
with  their  own  and  live  honestly.  There  may  be  other  Boat- 
wrights with  their  connections  in  the  county,  not  known  to  the 
writer. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  525 

Whitb  and  Monrob. — The  genealogy  of  this  family  was 
obtained  from  W.  M.  Monroe,  of  Marion,  whose  mother  was  a 
Miss  White.  He  says  the  first  known  to  him  was  his  great- 
grand- father,  Joseph  White,  w'ho  came  from  England;  but 
when,  he  does  not  state ;  he  married  Judith  Gainey ;  they  had 
five  children — four  sons,  Silas,  Matthew,  Benjamin  and  Ste- 
phen, and  one  daughter,  Elizabeth.  Silas  married  Elizabeth 
Avant,  and  had  two  sons,  Jdhn  and  Andrew,  and  two  daugh- 
ters, Charlotte  and  Elizabeth ;  he  married,  a  second  time,  Eliza 
Rowell,  sister  of  Major  Wm.  B.  Rowell,  and  had  three  sons, 
Joseph,  William  and  Whitby ;  he  married,  the  third  time,  the 
Widow  Fladger,  widow  of  old  Charles  Fladger;  they  had  no 
children;  he  (Silas)  was  the  grand-father  of  all  the  Whites 
living  in  the  Centenary  neigibborhood,  below  Marion;  Matthew 
White  never  married ;  he  died  a  young  man.  Stephen  White 
married  Mary  Fore,  daughter  of  Richard  Fore,  and  a  sister  of 
old  Joel  Fore,  whose  family  'has  already  been  mentioned  herein ; 
they  had  six  children' — ^two  sons.  Nelson  and  James,  and 
four  daughters,  Fanetta,  Angeline,  Mary  and  Rhoda.  James 
married  Ann  Eliza  Stackhouse,  daughter  of  Isaac  Stackhouse, 
and  sister  of  Colonel  E.  T.  Stackhouse;  they  haid  one  child 
only,  a  daughter,  Martha;  he  died  soou'  after  marriage;  the 
widow  married  Daniel  Fore,  who  has  already  been  mentioned 
herein  among  the  Fores  and  Stackhouses,  as  also  her  daughter, 
Martha.  Nelson  White  married  Frances  Finklea,  and  had  six 
children — ^two  sons,  James  and  Stephen,  and  four  daughters, 
Mary,  Eugenia,  Sallie  and  Alice.  Can  trace  them  no  further. 
Fanetta,  the  eldest  daughter  of  Stephen  White,  married  David 
Monroe;  they  had  eight  children — ^five  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters; the  sons,  Robert,  William  M.,  David,  Walter  and 
Thomas;  the  daugliters  were  Sallie,  Mary  and  Maggie.  Of 
the  sons,  Robert  married  a  Miss  Baker,  and  has  a  family. 
William  M.,  one  of  the  leading  merchants  at  Marion,  married 
Miss  Mary  McMillan,  a  daughter  of  Major  S.  E.  McMillan ; 
they  have  a  family  of  six  or  seven  children,  all  boys.  Don't 
know  who  David  married,  if  married  at  all.  Walter  S.  Mon- 
roe married  a  Miss  McCall,  of  Bennettsville,  sister  of  Colonel 
C.  S.  McCall,  and  died;  don't  know  whether  with  or  without 
issue.     Thomas  Monroe  married  Miss  Rhoda  Gaddy,  daughter 


526  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

of  the  late  James  M.  Gaddy;  they  have  some  children,  how 
many  or  of  what  sex  is  unknown.  Of  the  Monroe  daughters, 
Miss  Sallie  is  unmarried.  Mary  and  Maggie  both  marMed — 
one  to  James  T.  Baker,  and  is  dead,  leaving  five  or  six  dhildren, 
all  sons ;  they  live  at  Marion.  The  other  daughter  married  a 
Mr.  Summerset,  and,  I  think,  is  dead.  While  writing  about 
the  Monroes,  it  is  proper  to  mention  (and  it  may  have  been 
mentioned  herein  already)  that  Major  David  Monroe  was  one 
of  the  many  good  importations  from  North  Carolina;  he  had 
been  married  twice  before  his  marriage  to  Miss  Fanetta  White ; 
first,  to  a  Miss  Mace  (and  may  have  already  been  noticed 
among  the  Mace  and  Godbold  families) ;  by  the  Mace  wife  he 
had  one  child,  a  daughter;  her  mother  died  and  left  her  an 
infant ;  she  grew  up  and  married  a  Mr.  King,  of  Fayetteville, 
N.  C. ;  did  well,  and,  I  suppose,  has  children  and  gramid-chil- 
dren  in  the  old  North  State;  Major  Monroe's  second  wife  was 
a  Widow  Haselden,  whose  maiden  name  was  Elizabeth  God- 
bold  ;  by  bis  marriage  with  the  Widow  Haselden  he  had  two 
sons,  James  and  Francis  Marion.  James,  I  don't  think  mar- 
ried; he  was  Colonel  of  a  regiment  in  the  Western  Army  of 
the  Confederate  States,  and  was  killed  or  died  with  disease  or 
wounds.  Francis  Marion  Monroe  married  Miss  Carrie  Lewis, 
daughter  of  the  late  Ebben  L/ewis;  lives  near  Latta,  and  has 
long  been  a  prominent  physician  of  the  county  and  of  the  Latta 
community ;  he  has  a  nice  family — five  diaughters  and  two  sons. 
His  eldest  son,  Clement,  died  a  young  man.,  quite  promising, 
while  a  student  in  the  Sout!h  Carolina  College.  The  younger 
son,  McKay,  or  McCoy,  is  now  a  young  man  about  grown. 
One  daughter,  Anna,  married  James  G.  Baker,  now  of  Spring 
Branch ;  they  have  some  children,  how  many  or  of  what  sex  is 
unknown.  The  other  daughters  are  all  unmarried.  Angeline, 
the  second  daughter  of  old  Stephen  White,  married  Joseph 
Hunter,  I  think,  of  Darlington ;  they  had  three  sons,  Stephen, 
James  and  William,  and  a  daughter,  Mary.  Of  the  sons,  one 
married  Miss  Costaricca  Jones,  daughter  of  the  late  Fred  D. 
Jones,  of  Marion — think  they  have  already  been  mentioned 
herein  among  the  Jones  or  Watsons ;  he  died  a  few  years  ago, 
and  left  Costa,  a  widow,  with  six  children.  Don't  know  of  the 
other  Hunter  children.     Mary,  the  third  daughter  of  old  man 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  527 

Stephen  White,  mairried  Huger  Godbold ;  they  had  seven  chil- 
dren'— four  sons,  Julius,  Elly,  Waities  and  Robert,  and  three 
daugihters,  Maggie,  Alice  and  Leila.  Of  the  sons,  Waties  is 
the  only  one  now  living  in  the  county ;  he  married  a  Miss  Rog- 
ers, daughter  of  Joseph  Rogers,  of  Wahee ;  I  think  they  have 
two  children.  His  youngest  son,  Robert,  married  Lizzie  Jones, 
daugliter  of  Allen  Jones,  of  Mullins ;  he  was  in  railroad  employ 
and  was  killed  on  the  railroad,  and  left  her  a  widow,  with  one 
child,  a  daUgliter.  Of  the  daughters  of  Huger  Godbold,  one 
married  a  Mr.  Gause,  another  married  Truman  Foxworth,  and 
one  not  married.  Rhoda,  the  youngest  daughter  of  old  Ste- 
phen White,  married,  first,  James  Graham;  he  soon  died,  and 
then  she  married  Stephen  Smith;  lie  died,  and  she  is  now  a 
childless  widow.  Benjamin  White,  the  youngest  son  of  old 
Joseph  White,  married  Hannah  Gerald ;  they  had  born  to  them 
six  children — ^three  sons,  Hugh,  Evander  and  James,  and  three 
daughters,  Ann  Eliza,  Mary  and  Fannie.  Of  the  sons,  Hugh 
never  married.  Evander  married  Jane  Fort ;  he  was  killed  in 
the  war.  James  married  Maggie  Lucas ;  they  had  three  chil- 
dren; he  died  from  wounds  received  in  the  war.  Of  the 
daughters,  Ann  Eliza  and  Fannie  never  married.  Mary  mar- 
ried William  Haselden,  near  Mars  Bluff ;  he  died  a  few  years 
ago,  and  she  is  the  only  one  of  'her  father's  children  now  living ; 
she  has  three  sons  and  one  daughter  living  with  her.  Benja- 
min White  and  wife  lived  to  be  very  old ;  he  was  paralyzed  and 
she  was  blind;  they  were  living  near  Darlington,  when  a 
cyclone  passed  through  there  some  years  ago — the  house  was 
blown  down  and  they  were  both  instantly  killed.  Elizabeth 
White,  the  only  daughter  of  old  Joseph  White,  and  sister  of 
Stephen  White,  married  Henry  Foxworth;  they  had  six  chil- 
dren'— thrree  sons,  Eli,  Job  and  Wesley,  and  three  daughters, 
Matilda,  Judith  and  Elizabeth.  EH  married  Eliza  Foxworth ; 
Job  married-  Carolin  Gasque,  and  Wesley  married  Ann  Wood- 
ward. Silas  White  has  a  number  of  grand-children  living 
down  below  Marion,  bearing  the  name  of  White,  but  my  infor- 
mation is  too  meagre  to  trace  them  seriatim.  Stephen  White 
has  only  two  grand-sons  bearing  the  name.  There  was  an  ex- 
cellent man  and  good  citixen  in  Wahee  Township,  w'ho  died  a 
few  years  ago,  by  the  name  of  Wesley  White,  who  raised  a 


528  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

family,  mostly  daughters,  and  one  son,  James  White;  he  was 
said  to  be  a  cousin  (first)  of  old  man  Stephen  White,  but  how 
or  in  what  way  does  not  appear;  he  married  Sallie  Mace. 
Think  this  family  has  already  been  noticed  herein  among  the 
Mace  family. 

Snipes. — The  first  Snipes  of  this  family  came  from  Eng- 
land!, some  time  before  the  Revolution,  and  was  a  Baptist 
preacher ;  his  wife  was  a  Miss  Cox,  from  Ireland ;  they  settled 
near  Tyrrel  Bay  Church,  now  the  Gibson  estate;  there  is  a 
creek  on  the  Gibson  estate,  now  known  by  the  name  of  Snipes 
Branch  or  Creek.  These  Snipes  sold  their  lands  and  moved  up 
on  Little  Reedy  Creek  (below  Marion),  near  the  Reedy  Creek 
Baptist  Church,  and  some  of  the  Snipes  family  have  ever  since" 
owned  these  lands.  This  Baptist  divine,  whose  name  was 
Daniel,  had  a  son  by  the  name  of  Joseph  (it  is  not  stated 
whether  ihe  had)  other  sons  or  not),  w'ho  it  was  destined  should 
become  famous  in  after  times — ^this  was  the  Captain  (a;fter- 
wards  Colonel)  Snipes,  who  was  a  terror  to  the  Tories  of  the 
Revolution,  and  who,  in  turn,  so  much  terrorized  him,  as  re- 
lated in  General  Horry  and  Mason  L.  Weems'  Life  of  Marion, 
whose  account  of  it  will  be  transcribed  'herein,  and  thus  is  per- 
petuated to  ithe  credit  of  the  Snipes  family.  It  is  not  stated  to 
whom  Captain  Snipes  married;  he  had  five  sons  and  two 
daughters ;  the  sons  were  James,  Daniel,  Nelson,  Thomas  and 
William ;  the  daughters  were  Jane  and  Mary. 

Genealogy  of  James  Snipes — He  married  a  Miss  Baxley,  by 
whom  he  had  one  son,  David,  and  three  daughters,  Martha, 
Telatha  and  Mary.  David  Snipes,  the  son,  married  a  Miss 
Drew,  and  died  without  issue.  Martha  married  Henry 
Squires,  of  Horry  County,  to  whom  were  born  four  sons  and 
one  daughter.  Telatha  and  Mary  Snipes  never  married,  and 
hence  no  issue. 

Genealogy  of  Nelson  Snipes — He  emigrated  to  North  Caro- 
lina, and  from  him  descended  a  numerous  progeny;  they  are 
in  the  old  North  State. 

Genealogy  of  Thomas  Snipes — He  married  Patty  Brown, 
to  whom  were  born  four  sons,  David,  Thomas,  Joe  and  John, 
and  four  daugliters,  Emaline,  Amelia,  Mary  and  Caledonia. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  529 

David  and  Joe  died  without  issue.  Thomas  married  Miss  Ma- 
tilda Stanly,  to  whom  were  born  six  sons  and  one  daughter, 
Robert,  William,  Charles,  Wadfe  Hampton,  Doctor  and  Barnes ; 
the  daughter  was  named  Rosa.  Robert  Snipes  married  Miss 
Minnie  Stephens,  to  whom  was  born  one  child,  Mattie.  Wil- 
liam Snipes  married  Miss  Lizzie  Haselden,  of  Williamsburg 
County ;  they  have  one  child,  Bessie  L/Ouisa.  The  other  four 
boys  are  not  married.  The  daughter,  Rosa  Snipes,  married 
William  Haselden,  of  Williamsburg  County,  to  whom  was 
born  one  child.  Patsy.  John  Snipes,  son  of  Thomas  Snipes, 
married  a  Miss  White,  of  this  county ;  they  moved  to  McCoU's 
Station,  where  they  now  reside.  Emaline  Snipes  married 
Benjamin  Ammons.  Amelia  Snipes  married  John  Carter. 
Mary  Snipes  married  a  Mr.  Brown.  Caledonia  Snipes  mar- 
ried Hamilton  Capps.  This  ends  tihe  genealogy  of  Thomas 
Snipes'  family  down  to  the  present  time.  William  Snipes, 
brother  of  Thomas,  Jimmie,  Daniel  and  Nelson,  married  Polly 
Venters,  of  Williamsburg  County;  have  no  issue.  Daniel 
Snipes,  brother  of  these,  and  the  progenitor  of  the  late  Wilson 
Snipes,  well  known  to  the  present  generation,  and  the  most 
prominent  branch  of  the  Snipes  family  of  to-day,  married  Polly 
Marlow,  to  whom  were  iborn  nine  sons  and  one  daughter ;  the 
sons  were  Wilson,  Daniel,  James,  Charley,  Michael,  Perry,  Al- 
len, Richard  and  Thomas ;  the  daug'hter  was  Julia  Ann.  Wil- 
son Snipes,  I  suppose,  was  the  eldest  of  the  nine  sons,  and  was 
unquestionably  *he  most  prominent — a.  most  excellent  man  and 
good  citizen  every  way ;  an  honest,  hard-working  man,  of  much 
larger  heart  than  his  purse — the  poor  of  his  neighborhood,  al- 
though he  was  not  rich,  missed  him  when  he  died;  he  was  a 
very  illiterate  man,  could  not  read  or  write — ^had  no  education 
except  what  he  got  from  observation ;  in  his  talk,  he  murdered 
up  the  King's  English  at  a  terrible  rate,  yet  he  could  always 
express  himself  so  as  to  be  understood.  He  always  "called  a 
spade  a  spade,"  and  so  of  everything  else  he  talked  about — he 
never  hesitated  to  speak  his  mind  about  anything,  without  re- 
gard to  which  way  it  cut.  There  was  but  one  Wilson  Snipes, 
and  long  will  he  be  remembered  for  good  by  all  who  knew  him. 
Notwithstanding  his  ignorance  of  letters,  he  was  a  zealous  sup- 
porter of  schools ;  be  gave  his  children,  or  the  most  of  them,  a 


530  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

good  common  school  education,  sudi  as  the  best  schools  of  the 
county  afforded;  he  built  and  furnished  a  school  house  with 
the  best  apparatus  of  the  times,  at  or  near  Reedy  Creek  Baptist 
Church,  and  was  one  of  the  prime  movers  in  originating  and 
erecting  Mount  Olivet  Methodist  Church,  on  the  east  side  of 
Big  Reedy  Creek,  where  he  and  his  wife  now  lie  buried.  Some 
amusing  incidents  are  told  of  old  man  Wilson,  and  one  or  two 
of  them  will  not  be  out  of  place  here.  In  his  early  days — in 
fact,  almost  to  old  age — he  was  very  profane,  even  in  common 
conversation ;  so  much  so,  that  he  would  swear  unconsciously. 
In  his  latter  days,  he  reformed,  joined  the  Methodist  Church, 
professed  religion  and,  of  course,  quit  swearing,  and  every  one 
who  knew  him  believed  in  the  genuineness  of  his  conversion. 
On  one  occasion  some  minister  went  to  Mount  Olivet  to 
preach.  Before  the  preaching  commenced,  he  looked  around 
in  the  "amen  corner,"  saw  Brother  Snipes  at  his  place  in  the 
corner,  and  beckoned  to  him  to  come  to  him;  Snipes  got  up 
and  went  to  the  preacher.  Who  asked  if  there  was  any  one  there 
who  could  lead  in  prayer  in  conclusion  of  the  services.  Wil- 
son looked  round  over  the  congregation,  and  turning  to  the 
preacher,  says,  "No,  not.  a  d — d  one."  On  another  occasion, 
his  pastor  went  to  old  man  Wilson's  house,  as  I  suppose,  on  a 
pastoral  visit,  and  w*hile  sitting  in  the  piazza,  concluded  he 
would  examine  the  old  gentleman  somewbat  as  to  the  condition 
of  his  soul  and  prospects  for  heaven,  &c. ;  among  other  things 
he  asked  him  if  he  enjoyed  religion,  when  old  man  Wilson  re- 
plied, "D — d  if  I  don't."  Whereupon  the  pastor  spoke  repri- 
mandingly  to  him  aibout  using  such  language,  and  old  Wilson 
replied,  "I  was  not  conscious  of  it."  Such  was  the  force  of 
habit,  that  old  man  Wilson  could  not  quit  all  at  once ;  every  one 
who  knew  Wilson  Snipes  believed  fully  in  his  piety.  He  mar- 
ried Mary  Elizabeth  Coleman,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Moses  Cole- 
man ;  to  the  marriage  were  born  four  sons  and  four  daughters ; 
the  sons  are  Addison  Jonathan,  Wilson,  Calhoun  and  Augus- 
tus Beauregard;  the  daughters  are  Julia,  Serena  Adelaide, 
Mary  Elizabeth  (for  her  mother)  and  Mattie  Carrie.  Addi- 
son Jonathan  married  Miss  Louisa  Rogers,  a  grand- daughter 
of  Colonel  Levi  Legette ;  to  whom  have  been  born  five  sons  and 
three  daughters,  Evan,  William,  Blakely,  Edwin  and  Carl; 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  581 

daughters,  Lilly,  Anne  and  Ivouisa.  None  of  the  sons  are  mar- 
ried. Lilly  married  A.  P.  Johnson,  of  Horry  County.  Wilson 
Snipes,  Jr.,  married  Miss  Minnie  Caroline  Timmons,  of  Wil- 
liamsburg County,  to  whom  were  bom  four  sons  and  four 
daughters;  daughters,  Ethel  Millissa,  Mary  Lucretia,  Willie 
Maude  and  Edith  Ximena;  the  sons  are  Winfred  Hubert, 
Bertie  Fay,  Ralph  Vincent  and  Wyatt  Ense.  Only  one  of  this 
family  being  married — Mary  Lucretia,  to  Rollin  Kemball 
Johnson,  of  Williamsburg  County;  they  have  one  child, 
Brighty  Evelyn.  Wilson  Snipes,  Jr.,  has  been  school  teacher 
and  fanner  for  a  quarter-  of  a  century ;  and  two  of  his  daugh- 
ters, Ethel  and  Mary,  are  prominent  teachers.  Calhoun 
Snipes,  brother  of  Wilson,  Jr.,  married  Miss  Maria  Shelly; 
they  have  three  sons,  Rufus,  Clyde  and  Monroe;  daughters, 
Viola  and  Mabell — none  married.  Augustus  Beauregard 
Snipes  married  a  Miss  Ward ;  they  have  no  issue.  Julia  Snipes 
married  Henry  Grantham,  of  Horry  County.  Serena  Adalaide 
married  Jerry  H.  Lambert;  had  one  child,  a  daughter,  and 
died;  the  daughter  has  lately  married  Redden  Smith,  called 
"Little  Reddin."  Mary  Elizabeth,  no  issue,  dtead.  Mattio 
Carrie  Snipes  married  Thomas  Baker,  of  this  county.  Daniel 
Snipes,  brother  of  the  late  Wilson  Snipes,  and  the  only  survi- 
vor of  the  nine  brothers,  like  the  others  of  them,  went  into  the 
war — he  was  a  Sergeant  in  his  com.pany ;  was  captured  by  the 
Federals,  and  sent  to  Elmira  prison,  in  New  York,  where,  as 
he  said,  he  was  nearly  perished  to  death;  had  to  rest  several 
times  from  weakness  while  walking  through  the  city  of  New 
York,  on  his  way  home;  he  was  shipped  from  New  York  to 
Savannah,  where  he  landied  and  walked  from'  there  home ;  he 
yet  lives,  near  MuUins.  Daniel  Snipes  married  Miss  Elizabeth 
Loyd,  to  whom  have  been  bom  eight  sons  and  two  daughters ; 
the  sons  are  John,  Thomas,  Robert  Charles,  Henry  Rufus,  Joe 
Hooker,  Daniel  Preston,  Benjamin  Franklin  and  Arcihie  Gil- 
christ. Of  these,  John  Snipes  died  in  Hawkinsville,  Ga., 
brought  home  and  buried  in  the  MuUins  cemetery.  Thomas 
Snipes,  second  son  of  Daniel,  married  Miss  Louisa  Castles,  of 
Chester  County,  and  is  now  at  Janesville,  N.  C,  a  telegraph 
operator.  Robert  Charles  Snipes  married  Miss  May  Waller. 
Henry  Rufus  Snipes  married  Miss  Janie  Roberts,  issue  one 


532  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

daughter,  Janie  Ethel.  Joe  Hooker  Snipes  married  Miss  Rosa 
Belle  Coleman,  of  Florence  County ;  no  issue.  Daniel  Preston 
Snipes  married  Miss  Hester  Hausea,  of  Florence  County; 
issue  one  daughter,  Jessie  Pearl.  Benjamin  Franklin  and 
Archie  Gilchrist  Snipes  are  unmarried.  Of  the  two  daughters 
of  Daniel  Snipes,  names  not  given,  one  married  Elly  D.  Smith, 
below  Marion ;  know  nothing  of  their  family.  James  Snipes, 
brother  of  Wilson  and  Daniel  Snipes,  was  killed  in  the  battle  of 
Franklin,  Tenn.  A  young  lady  of  this  county,  now  married, 
has  his  photo  and  a  small  quantity  of  gold,  which  he  gave  her 
on  his  departure  for  the  war.  He  was  a  volunteer,  and  stayed 
in  the  war  until  he  was  killed ;  he  seemed  to  have  a  presenti- 
ment of  his  death — he  said  just  before  the  battle  to  his  com- 
rades, "Well,  boys,  it  is  hard  to  fight  through  this  war  to  near 
its  close,  and  then  be  killed."  Poor  fellow !  he  has  his  reward, 
if  nothing  more — he  has  the  gratitude  and  veneration  of  his 
countrymen.  Michael  Snipes  and  Richard,  two  other  brothers 
of  old  Wilson,  died  in  Richmond,  either  of  disease  or  wounds, 
and  are  buried  in  Hollywood  Cemetery.  Richard  had  married 
•Miss  Charity  Ikenor,  to  whom  were  born  two  sons,  Edward 
and  Christopher.  Edward  married  a  Miss  Porter.  Chesley 
Snipes,  another  brother  of  Wilson  and  Daniel,  died  in  the  war, 
at  Georgetown;  he  was  brought  home  and  buried.  Perry 
Snipes,  another  brother,  died  in  the  war;  he  had  married  a 
Miss  Avant,  and  had  one  dhild,  a  son.  Major  Snipes.  Thomas 
Snipes,  another  brother,  emigrated  to  Texas,  and  from  there 
went  into  the  war,  and  was  killed  in  battle  or  died  of  disease  or 
wounds;  his  sons  are  now  said  to  be  prominent  bankers  in 
Seattle,  Washington  (State).  Allen  Snipes,  another  brother 
of  Wilson  and  Daniel,  died  in  Charleston,  in  the  war;  he  was 
broug'ht  to  Florence,  and  buried  there,  by  his  brother  Daniel. 
Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  of  the  nine  Snipes  brothers  who  went 
into  the  war,  only  two  of  them  survived  the  struggle  and  lived 
to  get  home,  Wilson  and  Daniel.  Daniel  Snipes  is  now  the 
only  survivor,  an  excellent  man  and  good  citizen,  and  deserves 
more  than  a  passing  notice.  They  were  poor  men,  had  not 
much  to  fight  for,  yet  nine  brothers  of  them  went  into  the  war, 
and  seven'  of  them  never  returned.  But  few  such  instances 
occurred.     There  is  another  reason  why  this  notice  of  them 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  533 

should  t>e  extended — ^that  is,  on  account  of  their  grand-father. 
Captain  Joe  Snipes,  of  the  Revolution,  and  I  will  give  it  in  the 
language  of  the  author  of  the  Life  of  General  Marion  (Briga- 
dier General  Horry  and  Rev.  Mason  L.  Weems,  pp.  197-202). 
I  insert  it  in  full,  that  it  may  be  transmitted  to  the  people  of  his 
own  county — that  the  lyife  of  Marion  is  out  of  print,  and,  if 
not,  is  not  generally  read  as  this  book  will  be :  "Captain  Snipes, 
who  made  such  a  figure  in  the  wars  of  Marion,  was  a  Caroli- 
nian of  uncommon  strength  and  courage,  both  of  which  he  ex- 
erted with  great  good  will  against  the  British  and  Tories — 
from  principle  partly,  and  partly  from  revenge.  But  though  a 
choice  soldier  he  was  no  philosopher.  He  did  not  consider 
that  to  fight  for  duty,  people  must  love  it ;  that  to  love  it,  they 
must  understand  it;  that  to  understand  it,  they  must  possess 
letters  and  religion ;  that  the  British  and  Tories,  poor  fellows ! 
possessing  neither  of  these,  were  not  to  have  been  expected  to 
act  any  other  than  the  savage  and  thievish  part  they  did  act ; 
and,  therefore,  no  more  to  be  hated  for  it  than  the  cats  are  for 
teasing  the  canary  birds.  But  Captain  Snipes  had  no  time  for 
investigations  of  this  sort.  Knowledge  by  intuition  was  all 
that  he  cared  for;  and  ihaving  it,  by  instinct,  that  an  English- 
man ought  never  to  fight  against  liberty,  nor  an  American 
against  his  own  country,  he  looked  on  them,  to  use  his  own 

phrase,  as  a  'pack  of  d n — d  rascals,  whom  it  was  doing 

God's  service  to  kill  wherever  he  could  find  them.  But  Snipes 
was  not  the  aggressor.  He  kept  in  very  decently,  till  the 
enemy  began  to  let  out,  as  they  did  in  plundering,  burning  and 
hanging  the  poor  Whigs,  and  then,  indeed,  like  a  consuming 
fire,  his  smothered  hate  broke  forth. 

"  'That  hate  which  hurled  to  Pluto's  gloomy  reign 
The  souls  of  royal  slaves  untimely  slain.' 

"Afraid,  in  fair  fight,  to  meet  that  sword  which  had  so  often 
shivered  their  friends,  they ,  determined  to  take  him,  as  the 
Philistines  did  Samson,  by  surprise ;  and  having  learned  from 
their  spies  that  he  was  at  home,  they  came  upon  him  in  force 
about  midnight.  His  complete  destruction,  both  of  life  and 
property,  was  their  horrid  aim.  Happily,  his  driver  or  black 
overseer  overheard  their  approach,  and  flying  to  his  master 


534  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

with  terror-struck  looks,  cried  out,  'Run !  run !  massa,  run !  de 
enemy  'poii'  you.'  Snipes,  stark  naked  save  his  shirt,  darted 
out  as  swift  as  his  legs  could  carry  him.  'But  where  shall  I 
run.  Cud  jo — ^into  the  barn?'  'Oh,  no,  massa!  dey  burn  de 
bam,  dat  sure  ting.'  'Well,  where  shall  I  run,  then?'  'Take 
de  bush,  massa!  take  de  brier-bush.'  Within  fifty  yards  of 
the  house  was  a  clump  of  briers,  so  thick  set  that  one  would 
have  thoug'ht  a  frightened  cat  would  scarcely  have  squeezed 
herself  into  it  from  hot  pursuing  dogs.  But  what  will  not  fear 
enable  a  man  to  do?  Captain  Snipes,  big  as  he  was,  slipped 
into  it  with  the  facility  of  a  weasel  through  the  chinks  of  a 
chicken  coop;  but  lost  every  thread  and  thrumb  of  his  shirt; 
and  moreover  got  his  hide  so  scratched  and  torn  by  the  briers, 
that  the  blood  trickled  from  him  fast  as  gravy  from  a  fat  green 
goose.  Scarcely  had  he  gained  his  hiding-place  before  the 
Tories,  with  horrid  oaths,  burst  into  his  house,  with  their  guns 
cocked,  ready  to  shoot  him.  But  o^h,  death  to  their  hopes !  he 
was  gone;  the  nfest  was  there,  and  warm,  but  the  bird  had 
flown!  Then  seizing  poor  Cud  jo  by  the  throat,  they  bawled 
out,  'You  d^ — d  rascal,  Where's  your  master  ?'  He  told  them  he 
did  not  know.  'You  lie!  you  black  son  of  a  b — h!  you  lie.' 
But  he  still  asserted  that  he  knew  nothing  of  his  master.  Sus- 
pecting that  he  must  be  in  some  or  other  of  his  houses,  they  set 
fire  to  them  all — to  his  dwelling  house,  his  kitchen,  his  stables, 
and  even  his  negro  cabins — watching  all  the  while  with  their 
muskets  ready  to  shoot  him  as  he  ran  out.  From  their  near- 
ness to  his  lurking  place,  the  heat  of  his  burning  houses  was  so 
intense  as  to  parch  his  skin  into  blisters ;  but  it  was  dteath  to 
stir,  for  he  would  certainly  have  been  seen.  Not  having  made 
the  discovery  they  so  much  wished,  they  again  seized  Cudjo, 
and  with  their  cocked  pieces  at  his  breast,  swore  if  he  did  not 
instantly  tell  them  w'here  his  master  was,  they  would  put  him 
to  death.  He  still  declared  he  did  not  know  where  he  was. 
Then  they  clapped  a  halter  round  his  neck  and  told  him  to 
'Down  on  his  knees  and  say  his  prayers  at  once,  for  he  had  but 
two  minutes  to  live !'  He  replied,  that  he  'Did  not  want  to  say 
his  prayers  now,  for  he  was  no  thief,  and  had  always  been  a 
true  slave  to  his  master.'  This  fine  sentiment  of  the  poor  black 
was  entirely  lost  on  our  malignant  w'hites ;  who,  throwing  the 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  535 

end  of  the  halter  over  the  Hmb  of  an  oak,  tucked  him  up  as 
though  he  had  been  a  mad  dog.  He  hung  till  he  was  nearly 
dead,  when  one  of  them  called  out,  'D — n  him,  cut  him  down, 
I'll  be  bound  he'll  tell  us  now.'  Cudjo  was  accordingly  cut 
down ;  and  as  soon  as  a  little  recovered,  questioned  again  about 
his  master ;  but  he  still  declared  he  knew  nothing  of  him.  He 
was  then  hoisted  a  second  time,  and  a  second  time,  when  nearly 
dead,  cut  down  apd  questioned  as  before,  but  still  asserted  his 
ignorance.  The  same  inhuman  part  was  acted  on  him  a  third 
time,  but  with  no  better  success,  for  the  brave  fellow  still  con- 
tinued faithful  to  his  master,  who  squatted  and  trembled  in  his 
place  of  torment,  his  briar  bush,  and  saw  and  beard  all  that  was 
passing. 

"Persuaded  now  that  Cudjo  really  knew  nothing  of  his  mas- 
ter, they  gave  up  the  shameful  contest  and  went  off,  leaving 
him  half  dead  on  the  ground  but  covered  with  glory.  It  is  not 
easy  to  conceive  a  situation  more  severely  torturing  than  this 
of  Captain  Snipes.  His  house,  with  all  his  furniture,  his 
kitchen,  his  barn  and  rice  stacks,  his  stables,  with  severa;l  fine 
horses,  and  his  negro  houses,  all  wrapped  in  flames;  himself 
scorched  and  blistered  with  furious  heat,  yet  not  daring  to  stir, 
his  retreat  well  known  to  a  poor  slave ;  and  that  slave  alone,  in 
the  hands  of  an  enraged  banditti  with  their  muskets  at  his 
breast,  imprecating  the  most  horrid  curses  on  themselves,  if 
they  did  not  instantly  murder  him,  unless  be  disclosed  the 
secret !  What  had  he  to  expect  of  this  poor  slave,  but  that  he 
would  sink  under  the  dreadful  trial  and  to  save  himself,  would 
sacrifice  his  master.  But  Snipes  was  safe.  To  discover  his 
hiding  place,  death  stared  his  slave  in  the  face,  but  happily  his 
slave  possessed  for  him  that  'love  which  is  stronger  than  death.' 
Captain  Snipes  and)  his  man  Cudjo  had  been  brought  up  from 
childhood  together;  and  the  father  of  our  hero  being  a  pro- 
fessor of  Christianity,  a  Baptist  preacher,  whose  main  excel- 
lence is  'to  teach  little  children  to  love  one  another,'  had  taken 
pains  to  inspire  his  son  with  love  towards  his  little  slave.  Nor 
did  that  love  pass  unrequited.  For  Cudjo  used  every  day  to 
follow  his  young  master  to  school,  carrying  his  basket  for  him, 
prattling  as  he  went;  and  smiling  would  remind  him  of  the 
coming  Saturday,  and  what  fine    fishing  and,  hunting  they 

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586  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

would  have  that  day.  Many  a  time  had  they  wrestled  and 
slept  side  by  side  on  the  green,  and  thence  springing  up  again 
with  renovated  strength,  set  out  in  full  march  for  some  favorite 
fruit  tree,  or  some  cooling  pond,  there  to  swin  and  gambol  in 
the  refresihing  flood.  And  when  the  time  of  dinner  came, 
Cudjo  was  not  scornfully  left  to  sigh  and  to  gnaw  his  nails 
alone,  but  would  play  and  sing  about  the  door  till  his  young 
master  was  done,  and  then  he  was  sure  to  receive  a  good  plate- 
full  for  himself.  Love  thus  early  engrafted  on  his  heart  grew 
up  with  daily  increasing  strength  to  manhood,  when  Snipes  by 
the  death  of  his  father  became  master  of  the  estate,  made 
Cudjo  his  driver  or  overseer,  and  thus  riveted  on  his  honest 
bosom  that  sacred  friendship  which,  as  we  have  seen,  enabled 
him  to  triumph  in  one  of  the  severest  trials  that  hum'an  nature 
was  ever  put  to.  :  The  above  is  a  solemn  fact,  and  the  wise  will 
lay  it  to  heart." 

Witcox. — This  family  has  only  been  mentioned  in  part, 
among  the  Waynes  and  perhaps  Smiths.  John  Wilcox,  the 
progenitor  of  the  family,  was  one  of  the  many  valuable  impor- 
tations from  North  Carolina.  He  came  to  Marion  in  1837,  at 
the  age  of  twenty-four ;  he  married  a  Miss  Wayne,  as  already 
noticed,  and  to  which  reference  is  made ;  after  the  death  of  the 
Wayne  wife,  he  married  a  Miss  Clark,  of  Clarendon  County, 
who  still  survives,  and  to  the  marriage  five  sons  were  bom  and 
raised,  Clark  A.,  James  C,  Henry  M.,  Edward  T.  and  P.  A. 
Wilcox,  now  in  Florence.  Of  these,  Clark  A.  married  Miss 
Minnie  Moore,  of  Bennetts ville,  daughter  of  Jc^hn  S.  Moore; 
they  have  several  children,  number  and  sex  not  known;  he 
merchandized  in  liis  native  town  for  several  years,  and  though 
well  trained  in  mercantile  life  he  did  not  succeed  in  business — 
failed  a  few  years  ago,  and  is  now  one  6f  the  Knights  of  the 
"Grip;"  his  family  still  resides  in  Marion.  James  C,  the  sec- 
ond son  by  the  Clark  marriage,  grew  up,  was  very  promising ; 
graduated  in  medicine,  settled  for  practice  in  Darlington,  and 
at  once  entered  into  a  large  practice ;  married  some  lady  in  Dar- 
lington, to  the  writer  unknown;  was  Mayor  of  the  town  for 
one  or  two  terms,  very  efficient ;  and  at  his  early  demise  had  not 
only  acquired  a  good  reputation  but  had  made  some  money ;  he 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  537 

died  early  in  his  career  and  left  his  widow  with  some  children, 
number,  names  and  sex  not  known.  Henry  Wilcox,  the  third 
son  by  the  Clark  marriage,  is  a  graduate  of  Woflford  College  in 
the  class  of  1880 ;  after  graduation  he  went  to  Darlington  and 
engaged  in  business  there — I  think,  a  drug  store ;  he  married  in 
Darlington,  to  whom  not  known ;  don't  know  how  his  business 
in  Darlington  terminated,  but  some  eight  or  ten  years  ago,  he 
returned  to  Marion,  and  opened  up  a  hardvra.re  business,  a 
rather  large  establishment  for  the  place;  since  which  time  he 
has  been  thus  engaged  with  seemingly  fair  prospects  of  suc- 
cess ;  he  has  a  family  of  children,  how  many  or  of  what  sex  is 
unknown.  Edward  T.  Wilcox,  the  present  Mayor  of  the  town 
(and,  I  think,  he  has  been  Mayor  once  or  twice  before)  and  a 
very  efficient  one,  married  a  Miss  Buck,  daughter  of  the  late 
Hon.  W.  L,.  Buck,  of  Horry ;  she  died  a  year  or  two  ago,  and 
left  him  two  or  three  children — a  most  estimable  lady  she  was ; 
he  has  not  remarried;  he  ran  a  furniture  business  for  several 
years  in  the  town  with  seeming  success,  but  sold  that  out,  and 
went  into  the  flour  mill  business ;  his  establishment  is  near  the 
depot,  and  promises  success — Ed.  is  not  wanting  in  enterprise 
and  energy ;  as  Mayor  of  the  town  he  is  doing  much  for  its  im- 
provement, as  any  one  can  see,  who  has  known  the  town  for 
some  years  past.  P.  A.  Wilcox,  the  fifth  and  youngest  son  of 
Judge  Wilcox,  is  yet  a  single  man ;  he  graduated  in  the  South 
Ckrolina  College,  studied  law  with  C.  A.  Woods,  Esq.,  of 
Marion ;  after  admission  to  the  bar,  he  went  to  Florence  as  a 
partner  of  his  preceptor  to  practice ;  in  a  few  years  the  partner- 
ship was  dissolved  and  he  practiced  for  a  while  by  himself. 
Old  Judge  Wilcox  (he  was  Probate  Judge  for  many  years) 
was  a  unique  character  in  many  respects — there  was  but  one 
Judge  Wilcox.  The  writer  could  relate  or  dilate  upon  many 
of  his  traits  of  character,  but  want  of  space  will  not  permit. 

Young. — ^This  name,  now  extinct  in  Marion  County,  was 
once  prominent.  Johnson  B.  Young,  I  think,  another  of  the 
many  good  importations  from  North  Carolina,  was  the  head  of 
the  name  in  Marion ;  he  came  here  in  his  youth,  perhaps  from 
1838  to  1840.  He  and  John  Wilcox  were  for  many  years,  and 
up  to  the  war,  partners  in  a  large  mercantile  business.    Johnson 


538  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

B.  Young  married  a  Miss  Whilden,  of  Charleston;  they  had 
and  raised  three  sons  and  four  daughters ;  the  sons  were  Frank, 
J.  Blake  and  "Hal"  (don't  know  the  name)  ;  the  daughters 
were  Emma,  Willie,  Celeste  and  Julia.  Of  the  sons,  Frank  mar- 
ried Miss  Murchison,  of  Wilmington,  N.  C. ;  he  merchandised 
in  Marion  several  years,  with  R.  J.  Blackwell  as  a  partner ;  he 
sold  out  his  interest  to  G.  A.  Norwood,  and  the  business  con- 
tinued three  or  four  years  under  the  name  of  R.  J.  Blackwell  & 
Co.,  when  Norwood  in  turn  was  bought  out, and  since  that  time 
it  has  continued  by  Blackwell  alone.  Frank  Young  removed  to 
Birmingham,  Ala.,  and  there  engaged  in  some  business,  don't 
know  what ;  he  died  four  or  five  years  ago  in  that  city,  child- 
less; his  remains  were  brought  to  Marion  for  interment.  J. 
Blake  Young  merchandised  two  or  three  years  with  T.  Leon 
Bass  as  a  partner,  at  Latta;  the  business  was  not  successful, 
and  he,  Young,  emigrated  to  Texas ;  was  unmarried  when  he 
left — know  nothing  further  of  him.  "Hal,"  the  other  son,  I 
think,  married  a  Miss  Stevenson,  daughter  of  J.  E.  Stevenson^ ; 
he  has  moved  to  Florence,  has  a  family,  and  is  said  to  be  doing 
well.  Of  the  daughters  of  Major  J.  B.  Young,  the  eldest, 
Emma,  married  Captain  G.  A.  Mclntyre,  and  has  already  been 
noticed  among  the  Mclntyres.  The  next  oldest  daugthter, 
Willie,  has  never  married.  The  third  'daughter.  Celeste,  married 
R.  J.  Blackwell,  a  leading  and  successful  merchant  at  Marion ; 
they  have  a  family  of  children  of  both  sexes,  the  number  and 
names  unknown — ^the  elder  ones  near  grown.  Major  Young 
died  some  years  ago,  a  worthy  man  and  good  citizen,  and  much 
respected.  I  inadvertently  overlooked  the  youngest  daughter 
of  Major  Young,  Misis  Julia ;  she  married  D.  E.  Godbold,  now 
of  Mullins,  and  a  leading  merchant  there;  they  have  three  or 
four  children,  all  small,  already  noticed  among  the  Godbolds. 

Johnson. — This  is  a  very  populous  name  everyw'here. 
There  are  two  or  three  families  of  that  name  in  Marion  County, 
but  I  do  not  know  enough  of  them  to  trace  them  or  their  con- 
nections back  to  the  original.  The  late  Dr.  William  R.  John- 
son, a  leading  and  prominent  man  in  his  day,  was  bom  in  this 
county,  I  think;  his  father  was  named  Joseph,  and  lived  in 
Wahee  in  1843  >  suppose  there  were  other  children — one  A.  G. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  589 

Johnson,  and  another.  Dr.  Johnson's  mother  was  a  Miss 
Davis,  I  think,  a  sister  of  B.  F.  Davis'  father,  whose  name,  I 
think,  was  Benjamin ;  Dr.  Johnson  settled  and  practiced  medi- 
cine at  Marion,  was  a  very  successful  and  popular  physician, 
and  a  perfect  gentleman  in  his  deportment ;  he  married  a  Miss 
Gregg,  a  sister  of  J.  Eli  Gregg,  and  raised  three  sons,  Ed  W., 
Hezekiah  and  Keene,  and  several  daughters,  names  unknown. 
Edward  W.  Johnson  was  a  graduate  of  the  South  Carolina 
College,  studied  law,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  never  practiced 
but  little,  went  to  farming;  was  elected!  Sheriff  in  1880,  and 
again  in  1884,  served  both  terms,  and  retired  from  office.  Flor- 
ence County  was  established  in  1888,  and  in  1889  he  was  elected 
Sheriff  of  that  county,  and  served  the  balance  of  that  term, 
three  years,  as  Sheriff  of  that  county,  when  he  retired  from 
office,  and  in  a  few  years  died,  unmarried ;  he  was  an  excellent 
man,  a  good  citizen  and  made  a  good  Sheriff  in  both  counties. 
Hezekiah  Johnson  is  also  a  graduate  of  the  South  Carolina 
College;  married  a  Miss  McCall,  in  Marlborough,  settled  on  a 
farm  near  his  father,  at  Mars  Bluff ;  has  raised  a  family,  num- 
ber, name  and  sex  unknown;  like  his  father,  is  an  excellent 
man  and  good  citizen.  Keene  Johnson  has  never  married; 
lives  on  his  farm  near  the  old  homestead.  Keene  seems  to  be 
a  family  name  among  the  Davises.  A  hundred  years  ago  or 
more,  there  was  a  family  by  the  name  of  Keene ;  and  one  of  the 
old  Davises  married  a  Miss  Keene  (as  a  family  the  name  is 
now  extinct  in  the  county)  ;  hence  the  name  among  the  Davises 
and  their  descendants,  one  of  Whom  is  Keene  Johnson.  A.  G. 
Johnson,  youngest  brother  of  Dr.  W.  R.  Johnson,  went  to 
Marlborougih,  and  married,  I  think,  first,  a  Miss  Thomas ;  had 
one  child,  a  daughter;  his  wife  died,  and  he  married  again, 
don't  know  who,  and  married,  a  third  time,  a  Miss  Henagan, 
daughter  of  Governor  B.  K.  Henagan;  know  nothing  of  his 
children.  The  daugtiter  of  the  first  wife  married  Hon.  H.  H. 
Norton,  of  Bennettsville ;  she  soon  died..  Dr.  Johnson  had  an- 
other brother,  whose  name  is  not  known,  but  was  the  father  of 
the  late  William  ("Bill")  Johnson,  of  Wahee,  and  three  other 
sons,  Joseph,  Thomas  and  David;  of  these  sons,  they  all  had 
families,  of  whom  nothing  is  known^ — think  they  are  all  dead, 
except,  perhaps,  David,  in  Britton's  Neck.     Dr.  W.  R.  John- 


540  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

son  was  no  ordinary  man — a  born  leader,  and,  with  all,  was 
very  popular,  shrewd'  and  sagacious ;  he  represented  the  county 
in  the  House  and  Senate ;  was  also  a  member  of  the  Secession 
Convention  in  December,  i860;  he  commanded  respect  in 
whatever  position  'he  was  placed — a  high-toned  gentleman  and 
of  the  strictest  integrity. 

In  former  times  there  was  another  family  of  Johnsons  in  the 
Temperance  Hill  and  Buck  Swamp  region,  of  prominence  and 
standing,  but  by  death  and  emigration  they  have  dwindled  to 
only  a  few.  Old  Enos  Tart's  wife,  "Susannah,"  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  one  of  these  old  Johnsons.  The  mother  of  old  John  and 
Absalom  Turbeville  was  another  daughter,  and,  doubtless, 
there  were  others  of  that  generation,  but  the  writer  has  not 
been  able  to  get  them  in  any  traceable  shape.  The  late  Samuel, 
Carey  and  David  Johnson  were  descendants,  also  Hardy  and 
Zeno,  and,  perhaps  others,  all  from  the  same  stock.  These  de- 
scendants, as  known  to  the  writer,  are  and  were  good,  honest 
men,  respectable  citizens  all  of  them.  Samuel  Johnson,  whose 
wife  was  a  Turbeville  and  still  survives,  was  a  most  excellent 
citizen,  died  childless.  Carey  and  David  had  families,  more  or 
less  large ;  also  Hardy  and  Zeno.  David  Johnson  left,  I  think, 
two  children,  who  are  now  among  us.  One  of  his  daughters, 
Anne,  married  Milton  F.  Price,  a  nephew  of  the  writer ;  they 
have  a  family  of  five  or  six  children,  only  one  son  among  them, 
Connerly,  by  name,  a  grown  young  man,  steady  and  level- 
headed, a  promising  boy. 

Seventy  years  ago  there  was  another  Johnson,  suppose  not 
connected  with  any  of  the  above  named  Johnsons,  whose  name 
was  Lewis  Johnson.  He  lived  then  and  owned  the  place  after- 
wards owned  and  occupied  by  old  Dew  Rogers,  on  the  north 
side  of  Bear  Swamp,  below  Caddy's  Mill,  on  the  road  leading 
to  Fair  Bluff,  N.  C. ;  he  was  well-to-do,  and  then  an  old  man  ; 
he  had  an  only  son,  Allen,  who  married  a  Miss  Elvington,  sis- 
ter of  old  Jessee  Elvington ;  he  settled  and  lived  on  the  road  to 
Fair  Bluff,  lower  down  the  swamp,  opposite  or  rather  below 
Page's  Mill  (then  called  Ford's  Mill),  and  on  Cowpen  Swamp 
— place  now  owned  by  Isaac  Spivey  or  estate  of  the  late  Joseph 
N.  Page.  The  son,  Allen  Johnson,  had  also  an  only  child,  a 
son,  named  Alexander,  with  whom  the  writer  went  to  school, 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  541 

in  1832 — Alexander  was  then  grown ;  the  next  year,  I  think,  in 
1833,  Alexander  niarried  a  Miss  Thompson,  daughter  of 
"Moccasin-jawed"  William  Thompson,  three  or  four  miles  be- 
low Lumberton,  N.  C.  There  was  something  peculiarly  ro- 
mantic in  the  incidents  to  that  marriage,  which  from  their 
character  are  worth  relating  at  this  late  day.  Old  man  Thomp- 
son was  a  well-tcHdo  man,  of  more  than  ordinary  intelligence, 
but  very  unique ;  had  an  angular  character — some  of  the  angles 
were  very  acute,  others  were  obtuse,  more  generally  acute. 
Young  Johnson  had  been  paying  attentions  to  his  daugihter, 
Mary,  for  some  time,  and  the  old  gentleman,  suspecting  that 
matters  between  the  young  couple  were  about  to  come  to  a 
focus,  kept  out  of  Johnson's  way,  to  prevent  Johnson  asking 
for  her — or,  rather,  the  old  man's  consent  to  their  marriage. 
It  was  said  old  man  Thompson,  having  several  daugliters, 
never  consented  to  any  of  their  marriages.  Johnson  went  two 
or  three  times,  intending  to  ask  for  her,  but  never  could  meet 
up  with  the  old  man,  who  managed  to  elude  him.  He  asked 
the  mother,  who  readily  consented — it  was  a  very  good  match 
for  her  daughter,  and  the  old  lady  had  sense  enough  to  see  it. 
At  last  Johnson  met  up  with  the  old  man  one  morning  early — ^as 
he  was  making  off  to  avoid  Johnson,  but  the  young  man  antici- 
pated him,  and  met  him  as  he  was  going  off.  Very  unexpect- 
edly to  the  old  man,  Johnson  "popped"  the  question  to  him. 
The  old  gentleman  replied,  "I  cannot  consent  to  it,  but  you  and 
Mary  can  do  as  you  please."  This  satisfied  Johnson — think- 
ing, although  he  did  not  consent  to  it,  yet  that  he  would  not 
oppose  the  marriage.  The  old  man  pretended  to  be  in  a  hurry 
and  left  him.  A  time  was  appointed  for  the  marriage.  John- 
son lived  in  Marion,  some  eig'hteen  or  twenty  miles  from 
Thompson.  On  the  morning  appointed  for  the  marriage,  at 
breakfast,  old  man  Thompson  said  Mary  should  not  marry 
Johnson — that  he  intended  to  take  Mary  and  carry  her  off,  if 
he  had  to  tie  her  to  carry  her.  The  old  lady  and  Mary,  know- 
ing the  old  man  so  well,  suspected  some  sort  of  trouble  with 
him  about  it,  and  they  had  everything  ready  to  spirit  Mary 
away,  with  her  trousseau,  clothing,  &c.  Mary  got  up  and  left 
the  table."  The  old  man  said  he  would  go  and  get  a  line  to  tie 
her  with,  and  went  out — ostensibly  to  get  it.     The  old  lady 


542  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

followed  Mary,  and  got  a  negro  to  take  her  to  the  Widow  Pit- 
man's, who  lived  on  the  road  that  Johnson  would  travel  in 
coming.  Mrs.  Pitman,  I  think,  was  a  sister  of  Mrs.  Thompson 
(I  suppose  Mrs.  Pitman  had  been  posted  before).  The  negro 
carried  Mary  to  Mrs.  Pitman's,  and  Mrs.  P.  sent  her  into  a  bay 
not  far  off  on  the  road,  and  put  one  of  her  own  negroes  on  the 
road  near  the  bay  to  cutting  wood — ^this  negro  was  let  into  the 
secret,  and  instructed  to  tell  Johnson,  as  he  passed,  where  Mary 
was.  Johnson  did  come  that  afternoon,  with  some  few  friends, 
and  among  them  Major  Benjamin  Ivee,  who  was  a  Magistrate, 
brought  along  to  perform,  as  he  supposed,  the  ceremony  at  old 
man  Thompson's  house.  When  Johnson  and  his  party  ap- 
proached the  negro  cutting  wood,  the  latter  stopped  him  and 
told  him  where  Mary  was,  and  conducted  him  to  her ;  she  came 
out  of  the  bay,  and  Johnson  took  her  in  his  gig  (no  buggies  in 
that  day),  and  they  drove  up  to  her  Aunt  Pitman's,  and  Squire 
hee  married  them,  and  the  party  then  rode  back  to  Lee's  (the 
White  House) ,  some  twelve  or  fifteen  miles,  and  there  stayed 
all  night.  Next  day  Johnson  carried  his  wife  home,  and  they 
had  a  big  infare,  as  it  was  called — ^to  which  the  writer  was  in- 
vited and  which  he  attended,  and  has  personal  knowledge  of 
much  of  what  has  been  written  of  this  marriage.  They  lived 
there  together.  Johnson's  father  and  mother  having  died,  he 
sold  out  and  went  West,  after  having  three  or  four  children ; 
heard  nothing  from  them  since.  Alexander  Johnson  was  at 
least  five  or  six  years  older  than  the  writer.  I  am  very  sure 
there  are  none  now  living  (1901)  that  ever  saw  old  L/ewis 
Johnson,  and  may  be  none  that  remember  his  son,  Allen.  The 
episode  above  written  only  impresses  a  lesson,  long  since 
learned  by  observant  minds — that  is,  that  when  two  young  peo- 
ple, of  opposite  sexes,  get  it  well  into  their  heads  to  get  mar- 
ried, the  opposition  of  parents  don't  amount  to  much.  It  is 
about  as  easy  to  stop  Pee  Dee  River  from  running  as  to  pre- 
vent them,  and  especially  when  they  have  the  mother  on  their 
side.  Nothing  will  here  be  said  of  the  lawyer  Johnsons  in 
Marion;  they  are  well  known  in  the  county  and  their  names 
will  herein  be  transmitted  to  succeeding  generations  among  the 
list  of  lawyers  practicing  in  the  Courts  of  Marion  since  1800, 
when  the  first  Court  was  held  in  the  county. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  543 

There  are  other  old  families  and  names  in  the  county,  which 
have  not  been  specifically  mentioned  herein,  for  the  want  of 
knowledge  or  information  concerning  them — they  are  not 
omitted  designedly.  For  instance,  the  Baxleys,  the  Drews,  the 
Britton's  Neck  Watsons,  the  Williams,  the  Hdldens,  the  Wall- 
ers and  others.  Of  these,  so  far  as  known,  they  are  all  good 
people,  honest,  law-abiding  and  harmless — ^never  heard  of  any 
one  of  them'  being  in  the  criminal  courts  of  the  county.  There 
are  others  in  the  county  not  mentioned  herein,  to  wit :  the  Cald- 
ers,  the  Turners,  the  Cooks,  the  Barrentines  and  the  Sweats. 
They  are  an  humble,  obscure  and  honest  people;  made  good 
soldiers  in  the  war ;  associate  only  with  themselves,  content  to 
be  humble  and  obscure,  but  are  doing  their  part  in  the-general 
make-up  of  the  county,  and  contribute  their  share  to  its  gene- 
ral prosperity ;  and  to  these  may  be  added  the  Christmas  fami- 
lies. Many  not  specifically  named  herein  are  incidentally 
brought  forward,  in  connection  with  those  named.  It  is  gene- 
rally the  case  that  females  lose  their  name  and  identity  uj)on 
their  marriage,  taking  the  name  of  the  husbands,  yet  they 
transmit  the  blood,  if  not  the  name,  and  in  many  cases  purer 
and  more  surely  than  do  the  males.  In  these  pages  I  have 
traced  the  genealogy  of  families  through  the  female  line  as 
well  as  the  male,  whenever  I  could ;  and  in  so  doing,  many  not 
specially  named  are  included  in  those  connections. 

In  reference  to  the  conduct  of  our_  soldiers  in  the  Confeder- 
ate War,  the  writer  has  said  but  little,  for  the  reason  that  it 
would  take  up  too  much  space — it  would  take  more  books  than 
one  to  tell  of  all  the  gallant  deeds  and  exploits  of  each  soldier ; 
moreover,  where  all  were  good  soldiers  and  all  did  their  duty 
so  well,  it  would  be  invidious  to  tell  those  of  one  and  not  of  all. 
As  a  whole,  our  soldiers  did  their  duty,  and  where  any  did 
not,  it  is  an  exception,  and  does  not  affect  the  general  rule. 
Besides,  it  will  be  seen  by  examining  the  copy  of  the  Marion 
County  rolls,  herein  published,  who  did  their  duty  and  who 
failed — ^that  is,  in  a  great  measure.  Hence,  in  speaking  of  any 
particular  soldier,  it  is  only  in  a  general  way,  so  as  not  to  dis- 
parage others  equally  good  and  brave. 

Sellers. — This  family,  to  which  the  writer  belongs,  came 


544  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

from  about  Tarboro,  N.  C,  about  1750.  They  were  of  Sootdh, 
Irish  and  English  descent.  My  great-grand-father,  William 
Sellers,  headed  the  family ;  he  settled  in  Columbus  or  Bruns- 
wick County,  N.  C,  on  what  was  called  the  "Seven  Creeks ;" 
he  had  and  raised  six  or  seven  sons — Elisha,  Joel,  Matthew, 
Henry,  Benjamin  and  Sion — of  these,  my  grand-father,  Benja- 
min, was  born  about  1740;  grew  up  and  married  a  Miss  Bry- 
ant, by  whom  he  had  five  children — of  these  my  father,  Jordan, 
was  the  eldest,  and  the  only  one  raised  to  be  grown.  My  father 
was  born  i6th  February,  1763,  and  died  9th  September,  1838, 
at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years,  in  this  (Marion)  County. 
My  grand-father,  Benjamin,  married,  a  second  time,  don't  re- 
member to  whom ;  by  this  marriage  he  raised  four  children — 
three  sons,  Wright,  Luke  and  Levin,  and  one  daughter,  Rhoda ; 
my  father  was  balf-brother  to  these.  Rhoda  married  Jonathan 
Rothwell,  on  Cape  Fear  River,  Bladen'  County,  N.  C.  Roth- 
well  was  a  very  successful  man,  and  accumulated  a  large  prop- 
erty. The  writer  has  seen  some  of  the  descendants  of  Roth- 
well since  the  war — ^they  were  good  people  and  well  educated. 
Wright  Sellers,  the  oldest  son  by  the  second  marriage,  married 
a  Miss  Duncan,  of  Horry  or  Columbus  County,  and  settled  and 
lived  on  the  Iron  Springs  Swamp,  near  what  is  now  called 
"Green  Sea,"  in  Horry.  My  grand-father,  Benjamin,  had  in 
the  meantime  moved  to  that  section,  owned  and  had  taken  up 
much  land  in  that  community,  and  died  there  in  April,  1817,  at 
the  age  of  seventy-seven  years.  My  uncle,  Wright  Sellers, 
had  and  raised  one  son,  Benjamin  D.,  and  six  or  seven  daugh- 
ters. The  Sellers  and  Nortons  built  the  first  church  at  Green 
Sea,  then  called  "Norton's  Church,"  between  the  years  1801 
and  1807.  My  grand-father  was  a  Methodist  preacher,  and 
was  ordained  by  Bishop  Asbury  in  1801  (see  Asbury's  Jour- 
nal, 3  vol.,  p.  9).  The  Nortons  and  Sellers  kept  that  church 
up  or  were  the  most  prominent  members  in  it  until  1826,  when 
they  sold  out  and  went  to  Alabama.  Luke  Sellers,  the  second 
son  of  my  grand-father  by  his  second  marriage,  married,  don't 
know  who,  and  had  one  son,  Jacob,  and  died.  Jacob  grew  up 
and  married,  and  also  went  West.  Levin  Sellers,  the  young- 
est son  of  my  grand-father,  grew  up  and  became  a  Methodist 
preacher,  joined  the  Conference  in  1806  or  1807,  and  was  sent 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  545 

first  to  Edisto  Circuit  (now  Orangeburg),  and  the  next  year 
to  Cypress  Circuit,  where  he  died  in  August  of  that  year.  My 
father,  Jordan  Sellers,  went  there  and  got  his  horse,  clothing, 
saddle-bags,  books,  &c.  The  Methodist  preachers  in  that  day 
traveled  on  horseback  and  carried  their  clothes,  books,  &c.,  in 
saddle-bags — not  so  with  the  preachers  in  1901.  My  father, 
the  only  dhild  raised  of  the  first  marriage  of  my  grand-father, 
at  the  age  of  eighteen  years  joined  the  Continental  Army  of  the 
Revolution,  under  the  command  of  General  Nathaniel  Greene, 
and  was  in  the  battle  at  Eutaw  Springs,  S.  C,  8th  September, 
1 78 1,  and  served  to  the  end  of  the  war.  The  results  of  that 
battle  turned  the  tide  of  success  of  the  British  arms  in  South 
Carolina,  and  with  the  fall  of  Yorktown,  Va.,  a  month  or  two 
afterwards,  under  Washington,  forced  the  evacuation  of 
Charleston  in  1782,  and  finally  forced  George  III.  to  acknow- 
ledge the  independence  of  the  United  States  of  America  early 
in  1783.  At  the  age  of  twenty-six,  in  1789,  my  father  married 
Miss  Elizabeth  Hunchy,  a  Dutch  lady ;  by  her  he  had  one  child, 
a  daughter,  Mary;  the  wife  was  an  invalid,  bedi-ridden  from 
the  birth  of  Mary,  for  twenty-four  or  twenty-five  years,  when 
she  died ;  Mary  grew  up,  and  married  James  W.  Edwards,  and 
in  1819  moved  to  Montgomery  County,  Ala.,  then  a  frontier 
region ;  Edwards  raised  seven  or  eight  children ;  amassed  large 
property,  and  he  and  wife  both  died,  and  are  buried  about  four 
miles  below  Montgomery,  Ala.  The  writer  was  in  the  grave- 
yard in  1854,  and  saw  their  tomb-stones,  and  while  there 
learned  that  the  children  were  all  dead,  except  two.  Dr. 
Charles  Edwards,  of  Prattville,  Ala.,  and  one  daughter, 
Amanda,  who  was  the  wife  of  a  Methodist  preacher,  a  presid- 
ing elder  (name  forgotten).  In  18 17,  my  father  married 
again,  my  mother,  Mary  Osborne — ^he  being  fifty-four  years 
of  age  and  she  twenty  years ;  I  was  the  oldest  child,  bom  27th 
March,  1818 ;  they  raised  to  be  grown  three  sons — ^the  writer, 
James  O.  and  Bryant  J.,  and  two  daughters,  Susan  and  Civil. 
I  am  the  only  survivor  of  the  five.  My  brother,  James  O.,  went 
to  Alabama,  married  there  a  Miss  Willis,  and  had  and  raised 
one  son,  James  Jordan,  and  four  daughters.  James  O.  was 
killed  in  a  skirmish  in  Hood's  Army,  28th  October,  1864.  Bry- 
ant J.  went  into  the  army  in  a  Marlborough  company  of  cav- 


546  A  HISTORY  O^  MARION  COUNTY. 

airy,  Peter  L.  Breeden,  Captain ;  he  died  of  typhoid  fever,  13th 
August,  1863,  at  McPhersonville,  S.  C. ;  I  brought  him  home 
and  buried  him  at  Dothan,  in  this  county;  he  left  two  sons, 
James  F.  and  Thomas  W.  James  F.  married  Miss  Chloe 
Rogers,  daughter  of  Johnson  Rogers,  in  the  Mullins  section ; 
he  died  in  1889 ;  left  four  sons  and  one  daughter,  now  in  that 
community.  Thomas  W.  Sellers  married  Dora  Campbell, 
daughter  of  Theophilus  Campbell,  of  the  Mullins  section ;  she 
died  four  or  five  years  ago,  and  left  two  children,  girls;  the 
father  has  not  remarried.  Of  the  daughters,  Susan  married 
James  J.  Rogers,  brother  of  Johnson  Rogers;  he  died  last 
October,  childless,  and  Susan  died  17th  May,  1901.  My 
sister.  Civil,  maried  Rufifin  Price,  of  North  Carolina;  he  left 
her  with  two  children,  boys,  Milton  F.  and  Joseph  M.,  both 
now  citizens  of  Mullins,  both  married  and  have  coming  fam- 
ilies. I  married  Miss  Martha  A.  Bethea,  daughter  of  Philip 
Bethea,  as  already  stated  herein  among  the  Betheas ;  we  raised 
six  children,  three  sons  and  three  daug'hters,  John  C,  W.  W., 
Jr.,  and  Philip  B. ;  of  the  daughters,  Anna  Jane,  Rachel  and 
Mary,  all  married,  as  will  be  found  among  the  Maces,  Betheas, 
Nortons,  McMillans,  DuBois  and  Godbolds.  Of  the  five 
brothers  of  my  grand-father,  Benjamin  Sellers,  they  scattered, 
and  they  and  their  posterity  may  be  found  in  North  Carolina, 
South  Carolina,  Tennessee,  Alabama,  Mississippi,  Texas  and 
perhaps  other  States.  My  mother's  father,  Joseph  Osborne, 
was  an  Englishman — came  here  as  a  British  soldier  in  the 
Revolution;  was  taken  a  prisoner  by  the  Americans,  and, 
though  exchanged,  refused  to  return  to  England;  married  in 
Sampson  County,  N.  C,  to  Miss  Civil  Foley  (Irish  people), 
and  by  her  had  four  children,  of  whom  my  mother  was  the 
eldest — bom  in  1797,  and  died  12th  February,  1868;  had  only 
one  son,  Charles  Osborne,  who  died  years  ago,  childless.  Hope 
I  will  be  pardoned  for  having  said  so  much  about  my  own  fam- 
ily, but  knowing  so  much  about  them,  I  could  not  well  say  less. 

The  Negro. 

The  negro  was  introduced  into  the  province  of  Carolina  al- 
most coeval  with  its  first  settlement  in  1670.  The  first  ship- 
ment was  made  by  Sir  John  Yeamans,  in  1671.     He  was  an 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  547 

Englishman,  who  went  to  Barbadoes  and  there  procured  a 
small  colony  to  go  with  him  to  Carolina.  Large  grants  of  land 
had  been  obtained  by  him  from  the  Proprietors  in  Carolina. 
And  from  Barbadoes,  he  not  only  carried  his  small  colony,  but 
also  a  number  of  negro  slaves.  These  were  the  first  negroes 
in  South  Carolina.  How  or  by  whom  they  were  carried  from 
Africa  to  Barbadoes,  does  not  appear  (Ramsay's  History  of 
South  Carolina,  pp.  2  to  18).  The  colony  of  the  year  before 
was  under  William  Sayle  as  Governor,  who  died  soon  after  his 
arrival,  and  was  succeeded  by  Joseph  West,  28th  August,  1671 ; 
and  he  was  succeeded  by  Sir  John  Yeamans,  26th  December, 
1671.  He  held  till  13th  August,  1674.  Negroes  had  been 
previously  imported  into  Virginia.  Thus  was  established  the 
nucleus  of  slavery  in  South  Carolina,  and  the  germ  for  our 
present  -negro  population  in  the  State.  Whether  wise  or  un- 
wise, yet  remains  to  be  determined.  "There  is  a  Providence 
that  shapes  our  ends,  roUgh-hew  them  as  we  may."  They  are 
here  and,  I  suppose,  her  tq  stay — not  as  slaves  to  the  cupidity  of 
man,  but  as  human  beings  entitled  to  the  benefits  to  be  derived 
from  the  laws  and  usages  of  humanity.  He  came  here  a  bar- 
barian, a  savage — ^could  not  speak  or  understand  our  language, 
knew  not  how  to  work — ^in  fact,  knew  nothing  except  what  his 
animal  instincts  and  propensities  taught  him ;  he  knew  nothing 
except  by  intuition — nothing  except  to  gratify  his  animal  pro- 
pensities, and  to  supply  his  natural  wants.  He  knew  nothing 
of  civilization  and  its  concomitant  and  consequent  pleasures 
and  enjoyments,  and  as  for  a  God,  that  rules  and  governs  all 
worlds  and  is  everywhere  and  at  all  times  present,  disposing 
of  the  destinies  of  all  men  and  all  worlds,  the  negro  had  never 
heard.  His  two  hundred  years  of  hardship  and  slavery  has 
been  greatly  for  his  benefit.  It  has  transformed  him  from  a 
barbarian  to  a  civilized  and  christianized  man.  He  has  not 
only  learned  to  speak  our  language,  but  to  read  and  write  it ;  he 
has  not  only  learned  to  make  and  use  all  the  arts  of  civilized 
life,  but  has  learned  to  appreciate  them.  The  thick  darkness 
that  beclouded  his  mind  as  to  a  true  and  living  God,  that  cre- 
ated and  upholds  and  continues  all  terrestrial  things  for  man's 
benefit,  has  been  dispelled.  His  mind  has  been  enlightened, 
and  he  feels  and  knows  that  he  is  accountable  to  that  Great 


548  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Being  for  all  his  actions — that  there  are  rewards  and  punish- 
ments in  the  future.  The  great  struggle  in  the  South  from 
1861  to  1865,  involving  his  continuous  state  of  servitude  or  his 
freedom,  tenninated  in  his  favor,  and  he  was  set  at  liberty,  and 
the  powers  that  then  were  conferred  upon  him  all  the  rights 
and  privileges  of  citizenship,  civil  and  political — whether  he 
was  fitted  for  the  political  privileges  conferred  upon  him  has 
been  and  still  is  a  disputed  question.  I,  for  one,  did  not,  nor  do 
I  yet,  think  he  is  fitted  for  the  due  and  proper  exercise  of  that 
high  privilege.  There  are  a  few,  compared  with  the  whole, 
that  might  be  trusted  with  the  ballot  in  this  free  country,  and, 
I  think  further,  that  it  ought  to  be  intrusted  to  them  gradually, 
as  they  may  develop  a  fitness  for  it,  and  thus  in  the  progress  of 
time  all  may  attain  to  that  high  privilege.  The  negro,  as  a 
race  of  people,  is  unlike  every  other  race.  He  lives  for  the 
present,  while  the  Mongolian  lives  in  the  past,  and  the  Caucas- 
sian  or  European  lives  in  the  future  or  for  the  future.  The 
negro  is  improvident,  as  a  general  rule;  he  looks  only  to  the 
present,  and  if  he  has  enough,  however  simple  it  may  be,  for 
the  present,  he  is  satisfied — his  wants  are  few  and  they  are 
easily  supplied ;  hence  he  is  the  best  laborer  that  the  South  can 
have — his  place  as  such  cannot  easily  be  filled.  He  is  con- 
tented with  his  status  and  condition,  wants  employment  only 
to  supply  present  and  pressing  needs — is  easily  satisfied;  not 
aspiring,  since  the  days  of  carpet-baggery  and  scalawagism — 
and  they  were  to  blame,  not  the  negro,  and  Were  not  as  trust- 
worthy as  the  negro ;  they  stole  it  by  thousands,  the  negroes 
only  by  littles.  They  are  mostly  gone — left  for  the  country's 
good,  and  to  save  their  mean  carcasses ;  the  negro  is  still  here 
and,  I  trust,  for  all  time  to  come.  He  does  not  seek,  nor  does 
he  expect,  social  recognition — they  gang  to  themselves,  and 
would  not  be  contented  otherwise;  they  have  a  contempt  for 
the  white  man  who  puts  himself  on  a  level  with  them.  /i.s  a 
race,  they  are  cowardly — at  least,  as  to  the  white  man.  They 
are  somewhat  brutal  among  themselves,  and  especially  to  their 
children.  The  negro  can  live  on  less  than  any  one  among  us — 
his  wants  are  few.  There  are  few  or  no  strikes  in  the  South — 
the  negro  don't  strike ;  the  agricultural  people  of  South  Caro- 
lina and  of  the  South  will  never  suffer  from  a  strike  as  long  as 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  549 

they  employ  negro  labor.  The  negro  has  a  monopoly  of  that 
class  of  labor,  and  the  agriculturalists  have  a  monopoly  of  its 
employment — the  one  monopoly  is  entirely  dependent  upon  the 
other,  and  so  long  as  that  relation  subsists  and  is  maintained, 
there  will  be  no  friction,  but  harmony  and  good  feeling  will  be 
maintained.  Destroy  that  relation,  and  bring  the  white  labor — 
a  laborer  that  is  hard  to  satisfy,  that  is  ever  looking  out  for  the 
future,  and  seeking  avenues  to  better  his  condition  and  for- 
tunes, constantly  demanding  social  recognition  for  himself  and 
family — there  would  soon  be  friction  and  trouble,  no  end  to  it ; 
and  we  of  the  South  would  soon  be  involved  in  a  strike,  such 
as  now  pervading  other  parts  of  the  country,  w'here  corporate 
wealth  and  corporate  greed  abound.  Agriculture  would  lan- 
guish, and  every  thing  dependent  upon  it  would  be  wrecked. 
The  means  of  supplying  the  natural  wants  of  man  and  beast 
would  be  cut  off,  and  bloodshed  and  revolution  might  follow  in 
the  wake,  and  finish  up  the  sad  catastrophe  of  our  now  happy 
country.  If  the  negro  is  wisely  utilized,  our  section  of  the 
country  will  be  spared  the  direful  calamity. 

The  conduct  of  the  negro  during  our  late  unpleasantness, 
from  1861  to  1865,  is  without  a  parallel.  There  were  then, 
say,  six  millions  of  slaves  (negroes)  in  the  Southern  Confed- 
eracy. The  section  was  drained  of  its  effective  men — every 
effective  man  from  the  Potomac  to  the  Rio  Grande  was  re- 
quired to  be  and  was  at  the  front.  The  old  and  ineffective  men 
and  boys  were  alone  left  at  home  with  the  women  and  children, 
as  their  only  protection,  surrounded  with  these  six  millions  of 
negroes.  Did  the  negroes  rise  in  mass,  and  massacre  these 
old  men,  boys,  women  and  children,  which  they  could  have 
done  at  any  time  in  1864  and  '65  ?  and  which  any  other  race  of 
people,  similarly  circumstanced,  upon  the  face  of  the  globe, 
seeing  their  opportunity,  would  have  availed  themselves  pf,  and 
instituted  a  general  butchery  throughout  the  length  and  breadth 
of  the  Confederacy.  Nothing  to  hinder  them.  Nq;  instead 
thereof,  the  negro  was  loyal,  truly  loyal,  to  his  master  and  his 
family,  and  also  to  his  section  of  the  country.  He  labored 
upon  the  farm,  raised  provision  crops  for  the  support  of  them- 
selves, their  masters'  families,  and  to  support  and  maintain  our 
vast  armies  in  the  war.     But  for  them,  our  armies  would  have 


550  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

had  to  disband  and  give  up  the  cause  for  which  they  had  gone 
to  war  and  for  which  they  were  fighting — ^there  was  no  other 
source  of  supply.  The  negro  knew  all  this ;  that  the  war  was 
being  waged  on  his  account,  and  upon  its  result  depended  his 
freedom,  or  his  continued  state  of  slavery;  yet,  knowing  all 
this,  he  chose,  under  the  providence  of  God,  to  be  loyal  to  his 
master  and  to  his  master's  cause.  It  is  without  a  parallel,  and 
I  may  say  miraculous.  Had  he  chosen  to  take  advantage  of 
the  situation  and  to  strike  for  freedom,  the  results,  horibile 
dictu,  would  have  been  indescribable,  and  horrifying  beyond 
toleration.  I  will  turn  from  its  contemplation  and  let  the 
reader  do  the  further  imagining.  We  owe  the  negro  a  debt  of 
gratitude  immeasurable,  and  which  can  never  be  paid.  He  is 
now  our  only  and  best  laborer — he  is  emphatically  "a  hewer  of 
wood  and  a  drawer  of  water,"  and  it  is  probable  he  ever  will  be. 
We  should  utilize  him,  but  treat  him  justly  and  fairly,  aid  him 
in  every  way  we  can  to  better  his  condition,  and  elevate  him  to 
a  platie  of  self-respect  in  his  status  and  position  in  society.  We 
are  due  him  this  much,  at  least,  as  some  sort  of  reward  for  his 
loyalty  to  us,  in  a  time  and  in  a  crisis  when  we  most  needed  it, 
and  where  it  was  the  very  sine  qua  non  of  our  existence.  There 
are  those  among  us  who  are  advocating  the  policy  of  applying 
the  taxes  paid  by  white  people  to  the  public  education  of  the 
white  children  of  the  State,  and  the  taxes  paid  by  the  negro  to 
the  public  education  of  the  negro — the  latter  a  mere  bagatelle 
What  base  ingratitude  does  such  a  proposition  evince!  It 
is  to  be  hoped  such  a  policy  will  never  be  adopted  in  the 
South,  and  especially  in  South  Carolina.  It  would  be  rank 
repudiation  of  the  debt  of  gratitude  we  owe  them — it  would  be 
publishing  ourselves  to  the  world'  as  a  set  of  ingrates.  The' 
white  people  now  control  the  policy  of  the  State,  and  I  hope 
ever  will — ^but  do  not  bring  upon  us  such  moral  degradation  as 
such  a  policy  would  betoken  and  entail.  We  claimed  to  be  a 
civilized  afrid  christianized  people — if  so,  we  cannot  favor  and 
adopt  such  a  policy. 

Towns  of  the  County. 

There  was  no  town  in  the  county  previous  to  1800.     The 
Act  of  1798,  establishing  a  Judicial  District  in  what  was  then 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  551 

called  L,iberty  County  or  Precinct,  by  the  name  of  Marion  Dis- 
trict, and  providing  for  the  location  of  a  court  house  and  jail 
therein  by  the  first  January,  1800,  was  the  first  step  towards  the 
building  of  a  town.  The  court  house  and  jail  (comparatively 
rude  structures)  were  built,  and  the  nucleus  of  a  town  planted. 
A  county  seat  is  always  followed  by  an  aggregation  of  people 
(necessarily  so)  at  said  county  seat,  more  or  less  numerous  and 
pretentious  according  to  circumstances,  environments  and 
prospects  of  trade,  &c.  Who  the  first  settlers  were  is  not 
known,  and  is  not  now  ascertainable.  The  writer  has  heard 
old  "Aunt  Nancy  God'bold"  say  that  S'he  and  family  moved  there 
in  1812,  and  built  a  good  large  house  (for  that  day),  about 
where  the  Marion  Bank  stands,  a  boarding  house  or  hotel, 
and  lived  in  it  and  kept  it  as  such ;  she  was  there  and  keeping 
it  as  such  in  1843.  The  writer  boarded  with  her  there  one 
week,  attending  Court  as  a  juryman — .the  first  and  last  time  he 
ever  was  juryman.  The  old  house  stood  there  until  after  the 
war.  The  leading  merchants  there  have  been  Thomas  Evans, 
W.  H.  Grice,  Ebby  Legette,  Durant  &  Wilcox,  Wilcox  & 
Young,  T.  W.  Godbold,  McDonald  &  Crawford,  M.  Iseman, 
I.  Iseman  (called  Ligbtfoot),  C.  Graham,  E.  H.  Gasque,  J.  N. 
Stevenson,  R.  H.  Reaves,  Moody  &  Smith,  Durham  &  Stanley, 
S.  A.  Durhata  &  Co.,  W.  C.  McMillan,  druggist.  These  bring 
us  down  to  the  present  day  merchants — all  of  whom  are  well 
known,  and  of  whom  there  are  now  many. 

Marion. — Marion  grew  very  slowly.  In  1838,  when  the 
writer  first  saw  it,  it  was  a  mere  hamlet.  The  native  oak  sap- 
lings were  then  growing  in  the  public  square,  to  which  persons 
going  to  town  then  hitched  their  horses.  More  business  is 
done  there  now,  in  the  fall  and  spring,  in  one  week  than  was 
done  there  in  1838  in  a  whole  year.  In  1838,  the  population 
was  perhaps  150  or  200,  not  more.  It  remained  a  little  court 
house  town  for  a  period  of  fifty-five  years.  The  first  impetus 
given  to  the  town  of  Marion  was  by  the  building  the  Wilming- 
ton and  Manchester  Railroad,  which  was  not  completed  to  that 
point  until  1854.  Marion  then  began  to  move  up,  business  and 
trade  were  increased ;  its  population  increased,  and  some  life 
and  activity  prevailed^ — a  spirit  of  enterprise  and  improvement 
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552  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

began  to  show  itself,  not  only  in  the  town  but  in  the  cx>unty  gen- 
erally. This  upward  movement  was,  however,  soon  checked 
by  the  war,  and  after  the  war  and  its  devastations  it  was  fur- 
ther retarded  by  the  horrors  of  Reconstruction  and  the  rule  of 
the  "Carpet-bagger."  The  war  and  subsequent  conditions  and 
agencies  held  back  the  town  and  county — little  progress  made 
for  fifteen  years,  say,  till  1876  and  '7.  Since  1876,  Marion 
grew  slowly,  mostly  by  the  natural  increase  of  its  population. 
Bar-rooms  were  numerous,  and  tolerated  until  1883,  when  the 
town,  at  an  election  held  for  the  purpose,  voted  it  "dry"  by  a 
majority  of  twenty-five ;  soon  afterwards,  by  an  amendment  to 
its  charter,  the  Legislature  passed  an  Act  by  which  liquor  was 
forbidden  to  be  sold  there  for  twenty  years.  The  town  re- 
mained dry,  except  an  occasional  "blind  tiger,"  until  the  dis- 
pensary was  planted  in  its  midst.  This  great  "moral  institu- 
tion" seems,  for  the  present,  to  be  the  policy  of  the  State,  in 
reference  to  the  sale  of  liquor  within  it — how  long  it  is  to  re- 
main the  State's  policy,  we  can't  tell.  The  little  morality  there 
is  in  it  can  hardly  be  seen  with  a  microscope.  Take  the  profit 
feature  out  of  it,  and  it  would  not  last  three  months.  To  say 
it  was  established  to  promote  good  morals  would  be  a  libel  on 
truth,  bold  hypocrisy.  I  think  Marion  was  first  incorporated 
in  1854  (I  have  not  the  Act  before  me).  The  improvements 
since  1876  have  been  gradual,  up  to  a  few  years  back,  when  a 
new  imputus  was  given  her,  and  she  is  now  on  a  boom ;  her 
■  population  is  about  2,000.  Instead  of  bar-rooms,  we  have  two 
flourishing  banks,  a  cotton  factory,  an  oil  mill,  an  iron  foundry 
and  machine  shops,  the  largest  and  best  in  the  eastern  part  of 
the  State ;  two  large  tobacco  warehouses,  with  pack  houses,  and 
a  stemmery  of  tobacco;  and  this  is  not  all,  the  old  wooden 
shanties  for  dwellings  and  stores  are  being  replaced  by  large 
and  commodious  buildings  for  dwellings — some  of  wood  and 
some  of  brick  have  gone  up  and  are  going  up ;  also  the  sjame  as 
to  stores,  and  other  buildings ;  there  are  also  five  or  six  livery 
stables  and  five  or  six  drug  stores,  and  from  two  or  three  places 
of  business,  stores,  in  1840,  small  establishm'ents,  they  now 
number  at  least  thirty,  with  large  stocks  of  goods  of  every 
variety,  and  every  one  seems  to  be  busy  and  doing  a  fair  busi- 
ness.    From  three  to  five  hundred  men  and  women  now  find 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  553 

employment  there  daily  in  the  different  channels  of  trade  and 
business — where  formerly  there  were  many  unemployed,  loaf- 
ers about  town,  mostly  bar-room  patrons,  and,  I  might  say, 
vagabond's — ^now  employed  and  prosperous.  In  1840,  there 
was  but  one  church  in  town — ^the  old  Methodist  Church ;  now 
there  are  four  good  church  buildings,  commodious,  viz :  the  Me- 
thodist, Baptist,  Presbyterian  and  Episcopal,  all  well  attended, 
and  each  with  its  minister,  and  two  of  them  with  parsonages. 
The  Methodist  have  also  a  Presiding  Elder's  parsonage  with 
its  glebe.  There  are  also  three  or  four  colored  church  build- 
ings, commodious  and  substantial;  each  has  its  minister,  and 
their  churches  are  well  attended.  And  above  all  and  as  its 
climax,  they  have  a  large  and  commodious  town  hall  of  brick, 
with  all  necessary  furniture,  two  stories  high — ^the  lower  one 
for  the  meetings  of  the  town  coucil,  and  for  a  town  market,  and 
guard  rooms.  They  also  have  a  fine  and  commodious  brick 
building,  two  stories  high,  for  their  graded  school,  and  one  of 
the  best  graded  schools  in  the  State.  These  last  are  a  great 
credit  to  the  liberality  and  public  spirit  of  the  town.  To  one 
living  in  1840,  and  leaving  at  that  time  and  coming  back  there 
now,  would  hardly  know  the  place.  The  old  town  has  waked 
up.  The  people  who  are  there  now  are  a  progressive  and 
large-hearted  people,  esto  perpetua. 

NiCHoivS  AND  Mui^WNS. — The  'construction  of  the  Wilming- 
ton and  Manchester  Railroad,  completed  in  1854,  and  the  estab- 
li's:hment  of  depots  at  those  respective  places,  formed  a  nucleus 
for  a  town  at  each  point.  At  first,  and  for  years  afterwards, 
these  places  were  mere  hamlets.  There  gathered  near  them  a 
few  families  and  some  few  business  men ;  several  houses  were 
built  here  and  there  around  the  depots,  without  any  seeming 
regard  to  an  ultimate  town,  but  with  an  eye  only  to  their  then 
personal  convenience.  Thus  they  were  and  thus  remained 
until  after  the  war.  At  both  places,  after  the  war,  churches 
were  built — a.  Methodist  and  a  Baptist  Church  at  each,  and  per- 
haps a  colored  church  or  two  at  each.  A  while  after  the  war, 
Nichols  seemed,  as  between  the  two  places,  to  take  the  lead. 
The  lands  above  the  railroad  belonging  to  the  estate  of  the  late 
Harman  Floyd  were  sold,  and  with  a  view  to  the  building  up  a 


554  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

town,  were  sold  near  the  depot  in  convenient  lots.  The  pur- 
chasers began  to  build,  and  did  build  several  very  good  dwell- 
ings and  storehouses  upon  their  respective  purchases.  The 
turpentine  business  there  was  pretty  extensive  and  profitable, 
and  under  these  influences  Nichols  took  on  a  little  boom  for  a 
while,  and  seemed  to  outstrip  its  neighbor,  Mullins,  in  business 
enterprise  and  business  prospects ;  but  in  a  few  years  the  tur- 
pentine began  to  fag,  and  finally  in  a  measure  played  out,  and 
with  it  Nichols  came  to  a  stand-still.  Recently,  however,  the 
cultivation  of  tobacco  for  market  has  found  its  way  into  the 
country  around  it  and  in  upper  Horry,  just  across  the  river, 
which  has  given  Nichols  an  impetus,  and  she  is  again  looking 
up  and  is  forging  her  way  to  the  front.  A.  B.  Nichols,  a  good 
and  successful  business  man  and  a  man  of  large  means,  has 
erected  a  commodious  warehouse  there  for  the  handling  and 
sale  of  tobacco,  and  the  quantity  sold  there  is  having  its  effect 
upon  the  town,  and  she  is  looking  up.  The  population,  I  sup- 
pose, is  200  or  more.  There  are  three  or  four  stores,  owned 
and  managed  by  A.  B.  Nichols,  John  H.  Stroud  and  C.  R. 
Ford — ^there  may  be  others.  The  section  of  country  around 
Nichols  is  not  as  agricultural  as  it  is  around  Mullins  and  other 
sections  of  the  county.  Mullins  is  situated  in  one  of  the  many 
good  sections  of  the  county  for  agricultural  purposes,  and  in 
that  respect  has  the  advantage  of  Nichols.  For  a  while  she 
ran  a  turpentine  business,  but  not  to  the  extent  that  Nichols 
did,  and  she  abandoned  it  earlier.  There  was  not  much  emi- 
gration to  either,  but  more  to  Mullins  than  Nichols.  I  think, 
by  the  census  of  1890,  Mullins  had  a  population  of  282.  In 
one  respect,  Mullins  has  outstripped  all  other  towns  in  the 
county,  Marion  not  excepted,  and  that  is  in  establishing  and 
keeping  up  her  Sunday  schools,  in  both  her  churches.  They 
were  living,  moving  institutions  years  ago,  and  the  interest  in 
them  dt>es  not  seem  to  a;bate,  either  in  the  attendance  or  in  mas- 
tering the  lessons.  No  other  public  Sunday  meeting,  however 
imix>rtant,  such  as  a  district  conference  or  an  association,  is 
allowed  to  side-track  the  Sunday  schools.  It  has  been  so  for 
years — the  interest  in  them  does  not  seem  to  abate  in  the  least. 
The  morail  influences  at  Mullins,  which  are  very  good,  may  be 
attributed  in  great  part  to  those  Sunday  schools,  which  have 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  555 

been  in  existence  for  a  generation,  and  it  tells  upon  the  town 
and  surrounding  country.  In  addition  to  this,  they  have  and 
keep  up,  and  have  for  years,  a  school — ^the  peer  of  any  school  in 
the  county — don't  know  whether  it  is  what  is  called  a  graded 
school  or  not,  but  it  is  deeply  rooted  in  the  minds  of  the  people 
of  the  town,  and  is  much  to  their  credit.  What  is  now  boom- 
ing Mullins  is  the  tobacco  trade — it  has  only  been  a  few  years 
that  tobacco  has  been  cultivated  in  the  county.  The  Mullins 
region  early  saw  its  opportunity,  and  embarked  largely  in  its 
culture  and  production,  and  in  that  regard  is  far  ahead  of  any 
section  of  the  county.  The  consequence  is  that  Mullins  sells 
more  tobacco  than  any  market  in  the  State.  She  sold  last  year, 
1900,  over  4,000,000  pounds,  and  bids  fair  to  become  the  Dan- 
ville of  South  Carolina.  She  has  three  large  and  well  equipjjed 
tobacco  warehouses,  a  number  of  pack  houses,  and  four  large 
and  well  equipped  tobacco  stemmeries  (one  of  brick),  and  em- 
ploys, of  men,  women  and  children,  four  or  five  hundred  hands. 
It  has  given  Mullins  an  impetus  not  dreamed  of  ten  years  ago. 
People  are  emigrating  to  Mullins  from  all  parts,  houses  (dwell- 
ings) are  not  to  be  had.  From  1890  to  1900,  as  shown  by  the 
census,  the  population  increased  from  282  to  over  800;  and 
now,  1901,  it  is  over  1,000.  The  town  is  spreading;  large  and 
handsome  'houses,  dwellings,  stores,  &c.,  are  going  up  all 
around  (some  of  brick)  ;  a  spirit  of  enterprise  and  "expansion" 
is  engendered  and  developing  fast,  and  bids  fair  to  equal,  if  not 
surpass,  in  wealth  and  population  in  the  near  future  her  near 
neighbor  (might  say  mother),  Marion;  she  has  a  bank,  through 
which  her  finances  pass  and  are  transacted,  and  is  also  doing  a 
good  business,  launched  and  based  on  the  capital  of  her  own 
people.  The  spirit  that  animates  the  town  actuates  and  perme- 
ates the  whole  surrounding  country.  A  new  and  active  life 
manifests  itself  everywhere.  Much  more  might  be  said  of 
this  thriving  town,  but  want  of  space  will  not  permit. 

Latta  and  Dili,on. — These  towns,  yet  in  their  youth,  owe 
their  origin  to  the  building  of  the  Florence  (Short  Cut)  Rail- 
road. The  road  was  completed  up  to  those  points,  seven  miles 
apart,  in  1888,  depots  located,  and  a  nucleus  of  a  town  planted, 
and  at  once  persons  began  to  build  and  to  come  in  and  dwell 


556  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

there.  W.  W.  George  built,  as  I  think,  the  first  storehouse,  a 
large  and  commodious  one,  at  Latta,  and  also  built  a  large 
dwelling,  now  occupied  by  J.  W.  Smith,  and  the  store  is  occu- 
pied by  S.  A.  McMillan.  Soon  others  began  to  come  in  and 
build,  until  the  town  has  attained  to  its  present  proportions.  It 
is  a  thriving,  progressive  and  enterprising  place.  Three 
churches  for  the  white  people  have  been  built — Methodist,  Bap- 
tist and  Presbyterian^ — and  each  has  its  minister  and  are  well 
attended.  They  have  also  constructed  a  school  building,  large 
and  convenient,  and  have  established  a  first  class  graded  school, 
which  is  kept  running  from  year  to  year  by  first  class  teachers. 
There  are  two  or  three  colored  churches,  of  moderate  preten- 
sions, gone  up.  The  town  has  ample  church  facilities,  as  also 
schools.  The  graded  school  established,  of  course,  includes  the 
colored  population,  and  they  share  in  its  benefits.  This  ar- 
rangement is  required  by  law  in  the  graded  schools  of  the 
State.  The  white  and  colored,  each,  has  its  school  house — ^the 
races  are  thus  kept  separate.  Latta  has  caught  the  tobacco 
fever,  which  is  epidemic  in  all  northeastern  South  Carolina. 
They  have  two  large  and  well  equipped  tobacco  warehouses,  to- 
gether with  pack  houses,  also  a  tobacco  stemmery,  and  have 
launched  into  the  tobacco  trade,  and  are  competing  with  other 
tobacco  centres  in  the  county;  and  the  prices  paid  this  year 
(1901)  will  doubtless  stimulate  its  production,  perhaps,  for 
years  to  come.  They  have  also  some  banking  facilities — I 
think,  a  branch  of  the  Merchant  and  Farmers  Savings  Bank  of 
Marion,  conducted  by  Mr.  Austin  Manning,  a.  very  competent 
young  man,  which  affords  sufficient  money  facilities  for  the 
business  of  the  town.  The  leading  merchants  and  business 
men  of  the  place  are  S.  A.  McMillan,  J.  J.  Bethea,  D.  M.  Dew 
and  John  L.  Dew,  and  recently  a  large  wholesale  and  retail  sup- 
ply 'Store  has  been  launched  by  E.  B.  Berry  and  Lonzo  Smith, 
which  seems  to  be  doing  a  large  business  and  promises  much  in 
the  future ;  and  last,  but  not  least,  is  W.  W.  George,  a  regular 
hustler,  who  has  done  more  in  the  way  of  building  than  any  one 
else,  apparently  with  but  little  money,  and  carries  on  a  large 
mercantile  business  all  the  time.  Such  an  one  deserves  more 
than  a  passing  notice.  To  enumerate :  He  first  built  the  large 
and  commodious  store  building  now  occupied  by  S.  A.  McMil- 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  557 

Ian ;  a  large  ten'-room  dwelling,  now  occupied  by  J.  W.  Smith ; 
next  a  store  house  on  the  corner  next  the  railroad,  afterward 
occupied  by  Young  &  Bass ;  next  the  Farley  store,  a  large  two- 
story  building;  next  a  two-story  building  storehouse,  in  the 
branch  (formerly)  near  the  livery  stables;  next  a  fine  and  pre- 
tentious two-story  dwelling,  in  Northeast  Latta,  in  which  he 
now  lives ;  next  a  large  tobacco  warehouse  and  pack  house,  in 
East  Latta;  and'  last,  but  not  least,  a  large  two-story  brick 
storehouse  in  East  Latta.  He  has  done  all  this  within  the  last 
thirteen  years — ^began  with  nothing,  and  has  never  seemed  to 
have  much  money,  and  in  the  meantime  made  a  trip  to  Mexico. 
He  is  a  prodigy.  Latta  is  a  live  little  railroad  town.  It  has  a 
population  of  467,  by  the  census  of  1900.  It  has  good  sur- 
roundings, a  good  agricultural  country,  and  no  reason  can  now 
be  seen  why  it  should  not  continue  to  grow  and  prosper.  It  is 
incorporated. 

Dillon  was  started  about  the  same  time,  1888,  and  under  the 
same  or  similar  influences,  about  one  mile  from  Little  Pee  Dee, 
and  about  seven  miles  from  the  North  Carolina  State  line.  The 
growth  and  prosperity  of  Dillon  have  been  somewhat  phenome- 
nal, for  a  railroad  town  in  a  sparsely  settled  country,  backed  up 
by  only  agricultural  products.  I  think  Duncan  McLaurin  was 
first  to  settle  there,  a  level-headed,  progressive  man;  he  was 
soon  followed  by  others.  The  founders  of  that  town  had  an 
eye  to  the  future  of  the  place.  It  is  well  and  sensibly  laid  out ; 
the  streets  are  wide  and  at  right  angles  to  and  with  each  other, 
and  in  this  respect  is  the  Philadelphia  of  the  county.  The  loca- 
tion was  uninviting — it  was  comparatively  in  a  pond.  The 
writer  waded  through  the  site  of  Dillon,  sixty-one  years  ago, 
several  times  in  the  water  from  ankle  to  half-leg  deep,  along  a 
little  winding  footpath,  leading  from  about  Dothan  Church  to 
Stafford's  Bridge,  on  Little  Pee  Dee.  It  is  now  well  drained 
and  apparently  high  and  dry.  The  town  presents  gentle  undu- 
lations of  hill  and  dale,  and  is  pleasant  to  look  upon  or  to  travel 
on.  Dillon  had  a  large  territory,  and  the  best  agricultural  sec- 
tion of  the  county  to  draw  from.  Its  trade  extends  over  Little 
Pee  Dee  to  the  North  Carolina  line  and  into  that  State.  It  ab- 
sorbs the  -w^hole  Little  Rock  section  and  about  to  the  Marl- 
borough line,  including  the  whole  of  Harlleesville  Township, 


558  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

also  Carmichaels,  Manning  and  Hillsboro,  and  down  into 
Reaves  Township  to  the  lower  end  of  the  Fork.  Its  territory 
covers  the  best  portion  of  the  county,  and  within  that  territory 
are  many  men  of  large  means.  When  all  this  is  considered,  it 
can  be  seen  why  and  how  Dillon  has  outstripped  Latta,  and,  I 
may  say,  all  other  towns  of  the  county;  she  is  only  thirteen 
years  old.  By  the  census  of  1900,  she  had  within  the  corporate 
limits  of  the  town  1,015  population,  and  including  her  suburbs, 
which  take  in  the  cotton  factory  people,  she  'has  at  least  1,500. 
While  Latta  has  a  good  country  around  it,  it  is  not  near  so  ex- 
tensive as  that  of  Dillon,  nor  are  there  so  many  moneyed  men  in 
it.  Dillon  has  three  churches  for  whites,  Methodist,  Baptist  and 
Presbyterian.  The  Baptist  Church  is  of  brick,  large,  commo- 
dious, and  well  finished  and  furnished.  She  has  had  for  eight 
or  ten  years  a  large  cotton  seed  oil  mill  which  has  been  very  suc- 
cessful ;  its  stock  paying  annually  twenty-five  per  cent,  or  more. 
Has  had  for  several  years  a  fine  and  large  brick  structure  as 
a  graded  school  building,  in  which  is  kept  from  year  to  year  a 
first  class  school,  under  the  supervision  of  a  first  class  man  as 
Superintendent,  with  a  corps  of  able  teachers.  There  is  also  a 
$150,000  cotton  factory,  built  by  local  capital,  and  is  now  run- 
ning successfully,  and  in  a  few  years  more  its  capacity  will  be 
doubled  by  additions.  Also,  an  Electric  and  Water  Power 
Company,  with  what  capital  is  unknown.  Likewise  a  bank 
founded  entirely  on  local  capital,  of  sufficient  strength  to  run 
the  finances  of  the  growing  town  and  its  varied  business  inter- 
ests. There  are  also  two  large  and  well  equipped  tobacco 
warehouses,  one  of  brick,  together  with  pack  houses  sufficient 
to  handle  the  staple  of  the  surrounding  country,  and  in  the 
near  future  will  have  a  stemmery.  There  are  two  or  three  col- 
ored churches  in  the  town.  All  the  churches,  white  and  col- 
ored, have  a  minister,  and  are  well  attended.  The  colored 
people  share  in  the  benefits  of  the  graded  school.  There  are 
shipped  from  Dillon  annually  for  the  last  few  years  from 
10,000  to  15,000  bales  of  cotton,  and  the  shipments  are  increas- 
ing every  year,  besides  large  shipments  of  tobacco.  It  is  said 
to  be  the  strongest  station  on  the  "Short-cut"  Road,  except, 
perhaps,  Fayetteville,  N.  C,  and  it  will  surpass  Fayetteville  in  a 
few  years  more.    It  will  be  remembered  that  Fayetteville  is  over 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  559 

IOC  years  old,  and  for  fifty  years  or  more  of  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury Fayetteville  had  a  monopoly  of  trade  for  many  miles 
around,  extending  down  into  South  Carolina.  As  another  evi- 
dence of  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  Dillon,  the  postoffice 
there  has  lately  been  raised  from  a  fourth  class  office  to  a  third 
class,  or  Presidential  office.  There  are  many  large  two-story 
brick  buildings  going  up,  and  ere  long  the  wooden  structures 
will  give  place  to  brick  ones.  The  wooden  dwellings  are  well 
built,  present  a  good  appearance,  are  commodious  and  comfort- 
able, and  but  for  fires  (occasional),  would  be  as  safe  and  con- 
venient as  brick  dwellings.  Everything  about  Dillon  indicates 
life  and  a  spirit  of  progress.  She  is  looking  forward  to  become 
the  county  seat  of  a  new  county,  of  which  she  is  deserving,  in 
the  event  a  new  county  is  ever  or  in  the  near  future  established. 
Dillon,  if  she  continues  to  grow  and  progress,  is  destined  to 
become  a  city  of  no  mean  proportions.  May  it  be  realized. 
Don't  know  how  many  mercantile  establishments  there  are  in 
Dillon.  Some  of  the  leading  merchants  of  the  town  are  J.  W. 
Dillon  &  Son,  Dr.  J.  F.  Bethea  &  Co.,  J.  H.  David  &  Bro.,  A.  J. 
C.  Cottingham,  T.  S.  Richburg,  E.  L.  Moore  &  Co.,  Huger  & 
Co.,  supply  store,  wholesale  and  retail,  J.  C.  Dunbar,  J.  H.  Hur- 
sey,  I.  I.  Foss  and  others  not  known.  Corps  of  cotton  buyers 
and  corps  of  tobacco  buyers  every  season. 

Little  Rock,  four  miles  above,  as  before  stated,  has  been  ab- 
sorbed by  Dillon.  It  never  was  much  more  than  a  cross-roads 
hamlet,  though  there  were  three  or  four  business  houses  there. 
It  was  incorporated  some  years  ago,  as  I  understood  at  the 
time,  mainly  for  the  purpose  of  heading  off  the  illicit  liquor 
traffic,  which  it  did  pretty  effectually.  It  is  in  a  sober,  quiet 
community,  and  there  are  three  churches  there,  Methodist, 
Baptist  and  Presbyterian. 

Hamer  and  Sellers. — Hamer  and  Sellers  are  stations  on 
the  Florence  Railroad.  The  first  was  named  for  R.  P.  Hamer, 
Jr.,  who  resides  there  and  owns  the  adjacent  lands.  It  is  on 
the  east  side  of  Little  Pee  Dee,  in.Carmichael  Township,  in  the 
midst  of  a  thriving  section  of  the  county,  and  large  shipments 
of  cotton  and  other  farm  products  are  sent  from  that  point,  and 
much  guano  is  shipped  to  the  station  for  the  surrounding  farm- 


560  A  HISTORY  O^  MARION  COUNTY. 

ers.  There  is  one  store  and  a  ginnery,  both  operated  by  R.  P. 
Hamer,  Jr.,  who  is  one  of  the  most  extensive  farmers  in  the 
courtty.  A  few  years  ago,  be  was  planting  900  acres  in  cotton. 
Sellers  was  named  for  John  C.  Sellers,  who  lives  there,  and 
operates  the  adjoining  lands  as  a  farm.  It  also  is  in  the  midst 
of  a  prosperous  and  progressive  section  of  the  county.  There 
are  three  stores,  operated  by  J.  K.  Page,  J.  D.  Haselden  and  E. 
J.  Garrison — the  last  an  industrious  colored  man,  who  is  pros- 
pering. Many  of  the  lots  in  the  town  are  owned  by  colored 
people,  who  form  a  large  part  of  the  population.  This  is  an 
important  shipping  point. 

The  Denominational  Churches. 

All  denominations  are  tolerated  here;  there  are,  however, 
only  four  denominations  now  obtaining  in  the  county,  to  wit : 
the  Methodist,  the  Baptist,  the  Presbyterian  and  Episcopal — 
their  numerical  strength  are  as  in  the  above  named  order.  The 
Methodist  are  the  most  numerous,  and  the  Episcipalians  are 
but  few,  only  one  church  of  that  denomination  in  the  county, 
the  Church  of  the  Advent,  located  at  Marion,  and  that  is  weak. 
The  oldest  church  in  the  county  is  the  "Old  Neck"  Methodist 
Church,  twenty-three  miles  below  Marion,  built  in  1735,  'by  the 
first  settlers  in  that  region,  as  an  Episcopal  Church,  or  the 
Church  of  England.  It  has  already  been  mentioned  herein. 
It  was  used  as  an  Episcopal  Church  until  some  time  after  the 
Revolutionary  War,  when  by  some  arrangement  agreed  uj>on, 
it  was  used  by  both  the  Episcopalians  and  Methodists  together^ 
and  after  a  while  it  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  Methodists  as  sole 
owners,  who  have  rebuilt  it  and  used  it  ever  since.  About  the 
same  time,  1735,  the  settlers  at  Sandy  Bluff,  on  the  Great  Pee 
Dee,  just  above  where  the  railroad  crosses  that  river,  built  an- 
other Episcopal  Church,  of  which  Wm.  Turbeville  was  the  min- 
ister, as  hereinbefore  stated.  No  vestige  of  that  church  re- 
mains. According  to  the  best  information  (traditional)  the 
writer  has  been  able  to  obtain,  the  next  church  built  in  the 
county  was  the  Tyrrel's  Bay  Baptist  Church,  I  think,  about 
1750  to  1760;  by  whom  or  what  particular  persons,  I  have  not 
been  able  to  learn.  I  suppose  the  Rev.  Daniel  Snipes,  the 
father  of  Captain  Joe  Snipes,  who  settled  in  that  neighborhood. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  561 

was  one  of  its  founders,  and,  perhaps,  was  its  first  pastor.  This 
is  only  a  conjecture.  That  church  still  subsists  and  is  promi- 
nent among  the  churches  of  that  denomination  to  this  day.  Not 
long  after  Tyrrel's  Bay  was  established,  the  Gapway  Baptist 
Church  was  built;  don't  know  by  whom.  Tyrrel's  Bay  and 
Gapway  are,  no  doubt,  the  tVvo  oldest  churches  in  the  county, 
except  the  "Old  Neck"  Methodist  Church,  as  hereinbefore 
stated.  It  will  be  remembered  that  at  the  time  of  the  erection 
of  Tyrrel's  Bay  and  Gapway  Baptist  Churches,  there  was  not 
a  Methodist  Church  in  America.  There  were  no  Methodist 
Churches  in  American  until  Bishop  Asbury  came  here,  in  1771, 
and  none  in  South  Carolina  until  after  the  Revolution,  when 
Bishop  Asbury  (not  a  Bishop  then)  first  visited  the  State,  in 
1783  or  1784.  The  first  South  Carolina  Conference  was  held 
in  Charleston,  in  1785. 

Bishop  Asbury  came  from  England  to  America  in  1771, 
landed  in  New  York,  and  from  that  time  till  the  Revolution 
traveled  only  in  the  Eastern  and  Middle  States,  perhaps  as  low 
down  as  Baltimore.  When  the  Revolution  broke  out,  Asbury, 
fresh  from  England,  was  opposed  to  the  Revolution,  and  he  had 
to  lie  low,  and,  I  think,  part  of  the  time  in  the  latter  part  of  the 
war,  had  to  be  in  hiding  for  his  personal  safety.  After  the 
Revolution  he  extended  his  travels  and  came  to  South  Carolina 
and  to  Georgia,  and  founded  churches  and  schools  wherever 
there  was  an  opening,  and  continued  to  come  through  here  as 
long  as  he  lived.  He  died  in  Fredericksburg,  Va.,  in  1816,  on 
his  way  to  a  General  Conference  in  Baltimore.  I  have  not  the 
"Life  of  Asbury"  nor  his  journals  before  me,  but  have  read 
them,  and  I  make  this  statement  from  memory,  and  which,  I 
think,  is  in  the  main  correct.  The  first  Methodist  Church  built 
in  Marion  County,  according  to  tradition,  was  "Flowers  Meet- 
ing House,"  already  herein  mentioned  among  the  ■  Flowers 
family;  built  of  logs,  as  I  suppose,  on  one  of  Asbury's  trips 
through  the  country  on  his  way  to  Charleston,  after  the  Revo- 
lutionary War.  About  the  same  time  another  Methodist 
Church  was  founded  by  Asbury,  just  above  Little  Rock,  about 
half  mile  on  the  Rockingham  Road.  When  Herod  Stackhouse 
died,  in  1846,  a  class  leader  and  steward  of  the  then  Little  Rock 
Church  (Liberty  Chapel),  the  writer  was  informed  that  the 


562  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

class  leadership  of  that  church,  Liberty  Chapel,  had  been  in  the 
Stackhouse  family  for  sixty  years — which  would  throw  it  back 
to  1786.  This  was  stated  in  his  obituary,  which  was  written 
by  the  writer  hereof.  I  suppose.  Flower's  Church  and  Liberty 
Chapel  at  that  time,  1786,  were  the  only  Methodist  Churches  in 
the  county. 

Another  church  of  olden  time  was  the  "Saw  Mill"  Baptist 
Church,  located  on  the  east  side  of  what  is  now  called  Gaddy's 
Mill ;  don't  know  when  it  was  built,  but  it  was  an  old,  rickety, 
dilapidated  building  in  1831  or  '2.  The  writer  attended  an  as- 
sociation there  in  one  of  those  years,  and  there  and  then  first 
saw  Rsv.  Joel  Allen  and  his  brother,  Thompson  Allen,  who  yet 
survives,  eighty-eight  years  old,  and  lives  in  the  Brownsville 
community,  in  Marlborough.  Thompson  was  the  older,  and 
then  about  grown;  Joel,  the  younger,  was  a  large  lad.  I  re- 
member how  they  were  dressed' — ^they  each  had  on  a  well-made 
suit  of  grey  jeans,  tinged  with  red.  No  young  man  there  on 
that  occasion  was  better  dressed  than  they  were ;  their  mother 
spun  and  wove  the  jeans.  Our  mothers,  in  that  day,  spun 
and  wove  and  made  all  the  clothing  for  her  family,  and  the 
most  of  the  mothers  prided  themselves  and  vied  with  each  other' 
as  to  who  should  make  the  nicest  cloth,  and  especially  jeans  for 
dress  or  Sunday  wear.  This  old  church  soon  decayed,  and 
was  afterwards  replaced  by  the  present  Baptist  Church, 
"Piney  Grove,"  located  on  the  south  side  of  Bear  Swamp,  near 
where  Captain  R.  H.  Rogers  now  lives.  It  was  at  that  associ- 
ation that  the  writer  saw  old  man  "Zaw  Ford,''  vyho  lived  near 
by,  and  owned  the  mills  there  located.  ■  Old  man  "Zaw  Ford" 
was  the  grand-father  of  the  late  Elias  B.  Ford,  and,  I  suppose, 
was  the  son  or  grand-son  of  the  James  Ford  mentioned  by  Dr. 
Ramsay,  in  his  History  of  South  Carolina  (page  302),  as  dying 
about  1804,  at  the  age  of  one  hunderd  years.  The  Ford  family 
in  the  county  is  very  ancient — I  suppose,  coeval  with. its  first 
settlement.  Bear  Swamp  Church  (Baptist)  is  an  old  church, 
but  cannot  say  when  nor  by  whom  it  was  founded.  The  Cat- 
fish Baptist  Church  is  also  an  old'  church,  founded,  I  think, 
about  1802,  by  old  man  Henry  Berry,  uncle  of  Cross  Roads 
Henry. 

The  Presbyterians,  the  third  in  point  of  numbers,  are  mostly 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  568 

the  Scotch  and  their  descendants  in  the  county.  Their  ances- 
tors came  here  in  the  long  past,  and  brought  with  them  the 
ideas,  doctrines  and  procHvities  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Scotland.  Sixty-five  and  seventy-five  years  ago,  they  had  a 
church,  then  old  and  dilapidated',  just  across  the  Little  Pee  Dee, 
at  Campbell's  Bridge,  which,  I  think,  was  then  the  only  Pres- 
byterian Church  in  what  is  now  called  Carmichael  Township. 
The  old  Carmichaels,  Campbells  and  Mclntyres  were  the  chief 
m^en  and  worshipped  there.  Since  that  time  other  and  more 
commodious  church  buildings  have  been  located  and  con- 
structed in  the  Scotch  settlement  iand  in  other  portions  of  the 
county,  to  wit:  Pee  Dee,  Kintyre,  Dumbarton,  Little  Rock, 
Reedy  Creek,  Carolina,  Matrion,  MuUins,  Latta  and  Dillon — 
each  with  its  minister.  The  Presbyterians  have  no  church  in 
the  county  below  Marion  Court  House  and  the  Wilmington, 
Columbia  and  Augusta  Railroad.  Though  the  Presbyterians 
are  not  very  numerous  in  the  county,  yet  their  membership  is 
quite  respectable,  and  include  many  of  our  best  people. 

As  already  stated,  there  were  no  Methodists  or  Methodist 
Churches  in  the  county  till  after  the  Revolution.  Bishop  As- 
bury  and  Whatcoat  planted  the  seeds  of  Methodism  in  the 
county — ^the  seeds  germinated,  sprang  up  and  grew  rapidly,  and 
as  a  church  we  are  having  the  harvest.  Methodist  Churches 
now  dot  the  whole  county — there  is  scarcely  a  neighborhood  in 
which  there  is  not  a  Methodist  Church.  Not  saying  anything 
of  its  doctrines  as  contradistinguished  from  other  denomina- 
tions, the  writer  attributes  its  success  to  their  Church  polity, 
mainly  its  itinerancy.  The  Methodist  Church  is  an  aggressive 
Church — more  so  than  any  other  denomination  among  us.  It 
goes,  as  it  were,  into  the  highways  and  byways,  everywhere 
carrying  the  gospel  to  all  people,  the  high  and  the  low,  the  rich 
and  poor  alike.  Another  cause  of  its  success  is  the  rotation  of 
its  ministers.  Formerly  two  years  was  the  limit  of  a  preacher's 
pastorate  of  the  same  church — it  has  been  latterly  extended  to 
four  years,  though  they  may  be  moved  short  of  that  period, 
and  is  very  often  the  case.  If  a  preacher  is  unacceptable,  he  is 
soon  sent  somewhere  else,  where  he  may  be  more  acceptable, 
and  consequently  more  successful.  If  a  preacher  is  strong 
and  acceptable  at  any  particular  church  or  circuit,  it  matters  not 


564  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

how  much  so,  he  cannot  remain  on  any  particular  work  more 
than  four  years — he  is  sent  to  some  other  work,  that  others  may 
share  somewhat  in  the  benefits  of  his  ministry,  and  thus  do  as 
much  good  as  possible  to  others,  to  as  many  as  possible,  to  ex- 
tend his  useful  influence  to  the  greater  number.  Another  car- 
dinal characteristic  of  the  Methodist  Church  (though  not  writ- 
ten) is  that  the  preacher  goes,  without  question,  to  wherever  he 
is  sent,  and  the  membership  accepts  whoever  is  sent  to  them. 
If  a  mistake  is  made  in  this,  it  is  soon  remedied  by  their  rota- 
tory system. 

The  Baptist,  in  the  county,  are  strong,  and  though  not  so 
numerous  as  the  Methodist,  yet  they  are  respectable  in  num- 
bers ;  their  churches  are  to  be  found  in  every  section  of  the 
county.  Their  church  polity  is  not  so  cumbrous  as  that  of  the 
Methodist — ^they  are  more  democratic.  Every  Baptist  Church 
is  independent  of  any  other.     There  is  no  app  wn  its  deci- 

sions to  a  higher  tribunal — it  is  final ;  not  so  w  :  Methodist 

and  Presbyterian.  They  each  have  their  higher  courts.  The 
Baptists,  Methodists  and  Presbyterians  are  liberal  to  each 
other,  sometimes  exchange  pulpits,  and  sometimes  hold  union 
services,  and  manifest  a  true  Christian  spirit,  though  each  holds 
to  its  distinctive  views  and  doctrines.  I  will  say,  however,  that 
the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  was  a  death-blow  to  a 
State  denomination.  The  country  is  wide  enough  for  all,  and 
enough  for  all  to  do  in  their  respective  spheres,  in  restraining 
men  from  sin  and  in  promoting  the  glory  of  God. 

Ci^ERKS  OF  THE  Court  from  1800  to  1900,  Inclusive,  for 
Marion  District,  now  County. 

John  Dozier,  1800. 

Samuel  Cooper,  1804. 

John  McRae,  1808. 

Thomas  Harllee,  1810,  and  continued  to  1826. 

E.  B.  Wheeler,  by  successive  elections  from  1828  to  his 
death,  24th  September,  1859. 

Bai-field  Moody,  from  November,  1859,  to  his  death,  7th 
April,  i860;  when  Asa  Godbold,  as  Ordinary,  by  operation  of 
law,  became  Clerk,  until  June,  i860;  when  T.  C.  Moody  was 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  565 

elected,  i860,  who  held  the  office  two  terms,  when  Reconstruc- 
tion put  him  out. 

W.  W.  Braddy,  from  1868  to  1872. 

S.  G.  Owens,  from  1872  to  1876. 

R.  K.  Clarke,  from  1876  to  1880. 

J.  Albert  Smith,  1880,  to  his  death,  in  1882 ;  when^  John  Wil- 
cox, Jr.,  was  elected  to  fill  the  unexpired  term  to  1884. 

John  Wilcox,  Jr.,  1884  to  1888. 

John  Wilcox,  Jr.,  1888  to  1892. 

D.  F.  Miles,  1892  to  1896. 

D.  F.  Miles,  1896  to  1900. 

D.  F.  Miles,  1900  to  1904.     He  is  the  present  Clerk. 

Sheriffs  for  Marion  District  and  County  from  1800  to 
1900,  Inci<usive. 

Leonard  Dozier,  1800  to  1804. 

Richard  Godfrey,  1804  to  1805. 

Samuel  S.  Savage,  1805  to  1808. 

Thomas  Godbold,  1808  to  181 1. 

Enos  Tart,  1812  to  1816. 

Henry  Davis,  1817  to  18^. 

Enos  Tart,  182 1  to  1825. 

D.  S.  Harllee,  1825  to  1829. 

Samuel  Bigham,  1829  to  1833. 

William  Woodberry,  1833  to  1837. 

Elly  Godbold,  1837  to  1841. 

A.  Carmichael,  1841  to  1845. 

Elly  Godbold,  1845  to  1849. 

A.  Carmichael,  1849  to  1853. 

Elly  Godbold,  1853  to  1857. 

N.  C.  McDuffie,  1857  to  1861. 

W.  P.  C^npbell,  1861  to  1863,  when  he  was  killed.  I.  H. 
Watson  was  Coroner,  and  filled  out  balance  of  the  term  to  1865. 

N.  C.  McDuffie,  1865  to  1869.  He  resigned  in  May,  1867, 
and  General  Canby  (Reconstruction)  appointed  R.  Collins  to 
1868. 

R.  Collins,  1868  to  1872. 

Daniel  F.  Berry,  1872  to  1876. 


566  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

A.  E.  Grice,  1876  to  1880.  He  died  in  1878,  and  John  Wil- 
cox was  elected  to  fill  the  unexpired  term. 

E.  W.  Johnson,  1880  to  1884. 
E.  W.  Johnson,  1884  to  1888. 
Wm.  A.  Wall,  1888  to  1892. 
W.  T.  Evans,  1892  to  1896. 
W.  T.  Evans,  1896  to  1900. 

B.  R.  Mullins,  1900  to  1904,  now  Sheriff. 

Representatives  in  the  State  Legislature  prom  Liberty 
County  and  Marion  District  and  Marion  County. 

James  McPherson,  Thomas  Wicham,  1792. 

John  Baxter,  Gavin  Witberspoon,  1794. 

John  McRee,  Thomas  Wicham,  1795. 

John  Ford,  Lewis  Harrelson,  1798. 

Philip  Bethea,  James  Ervin,  1800. 

James  Ervin,  Thomas  Harllee,  1802. 

Thomas  Harllee,  James  Ervin,  1804. 

Thomas  Harllee,  James  Ervin,  1806. 

Thomas  Harllee,  John  Gibson,  1808. 

Alexander  Gregg,  Daniel  Piatt,  Gospero  Sweet,  1810. 

Charley  D.  Daniels,  Valentine  Rowell,  Henry  C.  Legette, 
1812. 

Valentine  Rowell,  Alexander  Gregg,  Chesley  D.  Daniel, 
1814. 

Chesley  D.  Daniel,  Valentine  Rowell,  Alexander  Gregg, 
1816. 

Enos  Tart,  Alexander  Gregg,  Valentine  Rowell,  1818. 

Nimrod  Davis,  Jessee  Ford,  1820. 

Evander  R.  Mclver,  Valentine  Rowell,  1822. 

William  Woodberry,  John  Gregg,  1824. 

John  Gregg,  William  Woodberry,  1826. 

Wilson  Hemingway,  W.  H.  Grice,  1828. 

William  Woodberry,  Thomas  Evans,  1830. 

Robert  Harllee,  William  B.  Rowell,  1832. 

Robert  Harllee,  John  McGrams,  1834. 

Ferdinand  S.  Gibson,  W.  W.  Harllee,  1836. 

Barfield  Moody,  William  Evans,  1838. 

David  Palmer,  Henry  Davis,  John  C.  Bethea,  1840. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  567 

Henry  Davis,  Joseph  Jolly,  C.  J.  Crawford,  1842. 
John  C.  Bethea,  C.  J.  Crawford,  Barfield  Moody,  1844. 

C.  J.  Crawford,  William  Evans,  W.  W.  Harllee,  1846. 
William  Evans,  James  Haselden,  James  R.  Bethea,  1848. 
George  J.  Myers,  D.  J.  McDonald,  William  B.  Rowell,  1850. 
William  S.  Mullins,  W.  W.  Durant,  William  R.  Johnson, 

1852. 

William  S.  Mullins,  William  R.  Johnson,  William  B.  Rowell, 
1854.. 

William  S.  Mullins,  John  N.  McColl,  Ivevi  Legette,  1856. 

R.  G.  Howard,  Nathan  Evans,  William  S.  Mullins,  1858. 

R.  G.  Howard,  William  S.  Mullins,  David  W.  Bethea,  i860. 

William  S.  Mullins,  R.  F.  Graham,  E.  T.  Stackhouse,  1862. 

E.  T.  Stackhou^se,  William  S.  Mullins,  R.  F.  Graham,  1864. 

William  S.  Mullins,  E.  T.  Stackhouse,  R.  F.  Graham,  1866. 

W.  S.  Collins,  B.  A.  Thompson,  Ebben  Hays,  E.  M.  Stoelber, 
1868. 

Joel  Allen,  F.  A.  Miles,  T.  R.  Bass,  John  C.  Sellers,  1870. 

B.  A.  Thompson,  Ebben  Hays,  E.  H.  Gourdin,  John  W. 
Johnson,  1872. 

W.  A.  Hayne,  W.  D.  Johnson,  A.  H.  Howard,  R.  G.  How- 
ard, 1874. 

John  G.  Blue,  James  McRae,  R.  H.  Rogers,  J.  P.  Davis, 
1876. 

R.  H.  Rogers,  W.  M.  Davis,  John  G.  Blue,  T.  C.  Moody, 
1878. 

John  M.  Johnson,  William  A.  Brown,  A.  A.  Myers,  J.  G. 
Blue,  1880. 

B.  F.  Davis,  W.  J.  Montgomery,  J.  F.  Pierce,  J.  W.  Smith, 
1882. 

J.  G.  Haselden,  J.  G.  Blue,  W.  McD.  Alford,  W.  A.  Brown, 
1884. 

D.  F.  Miles,  L.  S.  Bigham,  James  Norton,  J.  F.  Bethea,  1886. 

E.  p.  Carmichael,  R.  G.  Howard,  D.  F.  Miles,  E.  B.  Smith, 
1888. 

D.  Mclntyre,  D.  W.  Mclvaurin,  James  Norton,  1890. 
W.  A.  Oliver,  D.  W.  Mclyaurin,  L.  B.  Rogers,  1892. 
D.  W.  McLaurin,  J.  E.  Ellerbe,  J.  D.  Haselden,  1894. 
D.  W.  McLaurin,  L,.  M.  Gasque,  J.  D.  Haseldtn,  1896. 
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568 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 


W.  J.  Montgomery,  T.  F.  Stackhouse,  S.  U.  Davis,  1898. 
J.  E.  Jarnigan,  Wm.  Murchison,  T.  F.  Stackhouse,  1900. 

SBNATORS  FROM  1800  TO  I9OO,  MaRION  CoUNTY. 


Thomas,  J.  Wickham,  iBoo. 
Iveonard  Dozier,  1804. 
Thomas  Godbold,  1808. 
Thomas  Grodbold,  1812. 
Thomas  Godbold,  1816. 
Alexander  Gregg,  1820. 
Enos  Tart,  1824. 
John  Gregg,  1828. 
Thomas  Evans,  1832. 
Thomas  Evans,  1836. 
Benjamin  Gause,  1840. 
B.  K.  Henagan,  1844. 
Benjamin  Gause,  1848. 
Robert  Harllee,  1852. 


Robert  Harllee,  1856. 
William  R.  Johnson,  i860. 
Robert  Harllee,  1864. 
Henry  E.  Hayne,  1868. 
C.  C.  Smith,  1872. 
R.  G.  Howard,  1876. 
W.  W.  Harllee,  1880. 

( President  of  the  Senate. ) 
T.  C.  Moody,  1884. 
T.  C.  Moody,  1888. 
William  A.  Brown,  1892. 
William  A.  Brown,  1896. 
James  Stackhouse,  1900. 


Ordinaries  and  Probate  Judges  prom  1800  to  1900. 

Asa  Godbold,  i860.  Hugh  Giles,  1800. 

John  Wilcox  (Prob.  J.),  1868.     Samuel  Cooper,  1802. 
James  Graham,  1872.  J.  J.  McRee,  1803. 

John  Wilcox, '74,  till  death, '9 1.  Thomas  Harllee,  18 10. 
John  D.  Mcl/Ucas,  1892.  Edward  B.  Wheeler,  1826. 

P.  B.  Hamer,  1898. 

Proprietary  Governors  oe  the  Province  oe  South  Caro- 
lina erom  1670  TO  1719. 

William  Sayle,  commissioned'  in  England,  26th  July,  1669; 
Joseph  West,  28th  August,  1671 ;  Sir  John  Yeamans,  26th  De- 
cember, 1671 ;  Joseph  West  (second  time),  13th  August,  1674; 
Joseph  Morton,  26th  September,  1682;  Joseph  West  (third 
time),  6th  September,  1684;  Sir  Richard  Kirle  (time  un- 
known) ;  Colonel  Robert  Quarry  (time  unknown)  ;  Joseph 
Morton  (second  time),  1685.  James  Colleton,  1686;  Seth 
Sothel,  1690;  Philip  Ludwell,  1692;  Thomas  Smith,  1693; 
Joseph  Blake,  1694;  John  Archdale,  1695;  Joseph  Blake  (sec- 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  569 

end  time),  1696;  James  Moore,  1700;  Sir  Nathaniel  Johnson, 
1703;  Edward  Tyute,  December,  1709;  Robert  Gibbes,  1710; 
Charles  Craven,  171 2;  Robert  Daniel,  1716;  Robert  Johnson, 
1717,  deposed  in  1719. 

In  1719,  there  was  a  bloodless  revolution,  by  which  the  gov- 
ernment was  changed  from  Proprietary  to  Regal  government. 
Pending  which,  Robert  Johnson  was  deposed  and  James  Moore 
was  elected  by  a  convention  of  the  people  as  Governor,  and  for 
a  year  or  more  was  recognized  as  such.  The  Royal  Governors 
were  as  follows :  Sir  Francis  Nicholson,  from  1721  to  1725 ; 
Arthur  Middleton,  1725  to  1730;  Robert  Johnson,  1730  to 
1735 ;  Thomas  Broughton,  1735  to  1737;  William  Bull,  1737  to 
1743;  James  Glen,  1743  to  1756;  William  Henry  I^ittleton, 
1756  to  1760 ;  William  Bull,  1760  to  1761 ;  Thomas  Boone,  1762 
to  1763;  William  Bull,  1763  to  1766;  Lord  Charles  Gevillo 
Montague,  1766  to  1769;  William  Bull,  1769  to  1775;  I^ord 
William  Campbell,  from  June,  1775  to  September,  1775. 

Under  the  temporary  Constitution  of  1776,  there  were  two 
Presidents,  John  Rutledge  and  Rawlins  Lowndes. 

Under  the  Constitution  of  1778,  to  the  Constitution  of  1790, 
there  were  six  Governors,  John  Rutledge,  1779  to  1782;  John 
Matthews,  1782  to  1783,  inclusive;  Benjamin  Guerard,  1783  to 
1785 ;  William  Moultrie,  1785  to  1787;  Thomas  Pinckney,  1787 
to  1789;  Charles  Pinckneyj  1789  to  1790,  inclusive. 

Under  the  Constitution  of  1790,  and  up  to  the  Constitution 
of  1865:  Charles  Pinckney,  1791 ;  A.  Vanderhorst,  1793;  Wil- 
liam Moultrie,  1795;  Edward  Rutledge,  1798;  John  Drayton, 
1800;  James  B.  Richardson,  1802;  Paul  Hamilton,  1804; 
Charles  Pinckney,  1806;  John  Drayton,  1808;  Hugh  Middle- 
ton,  1810  to  1812 ;  Joseph  Alston,  1812  to  1814 ;  David  R.  Wil- 
liams, 1814  to  1816;  Andirew  Pickens,  1816  to  1818;  John 
Geddes,  1818  to  1820;  Thomas  Burnett,  1820  to  1822;  John  L. 
Wilson,  1822  to  1824;  Richard  J.  Manning,  1824  to  1826;  John 
Taylor,  1826  to  1828 ;  Stephen  D.  Miller,  1828  to  1830 ;  James 
Hamilton,  1830  to  1832;  Robert  Y.  Hayne,  1832  to  1834; 
George  McDuffie,  1834  to  1836;  Pierce  M.  Butler,  1836  to 
1838 ;  Patrick  Noble,  1838— died  and  B.  K.  Henagan,  Lt.  Gov., 
to  1840;  John  P.  Richardson,  1840  to  1842;  J.  H.  Hammond, 
1842  to  1844;  William  Aiken,  1844  to  1846;  David  Johnson, 


570  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

1846*0  1848 ;  Whitemarsh  B.  Seabrook,  1848  to  1850;  John  A. 
Means,  1850  to  1852;  John  L.  Manning,  1852  to  1854;  James 
H.  Adams,  1854  to  1856;  R.  F.  W.  Alston,  1856  to  1858;  Wil- 
liam H.  Gist,  1858  to  i860 ;  Francis  W.  Pickens,  i860  to  1862 ; 
Milledge  L.  Bonham,  1862  to  1864;  A.  G.  Magrath,  1864  to 
1866;  B.  F.  Perry,  by  Andrew  Johnson,  President,  1866  to 
1867 ;  James  L.  Orr,  1867  to  1868. 

Under  the  Constitution  of  1868:  Robert  K.  Scott  (two 
terms),  1868  to  1872;  F.  J.  Moses,  Jr.,  1872  to  1874;  Daniel  H. 
Chamberlain,  1874*0  1876;  Wade  Hampton  (two  terms),  1876 
to  1880 ;  Johnson  Hagood,  1880  to  1882 ;  Hugh  S.  Thompson 
(two  terms),  1882  to  1884 — resigning  during  second  term  to 
accept  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  of  the  United 
States,  John  C.  Sbephard,  Lieut.  Gov.,  filled  place  to  1886 ;  John 
Peter  Richardson  (two  terms),  1886  to  1890;  Benjamin  R. 
Tillman,  1890  to  1894 ;  John  Gary  Evans,  1894  to  1896 ;  W.  H. 
Ellerbe  (two  terms),  1896  to  1900 — Ellerbe  dying,  M.  B. 
McSweeney,  Lieut.  Gov.,  to  1900 ;  M.  B.  McSweeney,  1900  to 
1903,  present  Governor. 

Lawyers  Practicing  at  Marion  from  1800  to  1900. 

Herriot.  Davis  &  Gourdin. 

Madan.  E.  Gee. 

Rothmahlor.  King. 

A.  Myers.  Gillespie. 

Pringle.  Levy. 

S.  Wilds,  Jr.  (Judge).  Gillespie  &  Melichamp. 

Keating  L.  Simmons.  Kollock. 

Croft.  Mathis. 

William  Falconer.  E.  B.  Simmons. 

Grant.  B.  F.  Dunkin  ( Ch'n.  and  C.  J. ) . 

James  Ervin.  Verdries. 

Daniel  J.  Stevens.  Hemingway. 

Richardson  (Judge).  Robbins. 

C.  Mayrant.  Muldrow. 

Charley  Daniels.  Wilkins. 

J.  R.  Ervin.  Coit. 

Carr  &  Taylor.  Dargan,  G.  W.  (Chan.). 

Evans  (Judge).     •  Ferdon. 


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571 


Holt. 

Philip  Bethea. 

F.  W.  Arnold. 

Thomas  H.  EdVards. 

Graham. 

F.  J.  Moses  (Chief  Justice). 

Smith  (Judge). 

Bentham  &  Duncan. 

C.  W.  Dudley. 

John  McQueen. 

DeSaus'sure. 

Youngblood. 

A.  Mclver  (Solicitor). 

Fleming. 

John  A.  Pouncy. 

North  &  Couchman. 

R.  MunTo  (Judge). 

A.  W.  Dozier. 

J.  E.  David. 

W.  W.  Harllee. 

J.  L,.  Pettigru  (At.  Gen.). 

Wilson. 

Blakeny. 

E.  A.  Law. 

Thompson. 

Sims,  A.  D. 

Henry  Bailey  (At.  Gen.). 

Julius  A.  Dargan. 

John  A.  Inglis  (Chan.). 

Ervin  (Erasmus). 

Ervin  (Sa!muel). 

Johnson,  W.  D.  (Chan.). 

Thornwell,  Charles  A. 

Evans,  C.  D. 

Evans,  Thos.  (U.  S.  Dis.  At.). 

Grice,  A.  E. 

Hanna,  W.  J.  (Solicitor). 

Mclver,  Henry  (C.  J.). 

Townsend,  C.  P.  (Judge). 


Townsend,  S.  J. 

Hudson,  J.  H. '(Judge). 

Newton,  H.  H.  (Solicitor). 

McDuffie,  A.  Q. 

Sellers,  W.  W.  (Solicitor). 

Shaw,  A.  J.  (Judge). 

Warley,  F.  F. 

Inglis,  W.  C. 

Blue,  John  G. 

McKerall,  W.  J. 

McColl,  D.  D.  (Solicitor). 

Johnson,  J.  M.  ( Solicitor) . 

Walsh,  J.  T. 

Hamer,  L.  M. 

Mullins,  Henry. 

Kdley,  John  A. 

Graham,  R.  F.  (Judge). 

Sellers,  John  C. 

Smith,  C.  C. 

Montgomery,  W.  J. 

Woods,  C.  A. 

Evans,  Junius  H. 

Bryant,  F.  D. 

Stackhouse,  W.  F. 

Johnson,  W.  D.,  Jr. 

Johnson,  J.  W. 

Sellers,  P.  B. 

Bethea,  J.  T. 

McIvUcas,  John  D. 

Miller,  C.  W. 

Mathison,  Donald. 

Mullins,  W.  S. 

LaBorde,  John  B. 

Boylston,  R.  B. 

Harllee,  James  J. 

McCall,  John  N. 

Singletary,  William  J. 

Spain,  A.  C. 

Hamer,  P.  B. 


572  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Macfarlan,  Robert.  Edwards,  B.  W. 

Boyd,  R.  W.       '  Dozier. 

Volunteers  in  Confederate  Army. 

Company  L,  2rst  Regiment  Infantry  S.  C.  Volunteers,  in  the 
Confederate  States  Provisional  Army,  from  Marion  County : 

McDuffie,  Neill  C,  Captain.  Transferred  to  Quartermaster 
Department,  1862.     Died  1881. 

Ivegette,  Hannibal,  Captain.  Wounded  Walthall  Junction. 
Promoted  from  First  Lieutenant,  1862.     Died  at  home,  1864. 

Baker,  William  B.,  Captain.  Promoted  from  Second  Lieu- 
tenant, 1864.     Captured. 

WoodbferTy,  William  D.,  First  Lieutenant.  Captured.  Died 
since  the  war. 

Sweet,  Ebenezer  L.,  Second  Lieutenant.  Resigned.  Liv- 
ing. 

Gibson,  Albert,  Second  Lieutenant.  Wounded  Morris 
Island.  Captured,  imprisoned  at .  Elmira.  Promoted  from 
Second  Sergeant.     Dead. 

Williamson,  Robert  L-,  First  Sergeant.  Killed  at  Fort 
Fisher. 

Casque,  A.  M.,  First  Sergeant.  Promoted  from  Corporal. 
Wounded  at  Morris  Island.     Living. 

Collins,  Wm.  T.,  Sergeant.  Wounded  Walthall  Junction. 
Killed  at  Petersburg. 

Huggins,  Christopher,  Sergeant.  Wounded  Morris  Island. 
Promoted  from  ranks.     Killed  at  Fort  Fisher. 

Reaves,  Robt.  H.,  Orderly  Sergeant.  Promoted  from'  ranks. 
Killed  at  Walthall  Junction  or  Fort  Fisher. 

Williamson,  Leonard,  Fourth  Sergeant.  Killed  at  Morris 
Island,  1863. 

Coleman,  Samson  J.,  Corporal.     Died  1880. 

Baker,  Wm.  W.,  Corporal.  Surrendered  North  Carolina, 
1865.     Living. 

Lane,  Joseph  V.,  Corporal.     Killed  at  Gaines  Mill. 

Sawyer,  James  A.,  Corporal. 

Carmichael,  Franklin,  Corporal. 

White,    Augustus    K.,    Corporal.     Promoted    from    ranks. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  578 

Wounded  Morris   Island,  July   lo,    1863.     Died   Oharleston, 
July,  1863. 

Privates. 

Ammons,  W.  Edward.  Surrendered  in  North  Carolina. 
Living. 

Ammons,  H.  Calhoun.     Discharged  January,  1863. 

Ayers,  William  D.     Died  Walthall  Junction,  May  i,  1864. 

Ayers,  Joseph.     Died  Walthall  Junction,  May  7,  1864. 

Ayers,  Thomas.  Discharged  Wilmington  Hospital,  1865. 
Living. 

Avant,  Jordan.    Discharged  January,  1863.    Died  since  war. 

Anderson,  James  R.     Died  at  Hospital. 

Baily,  Lias.     Discharged  sick,  1863. 

Baily,  Wesiley.     Living. 

Baily,  Mathew.    Living. 

Baker,  John  E.  Wounded  at  Drewry's  BluflE.  Surrendered 
in  North  Carolina,  1865.     Living. 

Baker,  Benjamin  B.  Surrendied  in  North  Carolina,  1865. 
Living. 

Bird,  Hugh  G.     Died  in  Virginia,  1864. 

Betbea,  Edwin  A.     Discharged  January,  1863.     Living. 

Brown,  William.  Surrendered  in  North  Carolina,  1865. 
Living. 

Brown,  John  O.  Surrendered  Point  Lookout,  1865.  Liv- 
ing. 

Beaty,  Thomas. 

Campbell,  Mike  C.  Killed  at  Battery  Wagner,  Sept^nber, 
1863. 

Clark,  Robt.  C.     Killed  at  Fort  Fisher,  January  15,  1865. 

Cooper,  Ralph.     Living. 

Criddle,  James  R.     Discharged  July,  1862. 

Collins,  John  W.     Died  of  disease  at  Petersburg,  1863. 

Collins,  David  C.    Wounded  at  Walthall  Junction,  May  7, 

1864.  Died  of  wounds.  May  13,  1864. 

Collins,  Joel  B.     Killed  on  Darbytown  Road,  July,  1864. 
Collin's,  Shadrach.     Disdharged  January  26,  1863.     Living. 
Collins,  Richard.     Died  in  Union  Prison  at  Elmira,  Febru- 
ary, 1865. 

Carmichael,  Archibald  B.     Surrendered  in  North  Carolina, 

1865.  Living. 


574  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Carmichael,  Evander.     Killed  on  Darbytown  Road,  1864.  ' 

Carmiohael,  Franklin.  Killed  on  Darbytown  Road,  July, 
1864. 

Carmichael,  Archie.  Surrendered  in  North  Carolina,  1865. 
Living. 

Carmichael,  Judison  D.  Died  in  Union  Prison  at  Elmira, 
1865. 

Carmiohael,  Daniel  M.  Surrendered  in  North  Carolina, 
1865. 

Carmichael,  J.  B. 

Cole,  E. 

Cohen,  Isaac.     Wounded  at  Morris  Island,  1863.     Living. 

Carter,  John.  Surrendered  in  North  Carolina,  1865. 
Wounded  at  Petersburg. 

FrankHn,  Deas.     Transferred  to  Abney's  Battalion,  1863. 

Dennis,  George  W.  , 

Edwards,  Richard  W.  Transferred  to  Stanley's  Battery, 
1863. 

Evans,  N.  J. 

Flowers,  Elly.     Disdharged  January  26,  1863.     Living. 

Flowers,  William.     Discharged  August  i,  1862. 

Fowler,  James  F.     Wounded  at  Battery  Wagner,  1863. 

Frierson,  J.  M.     Transferred  to  Co.  "B." 

Gardner,  Da,niel.     Killed  at  Petersburg. 

Gerald,  John.  Surrendered  in  North  Carolina,  1865.  Liv- 
ing. 

Oasque,  J.  Maston.  Imprisoned  at  Elmira,  where  he  was 
discharged,  1865.     Living. 

Gasque,  Samuel  O.     Died  in  Union  Prison  at  Elmira,  1865. 

Gasque,  Wesley  E.  Wounded  Dre^vry's  Bluff,  May,  1864. 
Living. 

Gasque,  William  B.  R.  Wounded  ten  times — The  Crater, 
by  shell;  Davis'  farm,  six  times  in  succession;  Sharpsburg, 
skull  fractured;  Virginia,  in  left  leg;  Virginia  by  shell — dis- 
abled.    Living. 

Gasque,  Henry.     Died  at  Charleston,  September  26,  '62. 

Gibson,  Robt.  W.     Died  in  Union  Prison  at  Elmira,  1864. 

Gibson,  Oscar  E.  Wounded  at  Fort  Fisher,  January  15, 
1865.     Died  June,  1866. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  575 

Gibson,  John  S.     Died  in  Union  Prison,  Point  Lookout, 
May,  1865. 

Giodbold,  Huger.    L/iving. 

Godbold,  Tihomas.     Dead. 

Hair,  James.     Discharged  August  i,  1862. 

Huggins,  S.  Ivewis.     Living. 

Huggins,  Wesley.     Killed  at  Fort  Fisher,  January  15,  1865. 

Huggin's,  William  D.     Killed,  1864. 

Harrelson,  John  L.     Killed  Morris  Island,  July  10,  1863. 
-    Huggins,  William.     Surrendered  at  Castle  Thunder,  1865. 
Living. 

Harrelson,  Timothy.     Killed  at  Walthall  Junction,  May  7, 
1864. 

Harrelson,   Benjamin.     Surrendered    in    North    Carolina, 
1865.     Living. 

Haywood,  John  W.     Transferred  to  Co.  "A." 

Ha)rwood,  James. 

Herring,    Pitickney   L.     Surrendered   in    North    Carolina, 
1865.     Living. 

Harrell,  Ephraim.     Surrendered  in  North  Carolina,  1865. 
Living. 

Jones,  Frederic  D.     Dead. 

Jones,  James  A.     Died  in  Union  Prison  at  Elmira,  1865. 

Jordan,  William.     Surrendered  in   North   Carolina,   1865. 
Living. 

James,  William  P.     Discharged  January  26,  1863.     Living. 

Jacobs,  M.     A  German.     Surrendered,  1865,  in  North  Caro- 
lina.    Living. 

Legebte,  Henry  C.     Died  at  Wilmington,  1864. 

Legette,  Levi.     Discharged,  1862.     Living. 

Lane,  Robert  L.     Wounded  in  Virginia,  1864.     Surrendered 
in  North  Carolina,  1865.     Liviiig. 

Lambert,  Robt.    Surrendered  in  North  Carolina,  1865.    Died 
since  war. 

Martin,  Mac  F.    Living. 

McCall,  Barney.     Discharged.     Living. 

Matthews,  Samuel  P.     Transferred  to  Sth  Cavalry,  Septem- 
ber, 1863. 

Miller,  Ohas.  W.    Discharged,  1862.    Dead. 


576  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Oliver,  Alexandfer  R.  Discharged  January  26,  1863.  Liv- 
ing. 

Powell,  William.     Died  since  war. 

Potter,  James.     Discharged,  1862.     Living. 

Porter,  James.     Discharged,  1862.     Dead. 

Porter,  S.  Goss.  Surrendered  in  North  CaroHna,  1865.  Liv- 
ing. 

Pitman,  David  G.     Discharged  January  26,  1863. 

Richardson,  Stephen.  Discharged  Elmira,  1865.  Wounded 
at  Drewry's  Bluflf.     Living. 

Richardson,  John.     Transferred  to  Co.  I,  1862. 

Richardson,  Thomas.     Died  at  Columbia,  1862. 

Rogers,  John  W.  Wounded,  1864.  Surrendered  in  North 
Carolina,  1865.     Died  since  war. 

Rogers,  Owen  M.     Killed  Darbytown  Road,  1864. 

Rogers,  Cary.     Died  Petersburg,  1864. 

Rogers,  Fred  G.     Transferred  to  4th  Cavalry.     Living. 

Rogers,  Bethel.     Living. 

Rogers,  T.     Living. 

Rowell,  Valentine.     Living. 

Rowell,  William.     Killed  at  Walthall  Junction,  May  7,  1864. 

Robertson,  L.  D. 

Sawyer,  John.    Transferred,  1863. 

Sawyer,  Thomas.  Surrendered  in  North  Carolina,  1865. 
Living. 

Shelley,  Joseph  G.     Living. 

Snipes,  Moses.     Dead. 

Summerford,  Wm.  Wounded  at  Morris  Island,  July,  1863. 
Living. 

Shackleford,  John  B.     Discharged,  1862.     Living. 

Shaw,  Benjamin  A.     Died  at  Point  Lookout,  1863. 

Smith,  Enoch.     Died  at  Morris  Island,  April  23,  1863. 

Thompson,  Jas.  T.     Discharged,  1863.     Living. 

Tedder,  Daniel  M.     Discharged,  1863.     Living. 

Townsend,  Francis  M.     Discharged,  1863.     Living. 

Thomas,  Samuel  B.     Living. 

Tyler,  Richard.     Dead. 

Webb,  John.     Killed  at  Morris  Island,  July  10,  '63. 

Wise,  J.  M.     Discharged  August  i,  1862. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  577 

Williamson,  Bright  J.     Died  at  Point  Lookout,  1863. 

Williamson,  Joseph  M.  Discharged  August  i,  1862.  Liv- 
ing. 

Williamson.,  David  R.     Died  at  Wilmington,  1863. 

Williamson,  Sol.  M.     Killed  at  Swift  Creek,  May  9,  '64. 

Williamson,  Samuel  W.  Wounded  at  Fort  Fisher,  January 
15,  1865.     Died  at  sea,  January,  1865. 

Worrel,  James.  Wounded  at  Battery  Wagner,  1863.  Liv- 
ing. 

Roll  of  Company  "H,"  of  Orr's  Regiment  of  Rifles,  South 
Carolina  Volunteers,  in  the  Confederate  States  Provisional 
Army: 

Fairlee,  George  M.,  Captain,  Richmond,  N.  C.  Died 
Guinea  Station,  June,  1862. 

Henegan,  J.  Hamilton,  Captain,  Marlboro.  Promoted  from 
First  Lieutenant,  June,  1862.     Killed  Gaines  Mill,  June,  1862. 

McKay,  Gilbert  W.,  Captain,  Marion.  Wounded  near  Rich- 
mond.    Promoted  from  Lieutenant,  1862. 

Brown,  J.  Graham,  First  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Promoted 
from  First  Sergeant,  June,  1862.  Killed  at  Gaines  Mill,  June, 
1862. 

Braddy,  Robt.,  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Resigned  June  i,  1862. 
^  Tolar,  John  H.,  Second  Lieutenant,  Marion;  Promoted  from 
Sergeant,  July,  '62.     Killed  at  Plank  Road,  April,  1864. 

Mace,  Gregg,  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Promoted  from  ranks, 
June,  1862.     Killed  at  Fredericksburg,  June,  1862. 

Rogers,  Hugh  G.  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Promoted  from 
ranks,  1862.     Killed  at  Petersburg,  October,  1864. 

Sinclair,  Archibald  C,  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Wounded  at 
Petersburg,  1864.  Promoted  from  ranks,  December,  1862. 
Living. 

Moody,  John  H.,  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Wounded  North 
Anna,  1864.     Promoted  from  ranks,  1865. 

Salmon,  Samuel  J.,  First  Sergeant,  Marion.  Promoted, 
June,  1862.     Killed  in  Second  Battle  of  Manassas,  July,  1862. 

Smith,  Neill,  First  Sergeant,  Marion.  Promoted  from  First 
Corporal,  June,  1862.     Killed  Gaines  Mill. 

Foxworth,  Charley,  Sergeant,  Marion.  Promoted  from 
ranks,  1862. 


578  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Collins,  John  E.,  Sergeant,  Marion.  Promoted  from  ranks, 
1862.     Killed  at  Horse  Shoe,  May,  1864. 

Goff,  Azariah,  Sergeant,  Marion.  Promoted  from  ranks, 
1865. 

Hall,  Mark,  Sergeant,  Marion.     Transferred,  1862. 

Legette,  Morgan,  Corporal,  Marion.  Killed  at  Gaines  Mill, 
June,  '62. 

Hinds,  Rester,  Corporal,  Marion.  Transferred  March, 
1862. 

Mclnnis,  John  L,.,  Corporal,  Marion. 

Gaddy,  Levi,  Corporal,  Marion.  Wounded  at  Fredericks- 
burg, 1862.     Died  at  Fredericksburg,  1863. 

Privates. 

Alford,  Douglass,  Marion.     Died  at  home,  1865. 

Alford,  Malcolm.     Killed  at  South  Anna,  June,  1864. 

Alford,  Daniel  W.  Wounded  Wiilderness,  1864.  L,imb  am- 
putated', 1875. 

Alford,  W.  Warren,  Marion. 

Alford,  Moses,  Marion.     Transferred  March,  1862. 

Ammons,  John  T.,  Marion.  Wounded  Richmond,  June, 
1863. 

Baker,  Neill,  Marion.     Died  of  wounds  aJt  home.  May,  1864. 

Bradshaw,  John,  Marion.     Died  at  hospital,  October,  1862. 

Bryant,  Evan,  North  Carolina.     Died  at  hospital,  1862. 

Bryant,  Solomon,  North  Carolina.  Killed  at  Wilderness, 
April,  '63. 

Bryant,  Bethel,  North  Carolina. 

Blackman,  John,  Marion.     Transferred  to  Cavalry,  1863. 

Bethea,  Redden,  Marion.  Wounded  at  Petersburg,  April, 
1865. 

Bethea,  Philip,  Marion.     Died  since  war. 

Baily,  Benj.,  Marion.     Died  since  war. 

Butler,  Wil'liaim,  Marion. 

Campbell,  James,  Marion.     Killed  in  battle,  June,  1864. 

Cusaik,  Joseph,  Marion. 

Clark,  John,  Marion.  Wounded  Horse  Shoe,  May,  1864. 
Captured. 

Connor,  Wilson,  Marion.     Wounded  Second  Manassas. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  579 

Cox,  Hugh,  Marion.     Wounded  South  Anna. 
Cobb,  Thomas,  Marion.     Wounded  Fredericksburg,  1862. 
Collins,  Perry,  Marion. 

Davis,  William,  Marion.     Died  in  camp,  1862. 
Dew,  John  A.,  Marion.     Died  since  war. 
Dunsford,  Asa,  Marion.     Transferred,  1862. 
Davis,  Arthur,  Marion.     Killed  at  Ox  Hill,  1862. 
Emanuel,  Frank,  Marion.     Transferred,  1862. 
Evans,  Nelson,  Marion.     Killed  at  Horse  Shoe,  May,  1864. 
Evans,    Solon,    Marion.     Wounded  at   Petersburg,    April, 
1865. 
Finklea,  William,  Marion.     Died  since  war. 
Finklea,  Hardy,  Marion. 
Finklea,  Alfred,  Marion. " 
Finklea,  Hugh.     Died  at  home,  1862. 
Fladger,  Hugh,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia,  1862. 
Graner,  John,  Marion.     Killed  at  Horse  Shoe,  May,  1864. 
Graves,  George,  Marion.     Killed  on  train. 
Grice,  George,  Marion.  Discharged  by  Medical  Board,  1862. 
Gaines,  Jdhn,  Marion.     Transferred,  1862. 
Gilbert,  William,  Marion.     Killed  at  Turnpike,  April,  1864. 
Goff,  James,  Marion.     Killed  at  Horse  Shoe,  May,  1864. 
Goff,  Henry,  Marion. 
Gray,  J.,  Marion. 

Gasque,  Thomas,  Marion.     Died  in  prison. 
Hindes,  Alex;ander,  Marion.     Wounded  Gaines  Mill. 
Hale,  Samuel,  Marlboro.     Died'  since  war. 
Hamilton,  Edward,  Marion. 

Home,  William,  Marion.    Killed  near  Richmond,  July,  1864. 
Hodge,  Charles,  Marion.     Died  in  hospital,  1863. 
Hazleton,  Hugh,  Marion.     Died  since  war. 
James,  Robert,  Marion.     Killed  at  Gaines  Mill. 
Jones,  Wesley,  Marion.     Died  at  Danville,  1862. 
Jones,  Evandier,  Marion. 

James,  Preston,  Marion.     Killed  at  Gaines  Mill. 
Jackson,  Andrew  K.,  Marion. 
Kelly,  Daniel,  Marion. 

Lister,  William  B.,  Marion.     Wounded  at  North  Anna. 
Lane,  David,  Marion.     Died  at  hospital,  1864. 


580  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Lowranoe,  Lawrence,  Marion.     Died'  at  home,  1861. 

Ivegette,  John,  Marion. 

McCormac,  James,  Marion.     Killed  at  Gaines  Mill. 

McCormac,  Thomas,  Marion.     Killed  at  Second  Manassas. 

McCormac,  Nathaniel,  Marion. 

McCall,  William,  Marlboro.     Transferred,  1862. 

McDaniel,  James,  .Marion.     Died  at  Sullivan's  Island,  Feb- 
ruary, 1862. 

McDaniel,  Preston,  Marion.     Died  at  Richmond,  1862. 

McDaniel,  Daniel,  Marion.     Wounded  at  North  Anna,  1864. 

McEachern,  John,  Marion. 

Mclnnis,  Norman,  Marion.     Killed  at  Riddle's  Shop,  May, 
1864. 

Mclnnis,  Neill,  Marion.     Wounded  at  Fredericksburg,  De- 
cember, 1862. 

Mclntyre,  Joseph,  Marion.     Company  Commissary. 

Mclntyre,  Duncan,  Marion.     Died  at  Richmond,  1862. 

Moody,  Robt.  B.,  Marion.     Died  at  hospital,  1862. 

Meggs,  William,  Marion.     Died  since  war. 

McKellar,  Peter,  Marion.     Killed  in  Pennsylvania,  1864. 

Martin,  James,  Marion. 

O'Neill,  John,  Charleston. 

Oakley,  Robt.  N.,  Marion.     Died  since  war. 
"Peabody,  Charles,  Marlboro.     Died  in  hospital,  1864. 

Pond,  Foster,  Marion. 

Ramsey,  Richard,  Marion.     Killed  at  Ox  Hill,  August,  1862. 

Roberts,  Roger  R.,  Marion.     Wounded  near  Richmond. 

Richardson,  Thomas,  Marion. 

Rogers,  William,  Maarion.     Killed  at  Fredericksburg,  De- 
cember, 1862. 

Rogers,  Joseph  B.,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia,  1862. 

Rogers,  Eben,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia,  1862. 

Rogers,  Jessee,  Marion. 

Rogers,  Thomas,  Marion. 

Rogers,  Ansion,  Marion.     Captured,  1862. 

Rogers,  L,.,  Marion. 

Rogers,  Williams,  Marion:.     Discharged  by  Medical  Board 
1862. 

Rogers,  William,  Marion.     Transferred,  1862. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  581 

Rogers,  Joseph,  Marion.     Died  at  Sullivan's  Island,  '62. 

Russ,  Zack,  Marion. 

Ru'ss,  John,  Marion. 

Salmon,  Joseph,  Marion.     Wounded  art:  Fredericksburg. 

Sinclair,  Malcom  G.,  Marion.  Died  at  Oharlottesville,  Aug- 
gust,  1862. 

Sanders,  Peter,  Marion.     Wounded;  at  Gaines  Mill. 

Steen,  James,  Marion.  Wounded  at  Horse  Shoe  and  cap- 
tured. 

Shaw,  Baker,  Marion.     Promoted,  1862.    ■ 

Shaw,  Daniel,  Marion.     Promoted,  1862. 

Sessions,  Wesley  W.,  Marion. 

Sassar,  Benjamin,  Marion.     Killed  at  Horse  Shoe,  1864. 

Squires,  Thomas,  Marion.     Transferred,  1862. 

Turner,  John,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia,  1862. 

Taylor,  William,  Marion.     Transferred',  1862. 

Thomas,  Joseph,  Marion.     Killed  at  South  Anna,  1864. 

Taylor,  George,  Marion.     Transferred,  1862. 

Wiggins,  Calvin,  Marion.     Wounded  at  Petersburg,  1865. 

Wiggins,  Calvin,  Marion.     Killed  at  Gaines  Mill,  1862. 

Wiggins,  Baker,  Marion.     Killed  near  Richmond,  1864. 

Walter,  William^  B.,  Marion. 

Walter,  John  R.,  Marion. 

Wayne,  David,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia,  1862. 

Wright,  Daniel,  Marion. 

Whaley,  George,  Marion.     Killed  at  Horse  Shoe,  1864. 

Whittington,  Moses,  Marion.     Died  since  war. 

Walter,  Augustus  J.,  Marion. 

Roll  of  Company  F,  Fourth  Regiment  Cavalry,  South  Caro- 
lina Volunteers,  in  the  Confederate  States  Provisional  Army : 

Monroe,  D.,  Captain,  Marion.     Resigned.     Dead. 

Godbold,  Huger,  Captain,  Marion.  Resigned  and  served  in 
ranks.     Living. 

Hewett,  W.  C,  Captain,  Marion.  Promoted  from  First 
Lieutenant.  Wounded  Hawes'  Shop.  Died  of  wounds  in 
prison,  Washington,  1863. 

Evans,  W.  B.,  Captain,  Marion.  Promoted  from  Third  and 
First  Lieutenant  to  Captaincy.  Wounded  at  Cold  Harbor. 
Living. 


582  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Gilchrist,  A.  E.,  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Captured.  Died 
July,  1885. 

Reaves,  J.  L.,  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Wounded  Hawes  Shop. 
Died  of  wounds  in  prison,  Washington,  1863. 

Pitman,  H.  M.,  Orderly  Sergeant,  Marion.  Killed  at  Hawes 
Shop,  1863. 

Owens,  E.  B.,  Sergeant,  Marion.  Wounded  Hawes  Shop. 
Died  since  war. 

Collins,  E.  C,  Sergeant,  Marion.     Living. 

White,  W.  S.,  .Sergeant,  Marion.     Died  July,  1885. 

Williamson,  D.  V.,  Sergeant,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia, 

1863. 

Wall,  W.  B.,  First  Corporal,  Marion.  Died  Union  Prison, 
Point  Lookout,  1863. 

Smith,  A.  J.,  Corporal,  Marion. 

Harllee,  David,  Corporal,  Williamsburg.     Killed  since  war. 

Stackhouse,  M.,, Corporal,  Marion.    Living. 

Privates. 

Amnions,  M.,  Marion.     Living. 

Alford,  W.,  Marion.     Living. 

Alford,  J.,  Marion.     Living. 

Anderson,  H.  J.,  Georgetown.     Died,  1875. 

Boatwright,  T.,  Georgetown.     Killed  at  Trevillian  Station. 

Baily,  R.,  Georgetown.     Killed  at  Hawes  Shop. 

Baily,  D.,  Georgetown.     Living. 

Baily,  Ervin,  Georgetown.     Died  January,  1884. 

Brown,  D.,  Georgetown.     Killed  at  Trevillian  Station. 

Brown,  Stephen,  Georgetown.     Living. 

Brown,  Solomon,  Georgetown.     Living. 

Brown,  Asa,  Georgetown.     Died  in  Union  Prison  at  Elmira. 

Brown,  J.  C,  Georgetown.     Living. 

Brown,  Ransom,  Georgetown.  Wounded  Hawes  Shop. 
Died  of  wounds,  at  Jackson,  Va.,  June  28,  1863. 

Baxley,  Riley,  Williamsburg. 

Baxley,  William,  Williamsburg.     Died  in  Virginia,  1863. 

Benson,  Jacob,  Williarrisburg.     Died  in  Virgina,  1862. 

Blackman,  John,  Marion.    Wounded  Reams  Station'.    Dead. 

Blackman,  H.  G.,  Marion.  Died  in  Union  Prison,  Point 
Lookout,  1863. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  583 

Coleman,  J.  P.,  Marion.     Wounded  Hawes  Shop.     Living. 

Coleman,  I.  M.,  Marion.     Living. 

Cook,  James  C,  Marion.     Died,  1882. 

Clark,  Angus  J.  C,  Marion.     Killed  Haiwes  Shop. 

Collins,  S.  T.,  Miarion.     Living. 

Collins,  H.  G.,  Marion.     Living. 

Cox,   N.  D.,   Marion.     Wounded  Hawes   Shop.     Died  of 
wounds,  Jackson,  Va.,  1863. 

Carter,  James,  Marion.     Killed  at  Cold  Harbor,  June,  1863. 

Coleman,  D.  W.,  Marion.     Discharged  for  disability.  Dead. 

Collins,  R.,  Marion.     Killed  at  Trevillian  Staion,  1863. 

Davis,  J.  R.,  Marion.     Living. 

Dillard,  J.  H.,  Marion.     Living. 

Egerton,  C.  B.,  Marion.     Living. 

Eaddy,  Henry,  Marion.     Living. 

Foxworth,  B.  F.,  Marion.     Living. 

Foxworth,  Charles,  Marion.     Killed  Hawes  Shop. 

Foxworth,  T.,  Marion.     Died'  Pocotaligo,  1862. 

Foxworth,  S.,  Marion.     Died  1880. 

Flowers,  J.  A.,  Marion.     Died  Point  Lookout,  1863. 

Flowers,  Henry,  Marion.     Killed  Trevillian  Station. 

Flowers,  J.  H.,  Marion.     Living. 

Gilchrist,  D.  E.,  Marion.     Was  acting  Orderly  at  close  of 
war  in  commanid  of  company. 

Godbold,  Z.,  Marion.     Was  Captain  Oo.  "D,"  loth  Infantry, 
but  served  as  private. 

Goud,  S.,  Georgetown. 

Garrett,  W.,  Georgetown. 

Griffin,  James,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia. 

Griffin,  Stephen,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia. 

Hunter,  J.,  Marion.     Killed  at  Gaines  Mill. 

Hampton,  G.  W.,  Marion. 

Hampton,  W.,  Marion. 

Ha&elden,  J.  G.,  Marion.     Dead. 

Hasel'den,  H.  G.,  Marion.     Died  Point  Lookout. 

Hinds,  J.  D.,  Marion.     Living. 

Hinds,  R.,  Marion.     Living. 

Howard,  R.,  Marion.     Living. 

Hays,  L.  B.,  Marion.    Died^  at  home,  1864. 
38 


584  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Hays,  Wilson,  Marion.     Died  1880. 
Harrelson,  Jessee,  Marion.     Discharged  1863.     Living. 
Huggins,  R.,  Marion.     Living. 
James,  H.  L.,  Marion.     Died  1874. 
Johnson,  P.,  Georgetown.     Living. 
Jones,  William,  Marion.     Died  1872. 
King,  Simeon,  Georgetown.     Living. 
Kinton,  Stephen,  Clarendon.     Living. 
Lucas,  Jessee,  Marion.     Living. 
Legette,  J.  G.,  Marion.     Died  1880. 
Legette,  J.  B.,  Marion.     Died  1872. 
Martin,  William,  Mairion.     Living. 
McCall,  John,  Marion.     Died'  1880. 
Newton,  James  W.,  WilliamBburg.     Living. 
Parker,  E.,  Marion.     Killed  at  Hawes  Shop. 
Page,  W.,  Marion.     Living. 
Price,  Alonzo,  Marion.     Discharged  for  disability. 
Pitman,  David,  Marion.     Died  at  Richmond,  1864,  on  his 
way  home. 

Rogers,  E.,  Marion.     Living. 

Rogers,  R.  R.,  Marion.     Living. 

Rogers,  B.,  Marion.     Living. 

Rogers,  F.  G.,  Marion.     Living. 

Rowell,  R.  F.,  Marion.     Killed  1874. 

Reeves,  Chas.  J.  W.,  Marion.     Killed  Trevillian  Station. 

Robinson,  L.  D.,  Williamsburg.     Died,  1872. 

Smith,  James,  Marion.     Killed  at  home,  1865. 

Smith,  N.  P.,  Marion.     Living. 

Smith,  Eli,  Marion.     Living. 

Smith,  J.  G.,  Marion.     Living. 

Smith,  R.,  Marion.     Wounded  at  Cold  Harbor. 

Smith,  W.  B.,  Marion. 

Smith,  Edward,  Marion.     Died  1880. 

Smith,  Wesley,  Marion.     Living. 

Smith,  John,  Marion.     Died  1878. 

Smith,  E.,  Marion.     Died  1872. 

Smith,  S.,  Marion.     Living. 

Stephenson,  A.  E.,  Marion.     Living. 

Stone,  William,  Marion.     Died  1878. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  585 

Stacks,  Evander,  Marion.     Died  1880. 
Tanner,  Tom,  Marion.    Living. 

Weatherford,  W.  T.,  Marion.  Wounded  Black  River,  S.  C. 
Living. 

Wall,  H.,  Marion.    Living. 

Wall,  Jim,  Georgetown.    Died  1878. 

Walker,  A.,  Georgetown.     Died  at  Georgetown,  S.  C,  1862. 

Wells,  G.  H.,  Tennessee.    Dead. 

Wiggins,  H.,  Georgetown.     Killed  at  Hawes  Shop. 

Wilder,  A.  J.,  Georgetown.     Died  1880. 

Williamson,  D.  J. 

White,  W.  S. 

Roll  of  Company  E,  Gregg's  First  Regiment,  South  Caro- 
lina Volunteers,  in  the  Confederate  States  Provisional  Army: 

Shooter,  Washington  P.,  Captain,  August,  1861.  Promoted 
Lieutenant  Colonel,  April  or  May,  '64.  Killed  May  12,  '64. 
Graduate  of  Charleston  Citadel. 

Mclntyre,  George  A.,  First  Lieutenant.  Captain  April, 
1864.  Resigned.  Wounded  at  Chancellorsville,  May  3,  1863. 
Left  arm  amputated. 

Mclntyre,  Archibald,  Second  Lieutenant.  Killed  September 
II,  1862. 

Smith,  Zach,  Third  Lieutenant.  Died  from  wounds  re- 
ceived at  Hagerstown,  Md.,  July,  1863. 

Smith,  Christopher,  First  Sergeant.  Transferred'  July,  '62. 
Cadet  of  Charleston  Citadel.     Dead. 

Smith,  David  A.,  Second  Sergeant.  Elected'  Second  Lieu- 
tenant September,  '62.  Promoted  Captain.  Cadet  Charleston 
Citadel.     Surrendered  April,  '65.     Dead. 

Gregg,  William  W.,  Third  Sergeant.  Killed  June  27,  1862. 
Color-bearer  of  regiment. 

Shooter,  Evander  C,  Fourth  Sergeant.  Elected  Second 
Lieutenant,  May  4,  1864.     Killed  May  12,  1864. 

McClenaghan,  George  S.,  Fift'h  Sergeant.  Promoted'  First 
Sergeant,  May  4,  1864.     Surrendered'  April  9,  '65. 

Oliver,  Samuel  L.,  First  Corporal.  Promoted  Second  Lieu- 
tenant, May,  1864,  for  gallantry.  Transferred  by  promotion. 
May,  '64. 


586  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Keith,  David  L.,  Second  Corporal.     Promoted  Second  Ser- 
geant, May  4,  1864.     Surrendered  April  9,  '65. 

Wayne,  Francis  A.,  Third  Corporal.     Transferred,  January, 
'64.     Clergyman. 

Reaves,  Charles  W.,  Corporal.  Killed  July  ist,  1863,  Gettys- 
burg. 

Privates. 

Akman,  John.     Promoted  for  bravery  to  Corporal,  October, 
1862.     Died  June  or  July,  '63. 

Baker,  Joseph  A.     Surrendered  April  9,  '65. 

Baker,  Thomas.     Left  sick  on  the  march  to  Manassas,  never 
heard  from  afterwards. 

Barfield,  Harllee.     Transferred  January,  1864. 

Baxter,  David.     Killed  January,  1865. 

Baxter,  George  W.    ' 

Basin,  David,  August  i,  1861.     Died  December,  1861. 

Bedford,  John,  August  i,  1861.     Killed  at  Chancellorsville, 
May  3,  1863. 

Boatright,  Foster,  August  i,  1861. 

Oapps,  William  W.,  August  i,  1861. 

Carmichael,  Daniel,  August  i,  1861.     Discharged  May  or 
June,  1862,  on  account  of  age,  and  physical  weakness. 

Crawford,  Henry  L.,  August  i,  1861.     Killed  August  29, 
1862. 

Crawford,  Thomas  C,  January,  1864.     Wounded  at  Peters- 
burg ;  carried  to  Point  Lookout  Prison. 

Cribb,  Dempsey,  August  26,  1861.     Killed  August  29,  1862. 

Cribb,  Geo.  Talley,  August  i,  1861.     Discharged  or  retired, 
time  unknown.     Lost  leg  at  Fredericksburg,  Va.     Living. 

Cribb,  W.  Thomas,  August  26,   1861.     Wounded  several 
times.     Surrendered  April  9,  '65. 

Deems,  Stephen  R.,  August  i,  1861.     Died. 

Deer,  William  p.,  January,    1864.     Surrendered  April  9, 
1865. 

Durant,  William  L.,  February,  1864.     Promoted  Corporal,' 
1864.     Surrendered  April  9,  1865. 

Edwards,  Levi  H.,  August  26,  1861. 

Elmore,  William  J.,  August  i,  1861.     Died  July,  1862. 
Elvington,  David,  August  i,  1861.     Killed  July  24,  1864. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  587 

Elvington,  John,  August  i,  1861.  Died  July  or  Auguist,  1862. 

Elvington,  Owen,  August  i,  1861.     Died,  time  unknown. 

Elvington,  Nathan,  August  i,  1861.     Killed  July  28,  1864. 

Flowers,  James  J.,  August  i,  1861.     Died  July,  1862. 

Ford,  Chas.  P.,  August  i,  1861.  Died  September,  1863,  in 
Fort  Delaware. 

Ford,  Geo.  W.,  August  i,  1861.  Died  September,  1863,  in 
prison. 

Ford,  Hardee,  August  i,  1861.  Wounded  June,  1862.  Re- 
turned to  company,  '64.      Surrendered  April,  9,  1865. 

Ford,  H.  Pinckney,  August  i,  1861.  Wounded  at  Ohancel- 
lorsville,  May  3,  1863.     Discharged  January,  '64.     L,iving. 

Goodyear,  John  Emory,  August  i,  1861.  Killed  at  Second 
Manassas. 

Hays,  David  Pinckney,  August  i,  1861.  Promoted  Ser- 
geant, October,  1864.     Surrendered  April,  9,  1865. 

Hays,  Jessee,  August  i,  1861.  Killed  May  3,  1863,  at  Chan- 
cellorsville. 

Hays,  W.  Dwight,  August  i,  1861.  Surrendered  April  9, 
1865. 

Hill,  James,  August  i,  1861.     Transferred  January,  '63. 

Millen,  Joihn,  August  i,  1861.     Surrendered  April,  '65. 

McCormac,  Simeon  P.,  January,  1864.     Died  June,  1864. 

Nobles,  John  N.,  August  i,  1861.     Surrendered  April,  1865. 

Norton,  Evan,  August  26,  1861.  Promoted  Sergeant  May 
4,  1864,  First  Lieutenant  September  10,  '64.  Surrendered 
April,  1865.     Wounded. 

Norton,  James,  August  i,  1861.  Promoted  Ck>rporal,  Sep- 
tember, 1864.  Wounded  at  Fredericksburg,  Va.  Badly 
wounded  16  August,  1864.  Imprisoned  at  Point  Lookout  near 
close  of  war,  and  remained  there  till  July,  1865.     Living. 

Norton,  John  W.,  Sharpshooter,  August  i,  1861.  Served 
five  years  in  Sec»nd  Cavalry  U.  S.  Army.  Transferred  i860, 
joined  C.  S.  A. ;  captured  1865.     Prisoner. 

Oliver,  Alexandter  R.,  January,  1864.  Recruit.  Surren- 
dered, 1865. 

Owens,  Albert  P.,  August  i,  1861.     Died  August  i,  1863. 

Powell,  Jessee,  August  i,  1861.  Died  in  prison,  time  un- 
known. 


588  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Price,  William,  August  i,  1861.  Died  August  or  Septem- 
ber, 1862. 

Ray,  John,  January,  1864.     Killed  August  16,  1864. 

Roberts,  Benj.  Franklin,  August  26,  1861.  Died  May  12, 
1864. 

Roberts,  Pinckney  J.,  August  i,  1861.  Wounded  several 
times — once  in  mouth.     Surrendered  April,  1865. 

Rogers,  Allen.  Transferred  from  Sth  Regiment.  Surren- 
dered April,  1865. 

Rogers,  Ervin.  Transferred  from  8th  Regiment.  Surren- 
dered April,  1865. 

Rogers,  Dennis,  August  i,  1861.  Escaped  from  Point  Look- 
out ;  and  killed  a  few  days  after  in  battle — ^July  24,  '64. 

Rogers,  J.  Dew,  August  26,  '61.     Surrendered  April,  '65. 

Rogers,  James,  August  i,  1861.     Killed  July  24,  1864. 

Rushing,  Archibald,  March,  1862.     Discharged  June,  1862. 

Rushing,  Henry,  August  i,  1861.  Lost  left  arm  at  Erede- 
ricksburg,  December  13,  1862.     Discharged  May,  1863. 

Rushing,  William,  August  i,  1861.  Killed  at  Fredericks- 
burg, December  13,  1862. 

Sanderson,  Solomon,  August  i,  1861.  Surrendered  April, 
1865. 

Scott,  Andrew,  August  i,  1861.     Surrendered  April,  1865. 

Scott,  Aquilla,  March,  1862.  Discharged  February,  1863, 
from  wounds. 

Hodges,  John,  August  i,  1861.     Killed  May  12,  1864. 

Huggins,  Jasper  A.,  August  i,  1861.     Thigh  broken  May  3, 

1863,  at  Chancellorsville.     Died  July,  1863. 
Huggins,  Christopher  C,  August,  1862. 

Ivey,  Berry,  August  i,   1861.     Thigh  broken  August  16, 

1864.  Died  September,  1864. 

James,  Simpson  T.,  August  i,  1861.     Died  August,  1862. 

James,  Joseph,  January,  1861.  Promoted  Corporal  October, 
1864.     Surrendered  April  9,  '65. 

James,  William,  August  i,  1861.     Killed  August  29,  1862. 

Johnson,  William,  August  i,  1861.     Died  July,  1862. 

Keelyn,  John  G.,  August  i,  1861.  Disabled  by  gun-'shot 
wound  left  hand.     Discharged  November,  '64. 

Keith,  Evander,  January,  1862.  Died  July,  1862.  Fur- 
nished five  sons  for  war. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  589 

Keith,  Eli,  August  i,  1861. 

Keith,  James,  January,  1862.     Died  January,  1865. 

Keith,  Jessee,  October,  1864.     Surrendered  April  9,  1865. 
Youngest  son. 

Kirton,  Thomas  H.,  August  i,  1861.     Promoted  Corporal, 
1864. 

Leach,  Duncan  N.,  August  i,  1861.     Died  June,  1864. 

Leaoh,  Jas.  Madison,  August  i,  1861.     Surrendered'  April  9, 
1865. 

Leadh,  John,  AugU'St  26,  1861.     Badly  wounded.     Promoted 
Sergeant,  1864.     Surrendered. 

Lane,  David,  August  i,  1861. 

Lane,  Lemuel,  August  i,  1861.     Died  April,  1864. 

Lewis,  Allen  C,  August  i,   1861.     Wounded  severely  at 
Gettysburg,  Pa.     Surrendered  April  9,  1865. 

Lewis,  Angus,  August  i,  1861.     Wounded  July  3,   1863. 
Died  July  17,  1863. 

Lewis,  Hardee,  August  i,  1861.     Killed  May  12,  1864. 

Lewis,  Joihn.    Unknown.     Thigh  broken  August  16,  1864. 
Died  August,  1864. 

Lockey,  Benjamin  B.,  August  i,  1861.     Died  in  prison,  1864. 

Lovet,  Levin,  August  i,  1861.     Discharged  February,  1862. 

Moody,  Curtis,  August  i,  1861.     Died  July,  1862. 

Moody,  Calvin  C,  January,  1864.     Killed  May  12,  1864. 

Moody,  Oliver,  August  i,  1861.     Died  October  12,  1862, 
from  wounds  received  ait  Sharpsburg. 

Scott,  John  W.,  January,  1864.     Surrendered  April,  '65. 

Shooter,  Chas.  F.,  January,  1862.     Promoted  Sergeant  May 
4,  1864.     Killed  May  6,  1864. 
-  Shooter,  William  N.,  August  i,  1861.     Surrendered  April, 
1865. 

Snipes,  Allen,  August  i,  1861.     Died  November,  1864. 

Stephens,  John,  August  i,  1861.     Killed  May  6,  1864. 

Taylor,  Aquilla,  August  i,  1861.     Killed  May  6,  1864. 

Taylor,  David,  August  i,  1861.     Killed  May  6,  1864. 

Taylor,  Joseph,  October,  1861.     Killed  August  29,  1862. 

Thomas,  Cade,  August  i,   1861.     Surrendered  April,  '65. 
Wagon  driver. 

Thomas,  David,  August  i,  1861.     Surrendered  April,  1865. 


590  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Thomas,  James,  August  i,  1861.     Surrendered  April,  1863. 

Thomas,  Samuel  W.,  August  i,  1861.  Killed  July  i,  1863, 
Gettysburg. 

Turbeville,  Solomon,  August  i,  1861.  Died.  Left  too  sick 
to  travel  at  Frederick  City,  Md.     Never  heard  from  again. 

Walsh,  Henry,  August  i,  1861.     Died  July,  1862. 

White,  William,  August  i,  1861.     Died  September,  1862. 

White,  Nelson  J.,  January,  1864.     Surrendered  April,  1865. 

Woodward,  William  J.,  August  i,  1861.  Surrendered  April, 
1865. 

Watsoo,  David  E.,  March,  1862.     Discharged  1863. 

Barfield,  Henry,  January,  1862.     Died  June,  1862. 

Campbell,  Erasmus  D.,  January,  1862.  Surrendered  April, 
1865. 

Campbell,  John  J.,  May,  1861.     Surrendered  April,  1865. 

Smith,  Benj.  Cause,  October  26,"  1864.  Surrendered  April, 
1865. 

Roll  of  Company  I,  Eighth  Regiment  Infantry,  South  Caro- 
lina Volunteers,  in  *he  Confederate  States  Provisional  Army, 
from  Marion  County : 

Stackhouse,  E.  Thomas,  Captain.  Transferred  Captain  Co. 
L.     Dead. 

Harllee,  Andrew  T.,  Captain.  Wounded  at  Maryland 
Heights,  Gettysburg,  Beans  Station.  Promoted  Second  Lieu- 
tenant 1861.  Captain  May  13,  1862.  Surrendered  Greens- 
boro.    Living. 

Cook,  Henry  B.,  First  Lieutenant.  Wounded  First  Manas- 
sus.     Resigned  1862.     Living. 

Ross,  J.  Newton,  First  Lieutenant.  Wounded  Sharpsburg. 
Killed  at  Deep  Bottom,  July  28,  1864. 

Rogers,  Robert  H.,  Second  Lieutenant.     Resigned  1862. 

Carmichael,  William  D.,  Second  Lieutenant.  Wounded  at 
Malvern  Hill,  Petersburg,  Gettysburg,  Deep  Bottom.  Surren- 
dered Greensboro.     Living. 

Stafford,  Duncan  C,  Second  Lieutenant.  Killed  at  Peters- 
burg, 1864. 

Cameron,  Alexander  W.,  Second  Lieutenant.  Died  at  home, 
1863. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  591 

Cusack,  George  W.,  Second  Lieutenant.     Wounded  at  Cold 
Haibor.     Ivost  a  leg.     Surrendered  at  Greensboro.     Living. 

McClenaghan,  Honorine  H.,  First  Sergeant.     Surrendered 
at  Greensboro.     Died  since  war. 

Harllee,  Peter  S.,  First  Sergeant.     Surrendered  at  Greens- 
boro.    Died  since  war. 

Pearce,  James  F.,  Second  Sergeant.     Surrendered  at  Greens- 
boro.    Living. 

Ayers,  Enoch  S.,  Third  Sergeant.     Living. 

McDuffie,  Daniel  Q.,  Second  Sergeant.     Killed  at  Gettys- 
burg. 

Harllee,  R.  Armstrong,  Fourth  Sergeant.     Died  at  Manassas 
1862. 

Gregg,  A.  Stuart,  Fourth  Sergeant.     Living. 

Jenkins,  Robert  W.,  Fifth  Sergeant.     Transferred  to  Cav- 
alry.    Living. 

Woodrow,  John  E.,  First  Corporal.     Died  in  Virginia. 

Huggins,    George    W.,    First    Corporal.     Surrendered    at 
Greensboro.     Living. 

Harrelson,  Joel,  Second  Corporal.     Surrendered  at  Greens- 
boro.    Living. 

Sparkman,  Levi,  Third  Corporal.     Died'  in  Virginia. 

Cusack,  Samuel  C,  Third  Corporal.     Wounded  Sharpsburg. 
Surrendered  at  Greensboro.     Living. 

DeBerry,  Edmund,  Fourth  Corporal.     Living. 

Robbins,  John  B.,  Fourth  Corporal.     Killed  at  Gettysburg. 

Fenagan,    James,    Fifth    Corporal.     Wounded    Maryland 
Heights.     Surrendered  at  Greensboro.     Died  since  war. 

Rogers,  Ebenezer,  Fifth  Corporal.     Killed  at  Gettysburg. 

Carmichael,  Alexander,   Sixth  Corporal.     Killed  at  Mary- 
land Heights. 

Privates. 

Brigman,  Archibald.     Died  in  Virginia. 

Butler,  John  A.     Died  in  Virginia  in  1861. 

Butler,  Silas  W.     Died  at  home,  1861. 

Bigham,  W.  Harvey. 

Bullock,  Joel.     Living. 

Benton,  George  W.     Killed  at  Manassas. 

Baker,  Jobn.     Died  in  Virginia. 


592  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Cox,  George  B.     Transferred  to  Cavalry. 

Cribb,  Levi. 

Collins,  Edward  H.     Died  in  Virginia,  1861. 

Crawford,  Hardy  B.     Transferred  to  Cavalry. 

Oottingbam,  Stewart.  Detached  as  Corporal  Guard,  1861. 
Transferred  ist  Infantry  and  killed. 

Cottingham,  Thomas  F.  Wounded  Cold  Harbor.  Surren- 
dered at  Greensboro.     Died  since  war. 

Cohen,  David.     Transferred  21st  Infantry.     Living. 

Cohen,  Isaac. 

Dove,  John  W.     Killed  in  Virginia. 

Dove,  Hugh  G.     Killed  at  Manassas. 

Ellen,  Elijah  J.     Died'  in  Virginia. 

Elvington,  Dennis.     Died  in  Virginia,  1861. 

Fryer,  Andrew  J.     Transferred  to  Cavalry.     Living. 

Freeman,  Joseph.     Killed  at  Spottsylvania. 

Gaddy,  Richard  M.     Transferred  to  Cavalry.     Living. 

Gaddy,  William  D.     Died  in  Virginia,  1861. 

Gregg,  Thomas  C.     Transferred  to  Artillery. 

Harralson,  M.  Jackson.     Killed  at  Cold  Harbor. 

Harralson,  E.  Preston. 

Herring,  Ed  B.     Surrendered  at  Greensboro.     Living. 

Hinton,  Jessee  W.     Died  in  Virginia,  1861. 

Jones,  Jessee.     Died  in  Virginia,  1861. 

James,  Robert.     Discharged. 

Lloyd,  Henry,  Alabama.     Died  in  Virginia,  1861. 

Llewellyn,  B.  Frank.     Transferred  to  Cavalry. 

Mace,  James  C.     Died  in  Virginia. 

Meekins,  Philip  B.  Transferred  to  Cavalry.  'Died  since 
war. 

Morgan,  W.  Colin.     Killed  at  Malvern  Hill. 

Miller,  William  H.     Discharged,  Virginia,  1862.     Dead. 

Myers,  John  E.     Died  in  Virginia. 

Moody,  John  B.     Discharged,  Virginia,  1862.     Living. 

Murphy,  John  C.     Dead. 

McCall,  L.  Allsbrooks.     Transferred  to  Cavalry.     Living. 

McRae,  James.     Living. 

Owens,  David  R.     Killed  in  Virginia,  '63. 

Owens,  Shadrach  S.     Killed  at  Cold  Harbor. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  593 

Sparkman,  George  R.     Died  in  Virginia. 

Snipes,  Michael.     Killed  at  Cedar  Creek. 

Smalley,  Isaiah.     Died  in  Virginia. 

Turner,  John  C.     Killed  ait  Cedar  Creek. 

Watson,  John  R.     Killed  at  Malvern  Hill. 

Watson,  Quinn.     Killed  at  Savage  Station. 

Woodrow,  William  J. 

Whitner,  Joseph  N.     Transferred  to  Cavalry. 

Woodberry,  William  D.     Transferred  to  21st  Infantry. 

Roll  of  Company  H,  Eighth  Regiment  Infantry,  South  Caro- 
lina Volunteers,  in  the  Confederate  States  Provisional  Army: 

Singletary,  R.  L.,  Captain,  Marion.     Resigned  May,  1862. 

Mclntyre,  Duncan,  Captain,  Marion.  Promoted  from  First 
Lieutenant,  May,  1862.  Wounded  December  13,  1862,  July 
21,  1864.     Living. 

Myers,  G.  Matthew,  First  Lieutenant.  Promoted  from 
Third  Sergeant  May,  1862.     Killed  at  Gettysburg. 

Brunson,  J.  Boyd,  Second  Lieutenant.     Resigned  May,  1862. 

Culpepper,  George,  Second  Lieutenant.  Promoted  from 
ranks,  1862.     Resigned  December,  '62. 

McPherson,  C.  Ervin,  Second  Lieutenant.  Promoted  from 
Third  Sergeant  to  Second  Junior  Lieutenant,  for  gallantry  at 
Beans  Station,  East  Tennessee.     Dead. 

Gregg,  Walter,  Jr.,  Second  Lieutenant.  Resigned  May, 
1862. 

Cooper,  Robert  D.,  Second  Lieutenant.  Prom'Oted  from  Sec- 
ond Sergeant  May,  1862.     Wounded  at  Wilderness. 

Gregg,  Smiley  A.,  First  Sergeant,  Marion.  Discharged  De- 
cember 14,  1861. 

Gregg,  McFadden,  First  Sergeant,  Marion.  Promoted  from 
Corporal.     Killed  at  Knoxville. 

Moore,  Blaney,  First  Sergeant,  Marion.  Died  in  Union 
Prison,  Camp  Chase. 

Gregg,  John  W.,  Second  Sergeant.  Surrendered  with  Gen- 
eral Johnson. 

Maitthews,  Frank,  Second  Sergeant,  Marion. 

Hughes,  George  W.,  Third  Sergeant,  Marion.  Promoted 
from  Second  Corporal.  Wounded  at  Cedar  Run.  Surren- 
dered with  General  Johnson. 


594  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Godbold,  David,  Third  Sergeant,  Marion.  Promoted  from 
Corporal.     Died  at  Charlottesville. 

Folston,  George,  Third  Sergeant,  Marion.  Promoted  from 
Corporal.     Discharged  under  age. 

Stone,  W.  C.  P.,  Third  Sergeant,  Marion.  Killed  at  Spott- 
sylvania. 

Armfield,  A.  L-,  Corporal,  Marion. 

McWhite,  E.,  Corporal,  Marion. 

Privates. 

Altman,  J.     Died  at  Bull  Run. 

Bartley,  J.  G.     Discharged,  1862. 

Bartley,  Charles.     Killed  at  Gettysburg. 

Bartley,  Edward.     Surrendered  with  General  Johnson. 

Bartley,  Henry,  Marion. 

Bellflowers,  H.,  Marion.     Died  at  hospital,  1862. 

Braydon,  J.  J.,  Marion.  Wounded  at  Spottsylvania.  Sur- 
rendered General  Johnson. 

Bailey,  John,  Marion.     Disdharged,  1862. 

Broach,  G.  W.,  Marion.     Died  in  hospital,  1861. 

Cain,  S.  G.,  Marion.     Discharged,  1861. 

Cain,  K.  S.,  Marion.     Died  at  Bull  Run,  1861. 

Cain,  J.  J.,  Marion.     Died  in  hospital,  1862. 

Cain,  Rix  M.,  Marion.     Discharged,  1862. 

Cain,  Church,  Marion.     Discharged,  1862. 

Cain,  J.  Coon,  Marion.     Discharged,  1861. 

Cain,  J.  H.,  Marion.     Discharged,  1862. 

Cox,  J.  T.,  Marion.     Discharged,  1861. 

Cooper,  Brunson,  Marion.  Surrendered  with  General  John- 
son. 

Cooper,  Witherspoon,  Marion.  Surrendered  with  General 
Johnson. 

Christman,  Jarrott,  Marion.     Died  at  Charlottesville,  1862. 

Davis,  J.  G.,  Marion.     Surrendered  at  Navy  Yard. 

Deas,  Simon,  Marion.     Surrendered  with  General  Jdhnson. 

Eagerton,  Henry,  Marion.  Surrendered  with  General  John- 
son. 

Finklea,  John,  Marion.     Surrendered  with  General  Johnson. 

Flowers,  W.  D.,  Marion.     Discharged,  1862. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  595 

Guy,  J.  H.,  Marion.     Surrendered  with  General  Johnson. 

Graham,  John  M.,  Marion.     Discharged  1862,  under  age. 

Hampton,  Thomas,  Marion.     Killed  at  Gettysburg. 

Hampton,  George,  Marion.  Surrendered  with  General 
Johnson. 

Hutchison,  George,  Marion.  Unaccounted  for  after  Gettys- 
burg. 

Hutchison,  W.  C.,  Marion.     Died  at  Culpeper,  1861. 

Hutchison,  Samuel,  Marion.  Wounded  at  Wilderness.  Dis- 
charged, disabled. 

Hunter,  Dawson,  Marion.     Discharged,  1862. 

Harral,  Ephraim,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia,  1861. 

Harral,  N.  W.,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia,  1863. 

HarraJ,  W.  T.,  Marion.     Killed  at  Maryland  Heights. 

Hyman,  Benjamin,  Marion.     Discharged,  1862. 

Hyman,  C.  E.,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia,  1861. 

Hughes,  R.  S.,  Marion.  Surrendered  with  General  John- 
son. 

Holland,  J.  S.,  Marion.     Killed  at  Cedar  Run. 

Holland,  George,  Marion.  Surrendered'  with  General  John- 
son. 

Hodges,  Barney,  Marion.     Wounded  at  Chattanooga. 

Kennedy,  Alfred,  Marion.     Discharged,  1862. 

Kennedy,  Andrew,  Marion.     Discharged,  1862. 

Kersey,  E.,  Marion.     Discharged,  1861. 

Lewellyn,  Jessee  B.,  Marion.     Discharged,  1862. 

Leach,  Julius,  Marion.     Killed  Gettysburg. 

McKissick,  A.  G.,  Marion.     Discharged,  1862,  under  age. 

McKissick,  Murchison,  Marion. 

Myers,  William,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia,  1863. 

McWhite,  A.  A.,  Marion.     Killed  alt  Maryland  Heights. 

Myers,  A.  ,A.,  Marion.     Surrendered  with  General  Johnson. 

Pearce,  R.  H.,  Marion.     EHscharged,  1862. 

Prosser,  Michael,  Marion. 

Rogers,  Cambyses,  Marion.  Wounded  at  Camp  Chase. 
Surrendered  with  General  Johnson. 

Rogers,  Millington,  Marion. 

Ray,  A.,  Marion.     Surrendered  with  General  Johnson. 

Stephenson,  Andrew,  Marion.     Discharged,  1861. 


596  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Stone,  F.  F.,  Marion.     Died  Bull  Run,  1861. 
Stone,  W.  C.  P.,  Marion. 

Williams,  Henry,  Marion.     Killed  at  Manassas,  1861. 
Williams,  Tihomas,  Marion.     Died  at  Bull  Run,  1861. 
Williams,  R.  L.,  Marion.     Died  at  Bull  Run,  1861. 
Williams,  S.  B.,  Marion.     Discharged,  under  age. 
Weatherford,  W.  S.,  Marion.     Discharged,  1861. 
Weatherford,  Ben,  Marion. 

Roll  of  Company  I,  First  Regiment  Infantry  (Hagood's),  S. 
C.  Volunteers,  in  the  Confederate  States  Provisional  Army, 
from  Marion  County : 

Stafford,  James  H.,  Captain.  Wounded  at  Spottsylvania, 
May  6,  1864.  Resigned  March,  1865,  continuous  bad  health. 
Dead. 

Harllee,  John  W.,  First  Lieutenant.  Wounded  Wilderness, 
May  4,  1864.     Incapable  of  active  service  after  wound.     Dead. 

Manning,  William  L.,  Second  L,ieutenant.  Killed  at  Grove- 
town,  Va.,  August  29,  1862. 

Murchison,  Roderick,  Second  Lieutenant.  Promoted  from 
Third  Lieutenant,  1862.  Resigned  and  joined  Kirk's  Cavalry. 
Dead. 

Murphy,  Duncan,  Lieutenant.  Promoted  from  First  Ser- 
geant, May,  1864.     Killed  at  Spottsylvania,  May  6,  1864. 

Butler,  Gilbert,  First  Sergeant.  Wounded  Wilderness.  Pro- 
moted from  Sergeant.     Died,  1866,  from  effects  of  wound. 

Blue,  William,  First  Sergeant.  Promoted,  1863.  Killed  at 
Wilderness. 

McKellar,  Jdhn  D.,  First  Sergeant.  Promoted  from  Corpo- 
ral.    Died  East  Tennessee,  March  10,  1864. 

Mclnnis,  Daniel,  Second  Sergeant.     Died  at  'home,  1868. 

McCall,  Nathan,  Third  Sergeant.     Died  alt  home,  1862. 

Carmidhael,  Malcolm*  C,  Fourth  Sergeant.  Promoted  from 
Corporal,  1864.     Living. 

Campbell,  Daniel,  Fifth,  Sergeant.  Promoted  from  Corpo- 
ral, 1864.     Living. 

Carmichael,  Daniel  A.,  Corporal.  Died  at  Charleston,  Au- 
gust 28,  1862. 

McCormac,  John  H.,  Corporal.     Living. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  597 

Lofton,  John  H.,  Corporal.     Killed  at  Richmond,  1864. 
Mclnnis,   Murdock,   Corporal.     Wounded   Fredericksburg, 
1862.     Died  of  wound's  at  hospital,  January  13,  1862. 
Brigman,  Arthur  P.,  Corporal.     Exchanged. 

Privates. 

Ammons,  Philip. 

Ammons,  Asa.     Died  at  hospital,  1863. 

Bailey,  Christopher.  Wounded  Lookout  Valley,  October 
23,  1863.     Living. 

Bethea,  Holden.     Living. 

Bolton,  Britton.     Died  at  hospital,  1864. 

Butler,  Eli  T.    Living. 

Butler,  Alfred  W.     Living. 

Buie,  William  H.     Died  Newman,  Ga.,  October,  '63. 

Bundy,  John  A.     Living. 

Burnett,  John.     Living. 

Carmichael,  Alex.  J.  Wounded  Manassas,  August  30,  1862. 
Died  of  wounds,  Virginia,  January  30,  1863. 

Campbell,  John  C.  Wounded  Spottsylvania,  May  6,  1864. 
Came  home  on  wounded  furlough,  and  killed  by  mistake  for 
deserter. 

Clark,  ^ennefh.     Died  in  hospital,  Virginia,  December,  1862. 

Cottingham,  Stewart.  Wounded  Groveitown,  Va.,  August 
29,  1862.     Died,  1874,  from  effect  of  wounds. 

Crawford,  James  D.     Living. 

Coward,  Abner.     Died  at  home,  1866,  from  disease. 

Coward,  Ansel. 

Dillon,  William.     Died,  1879. 

Easterling,  Henry.     Killed  Fort  Harrison,  October  2,  1864. 

Evans,  William  T.  Exchanged  to  Gregg's  Battery,  1863. 
Living. 

Fitzgerald,  Robert  E. 

Fore,  Tracy.     Exchanged  to  8th  Regiment.     Living. 

Gamer,  James.     Died  OharleS'tori,  August,  1862. 

Gaddy,  Ithanner  J.     Living. 

Graham,  Dugald.  Died  in  hospital,  Virginia,  November  16, 
1862. 

Gray,  Franklin.     Living. 


598  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Gray,  Henry.     Living. 

Hamilton,  Tobias.  Exchanged  to  23d  Infantry,  1864.  Liv- 
ing. 

Hamilton,  Tristram.     Died  Charleston,  S.  C,  June  22,  1862. 

Hamilton,  Whitton.     Living. 

Horton,  Thomas  T.     Living. 

Hargrove,  Isaac  H.  Killed  East  Tennessee,  January  17, 
1864. 

Herring,  Harmon.     Living. 

Herring,  Edward.     Living. 

Herring,  Daniel  M.     Died  at  home. 

Herring,  Samuel.     Living. 

Hyat,  Soloman.     Living. 

Hyat,  John  C.  D.     Living. 

Hyat,  James  K.     Died  Charleston,  1862. 

Hyat,  John.     Living. 

Hyat,  Hugh.  Discharged  Charleston,  1862.  Died  at  home, 
1866. 

Hyat,  David.     Died  of  disease  in  Maryland  on  a  march. 

Hulon,  Wylie.     Living. 

Hamilton,  John.  Wounded  at  Richmond,  December  10, 
1864.     Died  at  home,  January,  1868. 

Jackson,  Warren  A.     Died  hospital,  1862. 

Jackson,  Charles  T.     Living. 

Jackson,  James  R. 

Jackson,  John  T.     Died  at  hospital,  1863. 

Jackson,  John  C.     Wounded  Lookout  Valley,  1863. 

McCall,  John  C.     Living. 

McDaniel,  Amos.     Killed  at  Spottsylvania,  May  6,  1864. 

McDaniel,  Joseph.     Died  Charleston,  S.  C,  1862,  August. 

McDaniel,  Randall.  Wounded  Lookout  Valley,  October  28, 
1863.     Died,  1868,  from  effects  of  wounds. 

McArthur,  James.     Died  near  Culpeper,  December,  1862. 

Owens,  Redin.     Dead. 

Paul,  William.     Died  near  Winchester,  October  15,  1862. 

Stackhouse,  William  R.     Dead. 

Stackhouse,  Tristram  F.     Living. 

S'herwood,  Richard.     Died  Columbia,  June  2d,  1862. 

Surles,  Archibald.     Living. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  599 

Taylor,  Ephraim.     Living. 
Townsend,  Daniel  A.     Living. 
Turner,  Jcvhn  C.     Living. 
Turner,  Joel.     Living. 
Walter,  Philip  D. 

Roll  of  Company  L,  Tenth  Regiment  Infantry,  South  Caro- 
lina Volunteers,  in  the  Confederate  States  Provisional  Army : 

McMillan,  S.  E.,  Captain,  Marion.     Not  re-elected  in  1862. 

Ford,  A.  H.,  Captain,  Marion.  Promoted  from  First  Lieu- 
tenant, 1862. 

Harrelson,  D.  J.,  First  Lieutenant.  Promoted  from  Second 
Lieutenant,  1862.     Wounded  Atlanta. 

Stackhouse,  R.  B.,  Second  Lieutenant.  Not  re-elected  in 
1862. 

Russ,  T.  B.,  Second  Lieutenant.  Promoted  from  First  Ser- 
geant.    Wounded,  Atlanta. 

Giles,  W.  H.,  Second  Lieutenant.  Promoted  from  ranks. 
Killed  Atlanta,  July  28,  1864. 

McDuffie,  D.  D.,  Sergeant.  Promoted  First  Lieutenant  Co. 
G. 

Smith,  T.  A.,  Sergeant.     Mustered  out,  over  age. 

Murphy,  N.  C,  Sergeant.  Promoted  Second  Lieutenant  Co. 
F. 

Munnerlyn,  W.  H.,  Sergeant.  Promoted  Second  Lieuten- 
ant Co.  D. 

Smith,  A.  N.,  Sergeant.  Promoted  from  Corporal.  Cap- 
tured at  Missionary  Ridge. 

Coleman,  W.  D.,  Corporal.  Promoted  from  Corporal. 
Wounded  at  Chickamauga. 

Lee,  H.,  Corporal.     Discharged  at  Georgetown. 

Hayes,  T.  B.,  Corporal.     Discharged  at  Georgetown. 

Miller,  L.  W.  Died  of  disease  in  South  Carolina,  on  march 
to  Charleston. 

Collins,  D.  F.,  Corporal.     Died  of  disease  in  Georgetown. 

Johnson,  T.  H.,  Corporal.     Promoted  from  ranks. 

McCall,  D.  N.,  Corporal.     Promoted  from  ranks. 

Mclntyre,  W.  W.,  Corporal.     Promoted  from  ranks. 

39 


600  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Privates. 
Adkinson,  J.  A. 
Adkinson,  B.  F. 

Aymet,  W.  D.     Wounded  Chickamauga, 
Barber,  William.     Captured  at  Nashville. 
Boatright,  J.  A. 

Benjamin,  S.     Mustered  out,  under  age. 
Brown,  G.  R.  W.     Wounded  at  Murfreesboro.     Lost  a  leg. 
Brown,  R.  M.     Died  at  hospital. 
Brown,  J.  L.     Died  at  hospital. 
Brown,  L.     Died'  at  hospital. 
Brown,  W. 

Brogsdfen^  E.     Discharged. 
Collins,  A.  J.     Died  at  hospital. 
Collins,  J.  D.     Die-d  at  hospital. 
Collins,  R.     Wounded  Chickamauga. 
Collins,  S.     Wounded)  Missionary  Ridge. 
Collins,  J.  G.     Died  at  hospital. 
Campbell",  G.  F.     Died  at  hospital. 
Carmichael,  J.  L,.     Died  at  Franklin,  of  wounds. 
Cameron,  D.  C.     Mustered  out,  under  age. 
Coleman,  Jessee. 
Croker,  H.     Died  at  hospital. 
Clark,  H.  S.     Discharged,  Prussian  subject. 
Deaver,  A.,  Marion.     Wounded  Murfreesboro.     Lost  a  leg. 
Flowers,   B.   A.     Wounded  Resaca.     Died  of  wounds  at 
Murfreesboro. 

Flowers,  B.     Died  at  hospital. 

Flowers,  N.     Died  at  hospital. 

Ferguson,  M.  M.     Detached,  hospitaJ  steward. 

Gregg,  A.  E. 

Gregg,  William. 

Gregg,  R.  W.     Mustered  out,  under  age. 

Giles,  A.  J.     Captured  Missionary  Ridge. 

Giles,  R.  J. 

Giles,  J.  B.     Died,  hospital. 

Harrelson,  G.  W. 

Hertz,  H.     Discharged,  Prussian  subject. 

Holden,  E. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  601 

Holden,  J. 

Horn,  J.  M.     Died  at  hospital. 

Huggins,  T. 

Huggins,  A.  H.     Died  at  hospital. 

Huggins,  N.  C.     Killed  at  Nashville. 

Huggins,  J. 

Jasper,  A.  W.     Killed  at  Murfreesboro. 

James,  G.  T. 

Johnson,  A.  P.     Wounded  at  Murfreesboro. 

Johnson,  G.  W.     Wounded  at  Murfreesboro. 

Lane,  J.     Mustered  out,  under  age. 

Lane,  G.  W.     Transferred. 

Lambert,  B.  F.     Discharged. 

Mearse,  P.  L.     Died  at  hospital. 

Miller,  N. 

Miller,  James. 

Miller,  Thompson. 

Middieton,  J.  E.     Wounded  Chickamauga,  lost  leg.     Living. 

Murphy,  J.  B. 

McCall,  J.     Killed  at  Bentonville. 

McDaniel,  A.     Died  at  hospital. 

McKenzie,  W.  T.     Discharged. 

Nance,  A.     Discharged. 

Owens,  N.  R.,  Marion. 

Page,  A.     Wounded  Resaca. 

Price,  J.  C.     Wounded  Chickamauga. 

Price,  B.  T.     Wounded.     Captured  Missionary  Ridge. 

Richardson,  F.  M.     Died  at  hospital. 

Richardson,  J.  G. 

Rogers,  W.  H.     Captured  Missionary  Ridge. 

Rogers,  J.  D. 

Sawyer,  T. 

Snipes,  J.     Killed  at  Franklin. 

Smith,  G.  W.     Transferred  to  Gregg's  Battery. 

Smith,  J.  F. 

Stepihens,  W.  T.     Mustered  out,  under  age. 

Shelley,  J.  T.     Captured  Missionary  Ridge. 

S-weet,  W.  P.     Died  at  hospital. 

Tabler,  W.     Captured. 


602  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Thompson,  W.  M.     Killed  at  Murfreesboro. 

Wall,  S.  B. 

Waller,  G.  W. 

Wallace,  W.  J.     Captured  in  Kentucky. 

Wiggins,  J.  B.     Died  in  hospital. 


Roll  of  Company  L,,  Eighth  Regiment  Infantry,  South  Caro- 
lina Volunteers,  in  the  Confederate  States  Provisional  Army : 

Stackhouse,  E.  Thomas,  Captain,  Marion.  Wounded  at 
Sharpsburg,  Gettsyburg,  Deep  Bottom.  Transferred  from  Co. 
I.     Promoted  Major,  Lieutenant  Colonel  and  Colonel.     Dead. 

Caimichael,  William  D.,  Captain,  Marion.  Wounded  at 
Malvern  Hill,  Gettysburg,  Petersburg.  Promoted  Captain  at 
Gettysburg.     Surrendered  at  Greensboro.     Living. 

Huggins,  George  W.,  First  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Surren- 
dered at  Greensboro.     Living. 

Clark,  John  Calvin,  Second  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Promoted 
from  ranks  Co.  I.     Killed  Deep.  Bottom. 

Carmichael,  Duncan  D.,  First  Sergeant,  Marion.  Surren- 
dered Greensboro.     Living. 

Ayers,  Enoch  S.,  Second  Sergeant,  Marion.  Surrendered 
Greensboro.     Living. 

Rogers,  Ebenezer,  Third  Sergeant,  Marion.  Killed  Gettys- 
burg. 

Mannings,  Eli,  Fourth  Sergeant,  Marion.  Transferred  to 
Spark's  Cavalry.     Dead. 

Murchison,  Duncan,  Fifth  Sergeant,  Marion.  Wounded 
Gettysburg.     Surrendered  Greensboro.     Dead. 

Carmichael,  Alexander,  First  Corporal,  Marion.  Killed 
Harper's  Ferry. 

Page,  Joseph  N.,  Second  Corporal,  Marion.  Surrendered 
Greensboro.     Dead. 

Roberts,  James  H.,  Third  Corporal,  Marion.  Killed  Savage 
Station. 

Barfield,  Thompson,  Fourth  Corporal,  Marion.  .  Transferred 
from  Co.  L  Wounded  Chickamauga,  lost  a  leg.  Discharged. 
Dead. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MASION  COUNTY.  608 

Privates. 

Alford,  Robert  H.,  Marion. 

Alford,  Artemus,  Marion.     Died  near  Richmond. 

Alford,  W.  McD.,  Marion.     Surrendered  Greensboro.     L,iv- 
ing. 

Amnions,  J.  Duncan,  Marion^.     Wounded  Gettysburg.     Liv- 
ing. 

Ayers,  D.  Dwight,  Marion.     Died  near  Richmond. 

BarfieW,  R.  Talley,  Marion.     Wounded  twice  at  Cold  Har- 
bor.    Transferred  from  Co.  I.    Living. 

Barfield,  Marsden,  Marion.     Living.     Surrendered  Greens- 
boro.    Transferred  from  Co.  I. 

Barfield,  Harllee,  Marion.     Wounded  Eteep  Bottom.     Sur- 
rendered Greensboro.     Living. 

Bethea,  J.  Frank,  Marion.     Transferred  to  Medical  Depart- 
ment. 

Bethea,  Henry  P.,  Marion.     Died  in  Union  Prison. 

Brigman,   Arthur   P.,    Marion.     Discharged.    Transferred 
from  Co.  I.     Living. 

Byrd,  Hugh  G.,  Marion 

Carmichael,  Archibald,  Marion.     Wounded  Deep  Bottom. 
■Transferred  from  Co.  I.     Surrendered  Greensboro.     Living. 

Carmichael,  Alex.,  Jr.,  Marion.     Wounded  Deep  Bottom. 
Transferred  from  Co.  I.     Surrendered'  Greensboro.     Living. 

Carmichael,  Duncan  C,  Marion.     Transferred  from  Co.  I. 
Living. 

Cottingham,  Conner,  Marion.     Died  near  Richmond. 

Candy,  Samuel,  Marion.     Died  at  home. 

Clark,  R.  Knox,  Marion.     Wounded'  Malvern  Hill.     Dis- 
charged.    Died  since  war. 

Crowley,  William  C,  Marion.     Transferred  23d  Infantry. 

Coward,  Harvey,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia. 

Cook,  John,  Marion. 

Harper,  John  M.,  Marion.     Wounded."    Living. 

Herring,  Samuel,  Marion.     Discharged.     Living. 

Huckabee,  John,  Marion.     Transferred  to  Co.  K. 

Hicks,  John  C,  North  Carolina. 

Huggins,  William  E.,  South  Carolina.    Surrendered  Greens- 
boro.    Living. 


604  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Huggins,  Doc,  South  Carolina.  Surrendered  Greensboro. 
Living. 

Hunt,  James  E.,  South  Carolina.     Died  in  Virginia. 

Herring,  Ebby  B.,  South  Carolina.     Died  in  Virginia. 

Irwin,  James  R.,  Darlington.     Killed  Deep  Bottom. 

Jackson,  Robert,  Marion.  Wounded  Beans  Station.  Sur- 
rendered Greensboro.     Living. 

Jackson,  Malcolm,  Marion.  Surrendered  Greensboro.  Liv- 
ing. 

Jackson,  Levi,  Marion.     Surrendered  Greensboro.     Living. 

Jackson,  Nicholas,  Marion.  Wounded  Cold  Harbor.  Sur- 
rendered Greensboro.     Dead. 

Lane,  Samuel,  Marion.  Wounded  Fredericksburg.  Sur- 
rendered Greensboro.     Living. 

Lane,  Evander,  Marion.     Killed  North  Anna  River. 

McPhaul,  Daniel,  Marion.     Died  near  Richmond. 

McRae,  Colin,  Marion.  Wounded  Savage  Station.  Died 
near  Richmond. 

McRae,  Norman,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia. 

McRae,  Roderick,  Marion.  Surrendered  Greensboro.  Liv- 
ing. 

McRae,  Franklin,  Marion.     Transferred  to  Co.  K. 

McGill,  Colin,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia. 

McLaurin,  Duncan,  Marion. 

Morgan,  W.  Colin,  Marion.  Wounded  Malvern  Hill.  Died 
at  hospital. 

McGill,  David,  Marion.  Wounded  Chickamauga.  Sur- 
rendered Greensboro.     Living. 

Owens,  Shadrack  S.,  Marion.     Transferred  to  Co.  I. 

Page,  David  N.,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia. 

Page,  Doc.  T.,  Marion. 

Rogers,  Thompson,  Marion. 

Rogers,  John  J.,  Marion.     Killed  at  Malvern  Hill. 

Rogers,  Allen,  Marion.  Surrendered  at  Greensboro.  Liv- 
ing. 

Rogers,  William  D.,  Marion.  Surrendered  at  Greensboro. 
Dead. 

Rogers',  Ervin  B.,  Marion. 

Rogers,  Lot  B.,  Marion.  Surrendered  at  Greensboro.  Liv- 
ing. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  605 

Stocks,  John,  North  Carolina. 

Sarvis,  John,  Marion. 

Turner,  John  C,  Marion.     Transferred  to  Co.  I. 

Turbeville,  Calvin,  Marion.     Died  in  Williamsburg. 

Waters,  John  W.,  Marion. 

Watson,  John  R.     Killed  Malvern  Hill. 

Watson,  Quinn,  Marion.     Killed  Savage  Station. 

Watson,  Ivindsay,  Marion.     Died  in  Virginia. 

Roll  of  Company  I,  Twenty-first  Regiment  Infantry,  South 
Carolina  Volunteers,  in  the  Confederate  States  Provisional 
Army: 

Woodberry,  Evander  M.,  Captain,  Marion.  Resigned 
March  i,  1862,  and  died  at  home  soon  after. 

Howard,  Richard  G.,  Captain,  Marion.  Captured  Morris 
Island,  July  10,  1863.     Surrendered  at  Florence.     Dead. 

Casque,  Henry  A.,  First  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Discharged, 
May  I,  1862.     Dead. 

Cannon,  Henry  M.,  First  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Discharged, 
May  I,  1862.    Dead. 

Shelley,  David,  Second  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Captured 
Petersburg,  June  24,  1864.     Died  Point  Lookout,  1864. 

Jordan,  A.  Bennett,  Bv.  Second  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Re- 
signed, May  I,  1862.    Living. 

Jarrat,  J.  Allston,  Second  Lieutenant,  Darlington.  Died  of 
disease  at  Charleston. 

Altman,  William  J.,  Second  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Wounded 
Petersburg.     Promoted  May,  1863,    Died  since  war. 

Ohappell,  Henry  C,  Second  Lieutenant,  Alabama.  Died  of 
wounds  at  Petersburg. 

Noble,  J.  Hardy,  First  Sergeant,  Marion. 

Gasque,  C.  Marion,  Second  Sergeant,  Marion.  Wounded 
Morris  Island.     Killed  City  Point,  June,  1864. 

McDaniel,  John  R.,  Third  Sergeant,  Marion.  Captured 
Petersburg.     Died  Elmira. 

Jordan,  George  S.,  Fourth  Sergeant,  Marion.    Living. 

Cannon,  George  H.,  Fifth  Sergeant,  Darlington.     Living. 

Hucks,  John  R.,  Sergeant,  Marion.  Discharged,  over  age. 
Dead. 


606  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Dozier,  J.  Valentine,  First  Corporal,  Marion.  Killed  Morris 
Island,  July  lO,  1863. 

Cannon,  William  H.,  Second  Corporal,  Darlington.     Living. 

Wright,  John  W.,  Third  Corporal,  Marion.  Killed  Peters- 
burg, June  24,  1864. 

Altman,  J.  Hamilton,  Fourth  Corporal,  Marion.     Living. 

Privates. 

Avant,  Orlando  R.,  Marion.     Died  Columbia. 

Altman,  Samuel  S.,  Marion.     Died  Georgetown,  April,  1862. 

Altman,  J.  Benjamin,  Marion.  Died  Georgetown,  March 
28,  1862. 

Altman,  J.  Wesley,  Marion.  Died  Georgetown,  March  26, 
1862. 

Bone,  John,  Marion.     Died  at  home,  1862. 

Bone,  Robert  G.,  Marion.  Discharged,  1862,  over  age.  Liv- 
ing. 

Bailey,  G.,  Marion.  Discharged  for  disability,  November 
19,  1863. 

Boatwright,  Robert  S.,  Marion.  Wounded  Morris  Island. 
Lost  a  leg.     Captured,  July,  1863.     Living. 

Brown,  George  W.,  Marion. 

Brown,  Henry,  Marion.     Living. 

Brown,  Jessee  C,  Marion.     Died  at  home,  1863. 

Brown,  William  J.,  Marion.  Wounded  Petersburg,  1863. 
Lost  a  leg.     Living. 

Brown,  Evander,  Marion.  Captured  Petersburg,  May  9, 
1864.     Died  at  Elmira,  1864. 

Bellflowers,  Jessee,  Marion.  Killed  Battery  Wagner,  July 
12,  1863. 

Burroughs,  Thomas,  Williamsburg.  Discharged,  1862,  over 
age. 

Cannon,  Samuel  W.,  Marion.     Living. 

Collins,  Valentine,  Marion.     Living. 

Cook,  James  Ervin,  Marion.     Died  Georgetown,  1862. 

Davis,  James  H.,  Marion. 

Davis,  H.  Foster,  Marion.  Died  of  wounds,  Petersburg, 
July,  1864. 

Dozier,  John  F.,  Marion.     Captured  Morris  Island,  July  10, 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.       '  607 

1863.  Discharged  Point  Lookout  at  close  of  service.     Living. 
Dozier,  Tully,  Marion.     Captured  Fort  Fisher,  where  he 

was  discharged  at  close  of  service.     Dead. 

Foxworth,  Ervin  J.,  Marion.     Died  at  home,  1862. 

Foxworth,  Joseph  B.,  Marion.  Killed  Drewry's  Bluff,  May 
16,  1864. 

Casque,  Ervin  A.,  Marion.     Killed  Gaines  Mill,  June  5,  1864. 

Gregg,  Thomas  C,  Marion.     Transferred  to  Co.  B. 

Gregg,  Wesley  L.,  Marion.  Attached  to  Ambulance  Corps. 
Living.  ^ 

Gunter,  William,  Marion.     Wounded  Port  Walthall,  May  7, 

1864.  Died  Port  Walthall,  May  9,  1864. 

Ham,  Charles  W.,  Marion.  Died  Georgetown,  April  25, 
1863. 

Herrin,  Allison  W.,  Marion.     Died  at  home,  1863,  of  disease. 

Herrin,  David  F.,  Marion.  Died  Georgetown,  1863,  April, 
25th. 

Hewett,  Thomas,  Marion.     Living. 

Hewett,  Joseph  R.,  Marion.     Living. 

James,  James  V.,  Marion.  Hospital  Steward,  October  20, 
1862.    Living. 

Jarraitt,  James  B.,  Darlington. 

Jarratt,  Ohas.  Ed.,  Darlington.  Discharged,  1863,  under 
age. 

Jordan,  W.  King,  Marion.  Captured  Petersburg,  June  24, 
1864.     Died  Elmira,  1864. 

Lowrimore,  John,  Marion.  Died  Fort  Reliance,  Pee  Dee, 
June  15,  1862. 

Lowrimore,    Moses,    Marion.     Discharged,    December   24, 

1862,  for  disability. 

Lowrimore,  Hanson  L.,  Marion.     Died  at  home,  1862. 
Marlow,  R.  William,  Marion.     Killed  Petersburg,  1864. 
Martin,  Stephen  H.,  Marion.     Died  March,  1867. 

Martin, ,  Marion.     Living. 

McClellan,  Daniel  B.,  Marion.    Living. 

McClellan,  Enos,  Marion.     Living. 

McDaniel,  J.  Randall,  Marion.     Living. 

Miller,  John  P.,  Darlington.     Discharged,  December. 

Pace,  James  A.,  Marion.     Captured  Morris  Island,  July  10, 

1863.  Died  Point  Lookout,  1864. 


608  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Powell,  Noah  P.,  Marion.     Killed  Petersburg,  June  i8,  1864. 

Parker,  Thomas,  Marion.     Captured,  1863. 

Prior,  William  M.,  Georgetown.  Discharged  for  disability, 
April  23,  1863.     Living. 

Rogers,  Thomas  G.,  Marion.  Died  Fort  Fisher,  January 
16,  1865. 

Rogers,  J.  Benjamin,  Marion.     Died,  1879. 

Richardson,  Pinckney  G.,  Marion.     Died,  1876. 

Richardson,  E.  Franklin,  Marion.  Discharged,  July  22, 
1862,  for  disability.     Died,  1881. 

Richardson,  Thomas,  Marion.     Died  Charleston. 

Richardson,  David  W.,  Marion.  Killed  Swift  Creek,  May 
9,  1864. 

Richardson,  J.  Graves,  Marion.     Living. 

Richardson,  James  H.,  Marion.     Living. 

Richardson,  Thomas  J.,  Marion.  Wounded  Petersburg, 
severely.     Living. 

Rowell,  James  W.,  Marion.  Wounded  Morris  Island.  Died 
at  home,  1868. 

Rowell,  David  A.,  Marion.     Died  Morris  Island,  May,  1863. 

Rowell,  Valentine,  Marion.     Living. 

Rowell,  William  P.,  Marion.  Wounded  Port  Walthall, 
May  7,  1864.     Died  of  wounds  Port  Walthall,  May  9, 1864. 

Stanley,  John  F.,  Marion.  Died  of  wounds  Port  Walthall, 
May  9,  1864.     Wounded  Port  Walthall,  May  7,  1864. 

Sampson,  Joseph,  Georgetown.     Detailed  Qr.  Mas.  Dept. 

Sampson,  Samuel,  Georgetown.     Transferred,  April,  1862. 

Shelley,  John  C,  Marion.     Living. 

Shelley,  Zachariah,  Marion. 

Sineath,  Joseph  P.,  Marion.     Died  Morris  Island,  1863. 

Shackelford,  Stephen  P.,  Marion.     Living. 

Tind'al,  Bmanuel,  Marion.     Living. 

Tindal,  Solomon,  Marion.     Died  at  borne,  February  13,  1863. 

Tucker,  John,  Marion.  Wounded  Morris  Island.  Dis- 
charged, disabled,  July  10,  1863. 

Turbeville,  Asa,  Marion.     Wounded  Petersburg.     Living. 

Williams,  Henry  S.  B.,  Marion.  Wounded  Port  Walthall, 
May  7,  1864.     Died,  May  9,  1864. 

Williams,  John  C,  Marion.  Died  Georgetown,  March  25, 
1862. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  609 

Williams,  Jacob  H.,  Marion.     Living. 

Williams,  Jordan,  Marion.  Discharged,  February  i,  1862, 
over  age. 

White,  James  H.,  Marion.     Died  Petersburg,  June,  1864. 

Whaley,  John  H.,  Marion.  Died  at  home,  November  17, 
1862. 

Whaley,  William  M.,  Marion.  Died  at  home,  February  10, 
1862. 

Wall,  Lawson  J.,  Marion.     Living. 

Wallace,  John  J.,  Marion.     Died  at  home,  1862. 

Roll  of  Company  E,  23d  Regiment,  South  Carolina  Volun- 
teers, in  the  Confederate  States  Provisional  Army : 

Fladger,  Chas.  J.,  Captain.     Killed  by  deserter,  at  home. 

Finklea,  James  C,  Captain.  Resigned,  July  17,  1864.  Liv- 
ing. 

Covington,  Harris,  First  Lieutenant.     Resigned. 

Moody,  R.  B.,  First  Lieutenant.  Wounded  Petersburg. 
Died'  since  war. 

Bethea,  B.  J.,  First  Lieutenant.     Living. 

Crawford,  W.  H.,  Second  Lieutenant.     Dead. 

Moody,  A.  C,  Second  Lieutenant.     Resigned.     Living. 

Bethea,  J.  C,  Third  Lieutenant. 

Bethea,  A.  J.,  Third  Lieutenant.     Dead. 

Carmichael,  D.,  Third  Lieutenant.  ,  Died,  1864. 

Mclntyre,  D.  A.,  First  Sergeant. 

Hayes,  S.  P.,  Second  Sergeant. 

Benjamin,  E.,  Second  Sergeant.     Died,  1869.     Promoted. 

Wilson,  J.  T.,  Third  Sergeant.  Wounded  Second  Manas- 
sas, August  30,  1862.     Living. 

Whittington,  C.  C,  Third  Sergeant.  Promoted  from  raidcs. 
Living. 

Price,  H.  G.,  Third  Sergeant.  Promoted  from  ranks.  Liv- 
ing. 

Mclntyre,  J.  C,  Third  Sergeant.     Promoted  from  ranks. 

Smith,  H.,  Fourth  Sergeant.     Promoted  from  ranks. 

Jackson,  S.  S.,  Fourth  Sergeant.     Promoted  from  ranks. 

Berry,  D.  F.,  Fifth  Sergeant.     Promoted  from  ranks.    Dead. 


610  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Braswell,  J.  R.,  Fifth  Sergeant.    Prom 
ing. 
,  Tart,  J.  W.,  First  Corporal.     Promote 

Smith,   F.    D.,   First    Corporal.     Pre 
Wounded.     Living. 

Blackman,  Wm.,  First  Corporal.     Promoted  from  ranks. 
Living. 

Owens,  D.  F.,  First  Corporal.     Promoted  from,  ranks.     Liv- 
ing. 

Crawford,  G.  G.,  Second  Corporal.     Promoted  from  ranks. 
Living. 

Hays,  J.  D.,  Second  Corporal.     Living. 

Hays,  Wilson,:  Third  Corporal.     Living. 

Hearsey,  W.,  Fourth  Corporal.     Living. 

Smith,  J.  R.,  Fourth  Corporal.     Living. 

Sanderson,  D.,  Fourth  Corporal.     Detached  service. 

Owens,  Willis,  Fifth  Corporal.     Living. 

Privates. 
Allen,  J.  W.     Living. 
Bethea,  E.  A.     Transferred.     Living. 
Bethea,  M.  S.     Died  at  home. 
Bethea,  J.  K.     D^d. 
Bailey,  J.  R.     Living. 
Broachman,  J.  K.     Dead. 
Broachman,  S.  C.     Dead. 

Broachman, . 

Berry,  J.  Living. 
Berry,  L.  Living. 
Bullard,  Wm.     Lost  in  action,  January  17,  1864. 

Brigman, .     Died,  1864. 

Cottingham,  T.  F.     Dead. 
Christmas,  J.  L.     Living. 
Campbell,  W.  P. 
Campbell,  E. 
Campbell,  E.  A. 
Crawford,  A.  B. 
Coats,  John. 
Campbell,  S.  A. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  611 

Daniel,  N.     Dead. 

Driggers,  R.  S.    Discharged. 

Fladger,  Hugh  G.     Dead. 

Freeman,  F.     Discharged.     Disability. 

Freeman,  F. 

Godbold,  J.     Dead. 

GodboW,  J.  G.     Living. 

Gaddy,  R.  W.     Living. 

Gaddy,  T.  C.     Dead. 

Godbold,  Hugh.     Living. 

Godbold,  H.  L.    Living. 

Greenwood,  W.  D. 

Hayes,  H.     Killed  Petersburg,  Va. 

Hamer,  J.  H.     Living. 

Hayes,  Wm.     Living. 

Hays,  J.     Living. 

Hyatt,  Isaac.     Dead. 

Hyatt,  William  H.     Dead. 

Hargrove,  N.  N.     Living. 

Hearsy,  Wm.  H.     Living. 

Hulon,  William.     Living. 

Hulon,  E.     Living. 

Huggins,  Thomas.     Dead. 

Harper,  J.  M.     Wounded  at  2d  Manassas. 

Harper,  G.  W. 

Hubterd,  J.  G. 

Hays,  D.  H. 

Hays,  W.  H. 

Huggins,  T.  F. 

Hunt,  J.  E. 

Hearsy,  W.     Wounded. 

Hays,  N.     Died  August  i,  1864. 

Jackson,  A.  J. 

Jackson,  John.     Wounded  Petersburg,  Va. 

Jackson,  B.  F.     Dead. 

Jackson,  A.  W.    Living. 

Jacksoni,  F.  M. 

Jackson,  B.  B. 

Jackson,  S.  S. 


612  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY, 

Jones,  D.  M. 
Jones,  H.  B. 
Jones,  James  A. 
Jones,  J.  ly. 

Jones, ,  Marion.     Killed  Petersburg,  Va.,  June  17,  1864. 

Kersey,  H.,  Marion. 

Kersey,  M.,  Marion. 

Kersey,  J.,  Marion. 

Kersey,  S.  D.,  Marion. 

Keef  e,  W. 

Little,  D.    Dead. 

Little,  C.  M.     Discharged. 

IfCster,  R.  H.     Living. 

Lane,  J.  V.    E>ead. 

Lane,  J.  O.    Wounded.    Dead. 

Lane,  L.  L. 

Love,  R.    Dead. 

Lee,  W.  F.    Wounded. 

Lee,  T.  T. 

Mooneyham,  William  W.     Killed  Petersburg,  Va. 


Mooneyliam, 

John. 

Mooneyham, 

Tobias. 

Mooneyham, 

T.  C. 

Mooneyham, 

James. 

Moore,  A.  B. 

Mclntyre,  A.  C. 

Moody,  W.  H. 

Norton,  Thomas. 

Norton,  J.  C 

.    Dead. 

Owens,  J.  W. 

Owens,  J. 

Price,  J.  H. 

Dead. 

Price,  M.  R. 

Dead. 

Powers,  Jeff. 

Wounded.    Died. 

Powell,  J. 

Powell,  D. 

Sweat,  N.     Wounded. 

Living. 

Smith,  J.  K. 

Living. 

Snipes,  R.  S. 

Died,  August  25,  1864. 

A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  613 

Turner,  W. 
Turner,  A. 
Turner,  W.  S. 
Turner,  E. 
Turner,  J. 
Turner,  S.  D. 
Turner,  L. 
Taylor,  J.  R. 
Wise,  E.  T. 
Wilson,  J. 
Whittington,  J.  G. 

The  following  appear  as  supplementary,  by  G.  G.  Crawford, 
from  memory : 
Calder,  Joel. 
Carter,  Henry. 
Carter,  Joe. 
Fladger,  James. 
Hayes,  Joe.     Dead. 
Hamer,  R.  P.    Living. 
Horton,  Nicholas.     Living. 
Hunt,  Cornelius.     Living. 
Kitchen,  Eli. 
Owens,  Willis. 
Price,  H.  G. 
Power,  Malcolm. 
Power,  J.  H. 
Rodgers,  Henry-     Dead. 
Smith,  H.  L. 

Sanderson,  Daniel.     EJead. 
Turner,  Richard. 
Turner,  Stephen. 

Roll  of  Gregg's  Battery,  Co.  D,  Manigault's  Battalion  Artil- 
lery, South  Carolina  Volunteers,  in  the  Confederate  States  Pro- 
visional Army : 

Matthew,  B.  Stanley,  Captain,  Marion.  Resigned,  May  14, 
1863. 

Thos.  E.  Gregg,  Captain,  Marion.  Promoted  from  First 
Lieutenant,  May  14, 1863. 


614  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Wm.  W.  Braddy,  First  Ivieutenant,  Marion.  Resigned,  Jan- 
uary 20,  1863. 

David  W.  Edwards,  First  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Promoted 
from  Second  Lieutenant,  May  14,  1863.     Resigned,  September 

1,  1864. 

Chas.  E.  Gregg,  First  Lieutenant.  Promoted  from  First 
Sergeant,  May  13,  1863.     Died,  July  7,  1878. 

Smilie,  A.  Gregg,  First  Lieutenant,  Darlington.  Wounded 
Petersburg,  April  10,  1865.  Promoted  from  private,  Novem- 
ber 2,  1864. 

F.  M.  Godbold,  Second  Lieutenant,  Marion.     Resigned,  May 

2,  1863. 

David  G.  Marshall,  Second  Lieutenant,  Chesterfield.  Pro- 
moted for  gallantry,  March  2,  1865. 

John  L.  Collins,  Sergeant  Major,  Marion. 

Alexander  Page,  Quartermaster  Sergeant,  Marion.  Pro- 
moted from  ranks. 

Cyrus  B.  Haselden,  Sergeant,  Marion. 

Robert  C.  Rogers,  Sergeant,  Marion.  Wounded  Battery 
Wagner,  August,  1863. 

John  E.  Perritt,  Sergeant,  Marion. 

Spencer  G.  Cain,  Sergeant,  Marion.  Transferred  to  Sharp- 
shooters. 

G.  Thos.  Gibbes,  Sergeant,  Marion. 
Thomas  D.  Moody,  Sergeant,  Marion. 
Chesley  D.  Jones,  Sergeant,  Marion. 

David  N.  Bethea,'  Sergeant,  Marion.  Died  February  12, 
1901. 

Henry  L.  Richardson,  Sergeant,  Marion. 

Hardy  Johnson,  Sergeant,  Marion. 

Richard  J.  Edwards,  Corporal,  Marion. 

Benjamin  L.  Fry,  Corporal,  Marion.  Discharged,  April  16, 
1863. 

Jas.  C.  Campbell,  Corporal,  Marion.  Discharged,  April  16, 
1863. 

Stephen  Altman,  Corporal,  Marion.  Discharged,  April  16, 
1863.     Dead. 

John  W.  Tart,  Corporal,  Marion.     I>eaid. 

Solomon  Bryant,  Corporal,  Marion. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARJON  COUNTY.  615 

James  Carmichael,  Corporal,  Marion.     EHscharged.     Dead. 
Samuel  Bellflowers,  Corporal,  Marion. 
George  W.  Smith,  Corporal,  Marion. 
Mitchell  R.  Powers,  Corporal,  Marion. 
Wm.  J.  Edwards,  Corporal,  Marion. 
Berry  A.  Shooter,  Corporal,  Marion.     Dead. 
Wm.  T.  Evans,  Corporal,  Marion. 
Joe  Garner,  Bugler,  Marion. 
Percival  Sessions,  Bugler,  Marion. 

Wm.    Richardson,    Bugler,    Marion.     Wounded    Battery 
Hampton. 

Privates. 

Ammonds,  D.  Pinkey,  Marion.     Discharged,  February  lo, 
1863. 

Ard,  Andrew  J.,  Marion. 

Ard,  Laney,  Marion. 

Atkinson,  Jacob,  Williamsburg. 

Ammons,  Hamilton  A.,  Marion. 

Ard,  General,  Marion. 

Ammonds,  Benjamin,  Marion. 

Altman,  John  J.,  Williamsburg. 

Bellflowers,  Henry,  Marion. 

Broach,  Robert  R.,  Marion.     Discharged. 

Brown,  Stephen,  Marion. 

Bryant,  David,  Marion. 

Bryant,  John  Wesley,  Marion. 

Baxley,  Solomon,  Marion. 

Barnes,  Henry  L.,  Marion. 

Bond,  Henry  J.,  Marion.     Dead. 

Barrett,  Isaac,  Charleston.     Transferred  to  Captain  Charles' 
Battery. 

Bostick,  Paul  J.,  Marion. 

Baxley,  Joseph,  Marion. 

Baxley,  Joseph,  Marion. 

Bryant,  James,  Marion. 

Brown,  Hugh,  Marion. 

Bragdon,  Manly,  Marion. 

Berry,  Henry  T.,  Marion. 

Bostick,  Joseph,  Marion. 
40 


616  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Collins,  Samuel,  Marion. 

Cain,  David,  Marion. 

Campbell,  John  C.     Discharged,  Novem'ber  30,  1863. 

Capps,  Richard,  Marion. 

Colcutt,  James  W.,  Marion.  Selected  as  one  of  four  to  re- 
ceive reward  for  bravery.  Noticed  for  gallantry,  August  17, 
1864,  Davis  Farm. 

Collins,  Owen  R.,  Marion. 

Creel,  Samuel  E.  Mc,  Marion.  Wounded  Davis  Farm,  Au- 
gust 20,  1864. 

Campbell,  Simeon,  Marion.     Discharged. 

Campbell,  Theophilas,  Marion.     Dead. 

Collins,  Benjamin  J.,  Marion. 

Church,  James,  Marion. 

Capps,  Francis. 

Collins,  Thomas  J. 

Collins,  Stephen  R. 

Collins,  Uriah  H. 

Cook,  Wm.  H.,  Marion. 

Cohen,  Joseph,  Charleston. 

Campbell,  Ebenezer,  Marion.  Discharged,  November  30, 
1863. 

Cook,  Berry 

Collins,  Gregory. 

Creel,  John  J. 

Collier,  Thomas. 

Daniels,  John  L. 

Drew,  William,  Marion. 

Edwards,  Cary,  Marion. 

Edwards,  Richard  M.,  Marion. 

Edwards,  Albert  P.,  Marion. 

Ellis,  Hugh  G. 

Foxworth,  Andrew  J.,  Marion. 

Foxworth,  A.  C. 

Foxworth,  Henry. 

Godbold,  Chas.  F.     Dead. 

Garris,  Elias. 

Goodyear,  Elias. 

Gibbs,  Joseph  S. 


A  HISTORY  O?  MARION  COUNTY.  617 

Gilbert,  James. 

Harrellson,  Geo.  W. 

Harrelson,  Thomas. 

Harrellson,  Ed.  H. 

Harrellson,  Stephen. 

Harrellson,  John  C. 

Huggins,  Bird. 

Huggins,  lyevi. 

Hoges,  Pinckney. 

Herrin,  Ohestley. 

Horn,  Neal. 

Horn,  Wm.  Pinckney.     Killed  Davis  Farm,  August  i8, 1864. 

Huggins,  John  J. 

Herring,  Miles. 

Huggins,  Neal  C.     Killed  Davis  Farm,  August  18,  1864. 

Hutcherson,  Ed.  B. 

Hulon,  Elijah. 

Hannah,  John  G. 

Hill,  Edward.     Shot  as  a  deserter  by  parties  at  home. 

Hodges,  John  H. 

Hutcherson,  John  W. 

Johnson,  David.     Dead. 

Jones,  Ebenezer  L.     Dead. 

Jones,  Wm.  N. 

Keefe,  D.  Frank. 

Kennedy,  Evander.     Died  at  Charleston  of  disease. 

Keefe,  Ervin  H. 

Lewis,  Joseph.     Died  Charleston. 

Lewis,  Baker. 

Lewis,  Zion. 

Lamb,  Wm.  D.     Discharged. 

Lloyd,  William.     Died  Charleston. 

Lupo,  Allen  C. 

Lupo,  Thos.  A.     Died  Charleston. 

Lupo,  Wm. 

Lambert,  Wesley. 

Lambert,  E.  H. 

Lane,  James  M. 

Lane,  Wm. 


618  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

L/ester,  Robert  H.     Transferred  to  Smith's  Battery. 

Martin,  Ed.  B. 

Martin,  Ed.  W. 

Martin,  Stephen  B. 

McDaniel,  Wm. 

Moody,  John  Thomas.     Selected  as  one  of  four  the  bravest 
tO'  receive  reward. 

Munn,  Malcolm  L. 

Martini  Alex.  H. 

Mears,  Wm. 

McDaniel,  Joseph. 

Munn,  Geo.  W. 

Nance,  Atckerson.     Discharged. 

Perritt,  Tristram. 

Perritt,  Needham. 

Pace,  Wm.  J. 

Perritt,  David. 

Paston,  J.  Rayford.     Discharged. 

Poston,  Reddick. 

Poston,  Simon. 

Pbwers,  Christopher. 

Powell,  J.  Matthew. 

Paston,  Daniel. 

Page,  Wm.  H. 

Page,  Maaton. 

Paston,  Robt.  T. 

Roberts,  Duke  M. 

Perritt,  Bennett.     Discharged. 

Perritt,  David  B. 

Rogers,  Francis. 

Richardson,  Arrey. 

Richardson,  W.  Hamilton. 

Richardson,  Jas.  W. 

Rogers,  Alex.,  Sr. 

Rogers,  Alex.,  Jr. 

Rogers,  David.     Selected  as  one  of  four  to  receive  reward 
for  bravery. 

Rogers,  Robbin.     Died  at  Charleston. 

Rogers,  George  W. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  619 

Richardson,  J.  Richard. 

Rogers,  Cade. 

Rogers,  Bbenezer. 

Rogers,  Johnson. 

Rogers,  James. 

Rogers,  Jessee.     Dead. 

Roberts,  Rolin  Q.     Transferred  to  Pee  Dee  Battery. 

Rogers,  H.  D. 

Rogers,  John. 

Rogers,  Tristram.     Dead. 

Richardson,  Wm.  R. 

Rogers,  Jas.  J.     Dead. 

Rogers,  Tristram  B.     Dead. 

Rogers,  Pinckney. 

Snipes,  Daniel. 

Snipes,  Perry.     Died  Charleston. 

Stone,  Samuel  J.     Dead. 

Smith,  Calom  M.     Wounded  Davis  Farm  and  Wagner. 

Sutton,  John  E. 

Smith,  Daniel. 

Sexton,  Oliver  M. 

Syphrett,  J.  W.  W.     Killed  Charleston. 

Stephens,  Wm.  T. 

Sutton,  Wm.  H. 

Smith,  John  J. 

Singletary,  Wm.  J. 

Stephens,  Barney. 

Thomas,  Nelson. 

Thomas,  Patrick. 

Turt>eville,  Richard. 

Turbeville,  Jas. 

Turner,  Jas. 

Turner,  Wm. 

Tart,  Jas.  H. 

Tart,  Henry  H.  Selected  as  one  of  four  to  receive  reward 
for  bravery.  Notice  for  gallantry,  August  17,  1864,  Davis 
Faftn. 

Taylor,  John  E. 

Towlson,  Geo.  W. 


620  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Tart,  Joihn  M. 
Walker,  Henry. 
Wiggins,  Ed. 
Watson,  Jas.  R. 

Roll  of  Company  H,  Twenty-third  Regiment  Infantry,  South 
Carolina  Volunteers,  in  the  Confederate  States  Provisional 
Army: 

John  Roberts,  Captain,  Marion.  Wounded  at  2d  battle  of 
Manassas,  Va.  In  recognition  was  elected  Lieutenant  ColoneL 
Died  of  wounds  at  Marion. 

Solon  A.  Durham,  Captain,  Marion.  Wounded  at  Golds- 
boro,  N.  C.  Promoted  to  Major  in  C.  S.  A.,  and  transferred. 
Dead. 

W.  Warren  Hamilton,  Captain,  Marion.  Wounded  at  2d 
battle  of  Manassas.  .  Captured  at  Five  Forks,  Va.,  and  surren- 
dered at  John's  Island.  Promoted  to  Captain  from  Third 
Lieutenant,  and  from  First  Sergeant  to  Third  Lieutenant.  Liv- 
ing. 

Kendre  Nichols,  First  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Killed  at  2d 
Manassas. 

Richard  W.  Hale,  Second  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Resigned  at 
Wilmington,  N.  C.     Living. 

Asa  Perritt,  Third  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Wounded  at  Cra- 
ter, Petersburg,  Va.  Promoted'  Second  Lieutenant  from  Third 
Sergeant.     Living. 

John  D.  Huggins,  Third  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Captured  at 
Five  Forks.  Surrendered  Johnson's  Island.  Promoted  from 
Orderly  Sergeant.     Living. 

Edward  Carmichael,  Orderly,  Marion.  Promoted  from 
Third  Sergeant.     Surrendered  Point  Lookout.     Dead., 

William  G.  Lindsey,  Second  Sergeant,  Marion.  Wounded 
2d  Manassas.     Died  of  wounds  at  Farmville,  Va. 

Daniel  Page,  Third  Sergeant,  Marion.  Wounded  Golds- 
boro,  N.  C.  Transferred  to  Hampton  Legion,  June  14,  1864. 
Dead. 

William  S.  Turbeville,  Fourth  Sergeant,  Marion.     Dead. 

Elly  B.   Greenwood,   Fifth   Sergeant,   Marion.     Wounded 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  621 

Petersburg,  Va.     Surrendered  Five  Forks,   ist  .      -,   1865. 
Living. 

Alfred  Fore,  Fifth  Sergeant,  Marion.     Died  in  hospital,  Va. 

Evander  P.  Ellis,  Fifth  Sergeant,  Marion.     Transferred  to 
Hampton  Legion,  June  6,  1864.     Living. 

James  V.  Roulle,  Fifth  Sergeant,  Marion.     Captured  17th 
June,  Petersburg,  Va.,  1864.     Died  Elmira,  N.  Y. 

Wm.  Hyatt,  Corporal,  Marion.     Wounded  Petersburg,  Va., 
January  12,  1865.     Dead. 

Joseph  Smith,  Corporal,  Marion.     Transferred  to  Hampton 
Legion,  June  14,  1864.     Living. 

Hardy  D.  Smith,  Corporal,  Marion.     Surrendered  Appo- 
mattox.    Living. 

John  C.  Bass,  Corporal,  Marion. 

Joseph   W.   Allen,    Corporal,   Marian.     Surrendered   Five 
Forks,  Va.,  ist  April,  1865.     Dead. 

John  Smith,  Corporal,  Marion.     Surrendered  Appomattox. 
Living. 

Hugh  G.  Bryant,  Corporal,  Marion.     Surrendered  Appo- 
mattox.    Living. 

William  R.  Giaham,  Corporal,  Marion.     Surrendered  Ap- 
pomattox.    Dead. 

D.  F.  Lane,  Corporal,  Marion.     Surrendered  Appomattox. 
Living. 

Peter  P.  Hyatt,  Corporal,  Marion.     Surrendered  Appomat- 
tox.    Living. 

Elias  Grantham,  Corporal,  Marion.     Discharged,  over  age, 
1862.    Dead. 

William  R.  Martin,  Corporal,  Marion.     Captured,  June  17, 
1864,  and  never  'heard  of  since. 

John  Sanger,  Corporal,  Marion.     Surrendered  Five  Forks, 
April,  1865.     Dead. 

Privates. 

Allen,.  William,  Marion.     Died  hospital,  Morris  Island. 

Ammons,  Levi,  Marion. 

Ammons,  Daniel  P.,  Marion. 

Arnett,  K.,  Marion.     Died,  August  15,  1864. 

Bryant,  Pinckney,  Marion.     Surrendered  Apf>omattox.  Liv- 
ing. 


622  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Bryant,  James  C,  Marion.     Living. 

Britt,  J.  L,.,  Marion.     Died  field  hospital,  June,  1864. 

Braswell,  Jack  G.,  Marion.  Died  North  Carolina  hospital, 
1862. 

Biggs,  Richard,  Marion.    Living. 

Bailey,  Samuel,  Marion.  Discharged,  over  age,  1862.  Liv- 
ing. 

Calder,  Duncan,  Marion.     Surrendered  Five  Forks. 

Calder,  Peter,  Marion.  Transferred  from  Hampton'  Legion. 
Living. 

Calder,  Nias,  Marion.     Discharged,  1862,  over  age. 

Caine,  Kinion  W.,  Marion.     Discharged.     Dead. 

Coats,  John,  Marion.     Surrendered.     Living. 

Capps,  John  W.,  Marion.  Discharged,  over  age,  1862. 
Dead. 

Cater,  John  W.,  Marion.  Transfarred  to  21st  S.  C.  Regi- 
m'ent.     Living. 

Calder,  William  C,  Marion.     Died  of  wounds  hospital,  Va. 

Dew,  Christopher  I.,  Marion.     Living. 

Dew,  Samuel,  Marion.     Killed  Goldsboro,  N.  C. 

Dozier,  Griffin,  Marion.     Killed  Goldsboro,  N.  C. 

Ednars,  Matthew  H.,  Marion.     Killed  Second  Manassas. 

Edwards,   Solomon  M.     Surrendered  Appomattox.     Died, 

1875- 

Ellis,  Hugh  G.     Dischairged,  under  age,  1862.     Dead. 

Fogleman,  James  G.,  Hospital  Steward.  Discharged  No- 
vemiber  30,  1863.     Disability. 

Fowler,  Benjamin.     Discharged,  over  age,  1862. 

Fore,  H.  James.  Imprisoned  Point  Lookout.  Surrendered 
Five  Forks.     Living. 

FitzGerald,  Robert. 

Grantham,  E.  Bright.  Wagon  driver.  Surrendered  Appo- 
mattox. 

Grantham,  Pinckney.     Dis<iharged.     Dead. 

Granger,  Samuel  P.,  Horry. 

Graves,  George  S.,  Marion.     Dead. 

Graves,  Anseyer,  Marion. 

George,  W.  J.,  Marion.  Left  sick  in  Virginia,  supposed 
dead. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  628 

George,  Henry  J.,  Marion.     Dead. 

Graham,  William  H.,  Horry.  Transferred  from  Hampton 
Ivegion. 

Gibson,  Jessee  L.,  Marion.  Transferred  from  Hampton 
Legion,  May  26,  1864.     Surrendered  Five  Forks,  Va.     lyiving. 

Gibson,  James  H.,  Marion.  Transferred  from  Hampton 
Legion,  May  26,  1864.  Wounded  Petersburg,  Va.,  and  dis^ 
charged.     Surrendered  Five  Forks,  Va.     Dead. 

Gibson,  Allen,  Marion.  Transferred  from  Hampton  Legion, 
May  26,  1864.     Surrendered  Point  Lookout.    Living. 

Greenwood,  James  L.,  Marion.  Captured.  Surrendered 
Five  Forks.     Living. 

Gaddy,  Tritcan  C,  Marion.  Captured.  Surrendered  Five 
Forks.     Dead. 

Hodges,  Robert,  Marion. 

Herrin,  A.  W.,  Marion.     Over  age,  1862.    Living. 

Hyatt,  James  R.,  Marion.     Killed  Second  Manassas. 

Hyatt,  Oliver,  Marion.     Surrendered.     Dead. 

Hyatt,  Thomas  R.,  Marion.  Died  on  march  in  Virginia, 
1862. 

Hyatt,  Ervin,  Marion.     Living. 

Harrellson,  Brigan  J.,  Marion.  Surrendered  Five  Forks. 
Living. 

Harrellson,  John  B.,  Marion.     Killed  Second  Manassas. 

Hays,  Alexander  G.,  Marion.  Surrend^ered  Five  Forks. 
Living. 

Hays,  Nicholas  W.,  Marion.     Living. 

Hays,  T.  B.,  Marion.     Living. 

Hays,  Willson.,  Marion.  Transferred  from  6th  S.  C.  Cav- 
alry.    Dead. 

Hamilton,  Tobias,  Marion.  Imprisoned  Point  Lookout. 
Surrendered  Point  Lookout.     Died  Horry  County. 

Jackson,  William  J.,  Marion.     Living. 

Jackson,  Selkirk,  Marion.     Killed  Petersburg,  Va.,  1864. 

Johnson,  Carey,  Marion.     Over  age.     Living. 

Johnson,  Hugh  G.,  Marion.     Discharged.    Living. 

Johnson,  Zeus,  Marion.     Living. 

Johnson,  Samuel  S.,  Marion.  Died  in  hospital,  Virginia, 
August  5,  1864. 


624  A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY. 

Jones,  John  S.,  Marion. 

Jones,  Wesley,  Marion.     Killed  Petersburg,  Va. 

Kersely,  William,  Marion.     Killed  Goldsboro,  N.  C. 

Kersely,  Evin,  Marion. 

Kitchen,  Chas.  E.,  Marion.     Surrendered  Point  Lookout. 

Lane,  Addison  L.,  Marion.  Surrendered  Five  Forks,  April, 
1865.     Living. 

Lane,  George  W.,  Marion.     Living. 

Lee,  R.  W.,  Marion.     Living. 

Lee,  John  E.,  Marion.     Dead. 

Lee,  James  W.,  Marion.  Surrendered  Goldsboro,  N.  C. 
Living. 

Lee,  Christopher,  Marion.  Discharged,  September,  1863. 
Living. 

Lewis,  William  E.,  Marion.  Surrendered,  under  age,  1862. 
Living. 

Lewis,  J.  W.  P.,  Marion.     Surrendered  Five  Forks.     Dead. 

Locklier,  John,  Marion.     Discharged,  1862. 

Locklier,  Gibbert,  Marion.     Discharged,  1862. 

Locklier,  Washington,  Marion. 

Locklier,  W.  E.,  Marion.     Discharged. 

Lane,  Stephen  L-,  Marion.     Killed  Appomattox,  Va. 

Miller,  William,  Marion. 

Miles,  Nathan,  Marion.     Discharged.     Dead. 

McKenzie,  Alfred,  Marion.  Surrendered  Five  Forks,  Va. 
Living. 

McKenzie,  Willie  T.,  Marion.  Surrendered  Five  Forks,  Va. 
Living. 

Mincey,  Patrick,  Marion.  Discharged,  June  16,  1864, 
Petersburg.     Dead. 

Mincey,  Jessee,  Marion.     Surrendered,  April,  1865.     Dead. 

Mincey,  George,.     Surrendered,  April,  1865.     Living. 

McCormick,  Peter  P.  Wounded  Second  Manassas.  Liv- 
ing. 

Martin,  Alex.  H.     Discharged,  1862.     Living. 

Martin,  William  R. 

McMillan,  John  A.     Surrendered,  1865.     Dead. 

Nichols,  Benjamin. 

Owens,  Walter.     Discharged,  1862.     Living. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  625 

Owens,  William  R.,  Marion.     Surrendered,  1865.    Dead. 

Page,  William,  Marion.  Surrendered,  1865,  Appomattox. 
Living  in  Horry. 

Page,  Harrison,  Marion.     Killed  Second  Manassas. 

Page,  Abraham,  Horry.  Surrendered,  1865.  Living  in 
Horry. 

Page,  Return,  Horry.  Surrendered,  1865.  Living  in 
Horry. 

Peter,  James  H.,  Marion.     Living. 

Peter,  Nidholas  T.,  Marion.     Discharged.     Dead. 

Price, ,  Marion.     Killed  Boonsboro,  Md. 

Rogers,  Roblin  W.,  Marion.  Surrendered  Virginia,  1865. 
Living. 

Rogers,  William  J.,  Marion. 

Rogers,  Themas,  Marion.     Dead. 

Rogers,  Wade,  Marion.     Dead. 

Rogers,  John,  Marion.     Died  Virginia. 

Rogers,  Willis,  Marion.     Supposed  dead,  left  in  Mississippi. 

Rogers,  Timothy,  Marion.     Killed  Goldsiboro,  N.  C. 

Rowell,  David,  Marion.     Living. 

Rowell,  John  H.,  Marion.     Living. 

Rowell,  Jessee,  Marion.     Living. 

Rogers,  John  R.,  Marion.     Died  Florence,  S.  C. 

Strickland,  Ervin,  Horry.     Discharged,  over  age.     Dead. 

Strickland,  Ros.,  Horry.     Killed  Second  Manassas. 

Smith,  John,  Mario^i.     Surrendered  Appomattox.     Living. 

Smith,  Hardy  D.,  Marion.  Surrendered  Appomattox. 
Living. 

Smith,  Hugh  G.,  Marion.  Surrendered,  Five  Forks.  Cap- 
tured, April,  1865.     Living. 

Souls,  J.  W.,  Horry. 

Sawyer,  John,  Marion.     Surrendered.     Dead. 

Turbeville,  Geo.,  Marion.  Surrendered  Five  Forks.  Liv- 
ing. 

Turbeville,  Albert  B.,  Marion.     Living. 

Turner,  Joseph,  Marion.     Discharged. 

Taylor,  John  M.,  Marion.     Died  of  wounds  Petersburg,  Va. 

Taylor,  Benj.  B.,  Marion.     Died  Point  Lookout. 

Vantep,  William,  Marion.     Killed  Second  Manassas,  Va. 


626  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Wiggins,  John,  Marion.     Living. 
Wise;  Bradley,  Marion.     Dead. 

Walsh,  James  B.,  Marion.     L,eft  in  Mississippi,  supposed 
dead. 
Watson,  Barney,  Marion.     Dead. 

Watson,  Merideth,  Marion.     Dead.     Surrendered  1865. 
Ward,  Colin,  Marion.     Dead.     Surrendered  1865. 

Roll  of  Company  D,  Tenth  Regiment  Infantry,  South  Caro- 
lina Volunteers,  in  the  Confederate  States  Provisional  Army, 
from  Marion  County : 

Godbold;  Z.,  Captain.     Resigned  1862. 

Harllee,  R.  Z.,  Captain.  Wounded  Atlanta,  1864.  Pro- 
moted from  First  Lieutenant,  1862. 

Munnerlyn,  W.  H.,  First  Lieutenant.  Killed  Atlanta,  July 
22,  1864.     Promoted  from  Second  Lieutenant. 

Boothe,  R.  A.,  Second  Lieutenant.     Resigned. 

Williamson,  D.  J.,  Second  Lieutenant.     Resigned. 

Blackman,  H.  J.,  Second  Lieutenant.  Promoted  from  Ser- 
geant.    Died  at  hospital  July,  1862. 

Kimball,  R.  H.,  Second  Lieutenant. 

Coleman,  G.  B.,  Sergeant.  Wounded  Murfrees'boro,  Chick- 
amauga. 

Lloyd,  J.  J.,  Sergeant. 

Williamson,  J.  B.,  Sergeant. 

Bird,  S.,  Sergeant.  Wounded  Chickamauga.  Promoted 
from  ranks. 

Coleman,  W.  J.,  Corporal. 

Cook,  W.  H.,  Corporal. 

Wiggins,  J.  B.,  Corporal. 

Hodges,  J.,  Corporal.     Wounded  Atlanta.     Lost  right  arm. 

Privates. 

Ammons,  A.  R.     Discharged  1862. 
Altman,  W.  T.     Wounded  Murfreesboro. 
Avant,  A.     Died  in  hospital. 
Baxley,  B.     Died  in  hospital. 
Baxley,  W.     Wounded  Chickamauga. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  627 

Baxley,  L.     Wounded  at  Murf  reesboro. 

Beverly,  F.     Died  hospital. 

Beverly,  D.     Died  hospital. 

Bird,  H.  G.     Died  Franklin. 

Bird,  J.     Died  Kentucky. 

Blackman,  K.  C.     Died  hospital. 

Boatrigiht,  J. 

Brown,  J. 

Canmichael,  D.     Killed  Murfreesboro. 

Clark,  W.  P. 

Coleman,  J.  W.     Died  at  hospital. 

Collins,  D.     Died  at  hospital. 

Collins,  W. 

Drew,  N.     Killed  Murfreesboro. 

Flowers,  G.  S.     Killed  Chickamauga. 

Flowers,  E. 

Gasque,  E.     Died  at  hospital. 

Gunter,  D.     Wounded  Chickamauga. 

Gerald,  S.  W.     Died  at  hospital. 

Harrell,  M.  W.     Killed  Chickamauga. 

Herren,  J.  P.     Died  at  hospital. 

Herren,  W.  P.     Died  at  hospital. 

Jones,  J. 

Jones,  J.  J. 

Lambert,  P.     Died  at  hospital. 

Lambert,  D.  H.     Wounded  Murfreesboro. 

Lambert,  J.  H. 

Legette,  W. 

Lloyd,  J.     Died  at  hospital. 

Lloyd,  T.  M. 

Marlor,  W.     Died  at  hospital. 

McMeenee,  W.     Killed  at  Resaca. 

Moore,  S.     Killed  at  Atlanta,  July  22,  1864. 

Moore,  E.     Wounded  Murfrees^boro. 

Nobles,  H.     Died  at  hospital. 

Nobles,  J.  W.     Missed  at  Chickamauga,  supposed  killed. 

Nobles,  N.     Missed  at  Atlanta,  supposed  killed. 

Owens,  R.  H.     Died  at  hospital. 

Owens,  M.     Killed  Kennesaw  Mountains. 


628  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Owens,  E.     Died  at  hospital. 
Owens,  S.     Died  at  hospital. 
Porte,  Jehu.     Died  at  hospital. 
Porte,  L,.     Died  at  hospital. 
Rogers,  J.  L.     Died  at  hospital. 
Rogers,  C.  C. 
Sanders,  J. 
Shelley,  J.  G. 

Shaw,  E.     Died  at  hospital. 
Stephens,  J.  W.     Died  at  hospital. 
Tart,  C.     Died  at  hospital. 
Thomas,  S.     Killed  Chickamauga. 
Thomas,  E.     Died  at  hospital. 
Thomas,  H.     Died  at  hospital. 
Turner,  J.     Died  at  hospital. 
Turbeville,  F.     Died  at  hospital. 
Turbeville,  P.     Died  at  hospital. 
Turbeville,  W. 
Ward,  W.     Died  at  hospital. 
Woodad,  L.     Killed  Murfreesboro. 
Wright,  G.  W. 

Wright,  W.  C.     Died  at  hospital'. 
Wiggins,  J.  W.     Died  at  hospital. 

Roll  of  Company  F,  Tenth  Regiment  Infantry,  South  Caro- 
lina Volunteers,  in  the  Confederate  States  Provisional  Army, 
from  Marion  County : 

Miller,  E.,  Captain.  Not  re-elected  1862.  Appointed  Sur- 
geon Western  Army,  in  field  and  hospital. 

Bostick,  F.  J.,  Captain.  Wounded  Chickamauga,  Mission- 
ary Ridge.     Promoted  from'  First  Lieutenant. 

Davis,  J.  F.,  First  L,ieutenant.     Resigned. 

Mc White,  L.  T.,  lyieutenant.     Not  re-elected  1862. 

Bragdon,  J.  T.,  Lieutenant.     Not  re-elected  1862. 

Belin,  J.  H.,  Lieutenant.  Wounded  Murfreesboro.  Pro- 
moted from  Sergeant.     Dead. 

Murphy,  N.,  Lieutenant.     Promoted  from  Co.  L- 

Coleman,  G.  W.,  Sergeant.     Discharged. 

Belin,  C,  Sergeant.     Wounded  Nashville,  Resaca,  Atlanta. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  629 

Shaw,  H.,  Sergeant.  Transferred  and  promoted  Lieutenant 
Co.  "M."    Dead. 

Brown,  M.,  Sergeant.     Killed  in  battle  at  Atlanta. 

Prosser,  J.  L.,  Lieutenant.  Wounded  Murfreesboro.  Died 
Tompkinsville,  Tenn. 

Lewis,  T.  J.,  Corporal.     Killed  Chickamauga. 

Bostick,  J.  N.,  Corporal  Color  Guard.  Captured  Missionary 
Ridge. 

Foxworth,  R.  W.,  Corporal.     Died  Tupelo,  Miss. 

Collins,  J.  B.,  Corporal.     Died  Tiner's  Station,  Tenn. 

Ard,  A.  J.,  Corporal.     Died  Saltillo,  Miss. 

Johnson,  F.  A.,  Corporal.     Died'  Tupelo,  Miss. 

Glisson,  E.  B.,  Corporal.     Killed  Chickamauga. 

Williams,  J.  J.,  Corporal.     Died  at  home. 

Privates. 

Adkinson,  P. 

Brach,  R.     Died  at  hospital. 

Brown,  J.     Disdharged. 

Bartell,  H     Wounded  Atlanta  twice,  Resaca. 

Bartell,  J.  R. 

Bellflower,  J.  J.     Died  Corinth,  Miss. 

Curry,  G.  W.     Captured  Missionary  Ridge. 

Curry,  D.     Died  at  home. 

Curry,  J.     Died  at  home. 

Cannon,  R. 

Cox,  S.  C.     Captured  Missionary  Ridge. 

Collins,  J.  E.     Wounded  Murfreesboro,  Chickamauga. 

Collins,  S.  J.     Discharged,  over  age. 

Crossiby,  T.  E.     Atlanta. 

Crossby,  J.  W.     Died  in  Mississippi. 

Crossby,  J.  L.     Died  at  home,  on  sick  furlough. 

Cox,  John. 

Daniels,  J.  G.     Died  South  Island. 

Dimary,  J.  T. 

Evans,  N.,  Marion.     Died  in  Mississippi. 

Foxworth,  A.  B.     Captured  Misisionary  Ridge. 

Gasque,  J.     Discharged  on  account  of  disability. 

Gunter,  H.     Died  at  hospital. 


630  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Goflf,  J. 

Hinds,  S.  O.     Died  at  Columbus,  Miss. 

Hinds,  H.  N.     Died  at  home. 

Hogg,  M.  T.     Wounded  Murfreesboro. 

Hutcherson,  N.  P.     Died  at  home. 

Hyman,  William.     Died  at  hospital. 

Hawkins,  H. 

Jarrall,  J.  J.     Died  at  home,  on  sick  furlough. 

Johnson,  P.  C.     Died  at  Tupelo,  Miss. 

Johnson,  J.  J.     Captured  Missionary  Ridge. 

Johnson,  T.  H.     Captured  Missionary  Ridge. 

Kennier,  G.  W.  1,.    Discharged  on  account  of  disability. 

Keefe,  W.  E.     Captured  at  Chickamauga. 

Keightley,  J.  G. 

Ivewis,  J.  R.     Died  Knoxville,  Tenn. 

Lee,  N.  C. 

Marler,  J.  R. 

Marler,  V.  A.     Died  Corinth,  Miss. 

Miller,  E.     Missing. 

McNeill,  J.     Died  at  South  Island. 

Nobles,  J.  P.     Died  Tupelo,  Miss. 

Parker,  S.  F.     Captured  Missionary  Ridge. 

Pace,  R.  W.     Died  at  hospital. 

Phillips,  F.  M.      Discharged. 

Powell,  A.  E.     Wounded  Chickamauga. 

Powell,  W.  M.     Discharged. 

Powell,  M.  B. 

Poston,  G.  W.     Woundled  Chickamauga,  Atlanta. 

Richardson,  A.  J.,  Marion. 

Rowell,  R.  R.     Wounded  Murfreesiboro,  Chickamauga. 

Smith,  J.  B.     Killed  at  Franklin,  Tenn. 

Shaw,  J.  H.     Wounded  Resaca. 

Stone,  R.  W.     Died  Glasgow,  Kentucky. 

Taylor,  R.  W.     Died  Mississippi. 

Turbeville,  S.     Died  home.     Wounded  Atlanta. 

Turner,  G.  W. 

Turner,  R.  H.     Died  Corinth,  Miss. 

Turner,  T.  D.     Died  in  prison.     Wounded. 

Wall,  C.  M.    Died  Tupelo,  Miss. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  631 

Wall,  S.  J. 

Wall,  J.  C. 

Wall,  J.  W.     Killed  at  Chattahoochie,  on  picket  line. 

Williams,  D.  N.     Died  in  Kentucky. 

Company  I,  6th  Regiment  Cavalry,  South  Carolina  Volun- 
teers, in  the  Confederate  States  Provisional  Army : 

Whitaker,  J.  C,  Captain,  Marion.     Wounded  Beams  Station. 

Jenkins,  Roibert,  First  Lieutenant,  Marion.  Wounded 
Beams  Station.     Promoted  Captain. 

DeBerry,  Ed.,  Second  Lieutenant,  Marion. 

McClenaham,  Honorine,  Third  Lieutenant,  Marion. 

Fladger,  H.  G.,  First  Sergeant,  Marion.  Wounded  Trevil- 
lian  Station. 

Friar,  Andrew,  First  Corporal,  Marion. 

Cain,  J.  H.,  Second  Corporal,  Marion. 

Boatright,  Thos.,  Third,  Corporal,  Marion. 

Bass,  A.  W.,  Second  Sergeant,  Marion. 

Privates. 

Atkinson,  Benjamin,  Marion. 

Atkinson,  Jessee,  Marion. 

Atkinson,  John,  Marion. 

Bragdon,  Jas.,  Marion. 

Bethea,  Edward,  Marion. 

Brown,  Samuel,  Marion. 

Campbell,  John  C.  C,  Marion. 

Campbell,  Jas.  W.,  Marion.     Wounded  Fayetteville,  N.  C. 

Cameron,  Don.,  Marion. 

Cox,  Samuel,  Marion. 

Cox,  George,  Marion. 

Cusack,  Samuel,  Marion. 

Deas,  John,  Marion. 

Dill,  Bright,  Marion. 

Egerton,  Evander,  Marion. 

Egerton,  Samuel,  Marion. 

Richardson,  J.,  Marion. 

Rodgers, ,  Marion. 

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682  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Stewart,  Ran.,  Marion. 
Signer,  Joe,  Marion. 
Taylor,  John,  Marion. 
Wilson,  Alex.,  Marion. 
Wurrell,  Jas.,  Marion. 
Wurrell,  Jas.,  Jr.,  Marion. 
Woodrow,  William,  Marion. 

Whittaker,  ,  Marion. 

Dargan,  L.  O.,  Darlington. 
McCall,  S.  A.,  Darlington. 
Cook,  Henry,  Darlington. 
Boswell,  Samuel,  Darlington. 
Coker,  Harmon,  Darlington. 
Q>ker,  Sandy,  Darlington. 
Plummer,  Hugh,  Darlington. 
Polk,  James,  Darlington. 
Stokes,  John,  Darlington. 
Thomas,  E.  R.,  Darlington. 
Tedder,  W.  J.,  Darlington. 
Windham,  George,  Darlington. 
Young,  J.  D.,  Darlington. 

The  foregoing  roll  was  made  from  memory,  by  Sergeant  S. 
A.  McCall. 

Roll  of  Company  D,  Twenty-fifth  Regiment  Infantry,  South 
Carolina  Volunteers,  in  the  Confederate  States  Provisional 
Army,  from  Marion  County : 

McKerrall,  William  Jasper,  Captain.  Captured  W.  &  W.  R. 
R.,  and  imprisoned  at  Point  Ivookout  and  Fort  Delaware.  Died 
since  war. 

Haselden,  James,  First  Lieutenant.     Died  1900. 

McKay,  Daniel  J.,  First  Lieutenant.  Wounded  Petersburg. 
Promoted  from  Second  Lieutenant.     Living. 

Bethea,  Pickett  P.,  Second  Lieutenant.  Killed  Weldon  R. 
R. 

Smith,  Marcus  L.,  Second  Lieutenant.  Wounded  Drewry's 
Bluff.     Promoted  from  Orderly  Sergeant.     Living. 

Alford,  Artemas,  Sergeant.  Wounded  Weldon  R.  R.  Sur- 
rendered City  Point.     Living. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  633 

Richard,  Meyer,  Sergeant.    Living. 

Mclntyre,  Joseph,  Sergeant.  Wounded  Drewry's  Bluff 
severely  and  captured.     Living. 

Barfield,  Jessee,  Sergeant.     Living. 

Sweet,  David,  Corporal.     Died  in  Virginia  1864. 

Cox,  Lewis  J.,  Corporal.     Killed  at  Petersburg. 

Greenwood,  E.  B.,  Corporal.    Living. 

Herring,  John  C,  Second  Corporal.     Killed  Weldon  R.  R. 

Herring,  Marcus  C,  Corporal.    Living. 

Turbeville,  George,  Corporal.  Wounded  Drewry's  Bluff. 
Promoted  from  ranks.    Living. 

Privates. 
Allen,  John.     Living. 
Atkinson,  Talley. 
Barrentine,  Wilson. 
Berry,  Nathan. 
Blackman,  David. 

Barrentine,  Nelson.     Killed  James  Island. 
Bullard,  P.  D.  B.     Living. 
Barnett,  D.     Wounded  Weldon  R.  R. 
Beverly,  Douglass.     Killed  Swift  Creek. 
Coward,  Ansel. 

Calder,  William.     Died  since  war. 
Calder,  Noah.     Died  since  war. 
Cook,  Hiram.     Living. 
Coates,  Evander. 
Cottingham,  Wesley. 
Coats,  James. 

Calder,  William,  Sr.     Died  on  James  Island. 
Coleman,  Louis. 
Clark,  Johnson.     Living. 
Carter,  Henry.     Killed  Swift  Creek. 
Daniel,  Harllee.     Died  since  war. 
Drew,  R. 
Daniel,  Dargan. 
Dew,  Turrentine. 
Dew,  John  W. 
Edge,  John.     Died  since  war. 


634  A  HISTORY  0?  MARION  COUNTY. 

Edge,  Hamilton.     Died  hospital. 
Foxworth,  John. 

Foxworth,  W.  K.,  Color-bearer.     Killed  Weldon  R.  R. 
Freeman,  Robt.     Killed  Swift  Creek. 
Freeman,  Robert.     Killed  Drewry's  Bluff. 
Gaddy,  J.  J. 

Graham,  James.     Killed  Battery  Wagner. 
Godbold,  James  P.     Died  since  war. 
Graves,  W.  M.     Killed  Petersburg,  1862. 
Godbold,  Eli.     Wounded  Petersburg. 
Graham,  E. 
Hoyt,  Hugh. 
Hoyt,  Washington. 
Herring,  D.  M. 
Hamilton,  Whitner,  Jr. 
Hunt,  George. 
Hunt,  Charles. 
Hunt,  P.  O. 

Hays,  W.  M.     Died  in  Virginia. 
Hays,  Nicholas  W.     Surrendered  James  Island. 
Hays,  W.  C.     Killed  at  James  Island. 
Hays,  H.  R.     Living. 
Hays,  R.  H.     Killed  James  Island. 

Hays,  A.  G.     Imprisoned  at  Point  lyookout  till  close  of  war. 
Died  since. 

Hays,  Jessee  H.     Surrendered  at  Charleston. 

Hays,  E.  W.     Killed  Weldon  R.  R. 

Hays,  C.     Died  in  Union  Prison,  New  York. 

Hargrove,  William.     Died  James  Island. 

Hargrove,  W.  H.     Living. 

Haselden,  James.     Dead. 

Hyatt,  Hugh. 

Hyatt,  John. 

Herlong,  James.     Imprisoned  at  Point  Lookout. 

Ikner,  James.     Wounded  Petersburg.     Living. 

Johnson,  J.  F. 

Jordan,  Jacob.     Killed  Drewry's  Bluff. 

Jackson,  J.  R. 

Johnson,  George. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  635 

Johnson,  Barney.     Killed  Drewry's  Bluff. 

Jones,  F.  D. 

Keever,  Daniel  A.     Killed  Weldon  R.  R. 

Kennedy,  Evander.     Died  of  disease  Elliott  Cut,  Stono. 

Lane,  Ferdinand.     Died  in  prison. 

Lane,  Franklin. 

lyundy,  John. 

Lovell,  J.  W.     Living. 

Lane,  Robert.     Living. 

Lane,  S.  D.     Dead. 

Lundy,  William.     Living. 

McCorkle,  J.  F.     Surrendered  James  Island. 

Meekins,  Philip  B. 

Meekins,  Oscar. 

McKnight,  J.  E. 

Moore,  G.  W.  Wounded  Drewry's  Bluff.  A  soldier  of 
Mexican  War.  Was  severely  wounded,  furloughed  home,  and 
killed  at  Little  Rock  by  parties  unknown. 

Norton,  Sandy.     Killed  in  Virginia. 

Nees,  John.     Wounded  Weldon  R.  R. 

Owens,  Hewitt.     Living. 

Owens,  Lot. ,  Killed  in  Virginia. 

Ransom,  John. 

Rushing,    James.     Died  Fort  Delaware. 

Riley,  D.  S. 

Redman,  Jake.     Killed. 

Rucker,  Ruff. 

Smith,  J.  K.     Surrendered  James  Island. 

Turner,  Willis,  Jr.      . 

Turner,  Martin.     Died  since  war. 

Turner,  Joel. 

,Tart,  G.     Died  Petersburg. 

Whittington,  W.  G.     Living. 

Watson,  David.     Living. 

Wilkes,  James.     Died  at  hospital. 

Wilkinson,  James.     Died  since  war. 

Wood,  John.     Killed  James  Island. 

Yates,  William.     Died  Charleston. 


636  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Roll  of  Company  C,  Twenty-sixth  Regiment  Infantry,  South 
Carolina  Volunteers,  in  th*:  Confederate  States  Provisional 
Army,  from  Marion  County : 

Rowell,  C.  D.,  Captain.  Promoted  Major  1863,  and  re- 
signed 1864. 

Lofton,  A.  M.,  Captain.  Promoted  from  First  Lieutenant 
1863. 

Rogers,  R.  H.,  Captain.  Promoted  from  SecxMid  to  First 
Lieutenant  1863,  and  Captain  1865.  Served  in  8th  Regiment 
short  time. 

Page,  P.  C,  Second  Lieutenant.  Promoted  from  Sergeant 
1863.     Died  Jackson,  Miss.,  1863. 

Hayes,  A.  T.,  Second  Lieutenant.  Promoted  from  Sergeant 
1863.     Killed  Petersburg  1864. 

Wilkerson,  J.  R.,  Second  Lieutenant.  Wounded  Appomat- 
tox C.  H.     Promoted  from  Sergeant  1865. 

Piatt,  J.  B.,  Second  Lieutenant.     Resigned  June,  1864. 

Cuisack,  J.  H.,  Sergeant.     Discharged  Mount  Pleasant. 

Allen,  J.  C,  Sergeant.     Discharged  McLendonville. 

Campbell,  Samuel,  Sergeant.     Promoted  from  ranks  1863. 

Davis,  J.  H.,  Sergeant.     Promoted  from  ranks  1863. 

Gerry,  J.  H.,  Sergeant.     Promoted  from  ranks  1863. 

Steel,  Samuel,  Sergeant.     Promoted  from  ranks  1864. 

Wiggins,  J.  M.,  Sergeant.     Promoted  from  ranks  1864. 

Miller,  H.  W.,  Corporal. 

Phillips,  H.  G.,  Corporal.     Killed  Jackson,  Miss. 

Collins,  F.  A,  Corporal. 

Potter,  James,  Corporal.     Discharged  Charleston. 

Harrellson,  Sim,  Corporal.     Promoted  from  ranks  1864. 

Rogers,  Barfield,  Corporal.     Promoted  from  ranks  1864. 

Privates. 
Anderson,  J.  M. 

Abbett,  Simeon. 

Bullock,  Joel. 

Britt,  E.  I. 

Brewer,  H.  C. 

Bigham, . 

Bailey,  Sam. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  637 

Bailey,  J.  R. 

Byrd,  Joseph.     Died  McLendonville. 

Berry,  Joseph. 

Collins,  Mack. 

Collins,  Evander. 

Collins,  Frank.     Died  Mt.  Pleasant. 

Cooper,  Fry.     Died  Petersville,  Va. 

Cooper,  E.  W.     Captured  at  Five  Forks  1865. 

Campbell,  Daniel.     Died  at  Mt.  Pleasant. 

Campbell,  J.  C.     Transferred  to  Cavalry  1863. 

Carmichael,  Archie. 

Carmichael,  John.     Died  at  Petersiburg. 

Cain,  R.  M. 

Cain,  W.  E.     Died  at  Petersburg. 

Cain,  S.  J. 

Cain,  T.  C.     Died  at  Petersburg. 

Cain,  J.  C. 

DeBerry,  R.  M.     Transferred  to  Cavalry  1864. 

Dillard,  E.     Captured  1864. 

Dillard,  John. 

Davis,  Henry. 

Davis,  Frank.     Captured  Petersburg  1864. 

Dewitt,  Peter. 

Dewitt,  John.     Died  of  disease  at  Petersville. 

Dew,  F.  C.     Died  of  disease  at  Church  Flat. 

Elmore,  P.  J. 

Elmore,  D.  W. 

Elvington,  Joel.     Died  at  Savannah. 

Flowers,  Nicholas.     Died  at  Petersburg  of  wounds. 

Flowers,  Robert.     Captured  at  Petersburg  1864. 

Glison,  J.  H.     Captured  at  Five  Forks  1865. 

Goodyear, .     Died  of  wounds  at  Petersburg. 

Grimsley,  James. 

Hayes,  Robert  R.     Wounded  Burgess  Mill.-  Captured  1865. 

Hayes,  William  B.    Tranesferred  to  Artillery. 

Lofton,  John. 

Moody,  Enos. 

Moore,  Robert. 

Miller,  Pitman. 


638  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Miller,  John  C. 

Miller,  W.  W. 

Miller,  H.  B. 

Miller,  George. 

Miller,  John.     Captured  at  Five  Forks.     Died  at  Charleston. 

Oakley,  William.     Captured  at  Five  Forks. 

Oakley,  Daniel.     Captured  at  Five  Forks. 

Phillips,  F.  Marion. 

Phillips,  Benjamin. 

Phillips,  Isham. 

Phillips,  Isaac. 

Powell,  Robert.     Captured  at  Petersburg. 

Powell,  Mat.     Captured  at  Five  Forks. 

Poston,  Bryant.  Captured  at  Petersburg.  Killed  Burches 
Mill. 

Pauley,  Robert. 

Piatt,  John. 

Pittman,  Thomas. 

Rogers,  Hinyard.     Died  at  Charleston. 

Rogers,  William.     Killed  Jackson,  Miss. 

Robins,  Robert  M. 

Sturges,  Samuel. 

Scott,  Allen.     Died  wounds  at  Iron  Bridge. 

Sanderson,  John  W. 

Stephens,  Allen.  Captured  at  Five  Forks  1865.  Killed 
Bermuda  Hundred. 

Turner,  John  K.     Captured  at  Five  Forks  1865. 

Turner,  Moses.     Captured  at  Five  Forks  1865. 

Turner,  Robert.     Captured  at  Five  Forks  1865. 

Tanner,  John  L,.     Captured  at  Five  Forks  1865. 

Hayes,  Hardy. 

Hayes,  Allen.     Killed  at  Petersburg. 

Hayes,  Elly.     Wounded  Bermuda  Hundred. 

Hayes,  Daniel  S.  Captured  at  Deep  Bottom.  Killed  at 
Petersburg. 

Herring,  Frank. 

Herring,  John  T. 

Herring,  Arthur.     Captured  at  Petersburg. 

Herring,  Edmund. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  639 

Herring,  James.     Killed  at  Petersburg. 

Harrellson,  W.  W.     Captured  at  Five  Forks. 

Harrellson,  James.     Wounded  Iron  Bridge. 

Harrellson,  E.  Preston. 

Haselden,  Stephen  F.  G.     Wounded  Jackson,  Miss. 

Haselden,  Edward.     Captured  at  Five  Forks. 

Haselden,  William  W. 

Heyman,  John. 

Heyman,  Gilbert.     Captured  at  Petersburg. 

Heyman,  Benjamin. 

Heyman,  Ephraim. 

Hutchinson,  Wm.  J.  D.     Captured  at  Five  Forks. 

Herring,  McSwain.     Died  at  Jackson,  Miss. 

Herring,  Clinton. 

Herring,  Daniel  M.     Died  at  Charleston,  S.  C. 

Israel,  Ancil.     Captured  at  Five  Forks  1865. 

Israel,  Wright.     Captured  at  Five  Forks  1865. 

Jackson,  Reuben.     Captured  at  Five  Forks  1865. 

lyovett,  Kinchan.     Wounded  Church  Flat. 

Ivupo,  Malcolm.     Killed  Bermuda  Hundred. 

IvUpo,  James.     Died  Mt.  Pleasant. 

Lupo,  William.     Discharged. 

Lupo,  Evan.     Died  at  Petersburg. 

Thomas,  James  H.     Captured  at  Five  Fxjrks  1865. 

Tart,  James.     Transferred  to  Artillery. 

Timmons,  Luther.     Died  of  disease  at  McClendenville. 

Timmons,  Burnett. 

Williams,  Thomas. 

Williams,  Silas.     Captured  at  Petersburg  1864. 

Williams,  George. 

Wall,  Albert. 

Wall,  Henry.     Died  of  disease  at  Petersburg. 

Wiggins,  W.  Henry. 

Wiggins,  C.  W. 

Roll  of  Company  I,  Tenth  Regiment  Infantry,  South  Caro- 
lina Volunteers,  in  the  Confederate  States  Provisional  Army, 
from  Marion  County : 

Lofton,  H.  M.,  Captain.     Resigned. 


640  A  HISTORY  Off  MARION  COUNTY. 

Mc White,  B.  B.,  Captain.  Promoted  from  First  Lieutenant. 
Wounded  Murfreesboro.    Living. 

Gasque,  S.  S.,  First  Lieutenant.     Not  re-elected  in  1862. 

Poston,  Andrew,  First  Lieutenant.  Promoted  from  Ser- 
geant and  Second  Lieutenant.     Wounded  at  Chickamauga. 

Poston,  Benjamin,  Second  Lieutenant. 

Bostick,  T.  J.,  Second  Lieutenant.  Promoted  from  Sergeant. 
Died  of  wound's  at  Franklin. 

Finklea,  G.  C.,  Second  Lieutenant.  Promoted  from  Ser- 
geant.    Captured  Missionary  Ridge. 

Bartell,  William,  Sergeant.     Died  in  Tennessee. 

Bartell,  Jasper,  First  Sergeant.     Mustered  out,  over  age. 

Hyman,  W.  L.,  Sergeant.     Wounded  at  Murfreesboro. 

Myers,  A.  A.,  Sergeant.  Promoted  Regimental  Color  Ser- 
geant 1864. 

Turbeville,  R.,  Corporal.     Killed  at  Murfreesboro. 

Hicks,  N.  C,  Corporal.     Died  in  Kentucky. 

McWhite,  W.  H.,  Corporal.  Wounded  at  Murfreesboro, 
Franklin,  Atlanta. 

Poston,  Daniel,  Corporal. 

Flowers,  J.  H.,  Corporal. 

Privates. 
Altman,  W.  S. 

Altman,  C.  T.     Died  of  wounds  at  Chickamauga. 
Adkisson,  Jacob.     Mustered  out,  over  age. 
Askins,  J.  A.     Died  in  Mississippi. 
Ard,  Barnabas. 

Andrews,  D.  J.     Died  of  wounds  at  Resaca. 
Barnes,  B.  J.     Died  of  wounds  in  Atlanta. 
Bostick,  J.  H.     Died  in  Kentucky. 
Bragdon,  J.  B.     Wounded  at  Chickamauga. 
Cooper,  Levi.     Mustered  out,  over  age. 
Cooper,  Simon. 
Caulcutt,  James. 
Cain,  E.  E.     Died  in  Georgia. 
Cain,  William'. 

Creel,  N.  B.     Died  in  Mississippi. 
Carter,  W.  E.     Died  in  Georgia. 


A  HISTORY  OP  MARION  COUNTY.  641 

Campbell,  W.  D.     Wounded  at  Jonesboro,  Ga. 

Eaddy,  Gregory.     Died  in  Mississippi. 

Finklea,  Robert. 

Finklea,  W.  E. 

Foxworth,  C.  B.     Wounded  Chickamauga. 

Flowers,  Clayton.     Mustered  out,  over  age. 

Glisson,  G.  W. 

Gordon,  A.  B.     Mustered  out,  over  age. 

Gordon,  J.  J.     Surrendered  and  discharged  at  South  Island. 

Holland,  J.  H. 

Haines,  J.  B.     Wounded  at  Missionary  Ridge. 

Huggins,  W.  S.  A. 

Hanna,  J.  B.     Died  at  South  Island. 

Hanna,  D.  P.     Died  in  Kentucky. 

Hanna,  Ervin.     Wounded  Missionary  Ridge. 

Hutchison,  E.  B. 

Hutchison,  L.  N.     Wounded  Atlanta. 

Hutchison,  John.     Died  in  Kentucky. 

Hyman,  J.  L,.     Mustered  out,  over  age. 

Lee,  J.  W. 

Lee,  W.  A.     Died  in  Mississippi. 

Munn,  G.  W. 

Munn,  W.  J.     Killed  at  Murfreesboro. 

McGee,  W.  A. 

McKissick,  A.  W. 

McDaniel,  Enos.     Mustered  out,  over  age. 

Marree,  Thomas. 

Myers,  G.  H.     Wounded  Missionaiy  Ridge.- 

McWhite,  G.  W.     Died  in  Mississippi. 

Parker,  G.  R. 

Prosser,  Nathan.     Died  in  South  Carolina. 

Prosser,  M.  V. 

Powell,  J.  S. 

Poston,  Hampton.     Died  in  South  Carolina. 

Poston,  Christopher.     Died  in  Tennessee. 

Poston,  Joseph  H.     Died  in  Tennessee. 

Poston,  M.  M. 

Poston,  F.  L. 

Poston,  T.  W.     Mustered  out,  over  age. 


642  A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 

Poston,  B.  D. 

Poston,  John  L.     Wounded  at  Chickamauga. 

Poston,  W.  H.     Killed  at  Missionary  Ridge. 

Poston,  William. 

Poston,  Hugh. 

Powell,  S.  C.     Mustered  out,  over  age. 

Smith,  D.  C. 

Sturges,  S.  B. 

Turner,  Lewis.     Died  in  Georgia. 

Tanner,  W.  N. 

Tanner,  John. 

Woodrow,  D.  M.     Died  in  Georgia. 

Wiggins,  E.  J. 

Williams,  Samuel.     Died  in  Georgia. 

Williford,  A.  S. 

Williford,  R.  J. 

Roll  of  Company  D,  7th  Battalion,  South  Carolina  Reserves, 
Major  J.  M.  Ward,  of  Timmonsville,  commanding;  attached  to 
the  brigade  commanded  by  Brigadiar  General  Albert  Z.  Blan- 
chard,  of  New  Orleans,  I;a. : 

Captain,  W.  H.  Crawford.     Dead. 
First  Lieutenant,  Henry  B.  Cook.     Dead. 
Second  Lieutenant,  Neill  McDuffie. 
Third  Lieutenant,  Alfred  B.  Gordon. 
Sergeant,  Alexander  C.  Carmichael, 
Sergeant,  Stephen  G.  Owens.     Dead. 
Sergeant,  Salathiel  S.  Moody.     Dead. 
Sergeant,  Thomas  L.  James. 
Corporal,  Alfred  Edens.     Dead. 
Corporal,  M.  H.  Martin.     Dead. 
Corporal,  Charles  G.  Collins. 
Corporal,  Daniel  Little.     Dead. 
Corporal,  T.  G.  Davis,  Jr. 

Company  Clerk,  John  Wiloox,  afterwards  Sergeant  Major  of 
battalion. 

Company  Commissary,  N.  B.  Goddard.     Dead. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 


648 


Privates. 


Alford,  John  C. 
Alford,  John  D. 
Alford,  Wm.  Mack. 
Alford,  Walter  S. 
Altman,  James  D. 
Avant,  Jordan  G. 

Bailey, '■ — . 

Baker,  B.  B. 
Beiry,  Clinton. 
Berry,  Samuel.     Dead. 
Bethea,  D. 
Bethea,  James  D. 
Brown,  Edward. 
Brown,  Henry. 
Brown,  John. 
Brown,  W.  K.     Dead. 
Bryant,  Henry. 
Bryant,  Samuel. 
Bryant,  Stephen  S. 
Byrd,  Huger. 
Burriss,  Robert  L. 
Capps,  John  H. 
Carmichael,  John. 
Coleman,  Franklin  D. 
Collins,  Benjamin  F. 
Collins,  Barny  P. 
Cribb,  Thomas. 
Cuddle,  James  R.     Dead. 
Dickson,  W.  J.     Dead. 
Eaddy,  Trezevant. 
Edwards,  George.     Dead. 
Edwards,  Wm.  G. 
Evans,  Josiah. 
Evans,  Thomas. 
Finnagan,  Patrick. 
Ferrel,  James. 
Finklea,  J.  Wesley. 


Finklea,  Samuel  B. 
Foxworth,  W.  C.     Dead. 
Fowler,  Joseph. 
Gibson,  John. 
Godbold,  Robert.    Dead. 
Greenwood,  James  L. 
Gregg,  Francis  M. 
Gregg,  Wm.  B. 
Godbold,  Ervin.     Dead. 
Hairgrove,  Stephen  A.    Dead. 
Harrington,  John  T.     Dead. 
Hatchel,  B.  Pleasant. 

Hatohel, . 

Haynes,  James  W. 
Hudson,  Eli  T. 
Huggins,  Enos  T. 
Hutchinson,  Rix. 
Hyman,  Causea. 
Jordan,  John  D.     Dead. 
Jordan,  John  J. 
Lee,  Curtis. 
Lewis,  John.     Dead. 
Lewis,  W.  Evan. 
Lewis,  Wm.  S.     Dead. 
Lowrimore,  Collin  W. 
Marlow,  David. 

Matthews, . 

Moore,  John  Beaty. 
McCormac,  P. 
McDaniel,  B.  F. 
Mclnnis,  Laurin. 
McKenzie,  Eli. 
McNeill,  Simon  P. 
Owens,  William. 
Parker,  Robert. 
Parker,  Stephen. 
Poston,  Francis. 


644 


A  HISTORY  Olf  MARION  COUNTY. 


Poston,  J.  McK. 

Smith,  Nathan. 

Poston,  Thomas. 

Smith,  Thomas. 

Proctor,  Thomas.     Dead. 

Smithey,  G.  W. 

Prosser,  Job. 

Stafford,  Neill. 

Reaves,  J.  Robert. 

Tart,  E.  Murcbison. 

Reaves,  Robert  H.,  Jr. 

Tart,  Henry. 

Richardson,  John  M. 

Taylor,  James. 

Rogers,  E.  W. 

Timmons,  Wm. 

Rogers,  Henry. 

Turbeville,  Wm.     Dead. 

Rogers,  John  H.     Dead. 

Waters,  Willis.     Dead. 

Rowell,  Jesse  C.     Dead. 

Welsh,  James  E.     Dead. 

Rowell,  Wm. 

White,  John. 

Salmons,  Samuel.     Dead. 

White,  W.  Coke. 

Sawyer,  Willis. 

Williams,  Geo.  N. 

Singletary,  Hamer. 

Williams,  James  A. 

Smith,  Anderson. 

Wise,  Wilson  D.     Dead, 

Smith,  Jacob  W. 

. 

Roll  of  company  of  militia  last  called  into  service : 

Captain,  W.  J.  Davis. 
First  Lieutenant,  J.  B.  Shackleford. 
Second  Lieutenant,  A.  McGoogan. 
Third  Lieutenant,  W.  McDaniel. 
First  Sergeant,  T.  F.  Brown. 
Second  Sergeant,  W.  W.  Braddy. 
Third  Sergeant,  W.  H.  Witherow. 
Fourth  Sergeant,  John  Mace. 
Fifth  Sergeant,  H.  B.  Wheeler. 
First  Corporal,  W.  S.  Shackleford. 
Second  Corporal,  W.  W.  MuUins. 
Third  Corporal,  H.  H.  Singletary. 
Fourth  Corporal,  J.  F.  Gasque. 


Alford,  Walter. 
Altman,  W.  J. 
Alford,  John  D. 
Allen,  W. 


Privates. 


Allen,  John. 
Altman,  W.  C. 
Avant,  A.  N. 
Bird,  James. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 


645 


Boker,  J.  R.  M. 
Brown,  Alex. 
Brown,  Lex. 
Brown,  W.  T. 
Bailey,  W. 
Bethea,  G.  J. 
Blackman,  Campbell. 
Barfield,  A. 
Berry,  J.  S. 
Berry,  S.  A. 
Costen,  W. 
Collins,  Shade. 
Cooper,  John. 
Campbell,  William. 
Campbell,  Robert. 
Collins,  Thomas. 
Cook,  W. 
Cribb,  Joseph. 
Campbell,  Andrew. 
Calder,  Henry. 
Calder,  Joseph. 
Coleman,  S. 
Calder,  M. 
Collins,  A.  H. 
Clark,  M.  L. 
Cannon,  J.  B. 
Drew,  Thomas. 
Davis,  S.  J. 
Dill,  D.  M. 
Davis,  E.  J. 
Dove,  J.  D. 
Davis,  E.  M. 
Edwards,  John. 
Floyd,  Charles. 
Freeman,  George. 
Fladger,  R.  B. 
Gasque,  F. 
Groom,  M. 
Gaddy,  Herod. 


Greggs,  E.  E. 
Greenwood,  J.  R. 
Gasque,  J.  H. 
Hunter,  T. 
Haynes,  James. 
Harrelson,  Hugh. 
Harper,  Isaac. 
Hays,  J.  D. 
James,  J.  H. 
Jackson,  Alex. 
Jackson,  Jeff. 
Jones,  Elijah. 
Lupo,  John. 
Lawrimore,  Gus. 
Leggett,  A.  R. 
Lane,  C.  C. 
Montgomery,  J.  D. 
Moody,  Hugh. 
Miller,  I^evi. 
Manning,  T.  J. 
McPherson,  Samuel. 
Mclnnis,  Neal. 
McEachern,  Neal. 
McLellan,  Preston. 
Qwens,  W. 
Owetis,  Z. 
Page,  W.  B. 
Perritt,  John. 
Parker,  Allen. 
Powers,  E. 
Pitman,  I. 
Pierce,  Robert. 
Pierce,  Dr. 
Rogers,  R.  J. 
Rogers,  L.  B. 
Rogers,  C.  B. 
Ross,  A.  W. 
Rit,  D.  E. 
Stephens,  Jessie. 


646 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY. 


Shelly,  C.  W. 

Stevenson,  J.  N. 
Smith,  Willis. 
Snipes,  J.  S. 
Stubbs,  J.  W. 
Shaw,  A.  B. 
Turbeville,  Pinckney. 
Tiler,  J.  M. 
Tiler,  George. 
Turbeville,  Samuel. 
Tart,  Nathan. 
Turbeville,  Ivemuel. 
Williamson,  J.  W. 
Wall,  W.  A. 
Williamson,  L.  J. 
White,  Evander. 
Worrell,  John. 
Williamson,  James. 
Whittington,  J.  N. 
Watson,  I.  H. 
Wagner,  A.  C. 
Flowers,  B. 
Davis,  W.  M. 
Davis,  William. 
Munn,  A.  B. 
Kirton,  H.  P. 
Moody,  E.  J. 
Berry,  Elihu. 


Goodyear,  A.  M. 
Harrell,  S.  A. 
Gasque,  Gehu. 
Lawrimore,  John. 
Head,  Wellington. 
Jackson,  L. 
Jackson,  W. 
McKenzie,  Robert. 
Spivey,  D.  E. 
Turner,  William. 
Watson,  Isham  E. 
McKnight,  J.  E. 
Shelly,  David. 
Holden,  James. 
Eewis,  J.  J. 
Proctor,  J.  T. 
Sherwood,  T.  C. 
Williams,  S.  J. 
Timmons,  J.  C. 
Walker,  H. 
White,  W. 
Hatcher,  R. 
Hargrove,  A.  L,. 
Braddy,  W.  M. 
Johnson,  H.  R. 
Jackson,  J.  K. 
Fore,  Edward  M. 


Such  as  I  know  to  be  dead  I  have  so  marked ;  there  may  be 
others  of  them  dead. 

Besides,  there  was  a  company  of  Citadel  Cadets,  com- 
manded by  Maj.  J.  B.  White,  in  which  company  there  were 
three  from  Marion  District:  R.  K.  Clark  (dead),  John  C. 
Sellers  and  James  A.  Ferrell. 


A  HISTORY  OF  MARION  COUNTY.  647 


Just  before  completing  the  foregoing,  the  author  was 
stricken  with  a  fatal  malady,  cancer  on  the  face,  and  after  a 
lingering  illness  of  several  months  which  he  bore  with  uncom- 
plaining fortitude,  he  died  on  Good  Friday,  the  28th  day  of 
March,  1902,  being  84  years  and  one  day  old,  and  was  buried 
Easter  Sunday  in  the  Dothan  Church  Cemetery  by  the  side  of 
his  wife,  who  had  preceded  him  to  the  grave  nine  years.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  perhaps  the  oldest  active  Mason 
in  the  county,  having  joined  that  order  in  early  life.  At  dif- 
ferent times  he  had  served  as  Worshipful  Master  of  Mackey 
Lodge  No.  Tj,  of  Little  Rock,  now  the  Dillon  Lodge,  of  Clin- 
ton Lodge  No.  60,  at  Marion,  and  of  Dalcho  Lodge  No.  160, 
at  Latta,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  an  honorary  member 
of  Dalcho  Lodge.  These  three  lodges,  with  members  from 
every  lodge  in  the  county,  paid  the  last  tribute  of  respect  to 
their  venerable  Past  Master,  according  to  the  beautiful  and 
impressive  ritual  of  the  order  of  Ancient  Free  Masons.  A 
large  concourse  of  people  from  nearly  every  section  of  the 
county  was  present,  and  the  commodious  church  could  only 
seat  a  part  of  the  crowd  present.  The  church  services  were 
conducted  by  the  Rev.  Dove  Tiller  and  Rev.  C.  C.  Herbert, 
of  the  Methodist  Church,  of  which  church  the  author  had  been 
a  member  nearly  seventy  years.  At  the  conclusion  of  the 
church  services,  Maj.  J.  Monroe  Johnson,  Past  Master  of 
Clinton  Lodge  No.  60,  was  introduced  and  paid  an  eloquent 
tribute  to  the  character  and  worth  of  his  departed  brother  and 
lifelong  friend.  He  spoke  of  him  as  a  Mason,  a  lawyer  and 
as  a  man,  and  dwelt  particularly  upon  these  marked  character- 
istics of  the  deceased : 

1.  His  phenomenal  memory. 

2.  His  untiring  industry  and  energy. 

3.  His  heroic  independence. 

4.  His  sturdy  honesty. 

5.  His  marked  individuality. 

A  Masonic  procession  was  then  formed  and  the  body  carried 
to  the  nearby  cemetery,  where  it  was  buried  in  accordance  with 
the  beautiful  ceremonies  of  Freemasonry. 
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