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MEET  YOUR 
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A  Sketch-Book 
of  the 

HAGOOD-TOBIN  FAMILY 


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INTRODUCTION 

There  is  no  such  thing  as  an  aristocracy  in  the  United  States. 
The  people  who  came  over  to  this  country  were,  for  the  most 
part,  from  the  middle,  or  the  working,  classes  of  Europe ;  and 
if  there  be  any  outcropping  of  the  lesser  nobilities,  it  is  of  no 
consequence.  Every  royal  house  of  Europe  had  its  origin  in 
some  bloody  adventurer,  highwayman,  or  robber.  Every  living 
white  man,  if  the  facts  were  known,  could  trace  himself  back 
to  some  royal  source.  Haile  Selassie,  the  sad  little  Emperor 
of  Ethiopia,  has  the  most  glorious  ancestors  of  them  all — King 
Solomon  and  the  Queen  of  Sheba.  And  Hirohito,  the  much- 
despised  Emperor  of  Japan,  has  an  unbroken  line  of  royal 
fathers  extending  back  1 24  generations. 

But  it  is  interesting  to  make  the  acquaintance  of  a  forebear, 
even  if  an  Indian,  who  did  his  bit  in  building  up  this  country 
and  making  it  what  it  is.  And  that  is  the  purpose  of  this  little 
book.  I  want  to  introduce  my  children  to  their  grandfathers. 

It  will  be  noticed  that  our  people  were  all  of  pure  British 
stock  (English,  Irish,  or  Scotch)  with  a  little  admixture  of 
French.  Almost  without  exception  they  were  planters,  and 
they  belonged  to  that  class  in  the  old  South  that  the  Negroes 
called  "the  quality".  They  were  men  and  women  for  whom 
their  slaves  had  a  love  and  respect,  which  the  masters  recip- 
rocated. All  those  of  military  age  were  soldiers  in  time  of  war, 
and  a  few  adopted  the  profession  of  arms  in  time  of  peace 
— either  in  the  regular  establishment,  or  in  the  state  militia. 
Here  and  there  will  be  found  a  statesman,  but  never  a  politi- 
cian. 

A  more  extended  record  of  family  connections,  together 
with  supporting  evidence,  has  been  deposited  with  The  South 
Carolina  Historical  Society  in  Charleston. 

^,1  c   n  Johnson  Hagood. 

Charleston,  b.  C,  J 

February  20,  1946. 


CONTENTS 

Page 

Johnson  Hagood's  Will 7 

The  Hagood  Line — Diagram 9 

The  Gordons  of  South  Carolina 10 

Thomas  Gordon,  Sr 11 

Captain  Thomas  Gordon 14 

Two  Anns,  Mary  and  Mary-Ann 16 

The  O'Hears  of  South  Carolina 19 

James  O'Hear 20 

John  Sanders  O'Hear 23 

The  Hagoods  in  Virginia 26 

The  Hagoods  in  South  Carolina 28 

Johnson  Hagood,  Esq 31 

Dr.  James  O.  Hagood 36 

Colonel  Lee  Hagood 39 

General  Johnson  Hagood,  C.  S.  A 45 

Saluda  Old  Town 53 

Colonel  James  R.  Hagood 60 

Doctor  William  Small 69 

Joseph  Duncan  Allen 72 

Joe  Allen's  Dog 77 

[5] 


CONTENTS— Continued 

Page 

The  Tobin  Line — Diagram 79 

The  Tobin  Family  Abroad 80 

Cornelius  Tobin      82 

1  Hmiel  Tobin 85 

Gerard  Lartigue 87 

General  John  E.  Tobin 92 

Colonel  William  A.  Owens 95 

Hoopskirts  and  Frills 99 

Colonel  I.  L.  Tobin 102 

Genealogy     107 

Hagood  Line 109 

Mitchells,  Whaleys,  and  Smalls 130 

Tobin  Line 138 

The  Texas  Tobins 153 


[61 


WILL  OF  JOHNSON  HAGOOD 

31  Jan.  1814 

Whereas  it  has  pleased  Almighty  God  to  bless  me  with  the 
best  of  wives,  and  children  dutiful  and  obedient — fearing  that 
at  some  moment  by  some  accident  or  other  such  as  I  have 
lately  met  with,  or  by  the  ordinary  course  of  nature  I  may  be 
suddenly  deprived  of  life.  In  such  an  event  wishing  to  make 
such  provisions  for  them  as  my  humble  circumstances  will 
admit,  and  to  prevent  my  beloved  wife  from  being  dependent 
on  sureties  for  her  administration  in  case  of  my  dying  intes- 
tate. In  the  name  of  God,  Amen.  I,  Johnson  Hagood  of  the 
District  of  Barnwell,  Planter,  do  make  and  ordain  this  my  last 
will  and  testament  in  manner  and  form  following.  As  a  sinner 
I  pray  God  to  forgive  me.  His  forgiveness  will  secure  to  me 
eternal  happiness. 

As  to  my  earthly  estate,  which  it  has  pleased  God  to  bless 
me  with,  it  is  my  will  and  desire,  and  I  do  accordingly  will, 
bequeath  and  devise  the  same  to  be  equally  divided  between 
my  beloved  wife  Ann  O'Hear  Hagood  and  my  children  who 
may  survive  me,  notwithstanding  the  little  gifts  I  have  already 
made  to  some  of  them,  except  my  unfortunate  *  child  William 
Johnson  Hagood  for  whom  I  have  already  sufficiently  pro- 
vided, and  to  whom  I  have  given  what  will  amount  to  a  decent 
independence  by  the  time  he  stands  in  need  of  it. 

All  my  Library  and  Philosophical  Apparatus,  I  give  and 
bequeath  to  my  son  Robert  H.  Hagood,  provided  his  mother 
think  proper  to  confirm  this  bequest,  when  he  arrives  at  a 
proper  age;  if  not,  or  if  he  should  die  before  he  finishes  his 
studies,  then  and  in  that  case,  I  give  the  same  to  my  son  James 

*  Blind. 

[7] 


g  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

O'Hear  Hagood.  I  do  on  this  solemn  occasion,  call  on  my  chil- 
dren to  be  affectionate  and  attentive  to  their  mother  who  gave 
them  existence,  through  all  the  trials,  difficulties  or  troubles 
she  may  encounter  in  life,  which  I  pray  God  to  avert >  and  also 
to  love  one  another  as  we  are  commanded. 

To  prevent  what  frequently  happens  in  families,  after  the 
decease  of  the  father  in  relation  to  his  estate,  it  is  my  further 
will  and  desire  that  no  division  of  my  estate,  under  any  cir- 
cumstances shall  take  place  until  all  my  just  and  honorable 
debts  are  paid,  or  satisfactory  provision  made  for  the  payment 
of  them.  And  in  that  case  it  is  my  will  and  desire  that  my  exec- 
utrix herein  after  named  make  such  person  or  persons  of  her 
own  choosing,  to  divide  Lands  and  appraise  negroes  and  all 
other  personal  property  as  she  shall  think  proper,  without  the 
interference  of  anyone  whomsoever. 

There  are  some  tokens  of  remembrance  I  would  give,  as  in 
a  former  will,  to  those  who  were  my  friends  in  early  life,  but 
the  task  is  painful.  In  my  own  opinion,  to  the  most  of  them,  I 
have  returned  two  favors  for  one;  and  indeed,  in  some  in- 
stances ten  for  one.  There  are  some  however  whom  I  shall 
notice  in  a  codicil  to  this  my  last  will  and  testament,  should  I 
ever  be  able  to  make  one,  who  are  exceptions;  for  whom  my 
grateful  heart  will  carry  a  full  remembrance  to  the  grave.  And 
lastly,  I  do  hereby  nominate,  constitute  and  appoint  my  be- 
loved wife  Ann  O'Hear  Hagood  sole  executrix  of  this  my  last 
will  and  testament;  and  do  hereby  also  nominate,  constitute, 
and  appoint  my  said  wife  sole  guardian  of  my  said  children, 
and  of  all  and  every  other  such  child  or  children  as  I  shall  have 
living,  or  that  my  wife  may  be  encient  with  at  the  time  of  my 
death. 

Signed,  sealed,  Etc. 

Johnson  Hagood     (L.  S.) 


THE  HAGOOD  LINE 


HUGH  O'HEAR  THOMAS  GORDON 


-1753 


WILLIAM  HAGOOD     JAMES  O'HEAR 
-1812 


1723-1765 


ANN  GORDON 


1750-1813 


JOHNSON  HAGOOD         ANN  O'HEAR 
1771-1816 


SHERWOOD  ALLEN  MARY  CARGILL 


PETER  WILLIAMSON 


JOHN  CARGILL  ALLEN     SARAH  WILLIAMSON 
1781-1824 


JAMES  O.  HAGOOD    INDIANA  M.  ALLEN 
1804-1873 


LEE  HAGOOD  KATHLEEN  R.  TOBIN 

1846-1890 


JOHNSON  HAGOOD  JEAN  G.  SMALL 

1873- 


JOHNSON  HAGOOD      CORA  M.  THOMAS 


1908- 


[9] 


THE  GORDONS  OF  SOUTH  CAROLINA 

1723-1809 

The  first  authentic  information  we  have  of  my  father's 
people  comes  from  the  records  of  births,  marriages,  deaths, 
etc.,  preserved  in  the  Gordon  Family  Bible,  which  was  owned 
by  my  great-great-great  grandmother  Ann  Nelme  Gordon 
(Mrs.  Thomas  Gordon)  whose  name  appears  on  the  title  page 
of  the  New  Testament,  and  in  whose  handwriting  the  earlier 
entries  were  made.  This  record  covering  a  period  of  ninety 
years,  stops  with  the  death  of  my  great  grandmother  Ann 
O'Hear  Hagood  (Mrs.  Johnson  Hagood),  after  which  her 
grandson  Governor  Johnson  Hagood — my  father's  brother — 
in  1879  brought  the  record  up  to  date  by  introducing  his 
mother's  family,  and  adding  notes  by  which  it  was  indicated 
that  our  earliest  American  ancestors  on  his  side  were  Mr. 
Thomas  Gordon  of  Charleston,  Mr.  James  O'Hear  of  Charles- 
ton, Mr.  Sherwood  Allen  of  Richmond,  and  Dr.  Peter 
Williamson  of  Edgefield;  all  of  whom  were  men  of  means 
and  high  standing  in  their  respective  communities  prior  to  the 
Revolutionary  War. 

Subsequent  research  takes  the  Hagoods  back  to  Virginia  at 
a  much  earlier  date,  but  we  do  not  get  anything  very  definite 
there,  and  for  convenience  in  the  preparation  of  these  sketches, 
I  have  in  general  followed  Governor  Hagood's  plan  by  dis- 
posing of  the  Gordon-O'Hear  contingent  first. 

The  Gordon  Bible  came  into  the  possession  of  Governor 
Hagood  through  a  cousin,  Mrs.  Sophia  McDonald,  and  is 
owned  by  his  grandson,  Mr.  Johnson  Hagood,  formerly  of 
Barnwell,  but  now  residing  in  Florida. 

[10] 


THOMAS  GORDON  Sr. 

1723-1765 

(My  Great-great-great  Grandfather) 

THOMAS  GORDON,  Sr.,  born  1723;  died  1 1  November 
1765;  was  of  English  parentage,  but  no  further  knowledge 
of  his  origin  is  now  preserved.  A  careful  search  of  all  avail- 
able records  in  Charleston,  where  he  lived,  fails  to  connect 
him  with  any  of  the  numerous  other  Gordons  in  that  vicinity. 
Governor  Hagood  says  that  he  received  some  kind  of  a  pen- 
sion or  annuity  from  England.  He  had  in  his  possession  a  very 
old  copy  of  the  Prussian  Drill  Regulations  containing  the 
name,  book  mark,  and  coat  of  arms,  of  Lieut.  Colonel  Thomas 
Gordon  of  the  Foot  Guards,  which  was  handed  down  along 
with  the  Gordon  Bible.  This  all  led  to  the  belief  that  that  offi- 
cer and  our  ancestor  were  the  same.  But  a  letter  to  me  from 
the  British  War  Office  says  that  while  Lieut.  Col.  Gordon  of 
the  Foot  Guards  was  in  America  before  and  during  the  Rev- 
olution, he  returned  to  England,  and  remained  on  active  duty 
for  some  time  after  the  death  of  our  Mr.  Gordon  in  Charles- 
ton. 

Later  information  would  indicate  that  whatever  may  have 
been  his  origin,  Mr.  Gordon  was  in  fact  a  building  contractor, 
and  perhaps  an  architect,  in  Charleston.  The  inventory  of  his 
estate,  filed  in  the  office  of  the  Probate  Court,  shows  that  he 
owned  a  large  quantity  of  building  equipment  and  tools,  to- 
gether with  a  number  of  negro  slaves,  valued  at  from  £150 
to  £700  each,  who  were  evidently  his  workmen. 

The  first  official  record  of  him  is  found  in  Saint  Philip's 
Parish  Register,  where  it  is  shown  that  on  the  ninth  day  of 

[in 


12  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

July,  1752  (O.  S.)  he  was  united  in  the  holy  bonds  of  matri- 
mony with  Ann  Nelme,  a  widow,  by  the  Reverend  Alexander 
Garden. 

Then  the  next  year,  July  26th,  1753,  he  joined  the  South 
Carolina  Society,  and  remained  a  member  in  good  standing  up 
to  the  time  of  his  death.  This  Society,  organized  in  1737,  had 
its  origin  in  the  fact  that  certain  gentlemen  in  the  "excellent 
little  burg  of  Charlestown,  realizing  that  one  of  their  acquaint- 
ances, was  reduced  to  low  circumstances,  and  had  opened  a 
small  tavern  at  his  house  for  the  support  of  himself  and 
family,  agreed  to  meet  there  every  Thursday  evening  and  par- 
take of  his  good  cheer,  and  thus  in  an  unobtrusive  and  graceful 
way  render  him  assistance."  It  was  originally  called  the  French 
Club,  and  no  other  language  was  allowed  to  be  spoken,  but 
English  was  gradually  introduced. 

The  society  soon  branched  out  from  Poinsett's  Tavern  into 
the  field  of  general  charity.  It  not  only  rendered  assistance  to 
its  own  "decayed  members",  their  widows  and  orphans  j  but 
undertook  the  education  of  needy  children  all  over  the  city. 
In  1804,  it  erected  a  handsome  building  on  Meeting  Street 
which  is  still  one  of  the  show  places  of  Charleston.  This  was 
intended  to  provide  a  school  room,  and  a  place  of  assembly  for 
members;  but  it  was  loaned  out  for  two  years  for  use  as  a 
church.  Being  adjacent  to  St.  Michael's  it  is  very  convenient 
for  wedding  receptions,  and  the  Hagood  family  started  that 
fashion  by  coming  down  from  Atlanta,  and  having  my 
daughter  Jean's  reception  there  when  she  married  Jimmie 
Holloway  in  1921.  Since  that  time  many  other  young  brides 
have  been  greeted  in  those  spacious  halls. 

Thomas  Gordon  was  one  of  the  earliest  members  of  St. 
Michael's  Church,  and  owned  a  pew  there.  Before  that  he  had 
been  a  member  of  St.  Philip's.  Originally  the  two  parishes 


Thomas  Gordon,  Sr.  13 

were  one,  organized  under  the  Church  of  England,  but  they 
were  separated  by  an  Act  of  the  Colonial  Assembly  24  June 
1751,  which  authorized  the  construction  of  a  new  church,  with 
"a  ring  of  bells",  and  a  parish  house  on  Meeting  Street.  This 
act  provided  that  there  should  be  set  up  a  commodious  pew  for 
the  use  of  the  Governor,  two  large  pews  for  the  use  of  the  As- 
sembly, one  large  pew  for  the  use  of  strangers,  and  other  pews 
all  of  the  same  size,  to  be  sold  to  the  parishioners  at  varying 
prices  according  to  location. 

The  first  distribution  of  pews  was  made  on  1  December 
1760,  and  the  first  service  was  conducted  two  months  later. 
But  the  Gordon  family  was  stricken  with  smallpox  just  at  this 
time  and  was  not  represented.  Ann  Gordon,  Sr.,  died  leaving 
two  small  children — Thomas,  age  six,  and  Ann  Gordon,  Jr. 
(from  whom  we  are  descended)  age  three.  The  next  year,  how- 
ever, 19  October  1762,  they  succeeded  in  getting  pew  No.  97, 
quite  near  the  pulpit,  which  had  originally  been  allotted  to 
John  Favors.  The  price  paid  for  this  was  £150,  quite  a  large 
sum  in  those  days  and  equal  to  a  year's  salary  as  prescribed  by 
law  for  the  rector.  But  the  funds  thus  raised  were  required  to 
pay  for  the  construction  of  the  church  and  to  buy  "the  ring  of 
bells". 

Mr.  Gordon  continued  to  occupy  this  pew  with  the  two  little 
orphans  for  about  three  years,  and  it  must  have  been  a  sad 
sight  to  see  them  come  in.  But  at  the  end  of  that  time,  14  Jan- 
uary 1765,  he  married  second  Mary  Hawkes,  and  after  another 
short  period  (November  1765)  he  died,  leaving  the  pew  to 
his  widow.  The  pew  continued  in  the  possession  of  the  family 
until  1771,  when  it  was  sold.  A  very  much-faded  and  muti- 
lated record  of  these  transactions  is  still  preserved.  Young 
Thomas  continued  to  be  a  member  of  St.  Michael's  until  the 
date  of  his  death,  and  for  three  years  served  as  senior  warden. 
But  Ann  married  a  Presbyterian. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  GORDON 

1754-1809  | 

(My  Great-great-great  Uncle) 

Thomas  Gordon,  Jr.,  was  not  our  direct  ancestor,  but 
having  died  without  issue,  his  right  of  membership  to  the 
Society  of  the  Cincinnati  descended  to  our  family  through  his 
sister  Ann,  and  for  that  reason  he  is  included  here. 

The  Gordon  Bible  shows  that  "Thomas  Gordon  Jr.  was  born 
July  ye  15  1754  and  had  the  smallpox  February  ye  22  1760". 
He  was  commissioned  first  lieutenant  in  the  Fifth  South  Caro- 
lina Line,  Continental  Establishment  (Regular  Army)  Decem- 
ber 22nd  1 777,  was  promoted  captain  the  next  year,  and  served 
to  the  end  of  the  war.*  He  married,  April  8th  1800,  Mrs. 
Grace  Hall  Jervey,  widow  of  Captain  Thomas  Jervey,  also  of 
the  Continental  Line,  but  as  indicated  had  no  children. 

Captain  Gordon  like  his  father  was  an  active  member  of  the 
South  Carolina  Society  and  served,  without  compensation,  for 
eighteen  years  as  its  Clerk.  He  was  also  an  active  member  of 
St.  Michael's  Church  and  served  for  four  years  (1791-94)  as 
a  warden. 

The  Charleston  Courier  carried  the  following  notice  of  his 
death: 

"Died  on  Sunday  26th  of  November  (1809)  Captain 
Thomas  Gordon  in  the  56th  year  of  his  age.  During  his  last 
illness  he  evidenced  a  mind  endowed  with  much  fortitude,  and 
as  a  Christian  was  perfectly  resigned  to  meet  his  Creator. 


•  3.  C.  Hist,   and   Gen.  Magazine,  Vol.  XIII. 

[14] 


Captain  Thomas  Gordon  15 

"Early  in  our  Revolutionary  struggle,  he  obtained  a  com- 
mission in  the  Continental  Establishment,  under  Colonel  Isaac 
Huger,  was  in  active  service  in  Georgia  and  in  this  state,  and 
continued  a  zealous  supporter  of  his  country's  rights  and  lib- 
erties until  the  close  of  the  war." 

"For  many  years  past,  and  until  his  death,  his  upright  and 
correct  conduct  ensured  to  him  the  office  of  Cashier  of  the 
Custom  House  of  Charleston,  the  duties  of  which  he  per- 
formed to  the  perfect  satisfaction  of  the  various  collectors.  In 
public  and  in  private  life  he  made  integrity  his  polar  star,  and 
in  all  his  transactions,  was  governed  by  most  rigid  principles 
of  honesty,  candour,  and  independence." 


TWO  ANNS— MARY  AND  MARY  ANN 

(1720-1843) 

The  lives  of  these  women  cover  a  period  of  a  hundred  and 
twenty-three  years  but  they  are  so  intermingled  that  they  will 
be  considered  together. 

We  have  seen  in  another  sketch,  that  Mr.  Thomas  Gordon, 
Sr.,  married  Ann  Nelme,  a  widow,  in  1752.  She  lived  only 
eight  years  after  this  and  died  leaving  him  with  two  small  chil- 
dren, Thomas  Gordon,  Jr.,  who  became  a  Continental  officer, 
and  Ann  Gordon,  Jr.,  from  whom  we  are  descended.  He  mar- 
ried second  Mary  Hawkes,  a  "spinster"  forty-five  years  of 
age.  That  was  on  January  17th  1765,  and  then  in  the  following 
November  he  died  leaving  her  with  no  children  of  her  own 
but  with  the  care  of  the  two  orphans,  Ann  and  Thomas. 

Mary  also  took  charge  of  the  old  Gordon  Bible,  and  kept 
the  records.  We  find  in  her  handwriting  that  Ann  Gordon,  Jr., 
had  come  into  this  world  on  November  28th  1757  and  had 
the  smallpox  February  28  1760.  Her  brother  Thomas  was 
taken  down  the  same  day  and  it  is  very  likely  that  his  mother, 
Ann  Gordon,  Sr.,  had  it  also  as  she  died  about  this  time. 

Mary  made  a  good  stepmother  and  always  referred  to  the 
children  as  her  own,  and  it  may  be  that  she  had  charge  of  them 
in  some  capacity  during  the  five-year  interval  following  their 
mother's  death.  She  had  been  made  executrix  of  Mr.  Gordon's 
will  and  guardian  of  the  children.  The  estate,  including  some 
slaves,  was  sufficient  for  their  support:  she  managed  it  well 
and  it  was  turned  over  to  them  in  good  shape  when  they 
reached  their  maturity. 

Not  long  after  her  sixteenth  birthday,  Ann,  Jr.,  got  married, 
and  we  find  the  following  notice,  with  the  name  of  the  groom 

[16] 


Two  Anns — Mary  and  Mary  Ann  17 

spelt  wrong,  in  the  South  Carolina  Gazette  of  Monday,  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1774: 

"The  same  day  (last  Thursday)  Mr.  James  O'Hare  was 
married  to  Miss  Nancy  Gordon,  endowed  with  every  requisite 
for  matrimonial  happiness,  and  only  daughter  of  Mr.  Thomas 
Gordon." 

Three  days  before  her  seventeenth  birthday  a  child  was 
born  and  we  find  in  the  Bible: 

"Mary  Ann  O'Hear,  daughter  of  James  and  Ann  (Gordon) 
O'Hear,  was  born  Friday  November  25th  1774,  about  three 
quarters  after  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  moon  in  the  last 
quarter.  She  was  baptized  Sunday  January  1st,  1775,  by  the 
Reverend  William  Tennent,"  and  was  "innoculated  for  the 
smallpox  the  23rd  of  May  1 780  and  received  it  in  a  very  mild 
degree". 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  vaccination  had  not  yet  been 
discovered,  and  it  was  the  practice  to  actually  give  the  children 
a  slight  case  of  smallpox  and  then  cure  them  so  that  they  would 
be  thereafter  immune.* 

There  were  three  other  children,  one  of  whom  Warren 
Gates  O'Hear  reached  maturity  but  left  no  issue.  Poor  little 
Ann  died  at  the  birth  of  her  fourth  child,  June  29th  1780,  aged 
twenty-two  years  and  seven  months. 

Mary  Gordon,  the  stepmother,  now  comes  into  the  picture 
once  more  and  takes  over  the  step  grandchildren  from  Mr. 
O'Hear,  as  she  had  taken  over  the  stepchildren  from  Mr. 
Gordon  fifteen  years  before.  The  father  lost  no  time  in  finding 
himself  a  new  wife,  by  whom  he  added  fifteen  new  (nineteen 
in  all)  little  Charlestonians  to  the  population  of  the  state.  Mary 


*  The  Rector  of   St.    Michael's   preached   against   this   in    1761,   denouncing   it   at   i  tinfal 
attempt  to   interfere   with   the   visitations   of   Almighty   God. 


18  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

however,  makes  no  note  of  these  incidents  in  the  Bible.  Her 
next  entry  is: 

"Juliet,  daughter  of  Clarissa  (a  negro  slave)  was  born  ye 
9th  November  1787,  and  innoculated  for  the  smallpox  April 
16th  1780." 

At  the  age  of  three,  Juliet  was  formally  presented  by  Mary 
Gordon  to  her  "granddaughter  Mary  Ann  O'Hear"  as  a  token 
of  love  and  affection.  (Record  of  Charleston  Probate  Court 
June  3d  1790)  and  when  the  old  lady  died  at  the  age  of  sev- 
enty-three, she  also  provided  that  Clarissa  should  go  to  Mary 
Ann.  Juliet  was  eventually  taken  to  Barnwell,  and  there  she 
and  her  descendants  have  remained  as  servants  of  the  family 
or  as  employees  on  the  plantation  ever  since. 

Mary  Ann  was  also  known  as  Nancy  as  was  her  mother  be- 
fore her,  and  in  the  Gazette  of  Thursday  December  1 1th  1794, 
we  find: 

"On  Wednesday  evening,  Johnson  Hagood  Esq.  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Nancy  O'Hear,  daughter  of  Mr.  James  O'Hear, 
both  of  this  city". 

She  bore  him  many  children,  among  whom  was  my  grand- 
father James  O'Hear  Hagood,  and  died  March  27th,  1843. 
She  was  buried  in  the  family  graveyard  on  Short  Staple  plan- 
tation in  Barnwell  County. 

The  descendants  of  Mary  Ann  Hagood  are  the  only  repre- 
sentatives of  Thomas  Gordon,  Sr. 


THE  O'HEARS  OF  SOUTH  CAROLINA 

This  name  was  originally  spelt  O'Hara;  and  Burke  in  his 
Irish  Gentry  says: 

The  family  of  O'Hara  in  Ireland  was  founded  by  one  Ced- 
ric,  King  of  Spain,  who  came  over  and  made  himself  Monarch 
of  Ireland.  His  descendants  did  not  retain  the  throne,  but  be- 
came a  powerful  clan,  building  a  castle  at  Annamore  and  hold- 
ing sovereignty  over  many  adjoining  isles.  In  the  16th  or  17th 
century  one  of  them  married  a  French  woman  of  high  rank 
and  went  to  France.  Some  of  his  descendants  returned  to  Ire- 
land settling  in  Calway.  Unlike  the  rest  of  the  family  they 
were  Presbyterians,  and  changed  their  name  from  O'Hara  to 
O'Hear.  In  the  1 7th  Century  the  O'Haras  of  Annamore  com- 
bined their  arms  with  the  Coopers,  the  heiress  of  the  castle 
having  married  into  the  Cooper  family. 

Burke  shows  the  original  O'Hara  coat  of  arms  as  well  as 
that  of  the  Cooper-O'Hara  branch. 

The  family  tradition  in  South'  Carolina  is  that  at  the  time 
of  Bloody  Mary,  there  were  three  brothers,  Protestants,  in 
Ireland  named  O'Hara.  Two  of  them  changed  their  religion 
under  persecution,  and  became  Catholics.  The  third  retained 
his  religion  and  fled  to  France,  where  the  name  was  softened 
to  O'Hear.  And  from  there  his  descendants  emigrated  to  this 
country.  Another  tradition  is  that  the  one  who  fled  to  France 
was  so  disgusted  with  his  brothers  for  changing  over  to  be 
Catholics  that  he  changed  his  name  to  O'Hear. 

The  first  record  of  the  family  we  have  in  this  country  is  in 
the  St.  Andrews  Parish  register:  "Hugh  O'Hair  buried  Dec 
1753  pr.  Mr.  Martin." 

[19] 


JAMES  O'HEAR 

1750-1813 

(My  Great-great  Grandfather) 

JAMES  O'HEAR,  son  of  Hugh  and  Margaret  O'Hear, 
was  born  10  February  1750;  and  on  10  February  1774,  he 
married  Ann  Gordon,  Jr.,  daughter  of  Thomas  Gordon,  Sr. 
She  died  six  years  later  leaving  two  small  children,  Mary  Ann 
or  Nancy,  from  whom  we  are  descended,  and  Warren  Gates, 
who  died  without  issue. 

Mr.  O'Hear  was  a  merchant  in  Charleston,  and  must  have 
been  an  owner  of  ships  as  the  records  of  the  Revolution  show 
that  he  rented  a  schooner  to  the  Colonial  Navy.  He  was  also 
the  owner  of  plantations  both  in  South  Carolina  and  Georgia.* 
From  these  several  sources,  he  accumulated  a  large  fortune, 
but  late  in  life  met  with  reverses.  Being  almost  Quixotic  in 
his  ideas  of  honor,  he  turned  everything  over  to  his  creditors, 
and,  in  the  middle  of  summer,  took  his  family  to  Marshfield,  a 
plantation  in  St.  Andrews  Parish,  which  on  account  of  the 
fevers  prevalent  on  river  plantations,  was  believed  to  be  an 
invitation  to  death.  But  mercifully  they  were  spared. 

Among  the  family  traditions,  there  is  some  vague  signifi- 
cance attached  to  the  fact  that  the  name  of  James  O'Hear 
appears  upon  the  following  paper.  It  had  no  date,  but  was 
produced  in  the  United  States  District  Court  in  Charleston, 
March  5th,  1835,  by  one  Daniel  Stevens,  a  signatory,  and 
attested  by  that  court  as  an  original  document.  It  was  reprinted 
in  the  Charleston  Mercury  of  January  6th,   1860,  with  the 

•  Richard  Barry,  in  his  Mr.  Rutlcdge  says  that  the  most  prominent  families  in  the  Col- 
ony  at  this  time  were  of  the  merchant  planter  class,  the  professional  men  taking  second 
place. 

[20] 


James  O'Hear  21 

statement  that  the  original  had  been  deposited  with  the  United 
States  Patent  Office  in  Washington,  and  was  taken  to  have 
been  a  measure  to  weed  out  Tories.  It  can  be  seen  at  the 
Charleston  Library  Society,  under  the  title  A  Revolutionary 
Relic: 

"I  do  swear  that  I  will  bear  true  faith  and  allegiance 
to  the  State  of  South  Carolina,  and  will  faithfully  sup- 
port, maintain,  and  defend  the  same  against  George  the 
Third,  King  of  Great  Britain,  his  successors,  his  abettors, 
and  all  other  enemies  and  opposers,  whatsoever,  and  will 
without  delay,  discover  to  the  Executive  Authority,  or  to 
some  one  Justice  of  the  Peace  within  the  State,  all  such 
plots  and  conspiracies,  that  shall  come  to  my  knowledge, 
against  the  said  State,  or  any  of  the  United  States  of 
America  j  So  help  me  God." 

(Signed)     Edward  Rutledge  * 
Henry  Timrod 
Gabriel  Manigault 


James  O'Hear 


and  others. 

James  O'Hear  was  a  Presbyterian,  as  according  to  Burke, 
his  antecedents  had  been  before  him.  He  was  an  Elder  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Charleston  in  1 784  j  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Mount  Sion  Society,  being  very  much  interested  in 
public  charities.  For  twenty-three  years  he  was  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  South  Carolina  Society  at  the  same  time  with  his 


Mr.   Rutledge  was   Governor  of  the   State. 


22  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

brother-in-law  Captain  Thomas  Gordon,  Jr.,  and  his  son-in- 
law,  Johnson  Hagood,  Esq. 

After  the  death  of  Ann  Gordon,  his  first  wife,  Mr.  O'Hear 
married  Sarah  Fabian,  daughter  of  Joseph  Fabian  *  and  Ann 
Dean.  By  her  he  had  fifteen  children,  and  left  many  descend- 
ants. He  died  14  April  1813,  of  a  dropsy  of  the  chest  (Gordon 
Bible)  and  was  buried  in  the  graveyard  of  the  Second  Pres- 
byterian Church.  He  and  his  wife  Sarah  share  the  same  tomb. 
The  stone  still  stands  (1945)  against  the  north  wall,  not  far 
from  the  Sunday  School  Building. 

His  granddaughter,  Miss  Mary  O'Hear  of  Charleston,  who 
lived  to  be  quite  an  old  lady,  was  very  accurate  and  conscien- 
tious about  family  records,  was  the  custodian  of  all  we  know 
about  the  O'Hears,  and  greatly  assisted  in  the  preparation  of 
these  papers. 


*  The  Charleston  Year  Rook  of  1S84  contains  an  account  of  extensive  exploration  of 
the  South  Carolina  and  Florida  coasts  in  1664  by  Peter  Fabian  and  William  Hilton,  for 
whom  Hilton  Head   Island  is  named,  at  the  entrance  to  Port  Royal  Sound. 


JOHN  SANDERS  O'HEAR 

1806-1875 

(Half  Brother  of  my  Great  Grandmother) 

John  Sanders  O'Hear,  son  of  James  O'Hear  and  Sarah 
Fabian,  his  wife,  was  born  on  the  6th  of  September,  1806,  and 
died  on  his  plantation  on  the  Wando  River,  September  1875. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  the  schools  of  Charleston, 
and  went  from  there  to  the  Philadelphia  Medical  College, 
where  he  graduated  in  1824.  He  practiced  his  profession  in 
the  Parish  of  St.  Andrews,  where  the  family  owned  large 
estates.  In  1826  he  married  Caroline  Fuller.  Of  this  marriage 
there  was  no  issue.  His  second  wife,  Catherine  O'Hear,  died 
27  December  1835,  aged  23  and  was  buried  in  St.  Andrews 
Parish  Churchyard.  In  1845  he  married  Anna  Berwick  Legare, 
daughter  of  John  Berwick  Legare,  Esq.,  an  Attorney  at  law 
in  Charleston.  Of  this  marriage  there  were  eight  children, 
three  of  whom  reached  maturity.  Two  of  these,  Mr.  James 
O'Hear  and  Miss  Mary  Legare  O'Hear,  both  of  Charleston, 
were  living  in  1942.  The  former  had  a  son  Dr.  James  O'Hear, 
Jr.,  who  served  as  a  major  in  the  Army  Medical  Corps  over- 
seas during  the  Second  World  War. 

In  1847,  Dr.  John  Sanders  O'Hear  bought  large  tracts  of 
land  in  the  Parish  of  Thomas  and  St.  Dennis,  where  he  lived 
with  his  family  and  slaves  up  to  the  time  of  his  death. 

About  1850  he  lost  the  use  of  one  hand  by  the  accidental 
discharge  of  a  shotgun.  This  prevented  his  taking  an  active 

[23] 


2\  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

part  in  the  War  of  Secession.  He  was  however,  an  ardent  sup- 
porter of  the  Southern  Cause.  He  invested  his  entire  fortune 
in  Confederate  Bonds,  and  thus  lost  all  he  had  when  the  armies 
of  the  South  were  defeated. 

At  the  calling  of  the  Convention,  which  ultimately  passed 
the  Ordinance  of  Secession,  he  was,  with  Mr.  Nowell,  elected 
to  represent  the  Parish  of  St.  Thomas  and  St.  Denis. 

When  Charleston  was  evacuted  several  gunboats  went  up  the 
Wando  River  and,  landing  at  the  O'Hear  Plantation,  made  a 
clean  sweep  of  everything.  (The  family  had  refugeed  into  the 
interior  of  the  State.)  One  of  the  federal  officers  found  in  the 
house  a  pamphlet  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Convention,  in 
which  Doctor  O'Hear's  name  appeared,  and  he  asked  one  of 
the  servants  if  her  master's  name  was  Dr.  J.  S.  O'Hear;  when 
she  replied  in  the  affirmative  he  immediately  ordered  the  house 
burned.  So  when  Dr.  O'Hear  returned  with  his  family  he 
found  a  stack  of  chimneys  where  had  been  a  lovely  home. 

In  connection  with  this  there  is  an  incident  which  is  more 
like  fiction  than  cold  fact: 

In  the  early  days  of  1800  a  negro  man  was  made  free  by  his 
master  for  faithful  service  of  some  kind.  As  was  the  require- 
ment at  that  time,  this  man  had  to  have  what  was  called  "a 
legal  guardian".  Mr.  Legare,  the  father  of  Dr.  O'Hear's  wife, 
was  appointed  his  guardian,  and  took  charge  of  all  his  business. 
Old  Captain  (it  was  by  that  name  that  the  negro  was  known  to 
the  younger  generation)  had  a  little  farm  on  the  outskirts  of 
the  city  and  accumulated  quite  a  comfortable  fortune.  He  was 
devoted  to  his  guardian  and  would  frequently  bring  the  first 
vegetables  from  his  farm  to  Mrs.  Legare.  On  these  occasions 
a  table  was  always  laid  on  back  porch  and  his  breakfast  sent 
out  to  him.  When  Mr.  Legare  died  the  old  man's  grief  was 
touching,  and  some  years  after,  when  the  latter  died,  it  was 


John  Sanders  O'Hear  25 

found  that  he  had  left  to  Mr.  Legare's  two  daughters  a  sum 
of  money  as  an  expression  of  love  and  gratitude  to  their  father. 

Mrs.  O'Hear  decided  to  use  this  legacy  from  old  Captain 
for  the  betterment  of  his  race,  so  she  had  built  on  the  planta- 
tion a  pretty  chapel,  and  every  Sunday  afternoon  the  Rector 
of  the  Parish  preached  to  the  colored  people  of  that  and  the 
adjoining  plantations,  who  gathered  in  the  chapel  to  hear  him. 
Fortunately  the  chapel  had  not  been  consecrated,  so  that  it 
could  with  very  little  expense  be  rolled  to  the  site  of  the  old 
homestead,  that  had  been  destroyed  by  Yankees,  raised,  and 
rooms  built  under  it.  This  made  a  quaint  and  comfortable 
home.  So  after  many  years  the  grandchildren  of  Old  Captain's 
friend  were  provided  with  a  home  by  his  grateful  tribute  to  his 
benefactor. 

The  information  for  this  sketch  was  furnished  by  Miss 
Mary  Legare  O'Hear  prior  to  the  First  World  War. — J.  H. 


THE  HAGOODS  IN  VIRGINIA 

1650-1775 

Sir  John  Hawkwood  was  a  famous  English  strategist  and 
leader  of  mercenary  troops  who  sold  his  services  and  those  of 
his  men  to  the  Black  Prince  of  France,  and  to  various  powers 
in  Italy  during  the  14th  Century.  He  later  became  the  Captain- 
General  of  Florence,  and  a  handsome  monument  to  his  mem- 
ory still  stands  in  that  beautiful  city.  He  had  a  none  too  savory 
reputation  according  to  modern  standards,  but  by  his  contem- 
poraries he  was  regarded  as  the  greatest  soldier  of  his  time. 
And  the  genealogists  say  that  he  is  our  progenitor.  (Mrs. 
Alberta  Lewis  of  Philadelphia,  and  others.) 

Francis  Hawkwood,  the  first  and  it  is  believed  the  only  one 
of  the  name  to  come  to  America,  arrived  in  1650,  and  seems 
to  have  been  a  little  run  down  at  the  heel.  He  lacked  the  dash 
of  his  soldier  ancestor,  had  no  monuments  erected  to  his  valor, 
and  quietly  settled  down  on  the  banks  of  the  James  River  op- 
posite to  Jamestown.  There  he  took  up  lands  in  Charles  City 
County  (now  included  in  Surry)  and  married  Miss  Elizabeth 
Creed,  the  daughter  of  a  prosperous  neighbor  by  whom  he  left 
many  descendants.  He  died  in  1677.  (Court  House  records 
Surry,  Virginia.) 

In  the  meantime  he  changed  his  name  to  Hogwood,  or  some- 
body changed  it  for  him.  And  his  son  George  improved  it  to 
Hagood.  But  it  did  not  stay  that  way.  More  than  two  hundred 
and  fifty  years  later  we  find  the  name  variously  spelled 
Hagood,  Haygood,  Haguewood,  Haigwood,  Hogwood,  Hag- 
wood,  Etc.,  in  different  parts  of  the  country ;  and  even  among 
those  who  spell  it  Hagood  there  is  no  general  agreement  as 
to  how  it  should  be  pronounced.  I  get  letters  addressed  under 

[26] 


The  Hagoods  in  Virginia  27 

all  these  different  spellings,  but  my  father,  his  father,  and  his, 
back  for  five  generations,  together  with  their  friends  and  the 
negroes  on  the  place,  have  always  spelled  it  Hagood  and  pro- 
nounced it  Haguewood,*  so  I  do  the  same. 

Perhaps  the  original  name  of  Hawkwood  still  rings  in 
people's  ears — Hawkwood,  Hawgwood,  Haguewood.  The 
shield  of  Sir  John  Hawkwood,  as  indicated  by  his  portrait  in 
the  Cathedral  of  Santa  Maria  del  Fiore  in  Florence,  shows 
Hawks  flying  through  a  wood.  It  may  be  that  after  the  family 
got  established  in  Virginia,  it  was  considered  to  be  more  appro- 
priate to  show  "hawgs"  flying  through  a  swamp.  The  will  of 
our  progenitor  shows  that  he  had  a  number  of  hogs,  and  it 
was  at  that  time  that  the  name  began  to  be  spelled  Hogwood. 

The  records  of  Virginia  also  show  the  name  as  Howgoodj 
and  a  Britisher  in  Manchuria  addressed  my  brother  as  Lee 
Ha  Goo,  thinking  that  he  was  a  Chinese. 


See  Who's   Who  in  America  1944-1945;   A.   N.   Marquis  Company. 


THE  HAGOODS  IN  SOUTH  CAROLINA 

1775- 

The  first  direct  information  we  have  as  to  our  particular 
branch  of  the  Hagood  family  is  found  in  the  old  Gordon  Bible 
mentioned  at  the  beginning  of  these  papers,  which  came  into 
the  family  through  Ann  Gordon  O'Hear.  The  records  were 
brought  up  to  date  by  Governor  Johnson  Hagood  (1879) 
from  such  information  as  he  had  at  that  time,  and  have  sub- 
sequently been  checked  and  expanded  by  others  through  a 
search  of  public  documents  and  court  records  of  Virginia  and 
South  Carolina. 

WILLIAM  HAGOOD.  The  First  Census,  made  in  1782- 
90,  shows  a  number  of  Hagoods  under  various  spellings  in 
Halifax,  Princess  Anne,  and  Brunswick  County  of  Virginia, 
with  others  in  Maryland,  North  Carolina,  and  the  Ninety  Six 
District  of  South  Carolina.  Among  the  latter  was  William 
Hagood,  who  according  to  family  tradition  was  a  native  of  Vir- 
ginia of  English  descent.  In  1770  he  married  Sarah  Johnson 
also  of  Virginia,  and  on  her  mother's  side  of  French  extraction. 

They  moved  to  South  Carolina  just  before  the  Revolu- 
tionary War,  and  settled  with  their  children  and  slaves  in  the 
Ninety  Six  District.  He  was  of  the  pioneer  type,  and  a  man 
of  moderate  means,  but  he  did  not  have  to  work  with  his  hands, 
as  did  many  of  those  who  came  over  in  ships.  At  the  time  of 
his  death,  in  1812,  he  was  possessed  of  valuable  lands  watered 
by  Horse  Pen,  Cuffeetown,  Ninety  Six,  and  other  adjacent 
Creeks,  some  of  which  flowed  north  into  the  Saluda  River, 
and  others  south  into  the  Savannah. 

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The  Hagoods  in  South  Carolina  29 

There  were  a  number  of  Hagoods  in  and  about  the  Ninety 
Six  District  at  that  time  with  whom  we  have  not  been  able  to 
establish  any  direct  connection.  One  of  William  Hagood's 
daughters,  Rebecca  Hagood,  married  Randall  (or  Randolph) 
Hagood,  who  was  entered  upon  the  family  records  as  "no 
kin".  Another  daughter,  Susan  Hagood,  married  James  Am- 
bler of  a  Virginia  family,  and  had  a  daughter  Adaline  who 
married  Colonel  Benjamin  Hagood,*  a  distinguished  man  of 
his  day,  and  from  a  nearby  plantation,  but  whose  relationship, 
if  any,  has  not  been  established. 

A  great  deal  has  been  written  about  the  Amblers.  "The 
Ambler  Manuscripts"  in  the  Congressional  Library  in  Wash- 
ington contain  more  than  a  hundred  documents,  and  a  writer 
in  the  Virginia  Historical  Magazine  t  remarks  that  it  is  rather 
strange  that  two  Ambler  brothers,  Jaquelin  and  Edward, 
should  have  been  the  successful  rivals  of  Thomas  Jefferson  and 
George  Washington,  the  former  having  married  Rebecca  Bur- 
well  (Jefferson's  Belinda),  and  the  latter  having  married  Mary 
Cary. 

Colonel  Benjamin  Hagood's  people  for  the  past  hundred 
and  fifty  years  have  been  identified  with  the  upper  part  of  the 
state — Pendleton,  Pickens,  Easley  and  Caesar's  Head.  William 
Hagood's  descendants  have  been  identified  with  Barnwell. 
Adaline  Ambler  Hagood,  granddaughter  of  William,  and 
wife  of  Ben,  is  represented  in  this  generation  by  Mrs.  Thomas 
J.  Mauldin  of  Pickens,  and  James  M.  Hagood  of  Charleston. 

Major  James  H.  Ambler,  brother  of  Adaline,  was  born  in 
1815,  and  did  not  die  until  1907.  I  had  some  correspondence 
with  him  in  connection  with  these  family  relations;  but  he 
was  too  old  to  remember  very  much,  and  all  that  he  could  give 
me  is  contained  herein. 


*  Cyclopedia  Eminent  Men  of  the  Carolina*,  Brant  and  Fuller.  Vol.  I,  page  S36. 
t  Vol.  II,  page  232. 


30  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

His  grandmother  Sarah  Hagood,  wife  of  William,  died 
about  1826,  and  among  her  sons  was  Johnson  Hagood,  my 
great  grandfather,  who  has  been  made  the  subject  of  another 
sketch. 


Mrs.  Edward  Clark  (Eva  Turner),  in  her  very  excellent 
book  about  the  Clark  Family  in  South  Carolina,  lists  the 
Hagoods  among  her  "Allied  Families",  mentions  my  name, 
and  says  "It  is  believed"  that  William  Hagood  of  the  Ninety 
Six  District  (my  ancestor)  was  the  son  of  the  Reverend 
William  Hagood  of  North  Carolina.  This  belief  has  not  ex- 
tended to  any  members  of  our  branch,  and  I  have  never  been 
able  to  establish  any  foundation  for  it,  though  as  indicated 
above  all  the  different  Hagoods  in  this  country  must  be  con- 
nected in  some  way. 


JOHNSON  HAGOOD,  ESQ. 

1771-1816 

(My  Great  Grandfather) 

JOHNSON  HAGOOD,  the  elder,  as  he  was  called  to  dis- 
tinguish him  from  his  grandson  General  Johnson  Hagood, 
C.  S.  A.,  was  born  in  Virginia  August  31st,  1771;  and  died 
at  Charleston,  S.  C,  April  27,  1816.  He  was  the  first  member 
of  the  Hagood  family  to  reach  any  worthwhile  distinction.  He 
was  the  son  of  William  Hagood  and  his  wife  Sarah  Johnson 
of  French  extraction,  who  moved  to  South  Carolina  in  1775, 
bringing  several  small  children  with  them,  and  took  up  lands 
in  the  Ninety  Six  District,  now  Edgefield  County. 

Appleton's  Cyclopedia  of  American  Biography  in  writing 
of  him  says: 

"On  one  occasion,  when  about  seven  years  old,  he  was  sent 
out  in  the  night  to  procure  medical  assistance  for  his  father's 
family,  and  passed  through  the  scene  of  one  of  the  guerilla 
skirmishes  so  frequent  at  that  time.  Several  corpses  were  lying 
unburied  on  the  field  and  wolves  were  feeding  upon  them. 
His  nerves  were  severely  tried,  but  he  performed  his  errand." 

This  incident  must  have  made  a  great  impression,  not  only 
upon  young  Johnson,  but  upon  others  as  it  is  mentioned  else- 
where in  biographical  sketches,  and  I  can  testify  from  my 
own  experience  that  it  is  very  terrifying  for  a  boy  of  that  age 
to  be  sent  out  in  the  night  to  get  a  doctor,  even  in  a  fair-sized 
town  with  the  streets  well  lighted  by  kerosene  lamps.  This 
however  was  not  his  only  occasion  for  alarm.  One  night  after 
supper  he  was  sitting  on  his  father's  piazza  along  with  other 

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32  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

members  of  the  family  and  some  friends,  when  skulking  Tories 
fired  into  the  party,  and  seriously  wounded  one  of  the  visitors. 

Thus  when  seven  years  old  he  had  seen  more  of  war  at  close 
range  than  many  of  his  elders  whose  service  entitles  their  de- 
scendants to  wear  badges  of  the  Revolution. 

The  Appleton  account  continues: 

"At  the  age  of  fourteen,  the  lad  determined  to  care  for  him- 
self and  walked  sixty  miles  to  Granby  (the  present  site  of 
Columbia)  where  he  succeeded  in  obtaining  employment  in 
a  country  store.  At  the  end  of  a  year  he  went  to  Charleston 
and  entered  a  law  office  where  he  had  access  to  books  and  at- 
tended a  night  school.  He  began  the  study  of  law,  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  1793,  and  immediately  became  the  partner 
of  his  patron  (Goodloe  Harper)  who  was  elected  to  Congress 
(1795)  and  left  young  Hagood  the  entire  management  of 
the  practice." 

It  was  Harper  who  gave  to  America  the  sentiment  "Millions 
for  defense  but  not  a  cent  for  tribute"  erroneously  attributed 
to  Charles  Cotesworth  Pinckney,  and  improperly  inscribed 
upon  a  tablet  to  his  memory  in  St.  Michael's  Church,  though 
Pinckney  had  made  a  public  denial  of  its  authorship  and  said 
it  belonged  to  Harper. 

The  facts  as  published  in  the  South  Carolina  Historical 
and  Genealogical  Magazine  for  January  and  July  1900 
are  that  at  the  time  of  the  X.Y.Z.  Mission  to  France  in 
1797,  when  we  were  having  some  trouble  in  that  quarter, 
Tally  rand,  the  distinguished  French  statesman,  made  a  de- 
mand for  fifty  thousand  pounds  in  gold  as  a  doucement  to 
be  used  for  political  purposes,  to  which  Mr.  Pinckney,  the 
head  of  the  Mission  replied  "No!  No!  Not  a  sixpence!".  Later 
after  the  incident  became  well  known  in  the  United  States, 


Johnson  Hagood,  Esq.  33 

at  a  dinner  given  by  the  lower  House  of  Congress  to  Mr. 
John  Marshall  who  had  been  a  member  of  the  mission,  Harper 
proposed  a  toast  in  the  immortal  words  "Millions  for  defense 
but  not  a  cent  for  tribute". 

Mr.  Harper  served  in  Congress,  both  the  House  and  the 
Senate  for  several  terms,  then  resigned  to  become  a  candidate 
for  Vice  President  of  the  United  States  on  the  Federalist  ticket. 
He  was  a  major  general  during  the  War  of  1812,  and  the 
author  of  numerous  important  publications  upon  national  and 
international  affairs.  He  took  the  part  of  Napoleon  and  warned 
the  United  States  that  Russia  would  some  day  prove  to  be  a 
dangerous  friend. 

In  traveling  about  the  state  on  his  law  business,  he  had  often 
been  the  guest  of  the  Hagoods  at  Ninety  Six,  and  it  was  there 
that  he  had  taken  a  liking  for  the  ambitious  young  Johnson, 
later  inducing  him  to  leave  the  store  in  Granby  for  a  position 
in  his  office  in  Charleston. 

The  South  Carolina  Gazette  of  December  1 1th  1794  carried 
the  following  notice: 

"On  Wednesday  evening,  (December  10th)  Johnson 
Hagood  Esq.  was  married  to  Miss  Nancy  O'Hear,  daughter 
of  Mr.  James  O'Hear,  both  of  this  city." 

She  was  possessed  of  a  small  property  which  included  the 
two  female  slaves  Clarissa  and  Juliet,  who  had  been  given  to 
her  as  personal  servants  by  her  step-grandmother  Mary 
Gordon,  when  she  was  a  child. 

Hagood  continued  to  practice  law  until  1813,  and  according 
to  Appleton  and  others,  rose  to  distinction  in  the  profession, 
while  also  devoting  much  attention  to  the  natural  sciences  es- 
pecially to  the  development  of  electricity  and  galvanism  for 
which  he  procured  expensive   experimental  apparatus   from 


34  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

Europe.  In  1806  however,  at  the  age  of  thirty-four,  he  began 
to  make  his  arrangements  to  retire.  He  purchased  lands  in  Col- 
leton and  Barnwell  Counties  and  established  two  plantations, 
the  Round  O  near  Walterboro,  and  Short  Staple  near  Barn- 
well Court  House,  where  he  moved  his  family  and  lived.  Like 
George  Washington  and  other  country  gentlemen  of  those 
times,  he  became  a  surveyor,  that  is  he  surveyd  his  own  lands 
and  occasionally  assisted  his  neighbors  without  charge.  His 
transit  was  preserved  in  the  family  and  used  for  the  same  pur- 
pose for  more  than  a  hundred  years  after  his  death. 

Johnson  Hagood  as  a  planter  was  a  gentleman  of  the  old 
school  and  somewhat  given  to  ostentation.  He  dressed  in  the 
colonial  fashion,  and  a  portrait  shows  his  hair  powdered  and 
tied  in  the  back  with  ribbon.  The  grounds  about  his  planta- 
tion house  were  decorated  with  statues,  and  in  his  library 
were  a  number  of  marble  and  bronze  busts  of  ancient  states- 
men and  philosophers.  His  books,  many  of  them,  were  very 
handsome — old  editions  bound  in  heavy  calf,  with  illumi- 
nated pages  and  gilt  edges.  Among  the  silver  was  a  very  old 
goblet,  known  as  the  Gordon  Cup,  which  had  come  down 
through  his  wife,  the  age  and  origin  of  which  was  unknown. 
He  joined  the  South  Carolina  Society  shortly  after  his  mar- 
riage and  remained  a  member  until  his  death.  He  took  a  great 
interest  in  its  work  and  made  frequent  visits  from  Barnwell 
to  Charleston  for  its  meetings. 

Judge  John  Belton  O'Neall  in  his  Bench  and  Bar  of  South 
Carolina  (1859)  gives  a  long  account  of  his  life  and  says: 

"Sanguine  and  unsuspicious  in  temper  and  with  a  strong 
relish  for  the  pleasures  of  life,  hospitality  was  almost  a  passion 
with  him  j  and  so  well  known  that  few  strangers  visited  his 
neighborhood  without  calling  upon  him.  At  term  time  in  Barn- 
well his  house  was  almost  always  the  home  of  the  Judge  and 


Johnson  Hagood,  Esq.  35 

as  many  of  the  bar  as  it  could  contain.  Such  a  man  was  well 
calculated  to  have  friends.  In  the  profession  he  had  many, 
among  whom  may  be  especially  mentioned  Judge  Bay  and 
Judge  Grimke  (of  Charleston)". 

He  died  in  the  prime  of  life,  April  27th,  1816,  while  on 
a  visit  to  Charleston  where  he  had  gone  to  seek  medical  atten- 
tion. He  was  buried  before  his  45th  birthday,  in  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Churchyard  where  his  gravestone  still  stands 
(1944)  along  the  north  wall  near  the  Sunday  School  beside 
that  of  his  father  in  law  James  O'Hear. 


DR.  JAMES  O.  HAGOOD 

1804-1873 

(My  Grandfather) 

JAMES  O'HEAR  HAGOOD  was  born  in  Charleston, 
4  October  1804,.  and  died  at  Barnwell  Court  House  (also 
known  as  Barnwell  Village)  January  17th,  1873.  He  was  the 
second  son  of  Johnson  Hagood,  Esq.,  a  distinguished  attorney 
of  Charleston,  and  of  Ann  O'Hear,  his  wife,  of  the  same  city. 

According  to  a  biographical  sketch,  published  in  a  local  news- 
paper, at  the  time  of  his  death,  his  parents  "removed  to  Barn- 
well District  (when  he  was  a  baby)  where  they  built  them- 
selves a  home,  remarkable  for  the  skillful  combination  of  nat- 
ural and  artificial  attractions,  and  where  a  numerous  circle  of 
intelligent  friends  shared  their  liberal  hospitality.  .  .  .  Amid 
the  delights  of  such  a  home,  and  under  such  social  influences, 
his  tastes  and  manners  received  their  earliest  impress.  His  boy- 
hood was  passed  under  the  instruction  of  private  tutors,  and 
he  was  later  sent  to  Armstrong's  Academy,  Edgefield  County, 
an  institution  of  good  repute,  and  modeled  upon  the  educa- 
tional ideas  of  the  celebrated  Dr.  Moses  Waddell". 

He  commenced  his  professional  reading  in  Augusta, 
Georgia j  attended  lectures  in  Philadelphia ;  and  graduated 
with  distinction  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1824. 
After  that  he  returned  to  Barnwell  and  commenced  the  prac- 
tice of  physic.  But  he  continued  "his  diligent  reading  which 
kept  him  abreast  with  the  progress  of  science  in  his  profession, 
and  his  country  patients  enjoyed  the  benefits  of  every  real  and 
substantial  discovery  as  early  as  the  denisons  of  the  city". 

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Dr.  James  O.  Hagood  37 

The  Doctor,  however,  did  not  depend  upon  the  practice  of 
physic  for  a  living.  He  bought  a  plantation,  called  Cypress, 
near  "the  Village",  and  there  with  seventy-five  negro  slaves 
inherited  from  his  father,  and  a  white  overseer,  he  raised 
cotton  and  cattle  for  the  market,  and  such  crops  for  his  own  use 
as  were  necessary  in  the  days  when  the  people  depended  al- 
most entirely  upon  what  was  produced  upon  their  own  planta- 
tions or  in  the  neighborhood.  The  plantation  abounded  with 
partridges,  snipe,  and  wild  ducks,  while  the  Mill  Pond  teemed 
with  bass,  bream,  and  the  various  kinds  of  perch,  which  pro- 
vided not  only  the  finest  of  food  upon  occasion,  but  a  never- 
ending  source  of  sport  and  pleasure  for  his  family  and  friends. 

The  Doctor  did  not  live  on  the  plantation.  He  made  his 
home  in  the  Village,  where  he  constructed  a  handsome  and 
spacious  residence  of  the  old  Southern  style  on  a  lot  that  was 
owned  by  the  family.  Here  he  had  his  garden,  his  flowers  and 
his  horses.  He  preferred  to  travel  on  horseback,  rather  than 
in  a  buggy,  and  he  carried  his  physics  in  a  saddlebag.  His  prin- 
cipal concern  was  for  his  family  and  slaves.  He  rarely  sent 
a  bill  to  his  friends  or  neighbors. 

His  wife  (he  was  married  in  1828)  was  Miss  Indiana  M. 
Allen,  a  young  lady  of  personal  charm,  and  well  possessed  of 
means,  the  daughter  of  John  Cargill  Allen,  Esq.,  a  well-known 
attorney  of  the  county  and  a  planter  of  large  estates.  They 
had  eleven  children,  of  whom  my  father  was  number  nine. 
In  1840,  the  Doctor  and  his  wife  united  themselves  upon  the 
same  day  with  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  a  short  time  after 
that  he  became  an  elder.  This  beautiful  little  edifice  of  those 
times,  was  located  on  the  edge  of  the  Village  in  a  grove  of  red 
oak  trees,  and  the  family  continued  to  worship  there  for  more 
than  seventy  years. 

Sherman's  Army  marched  through  Barnwell,  and  he  person- 
ally stopped  in  Blackville,  only  nine  miles  away.  Nearly  all 


38  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

the  plantations  were  destroyed,  and  the  Doctor's  house  in  the 
Village  was  set  on  fire;  but  it  was  saved  by  a  young  boy — a 
cousin — who  climbed  upon  the  roof,  and  pretending  that  he 
was  simple,  refused  to  come  down,  and  insisted  upon  helping 
the  soldiers  to  -put  the  fire  out. 

Dr.  Hagood  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight,  and  was  buried 
in  the  family  graveyard  on  the  plantation.  The  Physicians  of 
the  county  held  a  meeting  at  Blackville  and  passed  a  resolu- 
tion, in  which  they  said:  "For  nearly  fifty  years  this  able  and 
upright  physician  fought  a  noble  fight  in  the  sacred  cause  of 
humanity  and  has  at  length  gone  down  to  the  grave  crowned 
with  the  glory  of  a  well  spent  life,  and  embalmed  in  the  grate- 
ful love  of  the  many  thousands  to  whom  he  ministered." 

The  county  newspaper  said:  "Doctor  Hagood  was  a  South 
Carolina  gentleman  of  the  most  elevated  type.  This  implies 
an  open  door,  a  generous  heart,  simplicity  of  manners,  pride 
without  haughty  conceit,  courtesy  alike  removed  from  formal- 
ity and  sycophancy,  and  the  soul  of  honor.  His  discriminative 
trait  was  severe  rectitude  of  purpose  and  unswerving  devotion 
to  duty." 


COLONEL  LEE  HAGOOD 

1846-1890 

(My  Father) 

LEE  HAGOOD,  son  of  Dr.  James  O'Hear  Hagood  and 
Indiana  M.  Allen,  his  wife,  was  born  in  Barnwell  Village, 
S.  C,  October  31st  1846.  He  received  his  early  education  at 
the  Barnwell  Academy,  from  which  he  went  to  the  Hillsboro 
Military  Academy  in  North  Carolina.  This  school  having  been 
closed  on  account  of  the  war,  he  returned  to  Barnwell  and  was 
preparing  to  go  to  the  Citadel  in  Charleston;  but  hearing  that 
his  brother,  Jim  Hagood,  a  Captain  in  the  First  South  Caro- 
lina Volunteers,  was  passing  through  Blackville  (ten  miles 
distant)  enroute  to  Tennessee,  he  went  there  and  boarded  the 
train,  only  to  find  that  Hagood's  Company  was  on  a  different 
section.  He  made  his  way  however  to  the  Brigade  Commander, 
General  Micah  Jenkins,  a  friend  of  the  family,  who  upon 
Lee's  earnest  solicitation,  which  the  General  described  as  irre- 
sistable,  kindly  permitted  him  to  join  his  staff  as  orderly,  and 
took  him  to  Chicamauga  where  he  was  mounted,  given  a  uni- 
form, and  acted  as  courier  during  the  campaign.  There  he  came 
in  contact  with  General  Hood  and  other  prominent  Confed- 
erate generals,  friends  of  his  brother  General  Johnson  Hagood 
in  Virginia. 

It  was  at  this  time  that  Jim  Hagood  was  jumped  up  to  be 
Colonel  of  his  regiment  in  place  of  Kilpatrick  who  had  been 
killed.  His  commission  was  dated  ten  days  before  his  nine- 
teenth birthday,  thus  making  him  the  youngest  Colonel  in  the 
Confederate  Army. 

Lee  remained  with  General  Jenkins  throughout  the  Ten- 
nessee campaign,  and  then  under  the  persuasion  of  Jim,  only 

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40  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

two  years  older  but  a  veteran,  he  returned  to  Barnwell  and 
went  directly  to  the  Citadel  where  he  reported  in  his  Con- 
federate uniform. 

Writing  of  these  incidents,  more  than  fifty  years  later,  the 
Reverend  John  Kershaw,  Rector  of  St.  Michael's  Church  in 
Charleston  says: 

"Lee,  as  one  who  had  had  actual  service  in  the  Confederate 
army,  was  treated  with  great  respect.  *  *  *  At  such  times  as 
we  were  called  out  to  do  military  duty  Lee  was  always  the 
contented  and  genial  soldier.  *  *  *  These  frequent  interrup- 
tions of  the  Academic  sessions  made  it  difficult  for  the  most 
studious  to  maintain  a  high  standard  of  scholarship ;  but  Lee 
did  about  as  well  as  most  of  his  classmates  *  *  *  though  I 
think  he  always  felt  the  call  of  an  active  campaign. 

"After  the  reassembling  of  the  Cadet  Corps  in  the  Fall  of 
1864,  we  were  ordered  to  a  point  on  the  railroad  near  Yem- 
assee,  and  a  lively  fight  ensued  in  which  the  cadets  behaved 
with  great  gallantry  and  held  in  check  a  greatly  superior  force 
of  the  enemy.  I  remember  hearing  Lee  tell  of  having  in  his 
pocket  all  during  the  fight  a  little  flying  squirrel  (given  to 
him  by  a  young  lady)  which  he  had  tamed  and  kept  as  a  pet; 
and  how  this  tiny  mascot  behaved  itself  beautifully  in  spite 
of  the  tumult  of  battle.  Two  days  later  in  another  action  his 
coolness  and  courage  became  the  subject  of  admiring  comment 
in  the  command. 

"No  one  could  know  Lee  Hagood  without  loving  him.  He 
had  the  gift  of  making  and  retaining  friends.  Himself  the  soul 
of  honor,  transparently  truthful,  full  of  gracious  sympathy, 
generous  to  a  fault,  and  thinking  no  evil  of  others,  it  is  no 
wonder  that  Lee  drew  out  the  best  and  the  kindliest  that  was 
in  them.  There  is  no  one  of  my  friends  of  former  days  of 
whom  I  think  more  often,  and  never  except  with  a  warmth  of 


Colonel  Lee  Hagood  41 

heart  that  testifies  to  my  sincere  admiration  of  him  as  a  man 
who  I  am  proud  to  have  called  my  friend." 

Mr.  Joe  Barnwell,  universally  accepted  as  the  Lord  Ches- 
terfield of  Charleston,  and  for  many  years  the  head  of  the 
Saint  Cecelia  Society,  speaking  before  the  Association  of  Grad- 
uates of  the  Citadel  of  Lee  Hagood,  said: 

"How  well  I  remember  the  cold  windy  day  in  January  1 864, 
when  we  entered  the  sally-port  of  this  academy  together  as 
recruits  to  the  third  class.  *  *  *  Lee  in  his  soldier's  jacket  of 
Confederate  grey.  *  *  *  My  acquaintance  with  him  as  a  cadet 
ended  with  the  skirmishes  at  Tulifinny,  in  which  our  Corps 
was  engaged,  and  his  was  one  of  the  kindly  hands  that  bore 
me  wounded  from  the  field.  I  knew  him  well  afterwards  in 
civil  life,  and  upon  one  occasion  of  intense  sorrow  and  bereave- 
ment to  him,  saw  the  careless,  genial,  laughing  spirit  of  boy- 
hood, covered  nevertheless  with  the  manly  fortitude,  the 
dauntless  courage,  which  he  inherited  in  common  with  his  two 
gallant  brothers,  Colonel  James  R.  Hagood — the  bravest  of 
the  brave — and  our  honored  chief."  (General  Johnson  Hagood 
was  at  that  time  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Visitors  at  the  Cit- 
adel.) 

The  Citadel  Cadets  remained  in  the  field,  manning  the  forts 
around  Charleston,  until  the  city  was  evacuated  because  of 
Sherman's  March  to  the  Sea,  at  which  time  they  retreated  with 
Harlee  to  the  vicinity  of  Cheraw. 

After  the  war,  Lee  returned  to  Barnwell,  where  he  under- 
took the  rehabilitation  of  Cypress,  one  of  his  father's  planta- 
tions. But  the  outbuildings  had  been  destroyed,  the  crops 
ridden  down,  the  stock  all  driven  off  or  stolen,  and  the  negroes 
freed  and  scattered.  Little  was  left  in  the  way  of  farm  imple- 
ments, and  Lee  did  not  even  have  a  wagon.  He  went  to  work 
however  in  what  remained  of  the  old  blacksmith  shop,  and  in 


42  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

the  course  of  the  year  built  himself  a  wagon.  In  the  meantime 
he  eeked  out  a  little  cash  money  by  teaching  school. 

The  Hagood  and  the  Tobin  plantations  lay  in  that  black 
trail  of  ruin  across  which  Sherman  had  said  that  a  crow  could 
not  fly! 

After  five  years  on  the  plantation  Lee  went  into  the  insur- 
ance business,  and  two  years  later  (December  14,  1871),  mar- 
ried Kathleen  Rosa  Tobin,  daughter  of  General  John  E.  Tobin 
of  a  nearby  plantation.  He  became  general  agent  for  the 
Southern  Life  Insurance  Company  with  offices  on  the  corner  of 
Washington  and  Main  streets  in  Columbia  which  for  many 
years  was  the  largest  building  of  its  kind  in  the  city.  But  this 
company,  like  many  others  in  those  hard  times,  failed  and  Lee 
had  to  find  another  occupation. 

He  served  as  Clerk  of  the  Court  of  Claims,  and  after  that 
went  into  the  cotton  seed  oil  business,  then  a  new  field;  but 
eventually  returned  to  Insurance.  At  the  time  of  his  death, 
he  was  the  state  manager  of  the  Valley  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company  of  Virginia. 

Lee  took  an  active  part  in  the  political  campaign  of  1876 
which  overthrew  the  Negro-Carpetbagger  government  of 
South  Carolina.  He  was  never  a  candidate  for  public  office, 
but  was  one  of  the  junior  leaders  in  Hampton's  Red  Shirt 
Brigade.  Hampton,  a  lieutenant  general  of  the  Confederate 
Army,  was  much  older  than  Lee  Hagood,  but  was  his  intimate 
friend.  So  also  Major  General  Mathew  C.  Butler,  who  went 
to  the  Senate,  and  Hugh  S.  Thompson,  who  became  Governor. 
The  two  latter  were  family  connections,  and  the  three  of  them 
were  among  the  last  of  the  old  "Bourbons",  (as  they  were 
dubbed  by  Pitchfork  Ben  Tillman)  who  had  presided  over  the 
State  from  Colonial  days,  practically  without  pay,  and  at  a  time 


Colonel  Lee  Hagood  43 

when  there  was  no  such  thing  as  a  political  machine  or  patron- 
age. 

It  was  Thompson  who  appointed  Lee  a  Colonel  on  the  Gov- 
ernor's staff. 

The  following  incident  was  related  to  me  by  Dave  Means, 
my  father's  cousin  of  about  the  same  age,  and  a  lifelong  com- 
panion. 

As  boys,  Jimmie  (Colonel  James  R.  Hagood)  and  Lee  had 
read  together  that  pathetic  and  impressive  scene  in  Dicken's 
Tale  of  Two  Cities,  where  Carton  voluntarily  and  vicariously 
gives  his  life  to  save  that  of  his  rival.  In  the  cart  on  the  way 
to  the  guillotine,  there  is  a  little  girl  also  to  be  beheaded,  and 
Carton  is  comforting  her  by  teaching  her,  and  having  her  con- 
stantly repeat,  until  the  great  knife  falls  to  end  her  life,  those 
thrilling  words  of  immortality;  "I  am  the  resurrection  and 
the  life ;  he  that  believeth  in  me,  though  he  were  dead,  yet 
shall  he  live."  * 

Several  years  after  the  war,  upon  the  occasion  of  a  Confed- 
erate Reunion  in  Columbia,  Lee  learned  that  there  had  been 
a  wreck  on  the  railroad,  and  that  the  victims  were  being 
brought  in  on  the  train.  He  went  down  to  the  depot,  and  there 
among  the  wounded  he  found  his  brother  Jimmie  with  a 
mortal  blow  upon  his  head  that  had  destroyed  the  power  of 
speech  but  did  not  interfere  with  consciousness.  Lee  bent  over 
and  slowly  repeated  to  him  the  words;  "I  am  the  resurrection 
and  the  life;  he  that  believeth  in  me,  though  he  were  dead, 
yet  shall  he  live."  A  bright  smile  lighted  the  face  of  the  dying 
brother;  he  nodded  a  responsive  assent,  and  a  few  hours  later 
passed  away. 

Lee  Hagood  died  on  a  Christmas  night,  or  rather  early  in 
the  morning  of  December  26,  1890,  as  result  of  an  accidental 


•John  VI,  2S. 


44  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

gunshot  wound.  He  was  buried  in  the  family  graveyard  at 
Short  Staple  Plantation,  near  his  brother  j  and  the  above  quo- 
tation so  sacred  to  the  two  boys  is  inscribed  upon  his  tomb. 


GENERAL  JOHNSON  HAGOOD,  C.S.A. 

1829-1898 

(My  Uncle) 

Johnson  Hagood,  son  of  Dr.  James  O'Hear  Hagood  and 
Indiana  M.  Allen,  his  wife,  was  born  21  February  1829,  and 
died  4  January  1898.  He  was  my  father's  eldest  brother,  and 
is  credited  by  his  biographers  with  being  one  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished, most  beloved  men  that  South  Carolina  has  ever 
produced — certainly  since  the  Revolution.  Many  distinguished 
sons  of  South  Carolina  have  gone  out  from  the  state  \  but 
none  more  distinguished  than  Johnson  Hagood  has  spent  his 
entire  life  within  its  boundaries,  except  when  called  away  to 
carry  its  flag  upon  the  battlefield. 

He  was  educated  as  a  lawyer,  as  every  gentleman  was  ex- 
pected in  those  days  to  have  some  profession.  But  he  practiced 
no  law,  and  always  rated  himself ;  first  as  a  planter,  second  as  a 
soldier,  and  third  as  the  Governor  of  his  state.  He  wrote  it 
thus  for  the  epitaph  upon  his  tomb. 

He  graduated  with  top  honors  in  one  of  the  first  classes 
at  the  Citadel — 1847 — and  was,  in  his  later  life,  associated 
with  that  institution  as  Chairman  of  its  Board  of  Visitors  for 
thirty-two  years.  At  the  outbreak  of  The  War  of  Secession,  as 
he  always  called  it,  he  was  a  brigadier  general  of  the  state 
militia;  but  was  elected  to  be  Colonel  of  the  famous  First 
South  Carolina  Volunteers,  which  under  his  command  partici- 
pated in  the  bombardment  of  Fort  Sumter  in  1861 ;  and,  under 
the  command  of  his  younger  brother,  Jim  Hagood,  surren- 
dered with  Lee  at  Appomattox. 

[45] 


46  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

During  the  lull  that  followed  the  fall  of  Sumter,  Colonel 
Hagood  secured  a  three  months'  furlough  from  his  regiment, 
and  went  to  Virginia,  where  he  enrolled  as  a  private  soldier  in 
the  Palmetto  Guard  of  Kershaw's  Brigade,  and  where,  to  quote 
his  Memoirs,  he  "had  the  honor  to  carry  a  rifle"  in  the  Battles 
of  Bull  Run,  and  Manassas  Plains.  In  the  latter  engagement 
he  also  served  as  cannoneer,  turning  a  captured  Federal  gun 
of  Rickett's  Battery  against  the  retreating  foe.* 

Back  in  South  Carolina,  he  played  a  conspicuous  role  in  the 
defense  of  Charleston,  particularly  at  Secessionville  where  he 
won  his  stars  as  a  brigadier  general,  and  at  Battery  Wagner 
where  he  was  engaged  in  combatting  the  landing  forces  of 
Gillmore's  Army  under  the  protection  of  the  Federal  fleet. 

In  the  final  throes  of  the  war,  Beauregard  selected  Hagood 
and  his  brigade,  to  go  with  him  to  reinforce  Lee  in  front  of 
Richmond,  where  the  operations  of  Hagood's  Brigade,  and  of 
Johnson  Hagood  himself,  are  mentioned  many  times  with 
high  praise  by  Douglas  Freeman  in  his  masterful  work  Lee's 
Lieutenants. 

Grant,  in  May  of  1864,  had  recently  been  made  a  lieutenant 
general,  and  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Armies  of  the 
United  States.  He  was  resting  behind  the  Rapidan  River,  sixty 
miles  north  of  Richmond,  with  an  army  of  150,000  men,  pre- 
paratory to  an  overland  march  upon  the  Southern  Capital.  Ben 
Butler,  with  a  force  of  40,000  men  supported  by  gunboats, 
was  moving  up  the  James  River  to  cut  off  the  Confederate  re- 
inforcements and  supplies.  Lee's  entire  force  in  this  theatre 
was  less  than  53,000  men,  and  at  the  vital  rail  center  of  Peters- 
burg, there  were  very  few  troops,  if  any,  other  than  local 
militia  of  a  very  inferior  quality. 


•  Memoirs   of  the  War  of  Secession — Johnson   Hagood. 


General  Johnson  Hagood,  C.  S.  A.  47 

Hagood's  Brigade  was  being  concentrated  at  Wilmington, 
North  Carolina,  and  when  Grant  crossed  the  Rapidan  on  May 
4th,  it  was  ordered  to  proceed  at  once  to  Petersburg.  The  ad- 
vance elements  arrived  on  the  night  of  May  5th,  and  Hagood 
himself  with  two  additional  small  regiments  arrived  the  next 
afternoon. 

They  were  immediately  put  into  action  at  Walthall  Junc- 
tion, where  Butler's  men  had  been  sent  to  cut  the  railroad  con- 
necting Petersburg  with  Richmond.  The  enemy  was  already  in 
full  sight  as  Hagood's  men  were  getting  off  the  trains.  But 
in  the  fighting  that  ensued,  his  depleted  brigade  of  1,500  in- 
fantrymen, defeated  and  drove  off  five  brigades  of  Federal 
infantry,  supported  by  a  regiment  of  Cavalry,  and  the  usual 
contingent  of  light  artillery  (Official  Federal  report). 
Hagood's  losses  were  22  killed,  132  wounded,  and  13  missing. 
Those  of  the  enemy  more  than  a  thousand. 

Hagood  had  temporarily  saved  Petersburg,  and  by  the  time 
the  enemy  was  again  ready  to  advance,  reinforcements  arrived 
in  sufficient  numbers  to  hold  it.  The  ladies  of  Petersburg  voted 
the  Brigade  a  flag,  the  merchants  of  the  city  refused  to  accept 
any  pay  from  the  soldiers,  and  a  prayer  of  thanks  was  offered 
from  one  of  the  pulpits  "for  the  timely  arrival  of  1,500  brave 
South  Carolinians." 

Three  months  later,  Hagood's  Brigade  won  undying  fame 
for  its  behavior  at  the  Battle  of  Wei  don  Road.  According  to 
Freeman,  Hagood  was,  upon  this  occasion,  led  into  a  trap  due 
to  bad  reconnaissance,  a  confusion  of  orders,  and  mistakes  on 
the  part  of  General  A.  P.  Hill  and  Major  General  Mahone, 
both  of  whom  generously  admitted  this  to  General  Lee  one 
week  later  in  Hagood's  presence. 

Grant  by  this  time  had  been  closing  in  around  Petersburg 
with  the  intention  of  taking  it  by  siege.  Hagood's  Brigade  had 


48  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

been  in  the  trenches  for  sixty-seven  days  without  relief,  when 
on  August  20th  it  was  ordered  out,  not  to  take  a  rest,  but  to 
take  the  field.  Two-thirds  of  its  number  had  been  sapped  by 
death  or  disease.  And  those  that  remained  were  so  sickly  and 
enfeebled  by  being  cramped  in  their  noisome  surroundings 
that  they  tired  badly  after  a  short  evening  march.  But  the 
change  to  open  bivouac,  the  prospect  of  immediate  action  in- 
stead of  long-sustained  endurance,  soon  aroused  their  spirits, 
and  in  spite  of  the  rain  that  poured  all  night,  the  light  laughter 
and  ready  jokes  of  the  men  were  heard  once  more  around  the 
crackling  campfires,  as  they  prepared  their  suppers,  or  smoked 
their  pipes. 

At  two  A.  M.  the  Brigade  was  waked  up,  and  at  half  past 
three  moved  out  to  battle.  They  were  led  out  to  their  position 
by  a  courier,  and  Hagood  reported  to  Major  General  Mahone 
who  said:  "You  are  now  on  the  flank  and  rear  of  the  enemy. 
I  have  five  brigades  fighting  him  in  front,  and  they  are  driv- 
ing him  back.  I  want  you  to  go  in  and  press  him  all  you  can. 
He  is  not  entrenched." 

But  Mahone  was  confused  as  to  direction,  and  his  scouts 
had  mistaken  a  few  scattered  skirmishers  with  rifle  pits  for  the 
enemies'  main  line  of  resistance  further  back.  Hagood  ad- 
vanced as  directed  through  a  light  swamp,  and  finding  the 
skirmishers  and  rifle  pits  on  the  crest  beyond,  he  dismounted 
and  placing  himself  in  front  of  his  men,  ordered  the  charge. 
But  he  had  no  sooner  reached  his  objective,  than  he  found  him- 
self alone  making  a  frontal  attack  on  two  Federal  Divisions 
a  few  yards  beyond,  strongly  entrenched  behind  heavy  field 
works,  supported  by  artillery,  and  extending  in  both  directions 
as  far  as  the  eye  could  reach. 

His  entire  force  consisted  of  59  officers  and  681  men.  He 
was  soon  surrounded  on  all  sides,  and  lost  all  but  274.  Every 


General  Johnson  Hagood,  C.  S.  A.  49 

member  of  his  staff  was  either  killed  or  wounded.  In  the  close- 
up  fighting  a  Federal  officer  rode  out  from  the  works  and 
seized  a  regimental  flag.  The  Brigade  began  to  falter  but  Gen- 
eral Hagood  shot  the  officer  through  the  body,  sprang  into 
the  empty  Yankee  saddle,  and  turning  the  flag  over  to  an 
orderly,  succeeded  in  rallying  his  men.  But  the  horse  was 
almost  immediately  killed,  and  he  led  them  on  foot  in  a  charge 
to  the  rear. 

Both  Lee  and  Beauregard  were  on  the  field,  and  the  latter 
sent  word  to  Hagood  through  the  Corps  Commander  General 
Hoke,  that  if  it  had  been  in  his  power  he  would  have  promoted 
him  that  day  for  what  he  had  done.  But  instead  of  that,  Lee 
and  Beauregard  joined  in  making  the  recommendation  to  Pres- 
ident Davis,  who  ordered  that  it  be  made  as  soon  as  a  vacancy 
should  occur.  From  that  time  on,  however,  the  Confederate 
Army  dwindled  away  so  rapidly  that  no  vacancy  ever  came. 

The  Union  officer,  Captain  D.  B.  Dailey,  of  Council  Bluffs, 
Iowa,  was  not  killed  although  it  was  so  reported.  Fifteen  years 
later  General  Hagood  was  instrumental  in  getting  him  a  pen- 
sion. His  son,  George  Dailey  was  a  cadet  under  me  at  West 
Point,  and  afterwards,  as  a  colonel,  served  on  my  staff,  with 
an  office  in  Council  Bluffs. 

Visitors  to  the  battlefields  of  Virginia  are  shown  a  hand- 
some monument  of  South  Carolina  granite  erected  to  Johnson 
Hagood  and  his  Brigade  on  the  spot,  near  Petersburg,  where 
they  made  their  gallant  but  futile  fight. 


Hagood's  Brigade  entered  the  war  4,500  strong.  Less  than 
five  hundred  survived.  They  returned  to  find  their  homes  in 
ruins,  their  families  destitute,  and  their  beloved  State  in  the 
hands  of  carpetbaggers. 


50  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

These  disreputable  politicians  from  the  north,  together  with 
a  few  white  local  scalawags,  combined  with  an  organized  mob 
of  recently  freed  illiterate  slaves  to  rob  the  public  treasury  in 
the  most  open  and  brazen  fashion  ever  known  in  any  country. 
They  not  only  issued  fraudulent  bonds,  and  paid  out  the 
people's  money  on  false  vouchers,  but  gave  away  without  com- 
pensation, two  railroads  upon  which  the  State  held  liens,  or  a 
majority  of  the  stock.  The  Governor  of  the  State,  other  offi- 
cials, and  the  members  of  the  Legislature  openly  charged  their 
private  purchases  to  the  public  account  5  and  the  list  of  these 
purchases  reads  like  an  inventory  of  stock  for  a  large  modern 
department  store. 

It  includes  such  items  as:  one  thousand  cords  of  wood,  al- 
though there  were  no  open  fireplaces,  or  wood-burning  stoves 
in  the  State  House ;  a  gallon  of  hard  liquor  per  day  for  each 
member,  together  with  vast  quantities  of  beer  and  champagne  j 
and  then  diamond  rings,  chewing  tobacco,  ornamental  cuspi- 
dors, bologna  sausages,  mushrooms,  lobsters,  buffalo  tongues, 
umbrella  stands,  ladies  garters,  imported  perfumes,  feather 
beds,  pocket  pistols,  coffins,  eggs,  washtubs,  corkscrews,  horses, 
mules,  toothbrushes  and  assorted  nuts. 

One  bill  for  forty  thousand  dollars  was  boosted  to  ninety. 
Of  this  difference,  Mr.  Ben  Byas,  Chairman  of  the  Claims 
Committee,  got  twelve  thousand ;  Speaker  Moses,  Clerk  Jones, 
State  Treasurer  Parker,  and  two  others  divided  another  twelve 
thousand  between  them ;  fifty  selected  members  got  from  fifty 
dollars  to  three  thousand  each;  and  others  complained  that 
they  had  been  double  crossed  either  by  being  left  out  or  in- 
adequately paid. 

Johnson  Hagood  had  no  small  part  in  bringing  these  mat- 
ters to  light.  They  are  now  of  record,  and  are  backed  up  by  the 
testimony  of  witnesses  under  oath. 


General  Johnson  Hagood,  C.  S.  A.  51 

The  rule  of  the  Carpetbaggers  and  Scallawags  was  over- 
thrown in  1876.  In  the  elections  of  that  year  the  negroes 
greatly  outnumbered  the  whites.  But  largely  through  the 
efforts  of  Johnson  Hagood,  those  that  were  loyal  to  their  old 
masters  were  organized  to  assist  in  the  substitution  of  honest 
men.  Wade  Hampton,  former  lieutenant  general  in  the  Con- 
federate Army  was  legally  elected  on  the  Democratic  ticket: 
but  the  Radicals  refused  to  give  up,  until  the  Republican  Pres- 
ident, Rutherford  B.  Hayes  decided  against  them.  In  the 
meantime,  under  the  guidance  of  Hagood,  a  large  number  of 
the  colored  people  in  Barnwell  County  had  joined  with  the 
whites  in  contributing,  in  advance,  ten  percent  of  their  next 
year's  taxes  to  support  the  Hampton  administration,  pending 
its  recognition  by  the  authorities  in  Washington. 

Hagood  went  in  with  Hampton  as  Comptroller  General  and 
thus  had  an  opportunity  to  continue  his  monetary  reform.  Four 
years  later  he  succeeded  to  the  office  of  Governor. 

In  his  inaugural  address  he  said: 

"The  political  equality  of  all  men  in  South  Carolina  is  now 
as  fixed  a  feature  of  her  policy  as  is  the  Blue  Ridge  Mountains 
in  her  geography.  *  *  *  It  is  my  duty  as  Governor  to  take 
care  that  the  laws  are  faithfully  executed  in  mercy.  I  repeat 
the  pledge  made  before  my  election — that  in  the  discharge  of 
this  high  trust  I  shall  know  neither  white  man  nor  colored 
man,  but  only  citizens  of  South  Carolina  alike  amenable  to  her 
laws  and  entitled  to  her  protection." 

No  man  can  cite  an  instance  in  which  Johnson  Hagood  failed 
to  keep  that  pledge. 

He  refused  to  run  for  a  second  term,  or  to  be  considered 
for  any  further  political  honors.  And  he  received  the  universal 
praise  of  the  press  when  he  retired  from  office. 

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52  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

Uncle  Johnson  was  the  only  member  of  the  family  who 
was  able  to  save  anything  out  of  the  wreakage  of  the  war,  and 
to  afterwards  keep  up  any  semblance  to  the  ante-bellum  stand- 
ards. He  married,  in  1854,  Miss  Eloise  Brevard  Butler, 
daughter  of  Judge  Andrew  Pickens  Butler,  then  a  United 
States  Senator  in  Washington,  and  a  son  of  Mrs.  Behethland 
Foote  Butler,  girl  hero  of  the  American  Revolution.  Aunt 
Eloise's  mother  was  Harriet  Hayne,  granddaughter  of 
Colonel  Isaac  Hayne,  the  Revolutionary  Martyr. 

They  lived,  during  my  boyhood,  in  an  imposing  old  planta- 
tion house  called  The  Cedars,  just  on  the  outskirts  of  Barn- 
well, that  had  belonged  to  his  mother's  family — the  Aliens — 
(See  sketch,  page  72).  But  later  due  to  reverses  he  had  to  sell 
The  Cedars  and  moved  out  to  Sherwood,  another  of  the  Allen 
plantations,  a  few  miles  out  of  the  Village.  There  he  had  what 
remained  of  the  old  Johnson  Hagood  library,  some  rare  edi- 
tions bound  in  leather  with  edges  of  gilt;  old  Johnson 
Hagood's  transit  and  philosophical  apparatus;  and  the  old  gen- 
tleman's collection  of  bronze  and  marble  busts. 

Governor  Hagood  was  very  fond  of  blooded  horses,  and 
he  had  at  Sherwood,  Minnie  Perry,  the  famous  blooded  mare, 
that  he  used  to  ride  back  and  forth  from  the  Governor's  Man- 
sion to  the  State  House  when  he  was  in  Columbia.  She  was 
almost  as  well  known  througout  the  State  as  he,  and  when 
she  died,  he  had  her  hoof  mounted  in  silver  and  placed  on  his 
desk  as  an  inkstand. 

He  was  very  proud  of  the  fact  that  I,  his  namesake,  should 
have  chosen  the  military  profession.  When  I  graduated  from 
West  Point  he  gave  me  one  of  Minnie  Perry's  colts.  He  died 
when  I  was  still  a  second  lieutenant,  at  Fort  Moultrie,  just 
before  the  Spanish-American  War  (January  4th,  1898)  and 
was  buried  in  the  Episcopal  Churchyard  in  Barnwell. 


SALUDA  OLD  TOWN 

Uncle  Johnson's  river  plantation,  which  he  got  from  his 
wife,  Aunt  Eloise  Butler,  was  at  Saluda  Old  Town  in  Edge- 
field County.  One  of  the  fields  was  called  the  Old  Town  field 
because  it  had  at  one  time  been  the  site  of  an  Indian  town  or 
village.  The  famous  Conference  of  1755  with  the  Cherokee 
Indians  took  place  at  Saluda  Old  Town;  and  Governor  Glenn 
came  up  in  person  from  Charleston  at  a  time  when  the  roads 
were  hardly  more  than  trails  or  foot  paths  through  the  wilder- 
ness, and  the  country  almost  entirely  occupied  by  hostile 
Indians,  with  occasional  traders,  passing  through  in  search  of 
skins  from  buffaloes,  bears,  beavers,  and  other  fur-bearing 
animals. 

The  Saluda  River  for  a  number  of  miles  in  each  direction 
was  a  thick  muddy  stream  coming  down  out  of  red  sand-clay 
hills  and  running  through  swamps,  but  on  the  west  side  of  the 
old  town  was  a  copious  spring  of  famous  sweet  water  that 
played  a  big  part  in  Indian  warfare,  and  in  the  subsequent 
Revolutionary  struggles  in  that  vicinity. 

In  the  year  1781,  British  forces  under  Lord  Rawdon  were 
operating  in  those  parts  against  the  American  General  Na- 
thanael  Greene.  Lord  Rawdon's  troops  had  constructed  a 
stockade,  or  temporary  fort,  the  garrison  of  which  was  de- 
pendent upon  the  spring  for  water ;  and  Kosciusko,  the  great 
Polish  patriot  who  had  given  his  services  to  the  American  cause, 
was  assigned  the  job  of  capturing  it.  In  the  fighting  that  en- 
sued a  young  Virginia  officer,  Lieutenant  Wade,  was  shot  from 
his  saddle,  and  while  lying  on  the  ground  badly  wounded, 
cried  out  in  the  true  spirit  of  a  cavalier  of  those  days:  "Don't 

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54  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

let  my  horse  fall  into  the  hands  of  the  enemy! !"  He  was  car- 
ried into  the  house  of  Mr.  Samuel  Savage,  upon  whose  plan- 
tation the  fighting  had  taken  place,  and  finally  recovered. 

A  short  time  after  this,  or  perhaps  while  the  wounded  lieu- 
tenant was  still  in  hiding,  the  plantation  was  overrun  by  the 
British,  and  several  of  their  officers  quartered  themselves  upon 
Mr.  Savage.  The  Americans  under  the  command  of  General 
Henry  Lee  were  in  full  retreat  and  had  crossed  the  river.  One 
night  Miss  Behethland  Foote  Moore,  fifteen  year  old  daughter 
of  Mrs.  Savage  by  a  former  husband,  overheard  the  Britishers 
discussing  a  plan  to  attack.  Without  hesitation  she  got  hold  of 
a  canoe  or  river  bateau,  constructed  of  a  few  boards  roughly 
nailed  together  and  held  water  tight  by  being  submerged  from 
time  to  time  along  the  bank  of  the  stream,  and  with  the  as- 
sistance of  her  brother,  nine  years  old,  and  a  Miss  Polly  Wiles 
of  about  her  own  age,  she  made  her  way  six  miles  up  and  across 
the  Saluda  River,  where  some  time  between  midnight  and 
dawn,  she  found  the  rear  guard  of  the  American  forces  peace- 
fully sleeping  upon  their  blankets  in  the  woods.  She  aroused 
a  Major  Wallace  who  took  the  message  to  General  Lee,  and 
he  realizing  the  imminent  danger,  called  to  an  officer  named 
Armstrong  saying:  "Form  your  troops  in  the  rear,  and  fight 
while  we  run! !" 

Thus  they  made  their  escape  just  as  the  British  were  com- 
ing into  view. 

The  next  day  another  young  American  officer,  Captain 
William  Butler,  appeared  on  the  Savage  place  accompanied 
by  an  orderly.  He  was  on  reconnaissance  duty  and  upon  being 
informed  by  Miss  Behethland  that  there  were  two  of  Raw- 
don^  men  down  in  the  river  bottoms  rounding  up  the  planta- 
tion horses,  he  succeeded  in  rounding  up  the  Britishers,  and 
forcing  one  of  them  to  get  up  behind  him  on  the  back  of  his 


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saddle,  with  a  like  disposition  of  the  other  on  the  saddle  of  his 
orderly,  he  swam  across  the  Saluda  River. 

These  exciting  incidents  led  to  a  courtship  between  the  hand- 
some young  captain  and  the  attractive  Miss  Behethland,  which 
was  violently  opposed  by  the  savage  Mr.  Savage.  But  true 
to  the  lines  of  romance,  they  managed  to  meet  three  years  later 
at  the  spring,  for  the  possession  of  which  Kosciusko  had  crossed 
swords  with  Rawdon's  men.  And  taking  the  dauntless  Beheth- 
land on  the  back  of  his  saddle,  as  he  had  formerly  taken  the 
British  marauders,  Captain  Butler  once  more  swam  the  Saluda. 
They  were  married  in  Ninety  Six  Village,  June  3rd,  1784. 

Because  of  these  and  other  exploits,  Behethland  Foote  Butler 
is  rated  as  one  of  our  national  heroes.  Accounts  of  her  will  be 
found  in  "Women  of  the  American  Revolution",  and  other 
biographical  works.  She  was  the  progenitor  of  many  noted  men 
and  women,  whose  names  will  be  found  among  the  Governors 
of  South  Carolina,  members  of  the  United  States  Senate,  mem- 
bers of  the  American  Diplomatic  Corps,  distinguished  judges 
upon  the  bench,  and  distinguished  soldiers  upon  the  battlefields 
of  American  history.  Judge  John  Belton  O'Neall,  one  of  South 
Carolina's  great  Jurists,  writing  in  1859  says: 

Never  have  I  seen  a  mother  more  worthy  of  her  illustrious 
children  than  she  was.  How  much  they  owed  to  her  cannnot 
now  be  known.  *  *  *  Of  her  I  would  say  in  the  inspired 
language  of  Solomon  "Many  daughters  have  done  virtuously, 
but  thou  excellest  them  all." 

Her  husband,  Captain  William  Butler  also  reached  distinc- 
tion. He  became  a  major  general  during  the  War  of  1812, 
and  prior  to  that  had  been  elected  to  Congress,  defeating  the 
incumbent  Robert  Goodloe  Harper,  whom  we  have  met  else- 
where as  the  friend  and  law  partner  of  my  great  grandfather, 
Johnson  Hagood,  in  Charleston.  General  Butler  later,  in  1813, 


56  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

resigned  his  seat  in  Congress  in  deference  to  Mr.  John  C.  Cal- 
houn, saying  "He  is  better  able  to  meet  Mr.  Randolph  in  de- 
bate". 

Mrs.  Butler  lived  to  be  eighty-six  years  old,  retaining  all  of 
her  spirit  and  her  faculties  until  the  last.  During  the  frequent 
absences  of  her  husband  in  the  wars  and  in  Washington,  she 
was  both  mistress  of  the  plantation  and  master.  Among  her  sons 
was  Judge  (also  U.  S.  Senator)  Andrew  Pickens  Butler,  who 
married  Miss  Harriet  Hayne,  also  of  distinguished  ancestry, 
only  to  lose  her  by  death  almost  immediately  after  the  birth  of 
his  only  child,  my  Aunt  Eloise.  Mrs.  Butler  the  grandmother, 
now  a  widow  and  well  nigh  unto  her  allotted  threescore  and 
ten  years,  took  charge.  She  raised  the  baby  Eloise  as  her  own, 
and  looked  out  for  her  up  to  a  short  time  before  her  marriage 
to  Uncle  Johnson.  It  was  from  Aunt  Eloise  that  I  first  heard 
the  legends  of  Saluda  Old  Town,  and  it  was  at  the  knee  of  old 
lady  Behethland  herself  that  Aunt  Eloise  had  learned  them 
firsthand. 

Judge  Butler,  after  the  death  of  his  father,  bought  up  the 
old  Savage  place,  and  consolidating  it  with  other  adjacent 
lands,  formed  the  Saluda  Old  Town  plantation  as  it  was  known 
in  later  years.  In  1857,  when  the  Judge  died,  he  left  the  whole 
thing  to  his  daughter  Eloise,  then  the  wife  of  young  Johnson 
Hagood  of  Barnwell,  destined  to  become  a  brigadier  general 
in  the  Confederate  Army,  and  afterwards  Governor  of  the 
state. 

But  he  and  Aunt  Eloise  continued  to  live  in  Barnwell,  and 
the  Saluda  Old  Town  plantation,  visited  only  upon  occasion, 
was  operated  from  a  distance  under  the  management  of  some 
younger  member  of  the  family,  at  one  time  by  Uncle  Jimmie. 
It  was  devoted  to  the  cultivation  of  hay,  and  the  raising  of 
blooded  stock.  There  was  a  private  race  track  on  Uncle  John- 


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son's  place  near  Barnwell,  where  my  father  and  the  negro  boys 
of  the  plantation  had  ridden  as  jockies  in  times  long  past.  It 
was  there  that  the  colts  from  Saluda  Old  Town  were  trained. 


Aunt  Eloise's  mother,  Harriet  Hayne,  was  the  grand- 
daughter of  Colonel  Isaac  Hayne.  And  while  her  Butler  an- 
cestors were  running  circles  around  Rawdon's  men  on  the 
Saluda  River,  Lord  Rawdon  himself  was  making  history  with 
her  Hayne  ancestors  further  south  on  the  Ashley. 

Colonel  Hayne  was  captured  by  the  British  during  the  Siege 
of  Charleston.  He  was  given  a  parole,  and  later  took  the  oath 
of  allegiance  to  the  king,  under  the  assurance  of  the  British 
commander  at  Charleston  that  he  would  not  be  required  to 
fight  against  his  own  people.  Lord  Rawdon,  however,  did  not 
stand  by  this  promise,  and  had  him  drafted  to  fight  under  the 
British  flag,  which  he  very  properly  refused  to  do.  Moreover, 
believing  that  this  action  on  their  part  relieved  him  of  any  fur- 
ther obligation  in  the  matter  of  his  parole,  he  resumed  his 
status  as  a  Continental  officer  and  was  given  the  command  of 
an  American  regiment. 

He  was  captured  once  more,  and  this  time  summarily  ex- 
ecuted without  trial.  He  was  hanged!  August  4th  1781. 

His  execution  raised  a  great  storm  of  protest,  not  only  in 
this  country,  but  on  the  floor  of  the  British  Parliament,  where 
Lord  Rawdon,  the  perpetrator  of  this  crime  against  the  laws  of 
war,  was  denounced  in  the  strongest  terms.  Colonel  Hayne  be- 
haved with  great  fortitude  and  dignity.  He  made  an  appeal 
to  higher  British  authority,  which  was  not  heeded.  He  took  his 
death  calmly,  and  became  one  of  the  martyrs  of  the  American 
Revolution. 


58  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

Indian  Kin 

The  Cherokee  Indians  in  and  about  Saluda  Old  Town  were 
eventually  evacuated,  as  the  saying  goes,  to  the  Indian  Terri- 
tory, now  the  state  of  Oklahoma.  One  of  Behethland  Foote 
Butler's  grandsons,  James  L.  Butler,  a  first  cousin  of  Aunt 
Eloise,  went  out  there  to  grow  up  with  the  country.  When  the 
war  came  he  raised  a  company  of  Cherokee  Indians  and  served 
as  their  captain  in  the  Confederate  Army. 

In  the  mean  time  he  married  an  Indian  girl,  and  by  her  had 
a  daughter,  Eloise,  who  grew  up  to  be  very  attractive.  Captain 
Butler  found  a  great  many  old  army  friends  at  the  nearby  post 
of  Fort  Gibson,  and  his  daughter  became  a  frequent  visitor, 
as  a  guest  in  the  officer's  homes,  and  at  the  hops.  Among  her 
friends  was  Assistant  Surgeon  Henry  Birmingham,  a  lieutenant 
of  the  Medical  Corps  (now  dead),  with  whom  I  afterwards 
served  at  Fort  Trumball,  Connecticut,  where  he  was  the  major 
doctor,  and  I  was  a  young  shavetail  just  out  of  the  Point. 

Eloise,  the  young  Indian  (or  half  Indian)  girl,  had  an  affair 
with  the  doctor  which  she  described  as  "intense",  remarking 
fifty  years  later  that  "they  had  listened  to  the  mocking  birds" 
and  she  would  dread  to  think  what  our  modernists  would  call 
it.  But  within  the  year  she  married  an  Indian — one  of  the 
young  braves  called  Bushyhead,  who  became  in  time  the  Chief 
of  the  Cherokee  Nation. 

The  Bushyheads  visited  Aunt  Eloise  and  Uncle  Johnson  in 
Barnwell,  and  as  a  child  I  greatly  envied  my  cousin  Butler 
Hagood  (somewhat  older)  because  of  a  photograph  showing 
him  seated  on  the  lap  of  a  real  Indian,  in  the  full-feathered 
regalia  of  a  chief. 

After  I  became  a  major  general  in  the  army,  I  had  occa- 
sion to  make  several  visits  to  Oklahoma,  but  never  had  an  op- 


Indian  Kin  59 

portunity  to  meet  Mrs.  Bushyhead — always  missed  her — but 
we  engaged  in  quite  a  lively  correspondence.  She  wrote  the 
most  charming  and  cultivated  letters.  In  fact  she  reminded 
me  very  much  of  Aunt  Eloise,  both  in  her  looks  (from  a  photo- 
graph) and  in  her  manner  of  expression.  She  must  have  had 
a  spark  of  old  Behethland  Butler's  spirit  in  her  breast.  She  was 
very  scornful,  and  perhaps  a  little  envious,  of  the  common 
cattle  which  she  said  had  stampeded  into  her  country,  taking 
away  the  Indian  lands,  and  making  their  millions  of  dollars 
by  converting  the  beautiful  hills  and  valleys  into  hideous 
forests  of  derricks  for  their  oil. 


COLONEL  JAMES  R.  HAGOOD 
1844-1870 

(My  Fathers  Brother) 

The  hero  of  our  family  is  Jim  Hagood,  the  nineteen-year- 
old  boy  colonel  of  Lee's  army.  Like  many  of  the  world's  other 
great  heroes,  he  died  while  yet  young  and  we  are  spared  the 
anti-climax  of  a  banal  existence  during  the  peace  that  followed 
his  glorious  service  in  the  War  for  Southern  Independence. 

General  Robert  E.  Lee,  one  of  the  greatest  military  com- 
manders of  all  time,  and  the  most  beloved  captain  that  ever 
led  a  man  to  battle,  writing  from  Lexington,  Virginia,  after 
it  was  all  over  (March  25th  1868)  said: 

"Colonel  James  R.  Hagood,  during  the  whole  of  his  con- 
nection with  the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia,  was  conspicuous 
for  his  gallantry,  efficiency  and  good  conduct. 

"By  his  merit  constantly  exhibited,  he  rose  from  a  private 
in  his  regiment  to  its  command,  and  showed  by  his  actions  that 
he  was  worthy  of  the  position." 

Jim  Hagood,  as  he  was  commonly  called  even  by  the  men 
of  his  regiment,  was  born  in  Barnwell,  S.  C,  26  November, 
1844,  the  son  of  Dr.  James  O'Hear  Hagood  and  Indiana 
M.  Allen,  his  wife.  He  died  as  a  result  of  a  railroad  accident 
15  November  1870.  As  a  youngster,  he  was  strong,  erect,  strik- 
ingly handsome,  and  noted  among  the  other  boys  of  the  village 
for  his  leadership  and  courage. 

He  attended  the  village  schools  and  at  sixteen  entered  the 
Arsenal  at  Columbia.  The  next  year  he  was  promoted  to  the 
Citadel  in  Charleston,  where  he  remained  until  the  summer 

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Colonel  James  R.  Hagood  61 

of  1862,  when  he,  along  with  a  number  of  other  cadets  left  en 
masse  to  joint  the  Confederate  Army.  They  formed  them- 
selves into  a  company  of  cavalry,  known  as  the  Cadet  Rangers, 
and  afterwards  became  Troop  F,  6th  South  Carolina  Cavalry, 
distinguishing  themselves  upon  many  a  hard  fought  field  of 
battle. 

Finding  that  this  regiment  was  to  serve  on  the  coast  of  South 
Carolina,  Jim  succeeded  in  getting  a  transfer  to  the  First  South 
Carolina  Volunteers  and  went  with  it  to  Virginia.  This  is  the 
regiment  that  had  been  raised  in  Barnwell  by  Jim's  older 
brother,  Colonel  Johnson  Hagood,  who  commanded  it  until 
promoted  to  be  a  brigadier. 

Upon  its  arrival  in  Virginia,  the  regiment  was  assigned  to 
Micah  Jenkin's  (afterwards  Bratton's)  Brigade  and  partici- 
pated in  every  important  engagement  of  Lee's  Army.  Jim,  who 
arrived  in  Virginia  as  a  private,  was  promoted  to  be  Sergeant 
Major,  Adjutant,  Captain  and  Colonel,  each  time  for  conspic- 
uous gallantry  or  exceptional  skill,  or  both,  on  the  field  of 
battle.  This  last  promotion  was  made  ten  days  before  his  nine- 
teenth birthday,  and  he  continued  in  command  of  his  regiment 
until  the  day  of  final  surrender,  although  to  quote  his  own 
words,  he  was  several  times  "annoyed  by  having  the  general 
go  away  and  leave  him  to  command  the  brigade". 

Jim  and  his  regiment  are  several  times  mentioned  in  the 
published  Records  of  the  Rebellion,  and  other  historical  works. 
He  is  credited  with  having  devised,  and  put  into  use,  a  number 
of  tactical  principles  far  in  advance  of  his  time. 

During  the  Civil  War  they  did  not  have  what  we  now  call 
"open  order".  They  had  a  line  of  "skirmishers"  that  deployed 
out  in  front  of  the  main  body,  but  it  was  called  in  as  soon  as 
they  made  contact  with  the  enemy,  and  after  that  the  fighting 
was  done  by  masses  of  men  in  close  order  formation.  Even  up 


62  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

to  the  time  when  I  was  a  West  Point  Cadet  we  had  the  com- 
mand AS  SKIRMISHERS!!,  at  which,  designated  troops 
would  fan  out  with  an  interval  of  about  six  feet  between  the 
men;  but  they  advanced  in  line  as  on  dress  parade,  and  their 
intervals  had  to  be  carefully  preserved  even  after  they  got 
the  next  command  which  was  HALT!  LIE  DOWN! 

During  the  Battle  of  the  Wilderness,  Jim  Hagood's  reg- 
iment had  been  sent  in  to  relieve  another  which  had  been  badly 
shot  up,  and  took  over  a  position  behind  an  improvised  breast- 
work made  of  cut  down  trees  in  the  forest.  The  men  were 
fighting  in  the  usual  fashion,  shoulder  to  shoulder,  and  every 
time  one  of  them  showed  his  head  above  the  breastwork,  the 
Yankees,  not  a  hundred  yards  away,  would  take  a  crack  at  him, 
from  an  equally  protected  position  in  their  front. 

Seeing  that  nothing  could  come  of  this  but  a  useless  loss  of 
life  on  both  sides,  Jim  called  to  one  of  his  captains,  and  di- 
rected him  to  take  his  men  out  in  front  of  the  breastworks,  a 
few  at  a  time,  hiding  behind  trees,  and  darting  from  tree  to 
tree,  until  they  got  into  a  position  from  which  they  could  pick 
off  the  enemy  from  behind  his  own  works.  Two  other  com- 
panies were  then  sent  forward  in  the  same  way,  until  finally 
the  whole  front  of  the  regiment  was  cleared  and  the  enemy  had 
to  fall  back. 

This  is  now  known  as  the  method  of  "infiltration",  but  it 
was  not  put  into  general  use  by  the  American  Army  until  we 
had  learned  it  from  the  French  and  the  Germans  during  the 
First  World  War. 

Similarly,  just  before  the  Second  World  War,  an  American 
General  Staff  officer  wrote  from  the  Army  War  College: 

"I  think  Jim  Hagood's  tactical  skill  based  upon  common 
sense  and  experience  was  fine.  For  instance j  in  making  an  as- 


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sault,  he  flattened  himself  and  his  men  on  the  ground  each 
time  the  enemy  fired  cannister.  We  sacrificed  potential  leaders 
and  needless  lives  in  the  (first)  World  War  by  a  'Come  on 
boys!  Let's  go!'  spirit  in  trying  to  break  through  interlocking 
bands  of  machine  gun  fire,  when  a  'crawl  under'  method  should 
have  been  used." 

Individual  acts  of  heroism  were  so  common  among  the  Con- 
federate soldiers  that  the  incidents  hardly  received  any  men- 
tion other  than  to  say  that  the  man  was  a  gallant  soldier. 
Among  the  many  exploits  of  Jim  Hagood  that  in  these  days 
would  have  won  for  him  the  Congressional  Medal  of  Honor 
and  other  lesser  decorations,  was  one  that  in  a  way  resembled 
that  of  the  immortal  Sergeant  Jasper  who  restored  the  flag 
shot  down  by  the  British  at  Moultrie. 

In  the  assault  on  Fort  Harrison,  September  29th,  1864, 
Hagood's  regiment  along  with  others  had  been  repulsed,  and 
the  following  is  a  description  given  by  an  eye  witness: 

"It  was  a  poor  sight  indeed — only  ninety-three  men  were 
left  in  the  entire  regiment.  Eddie  Bellinger  (the  color  bearer) 
had  fallen  leading  the  regiment  within  about  thirty  yards  of 
the  fort.  When  Colonel  Hagood  ordered  the  regiment  to  fall 
back  he  discovered  that  his  colors  were  missing  and  saw  them 
on  the  ground  nearer  to  the  fort  than  he  was.  He  ran  up  there 
and  found  Eddie  dead  with  the  colors  gripped  so  hard  that  he 
had  to  pry  his  fingers  open  with  his  sword  to  get  them  away. 
This  all  happened  within  thirty  yards  of  the  fort  in  an  open 
field.  The  Yankees  were  so  amazed  at  Colonel  Hagood's  ac- 
tion that  they  did  not  shoot  on  him  while  he  was  doing  this 
gallant  deed.  Colonel  Hagood  then  called  Jim  Diamond,  who 
was  not  wounded,  and  turned  the  colors  over  to  him.  He 
brought  them  out. 


64  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

"Next  day  the  Yankees  sent  over  a  flag  of  truce,  asking  the 
name  of  the  gallant  officer  who  had  rescued  the  colors — and 
they  buried  Eddie  with  military  honors." 

Colonel  Hagood,  in  his  unpublished  Memoirs,  makes  no 
mention  of  this  incident  other  than  to  say  that  the  enemy's  fire 
was  so  intense  that  "it  seemed  impossible  for  a  flea  to  crawl 
unhurt  across  the  deadly  space  we  had  traversed" ;  that  of  the 
eight  members  of  his  color  guard,  seven  had  either  been  killed 
or  disabled  for  life;  that  Ensign  Edmund  Bellinger  had  be- 
haved with  extraordinary  gallantry  and  been  shot  seven  times 
within  forty  yards  of  the  enemy's  works ;  and  that  the  next 
day,  under  a  flag  of  truce,  he  had  been  invited  to  cross  over 
behind  the  Federal  lines  and  there  was  shown  the  grave  of  his 
color  bearer,  buried  where  he  fell  "within  a  few  steps  of  the 
goal  that  he  striven  so  nobly  to  reach." 

One  of  the  things  that  has  astonished  modern  military  men 
is  the  invincible  discipline,  the  indomitable  courage,  and  the 
unquestionable  loyalty,  that  existed  among  all  ranks  in  South- 
ern organizations,  where  men  and  boys  of  all  ages  had  been 
recruited  in  the  same  vicinity;  were  intimate  friends  and  de- 
voted to  each  other  before,  during  and  after  the  war;  slept, 
messed  and  drank  together  in  the  field  (when  they  could  get 
any  liquor) ;  and  bore  uncomplainingly  the  greatest  hardships, 
perhaps,  of  any  army  in  history.  These  qualities  had  not  been 
developed  by  any  artificial  exercises  on  the  parade  ground. 
They  came  naturally  from  an  innate  sense  of  Truth,  Right- 
eousness and  Honor,  that  every  man  carried  in  his  heart.  The 
average  American  boy  possesses  these  qualities  now,  but  they 
are  stifled  in  the  army  by  our  mimicry  of  Prussianism. 

Jim  Hagood  knew  every  man  in  his  regiment  and  continued 
to  call  most  of  them  by  their  first  names,  as  did  other  colonels 
and  generals  all  the  way  along  the  line.  Eddie  Bellinger,  the 


Colonel  James  R.  Hagood  65 

color  bearer  at  Fort  Harrison,  was  Jim's  cousin,  his  schoolmate, 
and  his  devoted  friend.  General  Lee  commonly  addressed 
young  soldiers  that  he  did  not  know  as  "My  boy"  or  as  "Little 
man"  and  always  gave  his  instructions  in  a  kindly  manner. 

Frank  Mixon,  one  of  Jim  Hagood's  men,  thus  describes  the 
final  surrender  of  the  regiment  at  Appomattox,  in  his  Remin- 
iscences of  a  Private: 

"For  six  days  and  nights  we  did  not  stop  for  sleep  or  rest 
longer  than  ten  minutes.  It  was  a  fight  and  run  the  whole  time. 
I  saw  men — and  I  did  the  same  thing  myself — go  to  sleep 
walking  along.  On  the  morning  of  April  9th,  we  halted  in  a 
field,  and  the  firing  on  the  front  ceased.  We  were  lying  down 
on  each  side  of  the  road,  when  the  report  got  started  that  Lee 
had  surrendered! !  Very  shortly  after  this,  we  saw  a  crowd  of 
horsemen  coming  along  the  road,  and  we  recognized  General 
Lee  among  them.  Every  man  got  to  his  feet,  and  we  com- 
menced cheering  for  Lee.  The  old  man  pulled  off  his  hat,  and 
with  tears  streaming  down  his  cheeks,  he  rode  through  us  with- 
out a  word.  But  Lee  was  not  the  only  man  who  was  shedding 
tears — old  men  who  had  wives,  sons,  daughters  and  even 
grandchildren  at  home;  middle  aged  men  who  had  families j 
younger  men  who  had  left  young  wives;  and  young  fellows 
like  me. 

"That  afternoon  we  were  taken  into  the  oak  grove  and  put 
into  the  Bull  Pen,  as  we  called  it.  We  had  a  guard  around  us, 
but  not  a  Yankee  guard!  We  could  not  have  submitted  to  that, 
and  had  it  been  attempted,  the  last  one  of  them  would  have 
been  knocked  out  that  night.  We  had  our  own  men  for  guards. 
Some  of  the  Yankees  hung  around  on  the  outside  and  seemed 
surprised  that  they  had  had  such  a  hard  time  in  overwhelming 
such  a  crowd  of  rag-a-muffins,  and  so  few  of  them.* 


•Lee's  Army   had   been   reduced   to   only   8,000   men,   of   which   245   were   in    Hagood'i 
Regiment — J.  H. 


66  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

"At  noon  (three  days  later)  our  drums  beat  for  us  to  fall  in, 
and  we  were  soon  in  ranks  again.  Had  General  Lee  then  and 
there  ridden  out  and  said:  'There  is  the  enemy!  Boys!  Go 
for  them!'  we  would  have  broken  through,  no  matter  what 
the  odds.  But  we  were  marched  up  in  front  of  them,  where  we 
formed  in  line  of  battle  (close  order),  with  our  heads  up, 
showing  that  a  soldier  knows  how  to  die.  We  were  stopped  and 
made  to  face  them,  and  then  for  the  last  time,  we  heard  our 
boy  colonel,  Jim  Hagood,  give  the  command  'First  South 
Carolina!!  STACK  ARMS!  !\ 

"The  deed  was  done!" 

Colonel  Hagood  gives  a  somewhat  similar  account,  except 
to  say  that  his  men  were  lying  along  the  road  "panting  and 
palid",  after  having  made  one  brief  effort  to  clear  a  passage 
"like  the  unconscious  jerking  of  a  dying  animal  and  then  sub- 
sided to  rest".  He  says  that  he  joined  with  the  men  in  cheering 
for  General  Lee,  and  he  adds: 

"Then  while  the  Federal  bands  of  music  softly  played 
'Home  Sweet  Home',  we  turned  our  faces  Southward,  and, 
desolate  in  spirit,  commenced  our  journey  home?'* 

He  kept  his  regiment  together  until  he  had  them  well  out 
of  sight  of  the  Yankees,  and  then  having  no  food,  no  funds, 
and  no  means  of  transportation,  he  gave  each  man  a  parole 
and  bade  him  make  his  way  back  to  Barnwell  (six  hundred 
miles)  as  best  he  could. 

Jim  Hagood  upon  arrival  in  Barnwell,  gathered  up  some 
of  the  stock  that  had  been  driven  away  from  the  plantation 
to  escape  Sherman,  and  eked  out  a  small  living  for  himself 
and  the  members  of  his  father's  family  by  hauling  refugees 
in  a  wagon  back  to  Charleston.  After  that  he  ran  Sherwood, 


Colonel  James  R.  Hagood  67 

his  brother's  plantation,  for  a  couple  of  years,  but  wearying  of 
that  decided  to  try  his  fortunes  abroad.  He  enlisted  as  a  sailor 
before  the  mast,  studied  navigation,  and  in  a  competitive  ex- 
amination at  Liverpool  won  an  appointment  in  the  British 
Merchant  Marine.  After  that,  hearing  that  the  Khedive  of 
Egypt  was  recruiting  some  ex-Confederate  officers  to  train  his 
army  Jim  hurried  back  to  the  United  States,  secured  a  number 
of  credentials  from  General  Lee,  General  Beauregard,  Gen- 
eral Longstreet,  and  others  under  whom  he  had  served,  and 
made  his  arrangements  to  join  the  Egyptians. 

But  the  book  of  fate  had  written  otherwise.  He  was  mor- 
tally wounded  in  a  railroad  accident  while  enroute  to  partici- 
pate with  his  old  regiment  in  a  reunion  of  the  Confederate 
Survivors  Association.  One  of  his  biographers  has  written: 

"Upon  no  field,  in  no  assault,  shock  of  battle,  or  forlorn 
hope,  did  the  real  grandeur  of  the  man  shine  forth  with  more 
splendor  than  when  he  received  his  death  blow.  After  being 
extricated  from  the  wreck,  he  went  about  helping  the  injured, 
wholly  unmindful  of  his  own  condition,  until  he  fainted  from 
loss  of  blood.  One  of  the  other  passengers  who  had  escaped 
unhurt  was  administering  a  stimulant  from  a  pocket  flask, 
when  Colonel  Hagood,  returning  to  consciousness,  heard  a 
negro  nearby  complaining  of  his  injuries  and  said:  'Give  it  to 
him!  He  needs  it  more  than  I  do.'  Those  were  almost  his 
last  words,  because  a  short  time  after  that  he  lost  the  power 
of  speech." 

He  died  a  few  days  later  and  was  buried  in  the  family  grave- 
yard near  Hagood's  Mill  Pond.  General  Lee's  commendation, 
as  recorded  at  the  beginning  of  this  article,  is  inscribed  upon  his 
monument.  And  his  brother  Johnson,  the  brigadier  general, 
and  afterwards  the  Governor  of  South  Carolina,  paid  him  this 
tribute  in  his  book  on  the  War  of  Secession: 


68  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

"My  brother!  These  immortelles  are  laid  upon  thy  grave, 
upon  which  the  grass  is  not  yet  green.  No  better  soldier  wore 
the  grey.  No  knightlier  spirit  breasted  the  storm  in  twenty 
battles  beneath  the  Red  Cross  Flag,  nor  struggled  more 
bravely  amid  the  difficulties  that  befell  the  followers  of  a  Lost 
Cause." 


DOCTOR  WILLIAM  SMALL 

1734-1775 

(An  Uncle) 

William  Small,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  a  brother 
of  Dr.  Robert  Small,  from  whom  my  children  are  descended 
through  their  mother  *.  He  was  a  native  of  Scotland,  born  at 
Carmylie,  County  of  Angus,  of  which  parish  his  father  was 
minister.  One  of  his  ancestors  was  Thomas  Small,  whose  ar- 
morial bearings  were  registered  in  the  Lyon  Office  about  1680. 
Dr.  Small  was  an  inventor,  a  physician,  a  chemist,  a  mathema- 
tician, and  a  philosopher. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-five,  he  went  to  Williamsburg,  Vir- 
ginia, where  he  was  appointed  Professor  at  William  and  Mary 
College.  Among  the  students  (1760-62)  was  Thomas  Jeffer- 
son, afterwards  author  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
and  President  of  the  United  States,  who  in  his  published  au- 
tobiography says: 

"It  was  my  great  good  fortune,  and  what  probably  first  fixed 
the  destiny  of  my  life,  that  Dr.  William  Small  of  Scotland 
was  then  Professor  of  Mathematics,  a  man  profound  in  most 
of  the  branches  of  science  with  a  happy  talent  of  communica- 
tion j  correct  and  gentlemanly  manners;  and  an  enlarged  and 
liberal  mind.  He  most  happily  for  me,  became  soon  attached 
to  me  and  made  me  his  daily  companion  when  not  engaged  in 
the  school.  And  from  his  conversation  I  got  my  first  views 
of  the  expansion  of  science,  and  of  the  system  of  things  in 
which  we  are  placed.  Fortunately  the  Philosophical  chair  be- 
came vacant  soon  after  my  arrival  at  college,  and  he  was  ap- 


For  an  account  of  the  Small  family,  see  page  130. 

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70  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

pointed  to  fill  it  fer  interim  and  he  was  the  first  who  ever 
gave  that  college  regular  lectures  on  ethics,  rhetoric  and  belles 
lettres. 

"He  returned  to  Europe  in  1762,  having  previously  filled  up 
the  measure  of  his  goodness  to  me  by  procuring  for  me  from 
his  most  intimate  friend,  George  Wythe,  a  reception  as  a  stu- 
dent of  law  under  his  direction  j  and  introduced  me  to  the 
acquaintance  and  familiar  table  of  Governor  Fauquier,  the 
ablest  man  who  ever  held  that  office.  With  him,  and  at  his 
table,  Dr.  Small  and  Mr.  Wythe,  his  amid  omnium  honorum, 
and  myself  formed  a  fartie  quaree,  and  to  the  habitual  con- 
versations I  owed  much  instruction. 

"At  these  dinners  I  have  heard  more  good  sense,  more  ra- 
tional and  philosophical  conversations,  than  in  all  my  life  be- 
sides." * 

Upon  his  return  to  Scotland,  he  made  the  acquaintance  of 
James  Watt  and  became  associated  with  him  in  the  invention 
and  manufacture  of  the  steam  engine.  He  himself  secured 
patents  upon  clocks,  watches,  barometers,  and  other  such  in- 
struments of  precision.  He  suggested  to  Watt  the  idea,  and 
urged  him  to  undertake  the  construction  of  the  great  Cale- 
donian Canal  connecting  the  North  Sea  with  the  Atlantic  Ocean 
through  a  series  of  lakes  in  the  north  of  Scotland.  Watt  acting 
upon  his  advice  secured  a  contract  from  the  government  and 
made  a  survey  in  1 773,  but  the  actual  work  was  not  begun  until 
thirty  years  later,  and  was  then  carried  to  completion  by  others. 

Dr.  Small  had,  in  1765,  received  from  Benjamin  Franklin 
a  laudatory  letter  of  introduction  to  Mr.  Mathew  Boulton, 
the  Scotch  manufacturer  of  machinery.  Small  presented  Watt 
to  Boulton  and  the  latter  showed  them  through  his  works. 


•Quoted  from  Jefferson  Himself  by  Bernard  Mayo,    1942. 


Doctor  William  Small  71 

Based  upon  this  acquaintance,  Mr.  Boulton  undertook  the  man- 
ufacture of  the  world's  first  steam  engine  under  the  patent 
of  Mr.  Watt.  Later  Boulton  and  Watt  designed  and  manu- 
factured the  engine  for  Fulton's  first  steam  boat.  In  the  mean- 
time Dr.  Small  had  suggested  to  Watt  the  design  of  a  light 
steam  engine  (not  over  300  pounds)  to  draw  carriages. 

Dr.  Small  died  in  1775,  and  Mr.  Stewart,  a  British  author, 
wrote  j  "He  had,  I  think,  the  greatest  variety,  as  well  as  the 
greatest  accuracy,  of  knowledge  that  I  have  ever  met  in  any 
man".  Among  his  closest  friends  at  that  time,  in  addition  to 
Watt  and  Boulton,  were  the  professor  and  poet  Erasmus  Dar- 
win, grandfather  of  Charles  Darwin,  who  wrote  The  Origin 
of  Species;  Professor  James  Keir,  author  of  The  Dictionary 
of  Chemistry  and  other  scientific  works  j  and  Thomas  Day  the 
celebrated  British  writer  and  philanthropist,  all  of  whom  pub- 
licly bemourned  his  loss.  Mr.  Boulton  erected  in  his  garden 
a  monument  to  Small.  And  Darwin  composed  an  epitaph,  the 
last  stanza  of  which  reads: 

Cold  contemplation  leans  her  aching  head, 
On  human  woe  her  steady  eye  she  turns, 

Waves  her  meek  hand,  and  sighs  for  science  dead, 
For  Science,  Virtue,  and  Small  she  mourns. 


All  of  the  above  except  where  otherwise  indicated,  is  taken 
from  Muirhead's  Life  of  Watt.  A  steel  engraving  of  Boulton's 
monument  to  Doctor  Small  is  there  shown. — The  Author. 


JOSEPH  DUNCAN  ALLEN 

1812-1880 

(A  Cousin) 

Very  little  is  preserved  in  the  way  of  direct  information 
about  my  great  grandfather  John  Cargill  Allen,  other  than 
that  he  was  an  attorney,  a  planter,  and  a  man  of  means,  in 
Barnwell  County.  But  we  can  get  a  very  good  picture  of  the 
Allen  family  from  an  account  of  his  nephew,  Captain  Joseph 
D.  Allen,  by  Mrs.  Chlotilde  Martin  in  the  Charleston  News 
and  Courier  of  May  1 1th  1934,  and  a  more  recent  account  in 
the  same  paper  by  Mrs.  Florie  Hutson  Heyward  formerly  of 
Barnwell,  and  a  cousin. 

Mrs.  Martin  says: 

"In  the  heart  of  the  old  town  of  Barnwell,  stands  a  queer 
ancient  sundial.  It  is  the  footprint  of  a  man  dead  more  than 
half  a  century — Joseph  Duncan  Allen,  known  as  Captain  Joe 
Allen.  The  Captain  had  a  hobby  for  monuments."  Here  fol- 
lows a  description  of  monuments  that  he  erected  in  Barnwell. 
They  included  one  to  his  mother  and  father,  one  to  his 
colored  nurse,  one  to  his  dog,  and  a  number  of  others  to  mem- 
bers of  his  family,  and  to  friends.  Upon  one  of  these,  he  had 
a  hand  carved  with  a  prophetic  finger  pointing  to  the  words: 
"Alas! !  Who  shall  erect  a  monument  to  me?" 

All  of  these  monuments,  recently  visited  by  me,  are  sub- 
stantially constructed,  and  still  stand  sixty-five  years  after  his 
death.  But  the  only  thing  that  stands  for  him  is  a  simple  gov- 
ernment marker  showing  his  service  in  the  Mexican  and  Indian 
Wars  j  and  an  iron  cross  placed  by  The  Daughters  of  the  Con- 
federacy. 

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Joseph  Duncan  Allen  73 

The  monument  to  his  mother  is  life  size,  and  said  to  be  a 
replica  of  herself  in  youth ;  but  it  is  certain  that  no  mortal  eye 
had  ever  seen  her  in  the  costume  as  represented.  She  was 
draped  as  a  Greek  goddess,  and  stands  barefooted  upon  a  ped- 
estal, one  foot  modestly  crossed  over  upon  the  other  and  show- 
ing to  advantage  her  beautiful  toes  which  had  never  been 
hampered  by  a  shoe.  Her  head  is  turned  aside,  and  she  is  coyly 
glancing  to  the  front  with  a  finger  at  the  corner  of  her  shapely 
mouth,  as  if  to  hide  or  accentuate  a  dimple. 

On  another  side  of  this  same  monument,  Captain  Allen  ex- 
plains his  father's  business  connections,  and  adds:  "in  all  of 
which  he  gave  satisfaction  and  enjoyed  the  confidence  of  every- 
one with  whom  he  had  any  acquaintance". 

In  the  colored  cemetery  across  the  way  is  the  monument  to 
his  negro  nurse,  who  as  he  explains  in  her  epitaph,  was  pur- 
chased in  Virginia,  brought  to  Barnwell  in  1812  (the  year  that 
he  was  born),  and  cared  for  him  as  if  he  were  her  own  child. 
He  adds  "I  loved  her  tenderly — she  was  tall  and  handsomely 
formed — of  high  and  lofty  notions  of  self-respect  and  honor. 
She  possessed  a  veracity  as  unquestioned  as  any  being  I  have 
ever  met. — Alas!  My  Friend!  Farewell!"  (Signed)  J.  D. 
Allen,  Senator  Barnwell  District  29  November  1859. 

The  monument  to  his  dog  is  alongside  that  to  his  father, 
and  will  be  made  the  subject  of  another  sketch. 

Going  back  to  the  accounts  of  Mrs.  Martin  and  Mrs.  Hey- 
ward,  we  find  that  Joe  Allen  was  the  wealthiest  man  in  that 
section,  perhaps  in  the  entire  state  of  South  Carolina.  He  was 
in  fact  enormously  rich  for  those  times.  He  had  plantations, 
not  only  in  South  Carolina,  but  in  Texas  and  in  Louisiana  as 
well.  From  his  Red  River  Plantation  alone  he  had  an  income 
of  sixty  thousand  dollars  a  year.  He  inherited  part  of  his 
wealth  from  his  people,  who  from  earliest  times  had  always 


74  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

been  possessed  of  landed  estates.  Part  of  this  fortune  he  made 
himself  j  and  a  part  he  received  from  his  wife  who  was  an 
heiress  in  her  own  name,  and  reputedly  given  a  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars  in  cash  as  a  wedding  present  from  her  father. 

But  when  someone  ventured  to  ask  the  Captain  about  the 
source  of  this  wealth,  he  replied  that  he  made  it  by  picking  up 
fat  lightwood  knots  along  the  banks  of  the  Savannah  River 
(that  river  running  through  a  swamp  and  having  no  banks), 
tying  them  into  little  bundles  and  selling  them  to  the  neigh- 
bors. 

Captain  Joe,  as  a  young  swain,  was  very  much  given  to  visit- 
ing the  fashionable  watering  places,  always  taking  with  him  his 
valet.  It  was  at  one  of  these  he  met  the  fascinating  Miss  Lucy 
Myers.  She  was  at  the  moment  enamoured  of  an  insignificant 
little  man  who  met  with  the  Captain's  scorn.  One  evening  at 
dinner,  when  several  drinks  had  been  had  all  round,  Captain 
Joe  laid  hold  of  his  rival  and  planted  him  in  the  center  of  the 
table.  Miss  Lucy  was  not  displeased  at  this  exhibition  of  cave- 
man tactics  and  gave  her  hand  to  Joe  the  following  January — 
1838. 

Once  when  the  State  Legislature  was  meeting  in  Columbia, 
the  guests  of  the  Grand  Central  Hotel  found  their  way  blocked 
by  numerous  boxes  and  packing  cases  on  the  sidewalk.  The 
manager  apologized  saying:  "That  is  Senator  Joe  Allen's 
liquor,  brought  up  from  Barnwell.  We  are  trying  to  make  a 
place  for  it  in  the  cellar." 

The  Captain  was  a  conspicuous  member  of  the  Church,  but 
because  of  his  fiery  temper,  his  excessive  profanity,  and  other 
such  manly  vices,  he  was  frequently  regarded  as  a  backslider. 
To  offset  this  he  built  an  attractive  little  chapel  for  one  of  the 
neighboring  villages,  and  presented  a  handsome  park  to  Barn- 
well. 


Joseph  Duncan  Allen  75 

He  served  for  some  time  in  the  State  Senate,  and  once  made 
the  race  for  Governor. 

Captain  and  Mrs.  Allen  lived  a  glamorous  and  sumptuous 
life.  He  was  kind  and  affectionate,  the  soul  of  hospitality,  but 
he  was  extraordinarily  pompous,  and  loved  display  in  his  home 
and  person.  She  was  gracious,  amiable,  full  of  charities,  and 
very  much  beloved  by  all.  Their  magnificent  home,  called 
The  Cedars,  fronted  upon  the  village  of  Barnwell,  and  backed 
upon  one  of  their  smaller  plantations.  It  was  built  in  the 
colonial  style,  with  white  Corinthian  columns  the  full  two 
stories.  There  were  spacious  halls,  with  beautifully  carved 
mouldings,  and  a  wide  curving  stairway.  There  was  a  conserv- 
atory, a  handsome  library  filled  with  rare  books,  a  living  room 
for  the  family,  and  the  usual  domestic  arrangements  with  a 
very  large  retinue  of  servants. 

Several  years  before  the  War,  a  northern  visitor  (Editor  of 
The  New  York  Express)  was  very  much  impressed  with  the 
ballroom  on  the  second  floor,  with  its  floors  always  waxed,  its 
crystal  chandeliers  generously  refracting  their  rainbows  even 
in  the  daytime  when  the  sun  was  shining ;  with  the  spacious 
high-ceilinged  bedroom  in  which  he  was  entertained,  the  hand- 
somely carved  furniture,  and  the  great  four-poster  with  its 
deep  soft  featherbed,  that  could  be  reached  only  by  means  of 
a  little  stepladder  provided  for  the  purpose. 

In  a  lengthy  article  the  Editor  described  the  forty  acres  of 
gardens,  cut  at  right  angles  by  two  great  avenues  of  cedars, 
from  which  the  place  got  its  name.  "I  look  out"  he  wrote 
"upon  white  and  yellow  jasmine,  and  roses,  interspersed  with 
pomegranates,  peaches,  and  figs;  but  the  most  beautiful  of  all 
are  the  long  rows  of  cape  jasmine,  and  the  air  is  burdened 
with  the  heavy  odor  of  this  the  most  fragrant  of  all  flowers." 


76  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

In  speaking  of  the  culinary  department,  he  said  that  to  his 
taste,  nothing  better  could  be  found  in  the  Palais  Royal  or  else- 
where in  Paris. 

The  New  York  Editor  had  come  south  to  get  a  first- 
hand view  of  a  fire-eating  states-rights  man,  a  nullifier  and 
secessionist,  but  this  is  what  he  wrote:  "There  is  a  practical  love 
of  country  at  the  bottom  of  all  this.  Barnwell  County  would 
tomorrow  raise  as  many  volunteers  to  defend  the  Union  against 
invasion  as  any  other  district  in  the  country.  It  did  so  in  the 
Florida  War.  It  did  so  in  the  Mexican  War,  for  which  out  of 
a  hundred  brave  men  who  went  upon  the  field  of  battle,  only 
fifteen  returned  alive." 

Barnwell's  record  in  three  subsequent  wars  has  been  the 
same;  and  the  Hagood- Allen  contingent  has  done  its  share. 

One  of  my  uncles,  Colonel  William  Owens,  as  will  be  seen 
later,  opposed  Secession  and  foretold  its  ruin.  The  Aliens  were 
swept  away  when  Sherman  struck.  But  The  Cedars  was  saved 
and  purchased  by  Uncle  Johnson,  and  he  lived  there  when  I 
was  a  boy  j  but  that  too  finally  went  into  the  hands  of  strangers, 
was  cut  up  into  city  lots,  and  is  now  in  a  sorry  plight. 

Joe  Allen,  although  almost  fifty  years  of  age,  enlisted  along 
with  my  father  and  others  of  the  family,  to  serve  as  a  private 
soldier  in  the  Confederate  Army.  He  had  already  served  in 
the  Mexican,  and  Indian  Wars.  Before  going  away,  he  went 
out  into  a  little  piece  of  woods  on  his  place,  and  there  in  the 
dead  of  the  night,  he  buried  the  family  plate — a  fortune  in 
gold  and  silver.  Upon  his  return,  he  found  that  clearings  had 
been  made,  the  landmarks  destroyed,  and  nobody  knows  from 
that  day  to  this  whether  the  treasure  is  still  there,  or  was  stolen 
by  some  skulking  Yankee,  or  disloyal  slave. 

He  died  28  November  1880 — no  kith  nor  kin  to  mark  his 
grave. 


JOE  ALLEN'S  DOG 

(And  Orsamus  D.  Allen's  Horse) 

No  story  of  the  Hagood-Allen  connections  would  be  com- 
plete without  a  horse  or  a  dog.  Our  horses  have  usually  been 
race  horses,  or  at  least  saddle  horses,  as  that  was  the  way  we 
got  around  before  the  days  of  good  roads  and  automobiles.* 
And  our  dogs  have  usually  been  hunting  dogs,  kept  in  the 
yard.  But  here  is  the  story  of  a  lap  dog,  which  has  been  handed 
down  by  word  of  mouth  for  nearly  a  hundred  years. 

Captain  Joseph  Allen,  who  had  his  share  of  the  bird  dogs 
and  hounds,  also  had  a  little  dog,  an  indoor  dog,  named  Fid, 
who  belonged  to  the  church.  Fid  was  in  short  a  Baptist.  He 
always  knew  when  Sunday  came,  and  would  hang  around  in  a 
restless  sort  of  way  until  the  bells  began  to  ring  and  then  set 
out  for  service.  It  made  no  difference  to  him  whether  other 
members  of  the  family  went.  He  was  always  there.  And  rain 
or  shine,  winter  or  summer,  he  could  be  seen  without  fail  in 
his  own  little  private  pew  behind  the  stove.  There  he  would 
give  an  ear  to  the  hymns  and  prayers ;  and  then  doze  off  for 
the  sermon. 

He  roused  himself  when  the  people  stood  up  to  sing  the 
Doxology,  and  respectfully  waited  for  the  others  to  file  out. 
Then  he  would  trot  home  for  Sunday  dinner,  to  which  the 
preacher  or  some  other  member  of  the  congregation  was  sure 
to  be  invited. 

The  date  of  Fid's  death  is  not  recorded,  but  he  departed  this 
life  years  before  the  War  for  Southern  Independence,  and  lies 
buried  in  the  Allen  section  of  the  Baptist  Graveyard  in  Barn- 


•  I  did  my  courting  on  horseback.  J.  H. 

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78  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

well  where  a  marble  stone,  with  lamb,  erected  by  our  cousin 
the  famous  Captain  Allen,  still  stands  to  his  memory. 
His  epitaph  reads: 

How  oft  upon  my  lap  you've  laid! 

With  sparkling  eyes,  you've  barked  and  played. 

Thus  passed  the  Happy  Hours. 
But  now  from  sight  forever  hid, 
No  more  I'll  see  my  faithful  Fid! 

But  strew  his  grave  with  flowers. 

Here  is  another  story,  recently  told  by  Miss  Anna  Walker, 
a  delightful  old  lady  more  than  ninety-two  years  of  age,  and 
a  lifelong  friend  of  my  aunt  Eloise  Hagood.  It  is  about  Cap- 
tain Joe  Allen's  father  who  died  long  before  Miss  Anna  was 
born. 

There  was  a  private  race  track  on  the  Allen  place,  and  all 
the  gentlemen  of  that  day  engaged  in  horseracing,  the  younger 
sons  and  the  small  negro  boys  of  the  plantations  riding  as 
jockeys.  Mr.  Orsamus  D.  Allen  had  a  thoroughbred  colt  of 
which  he  was  very  proud,  and  he  proposed  to  enter  him  at  the 
races  in  Augusta.  But  being  the  Ordinary  of  the  County  (Pro- 
bate Judge),  he  could  not  get  away.  So  he  sent  the  horse  under 
the  care  of  a  trusty  negro  trainer. 

He  then  knelt  down  and  prayed: 

"Please  Lord;  take  care  of  my  horse!  And  I  know  You 
will,  because  I  do  not  pester  You  all  the  time  like  Barney 
Brown  and  Hansford  Duncan." 

The  story  was  originally  told  by  Colonel  Duncan.  And  the 
ashes  of  Uncle  Barney  Brown  now  rest  in  the  Baptist  Grave- 
yard near  those  of  Judge  Orsamus  Allen  and  the  little  dog, 
Fid. 


THE  TOBIN  LINE 

JOHN  BOOTH 

-1777 


CORNELIUS  TOBIN       SARAH  BOOTH        JAMES  OVERSTREET 


-1832   (?)  1756-1818 


■1781 


JAMES  OVERSTREET,  Jr. 
1773-1822 

GERARD  LARTIGUE 
1766-1818 


DANIEL  TOBIN  AGNES  LARTIGUE 

1783-1849 


SOLOMON  OWENS 
-1818 


WILLIAM  OWENS 
-1835 


JOHN  A.  OWENS      MARY  OVERSTREET 

1791-1831 


JOHN  E.  TOBIN SARAH  OWENS 

1821-1868 


KATE  R.  TOBIN 


LEE  HAGOOD 


1851-1914 


1846-1890 


JOHNSON  HAGOOD 

1873- 


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THE  TOBIN  FAMILY  ABROAD 

The  Tobin  family  is  one  of  great  antiquity,  but  no  effort 
has  been  made  to  trace  our  particular  branch  beyond  the  fact 
that  our  first  ancestor  in  America  came  from  Kilkenny  County 
in  Ireland  a  short  time  after  the  American  Revolution  and 
settled  in  Barnwell  County,  or  District  as  it  was  then  called. 
His  son  Daniel  Tobin,  my  great  grandfather,  named  his  plan- 
tation Kilkenny,  after  the  land  of  his  birth. 

The  name  was  originally  French,  and  is  still  to  be  found  in 
the  vicinity  of  Nantes.  At  the  time  of  the  Norman  invasion, 
certain  Tobins  went  to  Ireland  and  took  up  lands  in  Tipperary 
and  Kilkenny  Counties  where  they  have  lived  ever  since.  A 
great  deal  about  the  family  appears  in  d'Alton's  Irish  History, 
O'Hart's  Irish  Pedigrees,  and  other  similar  works.  The  coat 
of  arms  of  the  French  branch  appears  in  Armorial  Bearings 
by  Reitstap,  that  of  the  English  banch  in  Burkes  Armorials, 
and  that  of  the  Kilkenny  branch  in  O'Harts  Irish  Pedigrees. 

I  ran  across  the  name  in  France  when  I  was  over  there  dur- 
ing the  First  World  War,  and  the  following  extract  from  a 
letter  brings  the  matter  up-to-date.  It  was  addressed  to  Colonel 
William  H.  Tobin,  Quartermaster  Corps,  U.  S.  Army,  who 
is  a  Californian  and  not  related  to  our  family  in  this  country. 

Malvern   England 

August  22,  1922. 
"Dear  Colonel  Tobin: 

The  Tobin  family  went  to  Ireland  in  the  days  of  Henry  II 
of  England.  They  were  of  the  Norman  family  of  St.  Aubyn, 
and  the  name  in  Ireland  gradually  worked  itself  into  the  pres- 
ent form.  Clyne's  Annates  Horistorical,  writing  in  Latin  in  the 
14th  Century,  Latinizes  the  name  to  de  Sancto  Albino:  and 

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The  Tobin  Family  Abroad  81 

the  name  at  an  early  date  worked  into  Toubyn  (dropping  the 
Saint),  Tobbin,  Tobyn,  and  finally  Tobin.  I  have  it  spelt  in 
three  different  ways  in  a  document  in  my  possession. 

The  Chief  of  the  family  had  two  locations,  Killaghy  Castle 
near  Featherd  in  the  east  of  Tipperary,  and  Bally  Tobin 
(Tobin  Town)  across  Kilkenny  border.  My  ancestor  James 
Tobin  was  living  at  Killaghy  at  the  time  of  the  invasion  of 
William  of  Orange.  He  served  in  his  cousin's — Lord  Gal- 
more's — Regiment  of  Horse,  and  fought  for  King  James,  sub- 
sequently going  to  France. 

The  Tobin  family  for  many  centuries  held  considerable 
property  in  the  counties  of  Tipperary  and  Kilkenny.  A  James 
Tobin  of  Killaghy,  together  with  his  brother-in-law  Sir  John 
Everad,  unfortunately  attended  the  convention  of  Catholic 
gentlemen  in  Tara  in  1641.  A  grandfather  General  Tobin  and 
his  brother  the  Admiral  were  the  first  of  my  family  to  serve 
the  British  throne  since  the  days  of  the  Stewart  kings. 

Irish  families  were  so  dispersed  at  the  Revolution  of  1668 
that  it  is  most  difficult  to  trace  connections.  Church  registers 
Etc.  were  destroyed  wholesale.  My  papers  are  in  storage,  and 
I  can  only  speak  from  memory,  but  I  would  like  to  hear  from 
you  again  and  perhaps  we  could  link  up. 

Yours  very  truly, 

(Signed)     Fred  Tobin. 


CORNELIUS  TOBIN 

(My  Great-great  Grandfather) 

A  short  time  after  the  American  Revolution,  Cornelius 
Tobin  left  Kilkenny  County,  the  ancient  seat  of  the  Tobin 
clan  in  Ireland,  and  came  to  the  United  States.  He  settled  in 
the  northern  section  of  Barnwell  District,  where  he  took  up 
large  tracts  of  land,  purchased  negroes,  and  organized  several 
plantations.  He  came  over  alone,  but  after  being  established, 
he  went  back  to  Ireland  and  brought  over  his  wife  Judith, 
and  his  two  sons,  John,  and  Daniel  from  whom  we  are  de- 
scended. In  the  meantime  he  had  built  a  handsome  and  capa- 
cious plantation  home  in  colonial  style,  near  the  present  site 
of  Blackville.  A  photograph  and  description  of  this  house  may 
be  seen  at  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art  in  New  York 
City,  as  part  of  a  collection  placed  there  by  the  Manhattan 
Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution. 

One  of  my  cousins,  a  great  granddaughter  of  the  original 
owner,  writing  a  hundred  and  twenty-five  years  later  says: 

"At  last  I  have  been  to  Blackville!  I  have  seen  the  home 
of  Cornelius  Tobin,  or  what  is  left  of  it.  It  was  a  beautiful 
place — wide  piazza  with  four  columns;  most  beautifully  pro- 
portioned rooms  and  halls ;  paneled  wainscoating  with  beautiful 
trim  in  every  room.  The  ceilings  are  bordered  with  the  same 
carved  trim;  beautiful  wood  mantels  like  those  in  the  old 
colonial  houses  in  Charleston.  There  are  the  remains  of  an  ex- 
tensive garden,  with  a  circle  of  mock-orange  trees  surrounded 
by  cedars." 

The  Tobin  plantations  lay  along  the  old  Charleston  and 
Augusta  Road,  near  the  line  of  the  Southern  Railway,  and  ex- 

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tended  from  what  are  now  the  towns  of  Denmark,  through 
Blackville,  to  Williston.  He  and  a  neighbor,  the  Reverend 
Darling  Peeples,  owned  practically  all  of  that  part  of  what  is 
now  Barnwell  County.  After  the  death  of  Mr.  Tobin,  the  home 
and  immediate  grounds  were  bought  by  the  Reverend  Peeples, 
the  two  families  intermarried,  the  property  was  handed  down 
through  a  female  line,  and  the  house  is  now  known  as  the  old 
Reynolds'  Place. 

In  Cornelius  Tobin's  will,  filed  at  Barnwell  7  August  1829,* 
he  gives  one  fourth  of  his  remaining  estate  to  each  of  his  two 
sons,  John  and  Daniel ;  and  divides  the  rest  among  the  various 
members  of  his  family,  notably  his  sister  Mary,  his  half-sister 
Caty,  and  his  aunt  Mary  Dwyer,  widow  of  Daniel  Dwyer, 
who  were  all  in  Ireland. 

Prior  to  his  death,  Cornelius  Tobin  divided  his  lands,  his 
negroes,  his  cattle,  and  other  property  (estimated  as  being  the 
equivalent  of  a  million  dollars  these  days)  giving  one  half, 
share  and  share  alike  to  his  two  sons  John  and  Daniel ;  reserv- 
ing the  other  half  for  himself.  Daniel  was  not  yet  married  but 
he  was  given  the  large  plantation  called  Kilkenny,  and  lived 
there  up  to  the  time  of  his  death. 

Judith  Tobin,  our  ancestral  grandmother,  died  a  short  time 
after  her  arrival  in  America.  In  the  meantime,  or  after  his 
wife's  death,  Conelius  bestowed  his  affections  upon  one  of  the 
county  ladies,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Neilson,  who  had  already  been 
provided  with  a  husband.  She  presented  him  with  a  son,  and 
he  did  her  the  honor  of  giving  it  his  name,  Cornelius  Tobin, 
Jr.  How  Mr.  Neilson,  Mr.  John  Neilson,  regarded  this  mat- 
ter does  not  appear.  But  there  were  no  divorces  in  those  days, 
and  the  two  families  continued  to  live  in  the  same  neighbor- 
hood. Both  the  young  Cornelius  and  his  mother  were  well 


See  page   161,  Dudley  Equity  Reports,  1839. 


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Meet  Your  Grandfather 


looked  out  for  in  a  financial  way.  It  was  provided  in  the  will 
that  the  boy  should  be  well  educated  and  upon  reaching  his 
maturity  should  come  into  a  share  of  the  property.  Mrs. 
Neilson  was  provided  with  an  annuity ;  and  in  order  that  her 
husband  should  not  receive  any  of  its  benefits,  instructions 
were  given  that  the  funds  should  be  turned  over  to  Orsamus 
D.  Allen,*  a  friend  of  Mr.  Tobin,  and  the  County  Ordinary 
(Probate  Judge),  who  was  enjoined  to  make  the  payments  to 
Mrs.  Neilson  in  person. 

The  young  Cornelius,  notwithstanding  the  bar  sinister  upon 
his  escutcheon,  married  Miss  Duncan  of  a  very  fine  Barnwell 
family,  and  left  many  highly  esteemed  descendants. 

Cornelius  Tobin,  Sr.,  died  about  1831  or  '32,  and  was  buried 
on  his  place  but  the  exact  spot  of  his  grave  is  not  known.  There 
is  a  clump  of  trees  that  would  seem  to  mark  the  place,  but 
there  is  no  stone. 


•  For   an   account   of   Mr.  Allen  see  page   72. 


DANIEL  TOBIN 

1783-1849 

(My  Great  Grandfather) 

DANIEL  TOBIN  was  born  in  Ireland  in  the  year  1783, 
and  came  to  this  country  with  his  father  when  he  was  about 
seventeen  years  old.  He  married  Agnes  (or  Anais)  Lartigue, 
the  daughter  of  Gerard  Lartigue,  a  French  refugee  from  Santo 
Domingo,  and  lived  on  his  plantation  called  Kilkenny  given 
to  him  by  his  father,  Cornelius  Tobin. 

The  following  obituaries,  published  almost  a  hundred  years 
ago  were  pasted  in  an  old  Bible  that  belonged  to  his  son-in-law 
Mr.  Luther  White  Williams  of  Aiken,  South  Carolina. 

Daniel  Tobin 

"On  Thursday,  November  22nd,  1849,  in  the  67th 
year  of  his  age,  after  an  illness  of  only  seven  days  a  be- 
reaved family  mourn  the  loss  in  him  of  a  kind  and  indul- 
gent parent  and  husband.  In  each  of  these  relations  and 
in  that  of  master,  he  was  ever  affectionate  and  sympa- 
thetic. In  an  eminent  degree  was  he  distinguished  for  the 
virtues  of  benevolence,  sincerity,  and  self-sacrifice. 

"He  was  charitable  to  the  poor,  for  no  heart  could  be 
more  deeply  distressed  in  witnessing  a  spectacle  of  human 
poverty  or  suffering. 

"There  were  none  who  knew  him  in  his  intimate  as- 
sociations who  were  not  ardently  attached  to  him.  It 
seems  as  if  Vigor  were  among  us,  and  bid  fair  to  reach 
an  extreme  old  age.  The  affecting  dispensation  which  has 

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86  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

fallen  upon  us  was  anticipated  only  in  the  distant  future. 
But  he  has  gone!  He  left  us  however  amidst  our  tears 
and  regrets,  the  consolatory  hope  that  his  spirit  has  de- 
parted from  its  earthly  tenement,  only  to  be  received  into 
a  blissful  immortality." 

Agnes  Lartigue  Tobin 

"Died  at  Barnwell  Court  House,  at  the  residence  of 
her  son-in-law,  Luther  White  Williams,  on  the  14th 
November  1857,  Mrs.  Agnes  Tobin,  widow  of  the  late 
Daniel  Tobin.  In  the  death  of  this  estimable  lady  a  large 
circle  of  affectionate  friends  have  suffered  a  painful  be- 
reavement. 

"She  possessed  in  an  eminent  degree  the  admiration 
and  regard  of  all  with  whom  she  came  in  contact,  added 
to  a  mind  of  rare  endowments,  cultivated  by  many 
elegant  accomplishments. 

"She  added  a  benevolence  that  knew  no  bounds,  a  de- 
votion to  her  family  seldom  equaled  in  its  self-sacrifice, 
and  a  piety  that  sustained  her  in  a  life  of  purity  and  vir- 
tue; and  which  enabled  her  to  triumph  over  the  grave  in 
the  hour  of  death.  Ever  will  she  be  remembered  by  her 
sorrowing  children  as  the  most  affectionate  of  parents, 
and  when  shall  be  recalled  to  the  memory  of  that  beau- 
tiful image  of  her  person,  mind  and  character,  it  shall  be 
with  mourning  hearts,  and  tears  for  a  loss  so  utter." 


A  single  stone  marks  the  grave  of  both  in  the  Baptist  Grave- 
yard in  Barnwell  Village. 


GERARD  LARTIGUE* 

1776-1818 

(My  Great-great  Grandfather) 

The  Lartigue  family  is  an  ancient  one  and  is  carried  in  "La 
Noblesse  de  France". f  There  was  a  General  de  Lartigue, 
and  many  other  distinguished  men  of  that  name  will  be  found 
in  the  biographical  works  of  France,  and  some  in  the  United 
States.  I  was  told  by  my  very  good  friend  the  Comtesse  de 
Beaumont  in  France,  that  the  name  of  Lartigue  is  one  of  the 
best  in  the  region  of  Bordeaux,  where  she  resided. 

In  the  years  that  preceded  the  French  Revolution,  a  number 
of  distinguished  French  families,  quite  different  from  the  emi- 
grants to  this  country,  set  out  for  the  West  Indies,  where  they 
established  themselves  on  large  plantations  with  a  very  great 
number  of  negro  slaves.  There  they  lived  in  great  wealth  and 
luxury.  Among  these  were  the  families  of  Josephine,  the  wife 
of  Napoleon,  and  her  former  husband  General  Beauharnais, 
whose  blood  still  runs  in  many  Royal  Houses  of  Europe.  Their 
plantations  were  on  the  island  of  Martinique.  Others,  includ- 
ing the  Lartigues  of  Bordeaux,  the  L'Abatuts,  and  the  La 
Portes,  went  to  Santo  Domingo.  The  original  planters  con- 
tinued to  call  themselves  French.  But  those  of  the  second  and 
later  generations  were  called  Creoles,  that  is,  persons  of  pure 
French  blood  born  in  the  colonies. 

Madame  Junot,  the  Duchesse  D'Abrantis,  whose  husband 
Marshal  Junot  was  aide  de  camp  to  the  Emperor  Napoleon, 
speaks  often  in  her  Memoirs  of  the  Baronne  Caroline  Lalle- 


•  The  original   French  spelling  Gerard  changed  first  to  Gerard  and  then  to  Girtrd. 
t  Genealogical   Social   Register  of  Paris. 

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88  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

mand,  a  very  beautiful  and  charming  young  Creole  from  Santo 
Domingo,  who  with  her  mother  Madame  de  Lartigue,  had  fled 
to  France  after  having  had  their  entire  fortune  of  a  million 
francs  a  year  swept  away  during  the  revolution  of  the  blacks. 
In  Paris  they  were  conspicuous  at  court,  and  Caroline  had  mar- 
ried Lieutenant  General  Charles  Francois  Lallemand. 

Lothrop  Stoddard,  author  of  The  French  Revolution  in 
Santo  Domingo,  wrote  me  that  practically  all  the  family  and 
official  records  of  the  colony  were  destroyed,  but  that  he  knows 
the  Lartigues  were  among  the  great  planter  families  of  the 
North  Province,  and  that  there  was  a  Robojot  Lartigue  who 
was  either  one  of  the  planter  delegates  to  Paris,  or  a  member 
of  the  Colonial  Assembly. 

There  is  some  mystery  as  to  the  exact  relation  between  our 
ancestor  Gerard  Lartigue  and  the  other  Lartigues  mentioned 
above.  But  everything  points  to  the  conclusion  that  he  was  the 
brother  or  very  near  relative  of  Caroline  Lartigue  Lallemand, 
the  friend  of  the  Duchesse  D'Abrantis.  We  know  that  he  was 
a  planter  in  Santo  Domingo,  and  fled  from  there  during  the 
slave  rebellion  of  1791-92;  that  his  first  wife,  Madame  de  La 
Porte,  was  of  a  family  long  in  the  West  Indies  j  and  that  he 
had  an  aunt  Madame  L'Abatut  whose  handsome  oil  portrait 
was  in  the  possession  of  our  family  for  a  great  many  years.  I 
remember  it  well  as  a  boy;  but  it  was  destroyed  by  fire  when 
our  house  was  burned  about  the  time  I  went  to  West  Point. 
She  was  shown  to  be  a  woman  of  most  extraordinary  beauty, 
dressed  in  the  costume  of  the  French  court  of  that  period,  with 
powdered  hair,  and  features  resembling  my  mother.  Fortu- 
nately a  daguerreotype  of  the  painting  had  been  made  so  that 
copies  have  been  preserved. 

There  were  two  Generals  Lallemand,  brothers,  barons,  and 
having  the  same  rank  in  Napoleon's  army.  They  both  in  time 


Gerard  Lartigue  89 

became  refugees  to  the  United  States  after  the  fall  of  the  Em- 
pire. Henri,  the  younger,  married  a  niece  of  the  great  Phila- 
delphia philanthropist,  Stephen  Girard;  and  due  to  a  confusion 
of  names  and  background,  a  tradition  has  grown  up  in  the 
family  that  our  Gerard  Lartigue  was  in  some  way  related  to 
Stephen.  But  the  evidence  is  all  against  it. 

Charles  Lallemand  was  living  in  Paris  with  his  wife  Caro- 
line Lartigue  many  years  before  Henri  ever  came  to  the 
United  States.  He  went  with  Napoleon  to  St.  Helena,  and  is 
seen  standing  on  the  deck  with  the  Emperor  in  the  famous 
painting  "Napoleon  on  the  Bellerophon",  of  which  we  have 
a  copy.  After  that  he  came  to  this  country,  and  established  a 
colony  for  French  refugees,  called  "Champ  D'Asiles",  on  the 
Trinity  River  in  Texas ;  but  it  was  not  a  success,  and  he  went 
back  to  France  where  he  died  in  1859.  Henri  died,  and  was 
buried,  in  Philadelphia. 

Gerard  Lartigue  was  not  inclined  to  talk.  When  asked  about 
his  forebears  in  France,  he  would  answer  that  such  things  were 
out  of  place  in  America  where  all  men  were  supposed  to  be 
on  the  same  footing,  and  that  he  would  rather  look  to  the 
future  than  to  the  past.  On  one  occasion  however,  he  did  speak 
to  one  of  his  grandchildren  of  having  met  an  old  friend  near 
Savannah  whom  he  had  previously  known  at  the  court  in  St. 
Petersburg,  while  on  a  visit  to  Russia.  But  from  a  little  here 
and  a  little  there,  from  scraps  of  conversation,  old  letters 
written  in  French,  Bibles  and  tombstones,  the  following  facts 
and  traditions  have  been  brought  to  light. 

Gerard  succeeded  to  a  very  large  fortune  upon  the  death 
of  his  wife,  the  former  Madame  de  La  Porte.  He  travelled 
abroad  for  a  while  visiting  the  capitals  of  Europe,  and  later 
was  visited  by  his  mother  and  sister  who  returned  to  Paris 
a  short  time  before  the  Slave  Rebellion.  His  uncle  Raymond 


90  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

L'Abatut  was  murdered  in  the  general  massacre,  and  his  aunt 
Madame  Marie  Theris  L'Abatut  was  made  a  slave  by  the 
blacks.  Then,  when  she  refused  to  be  a  nursemaid  for  Negro 
children,  she  too  was  cruelly  put  to  death. 

La  Porte  Heights  is  reported  to  have  been  one  of  the  last 
strongholds  to  yield.  Gerard  was  wounded  five  times.  But 
finally  when  all  further  resistance  was  futile,  he  along  with  a 
few  others  made  his  escape  to  the  United  States.  He  was 
assisted  in  this  by  the  friendly  warning  of  a  loyal  female  slave. 
The  remaining  whites  were  completly  wiped  out.  The  Negroes 
under  the  leadership  of  Touissant  L'Ouverture,  a  mulatto, 
seized  the  government  and  they  have  held  it  ever  since.* 

Gerard  took  up  his  residence  in  Augusta,  Georgia,  where 
he  died  3  July  1818,  and  was  buried  in  the  Episcopal  Church- 
yard. 

He  was  married  about  1793  (?)  to  Miss  Ann  Grace,  whose 
parents  had  moved  to  Georgia  from  Virginia.  Tradition  says 
that  she  was  the  daughter  of  Captain  William  Grace  who 
fought  with  Braddock  at  Fort  Duquesne,  and  this  has  been 
published  as  a  fact.  But  diligent  search,  on  the  part  of  this 
author,  has  failed  to  uncover  any  record  of  Captain  Grace  in 
the  military  or  other  records  of  Virginia,  of  the  United  States, 
or  of  Great  Britain. 

From  all  accounts  Ann  Lartigue  was  a  very  attractive  young 
lady,  twelve  years  junior  to  her  husband.  We  have  her  por- 
trait, made  in  Augusta  in  1812  (?)  which  shows  her  dressed 
in  the  early  American  style  and  holding  in  her  hand  a  very 
beautiful  flower,  which  is  said  by  some  to  be  a  cotton  blossom 
and  by  others  to  be  a  rose.  The  original  is  a  half  length,  half 
lifesize,  oil  painting  in  a  massive  gilt  oval  frame,  and  hangs 


*  I  was   once   officially  entertained   in  Washington  by  the   coal-black  Negro   Ambasiador 
from  the  Republic  of  Haiti.  J.  H. 


Gerard  Lartigue  91 

in  the  drawing  room  of  my  cousin  Mrs.  Alfred  Campbell 
(Josiphene  Lartigue)  in  the  Hawaiian  Islands.  Other  mem- 
bers of  the  family  have  copies. 

In  the  family  burying  ground  at  Blackville,  South  Carolina, 
near  the  old  Lartigue  home,  there  is  a  stone  erected  to  the 
memory  of  Etienne  Lartigue,  "Son  of  Gerard  Lartigue — and 
of  Ann  (nee  Jodan)  his  wife".  This  is  wrong.  It  should  have 
been  (nee  Grace).  The  name  of  Jodan,  or  Jaudon,  belonged 
to  another  branch  of  the  Lartigues,*  and  was  placed  on  the 
monument  through  an  error  on  the  part  of  Etienne  Lartigue's 
son,  Charles  Lartigue,  whose  grandmother  had  died  before 
he  was  born. 

Agnes  Lartigue,  also  called  Anais,  daughter  of  Gerard  Lar- 
tigue and  Ann  Grace,  his  wife,  married  Daniel  Tobin  from 
whom  we  are  descended. 


*  Sarah  Lawton   (nee  Jaudon)  had  a  granddaughter,  Jane  Lawton,  who  married  Etienne 
Lartigue's  brother   Isidore. 


GENERAL  JOHN  E.  TOBIN 

1821-1868 

(My  Grandfather) 

JOHN  ETIENNE  TOBIN,  son  of  Daniel  Tobin  and 
Agnes  Lartigue,  his  wife,  was  born  on  the  plantation  in  Barn- 
well District  9  December  1821  j  married  26  August  1846 
Sarah  Eugenia  Owens  of  Barnwell  j  and  died  28  December 
1868.  He  entered  the  South  Carolina  College  but  left  before 
he  graduated  j  was  a  member  of  the  Euphradian  Society.  Re- 
turning home  he  adopted  the  legal  profession  and  practiced 
law  with  distinguished  ability  and  success.  In  the  village  of 
Blackville  he  built  a  commodious  home  of  the  colonial  type  * 
with  a  broad  porch  and  columns,  approached  by  an  avenue  of 
oaks.  Several  of  his  children,  including  my  mother,  were  born 
there. 

He  served  twice  in  the  State  Legislature,  but  gradually 
withdrew  from  the  law,  gave  up  politics  and  devoted  his  en- 
tire time  to  his  plantation  near  Blackville,  which  he  had  re- 
ceived from  his  father.  When  the  Confederate  War  came,  he 
was  a  brigadier  general  of  the  South  Carolina  Militia,  and 
formed  a  regiment  out  of  his  brigade.  He  served  with  this  as 
Colonel  at  a  camp  in  the  lower  part  of  the  State,  but  his  health 
failing,  he  returned  to  his  home  where  he  remained  until  he 
died. 

During  the  last  year  of  the  war,  when  Sherman's  Army 
passed  through  Barnwell  County  (Sherman  himself  was  in 
Blackville)  all  the  men  and  boys  on  the  plantations  fled.  Even 


*  Pictured  in  Old  Homesteads  and  Historic  Buildings  by  the  Manhattan  Chapter,  D.  A.  R. 

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General  John  E.  Tobin  93 

"Bubber  Eddie",  the  youngest  of  the  Tobins  and  only  nine 
years  old,  was  mounted  on  a  mule  and  hustled  off  with  a  group 
of  Confederate  stragglers.  He  was  barefooted,  hatless,  with 
only  a  cotton  shirt  and  pants.  But  nothing  more  was  heard  of 
him  until  some  time  after  the  war  when  he  was  picked  up  in 
an  Atlanta  hospital. 

General  Tobin  was  a  tall  handsome  man  with  straight  fea- 
tures and  a  full  beard.  He  favored  his  French  mother  rather 
than  his  Irish  father.  He  was  a  devoted  parent,  a  kind  and 
considerate  master,  and  a  man  of  strong  convictions.  To  his 
neighbors  he  may  have  seemed  to  be  somewhat  eccentric,  but 
he  was  perhaps  only  ahead  of  his  times.  He  required  all  the 
young  Negro  girls  on  his  plantation  to  wear  slacks,  or  at  least 
to  dress  like  boys.  This  he  said  was  for  sanitary  reasons,  and 
to  prevent  them  from  catching  on  fire  from  the  open  hearths 
in  the  cabins,  or  when  playing  around  the  great  iron  pots  in 
the  yards,  where  their  mothers  were  washing  clothes,  making 
soap  and  molasses,  and  scalding  the  hogs  in  "hog  killing 
time". 

Another  thing  that  caused  some  comment,  both  inside  and 
outside  the  domestic  circle,  was  that  he  selected  one  of  his 
eight  children,  set  her  apart  from  the  others,  and  raised  her 
as  a  pet.  He  assumed  complete  charge  of  my  mother  from  the 
time  when  she  was  very  young,  and  ordained  that  she  should 
never  be  corrected,  scolded,  or  punished.  What  effect  this  had 
upon  her  in  after  life  I  cannot  say,  but  it  was  generally  ad- 
mitted that  from  earliest  childhood  she  reflected  much  of  her 
father's  strong  character,  and  was  always  the  outstanding  mem- 
ber of  the  family  to  whom  all  others  deferred,  without  regard 
to  age  or  sex.  Sissy,  as  they  called  her,  never  got  into  argu- 
ments, never  lost  her  temper,  was  always  reasonable  and  fair; 
but  as  inflexible  as  steel.  Once  having  made  up  her  mind  as 
to  what  was  right,  wild  horses,  as  she  used  to  say,  could  not 


94  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

move  her.  And  in  the  end  she  had  her  way.  She  never  forbade 
me  to  do  anything.  She  always  said:  "I  would  not  do  that  if 
I  were  you".  Or,  if  things  got  too  bad,  she  would  say  "Go  and 
get  the  brush";  or  "Go  in  the  yard  and  cut  a  switch."  Then  as 
a  last  resort  she  would  have  me  strip  off  all  the  leaves,  and  peel 
off  the  bark.  She  would  then  put  the  switch  in  a  conspicuous 
place,  and  go  on  with  her  sewing,  or  reading  until  thoroughly 
repentant,  I  would  get  permission  to  throw  it  away.  Sometimes 
she  would  keep  the  switch  in  evidence  for  a  day  or  two. 

Here  is  a  story  they  tell  on  General  Tobin.  He  was  making 
a  political  speech  in  Barnwell,  and  being  heckled  by  a  rather 
rough  customer  in  the  audience.  He  paid  no  attention  to  this 
at  first,  but  finally  the  man  came  up  close  and  rapping  on  the 
floor  of  the  platform  with  his  knuckles,  said  in  a  threatening 
tone: 

"Here!  Here!!  When  I  speak  to  a  politician,  I  expect  to 
see  him  jump!" 

The  General  paused  a  moment,  and  then  looking  down  upon 
his  antagonist,  said  in  a  subdued  voice  that  could  be  heard  all 
over  the  crowd: 

"Be  careful  there!  I  am  chewing  tobacco!" 

John  Tobin  was  a  devout  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 
But  there  being  no  graveyard  of  that  denomination  in  Black- 
ville  in  those  days,  he  was  buried  in  the  graveyard  of  the 
Methodist  Church,  where  the  stone  still  stands.  He  was  sur- 
vived by  a  wife  and  six  children,  but  his  possessions  were  all 
gone — wiped  out  by  the  war. 


COLONEL  WILLIAM  AIKEN  OWENS 

1822-1859 

(My  Grandmother's  Brother) 

Colonel  William  A.  Owens,  although  not  a  newspaper 
man  was  the  founder  of  the  first  newspaper  ever  published  in 
Barnwell  County — The  Barnwell  People — which  he  regarded 
as  a  necessity  for  the  welfare  of  the  community,  and  the 
following  article  is  taken  largely  from  a  two-column  editorial 
published  upon  the  one  hundredth  anniversary  of  his  birth. 

He  was  born  14  September  1822  on  his  father's  plantation 
in  Prince  William  Parish,  Beaufort  County,  not  far  from 
Owens  Cross  Roads,  where  the  village  of  Fairfax  now  stands. 
He  was  the  son  of  Captain  John  A.  Owens  and  Mary  Over- 
street,  daughter  of  the  Honorable  James  Overstreet,  Jr.,  a 
member  of  Congress  from  South  Carolina.  Captain  Owens  was 
a  man  of  considerable  means,  and  his  wife  Mary  was  remark- 
able for  her  literary  talent,  her  quick  wit,  and  fine  sense  of 
humor  j  qualities  that  she  transmitted  to  her  son. 

William's  father  died  when  he  was  nine  years  old  and  his 
mother  followed  a  few  years  later.  Thus  he  and  his  younger 
sister  Sarah,  from  whom  we  are  descended,  were  taken  away 
from  their  own  plantation  in  Prince  William  Parish,  and 
passed  the  balance  of  their  childhood  at  Black  Swamp,  on  the 
plantation  of  their  cousin  Major  Jabez  Brown,  their  legal 
guardian. 

Sarah  went  to  school  in  Barnwell,  and  later  in  Charleston. 
William  went  to  Greenville  in  the  upper  part  of  the  State ; 
studied  law;  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Charleston  by 

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96  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

special  act  of  the  South  Carolina  Legislature  prior  to  his 
twenty-first  birthday.  Two  years  later  he  was  appointed  colonel 
in  the  South  Carolina  Militia,  and  assigned  to  the  staff  of 
Governor  William  Aiken. 

He  served  six  years  in  the  State  Legislature  at  a  time  when 
there  was  no  compensation,  no  such  thing  as  a  professional 
politician,  and  only  men  of  substantial  means  and  standing  in 
the  community  were  selected  for  public  office.  There  he  bitterly 
opposed  Secession.  An  address  made  by  him  upon  that  subject 
was  printed  by  Walker  Evans  and  Cogswell,  in  Charleston, 
and  a  copy  presented  by  Governor  Aiken  to  the  Charleston 
Library  Society,  where  it  can  now  be  seen.  He  was  supported 
in  this  by  Judge  John  Belton  O'Neall,  James  L.  Pettigrew, 
and  of  course  we  know  that  General  Robert  E.  Lee,  and  other 
great  leaders  of  the  Confederacy  were  also  opposed  to  it. 
Colonel  Owens  defended  slavery,  championed  States  Rights; 
damned  the  Northern  Democrats,  very  much  in  the  same 
language  as  the  Charleston  News  and  Courier  of  today.  But 
he  warned  against  plunging  the  country  into  civil  war,  and 
foretold  the  ruin  that  would  come  upon  the  South.  He  urged 
the  people  of  his  state,  to  remain  in  the  Union,  and  to  look 
to  the  Constitution  for  their  protection. 

He  was  appointed  by  President  Buchanan,  in  1858,  to  be  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Visitors  to  the  United  States  Military 
Academy  at  West  Point,  and  wrote  the  report  of  the  Board. 
The  following  year  he  entered  the  race  for  Congress,  but 
died  during  the  campaign  from  an  abscess  of  the  brain,  follow- 
ing and  old  wound  that  he  had  received  as  a  child  when  kicked 
in  the  head  by  a  horse. 

Colonel  Owens  died  at  the  age  of  thirty-seven.  He  was  at 
that  time  Solicitor  for  the  Southern  Circuit  of  the  state,  em- 
bracing the  counties  of  Barnwell,  Beaufort  and  others.   A 


Colonel  William  Aiken  Owens  97 

memorial  service  was  conducted  at  the  Barnwell  Court  House, 
January  4th  1860,  at  which  Judge  Alfred  Aldridge  presided. 
Upon  taking  the  chair,  and  after  stating  the  purpose  of  the 
meeting  he  said: 

"From  his  first  speech  to  the  last  that  he  delivered  on  this 
floor,  each  court  was  the  scene  of  new  triumphs  and  success. 
He  was  genial  in  his  temperament,  earnest  in  the  discharge 
of  his  duty,  eloquent  in  the  expression  of  his  thoughts.  He 
had  no  jealousy.  His  confidence  in  himself  was  such  that  the 
success  of  others  caused  no  uneasiness  in  him." 

The  Honorable  John  J.  Maher,  who  afterwards  became 
judge  of  the  Second  Circuit  said: 

"We  have  lost  an  able  lawyer ;  a  high-toned,  zealous  Solici- 
tor j  and  a  public-spirited  patriotic  citizen ;  but  it  is  the  man 
that  we  shall  mourn  and  miss  the  most." 

Winchester  Graham,  Esq.,  said: 

"Colonel  Owens  was  distinguished  by  his  wit,  his  humor, 
his  annecdote,  and  repartee  j  but  these  qualities  were  always 
subordinate  to  courtesy,  to  kindness,  and  to  Christian  Charity." 

Benjamin  F.  Perry,  former  Governor  of  South  Carolina, 
and  the  white  people's  United  States  Senator  in  1865,  writing 
in  the  Greenville  Enterprise,  said: 

"Colonel  Owens  was  full  of  genius,  a  fine  writer,  and  an 
eloquent  speaker." 

Colonel  Owens  married  Miss  Frances  Corley  of  Beaufort 
County,  whose  brother,  Colonel  James  Corley,  graduated  from 
West  Point  in  the  class  of  1850,  and  served  as  Commissary 
General  in  the  Confederate  Army.  They  had  four  sons.  Arthur, 
Edward,  Clarence,  and  Eugene;  one  daughter  Eva,  never 
married,  who  assisted  in  the  preparation  of  these  papers. 


98  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

The  Owens  family  did  not  live  on  the  plantation.  Their 
handsome  home  on  Marlboro  Street  in  Barnwell  Village  was 
just  opposite  The  Cedars,  where  lived  the  famous  Captain 
Joe  Allen,  before  the  war,  and  afterwards  General  Johnson 
Hagood.  When  I  was  a  boy  the  house  was  owned  and  occupied 
by  Colonel  Robert  (Bob)  Aldrich,  and  known  as  the  Aldrich 
place.  Two  great  magnolia  trees,  more  than  a  hundred  years 
old,  stand  in  the  front  yard,  and  one  of  the  older  members  of 
the  Aldrich  family,  writing  of  Colonel  Owens,  whom  she  as 
a  young  girl  remembered,  said:  "The  perfume  of  their 
blossoms  still  rise  as  incense  to  the  memory  of  this  man  of 
mark." 


HOOPSKIRTS  AND  FRILLS 


The  following  sketch  of  my  mother  Kathleen  Rosa  Tobin 
(1851-1914)  was  published  in  a  Barnwell  paper  under  date 
of  March  21st,  1935.  The  author,  Miss  Eva  Owens,  was 
my  mother's  first  cousin,  and  in  youth  her  best  friend.  Cousin 
Eva,  as  an  old  lady,  more  than  three  score  years  later,  has 
written  in  the  fashion  of  her  times. 


Twenty-one  years  ago,  Kate  Tobin  died  in  Columbia,  and 
was  buried  in  Elmwood  Cemetery.  Her  first  husband,  Lee 
Hagood,  I  knew  intimately  in  Barnwell,  when  he  was  her  beau. 
Her  second  husband,  Dr.  Lester,  I  never  met.  The  memory 
of  her  girlhood  brings  back  "one  round  of  happy  days".  Not 
a  cloud  dimmed  her  horizon.  The  peace  that  passeth  under- 
standing was  hers  to  give  or  to  impart  to  others.  She  had  the 
art  of  making  friends,  and  the  diplomacy  to  keep  them.  Her 
beauty  was  of  the  unusual  type.  She  had  golden  hair,  brown 
eyes,  and  was  very,  very  fair  j  medium  height  with  small  hands 
and  feet.  She  could  easily  have  coaxed  them  into  Cinderella's 
slipperj  and  it  was  whispered  among  her  admirers  that  in  be- 
stowing her  hand,  she  must  also  give  her  heart,  the  hand  alone 
was  too  little.  To  be  surrounded  by  a  cortege  of  friends  was 
to  her  the  zenith  of  happiness.  Simple  in  dress,  equisite  in 
manner,  she  held  the  reins  of  society  in  her  shapely  hands.  To 
know  was  to  love  her.  Men  were  then  like  courtiers,  they  rev- 
erenced the  fair  sex — placed  them  upon  a  pedestal,  and  in 
this  way  acknowledged  them  to  be  supreme. 

Our  amusements  were  diversified.  Dancing  in  the  long  win- 
ter evenings,  interspersed  with  whist,  backgammon,  and  crib- 

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100  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

bage.  Around  the  village  were  lovely  bridle  paths,  and  we 
never  tired  of  riding  horseback.  Miles  and  miles  of  forests, 
often  hedged  with  rail  fences  covered  by  yellow  jasemine, 
honey  suckle,  briar  roses  j  and  running  brooks  across  the  road. 
The  gallants  would  stoop  where  the  cool  spring  bubbled  up, 
and  improvise  a  cup  from  an  oak  leaf  for  my  lady's  use.  They 
could  hear  the  mocking  birds  singing  "their  song  without 
words"  as  they  galloped  on.  Overhanging  apple  and  peach 
orchards  waited  to  dispense  their  sweetness  to  passing  strangers. 

Hagood's  Mill  Pond  was  the  popular  resort  in  "the  golden 
summer  time".  Boats  were  ready  for  fishing  or  gathering  pond 
lilies.  Such  an  ideal  spot  for  picnics  and  barbecues! !  Bream, 
perch  and  trout  were  plentiful,  and  the  crowning  event  was 
an  early  morning  canter  with  breakfast  at  the  Mill  Pond.  The 
fisherman  had  everything  in  readiness  when  we  arrived — hot 
fried  fish,  corn  muffins,  made  from  freshly  ground  meal,  and 
coffee.  Food  that  was  fit  for  a  king.  Those  were  the  days  of 
carefree  existence.  Kate  had  her  share  in  it  all — a  happy,  happy 
girlhood. 

On  moonlight  nights,  in  boats  that  were  for  only  two,  the 
music  on  the  water  was  soft  and  low.  We  sang  the  songs  that 
expressed  our  feelings — "Sailing!  Sailing!",  "Gumtree 
Canoe",  "Love  Will  Light  His  Tapers  Bright".  There  were 
hammocks,  and  swings,  and  joggling  boards,  under  the  majes- 
tic oaks.  How  Kate  reveled  in  it  all. 

Much  of  the  visiting  was  done  on  horseback.  Neighbors 
would  drop  in  to  tell  jokes  or  exchange  fish  stories.  Fine  saddle 
horses  were  ever  ready  for  gallant  men  and  fair  ladies  to  ride 
over  the  fields.  Kate  was  a  dainty  picture  on  a  horse.  She  wore 
a  green  marine  riding  habit,  perfectly  fitting  gloves,  cap,  and 
high  laced  boots.  She  carried  an  ivory-handled  riding  whip, 


HOOPSKIRTS    AND    FRILLS  101 

and  the  horse's  coat  was  like  satin.  Kate's  ease  and  her  poise 
was  the  admiration  of  all.* 

In  our  day  it  was  love  that  ruled  the  court,  the  camp,  and 
the  grove.  Gentlemen  asked  for  introductions,  and  the  bars  of 
society  were  let  down  for  none  except  men  of  refinement,  of 
dignity  and  accomplishment.  Shallow  hearted  youth  was 
pushed  aside  for  men  of  ability.  Kate  lived  in  an  atmosphere 
of  culture  and  it  was  ever  present  with  her.  To  her  legion  of 
friends  she  was  the  perfect  woman,  nobly  planned. 


I  do  not  remember  ever  having  seen  Cousin  Eva  Owens, 
but  my  mother  told  me  that  she  was  very  sentimental,  without 
ever  having  a  serious  beau.  But  here  is  another  kind  of  story. 

When  Sherman  made  his  march  through  Barnwell  County, 
my  mother  was  only  twelve  years  old  but  in  charge  of  her 
father's  household.  A  Yankee  officer,  flushed  with  wine  called 
her  to  a  piano  in  the  parlor,  and  ordered  her  to  give  him  some 
music.  Very  much  frightened,  with  the  soldiers  swarming  all 
over  the  house,  she  struck  up  the  only  air  she  could  think  of — 
Dixie.  The  soldiers  broke  into  a  loud  cheer,  and  the  officer 
calling  her  a  brave  little  rebel,  asked  what  she  would  have  as 
a  reward.  Explaining  that  her  mother  was  very  sick  upstairs, 
she  asked  that  the  house  be  not  burned. 

The  soldiers  were  immediately  cleared  out.  A  guard  was 
established,  and  the  old  plantation  home  of  the  Tobins  was 
spared — a  monument  of  white  along  the  great  black  trail  of 
ruin. 


*  Buggy  riding  was  in  those  days  considered  fast.  J.  H. 


COLONEL  I.   L.  TOBIN 

1847-1909 

(My  Uncle) 

Isidore  Lartigue  Tobin  was  born  on  the  plantation  in 
Barnwell  District  4  August  1847,  son  of  General  John  E. 
Tobin,  and  Sarah  E.  Owens  his  wife.  It  was  said  that  early  in 
the  war,  he  joined  a  Louisiana  Regiment  passing  through  the 
county  and  went  with  it  to  Virginia,  but  this  service  is  not  con- 
firmed, and  the  records  of  the  War  Department  show  later  on, 
August  1864,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Orleans  Guard 
Battery  and  served  with  it  on  James  Island,  South  Carolina, 
until  December  of  that  year,  when  he  was  furloughed  to  go 
to  The  Citadel.  There  he  remained  until  Charleston  was  taken 
by  the  Yankees,,  and  The  Citadel  buildings  occupied  by  Federal 
troops. 

Upon  returning  to  the  plantation,  he  found  the  property 
destroyed,  the  family  impoverished,  and  himself  with  meagre 
education,  confronted  with  the  necessity  of  making  his  bread. 
Three  years  later,  his  father  died  leaving  him,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one,  the  head  of  a  large  family  that  had  been  raised 
in  luxury,  accustomed  to  the  service  of  slaves,  the  girls  with 
their  maids  and  horses,  the  boys  with  their  body  servants  and 
tutors.  But  now  they  were  poor  and  lacked  the  bare  necessities 
of  life.  Uncle  Isidore  cheerfully  accepted  this  responsibility \ 
and  from  that  day  on,  until  the  last  of  his  sisters  was  married 
and  provided  for,  he  shared  his  all  with  them  and  with  his 
mother. 

After  trying  his  hand  at  running  a  country  store,  he  became 
a  school  teacher.  This  was  terminated  by  his  eloping  at  recess 

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Colonel  I.  L.  Tobin  103 

with  one  of  his  pupils,  a  very  beautiful  little  brunette,  Harriet 
Sheldonia  Allen,  only  sixteen  years  old,  who  continued  all 
her  life  to  regard  him  in  the  light  of  her  teacher,  always  ad- 
dressed him,  and  spoke  of  him,  as  "Mister  Tobin" ;  but  was 
in  fact  his  guiding  star  and  refuge  in  every  difficulty. 

Their  marriage  broke  up  the  school,  and  Uncle  Isidore 
moved  to  Allendale,  a  new  town  or  station  on  the  railroad  be- 
tween Charleston  and  Augusta,  sixteen  miles  by  dirt  road  from 
Barnwell — a  long  dreary  stretch  of  deep  white  sand,  with  an 
occasional  swamp  or  branch,  over  which  there  were  no  bridges. 

He  decided  to  become  a  lawyer!  He  borrowed  some  law 
books,  and  lying  up  in  bed — a  favorite  practice  of  his — studied 
day  and  night,  while  Aunt  Donie,  as  we  called  her,  supported 
the  family  by  sewing  and  selling  milk.  After  six  months  he 
passed  the  bar,  and  then  won  his  first  case:  which  was  that  of 
a  darky  accused  of  burning  a  white  man's  barn.  For  this  he 
would  accept  no  fee.  After  this  his  rise  was  rapid.  He  soon  be- 
came the  most  prominent,  and  the  most  successful,  lawyer  in 
that  part  of  the  state:  criminal  cases  at  first,  and  after  that,  as 
an  attorney  for  the  railroads  and  corporations. 

He  was  a  private  in  the  South  Carolina  Militia.  He  belonged 
to  a  troop  of  Cavalry,  and  had  a  sabre,  but  I  do  not  remember 
having  seen  him  on  a  horse.  In  accordance  with  the  customs 
of  the  time,  he  was.  called  Colonel,  and  afterwards  Judge,  and 
every  negro  in  that  part  of  the  county  knew  that  if  he  started 
any  trouble,  the  Judge  would  be  after  him  with  that  sabre  and 
the  law. 

He  was  an  indefatigable  worker,  and  accumulated  both  lands 
and  city  property,  if  real  estate  in  Allendale  (stores  on  the 
main  street)  could  be  dignified  by  that  name.  But  he  never 
permitted  his  business  to  interfere  with  his  family  life,  the  en- 


104  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

tertainment  of  his  friends,  or  his  inordinate  desire  to  go  fish- 
ing. 

Uncle  Isidore  was  a  great  reader,  and  took  particular  de- 
light in  Dickens.  He  himself  might  have  been  taken  as  a  com- 
posite of  Dickens  characters.  From  his  tutors  before  the  war 
he  had  a  very  fair  knowledge  of  Latin  and  the  classics.  Dur- 
ing his  service  with  the  Louisiana  troops  he  had  learned  some 
French.  He  had  a  rare  sense  of  humor,  and  to  hear  him  tell 
a  story  was  a  treat  to  those  who  knew  him  casually,  a  source 
of  never  ending  pleasure  to  those  who  knew  him  well.  He 
knew  the  joy  of  laughter  and  could  convey  it  to  others. 

He  held  to  the  exuberance  of  youth  j  and  took  the  full 
measure  of  life — in  his  home,  in  his  office,  on  the  street  where 
much  of  the  business  was  conducted,  and  in  the  Court  House. 
His  law  office,  with  his  library  was  in  the  yard — a  nice  little 
two  room  house  with  a  piazza.  No  telephones,  nor  typewriters, 
nor  stenographers,  nor  clerks,  nor  filing  cases  except  pigeon 
holes,  where  he  kept  bundles  of  papers  tied  with  red  tape. 

Believing  that  there  was  no  better  food  in  the  world  than 
country  sausage,  spareribs,  his  own  fried  chickens,  and  the 
fish  that  he  and  his  friends  could  catch  in  Barnwell  County, 
he  never  hesitated  to  invite  his  friends  or  strangers  to  his 
house  j  and  there  was  never  a  day  when  there  was  not  some- 
one there,  either  for  a  meal  or  to  spend  the  night.  If  the  Pres- 
ident of  the  United  States,  or  the  Prince  of  Wales,  had  gone 
to  Allendale,  he  would  have  been  taken  to  Uncle  Isidore's. 
And  neither  he  nor  Aunt  Donie  would  have  been  embarrassed 
in  the  slightest  degree  if  they  had  had  to  take  pot  luck. 

Uncle  Isidore  was  one  of  those  men,  of  whom  there  are 
very  few  left,  who  would  say  to  a  member  of  his  family  or 
to  a  visitor:  "Take  this  chair  j  you  will  find  it  more  com- 
fortable!", "Sit  over  here  in  the  breeze" ;  "Come  closer  to 


Colonel  I.  L.  Tobin  105 

the  fire"  j  at  the  table,  "Take  this  piece  of  chicken" ;  or  to  one 
of  the  children  out  on  the  porch,  "Salley!  Get  Mr.  Jones  a 
glass  of  water". 

To  him,  courtesy,  and  the  conduct  of  individuals  towards 
each  other  was  one  of  the  most  important  things  in  life. 

Uncle  Isidore  always  had  two  or  three  negro  retainers  about 
the  place  employed  on  odd  jobs  to  meet  some  debt.  Jake 
Baynard  was  our  favorite  when  I  was  a  boy.  He  was  a  kind 
of  hero  because  he  had  lost  an  arm  while  escaping  from  the 
penitentiary.  He  was  accused  of  having  burned  a  man's  barn. 
He  told  me  that  he  was  innocent ;  but  that  after  having  served 
his  term  and  recovering  his  health,  he  did  go  back  and  burn 
the  man's  house.  He  and  Oliver,  another  ex-convict  used  to 
cut  wood,  and  work  around  the  lot  where  there  was  a  cow,  and 
at  times  a  horse  and  buggy,  that  took  Uncle  Isidore  to  court 
in  Barnwell. 

Allendale  had  a  bathtub!  And  it  was  in  Uncle  Isidore's 
house.  It  was  a  wooden  home-made  affair,  constructed  like  a 
boat,  and  approached  by  a  trapdoor  in  the  floor.  Water  was 
drawn  in  buckets  at  the  well,  emptied  into  a  trough,  and  flowed 
into  the  tub  through  a  pipe.  After  that,  by  pulling  out  a  wooden 
peg,  the  water  ran  out  under  the  house  and  nature  took  its 
course.  Uncle  Isidore  enjoyed  his  bath,  and  during  the  long 
summer  afternoons  he  would  lie  up  in  the  tub  reading  his  law 
cases,  topping  it  off  with  a  nap. 

Other  people  in  Allendale  just  heated  water  in  kettles  and 
washed  in  portable  tubs  like  the  British. 

In  course  of  time,  Uncle  Isidore  acquired  the  largest  and 
handsomest  residence  in  Allendale  with  running  water,  electric 


106  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

lights,  and  all  the  modern  conveniences  of  fifty  years  ago, 
but  that  was  after  I  went  into  the  armv. 

He  died  December  5th,  1909,  and  was  buried  at  Swallow 
Savannah,  not  far  from  Bostick's  Pond  where  he  used  to  go 
fishing. 


GENEALOGY 

The  names  and  dates  in  the  following  pages  were  in  some  cases 

obtained  from  sources  not  absolutely  reliable.  They  may 

however  be  taken  as  substantially  correct  in  the 

absence  of  evidence  to  the  contrary. 


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HAGOOD  LINE 


1.  WILLIAM  HAGOOD,  our  first  known  ancestor  of 
that  name,  also  spelt  Haguewood,  was  born  in  Virginia  of 
English  descent.  He  married  about  1770,  Sarah  Johnson,  also 
of  Virginia,  who  on  her  mother's  side  was  of  French  extrac- 
tion. In  about  1775,  he  removed  to  the  Ninety  Six  District  of 
South  Carolina,  where  he  took  up  lands  along  several  creeks 
flowing  into  the  Savannah  and  Saluda  Rivers.  There  he  re- 
sided until  he  died  in  1812.    (See  sketch,  page  28.) 


WILLIAM  HAGOOD,  by  his  wife  Sarah  Johnson,  who 
died  in  1826,  had  issue  as  follows: 

2.  Rebecca  Hagood,  married  (1)  Griffin,  (2)  Randolph, 
or  Randall,  Hagood,  who  according  to  her  nephew  Major 
James  Ambler  was  "no  kin".  She  died  in  1824  and  in  her  will, 
filed  at  Abbeville,  she  mentions  a  daughter,  Ann  Eliza. 

3.  JOHNSON  HAGOOD,  was  born  in  Virginia  31  August 
1771;  married  10  December  1794,  Mary  Ann  O'Hear, 
daughter  of  James  O'Hear  and  Ann  Gordon,  Jr.,  his  wife. 
Died  27  April  1816.  He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Charleston  Bar  and  a  partner  of  the  distinguished  Robert 
Goodloe  Harper,  a  member  of  Congress  from  South  Caro- 
lina and  author  of  the  sentiment  "Millions  for  Defense  but 
not  a  cent  for  Tribute"  erroneously  attributed  to  Charles 
Cotesworth  Pinckney.  Mr.  Hagood  gave  up  his  law  practice 
in  1806,  and  moved  to  Barnwell,  where  he  established  a  plan- 
tation called  Short  Staple.  (See  sketch,  page  31.) 

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110  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

4.  Richard  Hagood,  married  Lucretia  Cooper  and  left 
two  sons,  one  in  Laurens  County,  the  other  moved  to  Georgia. 
Richard,  in  1811,  received  as  a  gift  from  his  father  three  hun- 
dred acres  of  land  on  Cuffeetown  Creek  in  Edgefield  County, 
and  later  succeeded  to  the  place  (326  acres)  upon  which  the 
William  Hagood  family  had  lived.  This  he  sold  in  1820. 

5.  James  Hagood,  received  eight  hundred  acres  on  Horse 
Pen  Creek  in  Edgefield  County  from  his  father,  but  he  lived 
and  planted  in  Barnwell.  He  died  in  1829,  and  in  his  will  he 
mentions  four  children — (1)  Gideon  Johnson,  (2)  Susan  who 
married  William  Hughes,  (3)  Eliza  Ann  who  married  Allen 
Odom,  and  (4)  William  H. 

The  latter  (William  H.  Hagood)  was  born  in  1811,  grad- 
uated from  the  South  Carolina  Medical  College  in  1833,  and 
in  1835  married  Miss  Annie  Martin  of  Charleston.  They  had 
one  son  who  never  married,  and  eleven  daughters — (1)  Isa- 
belle  married  Rutherford  Oakman,  lived  in  Orangeburg,  and 
had  a  grandson  Clarence  who  now  lives  in  Charleston,  (2) 
Sarah  married  Clifford  Oakman,  brother  of  Rutherford,  (3) 
Julia  married  Clifford  Bellinger,  (4)  Gertrude  married 
Charles  Bellinger,  brother  of  Clifford,  (5)  Irene  married  Rob- 
inson, (6)  Ann  married  Burckmyer  and  has  a  daughter  Carrie, 
now  living  in  Hendersonville,  North  Carolina.  The  other  five 
sisters  never  married. 

6.  Susan  Hagood,  married  James  Ambler  of  Virginia  and 
left  descendants  in  Pickens  County,  South  Carolina.  Major 
James  H.  Ambler,  who  died  in  1907,  was  her  only  son.  Her 
daughter  Adaline  married  Colonel  Benjamin  Hagood,  of 
Pickens  County,  whose  relationship  if  any  has  not  been  estab- 
lished. 

7.  Gideon  Hagood,  was  a  planter  in  Barnwell  County,  and 
apparently  a  major  in  the  state  militia,  as  he  was  referred  to 


Hagood  Line  1 1 1 

with  that  rank  in  the  Charleston  newspapers.  In  1800  he  was 
elected  to  the  office  of  Ordinary  (Probate  Judge)  by  the  Leg- 
islature. He  married  in  Charleston,  March  17,  1796,  Miss 
Harriet  Yonge  of  a  family  for  which  Yonge's  Island  is  named. 
They  had  eight  children — ( 1 )  Elvira  Ann  who  married  Gen- 
eral John  McPherson,  and  upon  his  death  Reverend  Elliott 
Estes  by  whom  she  left  a  grandson  W.  Brooks  Lawton  of 
Allendale,  (2)  Emma,  who  also  married  a  McPherson,  (3) 
Yonge  Johnson,  (4)  Amanda,  (5)  Harriet,  (6)  Susan,  (7) 
Julia,  and  (8)  Thomas  Gideon. 

Major,  or  Judge,  Hagood  later  moved  to  Hancock  County, 
Georgia,  where  he  died.  In  his  will  of  February  1824,  he  men- 
tions a  second  wife,  by  whom  he  seems  to  have  had  no  children. 
He  had  received  from  her  a  very  considerable  property  in  the 
way  of  land  and  slaves,  as  a  marriage  settlement,  and  upon 
his  death  it  all  reverted  to  her. 

8.  Tirza  Hagood,  married  (1)  James  Crawford,  and  (2) 
Samuel  de  Loach.  They  lived  near  Mobile,  Alabama.  She  left 
descendants  by  de  Loach  only. 

9.  John  Hagood,  was  a  factor  in  Charleston  and  is  shown 
in  the  City  Directory  of  1809  as  living  at  116  Tradd  Street. 
He  married  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Campbell  of  that  city,  8  Novem- 
ber 1809,  and  died  some  time  prior  to  1822,  leaving  one  son, 
John  W.  Hagood,  who  left  descendants,  supposedly  in  North 
Carolina. 

10.  Eliza  Hagood,  married  Garland  Chiles. 

1 1 .  Holly  Hagood,  married  Mathew  Ray. 


JOHNSON  HAGOOD,  No.  3  above,  by  his  wife  Mary 
Ann  O'Hear,  had  issue  as  follows: 


112  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

12.  Caroline  Gordon  Hagood,  born  3  September  1795; 
married  Frederick  Witsell,  and  had  five  children — (1)  Dr. 
Charles  Witsell,  who  left  a  son  Reverend  W.  P.  Witsell,  now 
living  in  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  (2)  John  W.  Witsell,  whose 
grandson  Major  General  Edward  F.  Witsell,  Citadel  graduate 
of  1911,  is  the  Adjutant  General  of  the  Army,  (3)  Thomas 
L.  Witsell  who  had  two  daughters,  Margaret  or  Maggie,  who 
married  Doctor  Charles  Rees,  and  Mary  or  Mamie,  who  mar- 
ried Buist  Lucas.  Maggie's  daughter  Frances  married  John 
Simonds,  Jr.,  and  Mamie's  daughter  Betty  married  William 
Hanahan,  all  of  Charleston;  (4)  Ann  O'Hear  Witsell  mar- 
ried Major  Saxby  Chaplain  of  Walterboro  and  left  descend- 
ants there,  among  whom  are  Mrs.  U.  W.  Davis  and  Mrs.  C.  C. 
Anderson,  (5)  Emma  Julia  Witsell  married  Charles  Neyle, 
among  her  descendants  in  Charleston  are  Mrs.  Charles 
(Emmie)  Baker,  Mrs.  Edward  M.  Robertson,  George  Fish- 
burne  and  others. 

13.  Robert  Harper  Hagood,  born  20  April  1797,  at- 
tended the  South  Carolina  College,  died  12  January  1825, 
unmarried. 

14.  Harriet  Matilda  Hagood,  born  30  March  1798, 
married  first  Joseph  Fraser  of  Walterboro;  second  John  T. 
Schmidt  of  Charleston.  By  the  former  she  had  two  daughters, 
( 1 )  Ann  Fraser  who  married  Dr.  Lewis  Scott  Hay  of  Allen- 
dale. Their  granddaughter  Eroledine  (Mrs.  S.  D.  Bateman) 
painted  a  handsome  portrait  of  Johnson  Hagood,  the  elder, 
and  succeeded  to  some  of  his  wife's,  Ann  O'Hear's  personal 
effects.  (2)  Sophia  Fraser  married  George  McDonald,  and  it 
was  she  who  preserved  the  old  Gordon  Bible  and  presented  it 
to  General  Hagood,  C.  S.  A. 

Matilda  Hagood,  by  her  second  husband  John  T.  Schmidt, 
had  a  daughter  Eveleen  who  married  Thadeus  Oakman  below. 


Hagood  Line  1 1 3 

15.  Ann  Eliza  Hagood,  born  24  October  1800;  married 
at  Short  Staple,  William  Henry  Oakman  of  Augusta,  Georgia; 
died  3  December  1860.  They  had  nine  sons,  three  of  whom 
married  their  first  cousins,  and  two  their  second  cousins.  (1) 
Dr.  Ervin  H.  Oakman  married  Sarah  Ann  Hagood,  my 
father's  sister ;  (2)  Dr.  Robert  Harper  Oakman  married  Emily 
Hagood,  daughter  of  William  Johnson  Hagood,  below ;  (3) 
Thadeus  Oakman  married  Eveleen  Schmidt,  daughter  of 
Matilda  Hagood,  above;  (4)  Rutherford  Oakman  married 
Isabelle  Hagood,  daughter  of  Dr.  William  H.  Hagood, 
above;  and  (5)  Clifford  Oakman  married  Sarah  M.  Hagood, 
sister  of  Isabelle.  One  other  son,  Wellington  left  descendants; 
(6)  Octavius,  aged  26,  was  killed  at  Gettysburg. 

Ann  Eliza  Oakman's  daughters  married  John  O.  Sanders, 
Thomas  Richardson,  Eugene  Gordon  Hay,  David  Van  Buren, 
and  (1)  James  Hooke,  (2)  J.  M.  Hoge.  David  Van  Buren's 
daughter,  Mrs.  Ruth  Tufts,  lives  in  Mitchell,  Georgia. 

16.  William  Johnson  Hagood,  born  Charleston  6  Jan- 
uary 1806;  became  blind  at  the  age  of  six  years.  He  married 
twice  and  lived  on  his  plantation  near  Barnwell,  which  he 
received  from  his  father.  He  had  two  daughters  by  his  first 
wife,  Emily  who  married  Dr.  Robert  Oakman,  above;  and 
Ellen  who  married  Mr.  Richardson  of  Tennessee.  He  died  in 
1862,  and  was  buried  at  Short  Staple. 

17.  Edwin  Augustus  Hagood,  born  at  Short  Staple  10 
May  1810;  died  9  February  1863.  He  inherited  the  planta- 
tion, and  at  one  time  was  the  largest  planter  in  the  county. 
Married  Elizabeth  Barrett  and  had  five  sons,  all  of  whom  had 
gallant  records  in  the  Confederate  Army.  Earl  V.  Hagood, 
the  youngest,  enlisted  a  few  days  after  his  fourteenth  birth- 
day and  served  to  end  of  war.  He  was  a  mounted  courier  for 
General  Joseph  E.  Johnston,  and  afterwards  for  Hood.  Gen- 


114  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

eral  Wade  Hampton  commended  him  as  a  brave  boy,  and 
wrote  that  in  spite  of  his  tender  years  "he  was  often  entrusted 
with  the  most  important  orders  and  movements  of  our  army". 
The  others  were  in  Jim  Hagood's  Regiment,  the  First  South 
Carolina  Volunteers.  Three  of  these,  Edwin  Augustus, 
William  H.,  and  Thomas  B.,  were  wounded  at  the  Second 
Battle  of  Manassas.  Robert  Harper  went  through  the  war  un- 
scathed. Edwin  Augustus,  or  Gus,  was  the  Color  Bearer,  and 
shot  through  the  body.  Dr.  Martin  Bellinger  passed  a  silk 
handkerchief  through  him,  and  "taking  hold  of  the  two  ends 
wiped  out  the  blood".  He  got  well  but  was  never  again  fit 
for  service.  All  five  of  the  boys  left  descendants,  but  Earl  V. 
Hagood,  Jr.,  is  one  of  the  few,  and  the  senior  representative 
of  the  family,  now  living  in  Barnwell.  His  sister,  Mrs.  Pearle 
Harvard,  greatly  assisted  in  the  preparation  of  these  papers. 
Bates  Hagood  now  owns  and  operates  Short  Staple  Plantation. 

Tom  Hagood,  who  with  his  four  brothers  fought  so  gal- 
lantly under  the  Confederate  flag,  had  seven  grandsons  and 
one  great  grandson  fighting  under  the  Stars  and  Stripes  in  the 
two  World  Wars.  One  of  these,  Lieut.  Col.  Monroe  Johnson 
Hagood,  served  with  distinction  in  China.  Mrs.  Tom  Hagood, 
nee  Annie  Sams,  set  aside  some  money  in  her  will  for  the  main- 
tenance of  the  family  Burying  Ground  at  Short  Staple. 

18.  JAMES  O'HEAR  HAGOOD,  born  4  October  1804, 
in  Charleston  j  died  in  Barnwell  17  January  1873,  and  was 
buried  at  Short  Staple.  He  was  a  planter  and  physician  j  grad- 
uate of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  1824.  Married  1828, 
Indiana  M.  Allen,  daughter  of  John  Cargill  Allen,  and  Sarah 
Williamson,  his  wife.  (See  sketch,  page  36.) 


JAMES  O'HEAR  HAGOOD,  by  his  wife  Indiana  M. 


Allen,  had  issue  as  follows: 


Hagood  Line  1 1 5 

19.  Johnson  Hagood,  born  21  February  1 829 j  married 
Eloise  Brevard  Butler,  daughter  of  Judge  Andrew  Pickens 
Butler,  and  Harriet  Hayne,  his  wife.  He  was  a  planter  of 
Barnwell  County ;  served  in  the  Confederate  Army  as  Colonel 
of  the  First  South  Carolina  Volunteers,  and  later  as  a  brigadier 
general.  Was  Governor  of  South  Carolina  1880-1882,  and 
died  4  January  1898.  His  only  son  Pickens  Butler  Hagood 
married  Florie  Hollman  of  Barnwell,  and  left  a  son  Johnson 
Hagood,  who  served  overseas  during  the  First  World  War. 
(For  sketch  of  General  Hagood,  see  page  45.) 

20.  Sarah  Ann  Hagood,  born  30  December  1 830 j  mar- 
ried her  cousin  Ervin  H.  Oakman,  son  of  William  Henry  Oak- 
man  and  Ann  Eliza  Hagood  (No.  15  above).  He  was  a  prac- 
ticing physician  in  Brunswick,  Georgia,  and  died  there  of 
yellow  fever.  His  remains  now  rest  in  the  family  Burying 
Ground  on  Short  Staple  Plantation.  Their  son  Ervin  (called 
Lad)  married  Emma  Clark,  and  left  a  son  Clark  Oakman, 
and  two  daughters,  Eloise  and  Violet. 

21.  John  Adrian  Hagood,  died  in  infancy. 

22.  Alice  Hagood,  born  11  January,  1835;  died  17  June 
1896;  married  8  March  1854,  Isaac  H.  Means,  a  planter 
of  Fairfield  County,  who  was  a  nephew  of  prewar  Governor 
James  H.  Means  (1850)  of  South  Carolina;  and  a  first  cousin 
of  Lieutenant  General  John  C.  Bates,  U.  S.  Army,  Chief  of 
Staff,  under  whom  I  served  in  the  War  Department.  Uncle 
Ike,  as  we  called  him,  was  a  captain  in  the  Confederate  Army; 
served  two  terms  as  Secretary  of  State  (South  Carolina); 
and  spent  his  declining  years  as  Librarian  of  the  South  Caro- 
lina College,  of  which  he  was  a  graduate.  He  died  in  1898 
leaving  ( 1 )  David  H.  Means,  who  married  Fanny  Corry  and 
left  a  daughter  Frances  Corry;  also  a  son  David  Means, 
Jr.,  who  was  awarded  the  Silver  Star  and  Purple  Heart  while 


116  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

serving  as  Captain  of  Infantry  in  the  Second  World  War.  (2) 
James  Hagood  Means,  married  Emma  Wright;  left  a  son 
Hagood  Means,  Jr.,  and  two  daughters,  Alice  and  Margaret; 
(3)  Marie  Cornelia  Means,  called  Nidie,  married  Pinckney 
Miller  of  Waco,  North  Carolina ;  and  (4)  Caroline  Nott 
Means,  married  the  Rev.  Robert  S.  Latimer  of  Alabama. 

23.  Indiana  Caroline  Hagood,  born  2  May  1837;  died 
25  September  1894;  married  the  Rev.  James  Dunwoody  of 
Walterboro,  South  Carolina.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Gov- 
ernor Bullock  of  Georgia,  and  a  first  cousin  of  Martha  Bullock, 
mother  of  the  famous  Theodore  Roosevelt,  President  of  the 
United  States.  Dr.  Dunwoody  was  a  Presbyterian  Minister  of 
independent  means,  and  would  accept  no  compensation  for  his 
work  in  the  Church.  It  was  Uncle  James  Dunwoody  who  per- 
formed the  marriage  ceremony  of  Mr.  Theodore  Roosevelt, 
Sr.,  to  his  cousin  Miss  Bullock.  And  it  was  he  who  performed 
the  ceremony  for  his  young  brother-in-law,  Lee  Hagood,  to 
my  mother.  He  died  in  1902,  and  left  a  daughter  Caroline 
Indiana,  called  Ina,  who  married  Charles  Augustus  Savage, 
and  had  two  sons,  (1)  Henry  Elliot  Savage,  now  living  in 
Walterboro;  and  (2)  Marion  Alexander. 

24.  Ella  Rosa  Hagood,  died  in  infancy. 

25.  Augusta  Columbia  Hagood  (called  Aunt  Gus),  born 
7  December  1842;  and  died  unmarried  about  1897.  She  lived 
in  the  town  house  in  Barnwell  left  by  her  father,  Dr.  Hagood; 
where  as  a  boy  I  spent  a  great  deal  of  my  time.  She  still  kept 
up  the  old  style  of  a  kitchen  in  the  yard,  where  Mum  Anne 
and  Daddy  Morris,  who  had  been  in  the  family  since  slavery 
days,  cooked  in  a  big  open  fireplace,  with  the  peculiar  pots, 
pans,  skillets,  and  ovens,  provided  for  that  purpose.  Meat  was 
roasted  on  a  spit  or  in  the  ashes.  I  have  never  tasted  better 
food. 


Hagood  Line  1 17 

26.  James  Robert  Hagood,  born  15  November  1844; 
died  15  November  1870,  unmarried.  Enlisted  as  a  private 
soldier  in  the  Confederate  Army,  and  became  Colonel  of  his 
regiment  before  his  nineteenth  birthday.  (See  sketch,  page  60.) 

27.  LEE  HAGOOD,  born  31  October  1846;  married 
Kathleen  Rosa  Tobin,  14  December  1871;  died  26  December 
1890.  He  attended  the  Citadel  and  served  as  a  private  soldier 
in  the  Confederate  Army.    (See  sketch,  page  39.) 

28.  Mary  Eloise  Hagood,  born  15  March  1848;  died 
15  April  1875;  was  celebrated  for  her  beauty  and  charm,  but 
never  married. 

29.  Gordon  Allen  Hagood,  born  29  June  1854;  died 
about  1910;  very  handsome  but  never  married. 


LEE  HAGOOD,  No.  27  above,  by  his  wife  Kathleen  Tobin 
had  issue  as  follows: 

30.  JOHNSON  HAGOOD,  born  16  June  1873;  grad- 
uated West  Point  1896;  married  14  December  1899,  Jean 
Gordon  Small,  daughter  of  James  H.  Small,  Esq.,  of  Mont- 
rose, Scotland,  and  Charlotte  Whaley  of  Charleston.  Served 
as  brigadier  general  in  France  and  Germany  during  the  First 
World  War,  and  later  as  a  major  general  in  the  Regular  Serv- 
ice, commanded  the  Fourth,  Third  and  Second  Armies  in  the 
United  States.  Invented  several  devices  used  in  the  coast  de- 
fenses; author  of  The  Services  of  Supply,  We  Can  Defend 
America,  Soldiers  Handbook  (with  Williford),  and  numerous 
articles  in  The  Saturday  Evening  Post,  Colliers ,  and  other 
national  magazines.  Received  the  Distinguished  Service  Medal 
(same  as  that  given  to  Pershing  and  Foch)  for  his  work  in 
France;   Commandeur  Legion  d'Honneur  of  France;   Com- 


1 1 8  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

mander  Order  of  the  Crown  (Italy)  j  Order  of  the  Sacred 
Treasure  (Japan) ;  and  other  decorations.  Member  of  The 
Society  of  the  Cincinatti  (North  Carolina).  Has  appeared  in 
Who's  Who  in  America  continuously  for  past  twenty-five 
years. 

31.  James  Hagood,  born  April  1875;  accidentally  drowned 
on  Sullivan's  Island,  near  Charleston,  26  May  1882. 

32.  Lee  Hagood,  born  26  August  1877.  After  attending 
the  Citadel,  he  graduated  from  the  University  of  South  Car- 
olina and  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology.  Enlisted 
for  a  commission  in  the  Army  and  appointed  second  lieutenant 
1901.  Retired  for  physical  disability  in  line  of  duty,  with  rank 
of  first  lieutenant,  1908.  Major  Officers  Reserve  Corps  1924. 
Associated  for  many  years  with  the  General  Electric  Com- 
pany at  home  and  abroad;  had  offices  in  Russia,  Siberia,  Man- 
churia, and  China,  making  two  complete  circuits  of  the  globe. 
Invented  the  present  method  of  operating  distribution  centers 
of  electrical  transmission  with  equal  voltage;  wrote  book  on 
searchlights  published  and  used  in  military  service;  also  wrote 
a  number  of  articles  for  the  scientific  magazines.  Served  in 
1918  as  a  military  attache  with  American  Embassy  in  Petro- 
grad.  Upon  the  approach  of  the  Germans,  he  escaped  with 
others  to  Helsingfors,  Finland,  taking  with  him  the  famous 
Sisson  Papers — photostatic  copies  of  the  secret  correspondence 
between  Lenin  and  the  German  General  Staff  which  our  gov- 
ernment printed  and  distributed  behind  the  German  lines.  Lee 
returned  to  New  York  in  1922,  and  has  devoted  his  time 
largely  to  patriotic  work,  especially  to  the  disclosure  of  sub- 
versive activities  of  Communists  and  others  in  this  country. 
Never  married. 

33.  Alice  Kathleen  Hagood,  born  8  October  1886;  mar- 
ried 1 9  October  1910,  Richard  Dozier  Lee,  a  lawyer  and  banker 


Hagood  Line  1 19 

of  Sumter,  South  Carolina.  He  died  18  June  1924,  after  which 
she  moved  to  Charleston.  They  had  two  children,  (1)  Alice 
Hagood  Lee  born  1  August  1911,  married  28  October  1936 
Henry  Horlbeck  Lowndes  of  Charleston,  and  has  one  son, 
Edward  Frost  Lowndes;  (2)  Richard  Dozier  Lee,  Jr.,  who 
graduated  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  with 
the  degree  of  Ph.D.  He  is  now  a  Chemical  Engineer  with 
the  DuPonts  in  Arkansas.  Married  8  July  1943  Miss  Jeane 
Ethel  Davis. 


JOHNSON  HAGOOD,  No.  30  above,  by  his  wife  Jean 
Gordon  Small,  had  issue  as  follows: 

34.  Jean  Gordon  Hagood,  born  10  November  1900  at 
Fort  Moultrie,  South  Carolina,  married  11  May  1921,  James 
Lemuel  Holloway,  Jr.,  of  Dallas,  Texas,  who  was  born  20 
June  1 898  j  graduated  U.  S.  Naval  Academy  1918  and  served 
in  European  waters.  Had  Atlantic  and  Pacific  combat  service 
during  second  World  War.  Commanded  America's  greatest 
battleship — the  Iowa — in  the  final  assaults  on  Japan  and  was 
promoted  Rear  Admiral.  Received  the  Legion  of  Merit  and 
other  decorations.  They  have  issue,  (1)  James  L.  Holloway 
III,  born  Charleston  23  February  1922 j  graduated  Naval 
Academy  1 942  j  engaged  in  combat  operations  in  Atlantic  and 
Pacific  1942-45;  married  December  1942,  Dabney  Rawlings, 
daughter  of  Rear  Admiral  L.  W.  Rawlings,  U.  S.  Navy;  one 
son,  James  Lemuel  Holloway  IV.  (2)  Jean  Gordon  Holloway, 
born  11  March  1926,  married  February  1,  1946  Lieutenant 
Lawrence  Heyworth,  U.  S.  Navy. 

35.  Alice  Kathleen  Hagood  (Kitty),  born  Washington, 
D.  C,  10  October  1906;  died  Omaha,  Nebraska  8  October 
1932;  married  at  Charleston  24  February  1927,  E.  Smythe 


120  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

Gambrell  of  Belton,  S.  C,  who  graduated  South  Carolina 
University  and  Harvard  Law  School.  He  served  as  a  soldier 
in  the  Vosges  and  Meuse-Argonne,  during  the  First  World 
War.  Is  now  a  leading  member  of  Atlanta  Bar.  They  had  issue 
(1)  Robert  Hagood  Gambrell,  born  18  December  1927;  (2) 
David  Henry  Gambrell,  born  20  December  1929;  both  now 
at  college.  (See  Who's  Who  in  America  1944-45.) 

36.  JOHNSON  HAGOOD,  Jr.,  born  Washington,  D.  C, 
18  July  1908;  married  9  March  1932  Cora  M.  Thomas, 
daughter  of  George  Thomas  of  Nashville,  Tennessee,  and  Cora 
Sue  Mayfield,  his  wife.  They  have  one  daughter,  Cora  Sue 
Hagood,  born  Fort  Sam  Houston,  Texas,  15  April  1936.  He 
was  a  sergeant  in  the  Georgia  National  Guard,  attended  the 
Citadel,  and  graduated  at  West  Point  in  1931 ;  entered  Second 
World  War  as  captain  of  Field  Artillery,  and  advanced 
through  grades  to  colonel,  in  each  case  because  of  demonstrated 
ability  in  the  field.  He  was  sent  to  assist  the  British  immedi- 
ately after  the  first  American  landing  in  Africa,  and  Hagood's 
Battalion  was  the  first  American  Heavy  Artillery  to  engage 
the  Germans.  Later  he  commanded  an  Artillery  Group  of  the 
Seventh  Army.  He  was  actively  engaged  in  the  European 
Theatre  for  three  years  and  participated  in  seven  major  cam- 
paigns, up  and  including  Bavaria.  Was  awarded  the  Legion 
of  Merit,  Bronze  Star,  Purple  Heart  (wounded  in  action)  and 
the  French  Croix  de  Guerre.  Now  a  member  of  the  War  De- 
partment General  Staff. 

37.  Francesca  Hagood  (Frenchy),  born  15  November 
1917,  while  her  father  was  in  France.  Married  at  San  An- 
tonio, Texas,  28  December  1938,  Ashley  B.  Packard,  of 
Douglas,  Arizona,  who  was  born  2 1  August  1916,  graduated  at 
West  Point  1938,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty-seven  became  a 
colonel  in  the  Air  Corps,  commanding  several  large  flying 


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fields  and  training  centers  during  the  Second  World  War.  She 
died  November  21,  1945. 


Here  ends  the  direct  line  of  the  Hagoodsj  we  now  take  up 
the  Gordons,  O'Hears,  Aliens,  Williamsons,  and  other  collat- 
eral branches. 

GORDON 

38.  THOMAS  GORDON,  Sr.,  was  born  of  English 
parentage,  in  1723.  He  married  9  July  1752,  Anne  Nelme  of 
Saint  Andrews  Parish  South  Carolina,  who  died  in  1760  leav- 
ing him  with  two  small  children.  On  January  14th  1765,  he 
married  Mary  Hawkes  by  whom  he  had  no  issue.  He  died  1 1 
November  1765  and  was  buried  in  the  Independent  Church- 
yard on  Meeting  Street  in  Charleston.  His  surviving  children 
were  Thomas  Gordon,  Jr.,  and  Ann  Gordon,  Jr.,  from  whom 
we  are  descended.  (See  sketch,  page  11.) 

39.  Mary  Gordon  (nee  Hawkes),  second  wife  of  Thomas 
Gordon,  Sr.,  was  born  in  1720,  died  27  September,  1792.  (See 
sketch,  page  16.) 

40.  Thomas  Gordon,  Jr.,  born  15  July  1754,  had  the 
smallpox  22  February  1760.  Commissioned  in  Continental 
Army  1777,  promoted  captain  and  served  until  end  of  war. 
Married  April  1800,  Grace  Hall,  widow  of  Captain  Thomas 
Jervey,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue.  (See  sketch,  page  14.) 

41.  Elizabeth  Gordon,  "was  born  ye  18  August  1756  and 
departed  this  life  Sept  12th  1756"  (Gordon  Bible). 

42.  ANN  GORDON,  Jr.,  was  born  28  November  1757 
and  had  the  smallpox  22  February   1760.  She  married   10 


122  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

February   1774  James   O'Hear.   Died   29   June    1780.    (See 
sketch,  page  16.) 

The  descendants  of  Ann  Gordon,  Jr.,  through  her  daughter 
Mary  Ann  Hagood,  are  the  only  living  representatives  of 
Thomas  Gordon,  Sr. 

O'HEAR 

43.  JAMES  O'HEAR,  son  of  Hugh  and  Margaret 
O'Hear,  was  born  10  February  1750,  married  Ann  Gordon, 
Jr.,  10  February  1 774 j  was  a  ship  owner,  merchant,  and 
planter  of  Charleston.  He  accumulated  a  large  fortune,  own- 
ing plantations  in  South  Carolina  and  Georgia,  but  met  with 
reverses  and,  according  to  the  Gordon  Bible,  died  14  April 
1813  "with  a  dropsy  of  the  chest".  (See  sketch,  page  20.) 


JAMES  O'HEAR,  by  his  wife  Ann  Gordon,  Jr.,  had  issue 
four  children,  Mary  Ann,  Warren  Gates,  and  two  others  who 
died  in  infancy. 

44.  MARY  ANN  O'HEAR,  was  born  Friday  25  Novem- 
ber 1774  about  three  quarters  after  three  o'clock  in  the  after- 
noon, moon  in  the  last  quarter.  She  was  baptised  Sunday  1 
January  1775  by  Reverend  William  Tennent,  inoculated  for 
smallpox  23  May  1780  and  received  it  in  a  very  mild  degree. 
On  1 0  December  1 794  she  married  Johnson  Hagood,  Esq.,  of 
Charleston j  died  27  March  1843,  and  was  buried  in  the 
Hagood  Burying  Ground,  Short  Staple  Plantation  near  Barn- 
well.   (See  sketch,  page  31.) 

45.  Warren  Gates  O'Hear,  was  born  1778,  died  1805, 
without  issue. 


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Here  ends  the  history  of  the  O'Hears  in  so  far  as  it  is  di- 
rectly connected  with  the  Hagoods,  but  after  the  death  of  his 
first  wife  Ann  Gordon,  Jr.,  Mr.  O'Hear  married  second  Sarah 
Fabian  of  an  old  South  Carolina  family.  The  history  of  that 
branch  has  been  deposited  with  the  more  complete  papers  in 
possession  of  the  South  Carolina  Historical  Society. 

ALLEN 

4-6.  SHERWOOD  ALLEN,  was  of  Irish  (some  say 
Scotch)  extraction.  He  removed  from  Richmond,  Virginia,  to 
Augusta,  Georgia,  where  he  died  and  was  buried  in  the  Epis- 
copal Churchyard.  His  wife  Mary  Cargill,  daughter  of  John 
Cargill,  was  of  a  family  that  settled  in  Edgefield  County  be- 
fore the  Revolution.  She  married  second  Mr.  W.  Woodruff, 
an  Englishman  by  whom  she  had  no  children.  She  died  2 
November  1823,  and  was  buried  in  the  old  Baptist  graveyard 
at  Barnwell  in  the  same  tomb  with  her  son  John  Cargill  Allen. 
Stone  still  standing  1945. 


SHERWOOD  ALLEN,  by  his  wife  Mary  Cargill,  had 
issue  as  follows: 

47.  Orsamus  D.  Allen,  born  1774,  died  3  December  1847, 
married  Harriet  G.  Duncan.  His  line  terminated  with  one  son, 
Joseph  D.  Allen  who  married  Nancy  Louise  Myers,  but  had 
no  children  to  reach  maturity.  Orsamus  Allen  was  buried  in 
the  new  Baptist  churchyard  in  Barnwell,  with  his  wife  in  the 
same  tomb.  Stone  standing  in  1945.  (See  sketch,  page  72.) 

48.  Sarah  Allen,  married  Augusta,  Georgia,  1794,  Judge 
Richard  Gantt  of  South  Carolina,  and  died  17  November  1858. 
They  had  two  sons,  Thomas  and  Richard.   Eliza  Gantt,  a 


124  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

granddaughter  of  Thomas,  married  Charles  Drayton  of  Dray- 
ton Hall  on  the  Ashley  River.  Lawrence  Gantt,  a  great  grand- 
son of  Thomas  is  now  (1944)  on  active  duty  with  the  army 
with  the  rank  of  colonel ;  and  Dr.  Robert  Gantt,  another  great 
grandson,  is  at  the  Charleston  Medical  College.  Richard  Gantt, 
Jr.,  the  second  son  of  Judge  Gantt,  married  Louise  Hay  of 
Boiling  Springs  in  Barnwell  County  and  left  many  descend- 
ants. (For  an  account  of  Judge  Richard  Gantt,  see  O'NealPs 
Bench  and  Bar  of  South  Carolina.} 

49.  JOHN  CARGILL  ALLEN,  born  1781}  a  distin- 
guished lawyer  and  a  wealthy  planter  of  Barnwell  County; 
married  Sarah  Williamson,  daughter  of  Dr.  Vincent  Peter 
Williamson  of  Edgefield  County,  and  Elizabeth  (White) 
Williamson  his  wife.  He  died  in  Barnwell  18  April  1824,  and 
is  buried  in  the  old  Baptist  Graveyard,  in  the  same  tomb  with 
his  mother,  Mary  Woodruff. 


JOHN  CARGILL  ALLEN,  by  his  wife  Sarah  Williamson, 
had  no  sons,  but  had  seven  daughters,  the  last  of  whom, 
Septima,  died  in  infancy.  He  had  a  flare  for  giving  his 
daughters  names  ending  with  the  first  letter  of  the  alphabet 
and  they  were  all  very  beautiful;  in  fact  they  were  known  as 
"The  Six  Beautiful  Aliens". 

50.  Carolina  Allen,  married  Dr.  Samuel  Hamilton. 
Their  only  child  married  Dr.  McNeil  of  Burbon  County,  Ala- 
bama, and  left  descendants  in  that  state. 

51.  Augusta  Allen,  born  1801;  died  1877;  married 
William  Henry  Smith  of  Smithfield  plantation  in  Edgefield 
County,  on  the  Savannah  River.  Her  daughter  Eliza  Caroline 
married  Dr.  Thomas  Woodward  Hutson,  of  Cedar  Grove 


Hagood  Line  125 

Plantation  in  Beaufort  County,  who  was  a  distinguished  sur- 
geon in  the  Confederate  Army,  and  a  collateral  descendant  of 
Chancellor  Richard  Hutson  (unmarried)  the  first  Mayor,  or 
Intendant,  of  Charleston.  (O'Neall's  Bench  and  Bar.)  Another 
daughter,  Marion  Smith,  married  Henry  M.  Myers,  who  came 
to  Barnwell  from  Tennessee.  Mrs.  Robert  Hey  ward  (nee 
Florie  Hutson)  daughter  of  Dr.  Hutson  and  Caroline  Smith, 
assisted  in  the  preparation  of  these  papers.  Among  other  de- 
scendants in  Charleston,  are  Dr.  Thomas  Hutson  Martin,  and 
his  son  Captain  Thomas  Martin,  Jr.,  a  young  West  Point  grad- 
uate killed  on  the  battle  front  in  France  during  the  Second 
World  War. 

52.  Columbia  Allen,  married  Edmund  Bellinger,  a  prom- 
inent lawyer  of  South  Carolina,  and  a  lineal  descendant  of 
Landgrave  Edmund  Bellinger.  Her  son,  Martin  Bellinger,  was 
regimental  surgeon  of  Hagood's  First  South  Carolina  Volun- 
teers }  a  younger  son,  Eddie  Bellinger  was  color  bearer,  and 
killed  in  the  assault  on  Fort  Harrison.  A  third  son,  S.  N.  Bell- 
inger was  one  of  General  Hagood's  mounted  couriers.  Her 
daughter  Eleanor  Bellinger  married  Judge  John  Maher,  of 
Barnwell  j  and  another  daughter  Julia,  married  Mr.  Walton 
Taft,  a  cotton  broker  of  Charleston.  The  latter  had  two  very 
beautiful  daughters,  Rosa  Taft  and  Eleanor,  and  a  son 
Augustus  B.  Taft,  who  married  Mary  Witsell  (Muffle),  sister 
of  Corrie  Witsell,  who  married  first  Farrar,  and  second  W.  A. 
Roebling,  builder  of  the  Brooklyn  Bridge,  the  first  great  sus- 
pension bridge  of  the  world.  Muffle's  son,  Dr.  Robert  Taft,  is 
now  a  noted  surgeon  and  radium  specialist  in  Charleston. 

53.  INDIANA  M.  ALLEN,  born  3  September  1810} 
married  Dr.  James  O.  Hagood }  died  6  March  1877}  and  is 
buried  in  family  Burying  Ground,  Short  Staple.  For  issue  see 
No.  18  above. 


126  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

54.  Harrietta  Allen,  married  Dr.  R.  C.  Fowke  of  Barn- 
well and  left  descendants  in  South  Carolina  and  Georgia, 
among  them  Laurie  Cargill  Fowke  of  Boiling  Springs,  and 
Dr.  Julian  Chisholm  of  Savannah.  Daughters  married  Henry 
Dickenson  of  Allendale,  Hewlett,  Traynor,  Johnson  and 
Woodruff.  Dr.  Fowke  died  1  June  1858;  buried  in  old  Baptist 
graveyard,  and  monument  erected  by  Captain  Joe  Allen.  His 
ancestor,  Colonel  Gerard  Fowke,  born  in  England,  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Virginia  House  of  Burgesses  in  1663,  and  left  a  long 
line  of  distinguished  sons  in  Virginia  and  Maryland. 

55.  Juliana  Allen,  married  Morrison,  and  left  de- 
scendants in  Texas.  Had  one  son,  and  daughters  who  married 
Gantt,  Call,  and  McMarrough. 


The  Allen  family  of  our  branch  is  now  extinct,  in  the  male 
line.  But  in  the  adjacent  county  of  Edgefield  there  are  a  great 
many  Aliens  recorded  in  Chapman's  History  of  that  County, 
who  have  similar  or  identical  names,  so  they  must  be  related 
in  some  way. 

WILLIAMSON 

56.  ELIZABETH  WHITE,  of  Philadelphia,  was  said  to 
be  the  daughter  of  the  famous  Bishop  White,  but  her  parent- 
age is  not  now  known.  She  married  William  Williams,  a  young 
officer  of  the  Fourth  North  Carolina  Line,  who  was  wounded 
at  Germantown,  Pennsylvania,  4th  October  1777,  and  pre- 
sumably hospitalized  in  that  vicinity.  They  had  one  son, 
William  White  Williams,  born  8  September  1786,  who  mar- 
ried Martha  Jeter,  and  left  descendants  in  South  Carolina. 
Among   them    was   Luther   White   Williams,   who    married 


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Zelieme  Tobin  (See  page  139),  and  the  Reverend  George 
Croft  Williams,  now  a  professor  at  the  University  of  South 
Carolina.  Captain  William  Williams,  afterwards  Major,  was 
an  original  member  of  the  Cincinnati  Society,  and  received 
a  grant  of  three  thousand  acres  of  land  together  with  a  silver 
mounted  sword  for  his  Revolutionary  service.  He  died  28  July 
1787,  and  a  few  months  later  his  widow,  Elizabeth,  married 
Vincent  P.  Williamson,  a  family  friend.  (North  Carolina  State 
Records.) 

57.  VINCENT  PETER  WILLIAMSON  (known  as 
Peter),  is  shown  in  O'NealPs  Bench  and  Bar,  and  in  Chapman's 
History  of  Edgefield  County,  to  have  been  "a  distinguished 
physician  and  Revolutionary  soldier"  of  Edgefield.  According 
to  family  tradition,  handed  down  for  more  than  a  century,  he 
was  a  graduate  of  Edinburg  University,  and  an  officer  of  the 
Maryland  Line  in  the  same  regiment  with  Major  Williams 
above.  But  none  of  this  can  be  substantiated  at  the  present  time; 
in  fact  the  official  records  indicate  the  contrary.  They  do  show, 
however  (North  Carolina  State  and  Court),  that  he  was  living 
in  Hillsboro,  North  Carolina,  in  February,  1790;  and  a  short 
time  after  this  (prior  to  June  1794),  he  moved  to  Edgefield 
taking  with  him  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  his  little  stepson,  William, 
whose  father  died  when  he  was  only  ten  months  old,  and  one 
or  two  children  of  his  own. 

Dr.  PETER  WILLIAMSON,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth 
Williams,  nee  White,  had  issue  as  follows: 

58.  SARAH  WILLIAMSON,  born  in  North  Carolina  1 
October  1788,  died  in  Barnwell  5  July  1855;  and  is  buried 
there.  She  married  John  Cargill  Allen  (No.  49  above),  and 
her  daughter  Indiana  M.  Allen  (Hagood)  was  my  grand- 
mother. 


128  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

59.  Henrietta  Williamson,  born  ;  died  13 

July  1824;  married  at  Edgefield  Court  House,  28  May  1811, 
William  D.  Martin,  who  was  elected  to  Congress  in  1826,  and 
later  became  a  distinguished  Judge  of  the  South  Carolina 
bench.  He  died  in  1833,  was  buried  on  Archangel  Michael 
Avenue,  in  the  graveyard  of  St.  Michael,  on  the  south  side  of 
Broad  Street,  in  Charleston,  South  Carolina.  (For  sketch  of  his 
life  see  O'Neall's  Bench  and  Bar;  also  Congressional  Direc- 
tory, and  other  biographical  works.) 

60.  Eugene  Williamson,  born  in  Edgefield;  wandered 
away  from  home  when  very  young,  and  was  not  heard  of  again 
until  long  after  his  parents  and  sisters  had  passed  away.  He 
finally  returned  to  Barnwell  as  a  very  old  and  broken  man,  who 
sat  by  the  fire  in  the  home  of  his  niece,  and  refused  to  say 
anything  except  "I  am  Eugene!  I  have  come  back!"  But  little 
by  little  it  leaked  out  that  he  had  married  in  the  West,  and  that 
his  entire  family  had  been  wiped  out  by  Indians.  The  fact  that 
he  at  all  times  wore  a  skull  cap,  was  never  seen  without  it,  led 
some  to  believe  that  he,  himself,  had  been  scalped. 

The  Williamson  line  is  now  extinct. 

MARTIN 

Judge  William  D.  Martin,  by  his  wife  Henrietta  William- 
son, had  issue  as  follows: 

61.  William  E.  Martin,  born ;  married  Eloise 

M.  Hayne,  granddaughter  of  Colonel  Isaac  Hayne,  the  Rev- 
olutionary martyr,  and  the  aunt  of  Eloise  Butler  Hagood.  He 
was  a  brigadier  general  of  state  troops  before  the  war  and  com- 
manded a  regiment  in  the  Confederate  Army.  His  son  Vincent 
F.  Martin  was  a  Captain  in  Brooks'  Battalion,  and  wrote  a 
history  of  that  unique  organization.  It  was  composed  of  for- 


Hagood  Line  129 

eign  merceneries,  who  had  enlisted  in  the  Northern  Army,  been 
captured  by  the  Confederates,  and  subsequently  attempted  to 
murder  their  officers  and  escape.  But  their  plans  did  not  work 
out.  Many  of  them  were  executed,  and  the  remainder  returned 
to  prison.* 

There  were  two  other  sons  of  General  Martin  in  the  Con- 
federate service. 

62.  John  Vincent  Martin  (Vince),  married  Mary  Har- 
riet Bostick.  He  was  captain  of  Company  "H",  First  (Ha- 
good's)  South  Carolina  Volunteers.  His  son,  Ben  Martin,  en- 
listed as  a  private  in  the  same  company,  but  later  served  as 
aide-de-camp  to  General  Johnson  Hagood.  In  that  capacity  he 
was  wounded  in  the  Battle  of  Weldon  Road  (See  page  47), 
and  was  many  times  commended  for  gallantry.  He  and  my 
father  were  devoted  friends.  Ben  Martin,  Jr.,  is  now  practicing 
law  in  Muskogee,  Oklahoma ;  and  a  brother,  Maner  Martin, 
is  a  professor  at  Clemson  College. 

Vince  Martin  had  another  son,  Elmore  Martin,  too  young 
to  go  in  the  Confederate  Army,  who  left  descendants  in 
Charleston. 

63.  Caroline  Martin,  married  William  Maner  Bostick 
of  Allendale.  Their  son  William  M.  Bostick,  Jr.,  was  a  great 
friend  and  business  associate  of  my  father.  By  a  second  mar- 
riage Mr.  William  M.  Bostick,  Sr.,  had  a  son  William  M.  Bos- 
tick now  living  in  Charleston.  By  his  first  wife  Caroline  Martin, 
he  left  many  worthy  descendants. 

64.  Laura  Martin,  married  John  A.  Elmore,  and  left 
descendants  in  Alabama.  Among  them  were:  (1)  Colonel  Vin- 
cent M.  Elmore,  U.  S.  Army,  who  served  with  me  on  Corregi- 


Snowden's  History  of  South  Carolina,  and  Hagood's  Memoirs  of  the  War  of  Secession. 


130  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

dor,  and  later  during  the  First  World  War,  won  the  Distin- 
guished Service  Medal  and  a  Silver  Star  citation,  for  operations 
in  France ;  (2)  Brigadier  General  John  A.  Elmore,  class  of 
1924  U.  S.  Military  Academy;  and  (3)  Lieutenant  Colonel 
Vincent  M.  Elmore,  Jr.,  West  Point  Class  of  1938;  both  in 
active  service  overseas  during  Second  World  War,  and  dec- 
orated for  gallantry. 

Here  ends  the  Hagood  Line,  in  so  far  as  is  possible  within 
the  limitations  of  this  work. 

THE   MITCHELLS,  WHALEYS, 
AND  SMALLS 

JEAN  GORDON  SMALL,  wife  of  the  author,  is  de- 
scended on  her  mother's  side  from  a  long  list  of  low  country 
planters — rice  and  sea-island  cotton — whose  names  are  so  well 
known  in  South  Carolina,  that  they  need  no  introduction  from 
me.  Suffice  it  to  say  that  she  is  eligible  to  membership  in  The 
Colonial  Dames  through  a  dozen  different  lines  (her  mother 
was  a  member) ;  and  that  General  Francis  Marion,  South 
Carolina's  most  distinguished  Revolutionary  soldier,  was  her 
great-great-great  granduncle. 

MARION 

GABRIEL  *  MARION  was  a  Huguenot  living  in  France 
during  the  bigoted  days  of  King  Louis  XIV.  One  afternoon 
while  walking  on  the  streets  of  his  native  city,  he  was  rudely 
accosted  by  two  officers  of  the  Holy  Inquisition,  and  handed 
the  following  letter. 


*  From  family  tradition  and  Life  of  General  Francis  Marion  by  General  Peter  Horry  of 
Marion's   Brigade.   Other   authorities   say   that   names   are   not   all   correct. 


Mitchells-Whaleys-Smalls  131 

"Your  damnable  heresy  well  deserves,  even  in  this  life,  that 
purgation  by  fire  that  awfully  awaits  it  in  the  next.  But  in  con- 
sideration of  your  youth  and  worthy  connexions,  our  mercy 
has  condescended  to  commute  your  punishment  to  perpetual 
exile — You  will  therefore  instantly  prepare  to  quit  your  coun- 
try forever.  For  if  after  ten  days  from  the  date  hereof,  you 
should  be  found  in  any  part  of  this  kingdom,  your  miserable 
body  shall  be  consumed  by  fire,  and  your  impious  ashes  scat- 
tered to  the  winds  of  Heaven." 

(Signed)     Pere  Rochelle. 

The  recipient  of  this  missive  lost  no  time  in  complying  with 
its  provisions.  Taking  with  him  his  young  bride,  Louise 
D'Aubrey,  he  fled  to  South  Carolina,  where  they  bought  a 
plantation  on  Goose  Creek,  near  Charleston ;  and  there  their 
ashes  now  rest  in  peace. 

GABRIEL  MARION,  Jr.,  son  of  above,  married  Charlotte 
Cordes  and  by  her  had  six  children,  two  of  whom  were  Esther 
Marion  and  the  famous  Francis.  The  latter  died  without  issue. 
But  the  former  married  first  John  Allstonj  and  second  j 

THOMAS  MITCHELL,  by  whom  she  left  many  worthy 
descendants. 

WHALE Y 

WILLIAM  WHALEY,  of  Edisto  Island,  South  Carolina, 
married  Rachel  Mitchell,  great  granddaughter  of  Esther 
Marion  and  Thomas  Mitchell  above,  having  many  sons  and 
daughters.  One  of  these,  Charlotte  Cordes  Whaley  (called 
Charlie)  married  a  Scotsman,  James  Hampden  Small,  Esq., 
and  it  was  their  daughter  Jean  Gordon  Small  who  married 
Johnson  Hagood,  then  a  lieutenant  in  the  army. 


132  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

SMALL 

The  Small  family  comes  from  Montrose  in  Forfarshire, 
Scotland.  The  first  of  the  name  to  be  in  this  country  was  Doc- 
tor William  Small,  who  was  for  a  time  Professor  of  Math- 
ematics and  Philosophy  at  William  and  Mary  College, 
Williamsburg,  Virginia,  where  Thomas  Jefferson  was  one  of 
his  pupils.  Upon  his  return  to  Scotland,  he  became  the  close 
friend  and  advisor  of  James  Watt,  in  the  design  and  manu- 
facture of  the  steam  engine.  (See  sketch,  page  69.) 

1.  DOCTOR  ROBERT  SMALL,  brother  of  Dr.  William 
Small  above,  was  a  distinguished  mathematician,  and  wrote  a 
treatise  on  Kepler's  Laws  which  can  be  found  in  the  Library 
of  Congress  in  Washington,  D.  C.  He  married  Agnes  Reid  of 
AfBeak  Castle.  His  father  had  two  wives,  one  a  Guthrie  of 
Gagie,  and  the  other  a  Scrymgeour  of  Tealing.  His  grand- 
father had  several  wives,  one  a  Miss  Duncan — very  beautiful, 
one  a  Miss  Wylie  Nolanside,  and  one  a  Miss  Stuart  Perth.  His 
great  grandfather  had  only  one  wife! — a  Miss  Anne  Straton, 
described  in  an  old  letter  as  "a  lady  of  high  degree",  who  was 
related  to  the  Northesk  family  and  the  Kirkshire  Stratons.  A 
piece  of  lace  from  Anne's  wedding  pillow  has  been  preserved, 
and  was  given  to  the  youngest  bride  in  the  family  at  that  time, 
Charlie  Whaley  Small. 

2.  JAMES  SMALL,  son  of  Dr.  Robert  Small  and  Agnes 
Reid,  above,  lived  on  his  estate  Tilly  Nhanknd,  Alberlemno 
Parish,  and  had  three  wives,  the  last  of  whom  was  Rosa  Scott 
of  Craigie. 

3.  STRACHAN  THOMAS  SMALL,  son  of  James  Small 
and  Rosa  Scott,  his  wife,  was  born  at  Montrose,  Forfarshire, 
Scotland,  26  December  1815,  but  lived  at  Blackheath,  near 
London.    He    married    22    September    1847,   Jane    Gordon, 


Mitchells-Whaleys-Smalls  133 

daughter  of  William  Gordon  of  Montrose,  and  Jane  McKay 
his  wife.  He  ran  away  from  home  and  went  to  sea.  He  became 
a  midshipman  in  the  East  India  Service  of  the  British  Mer- 
chant Marine,  and  eventually  a  partner  of  Sir  Donald  Currie 
in  the  ownership  and  operation  of  the  Castle  Line. 

Shortly  after  his  marriage,  he  fitted  up  a  cabin  on  his  ship 
for  his  wife  to  take  a  trip  with  him  around  the  world,  which 
was  something  of  an  adventure  before  the  days  of  steam.  He 
had  built  for  her  and  installed  in  the  cabin,  a  very  beautiful 
and  artistic  little  piano,  which  was  afterwards  given  to  their 
daughter-in-law,  Charlie  Small,  and  brought  to  Charleston. 
After  one  of  his  last  trips  to  the  Far  East  1850-51,  he  brought 
back  some  valuable  Chinese  relics,  saved  from  the  sacking  of 
the  Summer  Palace,  which  are  still  in  the  family.  We  also  have 
part  of  a  very  complete  porcelain  service,  originally  many 
dozen  pieces,  made  in  Scotland  for  Mr.  William  Gordon.  It 
is  in  the  Ivy  Leaf  pattern — the  badge  of  the  Gordons. 

Mr.  Small  died  at  Blackheath  11  August  1889,  and  was 
buried  at  Charleton  Cemetery,  Greenwich.  He  was  a  personal 
friend  of  Lord  Alfred  Tennyson,  who  presented  him  with  an 
autographed  copy  of  his  poems. 

4.  JAMES  HAMPDEN  SMALL,  only  child  of  Strachan 
Thomas  Small  and  Jane  Gordon,  his  wife,  was  born  in  Ramsay 
House  on  Castle  Street,  Montrose,  4th  June  1850,  while  his 
father  was  at  sea.  He  was  baptized  1 9  June  same  year  at 
Arbroath,  Forfarshire,  St.  Mary's  Episcopal  Chapel  j  and  a 
great  deal  of  Mr.  Small's  diary  of  this  period  is  filled  with 
speculations  and  plans  for  the  boy's  future.  He  was  educated 
at  Dreghorn  School  and  the  University  of  Scotland.  He  mar- 
ried in  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  12  June  1877  at  St. 
Michael's  Church,  Charlotte  Cordes  Whaley,  daughter  of 
William  Whaley  and  Rachel  Mitchell,  his  wife.  For  forty- 


134  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

seven  years  he  was  a  conspicuous  figure  in  shipping  circles  of 
Charleston.  He  represented  Lloyd  and  Company,  British 
Marine  Insurance,  and  was  at  one  time  the  British  Consul. 

He  was  a  great  lover  of  nature  and  devoted  much  of  his 
time  to  outdoor  sports.  He  had  rowed  for  the  Kingston  Club 
at  Henley,  and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Yacht  Club 
in  Charleston.  He  was  a  great  man  with  the  rod  and  gun.  He 
knew  the  location  of  every  covey  of  partridges  on  the  coast, 
and  friends  said  that  he  could  remember  every  individual  bird 
out  of  the  thousand  or  more  that  he  had  shot  during  the  past 
forty  years.  He  had  come  to  America  in  search  of  big  game, 
and  was  eventually  bound  for  Africa,  when  he  met  his  future 
wife  in  Charleston.  He  died  9  December  1925,  and  was  buried 
in  Magnolia  Cemetery.  He  was  at  that  time  President  of  the 
Saint  George's  Society. 


JAMES  H.  SMALL,  by  his  wife  Charlotte  Cordes  Whaley, 
had  issue  as  follows: 

5.  Charlotte  Agnes  Small  (Chubbie),  born  30  March 
1878,  at  113  Canning  Street  Liverpool,  England;  married 
31  October  1906,  Lieutenant  Charles  E.  N.  Howard,  later 
colonel,  U.  S.  Army.  They  had  two  sons,  (1)  Charles  E.  N. 
Howard,  Jr.  (Budge),  who  graduated  at  West  Point  1931, 
was  a  major  of  field  artillery  on  Bataan  and  captured  by  the 
Japanese.  Upon  being  released  he  was  promoted  to  lieutenant 
colonel  and  awarded  the  Purple  Heart  with  other  decorations. 
(2)  The  other  son  is  James  Hampden  Howard,  U.  S.  Naval 
Academy,  1930,  and  now  a  captain  in  the  Navy.  He  had  a 
great  deal  of  active  service  in  the  Western  Pacific,  and  re- 
ceived the  Silver  Star  for  gallantry  in  action.  Budge  married 
Betty  Welty,  daughter  of  Colonel  M.  D.  Welty,  U.  S.  A., 


Mitchells-Whaleys-Smalls  135 

and  has  two  children,  Sallie  and  Charlotte.  James  (called  Pat) 
married  Phylis  Hammond  (Cici),  daughter  of  Captain  Ham- 
mond, U.  S.  N.,  and  has  two  children — Linda  and  James 
Hampden  Howard,  Jr. 

6.  JANE  GORDON  SMALL  (called  Jean  or  Jeanie), 
born  14  June  1879;  married  14  December  1899  Lieutenant 
Johnson  Hagood,  U.  S.  Army  (now  major  general).  For  issue 
see  page  117. 

7.  James  Hampden  Small,  born  14  November  1880; 
married  9  January  1905;  Mary  Linn  of  Schenectady,  N.  Y.j 
graduated  Union  College  as  a  Civil  Engineer.  Served  as  a 
major  in  the  Construction  Corps,  U.  S.  Army  during  the  First 
World  War.  No  children. 

8.  Rachel  Mitchell  Small  (Daisy),  born  27  July 
1886;  married  10  March  1910,  George  Christian  Logan  of 
Charleston,  graduate  U.  S.  Naval  Academy  and  now  a  Cap- 
tain in  the  Navy.  He  had  active  service  both  in  the  first  and 
Second  World  Wars.  They  have  one  daughter,  Christian  Alice 
(Boots)  who  married  Benjamin  Wright  and  has  two  sons, 
Richard  and  George. 

9.  Katherine  Gerda  Small  (Queenie),  born  2  June 
1888;  married  (1)  Victor  Radbone,  an  Englishman,  and  had 
a  son  James  killed  while  flying  with  British  Royal  Air  Force 
during  second  World  War;  married  (2)  Wayne  Coe  of  Port- 
land, Oregon,  had  one  son,  Henry,  now  (1945)  in  U.  S.  Army 
overseas,  and  one  daughter,  Charlotte  Cordes  Coe.  Queenie 
died  in  1942. 

10.  Esther  Marion  Small  (Marie),  born  15  January 
1890;  married  12  November  1917,  Robert  Bentham  Simons  of 
Charleston,  a  graduate  U.  S.  Naval  Academy,  now  Captain  in 
the  Navy  serving  overseas.  He  had  active  service  in  the  North 


136  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

Sea  during  the  First  World  War,  and  was  in  command  of  a 
warship  in  Pearl  Harbor  during  the  Japanese  attack.  They  have 
two  children,  Robert  B.  Simons,  Jr.,  who  served  as  a  lieutenant 
Medical  Corps,  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve,  during  the  Second 
World  War  j  and  Esther  Marion — very  attractive. 

11.  Robert  Scott  Small,  born  20  May  1891;  died  23 
February  1 93 1  ;  married  Louise  Johnson  of  Charleston.  He 
entered  the  Bank  of  Charleston  as  a  boy,  and  became  its  Pres- 
ident at  the  age  of  thirty-two.  He  then  expanded  it  into  The 
South  Carolina  National  Bank  with  branches  all  over  the  State, 
and  came  to  be  recognized  as  one  of  the  soundest  bankers  in 
the  South.  He  was  killed  in  an  automobile  accident  when  forty 
years  old,  and  was  widely  mourned.  He  left  four  children.  ( 1 ) 
Robert  Small,  Jr.,  who  married  Sallie  Tyler,  and  has  a  son 
Robert  and  a  daughter  Sallie  j  (2)  Oscar  Johnson  Small,  now 
a  reserve  lieutenant  in  the  U.  S.  Army  Air  Corps;  (3)  James 
Hampden  Small ;  and  (4)  Charlotte  Whaley  Small. 

12.  George  Gordon  Small,  born  15  July  1892;  died  4 
September  1923;  married  Orie  Walker  of  Charleston,  and 
had  three  sons;  (1)  Gordon  Small,  Jr.,  who  left  the  bank  to 
serve  as  Second  Officer  on  a  hospital  ship  bringing  back 
wounded  from  overseas.  He  married  Betty  Sovacool  and  has 
two  children,  Betty  and  Gordon;  (2)  James;  and  (3)  Walker, 
now  (1945)  overseas  with  the  Navy.  Orie  Walker  married 
second  Captain  C.  S.  DeForest  of  Charleston. 

13.  Arthur  Huger  Small  (Tony),  born  14  July  1897; 
entered  the  Navy  during  the  First  World  War;  remained  in 
the  regular  service  until  he  attained  the  grade  of  lieutenant 
commander,  and  then  resigned  to  go  into  the  bank  with  his 
brother  Robert,  where  he  became  a  vice-president.  He  married 
June  Waterbury  of  Montana,  and  has  two  daughters,  Jane 
and  Charlotte. 


Mitchells-Whaleys-Smalls  137 

Here  ends  our  immediate  branch  of  the  Mitchells,  the 
Whaleys,  and  the  Smalls.  But  there  are  many  others  worthy 
of  note,  both  at  home  and  abroad.  They  include  soldiers, 
sailors,  and  men  of  distinction  in  the  civil  pursuits,  both  in 
the  United  States  and  in  Great  Britain,  past  and  present. 


TOBIN  LINE 


The  Tobin  family  is  one  of  great  antiquity.  The  name  was 
originally  French  and  is  still  found  in  the  vicinity  of  Nantes. 
A  number  of  Tobins  went  over  to  England  at  the  time  of 
William  the  Conqueror,  and  later  took  up  lands  in  Tipperary 
and  Kilkenny  Counties  in  Ireland,  where  they  have  lived  ever 
since.  Much  about  the  family  can  be  found  in  d' Alton's  Irish 
History,  O'Hart's  Irish  Pedigrees,  and  other  similar  works. 
But  the  family  is  now  scattered  all  over  the  world,  and  we  have 
no  authentic  knowledge  of  our  particular  antecedents  prior  to 
my  great-great  grandfather  Cornelius  Tobin. 

1.  CORNELIUS  TOBIN,  emigrated  from  Kilkenny 
County,  Ireland,  and  settled  in  Barnwell  District,  South  Caro- 
lina, between  the  years  1785  and  1790.  He  left  behind  his 
wife,  Judith,  and  two  sons,  John,  and  Daniel  from  whom  we 
are  descended.  But  a  few  years  later  he  went  back  and  got 
them.  He  accumulated  property  to  the  amount  of  about  a 
million  dollars  according  to  present  day  values,  and  died  on 
his  plantation  near  the  present  sight  of  Blackville  in  about 
1831-32.  (See  sketch,  page  82.) 

He  had  issue: 

2.  John  Tobin,  eldest  son  of  Cornelius  Tobin  and  Judith 
his  wife,  was  born  in  Ireland,  and  came  to  this  country  as  a 
boy  about  the  year  1800.  He  later  moved  to  Arkansas,  where 
he  left  descendants. 

3.  DANIEL  TOBIN,  born  in  Ireland  1783,  came  to  this 
country  when  he  was  about  seventeen  years  old;  married  Agnes 
Lartigue,  daughter  of  Gerard  Lartigue,  a  French  refugee  from 

[  138] 


Tobin  Line  139 

Santo  Domingo,  and  Anne  Grace,  his  wife,  a  Georgia  girl, 
whose  family  was  said  to  be  from  Virginia.  They  lived  on  his 
plantation  near  Barnwell.  He  died  22  November  1849,  and 
was  buried  in  the  Baptist  graveyard.  (Sketch,  page  85.) 

4.  Cornelius  Tobin,  Jr.,  a  natural  son  of  Cornelius  Tobin, 
Sr.  His  father  made  provision  for  him  in  his  will,  and  he 
married  Miss  Duncan  of  a  Barnwell  family,  leaving  many 
worthy  descendants. 


DANIEL  TOBIN,  No.  3  above,  by  his  wife  Agnes  Lar- 
tigue,  had  issue  as  follows: 

5.  Cornelia  Tobin,  born  28  January  1818;  died  16  Oc- 
tober 1859;  married  Dr.  Benjamin  Peeples  of  Barnwell 
County,  and  had  (1)  a  daughter  Anna  Lartigue  Peeples  who 
married  Charles  Stewart,  a  family  connection,  and  moved  to 
Navasto,  Texas;  (2)  a  son  Dr.  Henry  M.  Peeples,  who  mar- 
ried Laura  Brown  of  Barnwell,  and  had  a  daughter  Mamie 
Peeples,  who  married  William  Morrow  of  Waco  Texas.  She 
contributed  to  the  preparation  of  these  papers. 

6.  JOHN  ETIENNE  TOBIN,  born  9  December  1821; 
died  28  December  1868;  married  26  August  1846  Sarah 
Eugenia  Owens,  daughter  of  Captain  John  A.  Owens  and 
Mary  Overstreet,  his  wife.  For  issue  see  below.  (Sketch,  page 
92.) 

7.  Ellen  Lartigue  Tobin,  born  22  August  1823;  mar- 
ried Rev.  Peyton  G.  Bowman,  and  left  descendants  in  South 
Carolina.  They  had  a  son  Dr.  Peyton  G.  Bowman,  who  prac- 
ticed medicine  in  Birmingham,  Alabama,  and  died  there. 

8.  Mary  Zelieme  Tobin,  born  15  October  1827;  died  at 
Aiken    21     December     1899.    She    married    Luther    White 


140  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

Williams,  grandson  of  Captain  Williams  of  the  North  Caro- 
lina Line,  from  whose  widow  (by  Dr.  Williamson)  we  arc 
descended  on  the  Hagood  side.  Luther  Williams,  by  his  wife 
Zelieme  Tobin,  had  no  sons,  but  had  five  daughters  to  whom 
we  are  related  from  both  sides.  They  are  Mrs.  J.  E.  Durr, 
Mrs.  J.  B.  Mathews,  Mrs.  J.  N.  Armstrong,  Mrs.  Humphrey 
Graves,  and  Miss  Pattie  Williams,  never  married. 

9.  Daniel  Isidore  Tobin,  born  11  September  1 830 ^  went 
to  Texas  about  1853 ;  married  a  Spanish  lady,  Senorita 
Nevarro,  daughter  of  a  former  Governor  of  the  Mexican 
Province  from  which  Texas  was  formed.  He  died  in  Texas  and 
left  descendants.  (See  Texas  Tobins,  page  153.) 

10.  William  Girard  Tobin,  born  21  May  1833;  died  in 
July  18 83 j  married  in  Texas  and  left  many  worthy  descend- 
ants. Was  in  the  Confederate  Army.  (See  Texas  Tobins,  page 
153.) 

1 1.  Agnes  Elizabeth  Tobin,  married  (1)  Cooper  Hughes, 
son  of  Judge  William  Hughes  of  Georgia,  (2)  Charles 
Hughes,  brother  of  Cooper,  and  left  many  descendants  in 
South  Carolina  and  Georgia.  William  Hughes,  a  third  brother, 
married  Susan  Hagood,  daughter  of  Gideon  (See  No.  7 
page  1 10.) 


JOHN  ETIENNE  TOBIN,  No.  6  above,  by  his  wife 
Sarah  Owens  has  issue  as  follows: 

12.  Isidore  Lartigue  Tobin,  born  4  August  1874;  mar- 
ried 1  July  1874  Harriet  Sheldonia  Allen  (no  relation);  died 
5  December  1909,  and  is  buried  at  Swallow  Savannah  near 
Allendale.  (See  sketch,  page  102.)  For  issue  see  below. 

13.  John  Etienne  Tobin,  born  1  September  1849;  died 
in  Texas  without  issue.  Was  a  Confederate  soldier. 


Tobin  Line  141 

14.  KATHLEEN  ROSA  TOBIN,  born  18  August  1851  ; 
married  first  Lee  Hagood  14  December  1871 ;  second  Dr. 
William  M.  Lester  3  March  1893;  died  18  October  1914  and 
was  buried  in  Elmwood  Cemetery,  Columbia.  (See  sketch, 
page  99.)  For  issue  see  Hagood. 

15.  Edwin  Girard  Tobin,  born  Blackville  18  June  1855; 
died  Orangeburg  County  prior  to  1890;  married  Mary 
Morgon  Connor  of  Connors.  Had  two  daughters,  Kate  un- 
married in  1944,  and  Edna,  who  married  Colonel  Archie 
Buyers,  U.  S.  Army,  by  whom  she  had  two  sons,  (1)  John 
Francis,  graduate  West  Point  1943,  Corps  of  Engineers,  now 
with  American  Forces  in  Burma;  and  (2)  Archie  Girard,  grad- 
uate of  Haverford  College,  and  with  the  Navy. 

16.  Benjamin  Shannon  Tobin,  died  in  infancy. 

17.  Alice  Maud  Tobin,  born  26  June  1859;  married 
Norman  Henry  Bull  of  Orangeburg,  son  of  Norman  Austin 
Bull,  who  came  to  Orangeburg  from  Connecticut.  Died  10 
May  1927.  For  issue  see  below. 

18.  Jesse  Louise  Tobin,  died  in  infancy. 

19.  Elizabeth  May  Tobin  (Bessie),  born  on  the  planta- 
tion 4  May  1865;  married  11  April  1895  Warren  Montague 
of  Allendale,  and  has  issue  ( 1 )  Lyman,  born  24  May  1 896  and 
served  overseas  in  First  World  War;  (2)  Therese  Labatut, 
born  19  August  1899.  Bessie  lived  in  New  York  and  was  an 
active  member  of  the  Manhattan  Chapter  Daughters  American 
Revolution.  She  was  an  author  and  poet. 

Isidore  Lartigue  Tobin,  No.  12  above,  by  his  wife  Har- 
riet Allen,  had  issue  as  follows: 

20.  Sarah  Owens  Tobin  (Sallie),  born  20  May  1878; 
married  Augustus  T.  Allen  (no  relation)  of  Allendale,  and 


142  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

had  issue  Augustus,  Jr.,  and  Dorothy  Grace,  who  married 
Roger  Heyward  of  a  South  Carolina  family.  They  live  in 
Columbia. 

21.  Isidore  Lartigue  Tobin,  Jr.,  born  31  May  1882; 
married  12  April  1908,  Edith  Barnwell,  daughter  of  Mr. 
Henry  Barnwell,  a  descendant  of  Vice-Admiral  John  Barnwell 
of  the  Colonial  Navy.  They  live  in  Florence,  South  Carolina 
and  have  two  children — Lartigue  and  Edith. 

22.  Agnes  Zelieme  Tobin,  born  14  May  1885;  Married 
W.  C.  Mauldin  of  Hampton,  South  Carolina,  and  has  one 
son  Wilder  H.  Mauldin,  who  served  overseas  with  the  Engi- 
neers of  Patton's  Third  Army. 

23.  John  Etienne  Tobin,  born  14  August  1886;  married 
28  April  1918,  Rose  Merritt,  daughter  of  a  Methodist  min- 
ister. He  was  Judge  of  the  Probate  Court  in  Allendale  for 
thirteen  years.  Has  one  daughter,  Harriet;  and  two  sons  (1) 
Etienne  who  has  had  distinguished  service  and  decorations 
overseas  in  the  Second  World  War;  and  (2)  Merritt  who 
served  as  a  soldier  in  the  United  States. 

24.  Sheldonia  Tobin,  born  28  July  1889;  called  Shelly, 
is  unmarried;  and  a  member  of  The  United  Daughters  of 
the  Confederacy. 

25.  Flora  McDonald  Tobin,  born  20  July  1892;  mar- 
ried James  Mclver  Riley  of  Allendale,  who  served  overseas 
as  a  lieutenant  of  infantry  (commanding  a  company)  and  was 
wounded  in  action,  during  the  First  World  War.  They  have 
two  sons;  (1)  Mclver,  who  married  Miss  Caro  Forbes,  of 
Philadelphia,  and  is  now  (1945)  a  lieutenant  in  the  Navy,  and 
participated  in  the  Invasion  of  France;  (2)  Lartigue  aged 
eighteen,  left  college  to  join  the  Navy  in  Western  Pacific. 


Tobin  Line  143 

26.  Emily  Lartigue  Tobin,  born  18  September  1894; 
married  Julian  Wolfe,  now  District  Attorney  in  Orangeburg. 
They  have  one  daughter,  Emily — very  attractive. 


Alice  Maud  Tobin,  No.  1 7  above,  by  her  husband  Norman 
H.  Bull,  had  issue  as  follows: 

27.  Leela  Kate  Bull,  born  Columbia,  South  Carolina, 
29  October,  1882;  married  1  June  1907,  Edward  H.  Mclver, 
grandson  of  Chief  Justice  Mclver  of  South  Carolina,  and  a 
prominent  businessman  of  Charleston. 

28.  Ada  Lartigue  Bull  (called  Dot),  born  in  Orange- 
burg 29  January  1885;  married  Frederick  Cabell  of  Danville, 
Virginia,  and  lives  in  Orangeburg.  Her  daughter  Dorothy  mar- 
ried Nathaniel  Heyward  Robb,  of  Columbia,  where  they  re- 
side. 

29.  Norman  Austin  Bull,  born  in  Orangeburg  1  Decem- 
ber 1886;  and  lives  on  Sullivans  Island,  Charleston  Harbor. 
Unmarried. 


LARTIGUE 

30.  GERARD  LARTIGUE,  born  1766;  died  3  July  1818. 
He  was  a  native  of  Bordeaux,  France.  He,  or  his  parents  be- 
fore him,  emigrated  to  Santo  Domingo,  in  the  West  Indies, 
where  the  Lartigues  belonged  to  the  colony  of  wealthy  French 
and  Creole  Planters.  His  first  wife,  Madame  de  LaPorte,  was 
a  young  and  very  rich  widow,  who  was  enslaved  and  then 
murdered  during  the  general  massacre  of  the  whites  in  the 
Slave  Rebellion  of  1791-92.  Gerard,  after  being  several  times 


144  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

wounded,  escaped  to  the  United  States  and  settled  in  Augusta, 
Georgia.  He  married,  second,  Anne  Grace,  a  Georgia  girl, 
whose  parents  were  said  to  have  been  from  Virginia.  He  died 
in  Augusta,  and  was  buried  there.  (See  sketch,  page  87.) 

His  wife,  Anne,  was  born  in  1777,  and  died  31  May,  1830. 

They  had  issue  as  follows: 

31.  AGNES  LARTIGUE,  born  in  1800;  died  14  Novem- 
ber 18 57 j  married  Daniel  Tobin;  buried  in  the  old  Baptist 
Graveyard  in  Barnwell.  Stone  still  standing,  1944.  For  issue 
see  page  139.) 

32.  Jaque  Etienne  Lartigue,  born  20  October  1801; 
died  12  March  1860;  married  first  Pamela  O'Bannon;  second 
Elizabeth  Adrianna  Bull  Stewart,  daughter  of  Charles  Stewart, 
a  barrister  of  London;  third  Mrs.  Catherine  Chapman,  nee 
Carroll.  For  issue  see  below. 

33.  Lucretia  Lartigue,  married  Mr.  Graham. 

34.  Isidore  Lartigue,  married  first  Jane  H.  Lawton; 
second  Adelle  Gillison;  third  Claudia  Chapman.  For  issue  see 
below. 

35.  Rosanna  Lartigue,  born  1808;  died  21  March  1874; 
married  George  Odom,  a  planter  of  Barnwell  County,  and  left 
descendants. 


Jaque  Etienne  Lartigue,  No.  32  above,  had  issue  only 
by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Adrianna  Bull  Stewart,  as  follows: 

36.  Gerard  Bull  Lartigue,  born  10  April  1829;  died 
May  1898;  married  Clio  Turner,  and  had  a  daughter  Annie 
(married  Weller  Rothrock  and  lived  in  Blackville).  He  was 
a  major  and  Quartermaster  in  Hagood's  Brigade,  and  after- 


Tobin  Line  145 

wards  practiced  medicine  in  Blackville.  He  was  largely  re- 
sponsible for  preserving  the  traditions  and  facts  about  his 
grandfather  Gerard  Lartigue. 

37.  Anna  Lartigue,  married  Wesley  W.  Culler,  a  planter 
of  Orangeburg.  They  had  no  children,  but  adopted  Annie 
Culler,  a  niece,  and  daughter  of  James  Culler  below.  She 
married  Irving  Zimmerman,  also  a  planter  of  Orangeburg 
County,  near  St.  Matthews. 

38.  Charles  E.  Lartigue,  attended  the  Citadel,  served  in 
the  Confederate  Army,  married  Mary  C.  Salley  of  South  Car- 
olina, removed  from  Blackville  to  Orlando,  Florida.  Left  four 
sons — Etienne,  Louis,  Charles  and  Ralph.  Died  1904. 

39.  Lucia  Lartigue,  married  James  Culler,  a  planter 
of  Orangeburg,  brother  of  Wesley,  and  left  descendants. 

Isidore  Lartigue  (No.  34  above),  by  his  wife  Jane 
Lawton,  had  issue  as  follows: 

40.  Frances  Julia  Lartigue,  called  Fannie,  born  1842, 
married  Edward  Carroll,  and  lived  in  Summerville,  South 
Carolina.  She  greatly  assisted  in  preserving  the  history  and 
traditions  of  the  Lartigues.  Her  granddaughter  Mrs.  L.  B. 
McCabe  (nee  Carroll)  lives  in  Charleston. 

41.  Katherine  Ann  Lartigue,  married  James  M. 
Gregoriej  her  granddaughter  married  Dr.  Franklin  Sams  of 
Charleston. 

Isidore  Lartigue,  by  his  second  wife,  Adele  Gillison, 
had: 

42.  Adele  Lartigue,  married  Roger  Pinckney;  left  sev- 
eral daughters,  and  one  son  Roger  who  lives  in  Beaufort. 

43.  Cornelia  Lartigue,  married  Joseph  Beck  of  Walter- 
boro. 


146  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

44.  Eugene  Lartigue,  married  Melvira  Jones  and  lived 
in  Texas.  They  had  two  sons  and  three  daughters.  Eugene, 
Jr.,  married  and  was  living  in  California  in  1927.  The  other 
son  died  in  youth.  Josiphene,  whom  I  knew  in  the  Hawaiian 
Islands,  married  Alfred  N.  Campbell,  a  businessman  in  Hon- 
olulu, where  they  had  a  very  beautiful  mountain  home  over- 
looking the  city,  two  thousand  feet  below,  but  only  twenty 
minutes  distant  by  the  well-graded  highway.  Josiphene  was, 
for  many  years,  interested  in  preserving  the  scenic  beauty  of 
the  countryside.  She  hated  billboards.  And  selecting  certain 
nationally  known  commodities  that  were  advertised  in  that 
way,  she  instituted  a  systematic  boycott  against  them,  one  at 
a  time.  Having  knocked  out  one  she  would  take  up  another, 
until  finally,  at  the  end  of  fifteen  years  there  was  not  a  bill- 
board in  the  Islands.  It  was  hard  to  get  a  start,  but  she  picked 
out  the  most  conspicuous  boards  first,  notified  the  manufac- 
turers and  jobbers  that  there  would  be  a  drop  in  sales,  and 
advised  them  to  watch  their  competitors  who  were  advertising 
in  other  ways. 

Isidore  Lartigue,  by  his  third  wife,  Claudia  Chapman, 
had: 

45.  Claudia  Lartigue,  married  Fishburne  and  left  de- 
scendants in  South  Carolina.  Her  son  Dr.  Charles  G.  Fish- 
burne was  living  in  Darien,  Georgia,  in  1936. 

46.  Emma  Lartigue,  unmarried,  was  a  trained  nurse,  one 
of  the  first  in  South  Carolina.  For  many  years  she  lived  with 
my  mother  in  Columbia,  after  my  father  died. 

We  must  go  back  now  to  my  grandmother,  Sarah  E.  Tobin, 
who  was  an  Owens. 


Tobin  Line  147 

OWENS 

47.  SOLOMON  OWENS,  was  a  large  land  owner  in  Barn- 
well County.  In  his  will  filed  October  1818,  he  mentions  his 
wife,  Margaret,  his  sons  William  and  John,  who  were  his 
executors,  one  other  son  and  three  daughters.  By  a  comparison 
of  signatures  we  know  him  to  be  the  father  of  William  Owens 
below. 

48.  WILLIAM  OWENS,  born ;  died  1835;  owned 

several  plantations,  a  large  number  of  negroes,  and  other  prop- 
erty in  the  Southwest  section  of  Barnwell  County  where  the 
village  of  Fairfax  now  stands;  also  a  large  plantation  in  Prince 
William's  Parish,  Beaufort  County,  between  Jackson's  Branch 
and  Cawcaw  Swamp.  This  he  gave  to  his  son  John  A.  Owens, 
who  predeceased  him  and  from  whom  we  are  descended.  By 
his  will,  filed  in  Barnwell,  he  left  property  to  the  following 
children;  (1 )  Mary  Owens  who  married  Leroy  Allen  and  had 
a  daughter,  Laura,  who  married  Doctor  John  S.  Stoney  of 
Allendale;  (2)  Edmund  Owens;  (3)  James  G.  Owens,  who 
married  Eliza  Overstreet  and  left  many  descendants.  Among 
these  were  Jack  Owens  and  Henry  Hartzog  of  Allendale; 
Harry  Calhoun  and  Zadie  Simms  of  Barnwell;  Leon  Boineau 
of  Beaufort. 

Henry  Hartzog,  in  early  life,  was  principal  of  the  Allen- 
dale High  School.  Later  he  became  President  of  Clemson  Col- 
lege, President  of  the  University  of  Arkansas,  author  of  text- 
books used  in  the  public  schools,  and  a  lecturer  on  the  public 
platform.  Zaidee  Simms  married  Captain  Boyd  Cole,  a  Citadel 
graduate  and  National  Guard  officer  from  Barnwell  during 
the  First  World  War,  and  later  a  colonel  in  the  Regular  Army. 
Leon  Boineau  graduated  at  West  Point  in  1918,  and  served  as 
a  colonel  during  the  second  World  War. 


148  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

49.  CAPTAIN  JOHN  A.  OWENS,  born  20  December 
1791;  married  Mary  Overstreet  (sister  of  Eliza  above) 
daughter  of  Congressman  James  Overstreet,  Jr.,  of  South  Car- 
olina. He  lived  on  his  plantation  in  Prince  William  Parish 
that  he  had  received  from  his  father,  and  died  there  1 2  Decem- 
ber 1831.  He  was  buried  at  Owens  Cross  Roads,  now  Fairfax, 
where  the  stone  was  standing  in  1921. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  A.  OWENS,  by  his  wife  Mary  Over- 
street,  had  issue: 

50.  Edwin  Owens. 

51.  William  Aiken  Owens,  born  on  the  plantation  in 
Beaufort  County  14  September  1822;  died  in  Barnwell  20 
December  1859.  He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Barn- 
well Bar;  a  colonel  of  the  South  Carolina  militia,  on  the  staff 
of  Governor  William  Aiken;  and  at  the  time  of  his  death,  a 
candidate  for  Congress.  He  married  Frances  Corley,  sister  of 
Colonel  James  Lawrence  Corley,  a  West  Point  graduate,  and 
Commissary  General  in  the  Confederate  Army.  Their  children 
were:  Clarence,  Arthur,  Edward,  Eugene.  Clinton,  and  Eva 
who  never  married.  (See  sketch  of  Colonel  Owens,  page  95.) 

52.  SARAH  EUGENIA  OWENS,  born  29  January  1827; 
married  General  John  E.  Tobin;  died  16  January  1894,  and 
was  buried  at  Swallow  Savannah,  near  Allendale.  For  issue  see 
Tobin  Genealogy. 


Tobin  Line  149 

BOOTH 

53.  JOHN  BOOTH,  was  my  grandfather  seven  genera- 
tions back.  He  came  to  Granville  County,  South  Carolina,  from 
Virginia,  with  his  wife  Mary  and  his  daughter  Sarah,  and 
served  as  a  soldier  in  Colonel  Harden's  regiment  of  Colonial 
Militia  during  the  Revolution.  While  operating  with  a  body 
of  picked  men  against  a  band  of  Tories  under  Captain  Mott, 
he  was  killed  at  Hutson's  Ferry  and  was  buried  there  in  his 
blanket  (1779).  An  account  of  this  incident  is  given  in  The 
Memoirs  of  Tarleton  Brown,  a  captain  in  the  Continental 
Army,  and  a  family  connection j  also  indicated  in  the  Records 
of  the  U.  S.  Pension  Office.  Sarah  Booth  married  James  Over- 
street. 

The  descendants  of  John  Booth  and  others  in  Barnwell 
County  have  organized  a  John  Booth  Chapter  of  The  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution,  and  placed  a  chair  to  his 
memory  in  Continental  Hall  in  Washington.  It  was  given  in 
the  name  of  Sarah  E.  Tobin,  my  grandmother,  and  his  great- 
great  granddaughter. 


OFERSTREET 

54.  JAMES  OVERSTREET,  Sr.,  who  married  Sarah 
Booth,  above,  was  of  a  family  that  came  down  from  Virginia 
as  pioneers  about  fifty  years  before  the  Revolution,  and  were 
granted  lands  in  the  Briar  Creek  Section  of  Screven  Count}', 
Georgia,  bordering  on  the  Savannah  River.  Some  members 
of  the  family  moved  back  and  forth  across  the  river  into  old 
Granville  County  for  two  or  three  generations ;  and  then  went 
back  to  Georgia  for  good. 


150  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

Grandfather  Overstreet  died  16  January  1781,  and  it  is 
a  family  tradition  that  he  was  killed  in  battle,  or  wiped  out 
in  the  general  massacre  of  civilians  by  Tories  near  Salley's 
Cowpens  in  the  fork  of  the  Edisto  River;  but  no  confirmation 
of  this  can  be  had.  He  was  survived  by  his  wife  Sarah,  four 
sons  and  two  daughters ;  perhaps  others. 

55.  SARAH  OVERSTREET,  born  10  December  1756; 
died  24  December  1818 ;  must  have  been  a  woman  of  extra- 
ordinary character.  Her  father,  John  Booth,  had  come  from 
Virginia,  to  clear  up  lands  on  the  edge  of  the  Savannah  River 
Swamp  when  she  was  quite  young.  She  married  James  Over- 
street,  above,  when  still  in  her  teens,  and  less  than  ten  years 
later  was  left  a  widow  with  six  small  children,  maybe  more. 
Their  struggle  for  existence  during  the  remaining  years  of  the 
Revolution,  in  a  wilderness  overrun  by  Tories,  is  graphically 
described  by  Tarleton  Brown.  But  she  held  her  own  against 
all  odds,  and  during  the  succeeding  years  of  her  widowhood, 
developed  the  lands  (original  grants)  that  she  had  received 
from  her  mother,  and  her  husband;  added  to  them,  and  by  the 
judicious  purchase  of  negroes,  farm  buildings,  implements  of 
husbandry,  Etc,  she  was  at  the  time  of  her  death  possessed  of 
considerable  property.  This  she  distributed  among  her  chil- 
dren, her  grandchildren,  and  her  friends.  Among  the  bequests 
in  her  will,  was  a  half-acre  plot  to  be  taken  out  of  her  mother's 
original  grant,  for  pepetual  use  as  a  family  Burying  Ground. 
She  herself  was  buried  there,  and  the  stone  is  still  standing. 


JAMES  OVERSTREET,  Sr.,  by  his  wife  Sarah  Booth 
(No.  55  above),  had  issue  as  follows: 

56.  James  Overstreet,  Jr.,  born  in  Barnwell  District  1 1 
February   1773;   died  China  Grove,  N.  C,  24  May   1822, 


Tobin  Line  151 

where  he  was  buried.  (Stone  standing  in  1925.)  He  was  a 
planter,  but  also  practiced  law,  and  held  several  offices,  in- 
cluding Justice  of  the  Peace,  as  was  the  custom  among  planters 
of  those  times  because  of  the  negroes.  He  was  an  honorary 
member  of  the  Clariosophic  Society  of  the  South  Carolina 
College  in  1816,  and  in  1819  was  elected  to  Congress.  Re- 
elected in  1821,  he  was  taken  suddenly  ill  while  driving  home 
from  Washington  in  his  gig,  and  died.  Congress  passed  a  reso- 
lution lamenting  his  death,  adjourned  for  twenty-four  hours, 
and  the  members  wore  crepe  on  their  sleeves  for  thirty  days. 
He  married  Eliza  Bowen  (born  13  April  1773;  died  6 
September  1817),  who  was  the  daughter  of  Ann  Holcomb 
Bowen,  and  the  granddaughter  of  the  widow  Katherine  Hol- 
comb, who  married  Bartlett  Brown,  Sr.,  as  indicated  below. 
They  were  survived  by  four  children,  of  whom  Mary  and 
Eliza,  married  John  and  James  Owens  respectively.  (Brothers 
married  sisters.)  We  are  descended  from  Mary;  and  our  Cal- 
houn, Simms,  and  Hartzog,  kin  from  Eliza.  (See  Owens  Gen- 
ealogy. 

Congressman  Overstreet  had  a  second  wife,  Agnes  Maria, 
by  whom  he  left  descendants,  but  of  whom  we  have  no  material 
knowledge  at  this  time.  His  brothers  and  sisters  were  as 
follows. 

57.  Samuel  Overstreet,  married  Cynthia  Causey -y  died 
in  1813.  They  had  one  son,  Samuel  Overstreet,  Jr.,  who  mar- 
ried Margaret  Kinchley  and  moved  from  Barnwell  to  Screven 
County,  Georgia  in  1852.  The  Honorable  James  Whetstone 
Overstreet,  a  member  of  Congress  from  that  District  in  1921, 
was  his  grandson.  Cynthia  Causey  Overstreet  married  second 
Louis  O'Bannon  of  Barnwell,  and  by  him  left  descendants. 

58.  Henry  Overstreet,  moved  to  Georgia. 

59.  John  Overstreet,  moved  to  Georgia. 


152  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

60.  Mary  Overstreet,  married  Johnson  and  left  descend- 
ants in  Savannah. 

61.  A  daughter  who  married  Brown  and  left  two  sons, 
Charles  J.  Brown  and  Josiah  Brown,  mentioned  in  Sarah  Over- 
street's  will. 


BROWN 

62.  BARTLETT  BROWN,  Sr.,  born  in  Virginia  1735; 
died  in  Barnwell  County  about  1784.  He  was  a  handsome  old 
gentleman  and  from  an  old  portrait,  he  could  well  have  been 
taken  to  be  a  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  or  perhaps  Chief  Jus- 
tice. His  eyes  and  brow  show  him  to  have  been  a  man  of  high 
intellect  and  good  common  sense,  his  coat  shows  him  to  be  a 
man  of  poise  and  dignity.  He  was  a  planter  of  Albermarle 
County,  Virginia,  who  at  some  time  before  1769,  pulled  up 
stakes,  and  moved  with  his  family  and  slaves  to  Mathew's 
Bluff,  on  the  Savannah  River.  He  served  as  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolutionary  War,  and  was  the  uncle  of  the  famous  Tarleton 
Brown,  a  Captain  in  the  Continental  Army.  Before  coming 
to  South  Carolina,  he  married  in  Virginia,  1754,  Katherine 
Holcomb,  a  widow  (born  1735)  from  whom  we  are  descended 
by  her  first  husband.  By  her  second  husband,  Bartlett  Brown, 
she  had  six  sons — Bartlett  Brown,  Jr.,  Benjamin  Brown,  John 
Brown,  James  Brown,  William  Brown  and  Joseph  Brown. 

63.  Bartlett  Brown,  Jr.,  born  15  January  1755;  served 
as  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution;  died  6  December  1822;  and 
is  buried  at  Bull  Pond.  He  married  Patience  Overstreet,  who 
according  to  family  tradition  was  closely  related  to  our  ancestor 
Congressman  Overstreet,  most  likely  his  father's  sister.  Sarah 
Overstreet  indicates  in  her  will  that  there  was  some  very  close 


The  Texas  Tobins  153 

relationship,  which  we  have  been  unable  to  fathom,  between 
herself  and  the  Browns.  Bartlett  Brown's  son  Major  Jabez 
Brown  was  the  guardian  of  Congressman  Overstrcet's  grand- 
daughter, Sarah  Owens.  He  and  his  wife  Ann  Trotti,  raised 
the  little  Sarah  as  their  own  child.  They  had  an  adopted 
daughter,  Emma  Brown,  of  about  the  same  age  as  Sarah,  and 
both  children  called  the  Major's  brothers  and  sisters  "uncle" 
and  "aunt".  Thus  as  time  went  on  the  younger  generations 
continued  to  call  the  Brown  connections  Uncle  This  and 
Cousin  That,  without  having  any  definite  idea  as  to  how  we 
were  related.  It  was  very  much  the  same  on  the  Hagood  side. 
During  my  boyhood,  we  counted  pretty  much  the  whole  of 
Barnwell  County  as  our  kin.  But  the  war  took  away  our  slaves. 
The  plantations  were  gone.  And  the  people,  deprived  of  their 
livelihood,  had  to  go  in  for  the  learned  professions  and  com- 
mercial pursuits.  Outsiders  drifted  in.  And  now  the  country  is 
populated  by  strangers. 

THE   TEXAS   TOBINS 

The  Tobins  who  went  to  Texas  fared  much  better  than 
those  who  stayed  at  home.  Not  because  Sherman  by-passed 
Texas  on  his  March  to  the  Sea,  not  because  the  Texans  did  not 
lose  their  slaves  and  plantations ;  but  because  Texas,  in  addi- 
tion to  its  size,  is  the  greatest  state  in  the  Union,  as  a  state. 
Other  states  have  larger  cities.  Other  cities  have  larger  plants. 
But  in  its  agriculture,  in  its  oil,  in  the  diversity  of  its  indus- 
tries, in  the  spread  of  its  prosperity,  and  in  all  that  goes  with 
that,  the  Lone  Star  State  surpasses  them  all. 

The  Texas  Tobins  shared  in  this.  And  while  we  of  South 
Carolina  look  to  the  glories  of  the  past,  our  kin  in  Texas  look 
to  the  present  and  future. 


154  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

In  San  Antonio,  the  home  of  Edgar  Tobin  is  comparable 
to  the  handsomest  "cottages"  I  have  known  in  Newport,  and  is 
much  more  of  a  place  in  which  to  live.  The  house  is  modern  in 
every  sense  of  the  word.  It  contains  every  convenience  and 
luxury  known  to  modern  science.  But  it  is  not  pretentious,  and 
its  architectural  design  is  restful  to  the  eye.  Its  perfectly  kept 
lawns  5  its  trees  and  flowers,  make  an  ideal  setting  for  its  stables, 
its  tennis  courts,  and  its  swimming  pool,  around  which  on  sum- 
mer afternoons,  his  friends  who  do  not  care  to  swim,  are  served 
with  drinks.  The  Tobin  place  with  its  spacious  grounds  and 
hedges  occupy  the  better  part  of  a  city  block. 

San  Antonio  is  filled  with  Tobins,  but  the  Tobin  name  is 
almost  gone.  In  the  list  below  I  have  selected  just  a  few,*  as 
representatives  of  the  several  branches,  with  whom  I  was 
most  intimate  when  I  was  living  there. 

1.  Daniel  Isidore  Tobin,  was  the  son  of  Daniel  Tobin  of 
Kilkenny  Plantation,  Barnwell  County,  S.  C,  by  his  wife 
Agnes  Lartigue,  and  was  my  grandfather's  brother.  He  was 
born  on  the  plantation  1 1  September  1830;  and  went  to  Texas 
about  1853.  He  married  Senorita  Nevarro,  daughter  of  a 
former  Governor  of  the  Mexican  province  from  which  the 
state  of  Texas  was  formed,  and  died  there  before  the  war. 

2.  William  Girard  Tobin,  born  in  Barnwell  County  21 
May  1833;  died  in  Texas  July  1883.  He  went  to  Texas  with 
his  brother  Daniel,  and  married  there  in  1853,  Josephine 
Smith,  whose  father  John  W.  Smith,  was  the  last  and  only  sur- 
viving messenger  sent  out  from  The  Alamo,  to  get  help.  He 
succeeded  in  passing  through  the  Mexican  lines,  but  before  the 
help  could  arrive,  the  entire  garrison  had  been  massacred. 
Smith  became  the  first  Mayor  of  San  Antonio  and  served  for 


*  A  complete   list   of   the  Texas  Tobins   down   to   include   the   fourth   generation,   as  fur- 
nished by  Colonel  Tobin  Rote,  has  been  filed  with  the  South  Carolina  Historical  Society. 


The  Texas  Tobins  155 

ttn  years,  1837-1847.  Tobin  served  in  some  command  capacity 
during  the  Cortinas  War;  and  in  1860  was  appointed  brigadier 
general  in  the  Texas  State  Troops  by  his  friend  Governor  Sam 
Houston.  In  the  Confederate  War  he  served  as  a  captain  in 
Duff's  Regiment. 


William  Girard  Tobin,  by  his  wife  Josephine  Smith  had 
three  sons  and  seven  daughters,  who  left  descendants  in  San 
Antonio  and  vicinity.  Among  these  were: 

3.  Zelieme  Tobin,  born  1855}  died  1911}  married  John 
Fraser,  one  of  their  daughters,  Clara,  married  Frank  Lewis 
a  prominent  businessman,  now  living  in  San  Antonio.  They 
had  a  daughter  Clara  who  married  Dan  Chandler,  U.  S.  Army. 
She  was  a  nationally  known  golf  champion,  very  beautiful  and 
very  charming. 

4.  Mary  Ellen  Tobin,  born  1860;  died  1917;  married 
James  M.  Vance.  Their  daughter,  Mary  Vance,  married  A.  B. 
Spencer,  a  big  lumber  man  whose  interests  extended  all  over 
the  southwest  and  into  Mexico.  He  died  in  1941,  and  his  two 
sons  Alex  and  Milton  now  carry  on  the  business.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Cincinnati  Society  of  the  State  of  Virginia. 

5.  Ella  Tobin,  born  1863;  died  1918;  married  James 
Carr.  Their  daughter  Lucie,  one  of  the  most  beautiful  mem- 
bers of  the  Tobin  family,  married  Charles  Armstrong  who 
operated  a  large  ranch  in  south  Texas,  not  far  from  San  An- 
tonio. He  was  a  noted  polo  player,  a  great  sportsman,  and  a 
generous  host.  Lucie  also  owned  good  dogs  and  was  a  fine  shot. 

6.  William  Girard  Tobin,  Jr.,  born  1865;  died  1925; 
had  a  son  Edgar  Tobin,  mentioned  above,  who  was  a  famous 
aviator  during  the  First  World  War.  He  was  awarded  the 


156  Meet  Your  Grandfather 

Distinguished  Service  Cross  for  extraordinary  heroism  in  ac- 
tion, attacking  a  superior  force,  and  bringing  down  single 
handed  two  enemy  planes  and  disabling  a  third.  He  went  into 
civil  aviation  after  the  war,  invented  and  operated  a  method  of 
locating  oil  fields  by  geologic  surveys  from  the  air.  This 
method  is  widely  used  now  and  netted  him  a  fortune. 

7.  John  W.  Tobin,  born  1867}  was  Chief  of  the  San 
Antonio  Fire  Department,  Alderman,  County  Treasurer, 
Sheriff,  and  Mayor,  of  San  Antonio  over  a  period  of  thirty 
years.  One  of  the  most  beloved  men  in  the  city,  and  died  in 
office,  1927. 

8.  Josephine  Tobin,  born  1868;  married  W.  P.  Rote. 
Their  son  Tobin  Rote  served  during  the  First  World  War  as 
lieutenant  Texas  National  Guard.  He  was  awarded  the  Dis- 
tinguished Service  Cross  for  extraordinary  heroism  in  action — 
single-handed  capture  of  a  machine  gun  nest.  Now  colonel 
U.  S.  Army. 


INDEX 


Aiken,   Governor   William    96 

Alamo,  The    154 

Aldrich,   Judge  Alfred    97 

Colonel    Robert    98 

Allen   Branch    123 

Allen,  Augusta,  tn.  Smith    124 

Augustus  T 141 

Augustus,  Jr 142 

Carolina,  tn.   Hamilton    124 

Columbia,    tn.    Bellinger    125 

Dorothy,  m.  Hey  ward    142 

Harriet  S.,  m.  Tobin    103, 

140,  141 

Harrietta,  tn.  Fowke    126 

Indiana  M.,  tn.  Hagood    .  .9,  37, 

114,    125,  127 

John  C 9,   37,  72,    114, 

123,   124,  127 

Capt.  Joseph  D sketch  72; 

123,  126 

Capt.   Joe's   dog    sketch  77 

Juliana,    tn.    Morrison     126 

Laura,  tn.  Stoney    147 

Leroy     147 

Orsamus    D 78,  123 

Sarah,   tn.   Gantt    123 

Septima      1 24 

Sherwood    9,    10,  123 

Aliens  of  Edgefield    126 

Allston,  John    131 

Ambler,  Adaline,  tn.   Hagood    ....29,  110 

James      29,  110 

Ambler,  Major  James  H 29,  109,  110 

Anderson,  Mrs.  C.  C 112 

Armstrong,  Charles    155 

Mrs.    J.    N 140 

Baker,  Mrs.  Charles   (Emmie)    112 

Barnwell  County,  populated  by  strang- 
ers        153 

Barnwell,    Edith,   tn.   Tobin    142 

Henry      142 

Vice  Admiral  John 142 

Hon.    Joseph     41 

Barnwell  People,   Newspaper    95 

Barrett,  Elizabeth,  tn.  Hagood    113 

Bates,  General  John  C 115 

Bateman,   S.   D 112 

Beaumont,  Comtesse  de    87 

Beauregard,   praises    Hagood    49,  67 

Beck,    Joseph    145 

Bellinger,   Charles    110 

Clifford      110 

Ensign  Edmund    63,  64,  125 

Landgrave    Edmund     125 


Bellinger — (Continued) 

Eleanor,  in.   Mahcr    12i 

Julia,    tn.    Taft     125 

Doctor    Martin     114,  125 

S.   N 125 

Black    Swamp,    plantation     it  95 

Boineau,   Colonel    Lec.n    14" 

Booth    Branch     14') 

Booth,   John    79,  149 

Chapter    D.    A.    R.    .                   .  .  149 

Mrs.   Mary    14') 

Sarah,   m.   Overstreet          79,    149,  150 

Bostick,    Mary    H.,   m.    Martin    129 

William   Maner    129 

William    M.,    Jr 129 

William  M.  Ill    129 

Boulton,   Mathew,  monument  to  Small 

70,  71 

Bowen,   Eliza,  tn.   Overstreet    151 

Bowman,  Rev.  Peyton  G 139 

Dr.    Peyton    G.,    Jr 139 

Bratton's   Brigade     61 

Brooks'    Battalion     1  2S 

Brown   Connections    1  >2 

Brown,    Barney    78 

Bartlett,  Sr 151,  sketch  1  52 

Bartlett,   Jr 152 

Benjamin     1 52 

Charles   J 1  ^2 

Emma      153 

Major  Jabcz    95,  153 

James     1^2 

John    152 

Joseph      1  ^2 

Josiah      1^2 

Laura,  tn.   Pecples    139 

Captain  Tarleton 149,    150,  152 

William     152 

Buchanan,  President  aids  Hampton.  ..  96 

Bull,  Ada  Lartigue,  m.  Cabell    14' 

Leela   Kate,   tn.    Mclver    143 

Norman   Austin    141 

Norman    Austin,   Jr 143 

Norman   H 141,  14* 

Bullock,   Governor     116 

Martha,  tn.  Roosevelt    116 

Burckmycr,  Carrie    110 

Burying   Ground,    Hagood ....  18,    38, 

44,  67,  114,  US,  122,  125 

Lartigue     91 

Overstreet      150 

Others,  see  graveyard 

Bushy-head,   Indian   Chief    58 

Butler,   Andrew    Pickens,   Judge...  56,  115 

Behethland    Foote    52,     54-56 


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158 


Index 


Butler — (Continued) 

Eloise,  tn.  Hagood    52,  S3,  115 

Eloise,   tn.   Bushyhead    58 

James   L 58 

Mathew   C,   Senator    42 

William,     Capt.     and     Maj.-Gen. 

54,  55 

Buyers,    Colonel    Archie    141 

Archie  G.    I 141 

Captain  John   F 141 

Cabell,   Dorothy,  tn.  Robb    143 

Frederick     143 

Caledonian    Canal,    suggested    by    Dr. 

Small     70 

Calhoun,   Harry    147 

Calhoun    kin      151 

Campbell,  Alfred  N 146 

Alfred  N.,  Mrs 91,   146 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  tn.   Hagood    ....    Ill 
Cargill,    John     123 

Mary,  tn.   (1)   Allen,    (2)   Wood- 
ruff      9,   123 

Carpetbaggers    49-51 

Carr,   James    155 

Carr,  Lucie,  tn.  Armstrong 155 

Carroll,    Edward    145 

Castle    Line    133 

Causey,    Cynthia,    tn.    (1)    Overstreet, 

(2)   O'Bannon    151 

Cedars,  The,  Allen   Home    52 

Description  by  N.  Y.   Editor.  ...      75 
Cemetery,   see   Graveyard 

Chandler,   Capt.   Dan 155 

Chaplin,  Major  Saxby 112 

Chapman,  Mrs.  Catherine,  tn.  Lartigue   144 

Claudia,   tn.   Lartigue    144,    146 

Chiles,  Garland    Ill 

Chisholm,   Dr.  Julian    126 

Cincinnati    Society    ...14,    118,    127,   155 

Citadel,   The 39,   45,    60,    102, 

112,  118,  120 

Clariosophic    Society     151 

Clarissa,    negro   slave    18,      33 

Clark,  Emma,  tn.  Oakman    115 

Eva    Turner,    wrong    as    to    Ha- 

goods     30 

Coe,  Charlotte  Cordes    135 

Henry    135 

Wayne     135 

Coles,   Colonel   Boyd    147 

Collier's    Weekly    117 

Connor,  Mary  M 141 

Continental    Hall     149 

Cooper,    Lucrctia,   tn.    Hagood    110 

Cordes,   Charlotte,  tn.   Marion    131 

Corlcy,  Frances,  tn.  Owens 97,   148 

Colonel    James    97,   148 

Corry,   Fanny,   tn.   Means    115 

Crawford,    James     Ill 


Creed,  Elizabeth,  tn.   Hawkwood    ....  26 

Crown   of  Italy,  military  order    118 

Culler,   Annie,   tn.   Zimmerman    145 

James    145 

Wesley     145 

Currie,   Sir   Donald    133 

D'Abrantis,   Duchesse    87,  88 

Daddy  Morris,  old  negro  slave 116 

Dailey,    D.    B 49 

Colonel    George     49 

Darwin,  Erasmus,  epitaph  to  Small.  .  .  71 

D'Aubrey,  Louise,  tn.  Marion 131 

Davis,  Jeane  E.,  tn.   Lee    119 

Mrs.    U.    W 112 

Dean,  Ann,  tn.  Fabian    22 

DeForest,  Captain  C.  S 136 

De   LaPorte,    Madame,   tn.    Lartigue.  .  143 

De  Loach,  Samuel    Ill 

Diamond,   Jim    63 

Dickinson,    Henry    126 

Distinguished   Service  Cross    156 

Service  Medal    117,  130 

Drayton,    Charles     124 

Duncan,    Hansford     78 

Harriet,  m.  Allen    72,  73,  123 

Miss,   tn.   Small    132 

Miss,  tn.  Tobin    84 

Dunwoody,  Caroline  I.,  tn.  Savage...  116 

Reverend    James     116 

Durr,    Mrs.   J.   E 140 

Dwyer,    Mary     83 

Elmore,    John    A 129 

Brig.   Gen.  John  A.,  Jr 130 

Colonel   Vincent   M 129 

Lieut.  Col.  Vincent  M.,  Jr 130 

Estes,    Rev.    Elliott    Ill 

Euphradian   Society    92 

Fabian,  Joseph    22 

Peter      22 

Sarah,  tn.  O'Hear   22,  123 

Fairfax   (Owens   Cross  Roads)    ...95,  147 

Fid,  monument  to    78 

Fishburne,   Dr.   Charles  G 146 

George    112 

Forbes,  Caro,  tn.  Riley    142 

Fort  Sumter    45 

Fowke,    Colonel   Gerard    126 

Laurie      126 

Misses,     tn.      Hewlett,     Johnson, 

Traynor,   Woodruff    126 

Doctor,   R.   C 126 

Franklin,   Benjamin,   praises   Small...  70 

Fraser,  Ann,  tn.   Hay    112 

Clara,  tn.  Lewis    155 

John    155 

Joseph      112 

Sophia,  tn.   McDonald    10,  112 


Index 


159 


Freeman  Douglass,  praises  Hagood...  46 

Fuller,   Caroline,   tn.   O'Hear    23 

Gambrell,   David   Henry    120 

E.    Smythe    120 

Robert    Hagood    120 

Gantt,    Eliza,   tn.    Drayton    123 

Colonel     Lawrence     124 

Miss,   m.   Morrison    126 

Judge   Richard    123 

Richard,    Jr 123,  124 

Doctor   Robert    124 

Thomas     123 

Gillison,  Adelle,  tn.  Lartigue.  .  .  .  144,  145 

Girard,    Steven     89 

Gordon    Branch    121 

Bible    10,   11,  112 

Gordon,  Ann,  Jr.,  tn.  O'Hear   .  .9,  13, 

17,  20,  109,  121,  122 

Elizabeth      121 

Jane,   tn.   Small    132 

Thomas,  Sr 9,  10,  sketch  1 1 ;  121 

Thomas,  Jr.,  Capt.,  13,  sketch  14;  121 

Thomas,  Lieut.  Col.  Foot  Guards  1 1 

William     133 

Gordons,   The     sketch  10 

Grace,    Anne,    tn.     Lartigue.  .90,    91, 

139,  144 

Captain   William    90 

Graham,  Winchester    97 

Graves,    Mrs.    Humphrey    140 

Graveyard 

Barnwell    52,  86,   123,   124,  126 

Blackville      94 

Charleton,  Eng 133 

Elmwood     141 

Augusta     123 

Independent,    Charleston     121 

Magnolia     1 34 

Swallow    Savannah 106,    140,  148 

St.    Michael    128 

Others,  see  Burying  Ground 

Green,   General   Nathaniel    53 

Gregorie,  James   M 145 

Guthrie,  of  Gagie    132 

Hagood,  Alice,  tn.  Means    115 

Alice    Kathleen,   tn.    Gambrell...  119 

Alice   Kathleen,  tn.   Lee    118 

Amanda     Ill 

Ann    Eliza    109 

Ann    Eliza,    tn.    Oakman  .  .  .  .  1 1  3,  115 

Ann    O'Hear,    issue    Ill 

Anne,    tn.    Burckmyer    110 

Augusta,    C 116 

Bates      114 

Colonel    Ben  j  amin     29,  1  1 0 

Caroline  Gordon,  tn.  Witsell    ...  112 

Cora  Sue     120 


Hagood — (Continued) 

Earl    V 113 

Earl    V.,    Jr 114 

Edwin    Augustus,    Sr 113 

Edwin    Augustus,    Jr 114 

Eliza,   tn.    Chiles    Ill 

Eliza  Ann,  tn.   Odom    110 

Ella  Rosa    116 

Ellen,   tn.   Richardson    113 

Elvira,    tn.    (1)    McPhcrson,    (2) 

Estes    Ill 

Emily,  tn.   Oakman    113 

Emma,   tn.   McPherson    Ill 

Francesca,   tn.    Packard    120 

George    (also    Hogwood)    26 

Gertrude,    tn.    Bellinger     110 

Gideon      110,  111 

Gideon    Johnson    110 

Gideon,  Mrs.  of  Georgia    Ill 

Gordon      117 

Harriet    Ill 

Harriet    M.,   tn.    (1)    Fraser,    (2) 

Schmidt      112 

Holly,  tn.  Ray    Ill 

Indiana    Caroline,    tn.    Dunwoody  116 

Irene,    tn.    Robinson    110 

Isabelle,  tn.   Oakman    110,  113 

James,   d.    1829    110 

James,   d.    1882    118 

James   M 29 

James   O'Hear,   Dr.,   8,   9,   sketch 

36;   114,  125 
James   Robert,    Col.,    39,   41,   43, 

56,  sketch  60;  117 
Jean    Gordon,    Jr.,    tn.    Holloway 

12,  119 

John    Ill 

John  Adrian  115 

John  W Ill 

Johnson,    Esq.,    7,    9,    18,    sketch 

31;  33,  35,  109,  111,  122 
Johnson,    Brig.    Gen.,    also    Gov- 
ernor,   10,    11,   sketch   45;    53,  115 

Johnson,    Maj.    Gen 9,    79, 

117,    119,    131,  135 

Johnson,   Jr.,   Colonel    9,  120 

Johnson,  of  Barnwell   (b.   1897) 

10,  115 

Julia,  tn.   Bellinger    110 

Julia,  daughter  of  Gideon    Ill 

Lee,   Col.,   9,  sketch   39;    79,   99, 

116,   117,  141 

Lee,    Major     118 

Mary    Eloise     117 

Monroe   Johnson,    Lieut.    Col....  114 

Pickens,    Butler    115 

Randolph    or    Randall    29,  109 


160 


Index 


Hagood — (Continued) 

Rebecca,    m.     Hagood     (no    rela- 
tion)      29,   109 

Richard      110 

Robert   H.    (1797-1825)    7,  112 

Robert  H.,  Confederate  soldier.  114 
Sarah  Ann,  m.  Oakman  ...113,  115 
Sarah   M.,   m.   Oakman    ....110,   113 

Susan,    m.    Ambler    29,   110 

Susan,   m.    Hughes    Ill,    140 

Thomas   B 114 

Thomas    Gideon     Ill 

Tirza,  m.   (1)    Crawford    (2)    de- 
Loach     Ill 

William,      9,      sketch      28,      also 

Haguewood      109 

William,   of   N.   C,   no   relation.      30 

William   H.,  Doctor    110,    113 

William    H.,    Confederate    soldier   114 

William   Johnson    7,   113 

Yonge   Johnson    Ill 

Hagood    Burying    Ground ....  18,    38, 

44,  67,  114,  115,  122,  125 
Hagood  Line,  Diagram  9,  Genealogy.  109 
Hagood  pronounced   Haguewood    ....      27 

Hagood,  variations   in   Spelling    26 

Hagoods,    The,    sketches     26,     28 

Hagood's    Brigade,   46-49;    monument 

49;    144 

Mill    Pond    37,   100 

Regiment    ...45,  60,    114,    125,   129 
Haguewood    (see    Hagood) 
Hall,  Grace,  m.   (1)  Jervey   (2)   Gor- 
don        121 

Hammond,   Captain   U.   S.  Navy    ....    135 

Pliylis,    m.    Howard     135 

Hamilton,    Dr.   Samuel    124 

Hampton,    General    Wade,    114,    Gov- 
ernor 51,  Red  Shirts    42 

Hanahan,    William     112 

Harden's  Regiment    149 

Harper,   Robert  Goodloe..32,   33,   55,   109 

Hartzog,   Henry    147 

Hartzog,    Kin     151 

Harvard,   Mrs.   Pearle,   nee   Hagood..    114 
Hawkes,   Mary,  m.  Gordon...  13,    16,   121 

Hawkwood,    Francis     26 

Sir   John     26 

Hay,  Eroledine,  m.   Bateman    112 

Eugene    Gordon     113 

Dr.   Lewis  Scott    112 

Louise,  m.  Gantt   124 

Hayes,  President,  supports  Hampton.  .      51 
Haygood,  see   Hagood 

Hayne,  Eloise   M.,  m.   Martin    128 

Harriet,    m.    Butler     56,    115 

Colonel    Isaac    57,   128 

Hewlett,  m.   Miss   Fowke    126 

Hey  ward,    Mrs.    Robert    72,    125 


Heyward,   Roger    142 

Heyworth,   Lieutenant   Lawrence    ....  119 

Hoge,   J.   M 113 

Hogwood,   George    (also   Hagood)    ...    26 

Holcomb,  Ann,  m.  Bowen    151 

Mrs.  Katherine,  m.  Brown..  151,  152 

Hollman,    Florie,   m.    Hagood    115 

Holloway,  Admiral  James  L.,  Jr.  .12,  119 

James    L.    Ill    119 

James    L.   IV    119 

Jean  G.,  m.  Heyworth    119 

Hooke,    James    113 

Horry,   General  Peter    130 

Houston,  Governor  Sam   155 

Howard,  Charles  E.  N.,  Colonel   ....  134 

C.  E.  N.,  Jr.,  Lieut.  Col 134 

Charlotte     135 

James  Hampden,  Capt.,  U    S.  N.  134 

James    Hampden,   Jr 135 

Linda     135 

Sallie     135 

Hughes,    Charles     140 

Cooper     140 

William     110 

Judge    William     140 

William,    Jr 140 

Hutson,  Florie,  m.  Heyward    72,  125 

Chancellor   Richard    125 

Dr.   Thomas   Woodward    124 

Hutson's   Ferry     149 

Indian    Kin    58 

Jake,  negro  convict    105 

Jefferson,  Thomas,  praises  Small..  69, 

70,  132 

Jenkins'   Brigade    61 

Jenkins,   General   Micah    39 

Jervey,  Mrs.  Grace  Hall,  m.  Gordon.  14 

Captain    Thomas     14,  121 

Jeter,   m.   Williams    126 

Jodan,   Ann    91 

Jones,   Melvira,   m.   Lartigue    146 

Johnson,  Louise,  m.  Small    136 

Johnson,   Sarah,   m.   Hagood.. 28,    30,  109 

Juliet,    negro    slave     18,  33 

Junot,    Madame    87,  88 

Marechal     87 

Kershaw,    Rev.    John    40 

Kershaw's    Brigade    46 

Kilkenny  County,  Ireland    80,  82 

Kilkenny   Plantation,   S.   C.  ...80,   82,  85 

Kinchley,   Margaret,  m.   Overstreet .  .  .  151 

Kosciusko,   General    53 

L'Abatut,   Madame    88,  90 

Raymond     90 

L'Abatuts   in   Santo   Domingo    87-90 


Index 


161 


Lallemand,  General   Charles    88,     89 

General   Henri    89 

Baronne   Caroline   Lartigue.  .  .87,     88 

LaPorte   Heights    90 

Madame   de     88,     89 

LaPortcs  in  Santo  Domingo    87-90 

Lartigue    Branch     143 

Lartigue,  Adelle,  tn.  Pinckney    145 

Agnes,  tn.  Tobin   .  .  .  .79,  85,  86, 

91,  138,  139,  144,  154 

Anna,  tn.   Culler    145 

Annie,   tn.   Rothrock 144 

Caroline,   tn    Lallemand    ....87,     88 

Charles  E 91,   145 

Charles,   Jr 145 

Claudia,  tn.  Fishburne   146 

Cornelia,  tn.  Beck   145 

Emma    146 

Etienne    91 

Etienne,  Jr 145 

Eugene    146 

Eugene,    Jr 146 

Frances,   tn.    Carroll    145 

Gerard,   79,   85,   sketch   87;    138, 

143,  144 

Gerard  Bull    144 

Isidore    91,  144,  145,  146 

Jaque  Etienne    91,   144 

Josiphene,  tn.  Campbell    91,   146 

Katherine,   tn.   Gregorie    145 

Louis     145 

Lucia,   tn.   Culler    145 

Lucretia,   tn.    Graham    144 

Madame     88,     89 

Ralph     145 

Roberjo     88 

Rosanna,  tn.  Odom    144 

Lartigues   in   Santo    Domingo    87-90 

Latimer,  Rev.  Robert  S 116 

Lawton,  Jane  H.,  tn.  Lartigue.  .  .  .91, 

144,  145 

Sarah  (nee  Jaudon)  91 

Brooks  Ill 

Lee,  Alice  Hagood,  tn.  Lowndes    ....    119 

General    Henry    54 

Richard    Dozier    118 

Richard    Dozier,   Jr 119 

General    R.    E.,    praises    Hagood 
49;     tribute    to    Jim     Hagood 

60,  65-67 

Lee's  Lieutenants    46 

Legare,   Anna,  tn.   O'Hear    23 

John   Berwick     23 

Legion  d'Honeur    117 

of   Merit    119,   120 

Lester,  Dr.  William  M 99,   141 


Lewis,   Mrs.  Alberta    26 

Clara,    tn.    Chandler    155 

Frank     155 

Linn,   Mary,  tn.   Small    135 

Logan,  Christian,  tn.  Wright    135 

Logan,  Captain  George  C,  U.  S.  N. .  .  135 

Longstreet,    General     67 

Lowndes,   Edward   Frost,  Jr 119 

Henry,   Horlbeck    119 

Lucas,   Betty,  tn.   Hanahan    112 

Buist    112 

McCabe,  Mrs.   (nee  Carroll)    145 

McDonald,   George    112 

Sophia,  nee  Fraser    10,   112 

Mclvcr,    Chief   Justice    143 

Edward     143 

McKay,  Jane,  tn.   Gordon    133 

McMarrough,  tn.  Miss  Morrison    ....    126 

McNeil,    Dr 124 

McPherson,  General   John    Ill 

Maher,  Judge  John    97,   125 

Marion    Branch    130 

Esther,  m.  (1)  Allston,  (2)   Mit- 
chell         131 

General   Francis    1 30 

Gabriel    130 

Gabriel,   Jr 131 

Martin    Branch     128 

Martin,  Annie,  tn.   Hagood    110 

Lieutenant    Ben    129 

Ben,  Jr 129 

Caroline,    tn.    Bostick    129 

Mrs.    Chlotilde     72 

Elmore     129 

Capt.    John    Vincent    129 

Laura,  tn.   Elmore    129 

Maner     129 

Dr.    Thomas    H 125 

Capt.    Thomas,    Jr 125 

Capt.    Vincent    F 128 

Judge    William    D 128 

General   William   E 128 

Mathews,  Mrs.  J.  B 140 

Mauldin,    Mrs.    Thomas    J 29 

Washington    C 142 

Wilder   H 142 

Mayfield,   Cora  S 120 

Means,   Alice    116 

Caroline,   tn.   Latimer    116 

David   H 115 

David    H.,  Jr Hi 

Frances    Corry    1 

Hagood,  Jr 116 

Capt.    Isaac    H 115 

Gov.  James  H 115 

James    Hagood     116 

Margaret     116 

Marie  C,  tn.  Miller    116 

Memoir  of  the  Great  War 117 


162 


Index 


Memoirs  of  Hagood's  Brigade 46 

of  Col.  J.  R.  Hagood    64 

of   Tarleton  Brown    149 

Merritt,   Rose,  tn.  Tobin    142 

Miller,    Pinckney     116 

Millions   for   Defense,   Etc 32,  109 

Minnie    Perry,    race   horse    52 

Mitchell,  Rachel,  m.  Whaley    131 

Thomas     131 

Mixon,   Frank    65 

Montague,    Lyman     141 

Therese      141 

Warren      141 

Moore,   Behethland,  m.   Butler    ....    52-56 

Morrison,   Miss,  m.  Call    126 

Morrow,   William    139 

Mott,    British    Tory    149 

Mount   Zion   Society    21 

Mum  Anne,  old  negro  slave    116 

Myers,    Henry    M 125 

Nancy   Louise,  m.  Allen    .  .  .  .74,  123 

Naval  Academy    119,   134,  135 

Neilson,    Elizabeth     83 

John      83 

Nelme,  Ann,  tn.  Gordon   10, 

12,   13,  16,  121 

Nevarro,    Governor    140,  154 

Senorita,   m.   Tobin    140,  154 

Neyle,  Charles    112 

Noblesse    de    France    87 

Nolanside,  Miss  Wylie,  tn.  Small    ...  132 

Oakman,  Clarence    110 

Clark     115 

Clifford    110,  113 

Eloise     115 

Dr.  Erwin  H 113,  115 

Erwin   H.,  Jr 115 

Octavius     113 

Dr.  Robert   Harper    113 

Rutherford     110,  113 

Thadeus      112,  113 

Wellington      113 

William    H 113,  115 

Violet    115 

O'Bannon,     Louis     151 

Pamela,   tn.    Lartigue    144 

Odom,   Allen    110 

George     144 

O'Hair,  see  O'Hear 

O'Hara,  see  O'Hear 

O'Hare,  see  O'Hear 

O'Hear    Branch    122 

O'Hear,    Ann,    tn.    Hagood     .  .  .  .7-10, 

17,   18,  20,   109,   111,  122 

Catherine     23 

Hugh    9,   19,  20,   122 

James,     9,     10,     17,    sketch    20; 

21,  22,  109,  122,  123 


O'Hear — (Continued) 

James    II    23 

James  III,  Major    23 

John  Sanders,  sketch   23 

Margaret    20,  122 

Mary  Legare    22,  23,  25 

Warren    Gates     20,  122 

O'Hears,  The,  sketch    19 

Oliver,    negro    convict     105 

O'Neal,  Bench  and  Bar  of  S.  C,  34, 

55,  124,  125,  127,  128 

Overstreet  Branch    149 

Overstreet,   Mrs    Agnes   Maria    151 

Eliza,  tn.  Owens   147,  151 

Henry      151 

James,  Sr 79,  149,  150 

James,    Jr.,    Congressman.  ..  .79, 

95,  148,  ISO,  152 

James   W.,    Congressman    151 

John    151 

Mary,  tn.  Owens... 79,  95,    139, 

148,  151 

Mary,  tn.  Johnson   152 

Miss,  tn.  Brown 152 

Patience,   tn.    Brown    152 

Samuel     151 

Samuel,    Jr 151 

Sarah    79,    149,  150 

Owens   Branch    147 

Owens,   Arthur    97,  148 

Clarence      148 

Clinton      148 

Edmund     147 

Edward     97,  148 

Edwin      148 

Eugene     97,  148 

Eva    97,  99,  148 

Jack     147 

James    G 147,  151 

John      147 

John   A.,  Capt 79,  95, 

139,    147-8,  151 

Mrs.    Margaret    147 

Marv,  tn.  Allen    147 

Sarah  E.,  tn.  Tobin    ...  .79,   92, 

95,  139,  140,  148,  153 

Solomon     79,  147 

William      79,  147 

William    A.,    Col sketch    95;  148 

Owens    Cross    Roads    (Fairfax)     .  .95,  148 

Packard,  Col.  Ashley  B 120 

Parish,    Prince    William's 95,   147 

others    11,    19,   23,     24 

Peeples,   Anna   L.,   tn.   Stewart    1 39 

Dr.   Ben    139 

Rev.   Darling    83 

Dr.    Henry   M 139 

Mamie,   tn.   Morrow    139 


Index 


163 


Perth,   Miss   Stuart,  m.  Small    132 

Perry,    Gov.   Benjamin    97 

Petersburg,    Va 46,     47 

Pinckney,    Charles    Cotcsworth.  .  .  . 32,   109 

Roger    145 

Roger,   Jr 145 

Plantation,    Kilkenny    80,    82,     85 

Short  Staple    18,  34,   109, 

113,    114,  125 

Tobin   42,  82,  85,     92 

Others    20,  23,   34,   37, 

53,  73,  124,  131,  147,  148 

Poinsett's    Tavern     12 

Purple  Heart    115,    120,   134 

Radbone,    James     135 

Victor    135 

Rawdon,    Lord     53 

Rawlings,    Dabney,    m.    Holloway.  .  .  .  119 

Admiral,    L.    W 119 

Ray,    Mathew     Ill 

Rees,   Dr.   Charles    112 

Frances,    m.    Simonds    112 

Reid,    Agnes,    m.    Small    132 

Reminiscences  of  a  Private 65 

Revolution,   Santo   Domingo    88-91 

Reynolds   Place    (Tobin)    83 

Richardson,    Thomas     113 

Riley,    James    Mclver     142 

Lartigue    142 

Mclver,  Jr 142 

Robb,   Nathaniel   Heyward    143 

Robertson,  Mrs.  E.  H 112 

Roebling,    W.    A 125 

Roosevelt,   Theodore,   Sr 116 

Theodore,   Jr.,    President    116 

Rote,   Colonel   Tobin    154,  156 

W.  P 156 

Rothrock,  Weller 144 

Round   O,  plantation  at    34 

Sacred   Treasure,   Japanese   Order    ...  118 

St.    George's    Society     134 

St.    Michael's    Church     12,  14 

Salley,    Mary   C,  m.   Lartigue    145 

Saluda   Old   Town,   sketch    53 

Sams,  Annie,  m.   Hagood    114 

Dr.    Franklin      145 

Sanders,   John    0 113 

Saturday    Evening    Post     117 

Savage,    Charles    A 116 

Henry   Elliott     116 

Marion    A 116 

Samuel     54 

Schmidt,   Eveleen,  m.   Oakman    ..112,  113 

John    T 112 

Scott,    Rosa,   m.    Small    132 

Scrymgeour    of   Tealing    132 

Services    of   Supply    117 

Sherman,  General  W.  T 37,  92,  101 


Sherwood,   Gen.   Hagood's  home    ....      52 
Short   Staple    (sec   plantation) 

Silver   Star   Citation    115,    130,   134 

Simonds,    John,    Jr 112 

Simons,    Esther    Marion,   Jr.    136 

Capt.  Robert  B.,  U.  S.  N 135 

Lt.  Robert  B.,  Jr  ,  U.  S.  N.  R.  .      1  36 

Simms   kin    151 

Zaidee,  m.  Cole    147 

Sisson  Papers,  out  of  Russia    118 

Slave   Rebellion,   Santo   Domingo.  88,     89 

Small    Branch     132 

Small,    Arthur    Huger     136 

Betty,    Jr 136 

Charlotte    (daughter   of   Tony)..    136 
Charlotte    A.,    m.    Howard     ....    134 

Charlotte     Whaley     136 

Esther  Marion,  m.  Simons    135 

George    Gordon     136 

Gordon,    Jr 136 

Gordon    III    136 

James  of  Tilly  Nhanknd    132 

James   Hampden,   Esq.    (b.    1850) 

117,  131,  133,  134 

James    H.,   Jr.,    Major    135 

James,  son  of  Gordon    136 

James    H.   Ill    136 

Jane     136 

Jean    Gordon,    m.    Hagood.... 9, 

117,    119,    130,    131,   135 
Katherine,  m.    (1)   Radbone,    (2) 

Coe    135 

Oscar   Johnson     136 

Rachel,  m.   Logan    135 

Doctor   Robert sketch   69;    132 

Robert    Scott    136 

Robert    Scott,    Jr 136 

Robert    III     136 

Sallie     136 

Strachen  Thomas    132 

Thomas      69 

Walker    ' 136 

Doctor  William sketch   69;    132 

Smallpox    inoculation,    Rector    St.    Mi- 
chael's preaches  against 17 

Smith,   Eliza   C,   m.    Hutson    124 

Josephine,  m.  Tobin    154 

Marion,    m.    Myers    125 

Mayor  John  W.,  Alamo  hero ...    1 54 

William     Henry     124 

Soldiers    Handbook     117 

South  Carolina  Society.  ..  .12,  14,  21,     34 

Sovacool,   Betty,  m.  Small    136 

Spencer,  Alex    155 

J.  B 1- 

Milton     155 

Stewart,  Adrianna,  m.  Lartigue    144 

Charles    139 

Charles,    Barrister    144 


164 


Index 


Stoddard,  Lothrop    88 

Stoney,  Dr.  John  S 147 

Straton,   Anne,   m.   Small    132 

Sun  Dial,  Allen,  in  Barnwell    72 

Taft,  Augustus  B 125 

Eleanor      125 

Dr.  Robert   125 

Rosa    125 

Walton      125 

Tennyson,   Lord   Alfred    133 

Thomas,    Cora,   m.    Hagood    9,   120 

George     120 

Thompson,   Governor   Hugh   S 42 

Tobin,  Agnes  E.,  m.  Hughes    140 

Agnes  Zelieme,  m.  Mauldin    ....    142 

Alice   M.,  m.  Bull    141,   143 

Benjamin   S 141 

Caty,   in   Ireland    83 

Cornelia,  m.  Peeples    139 

Cornelius    79,  sketch   82;    138 

Cornelius,   Jr 83,   139 

Daniel 79,  82,  83,  sketch  85; 

138,   139,   144,  154 

Daniel    Isidore    140,   154 

Edgar     154,  155 

Edith,  Jr 142 

Edna,  m.  Buyers    141 

Edwin  G.  (Bubber  Eddie)    .  .  .93,   141 
Elizabeth  M.,  m.  Montague    ....    141 

Ella,   m.    Carr    155 

Ellen   Lartigue,  m.   Bowman    ...    139 

Emily  Lartigue,  m.  Wolfe    143 

Flora   McDonald,  m.   Riley    ....    142 

Fred,   of   Malvern   Hill    81 

Harriet    142 

Col.  I.  L sketch  102;  140,  141 

Isidore  L.,  Jr 142 

Jesse  Louise    141 

John     82,  138 

Gen.  John  E 79,  sketch  92; 

139,   140,  148 

John  Etienne,  Jr 140 

John    Etienne,    Judge    142 

Etienne    IV     142 

John   W.,   Mayor   San  Antonio..    156 

Josephine,  m.   Rote    156 

Judith,    Mrs 82,   83,  138 

Kathleen    R.,    m.     (1)     Hagood, 
(2)     Lester,    9,    42,    79,    93, 

sketch  99;  117,   141 

Lartigue     142 

Mary,  in  Ireland    83 

Mary  Ellen,  m.  Vance 155 

Mary  Zelieme,  m.  Williams    ....    139 

Merritt    142 

Sallie,  m.  Allen    141 

Sarah  E.,  Continental   Hall    ....    149 

Sheldonia     142 

Gen.  William  Girard    140,   154-5 


Tobin — (Continued) 

William   Girard,  Jr 155 

Col.  William  H 80 

Zelieme,   m.   Fraser    155 

Zelieme,  m.  Williams    127 

Tobin   Line,   Diagram,  9;    Genealogy.  138 

Tobins,   The,   sketch    80 

in    France     80 

in    Ireland     80 

in  South  Carolina    80 

in  Texas   153 

Trinity  River    89 

Trotti,   m.   Brown    153 

Tufts,   Mrs.   Ruth    113 

Turner,   Clio,  m.   Lartigue    .........  144 

Tyler,  Sallie,  m.  Small    136 

Vance,  James  M 155 

Mary,  m.  Spencer    155 

Van    Buren,    David    113 

Wagner,    Battery    46 

Walker,    Miss   Anna    78 

Orie,    m.     (1)     Small,     (2)     De- 
Forest    136 

Walthal    Junction     47 

Waterbury,  June,  m.   Small    136 

Watt,  James,   assisted  by  Small    ..70,  132 

We  Can  Defend  America 117 

Weldon    Road    47-49 

Welty,   Betty,   m.   Howard    134 

Colonel   M.D 134 

West  Point... 96,  97,   117,  120,   125, 

130,  134,  141,  147 
Whaley,  Charlotte  C,  m.  Small.  .117, 

131,  133 

William     131 

White,   Bishop    126 

Elizabeth,   m.    (1)    Williams,    (2) 

Williamson      126 

Who's  Who  in  America   27,   118,  120 

Wiles,  Miss  Polly    54 

William  and  Mary  College   69,  132 

Williams,  Rev.  George  Croft   127 

Luther  White    85,  126,  139 

Miss    Pattie    140 

William,   Capt.    (Major) 126,  140 

William   White    126 

Williamson   Branch    126 

Eugene    128 

Henrietta,  m.   Martin    128 

Sarah,  m.  Allen 9,   114,   124,  127 

Dr.  Vincent  Peter    9,   10, 

124,   127,  140 

Mrs.  Vincent  P.  (nee  White)    ...  124 

Williford,   Forrest    117 

Witsell,   Ann   O'Hear,  m.  Chaplin    ..  112 

Dr.    Charles    112 


Index 


165 


Witscll — (Continued) 

Corrie,  m.  (1)  Farrar,  (2)   Rocb- 

ling      125 

General   Edward   F 112 

Emma  Julia,  m.  Neyle    112 

Frederick     112 

John  W 112 

Maggie,    m.    Rees     112 

Mamie,   m.    Lucas    112 

Mary  (Muffle),  m.  Taft   125 

Thomas  L 112 

Rev.   W.   P 112 


Wolfe,   Emily,  Jr.                             HI 

Julian      143 

Woodruff,    Mrs.    Mary    (ncc    Cargill) 

123-4 

Wright,   Benjamin    135 

Emma,   m.    Means    116 

George  Christian    135 

Richard      135 

Yonge,  Harriet,  m.  Hagood    Ill 

Zimmerman,   Irving     145 


COPY  OF  THE  WILL  OF  CORHELIPS  TOBIH  AS  PUBLISHED  IN  DUDLEY'S 
LA»  k   EQUITY  REPORTS.  AT  COLOMBIA.  S.  C.  1838 

State  of  South  Carolina.: 

I,  Cornelius  Tobin,  of  Barnwell,  in  the  State  aforesaid,  do  make  my  laat 
will  and  testament,  in  manner  and  form  following:  hereby  revoking  all  wills  and 
testaments  by  me  heretofore  made. 

1st.  I  desire  that  my  debts  be  paid  as  soon  as  practicable  after  my  death. 

2nd.  If  my  executors  shall  find  it  judicious  and  proper,  I  would  prefer 
that  my  estate  be  kept  together,  and  conducted  as  in  my  life  time,  until  January 
one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  thirty  eight;  or  if  they  orefer  it,  that  the  negroes 
be  hired  out,  the  perishable  property  be  sold, 4c. 

3rd.   From  the  nett  annual  income  of  my  estate,  I  desire  that  four  hundred 
dollars,  if  so  much  be  neoessary,  be  applied  yearly,  and  every  year,  for  the 
support  and  education  of  my  natural  son,  Cornelius,  the  child  of  Elizabeth  Neilson, 
until  eighteen  hundred  and  thirtv-eight;  and  I  enjoin  it  on  ray  executors  as  the 
most  solemn  request  I  can  make,  that  ever-'  care  and  attention  be  devoted  to  his 
education,  both  academical  and  collegiate. 

4th.   To  Orsamus  D.  Allen,  I  give  and  bequeath  the  sum  of  one-hundred  and 
forty  dollars  per  annum,  so  long  as  Elizabeth  Neilson  shall  live,  in  trust,  for 
the  sole  and  separate  use,  benefit  and  support  of  said  Elizabeth  Neilson,  free 
and  discharged  from  all  debts,  contracts  or  control,  of  John  Neilson,  her  present 
husband,  and  from  the  contracts  or  claims  of  any  future  husband.   The  aforesaid 
sum  of  one  hundred  and  forty  dollars,  to  be  paid  from  the  nett  annual  income  of 
ay  estate,  until  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  thirty-eight;  and  should 

the  said  Elizabeth  Neilson  be  then  alive,  I  direot  that  from  the  sales  of  my 
estate,  which  I  shall  hereinafter  direct,  that  a  sum  of  money,  sufficient  to  raise 
the  aforesaid  sum  of  one  hundred  and  forty  dollars  be  invested  in  bank  stook  of 
the  government,  or  in  such  other  nubile  or  orivate  securities  as  ray  executors 
may  seleot,  in  order  to  raise  and  pay  the  annuity  aforesaid,  during  the  life  of 


•aid   Elitabeth   Mellaons    and  at   her   death.    I    glre   and  de»iee   the    fund    to    invested. 
to  my   sister    kary,    my   half   brother    Mlohaal.    and   half    slater    Caty.    (or    their 
ohlldren.    at    the  mm   uv  ba,    If   thay.    or   either   of   thea.    ba   now  daad,    or   ahall 
die   bafora   ae» )    In   the    aa-«   manner,    and  upon   tha    iajoe   teras,    and   under    tha    saaa 
contingencies,    aa   are    -leretn   after   expressed,    oonoemlng   one   fourth   part   of  By 
eitn-a,    which    I    shall    baquaath    to    than. 

5th.      From   the    annual    natt    mooM  of  ay   estate,    I    ^irther    ^irt   and   baquaath 
the   sua  of  one    thoueaml    iollare,    to   be   paid  ••    soon  aa   ooealble.    on   account   of 
her  advanced  age,    -n  ay  aint   Mary   Dugee.    of    'he   County   of  Kilkenny,    In    Ireland, 
who  waa,    when    I    last   heard    from  her,    the  widow  of   Daniel    Dugee   of   said   cruotv. 
But   shoiid  my  said   aunt    be  n.-w    lead,    or   should   aha    lie   before  ae,    then    I    |    t. 
the  aforeea.d    sua  of  one    thoueand    iollars,    pavable   in   *ne   |TMr   onaj   'hnieand 
«ight  hundred   and   thirty-eight,    to   be    iivided   between    suoh   ohlldrwn,      and   grand 
ohVldren   aa    she   mav    leare    alive    it    her   death;    *o   be    *c       lvtded    tanng    'hea.    that 
the  ohild   or  chll  Iran,    of  any  one   of  her  children   ao   dying   befor««   her,    will    take 
a    share   equal    with  one   of  her  children. 

6th.      The   balance   of   the   aet.t   annual    Incoae   of  ay   aetata,    if  any,    I   glva 
and   devise   to   -nv   *ist»»r   Mary,    and   to   arv  half  brother   Mlonael    and   Half      slater 
Caty,    to   be   divided   between   thea,    or   their   children,    in    the   eaaa  manner   aa    la 
provided   for   'he    ttsTtrlbo/tloa    -f   that   fourth   Dart   of  ay  estate,   whloh    I   shall 
herein   after   bequeath    to    'nasi. 

7th.       although    I    riavo    expressed   a   wiah    tha'     -.v    real    and   parnonal    eatate 
be   icept   together   until    1838,    It      is   not   av   intention   that    vjoh   wish   be    iaoera'lve 
on  my  execitora,    leaving   it    to   their   dlsoretion,    to   aell    the  whole   sooner    if    they 
think    it.   -nost    advantageous,    on   a    Ion.-   credit,    'hn   oavaent   lecirM   aa    I    snail 
oreaentlv   direct.      If  not    sold  sooner,    I    llreot    that   ay  whole   eatate.    real    and 
personal,    be    told   in    the   aontn   of   January,    one    thousand   eight   hundred  and   thirty- 
eight,    on  a   credit,    pavable    in    inetalaenta   of  at    leaat   one,    tr    .no.    v.ree    /ears, 
the   ourohaae   aonev   *"o  be    aeoured  bv  bond   and   aortgage,    with   personal    secirity. 


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Sth.   The  proceeds  of  the  sales  of  my  estate,  and  all  the  residue  of 
which  I  ".are  not  niade  a  dense  or  bequest,  I  ^ive  and  devise  as  follows,  Tit: 
To  my  son,  Daniel  Tobin,  and  to  his  heirs,  I  give  ^ne-fourth  part  thereof.   To 
■y  son,  John  Tobin,  and  to  his  heirs,  I  give  another  fourth  Dart.   One  fourth 
part  of  the  same,  I  nrect  to  be  invested  in  lands,  negroes,  bank  or  government 
stock,  or  loaned  out  on  -cod  mortgagee,  and  personal  security,  at  the  discretion 
of  ny  executors.   And  that  fourth  part  I  give  to  my  exeoutors  hereinafter  named, 
and  to  the  survivor,  or  survivors  of  them,  and  to  their  heirs,  executors,  or 
administrators,  of  such  survivor,  in  trust,  for  the  use,  benefit  and  support  of 
ay  natural  son,  Cornelius  Tobin,  and  his  children,  during  his  natural  lifej  and 
after  his  death,  I  give  and  bequeath  the  same  to  such  child,  or  children  as  he 
■ay  leave  alive  at  his  death,  to  them  and  their  heirs.   But  if  the  said  Cornelius 
shall  die  leaving  no  ohild,  children  or  grand  children  alive  at  his  death,  then 
I  give  and  bequeath  the  said  fourth  part  of  jiv  estate,  consist  of  what  it  may,  to 
mv  sister  Mary,  half  brother  iliohael,  and  half  sister  Caty,  to  be  divided  between 
them,  or  their  children,  (upon  the  contingencies  provided  for  in  the  next  clause) 
in  the  same  manner,  and  on  the  same  conditions,  which  are  therein  expressed, 
concerning  the  other  fourth  part  of  my  estate  bequeathed  to  them. 

The  other  remaining  fourth  part  of  my  estate,  I  rive  and  bequeath  to  my 
estate,  I  nve  and  bequeath  to  my  sister  Mary,  (now,  or  late  widow  of  James 
lairphy,  of  r.he  oountv  of  Kilkenny,  in  Ireland.)  my  aalf  sister  Caty,  and  my  half 
brother  Michael,  also  of  Kilkenny,  to  be  divided  between  them,  as  follows:  That  is 
to  say,  one  half  of  that  fourth,  I  give  to  mv  3ister  Jinry,  and  the  other  half 
of  the  same  fourth,  I  dlreot  to  be  equally  divided  between  Caty  and  Mionael.   But 
as  it  is  long  sinoe  I  heard  from  those  friends,  and  I  know  not  If  thev,  or  either 
of  them  be  alive,  in  order,  therefore,  to  provide  against  their  death,  I  do  further 
declare,  that  if  either  of  then  be  now  dead,  or  shall  die  before  me,  that  I  give 
the  proportion,  or  share,  to  whioh  my  brother  or  sisters  may  be,  or  would  be 
entitled  to,  under  this  will,  if  alive  at  my  death,  to  suoh  ohild,  or  ohildren,  as 
he  or  she  mey  have  at  his  or  her  death,  and  to  their  grand  children,  in  such  manner 


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that  the  ohild,  or  children,  of  my  nephew*,  or  nieces,  who  may  die  before 
me,  or  be  now  dead,  will  take  the  same  share  its  father  or  mother  would  have 
tax en  if  alive  at  my  death. 

9th.   Having  some  years  ago  divided  my  estate  equally  with  my  sons,  John 
and  Daniel,  reserving;  to  myself  only  so  much  as  I  gave  to  them  severally,  I 
feel  justified  in  the  bequests  and  legaoies  I  have  herein  given  to  others.   For 
the  same  reason,  I  do  declare,  "hat  should  either,  or  both  of  my  said  sons, 
direotly,  or  indirectly,  contest  or  dispute  the  validity  of  this  will,  on  any 
account  whatever,  by  instituting  proceedings  in  any  court  of  this  State,  for  the 
purposes  of  frustratins  or  defeating  the  legacies  herein  given;  or  if  they 
shall,  by  any  aot  of   theirs,  or  their  agents,  intermeddle  with  mv  estate,  by 
assuming  authority,  or  ownership  over  the  same;  or  by  talcing  or  carrying  off 
any  of  the  negroes   r  other  oersonal  oroperty  of  the  estate,  *"hen,  and  in  that 
case,  I  io  solemnly  revoke  all  bequests  herein  made  to  them,  or  to  the  one  so 
offending  against  mv  wishes;  and  the  proportion  so  ^iven  and  revoked,  together 
with  any  excess  which  'iny  court  of   competent  jurisdiction  may  declare,  that  my 
natural  son,  Cornelius  and  Elizabeth  Neil  son,  cannot  take  under  t-Jiis  will,  I 
give  and  bequeath  to  my  sisters,  liary  and  Caty,  and  brother  Miohael,  to  be 
divided  between  them,  or  their  children,  if  they,  or  either  of  them  be  now  dead, 

V 

or  shall  die  before  me,  in  the  same  manner,  and  under  the  same  conditions,  that 

to 

I  have  expressed  concerning  that  fourth  given/them  °jr  a  former  part  of  this  my 
will. 

Lastly.   I  nominate  and  appoint  my  friends.  Darling  Peoples.  Hansford  D. 
Dunoan,  and  Reuben  Thomas,  executors  of  this  will,  and  recommend  to  them  the 
employment  of  David  Hair,  as  a  fit  and  proper  person,  as  overseer  ana  manager  of 
my  plantation  affairs— his  continuance  must,  however,  of  course,  depend  on  their 
•pinion  of  hla  worth  and  good  conduot. 


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In  testimony  whereof,  I  have  set  my  hand  and  seal,  at  the  end  hereof,  the 

7th  of  August,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  twenty-nine) 

■ 
and  have  also  written  my  nana  at  the  bottom  of  each  page  of  this  ay  will,  consisting 

of  one  sheet  and  a  half  of  paper. 

C.  Tobin,  (L.S.) 

Signed,  sealed,  and  published  by  the  testator,  as  his  last  will,  in  the  presence 
of  us,  who,  in  hia  presence,  at  his  request,  and  in  the  presence  of  each  other, 
hare  witnessed  the  execution  thereof* 

William  Matheny, 
Alexander  Johnson, 
Jeseph  Heilson 


State  of  South  Carolina,  Barnwell  District: 

I,  Cornelius  Tobin,  in  consequence  of  the  death  of  Elizabeth  leilson,  do 

make,  as  a  codicil  to  the  foregoing  will,  the  following  bequest;  that  la  to  say, 

I  give  to  my  sister  Mary,  (mentioned  heretofore  in  my  will) ,  the  sum  of  one 

thousand  dollars,  and  to  my  half  brother  Michael,  and  my  half  sister  Caty,  I  give 

each  the  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars,  to  be  paid  to  them  severally  at  the  time  of 

the  sale  or  division  of  my  estate,  as  in  my  will  directed.  Ant  if  my  sister  Mary, 

or  half  sister  Caty,  or  half  brother  Miohael,  be  now  dead*  (or  shall  die  before 

me)  leaving  children,  or  grand  children,  then  I  direct  that  the  money  hare  gi1 

to  them  severally,  be  divided  among  their  children  or-  grand  children,  in  the 

manner  aa  I  have  direeted  a  division  of  the  fourth  part  of  my  estate,  given  to 

them,  in  the  event  of  any  one  of  them  being  no*  dead,  or  dying  before  me,  leaving; 

a  child,  children,  or  grand  children. 

In  witness  whereof,  X-  do-  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  seal,  this  24th  September, 

18SO. 

Cornelias  Tobin,  (L.S.)  t 

Sealed  and  signed  by  the  testator,  aa  a  part  of  his  will,  in  presence  of  us,  who, 
in  his  presence,  and  in  the  presence  of  each  other,  witnessed  the  exeoution 

«-ci^/SA^ZL  ht^J^c^-^    £-(,"3-5  ^U— ,  Vllson  Sanders, 

'  *  Hiohard  A.  Gantt, 


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