Complete Piedmont Historical Society Quarterly Table of Contents

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THE PIEDMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY

Volume I

January 1983

Number 1

Meditations

History of Bethlehem Church

Spartanburg in 1809

Early History of Liberty United Methodist Church

Liberty Methodist Church Cemetery

Lawson Fork Home Guards

Fairview Baptist Church Membership Roll 1852

Goforth Family Bible

1860 Spartanburg District Mortality Census

Commissioners of Poor Account 1848-1849

War of 1812 Pensioners

Pennington Family Cemetery

1870 Masonic Notices

Humorous Epitaphs

Gleanings

Queries

Published quarterly in January, April, July and October.

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Volume I

April 1983

Number 2

President's Page

Original Newspapers at the Spartanburg County Library

Early Spartanburg County Schools

Spartanburg County Court of Common Pleas Minutes

Grave of Hero Is Marked by D.A.R.

Bethel Presbyterian Church Monument Inscription

Mount Calvary Church to Observe 100th Anniversary

Alverson Family Reunion

Last of Union County Confederate Veterans

Cowpens Woman Recalls Adventures of the Civil War

Confederate Dead at Farmville, Virginia

Claim Agency

Immigration

[Methodist] Conference Appointments

White Family Record

Some 1867 Death Notices

Bates-Fitch Family Cemetery

Brockman Family Cemetery

Horton Family Cemetery

Littlejohn Family Cemetery

William Tuck Family Cemetery

Williams-Parris Family Cemetery

Willis Family Cemetery

McClimons Memorial

Moved to Texas

Marriage Notices from the Carolina Spartan

Historical Events

In Memoriam

1860 Spartanburg District Mortality Census

1883 Greenville City and Street Tax Ledger

Appointments by the Legislature for Spartanburg District

Gleanings

Queries

Library Acquisitions

Published quarterly in January, April, July and October.

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Volume I

July 1983

Number 3

McMaken's Tavern

101

Thorne Memorial.

102

Smith-Stone Connections

103

Blalock Family Burial Ground

105

Kuykendal Family Burial Ground

106

Martin Family Burial Ground

106

Meek Family Burial Ground

109

Sims Family Burial Ground

109

Two Deaths Sadden People of Seneca

111

Brown Family Bible

112

Some Marriage Notices from the Anderson Intelligencer

113

Fatal Accident

114

Spartanburg County Court of Common Pleas Minutes

115

1860 Union District Mortality Census

120

1860 York District Mortality Census

126

1883 Greenville City and Street Tax Ledger

132

Joe Crews Shot

136

Holland-Fowler Marriage

136

Unclaimed Letter Lists

137

Kansas Emigrants

138

1912 Oconee County Confederate Pension Roll

139

Society

News

144

Queries

145

New Exchanges

150

Published quarterly in January, April, July and October.

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Volume I

October 1983

Number

President's Page

151

Old Piece of Cloth from an Old Spinning Wheel

152

The Story of Mt. Bethel [Methodist] Church [Laurens Co.]

153

The James Hilliard Grigg Family Record

155

Some Forefathers of Anderson County

156

Death of a Centenarian

160

Spartanburg County Court of Common Pleas Minutes

161

Wm. Hendrix, Pioneer Founder of Abner Creek Baptist Church

166

Chauga (Shoal Creek) Baptist Church Membership List

167

Will of William Sea

169

Will of Edward Musgrove

171

Goude1ock-Jefferies Family Burial Ground

172

Manning Family Burial Ground

174

Willson-White-Carroll Family Burial Ground

175

The Return of the Dead

176

Did You Know?

176

1912 Pickens County Confederate Pension Roll

177

McE1rath-Seay Family Record

182

1860 Chester District Mortality Census

183

Smith Memorial

188

1883 Greenville City and Street Tax Ledger

189

Queries

193

Book Review

200

Published quarterly in January, April, July and October.

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Volume II

January 1984

Number 1

President's Page

Library Acquisitions

Captain Wm. Nathaniel Austin, Sr. of "Gilder" Plantation

Some of the Forefathers of Anderson County

Spartanburg County Court of Common Pleas Minutes

Crocker Bible Record

Salem Presbyterian Churchyard

Johnson Family Record

1860 Greenville District Mortality Census

Henry Houser House

The Will of Henry Houser of South Carolina

1912 Union County Confederate Pension Roll

Miscellany

The Family of William and Mary Allen Millwood

Society News

Queries

Book Reviews

Published quarterly in January, April, July and October.

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Volume II

April 1984

Number 2

President's Page

New Exchanges

Some of the Forefathers of Anderson County

Bethany [Presbyterian] Church

English Monarchs

Chester Medical Doctor Has Practiced Since 1909

The Crook Family

Jonathan Crook Forgotten Frontiersman

Spartanburg County Court of Common Pleas Minutes

Early Membership in the Holly Springs Baptist Church

Editor's Note

Trinity Methodist Churchyard

Babbtown, Laurens County

Elias Mitchell Family Burial Ground

Moss Family Burial Ground

Mullinax Family Cemetery

Beasley Family Cemetery

Egger Family Record

Belcher-Bishop-Gregory Bible Record

Caldwell Bible Record

1860 Pickens District Mortality Census

WPA Church Record Survey for St. John's Lutheran, Walhalla

Book Reviews

Society News

Meetings

Queries

Published quarterly in January, April, July and October.

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Volume :ii

July 1984

Number 3

UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

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President's Page

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Grandpa Crook Was a preacher

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Arnold Notes

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Burton Family Notes

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New Exchanges

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New Genealogical Service Available

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Veterans ... Buried in Pickens Cemetery

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Some of the Forefathers of Anderson County

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Grindall

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Simpsonville News

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Lockhart

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Death of Mrs. Mamie G. Gambrell

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Our Brave Adairs

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Daniel White (1761-1848) -A Time-Line Family History -

Concluded

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Arledge-Higgins Family Bible Record

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Olivet Presbyterian Churchyard

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Spartanburg County Court of Common Pleas Minutes

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Queries

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Volume :ii

October 1984

Number 4

UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

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President's Page

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Newspapers on Microfilm

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Church Celebrates Its Hundred Years of Useful Service

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James Whitten

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The Nathaniel Harbin Goss Family

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Goss Bible Record

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Historic Sketch of the "United Laurens Riflemen"

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List of the Laurens Volunteers

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Thomas Bridges Family Burial Ground

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WPA Life .Histories: Judge J.H. Yarborough & W.S. McLure

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Some Studdard-Stoddard Papers

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Miscellaneous Papers

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Spartanburg County Court of Common Pleas Minutes

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1912 Anderson County Confederate Pension Roll

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Day Family Cemetery

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1820 Chester District Census

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Book Reviews

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Queries

Page 1 of 1

October 1984

Page 9

Volume :iiu

January 1985

Number 1

UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

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President's Page

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Newspapers on Microfilm

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Old Pinckneyville McLure

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Graves

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Duckett Family Cemetery

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Phillip Chambers of South Carolina

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Spartanburg County Court of Common Pleas Minutes

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46th Annual Wyatt Reunion

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Correction

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1820 Chester District Census

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1912 Anderson County Confederate Pension Roll

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Queries

Page 10

Volume :iiu

April 1985

Number 2

UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

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President's Page

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Book Reviews

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William Byars/Byers of the Revolutionary War Period

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Youth Crushed to Death

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Will of Anna P. Hardy

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Morgan Grave

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Patrick Family Burial Ground

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Narrow Escape

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Spartanburg County Potter's Field

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Gist Family Record

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Barron-Bynum-Baxter Bible Record

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W.F. White Family Bible Record

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Cresent

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1850 Slave Owners of Pickens County

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Queries

Page 11

Volume :iiu

July 1985

Number 3

UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

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President's Page

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York County Voter Registration for 1869

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Narrative of Ex-Slave William Pratt

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Will of Leonard Pratt

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Miller Family Record

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Moss Family Burial Ground

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Anderson County Marriages

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Mount Lebanon Baptist Church History

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Burnt Factory Cemetery

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Crime in Spartanburg County

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Rods, Poles, etc

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1850 Slave Owners of Pickens District

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Hemminger Cemetery

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Minutes & Roll of Bethabara Baptist Church

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Family Record

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Family Record

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1872 Anderson County'Deliquent Tax Notice

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Obituary of Elizabeth Sharp

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Queries

Page 12

Volume :iiu

October 1985

Number 4

UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

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President's Page

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Society News

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Asbury Methodist Church: 200 Years of Area History

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Moses McCarley's Last Will and Testament

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Anderson County Marriage and Death Notices

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McDowell Bible Record

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Bygone Oconee County

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1912 Chester County Confederate Pension Roll

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Obituaries of Confederate Veterans

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1842 Temperance Convention Delegates

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Union County Cash Book 1837-1872

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Brown Family Bible Record

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Hobby Family Cemetery

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Minutes of Bethabara Baptist Church

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Family Record

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Family Record

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1872 Anderson County'Deliquent Tax Notice

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Obituary of Elizabeth Sharp

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Queries

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Volume :IV

January 1986

Number 1

UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

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President's Page

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Members and Their Family Names of Interest

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Some of the Footprints af Gecrge Allen

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Cherokee Indians First Lived Here (McCormick County)

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The de la Howe Cemetery

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Eight Venerable Veterans of Anderson, S.C.

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Obituary of Martha Mary Blank

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Comunity News

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How to Preserve Old Newspaper Clippings

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The Census of Union District

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Gazetter of Spartanburg County

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1850 Slave Owners of Pickens County

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1912 Chester County Confederate Pension Roll

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Minutes & Roll of Bethabara Baptist Church 1801-1881

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Abstracts from The Greenville Enterprise December 6,1871

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Abstracts from The Yorkville Enquirer 1867

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Wilson and Beauford Family Cemetery

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Estate of William Berry

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Happenings in Newberry-1873

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Queries

Page 1 of 1

January 1986

Page 14

Volume :IV

April 1986

Number 2

UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

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President's Page

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William Smith Family Cemetery

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Grandfather of Wallie Simpson is Buried in Greenwood County

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Fowler-Seahorn Marriage

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Members and Their Surnames of Interest

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The 1850 Census of Union District

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Gazetteer of Spartanburg County

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1850 Slave Owners of pickens County

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Minutes & Roll of Bethabara Baptist Church 1801-1881

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Abstracts from The Yorkville Enquirer 1867

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Abstracts from Acts Relating to Roads, Bridges and Ferries

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Oconee County Happenings

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Queries

Page 1 of 1

April 1986

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

Volume IV

July 1986

Number 3

President's Page

Members and Their Surnames of Interest

1850 Census of Union District

Barksdale Family Cemetery

Williams Family Cemetery

Chandler Family Cemetery

Minutes and Roll of Bethabara Baptist Church 1801-1881

Revolutionary War Pension Claim of David Kerr

1850 Slave Owners of Pickens County

Abstracts from The Yorkville Enquirer 1867

Gazetteer of Spartanburg County

Simpson Burying Ground

Old Liberty Baptist Church

McCormick County Cemeteries

The Blacksburg Shooting

Book Reviews

Notices

Queries

Published quarterly in January, April, July, and October

Page 16

Volume :IV

October 1986

Number 4

UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

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Book Review

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Members and Their Surnames of Interest

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South Carolinians in the 1850 Census of Hunt County, TX

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1850 Census of Union District

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Bates Cemetery

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Cromer Bible Record

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Gazetteer of Spartanburg County

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Chester County Deed Book C

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Minutes and Roll of Bethabara Baptist Church 1801-1881

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Abstracts from The Yorkville Enquirer 1867

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1850 Slave Owners of pickens County

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Final Settlements

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Oconee County Coroner Inquests 1869-1871

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Halifax County I Va. Powers of Attorney

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Queries

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Volume V

January 1987

Number 1

Book Reviews

1850 Census of Union District

1897 Cherokee County Voter Registration

Chester County Deed Book C

1825 Free School Report for Abbeville District

Wofford Family Cemetery

Minutes and Roll of Bethabara Baptist Church 1801-1881

Oconee County Coroner Inquests 1869-1871

Tranquil Methodist Church

Queries

Published quarterly in January, April, July and October.

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume V

April 1987

Number 2

List of Deceased Persons Kept by James Anderson

of Greenville

Cooper Family Bible

Obituary of Dr. William Henry Belton

Death of Robert McCarter

The Farrow Family of Laurens County

Suicide of an Aged Citizen

Gazetteer of Spartanburg County

1897 Cherokee County Voter Registration

Williams Family Cemetery

1850 Census of Union District

Queries

Unveiling of a Revolutionary War Marker

Notice of a Genealogical Tour

Published quarterly in January, April, July and October.

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume V

July 1987

Number 3

1850 Census of Union District

1897 Cherokee County Voter Registration

Robbs Family Cemetery

Some Notes on the James Lyles Family of Newberry

Chester County Deed Book C

Becknell Bible Record

Campbell Bible Record

Hopewell Methodist Church Organized in 1830

Notice of Genealogical Research Tour to North Carolina

Gazetteer of Spartanburg County

Queries

Book Reviews

Published quarterly in January, April, July and October.

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume V

October 1987

Number 4

Letter from the Editor

Obit Notice of Cherokee County's Last Confederate Veteran

Abstracts from the Anderson Intelligencer Newspaper

1850 Census of Union District

1897 Cherokee County Voter Registration

R.L. Lee, Pioneer Mill Operator

Jourdan/White Power of Attorney

Did You Know?

Will of Henry Machen

Enoree Baptist Church Petition to Incorporate

Upper Baptist Church of Dunkins Creek Petition

Cotton Mill News

Report of Committee on the Death of Elder James Whitten

Schools Established in Laurens County

Chester County Deed Book C

Queries

101

Notices

104

Published quarterly in January, April, July and October.

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume VI

March 1988

Number 1

1850 Census of Union County

Abstract of an Index of Loyalist Claimants in SC

Chester County Deed Book C

Marriages from the Baptist Courier

1897 Cherokee County Voter Registration

A Civil War Cartee Letter

Will of Judith Crain

Union County Almshouse as Found in the 1910 Census

Queries

Two Anderson County Death Notices

Obit of John P. Caldwell, Confederate Veteran

Bartlett Owen Memorial From Alabama

New Newsletters

Published Quarterly

March June September December

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume VI

June 1988

Number 2

Death Dates from Oconee County Coroner Inquests 1901-1915

1850 Census of Union District

Up-Country Revolutionary War Pension Abstracts

Foster Family Cemetery

Queries

Arphax Whitten Bible Record

Published Quarterly

March June September December

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

Volume VI

September 1989 (Error:Should be 1988)

Number 3

Clerical Acts of Rev. John D. McCollough

Abstract of the Rev. War Pension Application of George Watts 43

Abstract of War of 1812 Pension Application of Joseph Liles

Book Reviews

Two Chester County Naturalizations

Patterson Family Cemetery

Queries

1850 Census of Union District

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY

HISTORY

Volume VI

December 1989 (Error:Should be 1988)

Number 4

South Carolina Revolutionary Service of David Weir

Spartan Married in New York

Coroner's Inquests and other Papers for Spartanburg County

1803-1908

Sketch of Nathan Berry

Items from an Anderson Newspaper

Boiling Springs First Baptist Church Cemetery

Bastardy Processes for Spartanburg County

Queries

Notification of Brengle Newsletter

Thomas Bridges Family Burial Ground

Clerical Acts of Rev. John D. McCollough

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume VII

March 1990

Number 1

Bastardy Processes for Spartanburg County

Wingo Bible Record

Coroner's Inquests and Other Papers for Spartanburg County

Queries

Notices

Book Review

Boiling Springs First Baptist Church Cemetery

Early Oconee County Jurors

Unindexed Deeds from Spartanburg County

Clerical Acts of Rev. John D. McCollough

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume VII

June

1990

Number

Queries

Member's Death Notice

War of 1812 South Carolina Service of John Lyles/Liles

Coroner's Inquests and Other Papers for Spartanburg County

Obituary of Saunders B. Griffin

Obituary of Col. Herbert Hammond

Will of John Arnold of New berry County

Charter Members of Aveleigh Presbyterian Church, Newberry, SC 26

Bastardy Processes for Spartanburg County

Boiling Springs First Baptist Church Cemetery

Conveyance Abstracts from Pendleton

Obituary of Maj. W. 0. Sturkey

Death Abstracts Spartanburg County

Bailey Family Record

Gleanings

Notice of Rose Genealogical Research Conference

Marker of Benjamin Lindsey Abney

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume VII

September 1990

Number 3

Boiling Springs First Baptist Church Cemetery

Items from the Greenville Enterprise

Confederate Soldiers' obituaries

Sentiment of a Union Veteran

Bastardy Processes for Spartanburg County

Queries

McDaniel-Shands Marriage

Power of Attorney

Governor's Pardon for South Carolina Regulators, 1771

Gleanings

Coroner's Inquests and Other Papers for Spartanburg County

Items from the Greenwood Journal

Published quarterly in March, June, September and December.

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Volume VII _

December 1990

Number 4

Clerical Acts of Rev. John D. McCollough

Boiling Springs First Baptist Church Cemetery

Pendleton District Writs of Attachment

1835 Property Return Abstracts for Anderson County

12 Rev. War. Pension Applications Given in Laurens Co.

Abstract of Court Trials of Some Klan Members from York Co.

Items from the Greenville Enterprise

Bastardy Processes for Spartanburg County

Coroner's Inquests and Other Papers for Spartanburg Co.

Indents from South Carolina

Items from the Greenwood Journal

Queries

Two Persons From Pickens Who Died in Spartanburg County

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume VIII

March 1991

Number 1

Abstracts of Silver Brook Cemetery,

Anderson, SC

Coroner's Inquests and Other Papers for Spartanburg County

Clerical Acts of Rev. John D. McCollough

Reedy River Baptist Church Membership Rolls 1799, 1813, 1818

Ingram/Ingraham

Bastardy Processes for Spartanburg County

Members and Their Surnames of Interest

Did You Know?

Shettlesworth Family Bible

Boiling Springs First Baptist Church Cemetery

Queries

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Volume VIII

June 1991

Number 2

Chester County Naturalizations 1802-1832

Cherokee County Cemeteries

Bolin-Ramsey Family Cemetery

Clary Family Burial Ground

Darwin Family Burial Ground

Deal Family Burial Ground

Dickson-Patterson Family Burial Ground

Ellis Family Burial Ground

Farr Family Burial Ground

Garner Family Burial Ground

Goforth Family Burial Ground

Gordon Family Burial Ground

Goudelock-Jefferies Family Burial Ground

Heathcock Family Burial Ground

Hopewell Presbyterian Churchyard

Howser Family Burial Ground

Pendleton District Court Marriage Bonds, 1790-1795, 1798-1799 30

Some Laurens County Death Certificates

Pickens Co. Estate Loose Papers File Numbers 1-50 (1829-1834) 32

Company A [12th Regt.] Confederate Soldiers

Gleanings

Light Dawning on the Dark Corner

Greenville Teachers of Public Schools (1872)

Greenwood County Court Proceedings (1895)

Major Kirby Was Asst. Postmaster (1913)

Greenville County Notices (1871 and 1872)

Mary R. Smith Obituary (Spartanburg; 1913)

Abstracts from the Confederate Veteran

Mrs. Georgia Moore De Fontaine (Abbeville Co.)

Gen. Ira P. Jones (Abbeville Co.)

Lieut. J.C. Presly (Abbeville Co.)

William H. Garrett (Laurens & Newberry Cos.)

Col. John Luther Branch (Abbeville Co.)

Louis Henry Russell (Abbeville Co.)

Rev. Albert Allison James (York, Union & Spartanburg Cos.)

Benson F. Hardin (Chester Co.)

John Wilkinson (Abbeville Co.)

Gen . Zimmerman Davis (Fairfield Co.)

Judge Alexander Cheves Haskell (Abbeville Co.)

Samuel A. Cook (Chester Co.)

Lieut-Col. I.G.-McKissick (Union Co.)

The Late Gen. P.M.B. Young (Spartanburg Co.)

George I.C ... McWhirter (Newberry Co.)

Dr. William Henry Belton (Newberry Co.)

Clerical Acts of Rev. John D. McCollough

The Appeal in the Matter of the State v. R. S. Moore (York Co.) 58

Bastardy Processes forSpartanburg County

Coroner's Inquests andOther Papers for Spartanburg, County

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume VIII

September 1991

Number

Coroner's Inquest and Other Papers for Spartanburg County

Chester Methodist Church Pastors

1831-1897

History of the Methodist Church at Chester

(1897)

Abstracts from the Confederate Veteran

Saunders B. Griffin (Laurens & Newberry Cos.)

Capt. Charles E. Coffin (Aiken Co. & Augusta, Ga.)

Col. M. C. Dickson (Pendleton, Abbeville & Laurens Cos.)

John M. Russell (York Co.)

Brig. Gen. John Leroy Logan (Abbeville Co. & Greenwood)

Hon. Jesse C. Madden (Laurens Co.)

David L. Walker (Edgefield Co.)

Leland M. Spears (Newberry Co.)

Thadeus S. Duncan (Newberry Co.)

Allan Motes (Laurens Co.)

James A. Lathrop (Newberry Co.)

Misfortune in Using Titles (W. F. Jackson, Yorkville, S.C.)-

Gen. John Dunavant's Grave (Chester Co.)

Nine Uncles in Confederate Service

Deaths in Hattiesburg (miss.) Camp, U.C.V.

(James B. F. Bruce of Laurens County)

Amzi W. Gaston (Spartanburg Co.)

Col. W. Preston Hix (Laurens Co.)

Confederate Flag Reminiscence by W.R. McKinny, Greenwood, S.C.

Capt. W. G. Fewell (Pickens District)

Capt. George B. Lake (Edgefield, S. C.)

How General Sedgewick Was Killed (Thomas Burgess)

S. S. Crittenden, Maj. Gen. U.C.V., S.C. (Greenville)

77 Years Ago (City of Spartanburg)

Minutes of Goucher Baptist Church

1810-1859,

Cherokee Co.,

Writs of Attachments

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Volume IX

January 1995

Number 1

Pinckney District Coroner's Inquisitions 1793, 1795-1796

_The Enterprise _and _the Mountaineer Issue of Dec. 4, 1889

Goucher Baptist Church Minutes Jan. 10, 1810-Nov. 10, 1858

Laurens District Court of General Sessions Minutes 1800-1810 14

Newberry Naturalization Papers

Presidential Pardons for Upstate Confederates 1865-1867

Upstate Afro-American Confederate Pensioners in 1928

Upstate District Officials in 1859

Queries

Published quarterly in January, April, July, and October.

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume IX

April 1995

Number 2

The Greenwood Journal

Issue of February 6, 1896

Laurens County Court of General Sessions Minutes 1800-1810

Polling Places for 1850

Presidential Pardons for Confederates

Unity Baptist Church Minutes (Constituted August 14, 1818, Spartanburg Co.)

The Guthrie Family (A Synopsis)

Queries

Ancestor Fairs

Goucher Baptist Church Minutes (Union County)

A Station for Prosperity (Newberry County)

Book Review

The Long Journey: A Family History

1687-1991

Research in the N. C. Archives: A Workshop

Published quarterly in January, April. July, and October.

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume IX

July 1995

Number 3

An 1824 Foster Letter

The Catawba Indians: Tribal Lists from 1849 (Greenville, Chester, and York)

Goucher Baptist Church Minutes (Union County)

Pendleton District General Sessions Minutes 1823-1832

The Autobiography of William T. Harvey

Book Reviews

Laurens District Free Men of Color Petitions for Guardianship

Oconee County Coroner Inquests 1869-1871

Personal and Medical History of James A. Strange (Lunatic Asylum Records) 102

Presidential Pardons for Confederates

103

John Young Rev. War Pension and Family Bible Record

106

An Important Notice

109

Spartanburg Militia Court Martials

110

Unity Baptist Church Minutes (Spartanburg County)

113

Abbeville 1850 Mortality Census

115

Greenville Co. Equity Court Records Vol. "B" 1822-1869

118

York District Court of Common Pleas Journal 1800-1808

122

Spartanburg County Divorces

123

Washington Baptist Church Minutes (Greenville County)

124

Queries

125

Published quarterly in January, April, July, and October.

1995 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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Volume IX

October 1995

Number 4

Inquest of George Williams, Deceased (Laurens County)

138

Anderson District Bastardy Bonds

139

Goucher Baptist Church Minutes (Union County now Cherokee County)

141

Unity Baptist Church Minutes (Spartanburg County)

143

Lewis Cannon of Spartanburg County

145

The Lewis Cannon Bible Record

145

The Lewis Cannon Estate File

146

Laurens District Free Men of Color Petitions for Guardianship

149

Legitimizations and Name Changes

150

Pendleton District Marriage Bonds 1792-1799 (Anderson, Pickens & Oconee Counties)

151

Going to Arkansas (Newberry County)

152

Pendleton District Depositions 1801-1827 (Anderson, Pickens,

Oconee Counties)

153

Pendleton District Vagrancy Trials (Anderson, Pickens,

Oconee Counties)

153

Chester District General Sessions Journal for 1801

155

Presidential Pardons for Confederates

157

Spartanburg County Divorces

160

Temperance Convention Delegates

162

Newberry District Estrays Sold 1787-1840

164

Greenville Co. Equity Court Records Vol. "B" 1822-1869

166

Cherokee County Coroner's Inquests 1897-1903

169

The John P. Sellers Family Bible Record

170

Elizabeth Johnson Death Certificate (Greenville, Laurens,

Spartanburg Counties)

172

Abbeville 1850 Mortality Census

173

A Pinckney District Witness Oath

175

John Tomson's Death Certificate (Union & York Counties)

175

Queries

175

Book Reviews

185

Notices

187

Published quarterly in January, April, July, and October.

1995 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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Volume X

January 1996

Number 1

Insane Asylum Patents from Abbeville (County)

Slave Court Records: An Unused Source (Anderson County)

The Descendants of Elder Zechariah Blackwell

An Antebellum Newberry Letter (Newberry County)

Goucher Baptist Church Minutes (Union County now Cherokee County)

Unity Baptist Church Minutes (Spartanburg County)

Laurens District Court of General Sessions Minutes 1800-1810

Presidential Pardons for Confederates

The Barnett Family Bible Record

Will of John Smith of Laurens District

A Guardian for Joshua Saxon (Laurens County)

The Robert Brown Family Bible

Gleanings

Chester District Equity Court Records Indicies 1820-1874

Greenville Co. Equity Court Records Vol. "B" 1822-1869

Newberry District Estrays Sold 1787-1840

Queries

The Stovall Family Association

Chester District Court of General Sessions Journal for 1801

Published quarterly in January, April, July, and October.

1996 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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Volume X

April 1996

Number 2

Presidential Pardons for Confederates

A Tenant Farmer Agreement (Greenville County)

Confederate Veteran of Laurens Taken By Death

Old Carolina Veteran Dies in Oklahoma (Union County)

Idle Moments in an Old Library (Union County)

Pinckney District Correspondence (Spartanburg, Union, and York)

Pinckney District Court of General Sessions Peace Bond 1799

Laurens District Vagrancy Trials

Goucher Baptist Church Minutes (Union County now Cherokee County)

Chester District Equity Court Records Indicies 1820-1874

A Bit of History

Greenville Co. Equity Court Records Vol. "B" 1822-1869

Unity Baptist Church Minutes (Spartanburg County)

Gleanings

The Estate of Josiah Hatchette (Spartanburg County)

A War Reminiscence

York District Court of Common Pleas Journal 1800-1808

Queries

Upstate Public Libraries

Slaveholders in the 1800 Newberry District, S. C. Census

Published quarterly in January, April, July, and October.

<C>

1996 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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Volume X

July 1996

Number 3

Our New Look

William P. Bishop Death Certificate (Spartanburg County)

Joint Resolution for the Relief of Mary Taylor (Newberry County)

We Want No Flat Rock Church (Anderson County)

John Owens Petition (Edgefield County)

Petition to Change Boundary Line 1803 (Spartanburg County)

Counter Petition Regarding Boundary Line (Spartanburg County)

York District Petition Asking for a New Polling Place-180 1

The State vs. Rachel Weeks, et. al. (Union County)

Greenville Co. Equity Court Records Vol. "B" 1822-1869

Presidential Pardons for Confederates

Thomas Price's Store Accounts (Spartanburg County)

100

Idle Moments in an Old Library (Union County)

103

Goucher Baptist Church Minutes (Union County now Cherokee County)

106

Troops from Florida for Edgefield District 1836

108

Unity Baptist Church Minutes (Spartanburg County)

110

Gleanings

112

Anderson County Clerk of Court Miscellaneous Index 1840-1860

117

Chester District Equity Court Records Indicies 1820-1874

119

Some Defaulting Jurors at the 1804 Court of [General Sessions] Greenville

120

Queries

121

Fairfield District Court of General Sessions Index 1800-1839

131

Book Review (Phillips)

134

Mount Carmel Methodist Church Cemetery (Spartanburg County)

134

Letter from the Civil War Front (Gossett, Union County)

135

Historic Old Pickens Presbyterian Church (Pickens and Oconee Counties)

137

Revolutionary Soldier Honored by DAR Ladies (Oconee County)

138

Published quarterly in January, April, July, and October.

1996 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume X

October 1996

Number 4

A Peddler's Progress (Union County)

139

A Petition to Gov. Magrath from Laurens District

144

F. A. Barnette Family Record

145

James T. Holt Family Bible Record

147

Minutes of the Court of Equity 1820-1840 (York County)

148

Confiscation of Loyalist Lands (American Revolution; whole state)

150

Spartanburg District Apprenticeships

153

Sketch of the Covenanters, Rocky Creek, SC about 1750-1840

153

Greenville Co. Equity Court Records Vol. "B" 1822-1869

157

Rev. Alfred L. Miller Death Notice (Spartanburg County)

158

Idle Moments in an Old Library (Union County)

159

The Moonshiner's Chief (Pickens County

Greenville County)

160

Goucher Baptist Church Minutes (Union County now Cherokee County)

162

.,.

Chester District Equity Court Records Indices (1820-1874

164

David Nance's Upstate Connection (Newberry County)

166

A York District Commissioners of the Roads Meeting 1809

167

Henry Wells, Sr. of Wales and Spartanburg, SC

168

Gleanings (Chester, Anderson, Edgefield, Pickens, Oconee, Greenville, Spartanburg)

169

An 1865 Letter to the Governor of SC from Two Union Soldiers

174

Mountain Creek Baptist Church Minutes (Anderson County)

175

Pendleton District Trial Papers (Pickens, Oconee, and Anderson Counties)

176

Queries

177

Presidential Pardons for Confederates

188

Book Review

189

Published quarterly in January, April, July, and October.

1996 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume XI

February 1997

Number 1

The Family of Edward Ballenger, Jr.

The Cooper/Franklin Family

Bridges Death Record

Pension Record of James Caldwell of Newberry

Reuben Briant [Jr.] Family Bible Record

Abstracts from Desaussure's Reports, Volume Four (Laurens County)

Unity Baptist Church Minutes (Spartanburg County)

Greenville County Equity Court Records Volume "B" 1822-1869

Old Spartanburg County Docket Abstracts

It's a Small World (Newberry County)

Idle Moments in an Old Library (Union County)

Goucher Baptist Church Minutes (Union County now Cherokee County)

Storey Log Cabin

Chester District Equity Court Records Direct and Cross Indices to Equity Bills 1820-1874 23

Gleanings (Edgefield, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens, Abbeville, Greenwood, McCormick)

Elihue James Newman Family Bible Record

Mountain Creek Baptist Church (Anderson County)

Wealthy African-Americans in the United States in 1886

Presidential Pardons for Confederates

Reder Heirs in Arkansas

Old Abraham Martin and His Descendants

A Brief Biography of Henry Jasper White

May Day in Spartanburg in 1849

Queries

Fairfield District Court of General Sessions Index 1800-1839

War of 1812 South Carolina Service for Michael D. Walker

Published quarterly in February, May, August and November.

1997 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume XI

May 1997

Number 2

Greenville County, SC Criminal Index 1801-1901

Early Oconee County Jurors

List of Letters in Post Office at Edgefield, SC

Harris/Dillard 1805 Bond--Union County, SC

James Oliphant--A 1797 Rule to Show Cause (Union County)

David Pruett of Gwinnett Co., Georgia and Formerly of South Carolina

York District Court of Common Pleas Journal 1800-1808

DeSaussure's Equity Reports (Laurens County and Abbeville County)

Abbeville 1850 Mortality Census

Acts and Joint Resolutions 1870-1871 (Chester, Fairfield, Laurens & Oconee Counties)

Presentment of the Grand Jury--Spartanburg

African-American Deaths Recorded at Camp Wadsworth, World War I (Spartanburg Co.)

Anderson County Constable Lists for 1875, 1881, 1882, and 1884

Jury Summons for Union District in 1800

Thomas Crowder Petition to Laurens District 1844

Abstracts of Taylor Genealogy of Henderson Co., NC with Spartanburg Co. Connections

Horseshoe Robinson Home (Pickens County)

Shaw-Nott-Montgomery Deed of Settlement of Slaves (Abbeville, Edgefield Counties)

An Early French-Berry Letter Relating to the Spartanburg/Union Area of SC

Gleanings (All Upstate Counties of SC and Rutherfordton, NC)

Unity Baptist Church Minutes (Spartanburg County)

Greenville County Equity Court Records Vol. "B" 1822-1869

Jury List Drawn for Pickens County in February 1886

Pinckney District Court of General Sessions Bench Warrant 1793

Chester District Equity Court Records Direct and Cross Indices to Equity Bills 1820-1874 86

Coroner's Inquest into the Death of M. H. Miller (Spartanburg County)

Mountain Creek Baptist Church (Anderson County)

Broad River Inter-Denominational Singing Convention (Spartanburg County)

Presidential Pardons for Confederates (All Upstate SC)

Morgan Davis of Greenville County, SC

Newberry County Court of Equity Writ de Lunatic 1846

Benjamin Arnold Obituary (Greenville County)

An Amusing Anecdote

Queries

Published quarterly in February, May, August and November.

1997 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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Volume XI

August 1997

Number 3

Pickens District Petition

111

Confederate Soldier from Texas Slain at Newberry

111

Thomas Calhoun and the Indians

113

Letter from Tennessee by African-American in Search of His Roots

114

Greenville District Citizenship Petitions and Notices of Intent at the SC Archives

114

Dunlap Family Cemetery, Lancaster County, SC

116

White Deaths Records at Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, SC during World War I

118

Sandford Berry-Revolutionary Service Declaration (Laurens County)

119

Recollections of a Few Laurens County Families

121

Early Greenville County Wives

121

A French Family Letter to Toten Kin in Alabama

122

Interview with Aunt Josie Nicholson

123

Unity Baptist Church Minutes (Spartanburg County)

124

Greenville County Equity Court Records Vol. "B" 1822-1869

126

Warrant for Three Union County Residents in 1775

128

Chester District Equity Court Records Direct and Cross Indices to Equity Bills 1820-1874 129

William Goodlett, Revolutionary War Soldier, Greenville District, SC

130

Presidential Pardons for Confederates (All Upstate SC)

131

Oconee County in 1898

132

South Carolina Commissioners of Free Schools in 1811 (All Upstate SC)

135

Principal Farmers in Oconee County in 1898

137

Wagon Train Left Tigerville for 100 Family Trek to Texas in 1854 (Greenville County)

138

Historical Sketch of Old Pendleton District (Anderson, Pickens, Oconee)

141

George S. Turner Hung in Spartanburg

145

Notice of Mennonite Historical Society Family History Conference

155

Death of Member James A. Watson

155

Queries

156

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Volume XI

November 1997

Number 4

From the Editor

162

Calvin Cook Family Record

163

Unclaimed Letters at Walhalla Post Office in 1886

164

Milwee Petition

165

Owens/Horn Marriage

166

A Lot of Skeletons in the Closet

167

Gleanings

168

Family Record of John Ward

176

Pinckney District Court of General Sessions-McLean Bench Warrant 1793

177

Notes of Thomas and William Coker

177

Farmer to Doctor

178

Unity Baptist Church Minutes

179

Slave Deaths 1862-1863

179

Some Revolutionary War Pension Abstracts

181

Greenville County Equity Court Records Volume "B" 1822-1869

182

Abstracts from the Broad River Baptist Association 1880

185

Chester District Equity Court Records Direct and Cross lndicies to Equity Bills 1820-1874

186

Three Abstracts of Bastardy Processes for Spartanburg County

187

Presidential Pardons for Confederates

187

Obituary of Sophia Millwee of Anderson County

189

Climb My Tree With Me

190

Memorialized Ancestor List

193

Queries

193

Cases Listed in York District Equity Minutes 1820-1840

200

The Ashmores: From England to Greenville, South Carolina

200

Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence

202

Deed for Liberty Hill Methodist Church

204

Waddell-Johnson-Pearson Bible Records

205

Coggins Family Bible Record

208

The Sarratt Family

209

To Will or Not

211

Book Review

212

Points of Interest

213

Mrs. Beard

214

Oconee Grand Jurors for July Term 1869

215

Three 1840 Marriage Abstracts

215

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume XII

February 1998

Number 1

The Hebrew in the South

Greenville County Equity Court Records Vol. "B" 1822-1869

Nathaniel Perry 1757-1808

Court of Common Pleas, Pendleton District 1800

Obituary of John D. Woodward, Native of Fairfield County

Two Indentures Made in Anderson County between Ann Irenah Timms

Elijah Timms 1858

What Was Happening in Spartanburg Long Ago

Looking for Peek War Record

Autobiographical Sketch of Mary Louise Gambrell Bryant of Anderson County, SC

Claims for Ga. Militia Campaigns against Indians on the Frontier 1792-1827

Caldwell Bible Record

Members and their Surnames of Interest

Miscellaneous Loose Papers

Mount Carmel [Methodist Church] Cemetery Deed

Gleanings from Upstate Newspapers

Memorialized Ancestor List

Robinson and Beard Obituary Notices

Goucher Baptist Church Minutes (Spartanburg County)

More on the Crockers

150

Some Upstate SC

Alabama Connections

153

Obituary of Lon T. Turner, Confederate Veteran

154

Wardlaw and Dendy Ledger 1847-1849, Abbeville, SC

155

Laurens District Court of General Sessions Minutes 1800-1810

156

Family Groups and Family Connections from Court Records

161

Goucher Baptist Church Minutes

173

Unity Baptist Church Minutes

180

Queries

185

Notice [NC Genealogy Workshop]

187

Index

188

Website Notice

192

You Are Going To Love This [Notice of Confederate soldier statue for sale]

See inside back cover.

Published quarterly in February, May, August and November.

Page 47

UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume XII

November 1998

Number 4

Cane Creek Presbyterian Church, Union County, SC

193

Members Surname Addendum

196

Spartanburg County Crocker Judgments, Cross Index, 1822-1899

198

Laurens District Court of General Sessions Minutes 1800-1810

199

Mooney Harvey Bible Record

203

Texas Lady Remembers Spartanburg

204

Tribute to "Aunt Martha" Waddell

205

Agreement Between Jesse King

Nelson Guthrie, Made in Anderson District

206

Family Groups

Family Connections from County Court Records

206

Evaluating Some Records on Elijah Turner

211

Petitions for Guardianship of Free Persons of Color 1823-1863, Spartanburg District

214

A 1792 Newspaper Account of Pinckneyville

216

Minutes of the Reedy River Baptist Association, September 18, 1835

217

William Pierce Thornton Diary Excerpt for the Year 1891

218

Bible Record of Francis Winder Pearson

223

1870 Mortality Census for Upstate SC, Cross Indexed with the Federal Census for 1870

224

Queries

232

Goucher Baptist Church Minutes

235

Unity Baptist Church Minutes

238

Book Reviews

242

Index

244

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume XIII

February 1999

Number 1

Goucher Baptist Church Minutes

Early Greer Families

1870 Mortality Census For Upstate SC Indexed With The Federal Census For 1870

Memoirs Of My Four Years In The War Between The States

Family Groups/Family Connections From County Court Records

Mathew Mathis Family Record and Journal

William M. McAlister of Anderson, South Carolina

Bennett Family Cemetery

Rudasail-Page Family Record

Unity Baptist Church Minutes

McElrath Bible Record

Cane Creek Quaker/Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Queries

Index

54-57

Published quarterly in February, May, August and November.

1999 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume XIII

May 1999

Number 2

The Williams Family Of Pickens County, South Carolina

Goucher Baptist Church

History Of The Hunsinger Family

Abstracts From An Oconee Newspaper

Two Obituaries Connected To Chester County

Two Obituaries Connected ToYork County

Taylor Family Of Pendleton, South Carolina

Family Of Samuel And Leah (Reese) Taylor, Jr.

Manumissions/Separations/Marriages For Fairfield County

1870 Mortality Census For Upstate SC Cross Indexed With The Federal Census For 1870

Revolutionary War File Of John O'Shields

Revolutionary War File Of Marshall Franks

Willis Seay Wingo Bible Record

Family Groups And Family Connections From County Court Records

Queries

Book Reviews

103

Index

105

Published quarterly in February, May, August, and November.

1999 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume XIII

August 1999

Number 3

Mathew Mathis Journal- Continued

109

Colonial Berkeley County

110

Frohawk Hill, Greer, South Carolina

111

Turner D.A.R. Data

111

Gwinn Family Bible Record

112

Mountain Creek Baptist Church, Anderson County, South Carolina

113

Family of Johnston and Dorcas Dillard Bryant: A Reconstruction

117

Gossett/Smith Connections

122

Unity Baptist Church Minutes

123

Family Groups and Family Connections From County Court Records

128

Oeland Family Cemetery

142

War of 1812 Pension Application of David Gamble of Laurens

143

144

Family Records for William Poole of Spartanburg District

148

Thomas Muse, His Oath Proving the Marriage of His Sister Anna to John Tollerson

149

Book Reviews

150

Queries

151

Index

153

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume XIII

November 1999

Number 4

Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records

156

History of Little River Baptist Church, Abbeville County

161

Obituary of Lawson H. Wilson

163

Greenville District Magistrates and Freeholders Court Records

164

John Sexton Bible Record and Miscellaneous Letters

168

Old Newspaper Correspondence Tells of Development of Wellford As New Settlement on

On Railroad Back In 1873

179

Mountain Creek Baptist Church, Anderson County, South Carolina

181

Some Chester County Church Charters

190

Queries

191

Gleanings from the Law Library

193

Unity Baptist Church Minutes

194

Death Notice of a Member

202

Book Reviews

202

Membership Renewal Notice

204

Book Sale Notice

205

Index

206

Published quarterly in February, May, August, and November.

1999 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume XIV

February

2000

Number

Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records

Mathew Mathis Journal-Concluded

From the McCormick Advance Newspaper

Revolutionary Pensioners, James Seay and His Widow Sarah Seay

From the Law Library

Died in Mississippi

Family Record of Ambrose Hudgens of Newberry County

Family Record of Job Sosebee of Spartanburg County

James Lynch Bible Record

Unity Baptist Church Minutes (Spartanburg County)

Queries

Jury Summons-Spartanburg District, November 6,

1822

South Carolina in Equity-Abbeville District

South Carolina Loyalists

History of Lanford Baptist Church

A New Hampshire Document Found in Spartanburg, SC

South Carolina Upstate Prisoners in

1873-1874

S. C. Lunacy Records as a Genealogical Resource

Buck Creek Baptist Church Minutes, Sept., Oct., and Nov. 1854 Meetings, Spartanburg Co.,SC

Index

Published quarterly in February, May, August, and November.

by the Piedmont Historical Society

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume XIV

May 2000

Number 2

Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records

Nelson Family Records

William Morrow/David Parris Family Records

Hiram Nelson Family Record

Some Pardons in Upstate South Carolina 1866-1867

Unity Baptist Church Minutes

Madison Neely's Letter to Governor A. G. Magrath

Stephen Sutton's Letter to Governor A. G. Magrath

Robert Turner's Letter to Governor A. G. Magrath

Robbins Family Cemetery

Burials of South Carolina Natives in Cobb County, Georgia

State of South Carolina vs Joel Sprouce for Vagrancy

Release of Land in Union District, SC to Hollingsworth Heirs

Some Marriage Abstracts from the Carolina Spartan Newspaper

1800 Pendleton District Court of Common Pleas

Queries

Gleanings from the Law Library

Items from the Edgefield Advertiser

Spartanburg District Court of Magistrates

Freeholders Trial Papers ·of Bill Garrett

Greenville District Magistrates and Freeholders Court Records

100

Index

103

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2000 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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Volume :XIV

August 2000

Number 3

UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY



Unity Baptist Church Minutes



Obituary of James Lett, Soldier of The Revolutionary War

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From the Law Library



Certificate Of Charter



An 1849 Listing of Upstate Election Managers



Faucette Family Cemetery



Crocker/Steadman Bastardy Bond



Spartanburg District Commissioners of the Poor Records



Will of Thomas Scales

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Will of Martha Matilda Scales

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Will of John Scales



Petition on Estate of Samuel Scales



Some January 1915 Greenville County Death Certificates



Queries



Chester District Equity Court Records Direct and Cross

Indices to Equity Bills 1820-1874



Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court

Records



Petition for Incorporation of Mount Bethel Camp Ground



Newberry County Clerk of Court-Court Records of Estray Horses

and Cattle Sold

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Volume XIV

November 2000

Number 4

An Interview With John James Miller

163

Family Bible Record of David Madison Miller

164

Captain William J. Smith Obituary

165

Montgomery-Gibbs Marriage in Greenwood County

165

Greenville County Equity Court Records, Volume "B" 1822-1869

166

Queries

170

Burial of a Soldier of the War of 1812

171

A Fatal Fowler Family Fracus

172

Fowler-Gossett Marriage in Spartanburg County

172

Obituary of James A. Fowler, Spartanburg

172

Family Bible Record of Alfred Burton Blanton and More

173

Death Notice for Jefferson Richardson of Edgefield

175

Family Record of Abraham Wyatt, Born 1762

176

Bloodshed in Abbeville

176

Death Notice of Thomas G. Collins of Spartanburg County

177

102 Year Old Woman Walks Eight Miles

177

Mrs.Rogers&Mrs. Calhoun Only Two Surviving Widows of Confedrate Veterans in Oconee

178

Bounty Land Was a Reward

179

Keowee Once Capitol of Cherokee Land

179

Obituary of John D. Woodward

180

Old Stone Church One of South Carolina's Oldest

181

Revolutionary War Pension Abstract of James Caldwell

182

South Carolina Penitentiary Deaths

183

Items From The Ninety-Six Guardian Newspaper

184

Holly Springs Baptist Church Principles and Members

185

Will of John Collins

188

Obituary of James Nicholson, Abbeville

188

Death Notice of J. P. Pendleton of Edgefield

188

Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records

189

Maiden Name of Mrs. John Foster

204

Obituaries of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Perry

204

Letter from James Benton Fowler of Cass County, Texas

205

Burglary in Chester District

205

Early Settlers on Ben's Creek

206

A Man of Many Grandparents

207

A Munchausen Story

208

True Bible Record

208

Crocker/Vaughn Family Bible Record

209

Book Reviews

211

Index

213

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2000 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume XV

February 2001

Number 1

Smith-Jefferies Bible Record (York and Union Counties)

Two Obituaries in the Smith Bible

Some Old Jefferies-Smith Correspondence

Eleazar Parker 1807-1889

A Shoot-Out Near the Union-Spartanburg Line

Death of Jesse Hollis of Gaffney

Obituary of Mrs. Agatha A. Smith

A Note on William Guthrie, Formerly of Spartanburg County

SC Evangelist K-O-Ed in Texas

1830 Census Takers for the State of South Carolina

Some Deaths in York County in 1873

The Columbian Herald, Early Newspaper of Charleston, SC

Franklin's Cautionary Letter to the Fledgling States in 1784

Celebration of George Washington's Birthday in 1788

The Father of George Washington

List of Letters in the Charleston Post Office on January 5

1785

Epitaph on a Rich Miser

Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records

Obituary of John Poor of Anderson District

Death Notice of Thomas Muse of Fairfield District

Obituary of John Tolleson

A Notable Golden Wedding in Edgefield

Death of Lewis P. Jones, Esq. of Edgefield

A Tongue-In-Cheek View of Newberry District in 1816

Murder of Edward Brown, Formerly of Chester District

Obituary of Mrs. Permelia Holland of Edgefield District

Christmas in Edgefield in 1890

A Cold Saturday in February 1835

Death Notice of Isaac Young of Spartanburg County

Queries

Liberty Hill Church Deed

The Jennings Orphanage

Poplar Springs Academy Deed

Fairforest School House Deed

From the Law Library

Index

Published quarterly in February, May, August, and November.

2001 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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Volume XV

May 2001

Number 2

In Memoriam-Tommy Joseph Vaughan (July 11, 1946-March 9, 2001)

Family Bible Record of John Wesley Lowe of Spartanburg County

Family Bible Record of Phillip Harrison Byars

Death of Mrs. Caroline Yarborough of Oconee County

Sequel to "Bloodshed in Abbeville"

Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records

Obituary of Abram Giles Dozier of Abbeville District

Genealogical Chart from the Equity Case, Arnold vs Arnold

Et AI

Managers for the Statewide Election of Delagates to a State Convention to Ratify or

Reject the Federal Constitution

Old Time Graffiti

Resolutions and Voting Record of the S.c. State Convention that Ratified

the Federal Constitution

Death of Ignatius Few of Greenville County

Death of Mrs. Elvira White in Texas

Advertisements in 1816 for Mount Prospect Academy in Union District

A Genealogist's Prayer

Death Notice of Drury Mims, Formerly of Edgefield

A Foreclosure Sale

Death of Jeremiah Cook, Formerly of Edgefield, War of 1812 Veteran

Jailbreak at Cambridge

An Experimental Drunk

Finding Ballengers While Looking for Bishops

Queries

Death Notice of Thomas Gilliland Boggs of York and Pickens

Death Notice of Dr. Joseph Hill of Newberry and Spartanburg

A Shooting in Spartanburg County

Will of William Page of Spartanburg County

The Chester County Normal Institute

A History of Red Bank Church

Bible Record of William Booker Foster

Book Reviews

100

Declaration Made by Sarah Moore in McCracken County, Kentucky

102

In Memoriam-Church Session in Upper Long Cane

103

Obituary Notice of Fannie McCaw Livingston

105

Obituary of Martha Hewit Potter of Laurens County

105

Index

106

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2001 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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Volume XV

August 2001

Number 3

Tribute to Dr. James L. Reid

Family Bible Record of Thomas Hammett of Spartanburg County

109

Family Bible Record of the Reverend Drury Dobbins

110

Family Group of William C. Dobbins Born 1740

112

An Incident in the Life of Rev. Drury Dobbins

113

Will of Mrs. Hannah Dobbins

113

Death Notice of Mrs. Elizabeth Gladden of Fairfield

114

Death of Mrs. Katie Seay Putway in Texas

114

Some Deaths in Chester County in August 1873

115

The Pathos of Dates (An Early Bloss Family)

115

Coping With Death of Head of Family in Early York District

116

James Meek and Revolutionary War Stories from the Upstate

120

Death of John Barkley, Sheriff of Fairfield District, in 1814

121

Death of a Well Known Colored Citizen of Greenville

121

Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records

122

Obituary of Mrs. Eve Gardner of Edgefield District

132

Three Greenville County Marriages in 1872

133

A York District Marriage in 1823

133

Courtship in Two Parts

134

Death Notice of William Estes of Union County

134

Golden Wedding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Smith

135

Death of Mrs. Daniel Smith of Spartanburg County

135

Annotations on the Family of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Smith

136

Death of Robert Hannah, Sr., Rev. War Vet, Formerly of Laurens

138

Two Horse Thieves Hanged at Pinckneyville in 1795

138

Obituary of Col. Henry E. Lynch of Greenville County

138

A Sad Affray in Newberry County

139

Obituary of Mrs. Martha C. Kibler of Newberry County

139

Death Notice of Miss Amanda Morgan of Walhalla

139

Miscellaneous Moore Information

140

Powers Probate Records

141

Items from the Carolina Spartan Newspaper 1870

150

Items from the Carolina Spartan Newspaper Dated Wednesday, September 30, 1885

152

Page Family Record

153

J esse Page Deed

155

Will of Henry Brockman of Greenville District

156

Samuel M. Bagwell Obituary Notice

158

Burgess Bible Record

159

Jennings Family Bible Record

160

Death of Anniemae Paris Register (12 March 1905-25 June 2001)

161

Crook Book Sale

162

Index

162

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Volume XV

November 2001

Number 4

Bell-Nabors Family Bible Records

165

Family Group of Ervin Sanders and His First Wife Lucinda Barnett

168

William H. McCaw of Abbeville

170

Six Pickens District Marriages in 1849

171

Obituary of Mrs. Elizabeth Headden of Greenville District

171

Obituary of Randal Barnett of Greenville District

172

Some York District Marriages in 1825

172

The Furman Institution Burned in Fairfield District

173

Obituary of John Eldred Simkins of the Palmetto Regiment

173

Death of Another Palmetto

174

A Proposed History of the Palmettoes

174

History of the Mexican War - A Book Review

175

Bounty Land Warrants for Mexican War Service

176

Editorial Comment of

The Chronicle

on Red Bank History

176

A History of Red Bank Church

176

Obituary of Mrs. Elizabeth Jolly, Rev. War Widow of Anderson District

178

Membership Roll of Red Bank Church in 1826

179

Obituary of David B. Rice, Esq., of York District

180

Death Notice of John Barnett of Spartanburg County

180

Death Notice of Elijah Henson of Greenville County

180

Felons Detected

180

Some Upstate Marriages Recorded in the

Newberry Rising Sun

181

Letters Remaining in the Chester Post Office on Janauary 1, 1824

182

A Pun

182

Death of John Hammett of Spartanburg County

182

Sammy Darby's Courtship

183

Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records

183

Three Deaths from

The Southern Christian Advocate

191

Letter to Mr. Bayesden Davis

192

From

The Piedmont Headlight

Newspaper

194

1907 Spartanbu'l, DailY

HeraldNewspaper Items

197

Family of). F. Casey and Angeline Lanford Casey

201

The Jennings Family

201

Orange County Virginia Records-Selected Births from back of Deed Book 17

204

Alvin M. Dean Family

205

The Olden Times

206

Spartans Made Some Fine Kentucky Rifles in 1800's

210

Queries

211

Book Reviews

212

Index

214

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2001 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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Volume XVI

February 2002

Number 1

Bible Record of Thomas Gilliland Boggs of Pickens District

A Fire at Pickensville in 1816

The Family Groups of Two Dillard Brothers of Pickens District

Family Record of Harrison P. Dillard

Family Record of Balus T. Dillard

Obituary of Thomas A. Dillard, Formerly of Pickens District

Two Letters to the Editor on the Partition of Pendleton District

An Early Historical Perspective on the Cherokee Indians

A Congressional Proclamation in 1788 Concerning the Cherokee Indians

Final Sale of Cherokee Indian Land in South Carolina

How Jackson Got His Tide "Old Hickory"

Old Hickory Was Sharp

Death of Mrs. Margaret Griffen of Pendleton District

Death Notice of Mrs. Sallie Dillard

The Removal of the Body of Col. Benjamin Frazier to Edgefield

Obituary of John Jones Brown of Spartanburg District

Some York District Marriages and Deaths in 1823

Bean-Greenfield Wedding in Newberry District

Death Notice in 1823 of Henry Farnandis of Union District

Five Abbeville District Marriages in 1843

Death Notice of Joseph Black, Rev. War Vet., of Abbeville

Obituary in 1816 of James Newton, 93, of Fairfield District

Grave of Robert Maxwell, Rev. War Hero of Greenville County

Upstate Death Notices in 1816 from the Charleston Courier

O. M. Abbott, Son of Rev. War Soldier Lives in Oconee County (1939)

Oliver M. Abbott, Son of Rev. War Soldier Seeks Pension in 1943

Obituary of Oliver Miller Abbott of Oconee County

Obituary of Mrs. Sarah Doyle Abbott

Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records

Chester District Equity Court Records Direct and Cross Indices Equity Bills 1820-1874

Family Group of Bardett Milam of Laurens District

A Really Old Bennett Family Bible Record

Courtship in Two Parts. II

1907 Spartanburg Daily Herald Newspaper Items

City Turned Its Back on These Soldiers

Items From The Carolina Spartan and The Journal Newspapers

Postmasters at Una, South Carolina

Breazeale Family Reunion Organized at Anderson

Obituary of William Waller of Anderson District

Obituary of Nathaniel Jeffers of Anderson District

Spartanburg in the British Museum

The Oldest Man in the County

Henry Abbott's Talk

Book Review

Homicide

Queries

Greenville County, SC Criminal Index 1801-1901

Some Names from Union District Poor Records

Index

49-51

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Volume

XVI

May 2002

Number 2

Family Record of Joseph Buffington

Family Record of Henry Jasper White

Letter from Lecell White to His Brother Hiram White

Obituary of Mrs. Emeline Bryant, Native of Chester District

Death of Mrs. Martha M. Gage of Union County

The Cunninghams of Rosemont Cemetery

Obituary of Colonel John Cunningham of Laurens County, S. C.

About the Cunningham Family

An Appeal to Save Mount Vernon

The Ladies' Mt. Vernon Enterprise

The Purchase of Mount Vernon

Ann Pamela Cunningham of Laurens District

The Status of Mount Vernon in 1886

Portrait of Ann Pamela Cunningham

Death of Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham

Death of Captain Robert Cunningham

Some Laurens County Deaths in 1873

George Washington and the Columbia Centennial

Obituary and Revolutionary War Sketch of Mrs. Mary Watson Perry of Edgefield

Obituary of William Thomson, Revolutionary War Patriot of York District

Death in 1859 of C. T. Davis, a Centenarian, in Laurens District

Death Notice of Elisha S. Patterson of Laurens County

Notice to Petigrew and Anderson Heirs

A Cunningham Query in 1824

Murder in Fairfield District in 1808

Murder in Abbeville District in 1814

Death of Co!. Z. P. Herndon, Formerly of Union District

Gibert-McMakin (Abbeville

Spartanburg) Marriage

Four Anderson District Marriages in December 1842

The Family of William Madison Plumley of Greenville County

James D. Graydon Family Birth Records

The (First) Family of Bryson H. Steadman of Spartanburg District

The (Second) Family of Bryson H. Steadman of Spartanburg District

Death of Mrs. W. H. Martin, Native of Pendleton District

An Appeal from Mount Prospect Academy in Union District

Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records

Obituary of Mrs. Rebecca Verner of Pickens District

1907 Spartanburg Daily Herald Newspaper Items

Handbook of Eliza H. Barnett Burroughs

Abstracts from Inman First Baptist Church Membership Roll

Three Pope and Turner Stone Walls Removed-Accidently

From Cedar Hill to Apalache: Tracking the Evolution of a Name

In Memoriam

100

Index

101

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2002 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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Volume XVI

August 2002

Number 3

Family Record of Spartan David Goodlett of Greenville District

103

Obituary of Juliet Moss Goodlett Davis

105

Moore-Hamilton Marriage in Pickens District

105

John Grisham Family Record (Oconee area)

106

Family of Lucinda Grisham Craig

107

William Bowers Visits Absalom White Rhodes, Formerly of Union District

108

Upstate Death Notices in 1808 from the Charleston Courier

109

Newberry Marriage in 1807

109

George McDuffie of Abbeville

110

The Strange Case of James Edward Calhoun of Abbeville

111

Pendleton District Circa 1806, Part 1

112

Death of Thomas J. Calhoun, Native of Abbeville District

115

Reconstruction Governor's Letters Sent and Received 1872-1874

116

An 1876 Laurens County General Assembly Petition

116

Obituary of Mrs. Sarah Sargent of Pickens District

117

Some Upstate Militia Movements in the War of 1812

118

Military Pig

118

First Issue of The Spartan Noted

118

Death of Dr. Dunklin Moore (Greenville County)

119

Obituary of Jane Caroline Moore

119

Death of Mrs. Nancy Harrison of Greenville

119

The Edgefield Ghost

120

Colonel Barkley Martin, Rev. War Vet., Formerly of Edgefield

123

Death of Capt. Richard Johnson, Rev. War Vet., of Edgefield

123

Three Edgefield Marriages in 1856 .

123

Sketch of Ebenezer W. "Abe" Smith, Formerly of York District

124

Death of Perry Dye of the Yorkville Circuit

125

A Man With Too Much Kin (Satire)

125

A Sketch of the Maximillian Haynie Family of Newberry

126

William Caldwell, Rev. War Patriot of Newberry

127

Death of Mrs. Maria Stobo Anderson, Formerly of Laurens

127

First Visit of Ku Klux to Spartanburg

128

Selling of White Men in Spartanburg

128

Death of Mrs. Tamer Turner Brown

128

Family Group of Benjamin F. Compton of Greenville County

129

Family Record of William Fanning "Fan" Dobbins of Greenville County

130

Chester District Equity Court Records Direct and Cross Indices Equity Bills 1820-1874

131

Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records

134

Mountain Creek Baptist Church Minutes, Anderson County, S.C.

140

Obituary of Jacob W. Warley of Anderson District, S.c.

145

Death of Miss Annie Gordon of Fairfield County

145

Deaths from the Broad River Baptist Association Minutes 1881-1883

146

Queries

148

From the Vaughan Papers

149

Index

150

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2002 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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Volume XVI

November 2002

Number 4

Family Bible Record of William McPherson of Laurens County

153

Felston Coggins Family Record

154

Mountain Creek Baptist Church Minutes, Anderson County, SC

155

Spanish Coins Found in Upper Greenville County in 1893

159

Edward Lacey, Rev. War General, Formerly of Chester District

160

Battles and Skirmishes in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War

166

Obituary of James Ambler, Senior, of Pickens District

168

Death Notice of John P. Archer of Pickens District

168

Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records

169

Photographs of William Berry and His Son Thomas

177

Families of Thomas Berry, Formerly of Greenville District

178

Cudd-Coleman Marriage in Union County, 1878

178

A Sketch of Dr. Maurice Moore, Native of York County

179

Obituary of a Grandson of Dr. Maurice A. Moore

180

A Legal Ad From London Citing the Sons of Christopher Hargreaves of Pendleton District in 1815

181

Nix-McCreight Marriage in Union County, 1880

181

Pendleton District Circa 1806, Part II

182

Moore Family Reunion in Oconee County in 1920

184

Death of John Berry, Rev. War Veteran, of York District

185

Obituary of Mrs. Culpurnia Jennings

185

Memorial to Culpurnia Jennings, Orphanage Matron

185

Obituary of Elihu McPherson, Native of Laurens District

186

Some Laurens County Grave Markers

187

Epitaph of David Anderson, Probate Court Judge of Early Laurens District

188

Obituary of Mrs. Eliza. W. Tarrant of Abbeville District

188

A Former Spartanburger Returns for a Visit

189

Pensioned War Veterans of Laurens District

189

Edgefield's Parade of Progress in 1890

190

Obituary of Mrs. Nancy Morgan Mealing of Edgefield District

192

Death Notice of Mrs. Barbara M'Alister of Anderson District

193

Family Bible Record of Vincent Dobbins

193

Certification of Robert Macbeth in 1835 as Sheriff of Union District

194

Obituary of Robert Macbeth of Union District

195

Correspondence from East Side of Spartanburg County

195

A Gubernatorial Pardon in 1837 for Mrs. Elizabeth Green

195

A Union District Marriage Contract in 1830

196

A Smith Cemetery of Upper Greenville County

196

Family of John Smith of Upper Greenville County

197

Death Notice of James F. Harrington of Newberry District

198

The Family of Adam Ritchey Lister, MD., Born 1775

198

Three Newberry Marriages in 1878

199

1907 Spartanburg Daily Herald Newspaper Items

199

Black Members of Philadelphia Baptist Church, Pauline, Spartanburg County, SC

203

Lists of Letters from the Vaughan Papers (Union County, SC)

204

Index

205

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

Volume :XVII February 2003 Number 4



Family Bible Record of Robert Pinckney Scruggs



Death of Major Hugh Barkley, Sheriff of Fairfield District



Pendleton District Circa 1806, Part III (Conclusion)



Edward Lacey, Rev. War General, formerly of Chester District (Concluded)



Death Notice of General Edward Lacey in 1813



Upstate Death Notices in 1813, 1814, and 1815 from The Charleston Courier



Obituary of General John Martin, Rev. War Veteran, in 1813



Three Harrison Sisters Drowned in Tugaloo River, Pendleton District, in 1813



William Madison Bomar Visits His Relatives in Hunt County, Texas



Death of Mrs. Martha Walker Bomar



Death of John H. Walker of Spartanburg County



A Footnote on John Bomar, Senior, of Virginia



Inscriptions from the Edward Bomar Family Cemetery



Death Notices of Three Bomar Children



Family of Edward Bomar



Family of Booker Bomar



Family of Zachariah Hobby



Obituary of Booker Bomar Martin



Death Notice of Angeline E. Hobby Woodruff, in Lamar County, Texas



A Sketch of William Erwin of York County



A Sketch of Alexander Moore of York County



Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records



Three Legal Notices from the Columbia Telescope in 1816



Obituary of Mrs. Kesia Whidey Culbreath of Edgefield District



Obituary of William Culbreath of Edgefield District



Obituary of Mrs. Lydia Earle Prince of Spartanburg County



McConnel-Conwill Marriage (1843), Anderson District



How Ben Purtle Got His Wife



A Tourist's View of Fairfield District in 1847



Death of Rev. Fletcher Smith in Oconee County



Hallum Ancestors of Richard Thomas Hallum, Sr., of Pickens County .



Two Pickens District Marriages in 1858



Polling Places and Managers in Abbeville and Newberry Districts for the Mid-term Election of 1826



An Excursion to Dial's Township, Laurens County



Summary of Revolutionary War Papers of Joseph Jolly of Union, and, later, Anderson Districts



Two Hunt Sisters Marry in Greenville District (1851)



From the Vaughan Papers

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Volume XVII

May 2003

Number 2

Family Record of Caleb Green, Formerly of Greenville County

Obituary of John Hammett of Greenville District

Obituary of Mrs. Emelia Hammett of Greenville District

A Low-Rainwaters Connection

Death of ]ordan P. Pool,]r. of Greenville District

A Tourist's View of Union District in 1847

Abbott Family (Spartanburg) vs. McMaster Family (Fairfield)

Death of Mrs. Henry Abbott of Spartanburg County

Death of Henry Abbott of Spartanburg County

Obituary of Mrs. Rachel Buchanan McMaster of Fairfield County

A Sketch of John Bishop, Rev. War Veteran of Chester District

Death of Mrs. Cynderella Forest of Spartanburg County

A View of Colonial Life in the Dutch Fork (Newberry Area)

Three Deaths in Newberry County in 1878

Family Record of William Thomas West of Spartanburg County

Mountain Creek Baptist Church Minutes, Anderson County

Obituary of Mrs. Nancy Jourdan Butler and son of Edgefield District

Death of Levi McDaniel of Edgefield District

Death of William Foy of Hamburg, Edgefield District

Breazeale Family Bible Records (Anderson District)

Breazeale Cemetery Inscriptions (Anderson & Pickens Counties)

Upstate Death Notices in 1812 From The Charleston Courier

Historic Sketch of the "United Laurens Riflemen"

Sheriff Election of 1812 in Pendleton District

Polling Places and Managers in York and Laurens Districts for the Midterm Election of 1826

Youngest Veteran of Civil War in Carolinas was a Native of York District

Obituary of William Harrison Jennings of Oconee County

Obituary of Mrs. Rebecca Jennings of Oconee County

Deed of Gift from Lovey Watson to Her Daughter

Death of Mrs. Nancy H. Gassaway Lee of Oconee County

John F. Hammett's House Built in 1780s Still Standing in 1936

Family Groups and Family Connections From County Court Records

A Notorious Frenchman in Edgefield District

Obituary of Samuel Franks, Rev. War Vet. of Laurens District

Obituary of Mrs. Ann Pickens Simpson, Native of Abbeville District

Robert White, Sr. (1743-1843) of Union County, SC

Obituary of Robert White, Sr. (1743-1843)

Two Letters by Isaac P. Murphy of Cross Keys, Union County, SC

Obituary of Robert White, Jr. of Spartanburg County

Sexton Bible Record

Will of Edward Lipscomb of Spartanburg County

Death of Edward Lipscomb

An 1878 Record of Pickens County Griffin and Barton Families

Death of Frank P. Lipscomb, Native of Newberry County

In Memoriam

Index

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2003 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume XVII

August 2003

Number 3

Family Bible Record of Willis M. Green of Greenville County

102

Obituary of Mrs. Lucy Smith Green

105

Obituary of Hardy Jones Smith

105

Obituary of Miss Minnie M. Green

105

Story of Robert Goodlett and Commissary Records at Fort Prince (Spartanburg) 1776-1777

106

An Early McCarter Family in the Fort Prince Area

112

Family Record of Robert Goodlett, Born Circa 1720

113

Obituary of Henry Jamison of Spartanburg District

114

Family Record of William Goodlett (1760-1836)

115

Obituary of William Goodlett, Revolutionary War Veteran, of Greenville District

116

Death of Mrs. Emily M. Goodlett Long

116

Polling Places and Managers in Edgefidd, Union, and Greenville for the Midterm Election of 1826

117

"Gentleman" Frank Ross of York District

119

Two Spartanburg District Marriages in 1836

120

Summary of the Revolutionary War Papers of John Jolly of Union District

121

Death Notice of Richard Harris, Native of Abbeville District

121

Two Garner Brothers of Union County Have Grand Adventure

122

Death of Roger M. Williams, Revolutionary War Veteran of Edgefield District

122

List of Unclaimed Letters at Anderson P. O. on Dec. 31, 1842

123

A Sketch of Mrs. Fannie Calhoun Marshall, 97, of Abbeville County

123

Account of the Death of Isaac E. Wofford, Native of Spartanburg

124

Death of Mrs. Sallie Cox of Greenville County

126

Abstract of Obituary of John Goodlett (1756-1837), Rev. War Veteran of Greenville District

126

Abstract of Obituary of Mrs. Nancy Ford Goodlett (1748-1837)

126

Death Notice of Robert Henry Briggs of Pickens District

126

Photographs of Simpson Bobo and of His Son Edwin H. Bobo

127

Sketch of Simpson Bobo and of His Son Edwin H. Bobo

127

Notes from Civil War Diary of Capt. John W. Carlisle

129

Courtship in Two Parts. III

133

Family Groups and Family Connections From County Court Records

135

Death of George Petty near Gaffney City, Spartanburg County

137

Two Upstate Marriages in 1848

137

Some Pardons in Upstate South Carolina (1866-1867)

138

Sedition at Pacolet Baptist Church, Cherokee County, SC (1870)

140

Judicial Appointments for 1811

143

Commissioners of Free Schools for 1812

145

From the Vaughan Papers

145

Society News

146

Index

146

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2003 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY AND HISTORY

Volume

XVII

November 2003

Number 4

From the Editor-It's Time for a Change!!!!!!!

Our Life Members

Table of Contents

Family Record of Benjamin Franklin White

150

Brief Survey of the Life of Benjamin Franklin White

151

Photograph of Historical Marker for B. F. White

153

Letters from B.F. White's War of 1812 Pension Application

154

Some Newberry County Deaths in 1878

158

Greenville County Equity Court Records Volume B 1822-1869

159

Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records

164

Letter from Pickens County

172

Obituary of Marcus Motes of Laurens District

173

A Tourist's View of Chester District in 1847

174

Murder in Edgefield District in 1816

179

Salem Methodist Church Windows Dedications

180

The McJunkin Cemetery

181

Broad River Baptist Association Deaths 1899-1900

182

Delegates to the Twelve Mile River Baptist Association 1886-1887

183

Delegates to the Saluda Baptist Association in 1878

185

Salem Presbyterian Churchyard

186

Florida Pensions for South Carolina Confederates

189

Spartanburg County Probate Court Real Estate Index 1825-1960

192

Index

193

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

Volume XVIII February 2004 Number 1

Table of Contents

The President's Message

Family Bible Record of James Smith of Anderson District

Additional Information on the James Smith Family

Revolutionary War Experiences of A Martin Family of Edgefield District

A Golden Wedding in York County

South Carolina Governors Through 1890

Some Newberry County Deaths in 1878

Polling places & Managers, Chester & Pendleton Districts, Midterm Election of 1826 8

An old Spartanburger Visits His Native County

Two Revolutionary War Soldiers From the Oconee Area

Obituary of Mrs. Tudie Thomas Twitty of Union County

Family Bibles & Other Family Records Solicitation

Obituary of Perry West of Spartanburg County

Advanced Medical Procedures in Spartanburg County

Death of Wm. Hubbard, Rev. War Vet. of Anderson District

Summary of Revolutionary War Papers of William Hubbard of Anderson District

A Sketch of William Hubbard of Anderson District

Two Fairfield County Marriages in 1882

A Letter From the "Dark Corner" of Fairfield County

Obituary of Mrs. Catharine Mobley of Fairfield County

Family Groups and Family Connections From County Court Records

An Informal Account of the Family of William Hubbard, Jr.

Family of Lewis Rector From a Greenville Court Document

Enhanced Family Record of Reverend Lewis Rector

Early Preaching in the Village of Spartanburg

Index of Cudd Family Names in Records of Union and Spartanburg Counties, SC

A Tourist's View of Fairfield District in 1847 - A Second Look

Death Notice of Andrew Jackson Byars of Cherokee County

Some Spartanburg Deaths in 1882

Edgefield Native Survivor in 1903 of Seminole War

Some Pickens District Marriage Notices in 1858

The Crook Family of Spartanburg and Some of their Descendants

Families of James Crook Sr., and of his Son James Crook, Jr.

Death Notice of Adam Goudelock of Union County

Queries

Book Review

INDEX

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

Volume XVIII

May 2004

Number 2

Table of Contents

The President's Message

Renewal/Membership Form

Family Records of David Goodlett of Greenville District

Timmons and Stafford Families of Spartanburg District

Death of General Thomas Wright of Laurens District

Chester District Equity Court Records and Cross Indices Equity Bills, 1820-1874

Polling Places and Managers, Chester and Pendleton Districts,

Midterm Elections 1826, cont.

Stevens and Holland Obituaries from Edgefield District

History of Some Huguenots in Abbeville County

Descendants of James Goddard of Laurens County

Autobiographical Sketch of Francis Marion Barton

German South Carolinians

The Family Record of Pinkney Avant Tisdale

The Family Record of Stephen Jones of Union County

Saluda County Teachers Meeting

Tales From The Blue Ridge (Oconee County Area)

Accidental Death of Samuel Milwee of Anderson District

An Anderson District Marriage in 1841

A Description of the Village of Laurensville in 1845

Family Groups and Family Connections From County Court Records

Excerpts From the Diary of Sarah Ann Cromer, Native of Newberry District

Sheriff’s Sales For York District in 1823

Queries

Two New Books

100

Index

101

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

Volume XVIII

AUGUST 2004

Number 3

Table of Contents

The President's Message

Carter Burnett / James A. Martin Bible Record

103

Death Notice of Jane Templeman Burnett

104

Death of Carter Burnett

104

Biographical Sketch of James D. Cureton, Supervisor of Registrations, Pickens County

105

Death Notice of John Byars of Spartanburg County

105

Family Record of John and Mary Watkins Byars

106

Obituary of Mrs. Mary Watkins Byars

107

Some Pickens District Marriages in 1858

107

A Short History of Union County

108

The Will of John Burnett of Spartanburg District

112

Obituary of George E. DeBard of Spartanburg County

113

Biographical Sketch of William C. McGowan of Abbeville

114

First Hand Remarks in 1816 About the Emigration to Alabama

114

The First German-American Settler in the Newberry Area

115

Some News From Chester County in 1897

118

A Visit to Two Historic Churches in Anderson County

119

Obituary of Isham Hurt (1804-1891) of Spartanburg County

121

Obituary of Mrs. Nancy Cunningham of Greenville District

121

Some Rare Colonial South Carolina Records

122

Obituary of Michael McElrath of Spartanburg County

127

Family Record of Willoughby Barton of Greenville District

128

Family Record of Francis Marion Barton, Native of Greenville District

129

Family of Dudley A. Bolin of Transylvania County, NC

130

Biographical Sketch of John H. Wharton of Laurens

130

A Wharton Query in 1939

131

Will of William Nelson, Esq., Laurens District, SC

132

Death of Capt. William Logue of Edgefield District

133

Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records

134

Revolutionary War Soldiers Memorialized in Bethel Graveyard, Woodruff, SC

138

A Great Idea: A Genealogical Codicil to Your Will

139

Obituary of Mrs. Laura Magee Mason of Oconee County

140

Jeter (Union County) and McKay (Greenville County) Marriage in 1889

140

Obituary of Mrs. Clary Magee Gassaway of Pickens County

141

The Grandeur of Ancestry (Humor)

141

A Description of Spartanburg Village in 1828

142

History of Green Pond Baptist Church of Spartanburg County

143

The Complete Family Group of James Crook, Jr

145

An Old Joke

147

Queries

147

Sheriffs Sales For York District in 1823

150

The Formation of Saluda County

151

A Tribute to Colonel Henry H. Thomson of Spartanburg

152

A Sketch of James Nimmons Murphree of Pickens County

153

Index

154

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY

HISTORY

Volume XVIII

November 2004

Number 4

Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................ i

End of Year Message .......................................................................................................................ii

Renewal/Membership Form .............................................................................................................iii

Bible Records of William C. Gregory and of Crawford C. Gregory ............................................ 157

Bible Record of Jesse Franklin Cox .............................................................................................. 158

Accidental Deaths of Mrs. Starling Gregory and Mrs. William Gregory of Spartanburg

County ............................................................................................................................................ 159

Death of James A. Gregory of Spartanburg County ...................................................................... 159

Death Notice of Mrs. Maria Barker of Spartanburg County .......................................................... 159

An Account of Andrew Johnson's Sojourn in Laurens County ..................................................... 160

The True Identity of Andrew Johnson's Fiancee in Laurens .......................................................... 162

Facsimile of an Ad for Andrew Johnson, Runaway Apprentice .................................................... 163

Parents of Jesse M. Hindman of Spartanburg District ................................................................... 164

Tales From the Blue Ridge (Oconee and Pickens Area) ................................................................ 169

Obituary of Andrew Pickens, Revolutionary War General, of Pendleton District ........................177

Grave of Col. James Mayson, Revolutionary War Veteran, in Greenwood County .....................178

Will of Col. James Mayson of Abbeville County .......................................................................... 179

A Glimpse at the Lawless Conditions in the Upstate in 1767 ........................................................ 182

A Cherokee Indian Massacre in the Chester Area in 1761 ............................................................ 182

A Sketch of the Town of Greenwood in 1889 ...............................................................................183

A Death Notice from Early Greenwood County ............................................................................184

Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records ..........................................185

Obituary of Mrs Elizabeth Word of Laurens District ....................................................................190

A Golden Wedding in Chester .......................................................................................................190

Upstate Death Notices in 1817 from the Charleston

Courier ..........................................................

191

Family Record of Miles Crocker, Native of Spartanburg ..............................................................192

Obituary of Governor B.F. Perry of Greenville County ................................................................193

A Short Story of Mt. Bethel Presbyterian Church of Newberry County .......................................194

Death of the Last Founders of the Episcopal Church in Edgefield ................................................195

Death Notice of Benjamin Clement of Anderson District .............................................................195

Daniel White (1761-1848) - A Time-Line Family History ............................................................196

Bible Record of William Jackson Wood and Mahala Johnson ......................................................202

Book Reviews ................................................................................................................................202

Queries............................................................................................................................................ 203

Sheriff's Sales for York District in 1823 ........................................................................................ 205

Index ...............................................................................................................................................205

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2004 by the Piedmont Historical Society

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

Volume :xxx February 2005 Number 1



Table of Contents



Tribute to Faye Berry



Family of Samuel Dillard, Native of Spartanburg County



Marriage Certificate for John T. Dillard and Salana Autry



Family Bible Record of John Thomas Dillard



Dillard and Hines Homesteaders in Washington Territory



Chester District Equity Court Records, Direct & Cross Indices Equity Bills 1820-1874



News From Spartanburg County in 1897



Some Marriages From The Yorkville Enquirer in 1856



State Line Is Tribute To Bravery of Catawba Indian Tribe of York County



The Catawba Indians



A Vignette of The Catawbas by William Gilmore Simms



A Death and Two Upstate Marriages in 1799



Daniel White (1761-1848) -A Time-Line Family History - Concluded



Guillebeaux Family Reunion in McCormick County



Michael Dempsey Died on Coosa River in 1817



Greer's and Cedar Hill Factory



Death Notice of Hon. Elias Earle of Pendleton District



Obituary of Aris Brown, Revolutionary War Veteran, of Pendleton District .



Widow's Pension Application, W8386, by Joanna Brown on



Revolutionary War Service of Aris Brown (Spartanburg and Pickens)



Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records



Notes on the Lafford French Family of Spartanburg



The Poetic Marriage of William Gustavus Gun to Emily Pistol



Death of Mrs. Mary Ann Foster of Jonesville, Union County



Some Fairfield District Death Notices in 1823



Queries



Some Newberry County Death in 1878



A Death and A Marriage in Abbeville District



Bible Record of Robert Lee McPherson, Native of Laurens County .



Some Edgefield District Marriage Notices in 1857

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Index

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

Volume :XIX May 2005 Number 2



Table of Contents



Presidents's Message



Erratum



Family Record of Aaron Templeman (1759-1822)



Family Record of James Templeman (1802-1860)



Family Record of Abraham Wesley Linder (1803-1874)



Marriage Notice of Aaron Templeman and Missouri Martin



Pendleton District Magistrate Reports of Convictions for Swearing Profane Oaths



A History of the Donalds Section of Abbeville County



Upstate Death Notices in 1811 From the Charleston Courier



Family Record of Joseph Manuel Antonio Turpin, Native of Anderson District



Edin White (Ca 1800-1877) - A Time-Line Family History



Some Death Notices From Pickens District in 1858 and 1859



Duckett Letters of 1833, 1838, 1853, and One Undated (Laurens District)



Biographical Sketch of Ebenezer E. Verner of Oconee County



Enhanced Family Record of Miles Crocker, Native of Spartanburg District



Biographical Sketch of Calvin W. Whisonant of Union County



New Operating Hours For the Mormon Church Library, Gaffney, SC (Cherokee Co.)



Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records



Family of Samuel Campbell of Lower Greenville County on



Family Bible Record of Josiah Thompson Campbell



Lightening Bolt Strikes Young Samuel D. Campbell



Obituary of Mrs. Sarah Cannon of Newberry Districts



Family Record of Stephen Taylor of Spartanburg District



Autobiographical Sketch of William Berry Taylor



Family of William Berry Taylor



A Pickens District Marriage in 1858



Sunday-School Celebration At Shiloh Church, Abbeville, SC



Two Death Notices From Abbeville County in 1870



The Piedmont Historical Society Constitution & By-Laws



Book Reviews .



Queries



Names Researched by Piedmont Historical Society Members



Index

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

Volume :XIX August 2005

Number 3



Table of Contents



Invitation To Our Readers



Membership Application and Release Signature



A Brief Sketch and Family Record of Francis Clinkscales (1739-1837)



Family of Jane B. Clinkscales Orr of Anderson District



A Monument for Hon. James Lawrence Orr of Anderson County



Death Notice of Francis Marion Kay of Anderson County



Biographical Sketch of Francis Marion Kay



Historic Rock at Chester Preserved for Posterity



An 1894 Clinkscales Family Reunion in Abbeville County



The Iron Works of Spartanburg County Up For Sale in 1788, First Notice



Old Southern Hospitality Still lives at 'Liberty Hall', Near Fountain Inn, Greenville Co



Obituary of William Irwin of Spartanburg County



Cambridge Agricultural Society (1843-45) of Abbeville District



Reward Offered for Capture of Shadrack Jacobs, Escapee, Fairfield District



Family of James Fort Muse, Native of Fairfield County



Family Record of John Williams of Spartanburg District



Death Notice of Mrs. Rebecca Edwards of Edgefield District



Population in 1809 of the Districts in South Carolina as Found by a State Census



Murder of a Former South Carolinian in Arkansas



Population of the States and Territories in 1810



Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records



The Iron Works of Spartanburg County Up For Sale in 1788, Second Notice



Wedding of William Irwin and Amelia Reinbardt in 1845



Death Notice of Mrs. William Irwin



Naturalization Documents for William Irwin



Family Bible Record of William Irwin



Obituary of Thomas Alexander Irwin



The Cornerstone of Clemson College Laid (Pickens County)



Two Spartanburg County Deaths in 1872



The First Professors of Clemson College.



Dr. J.B.O. Landrum's Answers to Three Questions About the Early Spartanburg Area



The Origin of Bush River Baptist Church in Newberry County and Some Early Members



Revolutionary War Pension Application of John Ridgeway, Jr., of Laurens District



Delayed Marriage in 1811



Death of John Taggart of Abbeville County



Catawba Company Land Sales in 1813



Queries



Additional Names Researched by Piedmont Historical Society Member

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

Volume :XIX November 2005

Number 4



Table of Contents



The President's Letter



Renewal Form



Signature for Consent to Publish Form



The Family of Harcanus Dillard, a Reconstruction



William W. ''Wade'' & Nina Padgett Satterfield Bible Record



A Short Account of Union County Courthouses



Obituary of John Taylor, Native of Spartanburg County



South Carolina Election Returns for 1816



Obituary of David M. Crawford, Native of lreland



The Summer Home of Judge John Belton O'Neil of Newberry was Near Greer



Chester County Delinquent Lands in 1875



A List of Death Dates in Greenville County (1831-1876



Historic Henderson's Ferry is Scene of Family Reunion in Newberry County



About the Clevelands



Two Octogenarians of York County



A Brief History of Lebanon United Methodist Church of Lower Greenville County



Inscriptions on Monument at Lebanon United Methodist Church



Family Groups and Family Connections from County Court Records



Will of Thomas H. Henderson of Newberry District, S.C



Family Record of James and Gemima Dillard Briant



The Sullivan Independent Company of Volunteer Scouts, 1781



The Iron Works of Spartanburg County Up For Sale in 1788, Second Notice



Wedding of William Irwin and Amelia Reinbardt in 1845



Death Notice of Mrs. William Irwin



Naturalization Documents for William Irwin



Family Bible Record of William Irwin



Obituary of Thomas Alexander Irwin



The Cornerstone of Clemson College Laid (Pickens County)



Two Spartanburg County Deaths in 1872



The First Professors of Clemson College.



Dr. J.B.O. Landrum's Answers to Three Questions About the Early Spartanburg Area



The Origin of Bush River Baptist Church in Newberry County and Some Early Members



Revolutionary War Pension Application of John Ridgeway, Jr., of Laurens District



Delayed Marriage in 18U



Death of John Taggart of Abbeville County



Catawba Company Land Sales in 1813



Queries



Additional Names Researched by Piedmont Historical Society Member

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

Volume XX February 2006

Number 1

Table of Contents.........................................................................................................................i

The President’s Letter................................................................................................................ii

Renewal Form ............................................................................................................................iii

Signature for Consent to Publish Form.................................................................................. iv

Family Bible Record of Samuel Martin (1803-1885) of Abbeville District ..............................1

A More Complete Family Record of Samuel Martin of Abbeville District..............................2

Some Edgefield Marriage Notices in 1857................................................................................3

Sheriff’s Sales for York District in 1823....................................................................................4

The Revolutionary War Battle of Cedar Spring........................................................................5

Two Revolutionary War Artifacts in Spartanburg County in 1886 .........................................6

Improvements at the Cedar Spring State School for Deaf Mutes and the Blind in 1886......7

Obituary for Mrs. Clara Hughston, Native of Laurens District................................................8

Chester District Equity Court Direct and Cross Indices of Equity Bills 1820-1874 ..............9

A Noble Roman Returns to Edgefield.....................................................................................11

Second Family of Pinkney Avant Tisdale ...............................................................................12

Four Spartanburg District Marriages in 1857 .........................................................................14

Obituary of Mrs. Agnes Alexander Fewell of Rock Hill (York County).................................14

Upstate Death Notices in 1806 From the Charleston Courier...............................................15

Obituary of Robert Cheatham of Abbeville District ...............................................................15

Murder in Edgefield in 1806 .....................................................................................................16

An Old Anecdote.......................................................................................................................16

Members of the Moral Society of Pendleton District.............................................................17

A Tourist’s View of Glenn Springs (Spartanburg District) in 1847.......................................18

Death of a Colored Woman in Greenville County ..................................................................21

Pendleton Moral Society’s Schedule of Offences and Fines................................................22

A Well-Digger’s Obituary From Fairfield District ...................................................................22

Lindley’s Fort Rediscovered in Laurens County ...................................................................23

A Sketch of James Lindley (1735-1779), Loyalist Militia Leader ..........................................24

Early Members of Bush River Baptist Church in Newberry District ....................................26

Our Iron Industry of Old–A History of How It Was Conducted .............................................28

Why He is Called Uncle Sam: Two Versions..........................................................................30

A Short History of the First Baptist Church of Anderson, SC ..............................................31

Revolutionary War Pension Application of James Black of Chester District .....................33

Revolutionary War Pension Application of Nancy Black, Widow of James Black .............35

Family Groups and Family Connections From County Court Records...............................38

Obituary of a Centenarian in Union District in 1830 ..............................................................41

Death of John Samuel Verner, Native of Oconee County .....................................................41

The Family of John and Sabra Hammett: A Reconstruction ................................................42

Upstate Land for Sale in 1806..................................................................................................43

Queries.......................................................................................................................................44

Index...........................................................................................................................................45

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

Volume XX May 2006 Number 2

Table of Contents.........................................................................................................................i

The President’s Letter................................................................................................................ii

Membership Application Form .................................................................................................iii

Family Record of Aaron Templeman ......................................................................................49

Two Spartanburg County Marriages in 1869 .........................................................................49

Family Record of Richard Waverly Durham ..........................................................................50

Photographs of Aaron and Missouri Martin Durham ............................................................51

Deaths of Scruggs Brothers on Same Day in Spartanburg County in 1891 .......................51

Obituary of John W. Davis, Greenville County, 1892 ............................................................52

Family of John W. Davis of Greenville County ......................................................................52

Family Record of Major Joseph McJunkin of Union District ...............................................54

An Account of Major Joseph McJunkin in Revolutionary War.............................................55

Jane McJunkin Confronts a Tory ........................................................................................... 57

Death Notice of Col. John Thomas of Greenville District ....................................................57

Heroism of Mrs. Col. John Thomas During Revolutionary War ...........................................58

The Last of the Edwards Brothers in Edgefield County........................................................59

Family of Enoch and Nancy Malinda Briant Chapman..........................................................60

More Edgefield Marriage Notices in 1857...............................................................................61

A Tourist’s View of Spartanburg District in 1847 ..................................................................62

Three Abbeville District Death Notices in 1869......................................................................67

Sheriff’s Sales for York District in 1823..................................................................................68

An Account of the Revolutionary War in York and Chester .................................................69

Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Seybt, Native of Newberry County..................................................72

A Female Volunteer Soldier Detected in 1846........................................................................72

Upstate Marriage Notices in 1806 From The Charleston Courier.........................................73

Two Anderson County Deaths in 1910 ...................................................................................73

Grave Marker of Thomas C. Taylor of Union District.............................................................74

An Editor’s Lament...................................................................................................................74

Bridge Accident at Clemson College (Pickens County)........................................................75

Death of Thomas J. Means in Fairfield District......................................................................75

The Palmetto Regiment Officer Candidates and the Union District Volunteer Company..76

Family Groups and Family Connections From County Court Records...............................78

Obituary of John McLure (Chester/Union Districts) ..............................................................85

Obituary of George A. Setzler of Spartanburg County..........................................................85

Joel T. Elgin Family Bible Record (Anderson County)..........................................................86

The Boonesborough Historical Marker at Donalds, Abbeville County................................87

Cannon From the Old Star Fort ...............................................................................................87

Death Notice of Samuel M. Meek, Native of Laurens District ...............................................87

Woods-Killebrew-Richerson Bible Record.............................................................................88

Will of Thomas Lindley (1809) of Laurens District.................................................................89

Names Researched by Piedmont Historical Society Members–Section 4...........................90

Queries.......................................................................................................................................92

Book Announcement................................................................................................................93

Index...........................................................................................................................................94

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UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGY & HISTORY

Volume XX

August 2006

Number 3

Table of Contents

The President's Letter

Membership Application Form.

iii

Family Record of James and Elizabeth Bennett Lancaster of Union District

Family Record of Berryman and Martha Emily Lancaster Jones of Union District

Twenty Five Cent Reward in Unionville in 1823

Elizabeth. Frances B. Lancaster Mayes

100

York County's Nonagenarian in 1903

101

Death of a Nonagenarian in York District in 1846

101

Union District Guardianship Bond For Robert Franklin Norman (1835)

102

Spartanburg District Volunteer Company For The Mexican War

102

Reminiscences of Colonel John Thomas and His Family

104

A Death Notice From Abbeville County in 1870

106

Will (1795) of John Middleton of Pendleton County, SC

107

Death of an Anderson District Octogenarian in 1846

107

Early Members of Bush River Baptist Church in Newberry District

108

Upstate Death Notices in 1803, 1804, and 1805 From The Charleston Courier

110

Epitaph For John Fish

111

Upstate Marriage Notices in 1803, 1804, and 1805 From the Charleston Courier

112

Moragne-Ramey Marriage in Abbeville County

112

Obituary For a Revolutionary War Officer (Fairfield District, 1805)

113

Upstate Lands For Sale in. 1806

113

Attributes of a Proposed New County

114

Two Pickens District Marriage Notices in 1849

115

Inscriptions From the Isaac Bogan Burial Plot (Union County)

116

Will ofIsaac Bogan of Union District

116

Family of Isaac Bogan, Rev. War Soldier, of Union District

118

A Sketch of Dr. Berryman Bryant, Native of Spartanburg District

120

Obituary of Dr. Berryman Bryant

120

Genealogical Sketches of a Collins Family

121

Family Groups and Family Connections From County Court Records

125

The Great Cane Brake, Only Revolutionary War Battle Within Greenville County Area

131

Death of Mrs. Maria Huff of Greenville County

132

Death in Yell County, Arkansas of Dr. D. F. Huckaby, a Native of Union District

133

Some Edgefield Marriage Notices in 1857

133

Will of James McElroy in 1780

134

The CSA Tombstone of Private Miles Crocker

135

Family Record of Thomas Marshall Crocker

136

Some Marriage Notices in 1854 From The Chester Standard

137

Heirs of Robert Kimbrell of Spartanburg District

138

Family of John S. Bolt of Laurens District

140

Queries

141

Names Researched by Piedmont Historical Society Members (List 6)

141

Index

142

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INDEX

for Upper SC Genalogy & History, November 2006.

Adair ......................194

Alewine..................194

Allen ......................166

Anderson...............194

Arledge...................194

Austin ...........172-178

Avery......................160

Bacon.....................163

Bacot......................157

Baker......................194

Baly ........................183

Barnett...................147

................................194

Barrett....................190

Baskin ...................193

Bayne......................191

Beard.............145, 146

Bell ........................145

Black .....................193

Blasingame............192

Blocker...................162

Bolt.........................194

Bowden ................166

Bowen ..........192, 193

Bowie.....................162

................................192

Boyd.......................193

Brackett..................194

Bradford................193

Branyon.................194

Briant ............166, 167

Brooks ...................162

Brown...164-168, 172

Bryant............166, 183

................................186

Buice ......................167

Burch ...........173, 174

Burgess ..................159

Burres.....................192

Burroughs ............192

Busha ...........148, 157

Butler .....................191

Byers .....................163

Cain........................163

Calhoun .......148, 153

................................157

Campbell ..............172

Cannon....................163

Carothers ................188

Carter.......................194

Casey........................177

Catts.........................174

Chadwick ...............194

Chalk........................165

Chalmers.................187

Chamblin ................161

Clarke .....................157

Clayton ..........148, 157

Clement...................161

Cochran...................193

Collins.............164, 165

................172-174, 177

Cook .......................192

Cooper ....................178

Copeland.................174

Cornwallis ..............159

Cowan......................167

Coyle........................194

Crain........................147

Crittenden...............175

Crocker...........167, 193

Cross........................145

Davis...............164, 194

Davison...................163

DeWitt.............149-152

..........................155-157

Dickerson................192

Dickey......................146

Dillard.............167, 194

Dilworth..................193

Dodd .............172, 177

Donaldson ..............194

Drake ......................194

Draper .....................166

Drayton..........150, 151

Drury.......................177

Easterwood.............167

Eaton ......................194

Elgin ........................194

Ellsworth ................193

Evans.......................162

Farr ..........................161

Fendley....................167

Fisher.......................145

Fleming ..................172

Fowler ...........146, 194

Franklin..................157

Freeman.................161

Gabbott..................183

Gambrell................192

Garner....................194

Gary........................160

Gayle..............148, 153

Gentry....................192

Gibbes...........150, 151

........................157, 161

Gilder ...........175, 176

Giles........................193

Gillespie.................194

Goforth..................167

Golden ..................192

Goodgion .............161

Gossett...................168

Grant ............155, 157

Grason....................162

Green......................192

Griffin ...........160, 161

.................................194

Harden ...................192

Hardin ...................189

Harris.............190, 191

.................................194

Harshaw.................163

Hawkins .......151, 152

........................154, 158

Haynie ...................192

Henderson ............193

Hendricks .............161

Hendrix..................161

Henson ..................147

Hester ....................161

Hibbs .....................193

Hill..........................162

Hogg.......................163

Holcombe..............145

Howard..................192

Hudson .................174

Hutcheson .............194

Jackson...................175

Jameson ........ 161, 174

Jones.............. 167, 192

Keith.............. 160, 194

Kell.........................194

Kennedy........ 187, 194

Kilpatrick...............154

King .......................159

Kirby ............. 166, 167

Kirkland.................162

Krawczynski 150, 157

Lafayette ................159

Laferty....................194

Lamar.....................162

Lancaster ..............165

Landrum................145

Lands......................167

Latham...................161

Lee..........................167

Legg........................187

Lemaster ...............159

Lilly.........................163

Lindley ...................194

Lindsey ..................192

Lipscomb ......166-168

Littlejohn ..............189

Logan ............ 175, 187

Love........................163

Lowe ............. 188, 189

Lowrie....................157

Lyles ......................190

Major......................192

Marshall ........ 174, 175

Martin ....................192

Massey....................192

Mathis............ 166, 167

McAbee..................193

McCrackin ............189

McCravey...............194

McDaniel...............174

McDowell .............192

McFall........... 148, 157

................................193

McMahan...... 190, 194

McMakin................145

Milam.....................194

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Mitchell..........166, 167 Moon .................... 147 Morgan .........177, 178 Morris.....................165

Moseley .................189

Mouchat ...............192

Murphy..................194

Newby....................162

Norris ....................192

Oliver.....................192

Outalassi................157

Owen ....................192

Oxford...................194

Page........................194

Parkins...................161

Patterson........165, 168

..................................193

Patton......................173

Pelfrey......................194

Pennington ...147, 175

Pew .........................176

Pickens ...................148

.................151-154, 177

Pitts..........................194

Player.......................163

Pool..........................161

Poole ..............166, 188

Pope.........................194

Posy .........................192

Ramsey ..........148, 158

Reeve.......................186

Reid.................162, 164

Richards .................192

Richardson .............176

Richey.............161, 194

Ridgeway.................194

Riggs........................191

Rite...........................167

Roach ......................192

Roebuck..................177

Rogers ............148, 158

Rollins .....................189

Royce..............148-150

........................155, 158

Sanders...................194

Scott........................194

Seaton.....................157

Sherard ..................193

Sheriff ...........148, 158

Simpson .......148, 158

Smith ....160, 161, 163

.............. 165, 168, 190

.................................193

Sparks.............165-168

Spillers....................167

Stephens.................187

Steuben...................159

Stevens ...................187

Stokes.....................174

Sudduth .........145-147

Swansey..................172

Swords....................192

Tanner....................194

Tarleton.........175, 177

Tate ........................194

Taylor ...........148, 158

Thompson ...163, 172

Thoms....................187

Tillman ..................160

Tuck ............. 188, 189

Tucker...188, 189, 192

Turner....................146

Warden...................187

Washington...........152

....................... 154, 159

Watson.......... 178, 192

Watt........................192

Wayland ................165

Welborn ................192

West........................162

Westmoreland.......173

Whitner .................154

Whitten..................161

Wilkins...........166-168

Williamson ............150

....................... 151, 177

Willingham ...........192

Willis .....................189

Wilson....................192

Wood......................194

Woods........... 165, 167

Worley....................194

Wright....................194

Wyatt......................166

Yeager ....................194

Young....173, 174, 194

SLAVES (OWNER)

Alfred (Oliver)............................................... 192

Bill (Brown).................................................... 164

Candas (Oliver) ............................................. 192

Caroline (Oliver) ........................................... 192

Cesar (Brown)................................................ 164

Charles (Brown) ............................................ 164

Daphne (Brown)........................................... 164

Doll (Brown).................................................. 164

Leah (Oliver).................................................. 192

Letty (Oliver)................................................. 192

Louisa Oliver).................................................192

Lucie (Brown).................................................164

Malenda (Oliver).............................................192

Mitty (Brown) .................................................164

Phillis (Giles)...................................................193

Pompey (Brown)............................................164

Sarah Elizabeth (Oliver)................................192

Susan (Oliver) .................................................192

Virginia (Giles)................................................193

William (Oliver)..............................................192

CHEROKEE INDIANS

Chief Corn Tassell........................................................................................150, 151

Dragging Canoe....................................................................................................149

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Volume XXI February 2007 Number 1

Table of Contents.........................................................................................................................................i

President’s Message ...................................................................................................................................ii

Membership Application Form–2007 ..................................................................................................... iii

Family of William Tolleson Bryant of Spartanburg District .................................................................1

Six Early Cannon Epitaphs in Newberry County ...................................................................................3

Sheriff’s Sales for Pickens District in 1849 ..............................................................................................4

Death Notice of Mrs. Lucinda Draper Kirby, Native of Spartanburg District ....................................4

A History of Flint Hill Baptist Church in York County .........................................................................5

York County’s Octogenarians – John W. Moore ....................................................................................6

Upstate Marriage Notices in 1807 From the Charleston Courier .........................................................6

An Early Butler Family of the Saluda County Area ...............................................................................7

A Fairfield District Marriage in 1816 ......................................................................................................9

Bible Record of Corrine Gertrude Lide and John Thomas Foster, Sr. ..............................................10

Letter From M. P. Evins of Laurens District to His Brother Col. S. N. Evins of

Spartanburg District (1853) ....................................................................................................................12

Revolutionary War Pension Application of Nathaniel Rogers of Union District ...............................14

Revolutionary War Pension Application of Cely Rogers, Widow of Nathaniel Rogers ....................16

Obituary of Mrs. Elizabeth Rogers Bogan of Union District ...............................................................19

The James Ponder and Austin Lister Families of Greenville District .................................................20

Commencement at Cedar Spring State School for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind in 1886 ..............21

Three Marriages From the Edgefield Advertiser in 1856 ....................................................................23

Death of Edward Clark Byars of Cherokee County .............................................................................24

Family Record of Luther Graham Byars of Cherokee County ...........................................................24

Death of Mrs. Catharine Bryant Crocker of Spartanburg ..................................................................25

Hampton McVey P.Pool Bible Record (Greenville County) ................................................................26

Photographs of Mr. And Mrs. Wade Hampton Pool & Son ................................................................27

Facsimile of a Three Day Civil War Pass Issued to Wade Hampton Pool ..........................................27

Facsimile of an Invitation to a Ball For the Butler Guards at Chick Springs in 1859 .......................28

Two Revolutionary War Incidents in the Spartanburg Region ...........................................................29

John Tollison of Union District Found Guilty of Murder ....................................................................30

A Sketch of Isaac Hull McCalla of Abbeville and of James M. Sullivan of Anderson ......................32

Death Notice of Wade Hampton Pool of Greenville County ................................................................33

Family Groups and Family Connections From County Court Records .............................................34

Two Death Notices From Chester District in 1854 ...............................................................................38

Excerpts From the Diary (Late 1700s) of Samuel Noblitt ....................................................................39

Stump House Mountain and Railroads in Oconee County ..................................................................41

The Excursion of the Butler Guards to Chick’s Springs ......................................................................43

Family Record of Jesse Cannon (Jr.) of Spartanburg County ............................................................44

Queries ......................................................................................................................................................45

Index ..........................................................................................................................................................46

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Volume XXI May 2007 Number 2

Table of Contents.........................................................................................................................i

The President’s Message...........................................................................................................ii

Membership Application Form .................................................................................................iii

Look and See .............................................................................................................................iv

Family Bible Record of Kinsman Seay of Spartanburg District .......................................... 49

Obituary of Miss Ruth Seay ....................................................................................................50

Miss Ruth Seay, Charter Member of Central United Methodist Church of Spartanburg ...50

Kinsman Seay, One of the Organizers of the Methodist Church of Spartanburg ..............51

Death of James Seay, Revolutionary War Soldier, in 1850.................................................. 52

Death of Kinsman Seay in 1883.............................................................................................. 52

The Will of Kinsman Seay .......................................................................................................52

Some Obituaries From Anderson County in 1900 ................................................................53

Family Record of James Madison Lowe of Spartanburg County ........................................54

Five Spartanburg County Marriage Notices and an Obituary in 1876 .................................55

Brown-Rush Marriage in 1851 ................................................................................................55

A Sketch of the Town of Walhalla, Seat of Oconee County .................................................56

Some Marriage Notices in the the Keowee Courier.............................................................. 56

Death Notice of Colonel Benjamin Dawkins of Union District .............................................57

A Sketch of Col. William Hill of York District .........................................................................58

Obituary of Elias Lake, Native of Edgefield District ..............................................................59

The Will of Ruthy Seay ............................................................................................................60

The Family of Ebenezer Mitchell Dorman ..............................................................................60

Obituary of Mrs. Cecelia G. Sims of Union County ...............................................................63

The View From Atop Glassy Mountain in Greenville County ...............................................63

Family Record of William H. Moon of Greenville District .....................................................65

Family Bible Record of John Parker Moon ............................................................................66

Family of James T. Moon ........................................................................................................67

Some Pickens County Marriage Notices in 1876 ..................................................................68

Facsimile of Flyleaf From Bible (Printed 1698) of Joseph Reid ...........................................69

Family Bible Record of Joseph Reid ......................................................................................70

Deed of Gift of William Reid (1793) in Spartanburg County .................................................71

Family Groups and Family Connections From County Court Records ..............................72

Death Notices of Some South Carolina Ministers in 1878 ...................................................74

A Tourist’s View of (Eastern) Spartanburg District in 1847 .................................................75

Grave of Golden Tinsley, Revolutionary War Hero ...............................................................83

Death of Mrs. Mary Chatham Adams of Abbeville District ...................................................83

The Family of Andrew Jackson Dorman ................................................................................84

Family of Rev. Stephen Powell (1786-1878) of Greenville County ......................................86

Names Researched by Piedmont Historical Society Members–List 8 ................................87

Queries ......................................................................................................................................89

Index ..........................................................................................................................................90

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Volume

XXI

August 2007

Number 3

Table of Contents

The President's Message

The Family of Thomas Reid (1770-1836), A Reconstruction

Some Death Notices From Abbeville District in 1854

Some Marriage Notices From Abbeville District in 1854

100

Family Groups and Families Connections From County Court Records

101

Family Record of Alexander Reid (1850-1903)

104

Obituary of Alexander Reid (1850-1903)

106

Obituary of Mrs. Viney Elizabeth Reid (1856-1947)

106

Obituary of Jefferson C. Gatrison of Chester County

106

A Sketch of J. Lyles Glenn of Chester County

107

Upstate Death Notices in 1818 From the Charleston Courier

108

Obituary of Lewis Abercrombie of Laurens County

109

Description in 1854 of Jamestown Relics

109

Reminiscences of York by a Septuagenarian

110

Signature of the Cross

113

Death in Louisiana of Col. William Lyons, Rev. War Veteran and Native of S. C.

113

A Marriage in 1818 With the Bride in the Raw

113

Family Record of Alfred Calvin Reid

114

Family Bible Record of John M. Carman of Greenville District

116

Obituary of Mrs. Martha C. Henderson of Newberry District

116

Death of Francis Burt, Governor of Nebraska Territory & Native of Pendleton District

117

Family of Joseph W. Wi11iams (ca 1770-1841) of Pickens District

118

Spartanburg Land for Sale in 1788

119

Email Address Correction for Richard Patton

119

A Sketch of George Prince of Anderson County

120

Two Marriage Notices in Pickens County in 1876

120

Obituary of Tandy W. Reid

121

Index

121

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Table of Contents

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The President's Message

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Membership Application Form-2008

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Send Us Your Queries And Contributions-Addresses

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Family Record of Aaron Burton of Newberry District

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Upstate Death Notices in 1819 From The Charleston Courier

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Two Poems in 1819

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Summary of Revolution War Pension Application on The Service of Daniel Mabry of Fairfield District

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Some York County Marriages

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Family Record And Estate of William Williams of Pickens District

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Account of The Death of John Sampson Bobo of Union District

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A Tourist's View of Greenville Village in 1847

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Some Abbeville District Marriages in 1855 And 1856

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A Vignette of The Battle at Cowpens

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Description of a Monument at Cowpens in 1856

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Photograph of Greenberry Crocker And of His Daughter Canzada Jane Crocker Coggins

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Family Record of Greenberry Crocker

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A Filler From The Sandwich Islands

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A Sketch of J ames Butler Bonham of Alamo Fame, Native of Edgefield District

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A Recent Photograph of The 1856 Monument at Cowpens National Battleground

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Murder of George Brown of Chester District

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Death Notice of Mrs. Eliza Poole of Greenville County

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Emigration to The WestWith a Horseless Cart

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Lipsey-Foster Marriage in Union County

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Fourth of July Celebration at Fort Prince in 1900

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Ode Written For The Celebration at Fort Prince

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Obituary of Mrs. Martha L. Hughston Walker

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Will of Elisha Hughston (1788-1868)

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Will (1813) of John Walker

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Family Groups And Family Connections From County Court Records

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Two Classic Carriages From Antebellum Days .

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Photographs of William W. Robertson And Sons

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Family Record of William W. Robertson (1806-1878) of Greenville County

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Photograph of Albert Anderson Stewart and Wife

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Family Record of Albert Anderson Stewart

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Four Obituaries From The Anderson Daily Mail

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Obituary of Mrs. Ann Chapman Evins of Laurens District

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Obituary of Mrs. Ruth Dial of Laurens County

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Important Addresses

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Volume XXII February 2008

Number 1

Table of Contents........................................................................................................... i

The President’s Message.............................................................................................. ii

Membership Application Form—2008 ....................................................................... iii

Send Us Your Queries And Contributions—Addresses .......................................... iv

Mulligan Family Bible Record (Spartanburg County) ............................................... 1

Obituary of Captain Alfred B. Mulligan ....................................................................... 3

Obituary of Mrs. A. B. Mulligan ................................................................................... 4

Family Record of Captain Alfred B. Mulligan ............................................................. 5

Upstate Death Notices in 1820 From The Charleston Courier ................................. 6

Murder in Edgefield District in 1820 ........................................................................... 7

Poetic Reflections on The Marriage of Miss Idle ....................................................... 7

Family Record of Nathaniel Reid (1736-1798) of Pendleton District, South Carolina

........................................................................................................................................ 8

Two Death Notices From Anderson District in 1844 ................................................. 9

Some Abbeville District Marriages in 1856 and 1857 .............................................. 10

Obituary of Andrew Pickens Butler of Edgefield District ....................................... 11

A Tourist’s View in 1847 of Cæsar’s Head in Greenville District .............................. 12

Death Notice of The Daniel Boone............................................................................. 17

Isaac Snoddy Miller, CSA, From Spartanburg County ............................................ 18

Family Record of Martin Otts Miller .......................................................................... 21

Miller-Snoddy Marriage Notice .................................................................................. 21

Hayden-Walker Marriage in 1836 .............................................................................. 21

Will of Colonel John Walker ...................................................................................... 22

Death Notice of Miss Rebecca Walker ...................................................................... 23

Obituary of Colonel Thomas Word, Revolutionary War Veteran, of Laurens District

...................................................................................................................................... 23

Family Record of Colonel John Walker (d. 1834) ..................................................... 24

Chester District Equity Court Direct Index of Equity Bills and Petitions 1820-1874

......... 26

Rev. James Marion Boyd, Native of Newberry District, SC .................................... 29

Family Record of Reuben Reid of Greenville County, SC ...................................... 30

Legal Ad For Sale of Philip Ross’ Real Estate ......................................................... 33

Family Groups And Family Connections From County Court Records ................ 34

Family Record of William Drayton Cameron of Newberry District ......................... 40

Query ........................................................................................................................... 41

Erratum: It is Alfred Anderson Stewart Not Albert Anderson Stewart .................. 41

More York District Equity Court Bonds .................................................................... 41

Index ............................................................................................................................ 42

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Volume XXII May 2008

Number 2

Table of Contents.........................................................................................................................i

Piedmont Historical Society News and Notices.......................................................................ii

Membership Application Form—2008 .....................................................................................iii

Send Us Your Queries And Contributions—Addresses ........................................................iv

Family Record of Henry Wingo (1782-1876) ..........................................................................45

Family Record of Andrew Sudduth of Greenville District ....................................................46

A Tourist’s View in 1847 of Saluda Gap and Greenville Village ..........................................48

Saluda Mountain Road Under Construction in 1820 ............................................................55

Public Works in South Carolina in 1820 ................................................................................56

The Family Bible–A Poem .......................................................................................................56

News and Marriage Notices From Gowensville ....................................................................57

Death Notice of Mrs. Jane Kelly, Native of Fairfield District ................................................57

Death of Dr. D. B. Darby, M.D., of Walhalla, Oconee County, ..............................................57

A Sketch of Joel Roberts Poinsett .........................................................................................58

Death Notice of Mrs. Eliza Jane Taylor of Fairfield District .................................................59

A Portrait of Joel Poinsett .......................................................................................................60

Joel Poinsett and Visit of President Monroe to Charleston .................................................60

Pictures of Poinsett Bridge in Greenville County .................................................................61

Bible Record of Andrew Cornelius Smith of Anderson County ..........................................62

Obituary of Col. Thomas L. Woodside of Greenville County ...............................................63

Family of Major John T. Kirby of Spartanburg District .........................................................64

Death Notices of Mrs. Patsey Kirby and Daughter-in-Law ...................................................65

Jonathan C. Hanks, Age 104, Veteran of Three Wars ...........................................................66

Death Notice of James V. Trimmier ........................................................................................66

Eulogy For William H. Trimmier, Late Editor of The Carolina Spartan ...............................67

Francis Marion Trimmier, New Editor of the Spartan, ..........................................................67

Obituary of John B. Sanders, CSA .........................................................................................68

The Poetic Marriage of Mr. Milk and Miss Waters .................................................................69

Upstate Death Notices in 1821 From the Charleston Courier ..............................................70

Accidental Death by Steamboat Paddle Wheel .....................................................................71

Death Notices From Claiborne, Alabama of John and Wesley Brannan, Natives of SC ...71

Greenville District Equity Court Records, Volume B, 1822-1850 .........................................72

Family Groups and Family Connections From County Court Records ..............................74

Will (1840) of Jane Ross of Greenville District ......................................................................77

Four Abbeville District Marriage Notices in 1857 ..................................................................77

Will of George W. Hill (1760-1838) of Pickens District, SC ...................................................78

Family of George W. Hill (1760-1838) of Pickens District, SC ..............................................79

Harrison Family Query in 1939 ...............................................................................................80

Corner Stone Laid at Newberry College in 1857 ...................................................................81

Death Notice of John R. Switzer of Laurens County ............................................................81

Chester District Equity Court Direct and Cross Indices of Equity Bills 1820-1874 ...........82

Book Announcements .............................................................................................................85

Queries ......................................................................................................................................86

Index ..........................................................................................................................................86

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Volume XXII August 2008

Number 3

Table of Contents........................................................................................................... i

Piedmont Historical Society News and Notices ......................................................... ii

Membership Application Form—2008 ....................................................................... iii

Send Us Your Queries And Contributions—Addresses .......................................... iv

Family of Andrew A. Smith, CSA, of (Western) Pickens District (Later Oconee

County) ........................................................................................................................ 89

Death Certificate Abstracts For McAbee Surname (Spartanburg County, SC 1915-1952) .....90

A Tourist’s View in 1847 of Rural Greenville District ............................................................94

A Marriage Notice From Laurens District in 1821 .................................................................99

Family of Major Augustus Hilliard Kirby of Spartanburg, SC ............................................. 100

Some Abbeville District Death Notices in 1856 and 1857 .................................................... 103

Family Record of Gideon Whitted (abt 1770-1832) of Chester District, SC ......................... 105

Family Record of Capt. Davis C. Whitted (1804-1857), Native of Chester District, SC ...... 106

Obituary of Mrs. Margaret Rowland Trimmier of Spartanburg, South Carolina ................ 107

Family of William Sloan Trimmier ....................................................................................... 108

Family Groups and Family Connections From County Court Records ...............................110

Obituary of James Nesbitt, Esq., of Spartanburg County, SC ..............................................115

Obituary of Mrs. Caroline Brewton Nesbitt ..........................................................................115

Family Record of James Nesbitt, Esquire—A Reconstruction ............................................116

Obituary Notice of Miss Carrie Nesbitt ................................................................................117

Civil War Letters of Dr. Francis Marion Tucker to His Wife ...............................................118

Reminiscences of York by a Septuagenarian ....................................................................... 120

Clement Family Items From

The Carolina Spartan

.............................................................121

An Old Letter Connecting a Wham and Woodside Family ................................................. 122

Obituary of Mrs. Eleanor Narcissa Woodside Martin of Greenville District, SC ................ 122

Some Woodside, Martin, and Wham Tombstone Inscriptions at Fairview Cemetery,

Greenville County, SC ........................................................................................................... 123

Family Record of Thomas Davis (b. abt 1800) of Spartanburg District, SC ........................ 124

Tribute of Respect For George R. Trimmier ....................................................................... 125

A Sketch of Joel Roberts Poinsett (Complete) ..................................................................... 126

Death Notice of Mrs. Eliza Jane Taylor of Fairfield District ............................................... 127

Upstate Death Notices in 1821 From the

Charleston Courier

........................................ 128

Obituary of Mrs. Sarah Edmonds of Edgefield District ........................................ 129

Death Notice of Mrs. Sophy Kelly McDowell, native of Union County ................. 129

A Flock of Birds ........................................................................................................ 129

Mail Coach From Charleston to Savannah ............................................................ 130

Index .......................................................................................................................... 130

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Volume XXII

November 2008 Number 4

Table of Contents........................................................................................................... i

Piedmont Historical Society News and Notices ......................................................... ii

Membership Application Form—2009 ....................................................................... iii

Send Us Your Queries And Contributions—Addresses .......................................... iv

Families of George and John William Garrett of SC ............................................. 133

Obituary of Mrs. Ida G. Barksdale of Laurens County .......................................... 134

Trimmier-Thomson Wedding in Anderson District in 1850 .................................. 134

A Narrative History of The Life of Texana “Little Tex” Bryant Black Oneill ........ 135

Obituary of Rowland Bryant, CSA .......................................................................... 140

Two Briant marriage Notices From The Carolina Spartan .................................... 140

Family Record of James Richardson Bryant (1817-1863), Revised ..................... 141

A Tourist’s View in 1847 of The Physical Features of Greenville District And

of Two Earliest Settlers ........................................................................................... 144

Death in Panola County, Mississippi of Mrs. Sarah Hill, Native of Abbeville District,

SC .

150

York County’s Centennial Program For Battle of King’s Mtn ............................... 151

Religion of Our Presidents Through U. S Grant .................................................... 151

Family Record of Thomas Coats (1795-after 1870) of Laurens County ............... 152

Family Record of William Lafayette Turner (abt 1833-after 1880) of Laurens County

.................................................................................................................................... 153

Upstate Death Notices in 1822 From The Charleston Courier ............................ 154

Two Pendleton District Children Drown in 1822 .................................................... 156

Family Groups And Family Connections From County Court Records .............. 156

Revolutionary War Pension Application of Robert Kimble/Kimbrell ................... 162

Sheriff’s Sales For Pickens District in May 1861 ................................................... 164

The Thomas And Melvina Watts Ray Family of The Upstate ................................ 165

Some Colonial Era Marriages in The Abbeville Area ............................................ 173

Index .......................................................................................................................... 174

Slave/Owner Index ................................................................................................... 176

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Volume XXIII

May 2009 Number 2

Table of Contents........................................................................................................... i

Piedmont Historical Society News and Notices ......................................................... ii

Membership Application Form—2009 ....................................................................... iii

Send Us Your Queries And Contributions—Addresses .......................................... iv

Family Record of James Fowler Sloan (1818-1903) ................................................ 45

Death Notice For David Sloan (1789-1874) ............................................................... 47

A Sloan Family History .............................................................................................. 48

Obituary of James Fowler Sloan ............................................................................... 55

Obituary of Mrs. James Fowler Sloan ...................................................................... 56

Death Notices of Mrs. Sarah Jane Sloan Reid and Infant ....................................... 56

Obituary of James Haddon Sloan ............................................................................. 56

Number of Rev. War Pensioners in The Separate States in 1823 .......................... 57

Upstate Death Notices in 1824 From The Charleston Courier ............................... 58

Obituary of Samuel Clowney, Rev. War Soldier of Union District ......................... 60

Death Notices (1824) For Mr. And Mrs. Stokes of Greenville District .................... 60

Story of Musgrove’s Mill ............................................................................................ 61

Facsimile of D. A. R Application of Mrs. L. D. Childs .............................................. 63

Family Record of Bolling Kirby of Union District, SC: A Reconstruction ............. 64

Will (1805) of Abraham Campbell of Pittsylvania County, Va ................................. 68

Four Marriages in Camden, Kershaw District, SC ................................................... 68

Family Groups And Family Connections From County Court Records ................ 69

Obituaries of Three Rev. War Veterans of Fairfield District ................................... 75

Family Record of Col. John Hodges (1775-1849) .................................................... 76

Samuel M’Calla, Native of Ireland, Died 1824 in Newberry District, SC ................. 77

Obituary of Mrs. Ann Oeland ..................................................................................... 77

Marriages Listed in The Diary of James Kershaw of Camden, SC ........................ 78

Sheriff’s Sales For Pickens District in May 1861 ..................................................... 79

House of James Harrison of Pendleton District Burns in 1822 .............................. 79

Names Researched by Piedmont Historical Society Members: Current List 1 ..... 80

Bible Record of John M. Kirby of Pacolet, SC ......................................................... 82

Letter (1868) From David Hughston in Texas to His Brother in Spartanburg County

...................................................................................................................................... 83

Origin of The Word Yankee ....................................................................................... 84

Epitaph For an English Pastry Chef ......................................................................... 84

Her Name Was Dorcas ............................................................................................... 84

Obituary Notice of Jacob Kirby of Union County, SC ............................................. 85

Index ............................................................................................................................ 85

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Volume XXIII

2009 Number 1

Table of Contents.........................................................................................................................i

Piedmont Historical Society News and Notices.......................................................................ii

Membership Application Form—2009 .....................................................................................iii

Send Us Your Queries And Contributions—Addresses ........................................................iv

Family Record of George Harvey Shands ...............................................................................1

Obituary of Mrs. Rebecca Sloan Shands .................................................................................2

Recollections of a Child in Civil War Times ............................................................................3

Roster of An Anderson District Company in Second Florida/Seminole War (1835-1842) 15

A Tourist’s View in 1847 of Laurens District .........................................................................16

Abbeville District Medical Society in 1857 .............................................................................17

Obituary of Nancy Rogers Berry, Native of Union County ...................................................17

Shands – Smith Marriage in 1873 ...........................................................................................17

Chester District Equity Court Direct And Cross indices of Equity Bills 1820-1874 ...........18

The Curious Case of James Riding’s Corpse in WW I .........................................................20

Obituary of George Harvey Shands .......................................................................................21

Family Record of Rev. Archibald H. Lester ...........................................................................22

First Two Marriage Notices For Rev. Archibald H. Lester ....................................................23

Date of Third Marriage of Rev. Archibald H. Lester ..............................................................24

Biographical Notes On Rev. Archibald H. Lester ..................................................................24

Obituary of Rev. Archibald H. Lester .....................................................................................24

First Obituary of Mrs. Harriet R. Walker Fleming Lester ......................................................25

Obituary Notice of Mrs. Margaret C. Miller Lester .................................................................26

Obituary of Mrs. Susannah Jane McCollough Lester ...........................................................26

Another Obituary of Mrs. Harriett Harriet R. Walker Fleming Lester ..................................26

Obtuary of Dr. William M. Lester, M. D. .................................................................................26

Obituary of Elizabeth “Aunt Betsy” Wright ...........................................................................27

Facsimile of Pension Application of James Rice, Native of York County, SC,

African-American CSA War Veteran .......................................................................................28

James Rice, African-American CSA War Veteran .................................................................29

Greenville District Equity Court Index, Vol. B, 1822-1850 ....................................................30

Page Family Reunion in 1902 at Antioch Church in Spartanburg County .........................32

Family Record of William Page (1790-1869) of Spartanburg District ..................................32

Shands – Sloan Marriage in 1883 ...........................................................................................34

Fleming – Walker Marriage in 1852 ........................................................................................34

Obituary of Mrs. W. M. Lester .................................................................................................34

Obituary Notice of Mrs. Nancy Crymes Lester ......................................................................34

Family Groups And Family Connections From County Court Records ..............................35

Upstate Death Notices in 1823 From the Charleston Courier ..............................................38

Death Notice in 1822 of Faford Hooker Seay in Amelia County, Virgina ............................40

Bible Record of William Davis, Rev. War Veteran of York District, and Service Record ..41

First Christian Marriage in Sandwich Island (Hawaii) ..........................................................42

Index ..........................................................................................................................................42

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Volume XXIII

August 2009

Number 3

Table of Contents.......................................................................................................... i

Piedmont Historical Society News and Notices ........................................................ ii

Membership Application Form—2009 ....................................................................... iii

Send Us Your Queries And Contributions—Addresses .......................................... iv

Introduction of PHS Collector Cards.......................................................................... v

Order Form For PHS Cards ........................................................................................ vi

Family Record of Joseph McKinney of Greenville District..................................... 89

Family Record of Alfred Hightower of Greenville District ...................................... 90

Upstate Death Notices in 1825 From The Charleston Courier ............................... 92

On The Baron De Kalb Monument in Camden, South Carolina ............................. 93

Peter Gosnell of Spartanburg District Respited...................................................... 94

A Tourist’s View in 1847 of Newberry District ......................................................... 95

John Grubb (1652- 1707/08): Last Will & Testament and Family Group.............. 101

Letters Between Two Grubb Sisters in 1758.......................................................... 102

Weathers-Kirby Marriage in 1874............................................................................ 103

Mary Whitted Gwinn of York District...................................................................... 104

Obituary of George T. Sloan (1850-1920) of Greenville District ........................... 104

Some Abbeville District Death Notices in 1857 & 1858......................................... 105

Family Record of Hiram W. Kirby (1821-1864)....................................................... 106

Pollard Brown, Last Revolutionary War Soldier in Abbeville District, SC........... 108

Revolutionary War Pension Application of George T. Sloan, Resident of

Laurens District, South Carolina ............................................................................ 109

Revolutionary War Pension Applications of Mary Sloan, Widow of George T. Sloan

................................................................................................................................... 111

Edward Yearguin and Wife Killed by Lightning in Pendleton District................. 115

Family Groups and Family Connections From County Court Records............... 116

Obituary of Major Michael Dickson, Revolutionary War Veteran and

Resident of Pendleton District .............................................................................. 120

Family of George T. Sloan (1756-1836) Reconstructed......................................... 121

Death of Thomas L. Young, Mexican War Veteran of Fairfield District ............... 123

Family Record of Charles Smith (1742-1824)......................................................... 124

Obituary of Mrs. Margaret Mahaffey Sloan of Greenville County, SC.................. 126

Obituary of Mrs. Margaret Ann Sloan Kirby........................................................... 126

Obituary of Mrs. Mary Sloan Greer......................................................................... 126

Farming in Pickens District in 1858........................................................................ 127

New Book From Brent Holcomb ............................................................................. 127

Index.......................................................................................................................... 128

Example of PHS Collector Cards Described on Page v Above............................ 130

Augusta County, Virginia Book Offer..................................................................... 130

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Volume XXIII November 2009 Number 4

Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................i

Piedmont Historical Society News and Notices...................................................................... ii

Membership Application Form—2009 ................................................................................... iii

Send Us Your Queries And Contributions—Addresses ..........................................................iv

PHS Collector Cards .................................................................................................................v

Order Form For PHS Cards ....................................................................................................vi

Family Record of John and Martha Pickens Smith of Pickens District, SC .........................131

A List of The Children of Job Smith of Pickens District, SC................................................ 132

Names of Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried at Pickens Chapel Cemetery

in Anderson County, South Carolina .................................................................................... 133

Summary of Revolutionary War Record of Lewis Saxon of Laurens District, SC .............. 134

Family Bible Record of Lewis Saxon (1761-1813) ................................................................. 135

Obituary of Hugh Saxon (1798-1851) .................................................................................... 135

Selected Inscriptions From Cemeteries in Laurens County, Reported in 1933 ................... 136

Upstate Death Notices in 1826 From The Charleston

Courier

........................................... 138

Death of William Greene, Brother of General Nathaniel Greene .........................................141

Re-Interment Ceremony of General De Kalb at Camden, SC ............................................. 142

Inscriptions From an Unnamed Cemetery in Union or Laurens County, SC ..................... 146

Family Record of Fleming Hodges (abt 1807-1839), Native of Greenville District, SC ...... 147

Family Record John and Aletha Kirby Sloan ........................................................................ 148

Obituary of Captain Thomas Ligon of Laurens District, South Carolina ........................... 149

White-Simpson Marriage Notice in 1859 ............................................................................. 149

Revolutionary War Pension Claims of Job Smith of Pickens District, SC ........................... 150

Bobo-Drummond Marriage Notice in 1859 ......................................................................... 155

Will (1835) of Job Smith of Pickens District, SC ................................................................... 156

Will (1840) of John Smith of Anderson County, SC .............................................................. 157

Family Groups And Family Connections From County Court Records .............................. 158

Will (1827) of Susannah Ligon of Laurens District ...............................................................161

Will (1806) of James Petty of Union District, SC .................................................................. 162

Family Record of James Morgan (1723-1763) of Virginia .................................................... 163

Family Record of Major Spencer Morgan & First Wife ....................................................... 163

Family Record of Major Spencer Morgan & Second Wife ................................................... 164

Will (1809) of Major Spencer Morgan of Union District, SC ................................................ 164

Family of Col. John Nuckolls (1732-1780) ............................................................................ 165

Will (1816) of Joshua Petty of Union District, SC ................................................................. 167

Names Researched by Piedmont Historical Society Members: Current List 2 .................. 168

More on Job Smith’s Family of Pickens District................................................................... 169

Index ..................................................................................................................................... 170

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Volume XXIV January 2010 Number 1

Table of Contents...................................................................................................................... i

Piedmont Historical Society News and Notices .....................................................................ii

Membership Application Form—2010.................................................................................... iii

Send Us Your Queries and Contributions—Addresses.......................................................... iv

Family Bible Record of George W. Poole, Native of Spartanburg District, SC....................... 1

Family Bible Record of Daniel White, Native of Spartanburg District, SC............................ 2

Will (1848) of John Poole of Spartanburg District, SC............................................................. 3

Family Record of John Poole (1774-1849)................................................................................ 4

Death Notice of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney....................................................................... 6

Death of Alexander Wood, Revolutionary War Veteran.......................................................... 6

Obituary of Col. Robert Coleman Poole.................................................................................. 7

Obituary of Mrs. Robert Coleman Poole................................................................................. 7

Marriage Notice of G. W. Poole and Mrs. Fenita White......................................................... 7

The Ironworks on Lawson’s Fork............................................................................................ 8

Seven Abbeville District Marriage Notices in 1857 ................................................................ 11

Gravestone Inscriptions in Pickens Chapel Cemetery For Persons Deceased Before 1850 .. 12

A Description of Greenville Village in 1823 ............................................................................ 14

Upstate Death Notices in 1827 From The Charleston

Courier

............................................. 16

The Town of Chesnee (Spartanburg County), At Age 2......................................................... 19

Family Record of Wright Kirby (1798-After 1870)................................................................... 20

Obituary of John Timmerman of Edgefield District.............................................................. 22

Image of Stone, Marked in 16th Century, Found in Spartanburg County, SC....................... 22

Description of Stone And Its Interpretation as a Relic From Juan Pardo’s Expeditions...... 23

Another Interpretation of The Spartanburg Stone ................................................................. 25

Obituary of James B. Coleman of Edgefield District............................................................. 26

Dicy Langston, Revolutionary War Heroine of Laurens District .......................................... 27

Abstracts of York District Guardian Bonds............................................................................ 29

Chester District Equity Court Direct And Cross Indices of Equity Bills 1820-1874 .............. 30

Greenville District Equity Court Index, Volume B. 1822-1850............................................... 32

Hill Family Legends And Proven Facts: DNA Tests of Upstate Hills.................................. 34

Family Groups And Family Connections From County Court Records................................ 36

Synopsis of Rev. War Service of Aaron Guyton, of Anderson District, and Family Record .. 40

Index ....................................................................................................................................... 41

Mysteries And Mortalities (A Poem)...................................................................................... 43

Order Form For PHS Historic And Scenic Cards.................................................................. 44

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Volume XXIV ___ May 2010_ _ Number 2

Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................i

Piedmont Historical News and Notices ................................................................................. ii

Membership Application Form—2010 ................................................................................... iii

Send Us Your Queries and Contributions ...............................................................................iv

Family Record of John McMorries of Newberry District, S. C. .............................................45

Biographical Sketch of John McMorries (1769-1823) .............................................................48

Will (1823) of John McMorries of Newberry District, S. C. ....................................................48

Descendants of William McMorries (1735 -1801) Have 1938 Reunion in Fairfield County... 50

Family Groups and Family Connections From County Court Records ................................53

Will (1783) of Robert Pickens, Senior (Anderson County, S. C.) ...........................................53

Will (1823) of Robert Pickens, Junior (Anderson County, S. C.) ............................................55

Spencer Morgan’s Orangeburgh County, S. C. Deed of 1799 ................................................59

Obituary of Mrs. Elizabeth Knox Dendy of Oconee County ................................................. 61

Stout Babies Out West ............................................................................................................ 61

Unrecorded Union District Deed Dated November 13, 1806 ................................................62

Family of Spencer Morgan (1756-1809) and First Wife Updated ...........................................63

Family Record of Robert Coleman (Abt 1760–18 Jun 1823) of Union District, S. C. .............64

Reminiscences of York by a Septuagenarian .........................................................................66

Upstate Death Notices in 1828 From The Charleston

Courier

............................................. 71

Heroic Kindness of John Moore Nicholls in The Civil War ..................................................73

Poem to John Moore Nicholls ................................................................................................75

More on John Moore Nicholls, CSA .......................................................................................76

Three McMorries Newspaper Items ......................................................................................77

View From Campobello Mineral Springs Hotel .....................................................................78

A Short History of Campobello, S. C. (Spartanburg County) ................................................79

Two Chester District Death Notices in 1851 ..........................................................................80

Sketch and Family of James Kincaid (1753-1801) of Fairfield District, S. C. ........................ 81

A Vance Family Record (Laurens District, S. C.) ..................................................................82

Spencer J. McMorries’ Second Marriage ................................................................................83

Letter From Charles E Kincaid of Kentucky to Kincaid Furman of Greenville, S. C. ..........83

Greenback Printed in 1779 Owned in 1922 by Spartanburg Man ...........................................84

Inventor of First Practical Typewriter Was a Native of Union, S. C. ....................................84

Index .......................................................................................................................................86

Order Form For PHS Historic And Scenic Cards ..................................................................88

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Volume XXIV November 2010 Number 4

Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................i

Piedmont Historical Society News And Notices ................................................................... ii

Membership Application Form For 2011 ................................................................................ iii

Send Us Your Queries and Contributions ...............................................................................iv

Family Record of James McMorries And First Wife of Newberry District ......................... 133

Vignette of Chancellor James J. Caldwell ............................................................................. 134

Obituary of Mrs. Rebecca K. McMorries Hatton ................................................................ 135

Four Marriage Notices in 1837 From The Pendleton

Messenger

........................................ 135

Upstate Death Notices in 1830 From The Charleston

Courier

...................................................136

Two Deaths in Rutherford County, NC ............................................................................... 139

Bible Record of Bazzel Smith (b. 1773), With Children of Joseph Smith),

of Pendleton District, SC ...................................................................................................... 140

Death notices of Job Smith (1748-1837) And Two Others of Pickens District, SC ...............141

Petition in 1868 to Partition Mary Whitted Gwinn’s Land in York County ..........................141

Alabama Marriage in 1830 With Edgefield District Bride ....................................................141

The Last Six Weeks of The Life of Rev. Benjamin Wofford ................................................ 142

The 25

Item of Rev. Benjamin Wofford’s Will ................................................................... 143

An Account of The Origin of Wofford College in Two Parts .............................................. 144

Land Records For The Allen Families Found in Early Greenville County, SC ................... 147

Obituary of Dr. Thomas Collins Austin of Greenville District, SC ...................................... 148

Family Record of William Rice (b. 1778) of Union District, SC .......................................... 148

Obituaries of Two Rev. War Veterans With Surname Dickson ........................................... 149

Death notices of Two Upstate Rev. War Veterans in 1830 ................................................... 149

Dyson Kills Birdsong in a Shoot Out ................................................................................... 149

York District Guardian Bonds .............................................................................................. 150

Family Record of Thomas Dawkins (1764-1837) of Fairfield District, SC ........................... 152

Nine Abbeville District Marriages in 1858 ........................................................................... 153

Greenville District Equity Court Index, Volume B, 1822-1850 ............................................. 155

Familiy Groups And Family Connections From County Court Records ............................ 158

Will (1866) of William Dawkins of Union District ................................................................ 158

Will (1843) of Capt. John Hatton of Newberry District, SC ................................................. 159

Will (1840) of Martha Eliza McMorries McLemore of Newberry District, SC .................... 160

Will (1811) of John Pinson of Laurens District, SC ................................................................161

Will (1814) of Joseph Smith of Pendleton/Anderson District, SC ........................................ 162

Will (1798) of John Carter of Laurens, District, SC .............................................................. 163

Will (1825) of Robert Carter, Senior of Laurens District, SC ................................................ 164

Will (1800) of Thomas Crosson of Landrum District, SC ..................................................... 166

A Sketch of Rev. I. W. Wingo, Patron of Campobello .......................................................... 167

Family Record of Rev. Isham Woodruff Wingo ................................................................... 168

Obituary of Mrs. Lula Dean Wingo ...................................................................................... 169

Wingo-Sharpe Marriage Notice in 1803 .............................................................................. 169

Images of Earlier Campobello Landmarks .......................................................................... 170

Names Researched by PHS Members: Current List One ....................................................171

Index ..................................................................................................................................... 173

Obituary of Rev. I. W. Wingo (1850-1913) ............................................................................ 176

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Volume XXV May 2011 Number 2

Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................i

Piedmont Historical Society News and Notices...................................................................... ii

Membership Application Form—2011 ................................................................................... iii

Send Us Your Queries And Contributions—Addresses ..........................................................iv

The Family Record of John Lewis Ballenger (1790-1851) Updated .......................................45

Tribute to Mrs. Maria E. Ballenger (1814 -1883) .....................................................................48

Ballenger Marriage and Death Notices From The Keowee Courier .....................................48

Sketch of Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Spartanburg County, SC ............................................48

Three Burials at Mt. Zion .......................................................................................................49

Cowpens Revisted in 1938 ......................................................................................................50

Memoriam to Major Thomas Young (1764 -1848) of Union County, SC ...............................56

Location of The Plumber Settlement in Union County, SC ..................................................56

Upstate Death Notices in 1832 From The Charleston Courier ..............................................57

Death Notices in 1832 of Four Upstate Rev. Veterans ...........................................................59

Two Deaths in Rutherford County, NC .................................................................................59

Greenville District Equity Court Index, Volume B, 1820-1850 ...............................................60

Biographical Sketch of William Smith (1751-1837) of Spartanburg District, SC ....................63

Greenville District Groom in 1832 ..........................................................................................63

Family Record of John Harmon (1760s-1830) of Spartanburg District, SC ...........................64

A Description of Gowensville in 1860 .....................................................................................................65

Bible Record of Williamington Lafayette Turner of Laurens District, SC ............................66

Whitner-Sloan Marriage in Anderson District .......................................................................66

Recollections of Early Spartanburg Village (1827-1835) .........................................................67

The Families of William T. Harvey (1825-1915), Native of Spartanburg District, SC ...........70

A Mr. Berry of Spartanburg District Shot And Killed in 1832 ................................................ 71

British Rifle Found in 1858 Near Cedar Spring (Spartanburg District) ................................. 71

Family Groups And Family Connections From County Court Records ................................72

Will (1851) of John Lewis Ballenger of Pickens District, SC ..................................................72

Heirs of Pleasant E. Ballenger Wingo ....................................................................................75

Will (1853) of Thomas Gassaway of Pickens District .............................................................76

Death Notice of Russell T. And Sunie Ida Good of Greenville County, SC ..........................77

Church Folklore And The Name of Erskine College ............................................................78

Origin of The Name “Due West” in Abbeville County, SC ...................................................78

Erskine College Commencement in 1854 ..............................................................................79

Two 1858 Marriage Notices From Abbeville, SC ...................................................................80

York District Guardian Bonds ................................................................................................ 81

Obituary of Mrs. Elizabeth Ballard of Campobello ...............................................................82

Obituary of Mrs. Clarinda Vaughan .......................................................................................82

Snippets of Union County History .........................................................................................83

Index .......................................................................................................................................86

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Volume XXIV August 2010 Number 3

Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................i

Piedmont Historical Society News and Notices ..................................................................... ii

Membership Application Form—2010 ................................................................................... iii

Send Us Your Queries and Contributions ...............................................................................iv

Family Record of James Douthit Sims (1803-1865), Native of Abbeville District, SC ...........89

Tribute to James Douthit Sims Written in 1865 ..................................................................... 91

An Account of Sims and Smith Emigration to and Settlement in Hamilton Co., Indiana . ..93

Servicemen Buried in the Boiling Springs First Baptist Church Cemetery

(Spartanburg County, SC) ......................................................................................................97

Reminiscences of York by a Septuagenarian ........................................................................101

Death Notice of Obadiah Trimmier of Pendleton District .................................................. 104

Death Notice of Tom, a Slave, of Edgefield District ........................................................... 104

Death Notice of Capt. George Cooper, Rev. War Veteran .................................................. 104

Chester District Equity Court Direct and Cross Indices of Equity Bills 1820-1874 ............. 105

Obituary of John Bankston Davis of Campobello ................................................................ 107

Fatal Bridge Collapse Over Saluda River ............................................................................. 107

Family Record of Joshua Pettit (1734 -1786) ......................................................................... 108

Family Record of Joel Hembree (1775-1825) ........................................................................ 109

Five Abbeville Marriages in 1857 ...........................................................................................111

Hembree Youth With Spartanburg Roots Has Oregon Trail Marker ..................................112

Upstate Death Notices in 1829 From The Charleston

Courier

.............................................113

Bible Record of Phillip Porter (1764 -1841) of Pickens District .............................................117

Revolutionary War Pension Claims of Phillip Porter of Pickens District, SC ......................118

Emigration of Two Pigeons From Liverpool to Boston .......................................................121

Allen Families Found in Greenville County, South Carolina (Late 1700s to Mid-1800s) ..... 122

Anecdote to General George Washington at Valley Forge .................................................. 123

Death Notice of Mrs. Elizabeth Pruett, Native of the Fairfield District Area ..................... 123

Images of Grave Marker For Daniel Morgan (1783-1806) in Union County, SC ................. 124

Obituary of Phillip Porter (1764 - 1841) ................................................................................. 125

Mary (Mollie) Smith Porter Was Not Daughter of Job Smith ............................................. 125

Family Groups and Family Connections From County Court Records .............................. 126

Will (1808) of Hugh Porter of Abbeville District .................................................................. 126

Will (1851) of Mary Smith Porter, Wife of Phillip Porter ...................................................... 128

Index ..................................................................................................................................... 129

An Evening of Entertainment in Charleston, SC (1829) .......................................................131

Order Form For PHS Historic And Scenic Cards ................................................................ 132

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Volume XXV February 2011 Number 1

Table of Contents ..................................................................................................................... i

Piedmont Historical Society News and Notices .................................................................... ii

Membership Application Form For 2011 ............................................................................... iii

Send Us Your Queries and Contributions .............................................................................. iv

Bible Record of Thomas Walker (b. 1780) of Laurens District, SC ........................................ 1

Abstract of Will (1833) of Zachariah Bailey ............................................................................. 1

Baileys And Colemans of Beaverdam Creek of Early Laurens District .................................. 2

Five Spartanburg District Deaths in 1816 ................................................................................ 2

Bible Record of F. F. Alverson of Spartanburg County, SC .................................................... 3

Family of Thomas And Dorcus Smith Gassaway of Pickens District, SC ...............................4

Upstate Death Notices in 1831 From The Charleston

Courier

...............................................5

Death Notices From Rutherford County, NC in 1831 From The Charleston

Courier

...........8

Invention of The Cherokee Alphabet in 1829 ...........................................................................9

Obituary of Mrs. Nancy W. Shand (Anderson District, SC 1831) ........................................... 9

Family Record of John Dawkins (1788-1853) of Fairfield District, SC .................................. 10

Family Record of Paschal Charles Wingo (1803-1869) .......................................................... 12

Two Wingo Newspaper Items ............................................................................................... 13

Family of Alfred Dean (1798-1877) ......................................................................................... 14

A Sketch of Dr. Thomas Perry Dean (With Photograph) ..................................................... 15

Photographs of Rev. I. W. Wingo And His Wife Lula Dean Wingo ..................................... 16

Two Dean Newspaper Items ................................................................................................ 16

Excerpts From Civil War Diary of C. C. McMillin ................................................................ 17

Death Notices in 1831 of Four Upstate Rev. Veterans .......................................................... 19

Fatal Fight in Chester District ............................................................................................... 19

Family Record of Andrew Harmon (ca 1767-1847) of Spartanburg District, SC ................... 20

Abstract of A Significant Harmon Deed ............................................................................... 22

Wingo, Foster, And Richardson Photographs ...................................................................... 23

Family Record of William Harmon (1830-1912) of Spartanburg, SC ..................................... 24

Chester District Equity Court Direct And Cross Indices of Equity Bills 1820-1874 ............. 26

Original Field Report of Banastre Tarleton at Blackstock’s ................................................. 29

Views Contrary to Tarleton’s Report at Blackstock’s ........................................................... 29

Anecdote to General George Washington at Valley Forge ................................................... 30

Will (1782) of William Hallum ............................................................................................... 31

Obituary of Capt. George B. Dean ........................................................................................ 32

Powell-Holcomb Marriage (1842) of Union District ............................................................. 32

Family Groups And Family Connections From County Court Records ............................... 33

Will (1789) of Charles King of Newberry County, SC ........................................................... 33

Will (1845) of William Carter of Laurens District, SC ........................................................... 35

Guardian Accounts (1831-1840) For The Minor Children of James McMories .................... 36

Burial Record of Andrew Harmon at Fairforest Presbyterian Cemetery in Union County . 37

A Sketch of Dr. Jacob H. King, M.D. ................................................................................... 38

Bible Record of Andrew Egger (b. 1752) of York District, SC .............................................. 39

Obituary of Mrs. Harriett Hayne Butler of Edgefield, SC .................................................... 39

Death Notice of Mary C. Holland of Pickens District, SC ................................................... 39

Names Researched by PHS Members: Current List Two .................................................... 40

Index ...................................................................................................................................... 42

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Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i

Piedmont Historical Society News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii

Membership Application Form—2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii

Send Us Your Queries And Contributions—Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv

Family Records of Zimri Carter (1773-1843) And Son William of Laurens District, SC . . . 89

Major W

. Hoy’s Account of Merchants, Lawyers, And Politics in

Spartanburg District in 1826 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

A Response to Major Hoy From Joseph Johnston of Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Obituary of Robert Ligon (1774 - 1833) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Family of Alexander Alexander (1753-1806) And First Wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Obituary of James Alexander (1789-1860) of Spartanburg District, SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Family of Alexander Alexander (1753-1806) And Second Wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Tombstone Inscriptions For Alexander And Anna Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

A Record of Revolutionary War Service of Alex. Alexender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Obituary of Mrs. Anna Alexander Johnston (1797-1852) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Family of Robert Ligon, Jr. (1774 - 1833) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Death Notices in 1833 of Two Upstate Rev. War Veterans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Will (1859) of Esther Ligon (Floyd County, Georgia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Will (1787) of John McCrory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Will (1793) of Martha McCrory, Second Wife of John McCrory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Images of Two Early Campobello Landmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Upstate Death Notices in 1833 From The Charleston Courier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Death of George Reese, Rev. War Vet. of Anderson District, SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Obituaries of Thomas Ogier (1755-1833), Rev. War Vet., And Son (Anderson District) . 107

Murder (1833) of William Patton (Native of Abbeville Dist., SC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

The Fatal Bobo-Rice Confrontation (1833) in Union District, SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Family Record of John M. Harmon (Abt 1808-1844) of Spartanburg District, SC . . . . . . . 110

Death of Charles A. Petty of Gaffney, Cherokee County, SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Family Record of James Harmon (About 1810-Before 1870) of Union District, SC . . . . . 112

Fire in 1879 Destroys The Academy of Music in Greenville, SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Tombstone Inscription For Henry Newton Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Reminiscences of York by a Septuagenarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Family Groups And Family Connections From County Court Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Estate Papers (1784) of John Alexander, Deceased . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Snippets From Union County History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Edgefield District, SC Bride And Floyd County, Ga Groom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Slave/Owner Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Names Researched by PHS Members: Current List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

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