,((',:/-/2-/, there in 1832. Richard Cannon died circa "In Fairbanks we went around like moles wife, fearing that they would be robbed. we!!1 1832. Elizabeth was still living in 1837. since it was dark most of the time. It was hard out one dark and rainy night and buried a pot (Ii (6) Rhoda Cole married John Yerby. John trying to become accustomed to the brilliant gold outside the Tavern. To this day people and Rhoda also moved from Union County, sunlight in Saudi Arabia. I'm still not sure have searched with various devices for thi,; S. C., to another state. They were still living in whether I stayed because' liked it, or simply gold but to no avail. 1835. because the job was such a challenge". In the History of Grendal Shoals, he Wil'; (7) Mary Cole married Abel Kendrick. Miss Coleman admitted that there was more described as a prosperous, quiet, and peacp· - Robert A. Ivey than a little gratification to be obtained from ful man and Quote "no better citizens Ilave serving as librarian in the more isolated out• ever graced any country". It is said that afler posts such as those in Alaska and Saudi the Revolution he went to Charleston, S. C . MISS ANN GLENN RICE Arabia. where he became Justice of the Peace and is COLEMAN " 'There is always a certain amount of in• said to have died there. 119 terest in books on local problems at any base Christopher Coleman had several childrell. in the world', Miss Coleman pointed out, 'but but this writer would like to mention his SOil. Miss Ann Glenn Rice Coleman, librarian, not to such an extent as we have noticed here Robert Coleman and his wife Elizabeth Smith (Retired, U.S. Armed Forces), daughter of recently' . (Treasy) who were my great-great• William Coleman, Sr., and Mrs. Evelyn Kalm• The explanation is that Dhahran personnel grandparents. Robert was heir to much of bach Coleman, was born in Whitmire, S.C., seem to be becoming increasingly aware of the Christopher's land and was the father of 10 October 11, 1906. She attended public importance of the Middle East in world politics children. My great-grandfather, Reuban Cole• schools of Whitmire and Union, S.C., gradu• and have derived a sense of history in the man, Esquire, was one of his children and he ated from Union High School, Union, S.C., making from their assignment in this little• married Letticia Faucett. They were very suc• and the University of South Carolina in 1928. known part of the world." This was a quote cessfullandowners and had seven children. It She also held a degree in Library Science from from Stars and Stripes, the U.S. Army Maga• is said that they gave each child as a weddinq the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, zine, of Monday, July 7, 1958 .. N.C. gift some land and a horse and buggy. My Miss Coleman retired in 1968. She came to grandfather, James Hehry Coleman was their Union for a visit with her brother, William son. He was a very civic minded businessmall. Coleman, Jr., and his wife Sara, and with landowner, and merchant. He was a Charter other relatives in South Carolina and North Member of Jonesville Baptist Church. Alolll] Carolina. with other members, he gave lumber from his She settled in Banning, California, where land and helped to build the First Baptist she died June 15, 1976. She was a member of Church. He was one of the first Deacons. He the First Presbyterian Church, Union, S.C., was a member of the Masonic Temple which and is buried in San Gorgonio Memorial Park was held in a two story building known as the i.n Banning, California. Charles Long home. This home was also use(j - Sara T. Coleman for church services before a church was built He was also a volunteer Fireman. A fire stinted COLEMAN one cold rainy night. My grandfather had been sick with a cold, but he insisted on going. His 120 cold worsened from this, he took pneumoniil The Coleman Family came to this country and died. He was married twice, first, to Elvira around 1729 from England. In Virginia a Harmon who bore him two daughters and wagon train was formed, their destination, three sons. After her death he married my Charleston, S.C. Christopher Coleman, his grandmother, Pamelia Percilia Walker. There brothers and his sisters were in this train. His were two sons from this union: Melvin William sister, Lucy Coleman, met Thomas Draper, Coleman and Paul Hanes Coleman. My father. Sr. and they were married in Virginia. His Melvin William Coleman, met and married

Miss Ann Glenn Rice Coleman. sister, Frances Coleman, fell in love and mar• Margaret Ann Gorman in Knoxville, Ten• ried Col. Zack Gibbs, British Army. Things nessee. were going well for the train until Chris• He started work as a young man in a hosiery When this personable Southerner was topher's wagon broke down while crossing a mill in Jonesville, S.C. and by 1919 he went in asked what she liked best about working for branch on Mills Creek of the Pacolet River. He business for himself in Philadelphia, Penn .. the Air Force, she unhesitatingly answered, decided, then and there, to settle on the spot. where he operated a small hosiery mill. Losinq "The opportunity to travel." She was a libra• The branch was known as Coleman's branch his holdings during the depression, he moved rian with Special Forces of the United States and is to this day. He immediately set about to his family back to Jonesville, S.C. There were Army and Air Force for many years. build a tavern where travelers could get food, two daughters: Margaret Marie Coleman and She had an interesting life as her work as drinks, and lodging. The Tavern was known as Dorothy Virginia Coleman. librarian had taken her around the world. She Christie's Tavern. It was said that he would Margaret Marie Coleman is a graduate 01 was librarian at several private libraries before turn no man away, even during the American Robinsons Business College, and a member of going into Special Service of the United States Revolution. If the Tories were coming to rest Jonesville United Methodist Church board and Armed Forces. and water their horses, the Whigs would choir. She was Miss Jonesville 1938; Dell Her foreign assignments included the Carib• scamper down a ramp built over the creek and mother; Girl Scout Leader; Charter Member bean, Japan, Alaska, Isle of Crete, Greece, hide in the woods. In 1780 when Hugh Haber• and Past Worthy Matron, Abe Wyman Chap• and Saudi Arabia. She was the librarian in shaw brought Horseshoe Robinson to Chris• ter, OES; past President of the United charge of the Dhahran Air Field Library in tie's Tavern to rest for the night, somehow he Daughters of the Confederacy, John Hames Saudi Arabia, where the thermometer hit 120 escaped, probably over the ramp. Chapter; past President Jonesville Readers degrees during the summer, after a five-year Christie's Tavern has been mentioned many Guild; member of Board of Directors of Jones• tour in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the tempera• times in such books as The History of Grenda! ville Park for 9 years. ture often dropped to 40 degrees below zero in Shoals, Horseshoe Robinson, Heroes of Kings She married Leo David Gault, Union, S.C. the winter. She liked to tell of arriving in Saudi Mountain, Drapers of Virginia and in many and has three children. Arabia from Alaska wearing fur-lined boots! other articles written about Union County. Margaret Ann Gault attended U.S.C., "It was certainly an effort to try to live that one Christopher was a prosperous land owner and Union, S.C. She is Personnel and Office Manager down", she would say. business man of his time, and it is said that his of Label Corp. of Jonesville, S.C. She married 52 Harold Ray Moss, and has two children: Ange• this area until Nathan Coleman died in 1806. la Regina Moss and Donna Darlene Moss. In 1823, Sithey Glenn Coleman married Kathryn Patricia Gault, B.A. Degree, U.S.C. John Bowles in Union District. He died in 1836 Columbia, S.C., was Miss Jonesville of 1969• and she remained a widow until her death in 70 and Miss Congeniality of S.C. in 1970. Her Union District on July 16, 1844. Her funeral occupation is Medical Librarian. She married was preached by the Reverend John Jennings, Major Mark V. Dickinson, U.S. Army. a clergyman of the Methodist Church. David Michael Gault, B.S. Degree Wofford Also included in the Pension Record were College, is a Chemist at Hochest fibers in Spar• six small pages containing the following in• tanburg' S.C. formation regarding the family: Dorothy Virginia Coleman is a member of Joseph Coleman was married to Sithey Glen First Baptist Church, Spartanburg, S.C., a the 24 day of January 1782. Lucey Coleman graduate of Cecil's Business College, and is a was born the 27 day of January 1783. Patience secretary. She married Harold Richard Gault, Coleman was borne the 9 day of March 1784. Union, S.C. and they have three children: Deb• Mrs. David B. Coleman; David B. Coleman, Jr.; Miss Elezebeth Coleman was borne the Twelfe day. Evelyn B. Coleman; Miss Elizabeth Coleman. orah Diane Gault, B.A. Degree Winthrop Col• Nathan Coleman was born' d the 21 st day of lege, MA Degree USC, Spartanburg South December 1786. Mason Coleman was born'd Carolina - teacher, Boiling Springs, South He received a service citation for outstand• the 3 day of March 1788. Sarah Coleman was Carolina; Pamelia Lynne Gault, Degree in ing performance as Commander of the U.S. borne the 14 day of January 1790. Pharmacy, USC, Columbia, South Carolina, Navy Personnel Detachment Center in Mary Coleman was born 14 Day of January Plmmacist; and Harold Richard Gault, Jr. Washington, D.C., during the 1945-46 1792. Daniel Coleman was born 5 day of April - Margaret C. Gault Period, when large numbers of military per• 1793. Anna Coleman was born the 5 day of sonnel were being released from active mili• May 1795. Sithey Coleman was born the 25 tary duty. day of May 1797. Susanner Coleman was born REAR ADMIRAL DAVID B. Admiral Coleman and Miss Willamine the 22 November 1800. Permealey Coleman Stockwell of San Diego, California, were mar• was Born the 22 day of November 1802. COLEMAN Dick was born in December 1770. Graice ried on October 14, 1933. They lived in La 121 Jolla, California. Their two children are David was born the Last of August 1773. Jeffre was Rear Admiral (Ret.) David Buncome Cole• Buncombe Coleman, Jr., and Mrs. Evelyn born in the year 1778. Luccinder was born the man, born in Whitmire, S.C., August 3,1905, Bennett Coleman Cochrane (Mrs. E.H.M.). 20 Day of July 1783. Moses was borne 29 day of November 1786. Nancy was borne 4 day younger son of William Coleman, Sr., and They live in California. Evelyn Kalmback Coleman, attended public Rear Admiral Coleman died September 18, February 1795. Sam was bornd 1796. Freby was born 27 day of November 1800. Peter was schools in. Whitmire and Union, graduating 1969. He was a member of the First Presbyte• from Union High School, Union, S.C., in 1922 rian Church of San Diego, California, a mem• born 9 the day of December 1800. Naincy was and from U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, ber of the Board of Trustees of the Naval born the 25 Day of April 1801. Maryland, in 1927. He served in the U.S. Navy Academy, and an active member of the Alumni Ben was born Aprill 1803. Nell was born January 1803. Levy was born March 1804. Irom 1927 to 1948, retiring with the rank of Association, of the Coranado Art Association, Alse was borne in June 1806. Anderson was Rear Admiral. He served during World War II the Lions Club, and the La Jolla Yacht Club. in the Pacific Area. Mrs. Coleman died June 6, 1971. Both are bornd in February 1811. buried in EI Camino Memorial Park in Cali• Tomas was born November 1811 . Isac was fornia. born December 20, 1812. Leday was born the After his retirement, Rear Admiral Coleman 26 Day of November 1814. Josef Stard was returned to his native state yearly to visit with borne the 25 Day November 1816. Willam was born on the 1 March 1818. Peter was borne in his family and friends. - Sara T. Coleman July 2, 1822. Reginey was borne in April 5, 1822. Peter was Born the First day of July 1822. THE JOSEPH COLEMAN Reginer was born April 16, 1822. Shitahey was born in 1728. Elmvia was born in 1728. FAMIL Y Mary was born Octr 1st 1830. Jacob was Born 122 on October 29, 1835. Algelena Was born De• cember 14th 1835. Jesse was born 2 June Joseph Coieman was a resident of Cumber• 1830. land County, Virginia, when he enlisted as a Cato was born 10 June 1824. Tom was born soldier in the 6th Virginia Regiment early dur• 30 July 1826. James was born February 27 • ing the Revolutionary War. He was honorably 1832. Elizer bo'rne March 1832. Jesse was discharged when his term of service expired born the 2 1857. Green was born 17 1838. on the 12th day of January 1780. The officer Manda was born 8 Jun 1840. Frances was signing his discharge was Lieutenant Colonel born 22 of Juneary 1841. Jesse was born the John Webb, and place of discharge was Little York. 22 of Jun 1839. The above information was copied from the On January 24, 1782 Joseph Coleman mar• Pension Record of Joseph Coleman from the ried Sit hey Glen. Their first three children were National Archives, File No. W-9738. girls: Lucey who was born January 27, 1783; - Mrs. J.G. Butler Patience who was born March 9, 1784; and Rear Admiral (Ret. USN) David Buncombe Coleman. Elezebeth who was born March 12, 1785. The fourth child, and first son, Nathan, was born JOSEPH COLEMAN During his naval career, he received numer• December 21, 1786, somewhere on the road 123 ous citations including the Bronze Star as between Virginia and South Carolina as the Commanding Officer of the USS Niagara dur• family immigrated to South Carolina. Joseph Coleman was born January 2, 1760 in Cumberland County, Virginia and died in ing the Japanese Bombing of and subsequent Du ring the early part of 1787, Nathan and 1806, Union County, South Carolina. He was sinking of the ship in the Solomon Islands in Sithey Coleman settled on Broad River in 1943. Union District with their children. They resided in the son of Daniel Coleman III (1705-1773) and Patience Thompson, the Grandson of Daniel August 5,1787, died January 14,1858. Both Coleman II and Patience Elliott and Great are buried in the Sartor Cemetery, Quincy, grandson of Daniel Coleman I. Miss. (Monroe County.) He enlisted and served in the 6th. Virginia They were the parents of William Henry Regiment in the Revolutionary War. Having Sartor, born August 22,1814, Union County, served faittlfully as Private and Sergeant the S.C. and died November 12, 1873 married three years of his enlistment, he was dis• Catherine Brandon Young? born October 12, charged January 12, 1780. (Pension Record 1825 and died July 12,1875 in Union County, No. W9738) South Carolina. (10) Sitha Coleman born May On January 24, 1782, he married his 25, 1797 and died without issue. cousin, Sytha Glenn, the fifth child of Nathan (11) Susannah or Susan Coleman born and Lucy Coleman Glenn and in 1786 they November 22, 1800, married John Anderson moved to Union County, South Carolina set• and moved to Cobb Co. Georgia. (12) Pamela tling on the Broad River. or Permealy Coleman born November 22, Their children were: (1) Lucy Coleman, 1802, died September 1884, married May 1, born January 27, 1783, married William Hol• 1828 to Nathan Glenn, who was born October lingsworth and had Joseph Coleman Hollings• 14,1796 and died October 21,1882. Both are worth and Barnet Glenn Hollingsworth. (2) buried on "Briggs Place" on old Union Road. Patience Coleman, born March 9, 1784 and Nathan Glenn was the son of William Cole• ., , died June 9, 1846, buried Triplett Cemetery man Glenn and Elizbeth Wright. near Leads, South Carolina, married 1sl. Eliah Sytha Glenn Coleman married 2nd. John r) i Mayfield. Bowles in 1820. They had no children. \\ ,'~ ~~ They had Sarah (Sally) Mayfield who mar• John Bowles died 1836 and Sytha Glenn ~.1>_ •. __ ried 1sl. George Cooper, son of Adam Cooper Coleman Bowles died July 17, 1844 at the and grandson of Peter and Margaret Fry Coo• home of her son-in-law, Benjamin Ellis. Sara T. Coleman and Sara Lindsey Coleman Porter. per (Margaret Fry Cooper married 2nd. Andrew - Beatrice K. Harsh Feaster). Sally Mayfield and George Cooper had twelve children who married and settled in child in Greensboro. He was a son of Algernon Mississippi. SARA LINDSEY COLEMAN Sydney Porter and his wife, Mary Jane Virginia Patience Coleman Mayfield married May 124 Swain. By this time he had become well known 14, 1814 as her second husband, John Brown as a novelist and short story writer under the Mrs. William Coleman, Sr., of Union Coun• Triplett, born June 3, 1785 South Carolina, nom de plume, "O'Henry". ty, South Carolina, had a sister, Sara Lindsey Miss Coleman and Mr. Porter were married died May 20, 1852 in Chester District, South Coleman, whom her nieces and nephews Carolina, son of Nemrod and Catherine Brown November 20,1907 in Asheville, North Caroli• lovingly called "Auntie". She lived to be nine• na, and moved to New York City where Mr. Johnson Triplett. ty-one. She visited in Union often, and was Porter died June 5, 1910. After his death, Mrs. Their children were Mary Mason Triplett well-known and loved by all. Porter returned to her home at Weaverville, born January 8, 1815, married John Meador; North Carolina, where she lived until her death William (Uncle Billy) Daniel Coleman Triplett born March 8, 1816 South Carolina and died August 14, 1959. Her nephew, William Cole• man, Jr., and his wife Sara visited her regular• Winston County, Mississippi September 31, 1893 and married 1837 to Mary Elizabeth ly through the years. Sara Lindsey Coleman Porter was best Wright Glenn Coleman who was born March 1, 1816 in South Carolina died December 14, known for the "Bijie Stories" written for De• lineator Magazine. She was also an author of 1881. Both are buried Yellow Creek Cemetery, books, among them, The Common Problem Winston County, Miss. and Winds of Destiny. In her later years her Barnett Glenn Triplett born June 24, 1818 in attention was centered on the works of her South Carolina and died November is, 1859. husband. In 1926 one of her stories received Nancy Booker Triplett born November 14, "Honorable Mention" in the O'Henry Memo• 1822 and married Andrew Jackson Triplett. rial Award Prize Story Contest. Moses Washington Jackson Triplett was born Both Mr. and Mrs. Porter are buried in May 8, 1829 in South Carolina and died Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, North Caroli• September is, 1905 in Mississippi, married na. His grave is a literary shrine, being visiled Mary Elizabeth Johnson. Both are buried Mt. by many who come to honor "O'Henry". Cannel Cemetery, Noxapater, Miss. - Sara T. Coleman (3) Elizabeth Coleman born March 12, 1785 married John Crosby. (4) Nathan Coleman born December 21, 1786 and died April 7, THE FAMILY OF ROBERT 1858, married Mary Elizabeth Glenn, daughter of William Coleman Glenn and Elizabeth COLEMAN Wright. William Coleman, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Lindsey Coleman 125 Porter. (5) Mason Glenn Coleman born March 3, Robert Coleman was a soldier in the Revolu• 1788, married Moses Crosby (Brother of John tionary War. Robert Coleman was granted 600 Crosby). In 1846 she was a widow living in acres of land on both sides of Mill Creek just Alabama. (6) Sarah (Sally) born January 14, Sara Lindsey Coleman, daughter of Colonel off the Pacolet River on Jan. 1, 1766. The land 1790 died September 16, 1860, married Ben• and Mrs. Thaddeus Coleman of Asheville, was surveyed by Zachariah Bullock. Chris• jamin Ellis. (7) Mary Coleman born January North Carolina, was born February 18, 1867, topher Coleman received two separate grants 14, 1790, twin of Sarah, she died unmarried. and spent her childhood in Greensboro, North of land totaling 400 acres bounded by Robert (8) Daniel Coleman born April 5, 1793 (sold Carolina. She was graduated from Peace Insti• Coleman's land. Christopher Coleman ran a land to Ruben Rice in August 17, 1834.) (9) tute when she was twenty and later gained a tavern called "Christie's." Ann Coleman born May 5, 1795 and died July reputation as a writer. Robert Coleman married Elizabeth Smith 29, 1846, married September 12, 1811 to Through this medium, she met again Wil• Coleman. Robert Coleman died in 1823, and Thomas Sartor of Union County who was born liam Sydney Porter whom she had known as a Elizabeth (Trecy) Smith Coleman was stililiv-

54 ing at her husband's death. studied secretarial science and banking at know that in everything, God works for good Robert and Trecy had the following chil• King's College at Charlotte, N.C., and was with those who love him. dren: employed in banking and insurance in Union - Sara (Tracy) (Mrs. Wm.) Coleman (1) Mary (Polly) Coleman was born Aug. for eleven years. 16, 1783; died July 30, 1870. She married They settled at the ancestral home of his John Poole, son of William and Elizabeth Sto• family, five miles from Whitmire, S.C., across vall Poole. John Poole was born in Granville Enoree River in Union County, where he is WilLIAM COLEMAN, SR. County, N.C., on Jan. 28, 1774; died Jan. 2, self-employed in cattle and timber farming. 127 1848. William Poole was born June 22, 1739; Both are active members of the First Pres• William Coleman, Sr., Newberry County, married Elizabeth Stovall on Dec. 13, 1760, in byterian Church of Union, S.C. He has served South Carolina, lawyer, banker, and manufac• Granville County, N.C., and died January 1817 the Anderson men's Bible class as its presi• turer, one of the youngest mill presidents of in Pacolet Township, S.C. Elizabeth Stovall dent, on the Board of Deacons and Elders at South Carolina, son of Colonel Robert Lowrey Poole was born Feb. 10, 1739; died after various times, also on the Union County Board Coleman and Mrs. Victoria Susannah Rice 1827. of Education. Coleman, was born at the Rice homestead of (2) Bartley Coleman was born Feb. 18, his family in Union County on April 15 , 1875. 1788; died Mar. 8, 1870. He married Elizabeth He studied at Davis Preparatory School, Poole, daughter of William and Elizabeth Sto• Winston-Salem, North Carolina, graduated vall Poole. Elizabeth Poole Coleman was born from Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Mar. 8,1791; died Mar. 8, 1870. Bartley Cole• Carolina June 1897, the University of North man and Elizabeth Poole Coleman are buried in Carolina law school the next year, then study• tile Gilead Baptist Church cemetery, Jones• ing at Harvard University law school, gradua• ville, S.C. ting in 1898. He began the practice of law willl (3) A daughter who married Willaim Young. the firm of Jones and Pillet, Charlotte, North (4) A daughter who married John Ashly. Carolina. (5) Nancy Coleman was born circa 1797; On June 6, 1900, Mr. Coleman and Miss died after 1870. She married Absalom Ward, Evelyn Kalmback Coleman were married at the son of Nathaniel and Susan Ward. Absalom home of her parents, Colonel Thaddeus Ward was born circa 1799; died after 1870. Charles Coleman and Mrs. Mary Sloan Cole• (6) Reubin Coleman was born 1802; died man, of Weaverville, North Carolina. Evelyn 1859. He married Letitia Faucett. Letitia was graduated from Greensboro College for born June 20, 1809; died July 3, 1893. This Women and New York State Normal College couple was buried in the Gilead Baptist Church for nurses. cemetery, Jonesville, S.C. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman moved to Whitmire (7) John Coleman was born circa 1815; South Carolina. He decided to build a cotton married Caroline. Caroline Coleman was born mill. He bought land in Whitmire five mile~ circa 1824. from his boyhood home across Enoree Rivel (8) Elizabeth (Trecy) Coleman was born in Union County, and soon had the cotton mil Jan. 20,1816; died Nov. 16, 1899. She mar• in operation. The Glenn Lowrey Manufacturinc ried Ralph Lemaster, son of Richard and Eliz• Sara Tracy Coleman and William Coleman, Jr. Company of Whitmire represented a capital 01 abeth Kennett Lemaster. Ralph Lemaster was $500,000.00 and operated one thou sane born Jan. 5, 1807; died Sept. 23, 1881. Mrs. Coleman is a substitue teacher and Draper looms and thirty-five thousand spin· Richard Lemaster was born 1784; died circa President of the Rebecca Nicholson Bible dies. 1825. Class of the Church. She is a former member His election to the presidency of the mill, te Ralph and Elizabeth Coleman Lemaster are of the American Legion Auxiliary, the bio• William Coleman and Company Bankers, am buried in the Lemaster family cemetery on graphical Club of Whitmire, William Wallace the Mecklenberg Manufacturing Company be· Highway 105 in Cherokee County, S.C. Chapter U.D.C of Union, and Federated Gar• fore he was thirty-two years old gave evidenCE - Robert A. Ivey den Clubs of South Carolina. Her hobbies have of the exceptional ability of the man, and thE been gardening and genealogical research. esteem in which he was held by his felloV'> Bill has directed his thoughts and efforts citizens and his business associates. WilLIAM COLEMAN, JR. steadily to the interest of the civic upbuilding The maternal ancestors of William Colemar 126 of Union County. He has found his favorite were among the first settlers of Colonial Vir• William Coleman, Jr., Union County form of recreation and exercising in his daily ginia. They were the Rices, Morgans, Taylors businessman, cattle and timber farmer, son of walks over his farm land and pastures. Nuckolls, and Bullocks. Mr. Coleman's great· William Coleman, Sr., and Mrs. Evelyn Kalm• He too has stored in his memory many great-grandfather, James Morgan, marriee back Coleman, was born in Whitmire, S.C., humorous incidents relating to people and Elizabeth Taylor. June 18, 1904. farm experiences. These he delights in relating Their son, Major Spencer Morgan, a gallan! He graduated from Whitmire High School to others. So much of the joy of these stories soldier of the Continental Army, was a cousir and Union High School. He studied at David• comes from having known the real characters of General Daniel Morgan and Presiden son College, Davidson, N. C., his freshman of whom he speaks. Some of these were loyal Zachary Taylor. The Rices and Morgans wen year, transferring to Princeton University, laborers with us among both whites and of ancient Welsh stock. The Nuckolls, Taylors Princeton, N.J., and graduating in the class of blacks, now gone to their eternal rest. and Bullocks were of English blood. 1924. We acknowledge our parents. We are grate• The Colemans came from Holland to Penn He returned to Union and was self• ful for their training. Every day we find an sylvania and from there to North Carolina man employed in the automobile business, under• opportunity to apply their wise advice and than one hundred and seventy-five years ago writer for New York Life Insurance Company, knowledge. We may be amused by their There were four brothers of distinguishe( cattle and timber farming. methods of training, and living in contentment military careers during the Confederacy. Col He and Miss Sara Elizabeth Tracy, of Union, and happiness, and the world may have onel David Coleman practiced law in Ashevillt after the War Between the States. He wa: S.C., daughter of Walter Thomas Tracy and changed to a terrifying extent, but their rule Mrs. Fannie (Leonard) Tracy, were married on still holds true. regarded as one of the state's ablest adviser: September 11, 1932, by the Reverend John We are proud of our Presbyterian back• during the reconstruction period. Flood Matheson. ground and heritage and the records our One, Captain Henry Coleman, was kille( She graduated from Union High School, ancestors have left us. The glory is theirs. We during the fighting near Appomatox. Colone Rr=?12/~

David Fant Gilliam, born August 14,1870, THE WASHINGTON, ROBERT JAMES GLENN OF HANOVER died June 4, 1926, was married to Sarah Frances Sartor who was born August 8,1874 AND ALBERT GIST FAMILY COUNTY, VIRGINIA and died July 7, 1964. They had six children: 233 234 two sons, James Louis, an automobile dealer, Washington and Laura Gist were born in James Glenn (Glen) was living in New Kent and David Fant, Jr., a banker; and four daugh• Pinckneyville in 1830. They were the parents County, Virginia, in that part that was taken ters, May Frances, Lillian Zena, Rachel Sartor, of seven known children: Robert 1854, Mar• from New Kent in 1721 to become part or and Ruth Cornelia. garet 1856, Cluff 1858, Madison 1860, Scott Hanover County, in 1717 when he received a He was a sports enthusiast and carried his 1862, Nancy 1866, and John 1867. Some of grant for land on the north side of Little River, children to the football and baseball games at Washington's relatives were: Dandy, Joseph, St. Paul's Parish. He received other grants in the city park, and taught them to swim at the Marsilla, and Spencer Gist and a sister, 1719 and in 1729 between Little River and city pool. Being a Baptist, he often went to the Melissa. Northanna River, adjoining the land "where he football games at Furman. Robert Gist the eldest son married Florida now lives." In 1739 he bought a 1000-acre D. Fant Gilliam loved his God first, his Mac of Santuc. Their children were Albert tract in Goochland Co. between Great Guinea church, his family, people and the land. (1879), General, Henry (1880), and Robbie. Creek and Horsepen Fork, and area that later - Rachel Gilliam Williams General and his wife Carry Farr moved to became a part of Cumberland Co.. He was, Union Township. Their known child was Hen• apparently, a member of Fork Church in GILLIAM ry. Henry Gist and his family moved to Jones• Hanover Co. since he is mentioned several ville. He was the father pf Robert, William, times in the Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish as 232 Landrum, and Lynelle Jefferson. Robbie mar• a witness, and the church paid him in hun• William Farr Gilliam, merchant, banker, and ried Arthur Jeter of Jonesville. They became dred-weight of tobacco for making benches son of David Anderson Thomas and Mary the proud parents of four children, Odessa, and railing the church yard which he was to Throne Fant Gilliam, was married on October Florida, Savannah (Van), and Deothus. During maintain till the posts "rot in ye ground." 2, 1912 to Imogene Hunter Young, who was the early 1920's, they moved to Spartanburg, Hanover County probate records were des• born August 24, 1889 and was the daughter of South Carolina. troyed, but a copy of James Glenn's will sur• Laurens Garlington and Mamie Hunter Young. Albert, son of Robert and Florida, married vived because it had been forwarded to Abbe• Their children are: Beulah Jeter, the daughter of Lewis and Vic• ville Co., S.C., in 1822 to be used as evidence William Farr Gilliam, Jr. was born August toria (Murphy) Howard of Santuc. Their chil• in a court case in which some of his grandchil• 13, 1913 in Union, South Carolina, was a 1934 dren, Robert, Sallie, and Sadie, were born in dren were involved. Since the copy had been honor graduate of The Citadel receiving a Santuc. Later, they moved to the Jonesville certified in 1822 by the clerk of court of Hano• Bachelor of Science degree, and attended Cor• community. The following children were born: ver Co., it has been accepted as valid by the nell University, Ithaca, New York, earning a Florie, Berry, Bessie, Alfred, Willie, Johnny, Virginia State Library in which it is located Doctor of Philosophy degree with a major in Leroy, Catherine, and Oscar. under Accession No. 21376. James Glenn's chemistry in 1939. A few days after complet• Robert Gist, the son of Albert and Beulah will was dated June 11, 1762 and was offered ing his graduate work, he joined the Research Gist died in the early 1900's. He is buried in the for probate at court held for Hanover Co. on Laboratory of the General Electric Company in Bethany Baptist Church Cemetery in Jones• February 3, 1763, so he died sometime be• Schenectady, New York, which is the oldest ville. tween those two dates. industrial research laboratory in the United Sallie married Charlie Martin of Jenkinsville. In his will he named his wife Hannah (whose States, and was one of the industrial pioneers Their children were Mary Charles and Isaac. maiden name is unknown), and the following in silicone research. His name appears as an Sallie is buried in the Bethany Baptist Church children and grandchildren: son Gideon Glenn inventor on several U.S. patents and as an Cemetery . to receive that part of the estate that was "in author on techanical articles primarily in the Sadie, daughter of Albert and Beulah, mar• his possession;" son Nehemiah Glenn, 300 field of silicones. In the mid-1950's, he trans• ried Herbert Hughes of Jonesville. Their chil• acres of land on Great Guniea Creek "whereon ferred to the silicone plant originally built in dren were Herbert Jr., Leroy, Ruthie Mae, he now liveth" together with that part of the 1947 in Waterford, New York, to commercially Betty Jean, Whilamenia, and Doris all born in estate that had already been given to him; son produce only silicones and had responsibility Jonesville. During the 1940's, they moved to Nathan Glenn, 350 acres of land in Cumber• for the relationship with foreign licensees which Greensboro, North Carolina. land Co. on both sides of the double horsepen necessitated extensive travel abroad. He re• Berry, son of Albert and Beulah, married branch, certain hogs and cattle, and the part of tired in 1978 from the Silicone Products De• Nancy Lindsay, daughter of Mott Lindsay of the estate that had been given him except for a partment·(now Division) at Waterford as Man• Pinckneyville. They had one son, Berry, Jr., negro man Pompey and a negro girl Nan; son ager -Business Technology and returned to and moved to Detroit, Michigan. Berry de• James Glenn, 350 acres of land in Cumberland Union to live. parted his life in 1968 and Nancy in 1972. Co. on the upper side of Great Guinea Creek, Laurens Garlington Gilliam was born Octo• Berry is buried in the Bethany Baptist Church £35 current money, and a part of the stock of ber 28, 1917, earned a Bachelor of Civil En• Cemetery in Jonesville, and Nancy is buried in hogs and cattle "in the hands of my son gineering degree from then Clemson College Detroit, Mich. Nathan Glen;" daughter Gemima Symes, that in 1940, and served in the European theater in Florie, daughter of Albert and Beulah, mar• part of the estate that was in her possession; World War II as a Captain. After being dis• ried Austell Robinson, the son of Sanford and granddaughters Frances Harris, Jude Harris, charged from the military service, he worked Mary (Woodson) Robinson. Their children are Anna Glenn Harris, Molly Glenn Harris, and for Sloan Construction Company, retiring in Austell Jr., James Oscar (deceased August grandsons Peter Harris and Tyre Harris, cer• 1979 as Vice-President. On August 15, 1959 1956), Twins: Wilson and William, Ruth tain negroes when the grandchildren came of he married Ann Drain Hazelrigg, daughter of Hazel, Dorothy Helon, Queen Ethel, and Lon• . age or married; daughter Hannah Austin, £5 Bigadier General Jesse Cyrus and Clara Hoey nie Allen and a daughter Mary Louise who died current money; daughter Mary Hopkins, thai Sarratt Drain. Their daughter is Hunter Young in infancy. All were born in Union. part of the estate that she had already received; Gilliam who was born November 21, 1962 and Bessie, daughter of Albert and Beulah, mar• daughter Elizabeth Byass, £40 current money; is currently a student at Converse College. ried William J. Hill of Jonesville. They were the daughter Anna Glenn, a feather bed and furni• (See Clara Hoey Sarratt story in this book.) parents of one daughter, Elwillie. They moved ture, a cow and calf, and one pound 10 shil• - William Farr Gilliam, Jr. to New York during the 1940's. Bessie de• lings current money, also negro woman Sarah parted her iife in 1965 and is buried in New after the death of Anna's mother Hannah; son York. Thompson Glenn, the balance of the estate, Albert and Beulah's family were united with including the homeplace, after the death of his the Foster Chapel Baptist Church in Jonesville. mother; daughter Keziah Harris and daughter - Ruth H. Robinson Sarah Dabney had already been given their

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part of the estate and were to receive no more. County until 1827 when she moved into the been deeded to him by Nathan Glenn in 1799. The sons Gideon, Nehemiah, and Nathan home of her son Robert who lived near Fish• Their son Thomas Anderson Carlisle was the IJlenn were named as executors, and the will dam in Union County. She died in Union Coun• final administrator of his grandfather James ".dS witnessed by Mary Gilbert, Anna Gilbert, ty in 1831 and is buried in Fishdam Cemetery, Glenn's estate after it was transferred to Union Jild Henry Gilbert. surrounded by her children and grandchildren County from Chester County. One John Glenn lived in Hanover Co. at the through four generations. She may have Gideon A. Glenn, died in Chester County in sametime that James and Hannah Glenn lived joined the Methodist Church with the rest of 1805, married Anne Sebellor (?), and had iilere. and there is a possibility that they were her family but she held daily family prayer one daughter Anne Sims Glenn. After Gideon's r,~lated.They both may have been related to services using her Church of England prayer death, Anne Sebellor married second John ,111eJohn Glenn who was living in the same book. She visited her daughter Susannah Bankhead of Union County and had several .:rea in the late 1600's. Glenn Hill for weeks at the time, and her grand• more children. An unusual circumstance is At least five of James Glenn's twelve chil• son George W. Hill remembered her as a very that Gideon A. Glenn and his father James :ren moved to South Carolina and settled proud old lady who always wore stiff black made their wills on the dame day and died :.Ithin a ten-mile radius in Union, Chester, and dresses with high white lace collars. She within a month or two of each other. The ~;~wberry Counties. Nathan Glenn and all of apparently was well-educated for her era • inventories of their personal estates were :"s children moved to Fishdam, Union Co., her descendants still own several books with made at the same time, by the same men, and :round 1785. At the same time, his brother her and her husband James' names inscribed written on the same sheet of paper which is in i.Hnes Glenn settled in Chester County on therein. Stories handed down in the family Gideon's estate file in Chester Courthouse. broad River directly across the river from indicate that she accepted her role as ma• George W. Hopkins, Adam Poole, and Ander• :Jathan. Mary Hopkins and her husband, Col. triarch of the family and exercised her rights son Thomas signed the appraisals on February David Hopkins, moved to Chester County be• accordingly. 25, 1805. iure the Revolution, and Mary's sister, Anna, James and Elizabeth (Bowles) Glenn were Mary Bowles Glenn, never married, buried ,',no never married, came with them. Jemima the parents of ten children. They are shown in Fishdam Cemetery with no dates on her Slins and her husband, Matthew Sims (the below in the order in which they were named in tombstone. :ccond). settled in the Maybinton section of James Glenn's will which is recorded in Ches• Susannah Glenn, born in Cumberland tlewberry County. ter County, though the execution of his estate County, Virginia on March 24, 1781, died in Many descendants of. these families was not completed until 1830 and the final Union County on June 9, 1855, married James ;.resently live in Union Co., in other areas of papers are located in Union County in the Hill and lived at Fishdam. (See the article on :;uuth Carolina, and in other states from here office of the Probate Judge. The children were: James Hill.) id the west coast. Thomas Glenn married a Miss Crawford and John Bowles Glenn, born April 6, 1786, - Jeannette M. Christopher moved to Georgia. Thomas died before 1830 died in Alabama on Augutst 9, 1869, married when his father's estate was finally settled in in 1820 Maria Allen of Putnam County, Geor• Union County. He had at least one daughter, gia. John Bowles Glenn was a Methodist JAMES GLENN II Eliza Crawford Glenn, who married Dr. Hope minister and educator. He preached on cir• 235 Hull Tigner of Merriwether County, Georgia, cuits in South Carolina until1815 when he was James Glenn, the son of James Glenn of who agreed to a settlement of James Glenn's sent to Georgia where he lived until 1837. In estate in 1830. !lanover County, Virginia, was born circa that year he moved to Barbour County, Ala• 1740 in Hanover County. He married Elizabeth Robert Glenn, born October 24, 1766, died bama, with his kinsman, Reverend James E. Bowles, born August 13, 1748, of Hanover February 13, 1837, married his cousin Sarah Glenn, who was formerly from North Carolina. i;ounty, and they moved to Cumberland Coun• W. Bowles, born February 21, 1769, died Here these two educators established two I)'. Virginia, on the land that his father had November 3, 1857. Sarah was the daughter of academies - Male and Female - and the .',lIled to him - 350 acres on Great Guinea John Bowles, Revolutionary soldier, who was place was later named Glennville in their Creek - along with his brothers Nehemiah, born June 8, 1743, died in Union County on honor. tlathan and Gideon. August 5, 1830. All three are buried in Fish• In 1854 John Bowles Glenn and his family James served in the Revolution as a Second dam Cemetery along with several of the ten moved to Aub~rn, Lee County, Alabama, Lieutenant in the Cumberland County Militia, children of Robert and Sarah (Bowles) Glenn. where he was instrumental in establishing the Sarah Glenn's father John Bowles married as .irld after the war ended, around 1784 or 1785, East Alabama Male College under the-auspices l1eand his brother Nathan, his sister Jemima his third wife Sytha (Glenn) Coleman, daugh• of the Methodist Conference. Following his IGlenn) Sims and her husband Matthew Sims, ter of Nathan Glenn and widow of Joseph death at Auburn, in 1869, the school was zlndother members of their families, moved to Coleman. They had no children, and it is un• deeded by the Methodist Conference to the· South Carolina, probably with the encourage• known which of his first two wives was the State Agricultural & Mechanical College, ment of their brother-in-law Col. David Hop• mother of Sarah Glenn. (See the articles on which some years later became the Alabama ~Inswho had moved to Chester County prior to Nathan Glenn and Joseph Coleman.) Polytechnic Institute and is now Auburn Uni• Sarah Glenn died before the 1810 Federal Ihe Revolution. Recorded in Chester County versity . IDeed Book B, p. 207) is a bond dated April Census was taken. She married her cousin In 1872 his son, Emory Thomas Glenn, 12. 1783: David Hopkins of Camden District, Littleton Spilsby Glenn, the son of Nathan became treasurer of the college and remained South Carolina, bound to James Glenn of the Glenn .. (See the article on Nathan Glenn's in that position until his death in 1906 when his State of Virginia, County of Cumberland, for family.) daughter, Miss Allie Glenn, succeeded him as 1000 pounds sterling, for 150 acres "where Hannah Thompson Glenn, born March 14, treasurer. She served in this capacity until 1950 when she retired because of ill health. GeorgeVaughn now lives," bound by William 1771 , died October 14, 1811, married on De• Crosby and John Crosby, on the north side of cember 24, 1792, Coleman Carlisle who was The combined service of grandfather, father, Broad River. Also, another tract of 150 acres born August 15, 1770 in Edgecombe County, and daughter had spanned nearly a century. opposite the above tract on the south side of North Carolina, died November 18, 1824 in John Bowles and Maria (Allen) Glenn had eight tile river, bound by Eli Hollingsworth, Thomas Laurens County, South Carolina. He was the children whose descendants now live in Ala• Shockley, William Feamster, and the river. son of Robert and Sarah (Coleman) Carlisle of bama, Texas, and points west. Witnesses were Bernard Glenn, Ferdinand Edgecombe County, North Carolina, and was Newton Glenn died after 1805 when he was Hopkins, and Unis Sion. an early Methodist minister in upper South 8 or 9 years old. James Glenn settled on his tract of land in Carolina. Coleman and Hannah (Glenn) Car• James Glenn, born September 27, 1792, Chester County and lived there until his death lisle had eight children. After Hannah's death died June 6, 1831 in Union County, married early in the year 1805. His widow Elizabeth Coleman Carlisle married second Joanna July 5, 1821 Sarah Milling who was born Octo• outlived him many years. She apparently con• Lewis Brown, and third Sarah Leake. He and ber 7, 1798, died November 1, 1824. Both are Iinued to reside at their homeplace in Chester Hannah lived in Union County on land that had buried in Fishdam Cemetery. In his will James 100 ,flTr2h•

Glenn, II, specified that his two youngest sons Dam Creek from John McPherson, so Nathan died circa 1806. They had twelve shildren (Sf" James and Newton were to receive a "good and his family moved to South Carolina some• article on Joseph Coleman). Sytha (Glellill English education." The son James received time between 1783 and 1787, probably in Coleman married second John Bowles, ,~ his and went on to study medicine. He and 1784 or 1785. Revolutionary soldier who is buried in Fish Sarah probably made their home with his He received a grant of 995 acres in 1793 dam Cemetery. There were no children of tll" mother Elizabeth at the homeplace in Chester from the State of South Carolina and is shown second marriage. County until 1827 when Elizabeth relinquished on the 1790 Census of Union County with five Littleton Spilsby Glenn (1763-1830), sixtll her title to the property. In 1828 he bought 365 males and two females in his household and child of Nathan and Lucy (Coleman) Glenll acres on Cane Creek in Union County, adjoin• twenty-eight slaves. His estate was entered for married his cousin Sarah Bowles Glenn, the ing his brother-in-law James Hill. In March probate on July 25, 1805 in Union County. daughter of James and Elizabeth (Bowles! 1831 he deeded the same tract, "whereon I Nathan and Lucy (Coleman) Glenn had the Glenn of Chester Co., South Carolina. Spilsb\ now live," to James Hill, and died 3 months following children' and Sarah Glenn lived on Broad River at Fisll· later. Bernard Glenn (1757-1831), never married. dam, and Spilsby is buried in Fishdam Ceme· His estate papers in Union show that he had He served in the Revolution in Virginia and tery. Census records indicate that his father a large library of medical books, Methodist never put in a claim for bounty land warrants or Nathan lived with him during Nathan's latter Disciplines, hymnals, lectures and sermons, 3 back pay that was due him at the end of the years. Spilsby owned many acres of land in tile or 4 Bibles, books on philosophy, travel, poet• war. After his death in 1831, his heirs, one Fishdam area, and he and his partner, James ry, several dictionaries, 2 volumes of Knicker• sister and eighteen nieces and nephews, filed Thomas, operated a ferry at Fish Dam Ford fOI bocker, a large atlas, a book of "Riley's Flute claim for the money and bounty land warrants, many years. In 1791 the Union County Court Melodies," etc .. He also had a complete set of and it was through the names of those heirs "ordered that Spilsby Glenn be the overseer of medical instruments. His tombstone states that descendants of Nathan Gleen were able to the road from the fish dam ford on Broad River that he was "James Glenn, M.D .. " He and definitely prove the names of Nathan's children to the Ninety Six Road that leads to Hamilton's Sarah (Milling) Glenn had two daughters, and grandchildren. Bernard Glenn moved to Ford on the Tyger River to Cain Creek and tllat Juliette Elizabeth who died young, and Sarah Union County, lived on Enoree River, and is he keep the same in good repair." It was Anne Laura who married James B. McCants. buried in a cemetery on the tract of land where Spilsby and his father Nathan who gave tile - Jeannette M. Christopher he lived. He was a justice of the peace, a land for the Fish Dam Meeting House one 01 member of the Union Library Society, a deputy the first Methodist churches in the area In surveyor, and he took an active interest in 1843, when his sons James B. and John F. Glenn TUE FAMILY OF NATHAN Union County political activities. He served in sold the land to A. V. Jeter, they excepted" two the South Carolina House of Representatives acres around the fish dam meeting house ami GLENN from 1806 to 1816. In Union County records burying ground." By the time that Spilsby and 236 he was referred to as Captain Bernard Glenn. Sarah Glenn married, all of the Glenns were Nathan Glenn, son of James Glenn of Orano Glenn, born circa 1758, died after attending the Methodist Church since tllere Hanover County, Virginia, was born circa 1794, married Major Bird Bowker in Cumber• were no Episcopal Churches in the Soutll 1735 in Hanover County and died in Union land County, Virginia, moved to Union Coun• Carolina "back country," and they were all County, South Carolina in 1805. He moved ty. They had seven children, several of whom staunch supporters of Methodism - there from Hanover County to Cumberland County moved to Gadsden County, Florida. were several Methodist ministers in the family. where he married Lucy Coleman on May 24, Patience Glenn, born circa 1759, died in Spilsby's wife Sarah died during the decade 1756. Lucy was the daughter of Daniel Cole• 1823, married first her cousin Newton Hop• ending in 1810 since she is not shown on tile man, II and his wife Patience Elliott of Cumber• kins of Chester County, South Carolina, the 1810 census. On October 24, 1830, when he land County (formerly Goochland County). son of David and Mary (Glenn) Hopkins. New• was 67 years old, Spilsby was stricken while Nathan Glenn was willed 350 acs. of land in ton and Patience (Glenn) Hopkins had one attending church at Fish Dam Meeting House Cumberland County by his father James, part daughter, Mary T.N. Hopkins (1787-1849) and died before they could get him home. of the 1OOO-acretract that James purchased in who married Reuben Sims (1784-1840) and Spilsby and Sarah had three children: John 1739. In 1771 Nathan bought an additional lived in Union County, both are buried in Fish• Faut Glenn (1803-1862) who married his 200 acres on Great Guinea Creek in Cumber• dam Cemetery. After the death of Newton Hop• cousin Jane S.C. Glenn and moved to Missis• land County from William Basham of Bedford kins in the late 1700's, his widow Patience sippi before 1843; James Blanton Glenn WilD County, and one of the adjoining landowners married second, as his second wife, Colonel married first Eliza Lyles, and second Eliza'a was Nath;lIl's brother James Glenn who also Benjamin Herndon (1749-1819) of Newberry sister Frances Lyles, the daughters of Ephraim moved to Chester County, South Carolina. The County, and had three more children, Lucy and Frances Foote Lyles (see the Whitney• deed was witnessed by Matt Sims, Nathan's Herndon, John Newton Herndon, and a child Lyles Connection in this volume); and Mary borther -in-law. who died in infancy. Bowles Glenn (1797-1864) who married Nathan Glenn, Daniel Coleman, and George William Coleman Glenn (1761-1827) mar• Moses Berry Hill (1795-1824), the son of Wright, all kinsmen, were serving as vestry• ried Elizabeth Wright (died 1854) on July 13, Moses and Savilla (Roden) Hill of Fairfield men of Littleton Parish in Cumberland County 1788 in Cumberland County, Virginia. She County, South Carolina. After Moses B. Hill's in 1772. In 1777 Nathan conveyed by deed of was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth early death, his widow married second John gift 200 acres on Great Guinea Creek to his (McGeehee) Wright of Virginia. William Cole• Johns. There were four children by the first son-in-law Byrd Bowker, the same being the man and Elizabeth (Wright) Glenn moved to marriage to Moses B. Hill, James Leslie land where Bowker "now lives," and again Union County and established their home on Stewart Hill, Mary Glenn Hill, Sarah Savilla showing James Glenn as an adjoining land• Tyger River, between Fishdam (Carlisle) and Hill, and Moses Hill, all of whom moved to owner. Both Nathan and his brother James the Newberry County line near Whitmire. They Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas. served in the Revolution in Virginia; they were had nine children (see The William Coleman Daniel Glenn, seventh child of Nathan and lieutenants in the Cumberland County militia. Glenn Family). Both William C. and Elizabeth Lucy (Coleman) Glenn, was born in 1764 and In 1783 Nathan's brother-in-law, David Glenn died in Union Co.. William Coleman died in 1821 in Union County. He is buried in Hopkins of Chester County, signed bond for Glenn is buried in the Glenn Cemetery near the Glenn Cemetery near Carlisle. He married £1000 sterling "unto Nathan Glen of Virginia, Carlisle, and Elizabeth is probably buried Elizabeth Stokes, the daughter of Col. John Cumberland County" for a 250-acre tract and there, also, but her grave is unmarked. Stokes of Chester County (One source says a grant of 1000 acres "when he receives it. ... Sytha Glenn (1762-1844), the fifth child of that his wife was Jency Plyler.) He had two lying above and below the Fish Dam Ford on Nathan and Lucy (Coleman) Glenn, married in known children: Lucy C. Glenn who married Broad River" in what is now Union County. In 1782 Joseph Coleman. They moved from Dr. James Meacham; and Bernard Glenn, Jr. 1787 Nathan Glenn of Union County bought Cumberland County, Virginia, to Union Coun• (1795-1824) who married his cousin Mary two additional tracts of land on Lower Fish ty, S,C. around 1785 where Joseph Coleman Hopkins, the daughter of George W. and

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Jartha (Bowker) Hopkins. Bernard, Jr.'s James Glenn of Chester County, South Caroli• states. .'idow, Mary (Hopkins) Glenn, married na. Patsy and John Bowles Glenn moved to Jane S.C. (Jency) Glenn (born 1809), ninth econd Samuel McAliley of Chester County, Spartanburg County where they owned Glenn child, married in 1827 her cousin John Fout ,ollth Carolina. She and Bernard Glenn, Jr. Springs, a mineral spring located within a few Glenn, the son of Littleton Spilsby and Sarah dd three children: Daniel Wade Hopkins miles of the Union County line. They operated (Glenn) Glenn. They had seven children, all of .Icnn, David George W.H. Glenn, and Mary a large hotel near the spring which became whom moved to Singleton, Mississippi with W. Glenn. well-known resort of that period. Both are thei r parents. Alexander Glenn (1765-1826), eighth and buried in Fishdam Cemetery near Carlisle. - Jeannette M. Christopher oungest child of Nathan and Lucy (Coleman) They had only one son, William James I/enn, married Anna Sims,· and lived first in Thompson Glenn (died 1883), who married Inion County where he was a partner in busi• M. Beaty, and who was an officer in the Con• GOING - PALMER FAMILY II~SSwith his brother Bernard - in the Union federate army. 238 ,()unty deed books they are called "Mer• Nathan Glenn (1796-1882), fourth child, Thomas Palmer, born in England in 1590, i 1,1[1tS." In 1825 Alexander sold 450 acres married on May 1, 1828, his cousin Permelia emigrated to America in 1621 on a Ship named ,t;(\f the Fish Dam on Broad River to his Coleman (1802-1884), the daughter of Joseph Tyger and settled in Northumberland County, IIotl1er Spilsby, land described as "given to and Sytha (Glenn) Coleman. (See the article on Virginia. John Palmer, assumed to be his son 118 by my father." He seems to have moved to Joseph Coleman.) Both Nathan and Permelia was born in Northumberland County, Virginia, ,illrens County, South Carolina, about that Glenn are buried in the Briggs Cemetery in in 1621. Illle, and his will was probated in Laurens Union County. They had five children, and Robert Palmer, believed to be the son of their descendants now live in the Cross Anchor :IHJIlty on June 5, 1826. His daughter Nancy John, but there is no proof, was born in Vir• . ,'lIS his sale heir, and in the event of her death area of Spartanburg and Union Counties . ginia. He was married first to Prudence' ilJ "either of her children." William Wright Glenn (1799-1873), fifth Jeffery and second to Martha Freeman. Alezander Glenn and his wife Anna are child, married in 1837 Sarah Leverett (1806• William Palmer, born February 18,1727, in 1!IHied in a family cemetery 5 miles south of 1872) of Union County. They lived on Tyger N. Fornham Parish, Richmond County, Vir• ',Iillton, South Carolina. Their daughter Nan• River near William Coleman Glenn, William ginia, is believed to be the son of Robert Pal• ,:y, born in 1806, married Dr. Hezekiah Rice Wright and Sarah Glenn had one son, William mer and his second wife, Martha Freeman. ,•••110 was the son of Hezekiah and Mary Saun• Leverett Glenn, who moved to Hernando, Mis• William married Rebecca and they were the dl~1 s Rice who were born in Virginia and died in sissippi. parents of John Palmer, the ancestor of this llilion County. In 1808, in Laurens County, Mary Ann Glenn (1801-1873), sixth child, family, who was born September 6, 1753. :;outh Carolina, Reuben Glenn named Alexan• married first James Mayes of the Fairforest By 1773 John Palmer had migrated from ,kr Glenn as the sale executor of his will in area of Union County. They lived on Enoree Virginia to Union County, South Carolina, and :;Ilich he willed his entire estate to his wife River and had eight children, several of whom married Martha (Patty) Williams. John fought Ilizabeth, who probably was the daughter of settled in Newberry County. After James in the Revolution and died June 26, 1826. IHrd and Oraho (Glenn) Bowker of Union Mayes' death Mary Ann (Glenn) Mayes mar• Martha was born April 17, 1754, and died l:ounty. Reuben may have been the son of ried second Jesse Briggs (1801-1882) of August 29, 1813. ,\Iexander Glenn. Union County and had five more children. Their children were: Amasa Palmer, born - Jeannette M. Christopher Mary Ann and Jesse Briggs are buried in the July 22, 1774, married first Hannah Waters Briggs Cemetery. and second Anna Gaston; Ezekiel Palmer, born THE FAMILY OF WILLIAM Sarah Clark Glenn (born 1804), seventh November 9, 1778; William Palmer, born July child, married Augustine (Austin) Shands of 16, 1776, married Elizabeth Morgan; John COLEMAN GLENN Spartanburg County and lived near Glenn Palmer, born February 13, 1780; Nancy Pal• 237 Springs where her sister Patsy lived. Sarah mer, married William Edwards, son of Solo• William Coleman Glenn (1761-1827), son Clark (Glenn) and Augustine Shands moved to mon Edwards, and moved west; Sallie Palmer,

()f Nathan and Lucy (Coleman) Glenn, married White Springs and/or Bronson, Florida, where born October 15, 1786, died October 15, some of their descendants still reside. I)f] July 13, 1788 in Cumberland County, Vir• 1786; Rebecca Palmer, born February 1, Ijinia, Elizabeth Wright (1769-1854). (See Thomas Alexander Glenn (1806-1882), 1789, died August 1, 1855, married Isaac fhe Family of Nathan Glenn.) William C. and eighth child, was a graduate of Jefferson Going; Ellis Palmer, born March 22, 1792, 1:lizabeth Glenn lived on Tyger River, between Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died February 4, 1865, married Nancy Long; and was also an active Methodist minister lishdam (Carlisle) and Whitmire. Both died in and Rhoda Palmer, born April 7, 1796, died Union County and their wills are on file in the while he lived in Union County. The old Enoree October 25, 1882, married Joseph McKissick. Union County office of the Probate Judge. Circuit Minute Book, now located in the On August 21, 1804, Isaac Going, born They had nine children: Methodist Archives, Wofford College Library, April 28, 1775, in Chester, S.C., married Re• Lucy Glenn (1789-1845), first child, mar• Spartanburg, S.C., shows that T.A. Glenn becca Palmer. Isaac Going died in Union ried first her cousin Achilles Bowker, son of served as secretary of the quarterly confer• County January 27, 1861, and Rebecca died Bird and Orano (Glenn) Bowker. Lucy and ences for several years. After he moved to August 1, 1855. Their children were: Thomas Achilles Bowker had one child, Elizabeth Winston County, Mississippi, in 1853, he Baster Going, born May 13, 1806, married W,G.O. Bowker (1813-1831) who was unmar• joined the Lutheran Church and served in the Elizabeth Vinson; Sarah Palmer Going, born ried, Achilles Bowker died before 1816, and ministery of that denomination. He married July 13,1808; John Madison Going, born July Lucy (Glenn) Bowker married second James first, in Union County, Regina Wiles Farr, the 14, 1810, died July 25, 1844; Elijah Bobo Ivey. There were no children by the second daughter of James Farr and his wife Frances, Going, born January 15,1813, died February lIlarriage. Lucy and her daughter Elizabeth are and the granddaughter of Col. William Farr and 15,1827; Drury Dobbins Going, born Novem• hath buried in the Glenn Cemetery near Car• his first wife Eleanor (Black) Jeter. Thomas ber 24,1815, died September 1878, married lisle. Alexander and Regina (Farr) Glenn had twelve Sarah Spears; Isaac McKissick Going, born children all of whom moved to Mississippi Elizabeth Glenn (1791-died before October September 2, 1818 (Mack). died August 10, 25, 1849), second child, married her cousin with their parnets. T.A. Glenn married second 1840; Rhoda Going, born August 24, 1821; Nathan Coleman (1786-1858), son of Joseph Mary Frances (Mollie) Johnson (1840-1912) William George Washington Going (Billy), ilnd Sytha (Glenn) Coleman. (See the article on who was the daughter of John Wesley and born July 17, 1824, died October 7, 1915, ,Joseph Coleman.) Elizabeth (Matthews) Johnson of Winston married Nancy Manerva Dupree; Amasa Ver• Patsy Glenn (1793-1866), third child, mar• County, Mississippi. T.A. and Mollie (,John• non Going, born January 30, 1827; Elisha I ied her cousin John Bowles Glenn (1793• son) Glenn had eight children. Many descen• Palmer Going, born December 22, 1829, died dants of Thomas Alexander Glenn reside in 1842), the son of Robert and Sarah (Bowles) July 16,1864; Martha Karen Going, born July Glenn of Union County, and grandson of Mississippi and elsewhere in the western 4. 1835. 111 Rr::f(:;/9 1875. After his return, two sons and two used when a modern country church replaced Between 1782 and 1787 we find his name as daughters were born to this couple. In 1885 he it. The thriving congregation's prize posses• a taxpayer in Brunswick County, Virginia and was elected Sheriff of Union County and sion is a crudely constructed pulpit, used each in 1797 their daughter, Susannah Ezell, was served until 1901. In 1909 he was re-elected Sunday, from which Bishop Francis Asbury married to Jeremiah Ezell, her double first Sheriff and served until 1913. preached in the home of Thomas Uzzell. Cousin. The ceremony was performed by her Sheriff and Mrs. Long lived in the Union The first Ezell in early Virginia records was father's brother, Balaam Ezell, who was a County Jail during his terms of office which Timothy Ezell who appears as a taxpayer, called Primitive Baptist minister, farmer, and father was required by law. In 1888 a mob of 500 a tithable, Surry County in 1668. His wife, of the groom. It is thought that Balaam's wife, enraged men confronted Sheriff Long at the Mary Essell, administered on his estate July recorded as Lydia, was Eudora La Motte's jail and demanded he hand over to them a 1696 when inventory was made. Among chil• sister, Lydia La Motte. Many such details indi• negro then in jail charged with an assault on a dren named in his will was George Ezell born cate that the families of William and Balaam white woman. Mrs. Long took her stand be• about 1648, died between December 24,1692 Ezell were migrating south together and that side her husband with plenty of guns handy, and April 11 , 1693 when his will was probated Eudora La Motte died in Brunswick County, and together they refused the demand of the in Surry County, Virginia. His wife was Eliz• Virginia. mob. abeth Clarke, daughter of Henry Clarke and William Ezell's second wife whom he mar• his wife, Jane. George Ezzell had six children. ried in Brunswick County was a 'ss Whitlock. (It was Mary Elizabeth Ezell Van Cleave who given name unknown, by whom e a six established that her ancestors, William Ezell of children with their births recorded between Union District, South Carolina and his brother, 1789 and 1798 as born in Virginia. Richmond Balaam Ezell, of Trigg County, Kentucky were County, Fayette District, North Carolina lists the great-great-grandsons of George Ezell and William Ezell with a large family in its 1790 Elizabeth Clarke.) census. His second wife, Miss Whitlock, Timothy Ezell, youngest son of George Ezell probably died here. and Elizabeth Clarke Ezell, was born The first record of the William Ezell family in about 1689 in Virginia and died August 15, Union County, South Carolina is in Deed Book 1760. He names in his will his wife, Mary, F, page 296 of that district when on February whom he had married in 1715. They had seven 27,1800, he bought 200 acres of land and was James Gideon Long (Inset) and Union County Jail (1823). children. Their oldest son, Thomas Ezell, was granted 2 acres April 1, 1800. Later, he purch• born about 1716 in Surry County, Virginia and ased an adjoining tract on Mill Pond Creek and This prisoner was later tried, convicted, and died April 18, 1782. In 1740 Thomas married Brown's Creek, waters of Broad River which Anne Rose, daughter of Richard Rose and his confined to the state penitentiary. He was sub• locates his home in Union County where he sequently pardoned in 1896 when evidence wife, Anne. Thomas Ezell's will and recorded continued to buy land. At the time of his death was secured which proved he was innocent of deeds, made before his will, verify that he gave in 1832 he was a man of considerable wealth. away and sold hundreds of acres of land. All the charge. Sheriff Long received, before his Soon after William Ezell and his motherless death in 1921, a letter of gratitude from the seven of Thomas and Anne Ezell's children family were established in Union District. negro for saving his life. were born in Surry County, Virginia. They are: South Carolina he married his third wife, Rho• Sheriff and Mrs. Long are buried in the John Ezell, born February 10, 1742; Thomas da Lyles, daughter of Jesse and Susannah Presbyterian Cemetery in the City of Union. Ezell, born January 20, 1744; Anne Ezell, born Woodson Lyles. To this marriage three daugh• James Gideon Long, Jr., (1875-1965) and January 20, 1746; William Ezell. born Febru: ters, all named Polly, were born in the early his wife Caroline Bobo (Tiny) (1879-1962) ary 21, 1749 •. married Eudora La Motte; 1800's. They died in infancy. Rhoda rebelled were the parents of ten children. Their eldest, Frederick Ezell, born April 28, 1752; Balaam against naming her fourth child Polly so they John D. Long 2nd (1901-1967) was a lawyer Ezell, born October 7, 1756; Abel Ezell, born decided to open the Bible, agreeing that if a September 20, 1758. and a long-time State Legislator and Senator man's name was first to appear, the child The father of Miriam Ezell was William Ezell, from Union County. He was one of the original would be named Polly, but if a woman's name the fourth child of Thomas and Anne Ezell. His organizers of the Union County Historical appeared first that would be the name. Miriam Society. Upon his retirement from the Senate, birth is recorded in the Albemarle Parish Reg• was at the top of the opened page so their his son, John D. Long 3rd became State Sena• ister of Surry County, Virginia as February 21 , fourth daughter, born 1807, was named tor from Union County and served fourteen 1749. Records submitted by descendants of Miriam Ezell. Her mother, Rhoda Lyles, died years - from 1966 to 1980. some of his children, who were born in Virgin• when she was a young child and William mar• ia, give his name as William Scit or Peit, but - Polly Long Hollingsworth ried Rhoda's half-sister, Susannah Lyles, his all his family and legal records in South Caroli• fourth wife. na give it only as William Ezell, as does his Miriam objected strenuously to this mar• TtiE ANCESTORS OF MIRIAM birth record. While living in Virginia his family riage and being a spoiled child she cried at the Bible and other records were destroyed when EZELL LONG ceremony, ran up the stairs to the room over his home was burned during the Revolutionary which the service was being held, screaming War. 415 and jumping up and down. Her step-mother, Material collected by my aunt, Miriam Caro• My great-great-grandmother, Miriam Ezell, Susannah Lyles, lived twenty years after the line Smith, and my uncle, Dr. William Asa was the sixth generation descendant of the death of her husband, William Ezell. Smith, supplies the connecting information Ezells to settle in Surry County, Virginia. They After the marriage of William and Susan• between William Ezell's life in Virginia, where were Huguenots who left the small village of nah, a beautiful mother-daughter relationship he is said to have owned a, large tobacco Ezalle, France to escape persecution. Others developed and it is recorded in the court house plantation on the Blackwater River, a tributary with such names as Uzzell, Essell, Ezelle, etc., at Union that in 1815 Susannah Ezell gave to of the James River, and his death in South also settled in colonial Virginia. When angli• her daughter, Miriam Ezell, two cows for "love Carolina. Dr. Smith's personal research added cized they came to be known by the name and affection". Ezell. many interesting details to be included in "The William Ezell made his will December 4, Ezell Family in America" by Christine W. In 1970 I had opportunity to visit Uzzell 1829 and it was recorded July 2, 1832 in Book Sheldon. Methodist Church near Smithfield, Virginia. B, page 191, Union County Court House. William Ezell was married four tirnes. His The land for the church was given by a Thomas Union, South Carolina. His estate could not be first wife was Eudora La Motte of Surry Coun• Uzzell who is credited with commanding a ship closed until after Susannah's death twenty ty, Virginia with whom he lived in three coun• under General La Fayette during the Revolu• years later. He made ample provision for tionary War. The original church was still ties in Virginia, Surry, Mecklenburg, and Susannah as well as for all of his children Brunswick, and by whom he had seven chil• standing in 1916 and part of its foundation including those who had moved to Tennessee dren. 186 ~ ~;5{!,- t

I .• and his two grandsons, children of an un- sailed from Rotterdam on the ship, Elizabetfl, named deceased daughter. and landed in Charleston. Heinrich was the William Ezell and Susannah, who died May son of Matthias Leibbrand of Kleiningersheim 27, 1853 in her 82nd year, had no children. in Germany. Heinrich married Maria Mar• Susannah Ezell is buried in the William Long garetha Feydinger. They had the following plot of Gilead Baptist Church Cemetery near children: Johann, Christian, Maria, Simon, Jonesville, South Carolina with Miriam Ezell and Margaretha. Long and her family. William Ezell and his third Heinrich's grant was for 250 acres and io• wife, Rhoda Lyles Ezell, were buried in a family cated on the 20 Mile Branch on the Saluda plot said to have been on his plantation. Wil• River in Lexington County, S.C. He shortened liam and his famil~ were members of Duck his name to Lybrand. All South Carolina Lyb• Pond Baptist Church, now Fairforest Baptist rands, including Union County Lybrands, are Church, between Union and Jonesville, South descendants of Heinrich. Carolina. Heinrich brought his wife, sons Christian, Miriam Ezell, seventeenth child of William age 28, Simeon, age 18 and daughter age 16 Ezell, and his youngest, was born in 1807 and to the new country. They all settled in the

died in 1881. She I married William Long in Dutch Fork area of Lexington County. 1822 when she was fifteen years old. (For their Martin Lybrand, son of Christian, married descendants see "William Long and Leonard Margaret Earhart about 1810. They had the Smith Families through Eliza Jane Long who following children: Harriett, Leah, Levi, God• married William Smith.) frey, Emanuel, Barnet, and Simeon .. Miriam Ezell Long. Levi married Sara Honold. It is believed that +- Myrtle Smith Simmons Sara was the daughter of David Honold and Richardson Long (born July 1, 1842 - died Catherine Clark. Catherine was the daughter of THE WilLIAM B. LONG December 20,1907) who never married; Janie Gregory and Lurenia Parker Clark. Gregory Eliza Long (born December 31, 1844 - died was a Revolutionary War veteran. The Clark September 25, 1916) who married William Family came from Ireland. FfMIL Y 416 Smith. One child died in infancy. Levi and Sara had the following children; William Long came from Virginia and set• Four of William B. Long's sons served in the George, John Robert, Catherine, David Mar• tled near Kelton in what is known as the Pea Civil War. John was killed in the Battle of tin, Laur, William, and Joseph. .•\ Ridge section of Union County, S.C. He mar• Riddleshop, Virginia. Thomas died of Levi died in the early 1870's and is buried in pneumonia with the Confederate Army at Cen• the Dutch Fork area. The Lybrand brothers, )-I ~~ried, Betsy Whitlor.k (horn 177~) daughter of '/ William and Molly Whitlock. treville, Virginia. William Long Jr. was sent Martin, George, John Robert, Will, and Pete William and Betsy' had a son William B. Long home to die of dysentery contracted on a (Joseph) left S.C. and moved to North Caroli• (born on June 11, 1793). William B. Long served northern campaign. Dr. James Long served as na. Later they returned to Lando, S.C., in in the War of 1812 in the Means Regiment, a field surgeon for General Fitzhugh Lee. After Chester County to operate the only mill located Samuel Faucett Company. He was made Brevet contracting a disease on a campaign in the in this area. Captainat New Orleans. After the war, he returned north, he was honorably discharged and sent John Robert married Mary Lever and had to Union Cou nt'y, S. C. and married home. However, he regained his health and one son, James Austin, by this marriage. He Miriam Ezell (born 1807) on March 5, 1822. returned to the army to join Lee's Cavalry. later married Grace Robertson of Rutherford• She was the daughter of William Ezell and Dr. Long was the first to advocate that pa• ton County, North Carolina, and had the fol• Rhoda Lyles. Mr. Ezell Objected to his daugh• tients with fever drink large quantities of cold lowing children; Sara, Annie, Arch, Estelle, ter's marriage because he believed that she water. For this unorthodox treatment, he was Tom, and Pearl. should have chosen a wealthier suit'or. Be• almost cited for contempt by a medical board. James Austin married Ellis Oglesby; Sara cause of his disapproval of her marriage, he Fortunately, General Lee intervened when he married John Ward; Annie married Monroe refused to speak to Miriam for a brief1period. discovered that the mortality rate of Dr. Long's Parks; Arch married Brenard McWhirter; Eventually, he came to approve of the mar• patients was lower than for those of the other Estelle married Arthur Fowler; Tom married riage after observing William Long's thrift and doctors. Dr. Long was commended rather Maggie Williams; Pearl married Bob Mabry. good judgment in his affairs. than reprimanded, and this attracted the atten• David Martin married Margaret Rose War• William B. Long and Miriam Ezell Long lived tion of the Union Army Surgeon Board. Under lick and had the following children: Cordie in the Jonesville section of Union County, a f!ag of truce, the Union surgeons sent a Briggs, Sim Robert, Carrie Maude, Cora, and S.C., and they had twelve children; William committe0 to observe Dr. Long's treatment. Bessie. Long, Jr., (born June 27, 1823 - died August Dr. Long returned to Jonesville after the war Cordie Briggs married Lelar Burgess; SifT] 27, 1865) who never married; John Long and practiced medicine there until his death. married Mary Cudd; Carrie Maude married (born July 23, 1825 - died June 3, 1864) William B. Long died on April 8, 1865. Alexander McGregor; Cora Bell married Natha who never married; Mary Long (born August Miriam Ezell Long died in March of 1881. Both Eubanks and after his death married William V. 9, 1827) who married William Winn; Nancy are buried in Gilead Cemetery in Jonesville, Carter; Bessie married Charlie Hicks. Long (born October 2, 1824) who married S.C. All of William B. Longs' children are Ben married Meter Gardwin and moved te Jack Ray; Sara Elizabeth Long (born Novem• buried in Gilead Cemetery except Nancy Long Shelby, N.C. ber 27, 1831 - died January 31, 1904) who Ray and Mary Long Winn who are buried in George W. Lybrand married Mary Warlicl never married; Amanda Cornelia Caroline Greenville, S.C., and Janie Eliza Long Smith and had the following children: Frank, Georg! Long (born October 4, 1833- died December who is buried in Putman Cemetery in the West M., Lawrence, John William. 3, 1903) who first married Sgt. C.H. Hames Springs section of Union County, S.C. Frank married Cora O'Shields; George mar (killed in action at Manassas, Virginia, on Au• - Helen C. Smith ried Nancy Mildred Fowler; Lawrence marrie! gust 30, 1862) and after Hames' death, mar• Dora Wade: John William married Emmi ried Thomas Littlejohn; Dr. James Long (born Fowler. August 12,1836 - died April 22, 1899) who FAMILY OF LEVI & SARA William Lybrand moved to Charlotte, N.C never married; Joseph Long (born June 8, David Martin, George W. and John Rober ARNOLD LYBRAND 1838 - died June 10, 1859) who never mar• moved to Union County during the earl ried and died after being thrown from a horse; 417 1900's. John Robert later moved to Jones Thomas Long (born October 10, 1840 - died In 1753 Heinrich Leibrand obtained a royal ville. All three brothers and their families becam February 2, 1862) who never married; Charles tract of land from King George II. Heinrich active leaders in the textile industry, churches THE CHARLES LONG RAY, SR. George S. Ruff, Jr., (son of George S. and Reverend Thomas Ray died suddenly May FAMIL Y Nenie Caldwell Ruff). George, a former resi• 29, 1862, at the age of eighty-two. His body dent of Newberry County, came to Union in was laid to rest in the cemetery of Padgett's 509 1940 and has operated a service station on Creek Church, a place he loved so well. Charles Long Ray, Sr. and Lena Effie Gall• South Gadberry Street in Union, since that John (Jack) Ray (December 5, 18'17 - July man were married in Union, South Carolina on time except for three years spent in the United 5,1881) the son of Reverend Thomas Ray was October 27, 1910. Grandparents of Effie Gall• States Army. married to Nancy Long. Their children were man Ray were Henry Thomas Gallman (June In this family there are two children. Mar• Sarah, Lula, Mamie, James L., and Carrie. 28, 1826 - September 11, 1881) and Rhapsy garet Catherine (Margie) Ruff, a graduate of James L. Ray (May 12, 1862 - April 27, Elizabeth Smith (daughter of Miles E. Smith) Union High School and the University of South 1923) was married to Jane Jackson Brandon (June 18, 1829 - September 5, 1901). Carolina where she received a Bachelor of Arts (July 13,1862 - January 7,1912). Born to Thompson Turner and Elizabeth R. Turner Degree in Elementary Education, teaches at this union were: Jack Ray (1884-1896), Boyd (July 18,1838 - April 9, 1903) were grand• Excelsior School in Union, South Carolina. Brandon Ray (1887-1936), Charles Long Ray parents on her mother's side. Thompson Tur• George Ray Ruff, a graduate of Union High (1889-1946), Nancy lone Ray (1892-1913), ner served in Company A, 18th South Carolina School and Limestone College in Gaffney, Gertrude Ray (1894-1952), James L. Ray, Jr. Volunteer Regiment, CSA. He died in the battle South Carolina, is a Lieutenant in the United (1903-1976), and Helen Ray Napier (born of Frazier's Farm in Virginia on June 30, 1862, States Army stationed at Fort Lewis, 1909, and lives in Nashville, Tennessee). and was probably buried on the battleground. Washington. James L. Ray, Jane B. Ray and daughter Nan• Elizabeth R. Turner is buried at Fairforest Bap• These members of the younger set have cy lone are buried in Sardis Church Cemetery tist Church Cemetery in Union County. contributed greatly to the sport of horse show• in Union County. William Munroe Gallman (June 23,1854• ing throughout the south. George R. showed a The second marriage of James L. Ray, Sr. September 17, 1908) and Martha Louise Tur• Roadster Pony "Sir Paul" for a number of was to Mrs. Ida Ramsey Blunt of Grove Town, ner (December 30, 1857 - February 22, years. Margie is keeping the family tradition by Georgia. She died in Augusta, Georgia Decem• 1910), parents of Effie Gallman Ray are buried showing a Tennessee Walking Horse "Eas• ber 7, 1954. at New Hope Methodist Church near Jones• ter's Angel" at major events in the state. - Elizabeth Ray Ruff ville, South Carolina; also three sisters; Lizzie - Elizabeth Ray Ruff Gallman (February 7, 1880 - July 2, 1886), Pearl Gallman (September 17, 1891 - August \ THE FAMILY OF CHABLES 1,1894), and Bessie B. Gallman (August 10, 1882 - April 20, 1908). Annie Gallman (Be• THE JOHN AND SUSAN RAY_\~'7~ LESTER REEVES, JR. lue) and Mahala Gallman (Smith) (1877• FAMILY ~/ 511 1961), sisters, are buried at Fairforest Baptist 510 Charles Lester Reeves, Jr., was the son of Church in Union County. Oliver Thompson The family name of "Ray" has long been Charles Lester Reeves, Sr. and Lucinda Carter Gallman tNovember 7, 1875 - February 12, conected with Union County History and goes Reeves. Charles Lester Reeves, Jr. and Mary 1934), brother is buried in City Cemetery in back to the early settlers of Virginia. John Louise Bailey, daughter of John Starke Bailey Spartanburg, South Carolina. Willie M. Gall• (1710-1784) and Susan were of the earlier and Emma Crow Bailey, were married on man (Windell) (June 26, 1895 - April 10, families. Of this marriage there were nine chil- September 2, 1922, by the Reverend H.J. 1978) is buried in Memorial Gardens in Rock dren: Joseph, Elizabeth, Ambrose, Zachary, Snider. Mary Louise Bailey Reeves had moved Hill, South Carolina. John, II, James, Sarah, Agnes, and Mary. from Woodruff, S.C., to Jonesville, S.C., to Charles L. Ray, Sr. (March 30, 1889 • Zachary, John, II, and Ambrose served in the teach school and met and married Charles December 6, 1946) and Effie Gallman Ray Revolutionary War. Little is known about the Lester Reeves, Jr. (November 23, 1889 - May 25, 1972) are other children. Ambrose Ray (1753-1798) Charles Lester Reeves, Jr., farmed in the buried in Union Memorial Gardens. was married to Elizabeth Holcombe (1748- Jonesville, S. C., area with his father until Two surviving members of the Ray Family 1831). There were six children born to this 1940. Charles Reeves, Jr., and Louise Bailey reside on South Mountain Street, Union, family (three boys and three girls). Reeves were members of the Gilead Baptist South Carolina. They are children of Charles Reverend Thomas Ray, a son of Ambrose Church, Jonesville, S.C. All of the children of Long Ray, Sr. and Effie Gallman Ray. and Elizabeth Holcombe Ray, was born March this couple were born in Jonesville, S.C. Mary The oldest of three children of Charles and 5, 1780. Most of his life was spent in the Cross Charles Reeves and James Elliott Reeves, chil- Effie Ray was Margaret Kellar Ray born Keys section of Union County. He was married dren of Charles Lester Reeves, Jr., and Mary September 4, 1911; a resident of Union most to ~rrlh Whitlock. During a revival at Louise Bailey Reeves, joined the Gilead Baptist of her life. During her eaily life, she was a Padgett's Creek Church in the yei'r 1802, he Church by experience and were baptized by victim of Polio. This physical handicap did not joined the Ghurch and was licensod to preach this church. keep her down. She attended public schools in in 1804. In August 1805, he was ordained to This family moved to the vicinity of Wood- Union and graduated from Winthrop College, the ministry by his home church and served as ruff, S.C., in 1940, and continued to farm. Rock Hill, South Carolina in 1932. Her first pastor for about twenty years. He served as Mary Louise Bailey Reeves taught school for a teaching job was at Sardis School in Union pastor of various churches in Union and ad- number of years in the Cavins School. In con- County. She later was bookkeeper for Life joining counties. His salary never seemed to nection with the farming operations this cou- Insurance Company of Georgia. The remain• be of much concern for the churches he pie also operated a country store for several der of her life, she was employed as teller of served. He preached in Laurens County for a years. Charles Lester Reeves, Jr., Mary First National Bank of South Carolina in Union. number of years, which was at least twenty- Louise Bailey Reeves, Mary Charles Reeves She suffered a heart attack and passed away five miles from his home. and James Elliott Reeves were dismissed by on January 25, 1976. Thomas Ray was agreat influence in getting letter from the Gilead Baptist Church on Febru- Charles Long Ray, Jr. and wife, Louise Kir• two nephews Ambrose and Elijah Ray ary 2, 1941, and joined the Unity Baptist by Ray, are both reitred. She was a school (brothers) in joining the ministry; also a great Church, Roebuck, S.C. teacher at Excelsior School, Union, South nephew John G. Landrum to follow his' Charles Lester Reeves, Jr., was ordained as Carolina. He was employed by the Postal Ser• preaching of the gospel. a deacon of the Unity Baptist Church on May vice at Carlisle, South Carolina. They have two Reverend Ray was a man of kingly statue 27, 1945. Mary Louise Bailey Reeves was children, Mary Long Ray Foster and Charles and his majestic appearance on a superb horse elected president of the W. M. U. of Unity Bap- Kenneth Ray. was a familiar figure for over fifty years among tist Church in 1948, serving in this capacity for The youngest member of the Ray family the people within a radius of many miles from several years. Charles Lester Reeves, Jr., was (Sara Elizabeth Ray) has made the family his home. He traveled always on horseback the song leader for a number of years in the home her home. In August 1951, she married and rode the finest of steeds. Unity Baptist Church and was a member of the