A History of Marion County, South Carolina, from Its Earliest Times To
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A HISTORY OF MARION COUNTY. SOUTH CAROLINA, From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 190U By W. W. SELLERS, Esq., of the Marjon Bar. Columbia, S. C. Thk R. I,. Bkyan Company, 1902. v-ll 11 1 / 1^^ Copyright, 1902, By John C. Sbi<i.BRS. : CONTENTS Chapter I. Settlement i Chapter II. Section I. Location and Boundaries 6 Section II. Its Surface and Soil, Its Rivers and Lakes, Its In- Land Swamps iS Section III. Its Soil and Productions Vj Section IV. Stock Raising 29 Chapter III. Section I. Its Educational, Political and Judicial History 33 Graduates of Colleges 50 Political History 52 Queensboro Township 78 Plat of the Welch Grant (First) 81 The Early Settlement of Marion County 104 Some Families mentioned Godbold 117 Evans 125 Giles 13s Britton, Fladger. etc 137 Crawford 142 Murfees 147 Berry 148 Saunders I57 Gibson 159 Page 162 Ayres 166 Ford 167 Hays 170 Elvington 173 Scott I7S Owens 17s Gaddy 176 Lupo and Arnett 178 Rogers 178 Perritt 183 Edwards i8s Nichols 189 Hutchinson 191 Barfield 191 Goodyear 192 Tart 193 Bryant I97 Watson 199 IV A HISTORY OF MARION COUNTY. R<>aves 206 208 Grice Roberts 209 EUerbee ^^3 218 Fore : Mace 221 Finklea 223 Haselden ^^3 Bass 22s Hamer 232 McKenzie ^35 Manning •' 238 Jones 241 Cottinghara 246 Hamilton 247 Braddy 249 Clark 252 Harrelson 255 Martin 258 Henry 261 Huggins 263 Hayes 267 Dew 271 Nicholson 275 Jackson 276 Galloway 281 Sherwood 281 Alford 282 Greenwood 284 Mclnnis 285 Stafford 287 Blue 289 Baker 290 McPriest 291 McKellar 291 McKay 292 McCormick 293 McArthur 299 Mclntyre 300 McKinly 307 McLellan 308 Sinclair 314 McDuifie 315 Campbell 320 Butler 327 Moody 330 A HISTORY OP MARION COUNTY. V Harllee 342 Woodberry 355 Stackhouse 358 Wayne 366 Legette 369 Gasque 373 Brown 373 Gilchrist 382 Easterling 384 Lane 386 Bethea 395 McMillan ; 421 Miller 425 Spencer * 427 Williamson 429 Wall 432 McEachern 435 Carmichael 437 Baker 445 Davis 448 . Stanley .. '. 455 Harrel, in Britten's Neck 456 Altman 456 Whaley 457 Richardson 457 Stevenson 462 Craven 463 Thompson 464 Kirton 464 Philips 465 Owens 466 Rowell 468 Giles 471 Coleman 472 Norton 475 Lewis 480 Fowler 483 Shooter 484 Campbell (of Maiden Down) 486 Atkinson 488 Fladger 49i Smith 492 Flowers 502 Mullins , 506 Gregg 510 Collins ' 512 VI A HISTORY OP MARION COUNTY. Wiggins, of Wahee Si" Shaw Si8 Dozier S2i Foxworth and Boatwright 5^2 White and Monroe S25 Sniipes 528 Wilcox 536 Young 537 Johnson 538 Sellers 543 The Negro 546 Towns of the County 55° Marion 551 Nichols and Mullins 553 Latta and Dillon 555 Hamer and Sellers 559 The Denominational Churches 560 Clerks of Court for Marion County, from 1800 to 1900 564 Sheriffs for Marion County from 1800 to 1900 565 Representatives in the Legislature 566 Senators from 1800 to igoo 568 Ordinaries and Probate Judges from 1800 to 1900 568 Proprietary Governors 568 Lawyers practicing at Marion from 1800 to 1900 570 Volunteers in Confederate Army 572 Company L, 21st Regiment Infantry, C. S. A : . 572 Company H, Orr's Regt. Rifles S. C. V., C. S. A 577 Company F, 4th Regt. Cav. S. C. V., C. S. A 581 Company E, Gregg's i«t Regt. S. C. V., C. S. A 585 Company I, 8th Regt. Inf. S. C. V., C. S. A 590 Company H, 8th Regt. Inf. S. C. V., C. S. A 593 Company I, ist Regt. Inf. (Hagood's) S. C. V., C. S. A. 596 Company L, loth Regt. Inf. S. C. V., C. S. A 599 Company L, 8th Regt. Inf. S. C. V., C. S. A 602 Company I, 21st Regt. Inf. S. C. V., C. S. A 605 Company E, 23d Regt. Inf. S. C. V., C. S. A 609 Company Gregg's Battery, Co. D, Manigault's Battalion Artillery S. C. V., C. S. A 613 Company H, 23d Regt. Inf. S. C. V., C. S. A. 620 Company D, loth Regt. Inf. S. C. V., C. S. A 626 Company F, loth Regt. Inf. S. C. V., C. S. A 628 Company I, 6th Regt. Cav. S. C. V., C. S. A 631 Company D, 2Sth Regt. Inf. S. C. V., C. S. A 632 Company E, 26th Reg. Inf. S. C. V., C. S. A 636 Company I, loth Regt. Inf. S. C. V., C. S. A 639 Company D, 7th Battalion S. C. Reserves 642 Company of Militia, last called into service 644 PREFACE Within the last ten or twelve years the author has been solicited to write a history of this, Marion County, and by many whose opinions and judgment he much valued ; but then being much engaged in the practice of the law, he could not find the time to engage in and complete such a work. Further- more, he felt a diffidence in his abilities to perform the task with satisfaction and credit to himself. January, 1898, he concluded to retire from the active practice of his profession, for the reason, first, that his sense of hearing became much impaired; and secondly, because of his age, then near eighty years old. He retired, and since that time has taken no new case, and confined himself only to old cases then pending in the Courts of Marion, Florence and Horry Counties; cases, too, that his junior partner had had nothing to do with and knew but little about. Those cases were in due time mostly ended. After this work in the Courts was practically accomplished, and having fair health aiid strength for one of his age, physi- cally and mentally, he determined to undertake the work, and for the last eighteen months has been engaged principally in its performance, and he herewith submits it to the people of the county, and it will be for them to say whether he has succeeded well or has failed to meet expectations. Such as it is, it is his own work. Its subject matter, the language used, the style, manner and composition are all his own. He has not borrowed from another author without giving to that other full credit by placing the language used in quotation marks, and referring to the author by name and page. He acknowledges his indebt- edness to Dr. Ramsay's History of South Carolina, to Bishop Gregg's History of the Old Cheraws, to the Lives of General VIII A HISTORY OP MARION COUNTY. Marion written by M. L. Weems, and General Horry, and the same by W. Gilmore Sims, to the Statutes at Large as pub- lished by Dr. Thomas Cooper, and to perhaps other sources. information He is further indebted to many of our citizens for as to families that he could not otherwise have obtained. It may be found that he has made mistakes. It will be a wonder if it is not so found. He expects no other. In men- is tioning families, it is mainly genealogical. All genealogy history, and he trusts that families for the next three or four generations, at least, may be able to trace their ancestry back to and including what is herein written; that it will not be then, as he has found it in his inquiries of persons, when writing this history, that some of them of superior intelligence did not know who their grands-father was. Many of the old families have become extinct by death or removal. The author may have omitted to notice some that now exist. Where that is the case, it was because the author knew nothing or but little about them, and could not ascertain anything in reference to them. He tried to get a list of the graduates of literary col- leges from Marion County, but some of them did not answer inquiries. Hence he had to depend on memory. Marion may well congratulate herself on the number and character of her young and older men of learning. She is fast coming to the front in that line, as well as in many other lines. He has furnished a list of all the Clerks of the Court, Sheriffs and Probate Judges or Ordinaries from the earliest times of her existence as a Judicial District. Also, a list of her Senators in the Legislature and Representatives. Further, a list of all the lawyers that have practiced in Marion since 1800. He has also procured and inserted a list of all the Governors of the province, proprietary and royal, while a province, and all after it became an independent State down to the present time, and last, but not least in importance and in its numbers, a list of all A HISTORY OF MARION COUNTY. IX the companies that went from Marion to the Confederate War. This list embraces West Marion, including all company officers, what became of them, killed in battle or died of disease or wounds ; whether living or dead now, so far as is known, and much other information concerning our brave boys during that momentous struggle. All of which the author trusts may be of interest to many, very many, of the present generation. The author, now in his eighty-fourth year, submits what he has done in this regard as his last work on the stage of life. It has been a labor of love, for the county in which he has spent most of his life, and for any errors, omissions and failures he asks the indulgence of its people, to wliom he herein and hereby respectfully dedicates the result of his labors.