Marion County, South Carolina - The whole text, 1902 (part 10 of 15)

Colonel David Stuart Harllee was the second son. His father settled him near him on lands now owned by M. R. and E. R. Hamer. He was Sheriff of the county, while he lived there, but soon sold out his lands and moved to Cheraw, S. C, where for a long period he was a leading merchant of the town. He finally sold out his mercantile business, bought a large plantation in Marlborough County, moved and lived there till he died. He was admitted to the bar laite in life, at the age of fifty-one years - ^he and the writer were both admitted in the same class ; he became a good lawyer. He married Harriet Barnes, of Ro^beson County, N. C, and they raised a family of three sons and four daughters. The eldest son. Major James J. Harllee, was a lawyer ; he began the practice of his profession at Marion Court House, but soon gave up the law to devote his entire aittention to his large farming interest, near town. He married the only daughter of A. L. Scarborough. Just before the civil war, he sold out his land and moved to Arkansas ; he owned a large number of slaves, and he carried them with him to Arkansas. He was a successful planter until the breaking out of the civil war. He fought through the war in the cavalty, and after the surrender the government, through the Freedman's Bureau, seized several hundred bales of cotton belonging to him. After a long controversy, he gained back his cotton, and on the day he succeeded in his suit for his cotton, he mounted his horse, in the town of Arkadelphia, to return to his home, a few miles distant, but his horse becoming frightened became unmanageable, threw him and killed him. He was married before leaving Soutlh Carolina, but left no children. Dr. William F. Harllee, was the second son. He first married a Miss Medley, in Anson County, N. C, and after her death, a Miss McRae, daughter of General McRae, of Newberne, N. C. He raised several children, and died several years ago. He was an Assistant Surgeon in the Confederate army during the entire war. The youngest son of Colonel D. S. Harllee is Thomas Henry Harllee, Sr., who lives ait Florence, S. C. He married Margaret McCoU, daughter of William McCbll, near Florence, S. 'C. ; they have raised a family of three sons and iour daughters, all of whom are now living. Two of his 'sons, Thomas H., Jr., and David S., are popular conductors on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The eldest daughter of Colonel D. S. Harllee, Elizabeth, married, first, Dr. Neill McNair, of Robeson County, N. C. ; they had one son, Harllee McNair, who entered the Confederate service, and was stationed at Wilmington, N. C, where he died early in the war. After the death of Dr. McNair, his widow married Alex. McRae, of Wilmington, N. C. ; they lived at Argyle, their country home, until the death of Mr. McRae. Mts. McRae now lives in Wilmington, N. C, with her stepdaughter, Mrs. Emily Payne; she is quite an intellectual woman ; most of 'her time is given to missionary work for the Presbyterian Church in the mountains of North Carolina. The second daughter of Colonel D. S. Harllee, Mary Ann, married B. H. Covington, of Richmond County, N. C. ; they raised a family of several sons and one daughter. One of the sons. Rev. J. E. Covington, is an able minister of the Baptist Church, and lives in the upper part of South Carolina. Another son, Frank F. Covington, of Marion, S. C, is the efficient sitenographer of the Fourtli Circuit, and is Chief Clerk in the enrolling depaHtment of the General Assembly ; he married Miss Nora Aycock, of Wedgefidd, S. C, and has a family of four children. The youngest son, Benjamin Harllee Covington, married a Miss Cox, and Hves in Marlborough, on his grand-faither's plantation. The daughter, Hallie, married Mr. William Lawson, an Englishman, who is now a prominent merchant in Birmingham, Ala. The third daughter of Colonel D. S. Harllee, Julia, married Colonel John N. McCall, of Mars Bluff, S. C. After the war .they removed to Statesville, N. C, where Colonel McCall died, and where his widow still lives. They raised a large family of children. Colonel McCall represented the County of Marion in the Legislature before the war ; he was a large planter and owned a great many slaves. On the same night that Julia was married, EUen, her youngest sister, was married at the residence of their brother, James J. Harllee, at Marion, to Robert F. Graham, who was theu a young lawyer of fine talent and large praotice, associated with General W, W. Harllee; he had graduated with high honors at the South Carolina College ; he entered tihe army and was Colonel of the Twenty-first Regiment. After the surrender, he allied himself with the Republican party in the State, and was one of the leaders from 1868 until his death, which occurred from yellow fever, in Charleston, in 1874; he was Judge of the First Circuit at tihe time of his death. He had several sons and daughters. His widow married Dr. Muckenfuss, and they reside at Summerville, S. C. Colonel Thomas Harllee was the third son of Thomas Harllee, Sr. He inherited the old homestead, where he continued the mercantile businesis near the river for a long time, and condiicted the large farm. He sold out his possessions to John A. McRae and John B. McDaniel, of Clio, S. C, and tihey afterwards sold to Elias Townsend, who in turn sold to R. C. Hamer. R. C. Hamer gave it to his son, Robert P. Hamer, Jr., who now lives upon it, on the very spot where Thomas Harllee first settled and bulk. Colonel Thomas Harllee was a very popular man and was beloved by all who knew him ; he represented the county in the Legislature in the olden times. Later in life, after selling ouit Harlleesville, he removed to Charleston, where he did business as a commission merchant until his death, in 1855 ; he never married. The fourth son of Thomas Harllee, Sr., was Captain Peter Harllee, who inherited the plantation on the east side of the river from Harlleesville, where he lived and died, and where his son, Captain Andrew T. Harllee, now lives. This is the only land, ouit of the vast possessions originally entered and owned by Thomas Harllee, Sr., now owned and lived upon by his descendanits. Captain Peter Harllee married, in 1830, Ann Fulmore, of Robeson County, N. C. ; they raised a family of four sons and four daughters ; Captain Peter Harllee died in i860. All four of his sons being in the army, the widow successfully conducted the farms with the slaves, and raised and furnished large quantities of provisions for the soldiers, until her death, in 1863. The oldest son, Capltain Robert Z. Harllee, married Susan A. Munnerlyn, daughter of Thomas M. Munnerlyn; they had four sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Thomas M. Harllee, lives in St. Louis, Mo.; he won the prize in New Orleans for b^ing the most rapid typewriter in the United States. John W. Harllee is Captain of a steamer running out of Georgetown, S. C. Peter Zack, the third son, is the superintendent of an oil mill at Gibson, N. C. ; and the youngest son, Robert E., of one at Darlington, S. C. The eldest daughter, Sallie, married Edwin J. Wall, and they have a large family of children ; they live in Georgetown, S. C. The youngest daug<hter, Anne, married Joseph O. Wilson, who owns and runs a steamer out of Georgetown, where they live. Captain Robert Z. Harllee served throughout the war in Bragg's army, and was Captain of Company D, of the Tenth South Carolina Regiment, Manigault's brigade. He commanded the regiment at the battle of Atlanta, on July 28th, 1864, and was severely wounded in that battle; he also commanded the regiment in the series of battles through North Carolina just before the close of the war, and surrendered at Greensboro. He preserved the regimental flag by hiding it under his saddle blanket, and it escaped capture. He died at the residence of his brother. Captain Andrew T. Harllee, on the 17th April, 1900; his wife died in 1896. Captain Andrew T. Harllee, when quite a youth, went with a number of young men from the Stfate to Kansas Territory, in 1855 ; he remained there for a year, fighting under Atchison, Stringfellow and other pro-slavery leaders, against old Jdhn Brown (Ossauwatomie), afterwards hung at Harp- er's Ferry, Jim Lane and others of the Abolition party - hence he was no stranger to the whisitling of bullets from Sharp's rifles (Beecher's Bible), when the civil war began. After the failure of Kansas to be made a slave State, he returned to his native State, but soon after got an appointment, through his patron, Thomas A. Hendricks, in the Interior Department, in Washington, and held this position until South Carolina seceded, w'hen he resigned and returned to Charleston, where he was appointed Assistant Quartermaster on the staff of Governor Pickens, with the rank of Captain ; discharged the duties of this office until the fall of Fort Sumter, when he resigned^ to raise Company I, of the Eighth Regiment, South Carolina. He went with that company to Virginia, and fought through the first 'battle of Manassas with a rifle. After that battle. Lieutenant R. H. Rogers having resigned, he was promoted to fill the vacancy, and on the reorganization of the company he was elected Captain, and served as such till the surrender. He was 'several times wounded - twice severely; first at the capture of Harper's Ferry, on Maryland Heights, through both thiglis, and then at Geittysiburg, in the right thigh again. After the surrender he went to Florida, remained there for three years, and then returned to his home, where he has resided ever since ; he is a farmer and a bachelor ; he has held many places of public trust - was a Trial Justice from 1876 to 1886, was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1884, is commander of Camp Harllee of Confederate Veterans at Dillon, S. C. John W. Harllee was the third son of Peter Harllee. He was First Lieutenant of Captain Staffordi's company of Hagood's brigade, and was a good officer. He was wounded twice - the last time he was permanently ' disabled by a resection of the knee joint, at the battle of the Wilderness, and his was the first successful operation of the kind performed in Lee's army, as the medical record shows; being* disabled for active service, he performed the duties of enrolling officer until the close of the war, having been promoted to Captain. After the war he removed to Florida, and married there Mary Ellen Curry; his wife died after the birth of his fourth son, and he never married again; he accumulated a handsome , fortune in the mercantile business, an^ died in 1887, of yellow fever; he left four sons - the eldest, John, is a wholesale and retail hardware merchant in Havana, Cuba. His next two sons, Horax;e E. and Andrew C, are merchants and fruit and truck farmers in Manatee County, Fla., at the town Palmetto. His youngest son, William C, left West Point Military Academy when half through his course, and went to the Philippines as a private in the Thirtythird United States Volunteer Infantry. After two months' service there he was promoted to Lieutenant in the United States Marine corps, and he is now with his command en route for China, and was promoted to First Lieutenant, 23d July, 1900. Peter Stuart Harllee is the fourth and youngest son of Peter Harilee. He joined the army of the Confederacy at fifteen years of age, and served until the surrender in his brotiher. Captain A. T. Harllee's company, of the Eighth Regiment; he was in many of the battles in which the company engaged, but escaped without injury. After the war, he remained at home with his sisters until 4ie return of Captain A. T. Harllee from Florida, w'hen he went, first, to Texas, and then to Florida; he married, in Florida, Miss Alice Bullock, and they have several children; he is a large stock and fruit and vegetable grower, and has fine possessions along the Matinee River, in Tampa, and the interior of the State. Ann Eliza was the oldest daughter; she was a lady of remarkaible intelligence ; died in 1895. Amelia is the second daughter ; she lives with her brother, Andrew, at the old place where they were bom' - sihe and her brother being joint owners of the old homestead. Agnes, the third daughter, married Captain W. D. Carmichael, and they live three miles west of Harlleesville ; they have six sons and four daughters, nearly all of whom are grown. Their eldest son, William D., graduated with distinction at the University of North Carolina, in 1897, and he is now the Principal of the Durham High School, where he has been teaching since his graduation ; he married, in 1899? Margaret Mae Robert McCaull, daughter of Colonel John A. McCaull, of New York city ; he is a young man of fine talent. Captain Carmichael has one daughter, Jessie, married to Walter Tatum, one of the leading merchants of McColl, S. C. The youngest daughter of Captain Peter Harllee, Bettie, was a very accomplished and superior young lady, a favorite with everybody; she died just after reaching womanhood, in 1882. Dr. Robert Harllee was the fifth son of old Thomas Harllee ; he graduated in medicine and settled at Marion Court House, and while he practiced there his profession, he had a very extensive practice all over the county. He married, first. Miss Ann Gurly, a daughter of Joseph Gurly ; she died in a short time, childless; he afterwards married Mrs. Amelia Howard, widow of Charles Howard, of West Marion - her maiden name was Cannon, a daughter of old Major Cannon, of Darlington ; she had two children, a daughter, Melvina, and a son, Richard G. Howard, when she married Dr. Harllee; he (Dr. Harllee) raised a family of four sons and three daughters. His eldest son, Robert Armstrong, was a good soldier in the Eighth South Carolina Regiment; he died in camp, near Manassas, in 1861, of pneumonia. The next oldest son, Walter C, is a commercial traveler; he lives in Florence, S. C. The third son, Harry T., is a farmer; he lives near Florence; he married a Miss McCall, and they have a family of grown children. The youngest son of Dr.' Harllee, Arthur, is a lawyer; he lives in New Mexico, and is unmarried. The second daughter, Sallie, just after the war, married Dr. J. F. Pearce, and they have one son, Robert H., who is now associated with his father in business. Dr. and Mrs. Pearce had one daughter, Anne, who married a Mellichamp, of Charleston, and they now live in Atlanta, Ga. After the death of his first wife. Dr. Pearce married her sister, L/ouisa, and they live on a part of Dr. Dr. Harllee's homestead. Dr. Pearce is well known throughout the State. He and his son are progressive and successful farmers as well as eminent physicians. Dr. Pearce represented his county (Marion) once in the Legislature, and declined reelection. Hattie, the youngest daughter of Dr. Harllee, married Hon. Marsden Bellamy, of Wilmington, N. C, where they reside, and have a large family of children. Dr. Harllee was an exceedingly popular man; he was several times a Representative in the lower House and for two terms a Senator before the war ; he died after the war, at the age of sixty-five. General W. W. Harllee was the sixth and youngest son of Thom.as Harllee, Sr. ; he read law with Chancellor Dargan, of

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

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

The foregoing notice of the Harllee family was furnished to the writer by Captain A. T. Harllee, which has been copied herein, in extenso verbatim et liberatim, except in a few in- stances in the phraseology has 'been changed, and a few omissions and additions made, at the expense of space. It is a history of which the family may 'be proud as also the county.

WooDBERRY. - Two brothers, Richard and Jonah Woodberry, came to Britton's Neck from Socastee, in the early part of the. eighteenth century ; where they came from to Socastee is not known, but it is supposed they came from Wales or elsewhere in England. Richard Woodberry selttled in what is now called Woodberry Township, and married Miss Lizzie Balloone, on Black River; they raised two sons, Richard and William. Richard Woodberry, Jr., married Miss Desda Davis, and they had and raised two sons au'd two daughters ; the sons were John and George W. ; the daughters were Mrs. Benjamin Gause and Mrs. John Gause. The three daughters of old Richard, St., were Margaret, who married Dr. Thomas Britton ; she died childless ; another daughter, Fannie married Samuel Wilson, and she died childless; another daughter (name not known), married Rev. Jeremia!h Norman, of North Carolina; they had and raised Mrs. John Woodberry (first wife), Mrs. James Jenkins and Samuel Norman. The latter grew up and went to Horry, and married a Miss Beaty, sister of Colonel James Beaty, of Conway, who, before her death, in 1882, was universally called "Old Aunt Norman." She kept a public house; was born in 1791 - a remarkable woman; she had and raised a family, mostly daughters, and one son, who was a doctor - his name not remembered; married and died some years ago. The husband of "Old Aunt Norman" died many years before she died; she was a hustler in business ; kept a good house - the writer knows whereof he speaks. John Woodberry, son of Richard, Jr., married, first, his cousin. Miss Norman (Mary), and they had and raised sons, Franklin, William, Norman, Benjamin Gause ; and daughters, Eloise 'and Martha; know nothing of any of these chil'dren, except Benjamin Gause Woodberry ; he is now in Britton's Neck ; he married, first, a widow lady ; sihe had one child, a daughter, who married a few years ago, and is among us now. Benjami'n Gause Woodberry married, a second time, a Miss Brown, in Britton's Neck, and' they live down there.

John Woodberry married, a second time, Miss Ann Gregg, daughter of our late venerable R. J. Gregg ; she had two sons, John and Waddy ; I think Waddy is dead. John Woodberry, the son, married a niece of Mrs. Sturges, at Florence, and lives in Florence County ; he is a genial gentleman and has a good deal of the "get up" in him, which will count for him in days to come. George Washington Woodberry married a Miss Brown, sister of the late T. F. Brown, and had and raised three sons and three daughters ; the sons are Travis Foster, James and Edward; the daughters are Dora, Mary and Julia. Julia went to school at Hofwyl Academy, in 1857 - a. charming girl, about grown ; she married some one ; I have lost sight of her ; can trace the others no further. General William Woodberry, the brother of Richard, Jr., a very noted and prominent man in his day, was born loth January, 1788, and died 31st January, 1851 ; he married, first. Miss Hannah Davis; they had four children, all dying quite young; his second' wife was Miss Sarah Johnson, of Horry ; hy this marriage four sons and four daughters were iborn, all of whom, except one daughter, married and raised families. General Woodberry's sons were Richard, William, Evander Mclver and Joseph Alston. Richard Woodberry, the third, married Miss Joanna Balloone ; had two children, toth died in infancy. William married twice ; had three children by the first wife and five by the last; his oldest son, Richard, 4th, married' a Miss Britton ; a daughter, Venetia, married a Mr. Pope ; another daughter, Agnes, married a Mr. Mcllveen ; William, a son, married a Miss Cannon ; another son, Benjamin Gause, married a Miss Hucks; another son, Harrison, also married a Miss Hucks ; another, Joseph A., also married a Miss Hucks, and a daughter, Martha, married Arthur Hucks (the Hucks seemed to be popular with the Woodberrys) ; they all have families, about whom I know nothing. Evander Mclver Woodberry married a Miss Scott; they had two children. Joseph A. also married a Miss Scott, and had three sons and two daughters. General Woodberry's oldest daughter, Elizabeth Ann, married William H. Johnson ; they had three sons and five daughters. Another daughter, Mary, married Rollen Kimball; they had two sons and one daughter. Margaret F., the youngest daughter, married the late Hugh R. Johnson, who Hved and died near Nichols, S. C. ; they had and, raised five sons and two daughters ; the sons are Whiteford F., Richard Olin, Samuel A., William Woodberry and Edward Evander. Whiteford married Miss Ella Page, daughter of the Widow Pinckney C. Page, near CaTmichael's Bridge, on Little Pee Dee ; they have some children. Whiteford is the only one of the five sons married. The daughters of Margaret F. are Sallie and Maggie May. Sallie married E. T. Huggins; they have considerable family, some grown. Maggie May married Thomas J. Capet, of Marlborough ; they have a young family. General William Woodberry was a very popular man in his day ; he filled several important positions of honor, profit and trust, and filled all with credit to himself and came out with unstained official integrity ; he was Brigadier General of the militia, and was several times elected to the lower House of the Legislature; he was Sheriff of the county from April, 1833, to April, 1837; he was hospitable to a fault, kind-hearted and liberal, especially to the poor; he was full of wit and humor, and could tell a story with great zest ; a great hand to perpetrate a joke and to play innocent tricks on people. The writer has heard of many of them - one as to how he made the Methodist preacher bail the canoe with his fine beaver hat, as the General was putting him across the river; another, how he accidentally (purposely) turned over the canoe, in putting the venerable and reverend James Jenkins across the river, and luckily saved the old man from drowning ; another of his adventures with an old gobbler, when a boy, with a red cqat on ; wherever he went he drew a crowd around him by his wit and humorous stories, which he could tell with the greatest glee, to the great amusement of the listeners ; with all his wit, humor and innocent frivolity, he was a man of great good sense; he was a man of wealth, and managed his farm and financial affairs with great success ; his home was ever crowded, and his table substantially supplied, and was free ; he left no son his equal ; his daugihter, the youngest, Mrs. Margaret F. Johnson, approaches nearer to her falther and inherited more of his humorous fun, and perhaps more of his towering intellect, than any other of his children ; and I don't mean, by thus saying, to disparage her other sisters, w'hom I have never seen, or any other member of the family. As already stated, the first Woodberrys in the county were Richard and Jonah ; as to Jonah, he disappeared or emigrated to Other parts ; nothing further is known of him or his posterity, if he had any. They had a sister, who married General Wade Hampton, of Revolutionary fame, the grand-father of our present General Hampton. The name Hampton will ever be remembered in South Carolina with grateful recollection and pride.

Stackhouse. - ^John Stackhouse, the progenitor of the Stackhouse family in the county, came 'here from Virginia, before the Revolutionary War; he married a widow, whose maiden name was Bethea, a sister of old Buck Swamp John Bethea; ithey had and raised two sons, John and William; don't know if tlhere were any daughters. William, I believe, at any rate, one of them, emigrated to other parts ; the other, John, remained in the county ; he was the grand-father of our fellow-citizen, T. F. Stackhouse ; . don't know to whom he married: - ^he did marry, however, and had and raised five sons and one daughter; the sons were Herod, Isaac, John, Hugh and Tristram; tlhe daughter's name not remembered. Herod Stackhouse, a very public-spirited man, a good man and a successful farmer, married Miss Nancy Roper; they had and raised two sons, Lysias and Wesley, and one daughter, Mary Ann. Lysias married Miss Mary Gaddy, daughter of old Ithamer Gaddy, and who has been noticed in or among the Gaddy family. Wesley Stackhouse, the second son of Herod, was a most excellent man and citizen, a good business man, well qualified by education and training; married the Widow Lucretia Meekins, whose maiden name was Bethea, a sister of the laite Samuel J. Bethea ; she had no children by her first marriage; by her marriage with Wesley Stackhouse, two daughters were born and raised, Martha and Nannie, and one son, Wesley, now of Dillon, S. C. His daughter, Martha, marrie)d Lieutenant William Manning, who was killed at the second battle of Manassas, 29th August, 1862 ; by him she had one child, a daughter, who, I think, was born after her father's death, and was named for him, "Willie ;" her mother soon after married 'her cousin, H. Milton Stackhouse, now of Marlborough, and its late Senator in the State Legislature, and a first class man every way ; they have had and raised four sons and one d3.ughter ; the sons are R. E. Stackhouse, now a first class preacher in the South Carolina 'Conference of the Methodist Church ; Wade, a first class physician, and is married to a Miss Steed, daughter of the late W. H. Steed, of upper Marion; George F., who is a Paymaster in the United States navy, in the Philippines, and who married Miss Texia Young, of Marion, S. C. ; and another son, whiose name is not known, and who, I presume, is yet with his parents, and one daughter (name not known), who married Mr. J. C. Dunbar, who is now a member of the Legislature from Marlborough County. Miss Willie Manning, the daughter by her first husband, was well educated in the best schools in the South, and a highly accomplished lady, is unmarried, and makes teaching a business, and is somewhere in the State following her vocation, and has been thus engaged ever since her graduation. Nannie, the second daughter of Wesley Stackhouse, married Knox Clark, late Clerk' of the Court and County Treasurer - a man of nerve and force, and the power to say no, which many men cannot or do not say - a sober, progressive man ; he died in the prime of life, in September, 1888, and left Nannie a widow, with some children, three sons and four daughters - the youngest not two years old. Nannie Clark, the widow, survived her husband only a few years ; she died, and left all her children unmarried, except Mrs. Brown. Wesley Stackhouse, the only son of his father, Wesley, grew up and married Miss Mollie Breeden, daughter of the late John A. Breeden; they live at Dillon, and have a family of seven or eight children, some of them grown. Unfortunately, Wesley's habits were not good; "he dissipated a great deal, and did nothing for several years - spent his inheritance and came down pretty low ; but for the last eight or ten years he has abstained - is now and has been for that time a sober man, and is trying to rebuild his lost fortune, in which it is hoped he will succeed ; he now has a heavy load to carry. He has a nice and very interesting family. His father died Christmas day, 1864. Mary Ann Stackhouse, the only daughter of old Herod, mar- nied Evander R. Bethea, a very successful farmer ; they had and raised one son, Jasper, and three daughters, Josephine, Carrie and Nannie. The son grew up, and after some years went to Texas, where he married and where he now Uves ; he has no children. The eldest daughter, Josephine, married her cousin, William B. Stackhouse, Who -was a very progressive man and farmer, and was at one time elected as County Commissioner, and served one term very acceptably ; he died some years after, leaving Josei^hine and four or five children surviving, mostly girls. The oldest. Miss Cora, is well educated, and is one of the teachers in the Latta Graded School. The widow is doing well on her fine farm. The second daughter, Carrie, married Joseph J. Bethea, who resides and merchandizes at Latta ; he has also a good farm near by ; he is a very successful man in affairs; they have no children. The third daughter, Nannie, married Rev. Samuel J. Bethea, who is a regular itinerant Methodist preacher in the South Carolina Conference - stands fair ; they have but one child, a son, Samuel J. Isaac Stadkhouse, the ibrother of old Herod, also married another daughter of old man John Roper, a sister of old Herod's wife; he, as well as old Herod, resided on his fine place, below Harlleesville, on Little Pee Dee, all his lifetime. This pair was more prolific than Herod and his wife; they had and raised six sons and one daughter ; the sons were Masten C, Eli T., William R., Tristram F., Milton and Robert B. ; the daughter's name not reimembered. The oldest son, Masten C. Stackhouse, married Mary Ann Rogers, a daug'hter of William Rogers. Hasten C. Stackhouse was a very quiet man, a farmer, and managed well ; they had and raised a considerable family of sons and daughters; the sons are Mark, John R., William B. and L P. Stackhouse, as remembered ; one daughter, Janie, one Florence, and one Charlotte, the other name not known. Mark or Marcus was the first graduate of Woff'ord College from Marion County ; he graduated in 1871 ; he married Miss Mary Lester, an excellent woman, stepdaughter of E. J. Moody ; they have three sons grown, named Walter, Edward and Robert, all unmarried. Don't know who John R. Stackhouse married ; he lives and is doing business at Mullins. William B. married Josephine Bethea, and has already been mentioned. I. P. StacMiouse married his first cousin, a Miss Rogers, daughter of Philip B. Rogers; they have children, don't know how many; he lives near Moody's Mill, six miles above Marion' - is a farmer, and one of the registers of voters in Marion County. One of the daughters, Janie, married Dempsy Lewis, in the "Fork," now of Mullins ; he is an excellent manageE of his farm, and is now also merchandizing at Mullins; they have ten children, eight of them 'boys and two girls - they have five grown children. One of the daughters of Masten C. Stackhouse married a Mr. Edens ; another one married her first cousin, William Rogers ; they live at Mullins ; one married Fet Bethea ; one married a Mr. Pipkin, in Marlborough, and one is unmarried ; there may be others. E. T. Stackhouse, the second son of Isaac, was born 27th March, 1824; his birthday was the same as the .writer's - 'six years younger; he grew up and married Elizabeth Ann Fore, a daughter of the late Thomas Fore ; they raised three sons and five daughters. Of the sons, James Stackhouse is the oldest; he married a Miss McAliSter, of North Carolina; they have a considerable family, sons and daughters - two sons grown. One, Lanneau, married Miss Mary Miles, daughter of Dr. D. F. Miles, Clerk of the Court ; they have some two or three children. The other grown son. Lacy, not married; other children small. James Stackhouse runs a livery stable (sale and feed) ; in early life he tried mercihandizing and hotel business, but failed; he then went into the livery business, and has succeeded well - this business suits him ; he is emphatically a horseman ; he now represents the county in the State Senate. The second son, William Stackhouse, at Dillon, married a daughter of B. F. Davis, just below Marion; they have some children, dk>n't know how many - they are small; he, too, is in the livery business, and seems to ibe doing well ; he is a capital citizen, and will doubtless succeed. The third and youngest son, Walter F. Stackhouse, is a graduate of Wofford College, in the class of 1895 ; has studied law and is associated with W. J. Montgomery, his brother-in-law, in its practice, at Marion; he married, a few months ago, a lady of Greenwood, and lives at Marion ; he is United States Commissioner at Marion; a man of business, and is quite promising. Of the daug'htters of Colonel E. T. .Stackhouse, the eldest, Mary, married James H. Berry, and has already been noticed among the Berrys. Another daughter, Mattie, married Houston Manning, and has already been noticed among the M'annings. Another, called "Duck" (though not her name), married Neill Alford, who has already been noticed in or among the Alfords. Another, Anna, married W. J. Montgomery, Esq., of Marion; they have several .dhildren, one or two grown - mostly girls. Mr. Montgomery graduated at Wofford College, in 1875; came home and studied law with General Harllee, was admitted to the bar and practiced some few years with that veteran of the law ; they dissolved partnership, and Mr. Montgomery set up for himself; he has succeeded admirably, has 'become a fine lawyer and made money ; is President of the Merchants and Farmers Savings Bank of Marion, and has been ever since its organization, ten or twelve years ago - the bank has prospered under his administration of its affairs; he 'has been Mayor of the town. Representative of the county in the Legislature, and also a delegate from the county to the Constitutional Convention of .the State, in 1895; he is a man of affairs, and succeeds at all; deserves the more credit, as he was raised as poor as anybody. Much imore might be said of him, but space will not allow it. Anotiher and youngest daughter of Colonel Stackhouse, called "Pet" (not her real name), married T. C. Covington, his second wife; they 'have some children, small yet. Mr. Covington is a high-minded, honorable gentleman, of fine address, and magnetic; he merchandized for a while, but did not succeed well; is now farming in the "Free State" section - it remains to be seen how he will succeed in the farming role.

Colonel E. T. Stackhouse deserves more than a passing notice. He was raised on a farm and received only a common school education. After he was married, he settled on the place where he ever after lived ; he was a farmer, a good and very successful one - farmed on the intensive system ; his farm was like a garden - all his house and farm arrangements were complete and adapted to comfort and convenience; his farm was a model one. When the war commenced, he raised a company of which he was made Captain ; his company formed part of the Eiglnth South Carolina Regiment ; he went through the war to Appomattox, and came out Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment. ' He was twice elected to the Legislature of the State. When the "Farmers Alliance" began to 'boom, Colonel Stackhouse went into it with all his might - it seemed to be in accord with his chosen occupation, and operated for the benefit of the farmer and its votaries. He became President of the State Alliance and held that position for one or two terms. Whatever may "have been the purpose and intentions of the founders of the Alliance, it was popular and flourished for a time ; but the politicians got hold of it and worked it for their benefit, made it a stepping-stone to office and killed it, much to the regret of those honest people who ha;d gone into it to better their condition as farmers. Under its influence and auspices. Colonel Stackhouse became a candidate for Congress, in 1890, and was overwbelmingly elected ; be took his seat in that body, in December, 1891, and died suddenly, in Washington, 14th June, 1892. Between the meeting of Congress, first Monday in December, 1891, and his death, in June following, his good wife died. The complete reversal of the habits of his life, together with his ambition to get into the routine of business as done in Congress, so as to be able to do something for his people, was too much for him, for one of his age - he being sixty-eigfht years old in March preceding his death. A young man may change or reverse his habits with impunity, but an old man dare not do it. It is higbly probable that, if Colonel Stackhouse had remained at home on his farm, he miglht have been living to-day. He was a model citizen and a model farmer. William Roper Stackhouse, the third son of Isaac, died a few weeks ago, a retiring and unassuming man, a good farmer and successful man ; ihe married a Miss Stafford, daughter of Malcolm Stafford, and has already been noticed in or among the Stafford family. Tristfam F. Stackhouse, the fourth son of Isaac, one of our very best citizens, married Miss Mary Ann Bethea, a daughter of the late old man. Cade Bethea; he settled on the place near where he was born, now near tihe town of Dillon ; they had and raised three sons, Tristram Bascom, Adolphus and Lawrence. The oldest son, T. Bascom Stackhouse, is a graduate of Wofford College, in the class of 1880 ; he married a Miss Hamer, daughter of Rdbert P. Hamer, Sr., and settled near his father, between Harlleesville and Dillon ; has a large farm there and is succeeding well thereon, although be gives it but little of his personal attention ; he is Cashier of the Bank of Dillon, w'hich requires most of his time ; he is a first class business man every way - is up-to-date in almost every branch of commercial and financial life ; he has only one child, a daughter, I think. Adolphus Stackhouse, a younger brother, married Miss Lucy Thompson, a daughter of the late Lemuel S. Thompson ; they first settled near Harlleesville, and after a few years he sold out and moved to Sumter- County, know nothing as to their family - think he has been in the Legislature from Sumter and in the Constitutional Convention in 1895 ; it is said his wife is a most excellent lady, and the same may 'be said of him as a man. Lawrence, the youngest son of T. F. Stackhouse, is unmarried - unfortunately he is afflicted with epilepsy ; everything possible has been done for him, but to no avail ; suppose he is twenty-four or twenty-five years old, lives with his father. T. F. Stackhouse lost his wife some years ago ; he has not remarried ; his niece and her husband. Hasten Gasque, with their family, live with him and keep house for him and also runs his farm. T. F. Stackhouse is a modest, unassuming man and a capital citizen ; he has a large and splendid farm, and is well fixed for living; he has been twice consecutively elected to the lower House of the General Assembly, and is now serving a second term - a man of good judgment and fine sense. If our county was filled up with such men there would be little use for courts or lawyers. H. Milton Stackhouse, the fifth son of Isaac, has already been incidentally mentioned above with his wife, who was a daughter of Wesley Stackhouse, of the Herod branch of the family. Rdbert B., the sixth son of Isaac, was a promising young man ; sickened and died soon after coming out of the war - a young man of promise. Hugh Stackhouse, a younger brother of old Herod and Isaac, was drowned in Little Pee Dee River, about 1837 or 1838 ; was unmarried - n young man. The circumstances were these: there had been a tremendous freshet in Little Pee Dee, and it floated the planks off each end of Stafford's Bridge, and as soon as the freshet went down low enough, A. Q. McDuffie, who lived near by, and then a young man, together with Hugh Stackhouse, and a negro man, took a canoe and went d'own the river hunting up the planks, so as to bring them back and put them on the bridge again ; in going down the river, their canoe struck or got into a whirl in the river, whidh (the river being very full) was strong, so much so as to turn the canoe over. McDufEe was a good swimmer; Stackhouse could swim but little, and the negro could not swim at all. 'Stackhouse soon sank; McDuffie, seeing it, managed to sustain himself in the whirl, till Stackhouse rose to the top, when McDuffie made for him and oaught hold of him ; Stackhouse, like all drowning men, had no sense, tried to cling around McDuffie's neck; the latter knew that would not do - ^that both would be drowned together ; he tore loose from Stackhouse and the latter sank again. McDuffie waited till he rose the second time, and caught him again, with the same result as at first. McDuffie freed himself from' him-, Stackhouse sank again, and he was seen no more. The negro, who could not swim at all, managed to get hold of an overhanging bough of a tree and saved himself. McDuffie, several times in his life, told this to the writer; said he could have saved Stackhouse, if he could have gotten him to have acted otherwise; said he hollered to Stackhouse with all his might, not to cling around his neck, but Stackhouse would not heed him, hence he tore loose from him and saved himself. The question was, shall both drown or only Stackhouse?

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

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

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

A. Wayne married, a second time, Miss Elizabeth Marjory Ivegette, daughter of Jessee Legette, Sr., a sister of Captain David Legate, Jessee, Jr., and Ebenezer, and of Mrs. Ann Snow and Jane Legette; there was another sister, Theresa Ann, who married a Palmer. By this marriage they had and raised six daughters and three sons. Of the daughters, the eldest, Jane Trezevant, married Jeremiah Sessions, of Horry; they had and raised two sons. Ivawrence Trezevant, who married a Miss Smith, daughter of the late William H. Smith, by his first wife. Miss Helen Bass, and by this marriage were bom six or seven children, sons and daughters. This wife died, and he married again, I think, a Miss Campbell. Of the children. of Lawrence T. Sessions, the writer does not know their names, though some of them are young men grown, except the youngest, Clyde, who vras an infant wlien his mother died, and he was taken and raised by his cousin, J. J. Bethea, of Latta ; he is now nearly grown. Laurens Trezevant Sessions is a capital man, good citizen and a good farmer. The other son was Percy Sessions, who became a dental surgeon, and settled in Williamsburg County. Caroline Anna Wayne, the next oldest daughter, married tihe late John Wilcox, of Marion; she had two children for him, John and George - don't know which was the older; she died, and afterwards her son, George, died. John Wilcox, now of Marion, is her only surviving child ; he married Miss Leila Smith, daughter of the late J. Albert Smith ; they have four or five dhildren, all boys. John Wilcox is one of the most efficient business men we have ; he has been well trained, first as clerk for the Sheriff, I think, about eleven years; then as Sheriff of the county for two years; then as Deputy Clerk of the Court for two years ; then as Clerk of the Court for ten years. In all these varied positions he acquitted himself with credit, and to the entire satisfaction of his people ; in each and all these places of trust he maintained the utmost official integrity, and wlien he was beaten, in 1892, for re-election to the Clerk's office, it was not 'because of any charges made against his competency or official integrity, but solely because he would not, or did not, wear the badge of Tillmanism; fortunately for the county, the people got another good man in his place in the person of our present efficient and gentlemanly Clerk, Dr. D. F. Miles. The next daughter of old man Wayne, Elizabeth, married Wyatt Fuller; by this marriage three children were born - ^two sons, Frank and George, and one daughter ; Fuller and his wife are both dead. Of the sons, Frank was merchandizing in Florence, the last the writer knew of him ; he married a Miss Collins. George Fuller either went off or died - disappeared as to the writer. The daug'hter, Sallie Fuller, married Daniel J. Oliver, now of Marion, Magistrate and merchant; they have several children. The eldest, a son, L. Wyatt Oliver, married Miss Alice Jones, daughter of the late Fred. D. Jones, of Marion ; he runs a farm and some mercantile business; think they have one or two children. The eldest daughter of D. J. Oliver and wife, Mary, married Quincy Berry, and lives near Berry's Cross Roads; they have no c'hild. There are four Mary Berrys in the Cross Roads community, and they are distinguished from each other by the names, "Mary Elihu," "Mary Burke," "Mary Neill" and "Mary Quince." D. J. Oliver bas another son grown and married, whose name is not remiembered, and other younger children. The next daughter, Sarah Wayne, married Dr. O. J. Bond ; they had several 'dhildren, sons an'd daughters ; they removed to Chester County some years ago - think both are dead; their sons were Bernard, James and Harper Bond. Of these, James graduated in the Citadel Academy some years ago, and stood so well that he was elected one of its professors - suppose he is there yet. Of the others, the writer knows nothing. The next daughter of old man Wayne was Catharine Maria, who married Rev. Osgood A. Chreitzberg ; he died childless; she went West, perhaps to Florida, and married some one, know not whom. Mary Adelaide, the youngest daughter of old man Wayne, first married her first cousin, Dr. Armand C. IvCgette, who afterwards became a Methodist preacher of the South Carolina Conference ; he traveled here a few years and was transferred to the Florida Conference, where he died in a s'hort time, and his widow married another minister, named Younge ; he died, and she has recently married another preacher of the same Florida Conference, whose name is not known ; how many children, if any, she has, is not known. The writer can say this of her : when she was a single lady, she was the most elastic and agile untrained woman he ever saw ; she could walk along by the side of a horse of ordinary height, and lay her hand upon his withers and spring from the ground into the saddle - he saw 'her perform this feat once, and it seems she is expert in catching Methodist preachers. Of the sons of old man F. A. Wayne, Gabriel I., the eldest, married, first, a Widow Britt ; by the marriage was bom and raised one child, a daughter, Julia, who married, first, George C. Bethea ; they lived together several years, when he died, childless ; the widow married again, a Methodist preacher, then belonging to the Florida Conference, by the name of Nathan Wiggins, but now of the South Carolina Conference ; they have two children, as I am informed. Gabriel I. Wayne's first wife died, and he married a second time, and lives now in Florence County; he is a farmer. The old gentleman, Francis Asbury Wayne, settled, lived and died near Marion Court House, near or on the place now owned by J. M. Johnson, Esq. Intellectually he was far above the ordinary ; he was in some respects an oddity - truthful and honest.

L/EGETTE. - There were three old I/egettes, of whom the writer has knowledge - David, Jesse and Abner Legette. Old David Legette married, I do not know to whom, but he had and raised three children. Colonel L/evi Ivegette, Abner IvCgette, Jr., and Mrs. General Wheeler. Colonel Ivevi Legette married, first, a Miss Evans, sister of Thomas Evans, Sr., and half-sister of General William Evans ; the fruits of this marriage were three or four sons and three daughters ; don't know the names of all the sons or what has become of them. One son was named Morgan, who it was said was a very promising young man; he was very muscular and athletic ; he volunteered early in the war and went into the Confederate service ; during the war he was killed in some one of the battles in Virginia, or died from disease contracted in service. Another son, Levi, grew up and married some one, and may be in the county now, but is unknown; he may have had other sons. Colonel Levi Legette had and raised three daughters, Anna, Mary and Melvina. Anna married, first, Ebben Rogers, of the Dothan community ; he settled below Marion, and was killed in October, 1855, by a man named Harrelson, as already mentioned herein. By this marriage, two children were born, a son, named Bbben, and a daughter, name not remembered, and who is the wife of Addison J. Snipes, below Marion. Ebben went off to parts unknown. Snipes and wife have a family, how many is not known, and perhaps grand-children ; one of Snipes' daughters married A. P. Johnson, of Horry. The Widow Anna Rogers married again to Jessee Rogers, a first cousin of her first husband; no fruit of this marriage; both are dead. Mary, the second daughter of Colonel L,egette, married Mr. Edward C. Collins ; they had and raised several sons and two daughters ; don't know the names of either sons or daughters, except one son, Lawrence, who is clerk for the dispensary at Florence. One of the daughters married Erank Fuller; they reside in Florence. Think the other daughter is dead. Melvina, the youngest daughter, married William Loyd ; they have a family, of how many is unknown; think they 'have two sons, names unknown; they live 'below Marion, and are said to be doing well. After the death of Colonel Eegette's first wife, he married the widow of James P. Mclnnis, of upper Marion, whose maiden name was Althea Alford, a daughter of Lodwick B. Alford; they had no children; Colonel Legette died in 1871, at the age of seventy-six years ; his widow still survives. Colonel Legette was a man of marked individuality - there was but one Levi Legette ; 'he was a good surveyor and did a great deal of work in that line; had a fair education for his day; was a farmer, and represented his county in the lower House of the Legislature for one term. Abner Legette, Jr., a brother of Colonel Levi, was one of nature's men^ he was rough and outspoken, a man of great personal independence ; don't know of his family, if he had any ; have not seen him in many years - he has disappeared, by death or removal. The only daughter of old David Legette, Clara L., married General E. B. Wheeler, as well known in his day as per*haps any man in the county ; he was Clerk of the Court for thirty years consecutively; he died in 1859 - ^he was no ordinary man ; the fruit of the marriage was an only son, who became Dr. James Hamilton Wheeler. He married Miss Sarah Jane Cherry, a daughter of Dr. Cherry, of Spring Branch; the fruits of the marriage were two sons, our present fellow-citizen, Ed. B. Wheeler, and L,iston C. Wheeler, of Marion. Their father died when his two sons were quite small ; his widow, their mother, still survives, and lives at Marion ; she is a most amiable woman. The widow of General Wheeler died some years ago, leaving her money and little property to her two grand-sons, E. B. and Listen C. Wheeler, to w'hom she was passionately devoted in her latter days. Ed. B. Wheeler married Miss Efifa Blue, daughter of the late Colonel John G. Blue, of Marion ; two or three children are the fruits of the marriage ; they reside in Marion. Liston C. Wheeler married Miss Carrie Boyd, daughter of the late Rev. J. Mariion Boyd, who some years ago was the Presiding Elder of this, the Marion District, and who thereafter died suddenly on the Spartanburg District, a very able preacher; the fruit of this marriage is an only child, I believe, a son ; they reside in Marion.

Old Jesse Legette, Sr., "had three sons, as known to the writer; don't 'know who his wife was; the three sons were Jessee, Jr., Ebenezer and David; he also had four daughters, Elizabeth, Marjory, Ann, Jane and Theresa Anna. Of the sons of Jesse, Sr., Jesse and Ebenezer were Methodist preachers, traveling for several years ; don't know to whom they married, but they did marry; and Ebenezer, after location in the Conference, settled in Marion, and merchandized for a while, when he died ; Jesse, Jr., his brother, died also ; know nothing of the family of either. Rev. David Legette (called' Captain David), the next or third son in the order named, married a Miss Richardson, daug'hter of John Richardson ("King John") and sister of t!he late William F. Richardson, and settled on the place now known as Legette's Mill, ten or twelve miles below Marion, where he lived and died ; the fruits of this marriage were two sons, Hannibal and Kossuth, and three daugliters. Of the sons, the eldest, Hannibal, a very promising young man, volunteered in the early part of the war and entered the Confederate service - I think he was a Lieutenant - and was killed or fatally wounded and died early in the war; he was a brave man, and his memory sihould be and doubtless is cherished by all who knew him. Kossuth Legette, the younger son, grew up and settled on part of his father's plantation, on the west side of the mill, on the road leading from Marion to Britton's Ferry, on Great Pee Dee ; he married rather late in life a daughter of Allen Gibson ; they are raising a family - all young ; he is one of the progressive farmers of that section of the county, and is succeeding well - a quiet and law-abiding citizen. Of the daughters of Captain David Legette, the eldest, Amelia, married James Hamilton Evans, who died a few years ago, childless ; the widow lived at Marion since his death, and owns still a house and lot on Godbold street; an orphan girl, Lizzie Bond, whom she raised, lately married a Mr. Douglas, of Fairfield County, and Mrs. Evans has gone with her into that county. A second daughter of Captain David Legette (name not known) married Rev. Wm. B. Baker, of the South Carolina Conference ; they have a family, how many and their sex and size unknown. Rev. Baker is said to be a very good man and an effective preacher. The third daughter of Captain D. Legette married A. R. Oliver, now a member of the Board of Registration of Voters ; he is a successful farmer and an excellent citizen; the fruits of the marriage are several sons and daughters ; don't know the names of all of them. His daughter, Eveline, married L. M. Gasque, of Marion ; she died, leaving one Child, and he married another one, Lizzie, who is now his wife. He has another daughter, named May, who is grown and unmarried' - there may be others ; he has several sons, some of them grown ; one, named Haskell ; has one son, Eugene, in the South Carolina College ; another son, Robert, gone out West ; another, named Langdon. Of the daughters of old Jessie Legette, Sr., the eldest, Elizabeth Marjoray, married Francis A. Wayne, and she and her family have already been noticed in or among the Wayne family. Another daughter of Jessie Legette, sr., named Ann, married a man by the name of Snow, of the low country ; he died and left her with two children, a daughter and a son; the daughter was named Ida, don't remember the son's name - be was younger; they lived in Marian, in the early 70's, in the house afterwards owned and occupied by the writer, who purchased it in 1874; Mrs. Snow moved out of it just before the writer went in ; don't know what became of them - saw Miss Ida in Marian some few years after. Jane, the third daughter of Jessie Legette, Sr., married her first cousin, Ashley S. Legette, who lately died (Ashley), over eighty years of age. Dr. A^ley Legette and wife, Jane, had and raised five sons - Dr. Arman C, Major Ringold, Virgil, William and Woodson, and two daughters, Theresa A. and Elizabeth. Of the sons. Dr. Arman C. Legette married his first cousin, Mary Adelaide Wayne, who has already been noticed in or among the Wayne family. The other sons of Dr. Ashley, the writer does not know whether they are married or single. Of the daughters, Theresa Ann married, first, Duncan Mclntyre, who lived but a short time; he left her with one child, a son, who has already been mentioned herein in or among the Mclntyres ; she afterwards married Mr. T. J. Ledingham, who now live in the Legette neighborhood, and are bringing up a family; know but little about Mr. Ledingtiam - he has been a Magistrate for several years, and seems to be an intelligent gentleman. The daughter, Elizabeth, married a Mr. Vaught, about whom the writer knows nothing, nor of his family, or his or their whereabouts. The writer has seen a young lady, said to be his daughter, a pretty girl. Dr. Ashley S. Legette had a brother. Nelson Legette, who, I think, died many years ago - whether married or unmarried, fihe writer knows not. The father of Dr. Ashley and Nelson was Abner Legette, Sr., brother of old David and Jesse, Sr.

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

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

Absalom Gasque, the old Court crier before the war, was married twice; first, a Miss Dozier, by whom he had sons, James W., Archie, John D. and Henry A., and daughters, Celia, who became the wife of Atkinson ; Olive, who became the wife of Ebbie Atkinson ; Polly, who became the wife of Benj. Richardson-; Ann, who became the wife of David J. Rowell, and Sarah, who became the wife of John Tyler. Absalom's second wife was a Miss Davis, and had Susan, the wife of Val. Dozier Ervin, killed at Cold Harbor, Va., in 1864. Samuel married Cade Thomas' daughter, and lives in Britton's Neck. James W. moved to Georgetown. John D. died suddenly, the day of the 'bombardiment of Fort Sumter, 12th April, 1861. Henry A. married a Miss Collins, and had two children, daughters. Francis married Calvin I^ee ; the other, Sallie, is yet unmarried. The father, Henry A. Gasque, Court caller for years, like his father, Absalom ; he was a capital man and law-abiding citizen. Archie Gasque married Miss Ann Rowell; they had eight boys, David A., Marion, Amy M., Wesley E., Samuel, McB. R., Franklin J., Archie B., and five daughters. Monetta died in 1862. Jennette married John Jones, and lives at Mc- Coll, S. C. Susan married Starr Shelly, on Terrel's Bay, and have a family. Idella married Fletcher Stalvey, and have a family. Mary married David Dozier, and died - ^burned to death, in 1890, leaving four children.. Marion Gasque was killed at Drewry's Bluff, Va., in 1864. Samuel died in prison at Elmira, N. Y. Marion married a Miss Davis, and left three children - ^the wives of Willis Baxly, Evander Perritt and Charles B. Martin. David A. moved to Beaufort, and raised a family; now dead. Arny M. married the Widow Devon, whose maiden name was Phillips, and has five children. Eugenia married Thadeus Mace. Philip, Boyd M. and Emma unmarried; and Moses Mace married Lena Gasque. Wesley Gasque married twice - first. Miss Williamson, and had seven children, Hannibal L., Troy, Elmore ; of the daughters, Mattie married Joseph Fowler, Emmile, Julia and Bettie are unmarried ; the sons are all married. His second wife was Ann Watson ; they have no children ; Wesley died in 1899. William B. Rowell Gasque married his cousin, Sallie Gasque, and has six children, five daughters and one son, Cicero. Florence mar- ried R. H. Begham ; she died and left two children. Nannie married a Mr. Matthews, near Effingham, and has one child. Walker died. at eighteen years of age. Cora and one son, Cicero, are unmarried. Franklin J. (called Dock) married Mary McMillan, and left children, all girls - Claudia, Flossy and Mary. Dock, the father, died in 1895. Archie B. married a Miss Atkinson, and left no children; he died in 1875. Henry Casque married Miss Harriet Porter ; they had thirteen children, and-raised twelve - six sons and six daughters. Of the daughters, Jane married John A. Hatchel, of Florence County; Mary married Arthur Hutchinson, of Florence County; Martha Ann married, first, Benjamin Hatchell, and then James Farley; she has two sons at Dillon (Farleys) in business there; Rebecca married Jessie Atkinson, they have a family of children; Kitty married Siamuel Lane, and is in Horry ; Charlotte married Frank Lane, and is also in Horry - both have families ; and Virginia, who is unmarried', stays with her brother, Eli. Henry and Elly Gasque were brave Confederate soldiers, and both died in the war. Eli H. married, first, a Miss Shaw, in Mississippi ; her father, Merdock Shaw, went from Marion County; they had ten children, sons and daughters; the sons were Lonney M., Henry E., Boyd R., Charles W., John O., Joseph H., Andrew Stokps and Henry Little ; the daughters were Hattie and Edna.. Hattie married a Mr. Twiur ing, of Wilmington, N. C, and has seven children, all small.. Lonney M. married, first, a Miss Oliver, and secondly, his first wife's sister, as already mentioned among the Legettes. Henry E. married Miss Nannie Gregg, of Marion; they have two or three children (small), one son, Andrew Stokes, died when young. The other sons of E. H. Gasque are all unmarried. E. H. Gasque married, a second time, Miss Sallie Foxworth, daughter of the late William C. Foxworth ; the fruits of this marriage are two sons and two daughters - Herbert and Carroll, Rena and Lucy (small). David Gasque married Miss Anna Smith, daug'hter of the late John M. Smith, and has, I think, four girls; the eldest has just graduated with distinction in Knoxville, Tenn. David has been in Columbia for years in the railroad service. Wesley married, don't know who ; he has a family, a son in South Carolina College ; he is a farmer and is doing well ; he resides in Florence County. Bond Gasque married a Miss Rogers, daughter of Nathan Rogers ; has two boys ; lives at MuUins. William B. Gasque married, first, a daughter of "Corn-ma:king Willis Finklea;" he had by her two children, a son, Alfred-, and a daughter, who married a Mr. Brady, and they moved to Kansas. William B. Gasque married, a second time, a Miss Clark, daughter of Kenneth Clark, and by her had George K., Robert, James and Sallie, now the wife of W. B. R. Gasque ; also, Mrs. Jefferson Braswell andl Mrs. Mitchel Lane. Addison L. Gasque married a Miss Frye, who has a number of children, and lives in the Gapway section, a farmer, and is doing fairly well. Alfred Gasque (son of old Henry) married a daughter of Kenneth Clark, and died in two weeks after marriage. Wilson Gasque (son of old Henry) married a daughter of Malcolm Clarke ; he died in prison during the war ; he left one son, R. K. Gasque. Love Gasque, another son of old Henry, married Miss Susan Rogers, a daughter of old Timothy Rogers, and soon after moved to Mississippi. Mastin Gasque, another son of old Henry, married a daughter of Daniel Fore and a niece of T. F. Stackhouse ; he has seven or eight children, and lives with T. F. Stackhouse and conducts his farm ; he is a local Methodist preacher and an excellent man ; his eldest son, Randolph, died a year or two ago, at El Paso, Texas; some others of his children grown. Randolph left a wife in Marion County, with two children. The Gasque family and its connections are very numerous and extensive, and quite respectable. Eli H. has merchandised all his life except during the war ; he is at Marion, doing a large business andi is well known throughout the county - ^a very public-spirited man and indomitable in energy and perseverance; hard to down, and when down will rise again - no such thing as holding him down. The Gasques, as a family, did their full share in the war. I forgot to note, in its proper order, the only daughter of the first old Samuel Gasque, which I now mention: Nancy Gasque, sister of old Henry, John and Absalom; she married Thomas Godbold (called "Tom Cat"), and raised a large family, mostly sons, who have already been noticed in or among the God'bold family. Many people called her Aunt "Nancy Cats" - she was an extraordinary woman ; her husband died in 1836 or '7 ; seve-

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

Brown. - The Brown family will next be noticed. The first Brown known was John Brown, "Cut-face," as he was called ; came from' Columbus County, N. C, and settled below or east of Marion ; don't know to whom he married ; he had and raised six sons, Richard (Dick), Joshua, Thomas, John, Stephen and William, and two daughters. MoUie married a Mr. Fowler, the father of the late Jessie Fowler, and Patsey married a Mr. Campbell, who went West or disappeared. Ricihard Brown married a Miss Beach, and had two sons and two daugliters; the sons were Lewis and Joseph ; the diaughters were Pattie and Fannie. Lewis married, first, a Miss Elliott and next a Miss James, and had twenty-one children ; nine grew up and were named Charlotte, Ann, Mary (first set) ; W. J., Rebecca and Lewis (second set) ; Henrietta, Temperance and Frances (third set). Charlotte married James Carter, who was the father of our John Carter (horse trader). The father was killed in the war, and his son, John, was also in the war, but came out unhurt, and lately a volunteer in the Spanish war, Second Regiment ; 'he deserves the plaudits and well done of his countrymen. Ann Brown married Frank Capps, and was the mother of David Capps. Mary Brown married Wilson James, and had a number of daughters and one son, Preston, who was killed in the war. William' J. 'Brown, two miles below Marion, and a most excellent citizen, married Miss Mary Pace, and has six living childTen (names unknown). Lewis Brown, Jr., married Miss Rachel Flowers, and had no children ; was killed in the war. Henrietta married Love Flowers ; had three children, now living (name and sex unknown). Temperance Brown married Baker Lewis, and has four -sons and two daughters living. Frances married John Drew; they live in Horry County. Joshua Brown, son of the first old John, married a Miss Brown, and moved to Horry, and has a number of children and grand-children in this county. Thomas Brown, second son of first old John, married a Miss Brown. Most of this family of Browns have emigrated to other parts. John BroWn, Jr., the third son of old John, moved to Georgetown, married and raised a family, and died there. Stephen, the fifth son of old John, married a Miss Whitner, of North Carolina, and had and raised two children, "Hon. John Brown," and daughter, Jane, who married Henry Waller, Who was killed in the war ; he left a family of three children. "Hon. John" lives about two miles below Mullins, I suppose, on his father's old homestead; he has attained to some notoriety by his unique character, quaint sayings, and by numbers of quaint and spicy letters which he has ha'd published in "The Marion Star" for the last thirty years. Any one who takes the "Hon. John" to be a fool, is badly sold ; he has talent for wit and humor that few have, and if "Hon. John" had been educated and had turned his powers at wit and humor in the proper channel, he might now be classed with Zeb. Vance and other distinguished wits of the age ; but, alas ! John - "Hon. John" - is limited to a narrow sphere around Mullins and his native county. "Hon. John" married a Miss Rogers, "Pat," and has raised several sons, who are a credit to "Hon. John," and form a part of our good citizenship. I know only two or three of them - Allison H., at Latta, Edward W., of Marion, and Charles V., late of Latta. "Hon. John's" enviroimients in early life, I suppose, were not the best ; it rarely happens that a man rises above his environments, and the society in which he is brought up to manhood, and the active realities of life. William, the sixth son of old first John, married a Miss Whitter or Whittier ; he was the father of William A. Brown, on Sister Bay, and a number of other boys, who were all killed in the war, or died from disease or wounds. Joseph Brown married a Miss Richardson, in Britton's Neck, and had a son, James, killed in the war, and Evander, Pinckney, Washington and Lex, and two daughters, Ann and Julia. Ann married Mr. Benjamin G. Woodberry. Julia married Charles Pace ; they bad, or have, Charles, Joseph and Mrs. A. P. Hucks, Mrs. Richard McRae and Mrs. Sydney Richardson, w<hen Pace died, and she married M. H. Collins (Hook) ; they have no children. The Brown family and connections, it may be inferred from above statements, suffered greatly in the war, by fatalities - as much or more, perhaps, than any 'Other family in the county, in proportion to their numbers. Brown is a very popular name throughout the United States, Marion County included. It may be here stated or restated, that old Henry Casque's first and second wives were Browns ; Miss Edith Gasque married a Mr. Brown ; Miss Nellie Gasque married a Mr. Brown, of North Carolina; Major Elly Gasque's first wife was a Miss Brown ; George W. Reaves' second wife was a Miss Brown. To what particular families of the Browns these wives and husbands belonged, does not appear. Perhaps the present Brown families, when they shall have read this sketch, can assign each to his or her particular branch of the Brown family.

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

Oaroline Baker, the youngest daughter of William and Annis Baker - were very young when they married; they had and raised five children, John O., William A. and James T. Brown, and two daughters, Susan A. and Julia M. Susan A. married Captain T. E. Stanley; JuHa married J. E. Stevenson; John,0. married Miss Louisa Brunson, of Darlington ; William A. married Miss Eliza Clarke, daughter of the late R. K. Clarke; James T. married Miss Louise DuRant - all are living except Julia, who died in 1885. J. O. Brown was delicate from childhood; he joined the Confederate Army when eighteen years old, Neill C. McDuffie's Company L, 21st Regiment, Graham, Col., in 1861 ; served in same company under the young and gallant Captain Hannibal Legette, and after his death, under Captain W. B. Baker, and was captured at Fort Fisher, imprisoned at Point Lookout, and remained there two months before Lee's surrender. The father, T. F. Brown, was in Colonel Cash's regiment. Captain W. S. EUerbe's company, while it was in service. T. F. Brown having lost his wife, never more married, but devoted himself to the raising and education of his children ; he was a widower for about forty years ; he and his sister, Mrs. G. W. Woodberry, were raised orphans by their uncle and aunt, Jacky Davis and Susie Davis, who were as good and kind to them as if they had been their own children. T. F. Brown began life a poor boy ; he at first clerked for John Henry, at Marion, for $5 per month, but soon rose and was depended on everywhere. When ihe married, he gave up clerking and engaged in farming on a small scale, near Tabernacle Church ; he was soon able to buy a larger farm and moved to it, where he spent the balance of his life; by industry and good judgment he was successful, and at the breaking out of the war was considered to be in good circumstances ; so decided was he, that he never hesitated, but did the right as by intuition-; he was a life long and consistent member of the Methodist Church. The grand-parents of Hon. W. A. Brown, on his mother's side, were William and Annis Baker; his grand^mother's maiden name was Phillips ; she first married a Giles, son of Colonel Hugh Giles, of Revolutionary fame ; by this marriage she had only one child, Hugh Giles, Jr., when he died, and s'he then married William Baker ; by this latter marriage were born Mary, w^ho married Gause Sweet; Eliza, who married Nathan Evans; Susan, who married Alexander Owens; Jennette, who died quite young, and Martha Caroline, who married T. F. Brown ; and sons, James, who married a Miss Taylor, and who is the mother of our fellow-citizens, Joseph A., W. W. Baker and James Baker, of Marion; their mother still survives. Old Mrs. Annis Baker was an extraordinary woman ; her husband having died and left her many years before her death, sihe managed with unusual success a large landed estate and many negroes, and also a considerable amount of money, and accumulated much more property before her death, and superintended the whole in person ; would not employ an overseer - sihe overseed for herself - lived to a great age, active and energetic to the last; she divided her property among her grand-children; she was, indeed, a most remarkable woman ; she had and raised another son, William J. Baker, w^ho lived and died a bachelor.

Gilchrist. - The family of Gilchrist will next be noticed. This family is not very extensive, neither in name nor its connections in Marion County; yet its respectability and prominence require that it shall have some notice, though it be short. The progenitor of the family in this county was Dr. Daniel Gilchrist, a dental surgeon, from Richmond or Robeson County, N. C. The writer recollects seeing Dr. Gilchrist w<hen a boy, in 1 83 1. The writer was going to school at Red Bank, N. C, that year, and Dr. Gilchrist came along the road during a recess in the school, on horseback, with a pair of saddle-bags under him, in which his dental instruments were stored or packed - there was no such a thing as a buggy in that day. Two of the grown young men, Archie Baker, afterwards a Presbyterian minister, and Daniel McNeill, knew Dr. Gilchrist; he recognized them, stopped, and they talked a while with him, and among other things he said he was going down South to see if he could not find work to do down there. I suppose he had just graduated in dental surgery ; he was then a young single man. Whilst they were talking to him, the smaller boys in school, of whom I was one, gathered up around them to hear what was said, &c. The next I knew of Dr. Gilchrist, I think, about 1840, he was settled and living at w'hat formerly was called Newsom's Bridge, afterwards and now called Gilchrist's Bridge, on Little Pee Lee. Dr. Gilchrist had evidently- found work to do down South, for he had married a Miss Johnson, of Horry County, had bought the old Newsom place and was living upon it ; by his marriage he had and raised a family of four sons and three daughters ; the sons were Archie, D. E., Charles B. and Johnson ; the daughters were and are Virginia, Georgia and Ida. Of the sons, Archie married Miss Augusta Bethea, a daughter of Captain Elisha C. Bethea, and raised a family of three sons and three daughters ; the sons are Eugene B., Archie Hill and Claudius ; the daughters are Bessie, Alice and Mary. Eugene B. married' some one to the writer unknown, and has, perhaps, one child ; the other sons not grown. Of the daughters, Bessie and Alice are grown and unmarried ; Mary is not grown. Archie Gilchrist, the father, settled at Mullins soon after the war, and was engaged in mercantile and turpentine pursuits for years, also had a farm near by ; he died some time in the last of the 8o's. D. E. Gilchrist, called "Van," has never married; he was agent for many years for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, at Nichols ; but when it was made a telegraph station, he had to resign his position to make room for an operator ; he went back to his old home, and is there with his brother, Charles, who also has never married, and his two maiden sisters, Miss Georgia and Miss Ida. Johnson Gilchrist, the youngest son of Dr. Gilchrist, married Miss Bettie Mc- Duffie, daughter of the late ex-Sheriff ; they have two or three dhildren; they also live on the parental homestead. Who is "boss" there is not exactly clear. The daughter, eldest, Virginia, of Dr. Gilchrist, a highly accomplished lady, married Dr. J. W. Singletary, of Marion, who was also a well educated and genteel gentleman and a fine physician; owing to incompatibility in their views of life, they did not agree and upon suit brought in the Court for divorce, it was granted; three sons were the offspring of the marriage ; one of them died in boyhood; the other two, Archie G. and Joseph W., were raised. Archie G. Singletary is a graduate of the Citadel Academy, and after graduation went to Louisiana and taught as principal of a high school there, at $1,500 a year, for several years ; has studied law and, I think, is now practicing ; he is fine-looking and a polished gentleman - very much like his father. His brother, Joseph W. Singletary, is also in Louisiana, in the saw mill business, and it is said is making money, and stands fair ; their mother has gone out there and lives, I think, with Archie. The father. Dr. J. W. Singletary, died a few years ago, and is buried in the cemetery, beside his father and mother ; his sister, Mrs. A. Q. McDuffie, has died since, and is also buried there. D. E. Gilchrist is a man of talent and one of the best informed men we have ; he is now advancing in years, and if he had performed or fulfilled his mission in society and had not frittered away his powers, he might have attained to the highest positions in the State, and most certainly in his county; and this much is said with no view to disparage him. Dr. Daniel Gilchrist was a very intelligent man and successful in his business every way; he married some property, which he greatly improved ; he was one of the many good importations from the Old North State. In politics he was a Whig, and, therefore, did not succeed in his political aspirations. He died just at or after the close of the war, also his wife ; his sons, all that were old enough, were good soldiers in the war for Southern independence, and went down only when the cause, for which they fought and suffered four years of hardship and privations, went down.