Marion County, South Carolina - The whole text, 1902 (part 13 of 15)

Stevbnson. - ^The great-^grand-father of J. Edwin Stevenson, Benjamin Stevenson, came from Virginit, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary War under General Greene. He settled in Horry County, on the Lake Swamp (don't know to whom he married) ; he had two children, a daughter and a son ; the son was named Benjamin; the girl died. Benjamin, Jr., married three times - ^first, a Miss Booth, who was the mother of the late Samuel M. Stevenson ; his second wife was a Miss Anderson ; she had one son, William, and two daughters, Anne and Margaret. Anne married Daniel Oliver, and was the mother of A. R. and D. J. Oliver, and another son, named Samuel. Margaret not known. A. R. Oliver married a Miss Ivegette, and has already been noticed in or among the Legettes. Daniel J. Oliver married Miss Sallie Fuller, daughter of the^ late Wyatt Fuller, and has several children, a son, L. Wyatt Oliver, and another name un:known ; they also have a daughter, Mary, who married Quincy Berry - ^the latter have no children. L. Wyatt Oliver married Miss Alice Jones ; they have one or two children (small). Don't know what became of William Stevenson. Benjamin, Jr.'s, third wife was Martha Mc- Cracken, and by her he had two sons, James Norton and Benjamin Purefoy Stevenson. The latter, if living, in in Horry County. Samuel M. Stevenson, the son by the first wife, many years ago moved to Marion County, after marrying a Miss Sarvis, a sister of the late Cornelius Sarvis, of Horry ; he lived and died where W. W. Baker now lives ; had no child, was successful in life, was a very intelligent man, good citizen and, above all, an exemplary Christian gentleman. James N. Stevenson married, first, a Miss Hughes, of Horry ; by her he had one child, a son, J. Edwin Stevenson ; his wife died ; he came to Marion and merchandised there till the war, with seeming success ; he married, a second time, the Widow Gause, relict of the Hon. Benjamin Gause; her maiden name was

Susan Gregg, youngest daughter of the late R. J. Gregg, who was Tax Collector for Marion District for thirty years, and well known to every -one in his day as an honest, straightforward. Christian gentleman and faithful official; the Widow Benjamin Gause had one child, a son, Benjamin, by her marriage with Gause, who now lives in Bennettsville. Benjamin Gause, St., was quite a prominent man in his day, well-to-do, and was twice elected to the State Senate, served with ability two terms, and was universally loved and respected by all who knew him. James N. Stevenson married his widow, and by her had and raised eight children, four sons and four daughters, to wit: Robert, Samuel, James N. and Charles W., and daughters, Mary, Anne, Mattie and Susan. Of these, Mary, Susan and Charley are married - Mary to L. Fontaine Davis, and has five children; Susan married Dixon Gregg, and has no child ; Chcirles W. married a Miss Gray, and has one child ; Robert, Samuel and James N. are unmarried ; Anne and Mattie are also unmarried; they live on the Gause homestead. J. Edwin Stevenson, son by James N.'s first marriage, married, first, Miss Julia Brown^ daughter of the late T. Foster Brown ; by this marriage five children were born, and I think all raised, and perfiaps all married, but one daughter - ^to whom is unknown, except one son, married a daughter of Captain G. A. Mclntyre ; the Brown wife dying, J. Edwin Stevenson married, a second time, Miss Mattie Godbold, oldest daughter of the late Dr. William H. Godbdld ; by her he had some four or five children, three of whom survive; the Godbold wife died, and he married Mary, daughter of Sheriff Lewis, of Horry, and has removed to that county, and is merchandising ; is an energetic, progressive man, of good habits and of high character, as was his father, James Norton Stevenson.

Craven. - Of this family the writer has not been able to learn anything prior to William H. Craven, our present fellowcitizen, in Britton's Neck. William H. Craven married a Miss Richardson, and has had ten children (one dead), as follows: Julius Edward (a deaf mute), Preston, Lane, Henry, Charles and Boyd, Gertrude, Lula and Claude. Julius married Anne Wall; Preston married a Miss Shelby; Gertrude married

George Broadhurst - she is a widow; the other six children are single, and remain with their parents. William H. Craven is an industrious, energetic and good citi?.en, quiet and inoffensive, lives by his farm, is upright in his dealings and a good neighbor.

Thompson. - ^John C. Thompson married a Miss Edwards, daughter of Rev. David S. Edwards, on Buck Swamp ; he had three sons. Chapman, Jefferson and Howard. The two former are dead; the latter, Howard, married twice - ^have not been alble to find out to whom, nor as to their children, if any. John C. Thompson is dead ; he was prominent in his neighborhood and a useful, good citizen. Jesse Thompson, brother of John C, is an excellent man in the Gapway section ; he married, first, Martha Williamson ; no child by this marriage ; he married, a second time, a Miss Carter, and they have no offspring. There were two other brothers, Stephen and William ; they moved to Horry.

KiRTON. - ^William Kirton came from Ireland to this country before the Revolutionary War, and married a Miss Avant, and had two sons, John and William. John never married; William married a Widow Williams, nee Avant; they had two sons, Thomas and Philip, and one daughter, Elizabeth. Thomas Kirton married and went to Horry County. Philip married Miss Olivia Gasque-, and had four sons, Thomas, Henry, Philip and Samuel, and three daughters, Elizabeth, M'ary and Olivia. Thomas married a Miss Jones, and went to Horry, and was killed by Jeptha Jones, on the Great Pee Dee River. Henry Kirton married the Widow Sinoth, nee Hannalh Philips ; they had an only son, Thomas H. Kirton, our worthy fellow-citizen', now near Tyrrel's Bay, in lower Marion, and he married, first, a Widow McQueen, nee Gerald, who had two McQueen daughters - none by her marriage with Kirton ; one of these McQueen daughters is married, but to whom is unknown ; the other one still resides with Kirton ; the McQueen wife having died, he married, a second time. Miss Catharine N. Floyd ; they have no child. What became of Philip Kirton, brother of Henry, the writer knows not. The other brother,

Samuel, I think, married a Miss Casque, sister of the late James C. Casque, went to Georgetown and died there. Of the sisters of Henry Kirton, Elizabeth, Mary and Olivia, the writer has no information. Thomas H. Kirton was a gallant soldier in the Confederate War, and is a whole-souled man and an honorable citizen.

Philips. - ^John Philips came from England long before the Revolutionary War, and settled in this county, below Marion, and married Miss Margaret Linton, also from England, and' by her had an only son, John, called "Jockey John." "Jockey John" Philips married a Miss Kirton, and by her had sons, William L,., Thomes, Jockey, Isaac, Jdhn and Zack, and daughter. Annis Philips married Hugh Ciles, son of Colonel Hugh Ciles, of Revolutionary fame, and by him had one son, the late Hugh Ciles - ^about whom something has already been' said, and who may again be noticed among the Ciles family. Another daugthter, Elizabeth, married a Rice, and moved to Tennessee. William L. Philips married Nancy Owens, and they had sons, John, William, David and Palmer, and daughters, Rebecca, Jane, Anna and Hannah - ^the latter was the mother of Thomas H. Kirton. John married a Miss Dansey; thej had no children. William married a Miss Rice ; they had nc children. David Philips married a Miss Owens ; they had no children. Palmer Philips married a Miss Craham; they had one daughter, and moved to Horry. Jockey Philips moved West. Isaac married a Miss Eagarton, and had one son, Isaac, and daughters, Anna, Frances and Elsey. Anna married David Cibson. Frances married John Williams. Elsy married William Collins. John moved West. Isaac, Jr., married Miss Julia Davis, and had two daughters, Mrs. John A. Atkinson and Mrs. Anna M. Casque. Thomas Philips married a Miss Avant, and had one son, William, who married a Miss Marce, and had one son, named Isaac. Zadk married a Miss Lewis, and had one son, Zack, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Celia. Zack Philips, Jr., married a Miss Rice, and had four sons, William L., Francis Marion, Hugh C and J. Benjamin Philips. William L. Philips died in the war and Hugh G. was killed in the war. Francis Marion Philips married Clarissa

Wall, and had Francis- Marion, Jr., Percival and McGee, sons, and Julia, Issora, Vernull, Delta and another, name unknown, daughters. J. Benjamin Philips married a Miss White, daughter of the late Wesley White, and had five children, three sons, William, Chalmers and Remington, and two daughters, Cora and Martha Fleetwood. Francis Marion Philips and J. Benjamin Philips were good men, of high character and much respected ; they are both dead. Elizabeth Philips, daughter of Zack Philips, Sr., married Richard Collins, and Celia married Addington James; have no information as to their posterity, if they had any.

Owens. - Rev. David Owens, first of the name known in the county, was the founder of Tyrrel's Bay and Gapway Baptist Churches - ^perhaps the two oldest Baptist Churches in the county. He was married twice - ^first, to Mary Palmer, by whom he had David, Nancy, Martha and Elizabeth; and his second wife was tihe Widow Martha Williamson, nee Jenkins, and by her he had one son, Solomon. David married some one, but had no children. Nancy married William L. Philips (which see among the Philips). Martha married John Williamson. Elizabeth married "Gold-headed" Richard Edwards. Solombn married, first, Catharine Gerald ; they had and raised Alexander, David, Joseph, Elizabeth and Catharine. Alexander married Susan Baker, first ; they had five daughters and three sons; the sons were Albert, Alexander and William J. Albert Owens was killed at Gettysburg, was color-bearer, and had, at the time he was shot, both the State and Confederate flags stuck in his belt - a gallant youth. Alexander Owens, Jr., married a Miss Harrel, and had five or six children. One of his sons, David, married a daughter of Captain T. E. Stanley. Willie J. Owens married a Miss Eaddy, of West Marion; be died a year or two ago, leaving a family of several children, neither the number or sex is known; had a son, Lamar, who married Lillian Miles, daughter of Dr. D. F. Miles, and live at Marion. David Owens, son of old Solomon, had a son, Daniel, who married a Miss Fowler; had some family, but has left the country. Joseph W. Owens married a Miss Lambert, and is dead, but left several children - three sons and three daugh- ters - sons, Daniel, David and Solomon. David married a Miss Collins ; Leonora married a Mr. Springs, of Georgetown ; Dora married a Mr. Collins ; Solmon and Maggie are yet unmarried. Solomon Owens, Sr., married, a second time, Rachel Brown; by her he had one son, E. B. Owens, who married Miss Ida Mullins, sister of the late Colonel W. S. MuUins ; by her he had several children ; moved some years ago to Georgia. Solomon Owens, Sr., married, a third time. Miss Annie Flowers ; by her he had no children ; he was a prominent citizen in his day.

There are other Owens in the county, about whom the writer knows but little; but he has gathered some facts, as herein presented. Shadrack Owens, an old man years ago, perfiaps seventy-five or a hundred, had three sons, EHsha, Elijah and "Shiver Bill." Elisha's family moved to Georgetown County. Elijah had Avant Owens, of political campaign notoriety, Robert and Gourdin; Elijah also had three or four daughters (names unknown). Avant Owens had Memminger, Gause and Dock, and some daughters (names unknown). Robert Owens married a Miss Shelly, and had several sons (names not known). Gourdin Owens married a Miss Shelly, also, and had one son, named Wesley, and moved to Horry. "Shiver Bill" married a Miss Ammons, and had two sons, William and Ezekiel, and several daughters. William married a Miss Smith, and had sons and daughters unknown. Ezekiel married a Miss Holden, and has a family unknown. Gause Owens married a Miss Price, and has a family unknown'. Memminger married a Miss Dozier, and has no children. Dock K. married a Miss Atkinson, and has a family (unknown).

There are some other Owens in upper Marion, and some of them may have already been noticed incidentally - I allude to the late David R. Owens, father of the late S. G. Owens, and Leonard R. Owens, late Postmaster at Marion. David R. Owens had a brother, Newett Owens, one of the most industrious and hard-working men I ever knew; he died in middle life, of typhoid fever, and left a large family, who have not turned out well. There was, fifty years ago or more, two other Owens, some relation to David R. and Newett, named "Wattie and Neddie ;" they had families ; but who their imme- diate ancestors were is unknown, or what became of their families. There is another set of Owens originally in the "Fork" section ; the old progenitor of Ifhis family was named Shadrach Owens - not the "Shadradi" spoken of above. Old Shadrach was an old man, seventy years ago - was exceedingly superstitious, afraid of ghosts and spirits, a working man, however, and harmless - raised a large family ; the names of two of his sons only are remembered, Reddin and Ivot. Reddin married and settled in Hillsboro, and died two or three years ago, at the age of ninety-four, and left many children, grand-dhildren and great-grand-children. Lot married a Miss Huggins, and died without children. Reddin and Lot were quite respectable men and good citizens. Don't know anything further of old Shadrach's posterity.

RowEi.1,. - The Rowell family and its connections are large, respectable and influential and "has been prominent ever since Marion became a district or county. The first of the name, as well as can be ascertained, was Jacob Rowell, the grand-father of the present old gentleman, Valentine Rowell, over eighty years of age, near Centenary and Tyrrel's Bay Churches. Jacob Rowell was twice married; his first wife's name unknown; his second wife was a Miss Palmer, or Poison; they had two sons, William and David. William went West. David, the father of old man Val. Rowell, married Rdbecca Philips, and raised six girls and four boys; the boys were Jacob, William L., David and Valentine. Jacob never married. William L. married Miss Eliza Landing, and had Benjamin, Richard, William and Jacob, who died in childhood; he had daughters, Stacy Ann, Elizabeth, Mary Jane, Sarah, Agnes and Rebecca. Richard was killed, how or by whom is not stated. Benjamin never married. William married, and went to Georgia. Stacy Ann married Benjamin Rogers, had no dhildren. Elizabeth married Green Williams, and died childless. Mary Jane married Wedey Richardson ; she has a family of seven or eight children (unknown) . Sarah married Stephen Brown, and has ten or twelve children. Agnes married Tony Watson, and has ten or eleven Children, all sons but two. Reibecca married Thomas Altman, and has six or seven child- ren. David Rowell married Ann Gasque, daughter of old Absalom Gasque; they had thirteen children - sons, James, Albert, William, Alpheus, Jessee, Hugh G. and Julius, and daughters, Eliza, Rebecca, Susan, Emaline, Sallie and Dora. James married Fannie Gainey, and had two children, a daughter and a son, Oliver; the latter is married and has four or five children. Albert and William both died in the war or were killed. Alpheus died when young. Jessee married Mary Gasque, daughter of Ann Gasque ; they had sons, Samuel, Padl, John, Thomas and Herbert, and daughters, Ann Eliza, Carrie and Eva. Samuel married Miss Julia Atkinson, and has four children (small). Paul married a Miss Rogers, and has two children (small). None of the other children of Jessee Rowell are married. He died suddenly at Marion, some four or five years ago ; he was jailor for several years, and was a capital and reliable amn. Hugh G. Rowell married a Miss Jvovell, and has a large family (unknown). Julius Rowell married Ann Glisson ; she had seven children and died ; Julius married again, Miss Lizzie Boatwright ; no child by the second marriage. Eliza, the eldest daughter of David Rowell, mardied John Dozier; they had twelve children (names unknown), but all of them are married, but to whom not known. Rebecca, the second daughter of David Rowell, married James Shelly; they have a large family (names unknown) ; some of them are married. 'Susan, the third daughter, married Reuben Shelly; they have a family unknown. Emaline, the fourth daughter, married a Mr. Floyd, in Horry County. Sallie, the fifth daughter, married a Mr. Edwards, in Florence County. Dora, the sixth and youngest daughter, married lycvin Rogers ; he is dead ; his widow survives, with five children. Valentine Rowell, eighty-two years of age, son of David Rowell, Sr., married Mary Collins, daughter of William Collins ; they have five children, four sons and one daughter - ^the sons are William David, Alexander Valentine, Robert Charles and Joseph; the daughter is Alice Rebecca. William David, the eldest son, married Miss Annis Dozier; they have four children, three sons and one daughter; the sons are Claudius, William and Benjamin; the daughter, named Mary, married Boyd Shelly; no offspring. Alexander Valentine married Miss Laura Wall ; tbey have four children, Willie, Arthur and Maxcy, sons, and one daughter, Mamie. Robert Charles married Miss Simpson Wall; they have eight children, two sons and six daughters, none of them married. Joseph married Miss Sallie Keever; they have ten children, six sons jmd four daughters ; the sons are Joseph, Keever, Archie, Bruce, Grady and David Oscar; the daughters are Alice, Ellen, Eva and Clara - none married. Old man Valentine Rowell's only daughter, Alice, is unmarried, and lives with her parents. Major William B. Rowell, quite prominent in his day, was the son of Valentine Rowell, and was born 28th March, 1800 ; his father, Valentine Rowell, married Miss Ann Baker, who became the mother of Major W. B. Rowell, and another son, whose name is unknown. Valentine Rowell was also prominent in his day; he represented his county (Marion) several times in the L,egislature, as will be seen in the list of Representatives hereto appended. Valentine Rowell, though only a lad in the Revolution, was with General Marion in the latter part of the war. Major W. B. Rowell had a fair education, though not collegiate ; he married twice ; first, to Elizabeth Avant, a daughter of Thomas Avant and wife, a Miss Baker ; Major Rowell and his first wife were first cousins ; by the marriage he had only one child, Ann Elizabeth; the Avant wife dying, he married, a second time. Miss Martha Brantley, by whom he had one child, a daughter, Martha Eliza ; she grew up and married Dr. C. D. Rowell, her cousin. Ann Elizabetii, daughter by his first marriage, married Major D. J. Taylor; she had one child only, a daughter, and died leaving the child only two weeks old ; it was raised by her grand-father and his Brantley wife, and became the wife of Captain Huett, by whom she had one child, a son, now our fellow-citizen, William L,. Huett, late County Supervisor. Captain Huett was killed in the Confederate War; his widow has since married J. T. Jones, of the Nichols community. Major Rowell's daughter, by his second marriage, Martha Eliza, married Dr. C. D. Rowell, a grand-nephew of Major Wm. B. Rowell ; the fruits of this marriage were five sons and three daughters ; the sons are W. B., R. W. D., Melvin L,., C. Thomas and Percival E. Rowell ; the daughters were Mary A., Linnie I. and Mattie E. ; of these, Mary A., C. Thomas and

Percival E. are dead. W. B. Rowell, Jr., is in Florence, married. R. W. D. Rowell is at Bamberg. Melvin L,. is at Lewiedale. Lennie I. is Mrs. Hook, and lives in Lexington; and Mattie E. is Mrs. Crawford, and lives at Chester. Dr. C. D. Rowell and wife are 'both dead ; he raised and was Captain of a company in the war. Afterwards a Methodist preacher in the South Carolina Conference, and died in that relation ; his father ^was named Cornelius, and was a nephew of Major W. B. Rowell. Major W. B. Rowell was no ordinary man - a South Carolina gentleman of the old type ; never was beaten for any position to which he aspired ; served four terms, eight years, in the Legislature; of a high and unspotted character, faithful to all trusts committed to him, was liberal to all worthy enterprises in State or in church, and at home dispensed unbounded hospitality; was a great friend of the church - his house was the home of the preachers ; he was devotedly pious - ^the "salt of the earth," lived it in his every day life. He died May 22d, 1880, eighty years old.. In politics he was a Democrat of the Calhoun school, and I may say the idol of his people - loved by everybody. There were and are some Rowells above Campbell's Bridge, whether related to those below Marion is not known. There were two old Rowells up there, name not known. One of them had sons, James V., Jeremiah, John and David. James V. died or was killed in the war, left children ; others were all in the war. Jeremiah is up there now, is quite respectable, and has. a respectable family.

Giles. - ^The late Hugh Giles was the son or grand-son (the latter, I think, ) of Colonel Hugh Giles, who played a conspicuous part as Colonel of a regiment in the war of the Revolution. He married Polly Baker, sister of "Long Billy Baker;" they had ten children, and raised seven of them - ^their names are Catharine and Rebecca (the latter died when about three years old) ; Sarah and Edward died when quite young. William H., the oldest son, was killed in the fight around Atlanta, Ga., 28th July, 1864; he belonged to the loth South Carolina Regiment, and was a Lieutenant of his company. Abram J. Giles was also a member of the loth South Carolina Regiment, and was captured at the fight of Missionary Ridge, and imprisoned at

Rock Island for eighteen months and seven days. John B." Giles was a member of same regiment, and died in hospital at Rome, Ga., in May, 1863. Robert B. also belonged to same regiment and company, and survived the war. The other two daughters were named Jeannette and Eliza Franconia. Catharine married Joseph A. Taylor; they had five children - their names are Hugh G., Charlotte J., Joseph A., Edward E. and Archie. Abraham married Julia Flowers, daughter of Jeremiah John Flowers ; they had seven children, raised six - their names were Mary Eliza, Jennette Elizabeth, Hugh, John B., Julia Daisey, Sarah Annis and James Robert. Robert never married. Franconia married John B. Richardson - one child was born to them ; after the death of Franconia, he married his wife's sister, Jennette. Hugh Giles, like his distinguished ancestors, was or had the elements of true manhood in his makeup - was quiet, inoffensive and law-abiding, generous and kindhearted.

CoivEMAN. - ^^Griffin Coleman, the grand- father of our present fellow-citizen. Griffin B. Coleman, married a Miss Dozier, and had and raised four sons, to wit: Griffin, John D., Jacob and James. Griffin, Jr., married Betsy Whaley, and had three sons, Amos, Griffin and Daniel. Amos married a Miss Floyd, and had six children. Griffin, Jr., Jr., married a Miss Boatwright, and has eigtit children. Daniel, son of Amos, died unmarried. John D. Coleman first married a Miss Baxley, and by her he had seven sons and one daughter ; the sons were Isaac M., Willian J., Griffin B., John W., David, Joseph and Daniel, and one daughter, Mary Ann, who married David Shelly. Isaac M. married Martha Waller, and had William, Augustus, Mary, Donnella and Bettie. His son, William, first married a Miss Richardson, and by her had one son, Pressly; the first wife dying, he married, a second time, a Miss Jones, and they have six children, Fontaine, Howard, Iris, Nina, Eula and Eugenia. Augustus married Catharine Floyd, and had two children, girls, Mattie and Ijena ; Thomas H. Kirton took the latter and is raising her. Isaac M. Coleman married, a second time, Miss Anna Jones, and had by her two sons, Gary and Cantey (small). William J., the second son of John D., married Miss Nancy

Shelly, and hy her had one son, Wesley, who married a Miss Avant. Griffin B. Coleman, third son of John D., married Celia Baxley; they have three living children - one son, John W., and two daughters, Mary Ann and Emma R. Emma R. married C. R. Moore ; they have eight children, five girls and three boys. One daughter, Margaret Parham, married Robert Eagerton, and have one child (small) . John W., fourth son of John D. Coleman, married twice, and died in AUtbama. David, the fifth son of John D. Coleman, married Miss Angelina Smith ; he and his wife died, and left five children, all grown and married; their names are Julius, Cornelius, Dora, Willie and John. Julius married Miss Virginia Pearce ; no offspring. Cornelius married Alma Pearce; they have four children (small). Dora died childless. Willie married Miss Mamie Cook, and has one child (small). John married Miss Ida Shelly, and has two children (small) . Joseph, the sixth son of Rev. John D. Coleman, married Mary Drew, and has one child, Mattie, who married Quincy Ballard, who has four children (small). Daniel, the youngest and seventh son of Rev. John D. Coleman, married Hannah Drew, and they have four sons and four daughters ; the sons are John D., Willie, Major and Pressly; the daughters are Mary Ann, Anna, Alice and Charlotte. John D., Jr., married Miss Mary Allen, daughter of D. S. Allen, and has three children (small). Willie, Major and Pressly are single. Of the daughters of Daniel Coleman, Mary Ann married D. S. Allen, and has four children (small). Anne married Harllee Baxley (now dead), and left three children (small). Alice married Willie Baxley, and has two children (small). Charlotte married John Hatchel, and has one child (small). Rev. John D. Coleman married, a second time. Miss Polly Sasser, and by her had one son, Joel S. Coleman; he is in North Carolina ; his second wife dying, he married, a third time. Miss Elizabeth Blackman, and by her had seven children, four sons and three daughters ; the sons were J. P. Coleman, E. J., Daiyton and Frank'; the daughters were Anna M., Martha J. and Sarah. Of these, Martha Jane, Sarah, Dayton and Frank, are dead, never married. J. P. Coleman married Miss Beda Rogers, and moved to Columbia. E. J. Coleman manaed, first, a Miss James, who died, leaving four children, two of whom are married. Cora married a Lane, and has two children (small). John married Miss Sue Lane, and has two children (small). Lide is single. E. J. Coleman married, a second time. Miss Jane Flowers; they have seven children (small), in Columbia. Anna Maria married Hugh Brown, and had nine children, all dead but two (small). Jacob Coleman, the third son of Griffin, Sr., married Miss Caroline Tart, a daughter of old Mrs. Fama Tart; they had many children, mostly daughters ; had two sons. Griffin and Enos. Enos is in Marlborough County, and Griffin is, or was, in Texas when last heard of. The family has scattered, and has been lost sight of. James Coleman, the fourth and youngest son of Griffin, Sr., married Miss Leah Baxly ; they had three sons and four daughters ; the sons are Williamson, Jessee and Griffin. Williamson died, leaving no issue. Jessee married Laura Godbold, daughter of Vincent Godbold; they 'have a family, number and sex unknown. Griffin married Miss Ma:ry Smith, first, and had two sons and two daughters. One of the daughters married Willie Dozier and bas three children (small). Griffin married, second time, Lizzie Bryant ; they have seven children living, three sons and four daughters (small).

There is another family of Colemans in the county that may be here noticed - whether related to those above mentioned or not, is not known to the writer. Old John Coleman lived about four miles east of Marion ; don't know who his wife was ; he raised three sons, Moses, John and Edward. Of these, Moses married Miss Elizabeth Flowers, sister of Love Flowers, and by her had and raised two sons and five or six daughters ; the sons were Sampson and Elly; the daughters' names unknown. Of the daughters, one married Stephen Attman, a very worthy man, on Sister Bay ; Attman is dead ; left two sons, Preston and Davis, who are married and have families. Another married Wilson Snipes and they had and raised several sons and daughters, to wit : Addison, Willie, Wilson and others, who will be noticed-hereinafter. Another married Bethel Rogers, who has a large family, quite respectable. Another married Edward Rogers, who has a son, Coleman Rogers, and he married Sallie Ewart, and has a coming family. Another married William Martin, and had a considerable family - three sons, W. P. and

Daniel Martin, enterprising citizens of MuUins, and another, Charles B., and daughter. One daughter married Joseph M. Price, nephew of the writer; they have five or six children. Sampson Cokman married a Miss Huggins, daughter of Rev. John (Jack) C. Huggins; had no offspring. Elly Coleman married a Miss White, and had one son, the late W. D. Coleman, and Mrs. Chesley D. Jones. W. D. Coleman married a Miss White, niece of Colonel E. T. Stackhouse ; they have three sons - J. T. Coleman, now a professor in the Citadel Academy, Charleston; another, Edward, single, and another not grown, name not known. John and Edward Coleman, brothers of old Moses, never married. Moses Coleman was a local Methodist preacher, a man of high character, a useful man in his day, and a man in whom every one had unbounded confidence.

Norton. - The first of this family came from England to New England, at a very remote period in the past, about the first of the seventeenth century; that his name was John; that he or one of his descendants, named John, afterwards came down to Virginia and settled near what is now Alexandria, Va. This Virginia John had five sons, all of whom were soldiers in the Revolutionary War ; one of them, James, served in Washington's guard as a Sergeant ; another one of them was taken prisoner and died in a prison ship, in Charleston harbor, in 1780 or 1 781. Their names were William, James, John, David and Solomon. After the Revolution, the old man and two of his sons, James and John, went to Kentucky; two others of them came to South Carolina - one, William, went to Georgetown, and the other went to Beaufort. William, the Georgetown one, went from Georgetown up into what was then called Kingston, now Horry, and took up large bodies of land. One grant that the writer has seen for 3,300 acres, below what is now called Green Sea, on the Iron Springs Swamp, just above its confluence with Lake Swamp. William Norton married a Widow Miller, maiden name not known, and she had at the time of their marriage four children - two sons, Nathaniel and Elias Miller, and two daughters, Rebecca and Martha. Nathaniel Miller gave the land to and was one of the founders of the present Miller Church. The deed for it was made to

Bishop Asbury, and is said to be now in the possession of Rev. Simeon Campbell. The two Millers lived and died near by, and are buried near where Valentine, Martin lives. Of the two Miller sisters, one, Martha, married old Moses Wise, and the other, Re1>ecca, married old William Bryant. William Norton married the Widow Miller, as above stated, and had by her two sons, William and James, and three daughters, Ruth, Martha, and Mary. William, Jr., married and settled where Green Sea, in Horry, now is, and was a prominent man down there, and built and was one of the chief founders of a Methodist church there, then called Norton's Cross Roads, and it was then known as Norton's Church. This was about the first of 1800. William Norton had two sons, John W. and James, and several daughters. One of the daughters, Ruth, married Benj. Sellers, who moved to Mississippi. John W. and James both joined the South Carolina Conference. John W. located, and his family are in Georgia. James was quite prominent as a preacher ; he died in 1825, and is buried in Columbia, Washington Street Church. James Norton, the other brother, settled in Marion District, near his half-brothers, the two Millers, on Maiden Down. This James Norton was the grand-father of the present Hon. James Norton, of MuUins ; he had two daughters, one of whom, Martha, married John Roberts ; the other, Mary, married Gadi Campbell. James, Sr., had three sisters, Ruth, Martha and Mary. Ruth married Joel Lewis ; Martha married Norton Roberts, grand-father of the late Colonel John Roberts ; and Mary married a Flood. James Norton, Sr., married, first, Jerusha R-eaves, and had one son, William, and three daughters, Sarah, Nancy and Martha; his second wife was a Honeycut, and he had by her Mary, Solomon and John. Solomon married, had one son, named John, and died, and his widow married Jack Woods, who overseed for General Evans, back in the 40's or so's, for several years. William Norton, son of James, Sr., married Anna Roland, of Camden; by her he had Jerusha, Sarah Ann, Mary, Nancy and Olive, daughters ; James and Henry, sons. Jerusha married Anthony Meares. Sarah Ann married William Bryant, of Horry. Mary married Evans Bryant. Nancy married Leonard Cribb. Olive married Lewis Huggins. James married a Miss Moody, went to

Alabama and died. Henry married Nancy Carmichael, daughter of Squire Dougald Carmichael, on Maiden Down and Buck Swamp; they had Catharine, Colin Murchison, Milton, Virginia and Sarah. 'Catharine married S. G. Porter. Colin Murchison went to Mississippi. Melton married Miss Relda Proctor, and has a family - a son grown, Lonney, and a daughter grown, Bessie, and other children. Virginia married R. J. Rogers, and has a large family - a son, Henry, grown, and a daughter, Mary, grown, and other children. Sarah married M. M. Bird; they have a family of children, two grown, Claudius and Mary. John Norton married twice ; first, Nancy Huggins, daughter of Willis Huggins ; by this marriage he had John W., Mary Elizabeth and Caroline; he married, second time, the widow of Angus Carmichael, whose maiden name was Pensy Lewis; by this marriage he had Evan, James, Eliza, Martha and Margaret. His son, John W., married, first, Susannah Carmichael daughter of his second wife, Pensy, by her first husband, Angus Carmichael; his wife died, leaving one child, a daughter, named Ires, who, when seven or eight years of age, was killed in a cotton gin; John W. Norton married, a second time, the Widow Carmichael, nee Jordan; by this marriage he had only one child, a daughter, Minnie, who died when about grown - her mother having died before she did ; John W. married, a third wife, Sarah Ivey, and by her be had four children, two sons and two daughters (small) ; he is now seventy years of age or more ; he was always a modest and retiring sort of man. Away back in the so's, he went to Mississippi and enlisted in the regular army of the United States, Second United States Cavalry Regiment, of which Algernon Sydney Johnson was Colonel ; Robert E. Lee, Lieutenant Colonel ; E. Kirt)y Smith, Major, and Earle Van Dom, Senior Captain. J. W. Norton was in Van Dorn's company, and was promoted to the rank of Quartermaster Sergeant. All these oflScers became, in the Confederate army, distinguished and highly distinguished Generals. J. W. Norton served five years in this regiment, and at the end of his service he was given a three months furlough to visit his home ; at the end of which he went to his regiment, with a view to re-enlist ; but just at this time Secession occurred ; his Second Regiment of Cay- airy was 'broken up - its officers being all Southern men - and he came back to South Carolina, volunteered in Captain W. P. Shooter's company, went to Virginia, and remained in the Confederate Army till its surrender at the end of the war. He was wounded twice in battles with the Indians while in the United States service, and again slightly while in the Confed^ erate service. He did not marry till late in life, and after the Confederate War ; since which he has married three times, as above stated. With the prestige of this five years' previous service with and under officers so distinguished, he might have gotten some soft place in the Confederate service, but for his modesty and unpretentious disposition. Mary Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of John Norton, married Aaron Oliver, of Robeson County, N. C, where she ever afterwards lived and died; she raised quite a large family in that State. Caroline, the second daughter of John Norton, married L,ewis Huggins, and raised a large family; they emigrated to Georgia a few years ago, and are there now. Of the children of John Norton by his second marriage, Eliza, the eldest daughter, married Gilbert D. Johnson, a nephew of the late Hugh R. Johnson; they live near the old Norton homestead, and have no children. The third and youngest daughter, Margaret, married Valentine Martin ; they have had twelve children - lost two ; six are grown, Don, Lilly, Pensy, Maggie, Kate and May ; and of this six, Pensy married Hampton Rogers, two or three days ago; the other five are not grown. Mattie, the second daughter of old John Norton, married D. Latta Townsend, of North Carolina ; they have a large family, some of them grown ; they emigrated to Georgia some years ago, and are now in that State. Of the sons of old man John Norton by his second marriage, Evan, the eldest, after the war, married Miss Ella Powell, moved to Conway, and is yet there ; he has five children - three sons and two daughters ; the sons are J. O., James and John Clarence; the daughters are Ella Wood (called Daisey) and Mabel. Of the sons, J. O. (called Van) is a graduate of Wofford College, in the class of 1895 ; he is unmarried, and is an employee in the Census Department in Washington. James went to Woiiford, but did not graduate, and is now taking his third course in a medical college. John Clarence is now a student in Clemson College. Of the two daughters, Ella Wood (Daisey) married a Mr. Crouch, Clerk of the Court for Saluda County, resides in that place, and has one child. Mabel, the youngest, is grown. The father, Evan Norton, is a fine physician, of high moral character, well posted and a man of great good sense ; has never sought or held any public position except that of County Auditor for Horry, but has declined all such, when offered to him. James, the youngest brother of Dr. Evan Norton, married, i8th May, 1870, Rachel Cochrane Sellers, the daughter of the writer, and located at Mullins, near where he was born and raised, and merchandised for several years; he had two children, boys, Evan Lewis and William Fitzroy. The oldest, Evan Lewis, died when between four and five years of age. William Fitzroy, the younger, grew up, and after spending a year or two in Wofford College, he entered the South Carolina College law department, and graduated therein, but has never practiced; he married, in 1896, Miss Florence Smith, eldest daughter of B. Cause Smith, of Mullins ; he runs a farm and a tobacco warehouse - ^the future must determine his success or failure.

The career of Hon. James Norton merits more than mere personal mention. Raised on a farm, as it were, between the plow-handles, and opportunities for education being limited, he went into the war as a private at the age of seventeen, and fought it through to the end; wounded several times before 1864 ; was thought to be mortally wounded, being shot through one of his lungs ; he was f urloughed to go home, as soon as he was able to travel ; after getting, as he and his friends thought, about well of his wound, he returned to his command in Virginia, and was soon captured and carried to Point Lookout, and kept there till July, 1865, when he was turned out of prison and came home. Not being physically able to do hard work, he engaged in turpentine and mercantile pursuits at Mullins. He married, in May, 1870, as before stated, and in the fall of that year was nominated and elected School Commissioner for the county. Served a term, two years, was again nominated and elected for a second term ; but he, with all other officials elected that fall (1872), were counted out by the negro scalawag and carpet-bag election officials. In 1886, he was a candidate for

Representative of the county in the Legislature, was elected at the head of his ticket, and served during the term for which he had been elected. In 1890, he was again nominated and elected at the head of his ticket for another term, which he served with credit to himself and satisfactory to his constituents. In the meantime, the late Governor EUerbe had been elected Comptroller General of the State, and he appointed Hon. James Norton as chief Clerk, which place he filled with entire satisfaction to his chief and to the public for two terms of that ofKoe ; and owing to Ellerloe's bad health during his two terms, Norton practically ran the Comptroller's office; he did it with such signal ability and success, that he was triumphantly nominated and elected, at the expiration of EUerbe's second term, as EUerbe's successor. He then held the office as Comptroller General for his term, two years, and was then re-elected for another term without opposition, and EUerbe, at the election in 1896, was elected Governor. In May following, Joseph H. Earle, one of our United States Senators, died, and Governor EUerbe appointed John L. McLaurin United States Senator, in place of Earle - which necessarily vacated McEaurin's seat in the United States House of Representatives for this, the 6th Congressional District of South Carolina - whereupon James Norton became a candidate to fill the unexpired term of Mc- Eaurin, and after a spirited campaign, Norton was elected, and again elected in 1898, and served with credit to himself in the Eifty-fifth and sixth Congresses. It does not become the writer to say much, as he is the father-in-law of Norton, and, therefore, he states only facts ; but will add that Norton is no ordinary man, otherwise he could not have accomplished so much.

Lewis. - This family were from Ireland, and settled in Virginia. A son of this family, named William, came to South Carolina before the Revolution; he married Miss Mourning Vampelt, a Hollander. Tradition informs us that her father and she came from Holland together, leaving his family in Holland; they came, as it seems, prospecting, and got down into South Carolina, where they met up with William Lewis, and soon an attachment (mutual) sprang up between the two young people, and they got married; whereupon old man Vampelt went back to Holland for his family, and was never afterwards heard of. William Lewis settled in Horry County ; they had and raised seven sons and two daughters ; the sons were William, James, Isaac, Hardy, Joel, Jonathan and Patrick; the girls were Polly and Zilpha. Of these, Polly married Averitt Nichols, of Columbus County, N. C, and was the mother of the late venerable Averitt Nichols, of Nichols, S. C. The other daughter, Zilpha, married William Gerald, of Horry. Of the sons, Hardy, Joel and Jonathan settled in Marion County - Hardy on Little Pee Dee, below Gilchrist's Bridge, Joel and Jonathan higher up the river, on the south side, near where Miller's Church now stands ; and James at Allen's Bridge. Hardy Lewis married Dicey Floyd ; they had and raised two sons, William L. and Joel W. P. Lewis, and four daughters - Betsy, who never married ; Mourning, Margaret, Lizzie and another, the wife of James D. Smith. Mourning married W. H. Grice ; Margaret married John Price; Lizzie married Henry Price. Of the sons of Hardy Lewis, William L. marired Flora Carmichael, daughter of Squire Dougald, on Maiden Down and Buck Swamp; they had sons, Angus, Allen C. and W. A. D. Marion Lewis; and daughters, Catharine, Mary and Flora. Of the sons, Angus was killed in the war. Allen C. married, first, a daughter of Hiram Lee ; by this marriage he had one son, Heribert, now in Wofford College, and Capers, and three daughters, grown. The Lee wife dying, he married a daughter of George W. Smith, and by her has some small children. W. A. D. Marion Lewis, called Dougald, married a Miss Bullock in North Carolina, and lives on part of the old homestead ; has a family, sex and number unknown. Catharine married Randal McDaniel, and moved to Darlington. Mary married Randal Barnes ; has no offspring. Flora married in North Carolina, and died without issue. Joel W. P. Lewis, the youngest son of old Hardy, married a Miss Cox ; had two sons, Solon A. and Dio. The latter lately married a daughter of Duncan Nicholson. Solon A. Lewis, now at Latta, married a Miss Tart, youngest daughter of the late John W. Tart ; she died a year or so ago, leaving two children (small), both daughters. J. W. P. Lewis has three single daughters ; he died a year or so ago. Jonathan Lewis, brother of old Hardy, married, first.

Susannah Porter, of Columbus County, N. C. ; by her he had two children, one son, Evan, and one daughter, Pennsy or Pennsylvania; his second wife was Feraiba Strickland, and by her he had two sons, William S. and Joel. Of the children by the first marriage, Evan Eewis married Miss Margaret Cribb, and by the marriage had two sons, Jonathan and Dempsy, and two daughters, Carrie and Adaline, called Addie. Of the daughters, Carrie Eewis married Dr. F. M. Monroe, of the Latta section; by this marriage several children were born. Addie, the younger daughter, married Oliver Williams, of North Carolina; they have two sons. Of the sons of Evan Lewis, the eldest, Jonathan, has never married - a young man about fifty years of age, of good habits and morals, a well-todo, good citizen and reliable every way. Why he has not married and made some good woman happy, is a mystery, which, perhaps, will never be solved! Dempsy Lewis, the younger brother, married in early life. Miss Eliza Jane Stackhouse, daughter of the late Mastin C. Stackhouse ; they have ten children, eight sons and two daughters ; the sons are Taylor, Leon, Marvin, Victor - these are grown ; four others, Odell, Rupert, Evan and Ernest - ^these are not grown; the two daughters, Maggie and Addie, near grown - not one of the ten children married ; he is a good man and substantial citizen. William S. Lewis, by old Jonathan's second marriage, married Miss Rhoda Mace (both now dead) ; they had five children, Sarah, W. Evan, Anne, Joel J. and J. Wesley. Sarah married Robert Edwards ; had two sons, Sandy and George ; the father is dead. The two sons went to Arkansas ; Sandy is dead ; George is in Texarkana, and is Sheriff of that county or the one in which that city is located, and is well to do. W. Evan is on the old homestead, married a Miss Avant, and has some family (young) ; is a good citizen. Anne married, first, Marion Avant; by whom she had one son, Willie, who grew up to manhood and died - a very promising young man ; his mother, the widow, married again John A. Wilson, of Wilmington, N. C, and is, as it is said, doing well. Joel and Wesley went West; Joel is said to be doing well in New Orleans. Pennsy, the only daughter of old Jonathan Lewis, and full sister of Evan Lewis, married, first, Angus Carmichael, and by him she had one child, a daughter, who grew up and married John W. Norton, as hereinbefore stated in or among the Norton family ; Pennsy, the widow, then married John Norton, the father of Hon. James Norton, and who has already been noticed among the Norton family. Evan Lewis was a capital man and good citizen - a useful man in his day ; was a good surveyor - ^plats, made by him, are now to be seen often, and bear the scrutiny of the Courts. He was opposed to the Confederate War, but had the good sense to keep his mouth shut, and to "stand to one side and let the procession pass by." Joel Lewis, the brother of old Jonathan, and one of the seven brothers, married Ruth Norton, grand-aunt of Hon. James Norton; they moved to Mississippi, about 1818; and thence, years afterwards, to Texas. This ascertained from recent correspondence with Mrs. Minerva Lewis Jones, the youngest and only surviving child of old Joel and his wife, Ruth, and who resides at Gonzales, Gonzales County, Texas. Joel Lewis, the youngest son of old Jonathan, by his second marriage, married a Miss Flowers, after he went to Mississippi ; can follow him no farther.

Fowler. - The first Fowler known in the county was William Fowler, who came from North Carolina, about the date of 1800. He married a daughter of George Brown, and lived near Gapway; he had some daughters and one son, Jessee. Jessee married a sister of Harrison Lambert ; they had several children. Martha married Daniel Williamson. Patience married a Mr. Keith, and had one child ; Keith died, and the widow then married Levi Edwards. Sarah married a Mr. Tolar, and both died. Mary Fowler never married. The oldest son. Furman Fowler, married a Miss White, and raised a family unknown to the writer. Joseph Fowler married, first, a Miss Brown and had a family, how many not known - they are grown ; his Brown wife died, and he married again, a daughter of Stephen R. Collins, and had several children by her. Stephen Fowler married a Miss Collins, daughter of William Collins and a sister of Valentine Rowell's wife, and has a family of sons and daughters, the oldest son grown. Major Fowler married, first, a daughter of Bethel Rogers, of the upper Fork section ; she died at her first accouchement - the child, however, lived; his second wife was a daughter of Daniel Snipes, and she has three or four children. His first child, Maggie, married Daniel Owens, and she has considerable family, number and sex unknown. This family of Fowlers are good people. Few better men, if any, can be found than old man Jesse Fowler was - of the strictest integrity, scrupulously honest in all his dealings with his fellow-men, industrious and frugal; though not a rich man, yet he acquired by honest endeavor a comfortable living ; was true to his church, his God and his country ; his good influence will tell upon his children and his community for years to come.

Shooter. - ^The first of this family in Marion County was old Benjamin Shooter and his wife, Mary; her maiden name is unknown. They came from Virginia or North Carolina, about 1790. They had and raised three children or more - one son, Benjamin, Jr., and two daughters, names unknown. One of the daughters married old Thomas Rogers, and the other married the late Captain John Rogers, of the Fork section. Captain John Rogers, a capital citizen, had and raised a considerable family; the sons were Bethel, Ferdinand, Tristram B. and John W. Rogers ; the names of the daughters are unknown, also tbe number. One became the wife of George W. Reaves, already mentioned herein among the Reaves ; another was the wife of Matthew Martin, and another was the wife of the late Aaron Martin. These latter have already been noticed in or among the Martin family. There may have been other daughters of Captain John Rogers. Know nothing of old Thomas Rogers' family. Of the sons of Captain John Rogers, the eldest, Bethel, married a daughter of Rev. Moses Coleman; he has raised a considerable family, who are now among us, and energetic and respectable people. Ferdinand Rogers married a daughter of Samuel Edwards, and has raised several childtren, who are now among us and respectaible citizens. Tristram B. Rogers was a capital man; he married a daughter of Joseph B. Hays ; he had and raised a large family. One of his sons, J. Marion Rogers, is a graduate of Wofford College, and a minister in the South Carolina Conference of the Meth6dist Church. Another son, Herbert, is a graduate of the Citadel Academy, Charleston, and is said to be very bright and promising. T. B. Rogers had other sons and daughters, who are among us and are coming people. John W. Rogers, another son of old Captain John, married a daughter of old William Hays ; he died some years ago, and left a promising family of sons and daughters, all doing. well. W. R. Rogers, a merchant at Marion, is one of them, and is succeeding well. Benjamin Shooter, Jr., married a daughter of George Ford, as hereinbefore stated among the Ford family, and settled in the "Fork" section, on the place now belonging to Dempsy Ivcwis ; he had and raised a family of eight sons, to wit: Berry A., George E., W. Pinckney, William, Benjamin Franklin, Evander C, John Milton and Albert H. ; and one daughter, Martha, who married John W. Moody, and had one child, a daughter, and died. Of the sons. Berry A. married a Miss Campbell (I think), and had and raised a family. George E. Shooter was a doctor, and married, first. Miss Caroline Ford, a daughter of Major Jessee Ford ; and had by her several children, when she died, and he married again, a Miss Harrelson, and by her had children also - how many not known - when the father died. Dr. Shooter was no ordinary man - ^he had one failing which, perhaps, shortened his days; I know nothing of his family. W. Pinckney Shooter was the first graduate from Marion County (1859) in the Citadel Academy; after graduation, he studied law at Marion with George M. Fairlee, and was admitted to the bar just as the war commenced ; he was talented and brilliant ; he volunteered and was elected First lyieutenant in the first company that went from Marion. The company left Marion 4th January, 1861, and went to Morris Island, Charleston, and formed a part of the First Regiment under the command of Colonel (afterwards General) Maxcy Gregg, and participated in the capture of Fort Sumter, in April ( 12th and 13th) , 1861 . After the fall of Fort Sumter, there was a revolunteering of the company for the war and for the Confederacy, and W. P. Shooter was elected its Captain, and went with his company to Virginia. He was a brave and gallant officer, and rose from Captain to lyieutenant Colonel of the Regiment, when he was killed at Spottsylvania

C. H., in May, 1864; he never married. B. Frank (killed 6tli May) and Evander C. (killed 12th May, 1864), two of his brothers lost their lives in the series of battles fought that month between Grant and Lee's armies. William N. Shooter, I think, married a Miss Campbell, also ; they have a family, about whom nothing is known. John Milton married in North Carolina. Albert H. Shooter, the youngest son of Benjamin, Jr., married Miss Josephine Roberts, a daughter of the late James Roberts, and has a coming family - how many and their sex, is not known ; he is one of our good citizens. Of the eight sons, three were killed in the war, and two have died since the war ; the survivors are William, John Milton and Albert H. As a family they were intellectual and of acute perceptions, brave almost to rashness, and full of pluck and energy. John Milton and Albert were too young to go into the war. Old Aunt Mary Shooter, as she was familiarly called sixty-five years ago, the grand-mother of these soldier boys, lived to a great age - over ninety years.

Campbbll (of Maidbn Down). - The progenitor of this family was named James. He came from Virginia in the eighteenth century, married and had five sons, John, James, Jr., Jerre, Gadi and Theophilus ; and one daughter, Nancy Ann, who became the wife of old John Huggins, of Huggins' Bridge, on Little Pee Dee, and who has already been noticed herein among the Huggins family; and Mary, who married Willis Huggins, cousin of old John, and Elizabeth, who never married. James Campbell, Jr., married Miss Molsey (Mary) Barnes, and had Ebby and James, and three daughters. One of the latter died unmarried. James (second), Jr., married Chloe Rogers, and had one son, Frank ; his wife died ; he married no more; is now dead. Frank married a Miss Jones, daughter of Ebby Jones, and is now a young citizen and promises well. Ebby Campbell married Charlotte Lane, and has six children - ^three sons, Spencer, George and another, name unknown; one daughter married Leonard Lewis, and has a family (small) ; another daughter married some one unknown; think the other daughter is single. Jerre Campbell married Miss Patience Scott, daughter of old Pharoah Scott, in the

Tabernacle section, in Hillsboro; they had two sons and four daughters ; the sons are Kenneth and Eli. One daughter married Willis Rogers, and had Simeon, Hampton and others. Eli Campbell married Miss Josephine Huggins, and had one child, a daughter, who married Percy Harrelson, and has one or two children (small). One daughter of Jerre married Lawrence Sessions; she had three or four children, and died. Two of Jerre's daughters are unmarried. Kenneth Campbell married a Miss Harrelson, and has two daughters, unmarried." Gadi Campbell married Mary Norton, sister of John Norton and aunt of Hon. James Norton ; they had four sons, Warren W., Charles Fletcher, Theophilus and Benjamin F., and three daughters, Martha, Emaline and Elizabeth. Of the daughters, Martha married James Dudney, and had and raised several children, all grown, about whom little is known; Emaline Campbell married the late Thomas A. Proctor, and had several children. Of the daughters of Thomas A. Proctor, the eldest married Thomas Cottingham, and had one or two children; she died several years ago. Another daughter, Mary Proctor, married Major Bird, and had one child, and died. Relda Proctor married Milton Norton, and has a family (coming) . Sarah married a Mr. Williams, and has a large family ; they are in Hampton County ; and Miss Fannie Proctor is unmarried. Elizabeth Campbell married R. B. Game, arid they had and raised a considerable family. Of the daughters of R. B. Game and wife, Hattie married a Mr. Hunter; they are in Florence County. Mary Game married Samuel Rogers ; they have quite a family ; they live in Columbia. Roberta Game married Albert Rogers ; have a family (small). Georgia Game married a Mr. Chreitzberg ; they had two children, a son and a daughter, Robert and Lula (small). Chrietzberg dying, the widow married Daniel Martin, of Mullins ; no children by her Martin marriage. Lila Game is unmarried. Of the sons of Gadi Campbell, Warren W. died a young single man, just as he was preparing to enter as a minister in the South Carolina Conference (Methodist). Charles Fletcher Campbell, son of Gadi, never married; he joined'the South Carolina Conference in "1859, 3-"^ died in i860, at the age of twenty-seven. Benjamin F. Campbell, son of Gadi, never married ; he died or was killed in the war. Theo- philas Campbell, son of Gadi, married Emma Huggins; he is dead; left his widow, two sons and four daughters. Of the daughters, Louisa married a Mr. Proctor ; he died and left her with two children; she is in -Washington - ^whether married again, the writer knows not. Dora, the next daughter, married T. W. Sellers, the nephew of the writer ; she died, and left two children, daughters (small). Etta, the next daughter, is also in Washington, D. C. ; said to be married, but to whom is not known. Maggie, the youngest, is unmarried, perhaps not grown. Of the two sons, Iverson and Capers, they are with their mother ; neither one of them is grown. Theophilus Campbell, son of James, St., and brother of Gadi Campbell, married Miranda Cribb ; had several children, emigrated to Mississippi. Of the sons of Thomas A. Proctor, Marion, the oldest, married a Miss Shuler, of Orangeburg County, and has a large family ; don't know their names. George Proctor married a Miss Mc- Coy, and has one or two children (small). Thomas, a son, went to Alabama. Robert married Jennie Mclntyre, and has gone to Georgia. Of the sons of Robert B. Game, Simpson married a daughter of Huger Godbold, and has quite a family. Morgan Game went to Anderson County, and married there. Joseph Bethea Game, the youngest son, is grown; he married in North Carolina; has a family; he belongs to the South Georgia Conference, and is now stationed in Brunswick, Ga. - is said to be a fine preacher ; he is well educated, well equipped for his profession. R. B. Game's Campbell wife died, and he married, a second time. Miss Lizzie Fladger, daughter of Captain C. J. Fladger, and by her has one daughter, Minnie, who is said to be very smart and intellectual. John Campbell, brother of Gadi, Jeremiah, &c., married some one not now remembered, but had no offspring.

Atkinson. - This family, or rather the Widow Atkinson, came from Sampson County, N. C, with her children, about the last of the eighteenth century, and settled near where Miller's Church now stands. She had three sons, Jessee and two others, names not a:scertainable, and one daughter, if no more ; she married Nat, or Elias Miller, one of whom was the founder of Miller's Church, and for whom that church was named, and is still called and known by that name. It has already been mentioned in or among the Norton family. The eldest son of the widow (if not the oldest), the one named Jessee, married a Miss Bryant, first, and to that marriage were born and raised four children, three sons and one daughter ; the sons were Jessee, Ebby and Hugh; the daughter was Sarah Ann, and she became the wife of Vincent Godbold, and had and raised six or eight daughters and one son, Eli Godbold, now in Horry. Old Jessee Atkinson's second wife was Miss Margaret Cave, and by her had eight children, to wit: Charlotte, Elizabeth, Eliza Ann, Annis, Jane, William J., John W. and Thomas. Of these, Charlotte married a Mr. Welsh; had no children. Eizabeth married William Woodward, and had one daughter, named Charlotte. They all, if alive, are in Richmond County, N. C. Eliza Ann, the third daughter, died unmarried. Annis, the fourth daughter, married Stephen H. Price, of the Maple Swamp section, and brother to one Hugh P. Price, now in that section ; they had four children, two boys and two girls. Stephen H. Price died, leaving those children all small. The eldest, Jessee, has a family, in Horry. The youngest boy died young. The oldest girl died unmarried. The younger one married Mr. Cause Owens, and has a growing family. Jane, the fifth daughter, married Joseph Stevens; he is dead - left three children, two sons, Benjamin and Hamilton, and one girl - all married Ammonses. William J. Atkinson, oldest son of old Jessee by his second marriage, married Martha Jane Harrelson, daughter of old Hugh H. Harrelson ; died and left three children, Hugh J., George, and a daughter - ^the latter married an Ammons. George married a Miss Berry, daughter of Bright W. Berry, near the Reedy Creek Springs, in upper Marion ; has some children, don't know sex or number. Don't know to whom Hugh J. married. John W. Atkinson, now of Marion, the second son of old Jessee by his second marriage, married, first, Miss Eliza Dew, daughter of old William Dew, of upper Marion, near Catfish Baptist Church, and by her had one child, a son, Thomas J., when the wife, Eliza, died. Thomas J. grew up and married a daughter of Squire Stephen A. Hairgrove, and now resides in the Catfish neighborhood; he has two daughters, Viola and Eilla, who are the idols of their Aunt

Huldah Hairgrove, an old maiden lady of fifty years or more. Thomas Atkinson, the youngest son of old Jessee or Jessee, Jr., by his second marriage (Cave), married Martha Dew, the youngest daughter of old William Dew, above mentioned ; they had one child, a son, William B. Atkinson, who grew up and married a Miss Gaddy, daughter of Samuel T. Gaddy, near Gaddy's Mills; he lives on the old William Dew homestead, with his mother. William B. Atkinson is an excellent manager of affairs, a good farmer and prosperous ; he has seven or eight children, some of them grown, names unknown. His father, Thomas Atkinson, died when he was quite a child ; he was and is the only child of his mother, who yet lives - rather an extra woman, of fine sense. John W. Atkinson's wife dying, he married the Widow Beaty, nee Hemingway, mother of Rev. L. F. Beaty, of the South Carolina Conference, a strong preacher ; by this second marriage John W. Atkinson has no children. Ebby Atkinson, third son of Jessee, Sr., son of the old widow from Sampson County, N. C, married Olive Gasque, daughter of old Absalom Gasque, the old court crier, who was calling the Court away back in 1840, and how long before is unknown ; he continued to call the Court while be lived, and after his death it descended, not by inheritance but by appointment, to his son, Henry A. Gasque, and he held it to 1890 or 1891, when the "Tillman boom" lifted him out - reform downwards. Old man Ebby Atkinson and wife raised quite a family, mostly girls, onfe son, Ebby, who married a daughter of the late J. C. Thompson ; they have children. One daughter, Celia Ann, married Eli Godbold, who moved to Horry County ; they had several children, mostly sons, the three oldest known - Christopher Columbus, Ebby and William Eli - and others not known. Ebby Atkinson had another daughter, Mary, who married a Lovel - and one married a Richardson - 'think her name was Minnie. Know nothing further of old man Ebby's family or descendants. Hugh Atkinson, a brother of old Ebby, married a Miss Goldbold, lived to an old age and died childless. The Atkinsons, as a family, are honest and straight, retiring and unpretending; live at home and harmless. The old widow from Sampson County, N. C, had two other sons, whose names are not remembered. The Atkinsons of Georgetown are said to be relatives of these in Marion, but what relation is unknown. One of the Georgetown Atkinsons was Circuit Solicitor some twenty-five or thirty years ago ; he may be a descendant of one of the widow's sons. Ex-Governor Atkinson of Georgia may also be a descendant of one of the widow's sons - who can tell ? The name is spelled in the same way. Her two sons went somewhere. Jessee only remained here.

Fladger. - Since noting the families of Evans, Godbold, Haselden and Richardsons herein, the wiriter has obtained information that enables him to connect branches of the above named families with the Fladgers - a name now extinct in the county, except one female, now forty years of age, Sallie Maria Fladger, daughter of the late Captain Charles J. Fladger, by his second marriage with the Widow William S. Bethea. That female will hardly ever marry; and if she does, will, perhaps, change her name from Fladger to some other name - so that, it is the remotest possibility that the name will continue much longer in the county, once prominent. About 173S, one of the first settlements was made by a colony, direct from England, in Britton's Neck, and one of these colonists was a Fladger (Gregg's History, page 69), and from him the name and its connections have come do^n to the present time. The writer is indebted to Mrs. Major S. A. Durham, a descendant of this old colonist Fladger, for the missing link. Hugh Fladger was his name (a name in the family ever since) ; to whom he married is unknown - he may have married in England and brought his wife with him; he had a son, named Henry Fladger, who married a Miss Keene, daughter of Brockingham Keene, and Keene's wife was a Miss Horry, a sister of Colonel Horry. Henry Fladger had a son, named Hugh Fladger (our old Hugh, whom the writer has often seen), and two daughters - Sarah, who married General Thomas Godbold, and another, name not known, who married John Richardson (called "King John.") Henry Fladger was active in the Revolution, was under General Francis Marion, and was killed by the Tories during that momentous struggle. The above sketch being read in connection with the Godbold, Evans, Haselden and King John Richardson's family, it will be seen that these fam- ilies and their descendants are all related to each other collaterally - their common ancestor being Henry Fladger, son of old Hugh, the colonist to Britton's Neck from England, about 1735. Kladger blood runs through all their veins.

Smith. - The name Smith is almost universal. It is found, I suppose, wherever the English language is spoken. It may fairly be assumed that all the Smiths had somewhere, at some remote period, a common ancestor - ^that is, an original stock whence they all sprang. To find it, the writer thinks is impossible, and he will not undertake to do so - does not know that he can do so, so far as Marion County is concerned, but will approach as near to it as he can. The first of which the writer knows or has any information concerning was John Smith, who settled upon and lived near the place now known as E. J. Moody's Mill, long before the Revolution - during the Revolution it was known as Tart's Mill. When it was built or by whom, is not known. It may have been built by John Smith or by Enos Tart. Enos Tart's mother was the sister or daughter of John Smith. This old John Smith had a family of sons and diaughters, but how many of each is not known ; from the best information obtainable this old John Smith had sons, named John, Samuel and James, and njay be others ; can't say as to any daughters, but am pretty sure that old Enos Tart's mother was his daughter rather than his sister. John Smith, Jr., as is supposed, lived before and after the Revolutionary War, between the two (lower) Reedy Creeks, west of Gapway Baptist Church and east of Marion Court House. It is told of him that he was well-to-do, and that during the war he buried considerable money (specie) near the Little Reedy Creek. This John Smith, it is supposed and believed, was either the grand-father or the father of Hugh Godbold Smith, John Smith, Willis G. Smith, Leonard Smith, Ebby Smith and two or three daughters. One daughter married a Malloy, and moved to Horry. Another married James Tart, who had a considerable family, all of whom are dead, except one son, the youngest, C. Murchison Tart, in Columbus County, N. C. Of these sons, John and Ebby Smith moved to Alabama about 1820 or 1825. Willis G. Smith married a Miss Beverly, and raised a family ; don't know how many. One daughter married G. W. Smithey, who had and raised two children, a son, J. W. G. Smithey, and the wife of John Smithey - "One-eyed John." The son, J. W. G. Smithey, married a Miss Malloy, of Conway ; lives now in Marion, and has an interesting and promising family, some of them grown. Leonard Smith married a Miss Foxworth ; his male descendants were John, David and Jerry ; don't know who they married or what has become of them or their posterity, if they had any. Old man Willis G. Smith was quite a character - there was only one Willis G. Smith; he never wore any socks - at least, the writer never saw him with any; saw him frequently, and often in cold, bitter weather, at Marion, without any socks - he was emphatically "Sockless Willis ;" he was very profane, and in the habit of frequently using words not suited to a Sunday School, and about 1846, when the project of building the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad was being discussed at Marion, General EvaniS, General Wheeler and others were telling old man Willis about how it was to be constructed, how it was to be propelled, how many people it could carry, and how fast it could run, or its rate of speed, &c., old man Willis would swear most bitterly that tbey were all liars; that such a thing could not be and they knew it could not be; that they were just gassing and trying to fool him, &c. - ^this done with the most vehement expletives. I think the old man lived to see the road completed to Marion. Tbey tried to get him' to take a trip on it, but he persistently refused, and never would risk himself on it. If the old gentleman oould wake up now, and see the gilded flying palace cars running fifty miles an hour, half a dozen coaches filled with passengers, all eating and sleeping while thus flying over and through the country, he would be astounded, sure enough - he would look on it with awe and incredulity, and regard it as supernatural or miraculous. The other brother, Hugh Godbold Smith, married a Miss Wheeler, sister of General E. B. Wheeler; by this marriage several children were born and raised' - four sons, Redding, Edward, John G. and Hugh H. Smith; and one daughter, Margaret Smith. Redding W. Smith married, first, a Miss Brown, whose mother was a Godbold ; his children were Dr. Edward B.,

Zack, Mary E. and Sally H. Smith. Of these daughters, Mary E. married Captain A. H. Ford; they raised a family, the number and sex unknown - some or all are grown. They first moved to Anderson County, and after remaining there for several years, they with their family emigrated to Texas, where they now reside. The other daughter, Sally H., married M. L. Smith, of Buck Swamp ; they raised a family, some of whom are married and have families. Of the two sons, Zack, the younger one, was a Lieutenant in Captain Shooter's company, I'st Regiment (Gregg's), and died unmarried, from wounds received in battle at Hagerstown, Md. The elder son. Dr. E. B. Smith, married, after the war, Mrs. Pattie Mclntyre, nee Betts, widow of Lieutenant Archie Mclntyre, who was killed in September, 1862, at Sharpsburg, Md. - a brave and generous young officer; she was a daughter of the Rev. Charles Betts, of the South Carolina Conference, a strong preacher in his day. She had a son by Mclntyre, Archie Mclntyre, named for his father, now an excellent physician and prominent citizen of the town of Marion; by this marriage four children were born and raised, to wit : three sons and one daughter - Charles B. Smith, in Philadelphia ; Dr. Zack Smith, who married Miss Lilly Clark, daughter of the late R. K. Clark; and Richard Smith, who married Miss Isla Ellerbe, daughter of Colonel E. B. Ellerbe. The daughter. Miss Anna Smith, is unmarried; the mother died a few years ago ; the doctor has not remarried. Dr. E. B. Smith deserves more than a passing notice ; he graduated in the medical college in Charleston, in i860, with first distinction; was Assistant Surgeon in the army during the Civil War ; he was, spme years ago, elected to the lower House of the General Assembly without canvassing the county - ^he declined to canvass, stayed at home while others canvassed the voters ; he is a very intelligent and well-posted man, up-to-date in every way, and one of our best citizens. He is a model and progressive farmer - his farm is a large one for these times and for this county, yet it seemis to be cultivated like a garden - in first class condition; all the appointments about it seem to be arranged f of convenience and success ; he is great for experiments, and, I suppose, has made more experiments with the application and use of fertilizers than any experimental station in the State. Redding W. Smith, the father of Dr. E. B. Smith, married a second time, and by that marriage had a son, Stonewall Jackson Smith, a druggist at Mullins. John G. Smith married a Miss Jordan, and his sons are John, EUy and Ellison H. Smith, and three daughters ; the sons are all doing well, and are substantial citizens. Elly Smith married, first. Miss Kate Brown, diaughter of old C. B. Brown, of Marion, and had two sons, Tillman and LeGrande; the Brown wife died, and he married, a second time, a daughter of Daniel Snipes ; know nothing as to his family by the last marriage. Know nothing of John and Ellison H. Smith's family, nor of the three daughters of John G. Smith. Margaret Smith, a daughter of Hugh Godbold Smith, married Stephen T. Collins ; they are both dead, and tlheir children live in the Gapway neighborhood, of whom the writer knows but little and that little will be deferred to the Collins family, when he comes to notice them. Hugh H. Smith married a Miss Shelly, and had one son and three or four daughters. Edward Smith married a Miss Collins, and by her had Redding (called Little Redding), Keene Davis, Ham E. G. and George Smith. This Redding was the father of Edgar, Lide, Dr. Frank and Edward Smith, all in the Mullins region ; "Little Redding's" first wife was a Miss Spivey, daughter of Isaac Spivey, in the Bear Swamp and Holmesville section ; the Spivey wife died, and he lately married the daughter of Jerry Lambert ; "Little Redding" is a prosperous and well-to-do citizen. Of the others of Edward Smith's children and grand^children by Little Redding the writer can say nothing, for the want of information; he knows Dr. Frendh Smith, at Mullins, a young single man, and is well spoken of as a physician, and no doubt but that he will do well.

James Smith, one of the sons of old John Smith, will represent another branch of the Smith family as it now exists in the county. Old man Hugh Smith, remembered by many now living, who lived and died some years ago at or near Temperance Hill, eight miles above Marion, on the road leading to Campbell's Bridge, on Little Pee Dee River, was a son of James Smith, and through him a grand-son of old John ; don't know who old man Hugh Smith's mother or grand-mother was ; old

Hugh married Miss Chloe Perritt, a sister of old man David Perritt ; by their marriage they had five sons, EUy, Hugh G., Hardy, Willis and Joseph,, and daughters, Sarah Ann (Mrs. James V. Rowell), Betsy (Mrs. James Lee), Sallie (Mrs. Wm. Turbeville), and Ailsey (Mrs. McLean), in Texas. Of these daughters, they all, perhaps, have children and grand-children, mostly unknown to the writer. Of the sons, Elly married in Mississippi ; he was killed by a railroad train running over him, some fifteen or twenty years ago, at Marion ; he left one son, who lives in Mississippi. Willis Smith married Miss Adaline Powers, and had six sons, Elly, Augustus, Mitchell Andrew (dead), Robert, Foster and Hugh, and two daughters, Harriett and Elmira. Augustus Smith married Hettie Perritt, and has five children (small). Foster Smith married a Miss Rogers,- and has one child, a son. Hugh G. Smith married a Miss Turbeville, and had one daughter, who married Lemuel Turbeville ; she is now dead, leaving several children. Joseph Smith married Miss Jane Page, daughter of the late John S. Page, and after living together some few years, they were divorced (during existence of the divorce law) ; they had no children. Hardy Smith married Ann Turbeville, and had Willis, Guery and several other children; he lives in the Gaddy's Mill section. Mrs. James Lee had Calvin, Willis and Elly, and daughters, Telatha (Mrs. McCrackin) and Lizzie (Mrs. George Turbeville). Mrs. Turbeville has only one son, Joseph, who married a daughter of Jerry Rowell, near Campbell's Bridge. Mrs. James V. Rowell had two sons, William and Volentine, and one daughter, Silsy, who married a Mr. Bailey. The writer's information as to this branch of the Smith family is somewhat meagre ; and can say no more concerning it.

Another branch of the Smith family in the county is derived from old John Smith, a common ancestor, through his son, Samuel Smith, who lived and died on the road from Marion Court House to Buck Swamp Bridge, just below , Temperance Hill - think he died in 1843, a very old man, between eighty and ninety years of age; he accumulated a large property for his day and time - lands, slaves and money ; in his day, channels of investment were restricted almost exclusively to lands and negroes ; old man Samuel lived close, managed well, and hence he accumulated much. It was said of him (and I suppose it was true) that he never used any of the produce of his farm until it was a year old - always looking for a famine ; be made on his farm what he and his family lived on - spent nothing. It was further said of him that he never spent any silver or gold, but hoarded it - ^that when he died he had a barrel full of silver interspersed with gold ; whether this was true or not, is not certainly known, but such is the traditional reputation. Don't know to whom be married - he, however, did marry, and had and raised a family of three children, two daughters and a son. Of the daughters, one (name not known) became the wife of old Captain William Page, and the other, Elizabeth (called Betsey), married Robert Moody. Old Captain William Page bad and raised a large family, who have already been noticed herein among the Page family. Robert Moody lived and died on south side of Buck Swamp, opposite the bridge ; he left bis widow, Betsey, and a large family of cbildren, who have already been mentioned herein among the Moody family and others, with whom connected. The son, Samuel (called Samuel Smith, Jr., while his father lived), married, first, a daughter of old Osborne Lane, hereinbefore mentioned ; be settled on Buck Swamp, near where Mts. Sophia Thompson, nee Sophia Beithea, now lives. By the L,ane wife, Samuel Smith, Jr., as then called, had and raised two sons, John L. and Stephen. I think these have already been mentioned among the L,anes, and perhaps among the Huggins. As to the latter, John L,. Smith became a member of the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church, as it then was ( 1834 or 5), and after traveling some three or four years, married a Miss Wannamaker, of Orangeburg, and located and settled on the north side of Buck Swamp, opposite his father's, where be lived, raised sons and daughters, and died there, after marrying a second wife, the Widow Henry ; be died in 1878 ; he raised five sons, Daniel Asbury, Marcus L., Jacob W., John Albert and Wilbur F., and three daughters, Anna M., Mary J. and Hettie. I think these have all been noticed herein among the Lanes, the Betheas, the Nichols and the Pages. John Albert married a*Widaw Smith, nee Collins, in Mississippi, and afterwards came back here, was elected Clerk of the Court in

1880, and died before his time expired, leaving three daughters and a son. Henry, the latter, has a family and lives at Mullins. One of the daughters became the wife of John Wilcox, at Marion, and has a coming family. Another daughter became the wife of Dennis Berry, and has five children, daughters (small) ; and another, Laura, became the wife of Chalmers Rogers, at Mullins, and has two children. The widow, Jennie Smith, has not remarried, and lives with her daughter, Laura, at Mullins. Wilbur F. Smith, youngest son, after graduation in Wofford College, went to Mississippi, yet remains there, has a famil)i These latter have been mentioned here, because not among the Lanes, Betheas, Nichols and Pages. Stephen Smith, the other son by Samuel, Jr.'s, first marriage, married Polly Huggins, the (only) daughter of old John Huggins, and I think he and his children have already been mentioned among the Lanes and Huggins. Lest it may not have been done, I will say, Stephen Smith had sons, Ebby, George W., B. Cause, S. Elmore, S. Whiteford, J. Emory, and another named, as I think, Augustus, who was killed on or by a train, near Florence, during the war - ^he was a mere boy, and was among the reserves, on his way to service or returning from it, when the accident that terminated his life happened. Stephen Smith had and raised four daughters - one the wife of the late Mitchel Martin; another the wife of George Rogers, at Mullins; and two others, who married Nances. One of the Nances died or was killed in the war, and his widow afterwards married Jo^hn C. Harrelson. These have alrady been mentioned among Huggins, Martins and Rogers. Samuel Smith, Jr., as he then was called, lost his Lane wife, and he married, a second wife, Sallie Hays, daughter of Benjamin Hays, of (now) Hillsboro Township, and by her had two sons, William H. and Samuel Smith, whom we will hereinafter designate as Junior and his father as Senior, and daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, Mrs. Mary Roberts, Mrs. Ginsey Ellis and Mrs. Florence Moody, the first wife of E. J. Moody. All these, I think, have already been mentioned among the Hays, Aliens, Roberts, Betheas and M'oodys. Samuel Smith, the father, was an enterprising and successful farmer, a good' manager of his affairs and accumulated a large property, which he left to his children, what he had not previously given them - a large property entirely unencumbered, and which they and their descendants yet retain, notwithstanding the ravages of the war. This family of Smiths, as a whole, are industrious, energetic, frugal, honest, law-abiding and trustworthy citizens.

There is another family of Smiths, below Marion, which I understand is in no way related to those hereinabove noticed - I refer to the late William B. Smith and his family. He, as it is said, came when young from North Carolina, and settled below Reedy Creek Baptist Church, on an apparently poor place ; he was called "Horse-swapping Billy Smith" - he was a great horse trader, and in that respect his mantle has fallen upon his sons, Nat. P. and Henry. "Nat Smith" don't stop at horses and mules, but he descends to oxen, and, I suppose, to all domestic quadrupeds and, maybe, to domestic bipeds, such as chickens, turkeys and geese. William B. Smith, away back in the 50's, carried the mail on horseback from Marion to Bennettsville, by way of Catfish, Reedy Creek, Harlleesville, Selkirk, Brownesyille and Clio to Bennettsville, and back the same route, once a week - 'at which time the writer was postmaster at Reedy Creek; b6 went up one day and came back the next; sometimes one of his boys, James or Nat, would carry it. The writer remembers on one occasion, the old gentleman went up ; his horse sickened and died at Bennettsville, and the next day Mt. Smith came back, walking and carrying the mail bags on his shoulders, and went on to Marion that evening. I suppose he was then fifty years of age, and the distance traveled on his zig-zag route was at least sixty miles. One of the men of the present day, much younger than Mr. Smith, would not think of such a t-rip. Mr. Smith had much of the "get up" in him, and whatever he undertook to do, he did it, and if he failed it was no fault of his ; he was accustomed to labor and hardship, hence it did not hurt him. He lived to be over ninety years of age, and died only a few years ago, much respected. Don't know who his wife was; he raised a considerable family - four sons, if not more, James, Nathaniel P., William B. and Henry, and maybe others - ^these are all the writer remembers ; don't know anything of his daughters, if he had any. James married Miss Anne Grantham, daughter of Owen Grantham, of North Caro- lina; by the marriage three daughters were bom, Elizabeth, Kittie and Jimmy. Jimmy, I think, was bom after the death of her father, who was killed by his wife's cousin, Bright Grantham, just after the war closed ; be left his widow and, it may be said, three little children, all girls ; the widow scuffled' with the privations of the times incident to the war and reconstruction, and raised her daughters in credit and respectably. The eldest, Bettie, married a Mr. Smith - Charles, I believe, is his name ; they have raised a family, several of them grown. The second daughter, Kittie, married' W. S. Foxworth, now a leading and prosperous merchant in Marion, a capital man in many ways ; they have three or four children, none grown. Jimmy, the youngest daughter, married Filmore Whitehearte, who is dead and left his widow with five or six children, all small. Nathaniel P. Smith married a Miss Foxworth, sister of W. S. Foxworth, of Marion; by this marriage several sons and daughters have been born. Two daughters married, don't know to whom. The oldest son, Harvey, sickened and died, a young man just entering life, a year or so ago. His other children are with him. William B., Jr., is one of the citizens below Marion ; he married and has a family. Gilmore Smith, of Dillon, and the efficient marshal of that town, is a son of W. B. Smith, Jr. ; married, I think, a Miss Stalvy, and has a coming family; he is an excellent man and officer, and is much respected. C. W. Smith, below Marion, is another son ; has a family, about which nothing is known ; he is also a good citizen. Henry, the youngest son, married a Miss Dozier, a daughter of the late TuUy Dozier, and sister of J. T. Dozier, the present County Supervisor ; she died a few years ago, and left, I think, two or three children (small). Henry has not remarried; he and his brother "Nat" are each running a livery stable in Marion, and are successful men.

There are some other Smiths in the Mullins section of the county, and is supposed' to be no relation to the other. Smiths of that community. John Smith, of Clay Hill, and George Smith, are referred to ; they descended from our old Moses Smith, who is said to have been a very excellent man ; he was a preacher (Methodist), and the reputation of him is, that he practiced in his own life what he preached to others; he was the grand- father of John and George, now of that community. The old man, Moses, had three sons, Isaiah, Daniel and James. What became of Isaiah and Daniel is not known to the writer. James married Celia Lewis, daughter of old Hardy Lewis ; they had three sons, John,, Daniel and George, and may have had daughters - know nothing of any. John Smith (which is said to be no name) and George are both good, honest, hard-working men, unpretentious ; they are farmers - ^John in particular ; he has an excellent place at Clay Hill, and the writer heard him once say that he could grow anything on his place common to that region, except mortgages - it would not grow them ; and from that expression, it may be inferred what sort of man and farmer he is. "He lives at home and boards at the same place." Know nothing of their immediate families. John Smith is as independent in his circumstances as is Vanderbilt, and, I presume, a much happier man.