Marion County, South Carolina - The whole text, 1902 (part 6 of 15)

Bryant. - ^Another family may be here noticed. The Bryant family is an old family. Jesse Bryant is said to have been the first of that name in the county ; he came from England, as it is said ; he married a Miss Turbeville, supposed to have been a sister of Rev. William Turbeville, who, according to Bishop Gregg (pp. 70 and 71), came over about 1735, and settled at Sandy Bluff, on the Great Pee Dee, with the colony then and there settled, as their minister. "Several brothers came with him, of whom some descendants are now to be found in Marion." It may be presumed that sisters came too, and that one of them married old Jesse Bryant. Old Jesse had sons, William, Stephen and Jesse. Of these, William married Rebecca Miller ; he lived and died some twenty-five or thirty years ago, on the road just above Ebenezer Church, at the age of eighty-nine. Whether William, Stephen or Jesse was the oldest, is not known. Old Billy Bryant raised a large family, four sons and several daughters. Of the sons, John M. Bryant was the oldest ; he died some years ago, at the age of eightythree; he married a Miss Drew, below Marion, and raised a large family - sons, Eli, Solomon, David, Pinckney and Hugh Bryant ; and daughters, Mrs. David Johnson, Mrs. Hardy Johnson and Mrs. Addison Lane. Eli Bryant went West. Solomon Bryant married a daughter of Rev. David Edwards, first, and then a Miss McDonald. I do not know who David married; he has a son, named Curtis Bryant. Pinckney Bryant married, had a large family and is dead ; I don't know who his wife was. Hugh Bryant married a daughter of the late Rev. David Edwards, and has a family; these are now our fellowcitizens, and are contributing their share towards populating aind improving the conditions of the county. John M. Bryant was a solid, number one man, honest, truthful and reliable. Jesse Bryant, son of the first Jesse, went West. Stephen Bryant was the father or grand-father of F. D. Bryant, Esq., of the Marion bar. One of the daughters of the first Jesse was the wife of the late Charles Taylor. One of the sons of old William Bryant, named William, was a Baptist preacher; he went to Horry, and became the head of a family there. Also, did Stephen, the father of F. D. Bryant. Old man William Bryant was a simple-minded gentleman, honest and straight; he acted for many years as a Constable ; and I heard it related of him that on one occasion, having a Magistrate's execution to levy on the property of another, the old man went to the cowpen of the execution debtor to levy upon a bull yearling therein ; that the old man's idea was, that in order to make the levy, as required by the mandate of the execution, he had to lay the execution upon the back of the yearling. Accordingly, the old man went into the cowpen, armed with the execution, and took after the yearling, and after running him a while caught him by the tail, and he and the old man had it round and round the pen, the yearling bellowing ; at last the old man got him hemmed in a jamb of the fence and held him, till he laid the execution on the yearling's back; when the old man said, "I levy upon this yearling in the name of the State of South Carolina." Another incident showing the simplicity of the old gentleman was, that he used to plant and cultivate two and three stalks of corn in a hill. Some one asked him why he did so, saying to him that one stalk in a hill would make more corn than the two or three. The old gentleman replied, that when he cultivated only one stalk in a hill, he never made com enough to do him ; but when he cultivated two and three stalks, he always made plenty ; that when he fed his' horse, he always gave him ten ears at a bait ; that ten little ears would go as far as ten large ones; that two or three stalks in a hill would make more in number than one stalk. Many of the Bryants of Marion have emigrated to other sections of the country. The writer is not reasonably certain that this account of the Bryant family is correct in every particular - it is, however, in accord with the information obtained.

Watson. - ^Another family that may here be noticed, is the Watson family. The progenitor of this family, so far as Marion County is concerned, was Barnabas Watson, on Buck Swamp, who was the great-grand-father of our now fellow-citizens of the county. Old man Isham Watson was the founder, it may be said, of the family on Catfish, in name and fortune. Barny Watson, his father, was married twice ; whether he had a child or children other than Isham, by his first wife, is not known. Isham Watson married and settled on Catfish, near where Antioch Church now stands, in the first part of the nineteenth century, a poor man; his wife was Miss Mary Hays, a sister of the late John C. Hays ; the results of the marriage were five sons, Matthew, James, Isham H., Samuel and William; and seven daughters, Nellie, Nancy, Elizabeth, Mary, Verzella, Fama and Jane ; all raised to be grown and all married, and all now dead, except the daughters, Mary and Jane. Matthew Watson married Miss Celia Easterling, in 1839; and raised a large family of sons and daughters; the sons are David E-. Isham E., Silas, Enos and Robert; and daughters, Martha, Lavina, Kate and Hortensia. David E. Watson married Miss Rose Bass, and has now living two sons and one daughter. Silas Watson married a Miss Page, daughter of W. J. Page, and has a family of sons and daughters, some of them grown. Isham E. Watson married Miss Beulah Emanuel ; he moved to Florence and has several children, sons and daughters; he is in the dairy business. Enos Watson married Miss Theodocia Emanuel, sister of Isham E. Watson's wife ; the two brothers married two sisters - ^both married the same evening. Enos Watson's wife is dead, leaving five children, the oldest of whom, Henry, by name, went into the Cuban war, thence to the Philippines, and perhaps now in China. Robert Watson married a Miss Walling ; he died four or five years after marriage, and left two or three children ; the whereabouts of his .widow and children are unknown. Martha, the eldest daughter of Matthew Watson, married the Rev. Alfred Pitman, in North Carolina, and resides there. Lavina, the second daughter, married a Mr. McNeill, in North Carolina, and is dead, leaving children. Kate Watson married Tracy R. Fore, they have several children, one, a daughter, married to John H.

Berry. Hortensia Watson married Thomas J. Bass, who was killed some years ago by the falling of a tree, leaning over the path which he was traveling ; he left four sons, all young men, now among us ; their mother resides at Latta. James Watson, the second son of Isham Watson, married Miss Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Bryant Jones, of Wahee; the fruits of the marriage were several sons and daughters. James, the eldest, married Miss Flora Lane, and has several children, sons and daughters. Edward B. Watson married Miss Addie Bethea, a daughter of the late John R. Bethea ; they have several children. Joseph F. Watson, a physician, married in Darlington; I don't know to whom. Cicero Watson, I think, is still single. Charles, I think, is married, and he and two single sisters live together on the old homestead of his father. James Watson's oldest daughter, Mary, married Jesse Gibson, below Marion; they have a family, how many is not known. The, next daughter, Sarah, married Allen Gibson, brother of Jesse ; they also have a family, of how many is not known to the writer. Another daughter married W. H. Daniels, of Mullins; they have two or three children. Two daughters of James Watson, Telatha and Drusilla, are yet single, and live with their brother on the old homestead. Isham H. Watson, the third son of old man Isham, married a Miss McDuffie, sister to the late Sheriff McDuffie; by her he raised three children, two sons and a daughter; the sons were George E. and Duncan I., the latter named for his two grand-fathers, Isham Watson and Duncan McDuffie; the daughter (Janie), married our fellow-citizen, J. D. Montgomery. Isham H. Watson's first wife died of small-pox during the war; he married again. Miss Mary Nichols, who survives him, childless. George E. Watson went West, and married there; some months after marriage, Geo. E. died suddenly, and left his widow, to whom a posthumous daug'hter was born, who takes and has the name of her father, George Elmore ; the widow and daughter are both now in Marion. Samuel Watson, the fourth son of old Isham, married, first, a Miss Page, and by her had sons, W. J. Watson, Melton, S. P. Watson and S. C. Watson, and two daughters, Sophronia and Maggie. W. J. Watson married his first cousin, a Miss Bethea, moved to Mt. Airy, N. C. ; his wife is dead ; he 'has seven children. Melton Watson married a Miss Moody, daughter of the late Charles Moody, and soon after died childless; his widow still survives. Samuel Watson's first wife died, and he married a Miss Roberts, daughter of the late Rowland Roberts, and by her had five children, when she died ; he married a third time, a Miss Price, sister of the Rev. Willie Price, of the Baptist Church ; by her he had one child, a boy, named Albert. The children of his last two marriages are unknown to the writer ; they are, however, here among us, and are of the present generation. S. P. Watson, third son of Samuel, married a Miss Bryan, near Little River, in Horry County ; is a physician; he left a few days ago, with his family, for Oklahoma ; he practiced medicine in Latta, and left his beautiful and comfortable home in Latta unsold; he sold his plantation to J. K. Page; he has seven children; he made a trip to that far off land last winter, and bought thirty acres of land in the suburbs of Oklahoma City, at $90 an acre; the city is growing so fast that his place is no longer in the suburbs, but is now in the city; his purchase has already quadrupled, and there is no telling what his thirty aches of land will be worth in the near future; the city now has 20,000 inhabitants. S. C. Watson, the fourth son of Samuel Watson and youngest by his first wife, married a Miss Stackhouse, daughter of Wm. R. Stackhouse; he has five children. William Watson, the fifth son and youngest of old man Isham's sons, married Miss Cherry Deer, daughter of Joseph Deer ; the results of the marriage were four sons, John G., William E., Furman and D. Maxcy Watson; and three daughters, Ellen, Pauline and Norma. William Watson, the father, died some years ago. The son, John G. Watson," married a Miss Emanuel, and by her has several children ; he resides in Marion, and is now one of the division chief liquor constables of the State. William E. Watson, the second son of William Watson, deceased, married Miss Annie Fore, daughter of the late Stephen Fore, and by her has had twelve children, one dead, eight sons living and three daughters. Furman Watson married Miss lyinnie Bond, and has two children, two sons. D. Maxcy Watson, the youngest son of the late William Watson, married Miss Lucy B. Sellers, daughter of John C. Sellers, and grand-daughter of the writer; they have no children. Of the daughters of the late William Watson, the eldest, Ellen, married Addison Bass ; they have several children, sons and daughters. The second daughter, Pauline, married, first. Rev. Mr. Price, a Baptist minister ; he died a few years ago, leaving one child, a daughter, named Annie Hamer; the widow married, a second time, Charles W. Wiggins, of Dillon; they have no children. Norma, the youngest daughter, married Benj. B. Sellers, son of John C. Sellers; they have two children, a son and a daughter - Harry and Margaret Ellen. As to the two daughters of the late Samuel Watson by his first marriage, Sophronia and Maggie, Sophronia married John K. Page, a first class citizen ; she died some four years ago, leaving two sons, Samuel and Ernest. Samuel is now in Baltimore, in a medical college; Ernest, a lad, is yet at home. The second daughter, Maggie, married Frank Easterling, a very worthy man; they have two children, sons, Rupert and Henry. Of the daughters of old Isham Watson, Nellie, the oldest, married Frank A. Berry, in 1839; she died, together with her infant, in 1840; both were buried together in the same grave. Frank A. Berry lived a widower for perhaps thirty years or more, when he married Verzilla Waitson, sister of Nellie, then an old maid; she died childless, a few years ago; her husband preceded her to the grave a year or two. Nancy, the second daughter, married Rev. Joel Allen; they raised a large family of sons and daughters; the sons were James (killed in the war), William, Joel I., David E. and Frank ; the daughters were Annie, Maria, Eugenia and Alice. Of the sons, William married a Miss Cox, of Florence; they have a large family of children, sons and daughters, and live on the old homestead. Joel I. married, first. Miss Helen Bass ; she died, and left four or five children, sons and daughters; Joel I. married, a second time, a lady near Ridgeway, S. C, named Lulie Meredith ; by her he had three children, when she died, and he is now a widower again, with two sets of children, eight in number. Joel I. Allen, like his father, is a Baptist preacher, and has charge of the Baptist Church at Dillon, and resides there ; is a fair preacher, and has one quality that many preachers do not have - ^his sermons are short and sensible, and when he gets through he quits - ^he does not turn round and thrash the straw over again or rehash it; he is a good' man. David E. Allen married Elizabeth (Bettie) Bethea, a daughter of Philip W. Bethea; has raised a family of eight or nine children, sons and daughters ; some of them are married and have families. Frank Allen emigrated some years ago to Greenwood, S. C, and married there - can't say to whom ; he is a first class man. The Allen boys are all good men, straightforward and reliable. Of the daughters of the Rev. Joel Allen, Annie Maria, the oldest, married Dr. Andrew J. Bethea, son of Rev. S. J. Bethea; he died in 1881, and left three sons and two daughters ; the sons are Herbert, Percy and Andrew, and are all young men of fine character. Andrew is now in Wake Forrest College, N. C. ; all unmarried.* Of the daughters, the oldest, Nettie Bethea, married Rev. Pierce F. Kilgo, a Methodist preacher of the South Carolina Conference, and is now stationed at Williamston and Belton, and is said to be a fine preacher ; they have several children. Georgia, the younger daughter, married W. T. Bethea, her first cousin, who is, and has been, for several years, agent for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company at Dillon, and has been Mayor of the town for three or four years. They have three children, sons, and are doing well. W. T. Bethea is the grand-son of the writer. Eugenia, a daughter of Rev. Joel Allen, married Preston L. Dew; they moved to Greenwood several years ago, and are said to be doing well; they have several children. Alice Allen, the remaining daughter of Rev. Joel Allen, married her cousin, Furman Allen, of Marlborough; they are doing well, and have a large family, sons and daughters'. The Allen family under consideration herein are most respectable, good citizens, worthy to be emulated. Elizabeth Watson, third daughter of old man Isham, married the late George W. Reaves, being his third wife; by him she had five children, three of whom died children; two were raised a son, J. R. Reaves, and a daughter, Mary E. Robert Reaves is one of our leading fdlow-citizens, on Buck Swamp ; he married a Miss McMillan, in the MuUins community, and has raised a large family - I think, thirteen or fourteen children, sons and daughters; he is doing a good part by his children in the way of education. Charles is a leading merchant of Mullins. Samuel W. is a graduate of the Citadel, and is a promising young man* Robert, another son, is a graduate of a dental school, and has located in Marion for the practice of his profession; he is also a promising young man. Of J. R. Reaves' daughters, the older ones are well educated and stand well ; one or two of them married, to whom unknown; several not yet grown.f Mary married Dr. N. C. Murphy, who died several years ago; she is a practical business woman, a good manager in her business and farm affairs ; she has three sons and two daughters ; both daughters are married, one to a Mr. McMillan, the other to a Mr. Cain, of St. ' Matthews. Mary, the next daughter of Isham Watson, married James B. Ivegette, and still survives ; they raised a large family, mostly girls - only two sons, Salathiel and Andrew. The oldest daughter, SaraJh Ellen, married a Mr. Cadell, a one-legged man ; they left the county - I think they are now in Florence ; they have a family, how many not known. Another daughter married D. S. Cottingham, and is doing well ; of their family the writer knows nothing. Another married W. C. Easterling, of "Free State;" they have several children, five daugihters and two sons; the oldest daughter married; I do not know anything of their family. Of the two sons of James B. Legette and Mary, his wife, the oldest, Salathiel, accidentally shot himself several years ago, unmarried. The younger orie, Andrew, married a Miss Moore, a daughter of Alfred Moore, of Marlborough ; he lost his wife some months ago, and left him with, I think, seven children. Fama Watson, another daughter of old man Isham Watson, married, first, Stephen Berry, youngest son of Cross Roads Henry Berry; he lived about a year, and died childless ; the widow afterwards married the late Fred. D. Jones, of Marion; the fruits of this marriage were one son, Presley, and five daughters. Presley Jones married a Miss Sparks, of Marlborough, and has four children. The oldest daughter, Costa, married a Mr. Hunter, of Marlborough, who died a few months ago, and left five or six cliildren. Alice Jones married L. W. Oliver, of Marion. Sallie, Theodocia and Cora, young ladies, are yet single, and live at the old homestead. The father and mother are both dead. Jan« Watson, the youngest daughter of old Isham, married John M. Mace, and yet survives; they live in the Friendship neighborhood, and have a large family of sons and daughters ; the sons are Thadeus, Stephen, Moses, Samuel, John C. and Cornelius, and one son dead ; daughters, Elizabeth (Bettie) and Mary. Thadeus married a Miss Eugenia Gasque, daughter of our excellent fellow-citizen, Arny Gasque, and Moses Mace married another daughter. Miss Emma. Stephen Mace married Miss Julia Philips, daughter of our late fellow-citizen, F. Marion Philips. Samuel Mace married a Miss Carter, and John C. Mace married a Miss Griffith, I think, of Edgefield County. Neill Mace is yet unmarried. Of these sons of John M. Maee, Jo^hn C. Mace and Samuel are both doctors ; one, John C, located at Marion, and running a drug store, and is Coroner of the county ; Samuel Mace is located at L,oris, in Horry County, and is said to be doing well there, and is a fine physician. Of the two daug'hters of John M. Mace, the oldest, Bettie, is married to Furman Wall ; the younger one, Mary, is yet unmarried. It is supposed (the writer does not know) that all these young Maces that are man led have families, more or less numerous, perpetuating the name and family connections, and also contributing to an increase in the population of the county, and industriously adding to the county's wealth and prosperity. This closes the notice of the Watson family, so far as is diescended from the old man, Isham. In many respects, the old man, Isham, was an extraordinaTy man ; he made a large fortune, raised his large family respectably - industry, frugality and economy were the prominent characteristics of his career; these, with his great good sense, gave him success in life; he died of erysipelas, in 1864, over three-score and ten years of age. Barney Watson, his father, married a second time, I do not know to whom ; by this marriage he had two sons, Barney and Meredith, and some daughters. Barney and Meredith are both dead, and left families, about whom the writer knows nothing. Barney and Meredith were hard-working, honest men, but did not succeed in life as did their older half-brother, Isham. The father, old man Barney, had two brothers, Needham and Thomas; I do not know what became of Thomas. Needham Watson married and had a family - at least, one son, named Wickham, who lived in the Temperance Hill neighborhood. Wickham married and had a family, how many is unknown ; one son, named Kerigan - what became of him is unknown; he was not remarkable for his beauty ; if there had been such a club as an "Ugly Club," he would have stood a fair chance to have been its president. Wickham Watson was a remarkable man physically, in respect to which the writer will say nothing. There are some Watsons in Britton's Neck, whether related to these Watsons on Catfish is not known ; of them, however, the writer knows nothing. There was another family of Watsons in w^hat is now known as Hillsboro Township, and of whom something has already herein been incidentally said. Seacebook Watson came from Virginia, and settled on the road leading from Nichols to L,umberton, N. C, more than one hundred years ago; he succeeded well in life, raised a large family, sons and daughters; the sons, Michael, Thomas and John R., were known to the writer. Michael and Thomas went to North Carolina, married sisters. Smithy and Kitsey Ham, very excellent women, and each raised respectable families; they were just across the line, and many of their descendants are now in South Carolina. John R. Watson, the youngest son, married Miss Sallie Ford, who had the phenomenon of a black eye and a blue one; they lived on the old homestead of his father, and had a large family of four sons and several daughters. John R. Watson died in middle life, and left his widow and children, many of them small ; the widow managed well and raised her family respectably, and died a few years ago ; some of them are now in the county, and among our best people. If all these Watsons and their thrice multiplied connections, hereinabove referred to, were destroyed, it would cut a mighty swathe in our county population. There may be, and perhaps are, some few families larger or more numerous, but not many - ^the name will not soon become extinct.

family. The first known of this family was Solomon Reaves, a Baptist preacher. The writer heard him pr«ach when a boy, about 1829, at an association at Porter Swamp Church, in Columbus County, N. C, about five miles from Fair Bluff, N. C. ; he was then an old man, white hair and red face ; he had a son, named "Charles - ^he may have had other sons, but Charles is the only one that concerns Marion County ; he married a Miss Hodge, sister of the late Dr. Samuel Hodge, in the Gapway neighborhood ; by her he had two sons, George W. and Robert H. Reaves; he may have had other sons and daughters. His first wife dying, he married Miss Mary Griffin, of North Carolina, near Fair Bluff; no oflfspring by this second marriage. Charles Reaves died in 1861 or 1862, leaving his widow and a large estate of lands and negroes ; he died intestate, his property, real and personal, descended under the law to his widow and two sons, one-third each, the widow getting the' old homestead. Some years after that, the widow married the late Colonel John T. Harrington, who died some years back, and left Mrs. Harrington a widow for the second time; no child or children; she still survives and is still a widow on the old Reaves homestead, now in her eighty-seventh year - somewhat a remarkable woman for her age. Of the sons, George W. Reaves married four times - ^not being a very old man at the time of his fourth marriage; he was born in 181 1, and died, I think, in 1896 or 1897; his first wife was a Miss Carmichael, of what is now Carmichael Township, a sister of the late Neill C. Carmichael ; she lived only about a year, and died dhildless ; he married, a second time, a Miss Brown ; by her he had some children, how many is not known. There were one or two sons by this marriage, who were killed or died in the war, and a daughter, who married some one, and soon became a widow ; I know nothing more of her. His Brown wife died, I think, in 1846 or 7; he married in a few months. Miss Elizabeth Watson, who has hereinbefore been spoken of ; by her he raised two children, James Robert Reaves and Mary E. Reaves, now Mrs. Murphy - heretofore noticed. The Watson wife died, and he married a Miss Rogers, of the Fork, a daughter of the late Captain John Rogeirs ; by her he had and raised four sons, George R. Reaves, John Reaves, William Reaves and Edward

Reaves ; the latter is a Baptist preacher of high standing, and is pastor of some church in the upper part of the State. These sons of George W. Reaves are all respectable and valued citizens, and are a part of the bone and sinews of the county, married and contributing their full share to the citizenship and general prosperity of the county. The father, George W. Reaves, was a good citizen and a prominent church man, weighed, avoirdupois, three hundred pounds, or more. His brother, Robert H. Reaves, was for many years a prominent merchant at Marion ; he married a daughter of old Colonel W. H. Grioe, who still survives, and lives upon and owns her patrimonial estate in Wa'hee Township. R. H. Reaves, the last years of his life, retired from mercantile pursuits, and went on his farm in Wahee, where he accidentally fell from his piazza some years ago and broke his neck; he raised a family of four sons and perhaps two daughters ; of the sons, two, Henry and Thomas, died young rnen, unmarried; Augustus and James still survive ; the former unmarried, lives with his mother; the latter married, and lives in Sumter County; has a family, and is said to be doing well. Of the daughters. Miss Sallie, the oldest, has never married, and lives with her mother. The younger one, name not remembered, married a Mr. Lide, in Darlington. R. H. Reaves was a good and successful merchant for many years, but in the wind-up of his mercantile affairs, did not seem to have made much, but saved his plantation and negroes; he was a man of equable temperament, and never seemed to be in a hurry ; he represented the district in the Legislature just after the war in 1866 - ^before Reconstruction commenced or before it got under way.

Grice. - ^Just here may be noticed the Grioe family, to which Mrs. Reaves belonged. Colonel W. H. Grice was originally from Horry County; he came to Marion away back in the twenties or thirties. In former times he had represented Horry in the House and had been Senator from lyiberty (Marion) and Kingston before 1810 ; he was a well read man for his day; he had three diildren, one of whom was Mrs. Reaves, above spoken of. His youngest daughter, Ellen, became the third wife of the late Colonel W. W. DuRant, well known in Marion, having been in the town perhaps all his life ; she was respected by all who knew her, and loved for her many good qualities ; she raised several daughters and one son to be thirteen or fourteen years of age (Thadeus, I believe), who accidentally shot himself twelve or fifteen years ago. These daughters of Colonel DuRant have all married and have families, except, perhaps, two, who reside in the old DuRant homestead, near the town, all dtring well and quite respectable. Colonel William H. Grice had only one son, Augustus E. Grice, quite a literary man and a fine speaker ; he was elected Sheriff of the county in 1876 ; he lived about two years, and died during his term of softening of the brain ; he married, late in life, a Miss Tanner, and left a considerable family. Perseus L,. Grice, our present fellow-citizen, and quite respectable, is one of his sons - ^perhaps the oldest ; one of his daughters is the wife of J. T. Dozier, the late nominee of the Democratic party of Marion for County Supervisor.* Of the others of the family of Sheriff Grice, the writer knows nothing. Colonel William H. Grice died in 1854, leaving a good property in 'both town and country to his children ; he was up to the times in his day, a very honest and reliable man, very cautious and prudent. The old court house of 1823 hadi a large crack in its northwest comer, and such was t!he prudence of Colonel Grice - excited, perhaps, by his fear - ^that he would not go up into the court room when it was crowded, unless from strong business compulsion; whether it was dangerous or not, the writer cannot say ; he was in it many times wlien it was packed with people.

Roberts. - The next family now to be noticed is the Roberts family. The first of them known to the writer was Redden Roberts and Norton Roberts. They settled on Buck Swamp, near Buck Swamp Bridge. I do not know who the wife of either was, but both married and raised families. Redden Roberts had sons, William D., James, Rowland and Giles. The latter went into the Confederate army, and died of disease, unmarried. William D. Roberts married Lishia Manning, a daughter of old John Manning, and had and raised a considerable family, sons - ^John M. Roberts and William Roberts ; they *J. T. Dozier was elected anji is now the County Supervisor.

both have families unknown. Daughters of Wm. D. Roberts - Penelope, and perhaps another, married sons of Charles Taylor, both of wihich Taylors were killed or died in the Confederate War. Another daughter, Julia Ann, married A. H. Harrelson, who has a family of several children. Another, Lispia Ann, married Captain Thomas E. Tart ; Tart is dead. Another (name not remembered) married Dugal C. Mclntyre; Mclntyre is dead ; left a family of several children, and the widow still survives. Another married an Avant; he is dead, his widow survives ; there were no children. And one other daughter (name not remembered) still unmarried. James Roberts, second son of old man Reddin Roberts, married Sallie Goodyear, only child of old Mr. William Goodyear ; he raised a considerable family; he is and was a very excellent citizen; little is known of his family. A son of his, Henry Roberts, is a capital man and good citizen; I do not know whether he is married or not ; I think he lives on his father's old homestead. One of James Roberts' daughters married A. C. Oliver, of Robeson County, N. C. ; they have considerable family. Another daughter married Albert Edwards, of this county ; think they have but one child, a daughter, who is said to be quite a scholar and a fine teacher. Another daughter is the wife of Albert Shooter. James Roberts had other children, not known to the writer. James Roberts was a good man and unexceptional citizen - ^honest and truthful. Rowland Roberts, third son of Reddin Roberts, married Miss Mary Smith, daughter of the late Samuel Smith, senior, of Buck Swamp'; they raised a family of sons and daughters - ^the oldest, I think, was Pinckney, who went into the Confederate War, and was killed or died of disease, unmarried. Roger married, first, a daughter of Colonel John Roberts ; they had four or five children, boys and girls, when their mother died, and Roger married again - I do not know whom. Giles, another son, married Miss Hays, daugbter of Wilson Hays. Samuel and Stephen, I think, both married daughters of Captain L. M. Edwards ; they all have families, are good citizens, and are doing their share towards building up and forwarding the interest and welfare of the county. Rowland Roberts' daughters, twO' of whom are only known by the writer; one married the late Samuel Wat- son (his second wife, I think) ; her name was Bettie; she died some years ago, leaving five children, named Mary, Lamar, Judson, Elliott and Carrie. Mary is married to Albert Allen, a son of Elmore Allen, of Marlborough County. Albert Allen resides in North Carolina. Elmore C. Allen, of Latta, married the other da,ughter of Rowland Roberts, named Sallie ; resides at Latta, and has several children, neither age or sex is known. Elmore Allen is one of the well-to-do citizens of the town and county ; he and his wife are first cousins, their' mothers being sisters. Of the daughters of old Reddin Roberts, one married Harllee Bethea, who removed to Florida miany years ago - know but little of his family ; had a son named Reddin, a very promising young ma,n. Another daughter married Henry Hays, of Hillsboro, who has been dead several years ; he left a son, our good fellow-citizen, W. D. B. Hays, near Mount Andrew Church; he married his first cousin, a daughter of Harllee Bethea; they have only one child, a daughter; I suppose she is grown, name not known. Another daughter of old man Reddin, his youngest, named Zilpha, married C. P. Floyd, of Nichols ; be was killed on the railroad between MuUins and Nichols, some twenty-five or thirty years ago; he left several children, sons and daughters. Mrs. Floyd now lives on the homestead of her father, an excellent lady and capital manager; has raised her children in credit and respectability - three and three or four daughters. The sons were Charles P., Henry Bascom (called Battie), and Giles R. Floyd. Charles P. was killed some twenty or more years ago by a man by the name of Anderson, near Campbell's Bridge. The writer was employed to prosecute Anderson, who was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two years in the State penitentiary. Henry Bascom married a Miss Stackhouse, daughter of the late Wm. R. Stackhouse, and is one of our good citizens. I believe Giles R. is married; don't know to whom; he is afflicted with asthma. The writer can truly sympathise with him, as he has had that most distressing of diseases, off and on, for twenty-five years. Of her daughters, the two oldest, Cornelia and Minnie, married North Carolina men, where they residfe, and, therefore, cannot tell anything about their families. Think Minnie is dead. Roberta married Lewis S. Bethea, above Latta, and is doing well. There is one, perhaps, two daughters yet unmarried, and yet with their mother. Reddin Roberts had another daughter, who never married; her name was Martha Arm ; she is dead. Old man Reddin Roberts was an excellent, quiet citizen; was wealthy before the war, especially in negro property. It was said of him that when he married he had one negro girl about grown, that his wife bad one, and on the night of their marriage, his wife's girl had a child ; that from these two girls, at emancipation, he had and had given off some to his children together eighty slaves; that during his married life he had sold two and had bought three, or vice versor - showing how fortunes might be made by raising negroes. It was said he did not work his negroes hard, and fed and clothed them well, hence his negro women "bred like rabbits," as the saying is. He was an exemplary man, lived at home and kept out of debt. Norton Roberts resided on the first settled place south of Buck Swamp Bridge ; don't know to whom he married - think, however, his wife was a Miss Johnson ; be, with all bis family, except his oldest son. Colonel John M. Roberts, went to Louisiana a way back, perhaps, in the forties, and it is said, don't know with how much truth, that one of his sons became Governor of Louisiana. I have learned from the Hon. James Norton, that Norton Roberts' mother was a Miss Norton, sister of James Norton's grand-father, hence his name, Norton Roberts. Norton Roberts married Martha Norton, who was the mother of Colonel John M. Colonel John M. Roberts, his oldest son, married Miss Franky Mace; by her he had seven daughters and no son. One of his daughters died unmarried. His oldest daughter, Elizabeth, married Alexander Hays, son of Joseph B. Hays, and brother to our T. B. Hays ; they have raised a large family of sons and daughters, unknown to the writer. Another daughter, Joanna, married Thomas Finklea, a son of old "Corn-making Willis Finklea." Finklea is dead ; suppose they raised a family. Another daughter married Roger Roberts, already mentioned herein. Another daughter married Charles B. Gaddy, who died a few weeks ago, suddenly, hereinbefore m'entioned. Another daughter, Louisa, married John M. McCoU, now one of our best and most reliable citizens ; they have only one child, a daughter, Fannie ; married to a Mr. McNeill, of North CaroUna. One other daughter, named Emelia or Mille, has never married, and still living. Colonel Roberts was eminently a good citizen, a successful man every way, with only an ordinary common school education. In the late unpleasantness, he volunteered early, raised a company and went into the war as a Captain, and upon the reorganization of the regiment was promoted to Major, and then to Lieutenant Colonel. In the battle. Seven Days Fight around Richmond, or at Second Manassas, or at Sharpsburg, in 1862, was wounded in the thigh by a Minie ball or piece of shell. He came home, the wound 'became gangrenous, and he died, to the regret of all who knew him, both in and out of the army ; he was a good soldier, a good officer, beloved by his company and regiment, a growing, rising man at home and in the army ; and though comparatively a young man, had accumulated a good property, and left it unencumbered and his family in good condition. Had he lived, there was no public position within the gift of the people that he might have aspired to, that he could not have obtained ; he was exceedingly popular.

Eli<ERbE. - ^Tihe next family to be noticed is the Ellerbe family. Two brothers, Thomas and John Ellerbe, came to South Carolina about 1740. Thomas Ellerbe applied to the Council for lands, about which he had some trouble ; and Bishop Gregg says, on page 63 : "Mr. Elerby was doubtless successful in the end, as he remained in that neighborhood and became the owner of extensive landed possessions, a large portion of which has remained in the family to the present day." And in a note to this, Gregg says : "The mill site referred to in the petition of Thomas Elerby was, doubtless, that on Juniper Creek, of which some signs yet remain, near the road lading from Cheraw to Society Hill. A grist and saw mill, at all events, were there, and in successful operation some time before the Revolution." Resuming the -text, Bishop Gregg further says : "John Elerby, a brother of Thomas, came with him to Pee Dee, and settled on the east side of the river. He either returned to Virginia or removed elsewhere at an early period. Thomas Elerby brought a good property with him and was probably the first slaveholder on the upper Pee Dee. Some years prior to the Revolution be had a large number, at least for that day. This family emigrated from England to Virginia. The name is still known in England, and is spelt as it appears in our early records. Not long afterwards, however, it was changed to its present form, Ellerbe. Thomas Elerby, wiho married, as already stated, Obedience Gillespie, had two sons, Thomas and William, from whom the extensive family on the Pee Dee have descended." In a note to this, page 63, Bishop Gregg traces the progeny of William and Thomas Ellerbe down to his own d&y and time, or near it. So far as Marion County is concerned, the first of the name in this county was John C. Ellerbe, of the same family spoken, of above. He married a Miss Wickham, daughter of Dr. Thomas J. Wickham, a man of much note in his day in Liberty or Marion; she was wealthy and perhaps the only child; at any rate, John C. Ellerbe married her and came down into Marion and settled on her property, and lived and died there ; he retained her property and increased it ; not an old man when he died - he died some time in the forties; his widow survived him, and afterwards married ex-Governor B. K. Henagan ; no offspring from the marriage; they both died in a few years. John C. Ellerbe left his family in good condition; his large property went, as the law then was, mostly to the Henagans - that is, the personal property; the large landed estate went to the heirs of the widow, who, I think, survived him. By John C. Ellerbe's marriage, be had and raised three sons and three daughters. The sons were William S., Richard P. and Edward B. ; the daughters were Joanna, Julia and Sallie. The son, William, married Miss Sarah Haselden, daughter of Major James Haselden ; the fruits of this marriage were four sons and nine daughters. Of the sons, William H. Ellerbe married Henrietta Rogers, daughter of the late Henry Rogers, of Marlborough County; the fruits of this marriage were six children, five sons and one daughter ; one son dead. He was a very successful man in more ways than one - succeeded well in his occupation as a farmer in the acquisition of property. In the political revolution of 1890, he was on the winning side, and by the help of good friends, to the manor born, was nominated and elected Comptroller General of the State ; was re-elected without opposition in 1892. At the end of his term, in 1894, he was a candidate for Governor, but was defeated by John Gary Evans, of Aiken. In 1896, John Gary Evans not being a candidate for re-election as Governor, Wm. H. Ellerbe was again a candidate, with opposition, and was triumphantly elected. In the meantime, a new State Constitution had been made, which changed the time for the meeting of the General Assembly, so that Governor Ellert)e was not inaugurated till January, 1897. With his administration there was much dissatisfaction; his health had failed him, and in 1898, he was again a candidate for re-election, but had numerous and strong opposition - so much so, that he failed to get the nomination in the first primary, but led all others. In a second primary he was, however, nominated by over 4,000 votes. In November afterwards, at the general election, he was elected to a second term. Miles B. McSweeney, of Hampton County, was elected Lieutenant-Governor. They were inaugurated as Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, i8th January, 1899. Such by this time was the Governor's state of health, that he could do but little work in his laborious ofifice, and lingered from bad to worse till 2d June, when he expired in his old home - ^the home in which he was raised. Thus his eventful career was ended, and the Lieutenant-Governor, by operation of the Constitution, became Governor, and took the oath of office on the night of the 4th June, 1899, and has filled out the unexpired term of the deceased Governor Ellerbe. Mc- Sweeny has just been elected to the next full term. Thus the world goes. This was the second death of a Governor while in office in the history of the State - Governor Patrick Noble died in office, in 1840, and Dr. B. K. Henagan, then of Marlborough, afterwards of Marion, being the Lieutenant-Governor, filled out Governor Noble's unexpired term. J. E. Ellerbe, the next son of the late Captain W. S. Ellerlbe, and now one of our fellow-<:itizens, has not been as successful, in any way, as his deceased brother, the late Governor Ellerbe; be has great energy and persistent pluck, and is an impressive public speaker; he married Miss Nellie Elford, of Spartan- burg, an elegaiit lady; the fruits of the marriage are four children, two sons and two daughters. J. E. EUerbe is yet comparatively a young man; has represented his county in the lower House of the Legislature ; was (ihosen as a delegate to the State Convention for making a new Constitution for the State, and served in that body ; he '1ms three times been a candidate for Congress, but has failed to receive the nomination ; his opportunities have been better than those of his brother, the late Governor ; he graduated in 1887, at Wofford College ; the Governor only spent two years in college (Wofford) ; nevertheless, he outstripped his younger brother in the race of life for wealth and honors. Dont know what J. E. EUerbe may do or become in the lines indicated in the future. Cash EUerbe, the third son of Captain W. S. Ellert)e, is a young single man, highly respectable, a good farmer and business man, and promises to be a first class man every way - nothing to hinder it. Herbert EUerbe, the fourth and youngest son, about twentyfive years of age, unmarried, was unfortunately killed on the railroad, on the 3d or 4th of August, 1899. Of the daughters of Captain W. S. EUerbe, the oldest, Mary, married Dr. EUerbe, of Cher aw; by him she had two sons, W. M. EUerbe and Thomas, and a daughter, Estelle, when he died suddenly, w*hile his children were yet small ; the widow has raised and educated them, who are all now grown ; her sons are promising young men, and the daughter a charming young lady, all unmarried. Another daughter (don't know the names of some of them nor the order in which they come,) married her cousin, James H. Manning, and has a large family, sons and daughters ; Manning is a very prosperous farmer. Another married Charley Rogers, of Marlborough, in the Brownsville neighborhood, likewise a prosperous man; they have a famUy, how many is not known. Another married Stephen G. MUes, a good farmer, and is a merchant at Marion; they have a large family, sons and daughters - I think, mostly daug'hters. Another married Dr. S. A. C. Miles, who is dead ; the widow has four chUdren, all daughters. Another married her cousin, Willie Godbold, who is not wanting in push and energy ; they have some two or three children. Another married Hon. T. C. Moody, of Marion, and is dead, childless. Two daughters. Misses Omega and Eva, are yet unmarried. The Widow Ellerbe and her family, the Widow Miles and her family, together with their brother. Cash Ellerbe, and two single girls, all live together on their father's homestead. Richard P. Ellerbe, second son of old John C. Ellerhe, married Elizabeth Lamb, a very pretty woman and quite a belle in her day; they remained here for several years, and had several children; he did not succeed well ; some years ago they went to Florida, where Mrs. Ellerbe died; what has become of Richard P. or his children is not known. Edward B. Ellerbe, the youngest son of old John C, inherited the old homestead of his father, where J. E. Ellerbe now resides, a very fine plantation; he married Miss Sarah - Godbold, a daughter of old Asa Godbold ; he did not succeed well ; sold his place to his brother, William, and moved off, and finally went to Horry County, where he now resides ; raised a large family, sons and daughters^ about whom the writer knows but little. John C, his eldest son, is in Venezuela, South America, as the writer has been informed. Of the daughters of old John C. Ellerbe, Joanna, the oldest, married the late Gewood Berry; the results of which were five sons raised, viz : John H., William E., Edmund Burke, Ashton and Thomas Wickham Berry; of these, John H., Edmund Burke and Thomas Wickham are now among us, and are among our. best citizens, doing well and highly respected. Julia Ellerbe, second daughter of old John C. Ellerbe, married our respected fellow-citizen, Charles Haselden; by this marriage is three daughters; one married and dead; Anne and Mary both yet single; and six sons, James, C. Edgar, Samuel, Thomas, Alonzo arid Guy. Of these, James and C. Edgar are married ; James married a daughter of the late F. C. Dew, lives in the "Slashes." C. Edgar married a Miss Dusenberry in Horry. Samuel has gone West. Thomas, a fine and much respected young man, suicided last winter at Clio, S. C. ; no cause known. Alonzo is here, a very nice young man, unmarried. Guy, the youngest, is said to be in Florida. The youngest daughter of old John C. Ellerbe married Asa Godbold, Jr., and is now a widow; she has ten or twelve children. Of this family the writer has already hereinbefore spoken, and it is not necessary to be repeated or added to. The late Captain W.

S. Ellerbe was a most excellent man and a capital manager of affairs ; he attended to his own business, and left his family in good condition ; his wife survived him but a short while.

FoRe. - The Fore family will be next noticed. The first Fore known to the writer was Joel Fore ; he was an exemplary man', and a good quiet man, unpretentious, and strictly honest - a man who seemed to measure every word, an,d practical in his management in every day life ; he married a Miss Finklea, and raised a considerable family, sons and daughters. Five of his sons, Thomas, Daniel, Willis, Stephen and Alfred, were best known in the county.* Others of them, when young, went West, and one of them, named Jam'cs, it was said, became very wealthy. Thomas, the eldest of the sons, was bom in 1805 ; he lived to a great age - I think the age of eighty-eight. Thomas married a Miss Gasque, and settled on a little place on the northeast side of Catfish, at what is now called EUerbe's crossing, and there, on about sixty-four acres of land, he raised a family of eight sons and three daughters, and did it respectaibly ; he purchased other lands after his children were practically raised; his sons were EHy, Thomas, Daniel, James, Tracy R., Willis and Edward M. Fore; his daughters were Elizabeth Ann, Rebecca Jane and Eugenia. Of his sons, EUy, Thomas and Daniel emigrated to Louisiana, young men. James Fore, a son, married, first, a Miss Kirvin, and by her had three daughters and a son, Thomas E. Fore ; the latter is now living on the place where his grand-father settled. Of James Fore's daughters, they have already herein been noticed in the notice of the Tart family. His Kirvin wife dying, he married a daughter of the late Bryant Lane, named Henrietta ; by her he has some children, how many is not known ; they have removed to Columbus County, N. C. Tracy R. Fore married Miss Kate Watson, daughter of the late Matthew Watson, who has hereinbefore been noticed in the notice of the Watson family. Willis Fore married Miss Sallie Berry, daughter of the late Elihu Berry; they have five children, three sons and two daughters; the sons are Linwood, Tracy and Willis.; the daughters are Janie and Rebecca. Willis Fore's family has Joel and James, three others, went West.

already been noticed in the notice of the Berry family. Willis Fore was killed some years ago, by a fall in getting off of a moving train at Marion depot. Edward M. Fore married a daughter of Charles Haselden, named Maggie; they had four children, one daughter and three sons; he was murdered in the Slashes some years ago; his widow did not turn out well, and died ; the daughter is married and in Columbia ; the sons are scattered. Of the daughters of old man Thomas Fore, Elizabeth Ann, the oldest, married the late Colonel E. T. Stackhouse; they are both dead ; raised a large family - ^sons, James, William land Walter F. Stackhouse ; daughters, one the wife of James H. Berry, dead ; left seven children ; another, the wife of Houston Manning ; she and her husband both dead ; left three children, two sons and a daughter, Austin and Maurice; the latter married Nellie Bethea, daughter of D. McL. Bethea. The daughter, named Eva, unmarried.* Another the wife of Neill Alford; they have several children. Another the wife of W. J. Montgomery, Esq., of the Marion bar; they have several children, mostly girls. Another the wife of T. C. Covington ; they have several children. Of the sons, James Stackhouse married a Miss McAlister; they have several children. One son, Laneau, married Mary Miles, the daughter of Dr. D. F. Miles, the efficient Clerk of the Court. There are other sons and daughters, how many and names unknown, except a son named Lacy. William Stackhouse, of Dillon, married a daughter of B. F. Davis ; they have some children, how many is not known. . James Stackhouse is Senator-elect from Marion to the State Senate. W. F. Stackhouse, the youngest son of Colonel E. T. Stackhouse, lately married' a Miss Waller, of Greenwood, S. C. ; is a member of the Marion bar, and promises to attain to a place in the front. The second daughter of old man Thomas Fore, Rebecca Jane, married Dr. W. W. Hamilton, of Marion, a dental surgeon and farmer, and a first rate man ; they have only one child, a son, named Thomas, and now Hearing manhood. The third and last daughter, Eugenia, never married; she died a few years ago. Daniel Fore, another son of old man Joel, was a tailor by trade - ^which in his day was a profitable business ; he made a suit for the writer in

1843. He did not marry till somewhat late in life ; he married, first, the Widow White, who was the daughter of old man Isaac Stackhouse, and sister of the late Colonel E. T. Stackhouse; by her he had one child, a daughter, the wife of Rev. Maston Gasque; when' she died, he married, a second time, a Miss McDuffie, sister of the late A. Q. McDuffie; by this marriage he had two sons, John A. Fore, now of Dillon, and one named Baker, who died a young man, and, I think, three daughters ; one of them dead ; another became the second wife of Douglas Mclntyre, and has some children ; another daughter yet single - she and her mother live with Mr. Mclntyre. Daniel Fore died some y^rs ago, in a good old age ; his son, John A. Fore, married a Miss Gibson, daughter of the late Albert Gibson, below Marion; they have five children, sons and daughters. Dr. Willis Fore, another son of old man Joel Fore, married Miss Telatha Berry ; she lived only a few years, and died childless; he lived a widower for several years, and died in 1864. Another son of old man Joel was Stephen, who married Miss Mary Berry, the oldest daughter of Cross Roads Hjpnry Berry ; his family has already been noted in the notice of the Berry family hereinbefore. Alfred Fore, the youngest son of old Joel, married Miss Martha Ann Mace, daughter of the late Moses Mace ; they had some children, don't know how many; one son I knew, A. M. Fore, a promising and growing man ; he died a few years ago - left some family. Alfred Fore, the father, went into the Confederate army, and was killed or died. Of the daughters of old Joel Fore, there were two, Mary Ann and Elizabeth. Mary Ann married Samuel Campbell, and died, leaving one child. Elizabeth married Hugh Finklea, her cousin ; he died, left her a widow, without any child ; she again married, Bennett Jordan, below Marion; they had no child or children; she died some years ago. The Fores, as a family from old Joel down, had the peculiarity of being particular and exceedingly cautious in all they said or did, either in social or home life; honest, truthful and upright, straight in all their dealings with the world around them, economical, industrious and frugal - ^they came as near living to themselves and of themselves as any family within the writer's knowledge.

Mace. - ^Another family will now be noticed, the Mace family. The grand-father of the late John Mace was named John Mace, who came from Maryland in the time of the Revolutionary War, being a widower, with one child, a son, named' John, then a small boy; the old gentleman married a Widow Crawford ; by her he had no offspring ; he died and his widow again married a Mikell. The son, John, grew up and married, first, a Miss Franky Finklea, a sister of old "Corn-making Willis Finklea;" by this marriage he had five children, Matthew, Moses, Eliza;beth (Betsy), Mary (Polly) and Martha (Patsy) ; his first wife died, and he married again, a sister of his first wife, named Martha (Patsy) ; by the second marriage he had Franky, John, Massey, Sallie, James and Rhoda; of all these children by both marriages, Matthew, the oldest, never married, and died with a good property, about 1853. Moses married Miss Drusilla Miles, a. daughter of David Miles, the grand-father of Dr. D. F. Miles ; by this marriage he had six children, Martha Ann, John M.,' Verzilla, Gregory, James and Mary. Martha Ann has already been noticed in or among the Fore family, and John M. was noticed in or among the Watson family. Verzilla married William C. Bethea, and after having several children, they moved to Texas, where father and mother, and perhaps some of the children, died in an epidemic of yellow fever ; and Frank A. Miles and others of their friends made up money and sent out to that far-off State (Dallas, Texas, I believe,) and brought the surviving children back to this State and county; they have grown up, but what has become of them is not known to the writer. Dr. Gregg Mace and his brother, James, both went to the Confederate War, and both were killed or died of disease, both unmarried. Mary Mace married a man by the name of Adams, and left the State ; don't know anything further of her. Elizabeth Mace married the late John H. Moody ; by this marriage there, was only one child, a daughter ; she grew up and married the late Major S. A. Durham ; only one child, a daughter, was the result of this latter marriage; she grew up and married a Mr. Gorham, of North Carolina, to which State they went ; nothing further is known of them. Mary (Polly) married Hal Crawford, and went West; nothing further is known of them. Martha

(Pattie) married Gary Edwards; of her and her family notice has already been taken in or among the Edwards family. Eranky, the oldest child by the second marriage of old John Mace, married Colonel John Roberts; of their family notice has already been taken in or among the Roberts family. John Mace (the late) married Verzilla Berry, of whom notice has already been taken in or among the Berry family. Massey, a daughter, married the late David Monroe ; by her he had one child, a daughter, when his wife died ; the daughter grew up, and married a Mr. King, in North Carolina; nothing further is known of her. Sallie Mace married Wesley White; by this marriage was a son, James White, and several daughters. James White is still unmarried. Another son, William, older tha:n James, was killed or died in the war. Of the daughters, one married Hugh Davis, and is a widow, with several children ; another daugliter, Susan, married Joseph Game, and has no children ; another married Benjamin Philips, and is now a widow, with several children; another married Thomas Hargrove ; they have several children ; and there are two unmarried daughters, Martha and Sallie. James Mace, brother to the late John Mace, died in 1846, when a young man, unmarried. Rhoda Mace, the youngest by old John Mace's second marriage, married William' S. Lewis ; by this marriage five children were born and raised, Sarah, Evan, Joel, Wesley and Anne. Sarah Lewis married Robert Edwards, and has been noticed in or among the Edwards family. Evan Lewis did not marry till late in life; he married a Miss Avant, and I suppose has some children; he is one of our good citizens. Joel Lewis went West, and is said to be doing well. Wesley Lewis married Miss Addie Potter, of Marion, turned out badly, and has gone West ; his wife is now at Marion ; she has three children, a son, Charles, who is in Georgia, but provides for his mother and sisters - a dutiful son; the two daughters are with their mother, living on a place in town, which her son, Charley, bought for her, and paid $300 for it, and provides for her in other ways. All the sons and daughters of old John Mace are dead. One daughter of Rhoda Lewis above forgotten; her name was Anna ; a charming woman, as it was said ; she married, first, Marion Avant, who was killed or died in the war, left one child; the widow, after the war, went to Wilmington, and there married a Mr. Wilson, by whom she has one child, a daughter, now a grown young lady ; her son, Willie Avant, was a locomotive engineer for the Atlantic Coast Ivine for many years ; he died last August, leaving a widow and some children. Moses Mace died in 1836 or 1837. John Mace died in 1885. Matthew Mace died about 1854, and James Mace died about 1846. The Maces as a family are and were energetic and prudent managers of affairs, economical and frugal, held to what they had and added to it all they could, peaceable and quiet people, not ambitious of public favor.

FiNKi,BA. - Another family, once numerous and somewhat prominent, but now reduced in numbers to but a few, are the Finkleas ; they have been much reduced by emigration. There were two old Finkleas in the early times in the county - ^John Finklea and "Corn-making Willis." John Finklea, whose wife was a Crawford, with his numerous family, went to Alabama, and died there about 1850. Captain J. C. Finklea, a grand-son, now in Wahee Township, is the only representative of that branch of the family. Of "Corn-making Willis" family, the only remaining ones bearing the name are Hardy Finklea, of Latta,* who has one son, named Willis ; and Alfred Finklea, who has three sons, John, Alfred and Hugh; and a son of Thomas Finklea, deceased, named Neill. Upon these depend the perpetuation of the name in the county, and not only the name, but the reputation of it. Captain J. C. Finklea is sixty-three years of age, and has no child or childTen, and it is not presumable that he ever will have any.

Haseldbn. - ^Another family to be noticed is the Haselden family. There were three Haseldep brothers, John, William and James; don't know which was the older, nor is anything known of their ancestors. John Haselden married Elizabeth Godbold, daughter of old General Thomas Godbold; by this marriage three children were born and raised, Cyrus B. Haselden, Hugh G. Haselden and Jane Haselden ; don't know which was the older. John Haselden, the father, died, and the widow married the late David Monroe, and by her had two sons, Colonel James Monroe, of Confederate fame, and our respected fellow-citizen. Dr. F. M. Monroe, of Latta. Cyrus B. Haselden married Miss Labennon Bass, daughter of the late old Joseph Bass; by this marriage one child was born, and the mother died, and a few months afterwards the child died. The grand-father, Bass, had died before the death of Mrs. Haselden. Thus, by three successive deaths, Cyrus B. Haselden, the husband and father, became the heres f actus, one of the heirs of the large estate of Joseph Bass, and as such, received in property and money from $10,000 to $15,000. There were ten of the Bass heirs, including C. B. Haselden ; he soon after married Miss Sallie Finklea, a niece of the writer's wife, and by her he had five children, Lucy, John, Maggie, Fannie and Frank. In the meantime, Cyrus B. Haselden went through with all bis property, and whilst his children were all small, the youngest, Frank, about two years old, he took the train one night (not letting his family know anything about it) and left; he went to Arkansas, and has not been seen in this country since. His wife and her children were taken by her mother, Mrs. Margaret Finklea, and the children were raised respectably and in good credit; they all married respectably and all doing well. The other brother, Hugh G. Haselden, volunteered in the Confederate army, and was killed or died in the same; he married, I think, a Miss Foxworth, and had some children, one or two sons, who are among us, but whose name or names is or are unknown. Jane Haselden, a very pretty girl, married, in 1850, Hon. C. D. Evans, of the Marion bar, and has had and raised seven sons and one daughter; they have been noticed hereinbefore in or among the Evans family. Mrs. Jane Evans is now a widow, and an excellent lady she is. Of William Haselden's family, the writer can't say anything ; they are, if living, in Darlington, Florence and Williamsburg Counties. Of Major James Haselden and family, the writer can speak with some certainty. Major James Haselden married Mary Godbold, another and the youngest daughter of old General Thomas Godbold; the fruits of the marriage were Charles, Anna, Sarah, Jane, James G. and Maggie - all now dead except Charles and Anna. Charles Haselden married

Miss Julia Elkrbe, and notice of their family has already been taken herein or among the Ellerbe family, not necessary to repeat it; and the same may be said as to Sarah's family, already spoken of among the Ellerbes. Of Jane and her family, notice has already been taken in and among the Berry family. Of James G. Haselden and his family, now here among us - he married Miss Rebecca Dudley, of Marlborough County, an excellent lady ; the fruits of the marriage are James Dudley Haselden, Carrie Haselden, Luther M. Haselden and Lawrence Benton Haselden ; of these none are married except James Dudley Haselden; he married Miss Mary Edwards, a very nice girl ; they live in her patrimonial home, and have two children, sons, named J. Dudley and William E. Haselden, an infant. The grand-father. Major James Haselden, and the son, James G. Haselden, and the grand-son, J. Dudley Haselden, have all been honored by the people of the county with ^ seat in the State Legislature - ^the latter, or grand-son, twice. James G. Haselden died at his home on the 20th April, 1900. Major James Haselden died in 1864, at the age of fifty-nine. Major Haselden in many respects was a model man, and excellent farmer, a good neighbor and a very successful man; he was modest and unassuming; a man of fine sense and good humor, of good habits and genteel in demeanor and appearance ; he accumulated a large property, wholly unencumbered at his death, and was divided among his heirs with<jut the intetposition of any Court ; he was greatly missed in his community. The Haselden family are not long-lived. The writer heard Charles Haselden say when he was sixty-nine, that he was the oldest Haselden he ever knew. J. G. Haselden was sixty at the time of his death.

Bass. - ^The Bass family will 'be . next noticed. The first Bass of which the writer has any information was Joseph Bass; he married a Miss Jones, sister of John Jones, Bryant and Thomas N. Jones. By the older people, her contemporaries, she was spoken of in very high terms as an excellent lady, industrious and frugal, ever looking with a keen eye to the welfare of her household, and with all, and above all, was a pious, good woman - truly a "mother in Israel;" they settled on Catfish, on the road leading from Berry's Cross Roads to Harlleesville, now the property of James Berry, and is yet called the "old Bass place;" they raised a family of sons and daughters ; the sons were Joseph, Bryant and Robert, and three or four daughters, names unknown. The old people accumulated a good property for that day and time. Of the sons, Joseph, the oldest, married Miss Massey Crawford, and first settled just below the present town of Latta, on the place now owned by the Widow Thomas J. Bass and her four sons ; afterwards he moved to the place where the late Captain James W. Bass lately lived and died. Joseph, the second, raised five sons and six daughters. The sons were James W., Joseph R., Enos, Thomas R. and John C. Bass ; the daughters were Elizabeth, Harriet, Laura, Helen, Adarezer and Lebanon. Of the five sons, James W. Bass married late in life Miss Lucy Moody, daughter of the late Barfield Moody ; by this marriage they had and raised to be grown, C. G. Bass, Edgar, Robert, George P., T. Leon, Lucius and Rufus. The widow, Lucy, died a few years ago, suddenly. The second son, Joseph R., married Miss Amelia Moody, a daughter of the late Elizabeth Moody, of Buck Swamp, and settled on the land now covered in part by the town of Latta, and died there in 1866, leaving four children, two daughters and two sons - Araininta and Rosa, and Addison L. and Thomas J. Araminta, the oldest, married Hugh Ellis, and lived only a year or two, and died childless. Rosa married our fellow-citizen, DavidI E. Watson, and has already been noticed in or among the Watson family. Addison L. Bass married Miss Ellen Watson, daughter of the late William Watson, resides now at Latta, and has been already noticed in or among the Watson family. Thomas J. Bass, the youngest son, married Miss Hortensia Watson, daughter of the late Matthew Watson, who has already been somewhat noticed herein in or among the Watson family. But his death was so tragic and unusual that I deem it proper in this place to notice it more particularly. He was a juryman in Marion, at a June term of the Court, about fifteen years ago, and was discharged from the Court on Tuesday evening; he went home in perfect health and vigor. On the next afternoon he left home to go to the postoffice, just across

Buck Swamp, at the Bailey Ford, and went a footpath around the plantations next to the swamp, it being a nearer way - a path that I suppose he had traveled five hundred times. He passed by a negro house by the side of the swamp and went to the well and drew some water and drank it; a negro woman saw him at the well. He left the well andl went some two or three hundred yards to a point where a pine tree had, years before, fallen and lodged on the limb of another tree, over the path, and as he passed under the lodged tree, it broke loose from its moorings and fell upon him ; and he was found that night, on the ground under the fallen tree, which fell upon him and crushed him to instant death. The tree where it struck was more than a foot through and was heavy^don't suppose he knew what struck him. It is supposed that he had walked under that lodged tree perhaps five hundred times. Such a thing would not happen again in perhaps a million of times. Thus was the tragic end of Thomas J. Bass, the youngest son and dhild of Joseph Bass, the third. He 'left his widow and four sons, Carl, Tracy, Luther and Thomas, now promising young men. Tracy is now the agent of the railroad ait Sellers, S. C. The father was an energetic and persevering man^ - cut off in middle life. Again recurring to James W. Bass' family, his son, C. G. Bass, a boy scarcely grown at the death of his father, in 1876, took charge of the family and its circumstances ; his father was much in debt at the time of his death ; he had been the guardian of his infant niece, Helen Bass, who had a good property ; she had grown up and married the now Rev. Joel I. Allen, about the time of Captain James W. Bass' death. Captain Bass' widow administered upon his estate. Joel I. Allen called upon the administratrix for a settlement of his guardianship account with his ward, Helen, and which Allen estimated at near $10,000 due his ward - cash received, negro hire,,&c. One item in the account was $3,315 cash received at one time from the Commissioner in Equity, in March, i860, which, with interest, amounted to about $8,000. Allen, not wishing to break up Captain Bass' family, offered to take $3,315, without interest, and receipt in full. The then advisers of the administratrix, not being safe and good advisers, she declined Allen's proposition. He then filed a complaint, against her as administratrix and her children for an account of the guardian's transactions, and after two or three years' stifif litigation, a decree was rendered in favor of the ward for about $8,000. Defendant threatened an appeal and neglected to prosecute it till it was too late, submitted to the decree. Allen, then, in the magnanimity of his heart, not desiring to break up and beggar Captain Bass' family, offered to take the $3,315 as at first offered, without interest - ^notwithstanding the hot litigation and the hundreds paid out in counsel fees, loss of time and so forth, much to Allen's credit. Defendants agreed to pay the compromise. There were other debts of Captain J. W. Bass - one to F. W. Kerchner, of Wilmington, N. C, in judgment, I think, for about $1,400, compromised for $800. C. G. Bass, then hardly grown, took charge of the farm, and by his untiring energy and good management in three years' time paid up the indebtedness of his father's estate, and saved his valuable plantation, lands and other property for his mother, himself and younger brothers. These things are mentioned herein to the everlasting credit of Rev. Joel I. Allen and Cornelius G. Bass. Notwithstanding this sacrifice on the part of these two gentlemen, they both have prospered, and are among our best citizens. C. G. Bass married his cousin. Miss lyula Deer ; the result of their marriage is one son, yet a little boy. Enos Bass, the third son of Joseph the second, died a young man, unmarried, before his father. Thomas R. Bass, the fourth son of Joseph the second, grew up and studied medicine, and located in West Marion (now Florence County), on Ivynch's River ; married a Miss Carter, raised a nice family of sons and daughters, and accumulated a large property, educated his children, was a good citizen and useful man ; was a Representative from Marion County in the Legislature of 1870 ; died some years ago, much respected and largely regretted by his people ; his family is scattered - don't know enough about them to particularize. John C. Bass, the fifth and youngest son and child of Joseph the second', born in March, 1835, yet survives, and lives near Latta ; he is the only survivor of that large family, male or female; he married, first. Miss Hannah Jane Bethea, daughter of the late Ivcvi Bethea ; they lived together for many years, when she died, childless ; he married, a second time, a lady whose name is not now remembered ; she died at her first accouchement, neither she nor the child surviving; John has not married again - apparently the name will die out or disappear, so far as he, John C. Bass, is concerned. Of the daughters of Joseph the second, the oldest, Elizabeth A., married Rev. S. J. Bethea, his second wife ; only one child to live, was the fruit of this marriage, born October 7th, 1857, now the Rev. S. J. Bethea, of the South Carolina Conference of the M. E. Church, South; she wa^ a most excellent woman, died a year or two ago. Harriet, the second daughter, married the late John R.' Bethea, 2d February, 1842. The writer was one of the guests ^t the marriage. The results of this marriage were two daughters, Almira, now the wife of Joseph Allen, of Latta, and Addie, now the wife of Ed. B. Watson; and five sons, Joseph J. Bethea, our well known and much respected fellow-citizen of Latta, who married his distant cousin, Carrie Bethea; they have no children. Lewis S. Bethea, whose first wife was a Miss McPherson, of West Marion, and who died some years ago, leaving five or six children ; Lewis married, a second time. Miss Roberta Floyd, a daughter of Mrs. Zilpha Floyd, near Campbell's Bridge; there are two or three children from this last marriage. Harris C. Bethea, a third son, became a Methodist traveling preacher, and after traveling for several years, by some means or other, unknown to the writer, he quit the Methodist Church and ministry, joined the Baptist Church, and became and is now a minister in that denomination ; he married some lady in Sumter County, and there now resides ; know nothing of his family. Another son, Walter E. Bethea, now a citizen of Latta, married a Miss Rouse, of Williamsburg County, an excellent woman; they have no children. Thomas C, the fifth and youngest son of the late John R. Bethea, sickened and died when about twentyone years of age. Laura Bass, the third daughter of Joseph the second, married her first cousin, David S. Bass ; she had and left one child only, Helen, when she died; that child from early girlhood was raised by her guardian. Captain James W. Bass, and became the first wife of Rev. Joel I. Allen, as hereinabove mentioned ; she left five children. David S. Bass afterwards married a Miss Powers, and went oflf to George- town County ; know nothing further of him. Helen Bass, the fourth daughter of Joseph the second, married W. H. Smith, of Buck Swamp ; by him she had two children, daughters, and then died; those daughters grew up, and one married Lawrence Sessions ; they raised a considerable family, now young people among us, quite respectable; the other married a Mr. Moody, son of the late Hugh Moody, whose name the writer has forgotten ; know nothing further of them. Adarezer, the fifth daughter of Joseph Bass the second, married her first cousin, James E. Coxe, of Marlborough, and raised a family of four children, two sons and two daughters; Mrs. Coxe died in the spring of 1900 ; they being in Marlborough, the writer can trace the family no further. Lebanon Bass, the sixth and youngest daughter of Joseph the second, married Cyrus B. Haselden, as hereinbefore stated in and among the Haselden family, to wliich reference is made. Joseph Bass the second, notwithstanding his large family of eleven children, all raised to be grown, by his energy and frugality amassed a large fortune for his day and time; he died intestate, in 1854; his estate was valued at $150,000, unencumbered; his wife, Massey, preceded him to the grave, in December, 1846. The Bass family, back to Joseph the first, including all the descendants, as far as known, have been noted for their large hospitality. Joseph the second, gave away more at his table in one year than some of his equally welHo-do neighbors did in a whole lifetime ; he and all his sons were close and tight on a trade, exacting to the last cent; but go to their homes, and their hospitality was most lavish. Of the eleven children, John C. Bass, now sixty-five years old, only survives. Of the other sons of Joseph the first, Bryant Bass married Miss Jane Kogers, daughter of old EH Rogers ; by her he had five children, three sons and two daughters, and died before reaching middle life, well-to-do and prosperous. Of his sons, David S. has already been spoken of; the other two sons, William and Robert, emigrated West in early manhood ; know nothing further of them. Of the two daughters, Louisa and Anna, the former married John S. Page, who died in first of the war, as already noticed in or among the Page family ; he left some sons and two daughters ; one of the sons, William, was killed in Sheriflf Berry's posse, twenty-five or thirty years ago, as already stated; think another son or two went to parts unknown. One daughter married Joseph Smith, from whom she was divorced in the seventies, while that law was in force; don't know where she is or what has become of her. The other daughter of John S. Page and wife married C. J. McCoU, DOW of MuUins, a prosperous man and good citizen ; has been a cotton buyer for years and is still thus engaged ; they have a family of children to the writer unknown. Robert Bass, the third son of Joseph the first, married Miss Mahala Deer; by her he had four children, one son and three daughters ; he died when quite a young man ; like his brothers, he was prospering at the time of his death ; the widow married again ; don't remember to whom; they removed West in the forties; know nothing of them since. Of the daughters of Joseph the first, one married old Daniel Piatt, who died in 1839 or '40; she was the progenitress of all the Platts in the county, from that time until now, and there have been many and their connections, yet the name Piatt is now extinct in the county, except R. B. Piatt and children of Mullins. Another daughter, Nancy, married a Mr. Coxe, of Marlborough ; Coxe died, leaving her a widow, well-to-^o, with three sons, Edwin, James and Robert ; the eldest and youngest both died unmarried ; Robert was a doctor; James Coxe is still living, a well-to-do citizen and highly respectable. Another daughter of old Joseph the first, Dicey, married a Tart, whose name is now forgotten; they went West. Recurring to the children of Bryant Bass: his youngest daughter, Anna, married Samuel Smith, son of old Samuel Smith, on Buck Swamp; she is still living, and has raised several children, daughters and sons ; one the wife of Dr. Connelly; one the wife of R. B. McLean, of Dillon - McLean married two of them ; she has three sons, young men, unknown to the writer. Bryant Bass' widow married Salathiel Moody, and by him had two children, a son and a daughter; the son was idiotic and died; the daughter grew up, and married Mack Martin; think they went West - at any rate, have lost sight of them. Recurring to the family of Captain James W. Bass ; his second son, Edgar, married, a few years ago, a Miss Mclntyre, of Carmichael Township, and immediately left for Georgia ; it was said that at the time of their marriage their joint weight, avoirdupois, was over 500 pounds. The third son of Captain J. W. Bass, Robert A., is a physician; married his first cousin, a daughter of Robert Moody, of Richmond, Va. ; resides at Latta, and has two or three children; George F. and Lucius Bass, sons of Captain J. W. Bass, have gone from the county, and can say nothing about them. T. Leon Bass married Miss Beulah McColl ;* has only one child, a son, resides at Dillon, is a dispenser of liquor, under the law, and is also merchandising ; he is apparently doing well ; sober and a very pleasant gentleman and highly respectable, except so far as the odium which attaches to liquor sellers affects him.

Hamer. - The next family to be noticed is the Hamer family. So far as Marion County is concerned, the Hamer family is an importation from Marlborough County. The late Robert C. Hamer, son of John Hamer and wife, Mary (Polly), of Marlborough, married, in 1830, Mary (Polly) Bethea, daughter of Tristram Bethea, in this (Marion) County, and settled on the road leading from Harlleesville to Rockingham, about five miles above Harlleesville, where he resided till his death, February, 1878 or 1879 ; by the marriage he raised three children to be grown ; Elizabeth Ann, John H. and Robert P. Hamer ; he had another son, named Tristram, who when about grown sickened and died ; his wife died when Robert P. was quite a child ; the father never married again, but remained a widower until his death ; a maiden sister of his kept house for him, and looked after his children. His daughter, Elizabeth Ann (Betsey Ann, as she was called,) married a Mr. Thompson, of Robeson County, N. C. - think bis name was John ; he died and left his widow with three children, one daughter and two sons. The daughter (MoUie, I believe,) married her cousin, L. D. Hamer, of Marlborough ; of the two sons, John C. Thompson married a Miss Smith, of Alabama; the other son, Tristram Thompson, married Miss Flora Bethea - daughter of Dr. J. F. Bethea; by this marriage two sons were born. Prank and Tristram ; their father died six or eight years ago, with measles^ or rather a relapse of that disease ; his widow moved to Dillon, *She is now dead.

and she died suddenly some two years ago, leaving her two boys surviving ; their grand-father, Dr. J. F. Bethea, took them to his home, where they now are. The widow, Elizabeth A. Thompson, married Lemuel Thompson, a cousin of her first husband ; by this, her second marriage, she had and raised three children, two daughters, Mary and Charlotte (Lottie), and one son, Robert. Mary is the wife of Adolphus Stackhouse, now a resident citizen of Sumter County. Charlotte married Dr. P. N. Timmerman, of Edgefield or Bamberg County, but now a resident citizen of Marion County. Lemuel Thompson, a most worthy man and quiet, unpretending citizen, died about a year ago, leaving "Betsey Ann" a widow for a second time. Her son, Robert Thompson, married a Miss Woodley, of Marlborough, and is among our best and most progressive citizens, a young man of promise. John H. Hamer, the oldest son of old Robert C, married, first. Miss Missouri Bethea, daughter of the late William S. Bethea; she died in a year or two, leaving an infant son, Missouri Robert, now one of our best citizens, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, and who married a Miss Townsend, of Robeson; they have only one child, a son, named John David, for his two grandfathers, John H. Hamer and David Townsend. After the death of his first wife, John H. Ham;er married Miss Alice Richardson, daughter of the late Wm. F. Richardson, below Marion ; by this marriage he had five children, three sons and two daughters ; the sons are Edward R., Tristram and John H. ; the daughters are Mary and Orianna. Of the sons, Edward R. married Miss Julia Berry, daughter of James Berry ,' they have several children. Tristram Hamer is a physician, and left the county a few years ago, a single man, and went to Texas, where he still is, as it is said. John H., Jr., is a young mjtn, and still resides with his father. His daughter, Mary, married Neill Berry, one of our progressive citizens, and has three children. Orianna Hamer is the second wiie of Lawrence Manning; they have no children. After the death of his Richardson wife, John H. Hamer married the Widow Fannie Lyles, of Anson County, N. C. ; she was originally a Fladger, of Marion, a daughter of the late Captain C. J. Fladger. Robert P. Hamer, the youngest son of old Robert

C. Hamer, lives at old HarlleesviUe, now called Little Rock; he married a Miss McCall, of West Marion, a daughter of old William McCall. Robert P. "has raised a large family of ten or twelve children, sons and daughters ; think he has lost a 'son and a daughter, both grown or about so. His older sons: Robert P. Hamer married a Miss McCoUum, daughter of the late Brown McCoUum, and lives at Hamer, on the "Short-cut" Railroad, and is one of the most thorough-going, progressive men of the county ; though a young man, is already a rich man for our section of the country ; he has some four or five children. James Hamer, another son of Robert P., married a Miss Breeden, of Marlborough ; don't know whether they have any offspring or not. Brooks Hamer, another son of Robert P., married a Miss Bennett, daughter of John Bennett, in upper Marion; don't know whether they have any children or not. William M. Hamer, another son of Robert P., yet single, is quite prominent in business circles, is reputed to have made money, and very clear-headed in business - a promising young man. A daughter of R. P. Hamer married T. B. Stackhouse, of Dillon, Cashier of the Bank of Dillon ; also has a good farm near by ; well qualified for business, a first class business man every way, and stands fair with all who know him; he has one child, a daughter. Robert P. Hamer has other sons and several daughters, unmarried, some grown. Old Robert C. Hamer was a very successful man in life ; he accumulated a large property, and left his children in good condition for the battle of life, so far as means are concerned. In his numerous dealings with men be was always prompt and strictly honest, acting "on the plumb and parting on the square ;" he was frugal and economical, and made his money by gradual accretions; liberal in his views of life and with his means to every commendable project for the gOod of his community and advancement of his people. Much more might be said of him, but space will not permit. It is not in good taste to speak of the virtues and good traits of the living, remembering the old adage, "Never speak of one's virtues to his face, nor of his faults behind his back;" but as to this family I will venture one remark: wherever you find a Hamer, phrenologically speaking, you will find the bump denoting acquisitiveness fully developed, strong and prominent; and when it is mixed with old William Mc- Call's family, it adds to its development and strength. Another branch of the Hamer family, imported from Marlborough, is a Widtow Hamer and sons, John B. Hamer, Charles Hamer and Jesse Hamer, with a deaf-mute sister, in Kirby Township. John B. Hamer was first -imported and married a daughter of Captain Stephen F. Berry ; by her he has several children ; he lives in Bethea Township. Charles Hamer recently married a daughter of Wilson Berry. Jesse and the mute sister live with their >mother. This branch of the family are collaterally related to those in Harlleesville community ; they all came from the same common stock, old man John Hamer, of Marlborough, whose wife was a daughter of old Thomas Cochrane, and sister to the writer's mother-in-law, Rachel Bethea. This branch of the Hamer family seems not to have succeeded in life so well as the Harlleesville branch, yet they have many of the same characteristics.