Thursday, June 8, 2023

 Morgan Godfrey Boone

1827-24 Oct 1862

Morgan Godfrey Boone was born in 1827 in Richland, South Carolina. He married Margaret Isabelle Bickley on January 29, 1850. They had six children during their marriage. He died as a young father on October 24, 1862, in Lynchburg, Virginia, at the age of 33, and was buried there.

Basically, that's all I know about Godfrey Boone. He is my husband's great great grandfather. I have searched many records, but have found none that give his parents.

Here is his story as I know it.

1860 Census "the vicinity of Lexington C. H."
13 June 1860


Record details
NameGodfrey Bone
Age33
Birth Year1827
GenderMale
RaceWhite
Birth PlaceRichland County
Home in 1860Lexington, Lexington, South Carolina
Post OfficeLexington
Dwelling Number224
Family Number224
OccupationFarmer
Real Estate Value624
Personal Estate Value400
Inferred SpouseMargaret E Bone
Inferred ChildJacob M Bone; Julian R Bone; Sarah A Bone; Margaret Bone
Household members
NameAge
Godfrey Bone33
Margaret E Bone28
Jacob M Bone7
Julian R Bone4
Sarah A Bone2
Margaret Bone8/12

On 29 January 1850 he married Margaret Isabel Bickley, daughter of Jacob N Bickley and Jemimah "Mamie" Smith. They had 6 children:

Jacob Morgan Calvin Boone - 1852-1940

 Julia Ann Rachel Boone - 1855-1942

Sarah Ann Jemima Boone - 1858

Margaret Boone - 1859

Felia Boone - 1860

Susannah E Boone - 1862-1947 

Godfrey Boone enlisted in the Confederate Army 12 March 1862. 

U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865

 

Name:Godfrey Boone
Enlistment Date:12 Mar 1862
Rank:Private
Military Unit:Thirteenth Infantry A-B

He died of disease 24 October 1862 in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is buried in Old City Cemetery, in Lynchburg.


Photo by Darrell Landrum

Godfrey Boone

BIRTH
Lexington County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH
24 Oct 1862 (aged 34–35)
Lynchburg, Lynchburg City, Virginia, USA
BURIAL
LynchburgLynchburg CityVirginiaUSA Add to Map
PLOT
181
MEMORIAL ID
101344135

 Find A Grave 

Buried 24 Oct. 1862
6 ft x 18
Crumpton Factory
G Boone Co H 13th S.C. Reg was
Buried No 7 in 3rd Line of Lot 181

(Transcribed from copy of handwritten record of Godfrey Boone's burial, sent from The Old City Cemetery, 401 Taylor Street, Lynchburg VA 24501. www.gravegarden.org)

Bio by: Wendy Grigsby 

 

If anyone has any information about Godfrey Boone's parents and is willing to share, please let me know in the comments. 

Monday, November 9, 2020

 Confederates Under the Waters of Lake Murray

2nd South Carolina Infantry

George W Fry Co A

2nd South Carolina State Troops

S E (Sampson) Bickley Co F

Henry Amick Co F

Louis Riddle Co F

2nd South Carolina Artillery (Palmetto)

Richard Farmer Co D

3rd Regiment South Carolina Infantry

George W Fulmer Co H

George Fulmer (G M) Co H

5th Regiment South Carolina Calvary

Gilbert Henry Co F

Absalom Wingard Co F

Job Franklin Wingard Co F

John H Wyse Co F

Patrick D Unger Co F

6th Regiment South Carolina Infantry

Jonathan Frederick Fulmer Co D

6th Regiment South Carolina Calvary

Adam Fulmer Co F

7th Regiment South Carolina Infantry

John A POW Co E

John (J  C H) Rauch Co E

John H Shealy Co E

Michael Shealy Co M

J (James) Hannibal Alewine Co D

13th Regiment South Carolina Infantry

Christopher Caughman (Captain) Co K

Samuel Augustus Harmon Co K

William Ballentine Co K

Jesse McCartha Co K

14th Regiment South Carolina Infantry

John Jacob Rauch Co B

Henry Rauch Co B

14th Bn South Carolina Calvary

Wesley Caughman (Captain) Co C

S R Harmon Co ?

15th Regiment South Carolina Infantry

John H Amick Co I

George L Dreher Co I

N W Hyler (Huyler) Co C

Joshua Lybrand Co I

Frank Rawl Co C

Francis Marion Sease Co C

Solomon Shealy Co I

Henry Josiah Wessinger Co I

S J Frick Co I

Daniel (Isaiah) Sease Co K

William Ballentine Co I

David Eargle Derrick Co ?

Jacob (J N) Lybrand Co I

Robert Kelly Frick Co I

Andrew Irwin Shealy Co C

19th Regiment South Carolina Infantry

Henry Lybrand Co A

George Lybrand Co A

W A (Wade) Younginer Co K

Holcombs Legion

Espy Hendrix Co H

Jacob Butler Warner (Captain) Co H

Source: The Lexington Dispatch




Source:

Sunday, September 27, 2020

                                                                 Herman Geiger

Herman Geiger, Saxegotha Township, planter. Wife: Elizabeth, plantation where I now live during her widowhood. Sons: eldest John Conrad, said plantation: Jacob, 2 tracts on south side Santee River; Herman, land on south side Broad River, land purchased of Adam Skeikil; youngest John, land on north side Broad River purchased of Michael Pomer, land purchased of Peter Smith. Daus: (not named). Mentions: "I desire that Stephen Creel be in no manner employed about or have concern with my books, papers or anything Relating to or Concerning my affairs whatsoever.: Exors: wife, son John Conrad; brother John Gollman; Mr Benjamin Smith; Mr. Henry Lawrence. Wit: Jans Jacob Remmsfruger, Frederick Hous, John Remington. D: 20 Oct. 1751. P: 6 Sept. 1751 (sic). R: nd p. 450 Will Book 1747-1752.

Source: A Genealogical History of Lexington, SC; M H Spivey p.96

 Advertisements from The Lexington Dispatch, 16 July 1873


  







Source: Newspapers.com, The Lexington Dispatch, 16 July 1873


Friday, June 22, 2018

Puzzling Dutch Fork Graves

Graves are strung out approximately 50 yards along the south bank of Hollings Head (or Holly Head) Creek where it enters the Broad River almost exactly opposite Richtex Brick which bear the date 1749 located on the land of Carl Derrick.

George H____  1749
Job H_____ 1749
Dorothy H_____ 1749
"In loving memory of Elizabeth M_____. The daughter of Joseph Kennerly and wife Leah. She was born March the 21, 1820 and died June 30, 1820, aged three months and nine days."
(another inscription on the stone beside it is same except substitute "Margaret" for "Elizabeth")

Some local people speculate that the people were either settlers moving upriver from Grandby Landing in search of farmland and were massacred by Indians, or had already settled in the immediate area and were wiped out by a sudden and violent epidemic.

According to David D Wallace's History of South Carolina, the early German settlers of the Dutch Fork and Lexington region (Saxe Gotha Township) were the first line of defense (for Charleston) and were thrown directly across the path of marauding Indians from as far north as central New York.

Source: The State Magazine, August 6, 1950 pg 12

Thursday, June 21, 2018

Royal Grants in Saxe Gotha

By Lot Number

1. John Hubert Spear & Jacob Spear (Spuchel)
2. Jacob Hacaboe (Haughabuch, Hucabee)
3. Weldrich Bootman
4. John Coleman (Johannes Gallman)
5. Not listed
6. Henry Weiber (Hans Heinrich Weber)
7. Jacob Theiler (Hans Theiler)
8. John Theiler (Hans Theiler)
9. Henry Bouine (probably Heinrich Bohne, Henry Boney)
10. Hans Buss (John Boose)
11. Martin Friday (Fridig, Fritig)
12. Roody Cooplet (Randolpff Capeler)
13. John Jacob Rodey (Hans Jacob Rodi, Roddy)
14. Herman Christopher Perdrink (Dertrinken, Dortringene)
15. John Sodriker (possible Sandifer)
16. Jenry Lockly (Heinrich Gloeckle, Henry Kleckley)
19. Hans Jacob Annis
20. Samuel Chubb (Tchupp, Schupp)
21. John Weldrick Miller (later granted to Casper Faust)
22. Not listed
23. John Matthews (johannes Mattersz, John Matthias)
24 - 26 Not listed
27. Barbara Appheal
28. Nagdalen Appheal
29. Jacob Burckhardt (Burkhart)
30. Not listed
31. Stephen Crell
32. Joseph Crell
33. Thomas Berry (named Crell grants
34-41 not listed
42. Hannah Maria Stole (Stoles, Stoke, Stoele, Stole)
43-52 not listed
53. Ulrich Busser (Booser)
54. John Galliser (possible Eleazer)
55-60 not listed
61. Hans Jacob Gyger (Geiger)
62. Herman Gyger (Geiger)
63. not listed
64. John Shillig (Shelley)
65-70 not listed
71. William Baker (Wilhelm Bacher)
72. John Liver (Hans Liffer, Johannes Liever, John Lever)
73. not listed
74. Jacob Reimensperger
75-80 not listed
81. John Ulrich Shillig
82. Caspar Fry (Frey)
83. Charles Hanslear (Karl Kinsler later to Abraham Gyger)
84. Casper Hanslear (Kinsler)
85-90 not listed
91. Richard Myrick
92-97 not listed
98 John Granget
99. Frederick Arnold
100. Anthony Ernest





Friday, April 20, 2018

Leesville Church Street Historic District

Church-Street-Historic-District
Riser Drafts House constructed ca 1900

Church-Street-Historic-District
Gist-Duncan House constructed ca 1905

Church-Street-Historic-District
Ezekial Etheridge House constructed ca 1895 Queen Anne style

Church-Street-Historic-District
Leesville United Methodist Church constructed 1909 Gothic Revival style

Church-Street-Historic-District
Bodie-Crawford House constructed ca 1870 Italianate style

Church-Street-Historic-District
James C Bodie House constructed ca 1865

Source: SC Dept. Archives & History