tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58262800698836591362024-03-19T08:31:26.730-04:00Lexington County SC HistoryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-69991055951864364802023-06-08T13:41:00.002-04:002023-06-09T06:43:57.045-04:00<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><b> Morgan Godfrey Boone</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><b>1827-24 Oct 1862</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>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.</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>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. </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Here is his story as I know it. </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7667/images/4296162_00429?pId=18797534" target="_blank">1860 Census "the vicinity of Lexington C. H." <br />13 June 1860</a><br /></b></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7667/images/4296162_00429?pId=18797534" style="color: #444444; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank"><img alt="" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1920" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0lNJLcinFCbasGIHGtuUDMsQO2H7Nrbz7TIWqNQG5TW7YkZDR5UlOQEY-4gUSelOWAJbDFuKLo4d50nP6yO-lLq7BaR823Q6GoS1GuJXaTbuBnilo4hrP5mzSImWAfsBFOnkd15Vsk36b-VkQlBCCBKXrWDfm9Ej_EXr23BdCBKZ88ifP4iI_Wiwe" width="320" /></a></span></p></blockquote><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><table class="table tableHorizontal" style="background-color: #f6f3f0; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #444444; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14.5px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve; width: 556.359px;" summary="This table list details about Morgan Godfrey Boone’s life in this record."><caption class="screenReaderText" style="box-sizing: inherit; caption-side: bottom; height: 1px; line-height: 2em; margin: -1px; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; pointer-events: none; position: static; text-align: left; width: 1px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Record details</span></caption><tbody style="box-sizing: inherit;"><tr id="displayFields1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Name</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Godfrey Bone</span></span></td></tr><tr id="displayFields2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Age</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">33</span></td></tr><tr id="displayFields3" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Birth Year</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">1827</span></td></tr><tr id="displayFields4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Gender</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Male</span></td></tr><tr id="displayFields5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Race</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">White</span></td></tr><tr id="displayFields6" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Birth Place</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Richland County</span></td></tr><tr id="displayFields7" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Home in 1860</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lexington, Lexington, South Carolina</span></td></tr><tr id="displayFields8" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Post Office</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lexington</span></td></tr><tr id="displayFields9" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dwelling Number</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">224</span></td></tr><tr id="displayFields10" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Family Number</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">224</span></td></tr><tr id="displayFields11" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Occupation</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Farmer</span></td></tr><tr id="displayFields12" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Real Estate Value</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">624</span></td></tr><tr id="displayFields13" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Personal Estate Value</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">400</span></td></tr><tr id="displayFields14" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Inferred Spouse</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Margaret E Bone</span></td></tr><tr id="displayFields15" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Inferred Child</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jacob M Bone; Julian R Bone; Sarah A Bone; Margaret Bone</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
</b><table class="table tableHorizontal topSpacingBlock" style="background-color: #f6f3f0; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #444444; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14.5px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 8px; white-space-collapse: preserve; width: 556.359px;" summary="This table list the members of the household and their ages in this record."><caption style="box-sizing: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Household members</span></caption><thead style="box-sizing: inherit;"><tr style="box-sizing: inherit;"><th scope="row" style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(102, 102, 102); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.1; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Name</span></th><th style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(102, 102, 102); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.1; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: left; vertical-align: bottom;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Age</span></th></tr></thead><tbody style="box-sizing: inherit;"><tr id="householdMembers1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th data-label="Name" scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Godfrey Bone</span></th><td data-label="Age" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">33</span></td></tr><tr id="householdMembers2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th data-label="Name" scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Margaret E Bone</span></th><td data-label="Age" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">28</span></td></tr><tr id="householdMembers3" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th data-label="Name" scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jacob M Bone</span></th><td data-label="Age" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">7</span></td></tr><tr id="householdMembers4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th data-label="Name" scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Julian R Bone</span></th><td data-label="Age" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">4</span></td></tr><tr id="householdMembers5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th data-label="Name" scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sarah A Bone</span></th><td data-label="Age" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">2</span></td></tr><tr id="householdMembers6" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th data-label="Name" scope="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 211.406px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Margaret Bone</span></th><td data-label="Age" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">8/12</span></td></tr></tbody></table><b style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br />On 29 January 1850 he married Margaret Isabel Bickley, daughter of Jacob N Bickley and Jemimah "Mamie" Smith. They had 6 children:</b></span><p></p><p style="clear: both; color: #444444; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></p><p style="clear: both; color: #444444; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Jacob Morgan Calvin Boone - 1852-1940</b></span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><b> Julia Ann Rachel Boone - 1855-1942</b></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><b>Sarah Ann Jemima Boone - 1858</b></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><b>Margaret Boone - 1859</b></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><b>Felia Boone - 1860</b></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><b>Susannah E Boone - 1862-1947 </b></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Godfrey Boone enlisted in the Confederate Army 12 March 1862. </b></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f6f3f0; color: #262626; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865</b></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> </b></span></p><table class="table tableHorizontal tableHorizontalRuled" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #262626; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14.5px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; width: 388.875px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: inherit;"><tr style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 147.766px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Name:</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: middle; word-break: break-word;"><span class="srchHit" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Godfrey Boone</b></span></span></td></tr><tr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 147.766px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Enlistment Date:</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: middle; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>12 Mar 1862</b></span></td></tr><tr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 147.766px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rank:</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: middle; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Private</b></span></td></tr><tr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 147.766px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Military Unit:</span></th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: middle; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Thirteenth Infantry A-B</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>He died of disease 24 October 1862 in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is buried in Old City Cemetery, in Lynchburg.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKSyzT3THgmMLz1Bk-_aFLWc1rf_t4G059aPq5jL4ycUGVCjKMevoNz1-qmMW3n37XHBR8ZPyo6BAm4NVlZbMnf5dypHWSMt9AwnDIwWb4vAD9OEnBwKHS3T8je1rVyyZbzGVwQiO8L67Of0gKQd75bU8iiw3kdToJAyRhFeIylt910sM6tU42jxrk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><img alt="" data-original-height="1704" data-original-width="2272" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKSyzT3THgmMLz1Bk-_aFLWc1rf_t4G059aPq5jL4ycUGVCjKMevoNz1-qmMW3n37XHBR8ZPyo6BAm4NVlZbMnf5dypHWSMt9AwnDIwWb4vAD9OEnBwKHS3T8je1rVyyZbzGVwQiO8L67Of0gKQd75bU8iiw3kdToJAyRhFeIylt910sM6tU42jxrk" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br />Photo by Darrell Landrum</b></span><p></p><h1 class="bio-name text-center text-md-start" id="bio-name" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #73716d; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-size: 2.34375rem; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Godfrey Boone</span></h1><dl class="mem-events row row-cols-2 gx-2" style="--bs-gutter-x: 0.5rem; --bs-gutter-y: 0; background-color: #73716d; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: calc(-0.5*var(--bs-gutter-x)); margin-right: calc(-0.5*var(--bs-gutter-x)); margin-top: calc(-1*var(--bs-gutter-y)); text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) 0px 0px 4px;"><dt class="col-4 col-lg-3 col-xl-2 text-end text-md-start text-uppercase" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); text-transform: uppercase; width: 125.656px;"><span id="birthLabel" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BIRTH</b></span></span></dt><dd class="col-8 col-lg-9 col-xl-10 text-start" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); width: 628.328px;"><time class="info" id="birthDateLabel" itemprop="birthDate" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>1827</b></span></time><div class="place" id="birthLocationLabel" itemprop="birthPlace" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Lexington County, South Carolina, USA</b></span></div></dd><dt class="col-4 col-lg-3 col-xl-2 text-end text-md-start text-uppercase" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); text-transform: uppercase; width: 125.656px;"><span id="deathLabel" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>DEATH</b></span></span></dt><dd class="col-8 col-lg-9 col-xl-10 text-start" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); width: 628.328px;"><span class="info middot" id="deathDateLabel" itemprop="deathDate" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>24 Oct 1862 (aged 34–35)</b></span></span><div class="place" id="deathLocationLabel" itemprop="deathPlace" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Lynchburg, Lynchburg City, Virginia, USA</b></span></div></dd><dt class="col-4 col-lg-3 col-xl-2 text-end text-md-start text-uppercase" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); text-transform: uppercase; width: 125.656px;"><span id="cemeteryLabel" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BURIAL</b></span></span></dt><dd class="col-8 col-lg-9 col-xl-10 text-start" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); width: 628.328px;"><div class="info" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Cemetery" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="add-link" href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1970115/old-city-cemetery" itemprop="url" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span id="cemeteryNameLabel" itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Old City Cemetery</b></span></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span class="place" itemprop="address" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span id="cemeteryCityName" itemprop="addressLocality" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lynchburg</span>, <span id="cemeteryCountyName" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lynchburg City</span>, <span id="cemeteryStateName" itemprop="addressRegion" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Virginia</span>, <span id="cemeteryCountryName" itemprop="addressLocality" style="box-sizing: border-box;">USA</span> </span><span class="d-print-none no-select" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: none;"><span class="d-print-none no-select icon-map" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: none;"><a class="add-link" href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101344135/edit#gps-location" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; text-wrap: nowrap;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Add to Map</em></a></span></span></b></span></dd><dt class="col-4 col-lg-3 col-xl-2 text-end text-md-start text-uppercase text-break" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); text-transform: uppercase; width: 125.656px; word-break: break-word;"><span id="plotLabel" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>PLOT</b></span></span></dt><dd class="col-8 col-lg-9 col-xl-10 text-start" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); width: 628.328px;"><span class="info" id="plotValueLabel" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>181</b></span></span></dd><dt class="col-4 col-lg-3 col-xl-2 text-end text-md-start text-uppercase text-break" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); text-transform: uppercase; width: 125.656px; word-break: break-word;"><span id="memNumber" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>MEMORIAL ID</b></span></span></dt><dd class="col-8 col-lg-9 col-xl-10 text-start" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x)*.5); width: 628.328px;"><span class="info copyme" id="memNumberLabel" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>101344135</b></span></span></dd></dl><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><b> Find A Grave </b></span></p></blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">Buried 24 Oct. 1862</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">6 ft x 18</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">Crumpton Factory</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">G Boone Co H 13th S.C. Reg was</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">Buried No 7 in 3rd Line of Lot 181</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;" /></b></span><p><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>(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)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #656565; font-size: 15px;">Bio by: </span><a href="http://"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px;">Wendy Grigsby</span> </span></a></b></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><b> </b></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><b>If anyone has any information about Godfrey Boone's parents and is willing to share, please let me know in the comments. </b></span></p></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-66880511684046093272020-11-09T16:26:00.000-05:002020-11-09T16:26:27.326-05:00<p> <b>Confederates Under the Waters of Lake Murray</b></p><p><b>2nd South Carolina Infantry</b></p><p>George W Fry Co A</p><p><b>2nd South Carolina State Troops</b></p><p>S E (Sampson) Bickley Co F</p><p>Henry Amick Co F</p><p>Louis Riddle Co F</p><p><b>2nd South Carolina Artillery (Palmetto)</b></p><p>Richard Farmer Co D</p><p><b>3rd Regiment South Carolina Infantry</b></p><p>George W Fulmer Co H</p><p>George Fulmer (G M) Co H</p><p><b>5th Regiment South Carolina Calvary</b></p><p>Gilbert Henry Co F</p><p>Absalom Wingard Co F</p><p>Job Franklin Wingard Co F</p><p>John H Wyse Co F</p><p>Patrick D Unger Co F</p><p><b>6th Regiment South Carolina Infantry</b></p><p>Jonathan Frederick Fulmer Co D</p><p><b>6th Regiment South Carolina Calvary</b></p><p>Adam Fulmer Co F</p><p><b>7th Regiment South Carolina Infantry</b></p><p>John A POW Co E</p><p>John (J C H) Rauch Co E</p><p>John H Shealy Co E</p><p>Michael Shealy Co M</p><p>J (James) Hannibal Alewine Co D</p><p><b>13th Regiment South Carolina Infantry</b></p><p>Christopher Caughman (Captain) Co K</p><p>Samuel Augustus Harmon Co K</p><p>William Ballentine Co K</p><p>Jesse McCartha Co K</p><p><b>14th Regiment South Carolina Infantry</b></p><p>John Jacob Rauch Co B</p><p>Henry Rauch Co B</p><p><b>14th Bn South Carolina Calvary</b></p><p>Wesley Caughman (Captain) Co C</p><p>S R Harmon Co ?</p><p><b>15th Regiment South Carolina Infantry</b></p><p>John H Amick Co I</p><p>George L Dreher Co I</p><p>N W Hyler (Huyler) Co C</p><p>Joshua Lybrand Co I</p><p>Frank Rawl Co C</p><p>Francis Marion Sease Co C</p><p>Solomon Shealy Co I</p><p>Henry Josiah Wessinger Co I</p><p>S J Frick Co I</p><p>Daniel (Isaiah) Sease Co K</p><p>William Ballentine Co I</p><p>David Eargle Derrick Co ?</p><p>Jacob (J N) Lybrand Co I</p><p>Robert Kelly Frick Co I</p><p>Andrew Irwin Shealy Co C</p><p><b>19th Regiment South Carolina Infantry</b></p><p>Henry Lybrand Co A</p><p>George Lybrand Co A</p><p>W A (Wade) Younginer Co K</p><p><b>Holcombs Legion</b></p><p>Espy Hendrix Co H</p><p>Jacob Butler Warner (Captain) Co H</p><p><i>Source: The Lexington Dispatch</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Source:</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-10531318403146083182020-09-27T10:14:00.001-04:002020-09-27T10:14:49.255-04:00<p> <span style="color: #999999; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Herman Geiger</span></p><p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">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.</span></p><p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Source: A Genealogical History of Lexington, SC; M H Spivey p.96</i></b></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-13952096044203561372020-09-27T09:36:00.002-04:002020-09-27T09:36:48.333-04:00<p> <span style="color: #999999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Advertisements from The Lexington Dispatch, 16 July 1873</span></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz_1oYM8JR6hp7YOzPO3V3orvDDGl8ptzx8GdrkgD6CFREPTtOxxuZm6mPAhmYW5PyZXAhyWnbS-DpF4wb8miR00oC71yv_vG7v6zKpl6rayLeh7-qbm3lLI_u7T1kEbmfvhuXwuAoX0E/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="546" height="697" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz_1oYM8JR6hp7YOzPO3V3orvDDGl8ptzx8GdrkgD6CFREPTtOxxuZm6mPAhmYW5PyZXAhyWnbS-DpF4wb8miR00oC71yv_vG7v6zKpl6rayLeh7-qbm3lLI_u7T1kEbmfvhuXwuAoX0E/w312-h697/image.png" width="312" /></a> <img alt="" data-original-height="1252" data-original-width="546" height="704" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2F4mkWdZP-0cVMJTYR2EjBPLUu0adskWGfIAHJmCxDbu496Slt2A0Wy5MheG72qQ7lqS9nRgLPFVxeewygWc7tdmSgy0isIDgTFwIdYIjz7u2HF3pNlEiWkUaz4EepVrXEppq2bejbNA/w308-h704/image.png" width="308" /></p><p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD2fXA2jJUSWwCyKSb9DB1f_CFRNuOOnabTtBHq-8ByYshen8kzBLpnKyWreEWK0Q8V8NJqVDXTxpqpm0Q8XCelK_tj82w1Rl3Ivmd_oYvRoaGKiTHJkEP96HNSwXz7ys6KLsCobgQK-I/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="546" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD2fXA2jJUSWwCyKSb9DB1f_CFRNuOOnabTtBHq-8ByYshen8kzBLpnKyWreEWK0Q8V8NJqVDXTxpqpm0Q8XCelK_tj82w1Rl3Ivmd_oYvRoaGKiTHJkEP96HNSwXz7ys6KLsCobgQK-I/w324-h482/image.png" width="324" /><img alt="" data-original-height="1176" data-original-width="546" height="539" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVPzpBB7arBQggaCNdSiyJ78ko2nMDB5Od_9hXlcwLJWiko9XVIO_ymauQu4bSW1UqMo_bezLV4G48SzJXi6HHrRwcNSSvodjbm1m_O21eO-879XGHlnlO_5lVbQDxbX0fcDOsmkbkcR8/w249-h539/image.png" width="249" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD2fXA2jJUSWwCyKSb9DB1f_CFRNuOOnabTtBHq-8ByYshen8kzBLpnKyWreEWK0Q8V8NJqVDXTxpqpm0Q8XCelK_tj82w1Rl3Ivmd_oYvRoaGKiTHJkEP96HNSwXz7ys6KLsCobgQK-I/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD2fXA2jJUSWwCyKSb9DB1f_CFRNuOOnabTtBHq-8ByYshen8kzBLpnKyWreEWK0Q8V8NJqVDXTxpqpm0Q8XCelK_tj82w1Rl3Ivmd_oYvRoaGKiTHJkEP96HNSwXz7ys6KLsCobgQK-I/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></a><p></p><p><i><b><span style="color: #999999;">Source: Newspapers.com, The Lexington Dispatch, 16 July 1873</span></b></i><br /><br /><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-8030544794592879652018-06-22T08:27:00.001-04:002018-06-22T08:27:09.544-04:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
Puzzling Dutch Fork Graves</h2>
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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.</div>
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George H____ 1749</div>
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Job H_____ 1749</div>
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Dorothy H_____ 1749</div>
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"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."</div>
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(another inscription on the stone beside it is same except substitute "Margaret" for "Elizabeth")</div>
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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.</div>
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According to David D Wallace's <u>History of South Carolina</u>, 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.</div>
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<i>Source: The State Magazine, August 6, 1950 pg 12</i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-50925097033646271432018-06-21T13:11:00.000-04:002018-06-21T13:11:00.602-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">
Royal Grants in Saxe Gotha</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.palmettohistory.org/exhibits/Town%20Plans/images/SaxeGotha.pdf" target="_blank">SC State Archives</a></div>
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<i>By Lot Number</i><br />
<i><br /></i> 1. John Hubert Spear & Jacob Spear (Spuchel)<br />
2. Jacob Hacaboe (Haughabuch, Hucabee)<br />
3. Weldrich Bootman<br />
4. John Coleman (Johannes Gallman)<br />
5. Not listed<br />
6. Henry Weiber (Hans Heinrich Weber)<br />
7. Jacob Theiler (Hans Theiler)<br />
8. John Theiler (Hans Theiler)<br />
9. Henry Bouine (probably Heinrich Bohne, Henry Boney)<br />
10. Hans Buss (John Boose)<br />
11. Martin Friday (Fridig, Fritig)<br />
12. Roody Cooplet (Randolpff Capeler)<br />
13. John Jacob Rodey (Hans Jacob Rodi, Roddy)<br />
14. Herman Christopher Perdrink (Dertrinken, Dortringene)<br />
15. John Sodriker (possible Sandifer)<br />
16. Jenry Lockly (Heinrich Gloeckle, Henry Kleckley)<br />
19. Hans Jacob Annis<br />
20. Samuel Chubb (Tchupp, Schupp)<br />
21. John Weldrick Miller (later granted to Casper Faust)<br />
22. Not listed<br />
23. John Matthews (johannes Mattersz, John Matthias)<br />
24 - 26 Not listed<br />
27. Barbara Appheal<br />
28. Nagdalen Appheal<br />
29. Jacob Burckhardt (Burkhart)<br />
30. Not listed<br />
31. Stephen Crell<br />
32. Joseph Crell<br />
33. Thomas Berry (named Crell grants<br />
34-41 not listed<br />
42. Hannah Maria Stole (Stoles, Stoke, Stoele, Stole)<br />
43-52 not listed<br />
53. Ulrich Busser (Booser)<br />
54. John Galliser (possible Eleazer)<br />
55-60 not listed<br />
61. Hans Jacob Gyger (Geiger)<br />
62. Herman Gyger (Geiger)<br />
63. not listed<br />
64. John Shillig (Shelley)<br />
65-70 not listed<br />
71. William Baker (Wilhelm Bacher)<br />
72. John Liver (Hans Liffer, Johannes Liever, John Lever)<br />
73. not listed<br />
74. Jacob Reimensperger<br />
75-80 not listed<br />
81. John Ulrich Shillig<br />
82. Caspar Fry (Frey)<br />
83. Charles Hanslear (Karl Kinsler later to Abraham Gyger)<br />
84. Casper Hanslear (Kinsler)<br />
85-90 not listed<br />
91. Richard Myrick<br />
92-97 not listed<br />
98 John Granget<br />
99. Frederick Arnold<br />
100. Anthony Ernest<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-11699957244004445992018-04-20T11:46:00.000-04:002018-04-20T11:46:16.636-04:00Leesville Church Street Historic District<img alt="Church-Street-Historic-District" src="http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/lexington/S10817732022/images/S1081773202201.jpg" /><br />
Riser Drafts House constructed ca 1900<br />
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<img alt="Church-Street-Historic-District" src="http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/lexington/S10817732022/images/S1081773202202.jpg" /><br />
Gist-Duncan House constructed ca 1905<br />
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<img alt="Church-Street-Historic-District" src="http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/lexington/S10817732022/images/S1081773202203.jpg" /><br />
Ezekial Etheridge House constructed ca 1895 Queen Anne style<br />
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<img alt="Church-Street-Historic-District" src="http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/lexington/S10817732022/images/S1081773202204.jpg" /><br />
Leesville United Methodist Church constructed 1909 Gothic Revival style<br />
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<img alt="Church-Street-Historic-District" src="http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/lexington/S10817732022/images/S1081773202205.jpg" /><br />
Bodie-Crawford House constructed ca 1870 Italianate style<br />
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<img alt="Church-Street-Historic-District" src="http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/lexington/S10817732022/images/S1081773202206.jpg" /><br />
James C Bodie House constructed ca 1865<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/lexington/S10817732022/index.htm" target="_blank">SC Dept. Archives & History</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-82232383763277940912018-04-18T15:39:00.000-04:002018-04-18T15:39:09.180-04:00Congaree Creek Earthworks<br />
The Confederate Army's plan was to dig earthworks, or trenches, all around Columbia to protect the Capital City from the General William T. Sherman's Union advance.<br />
The job didn't get done in February of 1865. What's left of the few earthworks that did get built in defense of Columbia are still standing today.<br />
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<em>Historical marker placed along the Timmerman Trail in 2015. It is about a 1/2 mile walk from the parking area.</em><br />
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These earthworks were constructed in early 1865 and were the site of brisk fighting between the Union XV Corps and Confederate forces on Feb. 15, 1865. Approximately 750 enslaved and free African Americans who were impressed into Confederate service were responsible for building much of the defensive line, which ran from Congaree Creek to the Saluda Factory four miles north<br />
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The Confederate Congress approved legislation authorized impressment of black laborers in March 1863 because slaveholders were reluctant to provide slaves for service. Still, labor shortages persisted. Maj. John R. Niernsee, S.C. Militia Chief Engineer, complained that he had to begin work at Congaree Creek with only 12 black workers and his request for 2,000 laborers was never met.<br />
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Study pinpoints peak of Civil War Battle of Congaree Creek</h1>
By JOEY HOLLEMAN - <span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="mailto:jholleman@thestate.com%20October"> The State - October</a> 15, 2014</span><br />
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One of the most intact Civil War battle sites in the country is a rifle shot from I-77 in Lexington County, where Congaree Creek crosses Old State Road.<br />
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Now, nearly 150 years after that battle, a new archaeological study pinpoints the most active battle line, just a hundred yards or so from the new Timmerman Trail in Cayce. That tete-de-pont is where Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s troops coming up from Savannah ran into opposition from Confederate troops hoping to slow the march to Columbia.<br />
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Archaeologist Eric Poplin of Brockington Cultural Resources Consulting presented preliminary findings from the study at events Wednesday at the S.C. Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum and at Cayce City Hall. The information will anchor the late 1800s segment of a planned park celebrating the 12,000 years of human history in the area where Congaree Creek meets the Congaree River.<br />
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Poplin believes there’s plenty more to discover about the Feb. 14-15 Battle of Congaree Creek.<br />
“The more we do, the more we want to learn about this battle,” Poplin said.<br />
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Poplin’s report builds on two archaeological digs, one in 2012 as the first stage of the Timmerman Trail was being planned and the second in 2014. The work is supported by a grant from the National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program.<br />
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By chance, the battlefield is relatively intact in an undeveloped forest tucked between I-77, the Congaree River, the Riverland Park subdivision and the new Cayce Tennis and Fitness Center. Most of the property is owned by SCANA and has been used to grow timber in recent years. The S.C. Department of Natural Resources owns a portion of the battle site in what is now Congaree Creek Heritage Preserve and once was the Guignard Clay Quarry. Cayce owns a portion of the land, which is plans to utilize for the history park.<br />
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Mike Dawson, director of the River Alliance, which has pushed the history park concept, is excited by the details uncovered by the new study.<br />
“Every time we learn something new, we kind of stick it on the wall and say, where can we go with that thread,” Dawson said.<br />
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Considering the number of Civil War history buffs, the 1865 battle likely will be one of the biggest draws for the new park.<br />
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The Union soldiers first engaged the Confederate troops at 7:30 a.m. Feb. 15, 1865 in an area south of current I-77. They pushed back the Confederates to the south side of Congaree Creek. Based on period maps, the creek’s twisty path has changed little. That portion of Old State Road remains dirt.<br />
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The modern-day bridge is likely in the same spot as the one protected by the Confederates.<br />
The heaviest fighting came later in the morning, on the south side of the creek. When the Confederates were pushed back to the north side of the creek, they tried to burn the bridge. But it was soaked from heavy rain and flooding, Poplin said. So their only choice was to stand and fight behind the earthen berm – created by slaves in preparation for the standoff – on the north side of the creek. That earthwork is still mostly intact, easily seen from the Timmerman Trail. (Don’t think about digging for artifacts. It’s illegal, this is private property and there’s likely nothing to find in the earthworks because amateur and professional historians have scoured the earthworks for nearly 150 years.)<br />
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By early afternoon, the Union forces had flanked the Confederates, felling trees to get over the swollen creek near the river on one side and near what is now the Lexington Medical Center Otarre Point complex on the other side. The Confederates retreated up State Road again for the night.<br />
Poplin’s team cleared long corridors between the lines of pine trees and used metal detectors to find 79 artifacts. They were almost all fired bullets and artillery shell fragments, typical of a battle site. At encampment sites, archaeologists usually find unfired bullets and other items such as buttons and belt buckles.<br />
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Piecing together multiple official and unofficial battle reports with a historical map drawn of the battle site, it’s clear the largest bunching of bullets is where the battle peaked, Poplin said.<br />
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Based on battle reports, the engagement at Congaree Creek left seven Union troops dead and around 30 injured. A Confederate report listed 33 soldiers killed and 75 wounded in the region on Feb. 15, but some of those could have been casualties when another branch of Sherman’s forces approached Columbia from the Red Bank area.<br />
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After the Battle of Congaree Creek, the best option for slowing the advance on Columbia was burning bridges over the rivers. Sherman’s troops used makeshift pontoon bridges to reach Columbia on Feb. 17.<br />
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Eventually, signs along the Timmerman Trail will explain much of the Battle of Congaree Creek. Those curious about that period in the state’s history can learn more about Sherman’s march from Savannah, the surrender of Columbia, the burning of much of the city and the continuation of the march into North Carolina at a new exhibit opening Nov. 21 at the Confederate Relic Room.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-64723726610816236582018-04-17T16:15:00.000-04:002018-04-17T16:15:43.225-04:00Our Batesburg Letter.<br />
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Source: <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/title_6089/the_dispatchnews/" style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250); color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arvo, serif; font-size: 13.44px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="paper-title" itemprop="historicalCollection" style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Dispatch-News</span> </a><br />
<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/title_6089/the_dispatchnews/" style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250); color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arvo, serif; font-size: 13.44px; text-decoration-line: none;">(<span itemprop="location">Lexington, South Carolina</span>)</a><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #747474; font-family: Arvo, serif; font-size: 13.44px;"></span><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/browse/US/South%20Carolina/Lexington/The%20Dispatch-News_6089/1898/11/16" style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250); color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arvo, serif; font-size: 13.44px; text-decoration-line: none;"><time datetime="1898-11-16">16 Nov 1898, Wed</time></a><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #747474; font-family: Arvo, serif; font-size: 13.44px;"> • </span>Page 3<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-73341915521407255042014-01-07T15:13:00.001-05:002014-01-07T15:13:49.585-05:00Mrs. Younginer Dies at Irmo<p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-iS2V3hea1Og/Usxf9yW94MI/AAAAAAAASCw/SZSrrRzrGQc/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-fKAenIoBCQI/Usxf-5qJd0I/AAAAAAAASC4/_lVl52Svr68/image_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="210" height="514"></a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-63699547504129199772014-01-04T09:34:00.001-05:002014-01-04T09:34:01.683-05:00Dr. Ernest L. Hazelius<p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-QD0r1Msdpv0/Usgb0uHWTVI/AAAAAAAAR-A/WFm_zlqW7ow/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png"><img title="image" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-1qTgw4LC2fU/Usgb1s0ZmYI/AAAAAAAAR-I/Je0fxvw9cBE/image_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="384" height="536"></a></p> <p align="left"><font color="#ff0000">Hazelius, Ernest L., D. D., a Lutheran professor, was born at Neusalz, province of Silesia, Prussia, Sept. 6, 1877. He was educated at his native place, Kleinwelke, and Barby, studying theology at Neisky in a Moravian institution, and was licensed to preach by the authorities of that Church. In 1800 he was appointed teacher of the classics in the Moravian Seminary at Nazareth, Pa., where he remained eight years, having during that period been appointed head teacher and professor of theology in the theological department. Joining the Lutheran Church, he taught, in 1809, a private classical school, and then became pastor of the united congregations of New Germantown, German Valley, and Spruce Run; also conducting a classical school at New Germantown. In 1815 the Hartwick Seminary went into operation, and he was appointed professor of Christian theology and principal of the classical department. For fifteen years he served this institution, acting also as pastor of the village church. In 1830 he became professor of Oriental and Biblical literature and German language in the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, but resigned in 1833 to take charge of the Theological Seminary of the synod of South Carolina, holding that position from Jan. 1, 1834, until his death, Feb. 20, 1853. Among his established writings are, <em>Life of Luther: –Life of Stilling:—Augsburg Confessions, with Annotations:—Materials for Catechization on Passages of Scripture:—History of the Lutheran Church in America. </em>For some time he was editory of the <em>Evangelical Magazine, </em>published at Gettysburg. He was a most accurate classical scholar and a very successful teacher. See <em>Pennsylvania College Book, </em>1882, p. 157.</font></p> <p>CYCLOPAEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATURE<br>By THE REV. JOHN M'CLINTOCK, D.D AND JAMES STRONG, S.T.D. <p><em>Source: </em><a href="http://books.google.com/books id=RJoRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA529&lpg=PA529&dq=dr+ernest+l+hazelius&source=bl&ots=xgT3JG-sPl&sig=piS3x9cZi3nKspD8lBldIuhrC0U&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ulqFUoaFFY_C4AOc-oCQCA&ved=0CCkQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=dr%20ernest%20l%20hazelius&f=false" target="_blank">Google Books.com</a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-23013829101671675132014-01-03T10:41:00.001-05:002014-01-03T10:41:10.249-05:00Batesburg Dedicates New Postoffice with Ceremonies<p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-N58Zpy3EFq4/UsbZ9Sdv22I/AAAAAAAAR68/Mrww5lgF0jM/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-SME3BVngm8g/UsbaAAXcoGI/AAAAAAAAR7E/B_Xk8iYPv3I/image_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="333" height="401"></a><br><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-B1R-VPMSS48/UsbaBHpnVvI/AAAAAAAAR7I/DnrZ7Q-JDoo/s1600-h/image%25255B8%25255D.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-qn1JYFVe17w/UsbaCHkrvLI/AAAAAAAAR7Q/lQHVAq9XhKw/image_thumb%25255B4%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="332" height="456"></a><br><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-SiC5OoqKsDg/UsbaC25lQNI/AAAAAAAAR7Y/0C5Sy3r-Trg/s1600-h/image%25255B12%25255D.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-zctHF1IxcAE/UsbaDhlmSwI/AAAAAAAAR7k/KCCGWmbtKUQ/image_thumb%25255B6%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="335" height="283"></a><br><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-8rClFdfo0Ig/UsbaEYt7YUI/AAAAAAAAR7s/Xr0UEwbgLng/s1600-h/image%25255B16%25255D.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-lzUm8FMwJjg/UsbaFFVtdEI/AAAAAAAAR70/8NLTAZzNyl4/image_thumb%25255B8%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="314" height="424"></a></p> <p><em>Source: State, published as The State; Date: 10-27-1939; Page: 1; Location: Columbia, South Carolina<br>State, published as The State; Date: 10-27-1939; Page: 11; Location: Columbia, South Carolina</em></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-22559868796279366202014-01-01T06:44:00.001-05:002014-01-01T06:44:58.474-05:00Revolutionary War Pensions<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-c302PM5RKXw/UsP_ocahz6I/AAAAAAAAR5I/gV76VOXYgu0/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="178" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-pwVv1C5oobU/UsP_pJTospI/AAAAAAAAR5Q/i_lUWM4J5OI/image_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="640" /></a><br />
<i>Source: </i><a href="http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=48123" target="_blank">The Pension Roll of 1835, Vol. III</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-37720253310377258602013-12-27T22:32:00.001-05:002013-12-27T22:33:55.103-05:00Woman Succumbs to Burns<div align="center">
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<span style="color: blue;">Mrs. Bunion R. Sharpe of Lexington County Dies After Two weeks of Suffering<br />Special to the State.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #400080;">Lexington, May 9. ------ Mrs. Bunion R. Sharpe died at her home, near Pelion, this county, today at 1 o’clock after suffering terrible agony for more than two weeks, caused by burns received in a mysterious manner. Yesterday two weeks ago Mrs. Sharpe was standing before the fireplace, when her dress became ignited. Her husband was nearby at the time, but it seems that there was no water in the house at the time, and the unfortunate woman, not knowing what to do, was horribly burned, every vestige of her clothing being burned from her body.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #400080;">The case has excited considerable interest in the community and all sorts of rumors have been rife.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #400080;">She is survived by her husband and two little children.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #400080;">Her remains will be burned tomorrow in the Lucas burying ground, near her late residence.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black;">Source:</span></i>The State, published as The State; Date: 05-10-1910; Issue: 6786; Page: [1]; Location: Columbia, South Carolina </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-44308909413556801722013-12-24T15:48:00.001-05:002013-12-24T15:48:48.789-05:00Merry Christmas<img alt="http://historicsmithvillenj.com/towne/images/icagenda_doc/merrychristmas.gif" src="http://historicsmithvillenj.com/towne/images/icagenda_doc/merrychristmas.gif"> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-73553998275900890772013-12-21T07:31:00.001-05:002013-12-21T07:31:19.074-05:00Under the Waters of Lake Murray<p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-C8TM44BvkuQ/UrWKA28qQEI/AAAAAAAARow/UtBr7SfyUeI/s1600-h/lake%252520murray_tombstones%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="lake murray_tombstones" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="lake murray_tombstones" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-wuJeNyJ7k2A/UrWKBYYTLQI/AAAAAAAARo4/UO7zbKlt-lg/lake%252520murray_tombstones_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="371" height="258"></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-NYy-Mx-ii4w/UrWKCLPn7CI/AAAAAAAARpA/mVEzHjlcEE8/s1600-h/lake_murray_graves%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="lake_murray_graves" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="lake_murray_graves" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-QdeRkbmF82M/UrWKC-UpAII/AAAAAAAARpI/3SUsRTcZ7PY/lake_murray_graves_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="368" height="260"></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-1NWxlnm9mAA/UrWKDoVbhpI/AAAAAAAARpQ/pA1wAaWN1vE/s1600-h/names_under_lake%252520murray%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="names_under_lake murray" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="names_under_lake murray" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-GQVKE1XUUS0/UrWKFUe1LsI/AAAAAAAARpY/prgiMoSpUOE/names_under_lake%252520murray_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="366" height="259"></a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-46864950755657056482013-12-18T12:34:00.001-05:002013-12-18T12:34:46.888-05:00One of Hampton’s Horses<p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-2iW5vcD_4pY/UrHcrENWsXI/AAAAAAAARj8/gtTD0HCI_N8/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-TNTTrt85F8M/UrHcr8R9C_I/AAAAAAAARkE/G4VrjlY_gk4/image_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="386" height="319"></a></p> <p><font color="#008040">One of Hampton’s Horses<br> ____________</font></p> <p><font color="#008040">A Successful Attempt at Horse Stealing in Lexington</font></p> <p><font color="#008040">On Friday night some rascal broke into the stable of Mr. Frank Hampton at his Lexington farm and stole a fine horse, saddle and bridle. He was traced to a point six miles from Columbia, but there the trail was lost.</font></p> <p><font color="#008040">The loss was reported at police headquarters and to the sheriff yesterday afternoon, and every effort will be made to capture both the thief and the animal.</font></p> <p><font color="#008040">The horse is a flea-bitten gray and is fifteen hands high.</font></p> <p><font color="#000000">Source: The State, 30 Aug 1914, p 5.</font></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/--60X3CrS8co/UrHcsvNqPVI/AAAAAAAARkM/8hFeDo9JJeM/s1600-h/image%25255B7%25255D.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-MJR1pu3Le0E/UrHctZz3C5I/AAAAAAAARkU/r_llnqhX1Bw/image_thumb%25255B3%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="351" height="398"></a></p> <p><font color="#ff0000">On His Trail<br> ______</font></p> <p><font color="#ff0000">Description of the Thief Who Stole Mr. Hampton’s Steed.</font></p> <p><font color="#ff0000">Sheriff Rowan yesterday received a letter from a gentleman in Prosperity, stating that he was on the track of the man who stole Mr. Frank Hampton’s horse. He describes him thus: “The man on the horse wears a set of light thin side whiskers with moustache, florid complexion, slender build, wearing straw hat and thin checked summer coat.”</font></p> <p><font color="#ff0000">The fellow when seen was on the road to Newberry, and got dinner at a negro house on Saturday evening. At a point two miles from Prosperity he must have turned off, for he did not enter that town. There is but little doubt that he will be caught.</font></p> <p><font color="#000000">Source: The State, 1 Sep 1914 p 8.</font></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-510378118716351112013-12-15T21:12:00.001-05:002013-12-15T21:13:47.475-05:00Lexington Man Hurt in Runaway Accident<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Lexington Man Hurt in Runaway Accident</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">J. H. Hite Was Injured When Horse Became Frightened and Dashed Into Telegraph Pole and Rock</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br />When his horse became frightened near the corner of Lady and Gadsden street, J. H. Hite, who lives about two miles southeast of Lexington, was thrown from his wagon and seriously injured. Mr. Hite was taken to a local infirmary, where it was stated last evening his condition was unchanged.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Mr. Hite stopped his one-horse wagon in front of the store of S. G. Wilson, and getting out, hitched the horse to a large rock. the horse became frightened, broke the lines, and the hitching strop. Mr. Hite jumped in the wagon. The horse ran into a rock and telegraph pole at the corner of Gadsden and Lady streets, throwing Mr. Hite. Mr. Hite, who has many friends in Columbia, is a brother of Walter Hite of the Columbia police department.</span><br />
Source: The State, December 25, 1912, p1Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-42339099979108198102013-12-14T06:34:00.001-05:002013-12-14T06:36:38.767-05:00Mrs. Mary Shaw Dies<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-HWZvt-d1uCs/UqxCUyapHeI/AAAAAAAARSc/zpMYilLPzN4/s1600-h/image%25255B4%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="321" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-mTpkP3Ok5v0/UqxCVvglT6I/AAAAAAAARSk/jxGb4eEAs0o/image_thumb%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="405" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Leesville, July 16 – Mrs. Mary Shaw, wife of John Shaw, died at her home Thursday at the age of 84 years. She was a daughter of Jesse Black. Besides a husband and father, she leaves one child. Five brothers, Messrs. Ernest, Virgil, F. C., Dr. J. S., Rev. H. J. Black and two sisters, Mrs. M. Smith and Mrs. Michael Lester.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-62942247488753085662013-12-10T17:52:00.001-05:002013-12-10T17:52:47.955-05:00David Craps Will<p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-jx8Qar1o7yM/UqebOQoC-AI/AAAAAAAAROU/KaUv-70Icxk/s1600-h/record-image%2525281%252529%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="record-image(1)" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="record-image(1)" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-8ql6zQhR0s4/UqebPj5w1fI/AAAAAAAAROc/INBA6ViLr9k/record-image%2525281%252529_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="479" height="604"></a></p> <p><font color="#ff0000">State of South Carolina<br>In the Name of God Amen. _____<br>I, David Craps, of Lexington District, and state aforesaid, being of sound and _____ mind and memory, blessed be God for the same, but calling to mind the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death, do make and ordain this my last will and testament.<br>1st My will and desire is that all my just debts be paid.<br>2nd I give to my beloved wife Sarah Craps one hundred acres of land whereon I now live and fifty acres of my adjoining tract whereon my gin house stands known as the Drafts tract, for and during the term of her natural life or widowhood, and in case of either event, the same to be sold and equally divided amongst my children.<br>3d I give devise and bequeath unto my children my tract of land on Long Branch except one hundred acres, whereon the mill stands, to be equally divided amongst them. The one hundred acres excepted in this clause to be sold and bought by one of my children and the proceeds to be equally divided amongst them.<br>4th I give devise and bequeath unto my beloved wife Sarah Craps my gray mare and her colt, and a black sow shoat, and her bed and every other species of property she owned when I married her.<br>5th I give to my daughter Laurah E Craps one bed.<br>6th My desire is that all my property both real and personal not herein before disposed of to be sold by my executor herein after named, and the proceeds arising there from be equally divided amongst my heirs, here and heare alike.<br>Lastly I, David Craps, hereby nominate my son, Henry H Craps, and my son-in-law, William T Jumper, Executors to this my will, hereby revoking all other wills by me heretofore made, and declare this to be my will, signed by the said David Craps, as his last will and testament, in the presence of the undersigned who subscribed their names as witnesses to the due execution of this said will on the fourteenth day of January Anno Domini 1865.</font></p> <p><font color="#ff0000">Signed, sealed and delivered? in the presence of David Craps<br>P H Craps<br>M J Craps<br>J Kiesler</font></p> <p>Source: <a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-19423-116742-17?cc=1919417&wc=9385808" target="_blank">Family Search.org</a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-51188315799338005032013-12-07T11:18:00.001-05:002013-12-07T11:18:47.105-05:00Pearl Harbor Day<p><img alt="http://www.pearlharboroahu.com/images/WeRemember.jpg" src="http://www.pearlharboroahu.com/images/WeRemember.jpg"></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-80235377521840569332013-12-05T15:06:00.001-05:002013-12-05T17:52:54.106-05:00Col John Marcellus Steedman<br />
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18 Sep 1833-7 Jan 1867<br />
Married Henrietta Amanda Spann<br />
Buried first in the Steedman Family Graveyard; moved by his sons to<br />
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<i>Col. J.M. Steedman, in the vigor of his manhood, and in the midst of his usefulness as one of the best of citizens, came suddenly to his death under the following heart-rending circumstances, illustrating the deplorable state of affairs to which our once peaceful and happy country has come:<br />Engaged in merchandizing in a part of Lexington District, where since the termination of the war, it became necessary to guard against the depredations of burglars, he and his little family occupied apartments within his store</i><i><a href="http://150spotsylvania.com/assets/Steadman2.jpg"><img align="right" alt="" height="300" src="http://150spotsylvania.com/assets/Steadman2-186x300.jpg" style="display: inline; float: right;" title="Steadman2" width="186" /></a></i> <br />
<i>On the night of the 7th January, as they were sitting around a bright winter’s fire, the doors and windows all bolted or locked, seeming to give security to all within, the dogs, as faithful sentinels, gave evidence of approaching danger without. The Colonel arose, advanced toward the front door, when his wife, taking counsel “from her fears,” from information that day derived from a negro woman, of which she had also advised the Colonel, remonstrated with him against the imprudence of opening it; begging him instead to go up stairs and look out at the window; but this fearless man, having faced danger on many a bloody field during the late war, now that peace prevailed, regarding it as weakness not to feel secure within his own castle, heeded not her gentle admonition. He had barely unlocked and opened the door, when his devoted wife’s worst fears were fully realized by t he report of a gun; the entire load from it having lodged in her husband’s body. He still, however, retaining a proper presence of mind, had barely time to close and bolt the door before the vile assassins-three negro men-were thundering at it, to force an entrance. The Colonel called for his gun; the resolute wife hastily handed it to him. He warned the assailants that so sure as they entered he would shoot them. Still, they knocked, kicked and pushed the door to open it; the wounded Colonel and his feeble, though resolute, wife, pressing in return to keep it closed. What an awful moment! The Colonel, against the foot of the door, still to aid his wife in keeping it closed, directing her, at the same time, to shoot them if they entered. Declaring aloud her purpose to do so, she called the name of one of the fiends, the supposed leader of the band, and told him to go away; that if money was what they were after, they could get none there, as all had been sent away. This, perhaps, with the fear that the Colonel was still able to resist, and would unto death, caused them to desist from further efforts. The Colonel lived but about three hours after receiving the fatal wound; his wife and three little children, with perhaps a nurse, being the only witnesses of the awful scenes within that beleaguered house, not knowing how soon it might be set on fire, and that then they would have to choose between being burned alive or meeting death by violent hands of the murderers of the husband and father, there lying a corpse. The day after the murder, a jury of inquest was properly empanelled by the nearest magistrate, and succeeded in drawing out such evidence from various witnesses as justified the rendering a verdict that they believed the deceased came to his death by a wound from a gun, fire from the hands of one of a party of three negroes-Henry, Emery and Joe-known to have been prowling about the neighborhood doing mischief, and all of whom the jurors aforesaid believed to have been parties to this infamous crime of murder, with intention to rob. </i> <br />
<i><i>The two former went off with Sherman’s army, and had but recently returned to this part of the county-entirely too lazy to work for an honest living, and fully imbued with the radical idea of equality, boastingly telling other negroes of the various murders they had committed, and saying that they had papers from the “Yankees” which would protect them from harm, do what they would, should the white people here attempt to molest them. Of course they found but few believers in the miraculous stories. Still, it appears they succeeded in making a dupe of the fellow Joe, who became involved with them in their last sad transaction.</i></i><br />
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Text Source: <a href="http://150spotsylvania.com/as-they-were-sitting-around-a-bright-winters-fire/" target="_blank">Spotsylvania Virginia: Crossroads of the Civil War</a><br />
Photo of Col Steedman: <a href="http://lexingtonchronicle.com/th-sc-volunteers-beginning-end-p22741.htm" target="_blank">The Lexington Chronicle</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826280069883659136.post-20996835845742388222013-11-30T17:45:00.001-05:002013-11-30T17:45:44.209-05:00 Some of the 20th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry from Lexington CountySimeon M Gross 19 Sep 1842-14 Nov 1923, married Eliza Ann _____ 28 Dec 1844-14 Dec 1903; both buried Providence Lutheran Church Cemetery, Lexington SC<br />
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Uriel X Gunter 8 Feb 1833-14 Aug 1915, married Nancy Minerva Jones 16 Oct 1837-2 Jul 1924; both buried Batesburg Cemetery, Batesburg SC<br />
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Godfrey Michael "Uncle Josh" Harman 4 Jun 1845-21 May 1931, Co K 20th Regiment, son of Reuben Harman and Louisa Rauch, married Pauline Lavinia Boozer 21 Aug 1845-3 Oct 1906; both buried St Stephens Lutheran Church, Lexington SC<br />
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Marion DeKalb Harman 27 Jan 1843-29 Dec 1928, son of Reuben Harman and Louisa Rauch, married Ellen Scotto Rawl 3 Feb 1848-29 Oct 1922; both buried St Stephens Lutheran Church, Lexington SC<br />
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Monroe J Harman 29 Mar 1833-19 Dec 1871, Co K 20th Regiment, son of Reuben Harman and Louisa Rauch, married Carolin Cassandra Lowman 1840-1881; both buried St Stephens Lutheran Church, Lexington SC<br />
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James Erwin Hendrix 22 Nov 1835-20 Dec 1937, Co K 20th Regiment, son of David Hendrix and Ascha Seay, married Catherine Rebecca Haltiwanger 18 Oct 1839-27 Aug 1938; both buried St Stephens Lutheran Church, Lexington SC<br />
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Benjamin Lenard Jeffcoat (Pvt) 1824-1865, Co D 20th Regiment, the location of the actual burial site of B L Jeffcoat is unknown, as is the circumstance and date of his death; cemetery memorial Ebenezer Southern Methodist Church, Leesville SC<br />
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Joel Joshua Allen Jeffcoat (Sgt) 10 May 1836-6 Jul 1897, Co D 20th Regiment, married Alice E _____; Joel buried Ebenezer United Methodist Church, Swansea SC; Alice buried Elmwood Memorial Garden, Columbia SC<br />
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John J Jeffcoat (Pvt); buried Ebenezer United Methodist Church, Swansea SC<br />
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Needham P Jeffcoat (2nd Lieut) 29 Nov 1839-1885, Co D 20th Regiment, buried Ebenezer United Methodist Church, Swansea SC<br />
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James Lot Lowman 21 Apr 1841-27 Nov 1931, Co C 20th Regiment, married Nancy Louisa Bowers 3 Dec 1836-20 Mar 1912, both buried St Michaels Lutheran Church, Lexington County SC<br />
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John Henry Meetze 25 Nov 1829-12 Sep 1902, Co K 20th Regiment, married Martha Caroline Kaminer 6 Jan 1934-13 Feb 1909, both buried St Stephens Lutheran Church, Lexington SC<br />
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Philip Isaiah Rawl 18 Nov 1844-30 Dec 1928, son of John Jacob Rawl and Margaret Elizabeth Austin, married Martha Adrianna Rebecca Harman 11 Jul 1849-2 Sep 1916; both buried St Johns Lutheran Church, Lexington SC<br />
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John J Taylor 30 Mar 1845-16 Jul 1928, Co H 20th Regiment, married Annie Taylor; John buried St Stephens Lutheran Church, Lexington SC<br />
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Jacob Frederick Wingard 1832-1862, Co K 20th Regiment, married Ann A Younginer 1833-17 Oct 1906; Jacob buried St Stephens Lutheran Church, Lexington SC; Ann buried Red Bank Methodist Church, Red Bank SC
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