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Carolina-at least, for a while; but yet we are obliged to admit that it was not without provocation. It was merely retalia- tory. Colonel Kolb with his men had just been down on Catfish, in the region of the Jones, and had killed several of the Tories, so that if honors were not even, conduct and con- ditions were about equal. The writer takes it for granted that one of these Jones was the father to the three brothers, John Jones, Bryant Jones and Thomas M. Jones. John Jones lived on the road leading from Isham Watson's crossing of Catfish to Marion Court House, not more than half a mile from the crossing. The writer stayed all night at his house in 1838, went there in company with the late William Gaddy, a son-in- law of old man Jones. Old man Jones had two sons, John D. and Samuel (if there were other sons, the writer never knew or heard of them). There were two daughters, Sallie and Eliza- beth, who married two of the Gaddys, William and James, and have already been noticed among the Gaddy family. John D. Jones married, first, a Miss Avant, below Marion, and settled on the north side of Little Pee Dee, where his son, John Thomas Jones, now resides; he was a local preacher in the Methodist Church, and a most excellent man and manager of affairs ; he raised only three children, a daughter, Mary, and two sons, James A. and John Thomas. The two latter went to school to the writer in 1834 and 1835. James A., the older, married a Miss Huggins, a daughter of Solomon Huggins, and by her had several children-one a son, J. O. Jones, a prom- ising and worthy man, the others not known. The father, James A., went into the Confederate War, and was either killed or died in the war ; his family are about Nichols. John Thomas Jones married Miss Sallie Nichols, as hereinbefore stated in the notice of the Nichols family; is yet living, a first-rate, practical man and a worthy citizen; he raised a family of six sons and four daughters. The sons are Evander, Eli, Beverly, Kendree, R. Boyd and another, name forgotten, all young men of promise; four of them have families, two unmarried-good people. Of the daughters, one married J. B. Williams, of Nichols; one W. L. Hewit, of Marion; one D. N. Bethea, in upper Marion, and Miss Fannie is unmarried. Taken alto- gether, there are no better people in the county than they are.
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Mary Jones, the daughter of John D. Jones, married John Huggins (familiarly called Jack) ; they raised several children. He (John Huggins) was a local preacher in the Methodist Church, a capital and good man; he died years ago, suddenly one morning, as he rose from his knees at family prayers ; he raised a considerable family, mostly sons, George W., John, Dock and Charles-may have been others. George W. mar- ried a Miss Porter, daughter of Rev. John A. Porter ; he moved to Georgia some years since; know nothing further of him. Dock Huggins married a Miss Johnson, daughter of the late Hugh R. Johnson ; they have a family, names and number un- known-a well-to-do citizen. Don't know to whom John and Charles married, if at all. Know of but two daughters, Zilpha and Miss Louisa, now at Dillon; Zilpha married a man by the name of Blackwell; he and family have gone to parts unknown. A daughter of Blackwell, raised by her aunt, Miss Lou Hug- gins, married Mr. E. L. Moore, of Dillon. Miss Louisa Hug- gins, a nice woman, has never married. "Jack" Huggins may have had other sons and daughters, unknown to writer. Old John Jones had another son, Samuel; he emigrated West many years ago. John D. Jones married, a second time, to the Widow Walters; by her he had no children ; she survived him-don't know what has become of her. Bryant Jones married, late in life, Elizabeth Berry, daughter of old Henry Berry the first, as hereinbefore stated, and settled down in Wahee on the "Grove" lands ; they raised a family of three sons and three daughters. The sons were Henry B. Jones, Frederic D. Jones and James E. Jones ; the daughters were Elizabeth, Nancy and Mary (Polly). Henry B., the only survivor of the family, married a Miss Hood, second cousin to him, and lives on his patrimonial estate; he raised a family of six children, two sons and four daughters; the sons are Frank and Charles. Frank married a Miss Sessoms, and has a coming family, is a quiet, good citizen. Charles is unmarried. One daughter, Hattie, married a Mr. Bowen, a son of Dr. Bowen; don't know where they are or what they are doing. The other three daughters are single and with their parents. Frederic D. Jones married the Widow Stephen Berry, whose maiden name was Fama Watson. Fred. D. Jones and his family have already been noticed in or among
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the Watson family. James E. Jones died some years ago, un- married. Elizabeth Jones married the late James Watson, and has already been noticed in or among the Watson family. Nancy Jones married William A. Brown; they raised five children, three sons and two daughters. One of the daughters married Calvin Dew; she and her husband are both dead, childless. The other daughter died unmarried, though grown. Of the sons, Edward is a physician and citizen of Latta; he married Miss Victoria Martin; they have some children; don't know how many. John Brown, the second son, married a Miss Turbeville, daughter of our good citizen, Stephen Turbe- ville. William Brown married a Miss Bowen, daughter of Dr. Bowen, of Florence County, and have several small children. Mary Jones (called Polly) married B. W. Jarnigan, of North Carolina; he lived and died in the neighborhood of his marriage, three or four years ago; his wife also died soon after; they had and raised two children, a son and a daugh- ter-Dr. J. E. Jarnigan and Sarah Ellen. Dr. Jarnigan married Miss Alice Bailey, of Fairfield County; his wife lived several years, and died childless. The Doctor still remains a widower, much to his own disgust and surprise to his friends; he was physician to the State Penitentiary for three or four years, and was Consul to Honduras, appointed by President Cleveland, for two or three years, and was recently elected to represent the county in the State Legislature; has had much experience in affairs and more of observation in his life, and is well equipped for the position he now occupies. His sister, Sarah Ellen, married A. J. Matheson, of Marlbor- ough, who is now a very wealthy man, engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits-succeeds in everything he touches, and turns it to gold; they have eight children living, sons and daughters-several of them married. Thomas M. Jones emi- grated with his family to Alabama more than fifty years ago. A sister of John and Bryant Jones married old John Blackman, became his second wife. Another sister married Christopher Dew the second, and by him she had two children, Frederic C. and John A. Dew, both dead. Frederic left several children, sons-John Foster, Philip and Christopher; and daughters- don't know; one the wife of James Haselden. John A. Dew
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married a Miss Hays, daughter of old Levi Hays, but had no children ; his widow still survives.
COTTINGHAM .- The Cottingham family will next be noticed. Andrew Cottingham and his brother, Daniel Cottingham, are importations from Marlborough County. Andrew Cotting- ham was the son of Conner Cottingham, born the 4th January, 1818, as he told the writer himself, and is still active and strong for a man of his age-a first rate citizen; married, I think, a Miss Sinclair; has made a good living; has raised six enter- prising and respectable sons, J. C. Cottingham, Daniel C. Cot- tingham, A. J. Cottingham, Elkanah Cottingham, William Cottingham and A. J. C. Cottingham; most or all of them, except A. J. C., are married or have been married. Elkanah settled and lived in West Marion; his wife died two or three years ago; don't know whether he has remarried or not-think he has several children. Daniel C. Cottingham married a Miss Legette, daughter of the late James B. Legette, and lives in the "Free State" section of the county-a good citizen and is doing well. J. C. Cottingham married a Miss Legette, of Marlbor- ough County; has raised a nice family, doing well; has a son, promising young man, a graduate of Wake Forrest College, N. C. A. J. C. Cottingham lives at Dillon, one of the leading merchants of the town; has made money-enterprising and progressive; he does not marry fast-pays a great deal of attention to ladies, and especially to the younger ones, but never gets to the "sticking point." The Cottinghams are all first class citizens, energetic and progressive, doing their share in the general make-up of the county, so far as the development of the county's resources are concerned. We would like to make other such importations from Marlborough County or elsewhere as the Cottingham family have proven themselves to be. Andrew Cottingham raised one daughter, who married W. J. Carter, of Dillon, a worthy and useful man; they have several children, sons and daughters, and are prosperous. If there are other daughters, the writer does not know them. . Daniel Cottingham, a brother of Andrew, is another good citi- zen of the county, but I don't know enough about them to specify and give them a place herein seriatim. One of Daniel
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Cottingham's daughters married Henry Berry, a son of Cap- tain Stephen F. Berry. Another is the wife of our progressive fellow-citizen of Latta, John L. Dew ; have only one child.
There is another family of Cottinghams, not of recent im- portation, that must have a place herein. I mean old Yates Cottingham, whose sad end has already been noticed. Yates Cottingham married a sister of old Thomas Harllee; where he came from is not known; his only fault was that he inordi- nately loved liquor ; by his marriage he had a son, Stewart Cot- tingham ; there may have been others-never heard of any others. Old Yates had daughters also-one, at least, the mother of the polite and accommodating barber now at Dillon, Henry Cottingham; don't know who his father was. Stewart Cottingham was a very reliable and very worthy man; don't know who his wife was; he had a son (and, perhaps, others), named Thomas (a Harllee family name), who married and raised a family, unknown to the writer; he died a few years back.
HAMILTON .- Another family to be noticed is the Hamilton family. This is an old family in the county, never noted for being over-pretentious, but plain, honest, hard-working people. As known to the writer, there were two brothers, William and John, in the prime of life a hundred years ago; don't know to whom either of them was married. Of William Hamilton and his family the writer knows more than of John and his family. William Hamilton had two sons, Whittington and William. Whittington married a Miss Herring, by whom he had several sons, John, Arthur, Stephen, Tobias, William Warren and Whittington; and some two or three daughters. Of the sons, John married and raised several children, sons and perhaps daughters; the sons were Allen, Perry, Ira, John H. and Bryant. Allen married a Miss Price, by whom he has a large family of children, how many not known. Perry died unmarried. Ira married a Miss Surls, daughter of A. B. Surls, of Dillon. Bry- ant is unmarried. Arthur Hamilton married a Miss Hyatt, and by her had only one child, a daughter, now the wife of Talley Martin; know nothing of Martin's family. Stephen Hamilton married and has sons, Dayton V. and William K .; a daughter,
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the wife of Angus Moore; they all have families. Tobias went to Horry after the war; never married; accumulated a nice property, which went mostly to his brothers and sisters. Dr. William W. Hamilton, now of Marion, married Miss Rebecca J. Fore, daughter of the late Thomas Fore, by whom he has only one child, a son, named Thomas F., now nearing man- hood, with a fine prospect for life ahead of him. Whittington Hamilton married his cousin, a daughter of Henry Jackson, and by her has several children, two sons and, perhaps, three daughters. The sons are Whittington, Jr., and Warley. Whittington, Jr., married, but his wife died childless, a year or so ago; Whittington, Jr., is now a widower. Warley married a Miss Waters, and has some two or three children ; he resides at Dillon, an energetic and enterprising young man. Whit- tington Hamilton's daughters-two or three are married, but to whom is not known ; has one single one with him. Of old man John Hamilton's family, the writer knows but little; he had two sons, John and Tristram, both are dead. John mar- ried a daughter of old man Alexander Henderson, a unique character fifty years ago; by the marriage there are two sons, Jasper and Tristram, two excellent men and good citi- zens; both married. Who Jasper's wife was is not known. Tristram married Miss Nellie Bethea, a daughter of E. Bethea, of Latta, S. C .; they reside at Dillon ; have two or three child- ren, and are doing well. Of the daughters of old John, also of his son John, or of Tristram, I know nothing, and, therefore, can say nothing about them. William Hamilton, a son of old William, married twice; who his first wife was is not known; his last wife was a Miss Moody, a daughter of the late Rev. Hugh Moody; by her he had and left several children; know nothing further of them. Of the daughters of old William, I can only speak of two of them. One married William Jack- son, called "Fire-coal Bill;" both are dead. "Fire-coal Bill" had six sons in the war, and all gallant soldiers-Robert, Levi, Owen, Malcolm, others, names not remembered. Another daughter married Elisha Mckenzie, and raised a large family, sons and daughters; but of their children the writer is not in- formed and can say nothing. The Hamilton family, taken as a whole, are good people, taking into consideration their time
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and environments. They lived on Maple Swamp and its bord- ers, and that region of the county was, up to the war, the "dark corner" of the county-not scarcely civilized. Since the war a new order of things has obtained on Maple, and it is now one of the best sections of the county, a progressive and up-to- date population. The Hamilton family was true to the Con- federacy from beginning to the end. "Fire-coal Bill" Jack- son had six boys (half Hamilton) in the war, and no better soldiers followed the flag than they. Dr. W. W. Hamilton went into it as a Second Lieutenant and came out as a Captain of his company. Heard one of his comrade Captains say of him, that he (Captain Hamilton) was one of the coolest men he ever saw in battle; that he went on all occasions without hesitation and without trepidation wherever he was ordered, it mattered not how dangerous the position. He is a kind- hearted man and a real gentleman, and is an honor to his name and family ; and while saying this, the writer would not dispar- age others of his family.
BRADDY .- The Braddy family will now be noticed. John Braddy, the first known in the county, married Martha ( Patty) Bethea, daughter of John Bethea, and sister to old Tristram and Cade Bethea; he raised a considerable family of sons and daughters. The sons were John B., Luton C., Tristram B., William W. and Robert B. Braddy, and of these, Robert B. alone survives ;* the daughters were Elizabeth, Harriet and Kittie. John B. Braddy married Miss Mary Crawford, a lovely girl, raised by Hugh Godbold, a niece of his wife, Rhoda ; they remained a few years in Marion and then went to Alabama; had two children when they left. Braddy and wife are both dead. Luton C. Braddy grew up and studied medicine and located near Holmesville, on the North Carolina line ; he was a young man of fine presence and promise, a pic- ture of health, robust and strong ; he took brain fever and died therefrom in three or four days, unmarried. T. B. Braddy married, first, a Miss Mckinnon, of Robeson County, N. C., and by her had three sons, Daniel McK. Braddy, Luton C. Braddy and Adolphus Braddy, and a daughter, Alice Braddy,
*Now dead.
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when his wife died; and he married, a second time, Miss Anne Nichols, a daughter of old Averitt Nichols, and by her he had one son, Oscar, who has already been mentioned among the Nichols family. T. B. Braddy was shot and killed by D. W. McLaurin, in November, 1881. McLaurin was tried for it on the charge of murder, and was acquitted. As the writer was employed by the sons of Braddy to assist the Solicitor (Dar- gan) in the prosecution of the case, he will forbear saying any- thing further of the homicide. Daniel McK. Braddy married, and they have now only one child, a daughter. Luton C. Braddy married, and has several children, all girls but one, Adolphus Braddy, who died suddenly some few years ago, unmarried. The daughter of T. B. Braddy, Miss Alice, is still unmarried. Daniel McK. and Luton C. Braddy are excellent and good citizens, energetic and prosperous. William W. Braddy, a fine specimen of the physical man, married Miss Lizzie Evans, a daughter of the late Nathan Evans, by whom he had several children, sons and daughters. Walker Braddy, his oldest daughter, married J. W. Davis, of Marion ; they emi- grated to Alabama, where she died, leaving some children. William, his oldest son, died about the time of his majority, unmarried. Another son, Robert, died when a lad. His daughter, Susan, married J. T. Coleman, a professor in the Citadel Academy, in Charleston ; they reside there, and have one son, named Walker. His youngest, a son, named Wight- man, two weeks old at his father's death, is a young single man in Charleston, and belongs to the "Grip-sack Brigade" of commercial travelers, and, I suppose, is doing fairly well; his mother still survives. W. W. Braddy was elected Clerk of the Court in 1868, and held that position at the time of his death, November 29th, 1872. S. G. Owens had been elected as his successor in office, but had not qualified and entered upon the duties of the office at the time of Braddy's death, but did so in a short time afterwards. Horace Greeley died the same day that Braddy did, 29th November, 1872. R. B. Braddy, the youngest child and son of old John Braddy, still lives ; he married, first, a Miss Mckay; she had one child for him, a daughter, and then died. After some years he married again, a Miss Wishart, of North Carolina; they had five or six child-
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ren, sons and daughters. The oldest daughter married a Mr. McQueen, of Horry, where they now reside. Another daugh- ter, named Hattie, married to some one not now known. His youngest daughter was an infant when her mother died; she was taken by Mrs. J. R. N. Tenhet, of Marion, and raised; is now a young lady, and instead of taking her true name, Braddy, she takes the name of Tenhet-Miss Ethel Tenhet, so her name appears in the Columbia College catalogue, where she graduated. His sons, Edgar and Otho, and another, have left the county and perhaps the State, all unmarried. The old gentleman moves about among his children. His daughter by his first wife married some gentleman in North Carolina; saw her father a few weeks ago coming up from Marion on the train, he and his son, Edgar, were on their way to see her in North Carolina. The eldest daughter of old John Braddy, Elizabeth, married Mr. Jefferson Williams, of Marlborough, in February, 1830; by this marriage several children were born; only one, Benjamin, now survives; he formerly lived in Marion, a merchant, failed; he went to Sumter County, and there married a Miss McFadden, an only child of her parents; he resides in Sumter, on the patrimony of his wife, and is said to be succeeding well. "Ben," as he was called, had a good deal of the "get-up" in him, and was an honorable boy. The second daughter of old John Braddy, Harriet, was a very pretty girl, very popular, but did not marry young ; she finally married Nathan Evans, a widower, below Marion, and lived and died there, where B. F. Davis now resides ; by her marriage she had four children, two sons, Julius and Lawrence, and two daughters, Martha (Patty) and Fannie; she died about 1879, with cancer. Her oldest daughter married Richard Jordan, of Horry, a first-rate business man; he merchan- dised several years with his brother-in-law, Julius Evans, as a partner ; they finally failed, and each at different times went to Georgia or Florida. It is said that Jordan has succeeded well in his new home, and has raised a nice family, mostly girls ; two of them were here on a visit to their uncle, Captain W. B. Evans, in 1899; they were fine looking. Julius Evans married and went to Florida, and is said to be doing well; one of his daughters, Miss Edna, was also on a visit to her uncle, Captain
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Evans, in the summer of 1900, on her way home from Win- throp College. Lawrence Evans, the second son of Harriet Evans, nee Braddy, married in Horry, don't know what has become of him. The younger daughter, Fannie, went out to Georgia with her sister, Mrs. Jordan, and married some one out there; have lost sight of her. The Braddys, as a family, were very ardent in their disposition and attachments, and were very good citizens, and self-asserting.
CLARK .- Another family to be noticed is the Clark family, Malcolm and Kenneth, two brothers, citizens on Little Pee Dee, near where the town of Dillon now is. The writer can trace them no further back than themselves; but is satisfied they were of Scotch origin; they both had and raised families. Malcolm married a Miss McCollum, of Robeson County, N. C., about 1839 or 1840, a very excellent lady, a sister of the late Brown McCollum's father; don't know how many children they had-think there were three sons and two daughters- Martin Luther, John Calvin and Robert Knox Clark. The two daughters (names not known), one married the Rev. Dun- can McDuffie; she died, leaving some children ; one son, named Archie. Duncan McDuffie married again, and now lives in Florence County; has been School Commissioner of that county ; a worthy, good man. The other daughter of old Malcolm married a Mr. Gasque, from about Marion, who died in a few weeks after his marriage; his widow had a posthu- mous son, named Robert K. Gasque; don't know what has become of either him or his mother. Of the sons of old Mal- colm, Martin Luther died when about grown, unmarried. John Calvin was a Lieutenant in the Confederate War, and was in command of his company in some battles in Virginia, and was killed in front of his command, calling out to his men, "Come on, come on," not go on ; he was one of the many brave men from Marion in that eventful struggle, made by the South for Southern independence. John Calvin Clark, when a boy at school at Hofwyl Academy, was considered by his school comrades, or some of them, at least, as a coward, and was so branded; yet he was anything else but cowardly when duty required the exercise of true courage; his courage was not of
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the school-boy sort or the muster field kind ; but was true cour- age-the courage to do right, the courage to do his duty, how- ever dangerous the position might be. Robert Knox Clark, late Clerk of the Court, was the second son of old man Mal- colm, well known to many now living; he, too, was not a coward, either in war or in peace; he married Miss Nannie Stackhouse, daughter of the late Wesley Stackhouse; by the marriage they had three sons and four daughters. The sons were Martin Luther, Robert Knox and John Calvin-the same names that his father, old Malcolm, gave to his sons. The four daughters were Dora, Eliza, Lilly and Nannie, the latter about two years old when her father died, in 1888. Martin Luther Clark, the oldest son, is now at Marion, editor of the "Marion Star" newspaper. The next two sons, Robert K. and John Calvin, the writer has lost sight of ; don't know what has become of them. Of the oldest, Dora, has never married. Eliza, the second daughter, married the Hon. William A. Brown, below Marion, and has several children. Lilly, the third daughter, married a Dr. Smith, son of Dr. E. B. Smith, below Marion; don't know the results of the marriage. John Calvin, the youngest son, and Nannie, the youngest daughter, are barely grown. It is due to the memory of the late R. K. Clark to say that at the age of seventeen, he volunteered and went into the army in Captain C. J. Fladger's company, and in January, 1863, was transferred to the Arsenal Academy, in Columbia; remained there that year and in January, 1864, was transferred to the Citadel, in Charleston, and remained there during the year 1864, and was then transferred back to the army, where he remained till about the end of the war, when he came home and undertook to avenge his father's death- who was killed by deserters on 12th March, 1865-which he in great part succeeded in doing. It was after this he was mar- ried. In 1876, he was elected Clerk of the Court, which posi- tion he filled with credit to himself, for four years ; he was then appointed County Treasurer, which position he held for one or two years, and resigned, and retired upon his farm, where he lived till 1888, and died thereon; he was likewise a man of true courage; he had the courage to say no, which every man does not possess. The old man, Malcolm, died game. He
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