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- good, industrious and law-abiding citizen. Duncan Nicholson married a Miss Edwards, daughter of Captain L. M. Edwards, and by her has several children ; he, likewise, is an industrious, progressive and prosperous citizen; such men constitute the bone and sinew of the country, and its hope for the future. Walter Nicholson is unmarried, but, like his brothers, is attentive to his business-keeps it before him, and is perfectly reliable in every respect.
JACKSON .- The Jackson family will next be noticed. This family is and has been very extensive in name and in its con- nections in the county. The first old Jackson was from Vir- ginia, his name was Edward; said to have been a very small man in size-somewhat like the late Dr. James C. Mullins ; he settled on Catfish ; his wife was a Miss Manning, of Virginia, or it may be that Miss Mannning was the wife of his son, Ed- ward; he raised a considerable family of sons and, perhaps, daughters; of the latter, the writer knows nothing; the sons were, Edward, Jr., William, John, Reuben, Owen and Ervin Jackson. I cannot trace all these different sons seriatim, for the want of information, but will do so as far as I can. Ed- ward, Jr., the oldest son, married, if not a Miss Manning, some other lady-I think, though, a Manning-and had and raised a considerable family of sons, and, perhaps, daughters ; the sons were, as known to the writer, William R., Edward M. and Warren R. Jackson. William R. Jackson married a Miss Hayes, daughter of John Hayes, and a sister of old man Isham Watson's wife; he raised a considerable fam- ily- one son, William R., and other sons, whose names are not remembered; some daughters also, only one of whom is re- membered, Mary, who became the wife of the late Stephen A. Hairgrove, and they raised a considerable family of sons and daughters. Only one son survives, Thomas H. Hairgrove, now of Wahee. One daughter married Thomas Atkinson, who has some family-I think, two daughters. Miss Huldah Hairgrove also survives; she has never married. Think all the sons of William R. Jackson, Sr., went West. William R. Jackson, Jr., went to the Mexican War; I saw him after his return; he then went West. William R. Jackson, Sr., died
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more than sixty years ago; old man Isham Watson adminis- tered on his estate. Their wives were sisters. Edward M. Jackson, son of Edward, Jr., and his brother, Warren R. Jack- son, married sisters, Ellen Adams and Anne Adams, daughters of old Elias Adams, whose wife was a sister of old Thomas Harllee. Misses Ellen and Anne Adams were first cousins of the late General W. W. Harllee. Edward M. and Warren R. Jackson both raised quite respectable families. Edward M. moved West many years ago, and carried his whole family- though some of them, perhaps, two or three, were married; two of his sons became Baptist preachers. Warren R. Jack- son raised sons, Anderson W., James R., Jefferson A. and Sydney E. Jackson, and one boy killed accidentally by another boy, and, I think, two daughters, Agenora and Missouri; an- other daughter, Amelia, died when a girl. Anderson W. Jack- son married a Miss Flowers; he became a Methodist itinerant preacher, traveled for some years within the South Carolina Conference, finally superannuated on account of eyes failing, and, I think, now lives in Williamsburg County; he had and raised two or three sons and, perhaps, one daughter-all of whom, I think, are married. He had one son, Preston B., who became, also, a Methodist preacher, and attained much distinc- tion as such in the Conference; he married a lady in Darling- ton, and after traveling for several years, was transferred to California; I can follow him no further. James R. Jackson married a Greenville lady ; was waylaid one night on the road from Marion and shot within a mile or so of his home ; he died from the wounds in a week or so. It was pretty well under- stood who was the assassin, but no proof could be made. Jef- ferson A. Jackson married and had a family; he became a Baptist preacher of some note, and moved off to Texas, and in some town there had charge of a church for several years, and stood high in his calling; he died there some five or six years ago; don't know about his family. Sydney E. Jackson married a Miss Hayes, daughter of the late John C. Hayes; has seven or eight children-two daughters grown; he left his excellent farm on Catfish some five or six years ago, and moved to Dil- lon, because of better school facilities there; he is a carpenter by trade, and it is supposed that as Dillon is a growing and
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progressive town he is doing well at his trade; the income from it, together with the rents of his farm, enables him to support his large family. The oldest daughter of Warren R. Jackson, Agenora A., married the late Colonel John J. George; the fruits of the marriage were seven children, four sons and three daughters. One son died when about arriving at manhood; the other sons are Jasper C. George, John J. George and Wil- liam Warren George. Jasper C. George married Dora Adams, a grand-daughter of the late John C. Hayes; they have five sons. The oldest, Percy, is grown and now at Clemson Col- lege. Jasper C. George is one of our most energetic, perse- vering citizens; is doing well, and making money-a good farmer. John J. George, named for his father, married, first, a Miss Bethea, daughter of E. Bethea ; she died childless; then he married a Miss Rogers, daughter of Philip B. Rogers; is raising a family, a farmer, and is doing well. William Warren George married a Miss Ellen Gaddy, daughter of John Gaddy ; he is and ever has been a merchant, now at Latta, S. C .; a man of indomitable pluck and enterprise; has failed once or twice, and was apparently down to stay down; but not so, he rises and comes again ; has done more for Latta than any man that has been in it, according to his means, in building it up and booming the town-such a man cannot be kept down; he has no children. The daughters of Colonel J. J. George and wife were three. Mary Ann married Michael Finnegan ; they have several children, one or two married ; Michael Finnegan is one of our best and most progressive citizens, doing well, and rais- ing a nice family; such men tell upon the prosperity of the country. Della George, another daughter of Colonel J. J. George and wife, married John Haselden; they have a family, two sons and two daughters; they have moved to Horry, and are said to be doing well. Aurelia George, the youngest daughter, married Henry Berry, a widower; they have no children ; Berry is a good citizen. Colonel J. J. George died soon after the war, having lost a leg in the last battle at Bentonville, above Fayetteville, N. C., just before General Joe Johnston's surrender; he left his wife, Agenora, with seven little children, and no property except a little farm, perhaps, 200 acres poor land ; she was an extra smart woman ; they went
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to work, she soon began to gain ; they made ample support and some money ; she raised her family in credit, and they are all doing well; she died two or three years ago; she lost one son, Henry. Missouri Jackson, youngest daughter of Warren R. Jackson, married Frank Dew; they went to North Carolina, where she now resides, Frank being dead; she has six or seven children, some of them grown ; know nothing further of them. Warren R. Jackson died in 1857, leaving his wife, Anne, with her several small children; his estate was involved, and much litigation ensued both in the Circuit and Appeal Courts, she finally was successful, and saved the estate from utter wreck and ruin. The writer knoweth whereof he speaks, being mixed up in it as her attorney from beginning to end. Of the sons of Edward Jackson, Sr., William married a Miss Man- ning, also settled on Catfish, and raised a family; don't know how many-two sons only were known to the writer, Reuben and John M. Jackson. Of Reuben and his family, little is known; he is dead; don't know what has become of his family. John M. Jackson married a Miss Miles, a daughter of old David Miles and sister of the late Francis A. Miles ; he settled on his father's, William Jackson, homestead, and lived and died there; he raised one son, Frank M., and three or four daughters ; his wife died ; he lived for several years a widower, and died. His son, Frank, married a Miss Miles, his first cousin, a daughter of Charles Miles, Sr. The daughters of John M. Jackson, after the death of their father, moved off, perhaps, to Georgia. Frank M. Jackson then took possession of the old homestead and lived on it for several years, then sold it and moved into North Carolina, and thus he has been lost sight of. Of John Jackson, son of Edward, Sr., nothing is known as to what became of him. Reuben married some one and settled on Maple; raised a family, of whom the writer knows nothing, except two sons of his, James and John Jackson. James Jackson married a Miss Herring, and raised a family of sons and daughters. Of his sons, Arthur and John became notorious during the war. James Jackson and his brother John were killed, just after the close of the war, on account of their sons, and especially Arthur and John, by parties in revenge. The writer has ever thought that these two
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old men, James and John Jackson, were wrongfully killed ; but it was done at a time when human life was cheap, and in very troublesome times. Another brother of old James and John Jackson was Henry Jackson. The three brothers married three sisters, Misses Herring, sisters of old Whittington Ham- ilton's wife, and Whittington, Jr., married a daughter of Henry Jackson; she was a first cousin to him. While not much can be said in favor of this branch of the Jackson family, yet there are worse men than these three old brothers. Old Edward Jackson, Sr., had a son, Owen Jackson, who married Dilla Mckenzie, a daughter of Robert Mckenzie; he lived upon and owned the lands where Missouri R. Hamer and Philip B. Rogers now live and own; he was a simple-minded old man, worked hard, was strictly honest and law-abiding, and strictly attended to his own affairs; he raised a considerable family, mostly daughters, and two sons only known. Hugh P. Price's wife is one of the daughters, and, like her father, stays at home and mind's her own business; she has no children. One son, William Jackson, called "Fire-coal Bill," married a daughter of old man William Hamilton, and who has already been men- tioned herein, in or among the Hamilton family. Another son, Ervin M. Jackson, married Sarah Ann Mckenzie, who died a few years back, leaving an only child, a son, Thomas Jackson, who has already been noticed herein, in or among the McKen- zie family. Old man Owen Jackson may have had another son, if so it has escaped the memory of the writer; and as to his other daughters, the writer has lost sight of them. Ervin Jackson, the youngest son of old Edward, Sr., married a Miss Watson, on Hayes Swamp, near the North Carolina line; they settled near the father, old Mark Watson, and by industry and frugality amassed a good property, and raised quite a respect- able family. Owen Jackson, Jr., a son or a grand-son of old Ervin, married a sister of the late Duncan Murchison; he died a few years ago; made a considerable property, raised a very respectable family of sons and daughters, some of whom are among the leading men of Marlborough County. One son is known to the writer, John M. Jackson, as a leading merchant and business man in Bennettsville. They reflect credit upon the Jackson name. There is also a John R. Jackson, grand-son
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of old Ervin, now a leading man in the community of his an- cestors. There may be others of the name in some one or other of the many branches of the Jackson family not men- tioned, but they are not known, or, rather, their genealogy is not known, and hence not especially mentioned.
GALLOWAY .- The Galloways may here be mentioned, four of them. They are importations from Marlborough, and our county would not be hurt by many more such importations -- James T., William, Samuel T. and Joseph Galloway are their names. James T. Galloway married Miss Louisa Bethea, daughter of Levi and Mary Ann Bethea, just after the war, and has been in this county ever since his marriage; he has a considerable family, has succeeded well in life. Has one son, Henry, married, don't know to whom- I think, a Miss Barren- tine, of Marlborough. One daughter married to Mr. Maxcy McCown, of Florence County. His other children are with him; he is one of our most substantial citizens. William Gal- loway, a later importation, a brother of James T., has bought land in upper Marion. A comparison of his place with what it was fifteen years ago will show that he is a farmer right ; he is a hustling man; know nothing of his immediate family, and the same may be said of Samuel T. and Joseph Galloway, a late importation, who have bought land on Catfish, near Ellerbe's Crossing, and are moving ahead, first class men and excellent citizens; know nothing of their immediate families. Samuel T. Galloway married Johny Carmichael, and Joseph married a daughter of Elmore Allen, of Marlborough County. I knew their father and mother, James Galloway and Rebecca, his wife; she was a Townsend, daughter of old Jabish Town- send, and sister of the late Meekin Townsend, of Marlborough.
SHERWOOD .- The Sherwoods will next be noticed. The first Sherwood known in the county was John Sherwood, an old man, more than' sixty years ago; he was a great church man and exceedingly pious; he had two or three sons and one daughter. Of the sons, nothing is known, except as to James. James Sherwood married Miss Martha (Patsy) Bethea, a daughter of William Bethea, near Harlleesville; by the mar-
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riage three sons were born and raised-Cade, Postell and John. Cade Sherwood owns the old homestead of his grand-father, John Sherwood. James Sherwood died and left his widow with her children small; the widow married again-do not remember to whom. Cade and Postell grew up, and Cade bought the old homestead of his grand-father, and married a Miss Legette, of Marlborough, daughter of James S. Le- gette. Cade Sherwood has one of the best plantations in upper Marion, an excellent manager and farmer; everything about his house and premises denotes comfort and convenience not excelled by any one in the county. Postell Sherwood, of Mullins, married his first cousin, Miss Lou Scarborough, daughter of the late Rev. Lewis Scarborough, many years an itinerant preacher in the South Carolina Conference, and sister of the Hon. R. B. Scarborough, of Conway. Postell is doing well; has a small family, two daughters, but has not succeeded like his brother, Cade Sherwood. John Sherwood is unmar- ried.
ALFORD .- The late Neill, James L. and Lodwick B. Alford, brothers, were importations from North Carolina, and were quite an acquisition to the moral, social and material prosperity of the county-men of high character, and contributed much to the upbuilding of the county; would be glad to have many more similar importations. Neill Alford married a Miss McPherson, settled on the Big Reedy Creek, near where the Reedy Creek Presbyterian Church now stands; by his marriage he had and raised a large family of five sons and ten daughters; William McD., Henry, Robert, John and Walter L. Alford. William McD. Alford married a Miss McLean, of North Caro- lina, and has raised a large family of sons and daughters, five of each sex ; the sons are McLean (called Mack), Yancy, Rob- ert, Plummer and William. Mack and Yancy only are mar- ried; don't know to whom. Yancy Alford is a practicing physician in Sumter County. One of Wm. McD. Alford's sons is a practicing dental surgeon ; think his name is Plummer or Robert. None of his daughters are married; one of them, Miss Ella, I believe was a teacher for some time in the Co- lumbia Female College. Wm. McD. Alford has performed
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lis duty in the relations of life, and one specially-that is, ie has educated his children well, and exceedingly so, or a man of his somewhat limited means and the number of tis children; he and family are among our best people-a man of high character, indomitable will and energetic; no task too leavy, and no difficulty insurmountable; the words "fail" or 'I can't," are not in his vocabulary. The people of his county appreciating his many good qualities have made him their Rep- esentative in the State Legislature. He is, as it were, rele- jated to the rear, because for the last ten years he has not been n line with the dominant party in the State-many of our best nen are in the same category. W. McD. Alford is one of our eading and most progressive farmers. Henry Alford, a brother, married in North Carolina, and resides about Floral College, in Robeson County. Robert Alford, another brother, lied about 1868; he was a promising young man. John und Walter S. Alford have never married, though both are old enough to enter upon that, to them, untried relation in life. Of the ten daughters of old man Neill Alford, two are yet un- narried and may be called "old maids." Two of the married nes, Mrs. McLucas and Mrs. DuBose, are dead; Mrs. McLucas childless; don't know as to Mrs. DuBose. Three lied unmarried. Of the married ones, three are living-Mrs. Currie, Mrs. James Berry and Mrs. Benjamin Mckibben. Of Mrs. James Berry's family, they have already been noticed in r among the Berry family. James L. Alford married a Miss McPhaul or McFail; by the marriage, twelve children were orn, six sons and six daughters. Of the sons, two are dead; hose living are Daniel M., Frierson, Neill and Manton. Dan- el M. Alford married a Miss Walter; they reside at Dillon; lave a family, one daughter grown ; don't know as to others of is family. Frierson Alford married a daughter of Dr. Wil- iam J. David; resides in upper Marion, and is one of our good itizens ; has a family, some grown children. Neill Alford, a uiet and inoffensive man, married a Miss Stackhouse, daugh- er of the late Colonel E. T. Stackhouse; they have a consider- ble family, some grown; don't know how many grown or therwise ; they reside at Marion. Manton Alford married n Alabama lady, and resides in upper Marion-one of our
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nost respectable and worthy citizens. Of James L. Alford's ix daughters, only one survives, Dian or Dianna, who mar- ried Dr. McLean, in upper Marion ; they have one daughter, the wife of Clarence McLaurin; are said to be doing well. Not one of her five sisters ever married. Loderick B. Alford, brother of Neill and James L., also came from North Carolina, with his brothers, but did not remain long, he went to Ten- nessee, and married there a Miss Hall; after some years he returned with his family to upper Marion, and died there along in the fifties. He raised a considerable family-the names of only two of them are remembered. Althea, his oldest child, who married, first, James P. McInnis, who died and left her a widow ; she afterwards became the second wife of Colonel Levi Legette, and still survives ; think she had one child by McInnis, a daughter, who married W. D. Carmichael, now one of the citizens of the county below Marion. The late Warren L. Alford married, and raised a considerable family ; the names of only two of his children are known to the writer. Dock Alford married a Miss Harrelson, daughter of the late John E. Harrelson, and has a family of sons and, perhaps, daughters, names unknown. A daughter of Warren L. Al- ford, named Della, has never married; she may be classed now as an old maid. Warren L. Alford, a peaceable, quiet and harmless man, died a few years past; his family are four or five miles below Marion, on the Galivant's Ferry road.
GREENWOOD .- Of this family, William and Frank Green- wood were known to the writer, sixty years ago. He once saw their mother, old Mrs. Greenwood. William Greenwood mar- ried a sister of Cross Roads Henry Berry ; only two children of this marriage were known to the writer-there may have been others-Dawson Greenwood and a daughter, whose name, I believe, was Mary. Dawson married an illegitimate daughter of old John Manning, on Buck Swamp; think they went West or elsewhere. The daughter, Mary (or other name), became the wife of the late David R. Owens ; by him she had and raised two sons, Stephen G. and Leonard R., and two daughters. Of the sons, Stephen G. married a Miss Godbold, daughter of Ervin Godbold; had two sons, one of them dead. Stephen G.
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Owens was elected Clerk of the Court in 1872, and filled that position for four years ; the upheaval in 1876 defeated him for re-election. He was a very competent man, but became a luna- tic some years afterwards, and died in the Asylum. Leonard R. Owens married a Miss Wall, and has considerable family at Marion-names not known, except oldest son, Paul, who is said to be very bright ; one daughter grown. Leonard Owens is a very competent business man ; was postmaster for four years under the Harrison administration, and four years a deputy under D. McIntyre, during Cleveland's second term ; was again appointed by Mckinley, and served two or three years, when he got into some trouble and was removed from office. He seems to be under a cloud-yet resides in Marion. Don't know whether his mother is dead or alive. Of the two daughters of Mrs. David R. Owens, one married George Wall, brother of L. R. Owens' wife. They live at Marion, and have a family, about whom nothing is known. Don't know what became of the other daughter of David R. Owens. Frank Greenwood died a few years ago, a very old man; he raised some family; was a harmless, inoffensive and good citizen ; don't know who his wife was; he had three sons and one daughter ; the sons are Elly B., James and Donaldson. Elly married, first, a Miss Platt, daughter of Daniel A. Platt; by her he had no children; she died, and he married again, a Miss Nicholson, who has already been mentioned in or among the Nicholson family ; he has by this marriage some family, don't know how much; James Greenwood married Miss Addie Hayes, youngest daughter of the late John C. Hayes, who has already been mentioned in or among the Hayes family; his wife died, then her child died, and he became heir to her prop- erty ; he has not remarried; is a first-rate business man, and resides at Latta. Donaldson Greenwood has never married; is harmless and inoffensive, a good young (old) man. The daughter, Amanda Greenwood, married Henry Berry, a wid- ower; she had some children, don't know how many, when she died. Berry has married, the third time, Miss Aurelia George; no children by this marriage.
McINNIS .- The McInnis family, in the Carolina neighbor-
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hood, will next be noticed. Of this family, the first known was Duncan McInnis, who was a most excellent man and worthy citizen. He is thought to have been a Scotchman, though, perhaps, born in this country. He married some Scotch lady, settled in the Carolina neighborhood, raised a considerable family, four sons and four or five daughters ; the sons were Neill, John L., Miles and another, name not remem- bered. The two latter emigrated to Texas some years ago, together with John L. McInnis. John L. married in Texas, a Texas lady, and some years after returned to this State, and now occupies and owns the old homestead of his father; he had two sons born in Texas, William and one, name unknown. William McInnis has a family; married his cousin, a Miss McDonald, and has, perhaps, two or three children; is a first class man, of high character, good habits, and has proper ideas of life; if misfortune should overtake him, he would still be a man. His brother, younger than himself, unmarried. Neill McInnis died a few years ago; he left a family, unknown to the writer; he was a most excellent man and worthy citizen, and will be much missed not only by his family, but by his community. Miles McInnis and another brother are in Texas. Of the daughters of Duncan McInnis, two of them married McLaurins, whether in Marion or Marlborough County, is unknown; they both have families, number and names un- known. One daughter married our respected fellow-citizen, A. J. McDonald; they have children grown and married, and, perhaps, grand-children, but for want of information can say nothing about them. Another daughter married one James McDonald, I think, of Marlborough; they seem to be doing well. Another daughter is yet unmarried. There was, a way back in the forties or fifties, one James P. McInnis, who mar- ried Miss Althea Alford, daughter of Lodwick B. Alford, who has already been mentioned in or among the Alfords; he did not live long after marriage; seemed to be an energetic and pushing man. Whether he was any relation of the "Carolina" McInnises or not, is unknown to the writer. Another McInnis (Miles), who has been dead many years, lived in upper Marion; he married a Miss Townsend, a sister of old man Light Townsend, a well known citizen of Marlborough County.
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