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dead; but she, with a large family of sons and daughters, sur- vives. Laura, another daughter, married Henry Barnes, of North Carolina. Another married Richard Atkinson, of North Carolina, and they live at McColl, S. C .; and the youngest, as noted above, married Captain Hugh A. McDonald, of Cumber- land County, N. C .; he was a gallant soldier of the Confed- eracy ; they now live at Dillon, S. C., and have a large family of children. The one daughter of Squire Neill McCormick, Ma- nila, married Neill McEachern, and they left two daughters and three sons. One of the daughters, Manila, married Charles Altman, and they, with a grown up family of five child- ren, live in Horry County. The other daughter, Flora, mar- ried James McKellar, both of whom are dead, and left several children-the youngest son, Peter Mckellar, being a pros- perous merchant at Bennettsville, S. C., where he married a niece of Hon. Joshua H. Hudson. Of the three sons of Neill McEachern, William died just as he was grown. Ed- mund Q. served through the war, and died soon after. John C. McEachern is still living ; he, too, was one of the heroes who served from the beginning to the end in the cause which was lost; he was a private in Fairlee's company, and bears the honorable marks of service on his person; soon after the war he married Jennie, a daughter of "Hatter" John Carmichael, and they have raised a family of four sons and two daughters, and he and his family live on his fine farm in the fork of Little Pee Dee and Hayes Swamp. The widow of Squire Neill Mc- Cormick lived to a very great age, and died on his homestead since the war. Neill McEachern after the death of his wife, Manila, again married, Sallie McCall, of North Carolina, by whom he raised a family of four sons and two daughters. Neill Duncan, the eldest, married Margaret McDuffie, daughter of Neill McDuffie, and has a family of four daughters; he lives at McColl, S. C. Robert Bruce, the next son, married Ama- rantha, daughter of A. S. Buie, and has a family of one son and three daughters ; they live near Hamer, S. C. Peter G. and Edmund Bishop McEachern, the two youngest sons, live on their fine plantation, near Hamer, and their mother and two sisters live with them; neither of them have married; they are up-to-date, progressive farmers, and it is said of them that no
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matter how high the price of cotton may rule, they always keep a lot for a better price. The writer heard a candidate who visited these McEacherns say that he saw eleven fat Chester hogs there that would average 400 pounds each, be- sides a number of smaller ones-that was some three years ago; they owe no one anything; they have much more to sell than to buy.
McARTHUR .- James McArthur was one of the original set- tlers on the north side of Hays Swamp and on the North Caro- lina State line; he married a Miss Campbell and raised a family of three sons and four daughters. The eldest daughter, Effie, married Gadi Braswell, and her only son, Richard H. Braswell, now owns and lives upon a part of the old McArthur lands or homestead, just across the State line. Mary, another daughter, married Richard J. Millsaps, and moved to another part of the McArthur lands or homestead in North Carolina ; they had one daughter, Mary Jane, who married T. J. Legette, and she now lives at Rowland, N. C. Her four daughters, the eldest, Louise, married Joseph A. McEachern, and she died, I think, childless. The next oldest married Robe Bond; the third to James A. McCormick, and the fourth and youngest to W. A. Ivey, who lives at Dillon, S. C .- all of them owning part of the McArthur lands. The other two daughters, Katie and Jennie, never married, and both of them died at advanced ages since the war. Alexander, John and James were his three sons. The two former lived to be old men and never married, and died since the war; both of them were too old for service in the army, but were patriotic citizens and contributed all in their power to the success of the cause that was lost. James, the youngest son, married Sarah McDonald, daughter of Neill McDonald, in the "old Fork," which is known in that region as such, being the territory in the fork of Shoe Heel Creek and Wilkinson Swamp and Little Pee Dee River; they had one child, a daughter, Ella, who married George R. Campbell, of North Carolina, and they live on their father's old homestead, or a part of it; Mr. Campbell is a good farmer and a good citizen. James McArthur went to the front in the beginning of the war, in Captain Stafford's company; was sent to the
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hospital, sick, at Culpeper C. H., and was never heard from after being sent from his company, and it is supposed that he died there, and is one of the many unknown dead whose re- mains repose in the soil of old Virginia. His widow, in 1873, married M. M. Watson, of North Carolina, who was a gallant soldier in the Confederate army, and lost a leg in the service; he was one of our most respected adopted citizens at his death, and his widow died soon after; they left two sons and one daughter, and they live on another part of the old McArthur homestead, and are progressive and industrious young men.
MCINTYRE .- Dougald, Daniel, Duncan and Archie McIntyre, four brothers, came from Scotland to Marion County in the early part of the nineteenth century-say from 1815 to 1820; all of them grown young men. Dougald, the eldest, married in Scotland; his wife was Lilly Campbell ; they settled on the place where they lived and died, and where their daughters, Jennette and Lilly, now reside; they raised a family of twelve children, six sons and six daughters-the two eldest of whom, Elizabeth and John B., were born in Scotland; the sons were John B., Dougald C., Joseph, Duncan E., James and William Wallace McIntyre-none of them are now living; the daughters were Elizabeth, Jennette, Nancy, Margaret, Lilly and Mary. John B., the eldest son, was a tailor by trade; moved to North Caro- lina; he married Civil Legette, and lived until after the war, when he acquired the farm near Hamer, where he remained until his death; he raised six children-three sons and three daughters ; the sons were John A., Cousar and Dougald; and the daughters were Sarah, Mary and Margaret. John A. lives in North Carolina, and is unmarried. Dougald married Lilly Faulk, of Selkirk, and lives in North Carolina. Cousar mar- ried Fannie Willis, and moved to Georgia. Sarah, the eldest daughter of John B., married John W. McMillan. Mary married John W. McLean, and is still a resident of the neigh- borhood. Margaret is unmarried, and lives with her brother, Dougald, in North Carolina. Dougald C., second son of old Dougald, moved to Robeson County, N. C., when quite a young man, and remained there during his life; he was a leading spirit in many benevolent and public enterprises in his county, and
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for a long time filled the office of School Commissioner and also that of Magistrate; his widow and several children and many grand-children survive him, and are among the most highly respected people of Robeson County. Joseph, the third son of old Dougald, was an energetic and active farmer ; at the outbreak of the war he volunteered and went to the front, where he remained until the surrender; he married Emaline Carmichael, a daughter of Sheriff Archie Carmichael, and settled on the place near Hamer, where they lived and where they both died, leaving a family of seven children-three sons and four daughters ; the sons are Duncan, Archie and Leigh- ton; the daughters are Nettie, Lizzie, Isla and Blanche, and have all, with one exception, removed elsewhere. Duncan went to Texas. Archie married Katie Mclellan, daughter of Timothy R. Mclellan, and settled on a place adjoining that of his aunt. Leighton is an invalid, and lives with his sister. Nettie, the eldest daughter, married J. Edgar Bass; they live in Florida ; this couple when they married weighed over five hundred pounds avoirdupois. Lizzie, Isla and Blanche are single, and live in Dillon, with their invalid brother, Leighton. Duncan E., the fourth son of old Dougald, was a Presbyterian minister ; he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Helena, Ark., when the war commenced; he returned to his old home, and in order that his brother, James, who was the business manager and dependence of his widowed mother, might remain with her and his sisters, he went to the front as a substitute for his brother, James, and died while in service. James, the fifth son of old Dougald, was a man of some sterling qualities, was noted for his kindness of heart, and his affectionate care for those dependent upon him; he lived with his mother until after the war, when his younger brother, Wallace, succeeded him; he married Mrs. Rebecca McCormick, a daughter of Woodward Manning, and removed to his late residence on Buck Swamp; his widow and one son survive him; the son's name is W. M. McIntyre. William Wallace, the sixth son of old Dougald, the youngest of the six brothers, was an active and progressive farmer ; he lived with his mother and sisters, managing the farm, and also owned the place near Hamer, now the property of Frank Edens; he served through the war
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in Co. I, Tenth Regiment, S. C. V. The daughters of old Dougald McIntyre, Elizabeth, Jennette, Nancy and Lilly, never married. Elizabeth and Nancy are dead. Jennette and Lilly are living on the old homestead. Margaret married A. C. Mc- Kenzie, and lives in North Carolina. Daniel McIntyre, one of. the four brothers from Scotland, was a farmer ; he settled on a place adjacent to that 'of his brother, Dougald, where he lived and died; he married Mary Carmichael, a daughter of "Com- modore" Dougald Carmichael, and had three sons-Dougald W., John C. and Duncan A. McIntyre-none of whom are now living. Dougald W. was a farmer and surveyor ; he was twice married ; first, to Margaret McArthur, of North Carolina; she died, leaving three children-one son, Palmer, and two daugh- ters, Celestia and Rosanna ; both of whom are married and live in North Carolina. His second wife was Katie Roberts; she died, leaving six children-one son, Donald, and five daughters, Margaret, Kittie, Delia, Lilly and Cora; all are single, and with their elder brother, Palmer, and live on the homestead of their father. John C., second son of Daniel McIntyre, was by occupation a farmer; at the breaking out of the war he enlisted in the Confederate army and went to the front ; he was severely wounded in battle, from which he never entirely recovered ; he married Sarah Ann Carmichael, a daughter of Captain Neill M. Carmichael, and settled on the old homestead of his Grand- father Carmichael, on Pee Dee, where he lived for several years ; afterwards moved to the home of his father, whose failing health required the care and attention he and his kind-hearted wife could give him; his father died soon after, leaving to him the place, but he survived his father but a short while ; his wife, also, is dead; they had five children, two sons and three daughters ; the sons are Jefferson D. and Daniel Frank; the daughters are Loretta, Mary Catling and Orella. Jefferson is an energetic and progressive farmer; he lives on his farm, near Hamer; he married Louise Carmichael, a daughter of Archie M. Carmichael. Daniel, Frank and his eldest sister, Loretta, are single, and live on the homestead of their father. Mary Cutting married G. Raymond Berry, and they live at Dillon, S. C. G. Raymond Berry is now the County Superintendent of Education. Orella married Peter Stewart,
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of North Carolina, and they live on their farm, near Carmi- chael. Duncan A., third son of Daniel McIntyre, was a man of some education and business attainments ; he was engaged in teaching school at the outbreak of the war; he enlisted in the Confederate army and served through the war; after the war he accepted a clerkship with S. A. Durham & Co., of Marion, where he remained several years; he married Anne Legette, a daughter of Dr. A. S. Legette, of Centenary, and removed to Centenary, but died soon after, leaving one son, Daniel McIntyre. Duncan and Archie, brothers of Dougald and Daniel McIntyre. Duncan was a Presbyterian preacher ; he died unmarried, while still a young man. Archie married Miss Effie McCollum, of North Carolina-I believe, an aunt of the late Brown McCollum-and settled on land adjoining his brother, Daniel; and after having four or five children, sold his land, 175 acres, to the writer, in 1836, for $225, and moved to Alabama. Mary McIntyre, daughter of old Dougald, mar- ried Joseph W. Williamson, and they settled on their home- stead, near Kentyre Church, where they lived, and where they both died in the prime of life, leaving a family of seven children, several of whom were quite small. In connection with the McIntyres of Carmichael Township, another family of the same name in the county will here be noticed-I mean the McIntyres of the town of Marion. Archie McIntyre was the first known of this family-don't know where he came from or anything of his parentage; he was, doubtless, a Scotch- man; he was a tailor 'by trade-this in former times was a lucrative trade; he married Miss Sophia Howard, of West Marion, daughter of old man Richard Howard, of that section, who was both wealthy and prominent in his day. Archie McIntyre settled in Marion, and lived there all his life; by his marriage he had seven sons and three daughters, that were raised; the sons were Richard, Robert C., Duncan, Archie, George A., Joseph and Douglas; the daughters were Matilda, Rebecca and Sallie. Of the sons, Richard married Miss McColl, and settled in West Marion; he had one son, named Richard (may have had other children) ; Richard, Sr., died, while yet young, and his widow married Rev. D. E. Frierson, a Presbyterian minister of some note, and went to Anderson
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County. Richard McIntyre, Jr., grew up and married a Miss McPherson, daughter of Robert McPherson, of West Marion; he had some family, don't know how many or of what sex ; he died a few years ago, and left his widow and family on the homestead, and they are still there. Think Rich- ard (senior) was a graduate of the South Carolina College, and a young man of promise. Robert Charles, the second son, was also a graduate of the South Carolina College ; he married, first, a Miss Murdoch, of Marlborough County ; she died in a few years, childless, when he married, a second time, a sister of his first wife. These Murdoch girls had two brothers, who both died young, unmarried; hence the fine plantation of their father, near "Beauty Spot," in Marlborough, fell to Mrs. McIntyre; they moved up there and raised a considerable family of sons and daughters, all of whom are now grown. The mother died, and Robert Charles and his family surviving, reside thereon. Robert Charles McIntyre was quite a literary man, was a Magistrate for some years in Marion, soon after the close of the war; he was very capable and filled that posi- tion very acceptably. Duncan McIntyre, the third son of Archie McIntyre, married, first, Miss Rosa Evans, a daughter of General William Evans; she died, childless, after a year or so, and he married again, the widow of John C. McClannaghan, whose maiden name was Betts, a daughter of Rev. Charles Betts, of grateful memory ; they have no offspring, and live in West Marion or Florence County. In the early part of the war, Duncan McIntyre raised a company as Captain, which formed a part of the Eighth South Carolina Regiment, and gallantly went through the war; he also went to the South Carolina College, but think his educational course in that institution was interrupted by the war; he, though, is a well- informed man. Archibald McIntyre, the fourth son of Archie McIntyre, Sr., grew up, and married Miss Martha Betts, another daughter of Rev. Charles Betts, about the commence- ment of the war; Archie, notwithstanding his recent marriage, volunteered in the first company (Captain M. B. Stanley's) that left Marion for Morris Island, near Charleston, the 4th January, 1861. After the capture of Fort Sumter by the Confederate forces, the company was reorganized, and W. P.
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Shooter, who was First Lieutenant in the original company, was elected Captain, in which Archie, Jr., was a member ; they went to Virginia, and in some of the early battles in that fron- tier State was fatally wounded and died-a more gallant soldier was not in the Confederate army. Dr. A. McIntyre, now in the town of Marion, a prominent practicing physician, was born, I think, a short time after his father's death; the widow married, a second time, Dr. E. B. Smith, an able physician, and a most excellent farmer, below Marion, who has a family of sons and, perhaps, daughters; one or two of Dr. Smith's sons are practicing physicians. George A. McIntyre, the fifth son of Archie, Sr., was a young man at the beginning of the war, was also a Lieutenant in Captain Stanley's, afterwards Captain Shooter's company ; volunteered and went to the front, and re- mained in the service till he lost his arm ; he became Captain of the company after the promotion of Captain Shooter to a Lieu- tenant Colonelcy. After Captain G. A. McIntyre became dis- abled for active service by the loss of an arm, he was appointed enrolling officer and assigned to Marion, and continued to per- form the duties of that position to the end of the war. Soon after the war, Captain McIntyre married Miss Emma Young, daughter of Major Johnson B. Young, and settled on a part of his mother's fine plantation, on the west side of Catfish, and has succeeded well in his calling. At one time since the redemption of the State from carpet-bag and scallawag rule, in 1876, Captain McIntyre was appointed County Treasurer, which position he honestly and faithfully filled for three or four years, when he resigned, or declined a further appointment ; since which time he has been in retirement upon his excellent farm, and may be truthfully said to be one of our best citizens ; he has raised a considerable family, mostly or all girls. One married W. C. Foxworth, who lives near him, and I think, another one is also married, but to whom is not remembered. Captain McIntyre is a model man and is what is termed the noblest work of God, "an honest man." Joseph McIntyre, the sixth son of Archie, Sr., went into the war and was a gallant soldier ; married Miss Mary Mullins, oldest daughter of the late Colonel W. S. Mullins ; they first settled over Catfish, on a part of the late Daniel F. Berry's lands, where he farmed for
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several years with as much success as might be expected on such a place; after a while there was a division of the large body of the Mullins lands, near Mullins, and the old Mullins homestead was allotted to Mrs. McIntyre, to which they moved and now own, and are doing fairly well; they have several children, how many or of what sex is unknown. Douglas McIntyre, the seventh and youngest son of Archie, Sr., is a prominent and leading merchant of Marion, and has been for several years ; he married, first, Miss Jennie Moody, a daughter of E. J. Moody ; by the marriage three children were born, as I think, two daughters and one son, or vice versa; his first wife dying, he married a Miss Fore, daughter of the late Daniel Fore, by whom he has some children, all small. His oldest daughter, Jennie, by his first marriage, married Robert Proc- tor, and they have gone West. Douglas McIntyre, in addition to his large mercantile interest, has a large farm nearby town, which he successfully runs ; he is full of energy and enterprise and a model citizen; he was honored some few years ago by his fellow-citizens with a seat in the Representative branch of the State Legislature, which position he filled with credit to himself and satisfaction to his people. Archie McIntyre, Sr., had three daughters. The eldest, Matilda, married Ezra M. Davis, of West Marion, a well-to-do man; they raised a con- siderable family, but the writer does not know enough of them or about them to say more. Rebecca, the second daughter, married Rev. J. E. Dunlap, a brave and daring soldier of the Confederacy, in which he obtained the title of Colonel, and was and is a preacher of the Presbyterian Church-an able preacher he is; they raised a family of several children, sons and daughters ; his wife died some years ago, and Colonel Dunlap has had the misfortune to lose, by death, two or three of his grown and promising children. Some years ago, Colonel Dunlap resigned his pastorate of the Presbyterian Church in Marion, and moved to Williamsburg County, and has charge of two or more churches in that county ; he has not remarried, is yet a widower ; his children are all grown. Colonel Dunlap is a large-hearted man, brave as "Julius Caesar;" thinks for himself, and generally thinks right-no deceit in his make-up; a friend to the poor and a warm sympathiser with the dis-
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tressed-a friend indeed. Sallie McIntyre, the third and youngest daughter of Archie, Sr., a charming lady, married Dr. D. F. Miles, our present and efficient Clerk of the Court, personally a very popular man; has just been elected to the third term; has been honored twice with a seat in the State Legislature; he has a farm some four or five miles from Marion; they have had five children-three daughters and two sons ; the daughters are Sophia, Mary and Lillian-all married. Sophia married Charles E. Evans; they have three or four children. Mary married Lanneau Stackhouse; they have, per- haps, two children. Lillian married a Mr. Owens, first name not remembered; they all reside in Marion, and are good women. Dr. Miles and his wife, Sallie, had two sons, Frank and Lanneau. Frank, just at manhood, sickened and died, in 1899 ; so they have but one son left, spes gregis, who is a lad- hope he will live and help keep up and perpetuate the name. Archie McIntyre, Sr., though he began life as a tailor, man- aged well and accumulated a large property; and left it unen- cumbered for his widow and children; several of his children were small when he died, but the widow was a good manager also, and kept the estate free from debt, and at her death transmitted the same to them unencumbered. Archie McIn- tyre, Sr., though a tailor, like Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, and who became President of the United States, was no ordi- nary man; he and his wife, Sophia, raised a family of high standing in every way. Of such a parentage their children and grand-children ought to be proud.
McKINLY .- John McKinly and his wife, who was Catharine McNish, and their children, Daniel, Duncan and Neill, Mary and Jennette, came from Scotland, and settled on the homestead, where they lived and died, and later where their children, Neill and Jennette, lived and died. Daniel, the oldest, was twenty- one years old when they landed, and Neill, the youngest, was six. Daniel married a Miss McCormic, of North Carolina, and settled on the place adjacent to the homestead of his father, where he lived and died; he applied himself to his chosen occu- pation with energy and perseverance, was a farmer on the in- tensive system of farming, and attained considerable success ;
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he had only one child, a son, Duncan C. McKinly ; he was like- wise a farmer, and settled on his fine farm near Kentyre Church; he married Sarah Gaddy, a daughter of William Gaddy; they had four children, two sons and two daughters; the sons are William D. and John D .; the daughters are Leo- nora and Mary. William D. removed elsewhere. John D. married Florence Mckenzie, a daughter of David J. Mckenzie ; they live in Dillon. Mary is dead. Leonora married Hugh McLean, and they moved to Florida. Duncan C. McKinly, the father, is dead. Duncan, the son of old John, engaged in com- mercial pursuits and moved to Mississippi, where he accumu- lated a large property, but never married, and is dead. Neill McKinly never married, nor did his sister, Jennette ; they lived and died on the homestead of their father, John McKinly. Duncan C. ultimately got all the property of his Uncle Duncan, of Mississippi, all his father's, and all his Uncle Neill's and Aunt Jennette's ; but it seemed not to do him or his family any good-only whilst it was going; he died poor. Mary, the old- est daughter of old John McKinly, died unmarried, soon after attaining to womanhood.
MCLELLAN .- Alexander McLellan and his brother, Mal- colm, came to this country from Scotland, in the close of the eighteenth century, and settled on the lands on which some of their descendants now live and own. Alexander was married in Scotland, to Mary McKinnon, and lived thete for some time after his marriage, and several children were born to them there, who died in infancy ; one, a lad, named John, died after he settled here; he resided on the place recently the home of J. W. Williamson, where Daniel Walker Campbell now lives, and he died there in 1838 or 1839; he devoted himself to farming and stock raising, accumulating considerable wealth ; of his children who reached maturity, there were four sons, Daniel, Duncan, Archie K. and Colin ; and one daughter, Flora. Daniel lived on the homestead of his father; never married and died in 1860. Duncan lived on a farm adjacent to his brother and a part of his father's old homestead; he never married, and died in 1872. The plantation where Duncan lived has been divided-a part owned by R. P. Hamer, Sr., another part by R. P. Hamer, Jr.,
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