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and still another part by Neill McDuffie, and on which he now resides. Archie K. Mclellan married Miss Harriet Rogers, a daughter of Timothy Rogers, 4th December, 1833 (where Dr. J. F. Bethea now resides). The writer attended the wedding ; there were more people there than he ever saw convened on such an occasion-the cavalcade that accompanied the groom was over one hundred. He settled on lands adjoining his brothers, Daniel and Duncan, and near his father's homestead, and resided there for many years, and then removed to North Carolina, remaining there till after the death of his brother, Duncan, and inheriting the homestead tract of his brother, he returned to South Carolina, and lived until his death, in 1887; he raised a large family of children-nine sons and five daugh- ter ; the sons were Malcolm, Alexander, Timothy R., Daniel, John B., Archie K., Jr., F. Tristram, Duncan and Robert. Malcolm moved to Pollard, Ala., when quite a youth; was married there to Miss Celia Jernagen, and lived and died there. Alexander was a brave and gallant soldier in a North Carolina regiment ; he was captured and died in prison. He married, during the war, Miss Roxanna Gaddy, but left no children. Timothy R. married Flora Amanda McCormick, daughter of James Hunt McCormick ; he resided near the old homestead of his father until his death, in 1897; his widow and eight child- ren, four sons and four daughters, survive him. Daniel lived with his father until his death, and remained there until the old homestead was broken up and sold for division; he married Miss Sallie Legette, of North Carolina, in 1888; after her death, in 1892, he removed to North Carolina, where he now lives. John B., on attaining his majority, went to Benton, Ala., where he remained during his life; he was a man of splendid ability, and was elected to an important office of public trust, which he filled for many years; he was married to Miss Patty Blackshear, of Alabama, who, with three daughters, sur- vive him. Archie K., Jr., lives in North Carolint, and is unmarried. F. Tristram is at present writing the very efficient Auditor of Marion County, to which he was elected in 1896, and again in 1898, and resides at Marion C. H .; he married, in 1899, Miss Harrelson, of this county. Duncan formerly lived in this county, but removed to North Carolina; he has
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been twice married; first, to Miss Hannah Wiggins, and then to a Miss Willis; his first wife left two children, a son and a daughter. The son, John Robert, was adopted by his Uncle Tristram, and is the Assistant Auditor of the county ; he is a bright and intelligent youth. The daughters of Archie K., Sr., were Sarah, Margaret, Mary Ann, Flora and Moranza. Mar- garet married Allen Seely, and moved to North Carolina. Mary Ann married Archie Stewart, and also moved to North Carolina. The other daughters, Sarah, Flora and Moranza, are all unmarried, and live with their brother, Archie K., Jr., in North Carolina. Flora, the daughter of old Alexander Mclellan, married Dougald B. Carmichael; they both lived on the place they settled upon, and died there; it is now owned and occupied by their youngest son, Malcolm C. Carmichael; she died at an advanced age, in 1877, her husband having died, in 1857, at the age of seventy-eight; the fruits of their mar- riage were two daughters, Mary Ann and Catharine, and five sons, Alexander A., Duncan C., Daniel, John L. and Malcolm C. Mary Ann, the oldest daughter (and, I believe, the oldest child), married Neill McDuffie; both are still living,* in far advanced age; they and their numerous family will be further noticed among the McDuffie family, sequeus. The daughter, Catharine, married Neill B. McQueen ; she lived only a short time, and died; it is not known whether she left any offspring. The five sons all volunteered in the early part of the war; three of them, Alexander A., Daniel and John L., were killed or died in the service; the other two remained in service to the end, and returned home; Duncan C. and Malcolm C. still live, and are energetic and progressive farmers; have fine lands and are successful. Duncan C. Carmichael (familiarly called "Red Duncan"), married, first, Miss Sallie Mckinnon, of North Carolina; she died, leaving two children-one son, Dougald A., and one daughter, Charlotte. Dougald A. went to Georgia, where he still lives. Charlotte married Neill J. Carmichael; he married, the second time, Lemantha Walters, of North Carolina; she has four children, none of whom are grown. Malcolm C. Carmichael, fifth son of Dougald B. and
*She (Mary Ann McDuffie) died a short time ago; her husband, Neill McDuffie, yet survives, eighty-three years of age, 15th March, 1901.
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Flora, married Miss Amanda Carmichael, daughter of "Hatter John;" they have eight children-four sons, Albert E., John L., Neill C. and Walter; four daughters, Flora C., Ann Murphy, Martha and Mary. Albert E. and Neill C. moved to Mississippi, where they are prosperously engaged in the tur- pentine business. John L. died when about eight years old. Walter, the youngest son, is still at school. Flora C., the eldest daughter, married S. A. McQueen, of North Carolina ; they live at Red Springs, N. C. Ann Murphy married Alexander Mclellan, and they live at Dillon. Martha and Mary are still single, and are with their parents. Dougald B. Carmichael, the husband and father, was a very quiet, peaceable man, of lymphatic temperament and a man of remarkable equanimity ; he was a blacksmith by trade-a good trade in those days; he did a great deal of work in the shop, whilst his wife, Flora, looked after the house department and somewhat after the farm; and after his death she looked after it all, except the blacksmith shop; Mrs. Carmichael was no ordinary woman; she had mind enough to grasp anything and everything in the affairs of life; a woman of fine physique, her mental qualities were of a superior order ; of sanguine temperament, a cheerful disposition, of boundless ambition, and had the energy to back it up; made her hospitable home the seat of comfort ; method and order were displayed in all the household affairs ; she took the troubles of the war, the death of her daughter, Catharine, and husband, the loss of three sons in the struggles of war, philosophically, and with heroic courage set to work to repair the losses in property and means as far as she could, and help and render comfortable her surviving children ; she succeeded well in so doing, and left them not only in homes of their own, but also left them her virtuous example, which is worth more than gold and silver. Colin McLellan, the youngest son and youngest child of old Alexander McLellan, married Rebecca Bethea, oldest daughter of "Buck Swamp" William Bethea ; he settled on the place where he lived and died, in 1858; he was a successful farmer ; he raised a family of four children, two sons and two daughters; the sons were William and Daniel; the two daughters were Mary and Flora. The sons were Con- federate soldiers and served through the war in Captain Ful-
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more's company, Fifty-first Regiment, North Carolina Volun- teers. Daniel died at the old home, in 1868, when quite a young man. William moved to North Carolina, and married Victoria McCormick, a daughter of James McCormick; he settled on lands inherited from his father in North Carolina, and was a successful farmer; but in a personal difficulty with an employee, Thomas Gilchrist, he was shot and killed, in 1872: Mary, the eldest daughter, married Carl Faulk, and moved to North Carolina, and died a few years ago. Flora married Richard Faulk, and resided for several years on her father's old homestead, on Buck Swamp, but removed to North Caro- lina a few years ago, where she now lives.
There was and is another family of Mclellans in the county. The first of them known to the writer was Rev. Archie Mclellan, and a blacksmith; he lived on the south side of Catfish, on Pigeon Bay; he was a local Methodist preacher ; had a small farm, which he cultivated; he was a good man- the "salt of the earth ;" he married a Miss Buie; had and raised a considerable family of several sons and daughters; he had also two orphan nephews, sons of a deceased brother, whom he raised- their names were John and Angus McLellan. Just before the war, the old gentleman sold his place on Pigeon Bay, and moved off to Britton's Neck, and bought another place, where he lived and died some time after the war; by his re- moval the writer lost sight of his family. Two sons, Peter and Enos, are remembered, and only two daughters are remem- bered-one named Elizabeth, the other name not remembred, but she married a Mr. Moore. His two oldest children, Eliza- beth and Peter, together with his nephews, John and Angus, went to school to the writer in 1840, sixty years ago. Peter Mclellan was also a blacksmith; he married a Miss Lane, a daughter of the late James C. Lane, and lived and followed his trade for some years at Little Rock, S. C .; he died and left some family; of them, however, nothing is known. Enos, another son, married a Miss Myers, of West Marion, and now lives at Dillon, a widower-his wife having died some years ago; he has not remarried; he has four or five daughters, some of whom are grown ; he is a poor man, but a man of fine char- acter, strict integrity and a hard worker. Elizabeth, the oldest
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child, has never married. Mrs. Moore was made a widow, about the time of General Lee's surrender, by the atrocious murder of her husband, at Little Rock. Moore was a good soldier of the Confederacy, was at home at the time, near Little Rock, on furlough, with a broken arm in a sling-fresh from a battle, in which his arm had been broken by a Minie ball or piece of shell ; he went up to Little Rock, one afternoon, where he met with some parties who had imbibed spirits other than the patriotic spirit of the times, and they charged him with being a spy for the deserters of Maple Swamp notoriety, which he denied most vigorously-yet they shot and broke his other arm; he fell, and they walked up to him and cut his throat, dragged him off a few steps, and partially buried him in the jamb of a fence. His distressed wife, after the garrison came to Marion, went to the commandant for redress ; they said they had no jurisdiction in the matter, but they advised her to go to the civil authorities and get a warrant for the arrest of the parties accused; she accordingly did so, and the warrant was lodged with the Sheriff; but no arrests were made, for reasons of State policy-that is, the authorities high in official life did not countenance prosecutions for murder committed during the war or just after the surrender-because, if the door was opened to such prosecutions, it would work both ways and would involve many of our best citizens; hence the warrant in question was never executed. It was, nevertheless, an inex- cusable murder ; the parties charged are all now dead, and have been for several years. I could specify more particularly as to the policy of the State, and as to the offense and the parties charged, but these things are already known. The widow remained in the neighborhood for two or three years and disappeared-at least, so far as is known to the writer. A girl raised by the late Samuel Stevenson (called Bettie Steven- son), and who married a Mr. Dozier, son of the late Dr. T. J. Dozier, of Britton's Neck, was the daughter of Mr. Moore, the man murdered-whether by a former marriage or by the McLellan marriage, the writer knoweth not. Old Archie McLellan, the preacher and blacksmith, was a Scotchman, and, perhaps, related to the Mclellans, of Carmichael Township; he was an upright and just man.
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SINCLAIR .- Archie Sinclair was a resident of Harlleesville Township, above Little Rock; he came from Scotland, in 1820, and settled on the place where he lived and died; his youngest daughter, Mary, now owning and living on his old homestead, and one of his grand-sons, A. M. McColl, living with her. (A. M. McColl died a few days ago, unmarried). He married, in Scotland, Catharine McGilvray, and they raised five sons and three daughters. The eldest son, John C., was born in Scot- land, and when he attained manhood here, was married to the Widow Jennette McLucas ; he died in 1852. Duncan removed to Georgia, and married and died there, leaving a family of grown-up children. Captain Daniel C. was the third son; he served throughout the war in cavalry ; was one of the best farm- ers in the county, and a pioneer in the development of the now famous Contrary Swamp section of Carmichael Township; he accumulated by his farming operations a handsome property ; he never married, and died in 1882. The fourth son, Captain A. C. Sinclair, has already been mentioned in or among the Blue family. The fifth son, Malcolm, was a soldier in the Confeder- ate army, in Fairlee's company, Orr's Rifles, and died in the hospital in Charlottesville, Va. His eldest daughter, Nancy, married John L. McCall, Esq., of Marlborough, and they had a large family. Colonel C. S. McCall, of Bennettsville, is the eld- est ; he is one of the most successful men in the Pee Dee section of the State; conducts the largest mercantile business in this section, and owns several large plantations in Marlborough, which he, with his next oldest brother, T. Dickson McColl, manage very successfully ; he has been, since 1876, three times elected State Senator from Marlborough, and on account of his manifold business connections, declined further service in the Senate; he has been frequently mentioned and solicited to become Governor of the State; he has never married. His other brothers, J. G. B. McColl and A. M. McColl (both now dead), own and successfully conduct the famous "Contrary Swamp" plantation, formerly owned by their uncle, Captain D. C. Sinclair; neither of them have ever married. The youngest son, John, is blind, but is a remarkably bright young man and a fine musician ; he and his mother live near Bennetts- ville. Since the death of Squire McCall, their eldest daughter
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married John A. Pate, and they live in Bamberg, S. C. The second daughter, Pocahontas, married a Mr. Roper, and lives in Williamsburg County. The third daughter, Kate, married Hon. H. H. Newton, and lives in Bennettsville. The youngest daughter, Sallie, married Joe Edens, and lives near Clio, S. C. The second daughter of old Archie Sinclair, Sallie, never married, and died in 1869. The youngest daughter, Mary Sinclair, as elsewhere herein mentioned, never married, and lives on the old Archie Sinclair homestead. There are but few of this family, but what there are of them seem to prosper in everything except in the matrimonial field-they don't marry much.
MCDUFFIE .- Alexander McDuffie, with his brothers, Dun- can, George and Daniel, were the sons of Archie McDuffie, who came from Scotland, and settled on the Raft Swamp, in North Carolina, and died there, his sons and two daughters removing to this county after his death. Alexander, the eldest, settling on what is now known as the old "McDuffie place," on Little Pee Dee, where the Rev. J. H. Moody now lives; he married Jennette McQueen, and had seven sons and two daughters. Mary, the eldest daughter, married Daniel Fore, on Spring Branch, who has already been noticed in or among the Fore family. The eldest daughter of Daniel and Mary Fore married Douglas McIntyre, who has already been mentioned in or among the McIntyres. Margaret, the other daughter of Alex- ander McDuffie, married Edward D. Carmichael, a son of "Hatter John," and had one child, a daughter, also named Mar- garet, and she lives with her aunts, Nancy and Katie Carmi- chael, on the old homestead of "Hatter John" Carmichael. Hon. A. Q. McDuffie was the oldest son, he was a lawyer, a graduate of Davidson College, and before he read law taught school for several years. The writer went to school to him at Pine Hill Academy, during the year 1844. He settled and lived and died at Marion Court House, and was for a long time the partner of General W. W. Harllee, and in their day had the finest practice of any firm at that bar; he married the widow of Dr. James R. McQueen, who was the daughter of Captain Singletary, one of the old landmarks of Marion; by this mar-
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riage three children were born, a son, named Alexander, who died when two or three years old, and two daughters, Lizzie and Jennie; both are yet living, and unmarried. Lizzie, the eldest, is or was the finest female scholar in her day in the town of Marion; she graduated at Due West Female College in one year after matriculation, and was then elected one of its professors ; she accepted the position and held it for one year, and on account of her failing health, resigned and came home. Jennette was also well educated, and after their father's death, 3Ist March, 1889, they both engaged in teaching, which they continued at intervals till after their mother's death; they own a plantation in Woodberry Township; don't think they reside on it, but rent it out ; when last heard of, they were in Hampton or Colleton County, both teaching school; they are unmarried. "A. Q." McDuffie, as he was familiarly called by everybody, was for eight or ten years before his being stricken with paraly- sis, and of which he died, after living two or three years, Master in Equity for Marion County. Just after the war, in 1866, under Andrew Johnson's proclamation, during Gover- nor B. F. Perry's administration of the State government, at one election held throughout the State for Senators and Rep- resentatives in the Legislature, "A. Q." McDuffie was elected Senator for or from Marion District, and served one session of the Legislature-which election and all the legislation of that session of the Legislature was made void by the Reconstruc- tion Acts of Congress-his senatorship was vacated or set aside. "A. Q." McDuffie, being a very diffident man, was not an effective public speaker, but he was a good office lawyer and a safe adviser. Neill McDuffie was the second son of Alexan- der ; he is the oldest citizen now living in Carmichael Township, now nearing eighty-three, but is hale and healthy, and remark- ably active for a man of his age; he was too old for active service in the war, but he volunteered and was a Lieutenant in the reserves, and saw much service about Georgetown and Charleston, S. C., and Savannah, Ga. He married, in early life, Mary Ann, the oldest daughter of Dougald B. Carmichael, and they have raised six sons and six daughters; the sons are Alexander, Dallas, George, John, Daniel and Dougald. George and John are dead, all the others are living with their
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father and mother. Dougald, being a skillful first class me- chanic, is much of his time away. The other three are indus- trious, persevering young men, and are farmers; they run a store of general merchandise at Hamer, in connection with their farming operations; they are all unmarried. The six daughters are Katie, Nancy, Flora, Margaret, Martha and Sallie. Margaret married Neill Duncan McEachern; they- have four daughters, all nearly grown, and live at McColl, S. C. Sallie died when about grown; the other four are unmar- ried, and live with their father. Of the next sons of old Alexander McDuffie, John and George, the latter a physician, went West, and both are dead; neither of them were married. Alexander, the next son, died at his home, when about grown. Daniel, the next one, was a brave and gallant soldier in Captain A. T. Harllee's company of the Eighth South Carolina Regi- ment ; he was Second Sergeant of the company; he was mor- tally wounded 2d July, 1863, at the battle of Gettysburg, and died the next morning. Duncan McDuffie was the youngest son of old Alexander, graduated at Oglethorpe College, in Georgia ; he is a Presbyterian preacher, and now lives in Flo- rence County, S. C., and has been School Commissioner of that county ; he married Margaret Clark, a daughter of Malcolm Clark, and they raised a family of four sons and two daugh- ters, all grown; his first wife died, and he has married again in Florence County. Alexander McDuffie had two sisters, who lived with him. The eldest, Margaret, married John Murphy, and had three sons, viz : Archie, Edward J. and Malcolm. The two latter died while young. Edward J. Murphy was a grad- uate of some college in Virginia, and was a young man of more than ordinary ability and promise. Archie Murphy married Nancy Carmichael, daughter of Duncan Carmichael, and sister of Dugald B .; he was a hatter by trade, and settled on Little Pee Dee, Enos Moody now owning the place and living upon it ; he died there; they had three sons, John, Duncan and Dr. Neill C. Murphy-all of them were in the Confederate army ; John was in Captain W. D. Carmichael's company of the Eighth Regiment; Duncan was Second Lieutenant in Captain Stafford's company, and was killed in battle in Virginia; Dr. Neill C. Murphy was Assistant Surgeon of the Tenth Regi-
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ment. Dr. Murphy married, since the war, Mary, the daugh- ter of the late George W. Reaves, and he lived and died at Marion Court House, 4th September, 1886; his widow survives him and lives at his old home, near Marion; they raised three sons and two daughters. The elder daughter married a Mr. McMillan, and, I think, they live in Clarendon County. Ed- ward Murphy, one of the sons, is a popular teacher of the county. Nancy, the other sister of old Alexander McDuffie, married Malcolm Carmichael, and removed to Alabama soon after their marriage; they raised a large family of children, many of them wealthy and prominent citizens of that State, one of them having been a Judge of the Courts there. Duncan McDuffie, brother of old Alexander, married Mary Carmichael, sister of Sheriff Archie and "Hatter" John ; they had four sons, viz: Archie B., who never married, was a prominent commis- sion merchant in Wilmington, N. C., and is now dead. Neill C. was Sheriff of the county before the war, and without dis- paraging other Sheriffs, will say he was one of the best Sheriffs Marion has ever had. He raised a company as Captain and went into the Twenty-third Regiment, and served through the war. In January, 1865, was again elected Sheriff, and after a protest against his election was decided in his favor, he went into the office again in April, 1865; he held the office for two years, when he resigned. The office was not worth much at that time, under bayonet rule; his reasons for resigning, as he told the writer, were, that if he held on, he would have to hurt his sureties or let his family suffer, hence the resignation. He married, first, Miss Lizzie Ford, daughter of Elias B. Ford, and after her death he married her sister, Miss Fannie; he raised a family of children, sons and daughters. One of the daughters married Prof. Kenedy, of Clinton, S. C. Another married Dr. William A. Oliver, who was a few years ago a Representative in the Legislature from Marion County, a fine physician and a good farmer; he was the pioneer in tobacco culture in Hillsboro Township; he is now dead. Another of Neill C.'s daughters married Shepherd Oliver, of Robeson County, N. C., and he has several times represented his county in the Legislature of that State. Another of his daughters married Johnson Gilchrist; they live at Gilchrist Bridge, on
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Little Pee Dee; they have some children. Another daughter, Madge, married a Mr. Herring, of North Carolina. Of N. C. McDuffie's sons, one, Julius, is a Baptist preacher in North Carolina. Another son, D. K. McDuffie, who lives at Mullins, an excellent man every way, and successful business man at that place, married Miss Maggie Haselden, daughter of the late Cyrus B. Haselden; they have two children, a daughter and a son, not grown. Two other sons of Neill C., twins, Watson and Ellerbe,* have removed elsewhere- think they are both married. And still another son, the youngest, named for his father, Neill C., is also married, and lives in Williamsburg County, S. C. Duncan D. McDuffie, the third son of Duncan, his father, married Miss Penelope Ford, another daughter of Elias B. Ford, and is now living on his father's old homestead, in the "Fork," between Buck Swamp and Little Pee Dee; he has raised a family of several children. One son, Duncan, in El Paso, Tex. Another son, name not remembered-Jasper, I believe-died a young man. Another son, Emerson, the leading machinist in this part of the State, and owning and running an iron foundry and machine works at Marion. Dun- can D. McDuffie served throughout the war, and was a Lieu- tenant in the Tenth South Carolina Regiment, in Manigault's Brigade, of the Western army. D. D. McDuffie is one of our best citizens and a leading man in his neighborhood; he has some daughters, to the writer unknown; think he has educated his daughters well. George Alexander, another son of Dun- can, moved to Horry County, and married a Miss Alford there, but moved back to the old homestead and died there. Nancy, the only daughter of Duncan, married Isham H. Watson, who was once the Coroner of the county and a good citizen; he and his first wife are both dead-she died of small-pox, 16th Janu- ary, 1864; he married again, Miss Mary Nichols, who has no children; he had two sons, George Elmore and Duncan J. Watson, and one daughter, now the wife of J. D. Montgomery. These have already been mentioned in or among the Watson family. George, the third brother of old Alexander, died
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