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*Ellerbe McDuffie was killed, by the blowing up of a steam saw mill recently in Williamsburg County, a prosperous young man. His remains were brought to Mullins and buried there, near his father.
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while a young man; he was a hatter by trade, and never mar- ried. Daniel, the youngest of the four brothers, married a Miss Blue, and they left a son, William. These have already been noticed in or among the Blue family.
CAMPBELL .- Edward Campbell was the first of the family of that name that settled north of Little Pee Dee. He came from Scotland with a family of children, and settled near where Hamer station, on the Florence Railroad, is located ; the land on which he lived is now owned by Neill McDuffie. He was a sturdy old Scotchman ; his wife was Mary McLellan, and others of her name and quite a colony came across the ocean with old Edward-some of them settling in Cumberland and Robeson Counties, N. C., others settled in Marion County, S. C. Old Edward, after living here many years, went West, and all his family went with him except his son, Duncan Campbell, who had married and settled on Little Pee Dee, where his son, Dan- iel, now lives. Duncan Campbell was another old settler on the east side of Little Pee Dee, south of Hayes Swamp; he came from Scotland with his father, Edward, and owned a large body of land; he married Margaret McEachern, and they raised a family of three sons and five daughters. Edward and Neill both died long before the war. Edward married Martha. J. Mccollum, daughter of Dougald McCollum, of North Caro- lina, and they had one child, Flora Margaret, who married George J. Bethea, of Buck Swamp, near Latta, where they now live, and have raised a large family of children. Neill Camp- bell never married. The youngest son, Daniel, is among the oldest and staunchest citizens of that community, and lives on the old homestead where he was born and raised, and where his father lived and died. It is a notable fact that may be here noted, that throughout Carmichael Township there are but four men who live upon and own the homesteads of their fathers, who were the original settlers of said homesteads, and who are owning and living upon the same, viz : Daniel Camp- bell, Malcolm C. Carmichael, Daniel M. Carmichael and Cap- tain A. T. Harllee, although much of the lands in the township are owned by and lived upon by the descendants of the original settlers. Daniel Campbell served throughout the war in the
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company of his nephew, Captain J. H. Stafford, and was a true and brave soldier, undergoing many hardships from which he is still a sufferer ; before the war, he married Eliza, the eldest daughter of "Hatter" John Carmichael (the name by which that old Scotchman loved to be called), and has raised a large family of sons and daughters, two of the latter being married to industrious and worthy citizens of North Carolina; the two youngest, with his two youngest sons, Neill Murdoch and Oscar, living with him; his two eldest sons, Duncan M. and John Edward, both died several years ago. Another son, Dan- iel Walker, married the eldest daughter of Joseph W. William- son ; they live near Kentyre Church, he being one of the Ruling Elders ; he is also an earnest Mason of the lodge at Dillon, also a Knight of Phythias of the lodge there, a School Trustee of the township, and a sturdy, staunch and progressive citizen. Another son, William Simeon, is largely engaged in the manu- facture and shipping of shingles to the northern markets; he, too, is a worthy young man and up-to-date citizen; he was quite recently married to Miss Sue Campbell, the youngest daughter of Hugh Campbell, formerly a citizen of Cumberland County, N. C., but for many years past a citizen of this county. Old Duncan Campbell raised five daughters. The eldest mar- ried Malcolm Stafford, as already noticed in or among the Stafford family. Another daughter, Mary, married Leonard Walters, and removed to Alabama, and raised a large family, her sons being among the wealthiest men about Montgomery, Ala. Christian, another daughter, married A. S. Buie, who, in his lifetime, was a peaceable, industrious and Christian gentleman ; they had three daughters. The eldest, Louisa, married Gilbert Butler; both are dead. The next, Margaret, married Calvin C. Carmichael, and are living. Nancy married Robert Monroe, of North Carolina; both are dead. Margaret, the youngest, died when about grown, from yellow fever, which she contracted from going with her father to Charleston, in the month of August, with a drove of sheep and turkeys; several of the negroes who went with him also contracted the disease, and some of them died ; Duncan Campbell himself took the fever and died also; he left a large estate unencumbered for his widow and children. There are other families of the
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name of Campbell in the township in no way related to each other. Duncan Campbell was the original settler in that region ; he was a unique character. It was told of him, that once he was drawn to serve on the jury at Marion, twenty-five miles away ; that on Sunday night, while at the supper table, he said to his wife that she must be up before day and get him breakfast before he started to Marion. He still sat at the table talking about the trip to Marion; that he must be there by 10 o'clock ; that he must have his breakfast early, and so forth ; at last he said to his wife, "Peggy," as he called her, "if you will get it, I will eat it now-it will be in me and I can get up and start when I please."
There are other families of Campbells in the county. Camp- bell is a very populous name. Such as I know and know of will now be mentioned. The family of the Campbells that formerly lived (and some of them may be there now), about Campbell's Bridge, were old Peter Campbell, who came from Scotland, about 1800, and settled on the east side of Little Pee Dee, near where Campbell's Bridge now is; don't know who his wife was; he had and raised six sons-Alexander, Archie, Duncan, James, Hugh and David-who are all long since dead. Alexander Campbell lived on the east side of Little Pee Dee; don't know who his wife was; he had one son, John J. Camp- bell, who married a daughter of John D. McRae, in Marl- borough; he disappeared or was lost sight of after the war; his father was a jolly old Scotchman, was a farmer, who had some property, but was not considered rich, yet he lived at his own home and had plenty to live on; he died many years ago- think John J. was his only child. Archie Campbell lived on the west side of the river, not far from Campbell's Bridge; he married a Miss Paul; he raised four sons, John P., Peter, Wil- liam P. and Alexander. John P. and one of his sisters, Sarah Ann, I believe, together with his brother, Peter, lived on the old homestead together before and during the war; neither of whom ever married, and all died since the war. Alexander married and had a family, and lived just below Campbell's Bridge; don't know who he married or how many children he had, nor what has become of them. William R., the most active and most prominent one of the sons of old Archie, mar-
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ried a sister of Wm. S. Campbell, who lived and died near Ebenezer Church and Temperance Hill; they had one son only, who died with typhoid fever, about 1855, after being down with it for four months, the only child. Wm. P. Campbell was Deputy Sheriff for Neill C. McDuffie during his term of office, from 1857 to 1861, and was very effective as Deputy, and was also very popular personally; he was elected, in Jan- uary, 1861, as successor to McDuffie. Under the then Con- stitution of the State (Constitution of 1790), a Sheriff was not re-eligible to election to a succeeding term of four years- hence McDuffie could not succeed himself. Wm. P. Campbell went into office, in April, 1861, just as the war was commenc- ing. It was a trying time to a Sheriff, but Campbell, never- theless, discharged his duty faithfully and satisfactorily until the fall of 1863, when he was killed, near the home of his birth, one night just after dark, and when he was actually in the discharge of a public duty, by the leader of a gang of Maple Swamp deserters. He was in his buggy, and there were two buggies along in a path that led through a thick woods, from one road to another ; two of the company were carrying a light before them or on each side (a very unwise act to have the light, as it enabled the assassin to pick his man, the Sheriff) ; when his buggy passed, the assassin stepped in the road behind him and shot him in the back; Campbell did not fall out of the vehicle, but he was dead, and his brother, Peter, got up into the buggy with him and held him therein till they got to the house, two or three hundred yards off. He had gotten an order, as Sheriff, from the authorities, either civil or military, to arrest those Maple Swamp deserters, so as to send them to the army; he obeyed the order, as he did all orders, and gathered some men to go with him up there to hunt for and to arrest them-don't remember who all the men were that were with him; Captain Samuel T. Page was one of them, and who yet lives and can tell about it, although in his eighty- third year. Thus an efficient officer and a good man was assassinated in the dark. The county was then without a Sheriff ; Isham H. Watson was then Coroner and by operation of law became Sheriff and conducted the office until the next general election for Sheriff came on, in January, 1865, when
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Neill C. McDuffie was again elected, and went into office, in April, 1865, as hereinbefore stated. Campbell's widow, child- less, went to her people, and died a few years after the war. There are many yet living who gratefully remember Wm. P. Campbell. In the early fifties, the Campbell brothers went into a mercantile business at Campbell's Bridge, under the firm name of A. Campbell & Co. The business was not successful, and they failed about 1855; it was managed mainly by Alex- ander ; they were harassed for a few years by creditors in the Courts, but managed some way to save their homes. Hugh Campbell, one of the six brothers, married Miss Absala Bethea, daughter of Buck Swamp William Bethea, and settled at and owned the land at Campbell's Bridge-the bridge was so called because the Campbells lived around it, and owned all the lands round about. Hugh Campbelll settled and lived and died where his grand-son, William Hugh Bree- den, with his mother, now lives ; he in a short while died, leav- ing his widow and one child, a daughter, Adaline. The widow continued to reside there, and raised her daughter; she also prospered and was well-to-do. Adaline married, about 1848, John A. Breeden, a native of Marlborough County, and first cousin of J. B. Breeden and his brothers, Joseph and others. John A. Breeden was in some respects a remarkable man, of very quick and acute perceptions ; his habits were not good, yet he managed well and kept his property; he lived on the place with his mother-in-law. till her death ; after which he remained there till his death, some fifteen or twenty years ago; he raised a family of three daughters and one son, William H. Breeden. The oldest daughter, Mollie, married Wesley Stackhouse; they have a considerable family, sons and daughters, some of whom are grown ; they live at Dillon. The second daughter, Jackey, married Frank Edens; they live in North Carolina, and have eight or ten children, some of them grown-a first class family and are well-to-do. The third daughter, Absala, named for her grand-mother, but called "Appey," married Faulk Floyd, of Robeson County, N. C., who was Sheriff of that county at the time of the marriage; they live in Robeson, and have only one child, a daughter, Pearl. The son, William H. Breeden, a capital citizen, married Miss Victoria Godbold, daughter of
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the late Asa Godbold, Jr .; they reside with his mother, Adaline, who yet lives, at the old homestead of Hugh Campbell, his grand-father. William H. Breeden has no children ; is a very quiet man and well informed on most subjects. The name Breeden is likely to become extinct in the county. James Campbell, son of old Peter, married in North Carolina, and moved to that State. Duncan Campbell, another son of old Peter, married and settled just above Campbell's Bridge, on the west side of the river; don't know who he married; he had and raised two children, a son, named Hugh, and a daughter, Mary Ann. Mary Ann married Hugh Dove, near Campbell's Bridge, and, I think, had two or three children; her husband, Hugh Dove, was killed, about 1855, by her brother, Hugh Campbell-a wilful and premeditated murder. Hugh Camp- bell fled from the country and has not been heard of since. David Campbell, another son of old Peter, married some lady in North Carolina, and went to that State and died there ; know nothing further of him.
Another family of Campbells to be next noticed are those living in the Ebenezer and Temperance Hill community. The first known of this family was William S. Campbell, who was one of our best and most respected citizens-unpretending, no display, but gave close attention to his business, and treated that of others with "masterly inactivity ;" he married,
and raised three daughters and two sons, John C. and Samuel. The eldest daughter, Flora, married Stephen L. Lane, who was killed in the last battle fought during the war, at Smithfield, in North Carolina; they had and raised a family of sons and daughters; the widow managed well after the death of her husband; took care of the property and perhaps added to it; she died some few years ago; she had a son, named William, and a daughter, that became the second wife of Mere- dith Watson. Another daughter married our fellow-citizen, now at Marion, W. J. B. Campbell, and who is merchandizing there ; she, perhaps, had other children, unknown to the writer. Another daughter of old Wm. S. Campbell, married John E. Perritt, whose family has already been noticed in or among the Perritt family. And still another, the third daughter, I think, her name was Mary, married David Perritt, a nephew of John
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E. Perritt; he died soon and left her a widow; don't know if she had any child or children. John C. Campbell, the older son, married Miss Amelia Tart, a daughter of old James Tart, who lived and died just above E. J. Moody's mill, now owned by Governor Ellerbe's estate. By this marriage nine sons were born and two daughters; the sons were Byron, Preston, Val- cour, Samuel, Frank, W. J. Beauregard, Thomas LeGrande and another whose name is not remembered. Of the sons, Valcour, Frank and Thomas are dead-died unmarried; Byron went to Texas; Preston married some one to the writer unknown; also the same of Samuel; W. J. Beauregard married his first cousin, the daughter of Stephen Lane and Flora, his wife, above mentioned. W. J. Beauregard Campbell owns the old homestead, or the greater part of it, situate just below Ebenezer Church, eight miles above Marion ; don't know if he has any children. LeGrande is yet single, and is also merchan- dising at Marion. Of the two daughters of John C. Campbell, Roberta and Romine, one of them died unmarried, but grown and very handsome; the other married Samuel Lane and lives near by. Samuel Campbell, the younger son of old William S., married, first, a Miss Fore, and has already been noticed in or among the Fore family ; she had one daughter, who married Herod W. Allen, and is dead. Samuel Campbell married, a second time, a Miss Hays, daughter of Levi H. Hays, and sister of W. B. Hays, of Hillsboro Township; by this marriage three daughters were born to them, names unknown. One married James Lane; they have some family, how much is not known. Another daughter married Thomas A. Lamb; they had four or five children, two or three years ago, when they left here and went to Florida, where they are now. The other daughter married some one and went off ; don't know what has become of her. Samuel Campbell's widow still survives, and is on the old homestead. John C. Campbell and his wife are both dead. Old William S. Campbell was no ordinary man ; quiet and unassuming, thought right and acted right; prudent and seldom made mistakes; neither of his sons were equal to him; he made a good property and transmitted it by will to his child- ren unencumbered.
There are other Campbells in the county, but the writer
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knows nothing about them. There is a family near Hamer, Hugh Campbell,; think he came from North Carolina; have been told that he has six sons and two daughters. The elder daughter married John B. McEachern, near Hamer, a very substantial man and a good farmer; they have one or two children. The younger daughter, Sue, a charming girl, has lately married William Simeon Campbell, a son of Daniel Campbell, who has already been mentioned herein. Hugh Campbell has six sons, but the writer knows only two of them by name-John, I think, the oldest, and James, perhaps, the youngest, who was recently telegraph operator and depot agent at Sellers, on the Florence Railroad, for some time, now at Elrod, on the same road.
BUTLER .- The Butler family will next be noticed. They live on Hays Swamp and Little Pee Dee, and they are the de- scendants of old Isham Butler, who was one of the first settlers of that region of the county ; he was the father of Stephen and Isham Butler of later times, and had six daughters. Annie, the oldest, never married, but lived and died at the homestead of her brother, Isham. Laney married her cousin, Dempsy Butler, and they have one son, Alfred W. Butler, who has a large family of grown-up children, and lives on the plantation formerly owned by Neill McDuffie, near Stafford's Bridge. Patience, the third daughter, married Green Watson, and moved to Alabama. Polly married Stephen Moody, and moved to Tennessee. Zilla married Reuben Paul, and he and she both died before the war, without issue. The youngest, Susan, died unmarried, when about eighteen years old. Ste- phen Butler was the oldest son of old Isham, and he and his brother, Isham, lived near each other ; J. W. Dillon & Son own the old homestead of Isham, and R. P. Hamer, Jr., a part of that of Stephen, which was sold a few years ago for division ; the descendants of Stephen live on the other parts of his old homestead. Stephen Butler married Katie McEachern, and had three sons, Gilbert, Silas and Thomas, all of them good soldiers-Gilbert and Thomas in Captain Stafford's company, and Silas in Captain W. D. Carmichael's company, Eighth Regiment. Silas came home on sick furlough, and died in one
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week after reaching home. Gilbert married, first, before the war, Louisa, the eldest daughter of A. S. Buie; they are both dead, and left three children, all grown. The youngest daugh- ter is a deaf-mute, but was well educated at the Cedar Springs Institute, and is a young woman of remarkable intelligence; she lives with her brother, in North Carolina. Thomas Butler, the youngest son, married Mary, the daughter of Cade B. Rogers ; both of them are dead, but left a family of four daugh- ters and two sons, who are living on a portion of the old Stephen Butler homestead. Of the four daughters of Stephen Butler, the eldest, Jennie, married William Blue, before the war; he was killed in battle in Virginia, in Captain Stafford's company, and his widow survives and lives at McColl, S. C. Clarissa, the next oldest daughter, married Allen Stephens, and both of them are dead, but their sons, Stephen, Gilbert, Allen, Preston and Silas, are all living near each other, in the Bermuda section of Carmichael Township, and are amongst the foremost citizens of their section; all of them married and are raising large families of children, and all of them progres- sive farmers and first class citizens. Charity, the third daugh- ter, married Washington W. Norman, generally known as "Colonel Norman," by reason of his being the best fisherman on Little Pee Dee, and is one of the sturdy citizens of the section ; they live on a portion of the old Stephen Butler home- stead ; they have three grown daughters living with them ; they had two sons, but both were drowned in Little Pee Dee, while bathing near their home, several years ago-one of them nine and the other eleven years old. "Colonel Norman" is a good farmer, and a kind and hospitable citizen. Miss Flora A. But- ler was another daughter, older than Charity, and owned and lived and died a few years ago, on the old homestead, where her father lived and died. Isham Butler, the brother of Stephen, had but one child, a daughter, Mary, who married Nathan McCormick, her cousin, and he was a gallant soldier of Fairlee's company, in the war ; both of them are living, and have six sons and three daughters, all of them grown. Nathan Butler, son of old Isham, was another of the first settlers; he had four sons. Dempsy, the eldest, married his cousin, Laney ; Solomon married Polly Brasswell and had no children; Sam-
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uel married Milly Brasswell, and went to Georgia ; James, the youngest, married the Widow Jane Davis-all of them are dead. Laney, the wife of Dempsy, according to the census return of her son, Alfred, in 1890, was 110 years old ; she, too, is now dead. As to the age of Laney, as above, the writer has something to say. Dempsy Butler, her husband, was killed by a man by the name of McCormick, in 1859. I was a Magistrate at the time, and was sent for to hold an inquest ; I went and held it; it was right on the North Carolina State line, and as the line was shown to me by those present, the kill- ing was about five feet in South Carolina; he was killed by a stab with a knife, in the abdomen. Dempsy Butler, from ap- pearance(I had seen him often before he was killed), was about forty-five years of age; his wife, Laney, was also present, and would judge her to be younger, not older. According to this she could not have been, in 1890, more than seventy-five or seventy-six-there must be some mistake about her age, sure. Nathan also had five daughters. The eldest, Viney, married Benjamin Locke, and had a large family of children, one of whom is our good citizen, William Locke, who lives on a part of the old McDuffie homestead, on Little Pee Dee. Willie, a daughter, married John McCormick, who had several children, all of them dead but Charles, who lives at McColl, S. C., and Nathan, who still lives in that section. Sallie married Philip Rouse, and Ada married William Abbott. Geriah, the young- est, never married. All of them are dead, but have left numer- ous descendants living here and in the West. The writer knew Benjamin Locke back in the thirties ; he was the greatest rail- splitter he ever knew; have often said and now think he split rails enough to make a fence half around the county; he split rails for that whole section, and it mattered not how far he was from home at work in his chosen avocation, he would go home every night-he would brave any weather to get home; he was a hard working, honest and harmless man.
Recurring again to the Haseldens. The writer has learned that the progenitor of Major James Haselden and his brothers, John and William, was William Haselden ; he lived and owned the place where Dr. D. F. Miles now owns and farms ; he had, in addition to the sons already herein mentioned, four daugh-
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ters. The eldest married a Mr. Cox, who had only one child, a daughter, Sarah; her father and mother both died and left her; she was raised by some of her people, grew up, and mar- ried Asa Godbold, about 1828. His family and hers have already been noticed herein. Another daughter, Anne, I be- lieve, was her name, married, first, a Mr. Brown, of Marl- borough; he died in a short time; childless, and the widow married Cyrus Bacot, of Darlington County; they lived to- gether some years, and Bacot died, and left her with consid- erable property, and by her will (she had no children), she gave some of it, said to be $2,000, to her nephew, Cyrus Bacot Haselden, who was named for her husband-which has already been mentioned herein. The third daughter of old William Haselden married Stephen G. Godbold, who only raised one child, a daughter, who married Francis A. Miles; they had and raised three sons and two daughters, as already noticed herein. The fourth daughter of old William Haselden died or disappeared ; no account of her is obtainable. The Haseldens, as a family, seem to be short-lived, as has already been stated.
MOODY .- The Moody family will next be noticed. Robert Moody and Barfield Moody, two brothers, were only known to the writer as one branch of the family. Another branch of the family is headed by the Rev. Tapley Moody, and there is still another branch whose head in this county is not known to the writer ; James A. Moody, of Marion, belongs to this branch. These branches are all collaterally related to each other. All collateral relations have a common ancestor somewhere, either proximate or remote ; Robert Moody married Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith, Sr .; he lived and died just below Temperance Hill, on the road to Marion; she was a sister of Samuel, Jr., as he was called, back in the twenties, who lived and died on Buck Swamp; to this marriage were born several sons and daughters; the sons were Hugh, Richard, Salathiel and Charles; can't give the names of all the daughters-as remembered, they were Milly, Celia, Smithy, Evaline and another one or two-have just learned that one was named Mary. Hugh Moody married Miss and raised one son and several daughters. The son was named John
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