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Darlington, and began the practice of his profession at Marion Court House. He volunteered for service in the Florida War with the Indians, and commanded a battalion from South Caro- lina in that war; he was Brigadier and Major General of the militia long before the war. He represented his county in the Legislature twice before the war, and since the war was elected Senator, and served one term, and while Senator was elected President pro tem. of the Senate; he was President of the Wil- mington and Manchester Railroad for five years, from its organization to its completion ; it was due to his untiring efforts that the road was built; he was delegate to the Secession Con- vention of the State, in 1860, and was Lieutenant-Governor at the beginning of the war; he was the commander of the "Harllee Legion," that was stationed near Georgetown. When a young man, he married Miss Martha Shakelford, of Charleston ; they raised three sons and three daughters. Ed- ward Porcher, his eldest son, was a brilliant young man; he was a gallant officer on the staff of Generals Kershaw and Ken- nedy. He was admitted to the bar, but preferred journalism to law, and until a short time before his death was on the edito- rial staff of the New Orleans Picayune; he fell a victim to overwork, had softening of the brain as a result, and died, unmarried, in the prime of life. Charles Stuart, the second son of General Harllee, was also in the army, and did gallant ser- vice. He removed to Texas after the war ; married there and. died, leaving three children, who, with their mother, live in Texas now. James, the youngest son, also went to Texas, married, and is living there now. Florence and Lizzie, the two oldest daughters, have never married; they are teachers, and live at Florence, with their mother; the city was named for the eldest daughter, Florence, it having been esatblished at the time of the building of the Wilmington and Manchester Rail- road, of which her father was then President. The third and youngest daughter, Mattie, married Frank Coachman, of Georgetown, and they have a large family of children, who live with their father, at Plantersville, S. C., since the death of their mother. Their eldest daughter, Helen, married Mr. LaBruce, a large rice planter of that section. The three daughters of Thomas Harllee, Sr., were Annie, Elizabeth and
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Harriet. Annie married John McNeill, and settled on the east side of Little Pee Dee River, on Hays Swamp, but they soon moved to Wilcox County, Ala .; they raised a large family of children, some of whom are now prominent in their State. Mrs. McNeill lived to be eighty years of age. Elizabeth, the next oldest, married Parker Bethea, and they lived and died near where they first settled, near what is now called Mineral Springs; they raised two sons and four daughters. Their eldest son, Harllee, married Elizabeth Roberts, a daughter of Reddin Roberts, on Buck Swamp; they moved to Florida, and died there. One of their daughters married her first cousin, W. D. B. Hays, a good citizen and farmer; they live on Buck Swamp. The other children live in Florida. Benjamin Parker Bethea, their youngest son, was an officer from the be- ginning to the end of the war, and was a gallant and brave soldier. After the war, he married a Miss Woolvin, of Pender County, N. C., below Wilmington, to which place he removed and now resides, and is a successful farmer ; his products are principally peanuts; he has a family of group-up children. The eldest daughter of Parker Bethea and wife, Elizabeth, married a Mr. Henderson, of North Carolina, and they had one son, Robert, who was a good soldier; he and his mother are both dead. The second daughter, Harriet, married Jesse Rogers, and both of them are dead. Their sons, David S. and Albert, are successful farmers of the county. The third daughter, Laura, married, late in life, Mr. Thompson Allen, of Marlborough County ; and the youngest daughter, Maria, mar- ried a Mr. Harris, and they moved to North Carolina. Har- riet, the youngest daughter of Thomas Harllee, Sr., married George I. W. McCall, of Darlington, and they raised a family of three daughters. Hannah Jane, the youngest, has never married. Rebecca and Caroline both married gentlemen by the name of Saunders, of Sumter County, and they have numerous descendants living in Sumter and Darlington Counties, many of whom are prominent in business and social circles in those counties.
The foregoing notice of the Harllee family was furnished to the writer by Captain A. T. Harllee, which has been copied herein, in extenso verbatim et liberatim, except in a few in-
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stances in the phraseology has been changed, and a few omis- sions and additions made, at the expense of space. It is a history of which the family may be proud as also the county.
WOODBERRY .- Two brothers, Richard and Jonah Wood- berry, came to Britton's Neck from Socastee, in the early part of the eighteenth century ; where they came from to Socastee is not known, but it is supposed they came from Wales or else- where in England. Richard Woodberry settled in what is now called Woodberry Township, and married Miss Lizzie Balloone, on Black River; they raised two sons, Richard and William. Richard Woodberry, Jr., married Miss Desda Davis, and they had and raised two sons and two daughters; the sons were John and George W .; the daughters were Mrs. Benjamin Gause and Mrs. John Gause. The three daughters of old Richard, Sr., were Margaret, who married Dr. Thomas Britton; she died childless; another daughter, Fannie married Samuel Wilson, and she died childless; another daughter (name not known), married Rev. Jeremiah Norman, of North Carolina; they had and raised Mrs. John Woodberry (first wife), Mrs. James Jenkins and Samuel Norman. The latter grew up and went to Horry, and married a Miss Beaty, sister of Colonel James Beaty, of Conway, who, before her death, in 1882, was universally called "Old Aunt Nor- man." She kept a public house ; was born in 1791-a remark- able woman ; she had and raised a family, mostly daughters, and one son, who was a doctor-his name not remembered; married and died some years ago. The husband of "Old Aunt Norman" died many years before she died; she was a hustler in business; kept a good house-the writer knows whereof he speaks. John Woodberry, son of Richard, Jr., married, first, his cousin, Miss Norman (Mary), and they had and raised sons, Franklin, William, Norman, Benjamin Gause; and daughters, Eloise and Martha; know nothing of any of these children, except Benjamin Gause Woodberry ; he is now in Britton's Neck ; he married, first, a widow lady ; she had one child, a daughter, who married a few years ago, and is among us now. Benjamin Gause Woodberry married, a second time, a Miss Brown, in Britton's Neck, and they live down there.
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John Woodberry married, a second time, Miss Ann Gregg, daughter of our late venerable R. J. Gregg ; she had two sons, John and Waddy ; I think Waddy is dead. John Woodberry, the son, married a niece of Mrs. Sturges, at Florence, and lives in Florence County ; he is a genial gentleman and has a good deal of the "get up" in him, which will count for him in days to come. George Washington Woodberry married a Miss Brown, sister of the late T. F. Brown, and had and raised three sons and three daughters; the sons are Travis Foster, James and Edward; the daughters are Dora, Mary and Julia. Julia went to school at Hofwyl Academy, in 1857-a charming girl, about grown ; she married some one; I have lost sight of her ; can trace the others no further. General William. Woodberry, the brother of Richard, Jr., a very noted and prominent man in his day, was born Ioth January, 1788, and died 31st January, 1851 ; he married, first, Miss Hannah Davis; they had four children, all dying quite young; his second wife was Miss Sarah Johnson, of Horry ; by this marriage four sons and four daughters were born, all of whom, except one daughter, mar- ried and raised families. General Woodberry's sons were Richard, William, Evander McIver and Joseph Alston. Rich- ard Woodberry, the third, married Miss Joanna Balloone ; had two children, both died in infancy. William married twice; had three children by the first wife and five by the last; his oldest son, Richard, 4th, married a Miss Britton; a daughter, Venetia, married a Mr. Pope; another daughter, Agnes, mar- ried a Mr. McIlveen ; William, a son, married a Miss Cannon ; another son, Benjamin Gause, married a Miss Hucks; another son, Harrison, also married a Miss Hucks; another, Joseph A., also married a Miss Hucks, and a daughter, Martha, married Arthur Hucks (the Hucks seemed to be popular with the Woodberrys) ; they all have families, about whom I know nothing. Evander McIver Woodberry married a Miss Scott; they had two children. Joseph A. also married a Miss Scott, and had three sons and two daughters. General Woodberry's oldest daughter, Elizabeth Ann, married William H. Johnson ; they had three sons and five daughters. Another daughter, Mary, married Rollen Kimball; they had two sons and one daughter. Margaret F., the youngest daughter, married the
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late Hugh R. Johnson, who lived and died near Nichols, S. C .; they had and raised five sons and two daughters ; the sons are Whiteford F., Richard Olin, Samuel A., William Woodberry and Edward Evander. Whiteford married Miss Ella Page, daughter of the Widow Pinckney C. Page, near Carmichael's Bridge, on Little Pee Dee; they have some children. White- ford is the only one of the five sons married. The daughters of Margaret F. are Sallie and Maggie May. Sallie married E. T. Huggins; they have considerable family, some grown. Maggie May married Thomas J. Capet, of Marlborough; they have a young family. General William Woodberry was a very popular man in his day; he filled several important positions of honor, profit and trust, and filled all with credit to himself and came out with unstained official integrity ; he was Briga- dier General of the militia, and was several times elected to the lower House of the Legislature; he was Sheriff of the county from April, 1833, to April, 1837; he was hospitable to a fault, kind-hearted and liberal, especially to the poor; he was full of wit and humor, and could tell a story with great zest ; a great hand to perpetrate a joke and to play innocent tricks on people. The writer has heard of many of them-one as to how he made the Methodist preacher bail the canoe with his fine beaver hat, as the General was putting him across the river; another, how he accidentally (purposely) turned over the canoe, in putting the venerable and reverend James Jenk- ins across the river, and luckily saved the old man from drowning ; another of his adventures with an old gobbler, when a boy, with a red coat on ; wherever he went he drew a crowd around him by his wit and humorous stories, which he could tell with the greatest glee, to the great amusement of the listen- ers ; with all his wit, humor and innocent frivolity, he was a man of great good sense; he was a man of wealth, and managed his farm and financial affairs with great success ; his home was ever crowded, and his table substantially supplied, and was free; he left no son his equal; his daughter, the youngest, Mrs. Margaret F. Johnson, approaches nearer to her father and in- herited more of his humorous fun, and perhaps more of his towering intellect, than any other of his children; and I don't mean, by thus saying, to disparage her other sisters, whom I
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have never seen, or any other member of the family. As already stated, the first Woodberrys in the county were Rich- ard and Jonah; as to Jonah, he disappeared or emigrated to other parts; nothing further is known of him or his posterity, if he had any. They had a sister, who married General Wade Hampton, of Revolutionary fame, the grand-father of our present General Hampton. The name Hampton will ever be remembered in South Carolina with grateful recollection and pride.
STACKHOUSE .- John Stackhouse, the progenitor of the Stackhouse family in the county, came here from Virginia, before the Revolutionary War; he married a widow, whose maiden name was Bethea, a sister of old Buck Swamp John Bethea; they had and raised two sons, John and William; don't know if there were any daughters. William, I believe, at any rate, one of them, emigrated to other parts; the other, John, remained in the county ; he was the grand-father of our fellow-citizen, T. F. Stackhouse; don't know to whom he married-he did marry, however, and had and raised five sons and one daughter; the sons were Herod, Isaac, John, Hugh and Tristram ; the daughter's name not remembered. Herod Stackhouse, a very public-spirited man, a good man and a suc- cessful farmer, married Miss Nancy Roper; they had and raised two sons, Lysias and Wesley, and one daughter, Mary Ann. Lysias married Miss Mary Gaddy, daughter of old Ithamer Gaddy, and who has been noticed in or among the Gaddy family. Wesley Stackhouse, the second son of Herod, was a most excellent man and citizen, a good business man, well qualified by education and training; married the Widow Lucretia Meekins, whose maiden name was Bethea, a sister of the late Samuel J. Bethea ; she had no children by her first marriage; by her marriage with Wesley Stackhouse, two daughters were born and raised, Martha and Nannie, and one son, Wesley, now of Dillon, S. C. His daughter, Martha, married Lieutenant William Manning, who was killed at the second battle of Manassas, 29th August, 1862; by him she had. one child, a daughter, who, I think, was born after her father's death, and was named for him, "Willie;" her mother soon after
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married her cousin, H. Milton Stackhouse, now of Marlbor- ough, and its late Senator in the State Legislature, and a first class man every way ; they have had and raised four sons and one daughter ; the sons are R. E. Stackhouse, now a first class preacher in the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church ; Wade, a first class physician, and is married to a Miss Steed, daughter of the late W. H. Steed, of upper Marion; George F., who is a Paymaster in the United States navy, in the Philippines, and who married Miss Texia Young, of Marion, S. C .; and another son, whose name is not known, and who, I presume, is yet with his parents, and one daughter (name not known), who married Mr. J. C. Dunbar, who is now a member of the Legislature from Marlborough County. Miss Willie Manning, the daughter by her first husband, was well educated in the best schools in the South, and a highly accomplished lady, is unmarried, and makes teaching a busi- ness, and is somewhere in the State following her vocation, and has been thus engaged ever since her graduation. Nan- nie, the second daughter of Wesley Stackhouse, married Knox Clark, late Clerk of the Court and County Treasurer-a man of nerve and force, and the power to say no, which many men cannot or do not say-a sober, progressive man; he died in the prime of life, in September, 1888, and left Nannie a widow, with some children, three sons and four daughters-the young- est not two years old. Nannie Clark, the widow, survived her husband only a few years; she died, and left all her child- ren unmarried, except Mrs. Brown. Wesley Stackhouse, the only son of his father, Wesley, grew up and married Miss Mollie Breeden, daughter of the late John A. Breeden; they live at Dillon, and have a family of seven or eight children, some of them grown. Unfortunately, Wesley's habits were not good; he dissipated a great deal, and did nothing for several years-spent his inheritance and came down pretty low ; but for the last eight or ten years he has abstained-is now and has been for that time a sober man, and is trying to rebuild his lost fortune, in which it is hoped he will succeed; he now has a heavy load to carry. He has a nice and very interesting family. His father died Christmas day, 1864. Mary Ann Stackhouse, the only daughter of old Herod, mar-
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ried Evander R. Bethea, a very successful farmer; they had and raised one son, Jasper, and three daughters, Josephine, Carrie and Nannie. The son grew up, and after some years went to Texas, where he married and where he now lives ; he has no children. The eldest daughter, Josephine, married her cousin, William B. Stackhouse, who was a very progressive man and farmer, and was at one time elected as County Com- missioner, and served one term very acceptably ; he died some years after, leaving Josephine and four or five children surviv- ing, mostly girls. The oldest, Miss Cora, is well educated, and is one of the teachers in the Latta Graded School. The widow is doing well on her fine farm. The second daughter, Carrie, married Joseph J. Bethea, who resides and merchan- dizes at Latta; he has also a good farm near by ; he is a very successful man in affairs; they have no children. The third daughter, Nannie, married Rev. Samuel J. Bethea, who is a regular itinerant Methodist preacher in the South Carolina Conference-stands fair ; they have but one child, a son, Sam- uel J. Isaac Stackhouse, the brother of old Herod, also mar- ried another daughter of old man John Roper, a sister of old Herod's wife; he, as well as old Herod, resided on his fine place, below Harlleesville, on Little Pee Dee, all his lifetime. This pair was more prolific than Herod and his wife; they had and raised six sons and one daughter ; the sons were Mas- ten C., Eli T., William R., Tristram F., Milton and Robert B .; the daughter's name not remembered. The oldest son, Mas- ten C. Stackhouse, married Mary Ann Rogers, a daughter of William Rogers. Masten C. Stackhouse was a very quiet man, a farmer, and managed well; they had and raised a con- siderable family of sons and daughters; the sons are Mark, John R., William B. and I. P. Stackhouse, as remembered ; one daughter, Janie, one Florence, and one Charlotte, the other name not known. Mark or Marcus was the first graduate of Wofford College from Marion County ; he graduated in 1871 ; he married Miss Mary Lester, an excellent woman, step- daughter of E. J. Moody ; they have three sons grown, named Walter, Edward and Robert, all unmarried. Don't know who John R. Stackhouse married; he lives and is doing business at Mullins. William B. married Josephine Bethea, and has
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already been mentioned. I. P. Stackhouse married his first cousin, a Miss Rogers, daughter of Philip B. Rogers; they have children, don't know how many; he lives near Moody's Mill, six miles above Marion-is a farmer, and one of the registers of voters in Marion County. One of the daughters, Janie, married Dempsy Lewis, in the "Fork," now of Mullins; he is an excellent manager of his farm, and is now also merchandizing at Mullins; they have ten children, eight of them boys and two girls-they have five grown children. One of the daughters of Masten C. Stackhouse married a Mr. Edens; another one married her first cousin, William Rogers; they live at Mullins; one married Fet Bethea; one married a Mr. Pipkin, in Marlborough, and one is unmarried; there may be others. E. T. Stackhouse, the second son of Isaac, was born 27th March, 1824; his birthday was the same as the writer's-six years younger ; he grew up and married Eliza- beth Ann Fore, a daughter of the late Thomas Fore; they raised three sons and five daughters. Of the sons, James Stackhouse is the oldest; he married a Miss McAlister, of North Carolina; they have a considerable family, sons and daughters-two sons grown. One, Lanneau, married Miss Mary Miles, daughter of Dr. D. F. Miles, Clerk of the Court ; they have some two or three children. The other grown son, Lacy, not married; other children small. James Stackhouse runs a livery stable (sale and feed) ; in early life he tried merchandizing and hotel business, but failed; he then went into the livery business, and has succeeded well-this business suits him ; he is emphatically a horseman ; he now represents the county in the State Senate. The second son, William Stackhouse, at Dillon, married a daughter of B. F. Davis, just below Marion; they have some children, don't know how many-they are small; he, too, is in the livery business, and seems to be doing well; he is a capital citizen, and will doubt- less succeed. The third and youngest son, Walter F. Stack- house, is a graduate of Wofford College, in the class of 1895; has studied law and is associated with W. J. Montgomery, his brother-in-law, in its practice, at Marion; he married, a few months ago, a lady of Greenwood, and lives at Marion ; he is United States Commissioner at Marion; a man of business,
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and is quite promising. Of the daughters of Colonel E. T. Stackhouse, the eldest, Mary, married James H. Berry, and has already been noticed among the Berrys. Another daughter, Mattie, married Houston Manning, and has already been noticed among the Mannings. Another, called "Duck" (though not her name), married Neill Alford, who has already been noticed in or among the Alfords. Another, Anna, mar- ried W. J. Montgomery, Esq., of Marion; they have several children, one or two grown-mostly girls. Mr. Montgom- ery graduated at Wofford College, in 1875; came home and studied law with General Harllee, was admitted to the bar and practiced some few years with that veteran of the law; they dissolved partnership, and Mr. Montgomery set up for him- self; he has succeeded admirably, has become a fine lawyer and made money ; is President of the Merchants and Farmers Savings Bank of Marion, and has been ever since its organiza- tion, ten or twelve years ago-the bank has prospered under his administration of its affairs; he has been Mayor of the town, Representative of the county in the Legislature, and also a delegate from the county to the Constitutional Convention of the State, in 1895; he is a man of affairs, and succeeds at all; deserves the more credit, as he was raised as poor as anybody. Much more might be said of him, but space will not allow it. Another and youngest daughter of Colonel Stackhouse, called "Pet" (not her real name), married T. C. Covington, his second wife; they have some children, small yet. Mr. Cov- ington is a high-minded, honorable gentleman, of fine address, and magnetic; he merchandized for a while, but did not suc- ceed well; is now farming in the "Free State" section-it remains to be seen how he will succeed in the farming role.
Colonel E. T. Stackhouse deserves more than a passing notice. He was raised on a farm and received only a common school education. After he was married, he settled on the place where he ever after lived; he was a farmer, a good and very successful one-farmed on the intensive system ; his farm was like a garden-all his house and farm arrangements were complete and adapted to comfort and convenience; his farm was a model one. When the war commenced, he raised a company of which he was made Captain; his company formed
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part of the Eighth South Carolina Regiment ; he went through the war to Appomattox, and came out Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment.' He was twice elected to the Legislature of the State. When the "Farmers Alliance" began to boom, Colonel Stackhouse went into it with all his might-it seemed to be in accord with his chosen occupation, and operated for the benefit of the farmer and its votaries. He became President of the State Alliance and held that position for one or two terms. Whatever may have been the purpose and intentions of the founders of the Alliance, it was popular and flourished for a time; but the politicians got hold of it and worked it for their benefit, made it a stepping-stone to office and killed it, much to the regret of those honest people who had gone into it to better their condition as farmers. Under its influence and auspices, Colonel Stackhouse became a candidate for Congress, in 1890, and was overwhelmingly elected ; he took his seat in that body, in December, 1891, and died suddenly, in Washing- ton, 14th June, 1892. Between the meeting of Congress, first Monday in December, 1891, and his death, in June following, his good wife died. The complete reversal of the habits of his life, together with his ambition to get into the routine of business as done in Congress, so as to be able to do something for his people, was too much for him, for one of his age- he being sixty-eight years old in March preceding his death. A young man may change or reverse his habits with impunity, but an old man dare not do it. It is highly probable that, if Colonel Stackhouse had remained at home on his farm, he might have been living to-day. He was a model citizen and a model farmer. William Roper Stackhouse, the third son of Isaac, died a few weeks ago, a retiring and unassuming man, a good farmer and successful man ; the married a Miss Stafford, daughter of Malcolm Stafford, and has already been noticed in or among the Stafford family. Tristram F. Stackhouse, the fourth son of Isaac, one of our very best citizens, married Miss Mary Ann Bethea, a daughter of the late old man, Cade Bethea; he settled on the place near where he was born, now near the town of Dillon; they had and raised three sons, Tris- tram Bascom, Adolphus and Lawrence. The oldest son, T. Bascom Stackhouse, is a graduate of Wofford College, in the
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