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class of 1880; he married a Miss Hamer, daughter of Robert P. Hamer, Sr., and settled near his father, between Harllees- ville and Dillon ; has a large farm there and is succeeding well thereon, although he gives it but little of his personal attention ; he is Cashier of the Bank of Dillon, which requires most of his time ; he is a first class business man every way- is up-to-date in almost every branch of commercial and financial life ; he has only one child, a daughter, I think. Adolphus Stackhouse, a younger brother, married Miss Lucy Thompson, a daughter of the late Lemuel S. Thompson ; they first settled near Harllees- ville, and after a few years he sold out and moved to Sumter County, know nothing as to their family-think he has been in the Legislature from Sumter and in the Constitutional Con- vention in 1895 ; it is said his wife is a most excellent lady, and the same may be said of him as a man. Lawrence, the young- est son of T. F. Stackhouse, is unmarried-unfortunately he is afflicted with epilepsy ; everything possible has been done for him, but to no avail; suppose he is twenty-four or twenty-five years old, lives with his father. T. F. Stackhouse lost his wife some years ago; he has not remarried; his niece and her hus- band, Masten Gasque, with their family, live with him and keep house for him and also runs his farm. T. F. Stackhouse is a modest, unassuming man and a capital citizen ; he has a large and splendid farm, and is well fixed for living; he has been twice consecutively elected to the lower House of the General Assembly, and is now serving a second term-a man of good judgment and fine sense. If our county was filled up with such men there would be little use for courts or lawyers. H. Milton Stackhouse, the fifth son of Isaac, has already been incidentally mentioned above with his wife, who was a daughter of Wesley Stackhouse, of the Herod branch of the family. Robert B., the sixth son of Isaac, was a promising young man ; sickened and died soon after coming out of the war-a young man of promise. Hugh Stackhouse, a younger brother of old Herod and Isaac, was drowned in Little Pee Dee River, about 1837 or 1838; was unmarried-a young man. The circumstances were these: there had been a tremendous freshet in Little Pee Dee, and it floated the planks off each end of Stafford's Bridge, and as soon as the freshet went down
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low enough, A. Q. McDuffie, who lived near by, and then a young man, together with Hugh Stackhouse, and a negro man, took a canoe and went down the river hunting up the planks, so as to bring them back and put them on the bridge again; in going down the river, their canoe struck or got into a whirl in the river, which (the river being very full) was strong, so much so as to turn the canoe over. McDuffie was a good swimmer; Stackhouse could swim but little, and the negro could not swim at all. Stackhouse soon sank; McDuffie, seeing it, managed to sustain himself in the whirl, till Stack- house rose to the top, when McDuffie made for him and canght hold of him; Stackhouse, like all drowning men, had no sense, tried to cling around McDuffie's neck; the latter knew that would not do that both would be drowned together ; he tore loose from Stackhouse and the latter sank again. McDuf- fie waited till he rose the second time, and caught him again, with the same result as at first. McDuffie freed himself from him, Stackhouse sank again, and he was seen no more. The negro, who could not swim at all, managed to get hold of an overhanging bough of a tree and saved himself. McDuffie, several times in his life, told this to the writer; said he could have saved Stackhouse, if he could have gotten him to have acted otherwise; said he hollered to Stackhouse with all his might, not to cling around his neck, but Stackhouse would not heed him, hence he tore loose from him and saved himself. The question was, shall both drown or only Stackhouse?
The Stackhouse family is extensive and numerous in itself and its connections ; yet there are as few "dead-beats" in it as, perhaps, in any family in the county. They are self-sustaining, all bread-winners. Old Herod and old Isaac were working men and had right ideas of life, and, above all, were God- fearing men-did all they could for the church and the cause of their Maker. From the twenties to the forties, inclusive, there were annually camp meetings at or near Harlleesville, and they two were among the strongest advocates and supporters of those meetings, and their daily life and intercourse with their neighbors showed the same spirit and was in strict accord with their professions. It reminds the writer of the language of the Psalmist, David, where he said, "I was young, but now
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I am old, yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." Of the two brothers of Herod and Isaac, to wit : John and Tristram, John either died or went else- where; Tristram Stackhouse became a Methodist preacher of the South Carolina Conference in 1830, a young single man, and died on Cypress Circuit, Colleton County or Orangeburg, in 1831.
WAYNE .- This family, though the name is now extinct in Marion County, yet its descendants are numerous, and its connection extensive-hence it is now herein noticed. Francis Asbury Wayne, the first one known in this county (born in 1787 and died in 1870), was the second son of William Wayne, who was a first cousin of General Anthony Wayne, was brought up with the General in the latter's family. William was a brave Revolutionary soldier, and after the war (Revo- lutionary), moved to Georgetown S. C., where he lived and died, about 1820. It is recorded in Asbury's journal (which I have not now before me), that William Wayne was the only Methodist at Georgetown, when the Bishop first visited that place. He married Esther Trezevant (a Huguenot), and I suppose a sister of Judge Lewis Trezevant, who was elected a Judge, Ioth February, 1800, and died 15th February, 1808 (vol. I., Statutes at Large, page 439), and both he and his wife were buried under the Methodist Church at Georgetown, S. C .- a wide marble slab now covering both their graves. Other children of William Wayne were progenitors of Mrs. Eleanor Gregg, widow of the late Wesley W. Gregg, of Marion, the Mellichamps, of Sumter, a family of Elliotts and Daniel G. Wayne, and the Von Kolnitzs, of Charleston. Francis As- bury Wayne came to this county from Georgetown, and mar- ried, first, the widow of old Nathan Evans and mother of the late General William Evans; she was a sister of the late Wil- liam Rogers, of Dothan; the fruit of this marriage was an only daughter, Martha, who married Alexander Murdoch, of Marl- borough, and became the mother of the two wives of Robert Charles McIntyre, which has already been noticed in or among the McIntyres, and of two sons, John and Kenneth, both of whom died young and unmarried. The first wife dying, F.
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A. Wayne married, a second time, Miss Elizabeth Marjory Legette, daughter of Jessee Legette, Sr., a sister of Captain David Legette, Jessee, Jr., and Ebenezer, and of Mrs. Ann Snow and Jane Legette; there was another sister, Theresa Ann, who married a Palmer. By this marriage they had and raised six daughters and three sons. Of the daughters, the eldest, Jane Trezevant, married Jeremiah Sessions, of Horry ; they had and raised two sons. Lawrence Trezevant, who mar- ried a Miss Smith, daughter of the late William H. Smith, by his first wife, Miss Helen Bass, and by this marriage were born six or seven children, sons and daughters. This wife died, and he married again, I think, a Miss Campbell. Of the children. of Lawrence T. Sessions, the writer does not know their names, though some of them are young men grown, except the youngest, Clyde, who was an infant when his mother died, and he was taken and raised by his cousin, J. J. Bethea, of Latta; he is now nearly grown. Laurens Trezevant Sessions is a cap- ital man, good citizen and a good farmer. The other son was Percy Sessions, who became a dental surgeon, and settled in Williamsburg County. Caroline Anna Wayne, the next oldest daughter, married the late John Wilcox, of Marion; she had two children for him, John and George-don't know which was the older; she died, and afterwards her son, George, died. John Wilcox, now of Marion, is her only surviving child; he married Miss Leila Smith, daughter of the late J. Albert Smith ; they have four or five children, all boys. John Wilcox is one of the most efficient business men we have; he has been well trained, first as clerk for the Sheriff, I think, about eleven years; then as Sheriff of the county for two years; then as Deputy Clerk of the Court for two years ; then as Clerk of the Court for ten years. In all these varied positions he acquitted himself with credit, and to the entire satisfaction of his people; in each and all these places of trust he maintained the utmost official integrity, and when he was beaten, in 1892, for re-elec- tion to the Clerk's office, it was not because of any charges made against his competency or official integrity, but solely because he would not, or did not, wear the badge of Tillman- ism; fortunately for the county, the people got another good man in his place in the person of our present efficient and
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gentlemanly Clerk, Dr. D. F. Miles. The next daughter of old man Wayne, Elizabeth, married Wyatt Fuller; by this mar- riage three children were born-two sons, Frank and George, and one daughter ; Fuller and his wife are both dead. Of the sons, Frank was merchandizing in Florence, the last the writer knew of him; he married a Miss Collins. George Fuller either went off or died-disappeared as to the writer. The daughter, Sallie Fuller, married Daniel J. Oliver, now of Marion, Magistrate and merchant; they have several children. The eldest, a son, L. Wyatt Oliver, married Miss Alice Jones, daughter of the late Fred. D. Jones, of Marion ; he runs a farm and some mercantile business; think they have one or two children. The eldest daughter of D. J. Oliver and wife, Mary, married Quincy Berry, and lives near Berry's Cross Roads ; they have no child. There are four Mary Berrys in the Cross Roads community, and they are distinguished from each other by the names, "Mary Elihu," "Mary Burke," "Mary Neill" and "Mary Quince." D. J. Oliver has another son grown and married, whose name is not remembered, and other younger children. The next daughter, Sarah Wayne, married Dr. O. J. Bond; they had several children, sons and daughters; they removed to Chester County some years ago think both are dead; their sons were Bernard, James and Harper Bond. Of these, James graduated in the Citadel Academy some years ago, and stood so well that he was elected one of its profes- sors-suppose he is there yet. Of the others, the writer knows nothing. The next daughter of old man Wayne was Catha- rine Maria, who married Rev. Osgood A. Chreitzberg ; he died childless; she went West, perhaps to Florida, and married some one, know not whom. Mary Adelaide, the youngest daughter of old man Wayne, first married her first cousin, Dr. Armand C. Legette, who afterwards became a Methodist preacher of the South Carolina Conference; he traveled here a few years and was transferred to the Florida Conference, where he died in a short time, and his widow married another minister, named Younge; he died, and she has recently married another preacher of the same Florida Conference, whose name is not known; how many children, if any, she has, is not known. The writer can say this of her : when she was a single lady, she
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was the most elastic and agile untrained woman he ever saw ; she could walk along by the side of a horse of ordinary height, and lay her hand upon his withers and spring from the ground into the saddle-he saw her perform this feat once, and it seems she is expert in catching Methodist preachers. Of the sons of old man F. A. Wayne, Gabriel I., the eldest, married, first, a Widow Britt; by the marriage was born and raised one child, a daughter, Julia, who married, first, George C. Bethea ; they lived together several years, when he died, childless ; the widow married again, a Methodist preacher, then belonging to the Florida Conference, by the name of Nathan Wiggins, but now of the South Carolina Conference; they have two children, as I am informed. Gabriel I. Wayne's first wife died, and he married a second time, and lives now in Florence County ; he is a farmer. The old gentleman, Francis Asbury Wayne, set- tled, lived and died near Marion Court House, near or on the place now owned by J. M. Johnson, Esq. Intellectually he was far above the ordinary ; he was in some respects an oddity- truthful and honest.
LEGETTE .- There were three old Legettes, of whom the writer has knowledge-David, Jesse and Abner Legette. Old David Legette married, I do not know to whom, but he had and raised three children, Colonel Levi Legette, Abner Legette, Jr., and Mrs. General Wheeler. Colonel Levi Legette married, first, a Miss Evans, sister of Thomas Evans, Sr., and half-sister of General William Evans; the fruits of this marriage were three or four sons and three daughters; don't know the names of all the sons or what has become of them. One son was named Morgan, who it was said was a very promising young man; he was very muscular and athletic; he volunteered early in the war and went into the Confederate service; during the war he was killed in some one of the battles in Virginia, or died from disease contracted in service. Another son, Levi, grew up and married some one, and may be in the county now, but is un- known; he may have had other sons. Colonel Levi Legette had and raised three daughters, Anna, Mary and Melvina. Anna married, first, Ebben Rogers, of the Dothan community ; he settled below Marion, and was killed in October, 1855, by a
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man named Harrelson, as already mentioned herein. By this marriage, two children were born, a son, named Ebben, and a daughter, name not remembered, and who is the wife of Addi- son J. Snipes, below Marion. Ebben went off to parts un- known. Snipes and wife have a family, how many is not known, and perhaps grand-children ; one of Snipes' daughters married A. P. Johnson, of Horry. The Widow Anna Rogers married again to Jessee Rogers, a first cousin of her first hus- band; no fruit of this marriage; both are dead. Mary, the second daughter of Colonel Legette, married Mr. Edward C. Collins ; they had and raised several sons and two daughters; don't know the names of either sons or daughters, except one son, Lawrence, who is clerk for the dispensary at Florence. One of the daughters married Frank Fuller; they reside in Florence. Think the other daughter is dead. Melvina, the youngest daughter, married William Loyd; they have a family, of how many is unknown; think they have two sons, names unknown; they live below Marion, and are said to be doing well. After the death of Colonel Legette's first wife, he mar- ried the widow of James P. McInnis, of upper Marion, whose maiden name was Althea Alford, a daughter of Lodwick B. Alford; they had no children; Colonel Legette died in 1871, at the age of seventy-six years; his widow still survives. Colonel Legette was a man of marked individuality-there was but one Levi Legette ; he was a good surveyor and did a great deal of work in that line; had a fair education for his day; was a farmer, and represented his county in the lower House of the Legislature for one term. Abner Legette, Jr., a brother of Colonel Levi, was one of nature's mens he was rough and outspoken, a man of great personal independence ; don't know of his family, if he had any ; have not seen him in many years- he has disappeared, by death or removal. The only daughter of old David Legette, Clara L., married General E. B. Whee- ler, as well known in his day as perhaps any man in the county ; he was Clerk of the Court for thirty years consecutively ; he died in 1859-he was no ordinary man; the fruit of the mar- riage was an only son, who became Dr. James Hamilton Whee- ler. He married Miss Sarah Jane Cherry, a daughter of Dr. Cherry, of Spring Branch; the fruits of the marriage were
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two sons, our present fellow-citizen, Ed. B. Wheeler, and Lis- ton C. Wheeler, of Marion. Their father died when his two sons were quite small; his widow, their mother, still survives, and lives at Marion ; she is a most amiable woman. The widow of General Wheeler died some years ago, leaving her money and little property to her two grand-sons, E. B. and Liston C. Wheeler, to whom she was passionately devoted in her latter days. Ed. B. Wheeler married Miss Effa Blue, daughter of the late Colonel John G. Blue, of Marion ; two or three children are the fruits of the marriage; they reside in Marion. Liston C. Wheeler married Miss Carrie Boyd, daughter of the late Rev. J. Marion Boyd, who some years ago was the Presiding Elder of this, the Marion District, and who thereafter died suddenly on the Spartanburg District, a very able preacher ; the fruit of this marriage is an only child, I believe, a son ; they reside in Marion.
Old Jesse Legette, Sr., had three sons, as known to the writer ; don't know who his wife was; the three sons were Jessee, Jr., Ebenezer and David; he also had four daughters, Elizabeth, Marjory, Ann, Jane and Theresa Anna. Of the sons of Jesse, Sr., Jesse and Ebenezer were Methodist preach- ers, traveling for several years; don't know to whom they mar- ried, but they did marry; and Ebenezer, after location in the Conference, settled in Marion, and merchandized for a while, when he died; Jesse, Jr., his brother, died also; know nothing of the family of either. Rev. David Legette (called Captain David), the next or third son in the order named, married a Miss Richardson, daughter of John Richardson ("King John") and sister of the late William F. Richardson, and set- tled on the place now known as Legette's Mill, ten or twelve miles below Marion, where he lived and died; the fruits of this marriage were two sons, Hannibal and Kossuth, and three daughters. Of the sons, the eldest, Hannibal, a very promis- ing young man, volunteered in the early part of the war and entered the Confederate service-I think he was a Lieuten- ant-and was killed or fatally wounded and died early in the war; he was a brave man, and his memory should be and doubtless is cherished by all who knew him. Kossuth Legette, the younger son, grew up and settled on part of his father's
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plantation, on the west side of the mill, on the road leading from Marion to Britton's Ferry, on Great Pee Dee; he married rather late in life a daughter of Allen Gibson; they are rais- ing a family-all young ; he is one of the progressive farmers of that section of the county, and is succeeding well-a quiet and law-abiding citizen. Of the daughters of Captain David Legette, the eldest, Amelia, married James Hamilton Evans, who died a few years ago, childless ; the widow lived at Marion since his death, and owns still a house and lot on Godbold street ; an orphan girl, Lizzie Bond, whom she raised, lately married a Mr. Douglas, of Fairfield County, and Mrs. Evans has gone with her into that county. A second daughter of Captain David Legette (name not known) married Rev. Wm. B. Baker, of the South Carolina Conference; they have a fam- ily, how many and their sex and size unknown. Rev. Baker is said to be a very good man and an effective preacher. The third daughter of Captain D. Legette married A. R. Oliver, now a member of the Board of Registration of Voters; he is a successful farmer and an excellent citizen; the fruits of the marriage are several sons and daughters ; don't know the names of all of them. His daughter, Eveline, married L. M. Gasque, of Marion; she died, leaving one child, and he married another one, Lizzie, who is now his wife. He has another daughter, named May, who is grown and unmarried-there may be others ; he has several sons, some of them grown; one, named Haskell; has one son, Eugene, in the South Carolina College ; another son, Robert, gone out West ; another, named Langdon. Of the daughters of old Jessie Legette, Sr., the eldest, Eliza- beth Marjoray, married Francis A. Wayne, and she and her family have already been noticed in or among the Wayne fam- ily. Another daughter of Jessie Legette, sr., named Ann, mar- ried a man by the name of Snow, of the low country; he died and left her with two children, a daughter and a son; the daughter was named Ida, don't remember the son's name-he was younger ; they lived in Marion, in the early 70's, in the house afterwards owned and occupied by the writer, who pur- chased it in 1874; Mrs. Snow moved out of it just before the writer went in; don't know what became of them-saw Miss Ida in Marion some few years after. Jane, the third daughter
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of Jessie Legette, Sr., married her first cousin, Ashley S. Le- gette, who lately died (Ashley), over eighty years of age. Dr. Ashley Legette and wife, Jane, had and raised five sons-Dr. Arman C., Major Ringold, Virgil, William and Woodson, and two daughters, Theresa A. and Elizabeth. Of the sons, Dr. Ar- man C. Legette married his first cousin, Mary Adelaide Wayne, who has already been noticed in or among the Wayne family. The other sons of Dr. Ashley, the writer does not know whether they are married or single. Of the daughters, Theresa Ann married, first, Duncan McIntyre, who lived but a short time; he left her with one child, a son, who has already been mentioned herein in or among the McIntyres ; she afterwards married Mr. T. J. Ledingham, who now live in the Legette neighborhood, and are bringing up a family; know but little about Mr. Ledingham-he has been a Magistrate for several years, and seems to be an intelligent gentleman. The daugh- ter, Elizabeth, married a Mr. Vaught, about whom the writer knows nothing, nor of his family, or his or their whereabouts. The writer has seen a young lady, said to be his daughter, a pretty girl. Dr. Ashley S. Legette had a brother, Nelson Legette, who, I think, died many years ago-whether married or unmarried, the writer knows not. The father of Dr. Ashley and Nelson was Abner Legette, Sr., brother of old David and Jesse, Sr.
There are some Legettes in Wahee Township. Their father was John Legette, called Jack Legette-whether they are of kin to the other Legettes below, is not known. The Legette family is one of the old families of the county, and have ever been men at the front as citizens. Captain David Legette was no ordinary man-was above the ordinary-a man of great energy and perseverance; he was a local preacher in the Metho- dist connection ; he was also a dental surgeon. The Legette family have always stood well in the county. Legette Town- ship was named thus for the Legette family. Recurring back to Captain D. Legette's children-one was overlooked, a daugh- ter, who married J. Clement Davis; they have five children. Mr. Davis is one of our best and most progressive citizens.
GASQUE .- The Gasque family will next be noticed. Samuel
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Gasque, the first known, settled opposite Marion, over Catfish, before the Revolutionary War. He had five sons, Archie, Samuel, Henry, John and Absalom, and one daughter, Nancy ; the mother of these was a Dozier. Archie and Samuel went West. Archie has not been heard from or what become of him. Samuel raised a family, one son of whom, named Sam- uel, died a few years ago, in Louisiana, unmarried, and had an estate, at the time of his death, worth ten or twelve thousand dollars, which was divisible among his first cousins, many of whom or all of them were of this county. W. B. Gasque, Mas- tin Gasque, Charles F. Godbold and others in the same degree of relationship, shared in the division, and got $400 each net, clear of expenses. The deceased had been or was County Judge in Louisiana. Henry Gasque married three times ; first, Miss Mourning Brown, and by her had Henry, Elly, Elizabeth and Rebecca ; his second wife was Nancy Brown, and had two children-Nancy, who married Drury Thomas, and Edith, who married a Mr. Brown. His third wife was Milley Bryant, and by her had ten children, viz : sons, Love, William B., Alfred, Wilson, Addison and Mastin ; daughters, Nellie, who married a Mr. Brown in North Carolina, and is dead; Olive, who married a Mr. Hucks, in Horry ; and Martha, who married a Mr. Frye, and went to Horry County; they all have families. John Gasque married a Miss Crawford, and had three sons and two daughters; the sons were James C., Samuel and John, all dead, and none of their descendants are in the county. Of the two daughters, Caroline, the mother of Rev. Sumter Gasque, now of the Western North Carolina Conference, she married a Mr. Foxworth, who died about the first of the war, a felo de se; Mrs. Mary Harrel, of Marion, was the result of the marriage, who has several children-sons, James, Joe, Frank and Fred, and three daughters, one of whom lately married Robert Boyd Jones, of Marion. These are descendants of old John Gasque. His daughter, Mrs. Foxworth, still survives, eighty- two years of age, and lives with her daughter, Mrs. Harrel, at Marion. Another daughter of old John Gasque, Ann, was the mother of the late Jessie C. Rowell's wife. Mrs. Rowell is an excellent woman, the "salt of the earth ;" she has a large family of sons and daughters. These are descendants of old John Gasque.
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