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died young. To John Williamson and Frances Philips were born eleven children, four sons and seven daughters, named as follows: Martha Ann, Elizabeth S., Sarah E., Leonora S., Hanna F., John B., Bright J., Mary, Annie, Annis and Joseph W. To Elizabeth O. Williamson and Levi Gerald were born six children, four girls and two boys, as follows : Martha Ann, Kate E., John L., Samuel W., Catharine and Sarah. To Wil- liam D. Williamson and Prudence Nance were born eight children-one son, Daniel J., who was killed in the war, and seven daughters : Martha A. R., Sarah Ann, Susannah, Eliza- beth Annie, Prudence Anne; two others died in infancy. Martha A. Williamson, daughter of Joseph and Emma Wise, married Thomas W. Ayres. John J. Williamson married Mary E. Baker, daughter of William B. Baker, Sr., and to them were born two sons, named W. Lawrence and John J., Jr. Emma J. Williamson married Allen Griffin. Joseph M. Williamson married Elizabeth Annie Williamson, his cousin, and to them were born three sons and one daughter, named as follows : William J., Gustavus A. and Sydney G. ; the daughter, Artimissia M. Solomon M. Williamson married Zilpha Col- lins, daughter of John J. Collins, and to them were born two sons, John C. and Ferdinand Williamson. David R. William- son married Jane A. Collins, daughter of William Collins, and to them were born three children, one son and two daughters, named as follows: Alice, David C. and Adra. Robert L. and Samuel W. Williamson were killed in the war at Fort Fisher, N. C .; Solomon M., David R. and Daniel J. Williamson were also killed in the war. Martha Ann Williamson, daughter of John Williamson and Frances Philips, married J. H. Thomp- son ; they had no children. Elizabeth S. Williamson married Malcolm McMillan, as already stated among the McMillan family. Sarah E. Williamson married W. A. Brown, of the Sister Bays. Hannah F. Williamson married John L. Gerald. John B. Williamson married Martha Coleman, daughter of James Coleman ; to them were born seven children, all dead, but one daughter. Mary Williamson married John McMillan. Annie Williamson married W. E. Gasque. Annis Williamson married N. D. Coary. Joseph W. Williamson married Mary Kate McIntyre; to them were born eight children ; these have
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already been mentioned among the McIntyres (don't know sex or names). Leonard S. and Bright J. Williamson were killed in the war. Martha A. R. Williamson, daughter of Wil- liam D. Williamson and Prudence Nance, married David J. Owens, son of old Solomon Owens. Sarah Ann Williamson married John D. Jordan. Daniel J. Williamson married Trecia Fowler, daughter of the late Jessee Fowler, and they had six children, three sons and three daughters, named as follows: Martha P., Elizabeth, Susan, William D., Jr., Jessee and Charley. Susannah Williamson married Daniel M. Car- michael. Elizabeth Anne Williamson married Joseph M. Wil- siamson. Prudence Anne Williamson married H. G. Harrel- son. W. Lawrence Williamson married a Georgia lady (don't know her name) ; they had a family, number and sex unknown. John J., Jr., died unmarried. William J. Williamson married L. M. Tululah Elvington, daughter of John E. Elvington, and to them have been born twelve children, five sons and seven daughters, as follows : Modanza, Sidi, Eulah, Willie, Overton, Ryan, Marcellus, Cristie, Lolah, Walter, Velna (baby), dead. Gustavus A. Williamson married Francois Belk, daughter of Rev. Julius Belk, and to them have been born six children, three sons and three daughters (don't know their names). Sydney G. Williamson married Mary A. Oliver, daughter of the Hon. A. C. Oliver, of North Carolina; they have eleven children, nine sons and two daughters, named Junius, Rembert, Bertha, Wilborn, Lonnie, Monroe, Grover, Ambrose, Layton, Luna and Charlie. Artemissia U. Williamson married J. Emory Smith, near Mullins ; they have a family, number and name unknown. John C. Williamson married a Miss Johnson, and have eight children, mostly boys. Don't know who Ferdinand William- son married. David C. Williamson married a Miss Watson; William D. Williamson, Jr., married Martha Martin; Charlie Williamson married Miss Celia Martin; Jessee Williamson married a Miss James ; Martha Williamson married H. G. Col- lins ; Elizabeth Williamson married Robert Brown; Susan Wil- liamson married David H. Shelly. The last nine or ten men- tioned above all have families, but the number, sex and names are unknown, and the writer has no convenient means of ascer- taining; they are all young, and have not as yet attained to
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manhood or womanhood. The Williamson family is large in name and extensive in its connections-is and ever has been a respectable name in the county.
WALL .- This family, extensive in name and its connections, can be traced no farther back than to Wright Wall, the grand- father of ex-Sheriff William A. Wall. Wright Wall married a Miss Rice ; the fruits of the marriage were six sons, viz : John, James, Washington, Hugh G., Isaiah and Lawson. Of these, John emigrated West, James never married. Washington married a Miss Vaught, they had children : Columbus, George, Peter, Martha, Amanda, Sarah, Elizabeth and Gabriella. Of these, Columbus married in Horry and resides there now. George Wall married Mary Owens, daughter of the late David Owens; they have three children, girls. Peter Wall married in Horry; don't know to whom-he and his wife separated, and what has become of them is unknown. Martha married a Mr. Cox, in Horry; nothing further is known of them. Amanda married Barney Collins, son of the late Sheriff, Robert Collins ; it is said they have several children, and are at McColl. Sarah married Henry Shaw; by him she had some children, don't know how many; Shaw died, and the widow afterwards married William R. Hux, a widower, with several children, in Horry ; don't think the two families agreed ; Hux lived on the Dog Bluff Road, leading to Conway. The writer, during his long practice in Horry, passed the house of Mr. Hux, and on one occasion stayed with him a night. His first wife was then sick, and soon after died; he had then one or two children grown. Some year or so after his marriage to Mrs. Shaw, it was observed by the writer, in passing, that Mr. Hux had built another dwelling house near by his residence, and had put his first children in it, which of itself was evidence of disagree- ment, and on inquiry was informed that disagreement was the cause. Some time afterwards they separated, and she went up to Marion to her sister, Mrs. L. R. Owens, who lived near the writer. Mrs. Hux sent for me to go over there, she wanted to see me. The writer went and had a talk with her, heard her statement of her troubles, and gave her such advice as he thought proper under the circumstances. Was informed some
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days afterwards by Mr. Owens, that Hux came there the next evening after I was there; that they compromised their difficul- ties ; that Mrs. Hux went home with him the next day; heard no more of the trouble; Hux soon after sickened and died; don't know what has become of her or her children. After- wards heard that one of her sons by her first marriage was in the Citadel Academy in Charleston, and was very smart; don't know whether he graduated or not, or what has become of him or the other children. Elizabeth married a Mr. Cox, in Horry. Gabriella married L. R. Owens, of Marion ; they have a number of children-two, perhaps, grown-all born and raised in Marion. Owens was a very competent business man; was in the postoffice at Marion for years-twice under appointment, and served one term (four years) as assistant; he eventually got out of the office, became a lunatic and was sent to the Asy- lum, where he now is. His older brother, S. G. Owens, died in the Asylum some years ago, who was also a very competent business man-served one term, from 1872 to 1876, as Clerk of the Court, was a very efficient Clerk. There seems, however, to be a "crazy streak" in the family. Since L. R. Owens has been sent to the Asylum, Mrs. Owens and her children have moved to Augusta, Ga. ; she left an elegant home in Marion-I think, unsold. Hugh G. Wall, Sr., married, first, a Miss Davis, and by her had three children, to wit : Hugh G., Jr., Albert and Sarah; he married, a second time, a Miss Eagerton, and had children, to wit: Henry (killed in the war), Marion, Edwin, Furman, William B .; and daughters, Elizabeth, Eliza, Laura and Simpson. Hugh G. Wall, Jr .; has had two wives; the first, a Miss Wall (a cousin), and by her had one child, a daughter, who grew up and married T. C. White-they have some children ; by the second wife, a Mrs. Richardson (widow), nee Watson; by her he has several children, sons and daugh- ters, names unknown-one daughter married, to whom is not known. Albert Wall married a Miss Wall (a cousin), they have no offspring, but are doing well. Sarah married Ben Davis; they have two sons and two daughters, all married. George Davis married a Miss Richardson. Jefferson Davis married a Miss Davis ; they have some children. Anne Davis married Nicholas Davis; they have children. Maude Davis
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Married Ervin Richardson, Jr .; they have offspring. Marion Wall married a Miss Baker ; they have two sons and two daugh- ters. Edwin Wall married a Miss Harllee, daughter of Cap- tain Robert Harllee ; they have a family, number and names un- known. Furman Wall married a Miss Mace, daughter of John M. Mace. Furman is dead; left his wife a widow with three or four children. William B. Wall married a Miss Altman; they have three or four children. Elizabeth Wall married J. F. Gasque; they have two or three children; they moved to Savannah, Ga. Eliza Wall married F. M. Philips, in the "Friendship" neighborhood; he is dead, and left four or five children. Laura Wall married A. V. Rowell, and had four children ; she is dead. Simpson Wall married Robert Rowell, they have a family. Isaiah Wall married, first, a Miss Keith, and had two children ; the wife and both children dead; he mar- ried, a second time, to a Miss Gasque, a daughter of old John Gasque-the latter was quite a character. It is said of old John that he had a case in Court, and George W. Dargan (af- terwards Chancellor) was his lawyer. The other side put up some witness on the stand, who swore pretty strongly against old man Gasque, and when he had concluded his testimony, the witness was turned over to Gasque's lawyer for cross-examina- tion ; and as Dargan rose from his seat, old man Gasque spoke out aloud and said: "Tangle him, Dargan, tangle him." To this second marriage ten children were born, nine sons and one daughter ; of the sons, six are dead; there were two named James-the first thus named died, and another born after his death was also named James, and he died; the other dead ones were Chapman, Samuel, Isaiah and Lawson D. Wall-the latter died in January, 1901, leaving only one child, a son, named Marion; the surviving sons are William A., Julius and Pressly. William A. Wall married Miss Ellen Keever, had six children, four sons and two daughters, one son dead ; the surviving sons are H. Witherspoon, William A., Jr., and Victor S. ; the daugh- ters are Wilmar and Mary Ellen. Wilmar is grown, and one son nearly so. William A. Wall has been for years quite a prominent man in the county-first a Deputy Sheriff for several years, and finally was elected Sheriff in 1888-made a good Sheriff, served his full term; but the tidal wave, politically
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speaking, in 1892, put him out; he was succeeded by W. T. Evans, who held the position for two terms, when he was suc- seeded by B. R. Mullins, the present Sheriff, and in his practical judgment he has made ex-Sheriff Wall his chief clerk and deputy. One peculiar trait of ex-Sheriff Wall was and is his reticence and detective power-you never know what his busi- ness was till you see it executed, and always successful in mak- ing arrests without trouble, and was always successful in de- tecting crime and ferreting out criminals. Julius Wall married a Miss Saunders; they have one child only, a son (small). Pressly Wall married a Miss Byrd, daughter of Dr. Byrd, near Scranton, where they now live; they have five children, three sons and two daughters (small). Lawson D. Wall, Jr., mar- ried a Miss Flowers, and had an only son, Marion; the father died Ist January, 1901, as before stated. Amanda, the only daughter of Isaiah Wall, married J. J. Richardson; they have no children. Lawson Wall, Sr., son of old Wright Wall, never married. The Wall family, as a whole, were and are good, honest people, inoffensive and quiet citizens, law-abiding, sel- dom or never in the Courts-and especially in the criminal Courts ; trustworthy in every respect.
MCEACHERN .- Some of this name have been incidentally mentioned already, but none of the family now to be noticed- I mean, the family near Hamer, on the "Short-cut" Railroad. Neill McEachern emigrated from Scotland with his then fam- ily to Marion County, S. C., in the first part of the nineteenth century ; he married, in Scotland, Miss Effa Mckellar; they had four sons, Duncan, Daniel, Gilbert and John, and two daughters, Sallie and Elizabeth-I think four of his children were born in Scotland. The father, Neill McEachern, was a sturdy old Scotchman, industrious, economical, energetic and persevering ; was honest, and accumulated property. Duncan married, lived and died in Marlborough ; he married Mary Ann McGill, and is yet living; he settled on Hay's Swamp, one of the best agricultural sections of the county ; they had and raised four sons, Neill, Joseph, John B. and Duncan, and four daugh- ters. Neill, the eldest son, never married, is an old bachelor. Joseph, the second son, married a Miss Legette; they had one
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son, named Benjamin; his wife died, he is now a widower, and is merchandising at Rowland, N. C., and it is said doing a fair business. John B., the third son, married a Miss Campbell, and has two children (small) ; he lives on the old homestead, with his mother and maiden sister, Margaret, who has never married; John B. is an excellent man, a good farmer, and is succeeding well. Duncan, the youngest and fourth son, is a practicing physician ; some two or three years after his gradua- tion he emigrated to Georgia, where he married a Miss Grimes, and has two children; it is said he is succeeding well in his profession. Effa, the second daughter of old Daniel, married Richard Braswell, of North Carolina, just across the State line; they have two daughters only, Mary and Isla. Mary is mar- ried to Thompson Williams, of North Carolina. Isla is yet single. Richard Braswell is doing well. Louise, the third daughter, married William D. Carmichael, the youngest son of old Sheriff Archie Carmichael: There are four W. D. Car- michaels in the county-hence I have to identify this one by his father, old Sheriff Carmichael. W. D. Carmichael resides at Marion; he is a mechanic, and runs a bicycle shop, with E. H. Byers as a partner, and he and wife run a public boarding house in Marion and have much patronage; they have three children, two daughters and one son; the daughters are Nina and Edna. Nina is grown and is now in school at Red Springs, N. C .; Edna is near grown; the son is named Daniel Archie, for his two grand-fathers, is a lad; the children are all very promising, and are being raised right-their mother, Mrs. Carmichael, is one of the many good women and an excellent manager of affairs. The writer knows whereof he speaks, as he boarded in their house for about five years. Miss Sallie McEachern mar- ried John R. Jackson, who is one of the many progressive farm- ers of that section of the county ; they have two small children, a boy and a girl.
Another family of McEachern, no relation to these mentioned above, may be here noticed-the family of Neill McEachern, whom I knew more than sixty years ago; he was twice mar- ried-one of his wives was a Miss McColl; he had several sons and some daughters; the sons are Peter, Edward, John, Ed- mund, William (dead), Neill and Robert; a daughter named
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Manilla, and Flora Catharine-the latter married James Mc- Kellar; the youngest daughter by the last wife not married. The sons, Peter and Edward, live, together with their mother and two maiden sisters, in the Hay's Swamp section, and are well to do-think they have already been noticed herein, and need not be repeated; their father, I suppose, is dead-he was a man with a family more than sixty years ago; of the other sons the writer knows nothing.
CARMICHAEL .- This large and respectable family live mostly on the north side of Little Pee Dee River. They are a Scotch people, as their name implies-honest and frugal, industrious, ยท practical and trustworthy every way, ambitious seemingly only to establish and to preserve an unsullied character. This family originated in and came from Scotland in the latter half of the eighteenth century. There were three or four of them, first settlers, whether brothers or relatives does not clearly ap- pear, but it is supposed they were, at least, in some degree, re- lated to each other. Whether they came together or at differ- ent times, does not appear, but they settled in close proximity to each other. Neill Carmichael was one of them ; he married Miss Christian Carmichael, a daughter of one of the emigrants -whether he and his wife were cousins, does not appear; they had three sons, Archie, John and Daniel. Archie, known as Sheriff Carmichael, was born in 1797, and lived to the advanced age of eighty-six years, and was universally loved and re- spected, venerable for his years and his high Christian charac- ter; he was twice elected Sheriff of the district, which office then as now was for four years; a man then could only be elected and hold the office in alternate quadreniums. Car- michael's first quadrennium was from April, 1841, to April, 1845. During his first term in the Sheriff's office there was great monetary depression-the mass of the people were in debt. Money could not be raised, property had but little value, and consequently there was great distress among the people. Fortunately for the debtor class, they had a kind-hearted man in the Sheriff's office, and he would not force collections by levy and sale of their property in such time of general distress; some of the creditor portion, money sharks, who had executions
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in his office, had the Sheriff ruled for not forcing the collection of their demands, and the result was that the rules were made absolute, and the Sheriff had to go to jail; he became a martyr to his kindness of heart, to his leniency in office. He was in jail for about twenty months, in 1842 and 1843; he and his family occupied the apartments in the jail provided for the jailor's family. He moved his books, papers, &c., into the jail, and there attended to the business of his office just as though he had remained in his office in the court house; collected money and paid it out-he was, to all intents and purposes, still Sheriff, except as to his personal liberty ; he did not put his foot on the ground during his incarceration. His oldest son, A. B. Carmichael, was born in jail. The creditor party were not hurt, they ultimately got their money, and have gone into ob- livion with it, while Sheriff Carmichael multiplied his friends and had the consciousness of having discharged his duty, and palliated the distresses of his people without injury to any, and lived for many years in grateful remembrance by his fellow- citizens ; and though now dead, will continue to live in the hearts of people for all time to come. The people manifested their appreciation of his martyrdom by triumphantly electing him Sheriff again at the next alternate election for Sheriff, not- withstanding the combined opposition of the money sharks of the county, and served another term from April, 1849, to April, 1853. For six terms of that office it may be said that it was Godbold in and Carmichael out, Carmichael in and Godbold out. The sixth term, instead of Carmichael, it was his nephew, N. C. McDuffie. Carmichael did not run again on account of his age, and the office was turned over to his popular and effi- cient nephew. Archie Carmichael, in his younger days, was elected Captain of the militia, an office then much sought, and which place he filled with acceptability and much to his credit- hence he acquired the honorary title of Captain Carmichael. Much more might well be said of Captain Carmichael, but space will not permit. His private character was unsullied, was without spot or blemish ; he was in every way a Christian gentleman. The three sons of old Neill Carmichael were Archie, John and Tailor Daniel. Captain Archie married, first, a Miss Murphy, and by her had three children, Archie B., Mrs.
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Joseph McIntyre and Mrs. John E. Perritt; his second wife was Miss Margaret MeLeod, who still survives, and by her had two sons, Neill J. and William D. Carmichael. A. B. Car- michael married Miss Lizzie Gaddy, daughter of the late Henry Gaddy; by this marriage there were two sons born and raised, to wit: Clyde and Gaddy. Clyde married Albert Edward's daughter ; Gaddy Carmichael is yet unmarried. Emaline Car- michael married Joseph McIntyre, deceased; to this marriage were born and raised seven children. The eldest, Nettie, mar- ried J. Edgar Bass; they went to Georgia. Of the other six children, Archie married a daughter of Timothy R. Mclellan, and Blanche married Henry Farley, of Dillon, the other four, Lizzie, Duncan, Isla and Layton, are unmarried; their father and mother are both dead. These may have already been men- tioned in or among the McIntyres and Mclellans. Mrs. John E. Perritt has no children. Neill J. Carmichael, oldest son of Sheriff Carmichael by his second marriage, married a daugh- ter of Duncan C. Carmichael, called "Red Duncan," and by her has ten children, the eldest of whom is grown; the others less, down to the youngest, perhaps a baby. William D., the young- est son of Sheriff Carmichael, married Miss Louise Mc- Eachern, daughter of Daniel McEachern, and live at Marion; they have three children, Nina, Edna and Daniel Archie. These have already been noticed in or among the McEacherns. John Carmichael, a jolly Scotchman, called "Hatter John," the next brother of Sheriff Carmichael, married, also, a Miss Murphy ; to them were born some eight or ten children. Edward D. Carmichael, an excellent man and good citizen, married a Miss Carmichael, daughter of Daniel W. Carmichael, of the Fork section, and by her had several children, only two of whom are known to the writer, to wit: R. J. Carmichael, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., now a Lieutenant in the regular army of the United States, and Thaddeus Carmichael, a graduate of the Citadel Academy, in Charleston, S. C., and who is a promising young man. Of the other children of "Hatter John," James married Martha Camp- bell, daughter of the late John J. Campbell. Eliza married Daniel Campbell; Jennette married John C. McEachern; Amanda married Malcolm C. Carmichael; Caroline married
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Joseph Murphy; Martha married David S. Edwards, of the Fork section; Nancy and Catharine are unmarried. Of these, it is supposed they all have families of children, more or less numerous, though not known to the writer. Martha, who mar- ried David S. Edwards, has several children grown and, be it said to their credit, that their children are being educated-at least, a son, G. E. Edwards, is a graduate of Wofford College, is quite a promising young man, is engaged in teaching, very popular, and is preparing for the ministry and, as is supposed, will apply to the next South Carolina Conference to enter upon the duties of his chosen profession in the Methodist Church, South. Mr. D. S. Edwards has, also, two daughters, gradu- ates of Rock Hill, very smart and promising to be useful as well as ornamental to society; I think, one or both of them is now engaged in teaching. What a contrast between them and their ancestors of fifty and a hundred years ago! Daniel, called "Tailor Daniel," the youngest brother of Sheriff Car- michael, never married-don't know what became of him, but suppose he has long since died. Of the daughters of old Neill, sisters of Sheriff Archie, Mary married Duncan McDuffie, who settled in the "Fork;" they raised a family of four sons-A. B., Neil C., D. D. and George Alexander, and one daughter, the first wife of Isham H. Watson, and who have already been noticed in or among the McDuffie and Watson families. Nancy Carmichael married John Carmichael, of Cumberland County, N. C., and Catharine married Captain Neill M. Carmichael; whose father, Duncan, came from Scotland, and married a Miss Monroe, and had six sons, Neill M., John, Malcolm, Dun- can, William and Archie. Of these, Duncan married a Miss McRae; the wives of John and Malcolm are unknown ; William married a Miss McRae; Archie married Sarah Harrelson. Duncan Carmichael had sons, William D., Archie, Mack and John R., and daughters, Mary and Flora. Mary married Duncan Murchison, and for him she had two sons, William and John D., who are now young men in the town of Marion; Wil- liam is a Representative from the county in the lower House of the General Assembly ; both are unmarried. The other daugh- ter of Duncan Carmichael, Flora, is unmarried. Of William Carmichael's (brother of Duncan) family nothing is known.
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