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the Methodist Church. Another son, Herbert, is a graduate of the Citadel Academy, Charleston, and is said to be very bright and promising. T. B. Rogers had other sons and daughters, who are among us and are coming people. John W. Rogers, another son of old Captain John, married a daugh- ter of old William Hays; he died some years ago, and left a promising family of sons and daughters, all doing well. W. R. Rogers, a merchant at Marion, is one of them, and is suc- ceeding well. Benjamin Shooter, Jr., married a daughter of George Ford, as hereinbefore stated among the Ford family, and settled in the "Fork" section, on the place now belonging to Dempsy Lewis; he had and raised a family of eight sons, to wit: Berry A., George E., W. Pinckney, William, Benjamin Franklin, Evander C., John Milton and Albert H .; and one daughter, Martha, who married John W. Moody, and had one child, a daughter, and died. Of the sons, Berry A. married a Miss Campbell (I think), and had and raised a family. George E. Shooter was a doctor, and married, first, Miss Caroline Ford, a daughter of Major Jessee Ford; and had by her several children, when she died, and he married again, a Miss Harrel- son, and by her had children also-how many not known- when the father died. Dr. Shooter was no ordinary man-he had one failing which, perhaps, shortened his days; I know nothing of his family. W. Pinckney Shooter was the first graduate from Marion County (1859) in the Citadel Academy ; after graduation, he studied law at Marion with George M. Fairlee, and was admitted to the bar just as the war com- menced ; he was talented and brilliant; he volunteered and was elected First Lieutenant in the first company that went from Marion. The company left Marion 4th January, 1861, and went to Morris Island, Charleston, and formed a part of the First Regiment under the command of Colonel (afterwards General) Maxcy Gregg, and participated in the capture of Fort Sumter, in April ( 12th and 13th), 1861. After the fall of Fort Sumter, there was a revolunteering of the company for the war and for the Confederacy, and W. P. Shooter was elected its Captain, and went with his company to Virginia. He was a brave and gallant officer, and rose from Captain to Lieutenant Colonel of the Regiment, when he was killed at Spottsylvania
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C. H., in May, 1864; he never married. B. Frank (killed 6th May) and Evander C. (killed 12th May, 1864), two of his bro- thers lost their lives in the series of battles fought that month between Grant and Lee's armies. William N. Shooter, I think, married a Miss Campbell, also; they have a family, about whom nothing is known. John Milton married in North Carolina. Albert H. Shooter, the youngest son of Benjamin, Jr., married Miss Josephine Roberts, a daughter of the late James Roberts, and has a coming family-how many and their sex, is not known ; he is one of our good citizens. Of the eight sons, three were killed in the war, and two have died since the war; the survivors are William, John Milton and Albert H. As a fam- ily they were intellectual and of acute perceptions, brave almost to rashness, and full of pluck and energy. John Milton and Albert were too young to go into the war. Old Aunt Mary Shooter, as she was familiarly called sixty-five years ago, the grand-mother of these soldier boys, lived to a great age-over ninety years.
CAMPBELL (OF MAIDEN DOWN) .- The progenitor of this family was named James. He came from Virginia in the eighteenth century, married and had five sons, John, James, Jr., Jerre, Gadi and Theophilus; and one daughter, Nancy Ann, who became the wife of old John Huggins, of Huggins' Bridge, on Little Pee Dee, and who has already been noticed herein among the Huggins family; and Mary, who married Willis Huggins, cousin of old John, and Elizabeth, who never mar- ried. James Campbell, Jr., married Miss Molsey (Mary) Barnes, and had Ebby and James, and three daughters. One of the latter died unmarried. James (second), Jr., married Chloe Rogers, and had one son, Frank; his wife died ; he mar- ried no more; is now dead. Frank married a Miss Jones, daughter of Ebby Jones, and is now a young citizen and prom- ises well. Ebby Campbell married Charlotte Lane, and has six children-three sons, Spencer, George and another, name unknown; one daughter married Leonard Lewis, and has a family (small) ; another daughter married some one unknown ; think the other daughter is single. Jerre Campbell married Miss Patience Scott, daughter of old Pharoah Scott, in the
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Tabernacle section, in Hillsboro; they had two sons and four daughters ; the sons are Kenneth and Eli. One daughter mar- ried Willis Rogers, and had Simeon, Hampton and others. Eli Campbell married Miss Josephine Huggins, and had one child, a daughter, who married Percy Harrelson, and has one or two children (small). One daughter of Jerre married Lawrence Sessions ; she had three or four children, and died. Two of Jerre's daughters are unmarried. Kenneth Campbell married a Miss Harrelson, and has two daughters, unmarried.' Gadi Campbell married Mary Norton, sister of John Norton and aunt of Hon. James Norton ; they had four sons, Warren W., Charles Fletcher, Theophilus and Benjamin F., and three daughters, Martha, Emaline and Elizabeth. Of the daughters, Martha married James Dudney, and had and raised several children, all grown, about whom little is known; Emaline Campbell mar- ried the late Thomas A. Proctor, and had several children. Of the daughters of Thomas A. Proctor, the eldest married Thomas Cottingham, and had one or two children; she died several years ago. Another daughter, Mary Proctor, married Major Bird, and had one child, and died. Relda Proctor mar- ried Milton Norton, and has a family (coming). Sarah mar- ried a Mr. Williams, and has a large family ; they are in Hamp- ton County ; and Miss Fannie Proctor is unmarried. Elizabeth Campbell married R. B. Game, and they had and raised a con- siderable family. Of the daughters of R. B. Game and wife, Hattie married a Mr. Hunter; they are in Florence County. Mary Game married Samuel Rogers ; they have quite a family ; they live in Columbia. Roberta Game married Albert Rogers ; have a family (small). Georgia Game married a Mr. Chreitz- berg; they had two children, a son and a daughter, Robert and Lula (small). Chrietzberg dying, the widow married Daniel Martin, of Mullins ; no children by her Martin marriage. Lila Game is unmarried. Of the sons of Gadi Campbell, .Warren W. died a young single man, just as he was preparing to enter as a minister in the South Carolina Conference (Methodist). Charles Fletcher Campbell, son of Gadi, never married; he joined the South Carolina Conference in 1859, and died in 1860, at the age of twenty-seven. Benjamin F. Campbell, son of Gadi, never married; he died or was killed in the war. Theo-
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philas Campbell, son of Gadi, married Emma Huggins; he is dead; left his widow, two sons and four daughters. Of the daughters, Louisa married a Mr. Proctor ; he died and left her with two children; she is in Washington-whether married again, the writer knows not. Dora, the next daughter, mar- ried T. W. Sellers, the nephew of the writer; she died, and left two children, daughters (small). Etta, the next daughter, is also in Washington, D. C .; said to be married, but to whom is not known. Maggie, the youngest, is unmarried, perhaps not grown. Of the two sons, Iverson and Capers, they are with their mother ; neither one of them is grown. Theophilus Camp- bell, son of James, Sr., and brother of Gadi Campbell, married Miranda Cribb; had several children, emigrated to Mississippi. Of the sons of Thomas A. Proctor, Marion, the oldest, married a Miss Shuler, of Orangeburg County, and has a large family ; don't know their names. George Proctor married a Miss Mc- Coy, and has one or two children (small). Thomas, a son, went to Alabama. Robert married Jennie McIntyre, and has gone to Georgia. Of the sons of Robert B. Game, Simpson married a daughter of Huger Godbold, and has quite a family. Morgan Game went to Anderson County, and married there. Joseph Bethea Game, the youngest son, is grown; he married in North Carolina; has a family; he belongs to the South Georgia Conference, and is now stationed in Brunswick, Ga .- is said to be a fine preacher ; he is well educated, well equipped for his profession. R. B. Game's Campbell wife died, and he married, a second time, Miss Lizzie Fladger, daughter of Cap- tain C. J. Fladger, and by her has one daughter, Minnie, who is said to be very smart and intellectual. John Campbell, brother of Gadi, Jeremiah, &c., married some one not now re- membered, but had no offspring.
ATKINSON .- This family, or rather the Widow Atkinson, came from Sampson County, N. C., with her children, about the last of the eighteenth century, and settled near where Mil- ler's Church now stands. She had three sons, Jessee and two others, names not ascertainable, and one daughter, if no more; she married Nat, or Elias Miller, one of whom was the founder of Miller's Church, and for whom that church was
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named, and is still called and known by that name. It has already been mentioned in or among the Norton family. The eldest son of the widow (if not the oldest), the one named Jessee, married a Miss Bryant, first, and to that marriage were born and raised four children, three sons and one daughter ; the sons were Jessee, Ebby and Hugh; the daughter was Sarah Ann, and she became the wife of Vincent Godbold, and had and raised six or eight daughters and one son, Eli Godbold, now in Horry. Old Jessee Atkinson's second wife was Miss Margaret Cave, and by her had eight children, to wit: Charlotte, Eliza- beth, Eliza Ann, Annis, Jane, William J., John W. and Thomas. Of these, Charlotte married a Mr. Welsh; had no children. Eizabeth married William Woodward, and had one daughter, named Charlotte. They all, if alive, are in Richmond County, N. C. Eliza Ann, the third daughter, died unmarried. Annis, the fourth daughter, married Stephen H. Price, of the Maple Swamp section, and brother to one Hugh P. Price, now in that section ; they had four children, two boys and two girls. Ste- phen H. Price died, leaving those children all small. The eldest, Jessee, has a family, in Horry. The youngest boy died young. The oldest girl died unmarried. The younger one married Mr. Gause Owens, and has a growing family. Jane, the fifth daughter, married Joseph Stevens; he is dead-left three children, two sons, Benjamin and Hamilton, and one girl-all married Ammonses. William J. Atkinson, oldest son of old Jessee by his second marriage, married Martha Jane Har- relson, daughter of old Hugh H. Harrelson ; died and left three children, Hugh J., George, and a daughter -- the latter married an Ammons. George married a Miss Berry, daughter of Bright W. Berry, near the Reedy Creek Springs, in upper Marion ; has some children, don't know sex or number. Don't know to whom Hugh J. married. John W. Atkinson, now of Marion, the second son of old Jessee by his second marriage, married, first, Miss Eliza Dew, daughter of old William Dew, of upper Marion, near Catfish Baptist Church, and by her had one child, a son, Thomas J., when the wife, Eliza, died. Thomas J. grew up and married a daughter of Squire Stephen A. Hair- grove, and now resides in the Catfish neighborhood; he has two daughters, Viola and Lilla, who are the idols of their Aunt
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Huldah Hairgrove, an old maiden lady of fifty years or more. Thomas Atkinson, the youngest son of old Jessee or Jessee, Jr., by his second marriage (Cave), married Martha Dew, the youngest daughter of old William Dew, above mentioned; they had one child, a son, William B. Atkinson, who grew up and married a Miss Gaddy, daughter of Samuel T. Gaddy, near Gaddy's Mills; he lives on the old William Dew homestead, with his mother. William B. Atkinson is an excellent manager of affairs, a good farmer and prosperous ; he has seven or eight children, some of them grown, names unknown. His father, Thomas Atkinson, died when he was quite a child; he was and is the only child of his mother, who yet lives-rather an extra woman, of fine sense. John W. Atkinson's wife dying, he married the Widow Beaty, nee Hemingway, mother of Rev. L. F. Beaty, of the South Carolina Conference, a strong preacher ; by this second marriage John W. Atkinson has no children. Ebby Atkinson, third son of Jessee, Sr., son of the old widow from Sampson County, N. C., married Olive Gasque, daughter of old Absalom Gasque, the old court crier, who was calling the Court away back in 1840, and how long before is unknown ; he continued to call the Court while he lived, and after his death it descended, not by inheritance but by appointment, to his son, Henry A. Gasque, and he held it to 1890 or 1891, when the "Tillman boom" lifted him out-reform downwards. Old man Ebby Atkinson and wife raised quite a family, mostly girls, one son, Ebby, who married a daughter of the late J. C. Thompson ; they have children. One daughter, Celia Ann, married Eli Godbold, who moved to Horry County; they had several chil- dren, mostly sons, the three oldest known-Christopher Co- lumbus, Ebby and William Eli-and others not known. Ebby Atkinson had another daughter, Mary, who married a Lovel- and one married a Richardson-think her name was Minnie. Know nothing further of old man Ebby's family or descend- ants. Hugh Atkinson, a brother of old Ebby, married a Miss Goldbold, lived to an old age and died childless. The Atkin- sons, as a family, are honest and straight, retiring and unpre- tending; live at home and harmless. The old widow from Sampson County, N. C., had two other sons, whose names are not remembered. The Atkinsons of Georgetown are said to be
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relatives of these in Marion, but what relation is unknown. One of the Georgetown Atkinsons was Circuit Solicitor some twenty-five or thirty years ago; he may be a descendant of one of the widow's sons. Ex-Governor Atkinson of Georgia may also be a descendant of one of the widow's sons-who can tell? The name is spelled in the same way. Her two sons went somewhere. Jessee only remained here.
FLADGER .- Since noting the families of Evans, Godbold, Haselden and Richardsons herein, the writer has obtained in- formation that enables him to connect branches of the above named families with the Fladgers-a name now extinct in the county, except one female, now forty years of age, Sallie Maria Fladger, daughter of the late Captain Charles J. Fladger, by his second marriage with the Widow William S. Bethea. That female will hardly ever marry ; and if she does, will, perhaps, change her name from Fladger to some other name-so that, it is the remotest possibility that the name will continue much longer in the county, once prominent. About 1735, one of the first settlements was made by a colony, direct from England, in Britton's Neck, and one of these colonists was a Fladger (Gregg's History, page 69), and from him the name and its con- nections have come down to the present time. The writer is indebted to Mrs. Major S. A. Durham, a descendant of this old colonist Fladger, for the missing link. Hugh Fladger was his name (a name in the family ever since) ; to whom he married is unknown-he may have married in England and brought his wife with him; he had a son, named Henry Fladger, who married a Miss Keene, daughter of Brockingham Keene, and Keene's wife was a Miss Horry, a sister of Colonel Horry. Henry Fladger had a son, named Hugh Fladger (our old Hugh, whom the writer has often seen), and two daughters- Sarah, who married General Thomas Godbold, and another, name not known, who married John Richardson (called "King John.") Henry Fladger was active in the Revolution, was under General Francis Marion, and was killed by the Tories during that momentous struggle. The above sketch being read in connection with the Godbold, Evans, Haselden and King John Richardson's family, it will be seen that these fam-
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ilies and their descendants are all related to each other col- laterally-their common ancestor being Henry Fladger, son of old Hugh, the colonist to Britton's Neck from England, about 1735. Fladger blood runs through all their veins.
SMITH .- The name Smith is almost universal. It is found, I suppose, wherever the English language is spoken. It may fairly be assumed that all the Smiths had somewhere, at some remote period, a common ancestor-that is, an original stock whence they all sprang. To find it, the writer thinks is im- possible, and he will not undertake to do so-does not know that he can do so, so far as Marion County is concerned, but will approach as near to it as he can. The first of which the writer knows or has any information concerning was John Smith, who settled upon and lived near the place now known as E. J. Moody's Mill, long before the Revolution-during the Revolution it was known as Tart's Mill. When it was built or by whom, is not known. It may have been built by John Smith or by Enos Tart. Enos Tart's mother was the sister or daughter of John Smith. This old John Smith had a family of sons and daughters, but how many of each is not known ; from the best information obtainable this old John Smith had sons, named John, Samuel and James, and may be others ; can't say as to any daughters, but am pretty sure that old Enos Tart's mother was his daughter rather than his sister. John Smith, Jr., as is supposed, lived before and after the Revolutionary War, between the two (lower) Reedy Creeks, west of Gapway Baptist Church and east of Marion Court House. It is told of him that he was well-to-do, and that during the war he buried considerable money (specie) near the Little Reedy Creek. This John Smith, it is supposed and believed, was either the grand-father or the father of Hugh Godbold Smith, John Smith, Willis G. Smith, Leonard Smith, Ebby Smith and two or three daughters. One daughter married a Malloy, and moved to Horry. Another married James Tart, who had a considerable family, all of whom are dead, except one son, the youngest, C. Murchison Tart, in Columbus County, N. C. Of these sons, John and Ebby Smith moved to Alabama about 1820 or 1825. Willis G. Smith married a Miss Beverly, and
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raised a family ; don't know how many. One daughter married G. W. Smithey, who had and raised two children, a son, J. W. G. Smithey, and the wife of John Smithey-"One-eyed John." The son, J. W. G. Smithey, married a Miss Malloy, of Conway ; lives now in Marion, and has an interesting and promising family, some of them grown. Leonard Smith married a Miss Foxworth; his male descendants were John, David and Jerry ; don't know who they married or what has become of them or their posterity, if they had any. Old man Willis G. Smith was quite a character-there was only one Willis G. Smith; he never wore any socks-at least, the writer never saw him with any; saw him frequently, and often in cold, bitter weather, at Marion, without any socks-he was emphatically "Sockless Willis ;" he was very profane, and in the habit of frequently using words not suited to a Sunday School, and about 1846, when the project of building the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad was being discussed at Marion, General Evans, General Wheeler and others were telling old man Willis about how it was to be constructed, how it was to be propelled, how many people it could carry, and how fast it could run, or its rate of speed, &c., old man Willis would swear most bitterly that they were all liars; that such a thing could not be and they knew it could not be; that they were just gassing and trying to fool him, &c .- this done with the most vehement expletives. I think the old man lived to see the road completed to Marion. They tried to get him to take a trip on it, but he persistently refused, and never would risk himself on it. If the old gentleman could wake up now, and see the gilded flying palace cars running fifty miles an hour, half a dozen coaches filled with passengers, all eating and sleeping while thus flying over and through the country, he would be as- tounded, sure enough-he would look on it with awe and incredulity, and regard it as supernatural or miraculous. The other brother, Hugh Godbold Smith, married a Miss Wheeler, sister of General E. B. Wheeler; by this marriage several children were born and raised-four sons, Redding, Edward, John G. and Hugh H. Smith; and one daughter, Margaret Smith. Redding W. Smith married, first, a Miss Brown, whose mother was a Godbold; his children were Dr. Edward B.,
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Zack, Mary E. and Sally H. Smith. Of these daughters, Mary E. married Captain A. H. Ford; they raised a family, the number and sex unknown-some or all are grown. They first moved to Anderson County, and after remaining there for several years, they with their family emigrated to Texas, where they now reside. The other daughter, Sally H., married M. L. Smith, of Buck Swamp; they raised a family, some of whom are married and have families. Of the two sons, Zack, the younger one, was a Lieutenant in Captain Shooter's company, Ist Regiment (Gregg's), and died unmarried, from wounds received in battle at Hagerstown, Md. The elder son, Dr. E. B. Smith, married, after the war, Mrs. Pattie McIntyre, nee Betts, widow of Lieutenant Archie McIntyre, who was killed in September, 1862, at Sharpsburg, Md .- a brave and gener- ous young officer ; she was a daughter of the Rev. Charles Betts, of the South Carolina Conference, a strong preacher in his day. She had a son by McIntyre, Archie McIntyre, named for his father, now an excellent physician and prominent citizen of the town of Marion; by this marriage four children were born and raised, to wit: three sons and one daughter-Charles B. Smith, in Philadelphia; Dr. Zack Smith, who married Miss Lilly Clark, daughter of the late R. K. Clark; and Richard Smith, who married Miss Isla Ellerbe, daughter of Colonel E. B. Ellerbe. The daughter, Miss Anna Smith, is unmarried; the mother died a few years ago; the doctor has not remarried. Dr. E. B. Smith deserves more than a passing notice ; he grad- uated in the medical college in Charleston, in 1860, with first distinction; was Assistant Surgeon in the army during the Civil War ; he was, some years ago, elected to the lower House of the General Assembly without canvassing the county-he declined to canvass, stayed at home while others canvassed the voters ; he is a very intelligent and well-posted man, up-to-date in every way, and one of our best citizens. He is a model and progressive farmer-his farm is a large one for these times and for this county, yet it seems to be cultivated like a garden-in first class condition ; all the appointments about it seem to be arranged for convenience and success ; he is great for experi- ments, and, I suppose, has made more experiments with the application and use of fertilizers than any experimental station
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in the State. Redding W. Smith, the father of Dr. E. B. Smith, married a second time, and by that marriage had a son, Stonewall Jackson Smith, a druggist at Mullins. John G. Smith married a Miss Jordan, and his sons are John, Elly and Ellison H. Smith, and three daughters ; the sons are all doing well, and are substantial citizens. Elly Smith married, first, Miss Kate Brown, daughter of old C. B. Brown, of Marion, and had two sons, Tillman and LeGrande; the Brown wife died, and he married, a second time, a daughter of Daniel Snipes ; know nothing as to his family by the last marriage. Know nothing of John and Ellison H. Smith's family, nor of the three daughters of John G. Smith. Margaret Smith, a daughter of Hugh Godbold Smith, married Stephen T. Collins ; they are both dead, and their children live in the Gapway neighborhood, of whom the writer knows but little and that little will be deferred to the Collins family, when he comes to notice them. Hugh H. Smith married a Miss Shelly, and had one son and three or four daughters. Edward Smith married a Miss Collins, and by her had Redding (called Little Red- ding), Keene Davis, Ham E. G. and George Smith. This Redding was the father of Edgar, Lide, Dr. Frank and Ed- ward Smith, all in the Mullins region; "Little Redding's" first wife was a Miss Spivey, daughter of Isaac Spivey, in the Bear Swamp and Holmesville section; the Spivey wife died, and he lately married the daughter of Jerry Lambert; "Little Redding" is a prosperous and well-to-do citizen. Of the others of Ed- ward Smith's children and grand-children by Little Redding the writer can say nothing, for the want of information; he knows Dr. French Smith, at Mullins, a young single man, and is well spoken of as a physician, and no doubt but that he will do well.
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