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There are some other Wiggins in the county, in the Gaddy Mill section. Many now living knew old man Charles Wig- gins ; his first wife was a Miss Johnson, of Black River; his second wife was Molly Britt, of North Carolina; they are both dead. The first wife had three sons, John M., Henry and C. Wesley Wiggins. John M. married Aby Butler, has a family, of how many is not known ; he has a son, Marion Wiggins, of Dillon, who married a Miss Grantham; has five children (small). Henry Wiggins married and had a son, named Charles, and lives at Dillon. The son married, and had two children ; the mother died, and he married, a second time, the Widow Price, whose maiden name was Pauline Watson, daugh- ter of the late William Watson; no offspring. Henry went West. C. Wesley married a McCormic, and settled in the Cot- ton Valley section of the county; he was doing well when last heard of by the writer-have not seen him for years. The old gentleman was a jolly old soul; he was jailer at Marion in the early 70's ; his second wife had no children.
SHAW .- The first Shaw known in the county was William Shaw, born in March, 1759, and died in February, 1863, at the age of 103 years and eleven months to a day, as his son, the late John D. Shaw, told the writer-a case of remarkable longevity. The writer saw and talked with the old gentleman at Marion Court House, in 1859 or 1860, and he said he was 100 years old; could get about then with much agility-much more so than most men at the age of seventy years. In connection with old William Shaw, I will quote from Bishop Gregg's History, pp. 403 and 404, and note: "Another name which has no place in history and is now unknown in the region where he lived, deserves, in one respect at least, the first place in the annals of the Pee Dee, if not in the story of the Revolution throughout the thirteen colonies. Jacob Brawler gave his own life and the lives of twenty-two sons to the cause of liberty in Carolina. He removed from Tar River, North Carolina, to Liberty Precinct, and settled on Catfish, sixteen miles below the present village of Marion. He was married twice, and had large families by both wives, of whom all were sons, except one daughter. After the fall of Charleston, some of his sons were drafted; but the
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old man said there should be no division among them-that if one went all should go, and that he would accompany them. Twenty-four (three) in all, they embarked in the strife, and almost incredible to relate, but one of the sons returned to tell the tale of their slaughter. Overwhelmed by the calamity, the frantic wife and mother went off, not knowing whither, in search of her loved ones, but only to return, after a fruitless search, a broken-hearted mourner. She was eventually put upon the parish and lived to old age. The surviving son, who was of weak mind and body, died a few years after, and the name became extinct in Marion." In a note to the foregoing passage the Bishop says: "This account, which may appear almost incredible, was related to the author by the late Hugh Godbold, of Marion, and confirmed in every particular by Wil- liam Shaw, a humble but worthy and respectable man who was of age at the time, lived in the same neighborhood and knew the family of Brawler well. Mr. Shaw was born in March, 1759, and in the spring of 1859, when the author spent the night with him at the house of Mr. Godbold, was possessed of astonishing vigor of body and mind for one of his years. Neither his sight nor hearing was very seriously impaired. He sat up to a late hour, listening with unabated interest to a conversation about the early days of the Pee Dee, taking part himself, and was as cheerful as a man in his prime. He said a red oak was then living, which stood in Brawler's yard. Brawler was poor, but ingenious. He adopted the following method of catching bears : Driving sharp nails, pointing downward, in a bee-gum, he baited it at the bottom (with honey), having secured it well. The bear putting his head down, would be caught beyond the possibility of extrication. William Shaw had passed his hun- dredth year when the author saw him for the first and last time, and considering his activity was one of the most remarkable cases of longevity on record."
The writer has made these lengthy quotations for the pur- pose, first, of showing to posterity the almost unparalleled case of longevity of one of our old citizens, William Shaw, and, sec- ondly, to perpetuate the name and fame of old Jacob Brawler and family-a name that should ever be dear to the people of Marion County. Bishop Gregg's History has long been out of
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print, and is now read only by very few; but by giving it a place in this book, written for Marion County, the name and fame of Jacob Brawler and family may be preserved in the county for another hundred and fifty years-esto perpetua.
William Shaw married some one to the writer unknown ; has tried to ascertain her maiden name, but has not been able to do so; he raised three sons and may be others, as well as daugh- ters-one daughter, Ann; the sons were John D. Shaw, who died a few years ago, at the age of eighty-nine, and Thomas Shaw, who married and died some years ago, leaving four sons, Edward Baker, Daniel, Armstrong and Henry, and perhaps daughters. Henry was a soldier in the Confederate War; he married a Miss Wall, daughter of Washington Wall, and sister of George Wall, of Marion; they lived together several years, and had several children, when he died and left his widow and children surviving; the widow married again, a Mr. Hux, of Horry (see the Wall family). John D. Shaw, the oldest son of old William Shaw, married a Miss Davis, and had one son, our capital citizen, Stewart T. Shaw, and one daughter, Ann, and may be other children. Stewart T. Shaw married a Miss Altman, daughter of William Altman, and has a family, not grown. Stewart Shaw, like his father, John D. Shaw, is a most excellent man and a substantial, good citizen. His sister, Ann Shaw, married a Davis, and has a family, unknown to the writer. Thomas Shaw married a Miss Wiggins, sister of the late Baker Wiggins ; they had four sons. Edward Shaw, killed in the war. Baker Shaw, who married Betsey Tanner; he is dead, and left five children, four girls and one son, named Thomas. Daniel Shaw married a Miss Foxworth, and has five sons, Willie, Clarence, Charley, Joseph and Evander. The two latter are married. Joseph married a Miss Boatwright, daughter of Foster Boatwright. Evander married a Miss Shaw. The other sons are unmarried, and live with their parents. Armstrong Shaw, the youngest son of Thomas Shaw, married Miss Maria Lucas, and has but one child, a daughter, named Julia, who lately married McRoy Dozier, who is clerk- ing for W. S. Foxworth, at Marion, a promising young man. Old William Shaw had one daughter, Ann, who married Robe- son Tanner, and became the grand-mother of Mrs. James T.
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Dozier. The writer has learned that John D. Shaw married twice, but who, except the Davis wife, is not known, or whether there was any progeny by that marriage is not known.
DOZIER .- Of this family but little information has been ob- tained, yet it is a name long and favorably known in Marion. It is a French name, and came to South Carolina among the Huguenots (as is supposed). The first of the name as now known in the county was the great-grand-father of James Tully Dozier, the present County Supervisor of Marion County. His name was James Tully Dozier, a name which seems to have been continued in each succeeding generation to the present. Old James Tully had a son, James Tully, and he in turn had three sons, James Tully, John F. and Henry. Henry Dozier was very deaf ; he and his brother, James Tully, are both dead; John F. still survives. To whom the three brothers, James Tully, John F. and Henry, married, is unknown to the writer. The late James Tully Dozier left a son, James Tully (now County Supervisor), who has been for years a very efficient deputy Sheriff, and, I suppose, knows not only all the public roads in the county, but all the neighorhood roads, and even many of the footpaths; he knows almost every man in the county above twenty-five years of age, and notwithstanding his extensive knowledge in these respects, he could not tell me much of the genealogy of his family-from which this lesson may be learned, viz : that no man can be an adept at everything. As already stated, he is now our County Supervisor ; has not been long in office, but promises to make an efficient officer ; he married Miss Iris Grice, a daughter of the late Sheriff, A. E. Grice, well remembered by many; he has two small boys, names not remembered ; he had a sister, who married Henry W. Smith, now a liveryman in Marion; she died a few years ago, and left some three or four children. There is one David Dozier, a good citizen of the county, of the same Dozier family, but to which branch of the family he belongs, is not known to the writer. There were in former times other Doziers in Marion. I think one of our first Sheriffs and first Clerks of the Court were Doziers. A public street, one of the oldest streets in the town of Marion, was named and is now called
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Dozier street ; they were prominent in that day. There were other Doziers, I suppose of the same family, here in the early part of the last century. One, A. W. Dozier, represented us in Congress in the early days of the republic; he was a lawyer of ability and a man of high character; he lived in Georgetown or Williamsburg-a brother or uncle of our highly esteemed late fellow-citizen, Dr. T. J. Dozier, whose family are now in Britton's Neck and much respected. I think I rightfully infer that all these Doziers in Marion, Georgetown and Williams- burg had a common ancestor among the Huguenot stock, and are all collaterally related, either proximately or remotely. We had a young Dozier here, a lawyer, since the war, who lived and practiced law in Marion for two or three years, who mani- fested ability ; he left, however, and went to California, and in a few years became a Circuit Judge in that great State, with a salary of $3,500 or $4,000 annually-no mean position, in honor or emoluments.
FOXWORTH AND BOATWRIGHT-Of this family, the writer is wanting in definite information which he has made efforts to obtain, but has not been able to do so. There were two old men here years ago, Stephen and Job Foxworth, and he pre- sumes that most or all of the name now in the county are de- scendants of these two old men-in this, however, he may be mistaken. William C. Foxworth, on west side of Catfish, was a descendant of one of them; he was an exceptionally good man, was always on the side of right; he married Miss Serena Gregg, oldest daughter of R. J. Gregg. Old "Uncle Jimmy," as he was called, died a few years ago, leaving his wife, four sons, and two daughters-Edward, William Capers, George and Thomas, as I remember them, and the two daughters were Sallie and Lucy. Of the sons, Edward is single. William Capers married a daughter of Captain G. A. McIntyre, and nas a family of some children, and is one of our good citizens. George married a Miss Watson, a niece of Major H. B. Cook's wife, in Horry. Thomas, I suppose, is not married. The eldest daughter, Sallie, married E. H. Gasque, and has already been noticed in or among the Gasque family. Lucy, the younger daughter, married a Mr. Hutaff, who died and left her with
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two children, and then she died; don't know what became of the children. William S. Foxworth is a descendant of one of the old Foxworths, don't know which; think his father was named Charley J .- in this, however, I may be mistaken. Wil- liam S. Foxworth is a leading merchant of Marion; com- menced there with. nothing, comparatively, twenty-five or thirty years ago, and by strict attention to business and good management has succeeded well, has accumulated a large prop- erty and may be regarded as one of the heavy men, financially, in the town of Marion; he married Miss Kittie Smith, a grand- daughter of "Horse-Swapping Billy Smith," an excellent wo- man, and is raising a family-has three or four children. W. S. Foxworth is no ordinary man ; he is W. S. Foxworth-does not pretend to be any one else; a strictly religious man, and by precept and example tries to influence others in the same line- he is a good and useful man; if we had more men like him the county would be bettered. There is one Benjamin Foxworth in Wahee, a quiet, hard-working and inoffensive citizen, a de- scendant of one of the old Foxworths; he married the Widow Annis McWhite; has two children, a son, Truman, and a daughter (name unknown). Truman married a Miss God- bold, daughter of Huger Godbold; they have some children. The daughter married some one about Mullins; don't know who, and has a family. There is, or was, a Jack Foxworth, near Marion, some years ago; he married a Miss Johnson or Meares ; raised some family, don't know how many or what has become of them, or whether Jack is dead or alive. Jack was harmless, not ambitious of wealth or honors -- he was con- tented to be Jack and Jack alone. Mrs. Goddard, now at Marion, is a sister of Jack. I suppose they are descendants of one of the old Foxworths, Stephen or Job. There was, before the war, two Foxworths, William (called "Little Billy") and James. William, I think, died and left a widow and, perhaps, children. James moved off elsewhere; he lived, one year or two, before the war, in the "Free State" section, on a place afterward owned by the writer. As well as remembered, he moved to Sumter County. These two latter, "Little Billy" and James, were, as is supposed, descendants of one of the old Fox- worths named herein. I think the late Ervin Godbold's wife
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was a Foxworth, likewise a descendant of one of the old Fox- worths ; she died before Ervin, and left several children, one of whom married the late S. G. Owens, once Clerk of the Court in Marion. Another one, Thomas Godbold, is in Wahee, who, I think, lives on and runs the farm of S. G. Miles. I omitted to state in connection with the late William C. Foxworth, that he had a sister, who was the wife of Thomas W. Boatwright, a most excellent, good woman; she had only two children. daughters. One married Frank Dill, in Wahee; they have a family, don't know how many. One daughter of Frank Dill married Augustus Smith, of Mullins, a thriving, promising young man. The other daughter of Mrs. Boatwright married Hon. S. W. Smith, of Mullins, whose family, only two children, a son and a daughter, have already been mentioned among the Smiths or Huggins families. Frank Dill and S. W. Smith, the husband of these two Boatwright girls, are first class men and leading citizens of their respective communities. Frank Dill, of Wahee, is a son of the late Bright Dill, of Britton's Neck, who was, I think, an importation from Abbeville County, and a good importation it was-would like to have many more such ; he was none other than a Christian gentleman. In con- nection herewith, the Boatwrights may be noticed. Thomas W. Boatwright, as above stated, married Miss Foxworth, sis- ter of the late W. C. Foxworth ; he was a harmless, inoffensive man-if he ever harmed any one, it was himself, yet he had energy and push about him; his wife was a most excellent lady; they had but two children, daughters, who were well raised, with right ideas of life, have made good housewives, and have raised and are raising nice families-the virtues of the parents are inherited by the children and shape their course in life. Don't know anything of the ancestry of T. W. Boat- wright, or of any other Boatwright in the county; there are other Boatwrights in the county, or have been-Foster, John and Eli Boatwright, but of the families of either the writer knows nothing, nor what relation they are to each other, if any, is not known; they are humble and peaceable citizens, content with their own and live houestly. There may be other Boat- wrights with their connections in the county, not known to the writer.
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WHITE AND MONROE .- The genealogy of this family was obtained from W. M. Monroe, of Marion, whose mother was a Miss White. He says the first known to him was his great- grand-father, Joseph White, who came from England; but when, he does not state; he married Judith Gainey; they had five children-four sons, Silas, Matthew, Benjamin and Ste- phen, and one daughter, Elizabeth. Silas married Elizabeth Avant, and had two sons, John and Andrew, and two daugh- ters, Charlotte and Elizabeth ; he married, a second time, Eliza Rowell, sister of Major Wm. B. Rowell, and had three sons, Joseph, William and Whitby; he married, the third time, the Widow Fladger, widow of old Charles Fladger; they had no children; he (Silas) was the grand-father of all the Whites living in the Centenary neighborhood, below Marion. Matthew White never married; he died a young man. Stephen White married Mary Fore, daughter of Richard Fore, and a sister of old Joel Fore, whose family has already been mentioned herein ; they had six children-two sons, Nelson and James, and four daughters, Fanetta, Angeline, Mary and Rhoda. James married Ann Eliza Stackhouse, daughter of Isaac Stackhouse, and sister of Colonel E. T. Stackhouse; they had one child only, a daughter, Martha; he died soon after marriage; the widow married Daniel Fore, who has already been mentioned herein among the Fores and Stackhouses, as also her daughter, Martha. Nelson White married Frances Finklea, and had six children-two sons, James and Stephen, and four daughters, Mary, Eugenia, Sallie and Alice. Can trace them no further. Fanetta, the eldest daughter of Stephen White, married David Monroe; they had eight children-five sons and three daugh- ters; the sons, Robert, William M., David, Walter and Thomas; the daughters were Sallie, Mary and Maggie. Of the sons, Robert married a Miss Baker, and has a family. William M., one of the leading merchants at Marion, married Miss Mary McMillan, a daughter of Major S. E. McMillan ; they have a family of six or seven children, all boys. Don't know who David married, if married at all. Walter S. Mon- roe married a Miss McCall, of Bennettsville, sister of Colonel C. S. McCall, and died; don't know whether with or without issue. Thomas Monroe married Miss Rhoda Gaddy, daughter
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of the late James M. Gaddy; they have some children, how many or of what sex is unknown. Of the Monroe daughters, Miss Sallie is unmarried. Mary and Maggie both martied- one to James T. Baker, and is dead, leaving five or six children, all sons; they live at Marion. The other daughter married a Mr. Summerset, and, I think, is dead. While writing about the Monroes, it is proper to mention (and it may have been mentioned herein already) that Major David Monroe was one of the many good importations from North Carolina; he had been married twice before his marriage to Miss Fanetta White; first, to a Miss Mace (and may have already been noticed among the Mace and Godbold families) ; by the Mace wife he had one child, a daughter; her mother died and left her an infant ; she grew up and married a Mr. King, of Fayetteville, N. C .; did well, and, I suppose, has children and grand-chil- dren in the old North State; Major Monroe's second wife was a Widow Haselden, whose maiden name was Elizabeth God- bold; by his marriage with the Widow Haselden he had two sons, James and Francis Marion. James, I don't think mar- ried; he was Colonel of a regiment in the Western Army of the Confederate States, and was killed or died with disease or wounds. Francis Marion Monroe married Miss Carrie Lewis, daughter of the late Ebben Lewis; lives near Latta, and has long been a prominent physician of the county and of the Latta community ; he has a nice family-five daughters and two sons. His eldest son, Clement, died a young man, quite promising, while a student in the South Carolina College. The younger son, Mckay, or McCoy, is now a young man about grown. One daughter, Anna, married James G. Baker, now of Spring Branch ; they have some children, how many or of what sex is unknown. The other daughters are all unmarried. Angeline, the second daughter of old Stephen White, married Joseph Hunter, I think, of Darlington ; they had three sons, Stephen, James and William, and a daughter, Mary. Of the sons, one married Miss Costaricca Jones, daughter of the late Fred D. Jones, of Marion-think they have already been mentioned herein among the Jones or Watsons ; he died a few years ago, and left Costa. a widow, with six children. Don't know of the other Hunter children. Mary, the third daughter of old man
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Stephen White, married Huger Godbold; they had seven chil- dren-four sons, Julius, Elly, Waties and Robert, and three daughters, Maggie, Alice and Leila. Of the sons, Waties is the only one now living in the county ; he married a Miss Rog- ers, daughter of Joseph Rogers, of Wahee; I think they have two children. His youngest son, Robert, married Lizzie Jones, daughter of Allen Jones, of Mullins ; he was in railroad employ and was killed on the railroad, and left her a widow, with one child, a daughter. Of the daughters of Huger Godbold, one married a Mr. Gause, another married Truman Foxworth, and one not married. Rhoda, the youngest daughter of old Ste- phen White, married, first, James Graham; he soon died, and then she married Stephen Smith; he died, and she is now a childless widow. Benjamin White, the youngest son of old Joseph White, married Hannah Gerald; they had born to them six children-three sons, Hugh, Evander and James, and three daughters, Ann Eliza, Mary and Fannie. Of the sons, Hugh never married. Evander married Jane Fort; he was killed in the war. James married Maggie Lucas; they had three chil- dren; he died from wounds received in the war. Of the daughters, Ann Eliza and Fannie never married. Mary mar- ried William Haselden, near Mars Bluff ; he died a few years ago, and she is the only one of her father's children now living ; she has three sons and one daughter living with her. Benja- min White and wife lived to be very old; he was paralyzed and she was blind; they were living near Darlington, when a cyclone passed through there some years ago-the house was blown down and they were both instantly killed. Elizabeth White, the only daughter of old Joseph White, and sister of Stephen White, married Henry Foxworth; they had six chil- dren-three sons, Eli, Job and Wesley, and three daughters, Matilda, Judith and Elizabeth. Eli married Eliza Foxworth; Job married Carolin Gasque, and Wesley married Ann Wood- ward. Silas White has a number of grand-children living down below Marion, bearing the name of White, but my infor- mation is too meagre to trace them seriatim. Stephen White has only two grand-sons bearing the name. There was an ex- cellent man and good citixen in Wahee Township, who died a few years ago, by the name of Wesley White, who raised a
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family, mostly daughters, and one son, James White; he was said to be a cousin (first) of old man Stephen White, but how or in what way does not appear; he married Sallie Mace. Think this family has already been noticed herein among the Mace family.
SNIPES .- The first Snipes of this family came from Eng- land, some time before the Revolution, and was a Baptist preacher ; his wife was a Miss Cox, from Ireland; they settled near Tyrrel Bay Church, now the Gibson estate; there is a creek on the Gibson estate, now known by the name of Snipes Branch or Creek. These Snipes sold their lands and moved up on Little Reedy Creek (below Marion), near the Reedy Creek Baptist Church, and some of the Snipes family have ever since owned these lands. This Baptist divine, whose name was Daniel, had a son by the name of Joseph (it is not stated whether he had other sons or not), who it was destined should become famous in after times-this was the Captain (after- wards Colonel) Snipes, who was a terror to the Tories of the Revolution, and who, in turn, so much terrorized him, as re- lated in General Horry and Mason L. Weems' Life of Marion, whose account of it will be transcribed herein, and thus is per- petuated to the credit of the Snipes family. It is not stated to whom Captain Snipes married; he had five sons and two daughters ; the sons were James, Daniel, Nelson, Thomas and William ; the daughters were Jane and Mary.
Genealogy of James Snipes-He married a Miss Baxley, by whom he had one son, David, and three daughters, Martha, Telatha and Mary. David Snipes, the son, married a Miss Drew, and died without issue. Martha married Henry Squires, of Horry County, to whom were born four sons and one daughter. Telatha and Mary Snipes never married, and hence no issue.
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