Great. It is a great way to start the day when you have reached another successful find. I have a two volume set of books I have done of my denomination for pioneer ministers and am doing a third edition and had been seeking where a certain one was buried. Born in North Carolina and I searched and searched there but found him this week in Mississippi having been killed in the civil war. Another fulfillment. Sent from my iPad > On Feb 6, 2015, at 12:27 AM, David Wilson via <[email protected]> wrote: > > My 3G GF Seaborn Loveless has in some respects been a bit of mystery to me. > He was born in 1807 (maybe in Kentucky, maybe in South Carolina), bur lived > most of his life in Anderson District SC. We knew he died in 1841, > presumably in SC, but I could never a record of his burial in the years when > I was most actively searching for it. Seaborn is one of the descendants of > Old Barton the Horse Thief, whose history is often mentioned in the archives > of this List. > > > > This evening I put Seaborn's name into some of the usual search engines and > to my surprise found a cemetery record for the Ruhamah Methodist Church in > Holland Store, SC. That's about 10 miles SW of the town of Anderson on Lake > Hartwell very close to the Georgia border (i.e., the Savannah River). The > church was founded in 1822 and was apparently the site of regular Methodist > Meetings in that corner of South Carolina. This Methodist exposure may > explain why Seaborn's son, James Belton Loveless, though ordained as a > Baptist minister after the Civil War, eventually split with the Baptists and > preached as a Methodist Episcopal minister in a small community in Jackson > County AL for most of his life. > > > > Anyway, the dates of record for Seaborn Loveless are now 2/16/1807 to > 8/22/1841. In a few days he would be 208 years old had his life not been > tragically cut short 174 years ago, probably in consequence of the Yellow > Fever epidemic that ravaged the South that year. > > > > The moral: never stop looking for the information! New data crops up all the > time. > > > > David WIlson > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message