Subject: Fw: MARCHBANKS/BATSON Sent: 9/6/20 2:33 PM Received: 9/8/00 2:30 PM From: Jim McDonald, jim91429@email.msn.com To: Robert Marjoribanks, mjbnks@sympatico.ca 9-8-2000 Jim McDonald received this information from Sharie Batson, a cousin he discovered on the internet when reading some Marchbanks data. He says the report provided some data about Samuel that others may not have All the best.....Jim -----Original Message----- From: BATSON532@aol.com <BATSON532@aol.com> To: jim91429@email.msn.com <jim91429@email.msn.com> Date: Friday, August 25, 2000 2:46 PM Subject: Re: MARCHBANKS/BATSON >SAMUEL STEPHEN MARCHBANKS: > Samuel Stephen Marchbanks was the second child of Stephen Perry >Marchbanks and Rachel Rebecca Jones and their second son. He was born on >November 10, 1826 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. > Very little information has been found on Samuel S. Marchbanks prior to >his enlistment in the Confederate Army on March 24, 1862 in the Greenville >District. > The 1850 and 1860 Federal Census of Greenville County, South Carolina and >the State Census does not list him as being at home with his parents or as >head of a household. Other state census records were checked with nothing >found. > >The following information was abstracted from the Confederate Army Records >at The South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, SC: >Samuel S. Marchbanks 33 years old >Enlisted: March 24, 1862 in the Greenville District by Captain W. H. Campbell >to >serve for the war. >Private: Company H 3rd Palmetto Battalion, South Carolina Light Artillery >under >Captain T. A. Holtzclaw, South Carolina Volunteers. >This company was active in the Charleston, South Carolina area and was >detached at "Dills Bluff" South Carolina, according to the Muster Rolls dated >July 1863 until 1864. >The company in which he served shows: Muster Rolls of Officers and Men >paroled in accordance with the terms of a Military Convention entered into on >the >26th day of April 1865 between General Joseph E. Johnston, Commanding >Confederate Army and Major W. T. Sherman, Commanding United States Army in >North Carolina. >Roll dated April 29, 1865 Greensboro, North Carolina. >Paroled at High Point, North Carolina May 2, 1865. > > Samuel S. Marchbanks would have married sometime prior to December 1862 >to Lucinda C., who was born November 17, 1822. > In a letter dated January 19, 1863 to Captain W. H. Campbell, West Lines, >James Island, South Carolina, Stephen P. Marchbanks notified Captain Campbell >that the only child of Samuel S. Marchbanks had died within the past five >weeks. > After his discharge from the army on May 2, 1865, he joined Reedy River >Baptist Church August 31, 1865 by experience and he remained on the same >church rolls until his death. Lucinda C. Marchbanks had joined the same >church by experience October 23, 1860. > >1870 Federal Census of Greenville County: >S. S. Marchbanks, 41 years old >Lucinda 37 years old >Harriett 6 years old >Aletha 3 years old > >1880 Census lists: >Samuel S. Marchbanks 51 years old >Lucinda 48 years old >Leatha 13 years old >Dorinda 10 years old >Josephine 6 years old > > The will of Samuel S. Marchbanks dated May 18, 1903 and recorded in Will >Packet 74 6, Greenville County Courthouse Probate Judge's office, he names >his wife, Lucinda Marchbanks and his four daughters, Harriet L. Wilbanks, >Aletha P. Hill, Dorinda D. Barton and Josephine E. Moody. Before the final >settlement of the estate after his death on September 21, 1903, his daughter >Aletha P. Hill died December 28, 1903. In the estate settlement it mentions >that Aletha P. Hill's children were to receive their mother's share of the >estate. They were, Harvey J. Hill, Stella Smith, Elsa Simpson, Persia Hill, >Noette Hill and Theresa Hill. Lucinda C. Marchbanks, wife of Samuel Stephen >Marchbanks died April 20, 1908 and they are both buried in the church yard at >Reedy River Baptist Church. > >blessings, >sharie