This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GeB.2ACI/943 Message Board Post: Would someone be so kind to do a lookup for me in old cemetery books for my husbands GGGGrandfather Hugh Baskin b. 1742/43 & d. 6/13/1797 in Abbeville Co?. I do not have a town. His wife was Sarah McKinley b. 1750 & d.1797. Both are probably buried side by side. What would be the town in Abbeville Co., that would have the Co. Court House? If anyone knows of a good book on old cemeteries in this age period, I would appreciate it, if you would let me know a title, and I will go to a Library to search for it. Thanks so much. Nelda

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRADFORD, PACE, AYCOCK, WOOTEN, LANE, MOORE, POPE, CROWELL, BURGESS, GREEN Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeB.2ACI/942 Message Board Post: This covers the first few generations with documentation: His descendants cover the US and the south particularly. All discussion is invited. http://home.comcast.net/~bradford222/index.html

Several times lately I have received a message from [email protected], with the heading: Verify your email address please. I have not opened any of them. Has anyone else received any of these. Obviously this is the sort of thing we have been warned about and told not to EVER give out our email address, home address, SSN. I would love to know who is getting these. It gets spookier and spookier! Gloria Donaldson Wells [email protected]

--=======21C82479======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-73921934; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The records were found in Edgefield not Abbeville. However, you may still find some info. Tonya and Tricia have published a book on the 1891 documents found, includes a census of the Village of Edgefield in 1791 and the Sheriff's Jail Book among other items. If you are interested contact Tonya Taylor at 803-637-4010. Connie >X-Message: #2 >Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 03:20:03 EST >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [Abbeville] Re: SCABBEVI-D Digest V04 #24 >Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-73921934; charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >Please tell about the records recently found in Abbeville. Were they in an >attic? Can anyone tell what type records they are? How were they found? > >This is exciting news. Maybe I can finally learn something about my elusive >ancestor who lived in Abbeville for years, enlisted in Rev War, died 1811. >And that is just about the sum total of what I know. > >Gloria Donaldson Wells >[email protected] > > >--- >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.593 / Virus Database: 376 - Release Date: 2/20/04 > --=======21C82479======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-73921934 Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.593 / Virus Database: 376 - Release Date: 2/20/04 --=======21C82479=======--

Please tell about the records recently found in Abbeville. Were they in an attic? Can anyone tell what type records they are? How were they found? This is exciting news. Maybe I can finally learn something about my elusive ancestor who lived in Abbeville for years, enlisted in Rev War, died 1811. And that is just about the sum total of what I know. Gloria Donaldson Wells [email protected]

Wonderful suggestion about the codicil. Thank you for sending it on to the rest of us. Gloria Donaldson Wells [email protected]

This came to me from another mailing list I am on and I thought it was a terrific thing. I am sure you are all like me and have spent hundreds of hours gathering information, it would be a shame to see it lost in the next generation. Hope it does some good. Jane Foley Genealogical Codicil to My Last Will and Testament To my spouse, children, guardian, administrator and/or executor: Upon my demise it is requested that you DO NOT dispose of any or all of my genealogical records, both those prepared personally by me and those records prepared by others which may be in my possession, including but not limited to books, files, notebooks or computer programs for a period of two years. During this time period, please attempt to identify one or more persons who would be willing to take custody of the said materials and the responsibility of maintaining and continuing the family histories. [If you know whom within your family or friends are likely candidates to accept these materials, please add the following at this point: "I suggest that the persons contacted regarding the assumption of the custody of these items include but not be limited to" and then list the names of those individuals at this point, with their addresses and telephone numbers if known] In the event you do no find anyone to accept these materials, please contact the various genealogical organizations that I have been a member of and determine if they will accept some parts or all of my genealogical materials. [List of organizations, addresses and phone numbers at bottom; include local chapters, with their addresses, phone numbers and contact persons if available as well as state/national contact information and addresses] Please remember that my genealogical endeavors consumed a great deal of time, travel, and money. Therefore it is my desire that the products of these endeavors be allowed to continue in a manner that will make them available to others in the future. Signature ___________________________ Date ___________ Witness ____________________________ Date ___________ Witness ____________________________ Date ___________

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Martin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GeB.2ACI/939.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Fred. Thanks for the info. I too have the William Bagwell book, 2nd Edition (Green). I descend from the family described in that book.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GeB.2ACI/939.1.1 Message Board Post: I thought that you may find the following of interest: >From THE MARTIN FAMILY OF ABBEVILLE COUNTY by William Bagwell, Cheyney, Pa: June 1981: The name John Martin, which was the name of our family's earliest know forefather in South Carolina, was a very popular and often unsed name. It appears in a variety of interesting places in the early history of the region. In 1758, a young Presbyterian missionary name John Martin was sent to wrok amoung the Cherokee Indians of the Carolinas by the Presbyterian Society for Managing the Missions and Schools among the Indians (PSMMSI). His success in working with Indians is uncertain, but he did become well-known as a frontier preacher among the Carolina backcountry settlers. (1) It seems possible, though unverified, that this young minister married a Cherokee maiden. At any rate, when the Cherokee Nation drew up its National Constitution of 1827, an impressive document similar to the U.S. Constitution, one of the chief signers was John Martin, a prominent Cherokee judge and plantation owner. (2) Another John Martin in the Colonial Era was Governor of Georgia, being chief of that state when the British Army withdrew at the end of the Revolutionary War in 1782. (3) Two other important Martins of that period were Governor Josiah Martin of North Carolina in the 1770's, and Luther Martin of Maryland, one of the formers of the U. S. Constitution. This Luther Martin was a strong opponent of slavery and idid much to help in organizing the early Abolition Movement in this country. (4) It seems quite likely that our John Martin was among those several thousand "poor Protestants" fromEurope who were entices by the Royal Goverment of South Carolina to migrate to that colony's backcountry area in the 1760's and 1770's following the end of the French and Indian War. The inmigrants, who were primarily Scotch-Irish, but who also included about 500 Germans and 200 French Huguenots, were awared free land grants of 100 to 150 acres for each adult (50 acres for a married woman) , with additional smaller grants for each child (under 16) in the family. The only requirements were that the grants had to be in one of the newly created communities wet i[ bu gpvernmental action along the edge of the backcountry and the settlers had to live on the land and farm it for at least two years. There were three such communities - Boonsborough and Londonderry in what later became Abbeville County, and Belfast in the future Laurens County. By the time of the American Revolution ! in the mid 1770's, hundreds of families had settled ineach of the communities. Among the settlers in the three frontier communitites in early Carolina were a number of Martins, several of them named John, James, Robert, Samuel, Thomas or William. Whether they were related or merely bearers of the same surname, we have no way of knowing. All we do know is that most of them were apparently from Ireland. (A few spelled their name as "Martain" and perhaps were among the French Huguenots. According to family legend, John Martin arrived in SC sometime prior to the Rev. War and received "from King George III" a "large grant of land" which included much of the present Due West area. The grant supposedly lay near DeWitt's Trading Post along the Old Cherokee Trail which ran from Ninety-Six to the Cherokee Village of Keowee. The trading post, established in the 1720's by Charles DeWitt, and enterprising young merchant from Charleston, stood about 4-5 miles north of the present day town of Due West near present day State Road #20 not far from the Abbeville-Anderson County line. (1) Woodmason, Charles, THE CAROLINA BACKCOUNTRY ON THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTION (Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1953), pp. 132-3. (2) Milling, Chapman J., RED CAROLINIANS (Columbia: Univ. of SC Press, 1969), pp. 334-342. (3) Quarles, Benjamin, THE NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (Chapel Hill; Univ of NC Press, 1961), pp. 163-64, 110. (4) IBID, p. 190. See also Wirth, Fremont, TTHE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICA (New York: American Book Co., 1942) p. 191; and Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, THE COURSE OF THE SOUTH TO SECESSION (New York: Hill & Wang 1939), pp. 7, 14, 53, 54, 55, 64. X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 17:14:02 EDT From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: MARTIN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" To all who might have connections to MARTIN family: For several years I have been searching for my step-grandfather - with no results in Alabama. Hence, I am spreading out and posting messages EVERY-WHERE. His name was EDWARD RUFUS MARTIN, born 20 April 1881 in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, son of Edward R. Martin and Sarah E. Miller. Edward Rufus Martin died on 20 July 1958, pbly in Concordia/Catahoula Parish, LA. The entire story PROVEN WITH PAPERS is: The father of Edward Rufus was Edward R. Martin - don't know if the "R" was a Rufus or not. The elder Edward was b in April 1839, pbly in SC. He married Sarah E. Miller, b in GA in 1841 and they were residing in Barbour County, AL in 1870. Testimony shows that Edward R. Martin (the elder) met Pleasant B. Patterson, both on horseback, in a public road 2-1/2 miles from Mount Andrew, Alabama, on 24 Aug 1883 and Martin shot Patterson. He immediately reported the shooting and surrendered himself. Martin was indicted for murder of Patterson, defendant pleaded not guilty, was convicted for murder in the second degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of 20 years. (Testimony shows that Patterson had thrown an axe at Martin and shot him four times BEFORE Martin fired a shot.) Martin must have been in Montgomery, AL- the prison - and there were papers in 1964 and the case was printed/published in legal reports. (Martin appealed; Supreme Court of Alabama, December Term, 1884, 77 Ala 1, Martin v. The State. Martin was PARDONED, FULLY, 16 July 1893.) But the prison papers were never available. Sarah E. Miller Martin, the wife of the prisoner, went to Louisiana and brought her young son, EDWARD RUFUS MARTIN, in 1884 when he was three years old. Sarah married to a Mr. Fincher in Ruston, La; did she lie? did she get a divorce? How did she get married when she had a husband in prison? If you are convicted of a felony, is your divorce automatic? Don't know. Anyway, it appears that Mr. Fincher was abusing young Edward and she moved to Extension, LA, Franklin Parish, and she resided in the Tom Matthews family. In June 1990 Sarah lived in the household of J.Y. Christiansen and Sarah died in Franklin Parish, LA after 1930. The young Edward Rufus Martin married my grandmother, Alice Phenia (nee DuBell) Green as her second husband on 18 Oct 1914. My grandfather was Thomas Green, husband of Alice; after he died, Alice married Mr. Martin. Mr. Martin was not related to me, but he was the only grandfather we had, and I would like to find his family. I have seached for years for Barbour County, the Internet, genealogical records, family trees, IGI, Soundex, census - nothing has surfaced. The elder Martin had a large family; he was the son of David MARTIN and Nancy; they had nine children: Edward R. (the prisoner), two daus m before 1840, Sarah Martin, Alex(ander), Tobe, Frank, Benjamin and E.J. Frank Martin, brother to the prisoner, moved to Baldwin County, Ala where he resided in 1900. No further trace of the family. Sarah E. Miller, who m Edward R. Martin, was the dau of John D. Miller and his wife, Malinda. She had siblings: A.J., Robert G., James, John and Lucinda, all residing in Barbour County, AL in 1880. When Sarah moved to LA while her husband was in prison, she denied the existence of her son, kept him out of school, moved from one home to another; it appears she was terrified of her husband, the prisoner. It is possible that she had something to do with the killing in 1883 and she did not want to find out his whereabouts. WHAT A MYSTERY. Edward R. Martin was pardoned and he went SOMEWHERE. Where? He was 54 years of age when he was pardoned on 16 July 1893. He could have been living in 1900 at the age of 61; he could have been living in 1910 at age 71. WE CANNOT FIND HIM. I reviewed ALL of the census records for 1900 and 1910 for AL, GA, MS, LA and ARK. No Edward R. Martin, b SC, April 1839. I would appreciate ANY information. Thank you. Dorothy of Phoenix, AZ.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dunn Martin Crozier Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GeB.2ACI/941 Message Board Post: The old family bible that states that John Martin moved from Ireland to Abbeville Co., South Carolina and married a Sarah Dunn. Sarah Dunn is the daughter of James Dunn Sr and Agness Crozier, daughter of James Crozier.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dunn Martin Crozier Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GeB.2ACI/939.1 Message Board Post: The old family bible that states that John Martin moved from Ireland to Abbeville Co., South Carolina and married a Sarah Dunn. Sarah Dunn is the daughter of James Dunn Sr and Agness Crozier, daughter of James Crozier.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Alewine, Boyd, Bowen, Burton, Carwile, Clinkscales, Mann, McAdams, Seawright, Stokes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeB.2ACI/940 Message Board Post: Rev. James CROWTHER (b. 25 Jun 1762, Yorkshire, England / d. 04 Nov 1829, Abbeville SC). Rev. James is buried in the Little River Baptist Church Cemetery. All other CROWTHERs of Abbeville County have been connected in our family. Anyone having any information about this man, please contact : Richard Crowther at [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crozier Martin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GeB.2ACI/939 Message Board Post: I have seen information in the past on a James Crozier who came from Ireland to America in 1700's. I read that he arrived in Charleston and moved to Abbeville Co., South Carolina. I have posession of an old family bible that states that Agness Crozier, daughter of James Crozier, was the spouse of a John Martin. John Martin moved from Ireland to Abbeville Co., South Carolina too. Can anyone help with more information? Can you provide a "source" on the facts I may have right but only have in memory? Do you know where James is buried? 1789 Apr 7 James Crozier Will Proved Source: Abstracts of Old Ninety-Six and Abbeville District Wills and Bonds Page 82 - Crozier, James - Box 24, Pack 557 Will dated May 27, 1778, Proved April 7, 1789. Exrs: Wm. Pressly, Thos. Crozier. Wit: Wm. Doris, Andrew Crozier. Wife, no name given. Chn: Samuel, Agness Crozier.

Gas pumping handles. Yes, this is a hoax. I am the one who sent it originally, and I apologize. There is so much devilment going on these days that I simply swallowed it hook, line and sinker. Sorry. Gloria Donaldson Wells [email protected]

IS THIS A HOAX OR NOT. One part says read carefully - another says it is a HOAX. Please inform readers whether they should pass this on or NOT. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:00 PM Subject: SCABBEVI-D Digest V04 #26

YES is is a HOAX and has been around for years. It might be helpful if people would check out an Urban Myth website before passing on messages like this. A good site to look at before anyone passes on this type of false information, is this one. It gives you several "urban myth" websites that will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about things like this. http://www.dragonbeads.com/myths.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marty Jacobson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:12 AM Subject: [Abbeville] Re: SCABBEVI-D Digest V04 #26 > IS THIS A HOAX OR NOT. One part says read carefully - another says it is a > HOAX. Please inform readers whether they should pass this on or NOT. > > Thanks. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:00 PM > Subject: SCABBEVI-D Digest V04 #26 > > > > > ==== SCABBEVI Mailing List ==== > The blood and courage that renowned them > Runs in your veins; >

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa061400a.htm -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Abbeville] Beware!!! READ CAREFULLY >Please Read - Gas Pumping Handles... >>> >>>Read this before your next gas fill-up- this world gets sicker every day! >>> >>>Folks: >>> >>>Please take a couple minutes to read this Warning about Gas Pumping >>>Handles. >>> >>> >>>Warning: >>> >>>Look at the gas pump handle BEFORE you pump your gas. >>> >>>Please read and forward to anyone you know who drives a car. >>> >>>My name is Captain Abraham Sands of the Jacksonville, Florida Police >>>Department. I have been asked by state and local authorities to write >this >>>e-mail in order to get the word out to car drivers of a very dangerous >>>prank that is occurring in numerous states. >>> >>>Some person or persons have been affixing hypodermic needles to the >>>underside of gas pump handles! These needles appear to be infected with >HIV >>>positive blood. In the Jacksonville area alone there have been 17 cases >of >>>people being stuck by these needles over the past five months. We have >>>verified reports of at least 12 others in various states around the >>>country. >>>It is believed that these may be copycat incidents due to someone reading >>>about the crimes or seeing them reported on the television. >>> >>>At this point no one has been arrested and catching the perpetrator's has >>>become our top priority. Shockingly, of the 17 people who where stuck, 8 >>>have tested HIV positive and because of the nature of the disease, the >>>others could test positive in a couple years. evidently the consumers go >to >>>fill their car with gas, and when picking up the pump handle get stuck >with >>>the infected needle. >>> >>>IT IS IMPERATIVE TO CAREFULLY CHECK THE HANDLE of the gas pump each time >>>you use one. LOOK AT EVERY SURFACE YOUR HAND MAY TOUCH, INCLUDING UNDER >>>THE HANDLE! >>> >>>If you do find a needle affixed to one, immediately contact your local >>>police department so they can collect the evidence. >>> >>>PLEASE HELP US BY MAINTAINING A VIGILANCE, AND BY FORWARDING THIS EMAIL >TO >>>ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO DRIVES. >>> >>>THE MORE PEOPLE WHO KNOW OF THIS, THE BETTER PROTECTED WE CAN ALL BE. ==== SCABBEVI Mailing List ==== The breath no sooner left his father's body, But that his wildness, mortified in him, Seem'd to die too; yea, at that very moment

>Please Read - Gas Pumping Handles... >>> >>>Read this before your next gas fill-up- this world gets sicker every day! >>> >>>Folks: >>> >>>Please take a couple minutes to read this Warning about Gas Pumping >>>Handles. >>> >>> >>>Warning: >>> >>>Look at the gas pump handle BEFORE you pump your gas. >>> >>>Please read and forward to anyone you know who drives a car. >>> >>>My name is Captain Abraham Sands of the Jacksonville, Florida Police >>>Department. I have been asked by state and local authorities to write >this >>>e-mail in order to get the word out to car drivers of a very dangerous >>>prank that is occurring in numerous states. >>> >>>Some person or persons have been affixing hypodermic needles to the >>>underside of gas pump handles! These needles appear to be infected with >HIV >>>positive blood. In the Jacksonville area alone there have been 17 cases >of >>>people being stuck by these needles over the past five months. We have >>>verified reports of at least 12 others in various states around the >>>country. >>>It is believed that these may be copycat incidents due to someone reading >>>about the crimes or seeing them reported on the television. >>> >>>At this point no one has been arrested and catching the perpetrator's has >>>become our top priority. Shockingly, of the 17 people who where stuck, 8 >>>have tested HIV positive and because of the nature of the disease, the >>>others could test positive in a couple years. evidently the consumers go >to >>>fill their car with gas, and when picking up the pump handle get stuck >with >>>the infected needle. >>> >>>IT IS IMPERATIVE TO CAREFULLY CHECK THE HANDLE of the gas pump each time >>>you use one. LOOK AT EVERY SURFACE YOUR HAND MAY TOUCH, INCLUDING UNDER >>>THE HANDLE! >>> >>>If you do find a needle affixed to one, immediately contact your local >>>police department so they can collect the evidence. >>> >>>PLEASE HELP US BY MAINTAINING A VIGILANCE, AND BY FORWARDING THIS EMAIL >TO >>>ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO DRIVES. >>> >>>THE MORE PEOPLE WHO KNOW OF THIS, THE BETTER PROTECTED WE CAN ALL BE.

James MAYSON, b. abt 1733 probably Scotland married maybe three times, at least two known marriages. 1]Miriam 2] Ann Goudy 3] Henrietta Hart James had about 14 children; he left will naming these children and a few grandchildren which is a good start to a family tree. He was a Major in the Regulators, a Lt. Col. in the SC Militia, he performed the first overt act of the revolution in SC by attacking Fort Charlotte and capturing its Commander and all their ammuntion which was the objective set out for him by his colonel in charge. James was a Judge in Newberry after the war. He owned two plantations and two ferries and a large Distillery anyone wanting to discuss this fmaily please contact me. Charles. Don't worry bout me, I'm as organized as a henhouse full of chickens

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hamilton, Hinton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeB.2ACI/938 Message Board Post: I trying to locate any confirmed children of John Hamilton (born 1830 in Abbeville to John Allen Hamilton and Elizabeth Wharton) and Elizabeth Hannah Hinton. John died in 1867 in Taylor County Florida and Hannah married Grady Henry Hamilton. In the 1870 census of Taylor County Florida, the children in their household are listed as Joseph J. (18), Clement A. (14), Lewis D. (10), and Rebecca J. (7 months). Grady Hamilton is listed as 25 years old, so he's not the father of the older children, but I'd like to see if anyone has any more information. Thanks.