This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeB.2ACI/911 Message Board Post: Requesting information as to where the SC National Guard from Abbeville, Battery F., 115th F.A., with Ansel B. Godfrey commanding conducted training exercises in the late 20's and early 30's. Was it Fort Jackson? Any other information on this unit would be appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeB.2ACI/910 Message Board Post: Am looking for a marriage record on my gggg grandparents. Richard Van Wagenen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeB.2ACI/909 Message Board Post: Looking for the names of all PRUITT'S that were living in Abbeville between 1770 and 1790.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeB.2ACI/908 Message Board Post: Looking for the names of all PRUITT'S that were living in Abbeville between 1770 and 1790.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeB.2ACI/907.1 Message Board Post: I have been working on the Norris family. What you have on them is correct. The only other Norris is Sarah (1759-1760). She was less than one year old and died in the massacre. Under Search, type in Long Cane Massacre. The articles that follow give info. and some names, not all. Depending upon the report, the dead vary from 22 to 40.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mathews, Calhoun, Christopher, Brough Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeB.2ACI/907 Message Board Post: I am attempting to identify those who died as a result of the Long Cane Massacre on 1 Feb 1760. I understand the Norris family lost several (possibly 6) in the massacre by the Cherokee Indians. Mary Winnifred Patrick Norris, the matriarch of the family, and Elizabeth Wrentz Norris, wife of Robert Norris, have been identified. Also the Calhoun family was hit hard with Cathrine Montgomery Calhoun, their matriarch, James Calhoun, and Wm. Calhoun's daughters Catherine and Mary, all being killed. I understand a Noble was also killed at the massacre. Can anyone add to the list I am compiling of those who were killed or captured? Anne Calhoun was captured.

Tami, Do you have any dates for your McGaw? Anita

I am looking for the parents of Gilbert MILLS and the parents of his wife Martha MCGAW. Tami

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeB.2ACI/906 Message Board Post: I am searching for information about my great great grandfather, Benjamin Mitchell Andrews. We know only a few details of his life: he was born around 1818 in South Carolina and married Elizabeth Jane Hemminger on June 1, 1847. They had one son, Thomas Benjamin Andrews in 1848. Benjamin was an expert shoe and harness maker, he traveled west around 1856 to establish a business or look for work. He may have known the Abbeville relatives of the Burson and King families in Jackson County Georgia since he went there to work for John King in King's Tan Yard. King's wife Frances Burson King, had a younger sister, Jerusha George Burson, who was 35 years old. According to a handwritten autobiography of Jerusha and Benjamin's son (Mitchell Shaw Benjamin Andrews), Benjamin's relatives in Abbeville wrote to him and told him his wife Elizabeth had died from typhoid fever. He then married Jerusha. After their wedding in the fall of 1857, Benjamin and Jerusha moved on to Opelika, Alabama where Benjamin worked for Charley Tate. Benjamin’s first wife, Elizabeth, apparently learning of the mistaken report of her death to her husband, traced him through the post office. Upon learning that Benjamin had a living wife, Jerusha sent him back to her even though she was then five months pregnant. Benjamin never again contacted Jerusha. She died in 1876. We know that Benjamin returned to Abbeville County and later fought in the Civil War on the side of the Confederate army, serving in the Second South Carolina Infantry “Palmetto Regiment” as a private. We know little of Benjamin’s life after his return to Abbeville, other than his Civil War service. He is listed on the 1880 census with Elizabeth in the “Calhoun Mills” district of Abbeville; he was aged 62, she was 52. Benjamin’s occupation is shown as “farmer” and Elizabeth’s as ‘keeping house.” Below their names on the census are listed several black farm workers, May and Eulalia Simpson, ages 23 and 18, and their six month old baby. The next family shown below Benjamin and Elizabeth is probably Benjamin’s son Thomas Benjamin Andrews, although his name is shown as “T.A. Andrews.” He was 32 years old, suggesting he was born around 1848. His wife is listed as “E.G.” Andrews, along with six children ages 10, 8, 6, 4, 3, and 4 months. The proximity of the listing suggests they lived in adjoining housing. The “Calhoun Mills” area probably the plantation known as “Millwood” along the Savannah River near the town known today as “Calhoun Falls”. Millwood was owned by John C. Calhoun’s relative James Edward Calhoun. The area of Millwood is apparently now submerged under Lake Russell, created in the early 1900s by damming the Savannah River. According to Mitchell S.B. Andrews, he went to Abbeville and found Benjamin when he was 34 years old (around 1892) . In addition, after Benjamin died, Elizabeth came to live with Mitchell. He pasted a picture of Elizabeth in his ledger book, identifying her as “E. J. Andrews, step-mother to M. S. B. Andrews.” It’s not an accurate description, but perhaps it is the only one that avoids a long explanation. Elizabeth died in 1910 and is buried at Centralhatchee along with Mitchell and his wife Lula. Mitchell's book also has a picture of his half brother Thomas B. Andrews and his family. Mitchell later married Nancy Talula ("Lula") Hearn and lived mostly in Heard County Georgia until his retirement to La Grange (Troup County). The had 10 children; Benjamin, William ("Sink"), Gordon, Judson, Rufus Archibald, Joseph Leonidus, Lola and Ida Lou (and two babies who died young-- Ruby and Sammie). Lula burned to death in 1927 and Mitchell died in 1948. Any information about Benjamin or Elizabeth would be truly appreciated.

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/882.1 Message Board Post: what was the name of this fellow? you refer at the bottom of James the pensioner being a cousin? Thanks

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/903.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: They are possible relatives

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/903.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: keep me posted on the arnolds of newnan, ga. e-mail me at [email protected] with more info. are james and william your relatives?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeB.2ACI/625.3.1 Message Board Post: I have some information on John R.F. Porter born 7 March 1842 in S.C., died 7 March 1912 in Owen Co. IN. this is my GGgrandfather. His daughter Harriet (Hattie) married Charles E. Parrish. If this is the same John his father Hugh Porter born 29 Aug 1797 in Abberville, S.C. His father Rev. Alexander Porter,born 1770 in S.C.became fatherless at young age. His father Hugh Porter was killed by the Tories. The Rev.Alexander Porter moved to Ohio Preble Co.1813 There are so many John Porters I had a hard time finding mine. I hope this is some help to you. Please let me know and I will send more info. Beverly

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: arnold Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GeB.2ACI/903.1.1 Message Board Post: james arnold had a son james jr whom born son william, phillip and a maybe another son and a daugther. james in abbeyville 1810, james jr in newan, ga 1830.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Simpson, Arnold, Poole, Neighbors, Thomas and Fowler Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GeB.2ACI/903.1 Message Board Post: Could he be connected to a Joel Arnold born abt 1822 died after 1870, married Amanda Neighbors, had the following children: William H b abt 1853, Mary J b abt 1854, James Allen b 6 Oct 1858, Nancy Arnold b abt 1862, living in the Cokesville district of Newbury now Abbeville Co. He was a railroad man and moved around.

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/483.3 Message Board Post: My great, great, great grandfather was James Graham who came from Belfast, Ireland with his wife Margaret (Peggy) to Charleston, SC, aboard the Bridgt. Lord Dungannon and arrived in Charleston on Feb. 3, 1768. His son William was my great, great grandfather. What info do you need?

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/903 Message Board Post: looking for info of james arnold had son william born 1832. moved to newnan, ga coweta county 1820-1825. owned slave named harriett br 1825 she had 7 children 1852-1865.

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/850.1 Message Board Post: i'm looking for a james arnold had son william born 1832 they move to newnan, ga coweta county about 1820-30.

Hello, I am researching the Drummond family of South Carolina from the late 1790s up to 1835. Two of my fifth great-grandfathers, Henry Drummond of Ireland and David Melton of NC, are on the 1820 Pendleton Dist. census. Henry's son (Joseph Berry Drummond b: 1817-20? in SC) and David's daughter (C. Elenor Melton b: 1820-23? in SC) married in 1843 in Cass County, Georgia. I have also just learned this from the "South Carolina Naturalizations, 1783-1850": "S.C. Pendleton District. Petition of Daniel Drummond, a native of the county of Antrim in Ireland, has been a resident in the U. S. A. 15 years, and the whole time in this state ... October 26, 1813." Henry was born in Ireland around 1793 and could be a son of this Daniel. I invite you to please check out my site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gdrummondjr/index.html It has a lot of info on the Drummonds and many other surnames especially those from the Orangeburg Dist. If anyone has any info on the Drummonds or Meltons I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, Glen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CARITHERS (CARUTHERS) MCGOWEN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeB.2ACI/902 Message Board Post: OOPS..FORGOT TO ADD THE NAMES TO THE HEADER OF LOOK-UP....