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/940.2.1 Message Board Post: The obituary in the South Carolina Columbia Telescope and South-Carolina State Journal issue Nov. 20, 1829 indicates the following: "Died in Abbeville district, on Thursday, the 4th instant, the Rev. James Crowther, in the 65th year of his age. The deceased emigrated from England during the Revolutionary war and settled in Abbeville. He belonged to the Baptist Church of which he had been a member upwards of 35 years..."