Hi all, I have a letter to my grandfather, Luther Hamilton Collins, from Jno. W. Earhardt, of the Amity Lodge, No. 87, A.F.M. (Masonic Lodge) dated January 29, 1930. Does anyone on the list have an address or phone number for this lodge or know if they keep records of any sort for their former Masons? Thanks, Brenda ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

http://www.liszt.com/submit.html Please submit the list to this search engine for lists when you get a chance. We are not listed on there. Have a safe and happy holiday, Traci Parsons-Holder -- Howdy Cousin - http://www.howdycousin.com Pickens County SC USGenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~scpicken/ Newberry County SC USGenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/ War Between the States in SC - http://www.rootsweb.com/~scwbts/ Civil War Pensions for SC - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pensions/civilwar/scindex.htm Parker County Genealogical Society, TX - http://www.rootsweb.com/~txpcgs/

Newberry County SC USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/ Turkey day is almost upon us and we've had alot of great submissions come in! Keep them coming in!! David Cease is sending me the 1790 Census to add to the page (Newberry Co Gen Society), so we have that to look forward to!! Also, some of you are waiting to hear about 'look ups' in the County Courthouse - I am still working on compiling a list of names - this is a top priority and should be done by the end of the month! I have found us a ton of help/resources in Newberry but ya'll just sit tight while I finish it up for you :) A BIG HAND for all those who have sent records in!! With out your help the pages are nothing, so KEEP SENDING THEM IN :) Also, Im working on fixing the old queries. Its not working right, and I cant seem to figure out the problem, so I plan on redesigning the pages. (this wont happen until December) Have a safe and Happy Turkey Day! Traci Parsons-Holder On to the updates: Migration Out of Newberry County http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/page4.htm SETZLER, PEASTER - thanks to John Seltzer RILEY, ARNOLD, SUMMERS - thanks to Paul S. Armstrong THOMAS, MARBUT - thanks to Pauline Huffman Migration Into Newberry County http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/page3.htm RIKARD, RACCURST -thanks to James Calvin Rikard Sr PENNINGTON - thanks to Rod Pennington Newberry County Biographies http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/page6.htm Rev. Samuel NEWMAN - thanks to Brantley Adams Captain William Fair GRAHAM (1818-1844) #2 Citadel Newberry County Early Settlers http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/earlysettlers.htm PENNINGTON - thanks to Rod Pennington FAIR, CHAPMAN, JACKSON, KINCH - thanks to Captain Al Franklin DARBY, CHANDLER, EPPS - thanks to Darby Frantz Newberry County Records http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/page7.htm Chapman-Summers Cemetery "Old Dunker" - thanks to Captain Al Franklin Prosperity Cemetery - thanks to Captain Al Franklin ABRAMS - LAKE Marriage - thanks to Cathy Abrams Bush River Baptist Church - thanks to Brantley Adams FAIR, FARR, GRAHAM Records - Traci Parsons-Holder LAKE of Newberry and Edgefield - thanks to Susan Johanson REID, DICKERT, LEWIS 1800's - thanks to Elaine Lewis Lester DARBY & CHANDLER - thanks to Darby Frantz Will of Mathew SMITH, c1819 - thanks to Syndi Stark Will of Caleb GILBERT 1806 - thanks to Jane Gilbert Family Pages Associated with Newberry County: http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/page1.htm

Ken, Broderbund WFT# 25 has a Lake family tree, but not many dates. There are a couple of Elizabeths there that could be in the right time frame for your Elizabeth, but no husbands are listed. As for Elijah Bowen, I don't know who he is; only that he is an apprentice learning the tailoring trade. He could be a cousin of the Lakes and/or the Clarkes. Let me know if you find out anything more. Susan -- Susan C. Johanson Springfield, VA johanson@digizen.net Rootsweb sponsor NEHGS member http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/j/o/h/Susan-C-Johanson/ ....I prefer digging in the past to digging in the yard....

Hello Everyone, I am looking for any information on James Dulaney BOWEN and Elizabeth Betsey LAKE. James Bowen married Elizabeth Lake prior to 1836 somewhere in South Carolina. I feel very strongly that it was in Newberry County because of the large concentration of Lakes in the 1830 and 1840 Newberry County Census. James was born abt 1811 and Elizabeth was born abt 1812, both in South Carolina. They had five children who were also born in SC. The oldest was William Elisha who was born abt 1836. They moved to Pontotoc County Mississippi between 1848 and 1851. I know this because they had a son born in 1848 in SC and a daughter born in 1851 in MS. The first record I can find of them anywhere is in the 1860 Pontotoc County census. To Susan Johanson: Do you have any information on the Elijah Bowen from the 1850 Anderson County SC census? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Happy Hunting to all and have a good weekend, Ken Bowen Depository http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~kenbowen

A major B_I_N_G_O for Nancie who has helped me alot with both the web sites!! Heres your LARK aka LERCHE http://www.atl.mindspring.com/~wsgriffi/lark.htm According to fellow researchers MR. DAVID "GAIL" COWART (e-mail: cowartd@worldnet.att.net (2 Mar 1998) and Peggy Koch (typeset999@mail.stlnet.com): Karl Lark (Lerche) was the father of my husband's ancestor (Henry Augustus Lark (1818-1879). Henry Augustus Lark was born in Mackensen (Kingdom of Hanover) on June 17, 1818. Henry's mother by name was not known. They had five children of which there are records of two older brothers who came to America before Henry Augustus. The older brothers were William and Charles Lark. The mother was known as widow Lerche-Bartels, and she died in 1894 In Wolfenbuttel, Germany." "In those days Germany was a collection of city-states, not one big country. You can find the town on a German map. It is near Hannover. Machensen was unique because many people from Scotland lived there. Back in the 1700s, the British Lords drove many Scotts off their land so the Lords could grow sheep. Cousin Gail says our ancestors had an advantage when they migrated to South Carolina from Germany. They already spoke English! He doesn't know if the family were Scotts but is curious." "H.A. Lark was Henrich Augustus Christian Lerche in the church records. He left his birthplace in Germany of April 9 1839 and arrived in Greenville in June of 1839. He was named after his god parents." -- Howdy Cousin - http://www.howdycousin.com Pickens County SC USGenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~scpicken/ Newberry County SC USGenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/ War Between the States in SC - http://www.rootsweb.com/~scwbts/ Civil War Pensions for SC - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pensions/civilwar/scindex.htm Parker County Genealogical Society, TX - http://www.rootsweb.com/~txpcgs/

No.6 Pack 165 [ Ballentine] No.9 Pack 165 [ Mitchell ]

On Nov. 14, 1879 James Peak made an oath that in the town of Central on the 14, Nov. 1879, one William K.Powers did commit an assault with a baseball bat by striking Frank McCorkle on the head. JOHN H. BALLENTINE says, Mrs. McCorkle was at his place of business. I heard the first lick and saw him fall. I saw the second lick, it was with a base ball bat and I do consider it a deadly weapon. also Unlawful Distilling On Oct. 10, 1863 M.F. Mitchell state agent made oath that John Gossett and William Keith are material witnesses in evidence of a case the state vs. G.W. Washington Fair [ Farr] for the unlawful distilling spiritious liquors from grain. ' Documentation...the hardest part of genealogy'........nancie

Sorry Nancy for some many questions but are these published transcriptions or from the original records...if published records which court in Newberry, Equity or Court of the Ordinary, I think it is....Charlotte ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Nancie O'sullivan" <nancieo@bellsouth.net> To: SCNEWBER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCNEWBER] Reply Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 08:16:15 -0500 No.6 Pack 165 [ Ballentine] No.9 Pack 165 [ Mitchell ] ==== SCNEWBER Mailing List ==== < Visit the following Rootsweb sites regarding Newberry Co., SC > http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/ http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/SC/Newberry/ ============================== Discover your ancestors and trace your family tree today at Ancestry.com. You are invited to search our massive collection containing over 500 million records, in over 1800 databases. Visit http://ads04.focalink.com/SmartBanner/page?16226.4 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Nancy can you give us a citation for this records...thanks Charlotte ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Nancie O'sullivan" <nancieo@bellsouth.net> To: SCNEWBER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCNEWBER] Court Records Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 00:49:30 -0500 On Nov. 14, 1879 James Peak made an oath that in the town of Central on the 14, Nov. 1879, one William K.Powers did commit an assault with a baseball bat by striking Frank McCorkle on the head. JOHN H. BALLENTINE says, Mrs. McCorkle was at his place of business. I heard the first lick and saw him fall. I saw the second lick, it was with a base ball bat and I do consider it a deadly weapon. also Unlawful Distilling On Oct. 10, 1863 M.F. Mitchell state agent made oath that John Gossett and William Keith are material witnesses in evidence of a case the state vs. G.W. Washington Fair [ Farr] for the unlawful distilling spiritious liquors from grain. ' Documentation...the hardest part of genealogy'........nancie ==== SCNEWBER Mailing List ==== < Visit the following Rootsweb sites regarding Newberry Co., SC > http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/ http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/SC/Newberry/ ============================== FREE UNLIMITED Web space at RootsWeb! Any subject: genealogy, computers, pets! Get your Freepages account today: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

I am interesting in finding any information about the LAKE family of Newberry Co. and Edgefield Co. SC. My ancestor John HUTCHISON's (c1722-1849) sister Jean HUCHISON, born c1782 in Newberry Co. SC, married Joseph LAKE. They later moved to Edgefield Co. SC. I am particularly interested in their oldest son Elias LAKE born c1804. Elias LAKE would have been a cousin of my CLARKEs in Anderson Co. SC. In the 1850 census a Sarah LAKE age 15 was living with my gg grandparents John Baylis CLARKE, Jr and Martha NEVITT CLARKE and their small children in Anderson. 1850 Anderson Co Federal Census Page 189 J. B. Clarke, Junr, 26, M, Taylor, 1200, b SC Martha J. (or I.), 22, F, b SC John H., 5, M, b SC, twin William A., 5, M, b SC twin Frances B., 3, F, b SC Elias L, 2/12, M, b SC Elijah Bowen, 16, M, apprentice, b SC Sarah Lake, 15, F, b SC Elias Lake CLARKE, age 2, was my g grandfather. I have just recently made the HUTCHISON connection and discovered the LAKE relationship to the family. Now I would like to know more about Elias LAKE who my ggrandfather and father was probably named after. My father, Robert LAKE CLARK, thought Elias LAKE may have been a minister or missionary. Also I am interested in where Sarah LAKE fits into the LAKE family. It's just a family history mystery I would like solved. If anyone has any information on the LAKES of Newberry and Edgefield Co. SC, I would love for them to contact me. Thanks, Susan Clark Johanson -- Susan C. Johanson Springfield, VA johanson@digizen.net Rootsweb sponsor NEHGS member http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/j/o/h/Susan-C-Johanson/ ....I prefer digging in the past to digging in the yard....

I descend from about half of Old Newberry but my interest at the moment is to find information on John and Hannah Palmer. Their son Horatio married Elizabeth Waites. I suspect Hannah was a Wright and a member of a Quaker family from Bush River Monthly Meeting but can find no proof of that. If anyone has any information on Hannah and/or Elizabeth Waites, please pass it along. Thanks DJ

Thanks everyone for the great replys.His hadstone has born in Newbury,S.C. (misspelled) and the dates. Already been through theTexas line.Gov.s' father was a General in Civil War ( Died at Shiloh).He fought Indians in Alabama.Gov did go to school in Vance,Ala for a short time then.Got alot of papers on the Hoggs.Been working on this off and on about 10 years. Guess him being born out of wedlock to a young Hogg girl was an embarrassment and they kept quiet about it. Names just were'nt handed down.Thought I'd ask anyway.Thanks again.

There are some Hogg families amoung the Coate, Coates, Coats families in Newberry...some of the documents below show adjoining land owners... http://www.rootsquest.com/~coatsfar/docsnewberry.htm Char ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Gene Rooks" <GeneRooks@prodigy.net> To: SCNEWBER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCNEWBER] HOGG-HOARD-BUCHANAN-GOREE Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:30:30 -0500 Hi, all. Our Newberry connection centers around the family of Lewis HOGG and his wife Clarissa GOREE, dtr. of Daniel, of Newberry. Daughter Mary/Polly married Wm. HOARD, son of James and Ann BUCHANAN. I'd love to hear from any researcher or descendant on these lines. One particular mystery I'm trying to unravel is where Joseph HOGG d. 1787 who married Mary JONES fits in to the family of John HOGG who d. 1782 and his wife Sarah. Gene in Gotha Always seeking ROOKS & BALLENTINE ==== SCNEWBER Mailing List ==== < Visit the following Rootsweb sites regarding Newberry Co., SC > http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/ http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/SC/Newberry/ ============================== Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Hi, Gene, I was wondering if you have any information on Fred or Joseph BALLENTINE. Joseph BALLENTINE was married to Eva LINDLER, daughter of Milledge LINDLER and Alice Idora MINNICK (b. 1853). Fred BALLENTINEwas married to Jane EPTING, daughter of John EPTING and Margaret SUMMER. Thanks, Charlotte Holder Herridge Gene Rooks wrote: > Hi, all. Our Newberry connection centers around the family of Lewis HOGG and his wife Clarissa GOREE, dtr. of Daniel, of Newberry. Daughter Mary/Polly married Wm. HOARD, son of James and Ann BUCHANAN. I'd love to hear from any researcher or descendant on these lines. One particular mystery I'm trying to unravel is where Joseph HOGG d. 1787 who married Mary JONES fits in to the family of John HOGG who d. 1782 and his wife Sarah. Gene in Gotha > > Always seeking ROOKS & BALLENTINE > > ==== SCNEWBER Mailing List ==== > < Visit the following Rootsweb sites regarding Newberry Co., SC > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/ > http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/SC/Newberry/ > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi

My ancestor William Hogg was born in Newberry in 1818 .Found an old paper written by his daughter around 1900.It states he was born out of wedlock.His mother was a Hogg and his father was a Durrett.It also says he was cousin to Gov.Hogg of Texas.William ended up in Tuscaloosa,Ala. married to Caroline Weaver, also a Newberry family.She died in her 20's and he married a Durrett lady.Anyone from this line? I have tried for several years to find out the names of Williams parents,but had no luck. ...Thanks,..Margie

If you are researching the names of FAIR or GRAHAM, please contact me privately. Warm Regards, Traci Parsons-Holder ******* History of the South Carolina Military Academy - by John Peyre Thomas, published 1893 Copy donated by Jane Yates, Director Archives & Museum for The Citadel Transcribed by Traci Parsons-Holder Captain William Fair GRAHAM, the first Superintendent of the Citadel Academy, to who death came in the form of consumption, was born June 15, 1818, in the town of Newberry, SC. He was the eldest son of Major James Fair GRAHAM and Mary, his wife. Captain Graham's ancestors were Scotch-Irish on both sides, whence he no doubt derived his high sense of duty. He received his early training in Newberry. Subsequently he completed his education at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Appointed Superintendent of the Citadel Academy upon the organization of its first Academic Board, February 24, 1843, he died on April 26, 1844, while in the discharge of his trust after a brief but faithful service of fourteen months. Captain GRAHAM is represented as having been a strict disciplinarian but urbane and polite, and "as amiable as a sweetly tempered woman." These are the qualities attributed to him by Messres. John L. BRANCH and John H. SWIFT, the surviving members of the first Graduating Class - that of 1846 - who served under him as cadets. Col. BRANCH under date of October 8, 1892, writes as follows in relation to Captain GRAHAM: _ "I was the last person who saw him alive. Early in the night, as officer of the Guard, I knocked at his room door with a view of giving him the countersign. A deep, hoarse, and almost inaudible voice responded - 'come in.' Upon opening the door, I approached his bedside, remarking, 'here is the countersign, Sir?' He laid his arm over towards me, and I placed the little triangularly folded and sealed paper in his right hand and left the room. It was found the next morning unopened. At what hour during that night he died, no one ever knew. I found his hired man servant seated in a corner on the floor, and I suppose he remained there all night. The next morning he reported to Lieutenant CAPERS: - 'I believe the Captain is dead.' Captain GRAHAM would not allow himself to give trouble or inconvenience to any one , and when the officers of the Institution offered on occasions to sit up with him, he courteously declined their kindness. Hence his being along the last night of his life. The corps of cadet fired volleys by the vault in St. Pauls Churchyard in which his body was placed." Subsequently his mortal remains were laid away in the Newberry Cemetery among his kindred dead, having been escorted from the Citadel to the railway depot but the Corps of Cadets and the Washington Light Infantry. All the testimony goes to show that Captain GRAHAM, who thus died in the service of the Citadel and led the way to the grave, was an accomplished officer and a true man, tender and dutiful. -- Howdy Cousin - http://www.howdycousin.com Pickens County SC USGenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~scpicken/ Newberry County SC USGenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/ War Between the States in SC - http://www.rootsweb.com/~scwbts/ Civil War Pensions for SC - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pensions/civilwar/scindex.htm Parker County Genealogical Society, TX - http://www.rootsweb.com/~txpcgs/

Hi, all. Our Newberry connection centers around the family of Lewis HOGG and his wife Clarissa GOREE, dtr. of Daniel, of Newberry. Daughter Mary/Polly married Wm. HOARD, son of James and Ann BUCHANAN. I'd love to hear from any researcher or descendant on these lines. One particular mystery I'm trying to unravel is where Joseph HOGG d. 1787 who married Mary JONES fits in to the family of John HOGG who d. 1782 and his wife Sarah. Gene in Gotha Always seeking ROOKS & BALLENTINE

Francis Thomas and Family to Limestone AL by 1840 to Barry Co MO by 1856. Phillip Marbut and wife Evodius Thomas to Giles Co Tn by 1830. To Barry Co Mo by 1850's.

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