The email address I have for Diane Hatfield is no longer valid and I have some info on the Riddle family to share with her. Hopefully she is still checking this site. If so, Diane, please contact me at aharwellp@hotmail.com Ann Surnames in Genealogy in my direct line: Harwell, Frey (Spt.), Morris, Holloway, Dunn, McCrary, Finch (Spt.), Riddle (Laurens & Spt.), Cheek (Laurens), Smith (Spt.), Williams (Kershaw Co., SC), Cook, Blake, Hudson, Jefferson, Jones, Shipp, Field, Soane, Bolling, Judkins, Pettaway, Gray, Robertson, Burton (Spt.), Thomson (Spt.), Moore, Lawson (Spt.), Fair, Rush (Spt.), Temple, Chambliss, Fortune, Kennedy, McKinney, Edwards, Harris, Gurgunay, Giles,Parker, Pritchard, Symons, Page, Fry, Shattuck, Daniel, Dorris, Stark, McDaniel, Woads, Fain, Mercer, Taylor, Loftin, Lanier, Johnson, Jackson, Farrar, Branch, Allman, Reynsford, Addie, Sparks, Baugh, Hatcher, Newporte, Reynolds, Walgrave, Percy, Jurnigan,Jennings, Bowman, Brookes, Byrd, Clark, Drury, Calthorpe, Stapleton, deLaPole, Cheney, Stafford, Beauchamp, deAudley, deClare, deMortimer, deLongspee,Mainwaring, and others. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

Abbott Lanford Leatherwood Leonard Wood Wilson Hendrix Mason McClain McClimon Moon Glenn And lots of related lines Susan Brock-Booker

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pool(e), Fowler, Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgB.2ACI/2598 Message Board Post: Looking for information on the John Poole and Lavina Fowler of Spartanburg Co. John would have been born somewhere around 1760. Two of his sons, Samuel and Isaac left with their families for Mississippi (Pontotoc Co) around 1847. Samuel's wife was Lavina Fowler born ca1822. Isaac's wife was a Mary Elizabeth Smith. Emaline, James, Francis, Robert and Wm were offspring of the two brothers who made the trip to MS along the Natchez Trace.

My lines - Johnson - Bryson Owens - Smith - Tuck Calvert - Taylor Chapman - Nichols Liner - Kingsmore - Hill Stevens

In a message dated 2/25/2003 12:40:10 PM Central Standard Time, janeg@pngusa.net writes: > forgot to mention that "Gods &Generals" is one of the best movies I have > ever seen!! It is good to see Christians &Southerns presented in such a > good way.. about time!!! Our local reviewer panned it - gave it one star out of a possible five. There were plenty of angry letters to the editors about that from strongly disagreeing moviegoers!

my surnames from Spartanburg/Greenville Counties ARNOLD GEORGE BURNS WEST ROGERS REYNOLDS COMPTON COTHRAN JONES MAYFIELD PEARSON DRUMMOND BOITER HUGHES WOOD and any allied families Leigh C. Smith http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/4730/index.html http://wallsoftime.tripod.com/index.htm

My names are CHAMBLIN WHITTEN ANDERSON DENNY MAYSON Peggy Chamblin

The following are names of interest to me from Greenville, Spartanburg and Cherokee County. FORRESTER WARD STARNES GRIFFIN KENDRICK HERRIN JONES NICHOLS SANDERS

I forgot to mention that "Gods & Generals" is one of the best movies I have ever seen!! It is good to see Christians & Southerns presented in such a good way.. about time!!! Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Gillespie" <janeg@pngusa.net> To: <SCSPARTA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 1:23 PM Subject: Re: [SCSPARTA] War of Northern Aggression > Just wanted to say how I have enjoyed this thread!! It is so GREAT to see > good Southern people speaking up.. These messages have been an enlightenment > & an encouragement to me!! > > Thanks to you all!! > > Jane McCombs Gillespie > janeg@pngusa.net > > McComb(s) in SC > Gillespie/Glaspy in SC > Hopewell Presbyterian CH McCormick Co SC >

I have a picture of my William G Bragg if anyone is interested. Betty

Gillespie/Glaspy in Woodruff area.. Jane McCombs Gillespie janeg@pngusa.net McComb(s) in SC Gillespie/Glaspy in SC Hopewell Presbyterian CH McCormick Co SC

Just wanted to say how I have enjoyed this thread!! It is so GREAT to see good Southern people speaking up.. These messages have been an enlightenment & an encouragement to me!! Thanks to you all!! Jane McCombs Gillespie janeg@pngusa.net McComb(s) in SC Gillespie/Glaspy in SC Hopewell Presbyterian CH McCormick Co SC ----- Original Message ----- From: <Wolfbaby78@aol.com> To: <SCSPARTA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:42 AM Subject: [SCSPARTA] War of Northern Aggression > After reading the posts about the War Between the States, or as Robert E. > Lee referred to the Yanks as, Those People. One would have to go back in > time, have lived then, been born then, raised then and educated in those > times to truly understand the reason of the whys and how's things were > handled in the 1800s. > > If someone truly wishes to learn the reason for a war, go back and read the > very articles written by the people that lived during those times. Don't > read the new thinking of what someone of today pushes on our schools to read, > written by someone of today's mind set.. > > I've found in my research, by reading the articles written from the 1840s -- > 18660's an entire different way of thinking, viewing and action taken for > life in general....................We cannot not use our mind set of today to > say why this or this was done or this is horrible or that is beyond > belief,etc. > > In closing, I will say that the people today will believe just about anything > that is told to them. > > If you truly wish to learn, don't read the books in print today that are > tainted with untruths, read the books that have been out of print from the > 1800's. It will be an eye openner.. > > > > ==== SCSPARTA Mailing List ==== > The USGenWeb Archives for Spartanburg County are: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sc/sca_spar.html > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Looking for information on the parents of George Wilkinson b. 1815 and who married Mary Cantrell b. 1817-both from Spartanburg SC. They married in TN in 1835. Marciel

This is a direct quote from HISTORY OF OLD PENDLETON DISTRICT by R. W. Simpson, published 1913. He was b. Sept. 11, 1840 in Anderson Co., was a private in the Confederate army in Company A, Third Regiment South Carolina Volunteers, and in Adams' battalion of cavalry from Apr. 1861 to 1863. [Reconstruction in South Carolina, the Campaign of 1876 and the Wallace House] P.52: "The people were in earnest and when a definite policy was agreed upon, every one united heart and soul in the one great purpose,-the salvation of the white race. In this convention was born the policy which to this day governs the entire South-that is that the white people of the Southern States will never permit the white race to be pulled down from its high state of civilization by social intercourse or amalgamation with the negro. God made our race to differ from another in glory. They must obey the laws of God, if we wish to preserve the integrity of the white race." I think this qualifies as a definite *eye opener*! Joy ----- Original Message ----- From: <Wolfbaby78@aol.com> To: <SCSPARTA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:42 AM Subject: [SCSPARTA] War of Northern Aggression > If you truly wish to learn, don't read the books in print today that are > tainted with untruths, read the books that have been out of print from the > 1800's. It will be an eye openner..

Lemaster Porter Roberts Salmon Ware/Weir West Mary West Rumora

--- donaldandellen@mindspring.com --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. Here are my Greenville/Spartanburg family names: GOSNELL PITTMAN/PITMAN HARRISON HOWARD PEARSON PEACE JOHNSON-3 different families TUCKER MCCONNELL WILLIAMS JONES THOMAS STROUD FENNELL WALKER ROBINSON FREEMAN REID BARNETT BALLEW/BELUE/BELLEW DILLARD DILL BRYANT/BRIANT LINDSEY There are many more. Ellen

This article is in "The Free Lance" issue 5-20-1904, I didn't include it originally as it has to do with York Co., but since we were off on the Madstone, I thought I would go back and send it. VICTIMS OF THE CONJURE Superstition That Led to Murder of an Old S. C. Darkey. Southern negroes still believe in The "Jack", the "conjure bag", "conjure doctors", says the Times, especially in the rural districts, the "conjure bottle", and the "conjure box" work many wonders. The doctor with the "yerbs" the "jack" and the "conjure rod" is held in great awe by his fellowmen, and those who know him to be a conjure trickster give him a wide berth. No negro would dare cross him. Many tragedies in negro communities are directly traceable to the deeds of some hoodoo doctor. He throws spells and his victims by the use of the bottle, bag or box. The jack is used in diagnosing cases. It is nothing more than a piece of silver coin, capable of a very high polish. The doctor calls it his "specie-piece". The jack will not work for nothing. Money makes it move. If a negro has queer feelings and has cause to think some one has thrown a spell over him, he goes to a hoodoo doctor for advise. The doctor consults his jack to ascertain the trouble and the cause of the same. After hearing the patient's story of the malady that has fallen upon his body, the doctor takes his jack from his pocket and retires to some secret place for a consultation with that dreadful and all powerful instrument. Soon the doctor returns and tells the conjured person to look in the jack and behold the image of the one who worked the spell and at the same time suggests the name of the person he thinks guilty. Sometimes the spell can be removed by medicine but unless the cause is removed also the spell will return. To cast a spell the conjure bag, bottle or box must be left on the premises of the person sought. Which ever one of the instruments is used may be left under the steps of the house, on the mantelpiece, in the dining room or about the barnyard. It is a matter of preference with the doctor as to whether he uses the bag, the bottle or the box. The person caught is not always the one sought. The spell may fall on some member of his family or some of his livestock, on his house and cause it to burn or on his lands and cause them not to bring forth crops. The instrument used, whether bag, bottle or box, contains a supply of curious ingredients, such as a pinch of red dirt taken from the grave of some ancestor who was a noted conjure doctor in his or her own day; a small piece of burnt rod, an inch or more long, known as the "conjure rod"; a stick of silk weed, and a bit of Sampson's snake root. In addition to these, a very clever practitioner often has a hawk's foot, a toad's eye and a lizard's tongue. When once the instrument of devilment is placed for a person it is bad luck to move it before the spell has fallen on the right one. The hoodoo doctor can give any person power to use the instrument provided the jack is satisfied. To satisfy a jack, money must come. The doctor looks the jack in the face until the necessary amount has been handed over, and the directions for the use of the bag, box or bottle are given. By the instrument and the aid of the doctor any negro . . .[cut off] [top of next column:] ...and choked him to death. While his body still jerked and writhed in the agonies of the awful death, his feet were tied to his hands with a strong twine. Then his slayers left him and searched the pockets of his clothes, an old trunk and a closet in the house for his medicine and herbs. But they found nothing. They then ran a fence rail under the ropes and bore the body to an old unused well a quarter of a mile away and threw it into the depths below. His body was covered with heavy stones rolled from the surface by the murders. For several weeks the crime was known except to Amzi, Frank and Angless. Goore was accustomed to going off for weeks a time, and even his wife claimed she was not uneasy about him. But the boy Angless gave the whole thing away and caused the arrest of Frank and Amzi. At the November term of the York County court they were tried and convicted of murder. On January 6 they were hanged. It is the opinion of many that DUNIVANT and CASTLES were honestly afraid of Ben GOORE and killed him to keep from being killed by his conjure tricks. free post Lisa

After reading the posts about the War Between the States, or as Robert E. Lee referred to the Yanks as, Those People. One would have to go back in time, have lived then, been born then, raised then and educated in those times to truly understand the reason of the whys and how's things were handled in the 1800s. If someone truly wishes to learn the reason for a war, go back and read the very articles written by the people that lived during those times. Don't read the new thinking of what someone of today pushes on our schools to read, written by someone of today's mind set.. I've found in my research, by reading the articles written from the 1840s -- 18660's an entire different way of thinking, viewing and action taken for life in general....................We cannot not use our mind set of today to say why this or this was done or this is horrible or that is beyond belief,etc. In closing, I will say that the people today will believe just about anything that is told to them. If you truly wish to learn, don't read the books in print today that are tainted with untruths, read the books that have been out of print from the 1800's. It will be an eye openner..

Here's my Spartanburg families: Lancaster West Rakestraw Wyatt Stephens/Stevens Fleming Smith Tuck Langston Hewitt Meadows McAbee James Linda

Would any one know of passengers who took these excursions? Society news maybe? I had family members who talked of the thrilling trip to Tenn. the rest of their lives! My Grand parents John Landrum Henderson and his wife Sarah Jane(Sallie) Brannon with 6 of their children:William Norman,Vaughn Vernon,John Bunyan,Esther Ethel,Myrtle Estelle and Horace Britton. Mary