Bet, As you can see most of these references are not startling genealogical "finds" but rather stories of how and where our ancestors lived. Both William and Dr. Tom were mentioned in the chapter about early businesses on Main St. in Columbia: "At the corner across Lady Street was then, or soon after, a drug store owned by Dr. Sam Green and kept by Dr. F.W. Green, recently deceased, and still later by Dr. Samuel Percival. Dr. F.W. Green's wife was the daughter of William Briggs, the builder of the Columbia Bridge, and her sister was first married to Hugh McLean and afterwards, to Henry Davis." "On Lady Street, near to Main, was a public house owned by Col. Claiborne Clifton, a club-footed lawyer and Methodist preacher, and kept by Chestine E. Williamson, whose wife had been the widow of Dr. Hendrix, and after Williamson's death married William Hilligas, who soon died, and she then continued the business there, as also at a later period in John O'Hanlon's new hotel and at the corner now kept by Mrs. Wright. Col. Tom Campbell and McNary succeeded Mrs. Hilligas at the corner long after known as Hunt's Hotel, which was carried on for some time by Dr. Thomas Briggs, and then by A.M. Hunt. When burned by Sherman's army in 1865 it was in possession of T.S. Nickerson who soon after opened in the Female College building"