Does anyone have information on James Johnson of Rock Hill, who married Mary Miller Lowery and after her death , Mrs. Mary Simpson Miller, widow of Dr. John Lucas Miller? I have details of his children, etc. but nothing of his background. Any help would be appreciated. Helen

Polyana, I don't have anything in my files that would answer your questions about the Hullenders but perhaps some of the subscribers to the York County Genealogical and Historical Society's Quarterly could answer it. Here is information and a subscription form you might consider. Y C G H S Box 3061, CRS Rock Hill, SC 29732 The board members of the York County Genealogical and Historical Society are pleased to announce that The Quarterly, a publication of the Society, has proven to be an unqualified success and in June 1998 began our tenth year. We are proud that the S. C. Confederation of State and Local History Societies awarded us their 1994 ³Outstanding Publication Award.² The magazine-sized quarterly is 40 pages with a vellum protective cover. It contains articles by local historians, research tips, pages from family Bibles, eyewitness accounts, military records, old cemetery lists, reports of local preservation efforts, book reviews, etc. There is a large query section and we make every attempt to match researchers who are interested in the same families and topics. Each issue is indexed. Louise Pettus is the editor; Regal Graphics is the printer. Our fiscal year runs from June 1 to May 31. A subscriber receives all issues of the fiscal year in which he subscribes. If renewals are paid after the June 1 deadline, please add $1.50 for each late issue. (This does not apply to new subscribers.) Contributions to the Society over and beyond the normal membership/subscription prices will be gratefully accepted. THE YORK COUNTY GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Box 3061 CRS Rock Hill, S. C. 29732 -Founded in 1927- MEMBERSHIP/SUBSCRIPTION YEARLY: $20 SUBSCRIPTION YEAR: JUNE - SEPT. - DEC. - MAR. YEAR DESIRED (PLEASE CIRCLE): 1998-1999 1999-2000 OTHER YEARS AVAILABLE BEGINNING WITH 1989-¹90 INDIVIDUAL SPECIFIED COPIES INCLUDING MAILING: $5.00 EACH PLEASE PRINT NAME: ADDRESS: ZIP:

Has anyone researched a John K. Benson or George Duff family in York Co, ca 1810s to ?. They were still there in late 1820s and probably afterward. They were half brothers, their mother being Margaret (maidenname unknow) Benson Duff or Duff Benson. She married 3rd Samuel Lambert/Lambeth of York Co. He died in 1818. buried in Mill Creek Baptist Church Cem. He died intestate, and his estate was sold, but have not been able to determine or find when he bought this property. Have found him in York Co. as early as 1787. Can anyone provide a look-up? Appreciate your help. Sara. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, February 19, 1999 4:04 PM Subject: SCYORK-D Digest V99 #18

I am searching for information on Francis Adams born ca. 1740 in Ireland. He arrived in Charleston, SC 1772 and settled in York County where he died in 1824. He married Rosannah Johnston. Children: James, William, Rachel, Sarah, Robert, John, Francis, Jr., Mary, Elizabeth, Abraham & Martha. Please let me know if you have any knowledge of this family to help answer some questions I have about them. Even the slightest information could help direct me. Thank you, Jim Adams

Is anyone researching the Turner family of York Co? I found Solomon Turner on the 1810 census of York. I believe he is my husband's ancestor. Does anyone know who is father was? Our Solomon Turner was in Burke Co, NC in 1820 and in Carter Co, TN in 1830 & 1840. He died before 1850 in Carter Co, TN. There was a strong connection with the Chambers family. Thanks in advance for any help. Sherrill

My 3xgreat-grandparents were John H. HULLENDER(b. 1769) and Mary WHISENANT(b. 1771) of York County, SC. They are buried in the Antioch Baptist Churchyard, Blacksburg, Cherokee County, SC. Cherokee was formed from York in 1897 so I assume the Blacksburg area of previously York County was where they lived. John and Mary had 5 sons, identified from legal documents- Jacob, Abraham, Adam, John, and Christopher. Adam (b 1805) married ~1840 Ruth (b 1825/26). Ruth's surname is unknown. Ruth appears on the 1850 census(in Union, GA) as Ruthy, on the 1860 census(in Lumpkin, GA) as Ruth, and on her gravestone(in Mt. Pleasant Meth. Churchyard, White County, GA)as R.F. Ruthy Hullender. Does anyone have information that might help identify Ruthy's parents? [The HULLENDER name is spelled as variously as possible- Hullander, Huliner, Hulendar, etc.) Pollyana Brown ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

In a message dated 2/20/99 10:07:28 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << [email protected] >> I am not researching the Laney line. Jane Adalaide Laney married John Hamilton Boyd. Some of my ancestors were Boyd/Simril (John Boyds' parents). I just did a search of my genealogy database for Laney and got a hit. If you can tie my John Laney in as your John, I have quiet a bit on John's descendants. Don Glenn

Don, Thanks for answering my query. I have Andrew Jefferson LANEY with a son named John LANEY but I have no information on John. The dates of birth are about right for Jane to be the daughter of this John LANEY. I would appreciate any information you could supply me on Jane LANEY and her family. Are you researching the LANEY family? If so, I have considerable information on the LANEY family, some of whom settled in York County, SC. I will be more than happy to share any of my information with you. Thanks again, Bill Sanders Spring, Texas [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, February 20, 1999 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [SCYORK-L] LANEY (LEANY) >I have a Jane Adelaide Laney, b. 19 May 1834 in York County. She was the >daughter of John Laney. She married John Hamilton Boyd. He is buried in >Bethel Cemetery, but it appears she moved to Pulaski, AK , died and is buried >there. They had 5 children. More particulars if you are interested. > >Don Glenn > >

Janelle, I do not know of a Web site for Covenanters but I thought you might like an article I did for my local history column, Nearby History, done for the York Observer, a supplement of the Charlotte (NC) Observer. REV. WILLIAM MARTIN AND THE COVENANTERS By Louise pettus During the late colonial period Protestant immigrants of good character were recruited as settlers for the South Carolina upcountry. It was cheaper to pay passage for settlers than it was to keep soldiers stationed in the area to guard against Indian attacks on the low country. Land grants of 100 acres for the head of the family and 50 additional acres for each member guaranteed a steady stream of newcomers, especially land-poor Scotch-Irishmen. A majority of the Protestants who came into York, Lancaster and Chester counties were members of four Presbyterian sects known by various names such as Covenanters, Associates and Old Seceders. They varied in their interpretation of Presbyterian doctrines but shared a mutual dislike of anything English. In 1772 the Rev. William Martin brought 180 settlers to Charleston from north Ireland in a ship called Don Luce. Martin, a native Scotsman, would have liked to keep his group together but the system for alloting lands did not accomodate such colonies. Martin¹s Covenanters were scattered from Camden to Mecklenburg County and west as far as Spartanburg. However, many Covenanters, including Reverend Martin, received grants on Rocky Creek in present-day Chester County. Martin was the first Covenanter minister in the area when he took up his 400-acre grant. He added 240 acres by purchase from William Stroud on Big Rocky Creek, making his total acreage one mile square. There, Martin built a rock house and a rock spring-house. Martin¹s house was two miles east of Catholic Presbyterian Church which had been built as a meeting house in 1759. Eventually, Martin was to become minister at Catholic and to be dismissed from the church because he was intemperate in drink. When the Revolutionary War broke out, Reverend Martin was what the church historian, Dr. George Howe, called a ³warm Whig.² Martin¹s thundering sermons against the British became known as ³Blast of the Trumpet.² To the British, Martin was a major inciter of insurrection and there was soon a price on his head. Charleston fell to the British in May 1880. British troops spread over the state. Within a month, 51-year-old Reverend Martin lay in chains in Camden jail. A church he had built, Covenanter Meeting House, was burned by by the British. After six months in jail Martin was brought before Lord Cornwallis, general of all British forces in South Carolina, at his headquarters in Winnsboro. According to Howe, Martin, a tall, large man, faced the charge of rebellion ³erect, with his gray locks uncovered, his eyes fixed on his lordship.² There was no apology. Martin stated that theDeclaration of Independence was merely a statement of what his religion had always maintained. Cornwallis was so impressed by the man that he released him. In spite of his excessive drinking, Martin lived until 1807 but some years before, ten of his neighbors testified in court, he had lost his good sense. Proof of the charges was found in Martin¹s will. His widow was his third wife, Susannah Boggs. In a confused fashion, Martin wrote that he was leaving Susannah ³the sum of fifty dollars and it is also my will she is to keep the mare I gave her, at the judgment of men, at seventy dollars, and also twenty-one dollars she lifted from Col. Senfe of my money.² A daughter had married John McCaw of York County but she was preceased her father. There are no known descendants of the Covenanter minister who is said to have caused more than 1,000 poor Scotch-Irishmen to come to America. The Covenanters, minus their leader, either drifted away from Chester or joined the Associate Reformed Presbyterians. One group, opposed to slavery, went to Ohio where they established the only surviving Covenant church.

I have a Jane Adelaide Laney, b. 19 May 1834 in York County. She was the daughter of John Laney. She married John Hamilton Boyd. He is buried in Bethel Cemetery, but it appears she moved to Pulaski, AK , died and is buried there. They had 5 children. More particulars if you are interested. Don Glenn

I am researching the LANEY family that settled in York County, SC in the mid 1750's. Starting with Joseph LANEY b: 1715 who migrated to PA and then to York County, SC from Ireland. He had 13 children, 8 or which were born in York County. I have been fairly successful in tracing the other 5 children to Abbeyville County, but I cannot find anything on the ones that supposedly went to York County. These 8 remained in York County and had children and so on. The problem that I have is that I don't have the names or any specifics regarding the 8 children who remained in York County. Quite a few of them were also buried in York County, SC. If anyone is researching this family (or any LANEY's in SC), I would be more than happy to share my findings. My research carries this family to the present day. Thank you, Bill Sanders Spring, Texas [email protected]

I just joined this list about a week ago, but saw in the archives references to the Rev. Wm Martin families that came to America from N. Ireland. One of my York County SC ancestors was JOHN BARBER b. 1747 in N. Ireland d. June 5, 1843, m. Mary (Agnew?) John came to this country on one of the five ships, the Pennsylvania Farmer, which sailed from Belfast on October 16, 1772. Does anyone know of a web site that lists the passengers of these five ships? I have many other York County SC connections and hope to see this list get very active!! Will post my old guys and gals a few at the time. Janelle Dixon

And about the Mendenhall book. I checked for someone several weeks ago. Mr. Mendenhall told me that he thought the church had additional copies. You can contact them at this address: Ebenezer A. R. P. Church 2132 Ebenezer Rd. Rock Hill, SC 29732 Ph: 803-366-5119 I have been helping the group compiling the Hutchison family history--Deb Lowe, Chip Hutchison, Linda Reid, Al Hutchison. Linda's draft is what you are probably referring to. I think it is terrific the way this group is handling all--isn't e-mail wonderful? Lots of Masseys went to Obion County, too. Are you interested in Masseys? Louise Pettus

Dorothy, Oops! I got it backwards so now the account: Printed in The York Observer, a Supplement of the Charlotte Observer, May 5, 1985 S. C.¹s OUT-MIGRATION by Louise Pettus In the fall of 1824, a caravan of wagons carrying 47 members of the Harper and Hutchison families left Lancaster District, S. C. for ³the West.² They were small farmers looking for fresh land on which to grow cotton and grain. It was part of ³out-migration² to be repeated for years to come. The small farmers were leaving because of lack of capital and know-how in use of fertilizer and crop rotation as well as the expansion of the large plantation system. The tide of out-migration generally flowed into Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The Harpers and Hutchisons pushed all the way into northwestern Tennessee. They forded the small streams. If ferries were available on the rivers, they used them; if not, according to a newspaper account given by one part years later, they ³took their bed-cords, lashed timbers together, made a pontoon or raft, and crossed their wagons and teams on it² It took three months of hard travel. The Harpers and Hutchisons arrived in the dead of winter to a territory still largely unsettled by white men and women. The first two weeks the men scouted about for the best lands to ³enter² (establish legal claim to). The women, in addition to the usual camp chores, busily spun wool what they got ³on shares² from the few surrounding farmers. Rosanna Harper, a widow with teen-age sons and 12-year-old Polly, entered a large tract of land with a fine spring of water on the crest of a hill. Polly, when in her 80s, recalled how her family camped on the spot all spring and summer. They slept in the wagon and fought great clouds of mosquitoes. The boys brought in a crop using horses which had not a grain of corn but ate cane and peavine instead. Bear, deer, turkey, and squirrels supplied plenty of meat. As soon as the corn crop was harvested, the pioneers began building permanent homes. The first to die of the 47 who made the trip was a young daughter of William and Jane Hutchison who fell into a fire and ³expired in great agony.² The last was Polly, then Polly Hogue, who was 87. They buried her on the site where she camped in the wagon in the year 1825. The out-migration of people like the Hutchisons and Harpers has been estimated to be nearly half of all white South Carolinians born after 1800. The Camden journal in 1854 expressed concern about the loss of some of the State¹s best talents. The newspaper pointed out that of the 12 graduates of South Carolina College who had become governors, five were governors of other states. Of the 21 who had become judges, 10 were judges in other states. Until the census of 1850, there was no data collected to show the origin of birth. It is estimated that in 1850 the number of out-migrants was equal to two-thirds of all free persons still living in the state. By 1850 the average size of a South Carolina farm was the largest in the nation. The United States average-size farm was 114 acres; the South Carolina average was 541 acres. Many historians believe that there is a strong connection between South Carolina¹s plantation size and her leadership role in events leading to secession from the Union in 1861. The out-migration, over the years, of the small dependent farmers like the Harpers and Hutchisons, along with a high slave population growth, caused more conservative social and political policies to emerge. Nevertheless, when South Carolina seceded, the ³kin folk² across the South and Southwest and into Missouri and Arkansas responded to the old ties. After all, they had corresponded regularly, and when the railways came they had visited back and forth continuously. The closeness of family ties survived the Civil War. It was a York County Hutchison family that received and preserved the newspaper account the burial of Polly Harper Hogue, pioneer to Obion County, Tenn., who had left South Carolina in a wagon 75 years earlier.

Dorothy, I read your message on York County emigrants to Obion County, TN. I write local history columns for the York Observer, a supplement of the Charlotte (NC) Observer and I also edit The Quarterly for the York County Genealogical and Historical Society. Below I include a column I wrote and on a second e-mail I will send you a blank for joining the Society. We would love to have you. If you have any questions I will be happy to try to answer them. Y C G H S Box 3061, CRS Rock Hill, SC 29732 The board members of the York County Genealogical and Historical Society are pleased to announce that The Quarterly, a publication of the Society, has proven to be an unqualified success and in June 1998 began our tenth year. We are proud that the S. C. Confederation of State and Local History Societies awarded us their 1994 ³Outstanding Publication Award.² The magazine-sized quarterly is 40 pages with a vellum protective cover. It contains articles by local historians, research tips, pages from family Bibles, eyewitness accounts, military records, old cemetery lists, reports of local preservation efforts, book reviews, etc. There is a large query section and we make every attempt to match researchers who are interested in the same families and topics. Each issue is indexed. Louise Pettus is the editor; Regal Graphics is the printer. Our fiscal year runs from June 1 to May 31. A subscriber receives all issues of the fiscal year in which he subscribes. If renewals are paid after the June 1 deadline, please add $1.50 for each late issue. (This does not apply to new subscribers.) Contributions to the Society over and beyond the normal membership/subscription prices will be gratefully accepted. THE YORK COUNTY GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Box 3061 CRS Rock Hill, S. C. 29732 -Founded in 1927- MEMBERSHIP/SUBSCRIPTION YEARLY: $20 SUBSCRIPTION YEAR: JUNE - SEPT. - DEC. - MAR. YEAR DESIRED (PLEASE CIRCLE): 1998-1999 1999-2000 OTHER YEARS AVAILABLE BEGINNING WITH 1989-¹90 INDIVIDUAL SPECIFIED COPIES INCLUDING MAILING: $5.00 EACH PLEASE PRINT NAME: ADDRESS: ZIP:

John POLK arrived in US with his father from Ireland c 1795. He married Agness BROWN, daughter of Elizabeth STRAIN, step daughter of Alexander FARIES, and they had a number of children born in York Co., SC. Their youngest son, William, was my greatgrandfather on my mother's side. The family moved to Obion Co., TN in the late 20's or early 30's (18...). Joel S. ENLOE, son of Benjamin ENLOE of York Co., SC, also moved from York County to Obion Co., TN where he became the Sherriff of Obion Co. His son, Abraham B. Enloe, was my greatgrandfather on my father's side of the family. There was a Harper-Hutchison wagon train that left York Co. in December of 1824 and arrived in Obion County, TN in February of 1825, becoming the founders of the town of Troy, TN. A granddaughter of James Harper, who led the train, was my greatgrandmother, Susan, who married John Polk's son William. All of these people are Scotch Irish and Associate Reformed Presbyterian. I am just learning of the York County, SC, heritage shared by these folk. I have just read through a draft of a Hutchison family collection with a lot of York County connection and am impressed with the kind of information available. If anyone has knowledge of my direct families, it would be my pleasure to share my own collection. I also have a good deal of information about the ARP clergy and congregations if there is interest. I see there is a book by Mendenhall about the Ebenezer Church History. Is that book still available? How does one go about getting it? Also, I want to know about the York Co., Genealogical Society. Thanks, in advance. Dorothy Wakefield Chance [email protected]

Yes, I am interested in the SPRATT CEMETERY. Is it on line and where can I search it. I have Sratt'a mar. Barnett's and came from Ire to Pa then to Va, York Co SC etc. Maxine Baldwin [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, February 11, 2000 9:08 AM Subject: [SCYORK] York County Cemeteries >I am trying to compile a list of all York County Cemeteries. If anyone has a >cemetery not listed below please send it to me. If anyone has a list of who >is buried at one of these cemeteries please send it to me. Thanks in advance. > >Adnah United Methodist Church Cemetery >Allison Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery >Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery >Antioch Methodist >Armstrong Family Cemetery >Barnwell Family Cemetery >Beersheba Presbyterian Church Cemeter >Beth Shiloh Presbyterian Cemetery >Bethany ARP Church Cemetery >Bethany Methodist >Bethel Presbyterian Church Cemetery >Bethesda Presbyterian >Blackstock Cemetery >Bolin-Ramsey Family Cemetery >Bowling Green Presbyterian Church Cemetery >Boyd Family Cemetery >Bullock Creek Presbyterian >Canaan >Catawba Baptist Church Cemetery >Catawba Reservation Cemetery >Clover Chapel United Methodist >Concord Presbyterian >Cook Family Cemetery >Cowan Family Cemetery >Crawford Burying Ground >Darwin Family Cemetery >Dunlap-Poag Cemetery >Ebenezer Presbyterian Church Cemetery >Enon >Ferguson Family Cemetery >Fishing Creek Baptist >Fitchette Family Cemetery >Flint Hill Baptist >Fowler Family Cemetery >Freedom Cemetery >Fewell Family Cemetery >Friendship >Gordon Family Cemetery >Grand View Memorial Park >Green Pond United Methodist >Gwinn Graveyard >Heathcock Family Cemetery >Hall Family Cemetery >Hall Family Cemetery >Hickory Grove Municipal >Hogue Family Cemetery >Hopewell Presbyterian >J.H. Campbell Family >John Smith Family Cemetery >Joseph Thomas Family Cemetery >Kings Mountain Chapel >Kuykendall Family Cemetery >Leech Family Cemetery >Lakeview Memory Gardens >Lewis Family Cemetery >Manning Cemetery >Martin Family Cemetery >McConnells Famil Cemetery >McIlwain Family Cemetery >McKeown Cemetery >Mill Creek Baptist Cemetery >Miller Family Cemetery >Moore Family Cemetery >Mount Holly United Methodist Church Cemetery >Mountain View Baptist Church Cemetery >Neely's Creek A.R.P. >Old Center Presbyterian Cemetery >Old Olivet >Old Unity Presbyterian >Olivet Presbyterian Church >Parker Family Cemetery >Pettus Cemetery >Philadelphia United Methodist Church Cemetery >Poag-Dunlap >Ramsey Family Cemetery >Rhoda Smith Family Cemetery >Robertson Family Cemetery >Robinson Family Cemetery >Rock Hill Memorial Gardens >Rose Hill Municipal >Sadler Family Cemetery >Salem Cemetery >Shady Grove Methodist >Smith Cemetery >Spratt Family Cemetery >St. James United Methodist >St. Paul United Methodist Church Cemetery >Stillwell Family Cemetery >Sturgis-Schooley-Wilson Family >Trinity United Methodist Church Cemetery >Union Baptist Church Cemetery >Unity Presbyterian Church Cemetery >Watt Family Cemetery >Whitehead Family Cemetery >Wood Family Cemetery >Woodlawn Presbyterian Church Cemetery >Woodside Municipal Cemetery >Wright Family Cemetery >Zoar A.M.E. Zion Church Cemetery >

Does anyone know of links to Second hand old or out of print genealogy books. I sure would like to have some links to places that recycle old books. Thank you. M Baldwin [email protected]

My Matthew Elder arrived in Charleston, SC on ship from Larne, NI. He came with his bride, Jennet McKay. They went directly to Chester District where all their children were born. Mathew and Jennet are buried in Hopewell Cemetery, near present Richburg, Chester, SC. I have all of his children with varying amounts of info. If your Elders came from the SC area, be sure to contact me. One of the boys, Christie, became a preacher in AL but is buried beside his parents. They were Presbyterians. Edith

Marvin D. FERGUSON, b. ca. 1861, Concord, NC > d. 1915, York Co,SC, bur Lauralwood Cem > mar Essie Lee CLARK,1898 Lanc Co,SC. M.D. FERGUSON had a connection w / John Mills FERGUSON of Chester and York Cos, unfortunately, I don't know the nature of said connection ...... anybody out there with any ideas or knowledge? I will be happy to share the info that I do have. Paige in Columbia, SC [email protected]