Frank and All The information you posted is the same unpublished Stribling Family information I used as base to start my research. Included in the same material is much concerning the Stribling branch. It also sites David and twin sister Susan Sloan Bruce as being the first born. Other researchers have conflicting information. I show the authors of this work to be Dr. J. S. Stribling, Seneca S.C., J. W. Shelor, Walhalla, S. C. and J. C. Stribling, Pendleton, S. C. These research notes are undated but came into my family in the mid 50s. I believe it was compiled from Bibles, DAR records and, local newspaper accounts. I believe some of the Striblings were in contact with Simpson. These same records list the following. Captain David Sloan's son Benjamin Franklin Sloan married Eliza C. Earle. They had seven children. P. H. E. Sloan [ initials only given, a male] married Ella MAXWELL. Children of P.H.E. Sloan & Ella Maxwell: Paul, married Susie Simpson Sue, married Sam Earle Harry, married Hattie Smith Frank, married Emma Merrick and Finally, Maxwell Sloan. No wife is given for Max. Additionally, no dates are given in this manuscript for this line. Additionally, Ella Maxwell is the daughter of Dr. Robert Maxwell and Lucy C. Sloan. Lucy is the daughter of David Sloan [ Jr., the twin] and Nancy Trimmier. I believe, but cannot prove this is the Sloan Maxwell Sloan you mention. Again, there is no record in this manuscript showing who Maxwell Sloan married. Looks like Max was a product of the finest southern inbreeding. There is no mention in the Stribling families of a Virginia Stribling. Does the above start to answer you question? Rick -----Original Message----- From: Franklin E. Mitchell <fmitchel@panama.phoenix.net> To: SLOAN-SLONE-L@rootsweb.com <SLOAN-SLONE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 9:11 PM Subject: [SLOAN-SLONE-L] Capt. David Sloan again! >Speaking of Capt. David, yesterday I made contact with William A. Sloan, >III and his sister Ginger Sloan Billingsley also descendants of David. >Right now they are missing the link(s). Their great grandfather was (I >love this!!) SLOAN MAXWELL SLOAN and grandmother was Vigrinia Dare >Stribling (probably a cousin). Does anyone know who their parents >were?? > >Now the good part!! William sent the following newspaper transcribion >that predates both Stribling & McKoy's works. The author wasn't >mentioned it may have been R.W. Simpson, who published an article in >1913. > >Article printed in the GREENVILLE, SC NEWS July 29,1911 > > OF INTEREST TO THE D.A.R. > > Brief Sketch of the Early History of the Sloan Family > Greenville, July 17 - Editor Keowee Courier: I enclose a little >sketch of >the early history of the Sloan family, which I clipped from an issue of >The >Courier about eighteen years ago. There are so many descendants of this >patriot couple in Oconee and upper Carolina that I thought it might be >interesting reading for a great many of your present subscribers. The >D.A.R. >are seeking information about patriots, and I thought it might be >interesting >to them also. I hope you can publish it in The Courier again. > Yours truly, >J. > >Capt. David Sloan, the progenitor of his race in the United States, was >born >in County Down, Ireland, in the year 1753. He emigrated to the United >States >and settled in the western part of North Carolina. He was a captain of >a >company of North Carolina troops in the Revolutionary war. > Capt. Sloan married Susan Majors and moved soon thereafter to >Pendleton >District, South Carolina. He settled on the Seneca River, ten miles >west of >the present site of Anderson Court House, and made that place his home >until >death, which occurred on the 9th of October, 1826, at the age of 73 >years. >His wife, Susan, lived at the old homestead until her death, which >occurred on >the 5th day of September, 1853, at the age of 92. This honored couple >had >born unto them twelve children, six sons and six daughters. The >first-born, >which occurred on the 19th of May, 1787 were twins, and were named for >their >parents, David and Susan. The mother said she often put these little >children >to sleep at night and then hid them in the canebrakes while she took her >bag >of corn on her shoulder and went to the nearest mill to have it ground. >On >her return her heart was always in her mouth, for she expected to find >her >innocent babes butchered and scalped by the wily, treacherous Red Men. > We give below the names of the children of this well known and >patriotic >couple, together with the names of their wives and husbands as the case >may >be: > David married Nancy Trimmier, daughter of Obadiah Trimmier and >his wife, Lucy >Stribling, both of whom came from near Mount Vernon, Va., and settled on >Toxaway Creek, in the territory now known as Oconee county. > Susan, the twin sister of David, married Robert Bruce, of >Georgia. > William died when about 23 years of age unmarried. > Mary died when about 18 years of age. > Benjamin Franklin married Eliza Earle, a daughter of Gen. John >B. Earle. > Thomas Majors married Nancy Blassingame, a daughter of John >Blassingame. > William (the second) married Eliza Hackett, a daughter of Robert >Hackett. > James Madison married Rebecca Linton of Abbeville. > Elizabeth married Jesse Stribling, of Anderson. > Rebecca married Dr. J. B. Earle, of Anderson, and moved to >Mobile, Ala. > Nancy married Col. Joseph Taylor, of Anderson. > Katherine married John P. Benison, of Anderson. > The following obituary notice, which appeared in the newspapers >at the time, >gives an interesting account of the family: > "Departed this life, on Tuesday the 5th of September, 1853, at >her residence >on Seneca River, Mrs. Susan Sloan, in the d year of her age, relict of >Capt. >David Sloan, S., who died October 9th, 1826, aged 73 years. > Sixty-seven years ago, when the country was a wilderness and >inhabited by the >Red Men, Capt. Sloan, with his wife and their twin children, their first >born, >(Capt. David Sloan Jr., who died 29th of October, 1834 at the age of 47 >years, >and Mrs. Susan Bruce, who still survives) pitched his ten on the >canebrakes on >the western bank of the Seneca. For years they encountered and endured >all >the privations and dangers of a border life, but by industry, economy, >energy, >and enterprise the many obstacles incident to the settlement of a new >country >were overcome and the means of comfort and ease gathered around them. >After >the death of her husband Mrs. Sloan continued to occupy the homestead, >and in >the management of her farm and domestic matters exhibited a skill truly >remarkable. > "More than a half century she became a member of the >Presbyterian church at >Roberts, in Anderson District, under the ministration of Rev. Mr. >Simpson, and >in all probability she was the last of that generation to be called to >the >spirit land. She was the mother of twelve children, only five of whom >survive >here, 107 grandchildren, 273 great-grandchildren--413 descendants--of >whom 344 >are now living. To them she has left an example of industry, energy, >piety, >and Christian spirit, worthy of all imitation." > "September, 1853." > >******************************************************** > > >Frank Mitchell > > >==== SLOAN-SLONE Mailing List ==== >Visit the Rootsweb resources at the State level. >http://www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/usa.html >