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Obits & Death Notices
Abbeville County, South
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James Edward
"Screwdriver" Thomasson
The News & Advance Lynchburg, VA 3.30, 2004 James
Edward "Screwdriver" Thomasson, 75, of 108 Acorn Hill Drive, died
June 25, 2000, at Self Memorial Hospital in Greenwood. Veteran: U.S.
Navy, World War II. Survivors: wife, Marion "Jeanette" McCurry
Thomasson; sons, Steven Edward, James Larry and Robert Michael
Thomasson of Abbeville; siblings, Robert Thomasson, Abbeville and
Clara LaNell Davis, Iva; and eight grandchildren. Predeceased:
parents, B. L. and Ruth Gause Thomasson. Service: 11 a.m. Tuesday at
the Harris Funeral Home Chapel. Burial: Forest Lawn Memory Gardens.
Visitation: home of Steve Thomasson, 1477 Rock Hill Road, Abbeville.
Memorials: the charity of one's choice.( Greenville
News 11/1/2003) submitted by Dena
Thomason-Whitesell
Ann
Pickens Simpson
Died, at Pensacola, Fla on the 20th ult, Mrs. Ann
Pickens Simpson, born on the 12th April, in the year of our Lord,
1770. Her native place was Abbeville District, S.C. She was the
daughter of Gen. Andrew Pickens, so highly and deservedly celebrated
as a commander in the American forces during our revolutionary
struggle with Great Britain, and the most distinguished hero in the
Battle of Cowpens. Her mother was Miss Rebecca Calhoun, daughter of
Ezekiel Calhoun and sister of John E. Calhoun, who died while in
Congress, and cousin of John C. Calhoun, present Senator from South
Carolina. After having been educated in her native State, she was
married to John Simpson, her first and only husband, with whom she
lived 45 years; and became the mother of 7 children, two daughters
and five sons; the youngest of whom died at the age of two years.
The remainder still live..Pensacola Gazette (The Abbeville Banner -
April 8, 1846)
George Gartin Savage
Died...January 16th, in Paris, Texas, Dr. George
Gartin Savage. Dr. Savage was a native of Abbeville District, where
he was born on the 5th of November, 1811. (The Charleston Mercury,
May 3, 1858)
Weir, Mary
Mrs. 80 years old widow of Thomas Weir died near
Greenwood in Abbeville District on January 7, 1851 while seated in a
chair by the fire. She was a native of Ireland and immigrated to
this country with her husband sometime after their marriage. They
raised a large family. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church.
Laurensville Herald 1/24/1851, p2, abstracted by Edith Greisser.
Abbeville, July 21. – The funeral of Mrs. Mary H. Taggart, who died yesterday at
her home, was held this afternoon at 5 o’clock at the Presbyterian
church, internment following at Long Cane cemetery. Mrs. Taggart’s
death came after a long and painful illness. She was in her 67th
year. One daughter, Mrs. H. H. Burton, and one son, H. T. Taggart,
survive her. [State – 22 July 1922 ; transcribed by Marla Zwakman]
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