Biographies   Charleston County - South Carolina Genealogy Trails BARBOT, Mme. Blanche Hermine, musical director and pianist, born in Brussels, Belgium, 28th December, 1842. She is the daughter of Victor and Marie Therese Petit, and inherits her great musical talents from her father, who was a musician and composer of ability and a fine performer on several instruments, but especially noted for the perfection of his playing on the clarinet. From infancy Hermine gave evidence of a decided talent for music. She received from her father the most careful training. At the age of seven she was already so accomplished a pianist that the celebrated French musician, Mme. Pleyel, complimented her most warmly on her playing and predicted for her a brilliant future upon the concert stage, for which her father destined her. Her first appearance in concert was in the Theatre Italien-Francais, in Brussels, in February, 1851. This first success of the little Hermine was followed by many others during a tour she made with her father through the various large cities of Belgium and Holland. While in Holland, she was invited to play before the Queen, who was so delighted by the child's performance that she gave her a beautiful watch as a token of her admiration. The family removed to New York in the spring of 1852, where several concerts were given by the father and daughter. Mons. Petit was induced to visit the South and finally to settle in Charleston, S. C., where he was successful as a music teacher. While still a young man, he fell a victim to yellow fever in the epidemic of 1856, leaving his family in such straitened circumstances that all thought of a musical career for his daughter had to be renounced, and she became a teacher at the age of thirteen. When Thalberg visited Charleston, in 1857, he called upon Mlle. Petit, and was so delighted with her playing that he invited her to render with him a duo on two pianos at his concert. In 1863 Mlle. Petit was married to P. J. Barbot, a merchant of Charleston, who died in 1887, leaving six children. Her marriage in no way interfered with her musical work. Although Mme. Barbot is a brilliant pianist with fine technique and great force and delicacy of expression, she has always shrank from appearing in public as a solo performer, except in response to the calls of charity, to which she has always given her services freely, irrespective of denomination, although she is herself an earnest Roman Catholic. Her peculiar gift is in training and directing large musical forces. She has for years given cantatas, oratorios and operas with the amateurs of the city. To her Charleston is indebted for most of the fine music it has had of late years, as her taste inclines to the serious and classical.  In 1875 Mme. Barbot was chosen director of the Charleston Musical Association, a society of about a hundred voices, with which she has since given many important works.  She has been organist in St. Mary’s and St. Michael’s churches, and is now organist of the Cathedral. (American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Volume 1, Publ. 1897.  Transcribed by Marla Snow) BARROW, Mrs. Frances Elizabeth, author, born in Charleston, S. C., 22nd February, 1822. She was widely known by her pen-name, "Aunt Fanny." Died in New York City, 7th May, 1894. (American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Volume 1, Publ. 1897.  Transcribed by Marla Snow) BISHOP, Mrs. Emily Mulkin, Delsartean lecturer and instructor in dress, expression and physical culture, born in Forestville, Chautauqua county, N. Y., 3rd November, 1858. After leaving school she taught four years, serving as assistant principal of the union school in Silver Creek, N.Y. She afterwards gave several years to the study of Delsarte work in various cities. In 1884 she became the wife of Coleman E. Bishop, editor of the "Judge," New York. They soon went to Black Hills, Dak., to live. Mrs. Bishop was elected superintendent of public schools in Rapid City, S. Dak., being the first woman thus honored in the Territory. In the following year she was invited to establish a Delsarte department in the Chautauqua School of Physical Education, in the Chautauqua Assembly, New York. She has had charge of that department for four seasons, and it has steadily grown in popularity. In 1891 it was the largest single department in the Assembly. From the Chautauqua work has grown a large public work in lecturing and teaching. She has written a number of articles for various magazines and has published one book, "Americanized Delsarte Culture." At present Mrs. Bishop's home is in Washington, D. C. (American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Volume 1, Publ. 1897.  Transcribed by Marla Snow) CHAPIN, Mrs. Sallie F., author and temperance worker, born in Charleston, S. C. Her maternal ancestors were Huguenots, who came to the Colonies in 1685. Her two great-grandfathers, Vigneron and Tousager, were killed in the Revolutionary War. Her maiden name was Moore, and on her father's side the strain is English. Her father was a Methodist minister. His home in Charleston was burned, and he moved to the northern part of the State. Miss Moore was reared and educated in Cokesburg, Abbeville county. From early childhood she showed a fondness and talent for authorship. Miss Moore became Mrs. Chapin while she was still a girl, and her married life has been singularly happy. Her husband was one of the founders of the Young Men's Christian Association of Charleston, and one of its chief officers for years. Mrs. Chapin's father died in the pulpit at a union camp meeting, during the Civil War, after receiving a dispatch announcing the death of his son in a battle. Mrs. Chapin has written much, but she has published only one book, "Fitzhugh St. Clair, the Rebel Boy of South Carolina." During the war she was president of the Soldiers' Relief Society and worked day and night in the hospitals. The war broke their fortune, and her husband died after the conflict was ended. In the Woman's Christian Temperance Union she has been conspicuous for years, serving as State president, and she has done much to extend that order in the South, where conservatism hindered the work for a long time. In 1881 she attended the convention in Washington, D. C., where she made a brilliant reply to the address of welcome on behalf of the South, ending with a telling poem setting forth the intentions of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She believes in prohibition as the remedy for intemperance. She is a forcible and brilliant writer and conversationalist In the Chicago Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention, in 1882, when the Prohibition Home Protection Party was formed, she was made a member of the executive committee, and by pen and voice she popularized that movement in the South. She was at one time president of the Woman's Press Association of the South. (American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies Vol. 1, by Frances Elizabeth Willard & Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Publ. 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow) DORR, Mrs. Julia C. R., poet, born in Charleston, S. C., 13th February, 1825. Her rnother, Zulma De Lacy Thomas, was the daughter of French refugees who fled from San Domingo during the insurrection of the slaves near the close of the last century. The mother died during Mrs. Dorr's infancy, and her father, William Young Ripley, who was a merchant in Charleston, returned in 1830 to Vermont, his native state. There he engaged in business again, and devoted himself chiefly to the development of the Rutland marble quarries. There his daughter grew to womanhood, in a home of culture and refinement. When the poet was a little child, she began to write, but none of her poems were printed until she became a woman grown. In 1847 she became the wife of Hon. Seneca M. Dorr, of New York. Himself a man of wide culture, he gave to Mrs. Dorr the encouragement and stimulus which directed her to a literary life. In 1847 he sent one of Mrs. Dorr's poems, without her knowledge, to the "Union Magazine," and this was her first published poem. In 1848 her first published story, "Isabel Leslie," gained a one-hundred dollar prize offered by "Sartain's Magazine." In 1857 Mr. Dorr took up his residence in Rutland, Vt., and since that date the author's pen has rarely been idle. Her work has constantly appeared in the best publications, and her books have followed each other at intervals until 1885, when her latest volume, "Afternoon Songs," appeared. Her books are: "Farmingdale" (New York, 1854), "Lanmere" (New York, 1855), "Sybil Huntington" (New York, 1869), "Poems" (Philadelphia, 1871), "Expiation" (Philadelphia, 1873), "Friar Anselmo and Other Poems" (New York, 1879), "The Legend of the Babouhka" (New York, 1881), "Daybreak" (New York, 1882), "Bermuda" (New York, 1884), "Afternoon Songs" (New York, 1885). In Mrs. Dorr's poems are found strength and melody, sweetness and sympathy, a thorough knowledge of poetic technique, and through all a high purpose which renders such work of lasting value. Her stories are particularly skillful in detail and plot, in the interpretation of the New England character. Her essays on practical themes of life and living have had a wide circulation and a large influence. A series of essays and letters published some years ago in a New England magazine and addressed to husbands and wives were collected and published without her consent by a Cincinnati publishing house. Mrs. Dorr's social influence in her own town is wide and strong, and from one who knows her well come these apppreciative words: " When summer days were long, and she was bearing the burden and heat of the day as a young wife and mother, Mrs. Dorr's life was eminently quiet and secluded, her pen being almost her only link with the outside world. But with the autumn rest have come to her wider fields and broader activities. In and around her beautiful home, enriched with treasures from many lands, there has grown up a far-reaching intellectual life, of which she is the soul and center. She is loved and honored in her own town, and there hundreds of women, of all ranks, turn to her for help and inspiration. The year of Mr. Dorr's death, she became the leader of a band of women who founded the Rutland Free Library, the success of which has been so remarkable. Mrs. Dorr is still president of the association, and has given to the library, in memory of her husband, what is said to be the finest and most complete collection of books on political science to be found in New England, outside of Cambridge University." The character of Mrs. Dorr's personal influence is such as to leave a lasting impression upon the men and women of her time, and the quality of her work assures for her books a permanent place among the best achievements of literary workers in America. (American Women, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Volume 1 Copyright 1897.  Transcribed by Marla Snow.) GRIMKE, Miss Sarah Moore, reformer, born in Charleston, S. C., 6th November, 1792, died in Hyde Park, N. Y., 23rd December, 1873. She was a daughter of the famous jurist, John Faucheraud Grimkd. After her father's death, in 1819, Sarah and her sister, Angelina, freed their slaves and left their home. They could not endure the scenes connected with slavery, and they sought more congenial surroundings. Sarah went to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1821. She became a prominent anti-slavery and woman's rights advocate. She lectured in New England, and then made her home with her sister, who had become the wife of Theodore D. Weld and was living in Belleville, N. J. Sarah taught in Mr. Weld's school. Among her published works are "An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States," an anti-slavery document, in 1828; "Letters on the Condition of Woman and the Equality of the Sexes" (Boston, 1838), and a translation of Lamartine's "Joan of Arc" (1867). She was a woman of great force and directness of character. (Source: American Women by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Vol. 1, 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow) HARBY, Mrs. Lee C, author, born in Charleston, S. C., 7th September, 1849. She is a descendant of two families well-known in the South for the number of distinguished soldiers and authors they have produced, the Harbys and Cohens. The Harbys were soldiers in the Revolution, in which contest both of Mrs. Harby's great-grandfathers fought. Her father-in-law, L. C. Harby, who is also her granduncle, was a midshipman in the war of 1812, served in the Mexican war and in several other minor wars. At the outbreak of the late Civil War, in 1861, he held the rank of captain in the United States navy, but resigned and espoused the Confederate cause and served with distinction during the four years of that war. His son, J. D. Harby, the husband of Mrs. Harby, served in the same army. Mrs. Harby's maiden name was Cohen. She is a daughter of Marx E. Cohen, a native of Charleston and a graduate of the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Her mother was Miss Armida Harby, a great-granddaughter of Solomon Harby who was a grandson of Sir Clement Harby of the Harbys of Adston, an old English family; her father, Isaac Harby, of Charleston, S. C., was distinguished as a critic, essayist and dramatist, and his granddaughter, Mrs. Lee C. Harby, has inherited his literary talent. Mr. Cohen's family numbered six children, of whom Mrs. Harby was the fifth. Her early life was passed amid romantic city and plantation surroundings, which developed the vien of poetical thought in her nature. She was never a regular student in school, but was educated mainly by her scholarly father and her great-aunt, a refined and cultured woman, and their training was such as to turn her to literature at an early age. Arrived at maturity, she became the wife of her second cousin, l. D. Harby. They made their home in Galveston, Tex., and while living in that city Mrs. Harby published one of her first important compositions, "Christmas Before the War" (1873). In 1879 Mrs. Harby removed to Houston, Tex. In 1880 she became known as a poet of superior powers through a poem of welcome to the Texas Press Association, which met in Houston in the spring of that year. The larger portion of her historical work deals with the interesting subject of Texas.  Besides her historical work, she has contributed to leading periodicals a series of poems, essays and stories, all of which have found wide favor. Among other societies of which Mrs. Harby is a member is Sorosis, which elected her to membership while she was yet a resident of the South. She now resides in New York City. (Source: American Women by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Vol. 1, 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow) BRANSON, JOHN, was born Jan. 12, 1764, in North Carolina. He emigrated, when a young man, to the vicinity of Charleston, S. C, and married Sarah Jones. They had six children in South Carolina, and moved to Ross county, O. From there to the vicinity of Xenia, Green county, Ohio, before the Indians had entirely left. They had five children there. Some of the elder children married and remained in Ohio, but Mr. Branson with the younger members of his family, moved to Sangamon county, Ill, arriving Oct., 1822, in what is now Fancy Creek township. Of all his children— ELI, born in South Carolina, married three times, died, leaving a family in Fulton county. His son, CALVIN, resides near Ipava, Fulton county. ANDREW, born in South Carolina, and married Susannah Wilkinson. They both died, leaving several children near Athens, Illinois. WILLIAM, born Jan. 9, 1791, in North Carolina, and was taken by his parents to South Carolina, in 1793. In 1811 the family moved to Chilicothe, Ohio, where he was married to Sally M. Graves, in 1815. He moved to Indiana, and from there to Sangamon county, Ill., about the time his father came; moved to Galena, and from there to DeWitt county, Ill. They had seven children, and Mrs. Sally M. Branson died May 10, 1840, in DeWitt county. In December, 1840, he was married to Martha Cooper, in Sangamon county. In March, 1847, he moved to Sangamon county, and March 28, 1848, he started overland with his family and arrived Sept. 15, 1848, in Polk county, Oregon. He had eight children by the second marriage. He died Nov. 16, 1860. His widow married Michael Shelley, and died Dec. 24, 1868, near Independence, Polk county, Oregon. Nearly all the descendents of William Branson reside in the vicinity of Sheridan, Yamhill county, Oregon. His son, B. B. BRANSON, Jun., born Sept. 4, 1830, went with his father to Oregon, in 1848, married there, Sept. 15, 1854, to Eliza E. Dickey, who was born Jan. 19, 1834, in Tenn. They have eight living children. Sarah A., born July 3, 1855, married Nov. 6, 1873, to C. O. Burgess, and resides near Sheridan. Josephine, Eliza Jane, Ephriam N., Elnora Sherman, Laura V., Ida M. and Orley R. reside with their parents, near Sheridan, Yamhill county, Oregon. CATHARINE, born in South Carolina, married in Green county, Ohio, to Frederick Stipp. They came to Sangamon county, and two of their daughters reside in Springfield, namely: Mrs. Wood and Mrs. Moody. Mr. and Mrs. Stipp died several years since. KEZIAH, born in South Carolina, married in Green county, Ohio, to Jesse Sutton. They came to Sangamon county in 1823, moved to Iowa, and both died, leaving several children in VanBuren county, Iowa. JOHN, Jun., born Oct. 15, 1795, near Charleston, S. C. He was a teamster from Ohio during the war of 1812, and has a crippled hand from an injury received while on duty. He was married, Sept. 12, 1817, in Clarke county, Ohio, to Ann Cantrall, daughter of Zebulon Cantrall, who was a brother of William G., Levi and Wyatt. Thev had one child, ZEBULON, born June 20, 1818, in Clarke county, Ohio, married August, 1840, in Sangamon county, to Rachel Braugher, and soon after moved to Fulton county, where five children were born, namely: Emily, Caroline, Isaac, Marion and Zebulon, jun. Zebulon Branson enlisted in the 103d Ill. Inf. for three years, in 1862. He was 1st Lieut., and was killed June 27, 1864, while leading his company in a charge on the rebel fortifications at Kennesaw Mountain. His family reside near Ipava, Fulton county. Mrs. Ann Branson died, and John Branson was married, Sept. 12, 1822, in Champaign county, Ohio, to Miriam Thomas. They had five children, namely: THOMAS and CATHATINE, twins, born Dec. 1, 1823; THOMAS married, Feb. 4, 1847, to Eliza C. Kiger, who was born March 13, 1830, in Winchester, Va. They had three children. Maria T. died, aged ten years. Catharine W., born May 25, 1850, married March 25, 1869, to Thomas Neal. They had three children, namely: Charles N., died in infancy; Thomas- and Coke reside with their parents, in Mitchel county, near Cawker City, Kansas. CHARLES, born March 11, 1852, resides with his mother. Thomas Branson died March 5, 1864, and his widow resides eight miles northwest of Springfield. CATHARINE, the other twin, married Rev. Hardin Wallace. They have two children, namely: Mrs. E. M. Sharp, of Mason City, Ill., and Mrs. Carlton Gatton, of Middletown, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace reside at Bath, Mason county, Ill. CAROLINE married Giles Woods. They have seven children, and reside near Waverly. MARIA married Samuel C. Woods. They have one child living, and Mrs. W. died, August 20, 1875. Mr. Woods resides near Waverly. EMILY married Rev. Joseph H. Hopkins. They had one child, and mother and child died in 1848, at Whitehall, Ill. Mrs. Miriam Branson died, and John Branson married, Nov. 8, 1840, to Mrs. Mary Humphreys, whose maiden name was McKinnie. They had two children. MINNIE married George P. Brahm. They had one son Claude, and Mrs. B. died, May 17, 1872. Mr. Brahm, with his son, resides at Kinney, Logan county, Ill. JOHN L. enlisted in 1862, for three years, in the 13th Ill. Inf. Served about one year, and was discharged on account of physical disability. He married Nellie Cain. John Branson and wife reside one and a half miles northwest of Salisbury. He is in his eighty-first year. THOMAS, born Feb., 1798, in South Carolina, was married Aug. 12, 1829, in Clark county, O., to Eleanor Thomas, and came to Sangamon county with his father in 1822. They had three children, and Mrs. B, died in Sangamon county Jan 24, 1840. Thomas Branson married Louisa Cole. They had five children, and in 1857 moved to Texas. Of Mr. B.'s children by the first marriage, ADALINE, born Oct. 9, 1833, was married Oct. 3, 1849, to W. S. Dunham, of Waynesville, DeWitt county, Ill., where she died May 29, 1852. ALIDA, born Sept. 21, 1837, in Sangamon county, Ill., is unmarried, and resides in Mansfield, Texas. REBECCA, born Nov. 30, 1839, in Sangamon county, married Lieut. Frank King, U. S. A., in Dallas county, Texas, Oct. 14, 1862. Lieut. King was killed in Louisiana, May 8, 1864. Mrs. King was married Nov. 2, 1865, to Rev. D. D. Leech, in Dallas county, Texas, and she died Aug. 23, 1866, in Ellis county, Texas, leaving one child, Frank K., born Aug. 22, 1866, in Ellis county, and resides with his aunt Alida, in Tarrant county, Texas. Of the children of the second marriage, ELEANOR, born March 10, 1842, was married Dec. 24, 1862, to Samuel Uhl, of the 12th Texan Dragoons. They have five children, viz: Sue E., Addie C, Louisa, Charles and Alma, and reside in Dallas county, Texas. EMILY, born May 21, 1844, in Sangamon county, married April 10, 1867, to Thomas Uhl, in Dallas county, Texas. They have one child, William S., and reside in Dallas county. THOMAS C, born April 27, 1848, in Sangamon county, Ill., was married July I, 1875, to Virginia Hill, in Dallas county, where they now reside. BENJAMIN L., born Oct. 7, 1850, in Sangamon county, is unmarried, and resides in Lancaster, Dallas county, Texas. AUGUSTA, born June 13, 1853, in Sangamon county, married Aug. 24, 1873, to F. Fox, and resides in Slate Spring, Miss. Thomas Branson died Oct. 21, 1864, and Mrs. Louisa Branson died July 5, 1865, both near Lancaster, Dallas county, Texas. MARY, born in Green county, O., married in Sangamon county, Ill., Sept. 23, 1824, to Abraham Onstott. They have five children. Mrs. Onstott died June, 1875. The family reside in Clinton, BeWitt county. REBECCA, born in Ohio, married Elijah Harper, and died, leaving several children in Clark county O. BENJAMIN B., born Feb., 1810, in Ross county, O., married in Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, Ill., May, 1837, to Mary Thompson. They have two children, viz: HENRIETTA, born Aug. 27, 1839, on Fancy creek, Sangamon county, married in Mechanicsburg, Aug. 27, 1861, to A. G. Barnes. See his name. HENRY, born Dec. 2, 1842, on Fancy creek, married June, 1867, in Jacksonville, Ill., to Clara L. Lathrop. They have two children, and reside at Ottawa, Kan. Benj. B. Branson and wife reside in Jacksonville, Ill. NANCY, born June 4, 1806, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Dr. Charles Winn, who was born Aug. 13, 1800, in Virginia. He received his medical education at Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky. He came to Sangamon county and practiced his profession on Fancy creek; moved from there to Waynesville, Ill., and from there to Springfield, O. They had seven children. CORILLA died Nov. 8, 1855, aged twenty-five years. BYRON died March 16, 1854, at McKendree College, in his twenty-first year. RICHARD D. died in St. Joseph, Mo., March 15, 1872, in his thirty-eighth year. CHARLES L., born Nov. 11, 1838, married July 22, 1859, in Jackson county, Mo., and died, leaving a widow and two children in Kansas City. ROBERT B., born July 11, 1840, resides in Chicago. EMMA H., born Dec. 29, 1842, near Springfield, O., married in Sangamon county to A. G. Pickrell. See his name. FLORENCE M., born June 12, 1846, near Springfield, O., married Wilham T. Hall. See his name. Dr. Charles L. Winn died Aug. 17, 1847, near Springfield, O., and Mrs. Nancy Winn died Nov. 4, 1852, at Columbus, Adams county, Ill. Mrs. Sarah Branson died in Ohio, and her husband, John Branson, Sen., died in 1845, in Sangamon county, Ill., aged eighty-one years. [Source: “History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois: “ Centennial record; By John Carroll Power, Sarah A. Power, Old Settlers' Society of Sangamon County (Ill.); 1876; Transcribed by Andaleen Whitney] Bruns, Henry Dickson Physician, oculist, author, was born in 1859 in Charleston, S.C. In 1881 he graduated from the Jefferson medical college of Philadelphia with the Lea prize of one hundred dollars for thesis. He is surgeon-in-charge of the eye department of the eye, ear, nose and throat hospital of New Orleans, La.; and professor of diseases of the eye at the New Orleans polyclinic. He has been president of the Louisiana ballot reform league; and in 1898 was a member of the Louisiana constitutional convention. He is the author of several medical Monographs; and translated Mind Your Eyes, a valuable French work.   [Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar] WALSINGHAM, Mary Author: b. Charleston, S. C., about 1835, but moved to New Orleans during her infancy. She was educated in a convent and in the public schools of that city, graduating from the Girls' High School under Mme. Angela Pogaud. She wrote impressive and passionate verse and prose . tales. Of the latter, The Palmetto Swamp, a war tale, is worthy of mention. Of her poems, Shot, Frown Not and The Old Tomb are perhaps the most intense and earnest. [Source: THE SOUTH in the Building of the Nation Volume XI; Edited by James Curtis Ballagh, Walter Lynwood Fleming & Southern Historical Publication Society; Publ. 1909; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack] Jones, Francis Fitch Jones, Francis Fitch, has built up a prosperous enterprise as a factor of naval stores in the city of Savannah, where he has resided for a decade and a half. He was born in the city of Charleston, S.C.,. March 18, 1860, and is a son of Augustus H. Jones, a representative cotton factor of that state and a son of Wiswall Jones, who also was born in Charleston, as was Augustus H. The mother of the subject of this sketch bore the maiden name of Julia Ann Fitch, and she is now a resident of Savannah, her husband being deceased. Francis F. Jones was reared and educated in his native city, and he has been connected with the cotton and naval store trade from his boyhood to the present, so that his success is based on solid foundations of experience and definite knowledge of values. He came to Savannah in 1890, and here he has risen to prominence in his chosen line of enterprise, being numbered among the representative business men of the fair old city. He is a member of the Savannah board of trade and chamber of commerce, the Savannah Yacht club, the Soiree club, and also holds membership in those two noble organizations, the Sons of the Revolution and the Society of the Colonial Wars, being governor of the latter for the State of Georgia, while in the former he is a member of the board of managers for this state. He is a stalwart Democrat and takes a lively interest in local affairs, having served one term of two years as a member of the board of aldermen of Savannah. (Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister) Bulloch, Archibald Lawyer, planter, congressman, governor, was born about 1730 in Charleston, S.C. In 1775 he was elected a member of the provincial congress, and became its president; and during the following year he was again called upon to preside over the second provincial congress, and sent as a delegate to the continental congress, meeting at Philadelphia. He was the first republican president of Georgia in 1776-77, holding that office when the state constitution came into existence. He died Feb. 22, 1777, in Savannah. Ga.   [Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar] McDonald, Charles James Nineteenth governor of Georgia, was born at Charleston, S. C., July 9, 193, graduated from the South Carolina college at Columbia in 1816 and after studying law settled in Georgia.  He was elected solicitor-general of the Flint circuit in 1822; represented his district in both branches of the legislature; became governor in 1839; was reelected in 1841; was a delegate to the Nashville States Rights convention in 1850, and was one of the judges of the supreme court of Georgia in 1857.  He died Dec. 15, 1860.  [Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons,  Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson] Middleton, Edmund R. Engaged in naval stores brokerage in Savannah, is one of the successful and honored business men of the city, where he has resided for the past twenty years. He was born in Charleston, S. C, Feb. 28, 1855, and is a son of William James and Mary Helen (McDonald) Middleton, both of whom were born and reared in Charleston. The genealogy of the Middleton family is traced back to the Middletons of Northumberland, England, the family being one of prominence and influence in that locality. The McDonald family is of pure Scottish derivation. Col. Benjamin O. Williams, great-grandfather of Mary H. (McDonald) Middleton, was an officer of the colonial forces during the war of the Revolution and was twice elected governor of North Carolina. The branch of the Middleton family to which Edmund R. belongs was established in South Carolina in the early part of the nineteenth century, settlement being made in the city of Charleston. Capt. P. F. Middleton, a skilled marine and civil engineer, was employed by the United States government to build the breakwater jetties around Sullivan's island, near Charleston, thus protecting the coast from the aggressions of the sea. Edmund Ravenel Middleton took his preparatory course of study in King's Mountain military academy, at Yorkville, S. C, leaving this institution in 1872. In the following year he was matriculated in the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., and graduated in that institution in 1875, having devoted his attention specially to chemistry, geology and mineralogy. In 1885 he located in the city of Savannah and established himself as a broker of naval stores, and in this line of enterprise he has since continued, his success having been most unequivocal and gratifying. He has handled large amounts of money for the account of other dealers, and is known as a reliable, discriminating and progressive business man, commanding the respect and confidence of all with whom he has come in contact, either in a business or social way. Concerning Mr. Middleton the cashier of the Merchants' National bank, of Savannah, has written as follows: "In all of our dealings with him he has shown himself at all times to be fair and correct in his business with the bank, careful and scrupulous in performing all his promises." In politics Mr. Middleton supports the Republican party so far as national issues are involved but in state and local affairs he is arrayed with the Democratic party. He and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church and he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. On Oct. 29, 1885, Mr. Middleton was united in marriage to Miss Belle Marion Henerey, the youngest daughter of John Talbird Henerey, who was one of the defenders of Fort Sumter during the bombardment and who was with General Lee's command at the time of the final surrender. The maiden name of his wife's mother was Selma Florence Talbird, and they were well known residents of Beaufort, S. C Mrs. Middleton is a lineal descendant of the Talbots of Dublin, Ireland. The progenitor of the family in America was Henry Talbot, the eldest son of John Talbot, a knight baronet. Henry Talbot built the lighthouse on Tybee island, Ga., in 1747, under contract with the colonial government. Mr. and Mrs. Middleton have one daughter, Edmund Strong Middleton, who was born March 27, 1887.  [Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons,  Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister] MASSIE MASSIE Cheshire. The family of Massie, settled at Coddington county, Cheshire, in consequence of the marriage of Hugh Massie with Agnes, daughter and heiress of Nicholas Bold, aud his son William by the said Agnes purchased with other manors that of Coddington in the reign of Henry, VI. This William married Alice, daughter and heiress of Adam Woton, of Edgerly, and the family subsequently intermarried with that of Grosvenor, of Eaton. The celebrated General Massie so distinguished during the Civil Wars, was the son of John Massie, of Coddington, by Anne Grosvenor, of Eaton. The present representative is the Rev. Richard Massie, of Coddington. Arms.—Quarterly gu. and or — in the 1st & 4th quarters three fieurs de-lis ar, for difference a Canton ar. Crest — A demi-pegasus with wings displayed quarterly or. and gu. Massie Quarterly az and ar. on the 1st and 4th a millet, Or. Crest— A horned Owl ppr. Massie Ar a pile, quarterly gu. and or: in the field quarter a lion pass, off the Held. Crest — Between two trees a lion salient ar.—[Encyclopaedia of Heraldry of England, Scotland and Ireland, by John Burke.] The first representatives of the family in America were Major Thomas Massie and William, his brother, who settled in New Kent County, in the Colony of Virginia. Thence Major Thomas Massie moved to Frederick County, and afterwards settled in Nelson county, where he owned large estates on Tye river and about the head waters of Rockfish river. For his services in the War of the Revolution he received a grant from the Government of valuable lands in Scioto Valley, Ohio, near the present city of Chillicothe. He married Sally Cocke, and spent the remaining years of his life in retirement at his seat, known as "Level Green," in Nelson County. The issue of this marriage were three sons: Thomas, William and Henry. Dr. Thomas Massie, the eldest son, married [1] Lucy Waller, by whom he had two sons; [i] Waller, [ii] Patrick; and two daughters, one of whom married Boyd, and the other of whom married Wm. 0. Goode. His second wife was [2] Sally Cabell; by whom he had one son, Paul. Waller Massie, eldest son of Dr. Thos. Massie, married Mary James of Chillicothe, Ohio, by whom he had issue: [1] Gertrude Waller Massie, [2] Thomas Massie, recently deceased without issue. Patrick Massie, second son of Dr. Thomas Massie, married Susan Withers, by whom he had issue: [1] Robert, [2] Patrick C., [3] Thomas, [4]Thornton, [5] Withers, [6] . [7] Susan. William Massie, second son of Major Thomas Massie, was married — times. His eldest son was Col. Thos. J. Massie, of Nelson, lately deceased without issue. His daughter, Florence, married [1] Tunstall, son of Whitmell P. Tunstall, [2] Judge .Tno. D. Horsley, of Nelson. Henry Mamie, of Falling Springs Valley, Alleghany County, Virginia, third son of Major Thomas Massie, married [1] Susan Preston Lewis, October 22nd, 1810, daughter of John Lewis of the Sweet Springs, and Mary Preston, daughter of Capt. William Preston of Smithfield, Montgomery county; [2] Elizabeth Daggs, May 18th, 1826, the daughter of Hezekiah and Margaret. The issue of said Henry Massie by his first wife, Susan Preston Lewis, were: [1] Sarah Cocke, who married Rev. Franck Stanley and died without issue on March 30, 1879. [2] Mary Preston, born September 26, 1813, married John Hampden Pleasants, December 15, 1829, and died April 18, 1837, leaving issue: [i] James Pleasants: [ii] Ann Eliza, who married Douglas H. Gordon: [iii] Mary Lewis, who died in infancy. [3] Henry Massie, Jr. [4] Eugenia S., born February 19, 1819, married Samuel Gatewood. and died October, 1884. leaving issue. [5] Thomas Eugene Massie. [6] Susan Lewis, who died in infancy. Said Henry.Massie died in January, 1841; and Susan Preston, his wife, died November 22, 1825, in the thirty-third year of her age. Said Henry Massie had by his second wife, Elizabeth, one son, Hezekiah, now living in Falling Spring Valley on his paternal estate. Henry Massie, Jr. , oldest son of Henry Massie and Susan Preston Lewis, was born July 4, 1816, married Susan Elizabeth Smith, March 23, 1841, daughter of Thos. B. Smith of Savannah, Georgia, and Caroline Sophia Rebecca Thomson, his wife, who was the daughter of William Russell Thomson, of Charleston, South Carolina, who was the son of Col. Wm. R. Thomson, born 1729, died 1796, who was the son of William Thomson (of the family of James Thomson, the English poet), and the founder of the family in America. The issue of said Henry Massie, Jr., and his wife Susan, who was born February 5th, 1822, and died November 25th, 1887, were: [1] Henry Lewis Massie, born May 12, 1842, died October 5, 1887, unmarried. [2] Caroline Thomson, born December 16, 1845, and married November 8, 1865, to James Pleasants. [3] Lulie, bora June 15, 1849, died May 7, 1878. [4] Thomas Smith Massie, born August 15, 1850, died Sept. 17, 1863. [5] William Russell Massie, born February 24, 1852, now living in Richmond, Virginia. [6] Susan Elizabeth, born February 2, 1855, died January 10, 1869.[7] Charles Philip Massie, born November 15, 1857, died October 31, 1863. [8] Eugene Carter Massie, born May 27, 1861, now practicing law in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Thomas Eugene Massie, second son of Henry Massie and Susan Preston Lewis, was born April 22, 1822, married in 1858 Mary James Massie, the widow of Waller Massie, and died in 1863, leaving issue: [1] Frank Aubrey Massie, now practicing law in Charlottesville, Virginia. [2] Eugenia Massie, who married Oscar Underwood of Kentucky, now living in Birmingham, Alabama. [3] Juanita Massie. [History of Virginia From Settlement of Jamestown to Close of The Civil War by Robert Alonzo Brock and Virgil Anson Lewis, 1888 – Transcribed by AFOFG] Manly, Charles Educator, clergyman and college president of Lexington, Va., was born May 28, 1837, in Charleston, S.C. He has been president of the Furman University of South Carolina. [Herringshaw's American Blue-Book of Biography by Thomas William Herringshaw and American Publishers' Association, 1914, Transcribed by AFOFG] Moultrie, William Patriot, was born in 1731; son of Dr. John Moultrie, who immigrated to America from Scotland in 1733 and attained eminence in Charleston , S. C., as a physician.  William distinguished himself as an Indian fighter; and in 1761 was appointed captain in a militia regiment.  He was a member of the provincial congress that convened at Charleston in January 1775, and was chosen colonel of the 2d South Carolina infantry.  In June, 1776, he was ordered to complete a fort on Sullivan’s Island, Charleston harbor, which he had begun the previous March.  On the arrival of the British fleet under Sir Henry Clinton and Admiral Sir Peter Parker, June 28, 1776, a bombardment was begun on the unfinished fortification, but owing to the spongy character of the palmetto wood, of which the fort was constructed, the broadsides had little effect, while the American fire wrought fearful havoc in the fleet, which was forced to withdraw.  The fort was subsequently called Fort Moultrie , and Moultrie was commissioned a brigadier-general in the Continental army.   In February, 1779, he defended Beaufort, S. C., against a superior force of British under Colonel Gardner.  In April, 1779, he delayed the advance of General Augustine Prevost against Charleston until the city could be placed in a condition for defense.  Upon the capitulation of Charleston in 1780 he was second in command and was on parole, till 1782, when he was exchanged.  He was promoted major-general in 1782, and at the close of the war retired to his home in Charleston .  He was governor of South Carolina , 1785-87, and 1794-96.  He is the author of Memoirs of the American Revolution (2 vols. 1802).  He died in Charleston , S. C., Sept. 27, 1805. (Source: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF NOTABLE AMERICANS. Vol 3, Publ. 1904. Transcribed by Richard Ramos) PRICE, WILLIAM JONES Minister and legislator, was born October 24, 1850, at Glennville, Barbour County; son of William Edward Price and wife, who was Mrs. Emma M. (Hunt) Wood, the former of Charleston, S. C, the latter of Augusta, Ga.; grandson of William E. and Eliza Ann Price of South Carolina, originally immigrants to America. He was educated in the common schools; entered the Methodist ministry, December, 1879, and is now in the superannuate relation. He was mayor of Girard, 1906-07; represented Russell County in the legislature of 1907; and was State senator, 1915. He is a Mason; and an Odd Fellow. Married: Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of William and Harriet (Ray) Espy. Children: 1. William Edwina, m. Thomas Moore Hall; 2. Coleman Espy; 3. Emma Ray; 4. Hubert Dent; 5. Eloise; 6. Edward Barnett; 7. Wreford Stough. Residence: Girard.  [History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Mrs. Marie (Bankhead) Owen, 1921 – Transcribed by AFOFG] BEE, Thomas (great-grandfather of Carlos Bee), a Delegate from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., in 1725; educated in Charleston, and later at Oxford University, England; studied law; was admitted to the bar at Charleston, S.C., January 27, 1761, and practiced there; also engaged in planting; member of Commons House, Province of South Carolina, for St. Pauls 1762-1764, for St. Peters 1765, and for St. Andrews 1772-1776; justice of the peace in 1775; Delegate to the First and Second Provincial Congresses 1775 and 1776; member of the State house of representatives 1776-1779 and 1782, serving as speaker 1777-1779; took an active part in the Revolution and was a member of the council of safety in 1775 and 1776; law judge 1776-1778; member of the State legislative council 1776-1778; Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1779 and 1780; Member of the Continental Congress 1780-1782; appointed judge of the United States Court for the District of South Carolina by President Washington June 14, 1790; published reports of the district court of South Carolina in 1810; died in Pendleton, S.C., February 18, 1812; interment in Woodstock Cemetery, Goose Creek, S.C.  [BEE, Thomas, (great-grandfather of Carlos Bee), a Delegate from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., in 1725; educated in Charleston, and later at Oxford University, England; studied law; was admitted to the bar at Charleston, S.C., January 27, 1761, and practiced there; also engaged in planting; member of Commons House, Province of South Carolina, for St. Pauls 1762-1764, for St. Peters 1765, and for St. Andrews 1772-1776; justice of the peace in 1775; Delegate to the First and Second Provincial Congresses 1775 and 1776; member of the State house of representatives 1776-1779 and 1782, serving as speaker 1777-1779; took an active part in the Revolution and was a member of the council of safety in 1775 and 1776; law judge 1776-1778; member of the State legislative council 1776-1778; Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1779 and 1780; Member of the Continental Congress 1780-1782; appointed judge of the United States Court for the District of South Carolina by President Washington June 14, 1790; published reports of the district court of South Carolina in 1810; died in Pendleton, S.C., February 18, 1812; interment in Woodstock Cemetery, Goose Creek, S.C. [ Source:  Biographical Directory of the U. S. Congress, 1774-Present; transcribed by A. Newell.] AIKEN, William (cousin of David Wyatt Aiken), a Representative from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., January 28, 1806; attended private schools; was graduated from the College of South Carolina (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1825; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives 1838-1842; served in the State senate 1842-1844; Governor of South Carolina 1844-1846; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and Thirty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1857); was an unsuccessful candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives after 133 ballots in the Thirty-fourth Congress; was not a candidate for renomination in 1856; presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Thirty-ninth Congress February 12, 1867, but was not permitted to qualify; resumed his former pursuits near Charleston, S.C.; died at Flat Rock, Henderson County, N.C., September 6, 1887; interment in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C. [ Source:  Biographical Directory of the U. S. Congress, 1774-Present; transcribed by A. Newell.] Stephen Bull, Esq., the progenitor of this family, (which is one of the most distinguished in South Carolina) was Lord Ashley's deputy and one of the leaders of the expedition which came from England on the frigate Carolina in 1669-70. He was thus one of the first settlers of South Carolina, and Lord Ashley praises his behavior in the government as agreeable to the Proprietors and his own high character. He obtained large grants of land on Ashley River in Saint Helena, and in 1671 and settled the "Ashley Hall" plantation (which remained in his family for over 200 years). In October, 1671, he assisted in selecting the site of Charleston, as his sons 62 years later, did that of Savannah. He was master of the ordnance, captain and engineer of the forts, 1671-75: captain and Colonel of the Provincial forces, 1687 - 1703: Justice of the Peace: Assistant Judge, 1683: Surveyor General, 1685; Register, 1696, member of the Provincial parliament, 1672-74; and of the Grand Council (under Locke's Constitution) as Commoner, 1672 - 74; and as Deputy (Lord Ashley's 1669 - 72, Lord Cornbury's, 1674 - 82, other proprietors 1684 - 91, 1694 - 99). He was a great explorer among the Indians and in 1671 was chosen Caseeka of the Etiwans, and in 1696 was appointed by Governor Archdale to make a treaty with the Indians of the North Carolina Coast. He died about 1706 and was buried at his seat on Ashley River.  Issue:  I. William Bull, b. 1683.  II. [perhaps Burnaby Bull. See page 87.]  III. John Bull, b. 169_.  IV. Catherine Bull, b. 1699; married Unknown Wilson; died in September, 1734. ...contributed by Carla M. 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