Willow Swamp Baptist Church
Roll
Complied and contributed by Philip
Mullins
The following are excerpts taken from the Carolina
Genealogist. The first is a list of individuals who left the Dean Swamp
Church to found a church closer to their homes. It includes Simmons,
Sandifers, McDaniel, Felder and other family names that were prominent in
Pike County, Mississippi, in later years. The second list indicates that
some church members subsequently left the church for the purpose, I think,
of migrating to Mississippi Territory.
State of South Carolina, Orangeburg District Dean Swamp Church
We, the Baptist Church of Christ on Dean Swamp holding conference on the first day of June 1805, have dismissed all and singular the members whose names are under enrolled to be constituted a church at William Tyler's on Willow Swamp and when constituted are dismissed from us in full Fellowship by order of the church.
- Richard Simmons
- Ansley Broom
- John Holman, Sr.
- Charles Felder
- Elizabeth Holman
- John Holman, Jr.
- William Tyler, Sr.
- Ann Guess
- Martha Hughs
- William Tyler, Jr.
- Sarah Sanders
- Izabella Hutto
- Henry Tyler
- Sarah Hughs
- Sarah Felder
- John Ballard
- Keziah Ballard
- Ann Tyler
- Joseph Brown
- Mary Brown
- Sabra Sanders
- Jane Tyler, dead
- Josiah Keadle G.C.
- Mary Tyler
- Sarah Mixon
- Arial Mixon
- Elizabeth Tyler
- Martha Tyler
- Leary Lee
- Elizabeth Sandifer
- Hannah Young
- Daniel McDaniel
- Ann Simmons
County Records, Orangeburg County, S.C. Willow Swamp Church
The Constitution of the Willow Swamp Church August 10th day,
1805.
Met in conference at William Tyler's on Willow Swamp on the 10th
day of August, 1805. We, the dismissed members from Dean Swamp Church
being in number thirty-six, and by the help of God and our Beloved
Brethren James Sweat and Isaac Dubosque being the Presbytery chosen to
constitute us into a church, we were legally then constituted and our
Beloved Brethren Richard Simmons and Charles Felder were unanimously
chosen Deacons to act in the Deaconship and govern said Church and were
ordained by the said Presbytery and Brother Adrial Mixon chosen clerk of
the church…
Willow Swamp Church Roll
- Richard Simmons, dismissed
- Charles Felder, dismissed
- William Tyler, Sr., dead
- Adrial Mixon, excluded
- William Tyler, Jr., excluded
- Henry Tyler, dead
- Thomas Tyler
- John Holman, Sr.
- John Holman
- Levi Lee
- Joseph Brown
- John Ballard
- Mary Tyler, dead
- Elizabeth Tyler Sr., dead
- Elizabeth Tyler, dismissed
- Ansley Brown, dead
- Mary Brown, dismissed
- Hannah Young, dismissed
- Elizabeth Holman
- Ann Tyler
- Jane Tyler, dead
- Martha Tyler, dead
- Ann Simmons, dismissed
- Ann Guess
- Sarah Hughs
- Sabra Sanders
- Sarah Felder, dismissed
- Isabella Hutto
- Dyches Charlotte, slave, dead
- Youngs Nanny, slave
- Daniel McDaniel, excluded
- Martha Hughes
- Kezia Ballard
Comments by Philip Mullins: Sometime after 1805 someone made notes on
the August 10, 1805, roll of the new church and noted those who had since
died or left the church. Among those who had died are William Tyler, Sr.
(Ann Simmon's father) and four other members of the Tyler family. William
Tyler, Jr. (probably Ann Simmon's brother) had been excluded from the
church. This means that he had been asked to leave the church for some
infraction such as drinking or fighting. Richard and Ann Simmons had been
dismissed as members in good standing.
At least three families
from this church migrated to Mississippi: Richard and Ann Simmons, Charles
and Sarah Felder and Daniel McDaniel. The first two men were both Deacons
and left the church in good standing. Daniel McDaniel had been excluded.