CRAWLEY, Elder EDMUND ALBERN,
D. D., is a native of England, born January 20th, 1799,
brought up in Sydney, Cape Breton; graduated from King's College,
Nova Scotia, 1819; converted in Granville, and baptized at Halifax.
Nova Scotia, in 1827; abandoned the law and studied Biblical
interpretation under Prof. Moses Stuart, at Andover; was ordained at
Providence, Rhode Island, in 1830. From 1832 was pastor of Granville
Street church, Halifax, Nova Scotia, for thirteen years; became
professor in Acadia College at its inception, January 1839. Brown
University honored him in 1846 with D. D. He became president of
Acadia College in 1854; subsequently spent some years in the United
States, and in 1867 resumed professorship in Acadia, and is now
principal of the theological department in that college. Dr. Crawley
was very prominent in originating the educational movement among the
Baptists in Nova Scotia, and also in carrying forward the work. He
possessed a philosophic mind and splendid talents, is highly
cultured, he is a sound theologian and a magnificent preacher. (The
above is taken from Dr. Cathcart's Baptist Encyclopedia.)
During the time Dr. Crawley sojourned in the United
States he spent a portion of his time in the town of Shelby, N. C.
He was pastor of the Shelby Baptist church in 1864, and was
principal of the Female Seminary in Shelby, he being then a member
of the Limestone church, Spartanburg County, S. C. At the session of
the Broad River Association in 1864, he was a delegate from the
Limestone church……… [Sketches, historical and biographical, of the
Broad River and King's Mountain Baptist Associations. By John
Randolph Logan 1887, contributed by Veneta
McKinney]
W.G.
BRASHEAR-- Born January 13, 1807 in Spartanburg
District, South Carolina; died in Adair County {Mo} May 10,
1862. He was married in 1827 to Miss Rosa Wood and came that
same year with his wife's parents to Ralls County, Missouri.
He and his wife came to Adair County in 1841 and settled near the
present Brashear. They raised eleven out of their twelve
children. [History Of Adair County Missouri by E.M. Violette
(1911)...contributed by Desiree R.]
BONNER, Elder BRYANT was a native of
Spartanburg County, S. C, born February 4th, 1817. Intermarried with
Miss Hannah Foster, April 7th, 1886, in the 19th year of his age,
and settled in his native county. In 1848 he made his first
appearance in the Broad River Association at the session held at
Buffalo church; was then a lay delegate, and continued to represent
the Buck Creek church for several sessions. In 1855 he was ordained
to the Gospel ministry, and preached acceptably to several of the
churches within the bounds of the Broad River and King's Mountain
Associations. At the session of the Broad River in 1872 he was
chosen Moderator and presided with dignity over the deliberations of
the body. When in 1876 the Spartanburg Association was organized
(Elder Bonner being at that time a member of Limestone church,) he
joined the new body, and was an active member of the same up to the
time of his death, which took place April 7th, 1879, in the 63d year
of his age.
Elder Bonner was above the ordinary size of men
in weight and stature, inclining somewhat to corpulency; was
near-sighted, and consequently always wore spectacles, but had a
genial and pleasant face. He was in the early part of his
ministerial life quite lively and humorous, and a great mimic. We
have been greatly amused in hearing him tell funny anecdotes, with a
view sometimes to tease the brethren…. [Sketches, historical and
biographical, of the Broad River and King's Mountain Baptist
Associations. By John Randolph Logan 1887]
BLACKWELL, Elder
ZECHARIAH was a pioneer minister of the Broad River
Association, and appears as a delegate in 1808, from State Line
church, Spartanburg County, S. C, and in 1823, he represented Buck
Creek church in the session at Reedy River of that year. In 1812, he
preached the introductory sermon at Friendship Church, he was for
that period considered an able preacher.
Elder M. C. Barnett
in his Associational Sketches, says: "At the session of 1842, at El
Bethel church, I saw Elder Blackwell for the last time, he was very
old; but still he had not thrown off the mantel of his calling; I
remember yet the veneration I felt for him; when, after the
association adjourned, he came out of the house and pulled off his
hat, and standing in the yard he published that he would preach at
such a place at such a time. His head was as white as cotton, his
voice weak and tremulous, and his whole physical appearance that of
a man standing on the brink of the grave. His dress was coarse and
well worn, but still there was a dignity of virtue and an air of
majesty about him that captivated, even while it subdued. He died in
the course of that year, and his grave, which is in the neighborhood
of Cherokee Ford, on Broad River, has remained without anything to
mark it until two years ago when, at the suggestion of Bro. Wm.
Curtis, the Association resolved to erect a tombstone at his grave,
with a suitable inscription to his memory, and immediately raised
money in the body for that purpose.
As a preacher he had
nothing of the polish of oratory about him, but having made the
Bible his principal study, he always preached as a scribe well
instructed in the kingdom—never being, at a loss for an apt
quotation of Scripture in support of anything he advanced; with a
melting pathos and sound sense his sermons could not but be as they
were, both interesting and instructive. If he had been favored with
the advantages of an early training he would no doubt have been one
of the shining lights of his day. Who can forbear a tear of sympathy
when standing by the graves of such men as old Bro. Blackwell….Elder
Zechariah Blackwell died October 12th, 1843, and his demise is
properly noticed in the Minutes. [Sketches, historical and
biographical, of the Broad River and King's Mountain Baptist
Associations. By John Randolph Logan 1887]
BOMAR, Elder THOMAS
was a native of Spartanburg County, S. C., the date of his birth
unknown to us. He was a member of Bethlehem church, and in the
session of the Broad River Association in the year 1818 appeared in
that body as a delegate, and continued to represent said church
several sessions afterwards. In the session of 1820 he was chosen
Moderator of the Association, and discharged the duties of the chair
with ability and dignity. His personal appearance was very fine and
prepossessing, tall and erect in his carriage, of graceful gestures,
and good voice and articulation. His scholastic attainments were
said not to expend further than a tolerably accurate knowledge of
the English language; he was however well posted in the Scriptures,
and scarcely ever failed to interest the congregations that attended
on his ministrations of the Word. So popular had he become as a
preacher that he was appointed by the Association to preach the
introductory sermons to the sessions of 1820-'23 and 1828, and at
the session of 1824 he was chosen to write a circular letter to the
churches on the subject of Christian Liberty…. In the session of the
Association of 1830, we find the following entry on the Minutes: "It
is with deep-felt sorrow that we record the death of our much
esteemed and well beloved brother, Elder Thomas Bomar. The churches
under his charge have sustained a great bereavement, as have his
dear family and relatives. To them his loss is irreparable, but to
him infinite gain and everlasting joy at Gods right hand."
[Sketches, historical and biographical, of the Broad River and
King's Mountain Baptist Associations. By John Randolph Logan
1887]
BREWTON, Elder
GEORGE was a pioneer minister and member of Friendship
church, Spartanburg County, S. C, the oldest church in the Broad
River Association. He appears in 1805 as a delegate, and continued
regularly as such until the year 1815.
In the Minutes of
that session we find the following entry: "It is with sorrow we have
to announce the death of our venerable and worthy brother in Christ,
Elder George Brewton, who was an humble Christian, a pious minister,
a nursing father in Zion, a good citizen, a loving husband, a tender
parent, and a friend to the needy. We lament and are sensible of our
loss, while he rejoices in his great gain in the congregation that
never breaks up."
We find that in the year 1812 he was chosen
to preside over the deliberations of the Association as Moderator,
which circumstance we take as an evidence of his good standing in
the esteem of his brethren. We are unable to learn any other
particulars of his life.
BURGESS, Elder
THOMAS was a native of Maryland, and previous to the
organization of the Broad River Association had located in
Spartanburg county, S. C, and become a member of Boiling Springs
church, which church was then a member of the Bethel Association,
and since dissolved. While Elder Burgess was a member of this church
it was, with others, dismissed to join in the organization of the
Broad River body, which, tradition says, took place at Sandy Run
church in 1800. We have not been able to find any record of the
proceedings of the convention that organized the Association, and
incline to the opinion that the journal never was published at all.
We find, however, from the published Minutes of the year 1801 the
session being held at Green's Creek church, in Rutherford County, N.
C, that Elder Burgess being a representative of Boiling Springs was
in this session of 1801, and was chosen Moderator of the body. He
was probably a veteran in age, and being a man of exemplary piety
was doubtless called to the chair as an act of courtesy, and he may
very properly be called the father of the Broad River Association.
Notwithstanding he was a veteran at this early period of the
Association, yet he did not pass away for several years afterwards,
for we find it recorded in the Minutes that he preached the
introductory sermon to the session of 1803, but after that we find
no further account of him; he either died and went to his reward or
removed without the bounds of the Association, which is most
probable, as there is no notice of his demise on the face of the
Minutes subsequently.
In the session of 1802 he was appointed
to write a circular letter to the churches, on the growing evils and
nature of the sin of intemperance. This fact is evidence that the
body at that time held him in high esteem, and placed great reliance
on his ability and the influence that he wielded among the churches
and people. He leaves behind him as a representative a
great-grand-son, in the person of Elder W. E. Burgess, of
Spartanburg county, S. C, who it is hoped will prove worthy of the
pioneer ancestor. [Sketches, historical and biographical, of
the Broad River and King's Mountain Baptist Associations. By
John Randolph Logan 1887]
BURGESS, Elder JOHN
E., of Brown's Chapel church, is a native of
Spartanburg County, S. C.; was born May 24th, 1854. Is a son of
Darius Burgess, who is a grand-son of the old pioneer minister,
Thomas Burgess, who presided as Moderator at the first session of
the Broad River Association after its organization in
1800.
Bro. John E. was a delegate to the Association first in
1877 at Friendship church, having been converted in 1872, and
baptized by Elder L. Vaughn into the fellowship of Brown's Chapel.
In 1873 he was licensed to preach, being then a beneficiary of the
Association, and striving to obtain an education. In 1875 he
intermarried with Miss Carrie Grier, who proved to be an
affectionate and useful helpmate —God's best gift to man.
In
1876 he was ordained to the full work of the Gospel ministry by a
presbytery, consisting of Elders J. G. Carter and L. Vaughn; and has
since served Zion Hill, Cowpens, Camp's Creek. Macedonia, Mount
Ararat, Gilead and Bivingsville churches, laboring in word and
doctrine…. [Sketches, historical and biographical, of the
Broad River and King's Mountain Baptist Associations. By John
Randolph Logan 1887]
BANKSTONE, Elder
JOHN was a member of Buck Creek church, in Spartanburg
county, S. C, and represented that church in the session of the
Broad River Association in the year 1808; and although we are unable
to glean from the Minutes or any one living now, that he ever acted
a very conspicuous part in the vineyard of the Lord, yet we are
assured of the fact, from the records of the Association, that he
was a minister in good standing. Let his name therefore be preserved
for his work's sake, which was doubtless often acceptable.
[Sketches, historical and biographical, of the Broad River and
King's Mountain Baptist Associations. By John Randolph Logan
1887]
CAMP, Elder JOSEPH
was one of the old pioneer ministers of the Broad River Association,
and a native of the State of Maryland, the date of his birth
unknown. Tradition has it that he organized the church at Buffalo,
and became a constituent member thereof previous to the organization
of the Association, and baptized Elders Drury Bobbins and Berryman
Hicks, two of the most prominent ministers afterwards in the
Association. That previous to the formation of the Association
in 1800, in which he bore a conspicuous part, and just after Col.
Carleton's defeat at Cowpens, in Spartanburg county, S. C, by Gen.
Morgan in January, 1781, Lord Cornwallis had him arrested with a
view to the obtaining of information as to the whereabouts of
Morgan, who was then en route to Gen. Greene's headquarters with the
prisoners captured by him in the late battle, which Cornwallis was
anxious to rescue. Elder Camp however was ignorant of the route
taken by Morgan, who it is said found a private passway in the right
direction, crossing First Broad River at Proctor's Ford, near the
Present Zion church, and moving rapidly in the direction of Greene's
headquarters, then at Hillsboro, N. C.; he was thereby enabled to
elude the British forces who were endeavoring to intercept him. The
attempt of Cornwallis proving a failure, and Elder Camp being a
non-combatant, was soon afterward set at liberty again, to attend to
his ministerial and medical duties, for it is said that he rendered
a great deal of service to the surrounding community as a physician
or medical man as well.
Elder Camp was a member of the
Association held at Green's Creek church in 1801, as appears from
the published Minutes of that session, being the first meeting of
the body after its organization; and it appears minuted that he with
Elders Thomas Burgess and John Blackwell were appointed "to labor
ministerially with the church at Cedar Springs," which at that time
appears to have been "missionary ground," notwithstanding it is now
one of the most intelligent and pious churches in the bounds of the
Broad River Association, and can point to such names as the
Barnetts, Lancasters, Coopers, Underwoods, Finchs, Walkers, etc.,
etc., which will compare favorably with the membership of any of the
churches in the Association, and is one among many other proofs of
the power and efficacy of the Gospel.
Elder Camp in 1802
prepared a circular letter, under the order of the Association, on
the Duties and Obligations of Matrimony. And in 1804 he prepared
another on Church Discipline. He is said to have been an able
preacher for his day and time, but had only a limited education. He
lived near the dividing line between the Carolinas, and his old
homestead now belongs to H. F. Ramsour, Esq., a worthy deacon of
Buffalo church. About the year 1808 he emigrated to Kentucky while
pretty far advanced in life, and probably died there, but at what
period of time we are not aware. He had a son (John Camp) who
became a preacher, and paid his Carolina relatives a visit some time
after the demise of his father, and preached very acceptably to some
of the churches who once took so much pleasure in listening to the
sermons of his ancestor. Elder Camp was respectably connected, and
has numerous relatives in Spartanburg County, S. C, and in Cleveland
and Rutherford counties, N. C. [Sketches, historical and
biographical, of the Broad River and King's Mountain Baptist
Associations. By John Randolph Logan 1887]
ALLEN, Deacon WOODWARD was born November
29th, 1820, near Woodruff, in Spartanburg County, S. C. Here he
resided until his marriage with Miss Harriet, daughter of John
Wells, Esq., of said county, on December 24th, 1840, immediately
after which time he moved to the present homestead. While on a visit
to his parents in Oct., 1849, he professed conversion in a meeting
then in progress at Bethel church, and was baptized into its
membership. By letter from this church, a few months after his
conversion, he joined the Cedar Springs Baptist church, where he
remained an honored and useful member until by faith he was
translated to the church triumphant, where there is no pain, no sin,
no sorrow.
Bro. Allen served Cedar Springs church with entire
satisfaction to all, as clerk and treasurer, for over twenty years,
and was only permitted to resign then by reason of continued ill
health…
He died April 3d, 1880, at his residence near Cedar
Springs, Spartanburg County, S. C, in the 60th year of his
age. [Sketches, historical and biographical, of the Broad
River and King's Mountain Baptist Associations. By John
Randolph Logan 1887]
BARNETT, Elder
JOROYAL was a member of Cedar Springs church,
Spartanburg County, S. C, and was one of the pioneer ministers of
the Broad River Association, appearing first in the session of 1802,
held at Buck Creek church, and for several years afterwards he
represented the same church. In 1811 he was chosen Moderator of the
body, which is evidence of his high and respectable standing in the
Association at that day and time.
We have not been able, from
any one now living, to ascertain much of his history, not even the
date of his advent into the world, or the time of his demise, which
has doubtless been many years since. He was probably a good preacher
and energetic pastor during the time of his ministerial career. We
learn that he was the paternal uncle of the much lamented Elder
Micajah Cicero Barnett......[Sketches, historical and biographical,
of the Broad River and King's Mountain Baptist Associations.
By John Randolph Logan 1887]
BARNETT, ELDER MICAJAH
CICERO, nephew of Elder Joroyal Burnett, was born May
20th, 1818, near Cedar Springs, Spartanburg County, S. C. Was
licensed to preach the Gospel by the Cedar Springs church November
27th, 1841, and ordained March 25th, 1843. The presbytery consisted
of Elders John G. Landrum, Elias Rogers and Felix W. Littlejohn. He
intermarried with Miss Nazareth Lipscomb, daughter of Edward
Liscomb, Esq., a worthy deacon of Goucher Creek church.
His
early education was limited, but, by earnest application and
constant devotion to his studies, he was recognized as one of the
ablest self-educated men of his day. This, combined with his fine
personal appearance and social qualities, made him attractive as a
preacher and agreeable as a companion. His counsel was often sought
for by his brethren, and in his intercourse with men his aim was to
instruct and benefit. With the exception of two years he lived and
labored within the bounds of the Broad River Association, to which
he was greatly attached; for many years he was its clerk and for
several its moderator, and was universally loved by the whole
Association. Although this body may deeply feel the loss of this
great and good man, his churches and the community in which he lived
have sustained a loss not easily repaired. He supplied at different
times during his ministry, Cedar Springs—his mother
church—Philadelphia, Sulphur Springs, Gilead, Limestone, Pacolet,
Shelby, and at the time of his death be was a member and the pastor
of El Bethel church, where he had preached with acceptance and much
success for three years. He died on the 20th September, 1872, in the
town of Shelby, Cleveland County, N. C. in the 55th year of his
age.......His funeral discourse was delivered by Elder John G.
Landrum, to a large and sympathizing concourse of people over his
grave at El Bethel church, where he was buried with Masonic honors.
[Sketches, historical and biographical, of the Broad River and
King's Mountain Baptist Associations. By John Randolph Logan
1887]
CANTRELL, Elder ISAAC was a member of
Buck Creek Church, Spartanburg County, S. C, and was chosen a
delegate to the Broad River Association in 1801. We are unable to
find that he ever distinguished himself in any way as a Baptist
minister; he was, however, one of the Broad River pioneer preachers,
and was doubtless in the organization of the Association. As we find
no mention of him subsequently he may have emigrated or died soon
after. Let his name be preserved and handed down to his descendants
and the Baptist family, of which he was certainly an honorable
member. Sketches, historical and biographical, of the Broad River
and King's Mountain Baptist Associations. By John Randolph
Logan 1887, contributed by Veneta McKinney]
(* NOTE FROM
TRANSCRIBER – ACCORDING TO MY FAMILY RESEARCH, HE WAS BORN 1729 AND
DIED AUG 23, 1805 IN SPARTANBURG, COUNTY, SC AND IS BURIED AT BUCK
CREEK BAPTIST CEMETERY IN SPARTANBURG SC.)
CROCKER, Elder
JACOB was a native of Wake County, and was born near
the city of Raleigh, N. C., date unknown. He was one of the old
Broad River pioneer preachers, and became a member first of State
Line, then of El Bethel, and last of Pacolet church, in Spartanburg
County, S. C. He became a prominent minister of the Association, and
was twice chosen to preside over the deliberations of the body in
the sessions of 1807 and 1819. In 1805 at French Broad church he
preached the introductory sermon, and again in 1819 he performed the
same service at Head of Tyger River. In the session of 1823 he
prepared the circular letter addressed to the churches, on the
manner in which a church of Christ should proceed in calling a
pastor or supply. Soon after this he emigrated to Pickens County,
Alabama, and died, having attained to a good old age. Sketches,
historical and biographical, of the Broad River and King's Mountain
Baptist Associations. By John Randolph Logan 1887]
J. Arthur Wiggins
active vice president and manager of the Bank of Denmark, first
identified himself with that community of Bamberg County in the
capacity of an educator. For a number of years he was head of the
Denmark schools, finally resigning to take up banking.
He was
born at Holly Hill, South Carolina, July 26, 1871. He is of English
ancestry, the family coming to America in the 1600's and taking part
in the Revolution. His grandfather, James Wiggins, was a farmer,
while his father, James B. Wiggins, is a successful physician and
surgeon. Dr. J. B. Wiggins was a surgeon in the Confederate army,
taking an active part throughout the struggle, and was prominently
identified with the famous "red shirt" brigade during the period of
reconstruction. He was active in the political world, in which he
exercised a wide influence. He was called upon several times to
serve in public office and filled the offices of county treasurer
and county auditor. In addition to his professional and political
duties he owned and operated about 4,000 acres in what is now
Orangeburg County, cultivating what is known as a twenty-plow farm.
He was prominent in the Methodist Church at Holly Hill, in which he
was a steward. He died in 1910. Doctor Wiggins married Mary C.
Brownlee, a native of Holly Hill. Both the Brownlee and Wiggins
families were early settled in South Carolina.
J. Arthur
Wiggins was reared and educated in his home community and received
his A. B. degree in 1895 from Wofford College at Spartanburg. He
spent ten years as superintendent of the high school at Denmark, and
in 1906 accepted the post of cashier in the Bank of Denmark, and
since 1915 has been its active vice president and manager. He
exercises a wide influence in financial matters of the district. The
bank is one of the strong ones of Bamberg County, and has a capital
of $50,000, and belongs to the State and National Banking
Associations. D. N. Cox is president.
Mr. Wiggins takes an
active part in the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
being a steward and trustee. He is affiliated with the Masonic
fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the
World.
In 1896 he married Miss Mattie Connor, a native of
Holly Hill and a daughter of Fred Connor, a farmer of Holly Hill.
The Connors are an old South Carolina family of Revolutionary stock.
Fred Connor was a soldier in the Confederate army and served until
the close of the war. He was a man of sterling character and was an
ardent supporter of all measures looking toward the general welfare
of the community. He became one of the wealthiest and most prominent
men of the Holly Hill section. He died in 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Wiggins
have four sons and four daughters: Reynold, Vera, Martha, James,
Fred, Grace, Frances and Hugh.
Reynold C. Wiggins is auditor
of the Edisto National Bank at Orangeburg. He married Ruth, a
daughter of Capt. J. B. Guess of Denmark, one of the most prominent
farmers in this section of the state. The Guess family is of
Revolutionary stock.
[History of South Carolina, Volume 5, Edited
by Yates Snowden and Harry Gardner Cutler, 1920 – Transcribed by
AFOFG]
John W. Parker, Jr.
M.D.
Since his honorable discharge from army duty as
specialist in gastrointestinal diseases at the Base Hospital at Camp
Wadsworth, Doctor Parker has located at Greenville and now gives all
his time to his specialty, in which he is one of the foremost
authorities in South Carolina. Doctor Parker has practiced medicine
in this state since graduating from the University of
Maryland.
He was born at Durham, North Carolina, April 16,
1880, a son of John W. and Jane (Lunsford) Parker of Durham. He grew
up in the famous tobacco city, was educated in Rutherford College
and the University of North Carolina, and did his work in
preparation for the medical profession at the University of Maryland
where he graduated in 1905. The first three years he practiced in
Lee County, South Carolina, and from that time until 1914 at
Williamston in Anderson County. He had become well established in
his profession at Greenville when the World War came on, and he
volunteered his services in the Medical Reserve Corps. Upon being
taken into the National army he was assigned to duty as specialist
in gastro-intestinal diseases at the Base Hospital at Camp
Wadsworth, Spartanburg, and was on continuous duty there from
January 3rd until September 8, 1918.
Doctor Parker has
specialized for a number of years in gastro-intestinal diseases, and
his skill and success have brought him well deserved recognition
from the medical profession. He has every advantage bestowed by
experience, personal skill and complete facilities. These facilities
in his fine suite of offices in the Wallace Building at Greenville
include the latest Bellevue Model X-Ray machine of the Woppler
Electric Company.
Doctor Parker is a member of the County,
State and American Medical Associations. He married Miss Andrina
Anderson of Anderson County, a daughter of George W. and Narcissa
(Nesbitt) Anderson. George W. Anderson was born in Greenville
County, South Carolina, March 7, 1828. He was the son of John
Anderson, a native of Ireland, who came to America with his parents,
Thomas and Nancy (Ewing) Anderson, in his childhood and settled in
Greenville, Greenville County, where he died in 1837. Of ten
children living at the time of John Anderson's death, Major Anderson
and his sister are the only ones surviving. Thomas and Nancy
Anderson, the grandparents, spent the remainder of their lives in
Greenville County, the latter living to be nearly 100 years old.
The mother of Major Anderson was Mary Terry, who survived
her husband a great many years, dying at the age of seventy. Four
sons of John and Mary Anderson served in the Confederate army;
James, John, David and George W. James died in 1863 from sickness
contracted in the service; John was captured at the fall of
Petersburg and died from the effects of his treatment on the boat
while on his way to Charleston to be released; David survived the
war and farmed in Alabama until his death in 1896. George W. was
educated chiefly at the Cokesbury High School. He taught for one
year in Alabama, but began a mercantile business in Laurens County,
South Carolina, in 1851. For several years before the war he was a
major in the state militia, commanding the upper squadron of the
Tenth Regiment of cavalry. In the fall of 1863 he entered the army
as a private in Company K, Seventh South Carolina Regiment of
cavalry, commanded by Col. A. C. Haskell, and served with it to the
close of the war. He was in the battles of Drewry's Bluff, and
shortly afterward detailed as a courier for Gen. G. T. Beauregard,
serving as such for some time, after which he returned to his
command, and participated in the battle of the Crater.
He
was present at Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Major Anderson located
in Williamston, South Carolina, in 1868. As a merchant after the war
he was very successful. He was a very active and loyal churchman and
at that time when prohibition was very unpopular, he took a strong
stand in support of it and was instrumental in the publication of a
prohibition paper. To the poor and needy he was unusually kind and
generous. He was married February 21, 1860, to Miss Nancy Narcissa
Nesbitt, who survived him nine years, and died November 27, 1901,
leaving seven children, four sons and three daughters. Her maternal
ancestry includes the notable Nesbitt family of Spartanburg County.
She is a granddaughter of James Nesbitt and a great-granddaughter of
Jonathan Nesbitt of Spartanburg County. Jonathan Nesbitt was a
Revolutionary hero. At the battle of Cowpens the breech of his gun
was shot off by enemy fire. He was participant in a number of other
battles in North Carolina, and at his death was buried with military
honors in old Nazareth Presbyterian Church in Spartanburg County.
The Nesbitts were among the founders of this historic congregation.
They had located in Upper South Carolina a number of years before
the Revolutionary war and represented some of the finest of the
Scotch-Irish stock in that vicinity. One of the prominent members of
the family was Col. Wilson Nesbitt, who was a member of Congress in
1817-18, and had in this and otherwise a brilliant career. He
married Miss Susan Tyler DuVal of Washington, District of Columbia,
and he died at Montgomery, Alabama, to which place he had removed
from Spartanburg County later in life.
The two children of
Doctor and Mrs. Parker are: Andrina Anderson Parker and John W.
Parker, III.
[History of South Carolina, Volume 3 Edited by Yates
Snowden and Harry Gardner Cutler, 1920 – Transcribed by AFOFG]
PRUET, WILBOURNE ROUNDTREE
Farmer, was
born February 27, 1844, at McDonough, Newton County, Ga.; son of
Alexander and Mildred Roundtree (Wilbourne) Pruet, the former who
was a native of Spartanburg County, S. C., a veteran of the War of
1812; grandson of Obadiah and Mary (Palmer) Pruet, of South
Carolina, and of Ellsha and Mildred (Cox) Wilbourne, also of South
Carolina, both grandfathers serving in the Revolutionary War. Mr.
Pruet received his education in the common schools of what is now
Clay County; was school trustee for thirteen years; was one of the
county pension examiners, having entered on his service in 1899 and
serving until 1905, and again going into office in 1911 and serving
until 1915; and was a representative in the legislature of 1915 from
Clay County. He was a member of Co. I, Thirtieth Alabama infantry
regiment, C. S. Army; was wounded and captured at Baker's Creek,
Miss.; imprisoned at Ft. Delaware, Md., and Pt. Lookout. He is
commander of Camp Pettus, United Confederate Veterans, at Ashland,
and a major in the Fourth Brigade, United Confederate Veterans. He
is a Democrat; a Baptist; and a Mason. Married: September 12, 1867,
to Susan Francis Danielly, daughter of John and Martha (Castleberry)
Danielly, of Louina; (2) September 6, 1883, to Lucy Ann Kirk,
daughter of Stephen and Sarah Ann (Danielly) Kirk. Children, by
first marriage: 1. Eliza Mildred, m. G. W. Arnold; 2. Nancy Malinda,
m. Charlie O. Horn; 3. John Alexander, m. Leora Black; 4. Carson
Floyd, deceased; 5. Bennett Wilbourne, m. Vernie Allen; 6. Francis
Danielly, m. Myrtle Wesley; 7. Hiram Owen, deceased; by second
marriage: 8. William Stephen, deceased; 9. Clarence Madison, m.
Bessie Ellis; 10. Fannie Lola, deceased; 11. infant boy, deceased;
12. May, deceased; 13. Wilbourne Respus, deceased. Residence:
Ashland. [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama
biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Mrs. Marie (Bankhead)
Owen, 1921 – Transcribed by AFOFG]
