Private SC Militia Rev War
His will administered 16 NOV. 1812, Abbeville Co. , SC
Came to America in 1763 from Ireland.
70. Christian RASOR
Revolution War Soldier.
71. Sarah Ann SIMMS
Mrs. Christian Rasor (Sarah Ann Simms) was a great aunt of Dr. John A Broadus -- the famous Baptist minister.
74. William 'Squire William' BARMORE Sr.
William Barmore, the third son of James Barmore, married Miss Nancy Dodson, his first wife, when he was only nineteen years old. His father gave him a tract of land on Ball's Road, two miles below Donnalds, owned now by W. R. Dunn. His dwelling house was about a half mile from the public road.
He, like his father, was a blacksmith by trade, at which occupation he accumulated a considerable property. He ran a public shop for the farmers of Upper Abbeville County. Mr. James Tarrant, an old citizen who lived (he may still be living) several miles below Abbeville County house, remarked to a grandson of William Barmore's just after the Civil War, "Your grandfather Barmore was the best blacksmith in Abbeville County. When I was a boy my father used to send me twenty-five miles to his shop to get his particular work done. There were always several apprentices under him. I never saw him working any, that is, I never saw him wield the tools, but I always noticed, and made a great impression upon me, that he gave minute attention to every piece of work done in his shop." Diligence and thorough workmanship were noticeable characteristics in whatever business he undertook."
His educational advantages had been quite limited. After he had been married fifteen years, he succeeded in getting a teacher to open a night school in the neighborhood -- he couldn't leave his work to attend school in daylight. He was a regular attendant of that night school one whole winter. There he learned to write a very legible hand, and enough about figure to enable him to succeed subsequently as a merchant.
In 1825 he moved out on the Five Notch Road, where he still ran a public shop, built a large dwelling house, and gave public entertainment to travelers. He was never known to turn away a traveler, no matter at what hour of the night they dame. A merchant of Anderson once said, "Squire Barmore's house is favorably known from the seaboard to the mountains."
It must have been in 1823 or 1824 that he and the Rev. James Wilson went into the mercantile business. After a few years of great success Rev. Wilson sold his interest to Mr. Barmore's two sons, and he (Wilson) moved from the County. Mr. Hill Post Office, the only post office for several years in Upper Abbeville, was in his store, his son Enoch being the postmaster.
The firm of Barmore & Sons was a continual success up to his death. He said, "In twenty years as a merchant, I have not lost as much as two hundred dollars in the way of collections."
A dishonest person, a stingy person, or a lazy one he could not hear, but his heart went out in sympathy to the industrious poor.
His Daughter Polly jesting said, "Father is better to his poor tenants than he is to his children." Her husband replied, "His tenants carry their wants to him; his children, at least my wife, is too high-minded to beg even from a rich father."
Old people have told his grandchildren many laughable jokes as to the way he would caution poor people about buying in his store, seeming to forget for the time his own interest, so absorbed were his thoughts for their welfare. General Hodges, who knew him well, remarked to one of his granddaughters, "Your grandfather made money merchandising; everybody was honest then; he wouldn't make money at it now if living; 'poor salesman' they would style his straight forward way of dealing with customers."
At his death he owned eleven plantations, we do not know the number of acres, but is supposed there must have been in all considerably over two thousand. A goodly portion of each tract was in cultivation, mostly by white tenants. It was an observed fact that every poor, industrious, honest man who lived on his farms never left him until they were able to buy farms of their own. He never owned a great many slaves, always said he did not want to have more than he could do justice by. "If I owned a great many," he would say, "might neglect the." Just those he inherited, with their Increase, and a few he took as pay for debts. His estate was principally land and money.
He married three times. His first wife, Nancy Dodson, had two sons and five daughters. The second wife, Nancy McGee, had two daughters. The third wife, Polly Hodges, never had any children. His children were all settled in life and in good circumstances at his death.
Source: "From Hill To Dale To Hollow" p. 155
Source: "A History of the Broaddus Family, From the Time of the Settlement of the Progenitou of the Family in the United States down to the year 1888" by A. Broaddus, DD p 99-108.
Source: "A History of the Broaddus Family, From the Time of the Settlement of the Progenitou of the Family in the United States down to the year 1888" by A. Broaddus, DD p 99-108.
100. James ELLIS Sr.
Source: Records at the Darlington County Historical Society, Darlington SC.
102. Absalom GARNER
Source: Darlington County Historical Commision . Records on file at the Historical Society.
103. Mary 'Polly' HEATH
Source: Records on file at Darlington County Historical Society, Darlington, SC.
104. Nelson GIBSON Sr.
Name of wife and dates of births and death come from Civil War records of North Carolina.
Fought with Francis Marion during the Revolution.
A native of Wigtown Shire Scotland, came to this country a young man about 1760, handsome and intelligent. Taught school in King and Queen County. Married Elizabeth Coleman of Essex Co, daughter of Thomas Coleman a man of property and standing in his community - its representive in the assembly for some years, and his is the first name on the list of its committy of safety in 1774. In 1791 he desceibes himself as very old and inferm.
113. Elizabeth COLEMAN
Source: Records from the files of Benjamin Vaughan McCandlish.
Source: "The Coleman Family of Virginia" by S. Bernard Coleman.
Richard Taliaferro was appointed Justice in 1738 and Sheriff of the county in 1741. Col Richard Taliaferro married Rebecca daughter of Richard Cocke of Surry County.