Volume 6 Number 1 March, 1993

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Bible Records - Caldwell

Horeb Church History

South Carolina Genealogical Societies and Addresses

Bookshelf

Queries

Special Announcements

Please continue to submit articles for the newsletter: Lineage chart(s), Bible records, cemetery surveys, short family histories, queries, and any items you feel will be helpful to others.

Fairfield County Genealogical Society P. 0. Box 696

Winnsboro, South Carolina 29180

Regular Monthly Meeting January, February, March, April, May,

September, October, November

Fourth Sunday of Each Month 3:00 P.M.

Bethel A.R.P. Church Corner of Washington and Zion Streets

Winnsboro, South Carolina

President William (Bill) B. Wall 233. Walnut Lane Columbia, SC 29212-9671

Vice-President Henrietta Rosson Morton P. 0. Box 1203 Greenwood, SC 29648-1203

OFFICERS

Treasurer Charles J. Beach 112 Dogwood Avenue Winnsboro, SC 29180

State Representative William (Bill) B. Wall 112 Dogwood Avenue Columbia, SC 29212-9671

Corresponding Secretary & Editor Recording Secretary & Co-Editor Hellen G. Rexrode Gloria Blackwell Route 1 Box 106 Route 1 Box 58-A Winnsboro, SC 29180 Winnsboro, SC 29180

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FAIRFIELD COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY P. 0. Box 696

Winnsboro, SC 29180

Family Bible Records

Copied from Robert C. Caldwell & Martha Jane Heath Caldwell's Family Bible.

BIRTHS

Robert Calvin Caldwell born April 21, 1833, Sunday Martha Jane Heath born March 9, 1839, Saturday

Francis Asberry Rose Caldwell born March 25, 1859. Friday Evening Emily Jane Caldwell born October 25, 1860. Friday Evening Margaret Eliza Caldwell born March 12, 1863. Thursday Night Robert Pritchard Lee Caldwell born July 29, 1886. Thursday William Henry Alexander Caldwell born 26, 1866. Thursday Evening Hattie Caroline Moore Caldwell born December 19, 1870 Martha Minzie Caldwell born August 15, 1873. Friday Evening Mary Elizabeth Smith Caldwell born October 6, 1875. Thursday Night Samuel James Heath Caldwell born November 24, 1877. Saturday Night John Calvin Grafton Caldwell born September 10, 1880. Friday Night

MARRIAGES

Robert Calvin Caldwell of Rossville, SC married Martha Jane Heath of Bascomville, SC June 3, 1858 at Mrs. Lucy Heath's by Rev. William Banks.

Margaret Eliza Caldwell married to Joseph Hornsby Stroud March 23, 1883 Emily Jane Caldwell married to Hilliard Judge Gayden January 27, 1884 Francis Asberry Ross Caldwell married Katie Elizabeth Delaney April 26, 1893 Hattie Caroline Moore Caldwell married to John Chappell Backstrom November 8, 1893 Samuel James Heath Caldwell married to Willie Meador McMeekin January 16, 1909 (The others were not put down in the family Bible)

DEATHS

Francis Asberry Heath died March 26, 1843 Parents of Martha Jane Heath Caldwell Emily Carolina Heath died October 14, 1846 )

Robert Caldwell died October 10, 1840 Parents of Robert Calvin caldwell Jane Sterling Caldwell died May 17, 1847 )

Martha Jane Caldwell, wife of R. C. Caldwell, died July 13, 1888 Robert C. Caldwell, husband of Martha Jane Caldwell, died June 13, 1912

CHILDREN OF SAMUEL JAMES HEATH CALDWELL AND WILLIE McMEEKIN CALDWELL

Martha Heath Caldwell born October 24, 1909 Joseph McMeekin Caldwell born September 8, 1911 Florrie Moore Caldwell born November 6, 1913 Robert Calvin Caldwell born June 17, 1916 Willie Raymond Caldwell born August 13, 1919 Mary Evelyn Caldwell born July 3, 1922 Francis Marion Caldwell born March 24, 1926

H O R E B C H U R C H

(The following article was printed in The News and Herald on Thursday, June 21, 1962.)

MARKER OF HOREB CHURCH DEDICATED

Approximately 100 persons attended dedicatory services of a marker at the site of Old Horeb Presbyterian Church on Sunday, June 10. The marker was erected by Union Memorial Presbyterian Church.

The Rev. Robert E. Smith, pastor of Sion Presbyterian Church, Winnsboro, gave the invocation, the Rev. Cecil D. Brearley, Jr. of Columbia, read the Scripture lesson. The Rev. Arthur M. Martin of Columbia, Executive Secretary of the Synod of South Carolina, read a history of Horeb Church, and Elder George R. Park, Clerk of the Session of Union Memorial, dedicated the marker. The prayer of dedication was given by the Rev. Samuel Hudson Hay, D.D. L.L.D., of Columbia, and the Rev. Joe D. Beale, pastor of Aimwell Church, Ridgeway, pronounced the benediction.

The History of Horeb Church as read by the Rev. Mr. Martin, follows:

Horeb Presbyterian Church according to a Mrs. Camak, who being 77 years old and oldest member of the church in 1850, when she told it to Dr. Howe for his History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina was organized in 1791 or 1792, when Rev. Thomas Harris McCaule began to preach there. A log church was built, evidently near the old cemetery where the road through Mossy Dale crosses Crooked Run, "a tributary of Cedar Creek, and an affluent of Broad river."

It was first known on the rolls of Presbytery as Crooked Run Church. On February 8, 1800, the church requested First Presbytery to record its name as Horeb; and later that same year, on September 30, they call William G. Roseborough, who accepted and on February 4, 1801, was ordained and installed pastor of Horeb and Concord congregations when Presbytery met in Horeb Church.

Mr. Roseborough served Horeb six years, but his name lingered on. In Mills' Atlas and Map of the State, the church, located on the north- south road by the present site, was called Roseborough's Church. It is about ten miles due southwest of Winnsboro.

The longest pastorate of Horeb Church began in 1826 when Rev. William Brearley, just out of Princeton Seminary, came to be pastor at Winnsboro and Horeb, preaching at Horeb monthly until 1840, when he moved to Darlington. After irregular supplies, Rev. Samuel Hutson Hay, fresh from Columbia Seminary which had been founded in 1828, became pa.stor for two years. Rev. George Christian Logan served as pastor two years until his death, June 10, 1848. His tomb is the most distin- guished evidence on the site today, along with the foundation of the former frame building.

Dr. Daniel Baker held a gread revival at Horeb Church in 1832, on one of his tours. He also raised a good sum for his Austin College in Texas. Horeb Church was also active in the origin and support of the Richland-Fairfiled Bible Society, and is still carried on the rolls of that society.

The first three elders, according to Mrs. Camak, were James Brown, a Mr. Boyd, and another she had forgotten. Other elders of Horeb were (1845) James McDill, Nathaniel Marvin, Jacob Bookman, William Gilbert, and Charles B. Douglas. Others were John Elliott, John Hamilton, and John Brown (in the 1820 Is. )

History of the church after the Confederate War is very meager.

The last record of Horeb Church in the statistics of the General Assembly is in 1879, when the church reported 60 members, 3 elders and 3 deacons. When Union Church was organized in July 1889, its member- ship, which in three years grew from 22 to 69, was made up largely of former members of Horeb Church, including Elder J. B. Murray who became a charter member and on the first two elders of Union.

In a very real sense, the life and history of old Horeb Church has been perpetuated in the organization, life, and history of Union Presbyterian Church. In 1939, Elder Leighton Hawes, who grew up in Horeb Church, left his generous bequest to Union Church, thus making possible the erection of the present beautiful granite church know known by the terms of his will as Union Memorial Church. It is a memorial to Elder and Mrs. Leighton W. Hawes and behind them, a memorial to Old Horeb Church.

The marker dedicated June 10, 1962, to make the site of old Horeb Church, is thus fittingly dedicated by the Congregation and Session of Union Memorial Church.

Rev. Arthur M. Martin June 10, 1962

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SOUTH CAROLINA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

There are now twenty-one chapters in the South Carolina Genealogical Society. Here is a list with their addresses. You may want to con::act them for associate membership and queries if you have ancestors f r w the areas they represent.

Anderson County Genealogical Soc. Lexington Genealogical Society P. 0. Box 5743 P. 0. Box 1442 Anderson SC 29123 Lexington SC 29071

Beaufort Genealogical Society Old Bartholomew Genealogical Soc. P. 0. Box 37 125 Wade Hamtpon Ridgeland SC 29936 Walterboro SC 29488

Catawba-Wateree Genealogical Soc. Old Darlington Dist. Geneal. Soc. 1314 Broad Street P. 0. Box 10 Camden SC 29020 Lydia SC 29079

Charleston Genealogical Society Old Edgefield Dist. Geneal. Soc. P. 0. Box 20266 1044 Court House Square Charleston SC 29413-0266 Edgefield SC 29824

Columbia Genealogical Society Old Newberry Genealogical Society P. 0. Box 11353 P. 0. Box 154 Columbia SC 29211 Newberry SC 29108

Dutch Fork Genealogical Society Old 96 District Genealogical Soc. P. 0. Box 481 P. 0. Box 3468 Chapin SC 29063-0481 Greenwood SC 29648

Fairfield County Genealogical Soc. Old Pendleton District Geneal. Soc. P. 0. Box 696 1255 Corinth Rd Winnsboro SC 29180 Seneca SC 29678

Georgetown County Genealogical Soc. Pee Dee Genealogical Society P. 0. Box 218 P. 0. Box 1428 Georgetown SC 29442 Marion SC 29571

Greenville Genealogical Society Pinckney District Genealogical Soc. P. 0. Box 16236 P. 0. Box 5281 Greenville SC 29060 Spartanburg SC 29304

Hilton Head Genealogical Society Sumter County Genealogical Society P. 0. Box 5492 'Hilton Head SC 29928 Sumter SC 29151

Laurens District Genealogical Soc. P. 0. Box 1217 1,aurens SC 29360 Not a member, but may be useful:

Chester District Society P. 0. Box 336 Richburg SC 29729

THE BOOK SHELF

Associate Reformed Presbyterian Death & Marriage Notices from The Christian Magazine of the South, The Erskine Miscellany, and the Due West Telescope, 1843-1863 by Lowry Ware. Hard cover, 209 pages, indexed. Price $25.00 plus $2.00 mailing.

This compilation contains over three thousand names. The notices are largely from areas thwere persons who belonged to the Associate Refromed Presbyterian denomination resided: western North Carolina (particularly Rowan, Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, and adjacent counties), upper South Carolina (especially Lancaster, Chester, York, Fairfield, Newberry, Abbeville districts), Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee (particularly Tipton County), Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, and Virginia.

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Story of The Beards and Barths. This book has 554 pages of the BEARD/BARTH family and their kin: 1759-1991. The family in this book began in early South Carolina and are now scasttered all the way to California. There are over 200 pictures throughout the book, with numberous articles on collateral lines. It also describes the area the Barth family is said to have come from in Europe. Some surnames included are:

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QUERIES

POWELL, ROGERS, WATTS, WOOD, BLAKENEY, CANSLER/KANSLER, HENDERSON, CARTER, YOUNG, WILMOTH, GOLDEN, DECK. I would like to ask if anyone might help in regard to the information on the POWELL family in the Fairfield County History Book, compiled by Faye Johnson. there does seem to be a possibility our Powell family and this could belong together and would like to contact others interested in these families and/or who gave the information on the families. Mrs. Peggy Cansler, 5151 S. Greenway Dr., Tuscon, AZ 85706

WILLIAM ELLISON: born August 1, 1781, died September 3, 1838. Attorney at Law of the District of Edgefield. He signed a Marriage Settlement with ANN CATHERINE THOMSON of the city of Charleston, SC, May 8, 1813. He died intestate. His body is buried in the Longtown Baptist Churchyard, Longtown, Fairfield Countu, SC, along with Ann Catherine. The church itself no longer exists. I am interested in finding the family (siblings and forebears.) James T. Wilks Jr, 4618 Kilbourne Rd., Columbia SC 29206-4537.

For years I have been searching for a large genealogical chart originally prepared by Mr. Joe Free of Union County, SC, probalby in the 1920'a. This chart was used extensively by Mrs. Mamie Lee Edwards Mabry in the family sketches on- FOSTERS and some other families for-the UNION COUNTY HERITAGE BOOK which was published several years ago. The chart has now disappeared and neither Mrs. ~ a b > ~ not I have been able to trace it: It did obtain a copy of one section of the chart from Mr. Robert B. Long of Asheville, NC. I would greatly appreciate any help. William B. Hankins Jr, 101 Holdsworth Rd., Williamsburg VA 23185.

JAMES HENDRIX/HENDRICKS. Do you have any information on file on the SC families of HENDRIX/HENDRICKS and GARDINER? I am particularly interested in JAMES HENDRIX who married HARRIET HARDINER ABOUT 1835. I Do not yet know which county they came from, jut that they came to Florida from SC between 1848 and

- 1855. Thanks. Richard Dana Hamly, 7655 Hooes Rd., Springield VA 22152.

A group is working to update and put into a numerical system Rev. ~erle~-~ulmer's Shealy Family 1752-1941. Contact Mrs. J. Ray (Elizabeth Shealy) Hunter, P. 0. Box 325, Prosperity, SC, or ~e;. George B. heal;, 201 W. South ~ o u n d a r ~ . St., ~alhalla SC 29691 (638-5385) for further information.

For the family and relation of Beard/Baird, Davis, Kearse, Canty, Main, All, Dell, Williams: A family celebration has been planned to view over 60 years of material collected for the purpose of corrections and additions for the upcoming family book. Please mark your calendar now and make plans to attend:

DATE: September 11, 1993 TIME: 10:30 a.m. LOCATION: Trinity on the Hill United Methodist Church

located at 1330 Monte Sano Ave., Augusta, GA. Our meal will be catered, cost will be $6.00 per person (children under 5 free.) Please RSVP by August 1, 1993. Mail your check for the amount you have attending to: Wadene B. Welch

4510 Glennwood Drive Evans GA 30809

If you have any questions, please call me at (706) 863-8962.

1993 HERITAGEFEST: A York County, SC Family History Festival to celebrate and share this rich heritage the Historical Center of York County is sponsoring "HERITAGEFEST: A YORK COUNTY FAMILY HISTORY FESTIVAL" on Saturday, May 1, 1993.

Beginning at 9:00 a.m. and continuing until 4:00 p.m., the event will feature lectures, family booths, and entertainment on the histor;- and heritage of the families of York County.

Admission will be $2.00 at the door. (The Historical Center of York County will not be open to researchers the day of the event. )

REMINDER

1993 Dues for membership in the Fairfield County Genealogical Society are now past due. Please mail your dues today if you have not done so in order that we can continue to give you uninterrupted mailings of the newsletter and The Carolina Herald.

WAS YOUR ANCESTOR A SEAMAN?

An Act of Congress in 1796 made provisions for the Seaman Protection Certificates which were issued to seamen, upon proof of citizenship, as an attempt to protect than from impressment by other countries. The certificates give birthplace, age and physical description of the applicant. The applications were filed in Washington, D.C. and indexed by the WPA in the 1930's. The act was repealed in 1940. If you think your ancestor may have been a seaman in the period of time from 1796 to 19Q0, you can requsst a copy of this record from the Judicial, Fiscal, and Social Branch, Civil Archives Division, National Archives, Washington, D.C. 20408.

We all know what it feels like to find just a little bit of information on a family we are researching. It does not matter if i t is only a middle initial or a whole book about our ancestor. There is great joy in a find!

Recently we received a note from one of our associate members, Mrs. Ann Gwinn of Eastover, SC. She writes, "I found my great-great grandmother in Volume I of Fairfield County Cemeteries published by your chapter. Many thanks." (Signed) Ann Gwinn. 1

FAIRFIELD GENEALOGICAL SOC1E'l-Y P. 0. Box 696 Winnsboro, S. C. 29180