Browsing Archive: October, 2014
Posted by John Howell on Friday, October 31, 2014,
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Henry Fox III was born in 1698, and in 1721 he married
his first wife, Mary Goodwyn. She became the mother to Unity, Thomas,, Henry,
and John. He married his second wife, Martha Keen in 1738 and she was the mother
of Temperance, William, and Joseph. In 1720 he moved to the newly formed
Brunswick County and became associated with the Virginia Indian Company which
had control of all trade with the Indians south of the James River. That is
where he became experienced in Indian ... Continue reading ...
Posted by John Howell on Thursday, October 23, 2014,
Colonel's Creek Baptist Church
The church is located 21 miles E. of Columbia, SC. It was founded as Colonel's Creek Missionary Baptist Church organized in 1840. It was a rectangular frame structure 45 x 30 feet with a capacity of 250.The interior was described as plain with rough home made pews built about 1851.The whole church property which includes a one acre cemetery is valued at $1000.
The early history of this church is very obscure. Dr. E. l. Green assisns a much earlier date of 1800 for...
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Posted by John Howell on Thursday, October 23, 2014,
Dabney Pond Church
Dabney Pond Church was built and dedicated in 1867 on four acres given by Jack Pate. The first building was a 30 x 40 feet wooden structure valued at $300. The first Pastor was Calvin Bynum. He pastored from 1867 to 1875.
This building was torn down in 1907 and a larger one constructed. This building was valued at $1500. Saul Jenkins was pastor 1935-1938.
The location of the church is 18 miles NE of Columbia on the Old camden Rd.
In the same records it was mentioned that the l...
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Posted by John Howell on Thursday, October 23, 2014,
Ancestry & 23 & Me have dropped their DNA testing programs. They have come to an aggrement with Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) to merge their DNA matches. This will be no charge for the first 20 matches. If someone wants to see all of their matches they can recruit 4 more people to join with them or pay a small fee of $39?. The person who wants this must do an upload. The exciting part of this is that participants and we already FTDNA people may see more matches in our search for our ancestors.
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Posted by John Howell on Thursday, October 16, 2014,
There are ongoing discussions about our genealogy study group. People who live in driving distance of Columbia could meet and discuss our ancestors who settled the land now Ft. Jackson. Should interest build at these meetings with also interest from our descendants mailing lists on getting together on a larger scale a reunion could be planned. My thoughts on this are that the springtime would be a great time to gather. Also I would like to see an outdoor meeting with indoor back up in case of... Continue reading ...
