Our Hidden Past Lives On in the Records
By Jeannette Holland Austin
Here you are living your life and one day a historian or genealogist comes along and digs deeply into the records, even obscure records, like deeds, wills, estates, old newspapers and church registers. The discovery might be something you thought history would forget. However, it is amazing how much personal data that we leave behind. And what the records do not provide, we can piece together with local histories and events. For example, do you know what drove your families into South Carolina and where did these immigrants hail from? A general answer is that they were Germans and Scotch-Irish immigrants who were seeking religious freedom, rich soil and a prosperous life. But there is more! Witnesses to documents, neighbors, church burials, census records and marriages provide a host of friends and the community life of your families.
Greenwood County Wills and Estates
Lake
Greenwood is pictured. Greenwood County takes its name from its county
seat, Greenwood. The town of Greenwood was named around 1824 for the
plantation of an early resident, John McGehee. Greenwood County was
formed in 1897 from parts of Abbeville and Edgefield counties, which
were originally part of the old Ninety Six District. This part of the
backcountry was not settled until the mid-eighteenth century. The town
of Ninety Six was established as a frontier trading post around 1730,
and it was the site in November 1775 of one of the first South Carolina
battles of the American Revolution. In May 1781 American forces besieged
the British-held Star Fort at Ninety Six for over a month but were
forced to withdraw when British reinforcements approached. The arrival
of the railroad in 1852 stimulated cotton growing and textile
manufacturing in this area. Local plantation owner Francis Salvador
(1747-1776), who was killed fighting Cherokees during the Revolutionary
War, was the first Jewish person elected to the state legislature.
United States Congressman Preston Smith Brooks (1819-1857) and educator
Benjamin Mays (1894-1984) were also residents of Greenwood County.
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