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From: "Vivian Cates" <>
Subject: [SCBARNWELL] GREEN/E & TOOLE BARNWELL DIST. SC
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:45:39 -0500
References: <B702598F.3B08%MBarker@austin.rr.com>


I have been tracking my TOOLE and GREEN/E lines in Barnwell District,
South Carolina, for about 34 years now. Lots of dead ends and stonewalls.
If someone has done a book including the Green/e's in that area I would like
to know about it, too.
I have copies of the Green pages from the Manning Papers that I
obtained from the Caroliniana (sp?) at the U. of SC in Columbia some years
ago. Some pages are hard to read, but were the best copies they could get.
Think it was originally typed with a blue ribbon which does not photocopy
well. Lots of Green/Toole marriages, but unfortunately none of them are
mine!
My Toole line comes from Edward Toole of unknown parentage who appears
in Bertie Precinit in North Carolina about 1735 and died there in 1772 with
a will. Probably has unproven roots in early Virginia or maybe he just
walked off a ship anchored in the Roanoke River on to somebody's wharf.
Nobody has found anything earlier yet that I have heard. Some of his sons
and sons-in-laws migrated to Barnwell District, South Carolina, area before
or during the Rev. War and at least before 1790 census. Isaac appears with
a land memorial for 100 acres in Orangeburg about 1778 and is in the SC stub
indent records for militia Service during the Rev. War and dies there in
1814 with widow Kexiah. My line comes from his son Stephen b. c. 1780 who
dies about 1863 during the Civil War. His son, Richard I Manning A Toole,
b. 1826 d. in Augusta, Georgia, and is buried in the Confederate section of
the Magnolia Cemetery there.the 1890's. Received a Confederate pension from
Georgia for service in Company H 14th SC Inf. For some unknown reason he
migrated into Oconee (formed from Clarke in 1875-6) County and Greene
County, Georgia, between 1870 and 1875. Lots of people migrated west in the
South after the Civil War, but they generally did not stop in that section
of Georgia. He later moved back to Augusta, Georgia, presumably with one
son and his family.
I am a descendent of two of his children. Harriett Ann (Hattie A. ) m.
Joseph Vinson Durham in 1875 in Greene County, Georgia, where they lived out
their lives. Durhams go back to c. 1787 in that area of Georgia. His son,
Pierce Columbus Toole b. Dec. 1851 m. Amanda Crow in Oconee County, Georgia,
Book A, page 1, 1875. This is the family that moved back to Augusta,
Georgia, to work in the textile mills. They died young and are also buried
in Magnolia Cemetery.
Now for my long lost Green stonewall.
In late 1850, after the census, or early 1851, Manning Toole, married
Mary D. Green/e b. 1828 and d. 1889. She was buried with the Durham
connections in the Temperance Bell Schoolhouse Cemetery (Lindsey) in Greene
County, Georgia, in 1889. If her tombstone is correct, Manning Toole was
also a Bigamist. There is a marriiage recorded for him in Richmond Co., Ga.
in 1887 to somebody else who he does not mention in his pension application.
My sister found her on the 1900 census in Augusta as a widow. This fact
that Manning Toole "got a poor man's divorce" was mentioned by one of my
great uncle's before he died and my sister and I later found the records.
Have yet to locate a Green father for Mary D. Green. Have no idea what
the initial "D" stands for. Her mother, was Sarah ___? Green b. c. 1800-05
where ?. By 1838 she had remarried a much younger, by about 10 years,.
Jordan Madison Cumbaa/ee/ia and there was one hafl sister, Miss Nelly
Woodward (b. 1860 d. after 1880) mentioned in 90 Years in Aiken County by
U. S. Senator Gasper L. Toole as being his teacher at Montmorenci. Does
anyone when and where Furman Woodward and his wife, Sarah Frances (Nelly)
Cumbaa died and or buried? Maybe an obituary would give her mother's maiden
name?
J. M. Cumbaa and Sarah F. _?_ Green Cumbaa were postmasters and school
teachers at Montmorenci and the surrounding area. Listed on the 1840 census
in Lexington Dist., S.C. Cumbaas were associated with Dean's Swamp Baptist
Church and bought items at estate sales of Tooles and related families in
the Upper Three Runs area of Barnwell District.
Mary D. Green may have had brothers Columbus and Albert Green. Still
have not found my mystery Green Ancestor, a man with the last name of Green
born somewhere around 1800 or earlier with a daughter b. 1826 and he would
have died. in the mid 1830's and leaving a widow, Sarah and minor children
Mary D., Columbus, and Albert. Unless he was a bigmist, too, and got a
"poorman's divorce" by just taking off to somwwhere else.
One other tip for researching in Barnwell District, if you have read
this far, is that people bought land and witnessed deeds as young as 11 or
12 or 14 years old as happened with my Manning Toole and Mary D. Green.
Vivian Toole Cates, Rt. #2 Box 52-A, Alto, Texas, 75925 1-936-858-3801
http://www.ballistic.com/~vcates



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From: Martha Barker <>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 8:35 PM
Subject: [SCBARNWELL] Greene family of Barnwell


> I am looking for information about the Greene family of Barnwell Co.
This
> includes Needham Greene, his son Augustus Bush Greene, Augustus' daughter
> Ida Catherine Greene. Does anyone know of a book about this family or a
> good general book about Barnwell Co. from from late 1700's to mid to late
> 1800's. Any help and or guidance will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Martha W. Barker
> Austin Tx.
>
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