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Subject: [SCHORRY-L] Adeline Cooper Burroughs
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 00:24:06 -0500

New addition to the Horry site
Can be found at http://www.cityathletics.com/horry/records/bio/acb.html

Adeline (Cooper) Burroughs
September 03, 1846 - July 07, 1919
by Sarah Sherwood McMillan

Adeline Cooper Burroughs was a fifth generation descendant of early pioneer
stock in Carolina. Her paternal and maternal ancestors had been in America
prior to 1730. Of these early Carolina pioneers we know little concerning
their professions, except that they were Indian traders, preachers,
planters, and landowners. Grants of land have been recorded in their names
in the areas to which they immigrated.

Adeline Cooper Burroughs' parents, Timothy and Mary Harriet Beaty Cooper,
lived on a site on the Dog Bluff Road near Conwayborough, South Carolina.
"They were strict members of the Methodist Church in Conwayborough, and
their home was known as a stopping place for traveling ministers when
passing from Marion to the sea, on the other side of the Waccamaw River,
which was called All Saints Parish." 1 Their home was described as a
pleasant one and that Timothy Cooper was a good Christian and a highly
esteemed citizen. Adeline Cooper was the eighth of their nine children.

Adeline Cooper received the maximum education offered in Conwayborough at
the time, attending schools monthly or yearly in private homes as schooling
became available to her. Then, when Mr. James Mahoney organized the old
Academy in 1854 she became a regular student there "from the first to the
last day that it ran." 2 This saw her through the tenth grade.

Dr. D.J. McMillan, the new Methodist minister in Conwayborough, was an agent
for the Spartanburg Female Academy. Through his recommendation, Adeline
Cooper and her older sister Ellen and three other young ladies from the area
were driven by buggy on a cold February morning (circa 1863) from their
homes to Marion, South Carolina. This was an all-day trip. They spent the
night in a hotel there and were taken by train the next day to Columbia,
again chaperoned by the Rev. McMillan. Only one young lady in the group had
ever seen a train before. After an overnight in a hotel in Columbia, they
were put into the hands of Professor Blake of the Spartanburg Female
Academy, who, after bidding Reverend McMillan goodbye, accompanied them to
the school where the young ladies passed their entrance exams and were
admitted to the Junior Class.

Adeline Cooper showed determination and ambition from her earliest days and
it is evident in her preparation for undertaking an education beyond the
tenth grade. She used all of her skills in this effort. It was during war
times and there were few material things available. She and her sister Ellen
wove the fabric and made their own dresses; they constructed hats from
braided palmetto fronds and they borrowed the greatest part of their school
money from a brother-in-law, with the promise of paying it back in full from
the school teaching that they would be qualified to do when their training
was completed. This whole program they carried out. Adeline Cooper taught in
Cool Springs, Homewood and near Conwayborough before she cleared her debt.

By this time Franklin Gorham Burroughs had returned to Conwayborough
following his years in the Confederate Army. He and Adeline Cooper met then
and were married on November 15, 1866. She wore a costume of grey poplin
with wide hoops in the skirt and a little grey hat trimmed with pink
flowers. He was thirty-two years old and she was eighteen.

F.G. Burroughs had bought the four acres of Snow Hill property on Kingston
Lake along with other adjoining lands on September 18, 1867. There was a
house standing on the four acres which had been built by Mr. Lam Barnhill
and they moved into it within the next two years from their first home on
the corner of Ninth Avenue and Elm Street (about where the old Thad Elliott
house now stands). Adeline Cooper Burroughs became known as "Miss Addie" and
was referred to by that name for the remainder of her life.

After living in the Lam Barnhill house for a number of years Miss Addie and
F.G. Burroughs had the house removed to another location and had a new house
built on the Snow Hill site. This was in 1881 in time for the birth of their
eighth child, Arthur Manigault Burroughs, born August 7, 1881. "The Snow
Hill house was one of the most modern homes in Conway and in the county at
this time. It was a large three story house painted white, with upper and
lower porches called 'piazzas' all across the front." 3 "In the rear
overlooking Kingston Lake were the flower gardens. The focal point was a
white latticed summer-house with brick floor and with radiating walks
leading to a formal garden. The garden was landscaped by Mr. Taylor from
North Carolina and was lovely." 4 Both of my grandparents were interested in
plants but Miss Addie's flower garden was one of her joys.

Miss Addie was a leader in the Conway community in a quiet, dignified
manner, principally as a wife and mother whose foremost concerns were the
smooth operation of her household and the welfare of those around her. She
had the natural gift of intelligence. She was devoted to her husband and
must have been determined to hold up her end of the bargain in making their
life together a success. My mother said that the running of the Snow Hill
household was given over completely into Miss Addie's jurisdiction and that
her word was the law. There were big decisions concerning the yearly
requirements of a place the size of the Snow Hill establishment.

"Our home was constantly full of company. I don't know how my mother ever
managed, for there was never a meal or a night that she knew how many guests
we would have. Papa's business friends and commission merchants from the
North and the outlying communities were always there, and they brought their
families. Luckily we had many good servants. These men from New York and
Philadelphia were good to our family too. Their wives did the buying for the
nicer clothes and furnishings that we had. I remember Sister Effie having
such a wonderful trip to New York to visit in their Homes." 5

Aside from the daily routine at Snow Hill there were the yearly events: hog
killing in the cold winter weather with its sausage and liver-pudding
making; rendering lard and soap; preparing hams and side meat for the
smokehouse; the yearly trip to the ocean, Singleton's Swash being the
selected place for the ten day or two weeks campout to which everyone in the
Conway area was invited. "Our trips to Singleton's Swash, a few miles above
Myrtle Beach, were quite an institution. The whole town would go, and all
the food, except sea-food, was taken with us. We would leave Conway by
steamboat and go to Grahamville where Papa had a branch store. Here the
turpentine wagons were waiting to drive us to the shore." 6 The camping
facilities were meager, but satisfying for those lucky enough to have made
the trip. There was a single one-roomed house located on top of a dune. The
approximately 16 x 20 foot room was where the women and babies slept on
pallets on the floor. The men and boys slept in and under wagons outside, or
in nearby makeshift shelters all covered by mosquito nets. The camping trip
offered a completely different way of life with full days of swimming and
fishing. F.G. Burroughs planned this trip and furnished the location, but
Miss Addie carried it out.

Another yearly event was the big barbecue cookout for the town. It was held
on land adjoining the Snow Hill property where Franklin G. Burroughs, their
grandson, now has his home on the corner of Lakeside Drive opposite Kingston
Lake. In describing life at Snow Hill, Bess B. Sherwood throws a light on
Miss Addie's use of discipline and her sense of order. "Things always seemed
to move along smoothly, and if ever there were disagreements among us
children, if we could not settle them ourselves they settled in a wise way.
If Miss Addie felt that the question needed a second opinion she would say,
'I will talk to your father about that,' and so far as we were concerned,
that was the end, for those discussions were always private. I do not
remember many restrictions. There were certain things that were required.
Toothbrushing almost a ritual. We were not allowed to dawdle over things. We
appeared at meals on time with clean faces and hands. You dressed when you
got up in the morning. I can say that I never saw my mother or sisters in
dressing gowns in the morning. Those things were used in the afternoon when
you rested." 7

Miss Addie had an even disposition and carried out her duties with a
serenity that made the running of such a household seem easy and natural.
She was fourteen years younger than her husband and she treated him with
great respect. Mrs. Effie Egerton said, "I never heard Mama call Papa
anything but Mr. Burroughs or Your Papa. Aunt Ellen called him Frank. Mama
never lost her dignity." 8

Because of the prevalence of chills and fever, the family did not always
spend the summers at Snow Hill. A few places were tried, but when F.G.
Burroughs heard some of his friends in Charleston talking about
Hendersonville in North Carolina, in the mountains, the search was over. My
mother describes the complexities of reaching the mountains from Conway;
and, although I am sure that the family was accompanied by Franklin G.
Burroughs on the first trip, it was Miss Addie who conducted the Conway
family and aunts to Hendersonville afterwards. "We would go to Georgetown
and on to Charleston by boat, then take the train to Hendersonville, which
was the end of the line. In later years we would go to Georgetown then board
the Atlantic Coast Line at Lanes, or we would drive to Fair Bluff and catch
the train there through Florence. We always took huge hampers of food, and
the 'silver Addie Cup' for drinking water." 9 The first summer in the
mountains the family boarded; but, finding the area so delightful, a house
was bought near Hendersonville. Franklin G. Burroughs would come and go, but
the family stayed there through the summer seasons. The oldest daughter was
married in that summer place in October, 1893.

There were eleven children born to my grandparents. Eight survived to reach
adulthood and maturity. Grandfather felt it very important that girls
receive a college education, even more so than boys. He expressed himself on
this subject giving as his reasons the fact that the woman was the one to
affect the next generation by example and training. Women should be educated
so that the atmosphere of the home could stimulate growth in mental and
cultural pursuits. He made it known that he wished all of his daughters to
have a college education. Miss Addie carried out her husband's wishes. Five
of her eight children were younger than twenty-one years of age when
Franklin G. Burroughs died as a result of pneumonia on February 25, 1897. He
was almost sixty-four years old. Miss Addie was forty-nine. All of the
children, boys as well as girls, had the advantage of higher education, four
of them after their father died.

The following is quoted from a letter that Miss Addie wrote to her daughter
Lella, who was a student at Greensboro Female Academy in 1896. This was
during the time that plumbing was being installed at Snow Hill. Miss Addie
described the progress of work in an enthusiastic account never mentioning
the inconvenience and upheaval inside the house. "Everybody is busy as it is
Spring, and everything to be looked after, and to prepare for the District
Conference too. Dr. Stokes sent around yesterday to know how many of the
preachers I would take, and I told Thomas to tell him that I would take six
or eight, but we are to have some other company too." 10 This little excerpt
shows something of her self-confidence in management.

It was during the final years of her life, after F.G. Burroughs' death, that
the true qualities of my grandmother became obvious. The six younger
children were unmarried. The oldest son Frank was twenty-five years old at
this time and was captain of one of the Burroughs and Collins Company
steamboats. He had been married a year. Frank took over the Burroughs family
interests in the Burroughs and Collins Company, but Miss Addie showed her bu
siness acumen in the conduct of the family business which still involved the
running of a large farm. There was also a grist mill, and a cotton gin with
its wharf adjacent, on the banks of Kingston Lake just below the Snow Hill
house. There was good help and a trustworthy, well trained overseer for all
of this, but Miss Addie showed a knowledge and understanding of it all.

The F.G. Burroughs family burial ground was on property nearby. Miss Addie
kept the part being used by the family and gave the remainder of the acreage
to the town of Conway. It was called "Lakeside Cemetery" and was designated
to be used by others of the community.

In May of 1900 after the "Conway and Seashore Railraod" initiated service to
the public traveling to the beach from Conway, there was a need for a name
for the seashore terminus which was referred to as "New Town". A contest was
held and Addie Burroughs' entry, "Myrtle Beach," was the name chosen. She
had remembered the beautiful and luxuriant wax myrtle bushes that surrounded
the little campsite at Singleton's Swash when the family and friends had
made the yearly pilgrimages to the seashore, and the name seemed appropriate
to her. The wax myrtles grew on the sand dunes all along the coast, so
Myrtle Beach it became.

In 1916 in Conway Miss Addie had Kingston Lake dredged in order to deepen
it. The spoil was put into the adjoining swamp. The dredging was necessary
for the safety and use of the steamboats and flatboats that loaded cotton
and other produce for shipment at the wharf there and unloaded supplies from
the outside world. She wrote to her daughter Effie to tell her of the
dredging and gave the cost of the work as $540.00.

In Decmeber of 1918 in a letter to her daughter Effie, Miss Addie states;
"This will be the last of the Snow Hill farm for me as I told the boys to
take it free of rent and keep it up. I shall live with Bess." 11 In 1918
another letter to her daughter Effie describes the local festivities
celebrating the end of World War I, as told to her by my father and other
family members. Her interest in things around her and also world events
continued. It was in July 1919 when she was visiting Effie Burroughs Egerton
in Hendersonville that she died peacefully in her sleep. She had suffered
with asthma for years, but had never let it stop her activities. She was
brought back to Snow Hill for burial in Lakeside Cemetery. She was almost
seventy-one years old.

Miss Addie had lived a full and active life and had filled a place of
prominence in her community. Her unassuming manner and dependability
endeared her to those who knew her, and her children loved and admired her.
They all proved to be good, productive, law abiding citizens who contributed
in positive ways to the betterment of their community. They showed the
qualities of men and women who had been brought up properly.

Genealogical Background of Adeline Cooper Burroughs

Beginning with first entry into America, and obtained from The Beatys of
Kingston, a book written by Edward Stanley Barnhill, published 1958.

Adeline Cooper Burroughs' PATERNAL ANCESTORS in this country had the French
names of Boisselier and Chiner (surnames). They were French Huguenots who
arrived in what is now Berkeley County, St. Philip's Parish, circa 1704. The
Boisselier name underwent many changes in becoming Anglicized. When it
finally took the English form it became Cooper. The name Chiner was not as
changed by being Anglicized, just the slight spelling difference, Chinner or
Chinners.

The first Chinner in this country was Thomas Chinner, who received a land
grant in June, 1697 in Berkeley County. He was an Indian trader. He had two
sons, one of whom was Captain Isaac Chinners who removed to Craven County
with a grant of land in September, 1736. He was a captain in Little Pee Dee
Company in the Craven County Regiment that was commanded by Col. George
Pawley. This was in 1757. He died circa 1766. Isaac Chinners' daughter
(Sarah or Rebecca) married John Cooper, b. 1730. The first Cooper in Craven
County, Carolina (later to be Georgetown and Horry Districts of South
Carolina) was John Cooper, b. circa 1730. He received a grant of land there
in 1757. This is the John Cooper who married Sarah or Rebecca Chinners. They
had at least three children. Their oldest son was named Ezekiel Cooper,
b.1761, d. 1828. Ezekiel Cooper was a merchant, Methodist minister and
Revolutionary War patriot who helped the cause of the Colonies with produce,
money and supplies. Ezekiel Cooper married Sarah Martha Magby, d. 1839.
Ezekiel Cooper and Sarah Martha Magby Cooper had five children; their second
son, Timothy Cooper, b. 1803, married Mary Harriet Beaty, b. 1807. These
were the parents of Adeline Cooper Burroughs.

Adeline Cooper Burroughs' MATERNAL ANCESTORS in this country were of
Scotch-Irish origin. The first of these ancestors was John Beatye from
Belfast, Ireland who arrived in Berkeley County, Carolina, circa 1723. He
was an Indian trader. He was the son of Arthur Beatye of Killishandra,
County Cavan, Ireland. This John Beatye had married in Ireland and had at
least one son before coming to America. The son was James Beatye, b. circa
1710, who later followed his father to Carolina from northern Ireland, and
was also an Indian trader.

No record of James Beatye's wife's name is recorded but they had at least
one son, John Beaty II, b. circa 1735 in Carolina and died in 1790. This
John Beaty II furnished material aid during the Revolutionary War (produce,
cattle and money). His first wife was Susanna Mansfield, who was the mother
of his three children. His second wife was childless.

Susanna Mansfield was the grandaughter of the "Reverend John LaPierre, the
Huguenot who was ordained a minister of the Anglican or Church of England"
12 and who came to America "Recommended to the Governor of South Carolina to
preach in a parish called St. Denis in the French Colony to serve until the
death of the old Settlers who did not understand the English tongue." 13
This quotation was signed October 9, 1733 in New Brunswick in Cape Fear. Rev
erend John LaPierre's wife was named Susanna; their daughter, Jeanne
LaPierre, married Andrew Mansfield, and the first of their children was
Susanna Mansfield, b. prior to 1743 and married John Beaty II.

John Beaty II and Susanna Mansfield Beaty has three children and their first
son John Beaty III, b. 1762, d. 1837 married Elizabeth Mary Prince, b. 1763.

Elizabeth Mary Prince, b. 1763 whose ancestors had been in St. Thomas and
St. Denis Parish Register in 1713 (Wilmington Coastal area of North
Carolina) was the Grandaughter of Joseph Prince, the Elder, a French
Huguenot and his wife Elizabeth Mary Horry, (Lewis) Prince. Joseph Prince,
the Elder, is listed in "Original Grants 1674- 1773" as receiving grants of
land in Craven County in 1735 and also in 1754. He was a ships captain,
referred to as Master of Ships, mentioned in February, 1734 in "Journal of
the Commons House of Assembly" and also in "'South Carolina Gazette" in
1734; 1735 and 1736 telling of exits and entries into the port of Charles
Town in a vessel "Peter and Mary". The "Gazette" also mentions his entries
to and from Boston.

This Joseph Prince, the Elder, and his wife Elizabeth Mary Horry (Lewis)
Prince were the parents of Nicholas Prince, the Elder. Nicholas Prince, the
Elder, married ..... Lewis, daughter of Solomon Lewis of Old Town Greek in
Bath County, North Carolina. Nicholas Prince and ..... Lewis Prince had at
least two children, the first of whom was Elizabeth Mary Prince, b. circa
1763. Elizabeth Mary Prince married John Beaty III b. 1762. (Note. Having
two of the wives of the Prince family with the same surname of Lewis is
onflusing, but Elizabeth Mary Horry (Lewis) Prince, wife of Joseph Prince,
the Elder, was only a Lewis by a former marriage. Her first husband was
Charles Lewis, who was a ships captain and a planter, who died circa 1730.
Then, as before mentioned, the wife of Nicholas Prince, the Elder, .....
Lewis, was the daughter of Solomon Lewis of Old Town Creek, Bath County,
North Carolina.)

John Beaty III and Elizabeth Mary Prince Beaty were the parents of eight
children. Mary Harriet Beaty, b. 1807 was their eighth child.

It was this Mary Harriet Beaty, b. 1807 who married Timothy Cooper. They
were the parents of Adeline Cooper Burroughs.

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Children of Franklin Gorham and Adeline Cooper Burroughs

Effie Tolar Burroughs (Mrs. James Lafayette Egerton), born November 11,
1867, died March 25, 1955.
George Burroughs, born January 24, 1869, died February 12, 1869.
Beulah Burroughs, born February 7, 1870, died November 14, 1871.
Franklin Augustus Burroughs, born April 16, 1872, died October 12, 1947.
(Married Iola Buck.)
Ruth Adeline Burroughs, born September 2, 1875, died July 29, 1902
Ella Edith Burroughs (Mrs. Henry L. Buck), born September 23, 1877, died
September 12, 1899.
Claudia Burroughs, born January 28, 1880, died February 12, 1880.
Arthur Manigault Burroughs, born August 7, 1881, died August 14, 1912.
(Married Frances Green Coles.)
Sarah Best Burroughs (Mrs. Edwin James Sherwood), born March 3, 1884, died
December 29, 1964.
Donald McNeill Burroughs, born April 7, 1887, died August 23, 1969. (Married
Georgia McCall Rogers.)
Lucille Norton Burroughs (Mrs. Samuel Gillespie Godfrey), born September 21,
1891, died December 31, 1974.

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Footnotes

Ellen Cooper Johnson's Memoirs. (Ellen Cooper was a sister of Adeline.)
Ibid.
Quoted from conversations with Donald McNeill Burroughs, youngest son of
Addie and F. G. Burroughs. (Recorded by Adalyn Sherwood Kearns.)
Sarah Best Burroughs ("Bess"), ninth child of Adeline Cooper and F.G.
Burroughs. She was Mrs. Edwin James Sherwood, my mother.
Donald McNeill Burroughs, youngest son of Addie Cooper and F.G. Burroughs.
Ibid.
Sarah Best Burroughs Sherwood ("Bess".)
Effie Tolar Burroughs Egerton (Miss Effie), sister.
Sarah Best Burroughs Sherwood ("Bess".)
Adeline Cooper Burroughs to Ella Edith Burroughs ("Lella"), sixth child of
Adeline Cooper and Franklin G. Burroughs. Later the wife of H.L. Buck.
Adeline Cooper Burroughs.
Edward Stanley Barnhill, The Beatys of Kingston., p. 7.
Ibid., p. 17.

The Independent Republic Quarterly
Vol.20 No.4; Fall 1986; pp.14-19
Reprinted by permission.

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