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From: "Ronnie Bigwhip" <>
Subject: [SCMARION-L] Atkinson family
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:07:19 -0600

Atkinson family:
This family, or rather the Widow Atkinson,
Came from Sampson County. N.C., with her children, about the last of the
eighteenth century, and settled near where Miller's Church now stands. She
had three sons, Jessee and two others, names not ascertainable, and one
daughter, if no more; she married Nat, or Elias Miller, one of whom was the
founder of Miller's Church, and for whom that church was named, and is still
called and known by that name. It has already been mentioned in or among the
Norton family. The eldest son of the widow (if not the oldest), the one
named Jessee, married a Miss Bryant, first, and to that marriage were born
and raised four children, three sons and a daughter; the sons were Jessee,
Ebby, and Hugh; the daughter was Sarah Ann, and she became the wife of
Vincent Godbold, and had and raised six or eight children,to wit: Charlotte,
Elizabeth, Eliza Ann, Annis, Jane, William J., John W., and Thomas. Of
these, Charlotte married a Mr. Welsh; had no children.Elizabeth married
William Woodward, and had one daughter, named Charlotte. They all, if alive
live in Richmond County, N.C. Eliza Ann, the third daughter died unmarried.
Annis, the fourth daughter, married Stephen H. Price, of the Maple Swamp
section; and brother to one Hugh P. Price, now in that section; they had
four children, two boys and two girls. Stephen H. Price died, leaving those
children all small. The eldest Jessee has a family in Horry. The yougest
boy died young. The oldest girl died unmarried. The youger one married Mr
Gause Owens, and has a growing family. Jane , the fifth daughter, married
Joseph Stevens; he is dead- left three children, two sons, Benjamin and
Hamilton and a daughter, all married Ammonses. William J. Atkinson, oldest
son of Jesse by his second marriage, married Martha Jane Harrleson, daughter
of Hugh H. Harrleson; died left three children, Hugh J., George, and a
daughter- the latter married an Ammons. George married a Miss Berry,
daughter of Bright W. Berry, near the Reedy Creek Springs, in upper Marion;
has some children, don't know sex or number. Don't know whom Hugh J.
married. John W. Atkinson now of Marion, the second son of old Jessee by
his second marriage, married first, Miss Eliza Dew, daughter of old William
Dew, of upper Marion, near Catfish Baptist Church, and by her had one child,
a son, Thomas J., when the wife Eliza died. Thomas J., grew up and married a
daughter of Squire Stephen A. Hairgrove, and now resides in the Catfish
Neighborhood; he has two daughters, Viola and Lilla, who are the idols of
their Aunt Huldah Hairgrove, an old maiden lady of fifty years of more.
Thomas Atkinson, the yougest son of old Jessee or Jessee Jr. by his second
marriage (Cave), married Martha Dew, the yougest daughter of old William B.
Atkinson, who grew up and married a Miss Gaddy, daughter of Samuel T. Gaddy,
near Gaddy's Mills; he lives on the old William Dew Homestead, with his
mother. Willaim B Atkinson is an excellent manager of affairs, a good farmer
and prosperous; he has seven of eight children, some of them grown, names
unknown. His fahter, Thomas Atkinson, died when he was quite a child; he was
and is the olny child of his mother, who yet lives- rather an extra woman,
of fine sense. John W. Atkinson's wife dyng, he married the Widow Beaty, nee
Hemingway, mother of Rev. L. F. Beaty, of the South Carolina Conference, a
strong preacher; by this second marriage John W. Atkinson has no children.
Ebby Atkinson, third son of Jessee Sr.,
son of the old widow from Sampson N.C. , married Olive Gasque, daughter of
old Absalom Gasque, the old court crier, who was calling teh Court away back
in 1840, and how long before is unknown: he continued to call the Court
while he lived, and after his death it descended, not by inheritance but by
appointment, to his son Henry A. Gasque, and he held it to 1890 or 1891,
when the "Tillman Boom" lifted him out- reform downwards. Old man Ebby
Atkinson and wife raised quite a family, mostly girls, one son Ebby who
married a daughter of the late J.C. Thompson; they have children. One
daughter, Celia Ann, married Eli Godbld, who moved to Horry County; they had
several children , mostly sons, the three oldest known. Christopher
Colombus, Ebby, and William Eli- and others not known. Ebby Atkinson had
another daughter, Mary, who married a Lovel- and one married a Richardson, I
think her name is Minnie. Know nothing further of old man Ebby's family or
descendants. Hugh Atkinson, a brother of old Ebby, married a Miss Goldbold,
lived to an old age and died childless. The Atkinsons asa family, are honest
and straight, retiring and unpretending; lived at home and harmless. the old
widow from SAmpson County, N.C. had two other sons, whose names are not
remembered. The Atkinsons of Georgetown are said to be relatives of these in
Marion, but what relation is unknown. One of the Gerogetown Atkinsons was
Circuit Solicitor some twenty-five or thirty years ago; he may be a
descendant of one of the widow's sons. Ex-Governor Atkinson of Georgia may
also be a descendant of one of the widow's sons- who can tell?? The name is
spelled in the same way. Her two sons went somewhere. Jessee only remained
here.

Taken from the book: History of Marion S.C. Thank you Charlotte!!!!
Princess Bigwhip tlalegwa
http://www.angelfire.com/pe/PrincessBigwhip/
www.mirabilis.com/19804501

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