Subject: 1811 Marriage and Death Notices
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THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE
Published By The South Carolina Historical Society
Volume XXXVII
(pp. 33-37)
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MARRIAGE AND DEATH NOTICES FROM THE
CAROLINA GAZETTE, A WEEKLY PAPER
PRINTED IN CHARLESTON, S. C.
Contributed by ELIZABETH H. JERVEY
(Continued from October, 1935)
Died, on the 17th inst. in St. Mathews Parish, Santee Henry Haynesworth
Monk, son of John Monk, Esq., aged 4 years.
-on the 16th inst. in Christ Church Parish, Horatio Lincoln, the only child
of Horatio and Elizabeth Lincoln, aged one year and six months.
-, At the house of Josiah Pierce, Esq. in Baldwin, (district of Maine) on
the 18th ult. the widow Ruth Pierce, mother of Count Rumford, the celebrated
economist, aged 80 years. (Saturday, July 27, 1811.)
Married, on the 18th inst. in Union district, by the Rev. Mr. Crocker,
Captain Nathaniel Gist to Miss Elizabeth L. M'Daniel. (Saturday August 3,
1811.)
Married on Sunday evening, the 14th ultimo, by the Rev. Lewis Rector, James
M'Daniel, merchant, to Miss Hannah Muchen, both of Greenville District.
Departed this life, on the 8th inst. Alexander Edwards, Esq. late Recorder
of this City, in the 44th year of his age.
This gentleman was a member of a family which took a distinguished share in
the revolution, and did and suffered much in that all-important struggle for
the independence of this country. ... He has left a widow and a family of
small children to lament his irreparable loss. (Saturday August 17, 1811.)
Departed this life on Monday, the 26th inst. after a short but painful
illness, which he bore with manly fortitude, William M. Taylor, Esq., aged
forty-six years two months and twenty-eight days - He has left a wife with
four children, to bemoan the loss of a fond and indulgent father.
Died, on the 17th inst. at Chester, Miss Chryseis Kennedy, aged 7 years
daughter of George Kennedy, Esq. Postmaster.
Died, on Sullivan's Island, on Saturday, the 10th instant, after a severe
illness, which she bore with exemplary fortitude, Mrs. Elizabeth Geddes,
consort of Henry Geddes, esq. in the 59th year of her age...... (Saturday
August 31, 1811.)
Murder . . Momday night, between 9 and 10 o'clock, a horrid Murder was
committed by some French and Italian sailors, on the Body of Mr. William
Chambers, who kept an extensive Grocery Store, at the corner of Market and
Anson-streets. It appears, that on Sunday night, some of the gang had provoked
a quarrel with Mr. Chambers, in which they were beat, and obliged to retreat;
and that last night, in order to obtain revenge, they had increased their
numbers, and arming themselves with knives and clubs, commenced as assault
upon Mr. Chambers's house, and a general scuffle ensued, in which Mr. C. was
stabbed to the heart, and instantly expired. A man of the name of George
Smith, a Captain of a Coaster, received a deep wound in his side, but it is
believed that he will recover. Four of the party have been arrested, and were
yesterday morning committed to Goal by James Bentham, Esq., viz - Jean Lalin,
Jean Chocolate, supposed to be the principal aggressor, has not yet been
taken. "Times."
Died, on the 24th ult. at Mount Pleasant, Mrs. Hannah Hamlin, aged 60; long
a member of the Congregational Church in this city....
Died, in St. John's Parish on Friday the 23d instant, Mrs. John Kennedy, in
the 30th year of his age. He has left an aged aunt, a wife and three small
children to mourn their disconsolate loss.
Departed this life, on the 2d August, Mrs. Maria Lucy Levy, relict of Mr.
Francis Levy, in the 61st year of her age; ... [she left] two surviving sons.
(Saturday, September 7, 1811.)
Died, on the 5th instant, at Black Swamp, S. C. in the twenty-fifth year of
his age, Dr. Caleb Baker Wallace, son of the honorable Caleb Wallace, of
Kentucky. He left, his venerable parent and other worthy kindred, to mourn a
loss severely felt and much lamented by the community....
Died, of a lingering illness at Chester Court-House, South-Carolina, on the
2d inst. Matthew Evans, a native of the county Tipperary, aged 35 years.
(Saturday, September 21, 1811.)
Died, at Boston, while on a visit for the benefit of her health, Mrs. Dinah
Adams late of Camden, in this State, Widow of the late Rev. Thomas Adams, aged
33.
.... With deep regret, it has become a duty to record the death of William
Anslie Moultrie, Esq. who, in the prime of life, died at Woodville, St. John's
Berkeley, on the 29th ult.
It had been his usual custom to spend his summers in the city, but from
motives the most laudable, he attempted to pass the present summer in the
country, was attacked with what is usually called the country fever, and,
after three weeks illness, expired. . .
The filial care and tenderness with which he cherished and propped the
declining years of his aged grandfather, General Moultrie, shall not soon be
forgotten. (Saturday September 28, 1811.)
Departed this life, at Hamstead, on Thursday evening, the 12th ult. after a
short but severe illness,... in the 11th year of her age, Miss Susannah
Dickson Ham, fourth daughter of Mr. Thomas Ham. of said place. [Lines]
Communication.
Died, at Camden, on the 20th instant, of a Billious Fever. Mr. Thomas
Abbott, in the 34th year of his age. He has left a widow with two small
children and numerous acquaintances to bewail his death.... (Saturday October
5, 1811.)
Died, at Summerville, on the 3d inst. William Jones, Esq., in the fiftieth
year of his age. (Saturday, October 12, 1811.)
Died, at his plantation near Congaree, on the 7th instant, in the 50th year
of his age, James Mis Campbell, Esq., Lieut. Colonel of the twenty-second
regiment of the militia of this state, and a Senator in the Legislature from
St. Mathew's Parish. - This gentleman was born in the county of Down, in
Ireland, but had resided in this state forty-three years. During the
revolution he was an active and zealous soldier, in defence of his adopted
country's independence....
Died, at Columbia, S. C. on Tuesday the 8th inst. at half past four o'clock
in the morning, Capt. Benjamin Waring, in the 70th year of his age, in
consequence of a most painful and distressing complaint in his breast.... He
has been a resident at Columbia for more than twenty years, and in that time
has uniformly been foremost in aiding many useful establishments among us; the
Academy, which equals any institution of its kind in the state, owes its
origin principaly to his exertions. The improvement of the town he has
assisted more than any other individual in it, and has been the cause of the
establishment of several useful manufactures.... [Lines] Columbia Gazette.
Departed this life on the 6th inst. at the house of Dr. Jamieson, of
Orangeburg district, the Rev. Thomas Dickerson, one of the itinerant preachers
belonging to the Methodist connexion. This young man embraced religion at an
early period of life, and became a member of the Methodist Church. In the
latter end of 1810, he was received into the itinerant connexion, and labored
with acceptability and great usefullness as a son in the ministry,.....
Died, on the 26th of last month, Miss Lord, daughter of Andrew Lord, esq.
deceased, in the forty first year of her age. (Saturday, October 19, 1811)
Died, in Pine Ville on the night of the 17th instant, Thomas Palmer, sen.
Esq. in the 49th year of his age. (Saturday October 26, 1811.)
Died, in the Parish of St. James, Santee, on the 23d ult. Henry Guerin, Esq.
in the 45th year of his age.
-, at Beaufort, on Monday, the 21st ult. Mr. John Smith, Principal of the
College of that place.
Died, at Walterborough, in St. Bartholomews parish, on the 22d ult. in the
9th year of her age, Miss Ann Walter Fendin, daughter of the late Capt. Thomas
Fendin, - [Eulogy and lines.] (November 2, 1811.)
Died, on the 12th inst. after a long and painful illness, Mr. John Prioleau,
in the 30th year of his age. (Saturday November 16, 1811.)
Died, at his seat in Kershaw district, in the morning of the 30th ult.
Captain Thomas Hopkins, in the 30th year of his age. (November 23, 1811.)
Died, at New York, on the 21 instant, Mr. John Inglesby, Merchant Taylor,
aged 41.
- in March, 1811, in Union district, S. C. in the 96th year of her age, Mrs.
Judith Edmondson, a native of Virginia. She was the mother of eleven children,
the grand mother of ninety-five, the great grand mother of three hundred and
one, the great great grand mother of fifteen, in all 422.
-, on the 2d of October last, in Greenville district, South Carolina,
Colonel John Thomas, aged 93 years. Col. Thomas was a native of Pennsylvania,
was in Braddock's defeat in 1755, in the expedition against the Cherokee
indians in 1762, and served with reputation to himself and usefulness to his
country throught the revolutionary war. (Saturday November 30, 1811.)
Died on the 7th September, at Harrisburg, Major James Harris, aged 40 years.
He has left an affectionate wife and four disconsolate children to mourn an
irreparable loss in his untimely death... [Eulogy] (Saturday December 7,
1811.)
Departed this life on the 13th inst. at Mount Pleasant Village, Mrs. Mary
Bonneau, consort of Capt. Bonneau: after an illness of several weeks, which
she bore with Christian fortitude.
Died, at his plantation in Amelia township, Orangeburg district, on
Wednesday, the 4th inst. aged 65 years, Mr. Robert Crab, an old and
respectable inhabitant of this city; he was a native of Dundee in Scotland.
During his a residence of about 35 year in state a uniform life of strict
integrity and universal benevolence procured him the respect and esteem of all
who knew him,-... (Saturday December 28, 1811.)
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