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A Son of The American Revolution
My mother stated that in the seventeenth century there was in England an honorable gentleman named Lord Bromfield. This Lord Bromfield had a daughter named Mary, who married Col. Stuart, of New York City. Col. Stuart's daughter, Ann, married Dr. Briscoe, of Maryland. Dr. Briscoe's daughter, Ellen, married Basil O'Neal, St. who was then twenty-one years of age, having been born in 1758. This was my father.
My father's first wife
having died, he married my mother, Sarah Hull Green, in the year 1825.
My mother also told me that in South Carolina, many years ago, there lived
a very honorable gentleman named Robert Williams. He had a daughter
named Celeta, who, marrying a gentleman named McAll, became the mother
of a daughter, Ellen by name, who became the wife of McKeen Green.
These were the parents of my mother.
McKeen Green had two brothers, Major Benjamin Green and Col. John Green,
both soldiers in the American Army during the Revolution. Col. John
Green's
daughter, Martha Mariah, married Col. Chapells, of Columbia, South
Carolina. She also stated that a daughter of Col. Chapells married John
C. Calhoun,
the great South Carolina statesman.
By his first wife, Ellen Briscoe, my father had six children. The first of these was Nellie, who married Michael Smalley. The next, Mary, who married a Mr. ivingston; Elizabeth, who married William Dunn; Amanda, who married James McCord. One child died early in life. John, who married Dolly Barlow-leaving numerous descendants.
By his last wife he also had six children, two sons and four daughters.
These were: Jane, married to Lycurgus Reese. Their children
were, Solon, who married Miss Fannie bonner; Toliver Lamar, married Mis
Addie Booker; Gustavus, who married Miss Julia Irving of North Georgia;
Lycurgus, who married Miss Mamie Steed, of Wilkes county; eula, who married
Wesley Young, of Columbia county; Dicanda, who married Mr. Lloyd, of Fairmount,
Georgia; Fannie, who married Professor Osborn, of Augusta; Elizabeth, married
to Olin Young of Augusta; Eva, married to Horace Clary, of McDuffie county;
Nellie, who has not married.
