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Husband: Colonel Levi Legette
Born: 1794/1795 in Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC)
Married: before 1826 in Marion Dist, SC
Died: 07 SEP 1871 in Marion Co, SC
Father: David Legette
Mother: Rebecca Wood
Spouses: Althea Alford
Wife: Zilpha Evans
Born: 1797/1798 in Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC)
Died: 1850/1860 in Marion Dist, SC
Father: Nathan Evans
Mother: Godbold
Spouses:
Children
01 (F): Melvina Legette
Born: 10 JAN 1826 in Marion Dist, SC
Died: 15 OCT 1903 in Marion Co, SC
Spouses: William Lloyd
02 (F): Anna Legette
Born: 1827/1828 in Marion Dist, SC
Died: 28 SEP 1881 in Marion Co, SC
Spouses: Evan A Rogers; Jesse Rogers
03 (M): Morgan Legette
Born: 1828/1829 in Marion Dist, SC
Died: JUN 1862 in Civil War
Spouses: Elizabeth A
04 (M): Levi Legette
Born: 1831/1832 in Marion Dist, SC
Died:
Spouses: Frances
05 (F): Mary Legette
Born: 1833/1834 in Marion Dist, SC
Died: after 1880 in Marion Co, SC
Spouses: Edward G Collins, Sgt
06 (M): David Legette
Born: 1835/1836 in Marion Dist, SC
Died:
Spouses:
Additional Information

Colonel Levi Legette:

Notes:

!REFERENCE:From: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 125-135.

- His son, Nathan, was the only one to perpetuate the name. The writer thinks he married twice (the second Nathan). His first wife was a Godbold, by whom he had a son, the late Thomas Evans, and two daughters, Mrs. R. J. Gregg and Mrs. Colonel Levi Legette, there may have been other children of the first marriage. Nathan Evans' second wife was a Miss Rogers (first name not known), a daughter of old Lot Rogers, of upper Marion. By his second wife he had three sons and a daughter. The sons were the late General William Evans, Nathan Evans and Gamewell Evans; the daughter, Elizabeth A., married Alexander Murdock, of Marlborough County. ;


!CENSUS:1800 Marion Dist, SC pg 436/780 w/David LEGGETT age 0-9 (1790/1800);

!CENSUS:1810 Marion Dist, SC pg 85B w/David LEGETT age 10-15 (1794/1800);
!CENSUS:1820 Marion Dist, SC pg x w/Rebeckah LEGETT age 26-44 (1775/94);

!CENSUS:1830 Marion Dist, SC pg x Levi LEGETTE, age 30-39 (1790/1800)
"000001-200001";

!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist, SC pg x Levi LEGETTE, age 40-49 (1790/1800)
"1200001-012000101";

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist, SC pg 99 # 1486/1492
Levi LEGETT, 55 Marion
Zilpha, 52
Melvina, 24
Anna, 22
Morgan, 21
Levi, 18
Mary, 16
David, 14;
!CENSUS:1860 Marion Dist, SC # 795
Levi LEGETT, 64, married in census year, SC
A. A. 48 TN
Melvina, 38
Levi, 28
Rilla McINNIS, 3
E. DINAH, 6;
!CENSUS:1870 Marion Co, SC Legette # 87
Levi LEGETT, 74 Surveyor, SC
Althea Ann, 48, TN
Laura, 11
Sindarella J. McKINNIS, 13
Monila McEACHERN, 25;

!DEATH:From the Marion Star - "Genealogical Abstracts from Marion, South Carolina Newspapers 1858-1886" Abstracted by Gloria Calhoun, Pee Dee Chapter SCGS, Marion, SC 1999;

Zilpha Evans:

Notes:

!REFERENCE:From: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 125-135.

- His son, Nathan, was the only one to perpetuate the name. The writer thinks he married twice (the second Nathan). His first wife was a Godbold, by whom he had a son, the late Thomas Evans, and two daughters, Mrs. R. J. Gregg and Mrs. Colonel Levi Legette, there may have been other children of the first marriage. Nathan Evans' second wife was a Miss Rogers (first name not known), a daughter of old Lot Rogers, of upper Marion. By his second wife he had three sons and a daughter. The sons were the late General William Evans, Nathan Evans and Gamewell Evans; the daughter, Elizabeth A., married Alexander Murdock, of Marlborough County. ;


!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 245 Nathan Evans Marion Co., SC
Will dated -- --- 1810
son Thomas Evans
daus Edey and Zilphey
wife Elizabeth Evans
brother Thomas Evans
sons John Gamewell Evans, William Evans and Nathan Evans
dau Elizabeth Ann Evans
... Inventory 21 Jul 1810
...;

!CENSUS:1820;

!CENSUS:1830 Marion Dist, SC pg x w/Levi LEGETTE, age 30-39 (1790/1800);

!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist, SC pg x w/Levi LEGETTE, age 40-49 (1790/1800);

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist, SC pg 99 # 1486/1492
Levi LEGETT, 55 Marion
Zilpha, 52
Melvina, 24
Anna, 22
Morgan, 21
Levi, 18
Mary, 16
David, 14;

(06) David Legette:

Notes:

!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist, SC pg x w/Levi LEGETTE, age 0-4 (1835/40);

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist, SC pg 99 # 1486/1492
Levi LEGETT, 55 Marion
Zilpha, 52
Melvina, 24
Anna, 22
Morgan, 21
Levi, 18
Mary, 16
David, 14;

!CENSUS:1860;

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