Marty and Karla Grant

!NOTES:I (Marty Grant) am not related to this person as far as I know. They are the ancestors or relatives of one or more of my cousins, so I have researched them to a small extent.
(1) Uncle/Aunt of my aunt Pat Skipper.
(2) Uncle/Aunt of my Aunt Harriette Richardson Nack.
(3) Uncle/Aunt of my uncle Al McIntyre;


!REFERENCE:
http://www.martygrant.com/
http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/


!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 685/688
Love Flowers, 51, Farmer, 2000 Marion
Martha, 45
James, 20 Farmer
Nathan, 19 Farmer
Henry, 18 Farmer
Williamson, 17 Farmer
Mary, 13
Love, 12
Barney, 11
Joel, 10
Bennet, 9
Rachael, 8
Elly, 3;


!REFERENCE:"A History of Marion County, South Carolina" by W.W. Sellers, Esq. 1902. Pg 502 - 506
"Love Flowers, born in 1790, lived to be eighty-four years old, and died in 1874; he married twice; his first wife was Elizabeth Brown; there were two sons by this marriage, William and John.

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Love Flowers' first wife dying, he married Martha Baxley, a daughter of Barny Baxley; by this marriage he had twenty-two children, all of whom died in infancy, except James J., Henry, Williamson, Barny, A. Love, Bennett, Nathan,. Joel, Elly, Everett, Samuel S., Lucy Ann and Rachel. It seems that thirteen of the twenty-two were raised.

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Bennett Flowers married Miss Mary James, daughter of Henry James ; had one child, and died of disease in the Western Confederate Army during the war.

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Old Love Flowers, a patriarch, had eleven sons in the war, including the two by his first wife, William and John; all his sons went to the war, except Everett and Samuel S.-the two latter were too young. Few men contributed so many to the lost cause."