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:1860 Marion Dist., SC Marion, Marion PO # 2157/2125
Love Flowers 60 Farmer $-/200 SC
Martha 58
Joseph 20 Farm Laborer
Everett 12
Elly 14 m
Saml 10;


!CENSUS:1870 Marion Co., SC Legett, Marion CH PO # 209/209
Love Flowers 75 Farmer $225/183 SC
Martha 58 Keeping House
Everet 18 at home
Samuel 15 at home;


!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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Samuel S. Flowers married Susan Best, daughter of Captain John J. Best, of Horry; they had several children; moved to Texas eight years ago; the last heard from them, his wife was dead and he was in Keaney, Nebraska.

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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."