Marty and Karla Grant

!NOTES:Not named as a son in the Will of Darius Ayres (1840). Seems to have died before ca 1827 if he is the father of the minor David (Darius?) Ayers who was assigned to Thomas Ayers, guardian. (see 1827 probate record below).

!CENSUS:1800;

!CENSUS:1810;

!CENSUS:1820;

!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 873 Marion Co., SC David (sic?) Ayers, minor.
... guardian bond for Thomas Ayers, guardian 12 Apr 1827,
bondsmen: Thomas Ayers, Derius Ayers, William Ayers;

!CENSUS:1830 x

!CENSUS:1840 x

!WITNESS-PROBATE ROLL # 20 Marion Co., SC Darius Ayers 4 May 1840
Will 4 May 1840, recorded 24 May 1840
Wife Agness Ayers
eldest son Thomas Ayers
son William Ayers
son John Ayers
Sons Thomas and William Executors
Witnesses: Michael Watson, Darius Ayres, Nancy Ayres;

!CENSUS:1850 x

!REFERENCE: 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. 166-167

Ayres. -Another family in the northeastern section of the county is the Ayres family. Of this family the first known to the writer was the Rev. William Ayres, and two brothers, Darius and John, usually called Jack Ayres.
...
Darius Ayres, brother of Rev. William, died in early life, leaving two sons, Darius and another, whose name the writer has forgotten (they both went to school to him). The elder boy, Darius, grew up, and the last heard of him by the writer he was a Baptist preacher in North Carolina.

!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 873 Marion Co., SC David (sic?) Ayers, minor.
... guardian bond for Thomas Ayers, guardian 12 Apr 1827,
bondsmen: Thomas Ayers, Derius Ayers, William Ayers;


!REFERENCE: 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. 166-167
...
Darius Ayres, brother of Rev. William, died in early life, leaving two sons, Darius and another, whose name the writer has forgotten (they both went to school to him). The elder boy, Darius, grew up, and the last heard of him by the writer he was a Baptist preacher in North Carolina.