Marty and Karla Grant

!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 68 Marion Co., SC Arthur Bird 1835
Will 10 Aug 1835
wife Elizabeth Bird
son Hugh G. Bird
Dau Martah Owens wife of Philip Owens
son Joseph Bird
dau Anna Bird
dau Mary M. Bird
dau Maria Herring wife of Wilson Herring
dau Charlotte Herring wife of Edmund Herring
dau Alafair Bird
Execs: Edwd B. Wheeler and Joseph Bird
W: C. Crawford, Stephen White, Brian Jones.
...;

!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist, SC pg 173 Hugh G. BIRD age 20-29 (1810/20) "20001-00001";


!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 109 Marion Co., SC Elizabeth Bird 1848
Will 14 Mar 1848
gr-dau Charlotte Herrin
my five children:
Joseph Bird
Hugh G. Bird
Ann Blackmon
Maria Herring
Miriam Owens
W: Hugh Godbold, F. A. Miles, N. J. White
proven 2 Nov 1848
* From "Marion County Probate Records" Volume 1, Lucille Utley, Danny Smith. Three Rivers Historical Society. 1985.;


!NAMED-EQUITY ROLL # 17 Marion Co., SC. Arthur Bird. No date, after 1848*
Joseph Bird, Hamilton Blackman vs John Blackman, Jr
and John Blackman and wife vs H. G. Bird, exec.
Elizabeth Bird died testate 1840 leaving:
the executrix Ann Blackman,
Hugh G. Bird,
Joseph Bird,
Maria Herrin
and Miriam Owens
surviving her.
Includes Deed of Trust: John Blackman in consideration of love and affection towards my children:
Hamilton Blackman
Mary Ann Blackman
Betsey Blackman
and John Blackman
and of $1.00 paid to my brother-in-law Joseph Bird ...
S: 17 Feb 1848 John Blackman Jr.
Betsy Blackman died under age and unmarried.*
* Betsy was born ca 1843 and was with her parents in 1850, but not found in 1860, so died during that decade.
* From "Marion County South Carolina Extracts from Equity Rolls", Lucille Utley. Three Rivers Historical Society.;


!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist, SC # 1096 Hugh BIRD, 30 (1819/20) born Marion;


!NAMED-EQUITY ROLL # 289 Marion Co., SC. Arthur Bird. 31 Mar 1860
Finklea G. Wise vs Hugh G. Bird
Slave Hester is child of Hannah who was bequeathed by Arthur Bird father of defendant ...
Arthur Bird died about 1835.
Alafair of unsound mind, arangement made between legatees of Arthur Bird or all of them but two, that Elizabeth Bird, mother of Alafair should take care of her upon condition of release of:
Joseph Bird,
The defendant Hugh G.Bird
Anna Bird now wife of John Blackman Jr
and Mary Ann Bird now wife of Thomas D. Owens
...
Annual payment by Wilson Herrin husband of Mariah Herrin
and Edmund Herrin husband of Charlotte Herring ...
Alafair died about 1840 and Elizabeth died about 1848 ... leaving Hester to granddaughter Charlotte Herrin. She married --- Smith and died 1859 without issue.
* From "Marion County South Carolina Extracts from Equity Rolls", Lucille Utley. Three Rivers Historical Society.;


!REFERENCE:"A History of Marion County, South Carolina" by W.W. Sellers, Esq. 1902. Pg 193 - 197;


!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. 386-395
...
Osborne Lane married a Miss Crawford, a sister of old James Crawford, of Spring Branch-I suppose, older than her brother. The Crawfords were quite respectable in that day and have continued to be so down to the present time. The fruits of the marriage, as known, were eight sons, John, Thomas, Alexander, James, Robert, David, Stephen and William, and two daughters, Kesiah and Elizabeth.
...
Of the daughters, one, Elizabeth, married old John Blackman, a son of the old Tory John, that Colonel Murphy tied and whipped ; by this marriage were three children born and raised, as known to the writer- Stephen Blackman and John, called Jack ; the name of the daughter was Elizabeth, or Betsey; when an old maid, she became the second wife of Rev. John D. Coleman, below Marion ; both are dead ; don't know whether she left any children or not. Stephen Blackman married some one, to the writer not known ; he died many years ago, and left a son, William, called Billy Blackman, and is now a middle-aged man and lives somewhere in the Latta neighborhood ; married, and has a family. John (Jack) Blackman married a Miss Bird, a sister of the late Hugh and Joe Bird, of the Toby's Creek section ; by her he raised two sons, Joseph A. and Hamilton, who, like their father, were good soldiers in the war. Hamilton was killed about Charleston, S. C. Joe died since the war, leaving several children; his widow married again, Robert C. Rogers, of Wahee Township ; know nothing of Joseph A. Blackman's children, suppose some or all of them are grown. John (Jack) Blackman was married a second time, late in life, to Caroline Mears, and by her had and raised one or two sons- one, named John, is as much like old John as it- is possible for a young man to favor an old man ; these sons are in the Mullins section. Old John (Jack) died in 1895, in June, and was ninety years of age in December before he died, as brave and patriotic as any man that ever lived in the county, and as honest as the days were long. ;

!CENSUS:1820;

!CENSUS:1830 Marion Dist, SC pg 48 w/John TART Sr age 10-14 (1815/20);

!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist, SC pg 173 w/Hugh G. BIRD age 20-29 (1810/20);

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist, SC # 1096 Ann BIRD, 27 (1822/23) born Marion;

!REFERENCE:"A History of Marion County, South Carolina" by W.W. Sellers, Esq. 1902. Pg 193 - 197;

!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist, SC pg 173 w/Hugh G. BIRD age 0-4 (1835/40);

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist, SC # 1096 Joseph BIRD, 12 (1837/38) born Marion;

!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist, SC pg 173 w/Hugh G. BIRD age 0-4 (1835/40);

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist, SC # 1096 Peter BIRD, 12 (1837/38) born Marion;