Chapter 3: Generation 5 John Bramlett and Mary Peak
More than sixty family members from the Palmetto State served as soldiers in the Civil War/War Between the States, and at least eighteen died while defending Confederate and Southern principles. One particular family from Greenville County headed by Sarah Dacus and Rev. Reuben Bramlett in John and Mary’s line boasted twenty sons and grandsons serving in a variety of units at various times during the conflict.
South Carolina State Seal and Motto: While I Breathe I Hope
Father John Bramlett, child of Margaret “Peggy” Unknown and Henry Bramlett Jr., was born May 15, 1764, on the family plantation in Fauquier Co., Va. He married Mary Peak there circa 1785. Their first child was born in 1786 in South Carolina. John and Mary first lived in Laurens County, where he was a co-founder and early charter member of Bramlett Methodist Church with his mother, Margaret, and brothers Henry III and Nathan.
John’s full birth and death dates are inscribed in a Bramlett Bible owned by his descendants and on his tombstone at Bethel United Methodist Church, Simpsonville, Greenville Co., S.C. The monument indicates he was born in Virginia. He died at age 91 on July 28, 1855, at home on his farm south of Greenville, S.C., next to his church, and rests beside his wife, Mary Peak, there, at Bethel Methodist Episcopal (now Bethel United Methodist) Church Cemetery. One side of John’s tombstone is inscribed “John Bramlett Born Virginia May 15, 1764. Died July 28, 1855. Mary Peak His wife May 16, 1763 June 23, 1853.” The other side of the monument memorializes “Susan His Daughter” and praises “John Bramlett For 73 Years A Leader in Christian Work” and “The founder Of Bethel Church. He Had The Witness That He Pleased God.”
Forty three names signed on an undated petition to request state incorporation of Bethel Methodist Church, Arbor, and Campground in Greenville County, South Carolina, including Bramletts, Burdetts, Austins, Hollands. The church served several thousand members annually.
Bramlett United Methodist Church
2043 Bramlett Church Road Gray Court 29645 Laurens County South Carolina USA
Bramlett United Methodist Church was co-founded in 1780 or 1781, according to Father John Bramlett, by him, his mother, Margaret Bramlett, and one or two of her other sons, “Nathan and or Henry” (III). The church still holds services on the property deeded by Nathan Bramlett and George Sims and sold to the trustees for $5 in 1807.
John and Mary moved their family from Laurens County where his mother, Margaret, and siblings Marianne and Nathan were living, to about nine miles from Bramlett Methodist Episcopal Church, across the boundary line into Greenville County, in 1797, the year their daughter Mildred was born there at Bethel Camp Ground. There they donated land John owned for the construction of Bethel Arbor and Church and for establishment of the Cemetery, which dates back to the the first death in the Bramlett, Holland or Yeargin families after they all settled in the same location. John’s home was next to the Church and the Arbor, an outdoor shelter used for early religious meetings and special occasions, including revivals and weddings. Bethel honors John each year by laying a wreath on his gre during its Founder’s Day celebrations. Co-founders Solomon Holland and Devereaux Yeargin with their family members also played important roles in the establishment and early development of the Arbor, Church, and Cemetery.
John also co-founded with his mother, Margaret, and siblings Henry III and Nathan, the mother church of Bethel –Bramlett Methodist Episcopal (now United Methodist) Church– near Gray Court, Laurens Co., S.C., in 1780-1781 or earlier. Obituaries of John and Nathan document their early membership in the Methodist Church at age 16 in and age 14, respectfully. They formed the core religious group of Bramlett Methodist Church with their mother, Margaret, and elder brother Henry III, who was about age 25, in 1780-1781 at their widowed mother Margaret’s home, on the Bramlett Plantation in Fauquier Co., Va. No religious affiliation has been identified for their brother Reuben Bramlett, 1757-1844, who was born in Virginia, lived there in 1780-85, and then moved to South Carolina, Western Kentucky, and Southern Illinois where he died and is buried. His wife, Elizabeth Brown, and several of their family members, including sons Henry and Coleman; however, were devoted to the Baptist Church in Gallatin and Saline counties in Illinois. Elizabeth is listed as a member on the rolls of one early Baptist Church there that notes her death in 1830. Family tradition holds she and her son Ben both died of measles at about the same time. One Laurens County, South Carolina, historian dated the founding of Bramlett Methodist Church at Gray Court, S.C., back to 1774-1776, around the time of the Declaration of Independence. John and Nathan were revered lay ministers given the title “Father” by their adoring congregants in South Carolina and, with their elder brother Henry III, were deeply devoted to God, Church, Country, and Family. Henry III’s descendants on the West Coast some years ago claimed they had documentary written evidence, perhaps a copy of his license to preach, church documents, or letters, indicating he was an ordained Methodist Minister; and they had possession of and had preserved his very valuable and historically important Revolutionary War Discharge Papers. Although many of Henry III’s descendants are interested in joining military and history groups to celebrate their family patriotic affiliations, the owner of the preserved items declined to share copies of them or give permission to quote written history that describes them. However, those descendants may use Henry III’s identification as a Revolutionary soldier in Georgia Land Lottery records and in a Virginia deed that names him as a resident of Virginia and South Carolina in 1780, during the war, for proof of their ancestor’s military service. Henry III’s daughter Margaret joined Bramlett Methodist Church when the family still lived in South Carolina, and his sister Marianne Bramlett and her husband, Frederick Burdette, were no doubt also affiliated with Bramlett Methodist Church as early members. Frederick served as a trustee there in 1807, and they lived nearby and close to Marianne’s paternal uncle William Bramblett and family. They are named as early church members in Rev. Frederick Reuben Burdette’s precious family Diary, provided by direct descendant Martha Anne Curry Duke. The document records names of the church’s founders in 1780 or 1781 as brothers Henry III, John, Nathan Bramlett, and their Mother, who is identified as Margaret in recorded Virginia deeds that name Henry III, John, and Reuben together on the Fauquier Co., Va., plantation, after their father, Henry II/Jr., died.
Bramlett United Methodist Church, founded 1780-1781
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“John Bramlett Born Virginia May 15, 1764. Died July 28, 1855.” “Mary Peak His Wife May 16, 1763 June 23, 1853.” “Bramlett”“John Bramlett For 73 Years A Leader in Christian Work”
“The founder Of Bethel Church. He Had The Witness That He Pleased God.”
Susan His Daughter
Jan. 11, 1804 Dec. 21, 1892
Susannah “Susan” Bramlett’s tombstone inscription, Bethel UMC Cemetery,
Photo by Bramlett Historian Deborah G. Dennis
Bethel United Methodist Church, Simpsonville, S.C.
John and Mary’s Thirteen Children
The names and birth dates of John and Mary and their thirteen children are inscribed in their son Elias Bramlett’s Bible and their son Reuben Bramlett’s Bible, the latter which was once in the possession of Robert Hulet/Hugh Bramlett, grandson of John and Mary, and later was passed down to Robert’s son H. Marvin Bramlett and then to his son Robert Austin Bramlett. John and Mary’s thirteen children are William, Margaret, Nathan, Nancy, Reuben, Alcey, John Wesley, Mildred (“Milley”), Rosanah (“Rosey” “Rosa”), Mary, Henry, Susannah (“Susan”) and Elias Bramlett. Several of the children appear to be namesakes of John’s extended family members: William, named after John’s brother? and/or uncle; Margaret, named after John’s mother; Nathan and Reuben and Henry, named after John’s brothers Nathan, Reuben and Henry; and perhaps Nancy, named after a probable sister of John. John Wesley Bramlett was named in part after John and after the famous Methodist leader John Wesley. Mary was named after her mother. The other daughters–Alcey, Milley, Rosanah “Rosey” “Rosa” and Susannah “Susan”–may he been named after some of John’s sisters who he not been documented and/or after some of Mary’s family.
John and Mary’s Thirteen Children are: William, Margaret, Nathan, Nancy, Reuben, Alcey, John Wesley, Mildred (“Milley”), Rosanah (“Rosey” “Rosa”), Mary, Henry, Susannah (“Susan”), Elias Bramlett.
Rev. William Bramlett, Son of John and Mary Peak Bramlett
Descendant James T. Hammond of Columbia and Greenville, S.C., pictured below, provides much of the following about Rev. William and Nancy S. Dacus Bramlett.
Rev. William Bramlett, first child of John and Mary (Peak) Bramlett, was born July 2, 1786, in Laurens Co., S.C. William’s birth and death dates are inscribed in a Bramlett Bible originally owned by William’s brother Reuben. William died July 29, 1870, at home in Jackson Grove, Greenville Co., S.C., and was buried in Jackson Grove Methodist Church Cemetery. William’s son-in-law Willis Rogers petitioned to be administrator of William’s estate on Jan. 28, 1871 (Apt. 32, File 56). William’s son John Wesley Irvin Bramlett and William’s widow, Nancy, bought most of William’s property at the estate sale, according to descendant James T. Hammond.
William’s tombstone, next to Nancy’s in Jackson Grove: “I he fought the good fight, I he finished the course, I he kept the faith. Henceforth There is laid up for me The crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day.” Images courtesy James T. Hammond.
William and Nancy’s Life in Greenville County
William was appointed trustee of Jackson Grove Methodist Church in 1835. He previously was a charter member and trustee of Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church near Simpsonville, S.C. J. C. Crisp identifies William as a Methodist Minister in an obituary published in the Sept. 23, 1870, issue of The Southern Christian Advocate:
“Rev. William Bramlett, a local minister of the M. E. Church, South, departed this life at his own residence, in Greenville co., S.C., on the 29th July, 1870. Brother Bramlett was born July 2d, 1786. For 70 years, lacking 6 months, he had been a most consistent member of the M. E. Church, and a local preacher about 50 years. Sometimes employed by P. Elder to supply pastoral charge; always abundant in labors. The church he truly loved, and for the promotion of the Redeemer’s kingdom, he most faithfully labored for three score and ten years, till called from the church militant “to the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in heen.” His last words were: “I am happy! happy! happy!” [signed] J. C. Crisp. The Christian Neighbor will please copy. (S.C.A. vol. 33, p. 152, col. 4)
Bramlett descendant Julien Potter Wooten in his 1886 brief family history named William as a son of John and Mary. Julien described William as “a Methodist preacher” who “lived and died in Greenville, S.C.” (See the entire typescript/transcript below in Mildred Bramlett Potter’s history.) William is the brother of Mildred Bramlett Potter, who is the grandmother of Julien.)
Methodist Church historian Samuel M. Green in An Historical Outline of Greenville Circuit writes about William Bramlett who lived in the upper part of Greenville County near Batesville and preached at Ebenezer Methodist Church. He indicates William assisted the Rev. Thomas Hutchings, “a Methodist local preacher…who was the original proprietor of the Batesville cotton factory. Through their efforts, church meetings were held for workers and proprietors of the Batesville and Pelham cotton factories” (10). (Batesville and Pelham originally were known as Buena Vista.) Buried in the cemetery at Ebenezer Methodist Church, where William H. Bramlett preached, are Arthur Bramlett (1), and Lilla Mae Bramlett (2), according to Beverly T. Whitmire in Presence of The Past. Their gres apparently are not marked or the markers he no dates. Their connection to William is unknown.
William married Nancy S. Dacus in 1803 in Greenville County, according to descendant Louise (Hutchings) Galway, deceased. She reported Nancy was born May 16, 1788, in Virginia. Nancy is the daughter of Nathaniel Dacus and his first wife, Martha Dupree, who married in Lunenburg Co., Va. Family tradition holds that Nancy is Nathaniel’s step-daughter, the child of Martha Dupree and a different father; however, recent DNA results contributed by direct descendant James T. Hammond indicate Nancy is genetically and biologically related to Sarah D. Dacus Bramlett, her sister, who also is a known daughter of Martha Dupree and Nathaniel Dacus. Nancy died in Jackson Grove, S.C., on March 13, 1874. Her gre marker in Jackson Grove Methodist Church Cemetery identifies her as the wife of Rev. William Bramlett.
Census Data for William
“William Bramblet,” 26-44, is listed in the 1810 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., as head of a family that includes a female 26-44 (wife, Nancy) and two children: a female under 10, born 1800-10 (Mary?), and a male under 10, born 1800-10 (Nathan Robert/Josiah?) (NARA Film M252:62:118). “Wm. Bramlet,” white male 26-44, born between 1776 and 1794, employed in agriculture, is listed in the 1820 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., with a female 26-44 (wife, Nancy) and six children: one female 10-16, born between 1804 and 1810 (Mary); two males under 10, born between 1810 and 1820 (Nathan Robert/Josiah? and/or Abner G., Tolliver Robert); and three females under 10, born between 1810 and 1820 (Margaret/Anna? and Elizabeth and Melanie “Mellie” “Milly”?) (NARA Film M33:120:169). One of the sons may he been missed by the census taker or may he been living with other relatives. Four young children, probably grandchildren–children of William and Nancy–are enumerated with William’s parents, John and Mary, in the 1820 census. Another son of William and Nancy, Elbert S., had died in 1819. William lived near his parents, John and Mary (Peak/e) Bramlett, in Greenville County in 1830. “William Bramlet,” 40-50, is listed in the 1830 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., as head of a family that includes a female 40-50 (wife, Nancy) and nine children: a female 20-30, born 800-10 (Mary); two females 15-20, born 1811-15 (Elizabeth “Betsy” and Melanie “Mellie” “Milly”?); one female 10-15, born 1815-20 (Margaret/Anna?); one male 10-15, born 1815-20 (Tolliver Robert); one female 5-10, born 1820-25 (Martha); one male 5-10, born 1820-25 (William H.); one female under 5, born 1825-30 (Eliza W.); and one male under 5, born between 1825 and 1830 (John Wesley Ervin) (NARA Film M19:172:284). Sons Nathan Robert/Josiah and Abner G. may he been living with relatives: their grandparents John and Mary (Peak) Bramlett he one male 15-20, born between 1810 and 1815 (Nathan?); and one male 10-15, born between 1815 and 1820 (Abner G.?) in their house in the 1830 census.
Nathan Bramlett married Mary Margaret Miles by 1835, and Abner G. Bramlett married Elizabeth Rosa Hawkins in 1843. Two of Nancy and William’s three older daughters (Mary and/or Margaret/Anna and Melanie “Mellie” “Milly”?) married before 1840. William and Nancy’s son Tolliver Robert Bramlett married before 1840 and lived next to them.
“Rev. Wm. Bramblett,” 50-60, born 1780-90, is listed in the 1840 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., as head of a family that includes a female 50-60 (wife, Nancy) and eight children: one male 20-30, born 1810-20 (Abner G.); two females 20-30, born 1810-20 (Margaret/Anna? or Melanie “Mellie” “Milly”? and Elizabeth “Betsy”); one female 15-20, born 1820-25 (Martha); one male 15-20, born 1820-25 (William H.); one female 10-15, born 1825-30 (Eliza W.); one male 10-15, born 1825-30 (John Wesley Ervin); and one female 5-10, born 1830-35 (Malinda Caroline) (NARA Film M704:512:205). (Nathan does not appear with his parents and siblings in 1840 because he married by 1835 and lived elsewhere. Abner did not marry until 1843.) “William Bramblett,” 64, born in South Carolina, farmer, $300 real estate, and wife, Nancy, 62, born in Virginia, are listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., with six grown children: Elizabeth (“Betsy”), 30; Martha, 28; William (H.), 25, laborer; Eliza (W.), 23; John (Wesley Ervin), 21, laborer; and (Malinda) Caroline, 18 (NARA Film M432:853:367A). “Wm. Bramblett” is listed in the Sept. 6, 1850, Agricultural Census for Greenville Co., S.C., with fifty improved acres and fifty-five unimproved acres worth $300 and $200 worth of livestock (SCDAH Film M2:1:734-735). William Bramlett circa 1855 signed a petition to erect a gate on the road from Greenville Courthouse (SCDAH Series S165015, Item 31). Other signers include William H. Bramlett Jr., John W. Bramlett, William Few. “William Bramlett,” 74, born in South Carolina, Methodist clergyman, $1,000 real estate, $200 personal estate, and wife, Nancy, 72, born in Virginia, housekeeper, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Mush Creek P.O., Head of Tyger Div., Greenville Co., S.C., with three grown children born in South Carolina: Elizabeth Bramlett, 48, seamstress; Martha Bramlett, 41, seamstress; and Eliza Miles, 32, housekeeper, $1,600 personal estate (NARA Film M653:1220:506). Also listed is Eliza’s son John T. Miles, 5. “W. [William] Bramlett,” 84, and wife, Nancy, 82, keeping house, both born in South Carolina, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Mush Creek P.O., Highland Twp., Greenville Co., S.C. (NARA Film M593:1498:675B).
William and Nancy’s children include Mary, Nathan Robert (Josiah?), Elizabeth (“Betsy”), Abner G., Melanie (“Mellie” “Milly”), Margaret Anna, Elbert S. (Sevier?), Tolliver Robert, Martha, William H. (Henry?), Eliza W., John Wesley Ervin and Malinda Caroline Bramlett.
Few and Bramlett Family
At least two of Nancy S. Dacus and Rev. William Bramlett’s daughters married Fews who descend from immigrant ancestors from England to America in the late 17th century. Mary Bramlett married Benjamin Few, and Elizabeth Bramlett married Ephraim L. Few of Greenville Co., S.C. The Few family of America is documented by Florence Knight Fruth in her 1977 history Some Descendants of Richard Few of Chester County, Pennsylvania and Allied Lines, 1692-1976 (Parsons, W. Va.: McClain Printing, 1977). Fruth named the immigrant ancestors of the Greenville County, S.C., Fews as Richard Few (1625-1688), a Quaker shoemaker, and his second wife, Julian, and children, all born England. They settled on 225 acres and owned a Philadelphia city lot in William Penn’s Colony, now in Chester Co., Pa. Richard Few wrote his will on June 12, 1686, and died Sept. 13, 1688. The will was proved March 26, 1688 (WB-1A-59:134-135). Fruth names Richard Few’s first wife and mother of some of his children as Jane Whitfield Few, who was born in England and died there. Fruth also features in her history James Few, one of the most well-known and venerated American Few family members and the direct ancestor of the husbands of abovementioned Bramlett daughters Mary and Elizabeth. James Few, born circa 1746 at Three Sisters Plantation, Baltimore Co., Md., is a son of Mary Wheeler and William Few and grandson of the immigrant Richard Few.
James Few is venerated by family members and local historians as an American hero and martyr who died May 16, 1771, at the Battle of Alamance Creek, Orange (now Alamance) Co., N.C., which preceded our Revolutionary War in 1776. Departing from a longtime historical Quaker tradition of peaceful but persistent resistance, James Few decided to fight, joined the rising revolt against British political and social control–lack of representation and increasing demands for high taxes. James Few became known to local British troops and the Crown in England as an “outlaw Regulator” due to his outspoken, visible leadership of the group, which first comprised small farmers from several counties. After James and forty others were charged in England as traitors for opposition to the Crown, North Carolina Governor William Tryon targeted the Regulators by leading troops toward their Alamance Creek camp. Tryon’s report and historians documented the events of the ensuing battle. Tryon attacked during ongoing negotiations, killing a Regulator negotiator, and ordered his troops to move in and fire upon and massacre the other members of the group. He hanged James Few in front of his cheering army. Thus the struggle for liberty and freedom began at the Battle of Alamance Creek, near present-day Burlington, N.C., and James Few became a martyr of the cause of American Independence. After his death, James’s family–wife, Sarah Wood Few, and twin children–moved to St. Paul Parish, Ga., with James’s father to escape further British attacks. Sarah Wood Few later moved to Greenville Co., S.C., with her son. She died there in 1804 and rests in Old Few Chapel Cemetery. James and Sarah’s daughter, Sarah Few, born Feb. 9, 1771, in Orange Co., N.C., married John Garvin and died about July 30, 1855, near Augusta, Ga., where she is buried in Magnolia Cemetery. James and Sarah’s son, William Few, born Feb. 9, 1771, in Orange Co., N.C., settled in Greenville Co., S.C., and died there June 12, 1856. He first married Susannah Tubbs. He and his children and second wife, Nancy Chastain, established and founded Few Chapel and Few Family Cemetery, Greer, S.C., where they and descendants sleep in eternal rest. Both Benjamin Few and Ephraim Lawrence Few are buried there.
Few Family Cemetery, Greer, Greenville Co., S.C., courtesy Robin Farley Dixson
Descendant James T. Hammond of Greenville and Columbia, S.C., who provides genealogical information about the Greenville County Few family and others, descends from Fews and a long line of distinguished American antecedents, including Chastains, Bramblettes, Callaways, Dacuses, Wilsons, Barnettes and Hammonds to name only a…few.
Mary Bramlett, first child of Nancy S. Dacus and Rev. William H. Bramlett, was born Dec. 28, 1806, in Greenville Co., S.C. She died there Sept. 25, 1856. She married Benjamin Few, son of Susannah Tubbs and William Few. He was born June 17, 1805, in O’Neal, Greenville Co., S.C. He died Nov. 11, 1888, in Greenville Co., S.C. Benjamin and Mary’s children include Susanna, James A., Rosana and Columbus Few.
Susanna Few, child of Mary Bramlett and Benjamin Few, was born 1839. She died 1856.
James A. Few, child of Mary Bramlett and Benjamin Few, was born 1843. He died 1856.
Rosana Few, child of Mary Bramlett and Benjamin Few, was born 1844. She died 1920.
Columbus Few, child of Mary Bramlett and Benjamin Few, was born 1848. He died 1923.
Descendant Cornelia K. Hudson of Tulsa, Okla., provided some of the following about Rev. Nathan R. Bramlett.
Nathan Robert (Josiah?) Bramlett, second child of Nancy S. Dacus and Rev. William H. Bramlett, was born circa 1808 in Greenville Co., S.C. He died of yellow fever at Memphis, Tenn., and was buried at a cemetery in West Memphis, Ark., reportedly with an inscribed tombstone. A Methodist minister, Nathan was in Memphis on business during a yellow fever epidemic. He stayed to help and contracted the disease, which killed him. He married Mary Margaret Miles before 1835. She was born circa 1816 in North Carolina. Nathan and Margaret lived in Newberry Co., S.C., in 1850 before moving to Georgia and then Mississippi by 1860. “Nathaniel R. Bramlet,” 38, born South Carolina, overseer, $1,500 real estate, and wife, Margaret F., 38, born North Carolina, are listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Newberry Co., S.C., with seven children born South Carolina: Nancy A., 17; Mary L., 13; Henrietta E., 9; Martha L., 7; Susanna, 4; Permelia, 3; and Virginia C., 1 (NARA Film M432:856:253A-B). “Nathan R. Bramlett,” 52, born South Carolina, farmer, $2,000 real estate, $500 personal estate, and wife, Margaret, 44, are listed in the 1860 U,S, Census for Div. 1, Houston P.O., Chickasaw Co., Miss., with five grown and minor children born Georgia: Elizabeth, 18; Louisa, 16; Rosana, 14; Sarah, 13; Ella, 12, and three others born Alabama: R.C. Finly, 27; W. W. Finly, 14; and Virginia Finly, 9 (NARA Film M653:579:172). Nathan and Margaret’s children include Nancy Caroline, Mary L., Henrietta Elizabeth (“Lizzie”), Martha Louisa, Rosana F. (“Rosa”), Sarah Susanna (“Anna”), Permelia Ella, Virginia C. (“Jennie”) and Lula Lydia Bramlett.
Nancy Caroline Bramlett, child of Nathan R. and Margaret Miles Bramlett, was born Sept. 23, 1835, in South Carolina. She died May 7, 1904, in Mississippi and was buried in Wesley Chapel Cemetery near Houston. She married George Washington Boyd on March 6, 1851, in South Carolina. Their children include Judge John P., Mary, John Jessie, Robert and Dr. Wesley Boyd.
Judge John P. Boyd was born at French Camp, Miss. His children include Pearl Daniel, Mary Lee and a Daughter who was the wife of Polk Herndon.
Mary L. Bramlett, child of Nathan R. and Margaret Miles Bramlett, was born July 7, 1837, in South Carolina. She died April 24, 1891, in Van Vleet, Chickasaw Co., Miss., and was buried in Wesley Chapel Cemetery near Houston, Miss. She married Josiah Allen McDaniel at Houston, Miss. (Family research hints: The McDaniel family at one time used the surname McDonald. The family home was on the road to Pittsboro, Calhoun Co.. Miss. Josiah’s sister and Rainwater Barnett had a child named Rita Shearer who lived at Houston, Miss.)
Josiah Allen McDaniel served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He enlisted in Company D, Fifth Alabama and Mississippi Infantry, and was present with Gen. Robert E. Lee on April 9, 1865, at the surrender to Gen. Ullysses S. Grant at Appomattox. Mary and Josiah lived near Van Vleet. Their children include Nannie Elizabeth, Margaret (“Maggie”), Willie and Lula McDaniel.
Nannie Elizabeth McDaniel, child of Mary L. Bramlett and Josiah Allen McDaniel, was born near Tampa, Fla., and died at age 1.
Margaret “Maggie” McDaniel, child of Mary L. Bramlett and Josiah Allen McDaniel, was born in Mississippi. She died in 1892 and may he been buried at Asbury Chapel. She married Tom Downing and had five children: Van Hill, Ted, Mac, Muldrow and Molly Kay Downing.
Willie McDaniel, child of Mary L. Bramlett and Josiah Allen McDaniel, was born in Mississippi. He died young.
Lula McDaniel, child of Mary L. Bramlett and Josiah Allen McDaniel, was born in Mississippi. She died at age 14 and was buried at Friendship Cemetery, Chickasaw Co., Miss.
Henrietta Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bramlett, child of Nathan R. and Margaret Miles Bramlett, was born in South Carolina. She may be buried at Friendship Cemetery in Mississippi. She married a man named Smotherman.
Martha Louisa Bramlett, child of Nathan R. and Margaret Miles Bramlett, was born circa 1843 in South Carolina.
Rosana F. “Rosa” Bramlett, child of Nathan R. and Margaret Miles Bramlett, was born circa 1846 in South Carolina or Chickasaw Co., Miss. She died in Mississippi and was buried at Asbury Chapel near West Point, Miss. She married Walter Howard Brame and had seven children.
Sarah Susanna “Anna” Bramlett, child of Nathan R. and Margaret Miles Bramlett, was born in South Carolina.
Permelia Ella Bramlett, child of Nathan R. and Margaret Miles Bramlett, was born in South Carolina.
Virginia C. “Jennie” Bramlett, child of Nathan R. and Margaret Miles Bramlett, was born in South Carolina. She died at the home of Emma Barnett on Thornton Hill, nine miles west of Okolona, Miss., and was buried at Wesley Chapel Cemetery near Houston, Miss. She married John Clark. Their child is Jennie Lee Clark. They lived in Louisville, Ky., at one time.
Lula Lydia Bramlett, child of Nathan R. and Margaret Miles Bramlett, was born in South Carolina. She married someone named Young. They lived near Houlka, Miss.
Elizabeth “Betsy” Bramlett Few rests at Few Cemetery, courtesy James T. Hammond
Elizabeth “Betsy” Bramlett, third child of Nancy S. Dacus and Rev. William H. Bramlett, was born Jan. 26, 1812, in Greenville Co., S.C. She died there Jam. 31, 1897. She married Ephraim Lawrence Few before 1838 in Greenville County. He was born in 1810 and died 1885. Their children are William Manning, Matilda Emaline, Laurence and Thomas Sidney Few.
William Manning Few served as a Soldier during the Civil War
William Manning Few, child of Elizabeth “Betsy” Bramlett and Ephraim Lawrence Few, was born in 1838. He died in 1900 and was buried in Few Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery. He served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He first married Eliza Elizabeth Bates on Jan. 1, 1859. Their child is Luella Florence Few. William second married Sarah A. Lucas Caldwell on Dec. 1, 1868. She was born in 1842. She died in 1914 and was buried in Few Chapel Cemetery. Their children include Charles B., John, Millie Emma, Amanda Louise and Willie Alma Few.
Matilda Emaline Few, child of Elizabeth “Betsy” Bramlett and Ephraim Lawrence Few, was born in 1844. She died in 1915. She married Robert Thomason. Thomas Sidney Few, child of Elizabeth “Betsy” Bramlett and Lawrence Few, was born in 1864. He died in 1885.Descendant Wanda Lewis provides the following about Abner G. Bramlett and family.
Abner G. Bramlett, fourth child of Nancy S. Dacus and Rev. William H. Bramlett, was born circa 1817 in Greenville Co., S.C. He wrote his will Dec. 18, 1872, and died two days later on Dec. 20, 1872, in Lafayette Co., Miss. He married Elizabeth Rosa Hawkins in December 1843 in Greenville County. She was born March 22, 1814, in South Carolina, the, daughter of Mary “Polly” McCay and Ezekiel Hawkins of Greenville County. Rosa died Jan. 4, 1880, in Boyd, Wise Co., Tex. “Abner Bramblet,” 34, laborer, and wife, Rosa, 34, are listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., with two children: Emily, 6, and Josephine, 3, all born South Carolina. They lived next to Rev. William and Nancy S. Dacus Bramlett. Rosa Bramlet, 71, born South Carolina to parents born there, mother-in-law, at home, is listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Boyd, Wise Co., Tex., living with her son-in-law James B. Nunley, 29, born Mississippi to parents born South Carolina, farmer, and daughter, Nannie R., 26, born South Carolina to parents born there, keeping house, and their two children born Mississippi: Charles, 5, and Erin, 1. Rosa is buried near her daughter Nancy R. “Nannie” Bramlett Nunnelly. Rosa and Abner’s other children include Emily Dacus, Louisa Josephine and Mary E. Bramlett.
Will Transcript courtesy Wanda Lewis, a second-great-granddaughter of Abner and Rosa.
A. G. Bramlet’s Last Will, Dec. 18, 1872, Lafayette Co., Miss.
“I, A. G. Bramblette of the county of Lafayette and State of Mississippi make this my last will and testament revocing all others will made by me. 1st I wish my just debts paid from the personal property and the remainder to be held by my wife, Elizabeth R. Bramblette all of my Real Estate during her lifetime and at her death to desend to my three daughters, Louisa T. Bramblette, Nancy R. Bramblette, Mary E. Bramblette and to remain in the hands of the three daughters until the marriage of last one. Also those three daughters will pay Emily D. Dacus the sum of three hundred dollars as her share or interest in my Estate real and personal and I Bequeath this sum to the said E. D. Dacus and her bodily heirs I appoint Elizabeth R. Bramblette my execetorix to carry out during her life and that neither Bond or security be required of her In witness whereof I he signed sealed and published and declared this Instrument as my last will This 18th day of December A D 1872 A. G. his X mark Bramlette seal Attests H. H. Ferrell
“This said A. G. Bramblette on said day signed and sealed this Instrument and published and declared the same as and for his last will and we at this request and in his presents and in the presents of each other he hereunto written our names as subscribing witnesses Jas. A Christian {seal} G. W. Bramlett {seal} W. J. Carson {seal}”
Abner died Dec. 20, 1872, and Rosa appeared in court to enter the estate for probate on Jan. 26, 1873:
“To the Hon. Dewitte Stearns Chancellor of Lafayette County Your petitioner E. R. Bramlette a citizen of Lafayette County of Miss. respectfully Represents that A. G. Bramlette who last dwelt in Lafayette County Died on 20th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred Seventy two possessed of a small estate which he disposed of by his last will and testament leing a widow and four children of full age and his only heirs at law and next of kin. Your petitioner represents that the said deceased left will herewith presented wherein your petitioner is named as Executorix wherefore your petitioner pray that said will may be proved and allowed an execution This 26th day January 1873 [signed] E. R. Bramlett
“The undersigned being all the heirs at law and next of kin and the only parties interested in foregoing petition request that the prayer thereof be granted without further notice [signed] L. J. Bramlett N. R. Bramlett M. E. Bramlett Emily D. Dacus”
State of Mississippi} Lafayette County} Chancery Court January 27, 1873
This day personally appeared before me R. M. Black clerk of said court James A. Christian and W. D. Carson subscribing witnesses to certain instrument of __ perporting to be the last will and testament of A. G. Bramlet late of said county deceased bearing date 18th day of December 1872 who after being first sworn deposed and said that said A. G. Bramlet signed sealed H. H. Ferrell and G. W. Bramlett on the day of the date thereof that the said testutes was then of sound disposing mind and memory and more that twenty one years of age and that these repenents subscribed said instrument as witnesses thereto at the instance and the request and on the presences of said testator and also in the presence of each other and in the presence of H. H. Ferrell and G. W. Bramlett the other witnesses on the day and year aforesaid
Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 27th day of Jany 1873 R. M. Black clerk W. J. Carson Jas. A. Christian
Packet #1404 Filed Jan. 27, 1873, Recorded by R. M. Black, Lafayette Co., Miss., Clerk (WB-227)
Elizabeth R. Bramlett made a motion to the chancellor through her solicitor to admit the will to probate, which was granted, and was named Executrix on Jan. 29, 1873.
Abner named his wife, Elizabeth R., and four daughters as his only heirs: Emily Dacus (Bramlett) Dacus, Louisa Josephine Bramlett, Nancy R. Bramlett and Mary E. Bramlett.
Emily Dacus Bramlett, child of Elizabeth Rosa Hawkins and Abner G. Bramlett, was born circa 1844 in Greenville Co., S.C. She died in Lafayette Co., Miss. She married before Dec. 18, 1872, when her father wrote his will and named her as Emily D. Dacus. She married William Benjamin Paul Dacus on Feb. 26, 1866, in Caswell, Lafayette Co., Miss.
Louisa Josephine Bramlett, child of Elizabeth Rosa Hawkins and Abner G. Bramlett, was born circa 1848 in Greenville Co., S.C. She married Christopher Christian.
Nancy R. (Rosa?) “Nannie” Bramlett, child of Elizabeth Rosa Hawkins and Abner G. Bramlett, was born Jan. 26, 1850, in Greenville Co., S.C. She died June 30, 1892, in Boyd, Wise Co., Tex. She married James B. Nunnally. He was born circa 1851 in Mississippi.
Mary E. Bramlett, child of Elizabeth Rosa Hawkins and Abner G. Bramlett, was born circa 1851-1853 in Greenville Co., S.C.
Melanie “Mellie” “Milly” Bramlett, fifth child of Nancy S. Dacus and Rev. William H. Bramlett, was born in Greenville Co., S.C.
Margaret Anna Bramlett, sixth child of Nancy S. Dacus and Rev. William H. Bramlett, was born in Greenville Co., S.C.
Elbert S. (Sevier) Bramlett, seventh child of Nancy S. Dacus and Rev. William H. Bramlett, was born in Greenville Co., S.C.
Tolliver Robert Bramlett served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States.
Tolliver Robert Bramlett, eighth child of Nancy S. Dacus and Rev. William H. Bramlett, was born circa 1817 in Greenville Co., S.C. Tolliver died May 8, 1864, in one of the Battles of the Wilderness in Spotsylvania Co., Va., while serving as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War/War Between the States. His burial place, on the battlefield or possibly in or near Spotsylvania, or Richmond, Va., is unknown. Tolliver may be one of two males under age 10 who are enumerated in his father Rev. William Bramlett’s house in the 1820 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C. Tolliver may be the male 10-15, born 1815-20, who is enumerated in his father Rev. William Bramlett’s house in the 1830 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C. Tolliver married in 1836 in Greenville County and headed his own family there in 1840.
Tolliver married Lauriet “Laura” Neves on Aug. 7, 1836, in Greenville County. “Married on the 7th ult., by Rev. S. Gibson, Mr. T. Bramblet and Harriet (very close to Lauriet) Nees, all of this district,” according to the Sept. 3, 1836, edition of the Greenville Mountaineer. (Harriet Neves actually is Lauriet’s sister.) Lauriet was born April 10, 1818, in South Carolina, the daughter of Anah Mitchell and William Neves II. (Anah Mitchell Neves is the daughter of Anah Dill and George Mitchell. William Neves Jr./II was born Jan. 7, 1789, in Ireland, the son of Unknown Whitehead and William Neves Sr. William Jr. entered America at Charleston and settled on 350 acres on the Tyger River in Greenville County. He met and married Anah in Greenville County. Their other children, in addition to Lauriet, are Mary Ann who married John Stroud, Alsey Albert who married Ann Poole, Frances who married Barry Hall, and Harriett Neves who married Aaron Springfield. William Neves Jr./II died Feb. 3, 1844, in Mush Creek.) Lauriet died at at the amazing age of 92, almost 93, on Feb. 25, 1911, near Upper Hominy, Buncombe Co., N.C., where she was living at the time. She probably died at her youngest daughter Mary’s house since Lauriet is listed with Mary in the 1900 and 1910 census records.
Lauriet is listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., as Lorrette and as Lauriet there in 1860. She is listed as Laura in the 1870 U.S. Census for Haywood Co., N.C., and in the 1910-20 U.S. Census for Buncombe Co., N.C. Census data in 1840 indicate Tolliver and family lived near Rev. William Bramlett, his father, in Greenville Co., S.C. Tolliver is listed in that record as “Tolerson Bramblett,” 20-30, thus born between 1810 and 1820, and head of a family that includes a female 20-30 (wife, Lauriet) and three females under 5, born between 1835 and 1840 (daughters Harriet Jane, Caroline “Lina” and Frances A. “Fanney”) (NARA Film M704:512:205).
Greenville County deeds indicate Tolliver and his wife, Lauriet, owned and sold 228 acres of land there in 1847 and 1859. They sold land on Marsh Creek in Greenville County from her father’s estate in 1847 and land on Rocky Creek there in 1859.
Tolliver and Lauriet sold eighty-eight acres of land in Greenville District that previously belonged to her deceased father to James L. Childress for $350 on Sept. 11, 1847 (DB-V:316). Aris Fowler and John G. Fowler signed the deed as witnesses. Lauriet also signed (made her mark on) a dower release on Sept. 20, 1847. The deed for the sale of the land, recorded on Sept. 21, 1847, indicates the property was on Marsh Creek in Greenville District and “part of the Real Estate of William Neves, Dec., Lot No. 1, beginning at a hickory 3 x near the creek of one corner of Nicoll’s grant thence S.50 E.9.50 to a black oak 3 x thence S.27 W.17 to a red oak 3 x thence S.61 E.13.50 to a red oak 3 x thence S.76 W.21.75 to a poplar 3 x thence S.11 E.12 to a black oak 3 x thence S.70 W.7.70 to a chesnut 3 x thence N.66 W.19.30 to a post oak 3 x thence N.45 W.13 to a small persimmon 3 x thence N.45 E.50.50 to the beginning corner containing eighty-eight acres more or less…”
“Toliver/Tolver Bramblett,” 32, farmer, $1,000 real estate, and wife, Lorrette, 31, both born in South Carolina, are listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., with six children: Harriett (Jane), 12; Frances (A.), 9; Martha (A. “Mattie”), 7; Lucinda (“Cenia” “Cinnie”), 5; (James) Mossina/Massina, 3; and William (M.), 1/12 (NARA Film M432:853:460A). This census record indicates Tolliver and family lived very close to his grandparents John and Mary (Peak/e) Bramlett.
Tolliver and Lauriet’s daughter Harriett is duplicated in the 1850 census: She also lived nearby part of the time with her grandmother Anah (Mitchell) Neves: “Harriette Bramblett,” 12, is listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., with (grandmother) Anah Neves, 60, $500 real estate (NARA Film M432:853:352A-B). Both were born in South Carolina. Tolliver and Lauriet sold 140 acres of land to T. L. Bozeman of Greenville District for $1,200 on Jan. 29, 1859. The deed was not recorded until December 1887 (DB-T:700). The land was situated “on the East side of Rocky Creek, thence running S.51 1/4 E.20 to a Stone, thence S.5 E.3.50 to a Stone, thence N.86 1/4 E.37.60 to a stake, thence N.18 W.26 to a Rock on the Branch, thence down the Branch, on the East side to a stake at the mouth of Mill Race, thence N.61 E.6.07 to a stake, thence N.18 W.6.94 to a stake, thence N.52 W.11.5 to a Rock on the Creek, thence down the Creek to the beginning corner, being the same tract of land conveyed to H. L. Henderson by Elizabeth Henderson with a deed “bearing the date 3rd day of November 1848, which is recorded in page 443 of Book R in the office of Register of…Conveyance for said district, containing One hundred forty acres more or less.” (H. L. Henderson is listed in the 1850 Agricultural Census for Greenville Co., S.C. [SCDAH Film M2:1:269-70].) John W. Bruce and P. D. Huff witnessed the deed in 1859. “Lorry Bramlett” signed (made her mark on) a dower release of the property Dec. 23, 1859.
“Toliver Bramblet,” 43, farmer, $2,000 real estate, $570 personal estate, and wife, Lauriet, 42, housekeeper, both born in South Carolina, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Dublin P.O., Fairview Div., Greenville Co., S.C., with eleven children born in South Carolina: Lina (Caroline), 22; Frances A. (“Fanney”), 21; Martha A. (“Mattie”), 18; Lucinda (“Cenia” “Cinnie”), 17; (James) Massena, 15; William (M.), 13; John P. (Preston), 11; Toliver T./J. (“Jasper”), 6; Laura A., 5; Mary (F.), 1; and Philomon (“Philip” “Filmore” Franklin), 3/12 (NARA Film M653:1220:365B-366A).
According to Tolliver’s grandson the late Martin Vaughn Bramlett Sr., Tolliver was one of two Greenville District men to vote against seceding from the Union but nevertheless enlisted in the Confederate States Army about a year after the Civil War/War Between the States began. Although Tolliver died, or was mortally wounded, at the Battle of the Wilderness, which began on May 4, 1864, Martin suggested Tolliver may he been “wounded at [nearby] Fort Fischer, died and was buried there with the other Southern soldiers who lost their lives” in battle in 1865. However, “The Roll of the Dead. South Carolina Troops, Confederate States Service” in The Book of the Dead lists “Robt. Bramblett” of Laurens District as a private in Company E of the Third (Laurens’ and James’) Battalion who died elsewhere. (He may he enlisted nearby at Laurens while living in Greenville County or the scribe may he made a mistake about his place of residence.) This historical record, Book of the Dead, indicates Tolliver was killed at Wilderness, Va., on May 4, 1864 (the day the battle began). Other records list his death date as May 8. “Robert Bramblett” probably joined/was enrolled in his unit—Company E, Third Battalion, South Carolina Infantry—at Parke Depot, Laurens, S.C., and then was enlisted Jan. 2, 1862, at Camp Hampton, Hampton Legion, Columbia S.C. One “L. R. Bramlett,” who most likely is T. R.—Tolliver Robert— Bramlett is listed as a South Carolina soldier in NARA Compiled Service Records (Film M267 Roll 179). A few times he is listed as “S. R.” (Another “L. R.”—Lewis Rutherford Bramlett—is listed in the 1860 Laurens Co., S.C., census; but he served in a different unit and survived the war. There is one other Robert, but he is Robert Hugh/Hulett Bramlett, a private who served in a different unit from enlistment until discharge: Company B, 3rd Battalion, 2nd (Palmetto) Regiment, “Butler’s Guards,” South Carolina Volunteer Infantry.)
The copyist who created the index cards for Tolliver’s compiled military records most likely misread Tolliver’s first initial as an “L” on muster rolls and used it on the first card and then repeated the mistake on subsequent cards. The record indicates he was killed at Spotsylvania, Va., on May 8, 1864. His service records indicate Tolliver earlier was hospitalized, perhaps for illness, in Richmond in August and then was wounded Sept. 10, 1862, at South Mountain/Fox’s Gap, Md., and taken prisoner four days later. He was released in a prisoner exchange from Fort Delaware at Aikens Landing, Va., in November 1862 and sent home on a 30-day furlough. This visit home most likely resulted in Lauriet’s last pregnancy: Their daughter Mary was born in 1863. He returned to his unit in December and died the following May.
According to Martin Vaughn Bramlett Sr., Tolliver’s wife and children moved to Waynesville, Haywood Co., N.C., west of Asheville, where some of Lauriet’s relatives were living, during or shortly after the war. Lauriet headed the family in 1870 after Tolliver died: “Laura Bramlet,” 51, born in South Carolina, farmer, $200 personal estate, is listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Waynesville P.O./Township, Haywood Co., N.C., with five children born in South Carolina: James (Massena), 22, farm laborer; John (Preston), 18, farm laborer; Thomas (Tolliver Jasper), 16, farm laborer; (Philomon “Phillip” “Filmore”) Franklin, 11; farm laborer; and Mary (F.), 7, at home (NARA Film M593:1142:131A). “Laura Bramlet,” 50 (actually about 60), born in South Carolina to parents born there, widowed, keeping house, is listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Ivy Hill Township, Haywood Co., N.C., with three grown children born in South Carolina to parents born there: Tolivor J. (Thomas “Jasper”), 24, laborer; Laura A., 21, at home; and Mary F., 16, at home (NARA Film T9:967:227A).
Lauriet moved to Buncombe Co., N.C., before 1900. She is listed in the 1900 census with her youngest daughter, Mary, who headed the family: “Mary Bramblet,” 40, born in January 1860 (actually 37, born in 1863) in South Carolina to a mother born there, father born North Carolina, owner of a mortgage-free farm, and mother, Laura, 75 (actually about 81), born in August 1824 (actually 1818) in South Carolina to parents born there, widowed, mother of thirteen children, ten living, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Upper Hominy Township, Buncombe Co., N.C. (NARA Film T623:1185:110B). (Lauriet’s son Phillip lived next door.) Lauriet also lived with Mary in 1910. “Mary Bramlett,” 48, farmer, general farm, owner of a mortgage-free farm, and mother, Laura Bramlett, 92, widowed, mother of five living children (actually mother of thirteen children, five living), both born in South Carolina to parents born there, are listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Upper Hominy Township 1, Buncombe Co., N.C. (NARA Film T624:1099:244A).
Lauriet and Tolliver’s children are Harriett Jane, Caroline (“Lina”), Frances A. (“Fanney”), Martha A. (“Mattie”), Lucinda (“Lou” “Cenia” “Cinnnie”), James Massena, William M., John Preston, Tolliver Jasper (“Thomas”), Laura A., Philomon Franklin (“Phillip” “Filmore”) and Mary F. Bramlett. (Grandson perhaps? H. (Henry? Taylor?) Bramlett.)
Harriett Jane Bramlett, child of Lauriet Neves and Tolliver Bramlett, was born May 27, 1837, in South Carolina. She died Oct. 10, 1915, in Butler Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., and rests at Few’s Chapel Church Cemetery. Her South Carolina Death Certificate 19904 indicates she died of heart disease. A. E. Hall, who signed the document as informant, identified her parents as Laura Neves and Toliver Bramlett, both born South Carolina. She married Rev. William Wesley Hall. He was born Dec. 28, 1833, the son of Nancy Johnson and Enoch Hall. William died July 17, 1912, and was buried Few’s Chapel Cemetery, Greer, S.C. A resident of Haywood Co., N.C., in 1862, he served as a Confederate soldier in Company C, 39th (Love’s) Regiment, North Carolina Infantry. He contracted typhoid fever in the war but recovered. His Regiment organized July 1861 at Camp Patton, Asheville, N.C., with recruits from Buncombe and other counties. The unit moved to Camp Hill near Gooch Mountain in November 1861; Knoxville, Tenn., in February 1862. They participated with Walthall, McNair and Reynold’s Brigade, Army of Tennessee: They fought from Murfreesboro to Atlanta in Gen. John Bell Hood’s campaign in Tennessee; in defense of Mobile 1865; and surrendered May 4, 1865. Military Record Citation: NARA Index: Hall William 39 Regt NC Inf Confed C Pvt Pvt Film M230 Roll 16. Other source: National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System database online.
“Grandma [Harriet J. Bramlett Hall] was a loyal and faithful wife, besides being very bre. Grandpa [William W. Hall] went away to be in the Civil War, but he may not he had an opportunity to serve long because he contracted typhoid fever soon and was ill for some time. I do not know exactly where they were living in North Carolina or where he was when he became ill. Grandma was an excellent horsewoman, and I was told that she rode horseback ‘many miles’ to where Grandpa was and she nursed him through his illness….It was not unusual for women to go to their husbands when they were ill or wounded. An example of Grandma’s resourcefulness was during the Civil War when Grandpa was away and Sherman’s army was coming through the South. She took the horses into the woods and tied them to trees so they would not be found by the Union Army, because they were taking horses along their way.” —Descendant Clara S. Eldridge in Hall Memories.
Harriett married H. H. Hall. He predeceased her.
Martha Bramlett, ninth child of Nancy S. Dacus and Rev. William H. Bramlett, was born May 7, 1819, in Greenville Co., S.C. She died there Jan. 6, 1893, and was buried in Jackson Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery. She married William Lynch. He was born July 27, 1797. He died Oct. 10, 1873, and was buried at Jackson Grove. Martha is enumerated and named in her parents’ house in the 1820-60 census records for Greenville County. Martha, 28, born in South Carolina, is listed there in her parents’ house in the 1850 census. Martha, 41, seamstress, also is with her parents in 1860. Martha and William were members of Jackson Grove Methodist Episcopal Church. One “Martha Lynch,” 55, born in South Carolina to parents born in Virginia, keeping house, is listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for O’Neal Township, Greenville Co., S.C., living with George Fowler, 83, works on farm, and wife, Polly, 82, keeping house, and their daughter Nancy, 46, all born in South Carolina to parents born there (NARA Film T9:1231:286B).
Gre stones of Martha Bramlett and William Lynch at Jackson Grove Cemetery
Descendant James T. Hammond provides much of the following about William H. Bramlett and family.
William H. (Henry?) Bramlett, tenth child of Rev. William and Nancy S. (Dacus) Bramlett, was born April 19, 1824, in Greenville Co., S.C. An entry in his Bramlett Bible, once in the possession of descendant Boyce Bramlett, indicates “W. H. Bramlett Departed this life Oct. 6th 1863 at 1/2 past 6 o’clock in the evening at the Ropers hospital in Charleston, S.C.” He died while serving as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States, reportedly of typhoid fever. A soldier in his unit indicated in a letter the captain sent William back to Greenville County to be buried in Jackson Grove Methodist Church Cemetery where a gre is marked for him. (Victims of typhoid and other communicable diseases usually were buried right away in their uniforms at the place of death; however, there is no inscribed tombstone or burial record for him at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston where deceased soldiers were interred.) A neighbor, James Irvin Willis, who served in William’s unit, Company H, Third Palmetto Battalion, South Carolina Light Artillery, mentions William in two letters he wrote to his father, Daniel Willis, and to his father and mother in 1863. The first letter, written March 6, 1863, from Camp James Island, S.C., contains a brief reference: “…Wm. Bramlett has come to our Co….” William had enlisted in February. Willis identifies their company at the bottom of the letter. He tells his father, “You directed your letter to Co. A. That was a mistake. Ours is Co. H.” An earlier reference near the top of the letter indicates the company had four artillery guns. William subsequently became ill and was hospitalized June 12, 1863. A second Willis letter, written Oct. 19, 1863, also from James Island, S.C., contains the news of William’s death: “There was one of my mess died of typhoid…his name was Wm. Bramlett…a neighbor of mine. Left a wife and five little children. He said before he died he was prepared…” and Captain McKendrick sent him home. The letters were preserved by Willis descendant Rev. J. Earnest Willis and published. The excerpts here are shared by Bramblette-Burdette-Willis descendant Franklin Donald Burdette of Florida.
William H. Bramlett served the Confederacy in the War Between the States
Private William H. Bramlett
Gone too soon…perished serving as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War
Portrait and tombstone image courtesy descendant James T. Hammond
William married Rebecca Arvine Roe on Dec. 8, 1853, according to the Bramlett Bible. Rebecca was born Dec. 6, 1830, in Greenville District, the daughter of Ann Wheeler (1795-1846) and Thomas Roe (1791-1847). Rebecca died March 28, 1907, in Greenville County and was buried in Jackson Grove Methodist Church Cemetery. Her maternal grandparents are Phillis Biden and William Wheeler and her paternal grandparents are Elizabeth Daish (1769-1848) and James Roe Jr. (1766-1826). Rebecca Bramlett of Locust Hill, S.C., in 1901 is listed by Mann Batson in Upper Part of Greenville County, South Carolina, as one of the “Widows Of Soldiers Who Lost Their Lives In Service Of The Confederate States” (453).
William wrote his last will and testament on Nov. 22, 1862, in Greenville District:
In the name of God Amen. I William H. Bramlett of the State of South Carolina, Greenville dist, being of sound and disposing mind and memory but knowing that it is appointed once for man to die and being desirous to dispose of the worldy goods wherewith it has pleased God to bless me do make and ordain this to be my last will in manner following–To wit–after the payment of my Just debts I will & bequeath unto my beloved wife Rebecca Bramlett all my estate both real and personal let it consist of whatsoever it may during her natural life or widowhood in case my wife shall marry I desire my estate divid[ed] between my wife & children that is to say I give to my wife one third part of my whole estate both real & personal to her & her heirs forever & the other two thirds I wish equally divided between my five children–Elbert Bramlett, John Bramlett, Nancy Bramlett, Charles Bramlett & William Bramlett all share & share alike to them & their heirs forever. I also desire that if my wife shall give birth to any other child or children by me I desire that such child or children shall share equally in my estate with my five children above named. I do hereby nominate & appoint my beloved wife Rebecca Bramlett Executrix of this my last will & testament in testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand & affix my seal the 22nd day of November 1862–signed sealed published & declared as the last will & testament of the above named William Bramlett the day & date above written in the presence of J. L. Westmoreland, James W. Green, Martha V. Westmoreland. W. H. Bramlett.
The witnesses and Rebecca (Roe) Bramlett appeared in court to prove the will on Nov. 16, 1863 (Apt. 22, File 26). Rebecca made a request to finalize a settlement of the estate on Feb. 2, 1870. The inventory of William’s estate, signed by his brothers-in-law Ignatius Few and Benjamin Few, indicates William had property valued at $1,833 and $67.74 in cash with $1,600.84 worth of “notes” at the time of his death. The county court was involved in settling the estate for about eight years after William died. Rebecca did not he any other children after William died: the five children named in his will–Elbert, John, Nancy, Charles and William–also are named as his heirs in Rebecca’s final report. The court set a date for a final hearing on the estate on March 3, 1870. At that time, the court appointed P. B. Benson guardian of the children.
William H. and Rebecca are mentioned in Lou Alice F. Turner’s 1981 book Jackson Grove Methodist Church History as members of the church in 1835 (72).
William is enumerated in his parents’ house in the 1830-1840 U.S. Census records for Greenville County. “William Bramblett,” 25, born in South Carolina, is listed there in the 1850 U.S. Census with his parents, William, 64, born South Carolina, and Nancy, 62, born in Virginia, and siblings (NARA Film M432:853:367B). William H. Bramlett was appointed guardian of his nephew, John Thomas Miles, son of Eliza Miles and minor heir of Thomas Miles, deceased, on Jan. 2, 1860, in Greenville District. Eliza Miles petitioned the court to appoint William guardian of her son. William lived near his parents close to Mush Creek in 1860: “William Bramlett Jr.,” 37, farmer, and wife, Rebecca (Arvine Roe), 28, both born in South Carolina, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Tyger Division, Mush Creek P.O., Greenville Co., S.C., with four children born in South Carolina: Elbert (Sevier), 5; John (James), 4; Nancy (Arvine), 1/12; and Infant (Charles Proctor), 1/12 (NARA Film M653:1220:507A). Also listed is Samuel Singleton, 21, born in South Carolina, farmer. Another child, William H., was born in 1862 after the census.
William enlisted as a private in Company H, 3rd (Palmetto) (White’s) Battalion, South Carolina Light Artillery, later known as Capt. William E. Earle’s Company, Horse Artillery, Butler’s Calry Division, on Feb. 13, 1863, in Greenville, S.C. The May-June company muster roll lists him as absent and in the hospital since June 12, 1863; and the September-October roll indicates he died Oct. 6, 1863, at Roper Hospital, Charleston, S.C., shown below.
“Wm. H. Bramlett, Pvt. Co. H. P.B.L.A. Vols. S.C.,” who died in a Charleston, S.C., hospital “appears on a Register of Claims of Deceased Officers and Soldiers from South Carolina which were filed for settlement in the Office of the Confederate States Auditor for the War Department.” The claim was presented by Rebecca Bramlett, his widow, on Jan. 23, 1864 (Confederate Archives, Chap. 10, File No. 33, p. 11). Rebecca claimed William’s personal effects and $55.50 in back pay on that day.
Rebecca took courage and cared for her children, no doubt struggling to keep the farm and feed the family on her own in an economically and spiritually struggling war-torn region for the next 44 years. Rebecca Bramlett, 48, born in South Carolina to parents born in England, widowed, keeping house, is listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Bates Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with two grown children born in South Carolina: Charles P. (Proctor), 20, farmer, and William H., 18, works on farm (NARA Film T9:1231:381B). Rebecca Bramlett, 69, born in December 1830 in South Carolina to parents born in England, widowed, is listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Bates Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., living with her son, W. H. Bramlett, 38, born in March 1862, widowed, farmer, and his son, Walter, 8, born in August 1891, both born in South Carolina to parents born there (NARA Film T623:1529:55A).
William’s will names his five children: Elbert Sevier, John James, Nancy Arvine, Charles Proctor and William Henry Bramlett. Birth dates for all five children are inscribed in William Bramlett’s Bible.
Elbert Sevier “E. S.” Bramlett, first child of William H. and Rebecca Arvin (Roe) Bramlett, was born Sept. 1, 1854, in Greenville Co., S.C. He is a namesake of his Uncle Elbert S. Bramlett (1816-1819). Elbert died in Greenville County on May 12, 1918, and was buried in Lima Baptist Church Cemetery, north of Greenville, S.C. Elbert’s probate records indicate his son Willie C. Bramlett served as executor of his estate in 1918. Elbert was a farmer. He married Mary Elizabeth Trammell circa 1878. She was born July 22, 1846. She died April 18, 1907, and was buried in Lima Baptist Church Cemetery. “Elbert Bramlett,” 26, farmer, and wife, Lizzie, 34, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Saluda Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with one child: William, 1 (NARA Film T9:1231:352A). All were born in South Carolina. “Elbert S. Bramlett,” 45, born in September 1854 in South Carolina, farmer, owner of a mortgage-free farm, married 22 years, and wife, Elizziebeath, 42, born in July 1847 in South Carolina, mother of five living children, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Saluda Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with five children born in South Carolina: William C., 20, born in July 1879, farm laborer; Mary E., 19, April 1881; Charley H., 16, July 1883, farm laborer; Emma E., 14, September 1885; and Lewis E., 12, October 1887, farm laborer (NARA Film T623:1530:267A). “Elbert S. Bramlett,” 56, salesman, general merchandise, widowed, and four children are listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Saluda Twp., Greenville Co., S.C.: William C., 30, farmer, general farm; Mary E., 28; Emer E., 24, daughter; and Louis E., 22, farmer, general farm (NARA Film T624:1461:148A). All were born in South Carolina to parents born there. Elbert and Elizabeth’s children are William Claybourne (“Willie”), Mary Elizabeth, Charles Henry, Emmie Estill and Lewis Ervin Bramlett.
Gres of John James Bramlette and Lucinda, courtesy James T. Hammond
John James Bramlette, second child of William H. and Rebecca (Roe) Bramlett, was born Aug. 28, 1856, in Greenville Co., S.C. He died there June 29, 1928, after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage, and was buried the next day in Jackson Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery, Treler’s Rest. His obituary appears on page 2 of the July 1, 1928, edition of The Greenville News.
John married Lucinda Gilreath, daughter of Martha Few (1823-1878) and William Henry Gilreath (1823-1881), on Nov. 9, 1876, in Greenville County. Her maternal grandparents are Nancy Chastain (1789-1850) and William Few (1771-1856) and her paternal grandparents are Nancy Harriet Green (1795-1867) and Hardy Jones Gilreath (1788-1868). Lucinda was born Nov. 20, 1856, in Greenville District. She died in Jackson Grove, S.C., on May 20, 1900, and was buried in Jackson Grove Methodist Church Cemetery.
John James Bramlette and Lucinda and baby Clara Bell
John James Bramlette, seated, and three grown children, from left: Elizabeth, Clarence, Clara Bell, both photos courtesy James T. Hammond
John was a farmer and worked in or owned a cotton mill in O’Neal Township. He was a member of Mountain View United Methodist Church. “John J. Bramlett,” 24, farmer, and wife, Lucindy, 24, keeping house, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for O’Neal Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with two children: Nancy, 4, and Elizabeth, 2/12 (NARA Film T9:1231:286A). All were born in South Carolina. “John J. Bramlet,” 43, born in August 1856, cotton mill, widowed, is listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Piedmont, Grove Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., as head of a family with five children born in South Carolina: Nannie, 22, born in August 1878, cotton mill; Clarence, 16, July 1884; Walter, 13, July 1886, cotton mill; Clara Belle, 4, February 1896; and Bettie (Bramlett) Gillespie, 20, April 1880, mother of one child, none living (NARA Film T623:1530:149A). Also listed: Bettie’s husband, William Gillespie, 31, born in June 1868, cotton mill, married two years. “John J. Bramlett,” 63, father, widowed, farmer, is listed in the 1920 U.S. Census for Highland Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., living with his son James C. (Clarence) Bramlett, 35, farmer, general farm, head of the family, and his wife, Allie, 20, and their two children (NARA Film T625:1698:297A). Also listed: John’s daughter Clara B. Bramlett, 24, sister.
John and Lucinda’s children include Nancy (“Nannie”), Elizabeth (“Bettie”), James Clarence, George Walter and Clara Bell Bramlette.
Clara Bell and husband, Claude Tandy Barnette, courtesy James T. Hammond
Nancy Arvine Bramlette, third child of William H. and Rebecca Arvine (Roe) Bramlett, was born Sept. 13, 1858, in Greenville Co., S.C. She died there on May 28, 1925, and was buried at Mountain View Methodist Church Cemetery. Her gre marker lists her birth and death dates and identifies her as Nancy Bramlett, wife of G. Walker Gilreath. Her daughter Brinnie Gilreath, April 12, 1886—March 1, 1972, and husband, Walker, are buried beside her.
Rev. John Dill performed the marriage ceremony for Nancy and G. Walker Gilreath on Jan. 17, 1878, in Trelers Rest, S.C.
Walker was born April 20, 1857, the son of Martha Few and William Henry Gilreath. He died Dec. 17, 1925, and was buried beside Nancy at Mountain View Cemetery. “Nancy Gilreath,” 21, and husband, Walker, 23, farmer, head of the family, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for O’Neal Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with one child: Nora, 10/12, born in August (NARA Film T9:1231:281B). All were born in South Carolina to parents born there. “Nancy E. Gilreath,” 41, born in September 1858, mother of six living children, married 22 years, and husband, George W., 43, born in April 1857, farmer, owner of a mortgaged farm, head of the family, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for O’Neal Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with six children: Norah R., 20, August 1879; William H., 18, September 1881; Ida M., 16, September 1883; Brannard, 14, April 1886; Brinnie, 14, April 1886; and Lula B., 2, June 1897 (NARA Film T623:1530:219A). All were born in South Carolina to parents born there. “Nancy A. Gilreath,” 51, married 32 years, and husband, George W., 56, farmer, general farm, head of the family, are listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for O’Neal Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with three children: Brinnie, 24; Lula B., 12; and Fannie/Thannie V., 8 (NARA Film T624:1461:103B). Their son William H. and wife, Lura Nora, lived next door. All were born in South Carolina. Walker and Nancy’s children include Nora Rebecca, William Henry, Ida Mae, twins Brannard and Brinnie, Lula Beatrice and Thannie/Fannie Vannoy Gilreath.
Charles Proctor Bramlett, fourth child of William H. and Rebecca (Roe) Bramlett, was born May 6, 1860, in Jackson Grove, S.C. He died Oct. 2, 1912, in Locust Hill, Greenville Co., S.C., and was buried in Mush Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. Charles was a farmer, carpenter, deacon and church historian. He built Mush Creek Baptist Church before his marriage and constructed several houses in upper Greenville County, including one for his own family circa 1900. He worked at Shumate’s Cabinet shop in Greenville in the early 1900s and later operated a sawmill at the foot of Paris Mountain, according to his granddaughter Elizabeth E. Nicholl. Charles married Mary Elizabeth “Lizzie” Neves on Dec. 26, 1889, in Mush Creek community. She was born there Feb. 28, 1871, the daughter of Frances E. Boswell and William Perry Zachariah Franklin Neves. Lizzie died March 24, 1967, in Greenville and was buried in Mush Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. She worked as a supervisor for Nuckasee Manufacturing in Greenville. “Charlie Bramlett,” 40, born in May 1860, married ten years, and wife, Lizzie, 28, born in February 1872, mother of two living children, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for O’Neal Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with two children: Alice, 9, born September 1890, and Cora, 7, born April 1893 (NARA Film T623:1530:225A). “Charles P. Bramlette,” 49, first marriage, married 20 years, farmer, rents farm, and wife, Mary E., 38, born in February 1872, mother of two living children, are listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for O’Neal Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with two grown children: Alice, 19, and Cora, 17 (NARA Film T624:1461:104B). All were born in South Carolina to parents born there. “Lizzie Bramlett,” 48, is listed in the 1920 U.S. Census for San Soucie Village, Greenville, Greenville Co., S.C., with daughter Cora Nicoll, 28, and son-in-law Earnest E., 33, and their two children (NARA Film T625:1698:162B). All were born in South Carolina. Charles and Elizabeth’s children are Alice Irene and Cora Pauline Bramlett.
William Henry Bramlett, fifth child of William H. and Rebecca (Roe) Bramlett, was born March 31, 1862, in Jackson Grove, S.C. He died May 24, 1930, and was buried in Roby Cemetery, Roby, Fisher Co., Tex. William was a farmer. He married Ida Estelle Neves/Nees, daughter of Nancy Jane Chastain and Washington Neves, on Nov. 2, 1890, in Greenville County. Ida was born March 19, 1865, in Greenville County. She died Feb. 6, 1892, and was buried in Few’s Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery. “W. H. Bramlett,” 38, born in November 1862 in South Carolina to parents born there, widowed, farmer, owner of a mortgaged farm, is listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Bates Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., as head of a family that includes his son, Walter (Wheeler) Bramlett, 8, born in August 1891 in South Carolina to parents born there, and his mother, Rebecca, 69, born in December 1830 in South Carolina to parents born in England, mother of five living children (NARA Film T623:1529:55A). “William H. Bramlett,” 47, widowed, farmer, owner of a mortgage-free farm, is listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Bates Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with one grown child: Walter (Wheeler) Bramlett, 18 (NARA Film T624:1460:69B). Both were born in South Carolina to parents born there. “William H. Bramlett,” 56, farmer, general farm, is listed in the 1920 U.S. Census for Bates Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with one grown child: Walter (Wheeler) Bramlett, 28, and his wife, Evie, 24, and their child: Boyce, 2 2/12 (NARA Film T625:1697:68A). All were born in South Carolina to parents born there.
Eliza W. Bramlett, eleventh child of Rev. William and Nancy S. (Dacus) Bramlett, was born Dec, 3, 1826, in Greenville Co., S.C. She died May 27, 1912,
in Williamson Co., Tex., and was buried at Liberty Hill Cemetery, Joriah, Tex. Eliza is enumerated in her parents’ household in the 1830-1840 census records for Green-ville Dist., S.C., and “Eliza Bramlett,” 23, born in South Carolina, is listed there with parents in 1850. The Southern Patriot newspaper on Jan. 20, 1853, reported that Eliza W. Bramlett, daughter of the Rev. William Bramlett of Greenville District, married T. P. C. Miles of Spartanburg District on Jan. 11, 1853. Rev. Barnett Smith performed their marriage ceremony. Thomas Pinckney C. Miles died before Jan. 2, 1860. His wife, Eliza, petitioned the court to appoint William H. Bramlett (her brother) guardian of her son, John Thomas Miles, the minor heir of Thomas Miles, deceased, on Jan. 2, 1860, in Greenville District. John Thomas Miles was “over four years old” at that time. William H. Bramlett “filed his Bond for Three Thousand Dollars.” William and J. L. Westmoreland signed as securities with J. M. Westmoreland as witness. “Eliza Miles,” 32, born in South Carolina, housekeeper, $1,600 personal estate, and son, John T. Miles, 5, born in South Carolina, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Mush Creek P.O., Tyger Div., Gre
enville Co., S.C., living with her parents, William Bramlett, 74, born in South Carolina, Methodist clergy, and Nancy, 72, born in Virginia, housekeeper, and two sisters: Elizabeth, 48, and Martha, 41, both seamstresses and both born in South Carolina (NARA Film M653:1220:506B). Eliza and Thomas had one child: John Thomas Miles. Eliza second married Edgar Thornton Petty Poole. He was born April 19, 1819. He died July 29, 1905, and was buried in Liberty Cemetery with an inscribed tombstone: “Sweet be thy peace Thy sufferings are o’er.” His obituary appears in the Friday, Aug. 4, 1905, edition of The Lampasas Leader: From Saturday’s Daily Leader. “T. P. Poole, father of G. W. Poole of this city, died this morning at 1 o’clock at his home in Liberty Hill. Mr. Poole was 85 years of age and was one of the oldest citizens of Williamson county. He was well known in this section of country and his many friends will hear of his death with sincere regret.” Edgar and Eliza’s children include Rosanah and Edgar Bramlett Poole.
Tombstones of John Wesley Ervin Bramlett and Sarah Wilson, courtesy Robin Farley Dixson
Descendants James Thomas Hammond and Ellen (Bramlett) Clarke of Columbia, S.C., and the late Louise (Hutchings) Galway provided most of the following about John Wesley Ervin Bramlett and wife, Sarah Wilson, and her family.
John Wesley Ervin Bramlett, twelfth child of Rev. William and Nancy S. (Dacus) Bramlett, was born Aug. 24, 1829, in Simpsonville, Greenville Dist., S.C. He died May 16, 1915, in Liberty, Greenville Co., S.C., and was buried the next day at Mountain View Methodist Church Cemetery, Taylors, S.C. John’s South Carolina Death Certificate 9661 names his parents as Nancy Dacus born Greenville Co., S.C. and William Bramblet born Virginia (sic).
His gre marker identifies him as Capt. John W. Bramlett. John’s obituary in the May 18, 1915, Greenville News is headlined: “Major Bramlette Died on Sunday; Funeral at Greer”:
Greer, May 17. — (Special) — Major John W. Bramlette, of the 18th South Carolina regiment, Confederate States of America, died at his home in Liberty, on Sunday, aged 86 years. Before becoming a major, he was captain of Company D of the same regiment. Death came to Major Bramlette at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John [Eliza C.] Hutchings, who with Mrs. Ben [daughter Mary Anna] Neves, Campobello; Mrs. J. [John] J. [daughter Tallulah “Lula”] McMakin and Mrs. W. S. [Waddie Spartan] [niece by marriage] Corrie Wilson] Barnett, of O’Neal, survive him.
The body of major Bramlette was brought to Greer this morning on train No. 42, and this afternoon at one o’clock the interment was held at the Mountain View Methodist church. The services were conducted by his pastor, the Rev. L. E. Wiggins, and by Rev. A. Q. Rice. The floral offerings were very beautiful, and among them were tributes from the Keowee Chapter and the Hampton-Lee Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy. Major Bramlette was preceded to the gre by his wife, who, before marriage, was Miss Sarah Wilson.
Mrs. Waddy Spartan Barnett mentioned in the obituary is Corrie “Carrie” Wilson, the niece of Sarah Wilson Bramlett. She was considered a daughter since Sarah reared her from infancy after her biological mother died a week after Corrie was born.
James T. Hammond, circa 1967, Stationed in Iceland, with the U.S. Ny
James Thomas Hammond, who provides much information about John and Mary Peak Bramlett’s descendants to this history, is son of Callie Ruth Barnette and Thomas D. Hammond and grandson of Thomas Hammond. He is a direct descendant of Corrie “Carrie” Wilson and Waddy Spartan Barnette, pictured below, and their son Claude Tandy Barnette and wife, Clara Bell Bramlette, pictured above and below.
James Thomas Hammond also descends from Corrie’s parents, Jasper Wilson and Cornelia Townsend, and Corrie’s paternal grandparents Sarah Clark and the Hon. John Wilson.
Waddy Spartan Barnette and Corrie Wilson Barnette
John Wesley Ervin Bramlett first married Sarah Wilson in 1853, according to descendant Louise (Hutchings) Galway. Louise, now deceased, said her grandfather John Bramlett met his wife Sarah Wilson when she was a student and he was teaching school near Wilson’s Ferry, now Pelzer, near Sarah’s home, Golden Grove Plantation in Anderson County. Sarah was born there April 24, 1825, the daughter of Sarah Clark and the Honorable John Wilson Jr., a planter, ferry owner and member of the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1812-1817 and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives Seventh District in 1821-1823. and the Sixth District in 1823-1827. Sarah is included as an heir in her father’s estate. He died in 1828. Both of Sarah’s parents rest in the family cemetery which was once part of Golden Grove Plantation, now located in Pelzer, S.C. Sarah reportedly died of typhoid fever on Aug. 19, 1893, and was buried in Mountain View Methodist Church Cemetery, Taylors, S.C. Her obituary appears on page 3 in the Aug. 23, 1893, issue of Greenville Mountaineer:
On last Saturday night Mrs. Sarah Bramlett, wife of Capt. J. W. Bramlett, of Sandy Flat, died of typhoid fever. She was about 68 years of age, the daughter of Hon. John Wilson, who represented this congressional district during Jackson’s time, and was the mother of a large family of children, five of whom survive her. She was a member of Mountain View Methodist Church, and her funeral services were held there on last Sunday afternoon and were conducted by Rev. Mr. Earle. Drs. W. J. and J. W. Bramlett, of this county, are sons of the deceased.
Sarah’s husband, John, a native of Greenville County, was a teacher and a farmer in Anderson County. He was a member and trustee of Jackson Grove Methodist Episcopal Church in nearby Greenville County in 1896. John is enumerated in his parents’ household in the 1830 and 1840 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C. “John Bramlett,” 21, born in South Carolina, is listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., with his parents, William, 64, born in South Carolina, farmer, $300 real estate, and Nancy, 62, born (illegible–Virginia?), and five siblings born in South Carolina (Elizabeth, 30; Martha, 28; William, 25, laborer; Eliza, 23; Caroline, 18) (NARA Film M432:853:367). “J. W. Bramlett,” 35, C. S. (country school) teacher, $1,000 real estate and $2,000 personal estate, and (first) wife, Sarah, 30, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Brushy Creek, 42nd Regiment Militia Dist., Anderson Co., S.C., with three children: William (Jasper), 6, who had attended school within the year; Francis (Martha), 4, female; and John (Wilson), 6/12. Also listed: James Kelly, 14. The record indicates all were born in South Carolina (NARA Film M653:1212:323A). J. W. Bramlett on Dec. 20, 1860, served on the South Carolina Legislative Committee on Privileges and Elections, which ge a report and appointed poll and election managers for Abbeville, Ninety-Six, Cedar Springs, Bordeaux, All Saints Parish, White Plains, Williamston, Five Forks and Anderson districts (SCDAH Series S165005, Item 260, p. 1).
John served as a Confederate officer during the Civil War/War Between the States. He raised a company, Capt. J. W. Bramlett’s Company, later Company D, Eighteenth Regiment, South Carolina Infantry, and enlisted himself on Dec. 4, 1861, for 12 months at Mountain Spring, Anderson Co., S.C. One roster states the regiment, attached to Evans’ Brigade, was organized for state service Jan. 2, 1862, and mustered into Confederate service Jan. 5, 1862. The regiment was organized for 12 months but re-organized May 5, 1862, under the conscript act for three years of service from enlistment. The captain’s NARA Compiled Military Service Records indicate he was age 32 and a resident of Anderson County when he joined and that Col. Martin also enlisted him (Film M267 Roll 297). He was elected captain of his company Dec. 4, 1861, and appointed captain on Dec. 20, 1861, at Camp Hampton, S.C., and was mustered in Dec. 30, 1861. Pay accounts indicate his monthly pay as captain amounted to $130. His re-enlistment, dated April 9, 1862, at Charleston, S.C., describes him as 6 feet tall with a fair complexion, black hair and blue eyes. He received a bounty payment of $50 for enlisting three years the following day. He served two years, eight months unofficially as major from April 1, 1863, until honorably discharged in December. He was recommended for promotion to major Dec. 6, 1863; but his military records do not clearly indicate he actually was promoted. He apparently resigned before the recommendation was made. He requested a 15-day lee of absence on Nov. 1, 1863, to take care of “business of great importance that requires my presence at home” in Anderson, S.C. His request indicates he had not been home in eight months. He returned and tendered his resignation Nov. 26, 1863, from Camp at Christ Church Parish, S.C., and was discharged Dec. 8, 1863. After the war John was a member of Camp Manning Austin of Confederate Veterans, which was organized Nov. 18, 1893, in Greenville County.
Capt. John Wesley Ervin Bramlett’s re-enlistment letter
Capt. Bramlett’s request for lee and resignation letter
“John Bramlett,” 40, farmer, $300 real estate, $200 personal estate, and (first) wife, Sarah, 40, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Mush Creek P.O., Highland Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with six children: Wm. (Jasper) 15; (Frances) Martha, 13; John (Wilson), 10; Mary A. (Anna), 8; Talula, 5; and Eliza (C.), 3 (NARA Film M593:1498:675B). All were born in South Carolina. “John Bramlette,” 50, farmer, and (first) wife, Sarah, 50, keeping house, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Highland Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with six grown and minor children: William (Jasper), 24, physician; Mattie (Frances Martha), 21; John W. (Wilson), 20, farm laborer; Mary (Anna), 17; Loula, 15, at school; Eliza (C.), 13 (NARA Film T9:1231:304A). Also listed is Sarah’s niece Carrie (Corrie) Wilson, 6, boarder. All were born in South Carolina to parents born there. John and Sarah’s children are William Jasper, Frances Martha (“Mattie”), John Wilson, Mary Anna, Tallulah (“Lula”) and Eliza C. Bramlett. Sarah and John also reared Sarah’s niece, Corrie Wilson, daughter of Sarah’s brother Jasper Wilson after Corrie’s mother, Cornelia Townsend Wilson, died about a week after her birth in 1874. James T. Hammond suggests his grandmother Corrie may he been formally named Cornelia after her mother and affectionately called “Corrie” and/or “Carrie.”
John’s second wife, Susan Jane Chastain, lived in Greenville and Richland counties.
After Sarah died, John second married Susan Jane Chastain circa 1898. She was born circa 1865 in Greenville Co., S.C., the daughter of Caroline and Thomas F. Chastain. She died of heart disease and diabetes at age 89 on Nov. 6, 1955, in South Carolina State Hospital, Columbia, Richland Co., S.C., and was buried at Locust Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Treler’s Rest, S.C. “John W. Bramlett,” 70, born in August 1829 in South Carolina to a mother born in Virginia, father born in South Carolina, farmer, owner of a mortgaged farm, married 47 years, and (second) wife, Susan J. (Chastain), 37, born in June or January 1862 in South Carolina to parents born there, married two years, no children, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Highland, Greenville Co., S.C. (NARA Film T623:1530:184A). They lived at 10 22nd Street. After John died Susan lived with her mother and siblings. “Susan Bramlett,” 39, born in South Carolina, widowed, sister, seamstress, is listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Ward 1, Greenville, Greenville Co., S.C., living with Henry T. Chistine, 35, studio photographer, head of the family, which also includes their mother, Mrs. Caroline Chistine, 70, and sister Mary E., 42, all born South Carolina (NARA Film T624:1461:9B). “Susan J. Bramlett,” 51, born in South Carolina, widowed, sister, seamstress, is listed in the 1920 U.S. Census for Ward 4, Greenville, Greenville Co., S.C., living with H. T. Chistine, 48, studio photographer, head of the family, which also includes Lizzie Chistine, 52, and three unrelated teenage boarders, all born South Carolina (NARA Film T625:1698:146B).
William Jasper Bramlett, first child of John Wesley Ervin and Sarah (Wilson) Bramlett, was born Nov. 10, 1854, in Greenville Co., S.C. He died Sept. 8, 1909, at home in Campobello, S.C., and was buried two days later in Campobello Methodist Church Cemetery. William’s obituary appears in the Spartanburg Herald dated Friday, Sept. 10, 1909:
Campobello, S.C., Sept. 9. — Our town and community has been saddened by the death of Dr. W. J. [William Jasper] Bramlett, who died at his home last night at ten o’clock. Dr. Bramlett had been sick only a week, and his death has caused much sorrow over the entire community. Dr. Bramlett was liked by all who knew him, and his place will be hard to fill. He lees a wife and four children, a father and three sisters. He will be buried beside his brother, Dr. John W. Bramlett, who died two years ago, tomorrow at the Methodist Church at eleven o’clock. Rev. E. Z. James will conduct the funeral services.
Dr. William Jasper Bramlett married Elizabeth C. “Eliza” Howell in or shortly before 1880. She was born Feb. 17, 1860, in Greenville County, the daughter of Mary A. Gilreath and John H. Howell. Eliza died May 20, 1945, in Asheville, N.C., and was buried two days later in Jackson Grove Methodist Church Cemetery. Her gre marker identifies her as Eliza C. Bramlett. Her obituary appears in the May 21, 1945, edition of the Greenville News:
Mrs. Eliza Howell Bramlett, widow of Dr. W. J. Bramlett of Greenville, S.C., died at an Asheville Hospital today following a brief illness. She was born in Greenville County, S.C., February 16, 1860, the daughter of John H. and Mary G. Howell. She moved here [Asheville] from Greenville in 1922 where she has resided with her children. Surviving are three sons and one daughter, John H. [Pat], George H. [W–Washington], W. Arthur, and Miss Bertha Bramlett, all of Asheville. Funeral services will be conducted from Jackson Grove Methodist church near Greenville, S.C. Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. by Rev. Lee F. Tuttle, pastor of Central Methodist church of which she was a member, and Rev. Peden Gene Curry. The following nephews will serve as pallbearers: Associate Justice G. Dewey Oxner of Greenville, Lawrence G. Vannoy, C. G. Washington, J. Carlisle and Vannoy C. Oxner, Jr., Spart J. McKinney and Hovey Smith.
“William W. [J.] Bramlett,” 26, physician, and wife, Eliza, 20, keeping house, both born in South Carolina, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for O’Neal Twp., Greenville Co., S.C. (NARA Film T9:1231:281A). “William Bramlett,” 24, also is listed with his father in 1880 in Highland Township: He must he married that year after the census was taken for Highland Township and before the census was taken in O’Neal Township where he lived after his marriage. William was a physician who practiced medicine in Greenville and Spartanburg counties. He attended medical school in Kentucky and in 1894 studied at the New York Post-Graduate School and Hospital in New York City (Bellevue). The People’s Paper reported that Dr. W. J. Bramlette moved his family to Charleston in November 1895. They moved to Campobello circa 1904. At the time of his death, he had a medical practice there. “Dr. William J. Bramlett,” 40, born in November 1860, physician, married 18 years, and wife, Eliza, 38, born February 1862, mother of nine children, four living, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Greenville Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with four children: George, 16, born February 1884; Bertha, 13, born June 1890; Arthur, 7, born August 1892; and John H., 4, born February 1896 (NARA Film T623:1529:22). Also listed with the family: Emily C. Gilreath, 82, born in January 1818, aunt, widowed, and N. Harriet Anderson, 68, born January 1832, aunt, single. “Eliza Bramlett,” 50, rents home, is listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Campobello Twp., Spartanburg Co., S.C., with four children: George, 26, undertaker; Bertha, 22; Arthur, 18, street railway conductor; and John, 14 (NARA Film T624:1472:195A). Harriet Anderson, 78, aunt, widowed ten years, no children, also is listed with the family. All were born in South Carolina to parents born there. “Eliza C. Bramlett,” 59, is listed in the 1920 U.S. Census for Greenville Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with three children: Bertha, 29; William A., 26, law office; and John H., 23, salesman (NARA Film T625:1698:125B). All were born in South Carolina. Eliza and William’s children are George Washington, Bertha Mae, William Arthur and John H. “Pat” Bramlett.
Martha “Mattie” Bramlett, second child of John Wesley Ervin and Sarah (Wilson) Bramlett, was born circa 1857-58 in Greenville District. Martha lived with her parents in Greenville County in 1870 and 1880.
Descendant Ellen (Bramlett) Clarke of Columbia, S.C., provides the following.
Dr. John Wilson Bramlett, third child of John Wesley Ervin and Sarah (Wilson) Bramlett, was born Nov. 17, 1859, in Anderson Co., S.C. He died April 3, 1907, at home in Campobello, Spartanburg Co., S.C., and was buried the next day in Campobello Methodist Church Cemetery. In mid-March 1907, he became ill with influenza and subsequently developed pneumonia which caused his death. He died seven months before his 48th birthday. John’s obituary appears in the Chester Lantern dated Friday, April 12, 1907:
Dr. John W. Bramlett died Wednesday, April 3, after an illness of about three and a half weeks. He was buried on Thursday following at the M. E. church, of which he had long been a faithful and zealous member. The funeral services were conducted by his pastor, Rev. E. Z. James, assisted by Rev. J. T. Fowler of Spartanburg, and Rev. W. W. Jones of this place. About 1,000 people came to pay the last tribute of respect to this worthy man, who had been friend and physician for the past 25 years. He had the largest practice of any physician, perhaps, in the county, on account of which he had been over-worked for a long while. He was 47 years old. He lees a wife, who was Miss Eva Wilkes, of Chester, and two children.
John graduated from Atlanta Medical College, a Methodist school which later became part of Emory University. He may he also attended medical school in Kentucky. He practiced medicine in 1883 at Sandy Flats and Grove Station. He practiced at various times in Pickens, Greenville and Spartanburg counties. He owned a drugstore and practiced medicine in Campobello, S.C., from the early 1890s until he died in 1907. Descendant Ellen Bramlett Clarke describes John as a “popular resident of the area and widely respected as a doctor who responded willingly to calls at all hours of day or night. He had a telephone in his office in 1904. His steadfastly loyal horse, purchased in Kentucky, could be depended on to bring the sleeping doctor directly home late at night.” However, Ellen points out a publicized incident that indicates the horse may he fallen asleep as well one late night in 1903. A local newspaper correspondent related the following story involving Dr. Bramlett and his horse: “One night last week, Dr. J. W. Bramlett had a serious accident while returning home from a professional visit. The doctor went to sleep as he was riding along in his buggy and his horse stepped into an excation 15 feet deep on the side of the road. The doctor was painfully injured in the back, leg and ankle. It was some time before he was able to get out of the hole into which he had fallen. The horse escaped injury and the buggy was not badly damaged.” John’s 1894 voter registration certificate indicates he was a resident of Campobello living at W. R. Ballard’s home. “John Bramlett,” 35, born in November 1864 in South Carolina to parents born there, boarder, physician, is listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Campobello Township, Spartanburg Co., S.C., living with John E. Darby, 46, born in May 1854, farmer, head of the family, married twenty-one years, and wife, Mary L., 39, born in March 1861, mother of three children, one living, and their child Eula L., 13, May 1887 (NARA Film T623:1541:89B). Six other boarders also were listed in the household. All were born in South Carolina to parents born there. “John Wilson was an ardent Methodist, an active participant in community affairs and a major force in construction of the Campobello Methodist Church,” according to Ellen Bramlett Clarke. “He was also active in politics–in 1902, he ran an unsuccessful campaign for the South Carolina Legislature. That same year, he met and began a courtship of Eva Florence Wilkes who was teaching in the elementary school at Campobello.
John was 43 years old when he married Eva, 25, on Jan. 25, 1903, at the residence of Bishop W. W. Duncan, Spartanburg, S.C. Their marriage was reported by the Spartanburg Journal on Monday, Jan., 26, 1903: “A Sunday Marriage”:
Dr. Bramlett of Campobello Married to Miss Wilkes of Chester Here. An interesting marriage took place in this city yesterday, the contracting parties being prominent people of this section of the state. The groom is Dr. J. W. [John Wilson] Bramlett, a leading physician of Campobello, and the bride, Miss Wilkes, a well known and popular young lady of Chester. The bridal party arrived here Sunday morning and stopped at the Spartan Inn. At once a flurry was created in the hotel and everybody was asking, “Who’s going to be married?” The party was accompanied by Dr. W. J. Bramlett and Geo. H. [W.?] Bramlett of Greenville, relatives of the groom. At 12 o’clock, the party went to the residence of Bishop W. W. Duncan on North Church street, where the marriage ceremony was performed by Bishop Duncan. After the ceremony they returned to the hotel, remaining until their train arrived. They departed Sunday afternoon. The bride is an attractive young woman of Chester, who is teaching at Campobello. It was the desire of the young couple that Bishop Duncan unite them in marriage. The bride was stylishly attired in a blue broadcloth suit, tailor-made with a becoming hat to match.
Eva was born July 1, 1878, in Chester Co., S.C., the daughter of Eliza Walker and John Wesley Wilkes. Eva died Oct. 22, 1952, in Chester. Her obituary, which appears in the Oct. 23, 1952, edition of The State in Columbia, is headlined “Mrs. Bramlett, Chester Civic Leader, Dies”:
Mrs. Eva Wilkes Bramlett, 74, widow of Dr. John Wilson Bramlett of the Baton Rouge community of western Chester county, died at 12:30 this morning at the Chester County Hospital [Pryor Hospital] of heart trouble. She was a former postmistress of Leeds for 20 years and a widely known former public school teacher. She was an outstanding civic leader of Chester county and a charter member of the Chester County Council of Farm Women. As a member of that council, along with another member, Mrs. J. C. Shannon of Blackstock, she was instrumental in the organization of the Chester County home demonstration department which has been such a great asset to the county since that day. She was graduated from the Chester county schools and from Asheville (N.C.) College and Columbia College. Following graduation she taught school for approximately 20 years at Conway, Baton Rouge and Campobello. She married Doctor Bramlett, prominent physician of Campobello who died in 1906 [1907]. Mrs. Bramlett was a member of New Hope Methodist Church where she took a great interest in all departments. She was president of its missionary society for a quarter of a century. Then she was made honorary president. Mrs. Bramlett was a daughter of the late Capt. John Wesley [Wilkes], an officer of the Confederate army, and the late Mrs. Eliza Walker Wilkes. After hing retired as postmistress at Leeds following 20 years service, she had made her home for the past two years with her son, John Wesley Bramlett at Baton Rouge. Mrs. Bramlett is survived by her son, John Wesley Bramlett of Baton Rouge; a daughter, Mrs. Thomas [Sarah] Lake of Silverstreet; seven grandchildren, one great-grandchild; two brothers, B. Frank Wilkes of Chester and Robert W. Wilkes of Baton Rouge, and two sisters, Mrs. W. M. Harley [Blanche] of Jamison, Orangeburg County, and Miss Nelle Wilkes of Baton Rouge. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon from Calvary Baptist Church, Chester county, by the Rev. Francis V. Robertson of Armenia, the Rev. E. W. Buckner of Chester and the Rev. S. B. White of Union. Interment will follow in the family plot in the historic church cemetery.
Eva was “the eldest and forite child of her father, Captain John Wesley Wilkes (also known as Judge Wilkes since he was a longtime local magistrate), and his wife, Eliza Walker Harden,” according to Ellen Bramlett Clarke. Eva “attended Columbia Female College in Columbia, S.C., for two years and received teacher training at Asheville Normal School, Asheville, N.C. She was awarded a First Grade Teacher’s Certificate the highest level. At age 18, she was teaching grades one through eight in a one-room school in the Baton Rouge Section of Chester Co., S.C. She taught at Campobello Graded School during the spring term of 1901 and in Conway in 1901-1902 at the Burroughs Graded School. In the fall of 1902, Eva returned to teach at Campobello. She met Dr. John Wilson Bramlett, a local druggist and physician, and they were married in January 1903.” When her husband died from complications of pneumonia, Eva “was left with the burdens of two very young children to rear and hey debts left by her husband, a hard-working doctor who had not pressed patients to pay,” Ellen Bramlett Clarke explains. “A note circa March 1908 penned on a copy of the statement of one former patient’s account reveals the widow’s desperate financial straits: ‘I do need this money so much. I would be more than thankful if you will kindly hand it to Mr. Walter Jackson [at the bank] for me. I he two little helpless babies to raise, surely you can arrange to pay me this amount [25.00]. Mrs. J. W. Bramlett.’” Dr. Bramlett’s ledger book for 1901-1903 lists payments in both cash and goods, including one dog $4.00; one turkey $1.00; one gallon of syrup $0.40; fodder $10.00; two pigs $5.00; one bushel of potatoes $0.60; three hens $0.75; 10 bushels of corn $8.50; one ham $2.50; and firewood $5.00. Ellen Bramblett Clarke indicates that “Of the almost 300 patient accounts in this ledger, less than half had paid their bills when Dr. Bramlett died in 1907 and indeed, never paid them.” Eva was forced to sell the drug store and their house and land in Campobello. Subsequently, “After two years of trying to settle her husband’s business affairs, Eva found it necessary to move back to her family’s home in Chester County. In Baton Rouge Township again, in the fall of 1909, Eva returned to teaching and her parents took care of the children. She taught school for the next 20 years and in 1933, became postmistress of the post office at Leeds, S.C. Eva was widely known in Chester county for her work in church and community affairs and for her extensive knowledge of family history.” “Eva W. Bramlett,” 31, widowed, public school teacher, mother of two living children, and two children–John W. (Wesley), 5, and Sarah W., 3–are listed with Eva’s parents, John W. Wilkes, 69, farmer, general farm, owner of a mortgaged farm, married 33 years, and Eliza W., 57, mother of five living children, in the 1910 U.S. Census for Baton Rouge Twp., Chester Co., S.C. (NARA Film T624:1455:2B). Other Wilkes family members listed: Robert W., 26, farm manager, home farm; Nellie H., 27, teacher, public school; and Benjamin F., 14. All were born in South Carolina to parents born there. “Eva W. Bramlett,” 41, high school teacher, and children, John Wesley, 15, farmer, general farm, and Sarah (Cynthia), 13, are listed with her father, John Wesley Wilks, 78, farmer, and three siblings (Nellie H., 36, high school teacher; Robert W., 35, farmer; and B. Frank, 23, farmer) in the 1920 U.S. Census for Baton Rouge Twp., Calhoun Co., S.C. (NARA Film T625:1689:206B). All were born in South Carolina to parents born there.
Mary Anna Bramlett, fourth child of John Wesley Ervin and Sarah (Wilson) Bramlett, was born April 4, 1866, in Greenville County. She died at age 90 on July 29, 1956, at home in Campobello and was buried two days later in Campobello United Methodist Church Cemetery. Anna’s obituary in the Monday, July 30, 1956, edition of the Spartanburg Herald indicates she was born and reared in Greenville County:
Campobello — Mrs. Anna Bramlett Neves, 90, died Sunday at 7:15 a.m. at her home here, after three days’ serious illness. She was the widow of Benjamin F. Neves. She was born and reared in Greenville County, daughter of the late J. W. and Sarah Wilson Bramlett. She was a member of the Campobello Methodist Church. Surviving are: two daughters, Mrs. Flora Collins Hill and Mrs R. P. [Mamie] Barnett of Campobello; five grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Monday at 4 p.m. at Campobello Methodist Church. The Revs. T. L. Chapman, J. G. Stroud and Leon Gambrell will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be Gordon and Ernest Neves, J. W. Barnett, Sam McMakin, Hubert Lindsey and Leon Few. The body will be at the home after 10 a.m. Monday and will be taken to the church at 3 p.m. Petty Funeral Home of Landrum is in charge of arrangements.
Anna married Benjamin Franklin Neves, one of twelve children born to Nancy Jane Chastain and George Washington Neves. Benjamin was born April 27, 1870, in Greenville County where he grew up. He died Jan. 23, 1942, at home in Campobello, S.C., and was buried two days later in Campobello United Methodist Church Cemetery. His obituary in the Jan. 24, 1942, edition of the Spartanburg Herald indicates he was born in upper Greenville County:
Campobello — Benjamin Franklin Neves, 71, died this afternoon at 6:15 o’clock at his home after one year of declining health and a serious illness of 12 weeks. He was a native of upper Greenville county, the son of the late Washington and Nancy Chastain Neves. He was a member of Campobello Methodist Church and the Campobello W. O. W. Camp. He had lived here for over 25 years. Surviving are his widow, the former Miss Ana Bramlett; two daughters, Mrs. Flora Collins and Mrs. R. P. [Mamie] Barnett; three brothers, Albert, Thornton and C. R. Neves; four sisters, Mrs. Rosa Taylor, Mrs. Lydia Lindsey, Mrs. Tessie Few, and Mrs. Fannie Bishop and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock from Campobello Methodist church. Further announcements will be made from Petty Funeral home.
Ben sawed the timber and built a house on farmland in Spartanburg County in 1896. He was a farmer who grew cotton, cane and peaches. For years he budded peach trees and sold them at the farm. His grandson, Maurice Collins, remembers Ben as a jack-of-all-trades: a carpenter, handyman and farmer. He and Anna lived on their farm until they moved to Campobello in 1928. Ben served as mayor of Campobello in 1930-34. Ben and Anna were members of Campobello Methodist Church. Their children are Mamie and Flora Cornelia Neves. At the time of her death, Anna had five Grandchildren and eight Great-Grandchildren.
Tallulah “Lula” Bramlett, fifth child of John Wesley Ervin and Sarah (Wilson) Bramlett, was born Dec. 10, 1864, in Greenville County. She died June 14, 1927, at home in Greenville, S.C., and was buried the next day in Mountain View Methodist Church Cemetery, Tigerville, S.C. Lula’s obituary in the Wednesday, June 15, 1927, edition of the Greenville News indicates she was a life-long resident of Greenville County:
Mrs. Lula Bramlett McMakin, 62, died at her home, 25 Seyles Street, Duncan Mill, yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. She had been ill for several weeks, although her death comes as a shock to her many friends here. Mrs. McMakin was a life-long resident of this county, hing come to Greenville a short time ago. She was a faithful member of Concord Methodist Church at Greer. She is survived by her husband, J. J. McMakin; one daughter, Mrs. J. R. [Bess] Freeman of Charlotte, N.C.; and four sons, W. F., J. E. and J. C. [William F., John E., James C.] McMakin, all of Greenville; and S. A. [Samuel A.] McMakin of Greer. Three sisters also survive, as follows, Mrs. B. F. [Mary Anna] Neeves of Campobello; Mrs. W. S. [Corrie Wilson] Barnett, of Taylors; and Mrs. J. T. [Eliza C.] Hutchins, of this city. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 4 o’clock from Mountain View Church. Rev. H. B. Koone officiating, assisted by Rev. J. B. Connelley. Interment will be made in the church cemetery. The following will serve as pallbearers: W. F. Freeman, J. M. Wilson, E. W. Barnett, C. H. Holland, T. C. Barnett, and Mr. Heath.
Lula married John James McMakin, the son of Elizabeth Zimmerman and Peter C. McMakin. John was born Dec. 11, 1852, in Greenville County. His obituary in the Monday, Nov. 6, 1933, edition of the Greenville News indicates he died Nov. 5, 1933, in Charlotte, N.C.:
John James McMakin, 80, died at 11 o’clock this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. R. Freeman, in Charlotte after an illness of two weeks. He was a former resident of Greer but had been living in Charlotte for three years. He was a son of the late P. C. and Elizabeth Zimmerman McMakin. Mr. McMakin is survived by one daughter, Mrs. [Bess] Freeman, of Charlotte; and four sons, William, John and James McMakin, all of Greenville, and Samuel McMakin, of Greer; two brothers, Samuel McMakin and Arthur McMakin, of Fairforest. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Mountain View Methodist church near Tigerville, conducted by the Rev. A. H. Bauknight and the Rev. James Bruce. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The body was brought to Greer today and until the hour for the funeral will remain at the Wood mortuary.
John and Lula lived in Greer where they attended Concord Methodist Church, before moving to Greenville. “Lula McMakin,” 32, born in December 1867, mother of four living children, married nine years, and husband, John J., 46, born in December 1853, laborer, cotton mill, rents home, head of the family, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for O’Neal Township, Greenville Co., S.C., with four children: Hugh L., 7, July 1892; Bessie, 4, September 1895; Willie, 5, February 1899; and Samuel A., 10/12, born in July 1899 (NARA Film T623:1529:102A). All were born in South Carolina to parents born there. “Tallulah T. McMakin,” 40, mother of six children, five living, first marriage, married 20 years, and husband, John J., 56, farmer, head of the family, are listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Chick Springs Township, Greenville Co., S.C., with five children: Bessie, 14, farm laborer, home farm; William F., 13, farm laborer, home farm; Samuel A., 10; John C., 6; and James E., 1 9/12 (NARA Film T624:1461:100A). All were born in South Carolina to parents born there. After Lula died John lived with a daughter in Charlotte, N.C. John and Lula’s children are Bess, William F., John E., James C., Samuel A. and Hugh L. McMakin.
The late Louise (Hutchings) Galway provided some of the following information about Eliza C. (Bramlett) Hutchings and family.
Eliza C. “Lydie” Bramlett, sixth child of John Wesley Ervin and Sarah (Wilson) Bramlett, was born March 19, 1871, in Greenville County. She died there Oct. 18, 1950, and was buried two days later in Mountain View Methodist Church Cemetery. Her gre marker identifies her as the wife of “John T. Hutchins.” Eliza’s obituary appears in the Greenville News dated Oct. 19, 1950:
Mrs. Eliza (Lydie) Bramlett Hutchings, wife of the late John T. Hutchings, died Wednesday morning at 5:10 o’clock, at te home of her daughter, Mrs. Alex W. [Louise] Galway of 16 East Mountain View Avenue, following an illness of one day. Mrs. Hutchings was a native of Greenville County, where she had spent her entire life. She was born March 19, 1871, a daughter of the late Captain J. W. [John Wesley Ervin] Bramlett and Sara (Wilson) Bramlett. Mrs. Hutchings was a member of St. Mark’s Methodist Church. Mr. Hutchings died December 17, 1948. In addition to Mrs. Galway, Mrs. Hutchings is survived by another daughter, Mrs. M. D. [Grace] Chastain of Easley, two sons, J. M. Hutchings of Cincinnati, O., and Paul T. Hutchings of Charleston; one sister, Mrs. B. F. Neves of Campobello, seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Services will be conducted at 11 o’clock Friday morning at the Mackey Mortuary. The body will remain at the mortuary. The family will be at the home of Mrs. Alex W. Galway, 16 East Mountain View Avenue.
Eliza married John Thomas Hutchings on Jan. 19, 1892. He was born Sept. 9, 1871, in Greenville County, the son of Nan Snow and J. Dexter Hutchings of Batesville. John died Dec. 17, 1948, and was buried the next day in Mountain View Methodist Church Cemetery. His obituary was published in the Greenville News on Friday, Dec. 18, 1948:
Funeral services for John T. Hutchings, retired mechanic, occurred at a local hospital yesterday morning at 2:20 o’clock following one week of illness, will be held at St. Marks Methodist Church Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Services will be conducted by the Rev. R. W. Sammeth and Dr. R. W. Turnipseed and interment will be in the family plot in the Mountain View Methodist Church Cemetery. The following will serve as pallbearers and meet at the church at 1:30 o’clock: Tom Morgan, James Shedd, G. C. Cloninger, S. J. Bailey, M. A. Duncan and C. A. Tucker. The members of the building committee and the board of stewards of the church, with W. H. Ferguson, J. T. Hays, E. L. Johns, I. H. Ambrose, Paul Knight, Toy Duncan, J. L. Freeman, W. F. West, Dr. Fred Robertson and H. M. Rogers, will compose the escort of honor and also meet at the church at 1:30. Mr. Hutchings was the son of the late J. Dexter Hutchings and Mrs. Nan (Snow) Hutchings, residents of the Batesville community of Greenville county and was 77 years. For some years before moving to this city 30 years ago, he had lived in Pickens. Mr. Hutchings was a member of St. Marks Methodist church and had held offices as steward, superintendent of the Sunday School and trustee, and was serving as a member of the building committee of the church at the time of his death. His wife, Mrs. Eliza Bramlett Hutchings, survives at the home being at 129 Bailey Street, Sans Souci, with two sons, J. Marvin Hutchings of Cincinnati and Paul T. Hutchings of Charleston and two daughters, Mrs. A. W. [Louise] Galway of this city and Mrs. M. D. [Grace] Chastain of Easley. One brother, S. B. Hutchings of Greer, and three sisters, Miss Florence Hutchings, Mrs. Edgar Wright and Mrs. R. D. Dobson, all of Greer, also survive. In addition, he is survived by seven grandchildren and by five great-grandchildren. The body will remain at the Mackey Mortuary until 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon, when it will be placed in the church to lie in state until the hour of the service.
John Hutchings’s grandfather, Rev. John Thomas Hutchings who preached in upper Greenville County and died in Georgia in 1869, was a local Methodist minister and the original proprietor of the Batesville cotton factory.) John Hutchings was a mechanic and machinist at Monagan Mill in Greenville. His father operated a store on the road to Ceaser’s Head in the mountains of Northern Greenville County. Eliza expressed her grief for John in a letter written to her sister-in-law Eva Bramlett nine months after his death: “It seems to me I can’t ever live without John. He was such a good man and was so good to me; we were so happy together. This winter will be so lonesome for me.” She died the following year. John and Eliza lived in Greenville in 1927. Their children are Triplets Infant Son (died at birth), Grace and Louis Hutchings; John Marvin; and Paul Thomas Hutchings. Eliza and John had seven Grandchildren and seven Great-grandchildren at the time of Eliza’s death.
Descendant Herbert Rogers and wife, Sonia, of Greenville, S.C., contribute some of the following information about Malinda Caroline (Bramlett) Rogers and family.
Malinda Caroline Bramlett, thirteenth child of Rev. William and Nancy S. (Dacus) Bramlett, was born March 22, 1832, in Greenville Co., S.C. She died May 10, 1905, and was buried in Salem Methodist Church Cemetery, White Horse Road, Greenville, S.C. Malinda Caroline is enumerated in Greenville County with her parents in the 1840 U.S. Census. “Caroline Bramlett,” 18, born in South Carolina, is listed there with her parents in the 1850 U.S. Census. She married Willis R. Rogers/Rodgers in 1854. Willis was born July 25, 1827, in Spartanburg, S.C., the son of Elizabeth Bailey and Darling Rogers. Willis died July 17, 1898, and was buried in Salem Methodist Church Cemetery. His gre is marked with a Confederate Iron Cross. Willis, a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States, enlisted as a private in Company H, “Hatch’s Regiment of Coast Rangers,” 23rd Regiment, South Carolina Infantry, on Nov. 10, 1861, at James Island, S.C. He was captured July 10 or 16, 1863, at Jackson, Miss., during the Battle of Vicksburg and was held as a prisoner of war at Camp Morton, Ind., and Point Lookout, Md. He was transferred for exchange March 15, 1865. Before the war Willis and Caroline lived in the Reidville community of Spartanburg County near his family. “Caroline Rodgers,” 27, born in South Carolina, and husband, Willis, 33, tenant farmer and head of the family, $400 personal estate, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Cashville P.O./Twp., Southern Div., Spartanburg Co., S.C., with three children: Cornelia, 4; Catharine, 3; and Mary, 1 (NARA Film M653:1226:388A). All were born in South Carolina. The family moved across the county line into Greenville County by 1870 and settled in Gantt Township where they farmed. “Caroline Rodgers,” 38, keeping house, and husband, Willis, 42, laborer, head of the family, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Greenville Court House Township, Greenville Co., S.C., with five children: Cornelia, 14; Catharine, 12; Adaline, 8; Ella, 5; Franklin, 3; Bramlett, 1 (NARA Film M593:1498:592B). All were born in South Carolina. “Melinda Rodgers,” 40, keeping house, and husband, Willis, 53, farmer, head of the family, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Gantt Township, Greenville Co., S.C., with five children: Ella, 15; Frank, 11; Bramlet, 9; Eliza, 6; Eber, 3 (NARA Film T9:1230:105B). All were born in South Carolina. Willis and Malinda Caroline’s children are Cornelia, Catherine (“Kate”), Mary, Adeline, Ella, Franklin, Bramlett, Eliza and Eber Columbus Rogers.
Cornelia Rogers, first child of Malinda Caroline Bramlett and Willis R. Rogers, was born circa 1856 in Greenville or Spartanburg Co., S.C. She married a man named Ross circa 1880.
Catherine “Kate” Rogers, second child of Malinda Caroline Bramlett and Willis R. Rogers, was born circa 1857 in Greenville or Spartanburg Co., S.C. Her gre marker in Salem United Methodist Church Cemetery in Gantt, Greenville Co., S.C., indicates she died in 1935. She married Pinkney D. Pollard. He was born circa 1848-50. He died in 1889 and was buried in Salem United Methodist Church Cemetery. “Kate Pollard,” 25, keeping house, and husband, Pink, 30, laborer, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Gantt Township, Greenville Co., S.C., with three children: William, 6; John, 3; and Mary, 1 (NARA Film T9:1230:107B). All were born in South Carolina to parents born there.
Adaline Rogers, child of Malinda Caroline Bramlett and Willis R. Rogers, was born circa 1872 in Greenville Co., S.C. She married a Rhodes.
Mary Rogers, child of Caroline Bramlett and Willis R. Rogers, was born circa 1859 in Greenville Co., S.C.
Ella Rogers, child of Malinda Caroline Bramlett and Willis R. Rogers, was born circa 1865 in Greenville Co., S.C. She married a Westmoreland.
Franklin Rogers, child of Malinda Caroline Bramlett and Willis R. Rogers, was born circa 1867-1869 in Greenville Co., S.C.
Bramlett Rogers, child of Malinda Caroline Bramlett and Willis R. Rogers, was born April 29, 1870, in Greenville Co., S .C. He died March 20, 1927, and was buried in Rehobeth Baptist Church Cemetery, Old Pelzer Road, near Piedmont, Anderson Co., S.C. Bramlett first married a woman named Wilson. She died and was buried in Rehobeth Baptist Church Cemetery. Their children are Annie, Jack and Samuel “Pete” Rogers. Bramlett second married Pearl Whitt. She died and was buried in Rehobeth Baptist Church Cemetery. Their child is Walter Herbert Rogers. Bramlett third married Hassie Jordan. She died and was buried in Rehobeth Baptist Church Cemetery. They did not he children, but Hassie raised Bramlett’s children from his other marriages.
Eliza Rogers, child of Malinda Caroline Bramlett and Willis R. Rogers, was born Aug. 14, 1875, in Greenville Co., S.C. She died Nov. 6, 1957, in Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C., and was buried at Rehobeth Baptist Church Cemetery, Piedmont, S.C. Her daughter Hattie Wilson, who lived at 3 Old Paris Road, Greenville, S.C., signed the South Carolina Death Certificate 30127 as informant. Eliza married William Jasper Wilson.
Eber Columbus Rogers, child of Malinda Caroline Bramlett and Willis R. Rogers, was born April 20, 1877, in Greenville Co., S.C.
Margaret “Peggy” Bramlett, Daughter of John and Mary
Margaret Bramlett, second child of Mary Peak and John Bramlett, was born Nov. 27, 1787, in Laurens Co., S.C. Margaret’s birthdate is inscribed in a Bramlett Bible originally owned by her brother Reuben Bramlett. She probably died in Hall Co., Ga., perhaps before 1850. She may be buried on the farm. One source suggests she may he died in 1853 in Jackson Co., Ga. Bramlett descendant Julien Potter Wooten in his 1886 family history named Margaret as a daughter of John and Mary. Julien stated that Margaret “was married to Mr. Gamblen and moved to Hall County, Georgia.” Margaret married Sion Gamblin in Greenville District, perhaps as early as 1805. Sion was born circa 1785 in Chatham, N.C., the son of Susannah Sarah Cole and William Bradford Gamblin. He may he died in 1849 or 1850 in Hall Co., Ga., and may be buried on the family farm. He and Margaret moved to Hall Co., Ga., before 1830. Census records indicate they lived next door to Margaret’s brother “Nathan Bramblet” in 1830 and very close to him in 1840. Sion Gamblin, 50-60, is listed in the 1830 U.S. Census for Hall Co., Ga., as head of a family that includes a female 40-50 (wife, Margaret) and thirteen children: a female 20-30, a male 20-30, a female 10-15, two males 15-20, a male 10-15, two females 5-10, two females under 5 and three males under 5 (NARA Film M19:18:121). Sion Gamblin, 60-70, is listed in the 1840 U.S. Census for Dist. 434, Hall Co., Ga., as head of a family that includes a female 50-60 (wife, Margaret) and seven children: a female 20-30, two females 15-20, a female 5-10 and three males 5-10 (NARA Film M704:42:196). One of their sons—Jarrett—was living next door to Sion and Margaret in 1840. Sion and Margaret’s children include Reuben H., Joshua, Joseph W., Delila H., Nancy S., Jarrett, James H., Elizabeth, Daughter, William, Tilman, Mary (“Polly”) and Frances M. Gamblin.
Descendant Ramona Gamblin Wagnon provides some of the following about Margaret and Sion’s children.
Reuben H. Gamblin, first child of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, was born circa 1806 in Greenville Co., S.C. He died in September 1838 in Lumpkin Co., Ga. He married Jane Jay. Reuben H. Gamblin witnessed a deed on June 16, 1837, when Did Jay of Lumpkin County donated some land to the trustees of Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church in Hall Co., Ga.:
Georgia Hall County. This Indenture made and entered into this Sixteenth day of June Eighteen hundred and thirty seven. Between Did Jay of the one part and Nathan Bramblett, Did M. Adams, Lorenzo D. Wood, John Elrod and Abraham Elrod Jr. Trustees in trust for the Methodist Episcopal Church, of the other part all of the County and State aforesaid—Witnesseth that the said Did Jay in consideration of his love for the Church and desire for its prosperity together with the sum of One Dollar to him in hand paid by the Trustees as aforesaid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath given granted sold and conveyed, and by these presents doth give grant sell and convey unto the Trustees in trust as aforesaid, and their successors in office the following described piece or parcel of Land being part of Lot number Sixty-one in the Eleventh District of said County. Beginning on a Post Oak corner running thence East twenty-six rods to a poplar, thence South Eighteen rods to a red oak, thence West twenty-six rods to a Post Oak, thence North Eighteen rods to the Beginning—containing Three acres more or less including the house dedicated to the worship of God known as Hopewell meeting house. To he and to hold the said Lot piece or parcel of land together with all and singular the rights members & appurtenances thereof to them the said Trustees as aforesaid and their successors in office in fee simple forever. And the said Did Jay for himself his heirs and assigns the said described premises unto the said Trustees and their successors in office for the especial use and benefit of the Methodist Episcopal Church as aforesaid, will warrant and forever defend against himself his heirs and assigns and all other persons whomsoever. In witness whereof the said Did Jay hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written. Did Jay (Seal) In presence of Did Jay Junr. Reuben H. Gamblin. Personally came before me Did Jay Jr. and after being duly sworn deposeth and sayth that he saw Did Jay Sen. sign the within Deed for the purposes therein named and that he saw Reuben H. Gamblin sign his name as witness and that he subscribed his name as witness also sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th day of December 1840. Richard Bearden J. P. Did Jay Recorded May 14th 1895 A. R. Smith (DB-2:283)
Joshua Gamblin, second child of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, was born Aug. 18, 1808, in Greenville Co., S.C. He lived with his parents in 1830 in Hall Co., Ga. He married Mahalia Nance there on June 27, 1832 (MB-A:79). She was born in Georgia circa 1814. “Joshua Gamblin,” 30-40, is listed in the 1840 U.S. Census for Hall Co., Ga., as head of a family that includes a female 20-30 (wife) and four children: a female 5-10 (Mary), a female under 5 (Margaret C.) and two males under 5 (Sion H., Reuben). They moved to Montgomery Co., Ark., by 1850. Their children, all born in Georgia, include Mary, born circa 1834; Margaret C., born circa 1836; Sion H., born circa 1838; Reuben, born circa 1840; John, born circa 1844; George, born circa 1845; Nancy, born circa 1847; and Julia Ann, born circa 1848.
Joseph W. Gamblin, third child of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, was born circa 1815-17 in Greenville Co., S.C. He first married Mahala Harris on Feb. 15, 1836, in Hall Co., Ga. (MB-A:101). Their children include Zepheriah Daniel, Martha F., Nancy Jane, William, John Henry, E. L., Mary, J. W., George Thomas, Sarah Jane, Fulton and Reuben Maxwell Gamblin. Joseph second married B. A. Canady on Jan. 26, 1881, in Newton Co., Ark.
Zepheriah Daniel “Zeff” Gamblin, first child of Joseph W. and Mahala (Harris) Gamblin, was born Dec. 28, 1837, in Ringold, Murray Co., Ga. He died Dec. 24, 1898, in Boggs Springs, Ark. He married Sarah Elizabeth Spears on July 25, 1873, in Jasper, Newton Co., Ark.
Martha F. Gamblin, second child of Joseph W. and Mahala (Harris) Gamblin, was born circa 1839 in Lumpkin Co., Ga. She married William I. Freeland on Nov. 28, 1869, in Lumpkin Co., Ga.
Nancy Jane Gamblin, third child of Joseph W. and Mahala (Harris) Gamblin, was born in 1841 in Ringold, Murray Co., Ga. She married a Faulkner.
William Gamblin, fourth child of Joseph W. and Mahala (Harris) Gamblin, was born Nov. 12, 1843, in Catoosa Springs, Catoosa Co., Ga. He died Sept. 25, 1886, in Russelville, Pope Co., Ark. His obituary appears in Russellville Democrat:
“William Gamblin was born in Catoosa County, North Georgia, 12 November 1843. He professed religion at Mastons campground before the war, and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. After the war, that church being destroyed and the membership scattered, he united with the church at Blackwells Chapel. He moved to Pope County, Arkansas, bringing his church certificate with him and cast his lot with the church at Russelville, where he lived a consistent member until 25 September 1886, when he was called to rest from his labors. His little son, Joseph Franklin, 9 years, five months and ten days old, preceded him to the spirit world just fifteen days, hing died 10 September, 1886. When Jodie died, he said in his tears of sorrow, ‘He is gone; nor can I call him back but I can go to him,’ little thinking that he would go so soon. — S. S. Key”
William married and had one child: Joseph Franklin Gamblin, who died at age 9 years, five months and ten days, on Sept. 10, 1886.
E. L. Gamblin, fifth child of Joseph W. and Mahala (Harris) Gamblin, was born in 1846 in Ringold, Murray Co., Ga.
John Henry “Polk” Gamblin, sixth child of Joseph W. and Mahala (Harris) Gamblin, was born Feb. 17, 1848, in Ringold, Murray Co., Ga. He died July 8, 1923, in Duncan, Stephens Co., Okla. He married Ann Elizabeth Jones in 1866 in Catoosa Springs, Murray Co., Ga.
Mary Gamblin, seventh child of Joseph W. and Mahala (Harris) Gamblin, was born July 9, 1850, in Ringold, Murray Co., Ga. She died Aug. 11, 1916, in Duncan, Stephens Co., Okla. She first married William H. Qualls. She second married William Franklin Earnhart on Nov. 19, 1874, in Newton Co., Ark.
J. W. Gamblin, eighth child of Joseph W. and Mahala (Harris) Gamblin, was born in 1852 in Ringold, Murray Co., Ga.
George Thomas Gamblin, ninth child of Joseph W. and Mahala (Harris) Gamblin, was born Jan. 12, 1854, in Ringold, Murray Co., Ga. He died Nov. 11, 1937, in Lawton, Comanche Co., Okla. He first married Elizabeth “Lizzie” Crowley on Oct. 4, 1882, in Benton Co., Ark. He second married Eva Sullenger on July 16, 1896, in Taney Co., Mo. He third married Martha E. Selvidge on April 2, 1902, in Okfuska, Muskogee Co., Okla. Martha and George’s granddaughter is Ramona Gamblin Wagnon, daughter of George Bearl Gamblin and Christina Cordelia Elledge Gamblin. Her web site: http://www.soup @simplynet.net.
Sarah Jane Gamblin, tenth child of Joseph W. and Mahala (Harris) Gamblin, was born in 1856 in Lumpkin Co., Ga. She married Silas H. King on July 22, 1888, in Lumpkin Co., Ga.
Fulton Gamblin, eleventh child of Joseph W. and Mahala (Harris) Gamblin, was born in 1859 in Ringold, Murray Co., Ga.
Reuben Maxwell Gamblin, twelfth child of Joseph W. and Mahala (Harris) Gamblin, was born in 1861 in Ringold, Murray Co., Ga. He died April 1, 1926, in Oklahoma City, Okla. He married Ellen Styles.
Delila H. Gamblin, fourth child of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, was born circa 1818 in Greenville Co., S.C.
Nancy S. Gamblin, fifth child of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, was born circa 1819 in Greenville Co., S.C.
Jarrett Gamblin, sixth child of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, was born circa 1818 in Greenville Co., S.C. He lived with his parents in 1830 in Hall Co., Ga. He married Priscila Collins on Aug. 4, 1836, in Hall Co., Ga. (MB-A:104). “Jarret Gamblin,” 20-30, is listed in the 1840 U.S. Census for Hall Co., Ga., as head of a family that includes a female 20-30 (wife, Priscilla) and two children under 5 (daughters Sarah and Patsey) (NARA Film M704:42:196). Jarret Gamlin,” 30, and wife, Priscilla, 27, are listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Dis, Lumpkin Co., Ga., with six children: Sarah, 12; Patsey, 11; John, 9; Margaret, 7; James, 5; Isaac, 3 (NARA Film M432:76: 50A). Jarrett and Priscilla’s children, all born in Hall or Lumpkin Co., Ga., include Sarah, born circa 1838; Patsey, circa 1839; John H., circa 1841; Margaret, circa 1843, who married William I. Freeland on Nov. 28, 1869; James M., circa 1845, who married Lucinda Freeland on Dec. 10, 1868; and Isaac Gamblin, born circa 1847. James H. Gamblin, seventh child of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, was born Aug. 12, 1821, in Greenville Co., S.C. He may he died in 1880 in Valley, Pope Co., Ark. He first married a woman named Verilie circa 1840 in Hall Co., Ga. Their children include William Joshua, born circa 1841; Nancy, circa 1843; Jarrett John, circa 1845; Samuel, circa 1850; and Sylvester, circa 1857. James second married Harriet Tweedle, widow of E. L. Tweedle, on April 3, 1866, in Montgomery Co., Ark. James and his family moved from Georgia to Arkansas circa 1846-49. Elizabeth Gamblin, eighth child of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, was born circa 1824 in Greenville Co., S.C. She married Robert Elliott on March 22, 1848, in Hall Co., Ga. (MB-A:147). Daughter Gamblin, ninth child of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, was born circa 1825 in Greenville Co., S.C. She probably died young, after the 1830 census and before 1840. William Gamblin, tenth child of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, was born circa 1826 in Greenville Co., S.C. He married a woman named Elizabeth in 1846 in Lumpkin Co., Ga. Their children include James H., born 1847; R., born 1849; J., born 1850; and Mary Gamblin, born 1850 in Murray Co., Ga. Tilman S. Gamblin, eleventh child of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, was born circa 1827 in Hall Co., Ga. He may he died in 1880. He married Margaret Smith in 1850 in Lumpkin Co., Ga. Mary “Polly” Gamblin, twelfth child of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, was born circa 1828. She married Henry Barton on Feb. 15, 1843, in Hall Co., Ga. (MB-A:55). She may he died in 1870. Frances M. Gamblin, thirteenth child of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, was born circa 1830 in Georgia. She first married James L. Jones. She second married Henry H. Wells on Jan. 15, 1873, in Lumpkin Co., Ga. John Gamblin, grandchild of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, married Margaret Robinson on June 18, 1868, in Hall Co., Ga. (MB-A:552). Richard T. Gamblin, grandchild of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, married Elizabeth J. Barnwell on Sept. 27, 1868, in Hall Co., Ga. (MB-A:545). R. T. Gamblin married Caroline Pilgrim on Sept. 5, 1903, in Hall Co., Ga. (MB-E:100). Banjamin L. Gamblin, great-grandchild of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, married Rena Langford on Oct. 16, 1898, in Hall Co., Ga. (MB-D:353). Louis Gamblin, great-grandchild of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin, married Hattie Lunsford on Nov. 19, 1924, in Hall Co., Ga. (MB-G:358).
Wagnon, Ramona Gamblin. “Gamblin Genealogy.” (No date.) http://www.simplynet.net/ soup/gamblin.htm. (31 March 2000). Descendants of Margaret Bramlett and Sion Gamblin.
Nathaniel “Nathan” Bramlette, Son of John and Mary
Nathaniel “Nathan” Bramlette, third child of Mary Peak and John Bramlett, was born May 30, 1789, in Laurens Co., S.C. His birth date is inscribed in a Bramlett Bible originally owned by his brother Reuben. He died Feb. 10, 1876, in Murrayville, Hall Co., Ga., and was buried at Hopewell United Methodist Church Cemetery, Gainesville, Ga. He first married Margaret Fletcher circa 1815-1816. Her name is given in census data as the letter M. She was known by family only as “Granny Bramlette.” She was born 1795. She died 1850 in Hall Co., Ga., and rests there at the church with a tombstone inscribed “M. Bramlette.” Nathan and his family moved from South Carolina, settled in Hall Co., Ga., by 1830. “Nathan Bramlet,” 61, farmer, $400 personal estate, is listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Dist. 38, Hall Co., Ga., with five grown and minor children: M. (Mary L.), 30, born South Carolina; Susanna (Sarah), 28, South Carolina; J. F. (John Fletcher), 25, South Carolina, laborer; N., 20, Georgia; L. W. (Lafayette Washington), 15, Georgia (NARA Film M432:72:345B-346A). Nathan was a member of Bethel Methodist Church in Greenville Co., S.C., and a founder of Hopewell Methodist Church in Hall County. Nathan second married Sarah Phinazee on Nov. 30, 1856, in Monroe, Ga. She was born 1810, the daughter of Sarah Jane Harris (1769-1854) and John Phinazee (1760-1837), according to some sources. She died 1870 in Hall Co., Ga., and is buried there at Hopewell Cemetery.
“Nathan Bramlett,” 71, born South Carolina, farmer, $350 real estate, $2,500 personal estate, and (second) wife, Sarah, 50, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Dist. 803, Hall Co., Ga. (NARA Film M653:126:36). “Nathan Bramlet,” 82, born South Carolina, farmer, $200 real estate, $250 personal estate, and (second) wife, Sallie, 65, born Georgia, keeping house, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Big Hickory, New Bridge P.O., Hall Co., Ga., with one child: Elevia, 13, born Georgia, carding and spinning (NARA Film M593:155:354B). Nathan also is listed in the 1870 Agricultural Census for New Bridge, Hall County with 25 improved acres and 100 unimproved acres. The farm was valued at $250 (NARA Film T-1137:7:7).
Nathan and Margaret’s children include Mary L., Sarah, Harriett E., Nathaniel A., John Fletcher, Nancy (“Nannie”), Lafayette Washington Bramlett. Nathan and Sarah’s child may be Elevia Bramlette.
The late Jewell Edward “Jeb” Bramlette of Cleveland, Ga., son of Thomas Watson and Minnie Lou Cape Bramlette, provided some of the following. He was a dedicated Bramlette researcher and historian who now rests at Hopewell.
Mary L. Bramlett, child of Margaret Fletcher and Nathaniel “Nathan” Bramlett, was born Feb. 27, 1817, in Greenville Co., S.C. She died Aug. 18, 1899, and rests at Hopewell United Methodist Church Cemetery. She married Isaac M. “Mack” Jay. He was born May 7, 1820, in Tennessee and died May 24, 1894, and rests at Hopewell Cemetery.
Isaac served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He enlisted as a private in Company D, Fifty-Fifth Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, on March 1, 1863, at Gainesville, Ga. He was a prisoner of war captured at Cumberland Gap on Sept. 9, 1863. He was sent to Louisville, Ky., Prison, then Camp Douglas, Ill. He was exchanged at New Orleans, La., on May 23, 1865, and survived the war. Isaac and Mary lived in Dawson Co., Ga., in 1870. Their children include Elizabeth Harriett Jay Cox (1844 – 1924), James F. Jay (1852 – 1931), John C. Jay (1856 – 1923) and Adolphus Theodore Jay (1858 – 1940).
Sarah “Sally” Bramlett, child of Margaret Fletcher and Nathaniel “Nathan” Bramlett, was born circa 1818 in Greenville Co., S.C. She died 1890 in Lumpkin, Stewart Co., Ga., and was buried at Hopewell United Methodist Church Cemetery. She married John Jay. He was born April 16, 1817, in Warren Co., Tenn. He died 1900 in Forsyth Co., Ga., and rests at Hopewell. They lived in Lumpkin County in 1860: John Jay, 49, born Tennessee, blacksmith, and wife, Sally (Bramlette), 49, born South Carolina, housekeeper, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for New Bridge P.O., Auraria Dist., Lumpkin Co., Ga., with eight children born Georgia: John W., 21, hireling; Nathan H., 19; Robert H., 17; Isaac, 13; Harriet, 11; Martha, 9; Lafayette, 7; Thomas M., 5 (NARA Film M653:129:942). All the children except the eldest worked as shop assistants. Sarah may be “Sarah Jay, 74,” born Georgia to a mother born South Carolina, father born Ireland (sic South Carolina), who is listed with son John Wesley Jay and family in 1880 in Big Hickory, Dist. 803, Hall Co., Ga. (NARA Film T9:150:132A). Sarah and John’s children include John Wesley, Nathan Harrison, Robert H., Isaac, Harriet, Martha, Lafayette, Thomas M. Jay.
John Wesley Jay, child of Sarah Bramlette and John Jay, was born March 31 1839, in Atlanta, Fulton Co., Ga. He died Feb. 28, 1919, in Bartow Co., Ga., and was buried there in Winder at Nazareth United Methodist Church Cemetery. He served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He enlisted as a private in Company I, Thirty-Eighth Regiment, Georgia Infantry, on May 15, 1862, in Atlanta, Ga. He was wounded in action at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, and hospitalized at Richmond, Va. His Compiled Military Service Records indicate John W. Jay, Corporal, “Appears on a morning report of Jackson Hospital, Richmond, Virginia, for June 7, 1864.” Remarks: “V. S. [gunshot] Bowels M[inie] B[all].” Admitted June 7, 1864 (Confederate Archives, Chap. 6, File No. 699, p. 158) (NARA Film M266 Roll 437). He was appointed fourth corporal in January 1864 and then was at home on wounded furlough in June 1864 through Nov. 7, 1864. The last reference in his Compiled Military Service Records indicates J. W. Jay, Fourth Corporal, Company I, Thirty-Eighth Regiment, Georgia Infantry, was Absent, May 1-Aug. 31, 1864, on company muster roll dated Nov. 7, 1864. Remarks: “At home on wounded furlough since June 64.”
John was a farmer and Methodist preacher for 40 years. He first married Elizabeth Jane Armstrong on April 11, 1861, in Lumpkin Co., Ga. They had four children: Morgan, Articia, Luther, Sarah Jay. “John W. Jay,” 33, farm laborer, $200 personal estate, and (first) wife, Elizabeth, 25, keeping house, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Dahlonega P.O., Lumpkin Co., Ga., with two children: Morgan, 3; Articia, 1, all born Georgia (NARA Film M593:163:439A). John second married Celia C. Stone about 1873. She was born Jan. 24, 1846, in Georgia. She died June 17, 1931, and was buried at Nazareth. They had six children: Nancy, Mary, Bertie, Augusta, James, Bobby Jay. John and family moved to Hall County by 1880: “John Jay,” 41, born Georgia to a mother born South Carolina, father born Tennessee, farmer, with (second) wife, Celia, 34, born Georgia to a mother born South Carolina, father born North Carolina, keeping house, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Big Hickory, Dist. 803, Hall Co., Ga., with nine children born Georgia: Morgan, 13; Luther, 11; Sarah, 9; Nancy, 7; Mary, 4; Bertie, 3; Augusta, 9/12; James, 12; Bobby, 10, daughter, and one other: Sarah Jay, 74, born Georgia to a mother born South Carolina, father born Ireland (sic South Carolina?), (mother of John?) (NARA Film T9:150:132A). Not yet located in 1900-1910.
Nathan Harrison Jay, child of Sarah Bramlette and John Jay, was born Jan. 21, 1841, in Georgia. He died April 1, 1914, and was buried at Hopewell United Methodist Church Cemetery, Murrayville, Ga. He was a farmer and Methodist Episcopal Preacher. He served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He enlisted as a private in Company H, First “Ramsey’s” Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, on July 24, 1861. He was discharged Feb. 17, 1862. He enlisted as a private, Company A, Eleventh Regiment, “Gainesville Light Infantry,” Georgia Infantry, on Feb. 10, 1863, at Decatur, Ga. He was wounded in action before April 1, 1864. His last Compiled Military Service Record indicates he was absent with lee from a General Hospital; survived the war (NARA Film M266 Roll 144, M266 Roll 263). Nathan married Sarah Elizabeth Maddox by 1870. She was born May 9, 1842, in Georgia, the daughter of Elizabeth Whelchel and Henry H. Maddox. She died April 8, 1891, and was buried at Hopewell United Methodist Church Cemetery. “Nathan H. Jay,” 29, blacksmith, $100 real estate, $190 personal estate, and wife, Sarah, 27, keeping house, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Gainesville P.O., Bark Camp Dist., Hall Co., Ga., with two children: Isaac M., 3; Henry L., 1, all born Georgia (NARA Film M593:155:335B). “Harrison Jay,” 39, born Tennessee to a mother born South Carolina, father born Tennessee, farmer, with wife, Sarah E., 37, born Georgia to parents born South Carolina, keeping house, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Gainesville P.O., Bark Camp, Hall Co., Ga., with four children born Georgia: Andrew M., 13, works on farm; Henry L., 11, works on farm; Susan E., 6; and Carrie A., 2 (NARA Film T9:150:122D). Their children include Isaac Andrew M., Henry L., Susan E. Carrie A. Jay. Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1898, note that Nathan Harrison Jay was a local preacher elected as deacon and as a local preacher ordained as deacon in the Thirty-Third Session of the North Georgia Conference held Nov. 29-Dec. 4, 1899, at LaGrange, Ga. (Nashville, Tenn.: Barbee & Smith, Methodist Episcopal Church South Publishing House, 1898. 160).
Robert H. Jay, child of Sarah Bramlette and John Jay, was born 1841 in Georgia. He served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He enlisted as a private in Company H, “Dahlonega Volunteers,” Lumpkin Co., Ga., First “Ramsey’s” Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, on July 24, 1861. He was mustered out March 15, 1862, at Augusta, Ga., and joined another unit (NARA Film M266 Roll 437). He enlisted as a private in New Company I, “Dawson Volunteers,” “Dawson Farmers,” Thirty-Eighth Regiment, Georgia Infantry, on May 15, 1862, at Atlanta, Ga. (NARA Film M266 Roll 144). He was wounded in action on June 27, 1862, at Cold Harbor and furloughed home. He returned to unit and was appointed third sergeant by January 1863 and appointed second sergeant May 1864. He was wounded July 4, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa., and taken as a prisoner of war. He was paroled Aug. 24, 1863, at DeCamp General Hospital, Did’s Island, N.Y. Harbor; exchanged Aug. 28, 1863, at City Point, Va.; and returned to unit. He was disabled by a gunshot wound and “detailed by Sec. of War Jan. – 1864”; furloughed; and survived the war. Robert first married Elizabeth L. Blaylock. She was born 1841 and died 1879.
John Fletcher Bramlette, child of Nathaniel “Nathan” Bramlette, was born circa 1828 in Hall Co., Ga. He died there in 1893 and rests at Hopewell United Methodist Church Cemetery. His Confederate marker was dedicated Nov. 4, 2000.
John served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He enlisted as a private in Company C, Capt. James Taylor’s Company, Atlanta Fire Battalion, Third Battalion, State Guards, “Lewis and Phillips’ Guards,” Georgia Calry (NARA Film M266 Roll 179). He was mustered in on/before July 31, 1862; served until Absent With Out Lee in November or December 1863. His name then appeared “on Company Muster Roll…for July 31, 1863, to Jan. 31, 1864.” He married Martha Ann Maddox on Oct. 16, 1852, in Hall Co., Ga. She was born 1829 and died 1910. They lived in Fulton Co., Ga., in 1860. “John F. Bramblet,” 35, born South Carolina, peddler, with wife, Martha, 30, born Georgia, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Ward 3, City of Atlanta, Fulton Co., Ga., with five children born Georgia: William (Washington Filmore Payne), 6; (Georgia) Elizabeth, 5; Hariet, 4; Henry (Fletcher), 2; Nathan (Asbury), 2/12, and one other (Sarah Bankston, 15, Georgia) (NARA Film M653:122:792). They moved back to Hall County by 1870: “John F. Bramlet,” 47, clerk, grocery store, $150 real estate, $200 personal estate, and wife, Martha, 40, keeping house, both born Georgia, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Bark Camp Dist., New Bridge P.O., Hall Co., Ga., with four children born Georgia, all laboring on farm: William, 17; Georgia, 15; America (Harriet), 14; Henry, 12 (NARA Film M593:155:337A-B). “John F. Bramlette,” 54, born South Carolina to a mother born Virginia and father born South Carolina, farmer, and wife, Martha, 49, born Georgia to a mother born South Carolina and father born North Carolina, keeping house, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Bark Camp Dist. 569, Hall Co., Ga. with three children born Georgia: Georgia (Elizabeth Ann), 23; America (Harriet), 21; John (Wesley), 8, and one other (John Brown, 19, Georgia, parents Georgia, boarder, farm laborer) (NARA Film T9:150:124B). John’s widow, Marthy Bramlett, 70, born November 1829 in Georgia to parents born there, mother, widowed, is listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Bark Camp, Dist. 569, Hall Co., Ga., living with her son William W. Bramlet, 46, and family (NARA Film T623:202:312). John’s son Henry Fletcher Bramlett, of Wilburton, Okla., served as Third Brigade Commander, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Oklahoma Div., in 1927. John and Martha’s children include William Washington Filmore Payne, Georgia Elizabeth Ann, America Harriet, Henry Fletcher, Nathan Asbury, John Wesley, Nannie L., Mollie Bramlette.
William Washington Filmore Payne Bramlette, child of Martha Ann Maddox and John Fletcher Bramlette, was born Sept. 5, 1853, and died Oct. 28, 1925. He and his wives rest at Hopewell Cemetery. He married Margaret Frances Barnwell, whose father, Posey Barnwell, served as a Confederate soldier in Company B, Phillips’ Legion, Georgia Infantry Battalion, and survived the war. William second married Cynthia Loraine “Ranie” O’Kelly.
Harriett Elizabeth Bramlett, child of Margaret Fletcher and Nathaniel “Nathan” Bramlett, was born circa 1820 in Hall Co., Ga. She died in Georgia and rests at Hopewell United Methodist Church Cemetery. She married John Wesley Elrod. He was born 1829 in Hall Co., Ga., and died there at Gainesville, Ga., on Oct. 30, 1862. He served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States.
Nathaniel Asbury “Nathan” Bramlette, child of Margaret Fletcher and Nathaniel “Nathan” Bramlett, was born June 25, 1825, Franklin Co., Ga. He died March 17, 1911, in Atlanta, Fulton Co., Ga., and rests at Hopewell United Methodist Church Cemetery. His Confederate marker, arranged by descendant Jeb Bramlette of Cleveland, Ga., was dedicated by United Daughters of the Confederacy, Nov. 4, 2000. He served three years as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He enlisted as a private in Company F, Capt. A. H. Reid’s Company, Sixty-Sixth Regiment, Georgia Infantry, on Aug. 16, 1863, at Decatur, DeKalb Co., Ga., for the war. He was listed as Absent With Out Lee after mustering in during July-August 1863 and returned to unit by September; last record of pay is dated Feb. 15, 1864. He then joined Capt. Bedell’s Company B, “Chattahoochee Rangers,” Thirtieth Battalion, (later Company B, Eleventh Regiment) Georgia Calry, in May 1864 (NARA Film M266 Roll 46). A “Company Muster-in Roll…dated Mossey Creek Camp Ector, White Co., Ga., May 2, 1864”: Mustered in May 2, 1864, to serve in the North Eastern part of the State of Georgia. Enlisted May 2, 1864, Mossy Creek, White Co., Ga., by Capt. W. L. Hubbard for the war. Vitals: Age 39; 5 feet 8 inches tall; dark complexion; gray eyes; auburn hair; occupation farmer; born Georgia. Nathan’s Indigent Pension, Application 3955, was filed March 8, 1901, at Gainesville, Hall Co., Ga.; a warrant was issued Feb. 5, 1902, Murrayville P.O., Hall Co., Ga.; and pension transferred in 1903 to Fulton Co., Ga., for service in Company B, Young’s Battalion, 11th Georgia Volunteer Calry. He signed name as “Nathan A. Bramlet.” Thomas C. Gower’s Physician’s Affidit, dated March 12, 1901: “The left arm is practically useless from an old dislocation which has remained unreduced. The muscles of his left arm he been atrophied since the receipt of said injury. He also received a gun shot wound of left arm below elbow joint. He has an inguinal hernia on right side–Rheumatism of both knee joints. On account of his injuries and age we think him unable to work at any calling sufficient to support himself.” Pension application March 8, 1901: lifelong resident of Georgia; born June 29, 1825, Franklin Co., Ga.; served one year until final surrender at Cherokee Co., N.C., and payrolled at Kingston, Ga.; on furlough for twelve or fifteen days at time of surrender; owned no property; able to earn “very little” at work, “farming so much as able” due to “infirmity & poverty”; had “no property of any kind pay no tax” during 1894-1901; farmed rented land with help of children in Hall County; “I am old, very weak and feeble, he a cripple arm can’t use my left arm to do anything. am also ruptured. Unable to earn a support by labor of any kind.” J. L. Pass verified Nathan’s statements in an affidit in which he indicated he had known Nathan for over 40 years and served in the same unit during the war. Another affidit signed by Nathan on Jan. 10, 1902, indicates he served three years in Company B, Eleventh Georgia Calry. His wife, Margaret M. (Thompson Kelton) Bramlett, filed for a Widow’s Pension in Fulton Co., Ga.; for husband Nathan A. Bramlett’s service in Company B, 11th Georgia Regiment; marriage dated as 1845; actually married Jan. 27, 1850, Hall Co., Ga.; she moved to Atlanta in 1899; residence: 98 Richardson St., Atlanta, GA; payments ceased at her death June 16, 1926, at the home of a daughter in Wilkes Co., Ga. Margaret’s step-daughter Mary H. “Martha” Bramlet of Fulton Co., Ga., signed an affidit April 11, 1911, affirming the dates of Margaret and Nathan’s marriage, which she witnessed, and his death. Margaret owned property in 1908 but none in 1909-1911. She was widow of Edison F. Kelton.
“Nathan N. Bramblett,” 22, born Georgia, farmer, $600 real estate, and wife, M. (Margaret), 21, born South Carolina, are listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Hall Co., Ga., with one other (Martha Kelton, 2, born Georgia, child of Margaret and Edison F. Kelton) (NARA Film M432:72:35A). “N. A. Bramlett,” 26, born Georgia, farmer, $3,000 real estate, $600 personal estate, and wife, Margaret, 26, born South Carolina, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Gainesville P.O., Dist. 570, Hall Co., Ga., with four Bramlett children (Mary, 9; Basil, 7; John, 5; Victoria, 2) and one other ([step-daughter] Martha Kelton, 11), all born Georgia (NARA Film M653:126:3). Not yet located in 1870-1880 census. “Nathan Bramlet,” 74, born June 1825 in Georgia to parents born there, mail carrier, owns home, living alone, is listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Bark Camp, Dist., 569, Hall Co., Ga. (NARA Film T623:202:312B). He moved to Atlanta, Fulton Co., Ga., in 1903 and was living there at the time of his death in 1911. Margaret lived in Atlanta in 1880 and 1899-1911 and in Wilkes Co., Ga., in 1926. Margaret Bramlett, 49, born South Carolina to parents born Virginia, keeping house, with seven children born Georgia (M. [Mary] H., 20, female, milliner; Did, 19, clerk, confectionary; Victoria, 17; C. Jane, 15; Ralph, 12, at school; Homer [P.], 10, at school; Thompson, 9), 1880 Ward 1, City of Atlanta, Fulton Co., Ga., census (NARA Film T9:148B:182A). Nathan’s children include Mary H., Basil, John, Did, Victoria, C. Jane, Ralph, Homer P., Thompson Bramlette.
Nathan’s granddaughter Georgia Elizabeth (Bramlette) Smith told her son Henry she “had seen Atlanta burning during the Civil War” and described “an incident where soldiers were taking [her brother] William’s horse and/or saddle and William struggled with them until his mother pulled him back.” –descendant Karen Cooper
Nancy “Nannie” Bramlette, child of Nathaniel “Nathan” Bramlette, was born circa 1830 in Hall Co., Ga. She may he married James Tatum on March 24, 1859, in Hall Co., Ga.
Descendants Jean Kennedy of Alabama and Jeb Bramlette of Cleveland, Ga., provided some of the following.
Lafayette Washington Bramlett, child of Nathaniel “Nathan” Bramlett, was born circa 1835 in Hall Co., Ga. He died after 1866, circa 1870-1871, in Macon Co., Ga. He first married Charity Wigley on Oct. 6, 1853, in Hall County. She was born circa 1836. She died circa 1860 in Georgia. “Lafayette Bramlet,” 25, railroad agent, $70 personal estate, and wife, Charity, 24, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Montezuma P.O., Mil. Dist. 770, Macon Co., Ga., with two children (Harriet M. E., 5; Nancy O. J., 3), all born Georgia (NARA Film M653:130:117-118). They had two children: Harriett A. E. Bramlett and Nancy O. F. Bramlett.
Lafayette served as a soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He enlisted in Company E, Third Battalion, Atlanta Fire Battalion, Georgia Calry, State Guards, in 1863 and in Company B, “Newton Rifles,” Eighteenth Regiment, Georgia Infantry, on Jan. 14, 1863, at Macon, Ga. (NARA Film M266 Roll 179, 308). He was captured at Burkeville or Farmville, Va., on April 6, 1865; held at City Point, Va., until transferred April 14, 1865, to Newport News, Va.; took Oath of Allegiance to the U.S. and was paroled and released, surviving the war. His Last Record: L. W. Bramlet, “Pvt. 18th Regt. Geo. Name appears as signature to an Oath of Allegiance to the United States, subscribed and sworn to at Newport News, Va., June 25, 1865.” Place of residence: Macon City, Ga. Vitals: dark complexion, black hair, black eyes, 5 feet 9 inches tall. Remarks: “Captured near Farmville April.” Name “appears in Column of names as L. W. Bramlett.” “Indorsement shows: ‘Roll of prisoners of war released at Newport News, June 25th, 1865, as per G. O. [General Order] No. 109 A.G.O. [Adjutant General’s Office]’” (Roll 18 Sheet 3). Lafayette second married circa 1861 Margaret Ann Mann, daughter of Elizabeth Scott and John Gibson Mann. “L. W. Bramlet” wrote a letter to the probate judge of Abbeville Dist., S.C., requesting information about the estate of Margaret’s father, John G. Mann, on April 2, 1866:
Macon, Ga.
April 2, 1866
To the Probate Judge of Abbeville Dist., S.C.
Dear Sir:
I hasten to make a request of you the Subsistance of it is as follows. I wish for you to search the Records of your office and see if there was any administration maid on the Est. of John G. Mann and by whom it was administered. See if it was made by one Dr. Isaac Branch and if so pleas give me a copy of the Record of all the transactions. State what the said property of John G. Mann was praised at and also what it brought at administrators sale also pleas give me a copy of the winding up of the said est. and into whose hands the money was paid pleas search out and see if any debts was paid of the Est. and by who and how much the est. was in debt and how particular if Archeyble Scott paid any of the debts and how mutch he had to pay and also the Vouchers by whitch the Est. was wound up in a woura pleas to commit to writing the hole of the procedure of the administration and into whos hands the money of the est. was paid by the administrator.
Respectfully your Obt. Servant,
Mr. L. W. Bramlet
Macon, Ga. (Box 118, Pack 3491)
Court records indicate the estate was administered Nov. 20, 1848, by Dr. Isaac Branch. Benjamin Y. Martin and H. A. Jones were bound unto Did Lesley, Ordinary of Abbeville District, in the amount of $3,000. Dr. Isaac Branch told the court John Gibson Mann died intestate, leing a widow.
After Lafayette died, Margaret second married circa 1871 Benjamine Jackson Grenade and had four children. Margaret and Lafayette’s children are William F. “Marion” Bramlett Sr. and possibly (James?) Lafayette “Fate” Bramlett.
William F. “Marion” Bramlett Sr., child of Lafayette Washington and Margaret Ann Mann Bramlett, was born Oct. or Nov. 18, 1859-61, most likely in Georgia or Alabama. He died Nov. 5, 1922, in Marion Co., Ala., and was buried there in Myres Hill Cemetery. His Alabama Death Certificate names him as William Marion Bramlett and indicates he died in Marion Co., Ala. Census and marriage records list him as William F. Bramlett. In 1880 William F. Sr. was working as a hired hand on a farm in Rockdale Co., Ga. He first married Frances “Fanny” Forman circa 1886. She was born circa 1860 in Alabama. She died sometime before 1910. She had a son named James Augustus Forman who adopted the name Bramlett. James married Jessie Bostick. All of their children and grandchildren also adopted the surname. William lived in Walker Co., Ala., in 1900. “William F. Bramlet,” 38, born in October 1861 in Alabama (actually Georgia?) to parents born in Alabama, coal miner, rents home, married fourteen years, and wife, Francis, 39, born in August 1860 in Alabama to a mother born there, father born in England, mother of one living child, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Cagle Precinct 4, Walker Co., Ala. (NARA Film T623:43:60B). Next door is James “Agustus Bramlet,” 20, born in September 1879 in Alabama to a mother born there, father born Georgia, coal miner, rents home, married 0 years (just married), and his wife, Jessie (Bostic), 19, born in September 1880 in Alabama to a mother born there, father born in Georgia, no children. Jessie’s sister, Jane Bostic, 14, born in June 1885 in Alabama to a mother born there, father born Georgia, lived with them. Ten years later in 1910, William lived with James Augustus in a different county and was identified as his step-father. “William F. Bramlet,” 48, born in Georgia, widowed, step-father, is listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Marion Co., Ala., living with “James A. [Augustus] Bramlet,” 30, born in Illinois to a mother born in Mississippi and father born in Ireland, farmer, home farm, first marriage, married ten years, and wife, Jessie, 29, born in Alabama to parents born there, mother of five living children, farm laborer, home farm, are listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Gates Precinct 12, Marion Co., Ala., with four children born in Alabama: James M., 9; Sibble, 7; Willie Lee, 4; and Ida Belle, 3 (NARA Film T624:25:121A).
Sarah Ann Cagle Darty
William married Sarah Ann “Sallie” (Cagle) Darty circa 1913. She was born May 17, 1880, in Alabama, the daughter of Harriet Adeline Cagel (1857-post-1880) and John S. Cagel (1858-1939). She first married Robert Darty in 1898. They had a son, Ernest Jackson Darty, who took the Bramlett surname. Sallie died April 30, 1953, at Winfield, Ala. Sallie and her children lived with her parents in 1910: Sallie A. Darty, 30, born in Alabama to parents born there, farm laborer, first marriage, married thirteen years, mother of two living children, is listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Delmar, Precinct 10, Winston Co., Ala., with two children born in Alabama to parents born there: Ernest J., 6, and William F., 2 (NARA Film T624:37:121B). Also listed are Sallie’s parents, John S. Cagle, 53, farmer, owner of a mortgage-free farm, married thirty-one years, and Harrid (Harriet) A., 53, mother of seven living children, and Sallie’s siblings William C., 19, and Martha F., 15, all born in Alabama to parents born there. All are listed as farm laborers. They lived on Biler Road. Sallie’s husband is not listed with the family. Sarah and William F. Bramlett’s children are William F. “Marion” Bramlett Jr. and Adeline Bramlett.
“William Bramlette,” 59, born in Georgia, farmer, and wife, Sallie A. (Ann Cagle Darty), 39, born in Alabama, are listed in the 1920 U.S. Census for Clark, Precinct 12, Marion Co., Ala., with seven children, including Sallie’s sons from a previous marriage, Ernest J. “Jack” Darty, 16, and William F. Darty (Bramlett), 11, who both later used the Bramlett surname. The record designates William F. (Darty) as a Bramlett and William F.’s son, while Ernest J. is designated as a Darty and William F.’s stepson. The other children are Annie A., 9; Jennie L., 7; Rubie J., 5; Vera, 2 8/12; and Millard E. Bramlett, 7/12 (NARA Film T625:33:147A). All of the children were born in Alabama. Sallie headed the family in 1930: “Sarah A. Bramlett,” 49, born Alabama to parents born there, widowed, rents home, spooling, cotton mill, is listed in the 1930 U.S. Census for Haleyville, Precinct 2, Double Springs, Winston Co., Ala., with four grown and minor children born Alabama to a mother born there, father born Georgia: Adline, 19, cotton mill worker; Ruby, 15; Vera, 12; and Raymon, 7 (NARA Film T626:53:171). Also listed: Lada Phillips, 23, born Alabama to parents born Georgia, widowed, boarder, inspector, cotton mill. They lived on Alabama Avenue.
Children of William F. and Sarah A. “Sallie” (Cagle) Darty Bramlett:
Ernest Jackson “Jack” Darty Bramlett, child of Sarah A. “Sallie” (Cagle) Darty and stepson of William F. Bramlett Sr., was born May 7, 1903. He died May 24, 1960.
William F. Bramlett Jr., child of William F. and Sallie A. (Cagle) Darty Bramlett, was born July 28, 1908. He died Dec. 17, 1972, and was buried in Myres Hill Cemetery, Marion Co., Ala. He lived with his parents and siblings in 1920 in Marion Co., Ala,.
Anna Adaline Bramlett, child of William F. and Sallie A. (Cagle) Darty Bramlett, was born circa 1910. She was a cotton mill worker at age 19 when she lived with her mother and siblings in Haleyville, Ala., in 1930.
Jennie L. “Victoria” Bramlett, child of William F. and Sallie A. (Cagle) Darty Bramlett, was born circa 1913.
Ruby Jo Bramlett, child of William F. and Sallie A. (Cagle) Darty Bramlette, was born Feb. 22, 1915, in Marion Co., Ala. She died June 27, 1975, in Jasper, Walker Co., Ala., and was buried there two days later. (She is listed with her parents in the 1920 U. S. Census as Rubie C. Bramlette and as Ruby Bramlett with her mother in 1930.) Ruby married Almos Olen Kennedy on Nov. 7, 1931, at Winfield, Ala. He was born June 29, 1913, at Hackleburg, Marion Co., Ala., the son of Luther E. Kennedy (1893-1951) and Mary Ann (Burleson) Kennedy (1889-1955). Almos died Dec. 10, 1990, at Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Ala., and was buried two days later at Jasper, Ala. Ruby second married Ados Howell at Winfield, Ala. Children of Ruby and Almos are Almos O. Kennedy Jr., William A. Kennedy, Doris A. Kennedy, Leiland W. Kennedy.
Almos Olen Kennedy Jr., first child of Almos and Ruby J. (Bramlett) Kennedy, was born Sept. 11, 1932, at Winfield, Marion Co., Ala. Almos married Helen Kilgore. Their children, all born in Walker Co., Ala., are Steven Emmet, born in April 1954; Michael Wayne, born Jan. 8, 1956; and Jacqueline Kennedy, born in 1959. Almos second married Marilyn Gargus in 1962 at Lawton, Okla. She was born in 1936 at Oneonta, Blount Co., Ala., the daughter of William Dewey and Princey Ada (Harvey) Gargus. Their daughter is Sara Jo Kennedy, born in 1963 at Orlando, Fla.
William Austin Kennedy, second child of Almos and Ruby J. (Bramlett) Kennedy, was born Jan. 27, 1934, at Winfield, Marion Co., Ala. William married Jean Gay Perkins on Feb. 13, 1955, at LaFayette, La. She was born Jan. 8, 1935, at Florence, Lauderdale Co., Ala., the daughter of William Perry Perkins, Jr. and Mary Duke Mansell. She was legally adopted in 1947 by her stepfather and changed her surname to Roberts. William and Jean lives at 7307 Avalon Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28303. Phone 919.868.5989. Their children are Jeffrey Michael and Julia Marie Kennedy.
Jeffrey Michael Kennedy, first child of William A. and Jean G. (Perkins) Kennedy, was born Nov. 19, 1955, at Sacramento, Calif. Jeffrey married Ann Helen Hecht on June 10, 1975, at Fayetteville, Cumberland Co., N. C. She was born Feb. 14, 1957. Their children, all born at Orlando, Fla., are Jessica Marie Kennedy, born May 31, 1986; Alexandra Hope Kennedy, born Oct. 9, 1988; and Rachel Ann Kennedy, born Oct. 9, 1988.
Julia Marie Kennedy, second child of William A. and Jean G. (Perkins) Kennedy, was born July 21, 1964, at Agana, Guam. She married Brian Kirkman on Nov. 3, 1988, at Greensboro, N. C. He was born May 6, 1965, at Greensboro. They divorced in September 1992.
Doris Ann Kennedy, third child of Almos and Ruby J. (Bramlett) Kennedy, was born in 1938 at Jasper, Walker Co., Ala. Doris married Thomas Hendon. Their children are Page and Theresa Hendon.
Leiland Wayne Kennedy, fourth child of Almos and Ruby J. (Bramlett) Kennedy, was born Sept. 16, 1938, at Jasper, Walker Co., Ala. Leiland married Annette Russell on Dec. 29, 1957, at Cordova, Walker Co., Ala. She was born May 13, 1937, at Dora, Walker Co., Ala., the daughter of Lester Henry and Annie Mae (Vines) Russell. Leiland and Annette’s children are Shelia Darlene, Sharron Deniese and Sylvia Grace Kennedy.
Shelia Darlene Kennedy, first child of Leiland W. and Annette (Russell) Kennedy, was born Nov. 10, 1958, at Lake Charles, Calcasicu Co., La. Sheila first married Charles Ellis Reed II. Their son is Charles Ellis Reed III. Sheila second married Howard Joseph Locke. Their son is Allen Wayne Locke.
Sharron Deniese Kennedy, second child of Leiland W. and Annette (Russell) Kennedy, was born Jan. 18, 1960, at Jasper, Walker Co., Ala. Sharron first married Tommy Weer. She married Barry Tilley. Her daughter is Penny Jo Kennedy.
Sylvia Grace Kennedy, third child of Leiland W. and Annette (Russell) Kennedy, was born Nov. 12, 1970, at Jasper, Walker Co., Ala. She died the same day at Jasper and was buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery at Cordova.
Vera Bramlett, child of William F. and Sallie A. (Cagle) Darty Bramlett, was born circa 1917. She lived with her mother and siblings in Haleyville, Ala., in 1930.
Millard Bramlett, child of William F. and Sallie A. (Cagle) Darty Bramlett, was born May 23, 1919. He died Aug. 13, 1920, and was buried in Myres Hill Cemetery, Marion Co., Ala.
Raymond Bramlett, child of William F. and Sallie A. (Cagle) Darty Bramlett, was born circa 1923 in Alabama. He lived with his mother and siblings in Haleyville, Ala., in 1930.
James Augustus “G.” “Gus” Forman Bramlette
James Augustus “Gus” Bramlette, child of Francis Forman and Unknown Forman Father, was born circa 1879 in Illinois or Alabama. He was adopted by William F. Bramlett. Gus lived near his mother, Francis, and stepfather, William F. Bramlett, in 1900. (His mother, Francis, died before 1910.) James married Jessie Bostic in 1900. She was born circa 1880 in Alabama. James “Agustus Bramlet,” 20, born in September 1879 in Alabama to a mother born there, father born Georgia, coal miner, rents home, married 0 years (just married), and his wife, Jessie (Bostic), 19, born in September 1880 in Alabama to a mother born there, father born in Georgia, no children, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Cagle Precinct 4, Walker Co., Ala. (NARA Film T623:43:60B). Also listed: Jessie’s sister, Jane Bostic, 14, born in June 1885 in Alabama to a mother born there, father born Georgia. Ten years later in 1910, James Augustus headed a family that includes William F. Bramlett in a different county. “James A. [Augustus] Bramlet,” 30, born in Illinois to a mother born in Mississippi and father born in Ireland, farmer, home farm, first marriage, married ten years, and wife, Jessie, 29, born in Alabama to parents born there, mother of five living children, farm laborer, home farm, are listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Gates Precinct 12, Marion Co., Ala., with four children born in Alabama: James M., 9; Sibble, 7; Willie Lee, 4; and Ida Belle, 3 (NARA Film T624:25:121A). Also listed: “William F. Bramlet,” 48, born in Georgia, widowed. “James G. [Augustus ‘Gus’] Bramlette,” 39, born in Alabama to parents born there, coal miner, and wife, Jesse (Bostic), 39, are listed in the 1920 U.S. Census for Brilliant, Precinct 18, Marion Co., Ala., with seven children: James M., 19, labor, coal mine; Willie L.,13; Ida B., 13; Lillie C., 9; Kate, 6; Marion E., 1 4/12; and Richmond P., 0/12 (newborn) (NARA Film T625:33:221B). All were born in Alabama to parents born there. James and Jessie’s children are James M., born circa 1901; Syble, born Dec. 7, 1902, and died April 22, 1917, buried in Mt. Pisgah Methodist Church Cemetery, Marion Co., Ala.; Willie Lee, born circa 1906; Ida Belle, born circa 1907; Lillie C., circa 1911; Kate, circa 1914; Marion E., 1918; and Richmond P., born circa 1920.
Adeline Bramlett, child of Sarah “Sally” Cagle and William F. “Marion” Sr., was born in Alabama. She is named as informant on her father’s death certificate.
(James?) Lafayette “Fate” Bramlett, possible child of Lafayette Washington and Margaret Ann Mann Bramlett, was born in Georgia.
Elevia Bramlett, possible child of Sarah Phinazee and Nathaniel “Nathan” Bramlett, was born circa 1857 in Hall Co., Ga.
Nancy Bramlett, Daughter of John and Mary
Nancy Bramlett, fourth child of Mary Peak and John Bramlett, was born Sept. 20, 1790, in Laurens Co., S.C. She married Lemuel Dacus on Dec. 15, 1814, and she and her family moved to Mississippi. Her son Thomas W. Dacus was born Jan. 14, 1836.
Rev. Reuben Bramlett, Son of John and Mary
Rev. Reuben and Sarah D. Dacus Bramlett rest in Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery
“Bramlett.—Died, Nov. 30, 1884, Father Reuben Bramlett, at the residence of his son, Robert, who had removed his father to his house some weeks before his death. Not that Father Bramlett had not a comfortable and abundant home of his own, where he resided with a most affectionate daughter, but that affection prompted to do all that might be done—by varying the scene around him—to prolong his life. He was 93 years old, Oct. 30, one month before his death. He enjoyed the greatest Christian serenity I he he ever known one to possess. For years before his death, meet him where you would, in reply to the usual salutation, “How do you do?” he would answer “Feeble in body, but as happy as a man can be.” He united with the church after he attained to manhood and was married [in 1814]. He was ever much devoted to Sabbath-schools, and ge, as a teacher, constant attention until 1880, when he became so deaf he could no longer teach a class. He then sat as a scholar in a class until within a few weeks of his death. His wife preceded him to the gre about 11 years ago, full of faith and hope. His residence was near Bethel Church, Greenville Ct. He was a son of sainted Father John Bramlett, of precious memory to Bethel Church. A very large concourse attended the burial at Bethel.” (Vol. 48, No. 12, p. 7, col. 2)
Reuben’s tombstone indicates “He joined M. E. Church in his youth.” He was a Methodist preacher, farmer and the first mail carrier in the county. Sunday School records at Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church indicate Reuben and some of his family were still members in 1882. He married Sarah D. Dacus on Dec. 15, 1814. Sarah was born Nov. 15, 1796, in Virginia, the sister of Nathaniel G. Dacus and daughter of Elizabeth Glenn Thackston and Nathaniel Dacus, born 1759 and died 1935. Sarah died of cancer at age 77, on July 8, 1873, according to the Bible record. Her gre marker in Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery lists her birth and death dates and indicates “She joined M. E. Church 1821.” She died in Greenville County. Sarah’s obituary was published in the Southern Christian Advocate in 1873:
“…Died, on the 8th of June, 1873, Mrs. Sarah D. Bramlett, wife of Rev. Reuben Bramlett, in the 77th year of her age. The deceased was a native of Virginia, and came with her parents to South Carolina in her childhood, and settled and married in Greenville County; where she has lived for over 70 years, and raised a large family—hing at her death some 68 grandchildren, 11 children—9 sons and 2 daughters—and the majority of them he large families living in this county. At one time during the late war, 20 of her sons and grandsons were in the army, fighting for the principles they believed to be right. The Indians had scarcely left their hunting grounds in our county, and the echo of their war songs had barely ceased, when she adopted it as her home. The people of her generation he nearly all passed away. Her husband, Rev. Reuben Bramlett, still survives her, at the advanced age of 83 years, hing lived together for over a half century in the enjoyment of a domestic felicity and contentment that few of the present or past generation he ever experienced. Mrs. Bramlett was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for over 50 years, and her influence was like that of a true mother’s love—like the silent dews of heen, it was ever cheering and refreshing around the family circle, and will transmit its religious power to her latest posterity; for one of the grand aims of her life was to teach her household in the faith that “There is a land of pure delight, / Where saints immortal reign; / Infinite day excludes the night, / And pleasures banish pain.” For months before her death, she daily and hourly expected the dread summons, and although suffering the most excruciating agony from Cancer, she was resigned to her fate, and could say, with the patriarch Job, “All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.” And thus has she left to her numerous friends and relatives a consolation that is sweeter than life and stronger than death; for above the bloom of the gre will arise the light of a pure and honest life.”
Reuben is not listed as head of a family in the 1820 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C. He and Sarah and three children most likely were living with his parents, John and Mary: Reuben probably is the male 26-45, born between 1765 and 1794; Sarah is an enumerated female 26-44, born between 1765 and 1794; and their known children are the two males (Thomas W. and Josiah) under 10, born between 1811 and 1820. Reuben lived near his parents in 1830, according to census records: “Reuben Bramlet,” 30-39, is listed in the 1830 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., as head of a family that includes a female 30-39 (wife, Sarah) and seven children: a female 15-19, born between 1810 and 1815 (unknown–a sister-in-law?); two males 10-15, born between 1815 and 1820 (Thomas W. and Josiah); three males 5-10, born between 1820 and 1825 (William D., Nathaniel D. and John); and one male under 5, born between 1825 and 1830 (Allen Turner). The oldest female may be a sister of Sarah Dacus—Reuben did not he a known sister born between 1810 and 1815. There is no daughter listed as the first child of Reuben and Sarah (Dacus) Bramlett in H. Marvin Bramlett’s Bible or in Reuben’s Bible; and there is no daughter enumerated for them in 1840. “Reubin Bramblett,” 40-50, is listed in the 1840 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., as head of a family that includes a female 40-50 (wife, Sarah) and nine children (the two oldest sons married in 1836 and 1838): one male 20-30, born between 1810 and 1820 (William D.); two males 15-20, born between 1820 and 1825 (Nathaniel D. and John); one male 10-15, born between 1825 and 1830 (Allen Turner); one female 5-10, born between 1830 and 1835 (Margaret J.); one male 5-10, born between 1830 and 1835 (James W.); one female under 5, born between 1835 and 1840 (Mary A. Elizabeth); and two males under 5, born between 1835 and 1840 (Elias Andrew and Robert Hugh/Hulett) (NARA Film M704:512:200). “Reubin Bramblett,” 58, born in South Carolina, farmer, $800 real estate, and wife, Sarah, 54, born in Virginia, are listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., with five grown children born in South Carolina: Margaret, 19; James, 17, laborer; Andrew, 15; Elizabeth, 13; and Robert, 12 (NARA Film M432:853:458A-B). “Reuben Bramblett” is listed in the 1850 Agricultural Census for Greenville Co., S.C., dated November 25 with 50 improved acres and 150 unimproved acres worth $800 and $300 worth of livestock (SCDAH Film 2:1:779-780). Reuben was the first stage coach driver and mail carrier on the “Old Stage Road” route from Greenville to Laurens. He is listed as a mail carrier in the 1860 census. Confederate Papers Relating to Citizens or Business Firms, 1861-1865, indicate Reuben Bramblett of Greenville Court House, S.C., was a “Bidder” to carry the Confederate Mail during the war (NARA Film Roll M346 Document 217). “Reuben Bramblet,” 69, born in South Carolina, mail carrier, $1,000 real estate, $322 personal estate, and wife, Sarah P., 63, born in Virginia, housekeeper, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Buena Vista P.O., Rocky Creek Div., Greenville Co., S.C., with one grown child: daughter Mary A. (Elizabeth), 23, born in South Carolina, weer (NARA Film M653:1220:485B). “Reubin Bramlett,” 78, farmer, $500 real estate and $163 personal estate, and wife, Sarah, 73, keeping house, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Austin Township, Greenville Co., S.C., with one daughter: Elizabeth, 33, born in South Carolina (NARA Film M593:1498:459B-460A). “R. Bramlett,” 89, born in South Carolina to parents both born in South Carolina (actually Virginia), is listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Austin Township, Greenville Co., S.C., as head of a family that includes his daughter Elizabeth, 40, born in South Carolina, single (NARA Film T9:1230:215D).
Meeks Haley Bramlet in his 1924 book A Pioneer Family – Bramlet mentions Reuben and some descendants while providing information about J. Mims Bramlett:
J. Mims Bramlet resides at 2013 Portner Place, N. W., in Washington, D.C. He has lived in Washington about twenty-five years….His father was Robert H. Bramlet, whose brothers were Turner, Joe and Nathaniel. Their father was Reuben Bramlet, whose brothers were Elias and Nathaniel. Their father was John Bramlet, who went to Greenville County, South Carolina, from Fauquier County, Virginia….Most of his relatives live in South Carolina. John was a brother to Reuben Bramlet, who was head of the Illinois branch of the family…. (96)
At least six of Sarah and Reuben’s sons served as Confederate soldiers during the Civil War/War Between the States–Josiah, William D., Nathaniel D., James W., Elias Andrew, Robert H.--and they are referenced by their sister Margaret J. Bramlett Hyde, in a 1909 letter to her nephew Decatur L. Bramlett, Greenville Co., S C.:
“Mauldin SC Sept 28 / 09 Dear Nephew, Your note received and also the record. I will try to answer your questions. Yes, I guess you know pretty much where they all lived and when they died. Josiah died at his old home place Feb 19, [sic 20] 1884. William also died at his old home May the 29, 1875. Nat died in Indiana. I don’t know the date of his death. James was wounded at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee and lived ten days afterward and died in the hospital sometime about the first of December in 1864. Andy died at his home near Gadsden, Ala. Feb 27, 1901. They all went to the war. Joe didn’t stay but two or three months down on the coast about Port Royal. William was in service about two years. Andy went through the war and never carried a gun, drove a comissary wagon and had a good time. Bob [Robert Hugh/Hulett] went at the beginning of the war and stayed till the ending and never was wounded. He belonged to the Butler Guards. I went down to the gre yard last Sunday and drove up an iron pin at the foot of Grandfather’s [John’s] gre, yes his feet is right at the old stump. This lees us all very well at present. Hope you are all well. Write and come to see us when you can. Loving your aunt, Margaret Hyde”
Reuben and Sarah’s children are Thomas W., Josiah (“Joe”), William D., Nathaniel D., John, Allen Turner, Margaret J., James W., Elias Andrew, Mary A. Elizabeth and Robert Hugh/Hulett Bramlett.
Thomas W. Bramlett, child of Reuben and Sarah D. Dacus Bramlett, was born between 1815 and 1816 in Greenville Co., S.C.
Josiah “Joe” Bramlett, child of Reuben and Sarah D. Dacus Bramlett, was born Nov. 28, 1817, according to the family Bible, in Greenville, S.C.. He died at home of an unintenrional, self-inflicted gunshot wound on Feb. 19/20, 1884, and was buried in Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery. His sister Margaret lists his death date as Feb. 19 in her letter quoted above; and his obituary in the April 26, 1884, edition of the Southern Christian Advocate lists his death date as Feb. 20, 1884:
Bramlett. — Died, Feb. 20, 1884, at his residence, ten miles below Greenville city, Bro. Josiah Bramlett. He was born Nov. 20 [sic 28], 1817. Hing been very religiously raised, he joined the Methodist Church, at the old Bethel Church, when quite young. He was a grandson of Father John Bramlett, one (and a very prominent one) of the [founding] Fathers of the now flourishing church at Bethel, with whom Bishop Asbury so often stayed, and upon some occasions, (perhaps before Bethel meeting-house was built) held Conference at his house. Bethel has all along been very attentive to Sabbath-school, and Bro. Josiah Bramlett was one of the most constant assistants. There are those now living who date their early religious convictions to his efforts at Sabbath-school. A man decided in his opinions, he thought much, and relied upon his own convictions of duty. Energetic, prompt, he was never a laggard in duty, and carried forward to (we may say) the extent of his ability, all the enterprises of his Church. His death was the result of what we term as an accident, a wound from a pistol ball unintentionally shot by himself. But yet we he good hope the messenger, Death, did not find him without grace sufficient to the ordeal. Followed by a very large concourse of his brethren, friends and neighbors, we buried him in Bethel gre-yard, by the side of his wife, who had but a few months before been laid there, in hope of the final resurrection. G.” (SCA, Vol. 47, No. 16, p. 7, col. 2)
Josiah first married Lucy Bray before 1840. She died circa 1844 and was buried in Bethel Church Cemetery. Their children are William Anderson, Reuben Henry and John Thomas Bramlett.
Josiah second married Lucinda Garrett on Feb. 4, 1845, in Greenville County. She was born Dec. 10, 1823. She died Nov. 3, 1883, and was buried in Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery. Her obituary appears in the Dec. 15, 1883, edition of Southern Christian Advocate:
“Bramlett.–Mrs. Lucinda Bramlett was born Dec. 10, 1823, and died in Greenville Co., S.C., Nov. 3, 1883. Feb. 4, 1845, she was married to Josiah Bramlett, who with a large family of children, feel so keenly the departure of this devoted wife and mother. For over forty years she was a member of the Methodist Church, and its doctrines and usages were dear to her. The poor and the sick received her special attention. Although a constant sufferer for many years, yet she faithfully discharged the duties devolving upon her as a Christian; when she could no longer go about doing good, upon her couch of intense suffering, she even then did “what she could,” for her family and friends were repeatedly urged to be true to Christ, and to meet her in heen. Her ministrations in Bethel Church, as well as at the Greenville circuit parsonage, will be held in grateful remembrance, and those left behind think of her many acts of faith and love. Peacefully her body sleeps in Bethel Church yard, while her spirit rejoices with ecstasy in the presence of God and the Lamb, with the spirits of just men made perfect. Pastor. (SCA, Vol. 46, No. 49, p. 7, col. 3)
Lucinda and Josiah’s children include Joseph N. (“Josiah”), Mary Ann (“Molly”), Sarah P., Martha A. Caroline (“Lina”), Lucy C., Infant, Jefferson G., Fannie and James G. Bramlett.
“Josiah Bramblett,” 20-30, is listed in the 1840 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., with a female 15-20 (first wife, Lucy Bray) and one male under 5 (son William A.). “Josiah Bramblett,” 31, and second wife, Lucinda (Garrett), 25, are listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., with five children, all born South Carolina: William (Anderson), 10; Reuben (Henry), 9; John (Thomas), 7; Joseph (Josiah N.), 4; Mary (A. “Molly”), 2. “Josiah Bramblet,” 42, and second wife, Lucinda (Garrett), 34, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Buena Vista P.O., Rocky Creek Div., Greenville Co., S.C., with seven children, all born South Carolina: William A. (Anderson), 20; John T. (Thomas), 17; Joseph N. (Josiah), 14; Mary M. (A. “Molly”), 11; Martha A. (Caroline “Lina”), 7; Lucy C., 5; Jefferson G., 11/12 (NARA Film M653:1220:486B).
Josiah served as Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He was enlisted by Col. Charles J. Elford on Nov. 25, 1862, at Greenville as a private in Company A, Third Regiment, First South Carolina Reserves, State Troops (90 Days, June 1862-January 1863). He was present on a company muster roll dated Nov. 13–Dec. 31, 1862. The regiment was stationed at Camp Goldsmith/Haywood, Pocotaligo, S.C., on the South Carolina coast near Port Royal, and disbanded Feb. 10, 1863. Josiah and all soldiers over age 40 were allowed discharge, not conscripted into other regiments. Later Josiah also served as a first corporal in Company K, First Regiment, South Carolina Reserves, State Troops. He enlisted Aug. 1, 1863, in Greenville District and reported for duty Sept. 12, 1863. He served two or three months. He was last listed as present and a first corporal on the company muster roll dated November-December 31, 1863.
Josiah returned home and resumed farming in Greenville County. “Josiah Bramlett,” 52, farmer, and (second) wife, Lucinda, 46, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Greenville, Greenville Co., S.C., with five children: Lina (Martha A. Caroline), 17; Lucy (C.), 14; Jefferson (G.), 10; Fanie, 6; James [G.], 4, all born South Carolina (NARA Film M593:1498:472B). “Josiah Bramlett,” 63, farmer, and wife, Lucinda, 56, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Greenville Court House P.O., Austin Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with two children, Fannie, 18, and Jas. G., 15, and two farm workers (Wm. Lovinggood, 24, mulatto, and Emma Johnson, 19, black), all born South Carolina to parents born there (NARA Film T9:1230:203D).
William Anderson Bramlett, child of Lucy Bray and Josiah Bramlett, was born Feb. 7, 1840, in Greenville Co., S.C. He died from complications of neck cancer on Aug. 16, 1923, at the Columbia Confederate Home in Columbia, Richland Co., S.C., and was buried at Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery. He served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He enlisted June 12, 1861, at Camp Hampton as a private in Capt. L. M. Austin’s Company F, “Jeff Dis Guards,” Infantry Regiment, Hampton Legion, South Carolina Volunteers. His NARA Compiled Military Service Records indicate he was mustered in and served in Virginia; he was furloughed forty days due to illness; on Dec. 22, 1864 he was discharged due to disability from chronic illness (Film M267 Roll 363). William’s service was verified by J. A. McDaniel, Company F, and G. T. Willis, Company E, both Hampton Legion. William may he trained in 1860-1861 at Bethel United Methodist Church with “Jeff Dis Guard” before joining Hampton Legion. Private W. A. Bramlett was a member of Captain Manning Austin Chapter of Confederate Veterans, organized Nov. 18, 1893, in Greenville County. William married Sarah Jane Johnson. She was born Nov. 25, 1842. She died Dec. 5, 1910, and was buried at Bethel.
William A. Bramlett, age 83, born South Carolina, son of Josiah Bramlett, died at Columbia Confederate Home, Columbia, Richland Co., S.C., in August 1923.
William and Sarah lived and farmed in Greenville County. “William Bramblett,” 10, is listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., with father, Josiah, 31, farmer, $500 real estate, and stepmother Lucinda, 25, and four siblings (Reuben, 9; John, 7; Joseph, 4; Mary [Ann “Molly”], 2), all born South Carolina (NARA Film M432:853:458A). “William A. Bramblet,” 20, farmer, is listed in he 1860 U.S. Census for Buena Vista P.O., Rocky Creek Div., Greenville Co., S.C., with father, Josiah, 42, farmer, $2,000 real estate, and stepmother Lucinda, 34, and six siblings (John T., 17; Joseph N., 14; Mary M. [Ann “Molly”], 11; Martha A., 7; Lucy C., 5; Jefferson G., 11/12), all born South Carolina (NARA Film M653:1220:486B). “W. A. Bramlett,” 30, farmer, and wife, Sarah, 27, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Greenville Court House P.O., Austin Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with two children (Mary [Lou], 3; John [J.], 3/12, born April) (NARA Film M593:1498:468B). “W. A. Bramlett,” 40, farmer, and wife, S. J. (Sarah Jane), 37, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Austin Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with two children (M. L. F. [Mary Lou], 13, daughter, and J. J. [John], 10, son), all born South Carolina to parents born there, and one niece (M. E. Johnson, 3/12, born Arkansas, mother Mississippi, father South Carolina) and one black farm worker (John Yeargin, 22, born South Carolina to parents born there) (NARA Film T9:1230:203D). “William A. Bramlett,” 60, born February 1840, farmer, owner of a mortgaged farm, married thirty years, and wife, Sarah J., 57, born September 1842, mother of two living children, both born South Carolina to parents born there, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Austin Twp., Greenville Co., S.C. (NARA Film T623:1529:5B). “William A. Bramlett,” 70, farmer, owner of a mortgaged farm, married forty-five years, and wife, Sarah J., 67, both born South Carolina to parents born there, are listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Austin Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with one other (Badybys Franks, 14, black, hired boy, farm laborer) (NARA Film T624:1460:4B). They lived on Laurens Road. Sarah died in 1910 and William moved to Columbia Confederate Home, where he later died.
William and Sarah’s children include Mary Lou F. and John J. Green Bramlett.
Reuben Henry Bramlett, child of Lucy Bray and Josiah Bramlett, was born in Greenville Co., S.C.
John Thomas Bramlett, child of Lucy Bray and Josiah Bramlett, was born Feb. 3, 1843, in Greenville Co., S.C. He died Oct. 19, 1925, in Greenville Co., S.C., and was buried in Springwood Ceme
tery with an inscribed tombstone. His gre is also marked with a stone inscribed “John T. Bramlett Co. F Hampton Legion, C. S.” He served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States (NARA Film M267 Roll 363). His compiled military service records indicate he enlisted at age 19 as a private in Capt. William L. M. Austin’s Company F, Mounted Infantry Regiment, Hampton Legion, South Carolina Volunteers, on May 1, 1861, at Columbia, S.C. He was badly, severely wounded in a wrist/arm and the chest/side on Sept. 17, 1862, in the Battle of Sharpsburg/ Antietam. J. T. Bramlett witnessed Payroll Receipt 2721 and discharge for (his brother) Reuben Bramlett on Oct. 13, 1862, at Richmond, Va. He was promoted in November or December 1862. He was on wounded furlough until discharged in March 1863. The Confederate Veteran reported John attended the Return of the Flag Ceremony in Greenville in 1883. He also attended the Old Soldiers Reunion at Bethel United Methodist Church in 1900 and was included in the group photo reproduced below: fourth from the right, kneeling with white beard. A cousin, Jesse Joseph Burdett, who served in the same unit, stands sixth from the right in the back row. Reunion photo courtesy Franklin Donald Burdette.
Some Greenville Co., S.C., men who lived near Bethel United Methodist Church, most likely including several Bramletts, trained there in 1861 as “Jeff Dis Guard,” according to a bronze historical marker attached to a building at the church. It is inscribed by J. Kennedy and Boy Scout Troop 350 as part of an Eagle Scout Project in 1994. The marker indicates the guard unit “became Company F of General Wade Hampton’s Legion and fought with distinction in many battles including the first battle of Manassas (Bull Run).” The marker also notes “The Bethel Church grounds were used for reunions by southern war veterans until 1934.”
John applied for and received a pension filed March 28, 1919, at Greenville, S.C. His application indicates his “Left Wrist [was] Shattered and [he was] Shot through right breast [in the war]. My health is good”). He lived at 302 Hampton Ave., Greenville, S.C.; John reported he and his wife were “well fixed – in good shape” with an income in excess of $500 and a property value that exceeded $500. W. H. Ely, Company F, 1st Regiment, and J. A. McDaniel, Company F, Hampton Legion, on March 29, 1919, verified John’s war service.
John T. was a probate judge in Greenville County and a representative of the South Carolina General Assembly. John married Nancy J. “Nannie” Howell. She was born Dec. 3, 1846. She died Feb. 21, 1925, and was buried at Springwood.
“J. T. Bramlet,” 27, farmer, and wife, N. J. [Nancy], 23, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Batesville P.O., Butler Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with one child L. L. (Lillie), 2 (NARA Film M593:1498:504B). “John T. Bramlett,” 37, farmer, and wife, Nancy J., 34, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Butler Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with two children: Josiah W. [Walter/Wattie], 6; Lucy F., 4, and cousin Ann Harbin, 20, and Perry Taylor, 18, male, farm laborer, all born South Carolina to parents born there (NARA Film T9:1230:234B). “John B. (T.) Bramlett,” 57, born February 1843, and wife, Nancy J., 53, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Greenville Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with one child: L. [Lucy] Effie, 25. “John T. Branllett,” 67, and wife, Nancy J., 63, are listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., with daughter-in-law Lucia A. [Dacus] Branllett and five grandchildren.
John and Nancy’s children include Lillie L., Josiah Wattie Bramlett and Effie Lucy Bramlett Sloman.
Judge John Thomas Bramlett
A name which has long been eminently associated with the legal profession in Greenville is that of Judge Jno. T. Bramlett. This gentleman was born in the county on February 3rd, 1843. His parents were Josiah and Lucy Bray Bramlett. The Judge received his early education in the old field schools of the county, and when he was eighteen years of age, he entered the Confederate army. He served with the forces until September 1862, when he was wounded and released. Upon his return home after this he first worked at odd jobs and paid his way through twelve months more of school. After that he went into the farming profession, which he has made his chief interest through life. He was elected to the legislature in 1884, and re-elected in 1894 and 1896. He was elected Probate Judge in 1902 and is now serving his third term in that capacity. Judge Bramlett is a member of the Methodist Church, and is one of the most highly respected men both in his profession and in his church. In 1866 he married Miss Nannie J. Howell. –Special Business Section, The Greenville News, 1911.
Representative J. T. Bramlett of the South Carolina General Assembly was present at a reception at the South Carolina Confederate Home in Columbia, S.C., in 1922: “About three hundred guests enjoyed a beautiful reception at the South Carolina Confederate Home given by the three Chapters of Columbia and the ‘Girls of the 60’s’ in compliment to the members of the General Assembly. The affair was an expression of appreciation to the legislators for the appropriation made last year for improving the Home and as an opportunity of allowing them to see the result of their expenditures. The whole institution was thrown open to the visitors, who inspected all the departments, including the model infirmary. Confederate flags and pine tops, jars of red poinsettias, and white narcissi were decorations used to give Southern colors. In the dining room there was a frieze of flags entirely around the wall, in addition to red and white flowers. The veterans of the Home, some of them wearing their gray uniforms, were cordial and gracious hosts of the occasion. In the receiving line were Gov. R. A. Cooper, with Mrs. Cooper…and three Confederate veterans, who are members of the General Assembly–Senator Jeremiah Smith, and Representatives J. T. Bramlett and J. G. Greer.” —Confederate Veteran, April 1922, 154.
Joseph N. “Josiah” Bramlett, child of Lucinda Garrett and Josiah Bramlett, was born circa 1846 in Greenville Co., S.C. Mary Ann “Molly” Bramlett, child of Lucinda Garrett and Josiah Bramlett, was born circa 1848 in Greenville Co., S.C. She died Aug. 17, 1927, and was buried in Mauldin United Methodist Church Cemetery. She married Elisha Simpson “E. S.” Smith. He was born Oct. 23, 1840, the son of Margarette Elizabeth and John Pattie Smith. He died Feb. 28, 1917, and was buried at Mauldin United Methodist Church Cemetery. Elisha served as a Confederate soldier in the Butler Guards during the Civil War/War Between the States. He enlisted in August 1861 as a private in Company A,, Third (Col. Edward B. White’s) (Palmetto) Battalion, South Carolina Light Artillery, latter Capt. William E. Earle’s Company of Horse Artillery, Butler’s Calry Division. He was captured March 27, 1865, and held as a POW, then paroled May 2, 1865, at High Point, N.C. Mary M. Smith applied for a widow’s pension based on his war service on Sept. 27, 1919, at Greenville, S.C.
Elisha in uniform above, courtesy Nancy Evelyn Smith Jones
Elisha and Mary Ann “Molly” Bramlett Smith
Sarah P. Bramlett, child of Lucinda Garrett and Josiah Bramlett, was born March 31, 1851, in Greenville Co., S.C. She died there June 17, 1853, and was buried in Bethel United Methodist Cemetery.
Martha A. Caroline “Lina” Bramlett, child of Lucinda Garrett and Josiah Bramlett, was born circa 1853 in Greenville Co., S.C.
Lucy C. Bramlett, child of Lucinda Garrett and Josiah Bramlett, was born circa 1856 in Greenville Co., S.C.
Infant Bramlett, child of Lucinda Garrett and Josiah Bramlett, was born and died in 1858 and buried in Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery.
Jefferson G. Bramlett, child of Lucinda Garrett and Josiah Bramlett, was born circa 1860 in Greenville Co., S.C.
Fannie Bramlett, child of Lucinda Garrett and Josiah Bramlett, was born circa 1863 in Greenville Co., S.C.
James G. Bramlett, child of Lucinda Garrett and Josiah Bramlett, was born circa 1865 in Greenville Co., S.C.
William D. Bramlett
William D. (Dacus?) Bramlett, child of Reuben and Sarah D. Dacus Bramlett, was born Jan. 14, 1820, in Greenville Co., S.C. He died at home May 29, 1875, and was buried in Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery. He served as Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. (NARA Film M267 Roll 182).
William married Martha Elizabeth McCrary. She was born circa 1825. She died after 1870. Their children include Sarah Catherine, Jesse T., Harriet Adaline, Alice E., Moses McCrary Bramlett. “William Bramblete,” 31, and wife, (Martha) Elizabeth, 25, are listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., with three children (Sarah [C.], Jesse [T.], [Harriet] Adaline), all born South Carolina. “W. B. (D.) Bramblet,” 40, and wife, Martha E., 35, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Rocky Creek, Greenville Co., S.C., with five children (Sarah C., Jesse T., Harriet A. [Adaline], Allice E., Moses C. [McCreary/McCrary]), all born South Carolina. “W. D. Bramlett,” 50, and wife, M. E. (Martha Elizabeth), 45, both born South Carolina, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Batesville/Buena Vista P.O., Butler Township, Greenville Co., S.C. (NARA Film M593:1498:505A). Widow Martha E. Bramlett, 55, with son Moses M. Bramlett and family, all born South Carolina, 1880 Butler Township, Greenville Co., S.C., census. Widow Martha E. Bramlett, 75, grandmother, living with granddaughter Martha E. Cox, 22, and husband, Hampton H. Cox, 21, and their two children, all born South Carolina, 1900 Butler Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., census (NARA Film T623:1529:60A).
Sarah Catherine Bramlett, child of Martha E. McCrary and William D. Bramlett, was born Nov. 30, 1844, in Greenville Co., S.C. She died there at age 77 on Jan. 15, 1922, and was buried at Rocky Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.
Jesse T.,
Harriet Adaline,
Alice E.,
Moses McCrary Bramlett.
Nathaniel D. “Nat” Bramlett, child of Reuben and Sarah D. Dacus Bramlett, was born March 28, 1822, in Greenville Co., S.C. He died at age 78 on Jan. 19, 1901, in Shelbyville, Shelby Co., Ind., and is buried at Hanover Cemetery, Morristown, Hanover Twp., Shelby Co., Ind. He served as Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States.
He married Elizabeth “Eliza” Thomason in 1844 in South Carolina. She was born Oct. 14, 1828, in South Carolina, the daughter of Mary Elizabeth Owings and William Thomason. She died at age 72 in 1900 and rests at Hanover Cemetery. Nathaniel enlisted After leing South Carolina circa 1862, they lived in Cobb and Milton Co., Ga., and Shelby Co., Ind.
“Nathaniel Bramlett,” 27, farmer, and wife, Elizabeth, 22, both born South Carolina, are listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Roswell, Cobb Co., Ga., with three children (John, 5, born South Carolina; Sarah, 3, born Georgia; William, 6/12, born Georgia) (NARA Film M432:66:106). “N. Bramlet,” 38, born South Carolina, farmer, $400 real estate, $150 personal estate, is listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Alpharetta P.O., Milton Co., Ga., with three children born Georgia (John, 15; Sarah C., 13; Mary J., 10) (NARA Film M653:131:584-585). His wife, Eliza, and son William Harvey Bramlett were visiting her Thomason parents. “N. Bramlet,” 45, farmer, $265 personal estate, and wife, Eliza, 39, both born South Carolina, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Morristown, Hanover Township, Shelby Co., Ind., with four children (Maryetta, 12, born Alabama; Margaret, 8, Georgia; [Francis] Misouri, 6, blank [Georgia?]; Wiley, 3, Indiana) (NARA Film M593:357:157B-158A). “N. D. Bramlet,” 58, farmer, and wife, Eliza, 50, Insane Assylum, both born South Carolina to parents born there, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Van Buren Twp., Shelby Co., Ind., with four children (Margaret, 18, born Georgia, keeping house; Francis M., 15, Georgia; Robert W., 12, Indiana; Sidney A., 9, Indiana, at school) (NARA Film T9:309:126D). “Nathaniel A. Bramlette,” 78, born March 1822 South Carolina, father, widowed, is listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Ward 4, Shelbyville, Addison Twp., Shelby Co., Ind., living with son Wiley D., 32, born July 1867 Indiana to parents born South Carolina, furniture finisher, rents home, married three years, and wife, Julia, 28, born February 1872 Indiana to a mother born Indiana, father born Ohio, no children (NARA Film T623:402:62B). They lived on East Taylor Street.
Nathaniel and Elizabeth’s eight children: John T., Sarah Caroline, William Harvey, Maryetta Jane, Margaret, Francis Missouri, Robert Wiley, Sidney A. Bramlett.
John T. Bramlett, child of Elizabeth Thomason and Nathaniel D. Bramlett, was born 1845 in Georgia.
Sarah Caroline Bramlett, child of Elizabeth Thomason and Nathaniel D. Bramlett, was born Dec. 31, 1848, in Cobb Co., Ga. She died at age 65 on Dec. 24, 1914, in Green, Ky., and was buried there. She married Napoleon Taylor Vaughn on April 13, 1865. He was born in 1840 in Green, Ky. He died there at age 85 on Sept. 15, 1925. They had ten children: Ruth Ellen, William H., Lewis N., Sarah E., Samuel, Mary Florence, America S., Ollie Cleveland, Minnie Ethel, Elijah Thomas Vaughn
William Harvey Bramlett, perhaps child of Elizabeth Thomason and Nathaniel D. Bramlett, was born Feb. 16, 1850, in Cobb Co., Ga. He died at age 84 on Oct. 5, 1934, in Swisher, Tex., and was buried in Plainview, Tex. His Texas Death Certificate 46799 identifies his parents as “W. B. Bramlet” and “Melvina Pless.” However, Melvina was his wife. Clide Bramlet signed as informant.
“William Bramlett,” 6/12, born Georgia, is listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Roswell, Cobb Co., Ga., with parents, Nathaniel, 27, farmer, and Elizabeth, 22, both born South Carolina, and two siblings (John, 5, born South Carolina; Sarah, 3, born Georgia) (NARA Film M432:66:106). He was either missed by the census taker or staying with his mother at his Thomason grandparents in 1860. He married Melvina Pless on Feb. 10, 1870, in Franklin Co., Tenn. They had five children: Jacob Nathaniel (“Jake”), William Cornelius, Minnie Maud, Alice Almeda, Ella Bramlett.
Maryetta Jane Bramlett, child of Elizabeth Thomason and Nathaniel D. Bramlett, was born in Alabama when her mother was visiting relatives.
Margaret Bramlett, child of Elizabeth Thomason and Nathaniel D. Bramlett, was born in Georgia.
Francis Missouri Bramlett, child of Elizabeth Thomason and Nathaniel D. Bramlett, was born in Georgia.
Robert Wiley Bramlett, child of Elizabeth Thomason and Nathaniel D. Bramlett, was born in Indiana.
Sidney A. Bramlett, child of Elizabeth Thomason and Nathaniel D. Bramlett, was born in Indiana.
John Bramlett, child of Reuben and Sarah D. Dacus Bramlett, was born in South Carolina. He died by 1850. He married Sarah Verdin by by 1845 in Greenville Co., S.C. She was born circa 1826 in South Carolina, the daughter of Jemima Verdin. John and Sarah’s children include Reuben Eganiah and John Allen Bramlett. Sarah second married William Yeargin. He was born circa 1806 in South Carolina. He died after 1860 in Greenville County and rests at Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery.
Reuben Eganiah Bramlett, child of Sarah Verdin and John Bramlett, was born in South Carolina.
John Allen Bramlett, wife, Rosa J., and daughter Theodus Bramlett Chandler rest at Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery.
Rosa J. McDaniel Bramlett, wife of John Allen Bramlett, and daughter Theodus Bramlett Chandler, who both died Feb. 22, 1922, rest together at Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery.
John Allen Bramlett, child of Sarah Verdin and John Bramlett, was born in South Carolina. He died . He married Rosa J. McDaniel. She was born Oct. 8, 1853, in South Carolina. Rosa and their daughter Theodus Bramlett Chandler both were shot and killed on Feb. 22, 1922, murdered by Jeff Chandler, husband of Theodus, at Rosa’s home, in rooms above Cox’s Grocery Store at the corner of Buncombe and Echols streets in Greenville, S.C. Chandler, who had lost a leg while serving as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States, subsequently wore a wooden leg. His two children heard their father’s distinctive steps on the stairs and then witnessed the subsequent murders of their mother and grandmother. Chandler shot them both the heart with a .38 caliber Colt Automatic hand gun. The children escaped physical harm. The killings were reported by The State in a Feb. 25, 1922, newspaper article, copied below. Jeff Chandler was born circa 1857
Allen Turner Bramlett, child of Reuben and Sarah D. Dacus Bramlett, was born circa 1826 in South Carolina. He served as Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He enlisted as a private in Company E, Sixth Regiment, Col. Hugh K. Aiken’s Regiment, First South Carolina Partisan Rangers, Dixie Rangers, formerly Sixteenth Battalion, South Carolina Partisan Rangers,Calry. Allen married Ann H. Gary. One child is George Washington Bramlett.
One descendant of George Washington Bramlett, George Warren Bramlett, provided some of the following information.
George Washington Bramlett, child of Allen Turner and Ann H. Gary Brsmlett, was born circa 1847 in Greenville Co., S.C. He died there July 5, 1911, and was buried at Rocky Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. “George [Washington] Bramblett,” 3, born in South Carolina, is listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., living with parents, A. T., 24, and Ann, 30, all born South Carolina. “George W. [Washington] Bramblett,” 13, is listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Plano P.O., Standing Springs Div., Greenville Co., S.C., with parents, A. T., 34, and S. Ann, 32, all born South Carolina (NARA Film M653:1220:495B).
George served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He joined for duty and enrolled as a private in Capt. James Knight’s Company, later Company E, Sixth Regiment, Col. Hugh K. Aiken’s Regiment Partisan Rangers, Dixie Rangers, on May 1, 1862, at Laurens Court House. The unit previously was known as Sixteenth Battalion, South Carolina Partisan Rangers, South Carolina Calry. Capt.. James P. Knight and Lt. R. S. Cobb enlisted George “for the war.” George was age 15, with a horse valued at $250. He is listed as a teamster on the November-December 1863 company muster roll. He appears on a Register of C.S.A. General Hospital No. 11, Charlotte, N.C., with a complaint of “contusis” (coughing), admitted May 15, 1864, and returned to duty May 20, 1864. He was present but sick on the July-August 1864 company muster roll. He served at least until September-October 1864. his last reference in his compiled military service record notes he was last paid to June 30, 1864 (NARA Film M267 Roll 39). George married Sarah Ann “Sallie” Walker circa 1870. She was born circa 1848 in South Carolina. She died before 1900. “George W. Bramlett,” 33, farmer, and wife, Sarah, 32, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Butler Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., with three children: Jesse W., 9; Mary L. (“Mamie”), 7; George O., 2, and a niece (Fannie M. Roe, 19), all born South Carolina to parents born there (NARA Film T9:1230:234A). “George W. Bramlett,” 53, born in March 1847, father, widowed, is listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Butler Twp., Greenville Co., S.C., living with son Clifford R. (Raymond) Bramlett and family, all born South Carolina (NARA Film T623:1529:60B). George was a magistrate in Greenville Co., S.C., and Clifford served there some time as sheriff. George and Sarah’s children include Jesse W., Mary L. (“Mamie”), George Osgood and Clifford Raymond Bramlett.
Margaret J. Bramlett, child of Reuben and Sarah D. Dacus Bramlett, was born in South Carolina.
James W. Bramlett, child of Reuben and Sarah D. Dacus Bramlett, was born in South Carolina. He served as Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States.
Elias Andrew “Andy” Bramlett, child of Reuben and Sarah D. Dacus Bramlett, was born in South Carolina. He served as Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States.
Mary A. Elizabeth Bramlett, child of Reuben and Sarah D. Dacus Bramlett, was born in South Carolina.
In Memoriam: Robert Sidney Bramlett and Lila Beth Carson Bramlett, Together Forever, Remembered in Love, Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Texas
Descendant Robert Sidney Bramlett, late of Coldspring Tex., provided much of the following about Robert Hugh/Hulett Bramlett and family. Robert was part of a close-knit dedicated family research group, descendants of brothers John and Reuben Bramlett, in the early 2000s who worked together to research the King George and Prince William (later Fauquier) Co., Va., Bramletts in Henry Bramlett Sr.’s line. Robert supported early Virginia research and research on family members who participated in the Civil War, not because he was a fan of that conflict, but because he valued genealogical details found in the official records. Although they were both Texas natives, Robert had Bramlett and Holland ancestors from South Carolina, including the venerated Austin family of Gilder Plantation, Greenville County. History was his hobby, family was his life.
Robert Hugh/Hulett “Bob” Bramlett, eleventh child of Reuben and Sarah (Dacus) Bramlett, was born in Greenville Co., S.C., on Sept. 2, 1838, according to Reuben Bramlett’s Bible. No death certificate or will has been found; however, probate records indicate he died intestate March 10, 1897, in South Carolina. His burial place is unknown but believed to be Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery. Dr. A. White on Jan. 15, 1898, presented a bill for Robert’s medical care to Robert’s estate. The records indicate that Dr. W. P. League also attended Robert during 1897 and billed the estate in 1898. Robert’s youngest child, H. Marvin, served as administrator of his estate in 1899. John R. Blakely owed Robert a mortgage/loan amounting to $50. (John R. Blakely married Mamie Bramlett [30 September 1868–8 May 1924], widow of John R. Bramlett [23 July 1859–7 April 1918]). All of Robert’s children, except Austin who had died in 1894, are mentioned in his estate records. Named in a recorded inheritance agreement between Robert’s heirs on Sept. 27, 1899, are J. C. Herring, Adair Junkhouse, W. H. Smith, J. D. Cantrell, B. P. Holland, W. L. Bramlett, D. M. (Daniel McGillova) Bramlett, J. M. (Mims) Bramlett, Ellie N. (Nora) L. Smith, W. C. (William) Bramlett, Homer L. Bramlett and H. M. (Marvin) Bramlett. They agreed to lee all of Robert’s personal property at the home place and not divide it until the death of his wife, “Viney.”
At Rest – Gone But Not Forgotten
Robert married Nancy Linia “Liny” “Viney” Holland circa 1857 in Greenville County. She was born Sept. 28, 1835, in South Carolina, the daughter of Mary (Maemie?) Baldwin (1799—?) and Robert T. Holland (27 November 1795–12 December 1877), son of Amelia Tarrant Phillips and Solomon T. Holland. Viney’s sister Elizabeth Holland married Robert’s brother James W. Bramlett. Linia died a widow on Jan. 15, 1912, in Marion Co., Tex., and was buried there at New Prospect Cemetery. “Robert Bramblet,” 22, farmer, $100 personal estate, and wife, Nancy L. (Lina), 25, both born in South Carolina, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Buena Vista P.O., Rocky Creek Div., Greenville Co., S.C., with two children: Daniel M. (McGillova), 2, and Austin L., 6/12 (NARA Film M653:1220:485B-486A). They lived with Linia’s parents, Mary Holland, 60, housekeeper, and Robt. Holland, 65, farmer, $4,500 real estate, $1,000 personal estate, both born in South Carolina. Robert served steadfastly and honorably, surviving several months of illness and the dangers of camp life and battle, for three years as a Confederate soldier in South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina during the Civil War/War Between the States. He enlisted as a private in Company B, Second (Palmetto) Regiment, South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, on July 1, 1862, at Columbia, S.C., and “was still with that unit when it surrendered to Federal forces at Durham Station, N.C., on April 26, 1865,” according to descendant Jerry Bramlett. Robert’s NARA Compiled Service Records indicate he was mustered in on July 20, 1862, at Camp Marshall, Va. His Second (Palmetto) Regiment, attached to Gen. Joseph B. Kershaw’s Brigade, Gen. McLaw’s Division of Gen. Longstreet’s First Corps, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, was first called into State service about April 9, 1861, for twelve months at Columbia and organized in South Carolina with men from several counties, including Greenville where Robert lived. The regiment participated in the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter April 12-13, 1861, before Robert enlisted. The regiment was mustered into Confederate States service on May 22, 1861, and later reorganized for the war in May 1862. Robert reached Camp Marshall, Va., on July 20, 1862, to report for duty and was stationed near Richmond for two years. The company muster roll for September-October 1862 says he was absent, sick at Strasburg, Va. He entered a field hospital there after contracting measles in September. His name appears on a Register of Receiving and Wayside Hospital or General Hospital No. 9 in Richmond dated Oct. 31, 1862: “Transferred to Gen. Hosp. No. 13” (Confederate Archives, chap. 6, file no. 117, p. 125). Another record, a Register of General Hospital No. 13 at Richmond with the same date provides his residence, “Plain RR, Greenville Dist., S.C.,” and indicates that after a relapse of measles he “Returned to duty Feb. 2, 1863” (Confederate Archives, chap. 6, file no. 257, p. 25). Records of his illness include the following: “R. H. Bramlett Priv. Co. B. 2d S.C.” who was enlisted by “Col. Green [at] Greenville, July 1, 1862 [for the duration of the] War” appears on an undated identification Register of General Hospital No. 13, Richmond, Va. (Confederate Archives, chap. 6, file no. 257, p. 146). He also appears on a Receipt Roll for clothing issued Nov. 17, 1862 (Roll No. 2399) and as present on a Hospital Muster Roll of soldiers, sick and wounded to Oct. 31, 1862, dated Nov. 22, 1862, who was “Not paid since enlist[ment].” A Company Muster Roll dated November-December 1862 indicates he was “Absent with sick lee at Richmond, Va.,” and last paid by L. M. Loveless to Aug. 21, 1862. He was present on an undated Hospital Muster Roll of soldiers, sick and wounded at General Hospital No. 13, Richmond, Va., to Dec. 31, 1862, which indicates he was last paid by Capt. Mason to Nov. 1, 1862, and that his “Name appears in Col. of Names Present as R. H. Bramlett.” His name also appears on a Register of Medical Director’s Office, Richmond, Va., at General Hospital No. 13, which indicates he was admitted Oct. 31, 1862, and returned to duty Feb. 2, 1863 (Confederate Archives, Chap. 6, file no. 155, p. 88/281). The company muster roll dated January-February 1863 indicates he was present and last paid “In Richmond” to Dec. 31, 1862. His name appears on receipt roll for clothing for the first quarter of 1863. He was present on a company muster roll dated Feb. 28, 1863, near Fredericksburg, Va., and present on the May-June 1863 company muster roll, which indicates he was last paid by L. M. Lovelace to April 30, 1863. He was present on the July-August 1863 company muster roll and last paid by Capt. Villipique to June 30, 1863. He was present on the September-October 1863 company muster roll and last paid by Capt. Villipique to Aug. 31, 1863. His name appears on a receipt roll for clothing for the third quarter 1863, and present on the November-December 1863 company muster roll as last paid by Capt. Villipique to Oct. 31, 1863. A company muster roll dated January-February 1864 indicates Robert was absent “on Recruit furlough” at Greenville, S.C., on Feb. 29, 1864, and was last paid by Capt. Villipique to Dec. 31, 1863. He returned and was present on the March-April 1864 company muster roll, which indicates he was last paid by Capt. Villipique to March 1. He was present on the May-June 1864 company muster roll, which was dated Dec. 15, 1864, and last paid to May 1. He signed receipt rolls in the third quarter of 1864 for clothing issued Aug. 11, 1864 (Roll No. 835), later in August (no roll number) and on Sept. 19, 1864 (Roll No. 1733). Robert’s unit ended the war in North Carolina. The Second (Palmetto) Regiment South Carolina Infantry consolidated about April 9, 1865, with Twentieth South Carolina Infantry and part of Blanchard’s South Carolina Reserves to form New Second Regiment South Carolina Infantry. The unit surrendered April 26, 1865, with the Army of Tennessee at Durham Station, N.C., and was paroled May 2, 1865. “R. H. Bramlett Private, Co. B, 2 Reg’t South Carolina Infantry” appears as present on an undated “Muster Roll of Officers and Men paroled in accordance with the terms of a Military Convention entered into on the 26th day of April, 1865, between General Joseph E. Johnston, Commanding Confederate Army, and Major General W. T. Sherman, Commanding United States Army in North Carolina.” The record says he was enlisted July 1, 1862, at Columbia, S.C., and that he was paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, May 2, 1865 (Roll No. 557). After the war, Robert named a son after a friend who also was one of his military commanders. Descendant Jerry Bramlett shared the tradition: “Robert’s company commander was a Lt. (later Capt.) Jacob W. Cagle who had enlisted as a private when the war first started in April 1861. He was promoted through the ranks and was Captain by the end of the war. Apparently, he and Robert had a close friendship (probably from before the war). When Grandad (William Cagle Bramlett) was born in May ’65, he was given the middle name Cagle. Jacob Cagle also ge Robert a finger ring which Robert later ge to Grandad, who passed it on to my dad (Earnest Doyle Bramlett), who passed it to my older brother.” William may he actually been named William Jacob Cagle Bramlett or called Jacob Cagle Bramlett by the family: He is listed as “J. C.” with his parents in the 1870 census. After returning home from the war Robert was a member of Camp Manning Austin of Confederate Veterans at Greenville, S.C.
Robert and Nancy Lina farmed in Greenville County and were members of the Methodist Church. Sunday School records indicate R. H. Bramlett and family were members of Bethel Methodist Episcopal (now United Methodist) Church, and R. H. Bramlett also served as treasurer of Bethel Church Sunday School in 1882. “Robert [Hugh/Hulett] Bramblett,” 12, is listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Greenville Co., S.C., with parents, Reuben, 58, born South Carolina, farmer, $800 real estate, and Sarah, 54, born Virginia, and four siblings: Margaret, 19; James (W.), 17; (Elias) Andrew, 15, laborer; (Mary) Elizabeth (H.), 13) (NARA Film M432:853:459A-B). “Robert Bramblet,” 22, and wife, Nancy L., 25, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Buena Vista P.O., Rocky Creek Div., Greenville Co., S.C., with two children: Daniel M., 2, and Austin L., 6/12, all born South Carolina (NARA Film M653:1220:485B). They lived with Nancy’s parents, Mary Holland, 60, and Robert Holland, 65. “R. H. Bramlett,” 32, farmer, $367 personal estate, and wife, Nancy, 25, keeping house, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Greenville Court House P.O., Austin Township, Greenville Co., S.C., with five children: Daniel, 12; Austin, 10; Cagle, 5; Ella, 3; and Mims, 11/12 (NARA Film M593:1498:472). All were born in South Carolina. “R. H. Bramlett,” 43, farmer, Levinia, 45, keeping house, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Austin Township, Greenville Co., S.C., with six children: Austin L., 20, laborer; J. C. (William Cagle), 15, works on farm; Elen N. (Nora) L. (“Nellie”), 12, assists in keeping house; J. (Jack) Mims, 9; Homer (L.), 4; and Hulett (Hugh) M. (Marvin), 2 (NARA Film T9:1230:206A). “Luvenia Bramlett,” 63, born in September 1836, widowed, is listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Austin Township, Greenville Co., S.C., living with son Homer, 24, December 1875, head of the family, farmer, owner of a mortgage-free farm, and son (Hulet/Hugh) Marvin, 21, June 1878, farmer, and his wife, Bettie (Lina Elizabeth Austin), 23, October 1876 (NARA Film T623:1529:7A). All were born in South Carolina.
Robert and Linia’s children are Daniel McGillova, Austin L. (“Bud”), William Cagle, Ella Nora L. (“Nellie”), Jack Mims, Homer L. and Hugh/Hulett Marvin Bramlett.
Daniel McGillova Bramlett, first child of Robert H. and Nancy L. Holland Bramlett, was born in South Carolina.
Austin L. “Bud” Bramlett, second child of Robert H. and Nancy L. Holland Bramlett, was born in South Carolina.
William Cagle Bramlett, third child of Robert H. and Nancy L. Holland Bramlett, was born in South Carolina.
Ella Nora L. “Nellie” Bramlett, fourth child of Robert H. and Nancy L. Holland Bramlett, was born in South Carolina.
Jack Mims Bramlett, fifth child of Robert H. and Nancy L. Holland Bramlett, was born in South Carolina.
Homer L. Bramlett, sixth child of Robert H. and Nancy L. Holland Bramlett, was born in South Carolina.
Hugh/Hulett Marvin Bramlett, seventh child of Robert H. and Nancy L. Holland Bramlett, was born in South Carolina. He married Lina Elizabeth “Bettie” Austin. Their children include Robert Sidney and Beth Bramlett Bell. Hugh second married Ever. Their child is James C. Bramlett.
True Texans
Robert Sidney “Bob” Bramlett, child of Lina Elizabeth “Bettie” Austin and Hugh/Hulett Marvin Bramlett, was born May 26, 1926, in Longview, Tex. He died March 23, 2009, in Florida. He married Lila Beth Carson. She was born Sept. 15, 1927, in Longview, Tex., the daughter of Addelle Howe and Thomas Kincaid Carson and granddaughter of Laura Lightfoot and James Emmett Howe and Susan Murray and Richard Carson. Beth died Jan. 29, 2002. Both Bob and Beth rest at Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Harris Co., Tex., in the Bramlett plot beside the gre of their son Robert Carson Bramlett. They also had a surviving daughter, Rebecca, and another son, Russell, both married with families. History was his hobby, family his life.
DIE, FLORIDA – Robert S. Bramlett, born May 26, 1926, of Coldspring, Texas, passed away peacefully on March 23, 2009. Robert “Bob” grew up in Longview, Texas, and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during WW II and later graduated from Baylor University. Bob married his high school sweetheart and the love of his life, Beth Carson Bramlett and enjoyed 56 years of marriage. Bob’s professional life as an oil trader was extensive, first with Conoco for 20 years, and later with Hydrocarbon Trading and Transportation and Bramlett Petroleum Company in Houston. Bob and Beth retired later to their lake home near Coldspring, where they lived an active life in the community involved with the Houston Model A Club, the Lions’ Club, and the Coldspring Methodist Church. He was a true Texan, with a great love and interest in Texas history and genealogy.
Bob was a loving and generous husband, father, grandfather and friend to the community. Family and friends enjoyed many great years and good times together. He was dearly loved and will be greatly missed. Bob is survived by daughter, Rebecca Brerman and husband, Howard living in Hollywood Florida; son, Russell Bramlett and wife, Wendy live in Boulder Colorado; sister, Beth Bramlett Bell; grandchildren include, Sandra Hodes, Andrea Brin, Marissa Bramlett, Ryan Bramlett, and Leslie Bramlett (daughter of deceased son Robert C. Bramlett and surviving wife Linda Bramlett Stewart); great-grandchildren, Haley Beth Hodes and Harrison Sidney Hodes are the latest additions to the family. A small family gathering will be held at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, where he, Bob will be laid to rest with his wife, Beth and son, Robert.
Alcey Bramlett, sixth child of Mary Peak and John Bramlett, was born Dec. 5, 1792, in Laurens Co., S.C. Alcey’s birth date is inscribed in a Bramlett Bible probably originally owned by her brother Reuben. She married and her family settled in Mississippi.
John Wesley Bramlett, seventh child of Mary Peak and John Bramlett, was born June 4, 1795, in Laurens Co., S.C. John’s birth date is inscribed in a Bramlett Bible originally owned by his brother Reuben. John’s first and middle name honors John Wesley, the first Methodist Bishop and founder of Methodism in America who religiously and profoundly influenced Henry Bramlett Jr.’s family, including his wife, Margaret, and sons John, Henry III and Nathan, who co-founded two Methodist churches in South Carolina after moving from Virginia. John Wesley Bramlett lived in Greenville Co., S.C., and settled in Gilmer Co., Ga. He established a school and was the first teacher there and was involved in civic activities, serving more than thirty years as county treasurer. He died there in late February 1888 and was buried in Bramlett Cemetery, a small fenced greyard with three burials behind Denport Hosiery Mill in Ellijay, Ga. John’s gre is in the center marked with a degraded dark headstone. His wife is buried in the gre next to his, to his left. John’s obituary, headlined “Death of a Pioneer, An Aged Citizen of Gilmer County Dead,” in the March 3, 1888, edition of the Atlanta Constitution, indicates he was a Methodist nearly all of his life and lived a mile south of Ellijay:
“Ellijay, Ga. March 2. —[Special.]—On last Saturday, at his home, one mile south of town, Mr. John Wesley Bramlett passed over the river of death. Mr. Bramlett was the oldest citizen of Gilmer county, and one of the most highly respected. He was born in Greenville, S.C., June 4, 1795, and would he been 93 years old next June. He was an old-fashioned Methodist, and had been a member of that church nearly all his life. He had lived to see eight of his great-great-grandchildren. He had been treasurer of Gilmer county for thirty-three years. When Gilmer county, in the long ago, included nearly all of the present territory of Pickens and Fannin counties, and there were only twenty-two votes cast for representative in this county, Mr. Bramlett was here. He helped lay out the town of Ellijay, and had attended every superior court that has ever been held in the county, except the last term, at which time he was unwell, and he had kept a list of all the judges and county officers since the county was organized. He was clerk of the superior court when Book A, the first record of Gilmer county, was begun, and had, also, been deputy sheriff. Mr. Bramlett was a great Bible reader and perhaps knew more about the scriptures than any man in the county. Looking back upon a long and well-spent life of nearly a century, he expressed a pardonable pride in hing lived peaceably with his fellow men. He had a happy way of disagreeing with people without offending them, which kept him out of difficulties. Forty-eight hours before his death he could tell you more about this country and everything that had happened in it since before the red man had been removed, than perhaps all the men in the county put together. His memory was remarkably good. He was never intoxicated in his life, and I don’t suppose he had an enemy in all the world. Nearly all of the pioneers of this country he long since passed away, only a few remain in this world….”
The obit also includes a request from “Uncle Wesley” to he his nephew Rev. B. [Bethel] B. Quillian of Cass Station, Ga., preach his funeral from the last two verses of the ninety-first Psalm. Verses 15-16, King James Version:
“15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
“16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.”
John married Elizabeth Griffith. She was born circa 1805-06 in South Carolina, the daughter of Mary “Polly” Reed and Benjamin M. Griffith Jr. (The Griffiths were natives of South Carolina who moved to Hall Co., Ga., and then also settled in Gilmer County by 1838, probably as early as 1833. Griffith was a sle owner and prominent in the early development of Gilmer County as surveyor. He served several years on the Georgia State Senate.) John helped his father-in-law lay out the city of Ellijay, served as the second road commissioner, and served as the first clerk of the superior court there. At one time John served as a deputy sheriff. The Griffiths and Bramletts are featured as early settlers in Gilmer County Genealogical Society’s First Families Project. Elizabeth, her mother Mary and siblings are listed as heirs in her father’s April 1853 will. Elizabeth died Sept. 16, 1901, in Gilmer Co., Ga., and was buried there beside John at Bramlett Cemetery.
Historian George Gordon Ward in 1960 memorializes John in The Annals of Upper Georgia:
“Before the first academy building was completed, a man named John W. Bramlett had organized a school to be taught by himself in it. Mr. Bramlett should no doubt be accorded the honor of being Ellijay’s first teacher. This was about 1835. And 16 years after Moody Hall established his school at Tal-Loe-Ney, later Carmel. Mr. Bramlett was not a man of extensive education. But he was credited with being thorough. He taught only the commoner branches of an elementary or English education. He rendered general satisfaction to his patrons, this being, in an important particular, because he was solicitous in a marked way for the progress of his younger pupils. A thing that magnified the importance of this phase of aptness was the fact that all the larger boys and girls that might he been in school were more likely to be at home at work. Mr. Bramlett, who has numerous descendants still in the county, continued to teach until about the close of 1839.
“John Wesley Bramlett, pioneer teacher and official, was born in London, England, [sic Laurens County, South Carolina] in 1795. He and a brother migrated to America together [sic were born in America]. He came to Gilmer before the county’s organization in 1833, He became commissioner of roads of the county, September 13, 1838, succeeding William Reed, who probably died at or near that time. He and Bethel B. Quillian seem to he joined the Methodist church at the same time. At the opening of the civil war he was one of the few Gilmer men who still owned sles. His work as first teacher of Ellijay is recorded.
“On the the Sunday in June 1888, B. B. Quillian is recorded to he delivered at Ellijay an address memorializing John W. Bramlett. His text was the last two stanzas of psalms 91. It was stated that Mr. Bramlett had died several months prior at age 93. But Lewis Bramlett, J. W.’s grandson and still living [1960] in Ellijay recalls that he was 94 at the time of his death.
“He was buried in a small family plot, a mile south of Ellijay and back of the Denport Hosiery Mills. The plot that contains his gre, now on the mill premises, is enclosed by a neat wire fence. His wife, whose maiden name was Griffith, is also buried here.”
Census data identify most of the Bramlett children. “John W. [Wesley] Bramlett,” 55, farmer, and wife, Elizabeth, 44, both born South Carolina, are listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Subdiv. 33, Gilmer Co., Ga., with eight grown and minor children born Georgia: (Margaret M., 21; Nancy W., 19; Elizabeth H., 17; John C. [Calhoun], 15, farmer; Stephen L. [Lewis], 13; William H. [Henry], 11; Cicero T. [Taylor], 5; [Hines] Milton M., 3) (NARA Film M432:70:359).
John ge a deposition about Indians to the Gilmer Co., Ga., Court, on Feb. 3, 1857:
“John W. [Wesley] Bramlett,” 65, farmer, and Elizabeth, 55, both born South Carolina, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Subdiv. 33, Gilmer Co., Ga., with minor and grown children born Georgia: (Mary M. [Matilda] Quillian, 36; Margaret [M.], 26 [31?]; Nancy [W.], 24 [29?]; Elizabeth [H.], 22 [27?]; William H., [Henry] 20; Cicero T. [Taylor], 14; Hines M. [Milton], 12; Andrew M. [Murphy], 9) (NARA Film M653:124:16). “J. W. Bramlett,” 74, born South Carolina, farmer, $800 real estate, $200 personal estate, and wife, Elizabeth, 64, born Georgia, keeping house, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Subdiv. 55, Ellijay P.O., Gilmer Co., Ga., with one grown child: Matilda Quillian, 46, born Georgia, insane (NARA Film M593:152:1A). “J. W. Bramlet,” 84, born South Carolina to parents born Virginia, farmer, and wife, Elizabeth, 74, born Georgia to parents born South Carolina, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Ellijay Dist., Gilmer Co., Ga., with two grown children: Margarett Slate, 51, born South Carolina to parents born Virginia, housekeeper, and Matilda Quillian, 54, born Georgia (South Carolina) to parents born Virginia, at home, sick: insanity (NARA Film T9:148:564).
Five of John and Elizabeth’s sons served as Confederate soldiers during the Civil War/War Between the States. They enlisted in Georgia. John and Elizabeth’s children include Susannah L., Mary Matilda, Margaret M., Nancy W., Elizabeth H., John Calhoun, Stephen Lewis, William Henry, Cicero Taylor, Hines Milton, Andrew Murphy Bramlett.
Susannah L. Bramlett, child of John Wesley and Elizabeth Griffith Bramlett, was born May 17, 1822, in Georgia. She died at age 79 on June 24, 1901, in Gilmer County and was buried at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. She married Jesse Charles on June 30, 1839, in Ellijay, Gilmer Co., Ga. He was born Sept. 8, 1815, in Warren Co., Tenn., the son of Mary Jay and Melchizadeck Charles, a Methodist Episcopal minister of Gilmer and Jackson Co., Ga. (Mary is daughter of Elizabeth Earp and Rev. Did Jay Sr.) Jesse died Jan. 21, 1903, in Ellijay, Ga., and was buried at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. “Susanna L. Charles,” 27, born South Carolina, and husband, Jesse, 31, born Tennessee, farmer, $150 real estate, are listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Subdiv. 33, Gilmer Co., Ga., with children born Georgia: Elizabeth J., 11; Benjamin G., 9; William F., 7; John W., 11 months (NARA Film M432:70:353A).
“Susannah Charles,” 40, and husband, Jesse, 44, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Subdiv. 33, Gilmer Co., Ga., with six children all born Georgia: Elizabeth, 20; William F., 13; John W., 11; James, 9; Mary, 5; Margaret A., 1 (NARA Film M653:124:36). Also: Benjamin Charles, 19, and Martha Charles, 16. “Susannah Charles,” 51, born South Carolina, keeping house, and husband, Jesse, 53, Tennessee, farming, $1,300 real estate, $400 personal estate, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Subdiv. 55, Gilmer Co., Ga., with four children born Georgia: James R., 18; Mary L., 16; Margaret C., 12; Nancy C., 9, and one other: Susanna Bryant, 18, keeping house (NARA Film M593:152:5A). They lived in Ellijay in 1900: “Susannah L. Charles,” 80, born South Carolina to parents to parents born there, mother of eight children, seven living, married 61 years, and husband, Jesse, 84, born Tennessee to a mother born North Carolina, father Virginia, farmer, owner of a mortgage free farm, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Subdiv. 55, Gilmer Co., Ga., with one other: Anna Carpenter, 22, born North Carolina to parents born there, servant (NARA Film T623:200:16B). They lived on Cartersville Street. Their children include Elizabeth Jane, Benjamin Griffith, William Fletcher, John Wesley, James Robert, Mary Louise, Margaret C., Nancy Charles.
Mary Matilda Bramlett, child of John Wesley and Elizabeth Griffith Bramlett, was born circa 1824 in Georgia. Matilda M. Quillian lived with her aged parents in 1860, 1870 and 1880 census data, which the latter two years cite her as being “insane.”
Margaret M. Bramlett, child of John Wesley and Elizabeth Griffith Bramlett, was born circa 1829 in Georgia. Margarett Slate, 51, lived with her aged parents in 1880.
Nancy W. Bramlett, child of John Wesley and Elizabeth Griffith Bramlett, was born circa 1830 in Georgia.
Elizabeth H. Bramlett, child of John Wesley and Elizabeth Griffith Bramlett, was born circa 1833 in Georgia.
John Calhoun Bramlett, child of John Wesley and Elizabeth Griffith Bramlett, was born May 28, 1835, in Georgia. He died Feb. 16, 1918, in Bluff Dale, Erath Co., Tex., and was buried there at Glen Cemetery. His daughter Sarah signed his Texas Death Certificate as informant. His parents are identified on the document as Wesley Bramlett and Elizabeth “Giffey.” He lived with his grandson Charley Gordon Bramlett in 1910.
John served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He enlisted as a private in Company H, “Gilmer Light Guards,” Fain’s Regiment, Col. Sumner J. Smith’s Legion, “Georgia Partisan Rangers,” Georgia Volunteer Infantry Battalion, on May 15, 1862, in Ellijay, Ga. The unit later became Company A, Smith’s Legion, Infantry Battalion, Georgia Volunteers, and 65th Regiment, Georgia Infantry. His Compiled Military Service Records indicate he deserted Feb. 23, 1864, at Dalton, Ga., and rejoined the unit from desertion April 1, 1864. He was captured near Jonesboro, Ga., Sept. 2, 1864, and exchanged at Rough and Ready, Ga., Sept. 19/22, 1864 (NARA Film M266 Roll 601; NARA Film M266 Roll 571).
John married Nancy Caroline Sharp circa 1852. She was born circa 1833 in North Carolina. She predeceased him. John lived with his parents in 1850 and in Gilmer Co., Ga., until he moved to Texas by 1910. “John C. [Calhoun] Bramlett,” 15, born Georgia, farmer, is listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Subdiv. 33, Gilmer Co., Ga., with parents, Elizabeth, 44, and John W. (Wesley), 55, farmer, both born South Carolina, and six siblings born Georgia (Margaret M., 21; Nancy W., 19; Elizabeth H., 17; farmer; Stephen L. [Lewis], 13; William H. [Henry], 11; Cicero T. [Taylor], 5; [Hines] Milton M., 3) (NARA Film M432:70:359). “John C. [Calhoun] Bramlett,” 25, born Georgia, $300 personal estate, and wife, Nancy C., 27, born North Carolina, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Subdiv. 33, Gilmer Co., Ga., with five children born Georgia (Lewis H. [Henry], 7; Margaret E. [Elizabeth], 5; William A. [Asbury], 4; Henry C. [Ciscero], 2; Sarah L., [Louise] 1/12) (NARA Film M653:124:16-17). “John C. [Calhoun] Bramblett,” 35, born Georgia, farmer, and wife, (Nancy) Caroline, 37, born North Carolina, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Ellijay P.O., Subdiv. 55, Gilmer Co., Ga., with seven children born Georgia (Lewis H. [Henry], 17; Margaret E. [Elizabeth], 16; William A. [Asbury], 14; Henry C. [Ciscero], 12; Sarah L. [Louise], 10; Nancy L./A., 8; Mary C. [Catherine], 5) (NARA Film M593:152:66A). “John C. Bramlett,” 44, born Georgia to parents born South Carolina, farm laborer, and wife, Nancy C., 47, born North Carolina to parents born there, keeping house, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Ellijay, Gilmer Co., Ga., with five children born Georgia (Margarett E., 26; Wm. A., 24, works on farm; Sarah L., 20; Nancy A., 18; Mary C., 13) (NARA Film T9:148:564A). “John Bramlet,” 64, born May 1836, Georgia, farmer, rents farm, widowed, is listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Cartecay Dist., Gilmer Co., Ga., with three grown children born Georgia (Sarah L., 34, April 1866; Nancy A., 32, April 1868; Mary Clonegar, 28, June 1871, widowed) and one granddaughter born Georgia (Caroline Clonegar, 8, born June 1891, at school) (NARA Film T623:200:68B). “Jno. C. Bromlett,” 81, born Georgia to parents born Virginia, widowed, grandfather, and one grown child (Sarah, 41, born Texas [actually Georgia] to a mother born North Carolina, father born Georgia, single) are listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Justice, Wilson, Precinct 3, Comanche Co., Tex., living with grandson Charley G. Bromlett, 24, farmer, general farm, rents farm, and his wife, Dollie, 24, no children, both born Texas to parents born there (NARA Film T624:1541:103A). John and Nancy’s children include Lewis Henry, Margaret Elizabeth, William Asbury, Henry Ciscero, Sarah Louise, Nancy A., Mary Catherine Bramlett.
A Bramlett family member died in Erath Co., Tex., and rests at Poor Farm Cemetery, according to the memorial pictured below..
Lewis Henry Bramlett, child of Nancy Caroline Sharp and John Calhoun Bramlett, was born Jan. 16, 1853, in Gilmer Co., Ga. He died March 31, 1945, in Erath Co., Tex., and was buried at West End Cemetery, Stephenville, Erath Co., Tex. He married Susanna Josephine Bryant on Aug. 16, 1871, in Gilmer Co., Ga. MB-2:315) Their children include Lilla Caroline, William Henry, John Barto, James Dewitt, Ida, Charley Gordon, Effie Mae Bramlett.
Margaret Elizabeth Bramlett, child of Nancy Caroline Sharp and John Calhoun Bramlett, was born circa 1854 in Georgia.
William Asbury Bramlett, child of Nancy Caroline Sharp and John Calhoun Bramlett, was born circa 1856 in Georgia.
Henry Ciscero Bramlett, child of Nancy Caroline Sharp and John Calhoun Bramlett, was born circa 1853 in Georgia.
Sarah Louise Bramlett, child of Nancy Caroline Sharp and John Calhoun Bramlett, was born circa 1860-66 in Georgia.
Nancy A. Bramlett, child of Nancy Caroline Sharp and John Calhoun Bramlett, was born circa 1862-68 in Georgia.
Mary Catherine Bramlett, child of Nancy Caroline Sharp and John Calhoun Bramlett, was born circa 1867-68-71 in Georgia. She married a Clonegar.
Stephen Lewis Bramlett, child of John Wesley and Elizabeth Griffith Bramlett, was born circa 1837 in Georgia. He died Aug. 12, 1863, in Mississippi while serving as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. “Stephen L. Bramlett,” 13, born Georgia, is listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Subdiv. 33, Gilmer Co., Ga., with parents, Elizabeth, 44, and John W. (Wesley), 55, farmer, both born South Carolina, and seven siblings born Georgia (NARA Film M432:70:359). Stephen is not with parents in 1860. Stephen enlisted as a private in Company G, “Gilmer Lions,” Thirty-Ninth Regiment, Georgia Infantry, on March 10, 1862, in Ellijay, Gilmer Co., Ga., his residence. “S. Bromlet/Bramlet, Private, Company G, 39th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Bounty Pay Roll dated Camp McDonald, Ga., March 28, 1862: received $50 payment of bounty for enlisting,” signed “Stephen L. Bramlet.” He was captured July 4, 1863, at Battle of Vicksburg, Miss., and paroled in the field July 6, 1863. He died Aug. 12, 1863 (NARA Film M266 Roll 442). His Compiled Military Service Records show a pension inquiry, perhaps from his father: “S. L. BRAMLETT Pension Inquiry, Confederate Statement of Service Reference Slip, Commissioners of Pensions, State of Georgia: S. L. Bramlett, Private, Company G, 39th Regiment, Georgia Infantry: ‘Statement made any further word! J. F. per GBF.’ Reply, July 5, 1907: ‘Nothing addl. further….’”
William Henry Bramlett, child of John Wesley and Elizabeth Griffith Bramlett, was born circa 1840 in Georgia. He died unmarried at Camp Sam Jones, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Va., while serving as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. His Compiled Military Service Records indicate he enlisted July 3, 1861, and died Jan. 28, 1862 (NARA Film M266 Roll 260). His Father’s Death Claim: “Georgia Gilmer County} Personally appeared before me Benjm. Johnston an acting Justice of the Peace for said County John W. Bramlett who being duly sworn saith on oath that Wm. Henry Bramlett late of the Army of the Confederate States of America a Private in Company D of the Eleventh Regiment of Georgia Volunteers, deceased, was the son of the said John W. Bramlett and that said Wm. Henry Bramlett had neither wife nor child sworn to and subscribed before me this 12th day of February A D 1862 test Benjm. Johnston, J.P.” Affidit: “Georgia Gilmer County} Personally appeared before Benjamin Johnston an acting Justice of the Peace of said County Moses Greer/Green? & John W. Griffith who being duly Sworn Saith on oath that the foregoing affidit of John W. Bramlett is true and that he is the Legal Heir of the said Wm. H. Bramlett sworn to and subscribed before me this 12th day of Feby 1862 test Benj. Johnston, J.P. Moses Greer/Green…” “Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond, Va. May 5, 1862. It appears from the Muster Roll of Company (D) of the 11th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, on file in this office, that Cpl. W H. Bramlette of his Company was enlisted 3rd July 1861, and died Jany. 28th, 1862. Jno. Withers, A.A. Genl.” “Georgia Gilmer County} I John W. Bramlett do hereby constitute and appoint Western R. Welch Captn. of Co. D 11th Regiment Georgia Volunteers my atty. for me and in my name to collect and draw all moneys due to Wm. H. Bramlett deceased and to Receipt for the same this 12th day of July 1862 [signed] John W. Bramlett Benj. Johnston J.P.” “Treasury Department, Second Auditor’s Office Nov. _, 1862 The Quartermaster General C.S.A. Sir Please report me the last payment clothing &c. to W. H. Bramlett deceased late Corporal of Captain ____ Company ‘D’ 11 Regiment Geo. Vols…died 28 Jany 1862 Very respectfully &c., T. Calvert Clerk.” “[Treasury Dept.] 2nd Auditor’s Office Nov. 2, 1862 4th Corp. W. H. Bramlett enlisted July 3d, 61 …the war…pay & clothing to 1st Nov. 61. No later returns in this Office John W. Benson Qr. M. Gens. Office Novr 27th. W. H Bramlett appears to be last paid to 31st Oct. 61 acc. the Roll in this office of 11th Ga. Vols. A. S. Garnett” “No. 2323 L A/C William H. Bramlett, Decd. 4 Corpl. Capt. Welch’s Co. ‘D’ 11. Regt. Ga. Vols.’ Due him $113.13 Appropriation: Pay &c. Officers & privates of the Army Vols. Militia &c. Reported Decr. 16, 1862, Returned Decr. 16th,’ [1862] Certificate taken out Decr. 19, 1862.” “The Confederate States. To William H. Bramlett deceased, late 4 Corpl. of Capt. Welch’s Co. ‘D’ 11 Reg’t., Ga. Vols.’ Dr. For pay from 31 Oct. 1861, when last paid, to Jany. 28, 1862, when he died, including $50. Bounty & $75. Clothing as per reports herewithin 2 mo’s & 28 days CH 13. 38.13 Bounty & Clothing 75.00 Total $113.13 Payable to Capt. W. R. Welch for John W. Bramblett Treasury Department Second Auditor’s Office Decr. 10, 1862 B. W…Controller’s Office December 16th, 1861…Miller Clerk.” The case was settled in December 1862: “Camp Sam Jones Near Centreville, Va. Feby. 26 1862 Dear Sir Inclosed please find …John Honeycutt and 4th Corpl. W. H. Bramlett, Company D, 11th Georgia Volunteers. I am sir very Respectfully Your Obt. Servt. W. R. Welch Capt. Co. D, 11th Ga. Vols. To W. H. S. Taylor Auditor”. “Tucker[?] Hall, Ga. Capt. W. R. Welch Rec. Mch 4th/62 *John Honeycutt Sergeant W. H. Bramlett Corporal Co. D, 11th Ga. Wrote Adj. Gen. as to both Apr. 30, 1862–Wrote Q. M. Gen. as to both Nov. 10 1862. Settled Dec. 8, 1862.”
Cicero Taylor and Margaret Hunnicut Bramlett gres, courtesy D. Gresh
Cicero Taylor Bramlett, child of John Wesley and Elizabeth Griffith Bramlett, was born June 17, 1845, in Gilmer Co., Ga. He died there June 25, 1904, and was buried at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Ellijay, Ga. “Cicero T. Bramlett,” 14, born Georgia, is listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Subdiv. 33, Gilmer Co., Ga., with parents, Elizabeth, 55, and John W. (Wesley), 65, farmer, both born South Carolina, and seven siblings born Georgia (Mary M. [Matilda] Quillian, 36; Margaret [M.], 26 [31?]; Nancy [W.], 24 [29?]; Elizabeth [H.], 22 [27?]; William H. [Henry], 20; Hines M. [Milton], 12; Andrew M. [Murphy], 9 (NARA Film M653:124:16). He served as a soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He enlisted as a private in Company A, Fain’s Regiment, Col. Sumner J. Smith’s Legion, “Georgia Partisan Rangers,” Georgia Volunteer Infantry Battalion, most likely around May 21, 1862, in Georgia. He was transferred when the unit reorganized in March 1863 as Sixty Fifth Regiment, enlisting again June 25, 1863, at Kingston, Tenn. His Compiled Military Service Records indicate he deserted Sept. 9, 1863, and returned from desertion Dec. 8, 1863. He again deserted at Camp Dalton, Ga., on Feb. 23, 1864, and took the Oath of Allegiance to U.S., April 16, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tenn. (NARA Film M266 Roll 571). Last Record: Cicero T. Bramlette, Private, 65th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, “Name appears as signature to an Oath of Allegiance to the United States, subscribed and sworn to on the day and year set opposite the several names” dated April 16, 1864: Place of residence: Gilmore (Gilmer) Co., Ga.; dark complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes, 6 feet tall; “Signs by mark.” Note: “Indorsement shows: ‘Roll of Deserters who he taken the Oath of Amnesty at Chattanooga, Tenn.” (Roll 10, Sheet 8). His wife, Margaret, applied for a Widow’s Pension, Application 11220, filed Aug. 12, 1913, at Van Buren Co., Ark. The record indicates veteran Cicero T. Bramlett, Company A, 65th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, died 1904.
Cicero married Margaret Hunnicut. She was born July 29, 1842, in South Carolina, the daughter of Lockey Webb and Moses J. Hunnicut. She died July 29, 1927, and was buried at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. “Cicero Bramblet,” 25, born Georgia, farming, $300 real estate, $200 personal estate, and wife, Margaret, 22, born North Carolina, keeping house, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Subdiv. 55, Gilmer Co., Ga., with two children born Georgia (John N. [W.], 3; Rebecca J., 1) (NARA Film M593:152:66A). “Cicero T. Bramlett,” 34, born Georgia to parents born South Carolina, farmer, and wife, Margaret, 34, born North Carolina to parents born there, keeping house, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Ellijah, Gilmer Co., Ga., with five children born Georgia (John W., 13, works on farm; Rebecca J., 11, at home; Cornelius W., 8, at home; Lewis M., 5; Joseph C., 1) (NARA Film T9:148:563C). “Cicero T. Bramblett,” 54, born June 1845 in Georgia to parents born South Carolina, farmer, owns mortgage free farm, married thirty-five years, and wife, Margaret, 35, born January 1846 in North Carolina to parents born there, mother of eight children, five living, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Ellijay Dist., Gilmer Co., Ga., with one grown child born Georgia (Joseph C., 21, June 1878) (NARA Film T623:200:13B). Margaret Bramlett, 63, born Georgia to parents born North Carolina, widowed, mother of eight children, six living, is listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Town Creek Road, Ellijay Dist., Gilmer Co., Ga. (NARA Film T624:182:184A). Cicero and Margaret’s children include John W. Bramlett, Rebecca Jane Bramlett Logan, Cornelius W. Bramlett, Lewis M. Bramlett, Joseph C. Bramlett, born between 1869 and 1875.
Hines Milton Bramlett, child of John Wesley and Elizabeth Griffith Bramlett, was born circa 1848 in Georgia.
Andrew Murphy Bramlett, child of John Wesley and Elizabeth Griffith Bramlett, was born circa 1851 in Georgia.
Mildred “Milley” “Amelia” Bramlett, eighth child of Mary Peak and John Bramlett, was born Jan. 14, 1797, at Bethel Camp Ground, Greenville Co., S.C., according to grandson Julien Potter Wooten. Milley’s birthdate is inscribed in a Bramlett Bible originally owned by her brother Reuben. She died at the home of her daughter Sue Sherman in Macon, Bibb Co., Ga., on Sept. 8, 1878. Milley “became a member of the Methodist Church when about 16 years of age,” according to grandson Julien, who recorded information about Milley and her parents and siblings from Susan Bramlett and Elias Bramlett during a trip to Greenville County in 1886. The “most prominent characteristic of [Milley’s] youth and maidenhood was her all pervading piety,” Julien wrote. “As Uncle Elias told me very proudly, she was the most beautiful shouter he ever heard.”
Milley in 1819 married Ira Lucius Potter, a farmer and later Methodist Episcopal Church minister. He was born April 10, 1794, in Laurens Co., S.C., the twelfth child of Jemima Green? (c 1750—post-1810) and Stephen Potter Sr. (c 1742 England—1797 South Carolina). Ira’s brother Adam Potter married Elizabeth Barksdale; and their daughter Sarah Elizabeth Potter married William Rutherford Bramlett (A descendant of Reuben Bramblett Jr. of Fauquier Co., Va., and Laurens Co., S.C., and Reuben Bramblett Sr. of Fauquier Co., Va., and Bourbon Co., Ky.) Ira wrote his will on Oct. 17, 1864, and died Oct. 18, 1864, in Lumpkin, Stewart Co., Ga. Ira attended Rock Spring Academy two years. His obituary in the Dec. 1, 1864, edition of the Southern Christian Advocate details his religious devotion:
“Rev. Ira L. Potter was born April 10th, 1794; converted to God in 1815; licensed to preach the same year; joined the S.C. Conference in 1833; transferred to the Fla. Conference in 1846; to the Ga. Conference in 1853; was superannuated in 1857; located in 1859; and died in Lumpkin, Ga., Oct. 18th, 1864, in his 71st year.
“This is a brief epitome of a life full of years, and abundant in labors. Youth, manhood, and old age, alike were consecrated; alike were useful. To preach the gospel was the business of his life, and to the last was his chief delight. His preaching, though at times eccentric in expression, always abounded in good sense. The volume of sermons that bears his name illustrates his habitual style. Hing a constitution remarkable for its vigor and elasticity, he was not easily deterred by distance or by weather from meeting a pulpit engagement. This indomitable energy was often exhibited even when he had passed the time allotted to man upon earth. To fill an appointment forty miles distant he had gone when overtaken by the sickness that proved fatal. Under kind nursing, he so far recovered as to be brought home; but as he himself felt and said, he returned only to die. His disease assumed a more threatening form. His sufferings increased. He bore all patiently, even cheerfully. The throat being the seat of the affection, the power of distinct articulation was lost several days before he died. Yet he was able by indubitable signs to express an entire resignation to the will of God, and a good hope of the better world. ‘Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord: they rest from their labors; and their works do follow them’ JTN.” (SCA 2:4)
Ira and Milley lived in Laurens District in 1818-20 and in Pickens District, S.C., in 1835. They moved to Anson, N.C., in or before 1840. They lived in Charlotte, N.C., in 1843, and they moved to Thomasville, Thomas Co., Ga., by 1849. They lived Georgia until their deaths.
Ira wrote about the deaths of three children in North Carolina in 1840 for Southern Christian Advocate:
“I wish to tell my tale of woe to my relations and friends through your paper. Since the obituary of my daughter, which was published in the Advocate of June 19th, the youngest three of my children are no more. They were taken with cholera morbus, supposed to he been brought on by scarlet fever; and the first, who was a son named Andrew McPherson, died on the 1st of July, aged three years, five months and three days. The second was a daughter, named Louisa Green, who died on the 10th of July, aged six months and one day. The third was a son named Ira Lucius; he died on the 31st of July, aged one year, seven months and twenty-one days.
“Thus end all earthly joys,
“Thus dear connexions part.
“My children are gone to Heen, and Heen is the place where I hope to rest when all my toils are over; and I think I can truly say, “the Lord ge and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord’ Cedar Hill, Anson Co., N.C., Aug. 2, 1840. Ira L Potter”
“Amelia Potter,” 63, and husband, I. L. (Ira Lucius), 66, Methodist preacher, $3,500 real estate, $4,600 personal estate, head of the family, both born in South Carolina, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Preston P.O., Southern Dist., Webster Co., Ga., with two others (daughter Martha Allday, 27, born in South Carolina, and husband, J. R. Allday, 30, born in Georgia, dentist, $400 personal estate (NARA Film M653:140:407). “Milly Potter,” 74, born in South Carolina, keeping house, $600? real estate, is listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Lumpkin, Stewart Co., Ga., living with Susan E. Sherman, 38, born in South Carolina, literary teacher, $2,400? real estate, $100 personal estate, head of the family, and two others both born in Georgia: Hannie? Sherman, and Olivia Smith, 18, housekeeper (NARA Film M593:174:8A).
Ira and Milley’s children include Adam C., John M., Prudence Caroline, Rosannah B., William Milton, Mary Ann, Susan Emily, Martha Irene (“Mattie”), Andrew McPherson, Ira Lucius Jr., Louisa Green Potter.
Julien Potter Wooten, a resident of Washington, D. C., where he worked as a government employee, made a trip to Greenville County to visit his grandmother’s birthplace. His four-page unpublished history dated Greenville, S.C., Feb. 10, 1886, which typescript and transcript are included below, contains some valuable information. Their reference to John’s brothers Henry III and Reuben (author/blogger’s direct ancestor) is priceless since Bible records he not been found with names for their parents and siblings. The typescript copy was contributed by Michael Hart of Rockville, Md., and Wilton Pollard of Hampton, Va., direct descendants of John and Mary, some thirty years ago. The original transcriber, who signed their name “HWD,” typed the history and corrected one inaccurate note about John’s brother Reuben. In addition, some other material needs clarification, which is noted below in brackets:
“I he been today in the midst of the Bramlettes, the relations of my grandmother Potter, whose maiden name was Mildred Bramlettte. I he been down to Bethel Campground about 10 miles south of Greenville, and he seen the places of her birth, childhood, and early womanhood, and he the following of my family history from my great uncle Elias Bramlette and my great-aunt Susan Bramlet, the latter of whom has never married.
“My great-grandfather, John Bramlet, and his wife, Mary Peake, were born and married in Farqua [Fauquier] County, Virginia, and moved to Bethel Campground, Greenville County, S.C. in 178–.”
[John’s obituary indicates he and Mary moved to South Carolina after their marriage circa 1784-1785 in Fauquier Co., Va. They are in the 1790 census for Laurens Co., S.C., and moved into Greenville County circa 1797, the year Mildred was born there at Bethel Campgound, before 1799.]
“His [John’s] brothers, Henry and Reuben, moved from Virginia about the same time to Elbert County, Georgia, and Indiana [sic: Illinois] respectively. A grandson of Reuben was afterwards governor of that state.*
[Henry Bramlett III, 1755-1830, moved into Laurens Co., S.C., by 1775-1776; and Reuben, 1757-1844 (direct ancestor of blogger) was in South Carolina serving on the Indian Line as a soldier during the American Revolution in 1778 or 1779 and returned to Virginia. He and his wife, Elizabeth Brown, married there and with their first child, Benjamin, moved to Laurens Co., S.C., by 1787, when their second child, Henry “Harry” Bramlett, was born there. Reuben and family moved to Christian Co., Ky., by 1801 and later settled in Gallatin (now Saline) Co., Ill., in 1818. Reuben did not live in adjacent Indiana, and no Bramlett served as governor of that state. However, Thomas Elliott Bramlette, son of Ambrose Shrewsbury Bramlette and grandson of Revolutionary War veteran James Bramlette Sr. and great-grandson of Rev. William Bramblett II/Jr., did serve as governor of Kentucky in 1863-1867. See his history in this Blog. (Rev. William Bramblett II/Jr. is believed to be brother of Henry Bramlett Sr. who is direct ancestor/grandfather of John, Henry III, Nathan, Reuben and others. Gov. Bramlette’s father, Ambrose Shrewsbury Bramlette, is a cousin of John, Henry III, Nathan, and Reuben.) The original transcriber/typist, HWD, includes a note at the bottom of the transcript/history to make a correction:
“*In checking up this item, learned from the Librarian of Public Library in Denver, who is an Indianian and has made a study of Indiana history, that he found no Bramlette who had been governor of Indiana, but one Bramlette who had been governor of Kentucky. This perhaps is due to some inaccuracy of memory. (HWD)”
Indiana is adjacent to Illinois, where Reuben settled in 1818. Thomas Elliott Bramlette, son of Ambrose Shrewbury Bramlett and grandson of Revolutionary War veteran James Bramlette Sr., served as governor of Kentucky, also adjacent to Indiana and Illinois, in 1863-1867.
Nathan, also to Hall County, Ga.; Nancy, who married Mr. Dacus and moved to Octibika County, Miss.; Reuben, who lived and died in Greenville, S.C.; Alcy, who married Mr.. Hall and moved to Gwinnet[t] County, Miss. [sic Ga.]; John W. moved to Gilmore [sic Gilmer] County, Ga.; Mildred, my grandmother; Rosa, who married a Mr. Franks and lived and died in Laurens County, S.C.; Mary, also in Laurens County, S.C.; Henry, who moved to Franklin County, Ga., and thence to Chickisaw County, Miss.; Susan, unmarried, still living here; and Elias also. I he spent a day with each of them: both of excellent memory and good health, each some eighty odd years of age. My grandmother, Mildred Bramlett, was born at Bethel Campground, South Carolina, in 1797; became a member of the Methodist Church when about 16 years of age, the most prominent characteristic of her youth and maidenhood was her all pervading piety. As Uncle Elias told me very proudly, she was the most beautiful shouter he ever heard….”
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“She [Mildred] was married to Ira L. Potter, a farmer of Laurens County, S.C., in 1818 at her father’s home by Lewis Rector, a Baptist minister, no Methodist minister being ailable. I he tried in vain to find out something about their courtship. All I can learn is that Grandfather met her one day at dinner when he had come up to Bethel to attend campmeeting, and thence the trouble began which causes these few lines to be written.
“My grandfather, Ira L. Potter, was born and raised in Laurens County, S.C., on a farm on Lock Creek, four miles from Laurens, the county seat. He had only a poor country school education and was a farmer until about five years after his marriage when he had a ‘call’ to preach and did so. I am told that he made a very poor start at preaching, but was bound to overcome every obstacle, and in the end succeeded nobly, getting command of a wonderful flow of language and eloquence and was one of the foremost preachers in the South for many years before his death, which was in 1862. He attended the Rock Spring Academy at or near Laurens, S.C., for two years after his ‘call’ and after the birth of three or more of his children. His father died when he was quite young and his mother raised the family alone. His brothers and sisters were: Adam Potter, Stephen Potter (who were both farmers and lived and died in Laurens County, S.C.), Prudence Potter who was married to Hoshua Franks of Laurens County, S.C. (the Rev. Robert P. Franks is her son), and another sister married to Maston Glideville of Laurens County, S.C.
“After Grandfather went to preaching he lived in many places and rode many circuits in Northern South Carolina: Pickens, Greenville, and Darlington Circuits among them. He was transferred to the Georgia Conference sometime about 1845 and thereafter lived and preached in Southwest Georgia until his death, in Thomasville, Lumpkin, Cuthbert, and Bainbridge. My grandmother died at the home of Aunt Sue [daughter of Mildred] in Macon, Georgia, in 1877.
“My grandfather’s children, as near as I can remember were: John M., a Methodist preacher, who lived and preached in Southwest Georgia (Dawson and circuit) until his death about 1884. He left a widow, Aunt Nan, and one son, Linton P., surviving him: Mary, who was married to Mr. McCrimmon, and afterwards to Mr. White, the last I heard living in Dardenville, Arkansas; Martha, married to Dr. Allday, a dentist, and moved to — Texas; Milton, captain in the Confederate Army and killed at the battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, unmarried; Susan (Aunt Sue) married to Henry Sherman, who was killed in the Confederate Army, leing one daughter (cousin Hannie), whom he never saw. Aunt Sue was afterwards married to Rev. D. R. McWilliams, a Methodist preacher, and had three children, Did, William Samuel, and Clara. They are living in Cuthbert, Georgia, and may the Lord bless them for all their many kindnesses to me!”
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“C. Beattie Johnson, an insurance agent in Shreveport, La., is a second cousin of mine; his father Ben (?) Johnson was a brother of my grandmother Wooten.
Aunt Matt Allday, sister to my mother, is a widow, now living at Round Mountain, Blanco County, Texas.
Aunt Mary White is now living at Leon, Kansas.
Aunt Rosa Hunt, Dardenelle, Arkansas.
Mrs. Gould, Uncle Elias’ daughter…Jersey City….
Robert P. Franks, Cheraw, S.C.
Dr. Bramlet, Easley, S.C.
Beverly Potter, Spartanburg, S.C.
Miss Lilla Collins, Beaufort, S.C.
Uncle Jones Wooten, Lawtonville, S.C.
*In checking up this item, learned from the Librarian of Public Library in Denver, who is an Indianian and has made a study of Indiana history, that he found no Bramlette who has been governor of Indiana but one Bramlette who had been governor of Kentucky. This perhaps is due to some inaccuracy of memory. [HWD]
End of transcript
Thank you so much, Dear Julien, for your wonderful history. And Thank you, Michael, and you, Wilton, for preserving and sharing it.
Tombstones of Minnie and Daniel Mitchell
Martha Ermina “Minnie” Wooten, child of Harriet Elizabeth Potter and Josiah Daniel Wooten, was born Sept. 21, 1855, in Georgia. She died Dec. 5, 1927, and was buried at Oak City Cemetery, Bainbridge, Ga. She married Daniel M. Mitchell. He was born Aug, 21, 1849, in Brooks Co., Ga. He died Jan. 19, 1900, and was buried at Oak City. His obituary appears in the Feb. 1, 1900, edition of Bainbridge Democrat (p. 3). Daniel served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He may he enlisted as a private in Company E, First Regiment, Georgia (“Symons”) Reserves (M226 Roll 43). “Minnie Mitchell,” 45, is listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Bainbridge, Decatur Co., Ga., with children Julian M., 16; John P., 13; Dorothy E., 10; Grace W., 5 (NARA Film T623: : ). All were born Georgia. Also listed, four boarders: Mrs. G. H. Dickenson, 31; Ida E., 5; Hallie, 4; Susie, 3. Minnie and Daniel’s children include Julian McRae, John P., Dorothy E., Grace Wooten Mitchell.
Julien Potter Wooten, child of Harriet Elizabeth Potter and Josiah Daniel Wooten, the family historian, was born circa 1858 in Georgia. He visited his Aunt Susan Bramlett and Uncle Elias Bramlett in Greenville County in 1886 to gather and record information about the family history. “Julien P. Wooten,” 40, born in August 1859 in Georgia to parents born there, boarder, government clerk, is listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Washington, D.C. (NARA Film T623:161:130B). Julien lived in Elsmore Hotel on H Street North West. He was not married in 1886-1900.Ida Bettie Wooten, child of Harriet Elizabeth Potter and Josiah Daniel Wooten, was born in Georgia. She was a child in 1896.
Andrew McPherson Potter, child of Mildred Bramlett and Ira L. Potter, was born Feb. 27, 1837, in Laurens Co., S.C. He died of scarlet fever and cholera July 1, 1840, in Anson Co., N.C.
Ira Lucius Potter Jr., child of Mildred Bramlett and Ira L. Potter, was born Dec. 21, 1838, in South or North Carolina. He died of scarlet fever and cholera on July 31, 1840, in Anson Co., N.C.
Louisa Green Potter, child of Mildred Bramlett and Ira L. Potter, was born Feb. 27, 1840, in Anson, N.C. She died of scarlet fever and cholera on July 10, 1840, in Anson Co., N.C.
Rosanah “Rosey” “Rosa” Bramlett, ninth child of Mary Peak and John Bramlett, was born March 9, 1798, in Greenville Co., S.C. Rosa’s birth date is inscribed in a Bramlett Bible probably originally owned by her brother Reuben. Rosa died June 1, 1873, in Laurens Co., S.C., and was buried there at Nehemiah Franks Cemetery or Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery in Greenville County.
Rosa married Nehemiah Franks, son of Robert Frank/s, by 1830 in Greenville Co., S.C. Nehemiah was born circa 1784 in Laurens Co., S.C. He died July 27, 1859, in Laurens District and was buried in Nehemiah Franks Cemetery. (Robert Frank/s was born Feb. 9, 1754, in Lunenburg Co., Va., the son of Nancy or Mary Peak and Nehemiah Franks Sr. Robert died in 1816 in Laurens District. His father, Nehemiah Franks Sr., was a Revolutionary War veteran, born circa 1715-1720 in Westmoreland Co., Va., and died Nov. 6, 1799, in Laurens Dist., S.C. Nehemiah Sr.’s parents may be Sarah Marshall? and Robert Frank Jr.)
Rosa headed her family in 1860 the year after her husband died: “Rosanna Franks,” 62, born in South Carolina, farmer, is listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Highland Home, Laurens Co., S.C., with two others: son James Franks, 18, born in South Carolina, and sister Susan Bramlett, 56, born in South Carolina. “Rosa Franks,” 72, keeping house, $1,500 real estate and $450 personal estate, is listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Laurens Twp., Laurens Co., S.C. (NARA Film M593:1501:107A). Living nearby are sister Susan (Franks) Bramblett, 36, keeping house, and her three children (William W., James B. and Amelia) and Susan Bramblett, 60, housekeeper, single daughter of John and Mary (Peak/e) Bramlett. Bramlett descendant/historian Julien Potter Wooten in 1886 named Rosa as a daughter of John and Mary (Peak/e) Bramlett in his unpublished family history manuscript. Julien reported that “Rosa married Mr. Franks and lived and died in Laurens County.” Some other descendants name her as Rosannah. Census records name her as Rosa. She is identified in Reuben Bramlett’s Bible as Rosey. Rosa and Nehemiah’s children are John Wesley, William, Susan Emmaline, Sophia and James Franks.
John Wesley Franks, first child of Rosannah “Rosa” Bramlett and Nehemiah Franks, was born circa 1830 in Laurens Co., S.C. He died Sept. 18, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Md., while serving as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He was buried by a brother-in-law in an unmarked gre in on the battlefield. John enlisted April 15, 1861, as a corporal in Company K, Seventh Regiment, South Carolina Infantry, State Troops, in Edgefield Co., S.C. He was wounded in action Sept. 17, 1862, during the Battle of Sharpsburg/Antietam, Md., and died on the battlefield the next day. Family tradition holds that John was wounded by a bursting bombshell and that a brother-in-law, John L. Wilhite, stayed with him, holding him in his arms until he died the following day. The brother-in-law reportedly later returned home with John’s pistol and bullet mold, which are still preserved by family members. His brother-in-law Thomas Turner Wilhite, of rural Rehoboth, Edgefield Co., S.C., served as the administrator of his estate.
State of South Carolina Edgefield District} I, Wm. F. Dunisoe, Ordinary and Judge of the Court of Probate of the District and State aforesaid and Keeper of the Public Records of said County do hereby certify that forgoing contains a correct copy of the Letters of Administration of Thomas T. Wilhite Administrator of the said state of John W. Franks, deceased, as on field and record in my office. Given under my hand and Seal of Office this the 9th January A.D. 1864 Wm. F. Durisoe. O. E. D.” Death Claim: “State of South Carolina Edgefield District} Before the justice of the peace of Edgefield District personally appeared Thomas T. Wilhite and made Oath in the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God that he is the Administrator of the Estate of John W. Franks deceased late a private of Capt. J. T. Burress’ Company (K) 7th Reg. S.C. Troops, and that the said John W. Franks was killed in the battle at Sharpsburg leing no Widow but left as his legal heirs only two minor children and they are therefore entitled to the arrears of pay et Cetera, that may be due him from the Confederate States; and also appeared at the same time B. M. Talbert (Witness) and made Oath as aforesaid that he knew John W. Franks, and the facts Sworn to by Thomas T. Wilhite (The Administrator) are true and he is disinterested therein. Sworn to this 28th day of March A.D. 1863 before B. M. Martin, Magt. Ed. Thos. T. Wilhite Admr. B. M. Talbert.
Receipts in John’s NARA Compiled Service Records show Thomas T. Wilhite received $103.60 for the estate of John W. Franks from the Confederate States on Oct. 8, 1864 (Film M267 Roll 217). As a young man, John moved to Edgefield County and married Jane Wilhite there on Nov. 27, 1854. She was born circa 1839 in Elbert Co., Ga., most likely the daughter of John B. Wilhite. She died before the 1860 census. “John Franks,” 25, born in South Carolina, mechanic, is listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Longmire P.O., Edgefield Co., S.C., with two children born South Carolina: Lewis, 5, and Alice, 2 (NARA Film M653:1219:74A). They were living with Jane’s father? J. B. Willhite, 60, born North Carolina, farming, $500 personal estate, and his daughters: Adaline Willhite, 25, and Susan Willhite, 28, both born Georgia. Jane and John Franks lived on a plantation named Cedar Hill in Edgefield Co., S.C., across the Sannah River near her Wilhite relatives who lived in Lincolnton, Ga. John and Jane’s surviving children are Lewis/Louis Marion and Alice Mabel Franks. Jane died in or shortly before 1860 while giving birth to a third Child who also died. Their surviving children, Lewis/Louis Marion and Alice Mabel Franks, continued to live with their Wilhite relatives in Edgefield Co., S.C., for a while and were reared by their maternal uncle Thomas Turner Wilhite, 30, who is listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Longmire P.O. Edgefield Co., S.C., as a school teacher with $3,000 personal estate (NARA Film M653:1219:75A-B). Thomas lived next door to his father and sisters with J. A. Talbert and wife, E. A., and their children and others.
John Wesley Franks History
Steve McLeod of Tallahassee, Florida, in 2010 discovered the Franks Family Newsletter, Vol. 3, No., 4, and called Jimmy Ray Franks, who shared the following: “Steve has been fascinated with the stories that were told to him by three daughters of Alice Franks, daughter of John W. Franks and his wife, Jane Wilhite Franks –one of these ladies lived to be 104 years old!”
John W. Franks was the son of Nehemiah Franks (b. 1784–d. 1859) who was the son of Robert Franks, son of Nehemiah Franks, Sr. who was born in Virginia, the son of Robert Frank, who was the son of Robert Frank. The name changed from Frank to Franks, remember, with Nehemiah and his move to South Carolina.
Jane Wilhite’s family came from Elbert County, Georgia. This explains why Jane and John’s children later ended up in Georgia.
John evidently had some kind of argument with his father which resulted in him being nearly disowned. He left Laurens County and went to the Abbeville/Edgefield County area. He and Jane married and lived in Cedar Hill, S.C. They had two children named Alice Mable Franks, born May 6, 1858, and Louis Marion Franks. Jane died giving birth to a third child (who must he died, too).
John joined the Seventh South Carolina Infantry which was sometimes called Enfield Rifles as a private in Company K. He was wounded at Sharpsburg (called Antietam by the Yankees) on Sept. 17, 1862. Family stories say that it was a bursting bombshell that wounded John and his brother-in-law (Jane’s brother) remained with him holding him in his arms until he died the next day. The brother-in-law buried him in an unmarked gre on the battlefield and, after the war, returned John’s pistol and bullet mold to the family. [These treasures along with a picture of John in uniform and a daguerreotype of Jane are in Steve’s possession.]
The children were taken to live with their maternal grandfather in Lincolnton, Georgia. Evidently, living with Grandpa Wilhite was not always a peaceful experience. One story is told of how the grandfather angered a sle who went back to the sle quarters and stirred up the sles. They surrounded the house with torches threatening to burn it down.
Lewis/Louis Marion Franks, child of John Wesley and Jane (Wilhite) Franks, was born Nov. 4, 1856, at Cedar Hill Plantation, Edgefield Co., S.C.
Alice Mabel Franks, child of John Wesley and Jane (Wilhite) Franks, was born May 6, 1858, at Cedar Hill Plantation, Edgefield Co., S.C. She died circa 1962. She lived to be 104 years old. Family tradition holds that she enjoyed sharing stories about her parents and family. She married and had children–at least three Daughters, according to Franks descendants.
Infant Franks, third child of John Wesley and Jane (Wilhite) Franks, was born and died circa 1859-1860, at Cedar Hill Plantation, Edgefield Co., S.C.
William Franks, second child of Rosannah Bramlett and Nehemiah Franks, was born circa 1833 in Laurens Dist., S.C.
Susan Emmaline Franks, third child of Rosannah Bramlett and Nehemiah Franks, was born Dec. 12, 1835, in Laurens Co., S.C. She died there March 16, 1916, and was buried in Warrior Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. Susan married a cousin, Charles B. Bramlett, son of Catherine Brown and Lewis Bramlett, on June 12, 1853, in Laurens County. (Lewis is son of Susannah and Reuben Bramblett Jr. of Fauquier Co., Va., and Laurens Co., S.C., and grandson of Margaret and Reuben Bramblett Sr. of Fauquier Co., Va., and Bourbon Co., Ky.) Charles was born Oct. 9, 1830, in Laurens County. He died Oct. 25/26, 1862, while serving as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He was buried as “Charles Brumlett” in Our Soldiers Cemetery near the site of the Confederate Hospital in Mt. Jackson, Shenandoah Co., Va. A Confederate marker also memorializes him in Warrior Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Laurens County. The marker is inscribed with the death date “25 Oct 1862” and the death place Virginia. Charles enlisted as a private in Company G, Laurens Brigade, Third (Palmetto) Regiment, South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, on July 1, 1862, in Columbia, S.C. He died of wounds suffered six weeks earlier on Sept. 13, 1862, in the Battle of Elk Ridge at Harper’s Ferry, Md. (Please see Charles Bramlett’s biography in this history below.)
Charles and Susan lived near Simpson Mill in 1860: “S. Bramlett,” 24, born in South Carolina, and husband, “Charles Bramlett,” 30, born in South Carolina to parents born in Virginia, farmer, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Simpson Mill, Laurens Co., S.C., with two children, both born in South Carolina: L. (A.—Amelia) F., 5, daughter, and William W., 2, son (NARA Film M653:1222:291B). Charles Bramlet owned three sles on July 13, 1860, when the Sle Schedule was enumerated for Laurens Co., S.C.: a black female sle 28 who was “a fugitive from the State,”a black female sle 7 anda black male sle 3 (NARA Film M653:1233:207). After Charles died in the war, Susan lived next door to her mother, Rosa Franks, 72, in Laurens County in 1870: Susan [Emmaline Franks] Bramblett, 36, born in South Carolina, keeping house, is head of the family, which includes her three children, all born in South Carolina: Amelia (Frances), 15; William W., 13, farm labor; and James B. (C.) Bramlett, 10 (NARA Film M593:1501:107A). Also listed: Susan’s maternal aunt “Susan Bramblett,” 60, born in South Carolina to parents born in Virginia, daughter of John and Mary (Peak/e) Bramlett. Susan E. (Emmaline Franks) Bramblett, 43, farmer, widowed, is listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Laurens Twp., Laurens Co., S.C., with two children: Willie (William W.), 22, and Jim (James C.), 19, both farm laborers, all born South Carolina to parents born there (NARA Film T9:1233:18C). Charles and Susan’s children are Amelia Frances, William W. and James C. Bramlett.
Amelia F. Bramlett, child of Susan E. Franks and Charles B. Bramlett, was born circa 1855 in Laurens Co., S.C. She lived with her parents in 1860 and with her mother and siblings in 1870.
William W. Bramlett, child of Susan E. Franks and Charles B. Bramlett, was born July 5, 1857, in Laurens Co., S.C. He died Oct. 26, 1930, according to the inscription on his gre marker in Warrior Creek Cemetery. He married Margaret Ola “Maggie” Robertson circa 1888 in Laurens County. Maggie was born Feb. 29, 1872. She died March 13, 1943, according to the inscription on her gre marker in Warrior Creek Cemetery. He lived with his parents in 1860 and with his mother and siblings in 1870-1880. “William Bramlett,” 52, farmer, rents farm, and wife, Ola, 37, are listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Youngs Twp., Laurens Co., S.C., with nine children: Howard, 22; Ruth, 18; Esther, 16; James, 14; Samuel, 10; Daniel, 8; Mary, 6; Dunklin, 4; and Louise, 2 (NARA Film T624:1464:291B-292A). Also listed is Sue E. Bramlett, 74, mother. All were born in South Carolina to parents born there. “William Bramlett,” 62, farmer, and wife, Maggie, 47, are listed in the 1920 U.S. Census for Laurens Co., S.C., with seven children: Esther, 26; James C., 24; Samuel J., 20; Did (Daniel?) H., 18; Mary E., 16; Dunklin D. (Watts), 14; and Elhuese (Louise), 10 (NARA Film T625:1700:248A). All were born in South Carolina. William and Maggie’s children include Howard, Ruth, Esther Franks, Edna E., James C., Samuel J., Daniel Did H., Mary E., Dunkin Watts, Louise and Jessie Ophelia Bramlett.
James C. Bramlett, child of Susan Emmaline Franks and Charles B. Bramlett, was born circa 1860 in Laurens Co., S.C. He lived with his mother and siblings in 1870-1880.
Mildred Brownlee of Laurens, S.C., wife of James Brownlee, is a great-granddaughter of Susan Emmaline Franks and Charles B. Bramlett. Mildred also descends from Reuben Bramblett Jr. of Fauquier Co., Va., and Laurens Co., S.C. Her 2003 address: 907 N. Harper St., Laurens, SC 29360.
Sophia Franks, fourth child of Rosannah Bramlett and Nehemiah Franks, was born circa 1836 in Laurens District.
James Franks, fifth child of Rosannah Bramlett and Nehemiah Franks, was born circa 1841 in Laurens District.
Mary Bramlett, tenth child of Mary Peak and John Bramlett, was born Nov. 15, 1799, in Greenville Co., S.C. Mary’s birth date is inscribed in a Bramlett Bible probably originally owned by her brother Reuben. She reportedly married and lived in Laurens Co., S.C. The name of her husband is unknown.
Henry Bramlett, eleventh child of Mary Peak and John Bramlett, was born Aug. 3, 1801, in Greenville Co., S.C. Henry’s birth date is inscribed in a Bramlett Bible probably originally owned by his brother Reuben. Henry settled in Mississippi. He died June 7, 1879, in Choctaw Co., Miss., and was buried beside his wife Martha at Old Free Will, now William Springs Church of God Cemetery. His gre is not marked.
Bramlett historian Julien Potter Wooten in 1886 named Henry as a son of John and Mary. Julien reported that Henry “moved to Franklin County, Ga., and thence to Chickasaw County, Miss.” He lived in Choctaw Co., Miss., in 1850. Henry left Greenville about 1820-21 and may he gone directly to Franklin Co., Ga. He may he treled to Georgia with his brother John Wesley Bramlett, who also may he gone into Franklin County and then lived in Habersham County in 1830 before settling in Gilmer Co., Ga. Henry married in 1822 in Georgia, and he and his wife lived in Franklin County in 1830.
Henry married Martha “Patsy” Gober on Feb. 21, 1822, in Franklin Co., Ga. Patsy was born June 1, 1801, in Georgia, perhaps Franklin County, the daughter of Elizabeth Burns and William Gober III. (Elizabeth was born Oct. 15, 1769, the daughter of John Burns of Chatham Co., N.C., and died after the birth of her last child on March 5, 1805, in Franklin Co., Ga. William was born April 6, 1765, in Halifax Co., Va., the son of Lucy Craddock or Appling and William Gober II.) Martha “Patsy” died Aug. 29, 1861, in Choctaw Co., Miss. She was buried at Old Freewill Methodist Church Cemetery, now known as Williams Springs. Her gre is not marked. “Henry Bramblett,” white male 20-30, is listed in the 1830 U.S. Census for Franklin Co., Ga., with a white female 20-30 (wife, Martha “Patsy”) and four children: a female 5-10 (Elizabeth B.), two females under 5 (Martha, Mary) and one male under 5 (John Wesley) (NARA Film M19:17:236).“Henry Bramblett” is listed as a resident of Franklin County in the 1830 Georgia Census Index. Henry and Martha then moved to DeKalb Co., Ga., by 1840. “Henry Bramlet,” white male 30-40, employed in agriculture, is listed in the 1840 U.S. Census for Div. 524, DeKalb Co., Ga., with a white female 30-40 (wife, Martha “Patsy”) and seven children: one female 10-15,two males 10-15, two females 5-10, one male 5-10 and one male under 5 (NARA Film M704:40:46). No sles are listed. They moved to Choctaw Co., Miss., after that census and by Feb. 21, 1841, the marriage date there of one of their daughters. “Henry Bramblet,” 48, born in South Carolina, farmer, $800 personal estate, and wife, Martha, 48, born in Georgia, are listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Western Div., Choctaw Co., Miss., with three children born in Georgia: Martha, 21; William, 16, farmer; and Franklin, 14 (NARA Film M432:370:36B). Also listed is James Russel, 60, born Virginia, blacksmith. “Henry Bramblett” is listed as owner of a black male sle aged 25 in the 1850 Sle Schedule for Choctaw Co., Miss. (NARA Film M432:383:556). “Henry Bramblet,” 58, born in South Carolina, farmer, $2,000 real estate, $1,537 personal estate, and wife, Martha, 59, born in Georgia, household mistress, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Bankston P.O., Township 18, Choctaw Co., Miss. (NARA Film M653:579:306). Henry is not listed as an owner in the 1860 Sle Schedule. “Henry Bramlet,” 69, born in South Carolina, farmer, $450 real estate, $600 personal estate, is listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Township 18 Range 8, Choctaw Co., Miss., with (second wife) Elin Bramlett, 50, born in North Carolina (NARA Film M593:725:327A).
Henry and Martha may he been owners of sle Liza Bramlett Gober, grandmother of Civil Rights icon Fanny Lou Hamer Townsend. Liza was born circa 1845 in Georgia or Mississippi. She died in Montgomery Co., Miss., after 1880 and may rest there. She is the mother of many children fathered by her sleowners and three or four children by her husband/partner. Fanny Lou Hamer Townsend
Henry’s Bramlett Bible was at one time in French Camp, Miss., in the possession of Herbert Ross Bramlett. It contains Henry’s birth date but not his death date. Transcript:
The New Testament of Our Lord and Siour Jesus Christ, Translated Out of the Original Greek; and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Philadelphia: Stereotyped and Published by C. Alexander & Co. Athenian Buildings Franklin Place and Sold by All the Principal Booksellers in the United States, 1834. By the Special Command of His Majesty King James I. of England. Philadelphia: McCarty & Dis—No. 171 Market Street 1834.
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Henry Bramlett was borne Auguste the 3rd 1801
Patsey Bramlett his wife was borne June the 1st 1801 and was maried February the 21st 1822
Polley C. Bramlett was borne January the 27th 1823
Elizabeth B. Bramlett was borne July the 22nd 1824
John W. Bramlett was borne March the 5th 1826
Martha and Mary Bramlett was borne January the 9th 1829
William H. Bramlett was borne December the 12th 1833
Thomas F. Bramlett was borne June the 2nd 1835
Roberte H. H. Bramlett was borne Auguste the 15th 1840
Mildred C. Bramlett was borne June the 20th 1842
Nansey Permina Morgan Deseaste March 7/9th 1860
Patsey Bramlet Deseaste the 29 of Auguste 1861
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Elizabeth B. Bramlet and A. J. Morgan was maried Febuary the 21st 1841
William Asbery Morgan was borne January the 15th 1843
James Leander Morgan was borne August the 19th 1844
Martha Melvina Morgan was borne Febuary 19th 1847
Sara Jane Morgan was born Aprile the 16th 1849
Elizabeth Ann Morgan was born March the 3rd 1851
Mary Mandy Morgan was born June the 6th 1853
Georgia Ann Morgan was born Aprile the 11th 1855
Nansey Permina Morgan was borne March the 4th 1857
Andrew J. Morgan was born Aprile 30th 1859
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John W. Bramlet and Malinda Isha was maried March the 17 1846
William Henry Bramlet was born May the 11th 1847
John Fredrick Bramlet was borne Auguste the 28th 1849
Mary Eliza Bramlet was borne January the 30th 1853
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Mary Bramlet and Robe[rt] Box was maried Aprile th[e 24] 1848
William Dillerd Box was Born January the 21 18[49]
Martha Jane Box was bo[rn] October the 9th 1850
Robert Henry Box was bo[rn] January the 23rd 1852
Almeda Burnes Box was borne August the 29th 185[3/4]
Rebec Box was borne Aprile the 6th 1855
John Alberte Box was borne December the 31st 18[56/57]
Mildred Caroline Box was borne November the 25 1(857/58)
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William Henry Bramlet and Medra Box was maried
Medrah Box was borne February the 15th 1832
Robert Hillerd Bramlet was born November the 19th 1854
Sara Ann Bramlet was born February the 1st 1857
Fanney R__? Bramlet was born September the 4th 1859
Martha Bramlet was born February the 19th 1861
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Thomas Franklin Bramlet and Elizabeth Box was mari[ed]
Elizabeth Box was borne June the 3rd 1835
Martheena Bramlet was borne August the 31st 1856
William Franklin Bramlet wa[s] borne March the 31st 1857
George Emet Bramlet was borne January the 27th 1860
Thomas Daniel Bramlet was born Aprile the [1st?] 1862
Dora Virgina Bra[mlet was born] January __? [1863/65?]
[Robert] Henry Hollis Bram[let] [was born __?] 1866
Polley A__? [Bramlet was born] September 25th 18[67/68?]
Henry and Patsy’s children include Polly C., Elizabeth B. (“Bettie”), John Wesley, Martha, Mary, William Henry, Thomas Franklin, Robert Henry Hollis and Mildred C. Bramlett.
Polly C. Bramlett, first child of Henry and Martha “Patsy” (Gober) Bramlett, was born Jan. 27, 1823, probably in Franklin Co., Ga. She died Dec. 6, 1824.
Elizabeth B. “Bettie” Bramlett, second child of Henry and Martha “Patsy” (Gober) Bramlett, was born July 22, 1824, in Franklin Co., Ga. She died Oct. 18, 1898, in Choctaw Co., Miss., and was buried in Old Freewill Methodist Church, now Williams Springs, Cemetery. Elizabeth married Andrew Jackson Morgan on Feb. 21, 1841, in DeKalb Co., Ga. He was born June 10, 1818, in Green Co., Ga. He died July 19, 1889, in Choctaw Co., Miss. “Elizabeth Morgan,” 36, household mistress, and husband, A. J., 41, farmer, $720 personal estate, head of the family, both born Georgia, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Huntsville, Township 18, Choctaw Co., Miss., with eight children: Asberry W., 17, farm laborer; James L., 15, farm laborer; Martha M., 13; Sarah J., 11; Elizabeth, 9; Mary A., 7; Georgia A., 5; and Andrew J., 1 (NARA M653:579:312). “Elizabeth Morgan,” 44, keeping house, and husband, Andrew, 55, farmer, $500 personal estate, both born Georgia, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Township 18 Range 8, Choctaw Co., Miss., with grown and minor children born Mississippi: Sarah, 21; Ann, 19; Mary, 17; Georgia, 15; Andrew, 11; Cordila, 9; Rosy, 7; and Bell, 4 (NARA Film M593:725:325B-326A). Elizabeth and Andrew’s children are William Asbury, James L., Martha M., Sarah J., Elizabeth Ann, Mary A., Georgia A., Nancy, Andrew Jackson Jr., Cordelia, Rose and Belle Morgan.
William Asbury Morgan Sr., first child of Elizabeth Bramlett and Andrew J. Morgan, was born Jan. 15, 1843, in DeKalb Co., Ga. He died July 14, 1929, in Kosciusko, Attala Co., Miss., and was buried there in City Cemetery. William was a farmer. He served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War/War Between the States. He enlisted as a private in Company C, First Mississippi Light Artillery Volunteers. He was captured at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863. His unit disbanded before the war ended. William’s daughter Mattie, Mrs. C. A. Brown, applied for a military headstone for him in 1929. The application lists his war service and notes where he is buried.
William A. Morgan, Company C, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery Volunteers, C.S.A.
William married Martha Clarinda Wilson, pictured below with him and their children, on March 9, 1862, in Choctaw Co., Miss. She was born there on Oct. 13, 1844, the daughter of Adeline Mandy Gilmore and Austin Jiles Wilson. Martha died May 13, 1918, in Kosciusko, Miss., and was buried there in City Cemetery. William and Martha were members of the Methodist church.
“William A. Morgan,” 37, born in Georgia to parents born there, farming, with wife, Martha E., 34, born in Mississippi to a mother born there, father born Kentucky, keeping house, are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Beat 2, Attala Co., Miss., with five children born in Mississippi: Sarah E., 13; John W., 9; Thomas E., 7; Georgia A., 5; and William A., 2 (NARA Film T9:641:74B). “William A. Morgan,” 57, born in January 1843 in Georgia to parents born there, farmer, owns mortgaged farm, married thirty-eight years, and wife, Martha E., 34, born in Mississippi to a mother born there, father born in Kentucky, keeping house, mother of nine children, six living, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Beat 5, Attala Co., Miss., with three grown children born Mississippi: Georgie A., 24, August 1875; William A., 22, February 1878, farm laborer; Mattie T., 18, October 1881 (NARA Film T623:800:243A). “William A. Morgan,” 67, born in Georgia to parents born there, farmer, general farm, and wife, Martha, 65, born in Mississippi, mother of nine children, six living, are listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Beat 3, Attala Co., Miss., with one grown child born Mississippi: Mattie, 29 (NARA Film T624:732:179B). “William A. Morgan,” 76, born in Georgia to parents born there, laborer, working out, rents home, is listed in the 1920 U.S. Census for Beat 1, Attala Co., Miss., with one grown child born Mississippi: Mattie, 25 [actually about 38) (NARA Film T625:869:58A). They lived on Peach Tree Street. William and Martha’s children are Henrietta, Sarah Elizabeth Monroe, Mary Jane, John W. Lilburn, Thomas Edmond, Georgianna Wright, William Asbury Jr., Martha Talulah “Mattie” Brown and James W. Morgan.
family historian Sammy Jean Holley Day
Thomas Edmond Morgan, child of Elizabeth Bramlett and Andrew J. Morgan, is grandfather of family historian the late Sammie Jean Holley Day (1929-2014), pictured above. Thomas married Narcissa Emaline Hanna. Their daughter Lillian Morgan married Sam B. Holley, son of Martha Elizabeth Burks and James M. Holley. Lilian and Sam’s daughter Sammie Jean Holley married William Henry Day (1926-2001). They rest at Danville South Cemetery, Danville, Hendricks Co., Ind. Jean is credited with connecting her ancestor John Bramlett to Henry Bramlett Jr. and Henry Bramlett Sr. of King George and Prince William (later Fauquier) Co., Va., more than twenty years ago, in the early 2000s. She researched and collected existing Virginia records for the early generations in Henry Bramlett Sr.’s family and shared them with a research group dedicated to sorting out the Virginia Bramlett lineages.
James Leander Morgan, second child of Elizabeth Bramlett and Andrew J. Morgan, was born Aug. 19, 1844, in Choctaw Co., Miss. He died circa 1916. He married Jenny Steen.
Martha Melvina/Malvina Morgan, third child of Elizabeth Bramlett and Andrew J. Morgan, was born Feb. 19, 1847, in Choctaw Co., Miss. She died after 1860.
Sarah Jane Morgan, fourth child of Elizabeth Bramlett and Andrew J. Morgan, was born April 16, 1849, in Choctaw Co., Miss. She married James T. Neely, born circa 1847. Their children are James T., born circa 1873, and Mary Neely, born circa 1877.
Elizabeth Ann Morgan, fifth child of Elizabeth Bramlett and Andrew J. Morgan, was born March 3, 1851, in Choctaw Co., Miss. She died circa 1931. She married John Wiseman Pearson. Their children are Robert, James, Waymond, Lelia, Aaron and Estelle Pearson.
Mary Amanda “Mandy” Morgan, sixth child of Elizabeth Bramlett and Andrew J. Morgan, was born June 6, 1853, in Choctaw Co., Miss. She married Bill Stean.
Georgia Ann Morgan, seventh child of Elizabeth Bramlett and Andrew J. Morgan, was born April 11, 1855, in Choctaw Co., Miss. She died in 1948. She married Albert C. Pearson.
Nancy Permina Morgan, eighth child of Elizabeth Bramlett and Andrew J. Morgan, was born March 4, 1857, in Choctaw Co., Miss., and died there March 9, 1860.
Andrew J. Morgan Jr., ninth child of Elizabeth Bramlett and Andrew J. Morgan, was born April 30, 1859, in Choctaw Co., Miss. He died in 1941. Andrew married Dicy E. Bramlett, eighth child of John W. and Malinda (Isha) Bramlett. She was born in October 1867 in Choctaw Co., Miss. She died May 28, 1907. Their children are Blanche, born in 1887; Augustus, born in 1890; Mary Lee, born in 1892 and died in 1894; Myrtle, born in 1894 and died in 1940; Durwood, born in 1897; Lipton/Upton, born in 1900 and died in 1912; Balfour, born in 1902; and Beauford Morgan, born in 1905 and died in 1908.
Cordelia Morgan, tenth child of Elizabeth Bramlett and Andrew J. Morgan, was born in 1862 in Choctaw Co., Miss. She married William Smith.
Rose/Rosa Morgan, eleventh child of Elizabeth Bramlett and Andrew J. Morgan, was born Feb. 12, 1865, in Choctaw Co., Miss. She died in 1940. Rose married Henry Hollis Bramlett, fifth child of Thomas F. and Mary E. (Box) Bramlett. He was born in 1866 in Choctaw, Miss. He died circa 1945. “Rosa Bramlet,” 36, and husband, Henry, 36, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Choctaw Co., Miss., with three children: Carrie B., 8; De, 6; Russie, 2. Also listed is Mary Morgan, 42, sister-in-law. All were born in Mississippi. “Rosie Bramblet,” 42, born in Mississippi, and husband, Henry H. Bramblet, 42, born in Mississippi, head of the family, are listed in the 1910 U.S. Census for Choctaw Co., Miss., with four children, all born in Mississippi: Carrie B., 18; De. R., 17; Russie J., 11; and Henry B., 3. Also listed with the family: Mary Morgan, 50, born in Mississippi, sister-in-law. “Rosie Bromblett,” 54, born in Mississippi, and husband, Henry H. Bromblett, 55, born in Mississippi, head of the family, are listed in the 1920 U.S. Census for French Camp, Choctaw Co., Miss., with two children, both born in Mississippi: Russ, 21, and Bradford, 13. Also listed with the family: Pauline Watson, 4, born in Mississippi, granddaughter. Their children are Carrie B. Watson, Did B./R., Russell J. and Henry Bradford Bramlett.
Descendant Rhonda Box Givens provides some of the following about Belle Morgan Box.
Belle Morgan, twelfth child of Elizabeth Bramlett and Andrew J. Morgan, was born circa 1867 in Choctaw Co., Miss. She died in the 1930s or early 1940s. She married William G. “Bud” Box. He was born in 1862, the son of Emaline “Emily” Rushing and Dillard Box. Wm. G. Box, 14, born Mississippi to parents born Alabama, is listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for French Camp, Choctaw Co., Miss., with parents, Dillard, 54, born Alabama to parents born there, farmer, and Emly, 50, born Alabama to parents born South Carolina, and two siblings born Mississippi: Robert, 12, and Sarah, 9 (NARA Film T9:643:431A). Bud and Belle’s children are Philip C., John M.,Rosa May,Zeny A., and Maud B. Box. Bud second married Florence Wills in 1904. Their children are Bessie M., Donald N. and Hiram Box.
Descendant Patti Hendrix Eckhoff of Seattle, Wash., contributes some of the following about John W. and Malinda (Isha) Bramlett and family. Patti was part of a close-knit, dedicated family research group of descendants from the families of John and Reuben Bramlett, sons of Margaret and Henry Bramlett Jr., who worked for years in the early 2000s to connect Fauquier Co., Va., Bramletts.
John Wesley Bramlett, third child of Henry and Martha “Patsy” (Gober) Bramlett, was born March 5, 1826, in Franklin Co., Ga. He died in Montgomery Co., Miss., on Oct. 18, 1898, and rests in Old Antioch Church of Christ Cemetery. His gre was marked at one time but the tombstone and others in the cemetery he disappeared. John married Malinda Isha, daughter of John Isha, on March 17, 1846, in Choctaw Co., Miss. She was born Aug. 11, 1827, in Mississippi. She died sometime after 1870 and was buried in Old Antioch Church of Christ Cemetery. Her death date had worn off her gre marker. John and Malinda lived in Attala Co., Miss., in 1849-1850. “J. W. Bramlet,” 24, born Georgia, farmer, $200 real estate, and wife, Malinda, 21, born Tennessee, are listed in the 1850 U.S. Census for Twp. 13 Range 7 East, Attala Co., Miss., with two children born Mississippi: William (Henry), 3; John F. (Frederick), 1 (NARA Film M432:368:146). They moved back to Choctaw Co., Miss., by 1860. “J. W. Bramlet,” 33, born in Georgia, farmer, $150 real estate, $752 personal estate, and wife, Malinda C., 32, born Mississippi, household mistress, are listed in the 1860 U.S. Census for Twp. 18, Bankston P.O., Choctaw Co., Miss., with five children born in Mississippi: W. (William) Henry, 13; John F. (Frederick), 10; Mary E. (Elizabeth), 7; Fannie S. (Frances Susan), 5; and Martha M. (“Patsy”), 1 (NARA Film M653:579:306).
J. W. Bramlet served as a Confederate soldier in Hammond’s Company of State Troops, Montgomery’s First Battalion of Mississippi Calry, during the Civil War/War Between the States. J. W. Bramlett also served in Company B of the Fifth Mississippi Calry and as a Ranger in Dunn’s Company of Mississippi Calry.
John lived near his parents in 1870. “John Bramlet,” 44, farmer, $400 real estate, $600 personal estate, and wife, Malinda, 43, keeping house, are listed in the 1870 U.S. Census for Township 18 Range 8, Choctaw Co., Miss., with eight children: John (Frederick), 21, farmer; Mary (Elizabeth), 18; (Frances) Sousan (Frances Susan “Fannie”), 16; (Martha M.) Patsy, 13; Wesley (W.), 9; Isom, 7; Disa (Dicey E.), 5; and Rubin, 1 (NARA Film M593:725:327B). All were born in Mississippi to parents born there. (John and family not yet located in 1880.) “J. W. Bramlett,” 74, born March 1826 Georgia to parents born there, farmer, owner of a mortgage-free farm, married 53 years, with wife, Malinda, 72, born August 1827 Mississippi to a mother born there and father born Florida, mother of nine living children, are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Beat 4, Montgomery Co., Miss. (NARA Film T623:820:280A). John and Malinda’s children are William Henry, John Frederick, Mary Elizabeth (“Eliza”) Frances Susan (“Fannie”), Martha M. (“Patsey”), Wesley W., Isom, Dicey E. and Reuben Bramlett.
William Henry Bramlett, child of John Wesley and Malinda Isha Bramlett, was born May 11, 1847, in Choctaw Co., Miss. He died Aug. 23, 1906, in Mississippi and rests in William Springs Church of God Cemetery. He married Calpernia Fredonia Henderson. She was born Dec. 4, 1848, the daughter of George Milton Henderson. Calpernia died Feb. 6, 1939, at the Confederate Veterans Home near Biloxi, Harrison Co., Miss., where she lived with her second husband, Jeptha Spruill Eiland. They married circa 1909. He was born in 1843 and died in 1934. Calpernia and William’s children are Laura Bramlett Burton, 1870-1918, and James A. Bramlett, 1883-1962.
Mary Eliza Bramlett and William Harrison Jeffcoat’s tombstone in Dacus Cemetery,
courtesy Dacus-Bramlett descendant Patricia Dacus of Baldwin Co., Ala.
Mary Eliza Bramlett, child of John Wesley and Malinda Isha Bramlett, was born Jan. 30, 1853. She died June 9, 1939, in Choctaw Co., Miss., and rests there at Dacus Cemetery. She married William Harrison Jeffcoat Sr. He was born June 30, 1843, in Alabama, the son of Nancy Clair Dendy and Henry John Jeffcoat. William died Dec. 20, 1911, and rests at Dacus Cemetery. Their children include William Harrison Jr., Beulah, Mary Ella, Emma Donie, Mattie C. Jeffcoat. Martha Bramlett, child of Henry and Martha “Patsy” (Gober) Bramlett, was born Jan. 27, 1823, probably in Franklin Co., Ga. She died Feb. 3, 1911, in Kilmichael, Montgomery Co., Miss, and rests at Bethlehem Cemetery. She married Anderson Austin circa 1854. He was born circa 1812. He died March 29, 1892, and rests at Bethlehem Cemetery. Their children include Elsie Isabelle, Rosa A., Anderson (“Bud”), Lillie B., Henry M., Martha, Joseph, Bettie, Frances Mildred Austin. Mary Bramlett, child of Henry and Martha “Patsy” (Gober) Bramlett, was born Jan. 9, 1829. She died after 1850. She married Robert B. Box Jr. on April 24, 1848, in Choctaw Co., Miss. Their children are William Dillard, Martha Jane, Robert Henry, Almeda Burnes, Peter, John Albert, Mildred Caroline Box. The Bible record cited above lists the following names and dates:Mary Bramlet and Robe[rt] Box was mar[r]ied Aprile th[e 24] 1848
William Dillerd Box was Born January the 21 18[49]
Martha Jane Box was bo[rn] October the 9th 1850
Robert Henry Box was bo[rn] January the 23rd 1852
Almeda Burnes Box was borne August the 29th 185[3/4]
Rebec Box was borne Aprile the 6th 1855
John Alberte Box was borne December the 31st 18[56/57]
Mildred Caroline Box was borne November the 25 1(857/58
William Henry Bramlett, child of Henry and Martha “Patsy” (Gober) Bramlett, was born Dec. 12, 1833. He rests at Old Free Will Methodist Church Cemetery. He married Almeda Medra Box in 1853 in Choctaw Co., Miss. Their children include Robert Hillard, Sarah Ann, Frances R., Martha, Henry Hollis, Mildred, Marietta, Oly, William, Mary E. Bramlett. Thomas Franklin Bramlett, child of Henry and Martha “Patsy” (Gober) Bramlett, was born June 2, 1835. He died Sept. 3, 1909, in Choctaw Co., Miss., and rests there at Old Free Will Methodist Church Cemetery. He married Mary Elizabeth Box in 1855 in Choctaw Co., Miss. Their children are Marthenia, William Franklin, George Emet, Thomas Daniel, Dora Virginia, Henry Hollis, Polly A., Cordelia, James Tossie, Dosie Bramlett.Robert Henry Hollis Bramlett, child of Henry and Martha “Patsy” (Gober) Bramlett, was born Aug. 15, 1840. He died March 6, 1841, in DeKalb Co., Ga.
Mildred C. Bramlett, child of Henry and Martha “Patsy” (Gober) Bramlett, was born June 20, 1842. She died at age 5 on March 8, 1848, in Choctaw Co., Miss., and rests at Old Free Will Methodist Church Cemetery.
Susannah “Susan” Bramlett, twelfth child of Mary Peak and John Bramlett, was born Jan. 11, 1804, in Greenville Co., S.C. Susan’s birthdate is inscribed in a Bramlett Bible probably originally owned by her brother Reuben. She did not marry. She died Dec. 21, 1892, and was buried in the same plot with her parents and shares the above inscribed tombstone with them in Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Simpsonville, Greenville Co., S.C.
Elias Bramlett, thirteenth child of Mary Peak and John Bramlett, was born June 4, 1807, in Greenville Co., S.C. His birthdate is inscribed in a Bramlett Bible originally owned by his brother Reuben and in his own family Bible. He died Dec. 4, 1888, in Greenville County and rests in Bramlett Family Cemetery on Kitty Hawk Road at Donaldson Air Force Base Center. He married Adaline Ashmore. She was born Nov. 4, 1816, the daughter of Martha E. Durant and Walter Ashmore. Adaline died Feb. 5, 1885, and rests in Bramlett Cemetery. Elias and Adaline’s children are Mary Salina, Nathan L., Walter John Olin, Olevia J. Angeline D. E., Zephaniah Durant, Sarah A. R., Henry L., William M., Elizabeth K., Rose A. Bramlett.
Gres of Olevia J. Bramlett and William P. Hutchings marked by large tombstone in Bramlett Cemetery, Greenville Co., S.C., courtesy Robin Farley Dixson
Olevia J. Bramlett was born July 12, 1844, in Greenville Co., S.C. She died there Sept. 10, 1910, and was buried in in Elias Bramlett Cemetery. She married William P. Hutchings. He was born Oct. 13, 1840. He died April 24, 1881, and was buried in Bramlett Cemetery. Their child, Infant Daughter Hutchings, born May 11, 1868, and died May 22, 1868, also is buried there and shares the marker with them.
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