The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

!, families nssnnx desires their history ana gen l B. sMYLY.-The following interest. ing letter was received from a cadet al West Point:
 My Dear Madam saw in last Sun. days Advertiser, in the columns de. voted to the Daughters of the Ameri. can Revolution, that you had quite q number of lineage books, histories, etc | and that you would be kind enough to examine these for one desiring inform ation.
 Among these I noticed the History | of Edgefeld, S. c." and l write in hopes of obtaining some. information l about the Smylys and especially John | Smyly. They lived in. Edgefield Dis | trict. S. C., and John Smyly, (born July County, Alabama, during the thirties, I think. He died there in 1s49. He was | called Major, and I think he served in | the war of 1912, but I have no direct | proof of this. He married a Miss Re- becca De Walt.
 "A RIvES.-I also wish to know if Green and William Rivers served in the Revolutionary War. They lived in Virginia, but Green Rlves moved to just before the war, I think. or
 
 Virginia, January 10, 176S, and died in Columbia. s. C.. October 26 1872. If they served in the war I should like to know under whose command. dates of enlistment. etc. G. R. c. Cadet U. s. Military Academy.
 Answers.
 8. ANDERSON.-I noted in your paper a request to know who were the descendants of one Thomas Anderson, who 6ied in 11S0
 My great grandfather was named Thomas Anderson and was killed dur ing the siege of Charleston by the British naval troops; the exact date | not known. He went into the patriot army from Abbeville District, S. C.. He left four sons. David and Thomas l (2) the names of he other two not recollected. The widow of Thomas Anderson married and went to George l town. D. C., after the war ceased. The four boys separated, three going to Tennessee and Kentucky and one, Thomas (O. married Miss Jane Ken nedy and Tn 1918 moved to Greene i County. Alabama. He died in 1927, leaving three sons and nine daughters. Susan married Bryan Watkins and left | no descendants.
 | Martha married James c. Coleman: she ief. two children, Judge Thomas l W. Coleman and Mrs. J. C. McLemore. both oe whom are still living. | Elizabeth married James Kennedy and has two daughters still living an several grandchildren.
 Ellen married R. c. Hanna and left | no descendants.
 l Sophronia married F. Wynne and left several children in Texas. Frances married Osman A. Wynne | and left one or two descendants, Mary married John B. Thompson and has one daughter.
 | Sarah Angeline married Colonel T. J, | M. Hanna. who left her a widow with three children. She afterwards mar 1 ried E. l.. kimbrough adf had one l child. E. l.. kimbrough of Greensboro. | Ala. Mrs. Kimbrough Is tre only sur- viving daughter of Thomas J. Ander- son and is now about 80 years of age and very vigorous.
 Harriet married w. s. Nesmith and | left one daughter.
 William Anderson, eldest son of Thomas J.. married Miss Frances Travis about 1928; the writer is the only living child of this marriage and Is near 72 years old.
 James A. Anderson married Miss Virginia Spaight and left two sons, A .. w. 5. Anderson and l. C. Anderson. the first of this county, the latter of Ensley City. The latter has one son. Thomas J. Anderson married Miss Romania Wilson of Georgetown. D. C.. and left two sons and three daughters. Thomas J. and Jane Kennedy An derson have fourteen grandchildren still l living that I know of, all living in this State. The writer is the oldest grand son and is the fourth in the line bear | ing the name of Thomas J. My son who died eighteen months ago, was the fifth Thomas, and his son, years old. is the sixth to bear the name, Judge Thomas W. Coleman is the next oldest grandson, he is living in Eutaw. Ala, and has five sons and three daughters, and about eighteen or twen- ty grandchildren who are the great great grandchildren of Thomas J. The writer had three sons and two dannsshh ters, four of whom are living, and sixteen grandchildren. As to the other members of the family they are too numerous to name.
 l will mention one very curious CO., incidence in my family. My great grandfather, my wife's great-grand- father, Elijah Pugh, and my son-in- laws great-grandfather, named Scar borough, were all in Fort Moultrie during the siege of that fort by the British fleet. Elijah Pugh was
 
 was the progenitor of the Pughs of this State and Ohio, Louisiana, etc.
 Maybe l can give more information of the connecting families, Travises Pughs. and Scarboroughs. if wanted.
 Livingston, Ala. T. J. Anderson.
 (The Editor will gladly welcome com munications from this correspondent. The early histories of the leading fam lilies of Alabama will be interesting and valuable additions to Alabama arch ives.)
 50. HARDAWAY-My knowledge of the genealogy of the Hardaways was obtained f!)m my father, John Segar HardaWay,< Amelia County, Va, who died in 1S92,> and from Colonel R. A. Hardaway, late of Tuscaloosa. I fear that cannot add to your present store, but you are welcome to use whatever 1 do contribute. In 1896 whlg sncnding my vacation at Pulaski, Va, I wrote Colonel HardaWay asking for informa- ton of the Hardaways in the Revolu- tion; the enclosed letter was his reply. It gives the early history of this family, which account agrees with that l have from my father.
 I also have an extract from Bristol Parish Eestry Book which gives the family of Thomas; this extract omits the names of John, Daniel and Thomas, given by Colonel Hardaway, and which he explains. He may be correct. but then he may not be.
 1 undertook to seach these records one summer when in Virginia. was m ri {pII tn hn n,.l