Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-07-26

Of The Courier about eighteen years
ago. There are SO many descendants
OF this patriotic couple in Oconee and
upper Carolina that l thought 1t
might be interesting reading for a
great many of your present subscri-
bers. The d. A. II. are seeking inforo
nation about patriots, and thought
1t might be interesting to them also.
hope you can publish 1t in The Cou-
rler again. Yours truly, j.
Capt. David Sloan, the progenitor
OF his race in the United States, was
born in County Down, Ireland, in the
year 1853. He emigrated to the
United States and settled In the
western part Of North Carolina. He
was captain of a company of North
Carolina troops in the Revolutionary
War.
Capt. Sloan married Su"an Ma
jors and moved soon theraf'er 10
Pendleton District, South Carolina.
He settled on Seneca River, ten miles
west Of the present site of Anderson
Court House, and made that place
his home until death, which occur
red on the 9th Of October, 1926, at
the age Of 73 years. His wife, SUI
san, lived at the old homestead until
her death, which occurred on the
9Th Of September, 1853, at the age
OF 92. This honored couple had
born unto them twelve children, six
sons and six daughters. The first
born, which event occurred on the
18th of May, 1887, were twins, and
were named for their parents, David
and Susan. The mother said she
often put these little children to
sleep at night and then hid them in
the canebrakcs while she took her
bag Of corn on her shoulder and
went to the nearest mill to have it
ground. On her return her heart
was always in her mouth, for she ex-
pected to find her innocent babes
butchered and scalped by the willy,
treacherous Red Men.
We give below the names of the
children of this we'll known and pa
triotic couple, together with the
names Of their wives and husbands
as the case may be:
David married Nancy TRIMMER,
daughter of Obadiah TRIMMER and
his vito, Lucy Stribling, both Of
whom came from near Mount Ver-
non, Va, and settled on Toxaway
Creek, in the territory now known
AS Oconee county.
Susan, the twin sister Of David,
married Robert Bruce, OF Georgia.
William died when about 20 years
OF age, unmarried.
Mary died when about IS years
Of age
Benjamin Franklin married Eliza
Earle, a daughter OF Gen. John b.
Earle.
Thomas Majors married Nancy
Blassingame, a daughter Of Gen.
John Blassngamc.
William (the second) married
Eliza lackett, daughter Of Robert
Hackett.
James Madison married Rebecca
Linton, Of Abbeville.
Elizabeth married Jesse Stribling,
OF Anderson.
Rebecca married DR.. j. B. Earle,
of Anderson, and moved to Mobile,
Ala.
Nancy married Col. Joseph Taylor,
Of Anderson.
Katherine married John p. Ben
son, of Anderson.
The following obituary notice.
which appeared in the newspapers
at the time, gives an interesting ac-
count Of the family:
departed this life, on Tuesday,
the 9Th Of September, 1853, at her
residence on Seneca River, Mrs. Su-
san Sloan, in the 92d year Of her
age, relict OF Capt. David Sloan, ST.,
who died October 9Th, 1926, aged
rs years
'SiXty-seven years ago, when the
country was wilderness and inhab-
l'ed by the Red Man, Capt. Sloan,
with his wife and their twin chill
drcn their first born, (Capt. David
Sloan, Jr., who died 29th of October.
1854 at the age Of a years, and
MRS. Susan Bruce, who still sur
Vlvcs), pitched his tent on the cane
praKeS on tho western bank Of the
Seneca. For years they encountered
ana endured all the privations and
dangers Of border life, but by in