of ANDERSON COUNTY

By

LOUISE AYER VANDIVER

This 341 page book contains a 15 page index. It was written in 1928.

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CONTENTS:

CHAPTER I The Days of the Indians

CHAPTER II Formation of Anderson County and Beginning of the City

CHAPTER III Some of the Pioneer People and Their Social Life

CHAPTER IV The Churches

CHAPTER V The Revolutionary War

CHAPTER VI Newspapers and Writers

CHAPTER VII Some of the Early Industries

CHAPTER VIII In Schoolroom Walls-The County

CHAPTER IX In Schoolroom Walls-The Town

CHAPTER X Some of the Early Citizens and Homes

CHAPTER XI Some of the Forefathers

CHAPTER XII Andersonville and Some Early Settlers

CHAPTER XIII Waters and Graveyards

CHAPTER XIV Railroads

CHAPTER XV Townships

CHAPTER XVI War Between the States

CHAPTER XVII War Time at Home

CHAPTER XVIII Reconstruction and the Aftermath

CHAPTER XIX The Middle Years

CHAPTER XX Some Public Buildings

CHAPTER XXI The Spanish War

CHAPTER XXII Manufactories, Mills and Other Industries

CHAPTER XXIII Highways and Byways, People and Things

CHAPTER XXIV Later Times

Index:

Abbott, Acker, Ackers, Adair, Adams, Adamses, Addis, Addison, Adger, Adgers, Adkins, Agnew, Aiken, Aker, Akerberg, Alexander, Alford, Allen, Anderson, Andrews, Anthony, Archer, Arnold, Asbury, Ashley, Ashmore, Atkinson, Aull, Austin, Ayer, Ayers, Bachman, Bacon, Bacot, Bagby, Bailes, Bailey, Baird, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barker, Barnwell, Barr, Barrett, Barton, Bass, Bates, Baxter, Beaty, Beauregard, Beck, Bee, Bees, Belcher, Bell, Benet, Bennett, Benson, Berry, Bewley, Bibb, Bigby, Black, Blackwell, Blacock, Blakely, Blame, Blanton, Blassingame, Bleckley, Bleich, Boggs, Bohannon, Boleman, Bolt, Bonham, Boone, Borstel, Borstell, Bostell, Bostic, Bowie, Box, Boyce, Boyd, Braddy, Bradley, Brag, Bramlett, Bratton, Breazeale, Breckenridge, Breeden, Brissey, Bristow, Britt, Broadus, Broadway, Broadwell, Brock, Brow, Brown, Brownlee, Broyles, Bruce, Bryant, Bryson, Buchanan, Budds, Buford, Buist, Burch, Burdine, Burket, Burnett, Burns, Burr, Burriss, Burt, Burton, Burtses, Butler, Byers, Byrum, Cain, Caldwell, Calhoun, Calhouns, Callaham, Callahan, Camak, Cameron, Campbell, Campbells, Cannon, Capers, Carlisle, Carnegie, Carpenter, Carswell, Carter, Caruth, Caruthers, Cary, Caskin, Casler, Cason, Cass, Castleberry, Cateechee, Cater, Cathcart, Catlin, Caughlin, Chamberlain, Chamblee, Chambliss, Chapin, Chapman, Chappell, Chastain, Chenault, Cherry, Cherrys, Cheshire, Cheveses, Choice, Chreitzberg, Clamp, Clardy, Clark, Clarkson, Clayton, Clement, Clemson, Clemsons, Cleveland, Clinkscales, Cobb, Cochran, Coleman, Coley, Colson, Connell, Conner, Connesstee, Cook, Cooley, Cooper, Coosey, Copeland, Corbin, Corn, Cornish, Cote, Cowan, Cox, Craig, Crawford, Crayton, Creswell, Cromer, Crow, Crowder, Crowther, Cruger, Crymes, Cullins, Culner, Cummin, Cumming, Cummings, Cummins, Cunningham, Currie, Cushing, Cuthberts, Dagnall, Dalton, Dana, Daniel, Daniell, Daniels, Dannally, Dart, Davis, Day, de Fountain, Deale, Dean, Denham, Denmark, Denson, Derieux, Dicken, Dickinson, Dickson, Dicksons, Dillingham, Divver, Dixon, Doark, Dobbins, Dodamead, Dodd, Dodge, Donald, Donnell, Douglass, Douthit, Dow, Doyle, Drennan, Driskoll, Duckett, Duckworth, Duff, Duggan, Dumas, Duncan, Durham, Durst, Dwyer, Earle, Earp, Eaton, Edwards, Elgin, Ellerbe, Elliott, Elliotts, Ellison, Elmore, Elrod, Emberson, Emmerson, England, Epps, Ernest, Erskine, Erwin, Eskew, Estes, Evans, Evins, Fant, Farmer, Farrar, Farrow, Feaster, Featherston, Featherstone, Feather-stone, Felchia, Feltman, Felton, Fennel, Ferguson, Field, Fielding, Fields, Findley, Fink, Fisher, Fleet, Fleishman, Forbes, Fortune, Foster, Fouche, Fowler, Francis, Frazer, Frazier, Fretwell, Frierson, Frost, Gadsden, Gailliard, Gaines, Gambrell, Gambrill, Gant, Gantt, Garner, Garris, Garrison, Garvin, Gary, Gassaway, Gaston, Gatlin, Gawthmey, Geer, Geiger, Geisberg, Gentry, George, Gibbeses, Gibbs, Gibson, Giles, Gillam, Gilleland, Gillilan, Gillison, Gilmans, Gilmer, Gilmore, Gleason, Glen, Glenn, Glover, Godfrey, Goode, Goodgion, Goodman, Goodrum, Goodwyn, Gordon, Gossett, Grace, Grady, Grant, Gray, Greelee, Green, Gregg, Gresham, Griffin, Griffith, Grisham, Grove, Grubbs, Grubs, Guest, Gunnin, Gurley, Guyton, Hagood, Halbert, Hale, Hall, v, Hallum, Halsey, Hamilton, Hammett, Hammond, Hampton, Hand, Haney, Hanks, Harbin, Harbour, Hardin, Hardy, Harkness, Harlin, Harper, Harris, Harrison, Harrisons, Hart, Hartwell, Harvey, Haskell, Haskels, Hastie, Hatcher, Hauck, Haughton, Havard, Hawthorne, Hayes, Haynes, Haynie, Hays, Heard, Heaton, Heckle, Hembree, Henderson, Henry, Herbert, Herman, Herrick, Herron, Hewett, Hewitt, Hibbard, Highshaw, Hill, Hillhouse, Hillis, Hiott, Hiram, Hodges, Hoke, Holland, Holleman, Holmes, Holt, Holtzclaw, Home, Hood, Hoover, Hopkins, Horton, Howard, Hoyt, Hubbard, Hudgens, Hudson, Huger, Hugers, Hugner, Hull, Humphreys, Hunt, Hunte, Hunter, Hunters, Hutchins, Hyde, Irwin, Isham, Jackson, James, Jamison, Jarrett, Jeffers, Jefferson, Jenkins, Jennings, Jenningses, Jeter, Johnson, Jolly, Jones, Judson, Junkin, Kay, Keasler, Keaton, Keese, Keith, Kelly, Kemp, Kemper, Kennedy, Kershaw, Keys, Kiessa, Killebrew, Kilpatrick, Kilpatricks, Kinard, King, iKingsley, Kirkland, Kitsinger, Klute, Knight, Kramer, Krammer, Kuhn, Kuruga, Kyle, La Far, Laboon, LaFar, LaFoy, Lamar, Land, Lander, Lanford, Langston, Latham, Latimer, Lattas, Laughlin, Lawhorn, Lawson, Lawton, Leach, Leathers, Lebby, Ledbetter, Lee, Leftwich, Lemon, Lenderman, Lesley, Lesser, Lessers, Lester, Leverette, Lewis, Lewises, Liddell, Ligon, Lincoln, Lindsey, Linsey, Linton, Lipscomb, Loflin, Lofton, Long, Longshore, Looper, Lovelace, Lowery, Lowry, Lynch, Macaulay, Mackeller, Mackey, Madden, Magee, Mahaffey, Major, Majors, Manley, Manning, Marchbanks, Marett, Marion, Marsh, Marshall, Martin, Massey, Masters, Matthews, Mattison, Mauldin, Maverick, Maxwell, Maxwells, Mayfield, McAlister, McBrayer, McBride, McCaleb, McCalister, McCall, McCann, McCants, McCarley, McCauley, McClinton, McClure, McCollough, McConnell, McCormick, McCown, McCoy, McCrady, McCrary, McCully, McCutchen, McDaniel, McDavid, McDonald, McDougal, McDowell, McDuffie, McElhany, McElroy, McElwee, McFall, McGee, McGill, McGowan, McGrath, McGukin, McJukin, McKinney, McKinny, McLees, McLeskey, McLin, Mclver, McMahon, McMakin, McMullin, McMurray, McNeely, McPhail, McPherson, McQueen, McVay, McWhirter, McWhorter, Means, Meisser, Merriweather, Miles, Milford, Miller, Millers, Milton, Milwee, Minter, Mitchell, Moffatt, Monahan, Moncrief, Moore, Moores, Moorhead, Moreland, Morgan, Morris, Morse, Moss, Moytoy, Muir, Muller, Mullikens, Mullikin, Mullinax, Munro, Murphy, Murray, Musgrove, Nardin, Neely, Nevett, ivNevitt, Newell, Newman, Newton, Nicholson, Nixon, Noble, Noland, Norris, Norryce, Northrup, Norths, Norton, Norwood, O'Dell, Oliver, O'Neal, O'Neall, Opie, Or, O'Rea, Orr, Osborn, Osborne, Osteen, Otwell, Oulla, Overby, Overman, Owen, Owens, Paget, v, Paine, Palmer, Parker, Parks, Partlow, Patrick, Patterson, Paul, Payne, Pearman, v, Pearson, Pegg, Pelizer, Pendleton, Pennel, Pennell, People, Peoples, Pepper, Perinneau, Perrin, Perry, Petty, Phillips, Pickens, Pickett, Pickle, Pierce, Pinckney, Pinckneys, Poe, Poole, Poore, Pope, Poppe, Porchers, Postelle, Potter, Powell, Power, Pratt, Pressley, Preston, Prevost, Price, Priestly, Prince, Pruitt, Puckett, Pulliam, Purdy, Quattlebaum, Quigley, Ramer, Randolphs, Rankin, Rast, Ravenell, Reamer, Reece, Reeces, Reed, Reeves, Reid, Renan, Rhodes, Rhody, Rice, Richards, Richardson, Riley, Rimmer, Riplay, Risener, Riser, Rivers, Rives, Roberts, Robins, Robinson, Rockwell, Rogers, Rollins, Roosevelt, Roper, Rosamund, Roseman, Ross, Rosses, Roundtree, Rowell, Rowland, Royall, Rucker, Rush, Russell, Rutledge, Sadler, Salla, Sanders, Satterfield, Saxon, Sayre, Scott, Scudday, Seaborns, Seabrook, Searl, Sears, Seel, Semmes, Shanklin, Shanklins, Sharp, Sharpe, Shaw, Shearer, Sheldon, Shelor, Sherard, Sheridan, Sherrell, Sheshane, Shields, Shirley, Shubrick, Shuford, Shumate, Silcox, Silliman, Simmons, Simpson, Sims, Singletary, Sisk, Sitton, Sittons, Skelton, Sligh, Sloan, Sloans, Smeltzer, Smith, Smiths, Smythe, Snelgrove, Snipes, Sorrel, Southerland, Spearman, Speer, Spencer, Sperry, Spinner, St. Clair, Stansel, Staunton, Steele, Stephenson, Stevens, Stevenses, Stevenson, Stokes, Stone, Stoneman, Stowers, Stranathan, Strange, Stribbling, Strickland, Stringer, Stuarts, Sullivan, Summerell, Swain, Symmeses, Tabb, Taliaferro, Taliaferros, Talliferro, Taney, Tate, Tatum, Taylor, Taylors, Telford, Temple, Templeton, Terrell, Terrill, Tew, Thatcher, Thayer, Thomas, Thompkins, Thompson, Thompsons, Thomson, Tilden, Tillinghast, Tillman, Titworth, Todd, Tolly, Towers, Townsend, Townsends, Trenholm, Trescott, Trescotts, Tribble, Trimmier, Tripp, Trowbridge, Tucker, Tuckers, Turley, Turner, Turners, Turpin, Tyler, Van Wyck, Vandiver, VanWyck, VanWycks, Vaughn, Vermillian, Verner, Vickery, Vines, Von Borstel, von Borstell, von Hasseln, vonHassein, Waddell, Wadsworth, Wagstaff, Wahl, Wakefield, Walker, Wallace, Waller, Walters, Walton, Ward, Wardlaw, Warnock, Warren, Wasson, Watkins, Watson, v, Watt, Watts, Wauley, Webb, Welborn, Welch, Wellborn, Weston, Whaley, Wheeler, Whitaker, White, Whitfield, Whitner, Whitners, Whittaker, Whitten, Wigginton, Wilbanks, Wilbur, Wilhite, Wilkerson, Wilkes, Wilkison, Willet, Williams, Williamston, Williford, Wilson, Wilsons, Wilton, Winn, Winters, Witherspoon, Witt, Wolfe, Wolling, Woodall, Woodson, Woolahan, Wooten, Worley, Wornock, Wright, Wyatt, Wynn, Wynne, Yancey, Yeargin, Young,