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Old
Darlington District Genealogy
Chapter of The South Carolina
Genealogical Society
Glimpses Into Back Issues of The Darlington Flag
Hartsville Genealogical
Research Library
114 South Fourth Street
(mailing address P.O. Box 175)
Hartsville, SC 29551-0175
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The records below are general samplings of the material available in the back issues of The Darlington Flag, the newsletter published by the Old Darlington District Chapter of the South Carolina Genealogical Society.. We have pulled out samples of the material that is contained in the back issues of The Darlington Flag in order to show what a wealth of information is in each issue. See Index of Available Back Issues of The Darlington Flag for a list of all available back issues. See INDEX OF MARRIAGE NOTICES for marriage notices and INDEX OF OBITUARY NOTICES for obituaries printed in back issues of The Darlington Flag. These newsletters are a treasure trove of research material.
Single issues of the Darlington Flag
are available for $5.00 each, postpaid. Order issues from: Old Darlington
District Chapter, SCGS, Post Office Box 175, Hartsville, SC 29551-
0175. Please specify which issue you desire.
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Old Darlington District Flag, Volume 2, No. 2, Spring 1990...
AN ABSTRACT OF THE RECORDS OF WELSH NECK BAPTIST CHURCH
SOCIETY HILL, SC
Minutes of The Welsh Neck Baptist Church, Society Hill, S.C., 1737-1935. W.P.A. project 165-33-7172, sponsored by University of South Carolina. Supervised by Miss Flora B. Surles. Copies by Addie S. Vance, Columbia, S.C., 1937.
1737---In the year 1737 a party of immigrants from the Welch Tract in the State of Delaware removed to Pee Dee River, South Carolina which place they designated the Welch-Neck, in remembrance of their former residence.
The following are the names of the individuals who composed this party which was embodied into a church, viz:
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Old Darlington District Flag,Volume 2, No. 4, Fall 1990, page 6 and 7...
DARLINGTON DISTRICT MUSTER ROLL
A copy of the following muster roll is on file at the Darlington County Historical Commission. The muster roll dates from the Seminole War. many of the men listed on the muster roll resided in Darlington District at the time.
Captain G. L. Williamson's Company, of the Battalion of South Carolina Militia commanded by major W. W. Harlee ordered into Service of the United States from 20th January to 20 April 1837.
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Captain...........................William H. Cannon |
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Captain...........................George L. Williamson |
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1st Lieut.........................James C. Brown |
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2nd Lieut........................M. McInnis |
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1st Sergt........................John Bevill |
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2nd Sergt.......................Daniel Sansbury |
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3rd Sergt........................William W. Revell |
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4th Sergt........................Charles Brown |
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1st Corporal..................John Traynor |
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2nd Corporal................James Mercer |
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3rd Corporal.................William B. Stephens |
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4th Corporal.................Wiley McIsich |
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Old Darlington District Flag,Volume 3, No. 2, Spring 1991, page 7...
NORWOOD CEMETERY
A copy of the following survey is on file at the Darlington County Historical Commission. It was surveyed by Mr. Horace F. Rudisill in 1986.
Location-Near junction of Road 25 and 112
Approximately 1.6 miles from Flinn's Crossroads
Surveyed circa 1985
NORWOOD CEMETERY
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Old Darlington District Flag,Volume 3, No. 3, Summer 1991, page 19...
CHANGE OF TOWNSHIPS
A copy of the following survey is on file at the Darlington County Historical Commission. Source- DARLINGTON NEWS, May 9, 1878
(The Editor of The Darlington Flag notes: "Did you ever wonder why the townships in the 1870 Census of Darlington County sounded a little foreign? The townships were named by the Reconstruction government then in political control of the county. In 1878 the county commissioners voted to change the names of the "Reconstruction townships" to more familiar sounding names. The list below may help you when you work with the 1870 Census in the future.")
Office of County Commissioners,
Darlington C. H., S.C. May 6, 1878
By virtue of authority in us vested by act of General Assembly entitled, "An Act to authorize County Commissioners to change the names of the Townships in their respective Counties," and approved February 18th, 1878, we do hereby make the following changes in the names of Townships in this County as follows, to wit:
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Old Darlington District Flag,Volume 4, No. 2, Winter 1992, page 32...
LIST OF POST OFFICES AND POSTMASTERS IN DARLINGTON DISTRICT, 1860
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Old Darlington District Flag,Volume 4, No. 3, Summer 1992, page 15...
EXCUSED JURORS - 1850 AND 1852
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SPRING TERM 1852
The following Petit Jurors were excused by his Honor J. N. Whitner: Saml. Norwood, Jesse King, William McAllister, John J. Cannon, J. J. Wilson, Reuben Beasley
The following were reported as being dead: McD. Wright, William Mozingo, Geo. Galloway, Wiley Chapman. A. J. McLaughlin, and H. E. McLaughlin were excused also.
The following persons who had been drawn to serve as Grand Jurors were out of the state: B.P. Byrd, William Parrott, and K. B. Phillips.
The following person were excused: Jno Truett, Geo. W. Dargan, Chas. Chapman, Sam J. Ervin.
(Reference - Darlington District, S.C., Sessions Journal, C.C.P., 1840-1855, Clerk of Court Records, Darlington County Historical Commission)
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Old Darlington District Flag,Volume 5, No. 4, Spring 1993, Page 12...
1822 GRAND JURY REPORT
We the grand jurors for the District of Darlington present that the Court House of the Said District is in a most ruinous and dilapidated condition. The windows are without Shutters or glass and the whole building is so inconvenient in its construction as to be incapable of such repairs and alterations, as will render it sufficiently commodious and convenient for the accomidation of the Court, and the necessary public Offices. We present also the ruinous condition of the Goal. The Flours are rotten, the roof partly blown off- and the walls not sufficiently strong to secure any persons confined in it.
We therefor recommend to the Legislature the appropriation of a sufficent Sum of Money to build a New Court House and Goal.
Darlington Court House )
2nd October 1822 )
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(Reference - Darlington County Sessions Journal, 1806 - 1826, Darlington County Historical Commission)
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Old Darlington District Flag, Volume 5, No. 3, summer, 1993, page 21...
PETITION OF CITIZENS OF DARLINGTON TO REPLACE COURT HOUSE DESTROYED BY FIRE
To the honorable the President Speaker and honorable the Members of the house of the Senate of the State of South Carolina, (Gentlemen) We your Petitioners citizens of the district of Darlington beg leave to represent to your Honourable body that the court House of said district has been destroyed by fire together with the records of the Court-- The difficulty that we now labour under for the want of a Court House, must be obvious to your Honorable body. We therefore your petitioners Pray you will take into consideration the situation of the district, and appropriate a sum of Money for the Purpose of erection a new building under such Regulations as you in your wisdom may think best, And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever Pray, &c, &c.
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(Reference-S.C. Department of Archives, Columbia, S.C., General Assembly Petitions, N.D.O439-01)
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OLD DARLINGTON DISTRICT FLAG,
Volume 6, No. 3,Summer 1994, page 19...
MUSTER ROLL OF CAPTAIN JOHN HITCHCOCK'S COMPANY EXPEDITION TO FORT PRINCE GEORGE, 1759-1760
A copy of the following muster roll is on file at the Darlington County Historical Commission.
A Roll of Capt. Hitchcock's Company
George King, Sergt.
Wm John, Segt. fr. 3 Nov. to 31 Dec.
Wm. White, Clerk
James Barn, Pvt.
Benjamin Cobb, Pvt.
Theophilus Norwood, Pvt.
Peter Lane, Pvt.
Richard Pitts, Pvt.
Deserted
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Daniel Polk....................Oct. 27th, 1759 George Sizemore.......... Oct. 27th, 1759 John Hart Thos. Polk, Senr........... ..Nov. 17th Thos. Polk, Junr............. Nov. 17th Henry Massingale, Sergt. Nov. 9th. Thomas Chevas...............Nov. 15th John Green......................Nov. 15th January 15th, 1760 Willm. White, Clerk.......... George King, Sergt. |
Charles Bazel..................Nov. 15th William Popperwell Joseph Duett John Teal.......................Novr. 9th James Jones...................Novr. 9th Barnet Michael.............l } Ensign...........................}Octr. 29th John Hitchcock.............} Captain..........................}Novr. 20th
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(Reference-S.C. Dept. of Archives, Muster Roll, Capt. John Hitchcock's Co., Expedition to Fort Prince George).
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OLD DARLINGTON DISTRICT FLAG, Volume 7, No. 1, Winter 1995...
MUSTER ROLL OF CAPTAIN ALEXANDER MCINTOSH'S COMPANY EXPEDITION TO FORT PRINCE GEORGE, 1759-1760
Roll of Capt. Alexander McIntosh's Company
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(Reference- SC Department of Archives- Muster Roll, Capt. McIntosh's Co., Expedition to Fort Prince George. Copy on file at the Darlington County Historical Commission.)
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OLD DARLINGTON DISTRICT FLAG,
Volume 7, No. 3, Summer 1995 Page 23...
LETTER FROM THE FRONT LINES
NEAR FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, 1862
Woods on the Rappahunnock River
Beetune Frederickburg and Posterode
Dec. the 18/62
My Dear Caroline
I seat my self to day to right you a fiew lines This will leav me in good helth and hope these fiew lines may reach you and family in good health Well Caroline I will tell you of our little rough last week at Fredericksburg We ware carred and formed in battle line on Thursday ware kep in until Tusday the left of our Begaid was not so much exposid as the right The conflict continuard the hole five days and was under the most terifick sheline I ever saw in my life Caroline I thought my last day had come but I stuck to the Helnm like and old Tug Horse Isast expected you wold be left in this world in a loneley condition but God Spaird me and I hope and trust he will spaird thrue all the Battles our trupes war light that of the Emney which I expect you have senn thay maid onley one charge on our lines and we repulest them so bad until thir trupes uterly repulesed to make another charge and if thay had of staid thir hole army wold of becom purfectley demarelise this is the nuse We got from one of thir own men that was taken prisner their losses is estimated to be 8000 While our wer 2000 we had all the advantage our Begade lossed 250 kill and wonded and our General Gregg I regret the loss of him very much Thay withdrew their lines and recrossed the river and ar trying to advance at Poart Royal 25 miles loer down on the river We speadly forlrd them to the plain We ar about 6 miles from the RR in a direction to this Poart Royal I caint tell you presisley whar we ar We have lay hear one day and over wating orders and I caint think the eniney or pressing much by this and I know not whear we may go to Our head men seam to think we may go to Richmond again- that will be thir next chance--Well Caroline I am out now you rote to me about the hard times you have I expect your chance ar hard and you may mine or when you guit my last ten letters I rote you i was vry Hongrey and coal you must not think I was cuting at you for you know you wold any thing that was in your ower it was those that ar left at home and subscribe to thos subversions when we war about to leav and I got on that subject and went too far with it but we intend to jog thir membrey thruethe Darlington Flag and I wold like for you to see it but daunt tell how it was- I received a letter from Stevin last knight he said thir was no chance to guit in this Regt. at this time was all he said I hardley know what to think of him I doant think he understand what I ment by the way he answered it I thaught I would right to him again and if still said thir no chance I would cuit the subject as far a discharge thir is no chance for me if Charley had a buin with the Comp when first got to the Comp I mite of got one or refurloed I received you letter of the 11 and also one a few days back I was glad to hear that your hogs was striving well Caroline I wish to my maker I could be with you to kill them and help you eat some and sauseriges for I would guive agood price for as much as I could eat the advise you ask for I hav guive to you in tw letters for fear you would not get the one which I hope you have goten before now but the best advise I expect I could of guiven wold of advised you to used you one pleasure and what yor thaught best- I think we will remaine near on the RR and if you can see any chance you can send anything send it you rite to me if I wanted anything in the line of clothing let you know it I have aplenty at presant No loss one all the winter and if I had of had any chance to of sent them hom I could of got blankets and close enuf to of lasted one age on the battel field I will close for I expect you will hay to guit Help to read this We ar not paid off yet and it looks like thay never intend to do it. Srg. S. M. Huggins got his thumb shot off the other knight afidently and I have to act as ordley Sgt. and it keeps one very buisy I will close right soone how you ar guiting on selling my land and evrything else and what have folkes thinks of this am thanful war under no to our little ones and oblize nothing more at present.
EDITOR'S NOTE-James Morgan (Mack) Carter (b. 1834, d 3 May 1863) was the son of Charles Powell Carter, II and Susan Ingram. He married Margaret Caroline Byrd, the daughter of Redden and Hanna Ritter Scott of Craven County, N.C. J. M. Carter enlisted in the 14th Regiment of S.C. Infantry, one of six Carter brothers who enlisted in the Confederate States Army. Lt. Sidney Carter, brother of
J.M. Carter, wrote shortly after the battle of Chancellorsville, VA about the death of "Mack." "Tell Caroline [he] died like a soldier with an immortal [torn] for it was given up that he acted more gallant than any man in the 14th Regiment. I got his knapsack and hat, also his pocketbook. He gave that to the Captain before he went into the fight and told him if he got killed to give it to his wife and tell her to live off of it. He was buried by the prison corps and several saw him after [he was] dead but I did not. Giles said he would not have known him but for his clothes...." [DEAR BET: THE CARTER LETTERS. 1861-1863, edited by Bessie Mell Lane, page 93. We are grateful to Mr. Edwin B. Fountain
-...GA..for sharing the above letter with us. Mr. Fountain has donated the letter from
J.M. Carter to the Darlington County Historical Commission. Mr. Fountain is a descendant of James Morgan Carter.
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OLD DARLINGTON DISTRICT FLAG,
Volume 8, No. 1, Winter 1996 Page 21...
SOLDIERS BOARD OF RELIEF, DARLINGTON DISTRICT, 1864
Soldiers Families furnished by C. Coker from 1 July to 1 Oct. 1864
July 28th 1845
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Editor's Note-The Soldiers Board of Relief was created by the S.C. General Assembly in December, 1861. The board was authorized to levy an annual tax on each tax district and to distribute the money to families of soldiers who had volunteered for S.C. or Confederate service. General state records exist in the records of the Comptroller General of S.C. concerning this board, but no state records concerning individual disbursements have been located. Horace F. Rudisill, Darlington County Historian, some years ago located the records of the Darlington Soldiers Board of Relief in private hands. This is the ninth report in our series.
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OLD DARLINGTON DISTRICT FLAG, Fall 1997 Issue...
DARLINGTON CIRCUIT, METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
MEMBERSHIP ROLLS, 1840
EDITOR’S NOTE-
This is the fourteenth in a series of Darlington Circuit Methodist Church membership rolls that we have published. In this issue, the roll of Hebron Methodist Church is presented. Hebron Methodist Church is located in present-day Lee County, in the Stokes Bridge Community. Hebron Methodist Church was first known as Skinner’s (Meeting House). The Skinner family has been associated with the Methodist Church from its earliest days. Edward Skinner’s name appears in the records of the Santee Circuit as a Local Preacher as early as 1806. Edward’s son, Asa Skinner, also became a Local Preacher and served Methodists in Darlington District prior to moving to Alabama. Skinner’s Meeting House is first mentioned in the records of the Lynches Creek Circuit in 1824. On 19 May 1838, Lemuel Skinner, brother of Edward Skinner, donated one acre of land ... "where the church now stands..." to the trustees of Hebron. These trustees included Alexander Skinner, Asa Woodham, Makensa Mozingo, Lewis Hixon, and C.J. Kea. [Reference- Darlington County Deed Book N, pages 143-144] Hebron United Methodist Church survives to the present day. In its ancient cemetery are buried many of the pioneers of Darlington County Methodism.Hebron
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Alexander Skinner, C.L. |
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Asa Woodham, C.L. |
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Lemuel Skinner |
Dead in 1878 |
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John Beasley |
Dead in 1878 |
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McKinsie Mozingo |
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Curtis J. Kea |
Laid aside 1840 |
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Needham Marshall |
Dead in 1878 |
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Dennis McLendon |
Dead in 1878 |
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Wm K. Taylor |
Dead in 1878 |
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Christopher C. Mixon |
Dead in 1878 |
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John W. Skinner |
Withdrawn 1840 |
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Benjamin S. Jocey |
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William Beasley |
Laid aside 1840 |
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Jarret Woodham |
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Matthew Harrell |
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Stephen F. Harrell |
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Laney Mozingo |
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Nancy Skinner |
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Nicey Skinner |
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Mary Ann Beasley |
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Mary Marshall |
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Mary McClendon |
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Nicey J. Alexander |
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Sarah Waters |
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Laney Skinner |
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Nancy Barnes |
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Gatsey Kea |
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Harriet C. Haigood |
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Rachel Waters |
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NOTE- The notation "Dead" in the Remarks column were made in pencil, or pen of a different ink type, apparently when new roll books were begun in 1878. [Reference- Darlington Circuit, Minutes of the Quarterly Conference, 1840-1867]
SOLDIERS BOARD OF RELIEF, DARLINGTON DISTRICT
EDITOR’S NOTE- The Soldiers Board of Relief was created by the S.C. General Assembly in December, 1861. This board was authorized to levy an annual tax on each tax district and to distribute the money to families of soldiers who had volunteered for S.C. or Confederate service. General state records exist in the records of the Comptroller General of S.C. concerning this board, but no state records concerning individual disbursements have been located. Horace F. Rudisill, Darlington County Historian, some years ago located the records of the Darlington Soldiers Board of Relief in private hands. This is the sixteenth report in our series.
A.B. Bristow In Ac/c with Soldiers Board of Relief
A.B. Bristow Return for August & September 1864
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Mrs. John E. Hill |
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5.00 |
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" C.D. McKay |
3.00 |
3.00 |
6.00 |
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" Elizth Jordan |
5.00 |
5.00 |
10.00 |
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" Eliza Morriss |
2.00 |
2.00 |
4.00 |
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" Isaac T. Hill |
7.50 |
7.50 |
15.00 |
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" Saml. Atkinson |
4.00 |
4.00 |
8.00 |
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" John Scaff |
4.00 |
4.00 |
8.00 |
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" James Pines |
1.00 |
1.00 |
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" Stephen B. Carter |
5.00 |
5.00 |
10.00 |
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" Jeff J. McKay |
5.00 |
5.00 |
10.00 |
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" E.F. Polk |
7.50 |
7.50 |
15.00 |
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" Robert Lawhon |
5.00 |
5.00 |
10.00 |
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" John B. Pearce |
3.00 |
3.00 |
6.00 |
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" Geo. W. McLeod |
4.00 |
4.00 |
8.00 |
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" E.H. Ard |
5.00 |
5.00 |
10.00 |