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A Little Pyles Family History
We can trace the Pyles famiy to VINCENT GODFEY PYLES
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From "Genealogy of the Dodson (Dotson), Lucas, Pyles, Rochester, and Allied Family"
By Silas Emmett Lucas (NOTE: (RED) additions are from added information from other sources included by editor)
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VINCENT GODFREY PILES Vincent Godfrey Piles-born – 1682 ; died – in Essex Co., Virginia.; married. ca. 1710 in Essex Co., Virginiaa.; . after Oct. 10, 1709. (ESSEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA MARRIAGE INDEX, Page 129 States marriage was in 1723) ( Laventory of estate recorded Dec. 20, 1742 in Essex Co., Virginia.) Married Rebecca Harwar (she was a widow of Thomas Hines at time of marriage to Vincent Godfrey Pile (or Piles). Rebecca Harwar was the daughter of Samuel Harwar of Essex Co., Va, whose wife was Anne Killman. (Harwar also spelled Harware and Harroway). Anne ( Killman) Harwar was a daugh ter of John Killman and Margery –.
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Issue of VINCENT GODFREY PYLES
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SAMUEL PYLES -born 1711-; and died. ca. 1787 in Essex Co., Virginia. (Note that Samuel was bor in 1711 - The marriage record for his father states that he was married in 1723. Does this mean that Rebecca Harwar is not his mother? Or, were Vincent and Rebecca together 12 years before he married her?)
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Will probated June 21, 1779 in Essex Co., Virginia.; married. in 1746 (Nancy or Nanny) Ms. Anne Williams (a widow) (not sure if she is Reuben Pyles mother or if Samuel Pyles was married before. Anne, widow of Richard Williams of Essex Co., Virginia.
Issue of (a) SAMUEL PYLES
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REUBEN PYLES was -born. circa. 1742–1745 in Essex Co., Virginia, near Hobbs Hole on the
Rappahannock River and died. ca. 1835/1840 in Abbeville District., South Carolina; He married Esther (Hester) Rochester who was born ca. 1752 in Westmoreland County, Virginia and died ca. 1812/1814 in Abbeville District., South Carolina. Marriage bond dated November 13 1770, Granville County, North Carolina.
In 1772 Reuben Pyles lived in Granville County, North Carolina and he served in the Revolutionary War, as a private in the Abbeville County, South Carolina troops. He and wife are buried at the Little River Church Cemetery, Abbeville District, South Carolina. Esther (Rochester) Pyles was the daughter of John Rochester and his wife Esther (Hester) Thrift – Esther Rochester Pyles' brother, Colonel Nathaniel Rochester founded the city of Rochester, New York. Esther Thrift born in September 6, 1726 and died in 1773. She was married ca. 1740 to John Rochester born ca. 1708 and died November 11, 1754. Esther Thrift was a daughter of Anne Gower (pronounced Gore) – She was born. ca. 1700 and died, before April 24, 17755 and married before January, 1727 to William Thrift who was born September, 20 1699 and died in 1776.
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Reuben and Esther would have at least three children:
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1. WILLIAM PYLES
2. Mary Pyles
3. Lewis J. Pyles
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WILLIAM PYLES
BIRTH 20 MAY 1780 • Level Land, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 12 APR 1844 • Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA
Elizabeth Rosamond She was the daughter of James Rosemond and Lettice Tillman
BIRTH 25 OCT 1785 • Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 19 SEP 1852 • Georgia, USA
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From: Find A Grave
William married Mary E. Rosamond. He died before 1 Febraury 1836 as this is when his will was files.
Abstract of Abbeville District, Will of William Pyles, Box 72, Pack 1760
Estate admnr. February 1, 1836 by Jas. F. Wyatt, William Mattison, Redmon G. Wyatt, bound to Moses Taggart Ord., sum $20,000.00. Legatees Nancy daughter, wife of Jas. F. Wyatt, Matilda, wife of Lemuel Johnson, Sally, wife of Joel Stone, Elizabeth, Lewis, Samuel Pyles. Robert R. Seawright and wife.
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Rev. Samuel Milton Pyles was a Baptist minister and most of those in his group were of that denomination. Most were not slave owners and had no desire to be, but instead simply wanted to get away from the Reconstruction government to a place where they could rebuild their lives and provide safety and prosperity for their families. He was a resident of Georgia when the war began but moved to Florida and served as a minister or chaplain to five companies of Florida troops. He had settled in Greenwood by the end of the conflict.
Such feelings intensified when the U.S. Army declared martial law in Florida on April 8, 1867. The war had been over for two years by that point and no widespread outbreaks of violence were reported. The measure was part of the “Radical Reconstruction” law passed by Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. Many northern Republicans felt that the Southern states should be punished for their participation in secession and the war and the new act made sure that they would be.
Rev. Pyles led his group north to New York from Jackson County since emigration from Southern ports was prohibited. The final number that went from Jackson County was 30, although 49 more left from the adjoining states of Alabama and Georgia:
FOR BRAZIL. – The steamer North American from this port yesterday, took out quite an installment of the long-talked of Southern emigration to Brazil. More than 200 emigrants left. – Of these 136 were from Texas, 25 from Georgia, 24 from Alabama, and 30 from Florida. The passenger list indicates a large immigration by families. Many children are enrolled, and in the Florida list the emigrants are mostly registered under the names of the Findley, the Scarwhite or the Piles family. – N.Y. Com. Adv. [II]
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Among those known to have gone south with Rev. Pyles were his daughter, Julia Antoinette Pyles Minchin, and her husband, Joseph Long Minchin. He served in Company I, 4th Florida Infantry (CSA) and fought in several of the largest battles of the war including Chickamauga and Atlanta.
Information on Minchin indicates that the Pyles group arrived in Brazil on June 24, 1867. He initially found work as the foreman of a coffee plantation but soon purchased 900 acres of his own. Although many Confederados – as they were called in Brazil – found life there more difficult than expected and eventually returned to the United States, the Pyles and Minchins did not. Joseph Long Minchin was still living on his farm near Nova Odessa in 1921. [III]
Rev. S.M. Pyles, the leader of the group, also lived out his life in Brazil. He died there on April 9, 1898 and is buried in the famed Campo Cemetery in Sao Paolo. It was established as a burial place for the Confederados and is the scene of the annual reunion of Confederado families. His wife, Nancy Pyles, survived him to die in Brazil on April 1, 1912. She is also buried at Campo.
Members of the Pyles and other families from Jackson County still live in Brazil to this day.
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THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE RASOR FAMILY PAPERS DONATED THE "CAROLINIANA LIBRAY" AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DOUTH CAROLINA
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Rasor Family Papers, 1812-1943
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This collection of four hundred sixty-five manuscripts documents the Rasor family of Ware Shoals (a town located along the along the Saluda River in the South Carolina counties of Abbeville, Greenwood, and Laurens) through several generations and different branches of the family tree. The range of history covered would do credit to a triple-decker historical novel. The family patriarch, Christian Rasor (1760-1848), a Revolutionary War veteran, moved to the area from Virginia about 1791 and is buried at Greenville Presbyterian Church near Donalds (Abbeville County, S.C.).
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The collection includes a manuscript copy of his will, dated 26 January 1844, and a typescript of his Revolutionary War pension application in the National Archives. The collection centers around the family of Christian's second son, Ezekiel Rasor (1797-1876). Most of the letters were written to family members in Greenwood County (S.C.) by relatives who had moved west. Ezekiel's older sister Elizabeth Rasor (1790-1882), for instance, married the Rev. Thomas Pharr (1789-1854), a Presbyterian clergyman. Pharr's pastoral duties took him to Itawamba County (Mississippi), where Elizabeth corresponded with Ezekiel during the 1850s and after the Civil War. She died in 1882 while visiting in South Carolina and is buried at Turkey Creek Baptist Church in Abbeville County (S.C.).
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Ezekiel's son-in-law, the Rev. Samuel Milton Pyles (1816-1898) and his daughter Nancy Almina Rasor Pyles (1819-1912), wrote occasionally from Farmersville (near Summerville, Georgia). Pyles was a Baptist clergyman who conducted his ministry in a true sectarian spirit. On 25 June 1856 he reported: 66 We have no religious news, only there are great efforts being made by some of our Baptist brethren, to build up the cause of Christ & equally great being made by pedoBaptist to pull down, and build up manism. God has said for our encouragement that his kingdom (the Gosple kingdom) shall break in pieces and consume all other kingdoms and that it shall be given (not to pedobaptists, who baptize unconcious & unbelieving infants) but to the [Bapti]sts of the most high God. On 26 April 1858 he wrote, I have now before me a verry difficult and laborious work..., It is to preach a sermon before the `General Meeting' on the subject of the Image of the beast, (This is by appointment of 12 months standing). You can form some Idea of the Labour, I shall have to go to—the rise of the beast, show his origin, character and works, then I shall be expected to present his Image in suficiently forcibly and vivid coulors for the peculiar characteristicks of the beast to be seen in the Image. This will not only array `Rome' or Roman catholicks (`The beast') But all protestants against me afresh...but there is consolation. I will have some of the best orators of Georgia to back me, and they think I can present the historical fact and sustain them....Give our love to all the friends & tell The Baptists of the Saluda for the Lords sake & sake of the Baptist caus which is His, Never to let Fuller, Justin, & Johnson make Pedoes of them.
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Near the end of the Civil War, Pyles and his wife moved to Florida. During Reconstruction they left the United States and emigrated to Brazil with a group of Confederate exiles who departed in the brig Derby from Galveston (Texas). (See "Billy Bud - His Story" for the fascinating story of the "Derby" - Under the New Texas Colony) Rarely do the postwar family papers make reference to them, but when Ezekiel died in 1876, his son Ezekiel Barmore Rasor (1833-1907) wrote them via registered mail concerning the estate settlement. Then in 1899, Ezekiel Barmore's older brother James Christian Rasor (b. 1822), made inquiries about their long-absent sister, and on 19 September he received a reply from her son A. Judson Pyles (1851- 1911), in which he spoke at length about the family's experience in Brazil as Confederados:
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Named for: Adoniram Judson, Jr. (August 9, 1788 – April 12, 1850) was an American Congregationalist and later Particular Baptist[1] missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Adoniram Judson was sent from North America to preach in Burma. His mission and work with Luther Rice led to the formation of the first Baptist association in America to support missionaries
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My parents came to Brazil in [18]67 from Florida where we had been living for three years. There were seven of us came with them, four boys an[d] three girls. My second sister Julia was maried in the states. The others all maried in this country and up to a year and a half ago were all living. My father died and one sister and a brother-in-law....My mother has forty one grandchildren living and three dead. Our children all speak portugues and the larger ones speak english....All of them that are large enough to go to school study english and we speak it allmost entirely at home but the little ones take to the portugues mainly because the servants and laborers speak it and I believe it is easier to learn than english anyway. I think up to two years ago this was a better country for a poor man than the States but things are going badly wrong now, in fact the country almost bankrupt owing to bad government and various causes....The country has been spending immense sums bri[n]ging immigrants and now they are leaving by the thousand on account of the hard times, the immigrants are mostly Italians with a good many portuguese and spanish. Our laborers here are a mixture of brazillian, negroes, Spanish, portuguese & Italians with a few from northern Europe. We have a number of american boarding schools nearly all run by missionaries, mostly Methodist. The Presbyterians come next and then the Baptists.
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"Billy Bud - His story" The tragic trip of the Derby
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PYLES Family Members Buried at Campo Cemetery
PYLES
Adoniram Judson 06-08-1851 26-04-1911
Alice 24-09-1896 27-06-1900
Edward Townsend 23-11-1892 08-08- 1960
Ezekiel Belton 01-10-1847 15-12-1916
Ezekiel S. -----[1895] 29-12-1919 aged 24
Flemin Margaret 11-03-1856 03-01-1917 a McKnight
Luiz Judson 11-01-1898 20-10-1968
James Milton 09-11-1858 08-04-1928 sp. of
Octavia Dumas
Josephine F. 21-01-1854 06-08-1935 a McKnight
Julia S. 30-04-1877 23-10-1966
Nancy A. [E.] 04-09-1819 01-04-1912 Nancy
Elmira Banymore Razor
Octavia Dumas 18-05-1889 06-06-1945
Oscar L. 16-03-1880 21-07-1953
Samuel M.[Milton] 04-03-1816 09-04-1898 sp. of Nancy A.
William J. 24-07-1896 18-03-1967
James Milton Pyles
The descendants of Samuel Milton Pyles and Nancy Almina Raysor quality for membership to the Daughters of the American Revolution and Sons of the American Revolutions through Christian Raysor
DESCENDANTS LIST
Member: -- Name Restricted --
Nat'l #: 870183 Ancestor #: A093825
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3 -- Generation Restricted --
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4. The Said -- Name Restricted -- was the child of Samuel Ezekiel Richey born on 1 - Sep - 1877 at Abbeville SC died at Carteret NJ on 27 - Jul - 1963 and his ( 1st ) wife Lillie Maude Hughes born on 24 - Oct - 1880 at Laurens SC died at Carteret NJ on 31 - Mar - 1953 married on 8 - Dec - 1898 married at prob SC
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5. The Said Samuel Ezekiel Richey was the child of Joseph J Richey born on 26 - Nov - 1846 at Abbeville SC died at Abbeville SC on 24 - May - 1925 and his ( 1st ) wife Margaret Jane Raysor born on 27 - Nov - 1844 at Abbeville SC died at Abbeville SC on 2 - Nov - 1915 married on 22 - Nov - 1874 married at prob SC
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6. The Said Margaret Jane Raysor was the child of James Christian Raysor born on 15 - Jun - 1822 at Abbeville SC died at Cross Hill Laurens Co SC on 2 - Mar - 1907 and his ( 1st ) wife Lucy Ann Agnew born on 27 - Jul - 1827 at SC died at _______________ on 22 - May - 1905 married on 9 - Feb - 1843
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7. The Said James Christian Raysor was the child of Ezekiel Raysor born on 26 - Jul - 1797 at SC died at Abbeville SC on 2 - Oct - 1876 and his ( 1st ) wife
Permelia Barmore born on 27 - Dec - 1797 at Abbeville SC died at Abbeville SC on 22 - May - 1879 married on 6 - Nov - 1817
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8. The Said Ezekiel Raysor was the child of Christian Raysor born on 14 - Aug - 1760 at Sussex Co NJ died at Abbeville Dist SC on 16 - Dec - 1848 and his ( 1st ) wife Sarah Simms born on - - 1765 at _______________ died at _______________ on 27 - Aug - 1840 married on - - 1781
ASSOCIATED ANCESTOR (REVOLUTIONARY) RECORD
Ancestor #: A093825
Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): PRIVATE
Birth: 8-14-1760 SUSSEX CO NEW JERSEY
Death: 12-16-1848 ABBEVILLE DIST SOUTH CAROLINA
Pension Number: R8599V
Service Source: R8599V
Service Description:
1) CAPTS POLLARD, RICE, JAMES CLARK, FINCKS
2) MAJS BOYCE, THOMAS GRAVES
Family Line of Descent from William Pyles of Abbeville, Sounth Carolina
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William Pyles
BIRTH 20 MAY 1780 • Level Land, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA, DEATH 12 APR 1844 • Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA
Married:
Elizabeth Rosamond
BIRTH 25 OCT 1785 • Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA, DEATH 19 SEP 1852 • Georgia, USA
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Children:
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Lewis J Pyles
1800–1877l
Married:
Malinda Blackburn 1817–1864
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CHILDREN:
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Alkanza Jane Pyles 1840-1913
Married
James Harvey Brownlee 1842-1893
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2.
Johm Lewis Pyles 1841- 1922
Married
Sarah Jane "Sallie" Neeley
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3.
Matilda Analine Pyles 1843-1844 Died Young
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4.
Annie Elizabth Pyles 1846-1917
Married 1st;
Oscar Leonard Jennings 1916-1867
Married 2nd:
William Herman Stahl 1847-1923
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5.
Lafayette Washington Pyles -1847-1856 Died Young
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6.
Addison Coleman Pyles 1849-1853 Died Young
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7.
Abner Blackburn Pyles -1852-1897
Married:
Mary Elizabeth Berry 1858-1945
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8.
Milton Vandiver Pyles 1854-1934
Married:
Laura Maretta King 1869-1889
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9.
Newton Cunningham Pyles 1855-1921
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10.
William "Willie" Walter Pyles 1859-1932
Married:
Etta Smith 1875-1943
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Nancy Rosamond Pyles
1804–1872
BIRTH 20 JUN 1804 • Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 24 FEB 1872 • Anderson, Anderson, South Carolina, USA
Married
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Col. James Foster Wyatt
1801–1868
BIRTH 01 MAY 1801 • Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 10 MAR 1868 • Anderson County, South Carolina, USA
BURIAL
Mount Pisgah Baptist Church Cemetery
Anderson County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
Obituary of Col. James Foster Wyatt
Col. James Foster Wyatt breathed his last on the 10th inst., at 10 o'clock and 45 minutes a.m. For nine weeks he had been painfully and unceasingly afflicted, during which time he had the constant attention of two practical physicians, as well as the unwearying viligance of a devoted family, joined with the unceasing attention of kind neighbors, but all in vain. He is gone.
On Wednesday, 11th, his remains were carried into Pisgah Church where he held membership and at 3 o'clock p.m. a funeral sermon was delivered by Rev. T. R. Gary, from the text: "If a man die shall he live again:, Job 14:14. The sermon was earnest and appropriate and listened to by a large congregation of weeping relatives, friends and neighbors and if sectarian prejudice exists, it seemed to have been left behind on the occasion for Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians all seemed by their deportment to say "we have lost a brother." The religious services were concluded by a few words of exhortation and kind cheer to the bereaved family, by Rev. J. M. Pickens and prayer by Rev. F. G. Carpenter and then the corpse was consigned to the grave in the burying ground near by, there to rest until the last, loud trumpet shall announce that time shall be no longer.
Thus passed away one of Carolina's noblest sons, in his 67th year. He was born May 1, 1801. Married early in life and commenced a career of usefulness which terminated only with his life. In politics he was an appreciative voter, in the military he delighted and early commenced a volunteer career, working up through the various grades of promotion until he honored the old 4th Regiment by being its Colonel. Afterwards, when he had become too aged to endure the hardships of active field duty, he took the Colonelcy of the 42nd Regiment, while younger patriots went forth to battle for the sunny South. This position he held until our militia system became extinct. But the best remains to be told. He was not only a patriot and a gentleman, but a Christian, for "The tree shall be known by its fruit." The hungry went not from his door empty; the sick found him at their bedside; those in grief had his sympathy; they who were at variance found in him a peace-maker. But the Judgement Day will open the book and there the fruit will be seen.
He pondered well before he acted; for though strictly moral, he never joined the Christian Church until 1860, when he united with the Baptist Church at Pisgah, where he was a zealous and attentive member and an officer in the church to the time of his decease. Fully conscious of his approaching dissolution, he set his house in order. Not only did he bear his affliction with Christian fortitude but looked forward to the future welfare of his bosom companion and those over whom God had given him charge and having finished his course, he folded his hands over his heart and passed away without a struggle. A community feels sensibly the loss; but if our loss be his eternal gain, then let us dry up our tears and pray that we, too, may die the death of the Christian. Brother of Redmond Grigsby Wyatt, son of Elijah Wyatt and Mary Grigsby Foster Wyatt. Dec. 11, 1867.
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CHILDREN:
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Wyatt Home Place, near
Easley, South Carolina
Annie Elizabeth Pyles
Col. James Foster Wyatt
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Ludy Asbury Wyatt 1823–1885
Married
Mary Ann Woodfin 1832–1887
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2.
Pvt. Redmond Foster Wyatt Pvt.
1825–1864
Ddeathplace: Battle of the Crater, Petersburg, Prince George County, Virginia during the War Between the States; 4:44 A.M.
Married Nancy Ophelia Brownlee Rasor on April 08, 1847 in Abbeville District, South Carolina.
Redmond Foster Wyatt served in the Confederate Army as a private of Company G, 22nd Regiment South Carolina Volunteer Infantry. He served late in the war and was killed at the age of 36 in the blow up at Petersburg, Virginia, July 30, 1864. His son John Rasor Wyatt who was in this same regiment was on sick leave when his father was killed. His name is listed on a plaque of the men from SC at The Old Blandford Church.
R. F. was very well educated, had strong religious convictions and was devoted to his family. Redmond was buried in the "Crater" at Petersburg, Virginia but later removed to Blandford Church Cemetery nearby along with other confederates from his regiment. A memorial headstone marker is on the back of his wife's headstone at Fairview United Methodist Church Cemetery in Anderson County, South Carolina.
Sonya Behling Eason also has the letter from Rev. (Sgt.) Robert Mason Pickens to R. F. Wyatt's wife advising her of Redmond's death at Petersburg during the Battle of the Crater. The translation of this letter is as follows:
Near Petersburg, July 31, 1864
Mrs. Wyatt, I find it is my duty this morning, though it is with a heavy heart I do it, to write you a few lines to inform you that our lines were blown up yesterday and all that were in them for 200 yards were killed or captured as the yankees rushed in immediately after the explosion. Mr. Wyatt has not been found. God is a husband to the widow and father for the orphans. We will not see the sons of the righteous begging bread, but will be with you in troubles & the 7th will not forsake you. There is little hope of a capture as the yankees say they got many.
Your friend, R. M. Pickens
(This is Rev. Robert Mason Pickens who was a Sgt.)
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WERE RECOVERED FROM THE CRATER AND BURIED AT BLANDFORD CHURCH CEMETERY. THERE ARE NO HEADSTONES BUT A PLAQUE HAS BEEN PLACED IN THE CHURCH WITH THE NAMES OF THE 248 SOUTH CAROLINA SOLDIERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES.
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William Rosamond Wyatt 1827- 1872
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4.
Essie Elizabeth Wyatt 1829–1861
Married:
Thomas William Martin 1820–1899
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5.
Isaac Allerton Wyatt 1831–1849 Single - Died at 18
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James Jasper Wyatt 1834–1858 Single - Died at 24
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7.
Virginia Cornelia Wyatt 1837–1891
Married:
Cpl. James Hamilton Burdine 1843–1915
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Pvt. Redmond F. Wyatt
Ophelia (Before Wedding)
Ophelia (Later Years)
James Jasper Wyatt
3.
Abner Pyles
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4.
Lewis Pyles
1808-1877
Married
Vatherine Weatt Perrin 1805-1836
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5.
Matilda Pyles
1811-1880
Married
Lemuel Green Hohnson 1809-1852
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6.
Sarah "Sallie" Pyles
1813-1853
Married:
Joel Thomas Stone 1814-1875
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CHILDREN:
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Elixabeth Ophelia Stone 1835-1900
Married:
William Pinson Madden 1831-1880
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2.
Sarah Ann Stone 1836-11918
Married:
(Possibly) Ezekial H. Taylor)
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3.
Thomas J Stone 1840-1864
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Mary M. Stone 1842-1913
Married:
Alfred Randall 1832-1905
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5.
Caroline Stone 1844-1868
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6.
Josephine Stone 1847-????
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Henry Thoreau Stone 1849-????
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Samuel Milton Pyles
1816–1898
BIRTH 4 MARCH 1816 • Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 9 APRIL 1898 • Santa Bárbara, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Married on 22 Dec 1843 • Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina
Nancy Almina Razor
1819–1912
BIRTH 4 SEPTEMBER 1819 • Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 1 APRIL 1912 • Santa Bárbara, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Rev. Samuel Milton Pyles was a Baptist minister and most of those in his group were of that denomination. Most were not slave owners and had no desire to be, but instead simply wanted to get away from the Reconstruction government to a place where they could rebuild their lives and provide safety and prosperity for their families. He was a resident of Georgia when the war began but moved to Florida and served as a minister or chaplain to five companies of Florida troops. He had settled in Greenwood by the end of the conflict.
Such feelings intensified when the U.S. Army declared martial law in Florida on April 8, 1867. The war had been over for two years by that point and no widespread outbreaks of violence were reported. The measure was part of the “Radical Reconstruction” law passed by Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. Many northern Republicans felt that the Southern states should be punished for their participation in secession and the war and the new act made sure that they would be.
Rev. Pyles led his group north to New York from Jackson County since emigration from Southern ports was prohibited. The final number that went from Jackson County was 30, although 49 more left from the adjoining states of Alabama and Georgia:
FOR BRAZIL. – The steamer North American from this port yesterday, took out quite an installment of the long-talked of Southern emigration to Brazil. More than 200 emigrants left. – Of these 136 were from Texas, 25 from Georgia, 24 from Alabama, and 30 from Florida. The passenger list indicates a large immigration by families. Many children are enrolled, and in the Florida list the emigrants are mostly registered under the names of the Findley, the Scarwhite or the Piles family. – N.Y. Com. Adv. [II]
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Among those known to have gone south with Rev. Pyles were his daughter, Julia Antoinette Pyles Minchin, and her husband, Joseph Long Minchin. He served in Company I, 4th Florida Infantry (CSA) and fought in several of the largest battles of the war including Chickamauga and Atlanta.
Information on Minchin indicates that the Pyles group arrived in Brazil on June 24, 1867. He initially found work as the foreman of a coffee plantation but soon purchased 900 acres of his own. Although many Confederados – as they were called in Brazil – found life there more difficult than expected and eventually returned to the United States, the Pyles and Minchins did not. Joseph Long Minchin was still living on his farm near Nova Odessa in 1921. [III]
Rev. S.M. Pyles, the leader of the group, also lived out his life in Brazil. He died there on April 9, 1898 and is buried in the famed Campo Cemetery in Sao Paolo. It was established as a burial place for the Confederados and is the scene of the annual reunion of Confederado families. His wife, Nancy Pyles, survived him to die in Brazil on April 1, 1912. She is also buried at Campo.
Members of the Pyles and other families from Jackson County still live in Brazil to this day.
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More Information:
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A LITTLE ABOUT SAMUEL MILTON PYLS AND FAMILY
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SOURCE: Loosely translated and paraphrased from the original Portuguese manuscript.
CENTELHA EM RE STOLHO SECO
Uma Contribuiao para a Hist6ria dos Prim6rdios do Trabalho Batista no Brasil 1985
Betty Antunes de Oliveira
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SAMUEL MILTON PYLES (1816 - 1898)
Samuel Milton Pyles, son of William Pyles and Elisabeth Hodges Rosamond Pyles was born on March 12, 1816, probably in Abbeville Co., South Carolina. He was buried, with his wife, at Cemiterio do Campo, SBSP. He married Nancy Alrnina Banyrnor Rasor, on December 22,1841, Near Donaldsville, Abbeville county,South Carolina. Almina's name also appears: Almira, Almyra, ElJnira and Elmyra, as we can see in the reading of a work under the title Pyles Family Genealogy , located in the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, South Carolina.
The children of the couple: Elisabeth Pyles, married to Henry O. Burton; William Franklin Pyles, married to Rosa Margaret Carlton; Ezequiel Belton Pyles, married to Flemin Margaret McKnight; Julia A. Pyles, married to Joseph Long Minchin; Adonam Judson Pyles, married to Josephina F. Mc Knight; Ella Pyles, married to William T. Harris and James Milton Pyles married to Octavia Dumas.
Henry D. Burton passed away in Botucatu. He and his are buried at Cemite rio Municipal, the Mayor of Camar being responsible for and, as a tribute to the services provided by Burton to the local community. We do not know where William F. Pyles and his wife, Ella Pyles died. All of the children are buried in the Cemiterio do Campo.
In 1847, the family was residing near Macon. In 1850, in Chattoaa • from 1853 to 1862 in Baker. All these places are in the State of Georgia, USA. The family then relocated went to Madison county,Florida and then came relocated to Brazil.
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CHILDREN:
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Elizabeth Pyles
1843–1919
BIRTH 26 SEPTEMBER 1843 • South Carolina
DEATH 27 OCTOBER 1919 • Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Married a Mr. Barton
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William Franklin Pyles
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William F. Pyles: Private, Company A, 11th Kentucky Cavalry & Company D, Dortch's 2nd Battalion Kentucky Cavalry. He was the brother of Ezequiel Pyles, and originally joined Company A of the 11th Kentucky Cavalry in September 1862. He accompanied Gen. John Hunt Morgan on Great Ohio Raid, and escaped capture by swimming the Ohio River at Buffington Island, Ohio. He joined with the remnants of Morgan's command in Company D of Dortch's 2nd Battalion Ken- tucky Cavalry in August 1863 at Knoxville, Tennessee, and fought in Georgia & Tennessee, and and at the Battle of Saltville, Virginia, on October 2, 1864. He was transferred to Gen. Basil W. Duke's Brigade and was captured at Kingsport, Tennessee, on Dec 31,1864. He was taken to Camp Chase, Ohio, where he remained until transferred to Point Lookout, Maryland for exchange on February 17, 1865. He rejoined his command in southwest Virginia. He refused to surrender when his unit disbanded near Christiansburg, VA, on April 12, 1865 and made his way to Greensboro, North Carolina, where he became part of final escort for Confederate President Jefferson Davis. After being released from the service by President Davis, he surrendered at Washington, Georgia, on May 10, 1865. He went to Brazil and was still alive in 1913, age 67.
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1845–1928
BIRTH 13 JUL 1845 • Abeville County, South Carolina
DEATH 1928 • São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Married :
Margaret Carlton
Daughter of Richard Carlton and Cynthia Elizabeth ______
1848–1923
BIRTH ABOUT 1848 • Meridian, Lauderdale County,
Mississippi
DEATH ABOUT 1923 • Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Oscar Lee Pyles
1880–1953
BIRTH 15 MAR 1880 • Villa, Americana,
Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 21 JULY 1953
Married:
Julia Scurlock,
Daughter of Patrick Henry Scurlock and Sarah
Caroline Moore
1877–1966
BIRTH 30 APR 1877 • Americana, Sao Paulo,
Brazil
DEATH 23 OCT 1966 • Santa Barbara d'Oeste,
Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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CHILDREN:
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Elmer Lee Pyles
1913–???? Oscar Lee Pyles and Jilia Scurlock
BIRTH 4 JUL 1913 • Vila Americana, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH Unknown
No Further Information
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Franklin Pierce Pyles
1882–1952
BIRTH 17 MAY 1882 • Villa Americano, Sac Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 1952 • New York, New York, USA
Married: 18 Sep 1912 • District of Columbia,USA
Norma L. Gemmell
Daughter of George Gemmell and Nora Sherwood
1892–1970
BIRTH 3 AUG 1892 • Quincy, IL
DEATH 1970 • New York County New York, USA
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William Joyce Pyles M.D.
1914–1980
BIRTH 20 JUN 1914 • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH APR 1980 • New York County, New York, USA
Married:
Edith Elizabeth Sproul
1907–1999
BIRTH 27 OCT 1907 • Passaic, New Jersey
DEATH 19 JAN 1999 • Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA
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Sproul Family - About 1945 Back row: William J. Pyles; unknown f emale; Harold Chester Sproul; Albert Eugene Sproul Jr.; William Kerr. Front row: Kathleen Sproul; Sadie Sproul Kerr; Barbara Sproul; Albert Eugene Sproul Sr.; Edith E. Sproul; Chris Sproul; Dorothy Noyes.
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Richard Milton Pyles
1884–1951
BIRTH 11 JULY 1884 • Villa Americana, San Pablo, Brazil
DEATH FEBRUARY 14, 1951 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Married:
Etelvina Correa Pacheco da Silva
1896–1929
BIRTH 23 DEC 1896 • Itu, São Paulo, Brasil
DEATH 1929 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Richard Milton Pyles
1907
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CHILDREN
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Edson Pyles
1921–????
BIRTH 1921 • Brazil Maria Izabel Pyles (1946)
DEATH Unknown
No Further Information
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Maria Izabel Pyles
1923–1989
BIRTH 8 JULY 1923 • Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 9 MARCH 1989 • Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah
Married: 27 Jun 1946 • Salt Lake, UT, USA
Joseph Victor Stevenson
Son of Lester Alanson Stevenson and Bertha Ester Starley
1919–1988
BIRTH 30 DEC 1919 • Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, USA
DEATH 21 FEBRUARY 1988 • Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County,
Utah, USA
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CHILDREN: Dr. Joseph V. Stevenson
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Heidi Sue Stevenson
1955–1955
BIRTH 24 JULY 1955 • Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah,
USA
DEATH 25 JULY 1955 • Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Died as day old infant.
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Vicki Maria Stevenson
BIRTH Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Married: 16 Jan 1970 • Elko, Nevada, USA
William "Billiy" Eugene Mitchell
BIRTH 24 APR 1945 • Gaithersburg, Montgomery,
Maryland, USA
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Richard Lester Stevenson
BIRTH 18 JUL 1948 • Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Married
Marcia Lockyer
BIRTH 27 MAY 1948
Daughter of Ralph William lockyer and Lilly Lakness
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Margarida ( Guida ) Maria Pyles (Twin)
1927–
BIRTH 9 NOV 1927 • Brazil
Married: 25 Jan 1951 • New York City, New York, USA
John Maurice West
1927–2013
BIRTH 10 JUNE 1927 • New York City (All Boroughs),
New York, USA
DEATH 10 APRIL 2013 • Glen Ridge, Essex, New Jersey, USA
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Yolanda Thereza Pyles (Twin)
1927–
BIRTH 9 NOV 1927 • Brazil
Married: 26 Jun 1950 • New York City, New York, USA
Edwin Joseph Wesely Margarida Pyles 1951
1919–
BIRTH 1919
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Ezekiel Belton. Pyles:
Private, Company A, 11th Kentucky Cavalry & Company D, Dortch's 2nd Battalion Kentucky Cavalry. He originally joined Company A, 11th Kentucky Cavalry in September 1862, and accompanied Gen. John Hunt Morgan on his great Ohio Raid. He escaped by swimming the Ohio River at Buffington Island, and joined other Morgan's Men in Co. D of Dortch's 2nd Battalion Kentucky Cavalry in August 1863, at Knoxville, Tennessee. He fought in the Tennessee & Georgia and at the Battle of Saltville, Virginia, on October 2, 1864. He was assigned to the brigade of Gen. Basil W.Duke & was captured at Kingsport, Tennessee, on December 13, 1864. He was taken to Camp Chase, Ohio, where he was imprisoned until February 17, 1865, when he was transferred to Point Lookout, Maryland, for exchange. After his exchange, he was admitted to a Confederate military hospital at Richmond, VA, on February 26,1865. He was furloughed from hospital for 30 days on March 6,1865, and returned to southwest Virginia where he re-joined his command. When the rest of his command disbanded on April 12,1865, he refused to surrender and made his way to Greensboro, North Carolina, where he became part of the final escort for Confederate President Jefferson Davis. After being released from service by President Davis, he surrendered at Wash-ington, Georgia, May 10, 1865. He went to Brazil and was still alive in 1913, age 66.
Ezequiell Belton Pyles
1847–1916
BIRTH 1 OCTOBER 1847 • Georgia
DEATH 15 DECEMBER 1916 • São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Married
Flemin Margaret McKnight, Daughter of John Calvin McKnight and Isabella Wenk
1856–1917
BIRTH 11 MARCH 1856 • Division, Hill County, Texas, USA
DEATH 3 JANUARY 1917 • Santa Barbara d'Oeste, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Julia Antoinette Pyles
1849–1902
BIRTH ABT 1849 • Bibb County, Georgia, USA
DEATH 8 NOV 1902 • Probably Nova Odessa, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Married: 15 Mar 1866 • Jackson county, Florida, USA
Joseph Long Minchin
Son of Edward Minchin and Jane Miller
1841–1927
BIRTH 16 JAN 1841 • Thomasville, Thomas, Georgia, USA
DEATH 18 JUNE 1927 • Nova Odessa, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Jenny Minchin
1869–1957
BIRTH 18 OCTOBER 1869 • Brazil
DEATH 23 MAY 1957 • Brazil
Married:
Charles Columbus Fenley
1859–1935
BIRTH 10 JUNE 1859 • Mariana, Jackson County, Florida, USA
DEATH 29 MAY 1935 • Villa Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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CHILDREN:
1.
Hiram Minchin Fenley
1892–1933
BIRTH 26 MAR 1892 • Nova Odessa, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 4 FEB 1933 • Brazil
No Further Information
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Alexander Christovam Fenley
1896–1951
BIRTH 27 JAN 1896 • Campinas, Sao Paulo
DEATH 7 APRIL 1951 • Brazil
Married:
Mary Lee Ferguson, daughter of Robert Edward Lee Ferguson and Mary Elizabeth Cullen
1900–1958
BIRTH 18 AUG 1900 • Brazil
DEATH 17 OCT 1958 • São Paulo, Brazil
CHILDREN:
1.
Joseph Edison Fenley
1923–1924
BIRTH 29 OCT 1923 • Brazil
DEATH 10 DEC 1924
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Hiram Lee Fenley
1926–1983
BIRTH 2 JAN 1926 • Itapolis, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 19 DEC 1983 • Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Married:
Gilda Maria Vianna, daughter of Aladino Washington Vianna Engenheiro and Maria Amélia da Veiga Soares Brandina
1934–2004
BIRTH 21 OCT 1934 • Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
DEATH 26 SEP 2004 • Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
No Further Information
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Paulo Alexandre Fenley
1927–1975
BIRTH 24 FEB 1927 • Brazil
DEATH 30 MAY 1975
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Joseph Fenley
1901–????
BIRTH 1901 • Brazil
DEATH Unknown
No Further Information
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Edward Fenley
1903–
BIRTH 1903 • Brazil
DEATH Unknown
No Further Information
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Julie Fenley
1906–
BIRTH 1906 • brazil
DEATH Unknown
No Further Information
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Edwardo Milton Minchin
1872–1953
BIRTH 27 FEB 1872 • Itapetininga, Sao Paulo
DEATH 1953 • Brazil
Married:
Nannie L. ______
No Further Information
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Mamie Minchin
1874–1966
BIRTH 3 JUN 1874
DEATH 22 NOV 1966 • Brazil
No Further Information
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Joseph Johnston Minchin
1878–????
BIRTH 1878 • Brazil
DEATH Unknown
No Further Information
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Albert Minchin
1881–????
BIRTH 1881 • Brazil
DEATH Unknown
No Further Information
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Ann L Minchin
1882–1944
BIRTH 1882 • Brazil
DEATH 1944 • Brazil
No Further Information
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Lee Stuart Minchin
1884–????
BIRTH 1884 • Brazil
DEATH Unknown
No Further Information
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Elizabeth M "Lizzie" Minchin
1887–1974
BIRTH 11 JUN 1887 • Rebaucas, Brazil, South America
DEATH 18 MAY 1974 • Olney, Young, Texas, USA
Married: 15 Oct 1916 • Young county, Texas, USA
Thomas Whittington Boone, son of William McDuffy Boone
and Nancy Caroline Washburne
1883–1952
BIRTH 14 MAR 1883 • Brenham, Washington County, Texas, USA
DEATH 23 NOV 1952 • Olney, Young, Texas, USA
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CHILDREN:
1.
Giles Minchin Boone
1917–1995
BIRTH 1917 • Spring Creek, Throckmorton County, Texas, USA
DEATH 9 NOVEMBER 1995 • Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Married: 24 May 1942 • Young, Texas, USA
Evelyn Koeneman
1913–1979
BIRTH 4 AUG 1913 • St Louis County, Missouri, USA
DEATH 11 OCT 1979 • Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
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CHILDREN:
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Linda Boone
2.
Susan Boone
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Nancy Lou Boone
1919–2002
BIRTH 1 OCTOBER 1919 • Spring Creek, Palo Pinto, Texas, USA
DEATH 16 JUNE 2002 • Dumas, Moore, Texas, USA
Married: 9 Sep 1947 Seymour county, Texas, USA
Granville Murphy, son of Grver C. Murphy and Josie Rains
1916–1997
BIRTH 14 SEP 1916 • Marietta Lov, Oklahoma
DEATH 14 JUL 1997 • Dumas, Moore, Texas, USA
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Fannie Lou Minchin
1890–????
BIRTH 1890 • Brazil
DEATH Unknown
No Further Information
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Adoniram Judson Pyles
1851–1911
BIRTH 6 AUGUST 1851 • Georgia, USA
DEATH 26 APRIL 1911 • São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Married: 12 JAN 1880 • Rio Claro, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Josephine Frances MacKnight
1854–1935
BIRTH 21 JANUARY 1854 • Division, Hill County, Texas, USA
DEATH 6 AUGUST 1935 • Santa Barbara, Brazil
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CHILDREN:
1.
Albert Leonidas Pyles
1881–1975
BIRTH 12 NOV 1881 • Santa Bárbara, Amazonas, Brazil
DEATH 1 DEC 1975 • Sao Paulo, Brazil
Married: 10 Mar 1908 • Americana Brazil South America
Amy Armstrong Norris
1885–1924
BIRTH 12 NOV 1885 • Santa Bárbara d'Oeste Municipality, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 25 JAN 1924 • S"o JosÈ dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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CHILDREN:
1.
Horace Frederick Pyles
1909–????
BIRTH 28 JUN 1909
DEATH Unknown
No Further Information
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Ruth Calve Pyles
1911–????
BIRTH 9 APR 1911 • Marshall
DEATH Unknown
No Further Information
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Lucy Edna Pyles
1914–2011
BIRTH 3 JUL 1914 • Nova Odessa, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 14 JAN 2011 • Texas, USA
Married: 20 Apr 1943 • São Paulo, Brazil
John Robert Hofmann Sr
1916–1976
BIRTH 21 OCT 1916 • Canton, Shunde, Guangdong, China
DEATH 8 SEP 1976 • San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA
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Children:
1.
John Robert Hofmann Jr
1944–
BIRTH 3 JUN 1944 • Sao Paulo, Brazil
No Further information
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Edward H Hofmann
1946–
BIRTH 25 SEP 1946 • Brazil
No Further Information
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Peter Norris Hofmann
1950–
BIRTH ABT 1950 • Fortaleza, Brazil
No Further Information
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Alice Jones Pyles
1917–2009
BIRTH 12 JUN 1917 • São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 15 AUG 2009 • San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA
Married: 2 Sep 1950 • Sao Paulo, Brazil
Carlton Clyde Lowry Jr, son of Carlton Clyde Sr. and Nina Eunice Harrell
1922–2003
BIRTH 2 APR 1922 • Alexandria, Rapides, Louisiana, USA
DEATH 21 MAY 2003 • San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA
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Daisy Ellis Pyles
1882–1970
BIRTH OCT 1882 • Capivari, SP, Brazil
DEATH 06 JUL 1970 • Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Married: 16 May 1883 • Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, USA
James Lillbourne Kennedy
1857–1942
BIRTH 31 DEC 1857 • Strawberry Plains, Jefferson, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 07 DEC 1942 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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CHILDREN:
1.
Embree Moore Kennedy
1919–2010
BIRTH 27 OCT 1919 • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DEATH 12 JAN 2010 • Phoenix, AZ
Married: 19 Oct 1949 • Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Anita Ide Thorbecke
1926–1980
BIRTH 18 MAR 1926 • Berlin, Germany
DEATH 24 OCT 1980 • Port Elizabeth, Rep. of South Africa
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Addie Harvey Pyles
1888–1939
BIRTH 05 NOV 1888 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH ABOUT 1939
Married:
Arthur Justin Holland
1891–1964
BIRTH ABOUT 1891
DEATH 19 FEB 1964
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CHILDREN:
1.
Maurice James Holland
1916–1985
BIRTH 20 NOV 1916
DEATH JUL 1985 • Lewes, Sussex, England
No Further Information
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Alice June Holland
1918–1997
BIRTH 23 FEB 1918 • Brazil
DEATH NOV 1997 • Steyning, Sussex, England
Married: 02 JUL 1938 • São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Edwin Pickering Huddart
1906–2006
BIRTH 15 MAY 1906 • Croydon, Surrey
DEATH 28 APR 2006 • Steyning, England, United Kingdom
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CHILDREN:
1.
Jennifer Ann Huddart
1951–2008
BIRTH 6 AUG 1951 • Brazil
DEATH 27 JUN 2008 • Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, England
No Further Information
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David Holland
–1989
BIRTH 11 FEB 1920
DEATH JAN 1989 • Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, England
No Further Information
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James Milton Pyles
1856–1928
BIRTH 9 NOV 1856 • Chattooga County, Georgia, USA
DEATH 8 APR 1928 • Santa Bárbara do Oeste -São Paulo - Brasil
Married:
Octavia Garner Dumas, daughter of John Rogers Dumas and Helen King Garner
1871–1945
BIRTH 18 MAY 1871 • Santa Barbara d'Oeste, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 6 JUNE 1945 • Tatuí - São Paulo - Brasil
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CHILDREN:
1.
Charles (Carlos) Dick Pyles
1892–????
BIRTH ABT. 1892, Brazil
DEATH Unknown
Married:
Antonieta (Lidia) Ulhoa
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CHILDREN:
1.
Mario Pyles
1929–1967
BIRTH 1929 • Brazil
DEATH 1967 • Brazil
Married:
Yonne Maia
1930–
BIRTH 13 JUN 1930
DEATH
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Glover Pyles
3.
Jose Pyles
4.
Nilza Pyles
Married
Halley Patto
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Mary Helena Pyles
1894–
BIRTH ABT 1894
DEATH Unknown
Married:
A. Arouca
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Lorena Elizabeth Pyles
1894–1977
BIRTH 01 JAN 1894 • Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 26 JAN 1977 • Jundiai, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Married:
Orville (Orwell ) Green
BIRTH Brazil
DEATH Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Município de Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, São Paulo, Brazil
4.
Jeny Valeria Pyles
1897–
BIRTH 1897 • São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH Unknown
Married:
C. Peetyl
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Catherine Pauline Pyles
1900–????
BIRTH 14 NOV 1900 • Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH Unknown
Married:
Anthony Joseph Caputo
1890–????
BIRTH 13 NOV 1890 • Hoboken, Hudson, New Jersey, USA
DEATH Unknown
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George Washington Pyles
1902–????
BIRTH 19 MAR 1902 • Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH Unknown
Married:
Linda ______
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Margarida Amy Pyles
1909–1949
BIRTH 17 JAN 1909 • Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 15 JUL 1949 • Garça - São Paulo - Brasil
Married:
Aurino Gomes Ribeiro
1910–1996
BIRTH 20 MAI 1910 • São Carlos - SP
DEATH 9 JUL 1996 • Garça - SP
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Judson Whitaker Pyles
1912–????
BIRTH 25 DEC 1912 • Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH ?
Married:
Otilia Coelho de Aguiar
BIRTH Unknown
DEATH Living
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CHILDREN:
1.
Aises Friene Pyles
1938–1967
BIRTH 2 APR 1938 • Sao Paulo, Brasil
DEATH 2 APR 1967 • Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Married:
Howard Joseph Shelton
1922–1993
BIRTH 9 FEB 1922 • Boise, Ada County, Idaho, USA
DEATH 15 JAN 1993 • Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
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CHILDREN:
1.
James Judson Shelton
1957–1983
BIRTH ABOUT 1957
DEATH ABOUT 1983 • San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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Julia Pyles
No Further Information
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Winnie Pyles
No Further Information
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Willam Pyles
No Further Information
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Elizabeth Hanna Pyles
1821–1891
BIRTH 29 JUL 1821 • Honea Path, Broadmouth Creek, Anderson, South Carolina
DEATH 19 APR 1891 • Broadmouth Creek, Anderson, South Carolina
Married:
William Pleasant Kay II
1813–1869
BIRTH 6 SEP 1813 • Pendleton, Anderson, South Carolina
DEATH 11 AUG 1869 • Broadmouth Creek, Anderson, South Carolina
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Mary "Polly" Rochester Pyles
1824–1897
BIRTH 23 NOV 1824 • Abbeville Dist, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 27 MAR 1897 • Santa Bárbara, Amazonas, Brazil
Married:
Ebenezer Wilson Seawright
1816–1886
BIRTH 23 APRIL 1816 • Donalds, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 21 AUGUST 1886 • Santa Bárbara, Amazonas, Brazil
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CHILDREN:
1.
Ebenezer Jewett Seawright
1847–1871
BIRTH ABT 1847 • Donalds, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 1871 • Chattooga County, Georgia, USA
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Samuel Augustus Seawright
1850–1881
BIRTH 1850 • Chattooga County, Georgia
DEATH 1881 • Campos, Rio de Janeiro,Brazil
Married:
Sara ______
1850–1881
BIRTH ABT 1850 • of, Brazil
DEATH 1881
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1.
Emma Georgina Seawright
1870–1876
BIRTH ABT 1870
DEATH 1876
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John Reny Seawright
1852–1897
BIRTH 1852 • Chattooga County, Georgia
DEATH 1897 • São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Eugene Virgil Seawright
1854–1918
BIRTH 10 NOV 1854 • Chatooga, Georgia, United States
DEATH 10 JUL 1918 • São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Married:
Anna Elizabeth "Bettie" Carlton
1856–1908
BIRTH 23 MAY 1856 • Clarke County, Mississippi, USA
DEATH 04 SEP 1908 • Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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CHILDREN:
1.
Minerva "Minnie" Carlton Seawright
1885–1964
BIRTH 07 MAY 1885 • Chattooga County, Georgia, USA
DEATH 4 MAY 1964 • Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Married:
Albert Ernest Rowe
1880–
BIRTH ABT 1880 • Georgia
DEATH Unknown
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Emily "Emmie" Seawright
1886–
BIRTH 2 DEC 1886 • São Paulo, Brazil?
DEATH Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil?
Married:
Stephen Rowe
1882–
BIRTH ABOUT 1882
DEATH São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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James Wilson Seawright
1889–1965
BIRTH 25 MAR 1889 • Villa Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 10 APR 1965 • Paranapanema, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Married:
Helena Pin
BIRTH Unknown
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Margareth "Maggie" Seawright
1891–1987
BIRTH 16 MAR 1891 • Villa Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH OCT 1987 • Sao Pulo, Brazil
Married:
Luiz Pio Piccinini
1892–1949
BIRTH 24 AUG 1892
DEATH 26 JUN 1949 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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CHILDREN:
1.
Helio Piccinini
1923–2002
BIRTH 1923
DEATH 19 JUL 2002 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Elizabeth Jane Seawright
1854–1855
BIRTH 10 NOV 1854 • Chattooga, Georgia, United States
DEATH 1855 • Chattooga County, Georgia, USA
Died Young
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James Price Seawright
1856–1864
BIRTH 1856 • Chattooga, Georgia, United States
DEATH 1864 • Chattooga Co., GA?
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William Lewis Seawright
1859–1905
BIRTH 1859 • Dirt Town Valley, Chattooga, Georgia, USA
DEATH ABOUT 1905 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Emily Virginia Seawright
1861–1915
BIRTH 24 SEP 1861 • Chattooga, Georgia, United States
DEATH 01 AUG 1915 • Santa Bárbara, Amazonas, Brazil
Married:
Thomas Alonzo Keese
Son of Thomas Lafayette Keese and Florence Josephine Hubbard
1856–1926
BIRTH 20 FEBRUARY 1856 • Texas
DEATH 23 OCTOBER 1926 • Santa Bárbara, Amazonas, Brazil
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CHILDREN:
1.
Katherine Eugenia Keese
1886–1972
BIRTH 02 MAY 1886 • Santa Barbara, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 02 MAY 1972 • Donalds, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA
Married:
Robert Dodson Brownlee
Son of William Virgil Brownlee and Sonora Jane Dodson
1883–1974
BIRTH 10 AUG 1883 • Donalds, Abbeville, South Carolina
DEATH 27 FEB 1974 • Donalds, Abbeville, South Carolina
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Before WWI, two beautiful young sisters arrived in Donalds, SC., from Brazil, South America. They came to further their education in South Carolina's more modern system of higher learning. They were admired and welcomed by their many cousins whom they had never seen. The girls were the granddaughters of Ebenezer Wilson Seawright who moved to Brazil after the Civil War.
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Katherine and Rosa Keese are the ladies I am thinking of. It didn't take long for them to f it right in with the young folks and be admired and praised by the older people. Customs here were very different from their homeland, but that didn't take the girls long to over come. The proms and lawn parties of that day made getting acquainted easy. Dating and college went hand in hand. Katherine was the first to go steady. The local young druggist and drug store owner was the lucky man. Robert D. Brownlee popped the question and Katherine accepted. We soon heard wedding bells echoing through-out the little town of Donalds.
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Two fine children were born to this family, one boy and one girl, William A. Brownlee and Dorothy Brownlee (Henry).
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Rosa also had a sweetheart and they were very serious at that time. Rosa and Henry Dodson were engaged but their plans were very cloudy by the approach of WWI. Henry had been drafted and Uncle Sam had made his plans. So they postponed the wedding until a later date. Rosa hurriedly left for Brazil before the German U-boats cut off the shipping lanes to her home. The story does not end yet. Poor old Henry reluctantly marched off to war in Germany. Finally after two long years the war ended and Henry set foot on American soil again, but not for long. After visiting relatives he headed to Charleston, SC, and caught the first boat headed to Sao Paulo, Brazil. You guessed it, the wedding took place as planned. One fine boy was born to Henry and Rosa. They named him C.K. I suppose that stood for Charles Keese Dodson. Neither Henry nor Rosa ever returned to America.
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CHILDREN:
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William Alonzo "Billy" Brownlee
1913–1981
BIRTH 9 NOV 1913 • Donalds, Abbeville, South Carolina
DEATH 1 MAR 1981 • Honea Path, Anderson, South Carolina
Married:
Lois Kathleen Martin
1914–1994
BIRTH 8 OCTOBER 1914 • Ware Shoals, South Carolina
DEATH 8 NOVEMBER 1994 • Due West, Abbeville, South Carolina
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Dorothy Brownlee
1915–2007
BIRTH 11 NOVEMBER 1915 • Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 29 DECEMBER 2007 • Honea Path, Anderson County, South Carolina,
Married:
Louis Carr Henry
Son of Louis Neal Henry and Alice Bell
1897–1983
BIRTH 12 FEB 1897 • Belden, Lee, Mississippi
DEATH 22 JAN 1983 • Donalds, Abbeville, SC
2.
Rosa May Keese
1888–1969
BIRTH 6 AUG 1888 • Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 28 SEP 1969 • Santa Bárbara, Amazonas, Brazil
Married;
Henry Hill Dodson
Son of Charles Hill Dodson and Roberta "Bertie" Eugenia Seawright
1892–1906
BIRTH ABT 1892 • Donalds, Abbeville, South Carolina
DEATH 1906 • Brazil
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CHILDREN:
1.
Charles Keese Dodson
1921–
BIRTH 1921 • Brazil
DEATH Unknown
9.
Roseman Orven Seawright
1864–1895
BIRTH 19 DEC 1864 • Jackson County,Florida
DEATH 1895 • São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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