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This history, first published in 1902, contains hundreds of pages of genealogy in addition to its historical coverage. Mr. Sellers begins his book with a history of the settlement of South Carolina, from its earliest existence in 1670. Once this general background has been established, he sets forth the history of Marion County. Beginning with a physical description, including boundaries, Mr. Sellers then proceeds to touch upon such areas of i...

Excerpt from A History of Marion County, South Carolina: From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901 The wife of Buck Swamp John was Absala Parker, 'hence their youngest son was named Parker. Buck Swamp John' settled on the plantation now owned by one of his de scendants, John C. Bethea, of Dillon, he was a prosperous man - took up and owned at the time of his death, in 1821, six or eight thousand acres of land around him and in near by part...

William Edward Sellers was the author of: From Aldershot to Pretoria (1900), With Our Fighting Men (1915) and With Our Heroes in Khaki (1917). "It would have been a grave omission had no attempt been made at the earliest possible time to place on record some account of the Christian steadfastness and heroism of the many godly men belonging to every arm of the service engaged in the war in South Africa, and of the strenuous work which they did ...

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