Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Dr. Jefferson Godwin Darby

Name:Dr Jefferson Godwin Darby
Birth Date:28 May 1843
Birth Place:South Carolina
Age:83
Death Date:26 Sep 1926
Death Place:Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee
Burial Date:29 Sep 1926
Burial Place:Fort Martin,( Fort Motte) S Carolina
Gender:Male
Race:White
Marital Status:Widowed
Occupation:Retired Physician
Father's Name:Artie Darby
Father's Birth Place:South Carolina
Mother's Name:Margaret Thomson
Mother's Birth Place:South Carolina
FHL Film Number: at1876718

Doctor Darby married Sally Wright in Asheville North Carolina.
They adopted the three children of her deceased sister Maggie Wright Dunn
The children were orphaned when Maggie Wright Dunn and John Dunn died in the great flu epidemic.  The children were William, Katherine, and Robert Dunn.  The Darby family relocated to Knoxville Tenn. prior to World War 1. Doctor Darby was a retired Civil War doctor visiting in the Asheville North Carolina area where he met and married Salley Wright sister of the late Maggie Wright Dunn.
Katherine Dunn married Charles Douglas Johnston Jr. in 1918 they had one son Charles Douglas Johnston lll.  Charles Douglas Johnston Jr. died in France in World War 1.
his son Charles Douglas Johnston lll died in France in World War 2. only a few miles from where his father had died.   Charles Douglas Johnston lll was a Major in the 82nd Airborne unit dropped into France on D Day June 6, 1944.  He was killed June 12 defending the village of Grainges.

Artemas Thomson Darby, the last delegate to sign the Ordinance of Secession, was born
September 6, 1806, at Fort Motte, the son of Dr. Artemas Burnham Darby, a prominent
physician of Charleston and Fort Motte, deputy surveyor general of South Carolina, and
large planter, and Mary Eugenia Thomson Darby, granddaughter of Col. William Thomson of American Revolution fame.  He was graduated from the South Carolina College in 1826 and from the Medical College of South Carolina in 1831.  Entering the practice of medicine, he was an able partner for his distinguished father.  Dr. A.T. Darby
married a cousin, Margaret Cantey Thomson, daughter of John Linton Thomson and Margaret Sinkler Thomas, and had 16 children.  Seven of his eight sons served in the Confederate Army.  He was named a delegate to the Secession Convention from St. Matthew's Parish in a special election on December 24, 1860, the first election having resulted in a tie, and was given permission to sign the Ordinance of Secession when he qualified as a delegate on December 28.  He died April 3, 1878, at "Pond Bluff" and is buried there, beside his wife, in the family burying ground on his plantation.  He was greatly loved and mourned by his many friends of a wide section of Orangeburg County.

Source page 133 of South Carolina Secedes.  Posted by Norman DeBruhl
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Monday, April 29, 2013

Stephen Carr DeBruhl

Re: Stephen Carr DeBruhl
Posted by: Charles CornellDate: October 18, 2000 at 14:45:06
In Reply to: Stephen Carr DeBruhl by Stephen DeBruhl of 365 

Stephen C. DeBruhl was named for Stephen Carr 1763-1797, who was the husband of Julianna Charlotte DeBruhl. She was the younger sister of Edward C DeBruhl, Stephen C DeBruhl's father. Stephen Carr served in the Revolution under Francis Marion and was at the surrender of Charleston.
Wife of Stephen C DeBruhl was Susan
Cammier. He served in the Civil War as Lieutenant and Adjutant of a Florida Regiment.  He was a lawyer and served as Kershaw County Sheriff in the 1835 period.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Michael Samuel DeBruhl and Margaret Pring DeBruhl



Description: iew Tree for Michael Samuel DebruhlMichael Samuel DeBruhl Born 1700
Died.04 Apr 1773
Michael Samuel DeBruhl was born in Germany 1700 and died 04 Apr 1773 in New Bern, NC. He married Margaret Pring on 15 Dec 1745 in St. Anne's, London, England.  He is buried in the cemetery at Christ Church New Bern.
His marker is inscribed with these words.  Michael Samuel DeBruhl Third Troop Royal Horse Guards, founder of Halifax Nova Scotia, soldier, patriot,
Freemason.  He and Margaret Pring DeBruhl his wife founded the DeBruhl family in British North America.  Their descendants have spread over the entire country.  Margaret is buried at Prince George Winyah Episcopal church in Georgetown South Carolina.  She has a marker as of this writing in the form of an engraved bench installed by Norman and
Marshall DeBruhl of North Carolina and Maryland.  Margaret died 1784 at Georgetown, SC.

 
Notes for Michael Samuel DeBruhl:
Immigrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia on the vessel Canning in 1749

had 8 children, 2 of which died in Halifax

More About Michael Samuel DeBruhl and Margaret Pring:
Marriage: 15 Dec 1745, St. Anne's, London, England.

Children of Michael Samuel DeBruhl and Margaret Pring are:
      i.         +Edward Cornwallis DeBruhl, b. 10 Dec 1749, Halifax, Nova Scotia, d. 07 Jun 1821,    Camden, SC.
     ii.         Julianna Charlotte DeBruhl, b. 09 Aug 1762, New York, NY, d. date unknown.
   iii.         W. Goddard DeBruhl, b. 21 Aug 1747, d. date unknown.
   iv.         Margaret DeBruhl, b. 29 Jan 1749, d. date unknown.
    v.         Michael Samuel DeBruhl, b. 15 Aug 1752, d. date unknown.
   vi.         Phillipa Margaret DeBruhl, b. 14 Feb 1755, d. date unknown.
 vii.         Lucia Elizabeth DeBruhl, b. 09 Jul 1757, d. date unknown.
viii.         George Ashley DeBruhl, b. 06 Apr 1761, d. date unknown.