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: at	1876718 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 no comment.