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Chapter Nine


Which Give a Number of Family Records that are incomplete.

B  William Pickens

     WILLIAM PICKENS whoses ancestry is unknown, we are told, fought with General Marion during the Revolutionary war. After the war was over he lived on an estate granted to him by the king of england which was locted in the rice growing section of South Carolina. It is claimed that he was closely related to Governor Pickens.
     It is said that adjoining his land lived families by the name of Munnerlyn and Davis, and that he married a Miss Munnerlyn.
     This William Pickens is said to have had four children as follows:
    C  Andrew Pickens
    C  William Pickens,
    C  Alma Pickens,
    C  Martha Pickens.
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     C  LAMA PICKENS, it is believed, married and moved to Texas.
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     C MARTHA PICKENS, daughter of Willia Pickens married a Mr. Davis who moved to another part of the State. A son was born to them:
    D  Pickens Davis
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     D  PICKENS DAVIS, we are told in a history of the Presbyterian Curch, lived near the Waxhaw District of Lancaster County, S.C.
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     HARRY M. DAVIS, sho furnished the above information served in the "World War" as Captain and on account of effects of the war, moved to the mountains of North Caroina and lived near Black Mount Mountain. Captain Davis is a descendant of this William Pickens.
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     B  DAVID PICKENS, whose parents have not yet been definitely located was born in South Caroina about 1785, and as all of the Pickens families at that time were living in Abbeville and Anderson counties it is practically certain that his place of birth

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was in the upper part of the State. About 1815, he moved from South Caroina to Tenessee, but shortly after moving to that state, he almost drowned and soon afterwards passed away, his death being caused by the accident.
     About 1808 David Pickens married Susan Byers, also of South Carolina and they had one daughter
    C  Milinda Pickens.
     After the death of David Pickens in 1815, his wife Susan Byers Pickens, settled in Tennessee, probably near Frnakin, and afterward married Trestan Patton. She had a son, David Pickens Patton, by her second husband, and if other children their names are unknown to the writer.
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     C  MALINDA PICKENS, daughter of David and Susan Byers Pickens was born in South Caroina bout 1810, and when she was about four or five years of age, her parencts moved t Goliad, TExas, where she died in 1887. Malinda Pickens patton was the mother of the following children:
    D  Isaac Patton
    D  J. augustus Patton,
    D  Evelyn Patton,
    D  Margareta Patton,
    D  David Patton.
    Dr John Work Patton was born February 16th, 1808 and died March 16th, 1886.
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     D  ISAAC PATTON, son of Dr. John Work and Malinda Pickens Patton has been lost sight of.
     D  J. AUGUSTUS PATTON, son of Dr. John Work and Malinda Pickens Patton was a prominent lawyer of Goliad, Texas (1915).
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     D  EVELYN PATTON, daughter of Dr. John W. and Malnda Pickens Patton ws born in 1833, an after a long and useful life died in Texas in1916. In 1850 she was married to Edward Sims, and we have record of one daughter.
    D  Lula Sims.
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     D  LULA SIMS, daughter of Evelyn and Edwards Sims, married Edgar Elliot Bramlette in 1884. We have record of only one daughter:
    Adelle Bramlette.

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     D  ADELLE BRAMLETTE, daughter of Edgar Elliott and Lula Sims Bramlette married twice. Frist R. T. Ray and second E.G. Bischoff. She is now living at Austwell, Texas. (1926).

J O H N  F I N U S  P I C K E N S


     A letter from, Rev. Finus Roden Pickens, a minister of the Nortwest Texas Conference. Methoidst Episcopal Church, South, dated November 22, 1921, gives the following account of the family to which he belongs;
     JOHN FINUS PICKENS, it is said, was born in Tennessee, and moved to Texas. His children were:
    James Pickens,
    John Pickens
    Ada Pickens,
    Tennie Pickens,
    Mattie Pickens
    Lula Pickens,
    Joel Rivers Pickens


     JAMES PICKENS, son of John Finus Pickens, no record give.
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     JOHN PICKENS, son of John Finus Pickens, no record furnished.
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     ADA PICKENS, daughter of John Finus Pickens, married a man by the name of Sanders. No further record.
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     TINNIE PICKENS, daugter of John Finus Pickens was married twice. Names of husbands unknown.
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     LULA PICKENS, daughter of John Finus Pickens married a Mr. Stevens.
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     JOEL RIVERS PICKENS, son of John Finus Pickens married but name of his wife was not furnished with sketch. The following were his children:
    Cora Pickens,
    Lettie Ruth Pickens,
    Annie Elizabeth Pickens,
    Callie Lurline Pickens,
    Lucy Ellen Pickens,
    Ernest Rivers Pickens,
    James Albert Pickens,

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    Joel Milton Pickens,
    Elmer Franklin Pickens,
    Charles Yoe Pickens,
    Finus Roden Pickens.
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     CORA LEE PICKENS, daughter of Joel Rivers Pickens, married a Mr. Curry.
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     LETTIE RUTH PICKENS, daughter of Joel Rivers Pickens married a Mr. Roper. He was a minister.
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     ANNIS ELIZABETH PICKENS, daughter of Joel Rivers Pickens, married a Mr. Moore. No further record.
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     CALLIE LURLINE PICKENS, daughter of Joel Rivers Pickens, married Mr. McCreless.
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     LUCY ELLEN PICKENS, daughter of Joel Rivers Pickens married a Mr Moore. No further record>
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     ERNEST RIVERS PICKENS, son of Joel Piers Pickens moved from Texas to Arizona.
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     We have no record of what became of James Albert Pickens, Joel Milton Pickens, Elmer Franklin Pickens, and Charles Yoe Pickens, sons of Joel Rivers Pickens.
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     FINUS RODEN PICKENS, son of Joel Rivers Pickens, is a minister and a member of the Northwest Texas Conference, of the M. E. Church South, and in 1923 serving Lubbock Circuit, and lived at Lubbock, Texas.
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A N D R E W  M A R T I N  P I C K E N S


     B  ANDREW MARTIN PICKENS, whose parents have not yet been definitely determined, was born in Abbeville District of South Carolina, possibly, not very far from the date of 1776. About 1818, he, with his famiy, moved to Black's Bens, on the Alabama River, in Alabama, where they lived about a year and then moved to Greenville, Alabama, and wer among the first settlers of that place. He married Isabella Caldwell of Abbeville, S.C., and they had the following children:
    C  Isabella Pickens,
    C  Mary Ann Pickens,
    Ezekiel Pickens,

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    C  Jane Pickens,
    C  John C. Pickens,
    C  Eliza Pickens.
     (Note:--It is said that the father of Andrew Martin Pickens was captured by the Indians and burned at the stake,, and that he was a brother of General Andrew Pickens. Family traditions say that Captain Joseph Pickens, brother of General Andrew Pickens was captured by the British, turned over to the Indians and burned at the stake. A field book of Revolutionary Officers in the Colonial Army gives the date of the killing of Captain Joseph Pickens as June 1781, at Ninety Six, S.C. Tradition also tell us the John Pickens and James Pickens, both brothers of Captain Joseph Pickens, were lost at Ninety Six during the Revolutionary War. History also shows that Andrew Pickens, the father of Captain Joseph Pickens was appointed to appraise lands for a Mr. Andrew Martin in Augusta County, Virginia, March 2nd, 1749.)
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     C  ISABELLA PICKENS, daughter of Andrew martin and Isabella Caldwell Pickens, never married. No further record.
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     C  MARY ANN PICKENS, daughter of Andrew Martin and Isabella Caldwell Pickens, was born January 4th, 1801, in Abbeville, S.C. In 1818 she married Thomas J. Black, son of Robert or Robin Black of Abbeville, S.C., and moved to Alabama. Their children were:
    D  Isabella Black
    D  Andrew Martin Black,
    D  Robert W. Black,
    D  Francis marion Black,
    D  Matilda Black,
    D  Thomas E. Black,
    D  James A. Black,
    D  Joseph S. Black.
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     D  ISABELLA BLACK, daughter of Thomas J. and Mary Ann Pickens Black was born October 31st, 1819, and died July 23rd 1842. She married J. M. Phelps but we have no record of family.
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     D  ANDREW MARTIN BLACK, son of Thomas J. and Mary Ann Pickens Black was born September 15th, 1821 and died April 5th, 1879. No record of family has been furnished.
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     D  ROBERT W. BLACK, son of Tomas J. and Mary Ann Pickens Black was born June 6th, 1823, and died at Mobile Moore Hospital, april 9th, 1864. Family record not furnished.
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     D  FRANCIS MARION BLACK, son of Thomas J. and Mary Ann Pickens Black was born November 4th, 1825 and died January 20th, 1915, at the age of almost ninety years. He was a veteran in the Confederate war. On December 20th, 1849, he was married to Emily T. Thomas. the following are names of their children:
    E  Mary amanda Isabella Black
    E  Andrew James Black,
    E  Frank Isaac Black,
    E  Thomas Hazard Black,
    E  Emily Elizabeth Black,
    E  Malissa Joannah Black
    E  William Jefferson Black
    E  Robert Whitfield Black,
    E  Matild Ellen Black
    E  Cora Eugenia Black,
    E  Joseph Asbury Black.
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     D  MATILDA M. BLACK, daughter of Thomas J. and Mary Ann Pickens Black was born April 28th, 1828. No further record.
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     D  EZEKIEL P. BLACK, son of Thomas J. and Mary Ann Pickens Black was born November 21st, 1820 and died April 20th, 1879. No further record.
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     D  THOMAS E. BLACK, son of Thomas J. and Mary ann Pickens Black was born August 21, 1833.
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     D  JAMES A. BLACK, son of Tomas J. and Mary Ann Pickens Black was born December 13th, 1836. Died November 23rd, 1861, at second Alabama Hospital, Richmond, Va.
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     D  JOSEPH S. BLACK, son of Thomas J. and Mary Ann Pickens Black was born October 23rd, 1840. Died April, 1885 in Illinois.
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     C  EZEKIEL PICKENS, son of andrew Martin and Isabella Caldwell Pickens, never married.
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     C  JANE PICKENS, daughter of Andrew Martn and Isabella Caldwell Pickens, dat of birth unknown, married Joseph Black. Their children were:
    D  Matilda Malvina Black,
    D  Isabella Malissa Black,
    D  Eliza Ellen Black,



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    D  John Pickens Black,
    D  Thomas Alexander Black,
    D  mary Ann Black,
    D  Andrew Black.

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     C  JOHN C. PICKENS, son of Andrew Martin and Isabella Caldwell Pickens, married Hanna Taylor. Their children were:
    D  Elizabeth ann Pickens,
    D  Isabella Pickens
    D  Satirah Jame Pickens
    D  Sarah Adaline Pickens,
    D  John Andrew Pickens.

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A  J O H N  P I C K E N S


     A very interesting sketch concerning John Pickens has been furnished by Melvin Mashburn Pickens, of White Stone, Union County, South Carolina. He says that three brothers, John Pickens, Robert Pickens and Andrew Pickens came to america, from Ireland, but on account of all early records in the family being lost, it is not known just when they arrrived n America. However, he says, that some time before the Revolutionary War, John Pickens came to America, afterwards came South, and settled at a place called Grindle Shoals Bridge. He was later drowned there. The names of the children of John Pickens were:
    b  John Pickens,
        (son drowned)
    B  Martha Pickens,
    B  Jennie Pickens,
    B  Bettie Pickens.
          The son mentioned as drowned was lost while crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

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     B  JOHN PICKENS, son of the ioneer John Pickens, judging from the lapse of time, must have had among his children a son whose name was also John Pickens.
     C  JOHN PICKENS had a son:
     D  John Hayden Pickens,
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     D  JOHN HAYDEN PICKENS, born December 26th, 1817, lived in Union County, South Carolina, and was widley known throughout the county as an honest, hard-working farmenr. He was a deacon in the church, and was faithful in the discharge of his duties. When a new church was built in 1889, he furnished most of the lubmer for the new building and ws given the honor
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of tacking the first shingle on the new structure. By his thrift, he had bought and owned at the time of his death, in March 1909, a farm of three hundred acres near Jonesville. John Hayden Pickens was married three times. First when about twenty-one or two years old to a Miss McWhorter. Second wife was a Miss Shell, and third Miss Harmon, the dates of the marriages not being known at present.
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     D  The children of John Hayden Pickens and his first wife who was Miss McWhorter, were:
    E  Mary Ann Pickens,
    E  Sarah Ann Pickens,
    E  Addie Pickens,
     The children of John Hayden Pickens and his second wife, who was Miss Shell, were:
    E  John Shell Pickens
    E &nsp;James Wyley Pckens,
    E  Hattie Pickens.

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     E  JOHN SHELL PICKENS, son of John Hayden Pickens is living near Pacolet, S.C., on Route No. 1.
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     E  JAMES WYLEY PICKENS, son of John Hayden Pickens andhis second wife, Miss Shell, was born August 1st, 1850, in Union County, S.C., where he lived hisentire life. On June 22nd, 1873, he married Selena Harmon, (born December 15th, 1838), and to this union the following children were born:
    F  Nancy Louella Pickens,
    F  John Hayden Pickens,
    F  Melvin Mashburn Pickens
    F  Leona Carolina Pickens.

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     F  NANCY LOUELLA PICKENS, daughter of James Wyley and Selena Harmon Pickens was born May 8th, 1874. She married William Thomas Dallas.
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     F  JOHN HAYDEN PICKENS, son of James Wyley and Selena Harmon Pickens married Blanch Smith. He died June 18th, 1915 with out an issue.
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     F  MELVIN MASHBURN PICKENS, son of James Wyley and Selena Harmon Pickens, was born Septmeber 6th, 1878 in Union

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County, S.C. And on April 22nd, 1917 married Virginia Sith, (born July 20th, 1890). They are living at White Stone, S.C., and have the following children;
    G  Emily Selena Pickens
    G  John Melvin Pickens
    G  Sanford Smith Pickens

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     F  LEONA CAROLINE PICKENS, daughter of James Wyley and Selena Harmon Pickens,was born November 1st, 1879. She married Adam Goudlock Plexico, and died in 1903 leaving three children.