50 The Pickens Family in Alabama, which position he filled with much ability. After remaining on the bench for several years he resigned his position and moved to Mississippi, and died a few years after moving to his new home. He never married. BR>     (A splendid sketch of Judge Ezekiel Pickens is found in "Reminiscences of Public Men in Alabama," by William Garrett.) D  SAMUEL PICKENS, son of Ezekiel and Elizabeth Bonneau Pickens married Martha Anderson. They had no children. D  ANDREW PICKENS, son of Ezekiel and Elizabeth Bonneau Pickens was accidentally shot by a friend in his childhood days. D  ELIZABETH BONNEAU PICKENS, daughter of Ezekiel and Elizabeth Bonneau Pickens married Governor Patrick Noble, of South Carolina. They had the following children: E  Ezekiel Noble, E  Floride Noble, E  Patrick Noble, E  Edward Noble, E  Alexander Noble, E  Elizabeth Noble, E  Samuel Noble. Governor Patrick Noble was a son of Maj. Alexander Noble, who married Catherine Calhoun, a daughter of Ezekiel Calhoun, and sister of Rebecca Floride Calhoun, wife of General Andrew Pickens EDWARD NOBLE, son of Patrick and Elizabeth Boneau Pickens Noble married Mary Meaanss Bratton and they had two daughters. F  Mary Noble, F  Floride Noble.      MARY NOBLE, daughter of Edward and Mary Bratton Noble married a Mr. Smith.       The children of Exekiel and Eliza Bardsdale Pickens, (second wife), were: D  Thomas J. Pickens D  Andrew PIckens D  Mary Barksdale Pickens      Eliza Barksdale, the second wife of Ezekiel Pickens, was born April 15, 1782, and died December 20th, 1859.      D  THOMAS J. PICKENS, son of Ezekiel and Eliza Barksdale Pickens was born April 26, 1808 and died July 2nd, 1894. He was known as Col Tom Pickens and was of fine physique, and a leader

51 The Pickens Family in thought and action in his community. He married Kezia A. Miles and the following children were born to them: E  Thomas J. Pickens E  Elizabeth Barksdale Pickens, E  John Miles Pickens E  Ezekiel Pickenns E  Samuel B. Pickens E  Anna Pickens, E  Mary Pickens, E  Andrew C. Pickens E  Kizzie Pickens, E  Francis D. Pickens E  Patrick A. Pickens, E  William P. Pickens      Kezia A. Miles, wife of Thomas J. Pickens, was born July 30th, 1810 and died November 1, 1889.      E  THOMAS J. PICKENS, son of Col. Thomas J. and Keziea Miles Pickens was a noted physician of Pendleton, S.C. He married Sue Maxwell, (born November 17th, 1842. died October 23rd, 1894), and they had the following children: F  Samuel Maxwell Pickens F  Julia PIckens F  Sue Conyers Pickens      F  SAMUEL MAXWELL PICKENS, son of Dr. Thomas J. and Sue Maxwell Pickens was born about 1858. He died, aged sixty fours years, July 15, 1922, at the University sanitarium, Anderson,S.C. and his funeral services were conducted at Grace, church Anderson. He was buried in the Episcopal Church cemetery at Pendleton, S.C.      Samuel Maxwell Pickens married Nellie Trobridge and they had the following children; G  Joel C. Pickens, G  Thomas T. Pickens, G  Samuel Maxwell Pickens, Jr. G  Jessie C. Pickens, G  Phillip A. Pickens, G  Nellie Sue Pickens, G  Julia Eliza Pickens, G  Thomas T. Pickens       (Very little information about this family has been secured but in 1922 it was said that Joel C. Pickens was living at Nitro, Virginia, Samuel Maxwell Pickens, Jr. at Clayton, Ga., Jessie Calhoun Pickens at Charlotte, N.C., Phillipa A. Pickens, Nellie Sue Pickens and Julia Pickens at Anderson,S.C.)

52 The Pickens Family      F  JULIA PICKENS, daughter of Col. Thomas J. and Kezia Miles Pickens, of Pendleton,S.C. often visited Breenville, S.C. about 1880, and the writer remembers meeting her about that time. No further record.      F  SUE CONYER PICKENS, daughter of Col. Thomas J. and Kezia Miles Pickens married Julius A Shanklin. We have record of three children as follows: G  Virginia Shanklin, G  Julius A. Shanklin, Jr., G  Sue conyers Shanklin.      E  ELIZA BARKSDALE PICKENS, the oldest daughter of Col. Thomas J. and Kizzia Miles Pickens was born October 19th, 1832 and died May 22nd, 1920.      Early in life she joined the Presbyterian church an dcontinued to be one of the most faithful memebers as long as she lived. She was a ministering angel to the community in which shelived andafter her death was greatly missed. She was very much interested in thehistory of the Pickens famieis and possessed many valuable records andrelics which were missed from her home after her death and which have never been found. She was eight-seven years old at the time of her death, she was buried at Old Stone church, near Pendleton,S.C. She was nevered married.      E  JOHN MILES PICKENS, son of Col. Thomas J. and Keziea Miles Pickens was born April 27th, 1836, in Pendleton, S.C., and resided there his entire life. He was a brave soldier in the Confederate War in which he saw much service. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and served as elder in the Pendleton church for more than fifty years and was the oldest elder in the church at the time of his death. He died suddenly at thehome of his brother, William P. Pickens, at Easley,S.C., September 23rd, 1920 and was buried at the Old Stone Church cemetery near Pendleton,S.C. He never married.      E  EZEKIEL PICKENS, son of Col. Thomas J. Pickens, of Pendleton, South Carolina, died June 13th, 1854, aged sixteen years, five months and thirteendays. He was buried at the Old Stone Church cemetery, near Pendleton, S.C.      E  SAMUEL B. PICKENS, son of Col. Thomas J. and Kezia Miles PIckens of Pendleton, S.C., married Anna Ingram. Issue: F  Mary Pickens, F  Eliza Pickens, F  Emily Pickens, F  Anna Belle Pickens, F  Floride Pickens, F  Hallie Pickens

53  The Pickens Family      F  MARY PICKENS, daughter of Samuel B. and Anna Ingram Pickens married James Simons. No further record.      F  ELIZA PICKENS, daughter of Col. Samuel B. and Anna Igram Pickens never married.      F  EMILY PICKENS, daughter of Col. Samuel B. and Anna Ingram Pickens, never married.      F  ANNA BELLE PICKENS, daugher of Samuel B. and Anna Ingram Pickens was born November 8th, 1841 and died April 13th, 1914. Her husband was Jerry J. Miles and they had the following children: G  Allen Miles. G  Jerry Miles, G  Samuel Miles.      E  MARY PICKENS, daughter of Col. Thomas J. and Kezia Miles Pickens was born July 20th, 1843, and died July 9th, 1907. She married Charles Devant, M.D., and they are both buried at the Baptist Church cemetery at Pendleton, S.C. no issue.<      E  ANDREW PICKENS, son of Col. Thomas J. and Kezia Miles Pickens died May 28th, 1888. Never married.      E  KIZZIE PICKENS, daughter of Col. Thomas J. and Kezia Miles Pickens married Frank Waring. They had one child: F  Kizzie Waring      E  FRANCIS D. PICKENS, son of Thomas J. and Kezia Miles Pickens married Louisa Pickens, daughter of Samuel Pickens of Alabama. They had four children who, it is said, live at Birmingham, Ala., and their names are as follows: F  Thomas Barksdale Pickens, F  Mary Gillard Pickens, F  Louisa Hunt Pickens, F  Eliza Miles Pickens,      (Samuel Pickens, the father of Louisa Pickens, was a son of Captain Samuel Pickens of Cabarrus County, N.C. He was probably distantly related to General Andrew Pickens, the grandfather of Francis D. Pickens.)      E  PATRICK PICKENS, son of Col. Thomas J. and Kezia Miles Pickens married first a Miss Pettigrew; second Annie Warring. Have no record of families.      E  WILLIAM P. PICKENS, a son of Col. Thomas J. and Kezia Miles Pickens is living at Easley, S.C., and has large framing intrests. He married Mary Earle Warren and they have one son: F  Robert Warren Pickens.      ROBERT WARREN PICKENS, son of William P. and Mary Earle Warren Pickens was educated at Clemson College, S.C. He

54  The Pickens Family married Janie Frances Durham, Pickens, S.C. When this record is made in 1926, they have one sone born at Baden, North Carolina, where they are living; G  William Postell Pickens -0-      D  ANDREW PICKENS, son of Ezekiel and Eliza Barksdale Pickens (second wife) was married twice. First wife was Agnes Bell and it appears that they first lived in Alabama as the records of the Old Stone Presbyterian Church near Pendleton show that Andrew Pickens and his wife Agness Bell Pickens returned from Albama and joined this church October 1841. Records of this church also show tha tAgnes Bell Pickens died February 10th, 1845. The second wife of Andrew Pickens was Mary Boon, and it appears that after his second marriage he continued to live near Pendleton, S. C. He was known as Major andrew Pickens.      The children of Andrew Pickens and his first wife, Agness Bell Pickens were: E  Ezekiel Pickens, E  Rebecca Pickens, E  Eliza Pickens      E  EZEKIEL PICKENS, son of Andrew and Agnes Bell Pickens never married. No further record.      E  REBECCA PICKENS, daughter of Andrew and Agnes Bell Pickens married Captain Sally of Orangeburge, S.C.      E  ELIZA PICKENS, daughter of Andrew and Agnes Bell Pickens never married.      The children of Major Andrew Pickens and his second sife, Mary Boon, were: E  Andrew Calhoun Pickens, born November 18th, 1852 E  Mary Pickens.      E  ANDREW CALHOUN PICKENS, son of Major Andrew and Mary Boon Pickens was born near Pendleton, S.C. November 18th, 1852. After growing to manhood he went west, and became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, south, and in 1916 was Presiding Elder of the Chocto District, East Okalhoma Conference. He has served someof the best charges in his conference and has also served as a missionary among the Indians. He married and raid a family but we have the name of only one son. F  ANDREW JACKSON PICKENS, oldest son of Andrew Calhoun and Margaret J. Pickens was born October 30th, 1894, at Ardmore, Ind. T. and was a beautiful, blue-yeyed, curly-headed boy. He died at Durant, Okla., May 4th, 1916. -0-      D  MARY BARKSDALE PICKENS, daughter of Ezekiel and eliza Barksdale Pickens, and granddaughter of General Andrew

55 The Pickens Family Pickens, married Robert Anderson, a grandson of General Robert Anderson, and they had the following children: E  Eliza Anderson, E  Mary Anderson, E  Maria Anderson, E  Annie Anderson, E  Kizzie Anderson, E  Susan Anderson, E  Pickens Anderson, E  Septima Anderson, E  Robert Anderson, E  Kate Anderson, E  Barksdale Anderson, E  Rosalee Anderson,      Records say they had fourteen children, but names of only twelve are given. -0-      C  ANN PICKENS, daughter of General Andrew and Floride Calhoun Pickens, was born April 12th 1770. She married John Simpson and their children were: D  Leah Simpson D  Rebecca Simpson, D  Andrew Simpson, D  John Simpson, D  Ezekiel Simpson D  James Simpson.      This family moved away and has been lost sight of.      C  JANE PICKENS; daughter of General Andrew and Rebecca Calhoun Pickens, was born November 9th, 1774, and married Dr. John Henry Miller, son of Rev. Robert and Jane Pickens Miller. They moved to Mississippi. Issue: D  Robert Miller, D  John Miller, D  Eliza Miller.      For further records see Miller Family. -0-      C  MARGARET PICKENS, daughter of General Andrew and Rebecca Calhoun Pickens, was born July 13th, 1776, in what is now Abbeville County, South Carolina. When she was about eight or ten years of age, her father, General Pickens, moved fom the Long Cane secton of Abbeville county further up the country towards the Blue Ridge Mountains near Pendleton, S.C. and here she grew to womanhood.

56 The Pickens Family      Margaret Pickens married Maj. George Bowie, a prominent citizen and successful lawyer of abbeville, S.C. They had only one child, a daughter: D  Louisa Augusta Bowie, born August 24th, 1801. Major George Bowie was born 1772. Margaret Pickens Bowie died in 1830 and was buried at Valley Creek church. Dallas County, near Selma, Alabama.      D  LOUISA AUGUSTA BOWIE, daughter of Major George and Margaret Pickens Bowie, was born August 24th, 1801 an ddied September 22nd, 1842, whe was buried at Valley Creek Presbyterian Church cemetery, abaout six miles north of Selma, Alabama.      She married Captain William Stephen Smith, of Charleston, S.C. Captain Smith was a grandson of Landgrave. Their children were:, E  William H. Smith E  Andrew Pickens SMith, E  George Waring Smith, E  Louis Augusta Halsey Smith,      The inscripton on the flat slab which marks the grave of Louisa Augusta Bowie, wife of William Stevens Smith, is as follows:   SCARED TO THE MEMORY OF LOUISA AUGUSTA SMITH CONSORT OF WILLIAM S. SMITH and only daughter of George and Margaret Pickens Bowie. Born in Abbeville, S.C., August 24, 1802 Died in Dallas, Ala., September 22, 1842. Aged 41 years and 29 days. Blessed with a pious education and early impressed with the importance of Religion, she sought first the king- dom of Heaven. And as a member of the Presbyterian Church she lived the life and deid the death of the Rightous. As a dutiful and devoted daughter, an affectionate and confid- ing wife, a tender and watchful mo- ther, a consistent and humble Chris- tian, she was devoted while living _______And her life was crowned a ________ ful of patience, fortitude, resignation and the hope of a blessed Immortality.

FRANCIS W. PICKENS, son of Governor Andrew pickens, grandson of General Andrew Pickens, himself Governor of South Carolina.

57 The Pickens Family   I would not live always: no, welcome (the tomb) Since Jesus has lain there I dread not (its gloom) There, sweet be my rest, til He bid me (arise) To hail him in triumph descending the (the skies)      (Note: The above dashes indicate that part of the inscription which cannot be deciphered. The acid from a nearby tree has ruined a portion of the slab.) - 0 - GOVERNOR FRANCIS PICKENS      D  FRANCIS WILKINSON PICKENS, son of Governor Andrew and Susan Wilkinson Pickens and grandson of General Andrew Pickens, was born April 7th, 1805, near Pendleton, S.C., and died January 25th, 1869.      After completing his education at the South Carolina College, in Columbia, S.C., he settled in Edgefield, where he became a distinguished citizen and lawyer, his law partner being Eldred Simpkins.      Besides serving his local community in various ways, he represented his district in Congress from 1834 to 1844. He afterwards represented his county in the State Legislature, where he showed.

58 The Pickens Family great ability as a debater, especially during the nullification excitement. He spoke and wrote much against the claim that Congress might abolish slavery in the District of Columbia.      In 1858, Francis W. Pickens was appointed minister to Russia by President Buchanan, and at St. Petersburg, he became a famous diplomat. In 1860, when the secession excitement became very high in South Carolina, he returned to his native state.      On December 11th, 1860, afte taking seven ballots, the State legislature elected him governor of South Carolina. On December 17th a convention of the people of the State met in what became known as the Seceession Convention, in the Baptist church, in Columbia, and on the next day the members of the convention ment in Charleston and on the 20th of Decmeber at noon, they assembled in St.Andrew's Hall. At half past once o'clock, Chancellor Inglis, of Chesterfield, stto up and read to the conventon an ordiance which had been written by Chancellor F.H. Wardlwa, which ordiance was unaminously adopted, and at seven o'clock that evening all the members signed their names to it.      Governor Pickens signed this ordinance as governor of the State and entered upon the discharge of his duties as the first governor or president of the "SovereignNation" which had come into existence through the actio of this convention. With extraordinary zeal and patriotic devotoin, he served as governor for this term to two years until December 1862, during which time he had to face unprecedented conditions brought about by the war which followed the secession of South Caroina, and other states, from the Untied States.      After his term of office expired, Governor Pickens reurned to his home, a grand mansion known as edewood, and situated in the suburbs of Edgefield, S.C.      Besides being a brilliant laywer and public sservant of his State, Governor Pickens was a successful planter of great wealth and before the war owned a number of slaves. He was also popular in his State as a speker before colleges and literary institutions.      When slavery was abolished, the negroes who had belonged to Governor Pickens remained on his plantation with him and on the night before his death, he addressed the negroes from a window, and told them to reain at Edewood always and to see that his wife was taken care of . They reained ture to their trust.      Governor Francis Wilkinson Pickens was married three times. His firt wife was Margaret Eliza Simklins, daughter of Eldred and Eliza Simpkins of Edefield, S.C. His second wife was Marion Dearing of Georgia and third wife was Lucy Holcombe.

59 The Pickens Family      The children of Governor Francis Wilkinson and Margaret Simpkins Pickens were: E  Maria Simpkins Pickens, E  Anna Pickens, E  Eliza PIckens, E  Rebecca Pickens, E  Francis Pickens, E  Susan Pickens E  Eldred Pickens - 0 -      (Eldred Simpkins, father of Margaret Eliza Simpkins, was a prominent lawyer of Edgefield, S.C., and was a law partner of Governor Francis W. PIckens. He represented his district in Congress four years, at the end of which time he declined re-election.)      E  MARIA SIMPKINS PICKENS, daugher of Governor Francis W. Pickens and Margaret Eliza Simpkins Pickens married General Matthew C. Butler, a prominent citizen of Edgefield, February 21st, 1858. General Butler served throughout the Confederate War as Colonel in General Wade Hampton's Legion of Calvary, and led his men through a number of hard fought battles. He also represented his county and State in several official positions. He was a member of the "Wallace House" of 1876. - 0 -      E  ANNA PICKENS, daugther of Governor Francis W. and Eliza Simpkins Pickens reached the age of young womanhood about the time the Confedrate War commenced. She went to Charleston and gave her time to tending the wounded and cheering all with whom she came in contact. She lost her life April 23rd, 1864, and the following story of her death was published in a paper the following day: THRILLIING WAR INCIDENT (Scene, Charleston __Time, April 23rd, 1864)< BR>      The Yankees from time to time threw a shell into the city, and nobody seemed to mind it. But misfortune willed that yesterday a shell should throw the entire community into mourning.      Miss Ann Pickens, the daughter of one of our former governors never constnted to leave the city. Despite the representation of General Beauregard, she remained, braving shells and Greek fire, tending the wounded, and cheering all with her presence. Among the wounded officers under her care, was Mr. Andrew De Rochelle, a descendant of one of the noblest Huguenots of this city.