woodworking skills match those needed to build this unusual chair. Coincidence? Does occupation help to identify a father and a son? Eliza’s family lived near a Methodist church, Swamp Meeting House. Her introduction to Methodism likely came here. Methodists had bought the church building from Lutherans. 14 Swamp Meeting House was located where the Abbeville Road to the meeting house and the Davis Bridge Road to the meeting house intersected. Where Calabash Branch flowed into Hard Labor Creek, just at the county line, was quite close to the meeting house. Map, Mills’ Atlas detail, Swamp Meeting House, 1825 Eliza’s father and others put up the bond in the probate of the estate of woman who had died intestate. In 1824, the CITATION of her estate was published at Swamp Meeting House. 15 The bondsmen had moved to Abbeville District from another county where Eliza’s father possibly worked for one of them and continued to do so in the new place. 16 But, in fact, apart from the woman’s estate, his relationship with the other bondsmen is not known. Eliza’s mother died, when and where is not known, and Eliza was age 15 in my estimation when her father married widow Elizabeth (Holliday) Osborn. Elizabeth came from Edgefield District. See family history and first marriage in Chapter Two. The Redmond-Osborn household had 10 children and 11 by 1830. 17 Eliza and stepsiblings Milton and Emily were in my estimation the oldest children in the household. After five years of marriage, Eliza’s father died. 18 Where he died and was buried are not known. What happened to his 14 “Our Old Roads, No. 378,” The (Greenwood, South Carolina) Index Journal , 22 May 1948, online archives (https://www.newspapers.com) : 5 November 2018), p. 4, col. 2. 15 Abbeville District, South Carolina, Court of Ordinary, Citation, 15 March 1824, Administration Bond, 25 March 1825, Elenor Henderson Estate; Box 44, Pkg. 978, Abbeville County Probate Court, Abbeville. Although the citation was dated 1824, most documents were dated 1825. 16 Margaret Watson, Greenwood County Sketches: Old Roads and Early Families (Greenwood, South Carolina: The Attic Press, Inc., 1970), 173, 200-201. 17 1830 U.S. census, Abbeville District, South Carolina, p. 45 (penned), Andrew Redmon [Redmond]; digital image, Ancestry.com (access through participating libraries : 11 July 2018); citing FHL microfilm 0022503. 18 Membership application, Tallulah R. McCants, National no. 93762, National Society DAR. Also, Walker to Motes, Mounce family group record, 9 May 1992.
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