the street then.” 2 Byrd Street, now Magnolia Avenue, ran east from the station. Eliza and her husband lived near their shop, which was located close to the station. 3 Caroline Rebecca Redmond did not recall her father, Andrew Redmond. He died when she was less than two years old leaving her mother, Elizabeth (Holliday) Osborn Redmond, with as many as 10 children, five from Redmond’s first marriage, four from her own first marriage and baby Caroline Rebecca, two males and eight females. A period of privation and adversity probably followed. If they were not working already, the older children probably went to work. Or they helped raise the younger children or both. The 1840 U.S. census revealed that family members had scattered. Only her mother’s all woman household, whites and slaves, remained. Enumerated by age range, whites were her mother, age 50-59, Caroline Rebecca, age 10-14, her disabled Osborn half-sister and a Redmond half- sister, ages 15-19. Slaves were ages 55-99, 10-23 and under 10 respectively. 4 Caroline Rebecca was born 30 December 1830. 5 Some sources named her Rebecca Caroline or Rebecca C. I use Caroline Rebecca because daughter Tallulah used that name. 6 If her mother’s household had quite limited means, as it appeared, Caroline Rebecca may have departed it early. If it were a spinning, weaving or sewing household, she likely was an apprentice by about age 12 and from age 13 or 14 worked outside the home to better herself and provide income for her mother. 2 James F. Davis, “Pen Picture of Greenwood Dating Back 85 Years,” The (Greenwood, South Carolina) Index Journal , 16 March 1941, online archives (https://www.newspapers.com) : 14 October 2019), p. 3, col. 4. Mounce appeared in the paragraph entitled “Byrd Street” that began at the bottom of col. 3. 3 “Older Postmaster,” The (Greenwood, South Carolina) Index Journal , 11 September 1938, online archives (https://www.newspapers.com) : 31 August 2018), p. 4, col. 2. 4 1840 U.S. census, Abbeville District, South Carolina, p. 15 (penned), E. [Elizabeth] Redman [Redmond]; digital image, Ancestry.com (access through participating libraries : 11 July 2018); citing FHL microfilm 0022508. 5 Walker to Motes, letter and Mounce family group record, 9 May 1992. Also, Rock Presbyterian Church (Greenwood, South Carolina), “Session Book, 1858-1883,” M, p. 280, Rock Church Family Register, Caroline Rebecca Mounce, Decem [December] 30 1830, n.d. (after 1874); parish rectory, Greenwood. 6 Membership application, Talullah R. McCants, National no. 93762, on Andrew Redmond, approved May 1912; National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Office of the Registrar General, Washington, D.C.
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