Abel Marler Wakefield, III

I have different years of birth for Abel III. One shows 1740 and another 1736.

When Abel III and Ann Branson moved to South Carolina they settled along the Anderson and Abbeville County line. Here with their children, Abel IV, Samuel, Margrete, Fawney, William, Thomas, James, Hezekiah, and John Jr., the family took roots. A great number of their descendents still reside there. When we were doing research on this family, we kept finding records in Anderson County, and then we would find records in Abbeville County, with the same dates. This was quite confusing until I made a visit to South Carolina and found that the Temple of Health Plantation, the old Wakefield home of the Abel Wakefield family, was directly across the county line – part of the plantation was in Anderson and part in Abbeville County. As we continued our research, we found the Wakefield’s and Shirley’s were closely tied together by the intermarriage of their children. We thought this would help us to understand the families better, and the location where they lived, if we gave a bit of the Shirley family history prepared by Ethel Speer Updike on several related families in this area.

Took oath of allegience to patriots, Charles County, Maryland.

Quoted from “A History of the Southern Families of Wakefields who descended from Thomas Wakefield who came to America in 1635.” by Wayne E. Wakefield, 1983.

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