Margaret Hall Moffett Adger

 Margaret Hall Moffett Adger'

Biog./Historical Note: Daughter of Andrew and Anna Moffett, she married William Adger (1816-1853), a Charleston, S.C. businessman, in 1840 and had nine children: Andrew Moffett, James, Anna Elizabeth (1843-1927) who wed Thomas Hart Law in 1864, James (1845-1873), Andrew Moffett (1846-1915) who wed Nannie W. Paul, Sarah Ellison (1848-1853), Margaret Crawford (1850-1892) who wed William Sinkler Manning in 1876, and William Sarah. After her husband's death she resided in the homes of her children and was known for preserving family ties and relationships. Beginning in 1886 until her death in 1915, Margaret Adger resided in the Spartanburg household of her daughter Agnes and son-in-law Henry Edmund Ravenel. William Adger,(1816-1853), the fourth sone of James Adger (1777-1853) and Sara Elizabeth Ellison (1783-1856), was a member of the firm of James Adger & Company, a director of the Planters and Mechanics Bank, elder of the Second Presbyterian Church, superintendent of the Sunday School, president of the Eagle Volunteer Fire Company, and member of the Board of Firemasters of Charleston, S.C. In 1853, the Adgers booked passaged by boat to New York to study the fire department of New York as a possible model for Charleston. One night William followed a fire wagon to burning tenement house where none of the firemen were willing to rescue a woman recovering from small pox. William brought the woman to safety. A few days later, he contracted small pox and died on December 14, 1853.