Mary Singleton Hampton

Only child of George McDuffie, governor of SC.

Member of the famous Singleton family from the High Hills of Santee in Sumter County, SC

Mother: Mary Rebecca (Singleton) McDuffie, who died 7 days after bearing her. Father: George McDuffie, (1790 - 1851), Governor of SC and US Senator from SC

Second wife of General Wade Hampton, III, whom she married January 27, 1858, at Albemarle Plantation, in Richland County, South Carolina.

She bore Wade Hampton four children: 1. George McDuffie Hampton, 1859; 2. Mary Singleton "Daisy" Hampton, 1861; 3. Alfred Hampton, 1863; and 4. Catherine Fisher Hampton, 1867, who died shortly after her birth.

Mary Hampton, who became an invalid after the death of Catherine, died in Charlottesville, Virginia, where her husband had taken her from Baltimore for her health. He brought her body back to Columbia to be buried in Trinity Churchyard.