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Abbeville City & County, South Carolina

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  • Clarence E. Gordon (1878 - 1948)
    Clarence E Gordon, born in SC - Son of Robert T Gordon and Eliza Robinson. Clarence married, in 1905, Charlsie "Dot" McLennan, a daughter of William Bernard Erath "Billy" McLennan and Charlsie Ann Har...
  • George Bowie (1772 - 1864)
    Mayor of Pensacola 1821-22 Major George Bowie , Major During the War of 1812 George Bowie was a Major. Some time in the early 1820's, he accepted an appointment by territorial governor Andrew Jack...
  • Dr, Henry Davis Green, Jr. (1829 - 1902)
    From Father: Rev. Henry Davis Green Mmother: Rebecca Williamson Abbott 1850 - M.D. degree, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (from : Sumter Co., SC; preceptor: Dr. H. J. ...
  • Agness Ann Ashley (1761 - 1849)
    Parents Thomas Dove and Anna Dorothy Dove Family Children !NOT PROVEN! except Martha there is zero evidence to proove that the following were children of William Ashley & Sophia other than circumst...
  • William Ashley, III (1757 - 1839)
    Biography William A. Ashley served in the American Revolution, as a Coporal in the Maryland Cavalry, Pulaski's Corps. He and his widow Agness are buried in an unmarked (other than fieldstones) grave at...

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Abbeville County, located on the Savannah River in Northwestern South Carolina was first settled by people of mostly Scots-Irish descent around 1756. A small group of French Huguenot refugees also settled at New Bordeaux in Southwest Abbeville County. Dr. John de la Howe, of Huguenot descent and native of Abbeville, France was given the honor of naming the new county in 1785. The City of Abbeville, the county seat, has a population of 6,000 with a county population of 25,000.

Famed states' rights advocate and Vice President John C. Calhoun first practiced law in Abbeville, and he was born on a farm in Abbeville County near what is now the town of Mt. Carmel.

Abbeville has the unique distinction of being both the birthplace and the deathbed of the Confederacy. On November 22, 1860, a meeting was held at Abbeville, at a site since dubbed "Secession Hill", to launch South Carolina's secession from the Union; one month later, the state of South Carolina became the first state to secede.

At the end of the Civil War, with the Confederacy in shambles, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled Richmond, Virginia, and headed south, stopping for a night in Abbeville at the home of his friend Armistead Burt. It was on May 2, 1865, in the front parlor of what is now known as the Burt-Stark Mansion that Jefferson Davis officially acknowledged the dissolution of the Confederate government, in the last official cabinet meeting.

The Abbeville County Courthouse, Abbeville Historic District, Abbeville Opera House, Armistead Burt House, Patrick Calhoun Family Cemetery, Cedar Springs Historic District, Harbison College President's Home, Trinity Episcopal Church and Cemetery and Upper Long Cane Cemetery are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Adjacent Counties

Other Towns & Communities

  • Antreville
  • Calhoun Falls
  • Donalds
  • Due West
  • Honea Path (part)
  • Lake Secession
  • Lowndesville
  • Ware Shoals (part)

Cemeteries

Cemeteries of South Carolina

Wikipedia

Abbeville County History

The Burt-Stark House

Sumter National Forest (part)

SC Gen Web

Genealogy Trails


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