(4050.) ALMIRA E. COX (2115.) (787.) (201.) (31.) (3). (1.):
m. (1ST). TO HENRY PARROTT; M. (2ND). TO MARION AMBURN.
(4048.) LEVI F. COX (2115.) (787.) (201.) (31.) (3.) (1.):
m. (1st). to MARY SCHOCKNEY; m. (2nd). to HATTIE (MILLER ?). LEE.
Was Graduated of Yale University and of a Medical school in Pheladelphia USA. He became a promnent physician and planter in that area.
James Harrison and his wife, Elizabeth Hampton, the grandparents of Dr. James P. Harrison, together with her father and mother, Anthony and Betty Hampton, and five of her brothers
THE BERRY FAMILY IN SOUTH CAROLINA
settled at Wood's Fort between Spartanburg and Greenville in 1774. Thrs was during the period of the war between the colonists and the Indians. A British agent and some of his assistants, who were inciting the Cherokee Indians against the patriots, attacked the Hamptons and the Harrisons and took their horses and arms. They then sold them to the Indians. A few days later, a Cherokee chief murdered Anthony and Betty Hampton, one of their sons, and an infant grandson. James and Elizabeth Harrison and her four brothers were away at the time of this massacre. In a later battle, Captain Henry Hampton, one of Elizabeth's brothers, killed an Indian who was wearing the coat of his dead brother. The four brothers of Elizabeth, Edward, Henry, Richard, and Wade, were all officers in the Revolution.
Immediately after the treaty with the Indians was signed in 1777, when the Piedmont section was opened for white settlement, James Harrison and his wife, Elizabeth, settled on the family homestead at Cripple Creek which is about three or four miles from Fork Shoals. Dr. James P. Harrison, who married Nancy Berry, later settled on this plantation. This old plantation with its stately mansion is now owned by Mrs. John A. McPherson of Greenville, Souh Carolina. She is a direct descendant of James and Elizabeth Harrison. It is one of the fine ante bellum plantation homes still in use in that section.
This home was evidently the scene of much activity during the prosperous ante bellum days. Wade Hampton, the leader of the Democratic forces that defeated the Carpet Bag element in 1875 and restored control of the state to its citizens, often visited his relatives, the Harrisons, at this plantation home. Dr. James P. Harrison, who married Nancy Berry, was a graduate of Yale University and of a medical school in Philadelphia. He became a prominent physician and planter in that area. Many of their descendants live in Greenville and in neighboring sections in South Carolina.
For many_years the Berry, Harrison, and Gaines families have held an annual family reunion at the Fork Shoals Baptist Church on the Sunday before Labor Day. This is a large gathering of the descendants of these three pioneer families. Families come from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Texas to make this an outstanding event of the year in this community
Nancy Catherine Berry b 30 June 1825 d 14 March 1872 m Dr. James P. Harrison b 26 Dec 1813 d 5 Sep 1871; both but at Fork Shoals Baptist Church cemetery, Greenville Co., S.C.
The motto of the Harrison Family is "Ile wins who perseveres" and research into the genealogy is contained m "Colonial Granville County and Its People" by the late Worth S. Ray, Austin, Texas. The lineage of the Hampton Family may be found m "Family Letters of the Three Wade Hamptons" edited by Chas. E. Cauthen and Dr. R. L. Meriwether, University of S.C. Press 1953. On the Jenkins Family, Mrs. Elise (Mauldin) Paget, a descendant of William Halbert through His dim Martha (Halbert) Gresham, and also a descendant of Samuel Jenkins sent the following information
"Samuel Jenkins and wife settled m Northumberland Co., Va., about 1712. Their son, Thomas Jenkins married Jemima Owens Williams, dau of Owens Williams, who was born m New York of English parents; educated m England; became a stonecutter and sculptor; returned to Virginia and settled near where Falls Church was built; all of the ornamental work m tHis church was done by IIInt. His wife was Kezish Cockrell of Culpeper Co., Va. Their dau, Jemima Jenkins m John Hampton Harrison Sr, son of James and Elizabeth (Hampton) Harrison."
14. Lawson Thomas Mahaffey m 18 June 1868 Sara Cureton Sullivan
(1844-1920)
32.-Sarah Sullivan Mahaffey 1869-1943
33.-Claudia Amelia Mahaffey 1871-1894
34.-Pauline Hortense Mahaffey
35.-Walter Thomas Mahaffey