MySource:Jlanoux/Margaret Shaffer Mayes Granberry (1863-1929). Genealogy Notes on her family

Transcription of notes written on the end papers of a 1900 copy of Source:Green, Raleigh Travers. Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia

7 Strother family

When William Alexander Shaffer (my grandfather) visited Winnsboro 80 years after he left his home, he found the records in the Court House up to 1823, together with the records of the sale of his father (John Shaffers) farm & after Hepsibi died John Shaffer left S.C. & came to La where he settled & died of lock jaw after cutting his finger -

His daughter married ____ Archer & had one son Thomas Archer who died in ____ at Crescent Farm Terrebonne parish La with yellow fever.

Hepsibi Elizabeth (Shaffer) Archer married 2nd John Ferguson Wood of Ithica N.Y. no issue - she died & was buried in Shelbyville Ky on the Stuart[?] lot & John F Wood was also buried there when he died in 1887.

William Alexander Shaffer son of Hepsibah Strother & John Shaffer married Melitte Bourgeois of La & they lived & died on their sugar plantation Crescent Farm in La raised a big family & was a great financial success - his oldest son was [continued on 8]

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Capt John Jackson, Capt 26 La Regiment Co F (my father)

A William D Strother of Ga Served as Captain in the 2nd Ga regiment from 1776 to Nov 24, 1778 when he was killed at Midway Church.

The night before my grandfather W A Shaffer (9 years old) left Winnsboro S.C. with his father John Shaffer for La a baby was born to William Strothers wife and named Dargan Strother.

John Shaffer let his sister (Mrs. Pope) take his little daughter Hepsibi Elizabeth (who married J. F. Wood) to Miss. later he came on with his boy William Alexander Shaffer a boy of 9 - his wife Hepsibi (Strother) Shaffer had died in Winnsboro (Twon[?] have a cane cut from Hepsibis grave by her son 80 years after he left Winnsboro to make his home in La. [no close parens]

After Hepsibis death John Shaffer sold his farm in 1803 and the records were there up to 1823 (about)

Perhaps Hepsibais mother was a Mrs Dargan or Alexander - (no her brother William married a Dargan)

William Alexander Shaffer b May 12 1796 Hepsibi Elizabeth Shaffer b [left blank] their aunt Mrs Shaffer Pope [these two names were written later over the original] had one son John Pope of [continued on 9]

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Woodville Miss. or near she was well off with many slaves - she stopped with her caravan in Tenn, rented a place and made a crop of corn little Hepsibi Shaffer was 4 years old when her brother William Alexander Shaffer came to Miss with his father John Shaffer. They had journied on ponies from SC to Miss

he saw the broken place on the door jamb [?]y a time where Aunt Strother hit at the British Soldier -

There are Strothers who held minor positions in S.C. during the Revolution (see Journal of General Assembly of S.C. March 26, 1776 page 89 - Columbia S.C.) also Journal Sept 17,1776 Oct 10-20-1776 page 174 Documents relating to the history of S.C. during Rev Columbia S.C.1908page 118 stub entries in debts issued in payment of claims against S.C. growing out of Rev book 1770 page - Book o S Columbia S.C. 1915[or 6?] p 333 J[?]D Strother of Columbus S.C. moved from Fairfield Co near Winnsboro

on title page of book

S.C. to Ft Worth - Texas (John Dargan Strother) son of Gen William Strother

John Strother signer of the Culpeper protest against the Stamp Act 1765 see Journal of American history Vol V Heraldry in America 10.00 by Eugene Zieber The Dept of heraldry c/o The Baily Banks & Biddle Pa

J.D. Strother of Columbia S.C. who went to Texas from Fairfield Co. was no doubt William Alexander Shaffers cousin & perhaps the baby that was born the night before William A Shaffer left called Dergan Strother (tho I don't know)

Strother family [on verso of title page]

Mrs W. Smith - 1000 Park Ave Richmond Va

A Mrs Kate Strother of Ft Worth Texas nillt[???] 4 step children her late husband J.D.[overwritten with John Dargan] Strother from Fairfield Co S.C. they went to Texas many years ago -

I met a Miss Dargan of Mobile Ala years ago in Columbia Tenn

Also a Mr & Mrs Leon Dargan at Dallas Texas (his brother [Milton overwritten]& sister Clara Dargan of Atlanta Ga) I met years ago at the [illegible possibly Lookout Tenn] [illegible possibly Lewis] he was in the insurance business with Earnest Breman[sp?] Boyd husband of Jeffie Holding

Colonel French Strother member of Va Assembly 1776 - his son George French Strother members of Congress 1817 - 1820 -

John Strother Pendleton member of US Congress US minister to Buenos Ayres[sic]

written on verso of Preface, facing Table of Contents page

Capt John Strother appears in a record as having served in a campaign against French & Indians (has a representative still in Culpeper Va) (about 1752) fought French & Indians )

Soldier in " " War

1765 John Strother signed the Protest against the Stamp Act at Culpeper Va - Justice of Peace of the County of Culpeper

William Sheaffer of Spottswood Pa had paper mills. he may have been the father of John Shaffer who married Hepsibia Strother