Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
Birth4 Mar 1779, SC
Deathaft 1850, Holmes Co MS Age: 70
BurialSmith Cemetery, Holmes Co MS3331
FatherUnknown Harthcock
Spouses
Marriage1810, Orangeburg Co SC3332
ChildrenJohn Godfrey (1812-1884)
Notes for Thomas Harthcock
Following accounts taken from one of Douglas Hathcock’s books.3332
At least four Hathcock families settled in Mississippi between 1835 and 1900. The first Mississippi Hathcock family was Thomas Hathcock, his wife Catherine Zeigler and their children having moved from Autauga County, Alabama. Originally, Thomas Hathcock removed from Orangeburg County, South Carolina. Though this family name was originally Hathcock, about 1825 it was somehow changed to Harthcock. The original Harthcock settler in Holmes County was Thomas Harthcock who was born in South Carolina in 1779. His oldest son was John Godfrey Hathcock (later Harthcock), who was born in South Carolina 1 February 1812 and who died 5 December 1885 and is buried in the Locust Grove Cemetery two miles west of Zeiglerville, Mississippi in Yazoo County. One of the younger sons of John Godfrey Harthcock was William E. Harthcock who moved to Childress Cokunty Texas from Holmes County in 1873. One of the sons of William E. Harthcock was Thomas Britton Harthcock, who was in Holmes County in 1873. One of the sons of Thomas Britton is Carrol Britton Harthcock who lived in Dallas, Texas in 1971.
Thomas Harthcock is reported to have been born in South Carolina in 1779, married Catherine Zeigler in Orangeburg County, South Carolina in 1810 and moved to Alabama in the 1820's. This information was compiled in 1970 by Mrs. J. Ray Love, Sr., of One Meadow Lane, Greenville, Texas 75401.
However, Dr. Wiley Forbus of Durham, North Carolina is reported to records showing that his ancestor, John Godfrey Harthcock, who is otherwise thought to have been the son of Thomas Harthcock, was son of John Godfry Harthcock, Sr. The records indicate that John Godfrey Harthcock’s wife was named "Kate." According to Dr. Forbus's records, John Godfrey Harthcock, Sr. had four boys and four girls and that John Godfrey, Jr. was born 1 February 1812 in South Carolina.
It is impossible to say which account is true. There is a G. Hathcock listed in the 1790 Census of Clarmont County, South Carolina situated near the Orangeburg District. This G. Hathcock not been identified and possibly could be Godfrey Hathcock. On the other hand, Thomas's wife is reported in one case as Catherine Zeigler and John Godfry Hathcock, Sr.'s wife on the other hand as Kate. Kate is often a short name for Catherine and it could be that Kate was actually Catherine Zeigler, a likely probability.
No Thomas Harthcock or variant is found in the South Carolina 1800, 1810, or 1820; however, a Thomas Haithcock sold 100 acres of land in the Orangeburg District of South Carolina to Lewis Houser, on Little Crotch Pen on 20 October 1818 for $300. This deed was recorded 8 April 1819. (Source: South Carolina Magazne of Ancestral Research, Vol. 3.) This is certainly the same man who is the subject of this sketch, and probably sold this in preparation of moving to Alabama. Alabama records also assist in reconstructing the movements of Thomas Harthcock.
CAHABA LAND DISTRICT OF ALABAMA
Date Section Township Range Present County
1/19/1825 12 12 14 Lowndes
1/19/1825 12 14 14 Lowndes
12/30/1824 9 16 15 Autagua
The above grants were issued in the name of Thomas Harthcock. The grants below were issued in the name of Thomas Hathcock and Heathcock, respectively. If this is the same man, then the surname changed from Heathcock to Harthcock during this period.
Date Section Township Range Present County
12/2/1834 10 13 16 Lowndes*
9/12/1821 9 15 15 Lowndes
*Barnabus Heathcock was granted land 15 February 1836 in this section, township and range. Perhaps this Thomas was born about 1806 in South Carolina and listed in the 1830 Lowndes County, Al Census as well as in the Darlington County, South Carolina Census in 1830. The 1821 grant was in the name of Thomas Hathcock.
It appears that Thomas Harthcock and his family lived in Autauga and Lowndes counties of Alabama prior to moving to Holmes County, Mississippi. In a history on Autauga County “Autauga County--The First Hundred Years 1818-1918” by Daniel S. Gray, Autauga County, Prattvllie Public Library In, Prattville, Alabama, containing remembrances of Shadrack Mims as he recorded them after the Civil War, mention that a man by the name of Hathcock lived near Autaugaville. That he was from South Carolina and owned land and settled there with another man from South Carolina named Bailey. No first names are given. The house on this land later belonged to Genera E. Y. Fair. The house had changed hands several times before, however. There is no mention of who bought the land from Hathcock and it may have had several owners before it came into the possession of Col. W. R. Pickett who bought it for his niece, a Mrs. Body--her maiden name being Lanier.
Mrs. Body later married S. H. N. Dixon of Mobile. They sold the land to Col. Wyatt whose wife was the daughter of Todd Robinson of Robinson Springs, Alabama. Col. E. Y. Fair married Col. Wyatt’s daughter and she inherited the land from her father. This land was situated between the towns of Washington and Autaugaville very near Bear Creek. Across Bear Creek lived Nicholas Zeigler from South Carolina, described as being an old man. Also living near was a John Carrel also from South Carolina who died there and his land was sold to a Mr. Hinton. Nicholas Zeigler's land was sold to Terry DeJarnett. Court Records of Autauga County contain the will of one Jacob Zeigler of Autauga County who died there in April of 1830 leaving his wife, Catherine, and children: William, John, Nicholas, Elizabeth, Madalena, Nancy, Sally and Maria. Other court records contain the divorce of Milly David and Nicholas Zeigler in 1853 suggesting that there were two Nicholas Zeiglers since the elder had presumably died when Shadrack Mims finally recorded this information. A Nicholas Zeigler appears in the Lowndes County Census of Alabama in 1830.
The 1820 Census of Alabama has not survived. It is not known how old Nicholas Zeigler, the elder, was at his death but it appears his son, Henry, was born in 1802. The 1830 Census of Autauga County enumerates N. Zeigler (#130) as being 50-60 years of age--born 1770-1780. He, therefore, would be about the same age as Thomas Harthcock. N. Zeigler is the only Zeigler in this 1830 census. In the 1820 Census of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, there is a Jacob Zeigler at age over 45 years; and a Jacob Zeigler, Sr. A Jacob Zeigler, Jr. appears in the 1810 Census of Orangeburg Co., S.C. The history of Orangebury County by Salley mentions Bernard and Ann Mary Zeigler had a son John Jacob born Orangeburg County 23 December 1755.
A Nicholas Zeigler and a Godfrey Zeigler appear in the 1800 Census of Oranqeburg County. If the N. Zeigler of Autauga County, Alabama 1830 and the Nicholas Zeigler in the Orangeburg County Census 1800 is the same person, then it can be assumed that he was born between 1770 and 1774 somewhat narrowing his birthdate. The Godfrey Zeigler above was over 45 years of age in 1800 and there three Jacob Zeigler's appearing in the 1790 Census of Orangeburg County, South Carolina .
A descendent of Thomas Harthcock, Mrs. Benita H. Love, One Meadow Lane, Greenville, Texas 75401 reported in 1975 that Thomas Harthcock was born in South Carolina, 4 March 1779 and that he married Catherine Zeigler in Orangeburg County, South Carolina in 1810. It is known from census records that some of their children born in South Carolina and some were born in Alabama. For exampIe, John Godfrey, son of Thomas and Catherine Zeigler Harthcock, was botn in South Carolina in 1812. Jacob Whetstone was one who lived near the Zeiglers in Autauga County, and according to information available on him, he was born in 1778 and died in 1851, was from Orangeburg County, South Carolina and settled in Autauga County in 1824. Also it is clear that other people including a Dr. Hunt who lived in Autauga County were from Orangeburg County (northern part), Carolina. Hathcocks are known to have lived in adjoining Sumpter County, South Carolina. According to Mrs. Love's information, a Jacob Zeigler settled the town of Zeiglerville, Mississippi, in Holmes County and that the Zeigler's of that area claimed they were relatives of the Harthcocks of that area.
It can be speculated that Jacob Zeigler, Sr., born 23 December 1755 (1790 Census) son of Bernard Zeigler had three sons: Godfrey (b. 1770-1774); Nicholas (b. 1770-1774) and Jacob, Jr. (b. 1770-1780) and that Jacob Zeigler, Jr. is the one who founded Zeiglerville, Missiissippi. It is noted that Jacob Zeigler, Jr. and Thomas Harthcock would have been approximately the same age. It can also be speculated that the Zeiglers and the Harthcocks migrated to Holmes County, Mississippi from Autauga County, Alabama together after having lived in Autauga County from about 1820 until some before 1840. It is also possible that Catherine Zeigler, wife of Thomas Harthcock, is buried in Autauga County.
Family tradition relates that some of the brothers and sisters of Catherine Zeigler moved to Mississippi with or about the same time as did Thomas Harthcock and established the town of Zeiglerville on the county line of Holmes and Yazoo counties.
Among the earliest settlers of Yazoo County, Mississippi, was a Jacob Zeigler whose descendents remain in the county today. Perhaps Thomas Harthcock's wife, Catherine Zeigler, was a sister of Jacob Zeigler (b. ca. 1770-1780).
Mrs. Betty Smith, Littlefield, Texas, has some records on the Haddick and Harthcock families that show her great grandparents, Allen Haddick and Sophia Harthcock, as living and buried near Bastrop, Louisiana. Sophia Harthcock is listed as daughter of Thomas Harthcock and Catherine Zeigler. There is no record of parents of either. It is known that Sophia Harthcock Haddick had a sister, Martha Harthcock, who never married and undoubtedly 1ived with Sophia. When two sons of Sophia, Allen Haddick and Thomas Haddick, moved to Texas about 1895, Martha went with them and made her home with Thomas (Tom) Haddick, near the home of John Louis Harthcock in the New Hope community of Freestone County, Texas, about 5 miles east of Mexia (pronounced "Mahea"). John Louis Harthcock's children and grardchildren called Martha "Aunt Mat” and believed her to be John Louis Harthcock's aunt. They all called the Haddicks' "Cousin." "Aunt Mat" died in 1912 and is buried in the New Hope Cemetery in the Haddick plot. John Louis Harthcock and wife, Izora Henrietta Forbus, are buried in Point Enterprise Cemetery in Freestone County about 5 miles east of Mexia. Sophia, who married W. A. Haddick, first lived near Bastrop, Louisiana in Morrehouse Parrish. During the Civil War a Thomas Harthcock also lived there.
Now if the supposition that "Aunt Mat" was John Louis Harthcock’s Aunt is correct, then John Godfrey, Sophia and Martha (Aunt Mat) were brother and sisters. The question is, who was their father? Was there a John Godfrey, Sr., or was Thomas Harthcock father John Godfrey, born 1812, died 1884 and buried at Locust Grove Cemetery, Zeiglerville, Mississippi.
Records obtained from Mrs. Sadie Smith Hollowell, Leland, Mississippi indicate only one John Godfrey Harthcock and that was the son of Thomas Harthcock: Census 1850, Holmes County, Mississippi lists Thomas Harthcock 70 years of age in same household as Eli Harthcock age 38, Sarah A. age 24, Martha age 14 and Richard 0., age 1. It appears that in 1850 the wife of Thomas Harthcock was dead and his children were married except Martha.
Eli and wife Sarah A. and infant, Richard 0., were living with Thomas. At some later time, probably after the death of her father, Martha went to live with her sister, Sophia Harthcock Haddick, near Bastrop, Louisiana and later moved on to Limestone County, Texas.
The Confederate States of America military organization records ontain some information which apparently relates to this family. William S. Harthcock (sometimes Hathcox) enlisted 8 March 1862 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana and was on the rolls of Company G of the 18th Infantry from November 1862 through 1 April 1863. He as imprisoned in a Federal Prison but parolled in July 1863 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Claiborne Parish Courthouse has 3 volumes of Amnesty Oaths from 1850. Also, Thomas Harthcock lived in Morehouse Parish in 1860 and appears in the Census there. The Parish seat of Morehouse Parish is Bastrop, Louisiana where Sophia Harthcock lived. The Department of Health in New Orleans maintains he birth and death records of Morehouse Parish.
A complete family tree, complied by descendant Kim Harthcock, is maintained at Ancestry.com.3333
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1850 Census of Holmes Co SC
Name Age
Thomas Hathcock 74
Eli Hathcock 38
Sarah A Hathcock 24
Martha Hathcock 14
Richard Hathcock 1
At least four Hathcock families settled in Mississippi between 1835 and 1900. The first Mississippi Hathcock family was Thomas Hathcock, his wife Catherine Zeigler and their children having moved from Autauga County, Alabama. Originally, Thomas Hathcock removed from Orangeburg County, South Carolina. Though this family name was originally Hathcock, about 1825 it was somehow changed to Harthcock. The original Harthcock settler in Holmes County was Thomas Harthcock who was born in South Carolina in 1779. His oldest son was John Godfrey Hathcock (later Harthcock), who was born in South Carolina 1 February 1812 and who died 5 December 1885 and is buried in the Locust Grove Cemetery two miles west of Zeiglerville, Mississippi in Yazoo County. One of the younger sons of John Godfrey Harthcock was William E. Harthcock who moved to Childress Cokunty Texas from Holmes County in 1873. One of the sons of William E. Harthcock was Thomas Britton Harthcock, who was in Holmes County in 1873. One of the sons of Thomas Britton is Carrol Britton Harthcock who lived in Dallas, Texas in 1971.
Thomas Harthcock is reported to have been born in South Carolina in 1779, married Catherine Zeigler in Orangeburg County, South Carolina in 1810 and moved to Alabama in the 1820's. This information was compiled in 1970 by Mrs. J. Ray Love, Sr., of One Meadow Lane, Greenville, Texas 75401.
However, Dr. Wiley Forbus of Durham, North Carolina is reported to records showing that his ancestor, John Godfrey Harthcock, who is otherwise thought to have been the son of Thomas Harthcock, was son of John Godfry Harthcock, Sr. The records indicate that John Godfrey Harthcock’s wife was named "Kate." According to Dr. Forbus's records, John Godfrey Harthcock, Sr. had four boys and four girls and that John Godfrey, Jr. was born 1 February 1812 in South Carolina.
It is impossible to say which account is true. There is a G. Hathcock listed in the 1790 Census of Clarmont County, South Carolina situated near the Orangeburg District. This G. Hathcock not been identified and possibly could be Godfrey Hathcock. On the other hand, Thomas's wife is reported in one case as Catherine Zeigler and John Godfry Hathcock, Sr.'s wife on the other hand as Kate. Kate is often a short name for Catherine and it could be that Kate was actually Catherine Zeigler, a likely probability.
No Thomas Harthcock or variant is found in the South Carolina 1800, 1810, or 1820; however, a Thomas Haithcock sold 100 acres of land in the Orangeburg District of South Carolina to Lewis Houser, on Little Crotch Pen on 20 October 1818 for $300. This deed was recorded 8 April 1819. (Source: South Carolina Magazne of Ancestral Research, Vol. 3.) This is certainly the same man who is the subject of this sketch, and probably sold this in preparation of moving to Alabama. Alabama records also assist in reconstructing the movements of Thomas Harthcock.
CAHABA LAND DISTRICT OF ALABAMA
Date Section Township Range Present County
1/19/1825 12 12 14 Lowndes
1/19/1825 12 14 14 Lowndes
12/30/1824 9 16 15 Autagua
The above grants were issued in the name of Thomas Harthcock. The grants below were issued in the name of Thomas Hathcock and Heathcock, respectively. If this is the same man, then the surname changed from Heathcock to Harthcock during this period.
Date Section Township Range Present County
12/2/1834 10 13 16 Lowndes*
9/12/1821 9 15 15 Lowndes
*Barnabus Heathcock was granted land 15 February 1836 in this section, township and range. Perhaps this Thomas was born about 1806 in South Carolina and listed in the 1830 Lowndes County, Al Census as well as in the Darlington County, South Carolina Census in 1830. The 1821 grant was in the name of Thomas Hathcock.
It appears that Thomas Harthcock and his family lived in Autauga and Lowndes counties of Alabama prior to moving to Holmes County, Mississippi. In a history on Autauga County “Autauga County--The First Hundred Years 1818-1918” by Daniel S. Gray, Autauga County, Prattvllie Public Library In, Prattville, Alabama, containing remembrances of Shadrack Mims as he recorded them after the Civil War, mention that a man by the name of Hathcock lived near Autaugaville. That he was from South Carolina and owned land and settled there with another man from South Carolina named Bailey. No first names are given. The house on this land later belonged to Genera E. Y. Fair. The house had changed hands several times before, however. There is no mention of who bought the land from Hathcock and it may have had several owners before it came into the possession of Col. W. R. Pickett who bought it for his niece, a Mrs. Body--her maiden name being Lanier.
Mrs. Body later married S. H. N. Dixon of Mobile. They sold the land to Col. Wyatt whose wife was the daughter of Todd Robinson of Robinson Springs, Alabama. Col. E. Y. Fair married Col. Wyatt’s daughter and she inherited the land from her father. This land was situated between the towns of Washington and Autaugaville very near Bear Creek. Across Bear Creek lived Nicholas Zeigler from South Carolina, described as being an old man. Also living near was a John Carrel also from South Carolina who died there and his land was sold to a Mr. Hinton. Nicholas Zeigler's land was sold to Terry DeJarnett. Court Records of Autauga County contain the will of one Jacob Zeigler of Autauga County who died there in April of 1830 leaving his wife, Catherine, and children: William, John, Nicholas, Elizabeth, Madalena, Nancy, Sally and Maria. Other court records contain the divorce of Milly David and Nicholas Zeigler in 1853 suggesting that there were two Nicholas Zeiglers since the elder had presumably died when Shadrack Mims finally recorded this information. A Nicholas Zeigler appears in the Lowndes County Census of Alabama in 1830.
The 1820 Census of Alabama has not survived. It is not known how old Nicholas Zeigler, the elder, was at his death but it appears his son, Henry, was born in 1802. The 1830 Census of Autauga County enumerates N. Zeigler (#130) as being 50-60 years of age--born 1770-1780. He, therefore, would be about the same age as Thomas Harthcock. N. Zeigler is the only Zeigler in this 1830 census. In the 1820 Census of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, there is a Jacob Zeigler at age over 45 years; and a Jacob Zeigler, Sr. A Jacob Zeigler, Jr. appears in the 1810 Census of Orangeburg Co., S.C. The history of Orangebury County by Salley mentions Bernard and Ann Mary Zeigler had a son John Jacob born Orangeburg County 23 December 1755.
A Nicholas Zeigler and a Godfrey Zeigler appear in the 1800 Census of Oranqeburg County. If the N. Zeigler of Autauga County, Alabama 1830 and the Nicholas Zeigler in the Orangeburg County Census 1800 is the same person, then it can be assumed that he was born between 1770 and 1774 somewhat narrowing his birthdate. The Godfrey Zeigler above was over 45 years of age in 1800 and there three Jacob Zeigler's appearing in the 1790 Census of Orangeburg County, South Carolina .
A descendent of Thomas Harthcock, Mrs. Benita H. Love, One Meadow Lane, Greenville, Texas 75401 reported in 1975 that Thomas Harthcock was born in South Carolina, 4 March 1779 and that he married Catherine Zeigler in Orangeburg County, South Carolina in 1810. It is known from census records that some of their children born in South Carolina and some were born in Alabama. For exampIe, John Godfrey, son of Thomas and Catherine Zeigler Harthcock, was botn in South Carolina in 1812. Jacob Whetstone was one who lived near the Zeiglers in Autauga County, and according to information available on him, he was born in 1778 and died in 1851, was from Orangeburg County, South Carolina and settled in Autauga County in 1824. Also it is clear that other people including a Dr. Hunt who lived in Autauga County were from Orangeburg County (northern part), Carolina. Hathcocks are known to have lived in adjoining Sumpter County, South Carolina. According to Mrs. Love's information, a Jacob Zeigler settled the town of Zeiglerville, Mississippi, in Holmes County and that the Zeigler's of that area claimed they were relatives of the Harthcocks of that area.
It can be speculated that Jacob Zeigler, Sr., born 23 December 1755 (1790 Census) son of Bernard Zeigler had three sons: Godfrey (b. 1770-1774); Nicholas (b. 1770-1774) and Jacob, Jr. (b. 1770-1780) and that Jacob Zeigler, Jr. is the one who founded Zeiglerville, Missiissippi. It is noted that Jacob Zeigler, Jr. and Thomas Harthcock would have been approximately the same age. It can also be speculated that the Zeiglers and the Harthcocks migrated to Holmes County, Mississippi from Autauga County, Alabama together after having lived in Autauga County from about 1820 until some before 1840. It is also possible that Catherine Zeigler, wife of Thomas Harthcock, is buried in Autauga County.
Family tradition relates that some of the brothers and sisters of Catherine Zeigler moved to Mississippi with or about the same time as did Thomas Harthcock and established the town of Zeiglerville on the county line of Holmes and Yazoo counties.
Among the earliest settlers of Yazoo County, Mississippi, was a Jacob Zeigler whose descendents remain in the county today. Perhaps Thomas Harthcock's wife, Catherine Zeigler, was a sister of Jacob Zeigler (b. ca. 1770-1780).
Mrs. Betty Smith, Littlefield, Texas, has some records on the Haddick and Harthcock families that show her great grandparents, Allen Haddick and Sophia Harthcock, as living and buried near Bastrop, Louisiana. Sophia Harthcock is listed as daughter of Thomas Harthcock and Catherine Zeigler. There is no record of parents of either. It is known that Sophia Harthcock Haddick had a sister, Martha Harthcock, who never married and undoubtedly 1ived with Sophia. When two sons of Sophia, Allen Haddick and Thomas Haddick, moved to Texas about 1895, Martha went with them and made her home with Thomas (Tom) Haddick, near the home of John Louis Harthcock in the New Hope community of Freestone County, Texas, about 5 miles east of Mexia (pronounced "Mahea"). John Louis Harthcock's children and grardchildren called Martha "Aunt Mat” and believed her to be John Louis Harthcock's aunt. They all called the Haddicks' "Cousin." "Aunt Mat" died in 1912 and is buried in the New Hope Cemetery in the Haddick plot. John Louis Harthcock and wife, Izora Henrietta Forbus, are buried in Point Enterprise Cemetery in Freestone County about 5 miles east of Mexia. Sophia, who married W. A. Haddick, first lived near Bastrop, Louisiana in Morrehouse Parrish. During the Civil War a Thomas Harthcock also lived there.
Now if the supposition that "Aunt Mat" was John Louis Harthcock’s Aunt is correct, then John Godfrey, Sophia and Martha (Aunt Mat) were brother and sisters. The question is, who was their father? Was there a John Godfrey, Sr., or was Thomas Harthcock father John Godfrey, born 1812, died 1884 and buried at Locust Grove Cemetery, Zeiglerville, Mississippi.
Records obtained from Mrs. Sadie Smith Hollowell, Leland, Mississippi indicate only one John Godfrey Harthcock and that was the son of Thomas Harthcock: Census 1850, Holmes County, Mississippi lists Thomas Harthcock 70 years of age in same household as Eli Harthcock age 38, Sarah A. age 24, Martha age 14 and Richard 0., age 1. It appears that in 1850 the wife of Thomas Harthcock was dead and his children were married except Martha.
Eli and wife Sarah A. and infant, Richard 0., were living with Thomas. At some later time, probably after the death of her father, Martha went to live with her sister, Sophia Harthcock Haddick, near Bastrop, Louisiana and later moved on to Limestone County, Texas.
The Confederate States of America military organization records ontain some information which apparently relates to this family. William S. Harthcock (sometimes Hathcox) enlisted 8 March 1862 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana and was on the rolls of Company G of the 18th Infantry from November 1862 through 1 April 1863. He as imprisoned in a Federal Prison but parolled in July 1863 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Claiborne Parish Courthouse has 3 volumes of Amnesty Oaths from 1850. Also, Thomas Harthcock lived in Morehouse Parish in 1860 and appears in the Census there. The Parish seat of Morehouse Parish is Bastrop, Louisiana where Sophia Harthcock lived. The Department of Health in New Orleans maintains he birth and death records of Morehouse Parish.
A complete family tree, complied by descendant Kim Harthcock, is maintained at Ancestry.com.3333
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1850 Census of Holmes Co SC
Name Age
Thomas Hathcock 74
Eli Hathcock 38
Sarah A Hathcock 24
Martha Hathcock 14
Richard Hathcock 1
Research notes for Thomas Harthcock
Following taken from Wikepedia:3334
The district was occupied for thousands of years by succeeding cultures of indigenous peoples. By the time of European encounter, Siouan-speaking tribes, such as the Pee Dee, Cheraw and Catawba, inhabited the piedmont area.
The Orangeburg Judicial District was chartered in 1769 from a mostly unorganized upland area between the Congaree and Savannah rivers. A county, initially of the same name but later called Orange, was organized within the district but deorganized in 1791.
The southwest portion bordering on the Savannah River, about half of Orangeburg District, was separated and organized as Barnwell District in 1800. In 1804 the northern third of the district was separated to form the new Lexington District, which gained another, smaller portion of Orangeburg District in 1832.
The district was occupied for thousands of years by succeeding cultures of indigenous peoples. By the time of European encounter, Siouan-speaking tribes, such as the Pee Dee, Cheraw and Catawba, inhabited the piedmont area.
The Orangeburg Judicial District was chartered in 1769 from a mostly unorganized upland area between the Congaree and Savannah rivers. A county, initially of the same name but later called Orange, was organized within the district but deorganized in 1791.
The southwest portion bordering on the Savannah River, about half of Orangeburg District, was separated and organized as Barnwell District in 1800. In 1804 the northern third of the district was separated to form the new Lexington District, which gained another, smaller portion of Orangeburg District in 1832.
Notes for Catherine (Spouse 1)
A complete family tree, complied by descendant Kim Harthcock, is maintained at Ancestry.com.3333