Re: Willis D. Arledge b. 1823 SC-Kershaw Co.
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In reply to:
Re: Willis D. Arledge b. 1823 SC-Kershaw Co.
4/12/01
Hi Kaye--
I'm working on the Arledge family history and am very interested in learning more about the Kershaw County Arledge descendants. I also have a lot of information for you that may be helpful. I also invite you to join the Arledge list (see below for instructions), which is the way that we share all new Arledge information and also exchange queries and information. There are several hundred of us Arledge researchers, and I've somehow become the coordinator of all this mass of information!
Willis D. was the son of James and Elizabeth Arledge. This ancestry is really complicated, since there are several marriages of distant cousins. You have multiple Arledge lineages! Many of us believe that Elizabeth was an Arledge by birth as well, the daughter of William Arledge, Jr. and Mary Henson of Kershaw County. James was the son of Isaac Arledge, Jr. and Lydia Arledge (she was also an Arledge by birth, a sister to William Arledge Jr, thus a daughter of William Arledge and his wife Mary ???). Isaac Arledge Sr. was the patriarch of the Fairfield County Arledges (he is my ancestor also, through his son Amos). His son Isaac Jr. was very wealthy and we have tons of documents on him and his estate settlement, as well as Lydia's. His oldest son James (Willis' father) predeceased him, dying about 1831 (Isaac Jr died in 1847). Willis was born about 1823. Willis' mother Elizabeth lived c 1805-c.1873, and was listed as living with Willis in the 1870 Kershaw census.
I don't have a death date for Willis--do you? I would very much like to get information that you might have on Willis and Eliza's descendants. I have corresponded with a number of your cousins (Linda Scott, Lori Salka, Phillip Arledge, and Susan Payne, who is a friend of Robert Lee Brown's) and have a partial family tree, but you will be able to help make it more complete.
I'll send you a descendant list for your perusal and corrections, too.
Thanks!
Pam
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Pam Wilson
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Marietta, GA
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