Re: James Reid Pringle
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In reply to:
James Reid Pringle
Brenda Compton 10/22/05
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ID: I28897
Name: James Reid PRINGLE
Sex: M
Reference Number: 28897
Marriage 1 Elizabeth MCPHERSON
ID: I28896
Name: Eliza Butler PRINGLE
Sex: F
Birth: 6 DEC 1814
Death: 6 AUG 1888
Reference Number: 28896
Father: James Reid PRINGLE
Mother: Elizabeth MCPHERSON
Marriage 1 William RAVENEL b: 23 OCT 1806
Children
Julia Pringle RAVENEL b: 9 MAR 1837
Catherine Prioleau RAVENEL b: 19 DEC 1838
James Reid Pringle RAVENEL b: 1 JUN 1840
Elizabeth McPherson RAVENEL b: 12 NOV 1841
Mary Pringle RAVENEL b: 16 NOV 1843
William RAVENEL b: 20 DEC 1845
Edward RAVENEL b: 4 JAN 1848
Rose Pringle RAVENEL b: 28 FEB 1850
Julius Pringle RAVENEL b: 24 MAR 1852
Arthur RAVENEL b: 27 APR 1854
Eliza Pringle RAVENEL b: 18 OCT 1856
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Name: Rose Pringle RAVENEL
Sex: F
Birth: 28 FEB 1850
Reference Number: 28920
Father: William RAVENEL b: 23 OCT 1806
Mother: Eliza Butler PRINGLE b: 6 DEC 1814
Date of death: December 3, 1943
The author of Piazza Tales, Rose P. Ravenel's Cookbook
CHARLESTON RECOLLECTIONS (see below) AND RECEIPTS now spelled RECIPES.
Copyright, 1983 by Elizabeth R. Harrigan Sewanee, Tennessee 37375
Printed in the United States by Lellyett and Rogers
Page 5
When he was sixteen years of age, on the first of May 1823, my father went into the office of Ravenel and Stevens. The office of this importing firm was on Vanderhorst wharf. The business increased so rapidly that he was taken into the firm seven years later. This enterprise flourished until the Confederate War, at which time the firm (then called Ravenel & Company) was totally destroyed. At the time the war broke out, the firm owned two ships and had the controlling interest in five other vessels and a steam tug. These ships maintained regular trade with Europe. Every spring, for several years a ship loaded with cotton was sent to St. Petersburg in Russia. Thence she went to Sweden for Swedish iron, which she returned to Charleston for sale in South Carolina and Georgia. The first ship built for the firm was the John Ravenel, which was burnt in Ashley River in 1865 when the City of Charleston was evacuated by the Confederate authorities. The second ship was given the name of John Rutledge, likewise built in Baltimore, Maryland. She was wrecked on an iceberg
My Father's House
William Ravenel, my father, built No. 7 East Battery. The family moved there from Rutledge Avenue in 1845. Sister Kate was born on Orange Street. The house on Orange Street was my grandfather Pringle's home. My grandfather sold the Orange Street house and bought the house in Cannonsboro. Pringle, Lizzie and Mary were born in the house on Rutledge Avenue. William Edward, Rose, Julius, ARthur and little Eliza were born in No. 7 East Battery. The house has been given the number of 13 East Battery. Before the Confederate War my father bought the Roper house next door. We now had much land north, south, and west of the house. When the house was built we had no carriage way -- we had to use the archway. All the stucco work in the drawing room of the house was done by an Irishman. The woodwork was executed by our own Negro carpenters. The columns, destroyed in the earthquake of 1886, wer of brick washed over with cement. The capitals of the columns were of composite Corinthian work. The Ravenel house is at the center of the Batter. There is nothing between us and the Canary Islands, save Fort Sumter.
Children
Eliza Butler PRINGLE b: 6 DEC 1814