Watson Stewart? Abe. M. Mauldin? Pickens County Sheriff on the date of September 20, 1877 when land was sold? Where was this 108 acres of land on Little Crow Creek waters of Keowee? I’m looking for anything clues of Mary Blackston maiden name? Information I’ve found is that she is buried at Mount Bethel Methodist Church in Pickens County, South Carolina, who was Sam Medlock? He is mentioned as sending information to this message board..
From the newspaper "The Pickens Sentinel" Issue of Thursday
8 June 1882:
Pickens County SC Sheriff's Sale. 108 acres on Little Crow Creek waters of Keowee adj. Watson Stewart, Abe. M. Mauldin and others conveyed to J. Hiram Blackston by Mary Blackston the 20th of September 1877. To be sold as the property of J. Hiram Blackston at the suit of Watson Stewart.
(This book lists abstracts from the paper) There should be a deed for the transfer of land which took place on 20 Sept. 1877 maybe explains relationship. There may be a court case instigated by Watson Stewart. Who was he? A relative maybe married to one of Mary's daughters or Was he owed a debt?? On the 1840 in Pickens District there is a Hiram Blackstone listed as # 2024 -
Hiram Blackstone 1 male under 5, 1 male 5 to 10, 1 male 20 to 30, 1 female under 5, 1 female 20 to 30. (My friend Sam Medlock sent this census to me last night.) Was this Hiram and Mary? Maybe John Hiram was named for his father?
The Pickens Sentinel - Issue of Thursday 23 June 1887:
Mrs. Mary Blackstone of Hurricane Twp. died the fifteenth inst. at the home of her son Silas Blackstone at the age of 82 years. Burial at Mt. Bethel. (Wonder if article gives any other relationship. What denomination is Mt. Bethel? Maybe is Silas John Hiram's brother?)
There is also on the 1870 census in Easley Twp. Pickens County, a Mary Blackstone age 62.
