Lewis Malone Ayer (1769 - 1863)

Born 11 Apr 1769 in South Carolina

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Died 28 Dec 1863 at age 94 in Statesboro, Bulloch, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Name

Name: Lewis Malone /Ayer/^[1][2][3][4]

Birth

Birth:

Date: 11 Apr 1769

Place: South Carolina^[1]

Death

Death:

Date: 7 May 1863

Place: Statesboro, GA Native of Olar^[1][3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Title: U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls Note: APID: 1,2204::0 SAR Membership Number: 79036 APID: 1,2204::820639 and SAR Membership Number: 79035 APID: 1,2204::820626
2. ↑ Title: Confederate Applications for Presidential Pardons, 1865-1867 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc APID: 1,1187::0. APID: 1,1187::9476
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Title: Web: Richland County, South Carolina, Obituary Index, 1892-2000 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. APID: 1,70533::0. APID: 1,70533::693475
4. ↑ Title: Official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc APID: 1,1203::0. APID: 1,1203::5084

• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 15 August 2020), memorial page for Lewis Malone Ayer (11 Apr 1769–28 Dec 1863), Find A Grave: Memorial #104095534, citing Ayer Family Cemetery, Ehrhardt, Bamberg County, South Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Barbara (contributor 47937389) .

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• Ancestry Family Tree: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/26456730/family.

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Ayer-625 created through the import of Wells Family2_2011-05-26.ged on May 27, 2011 by Doug Wells. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Doug and others.

I found this story and thought any descendants of his would appreciate it.

In this connection Bishop Gregg gives his readers a thrilling narrative from the lips of the venerable Lewis Malone Ayer, of Barnwell. Mr. Ayer was the father of Mrs. Judge A. P. Aldrich, and of Gen. L. M. Ayer, a member of the Confederate Congress. He was quite young when the events occurred which he related, but they were of a character to make a profound impression upon his mind.

Young Ayer was on a visit with his mother at the house of a neighbor, close by Col. Kolb's, on the morning the Colonel was killed. Young Ayer had been sent out on a fleet horse at early dawn by his mother to carry tidings of the death of one of her relatives to Col. Kolb, knowing nothing of the tragedy at Kolb's house. Meeting old Mr. William Forniss, together they rode up to the burning building, having seen smoke and the returning horse tracks of the assassins. They saw the weeping wife and sisters with their dead, whom with their own hands they had dragged to a safe distance from the flames. But young Ayer could not tarry with those whom he pitied, because information had reached him that his brother-in-law Mr. James Magee, was that very day to visit Col. Kolb by appointment. Magee lived in the Brownsville community and must travel for a part of the route over the same road which the Tories would travel on their way to Catfish, from whence they came, and if they met Magee it would be the last of him. To get ahead of the Tories and turn Magee from the track was the exploit before the boy Ayer. Excited by the scenes before his eyes, and impelled by the desire to save his friends life, he tried the well-known mettle of his mare, who had done him good service of the like kind before.

He had not calculated, however, that the Tories would stop on the road for breakfast until he was almost within their power, when he wheeled around and fled for dear life. They fired too high to reach the boy who lay close to the mane of the splendid mare, which they desired to capture unhurt. Fortunately, however, there was a cow trail with which Ayer was familiar, close at hand. Into this he dashed and cross a boggy marsh, into which his pursuers plunged, but, not knowing the track as he did, they were soon floundering in the mud, and were glad to get out again on their own side. Afraid that the youth would dash ahead and warn the party at Brown's Mill of their approach, the Tories, after this incident, increased their speed and fortunately passed Magee's road before he entered theirs, and this excellent citizen escaped their hands, and lived for many years to see his children's children, and died in his old age, sitting in his chair, with the Bible lying open upon his knees. His ashes lie at old Brownsville. The first wife of the writer's father was a daughter of James Magee, and died in 1820, the mother of nine children, all of whom have since followed her to the grave. http://files.usgwarchives.net/sc/marlboro/history/1897/ahistory/chapterx23gms.txt