MEMORIAL Dorchester County Genealogists We Have Lost Thank you for your years of service!
JAN CRIDDLE Jan Criddle passed away on
March 9,
2006. Jan was an avid "Lowcountry" South Carolina genealogist,
and I know how pleased she is to know that her contributions will
continue to benefit researchers and family members for many years to
come. She will be missed. "Jan was a dynamic person
with a great sense of humor. I met her through her connection to one of the Branchville
Grimes families. She told me that her Criddle ancestor, James
Samuel Criddle, a soldier in the Northern Army, came south during the
Civil War and met a girl in the Reevesville- -Branchville area,
Elizabeth "Eliza" Grimes. After the war he returned to marry her
and remained. GAIL APPLEBY CANNON
Miriam Bradford passed
away on November 23, 2003 in Aiken, South Carolina. Miriam was a
steadfast lowcountry genealogist, active on the genealogy message
boards and lists from their beginnings. We were distant cousins,
and had so much left to share about the Gavin family. I
still think about the hundreds of missed opportunities, thinking that I
had all the time in the world .... I found this posting by
Miriam on the RootsWeb HARPER list, and hope that she wouldn't mind my
pasting it here. I hope that Miriam got her wish. South Carolina, where I live, has been vandalized, robbed, and desecrated for as long as I have lived which is 50 years. Our family has a deed, when my ancestors sold the surrounding property stating that we still and always will own the one-fourth acre of land for the cemetery and shall have ingress and egress to such cemetery from the State Highway 15. "We still have been denied that also, but maybe that can be resolved without a court battle. Times got so bad that the family in the late 1950's or early 1960's had to put cement across the Harper graves to prevent people from trying to dig them up. This cemetery was established in 1832, and as long as my I draw breath we will fight to maintain the dignity and respect my family deserves in their final resting place. This cemetery is the final resting place of men who have fought in the American Revolution with Francis Marion "The Swamp Fox", and men who fought for the Confederacy in the War Between the States. These men and women are my family, and if it weren't for them I would not exist, nor my sons. I intend to be buried there, also, and with great pride!"
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