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THE FAMILY OF COL. KOLB AND SOME OF THEIR
NEIGHBORS
Source: A History of Marlboro
County: With Traditions and Sketches of Numerous
Families, 1897
In 1751 the name of Kolb first appeared upon the Pee
Dee - a name which was destined to become distinguished in
after time, and ultimately to become extinct, at least upon the
east side of the river. Several men of this name appear
in the early records, viz.: Jacob, Henry, Martin and
Peter. Whether all brothers, or one a father and the
others sons, does not appear. Peter married Ann, the
eldest daughter of Rev. Philip James, first pastor of the Welsh
Neck church. Col. Abel became so distinguished in
Revolutionary affairs, and at last sealed his devotion to the
cause with his blood, with a son of this marriage. He
also married a Miss James and two daughters were given
them.
Sarah was first married to Benjamin
David, and afterwards to Philip Pledger. Ann, the other
daughter, became the wife of Maj. James Pouncey. We are to
hear of col. Kolb hereafter, and must be content in this
chapter to trace the record of Maj. Pouncey and the noble
partner of his life. The father of Maj. Pouncey was named
William, and died young, leaving but one other child, a
daughter, who married Alex Peterkin. A brother Anthony,
was a soldier of the Revolution and held for a time the position
of quartermaster in Murphy's regiment, and a sister of these
was the mother of the late Daniel John. To Maj. Pouncey
and his wife were given four sons and five daughters.
William, once the sheriff of Marlboro, married Miss
Sarah Sparks, James first married Mary Pledger and afterward
Mary
Ferniss. John married Miss Armstrong and Peter, Miss
Adeline Hodges. The daughters married Sarah to Daniel M.
Crosland and was the honored mother of our fellow citizens, W.
A. and T. L. Crosland. Ann married Mr. Smith of North
Carolina. Eliza was the first wife of Dr.
Wm. Crosland. Mary was the wife of Dr. R. S. Thomas, and
Ellen married C. M. Cochrane, and not long since was yet
alive. The name Cochrane, although extinct among us, is
nevertheless numerously represented both in Marlboro and
Marion. Thomas Cochrane, the first we know of him,
lived on Crooked Creek near the site of the old Court
House. His first wife was a Miss Council, connected in
some way with the Pledgers. The fruit of this marriage
was Robt. C., the father of Miss Simon Emanuel; Mary, the first
wife of John Hamer, Margaret, the wife of James Bethea,
and Rachel who married Phillip Bethea. And from all these
have sprung large families. The second wife of Thomas
Cockrane was a Miss Griffin, whose daughter by a former
marriage was the wife of John Rogers, and the issue of this
second union was Louisa, who married Henry Covington, who lived
at Bennettsville in the early years of its history.
Martha married Thomas Cargill and had a son who died
unmarried. Mr. Cochrane's third wife was a widow Hunter
and this marriage was crowned with the birth of Claudius M.,
mentioned above as the son-in-law of Maj. Pouncey.
From the
old family record, from which the above paragraph is taken,
another extract will be here made, although it takes us into
a locality a little more distant from "the Neck". About
1750 Nathaniel Spears, a native of England, came to Virginia.
While there he married Lidia Wise, and soon after came to
Carolina and staked down upon the banks of the Three
Creeks. Two sons and a daughter were born to this
ancient couple, when Mr. Spears died, and his widow married a
Mr. Trawick. The daughter, as we have already recorded,
married the second Aaron Pearson. One son, David, who is
put down as a private in Benton's regiment, 1781-82, raised a
family of whom one daughter became the wife of Aaron Coxe, to
whom reference has already been made, and a son married
a daughter of Robt. Cochrane and went West. The other
son, William, married Miss Nancy Breeden, and was the father of
a large family. Among his sons two yet remain in the
Hebron community, Lewis and Harris. Alfred Parish,
Daniel McLeod and Robert Thomas and William Lee
married daughters, and William Spears married a Miss Bridges
and went to Arkansas.
It is alone in his hebron family that
the name Spears, as derived from Nathaniel, is now borne by
living men in Marlboro. Nathaniel's other son was James,
who married Lidia Meekins. Four sons and five
daughters were given this couple. One son, Meekins, died
unmarried. Another, David, married Margaret McRae and
died childless. James married Deborah Bethea, daughter of
James Bethea of Marion and a granddaughter of Thomas
Cochrane. To this pair ten children were born. Andrew
and Edwin, the only sons, both died young and left no children
to bear the name.
Ann became the wife of Thomas E.
Stubbs. Margaret has been the partner of the writer of
these lines for forty-seven years. Martha was the wife of
Duncan Moore, Emily became the wife of Isaac Pipkin, and
Eliza, first wife of E. C. Pipkin and Rebecca the first wife of
Dr. W. J. David. The other two daughters died young.
Mrs. Stubbs and Mrs. Thomas alone are living.* Mr. Spears
was a man of large brain, great firmness of character,
systematic and orderly in all his movements, and Mrs. Spears was
every way worthy of his devotion, and if their name has
not been transmitted to their posterity, may we not hope that
their virtues will live and bear rich harvests of fruit in
their numerous seed.
The daughters of James Spears, Sr.,
became mothers of large families. Two daughters and a
son, Nathaniel, married and went West. Ann married Mathew
Heustiss and lived for a long time where John L. McLaurin lived
just across the creek from Bennettsville and their
descendents were found among the Heustisses, the Stantons and
others with whom they have intermarried. Another
daughter, Elizabeth, became Mrs. Jabish Townsend, as already
stated in a previous chapter. And a third, Mary, married
Daniel John, and has left her impress for good upon a large
and highly respected posterity, not only in Marlboro, but in
North Carolina and Arkansas as well.
Before leaving the
Three creeks mention is made of the Vinings. The tradition, as
obtained from the late John Pearson, whose mother was of this
stock, is to the effect that two brothers, Jesse and
Jephtha, came from either England or Wales about 1750; that one
of them settled in Carolina and the other in Georgia, but
whether it was Jesse or Jephtha that became the head of the
Marlboro family our informant could not tell. Neither
could the Georgia family, which he had visited and found
perpetuating both these names and holding like traditions as to
their origin. However this may be, the one who came here
married a Miss Hilson, according to the tradition, and raised a
son and two daughters whose posterity, now bearing other names,
abound in the country. The son named Jesse married a Miss
Pledger and had three sons - John, who never married; Thomas,
who left a son and two daughters among us, and Jesse, who, with
a large family of boys, moved to Georgia some forty
years ago. Ann Vining became the wife of Aaron
Pearson, as we have seen, and the mother of John Pearson, and
of course is largely and honorably represented in the county
to-day. The other daughter, Elizabeth, first married
William Evans, and after his death she married Alexander Peterkin,
and became the mother of James and Jesse, from whom the
South Carolina family have come. James Peterkin married
Barbara McRae. Mrs. Susan Drake at Blenheim, and Mrs. C.
D. Easterling of Bennettsville, are daughters of this
marriage. Jessie Peterkin married Sallie McRae and
Mrs. A. B. Henagan and Capt. J. A. Peterkin, now of Orangeburg,
were children of this marriage. William Evans, the first
husband of Elizabeth Vining, was the son of a young man of the
same name who came to Welsh Neck direct from Wales about
1745. He had several sons besides this one.
We have
heard of Daniel, John and Thomas. From one of these our
fellow citizen, the late Thos. A. Evans, of Blenheim vicinity,
is descend ed. William Evans and Bettie Vining were
married in 1781 while the war was in progress; and for two
years Bettie had frequently to hide their only horse in the
swamps of Pee Dee while William was in cap. One son,
"Uncle Sandy," as we called him was their first born and after
him came Catharine, the grandmother of our fellow citizen, M.
D. McLeod.
Next Lucy, who married a Mr. Thomson and moved
West. Then Elizabeth, who was long known in the Red Hill
community as Betsy Huggins; and then Eleanor, who became the
second wife of William Thomas, of Brownsville; and the writer
was the first born to this marriage.
*Both died in 1895.
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