P. W. Counts Family - Originally Kountze Annals of Newberry, Part Two by John A. Chapman, page 641 Henry Counts, Sr., the grandfather of P. W. Counts, Esq., was born and married in South Carolina, near Pomaria, his father being one of the earliest settlers of the county. He married a Miss Fellows (now spelled Fellers). They had four sons, Henry, Jr., Jacob, Frederick and John. Henry Counts, Jr., married Sallie Hair, the issue of this union being two sons, one of whom died in infancy, and P. W. Counts, the subject of this sketch, who is now eighty years old, having been born in 1812. He married Martha Harmon, and to them were born four sons and two daughters, all of whom are living. One son, J. Henry Counts, lives in Lexington, and has served two terms in the Legislature from that county. J. Cal­houn Counts is a Methodist minister. Walter Land George Counts live near the old homestead. P. W. Counts lives on the identical place where he was born. It has been in the family for one hundred and twenty-seven year. He filled acceptably the office of magistrate, or "Esquire," for a number of years before and during the civil war, and is the only magistrate on record in the county as having pronounced the death sentence upon a murderer; and at the appointed time the man was hanged. He was a slave belonging to a Bobo, and the murdered man was white and an overseer.