Notes for Rev. Samuel TIMMONS
Pastor of old Elim Baptist Church, Effingham, SC until about 1823-4. Samuel performed funeral for his Mother Mary, and performed 2nd marriage ceromony for his Father. See Happy Heritage pages 99-100 for more.
1800 Census, Samuel Timmons, (Marion District), Beaufort District, Prince William, Roll 48, (M32) page 11
(Also has Thomas Timmons on line below)
Owned 1530 acres on West side of Pee Dee (according to law suit filed 3 Jan 1839 by oldest son Isaac R. Timmons against administrators William Timmons and his widow Elizabeth, extract in Marion County Extracts from Equity Rolls by Utley, #246 page 81.)
According to the Captain John Timmons Book by Dodge, Samuel was converted in the 1790's by a slave minister from the Ebenezer Church known as "Professor Moses". When Moses died in 1825 at the age of 100, Rev. Samuel paid tribute to the black clergyman.
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Sources for this web site are many, including:
Ola Cook Timmons, Captain John Timmons and his Descendants by Kathy Dodge Loyd, H. F. Prioleau, Happy Heritage by Cannon,
Sermons in Stone by Jason Cockfield, Minute Books of the Hebron Baptist Church, Our Kin by Bernice McCutcheon,
Three Rivers Historical Society,
Old Darlington District Genealogy Chapter,
Berkeley County Historical Society,
Huguenot Settlers in North America,
and the US Census.
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