Notes:

NOTE 1./ 1850 Edgefield District, South Carolina census:

Name Age Est Birth Birth Place Gender Home
Leonard Suber 37 1812 South Carolina Male Hamburg, Edgefield, SC
Lodasca Suber 30 1819 South Carolina Female Hamburg, Edgefield, SC
Ellen H Suber 9 1840 South Carolina Female Hamburg, Edgefield, SC
Martha A Suber 7 1842 South Carolina Female Hamburg, Edgefield, SC
Hester E Suber 2 1847 South Carolina Female Hamburg, Edgefield, SC

NOTE 2./ 1860 Randolph County Georgia census: First husband, Jessie and Ellen nee Suber Smith are living with another couple in Randolph County, GA. This Darley family is of unkown if any, relationship.

Name Home Age Est Birth Birthplace Gender
John Darley Not Stated, Randolph, GA 29 1830 Georgia Male
Cornelia F Darley Not Stated, Randolph, GA 24 1835 Female
Sophronia Darley Not Stated, Randolph, GA 1 1858 Male
Jesse Smith Not Stated, Randolph, GA 23 1836 Male
Ellen H Smith Not Stated, Randolph, GA 19 1840 South Carolina Female

NOTE 3./ 1870 Andersonville District, Sumter County, GA. census:
Page 350, Dwelling 598, family 594, about 6 doors from his brother James Singletary.

John Singletary Georgia Militia District 993, Sumter, GA abt 1841 Georgia White Male
Ellen Singletary Georgia Militia District 993, Sumter, GA abt 1841 Georgia White Female
Ella Singletary Georgia Militia District 993, Sumter, GA abt 1867 Georgia White Female
Lula Singletary Georgia Militia District 993, Sumter, GA abt 1869 Georgia White Female
Florence Smith Georgia Militia District 993, Sumter, GA abt 1858 Georgia White Female
Ida Smith Georgia Militia District 993, Sumter, GA abt 1861 Georgia White Female

NOTE 4./ Sumter County 1880 Census still has 3 Suber surname families: Two of the three have parents or themselves born in South Carolina. SUBER, M. P. <1813> M,W, Bir: SC.: SUBER, George P. <1840>, M, W, Bir: SC: SUBER, Taylor,<1850>, M, W, Bir: GA. MP Suber looks most like the match. George P. Suber has no children and Taylor has a very young family

NOTE 5./ e-mail from Joanne Gorday 9-12-2003
Ellen would have been born about 1841 in Georgia. She would have married a Smith in about 1857 and had two children born to that marriage, Florene, born about 1858 and Ida born about 1861. I found a marriage record for John and Ellen Singletary in Sumter County, Georgia, not Schley. They were married October 30, 1856. From these dates, I surmised that the Smith husband was probably killed in the Civil War. Aunt Hazel verified that Birdie (Grandma Moore) talked about two half sisters.

NOTE 6./ Historical Perspective: The Year Was 1873

The year was 1873 and much of the world was entering into a long period of economic depression. The beginning of the Long Depression is typically marked by the crash of the Vienna stock market, which sent ripples across Europe and eventually the United States with the fall of Jay Cooke & Company. The Cooke investment bank was heavily invested in the overbuilt railroad system which was beginning to fail. With the fall of this prominent company, a financial panic ensued and the New York Stock Exchange had to close for ten days. Railroads, factories, banks, and businesses had to close their doors resulting in skyrocketing unemployment rates. The Long Depression would last into the 1890s.

There were other smaller scale disasters in 1873. The British SS Atlantic out of Liverpool (with a stop at Queenstown) hit a submerged rock en route to New York and was wrecked in heavy seas off Nova Scotia. It is estimated that 545 of the 952 passengers perished.

In Baltimore, Maryland, a fire began in the factory of Joseph Thomas and Sons and spread over ten acres of the city. Photos of the fire and aftermath can be found online at the Maryland Historical Society.

A cholera epidemic swept through Birmingham, Alabama. Below is an interesting excerpt from a report from Mortimer H. Jordan, who was secretary of the Jefferson County Medical Society of Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of the epidemic (found on the website of the Reynolds Historical Library at the University of Alabama at Birmingham).

The treatment adopted was the opium and mercurial. When the stomach seemed so inactive that nothing made any impression upon it, an emetic of mustard, salt, ginger, and pepper, suspended in hot water, in many cases produced a warm glow over the surface of the body in a few moments. . . . Diuretics produced no good results. No condition in life, sex, or age escaped. The sucking babe and those of extreme age suffered alike from its ravages.

Before closing this paper, justice demands that we should briefly allude to the heroic and self sacrificing conduct, during this epidemic, of that unfortunate class who are known as 'women of the town.' These poor creatures, though outcasts from society, anathematized by the church, despised by women and maltreated by men, when the pestilence swept over the city, came forth from their homes to nurse the sick and close the eyes of the dead. It was passing strange that they would receive no pay, expected no thanks; they only went where their presence was needed, and never remained longer than they could do good. While we abhor the degradation of these unfortunates, their magnanimous behavior during these fearful days has drawn forth our sympathy and gratitude.

Further north and west, Jesse James and the James- Younger gang robbed a Rock Island train near Adair, Iowa. This first train robbery netted the gang more than $2,300, but was most likely a disappointment for the gang. They were expecting a $100,000 gold shipment, but that shipment had been switched to another train at the last moment.

North of the border in Canada, the Dominion Parliament had more lawful goals in mind when it established the North-West Mounted Police, the predecessor of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Canada was growing and in 1873 Prince Edward Island joined the federation as Canada's smallest province.

In music, the song Home on the Range was born (Daniel Kelly & Brewster M. Higley). The tune went on to become the state song of Kansas and is known around the world.

Ellen married CSA John Lock SINGLETARY on 30 Oct 1866 in Sumter County, Georgia. CSA (son of Arthur SINGLETARY and John Ann LOCK) was born on 10 Dec 1839 in Sumter County Georgia; died on 12 Aug 1920 in Crisp County, Georgia; was buried on 12 Aug 1920 in Ebenezer Baptist Church cemetery, Cordele, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ella Burton SINGLETARY was born in 1867 in Sumter County Georgia; died on 27 Feb 1952 in Georgia; was buried in Ebenezer Baptist Church cemetery, Crisp County, Georgia.
2. Lula Jane SINGLETARY was born in 1869 in Sumter County Georgia; died after 1920 in Crisp County, Georgia.
3. John (Lynn) Leonard SINGLETARY was born in 1870 in Sumter County Georgia; was buried in Oakfield Baptist Church cemetery, near Warwick Georgia.
4. Mollie SINGLETARY was born in 1872 in Sumter County Georgia.
5. James SINGLETARY was born in 1874 in Andersonville, Sumter County, Georgia.
6. Robert SINGLETARY was born in 1876 in Andersonville, Sumter County, Georgia.
7. William Oscar SINGLETARY was born in 1877 in Andersonville, Sumter County, Georgia; died on 28 Jul 1955 in Cordele, Crisp County, Georgia.
8. Birdie Lena SINGLETARY was born on 27 Apr 1884 in Andersonville, Sumter County, Georgia; died on 24 May 1971 in Crisp County, Georgia; was buried on 25 May 1971 in Oakfield Baptist Church Cemetary, Warwick, Worth Co., GA.

Ellen married CSA Jesse S. SMITH on 30 Oct 1856 in Sumter County, Georgia. CSA (son of John M SMITH and Elizabeth UNKNOWN) was born in 1836 in Georgia; died on 01 Feb 1865 in Elmira, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Florence SMITH was born in 1859 in Georgia.
2. Ida Carrie SMITH was born on 15 Oct 1861 in Andersonville, Georgia; died on 06 Mar 1934 in Richland, GA.

Leonard married Ladosca G UNKNOWN. Ladosca was born in 1820 in South Carolina; died after 1860 in Americus, Sumter County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./
Information on John Suber and his siblings came from Will book L, Newberry County, South Carolina

John married Elizabeth FELKER about 1790 in Newberry, South Carolina. Elizabeth (daughter of Jacob FELKER and Barbara SEIGLER) was born in 1773 in Newberry County, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./
The Dutch Fork area extends from within a few blocks of the Governor's Mansion in Columbia, to within a few miles of the Newberry Courthouse steps. The area known as the "Dutch Fork" consist of the Newberry County towns of Little Mountain, Peak, Pomaria, Prosperity and outlying communities, Chapin and outlying communities east of Lake Murray, in Lexington County and in Richland County, Ballentine, Irmo, White Rock and those areas south of the forks of the Broad and Saluda Rivers at the outskirts of Columbia.

NOTE 2./ Historical Note: The Year Was 1789

The year was 1789 and in the U.S. a young government was beginning to take shape. In its first nationwide election, the popular Revolutionary War general, George Washington, became the country's first president and was sworn in at the first capitol of the United States, Federal Hall in New York City.

In France, a rebellion was underway and with the storming of the Bastille prison, the French Revolution began. In its reporting on the subject, The Times of London, England had the following to say of the conflict:

The spirit of liberty which so long lay in a state of death, oppressed by the hand of power, received its first spark of returning animation, by the incautious and impolitic assistance afforded to America. The French soldier on his return from that emancipated continent, told a glorious tale to his countrymen--"That the arms of France had given freedome to thirteen United States, and planted the standard of liberty on the battlements of New York and Philadelphia." The idea of such a noble deed became a general object of admiration, the [facets?] of a similar state were eagerly longed for by all ranks of people, and the vox populi had this force of argument--"If France gave freedom to America, why should she not unchain the arbitrary fetters which bind her own people.

Later that year, the Marquis de Lafayette, with the advice of Thomas Jefferson who was at the time the American ambassador to France, drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. It was adopted by France's National Assembly in August and ratified by Louis XVI in October.

There was unrest in other parts of the world as well. Sweden and Russia were at war, and briefly, Norway had joined the conflict, although a peace treaty was signed in July 1789.

In a smaller, but well-known conflict, the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty was also in the year 1789. On April 28, part of the crew of the Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, mutinied and set Captain William Bligh and eighteen crewmembers adrift. Bligh managed to get the boat some 3,600 miles to Timor. Some of the mutineers were captured and prosecuted--three were hanged, while others, including Fletcher Christian ended up on Pitcairn Island, where some of their descendants live to this day.

In 1789, there was an epidemic of influenza in New England, New York, and Nova Scotia, which resulted in many deaths due to secondary cases of pneumonia. The new president was among those who fell ill. He caught a cold while visiting Boston, and later, was affected more seriously with influenza, which was dubbed Washington Influenza.

Hans married Rachel WEYMAN about 1769 in Newberry, South Carolina. Rachel (daughter of Hans Peter WEYMAN) was born about 1753 in Craven County, South Carolina; died in Nov 1819 in Dutch Fork, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacob married Barbara SEIGLER about 1772. Barbara was born about 1746 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; died about 1828 in Newberry County, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]