From the earliest land plats we find the following familes were the first to settle in the Newberry County area. Abernathy, Begg, Belton, Boyd, Brooks, Bush, Cannon, Coate / Cote, Cobbs, Cole, Compton, Crow, Dalrymple, Dart, Davis, DeMonge, Dobbins, Doud, Echard, Elmore, Evans, Fagan, Felts, Freeman, Gairy / Garey / Garie / Gary / Gearey / Geary, Garner, Gogings, Golden, Goodman, Griffin, Haies, Hallum, Hughston, Hunt, Johnson / Johnston, Jones, Kelly, Kinsler, Land, Levil, Maples, Marshall, Mazyck, McCraw, McGregor, Middleton, Miles, Millhouse, Mills, Moore, Morris, Neale, Newman, Neyle, Parry, Pearson, Pearson, Pilckney, Powell, Prunmuller, Seaborn, Simpson, Smith, Spitz, Stark, Stuart, Taylor, Teague, Thornton, Williams, Wilson, Winchester, Wright This is an on-going project to research and publish information on the first families of Newberry County, South Carolina. Today this metropolitan area is known as the Central Savannah River Area or CSRA and has a population of 400,000. This project focuses on the families who were in the current Newberry County area prior to 1800. Before the year 1785, Newberry County was a part of NinetySix District, which then included a very extensive territory in the upper part of the State. In 1785 Ninety-Six was divided into the Counties of Edgefield, Abbeville, Newberry, Laurens, Union, and Spartanburg. Contents of this Volume: - Overview - Newberry - Little Mountain - Peak - Pomaria - Prosperity - Silverstreet - Whitmire - Newberry County Map - The Irish Settlers and Revolutionary Soldiers - Methodist Churches of Newberry County South Carolina - Episcopal Churches - Of Newberry County South Carolina - Old Time Physicians of Newberry County, South Carolina - Biographical Sketches - Elbert Herman Aull - Coleman Livingston Blease - Dr. David Luther Boozer - M. M. Buford - Frank Lyles Bynum - Milton A. Carlisle - John Henry Chappell - William Coleman - George Benedict Cromer - D. M. Crosson - William Wellington Daniel - John T. Duncan - John Law Epps - Floyd, L. Wash - Ernest A. Garlington - Rev. Samuel Thomas Hallman - Daniel Oscar Herbert - Walter Isaac Herbert - William Preston Houseal - Johnson, Oscar Edward - Ira B. Jones - Henry Jefferson Kinard - John Martin Kinard - Thomas Mccoy - John Henry McCullough - James Mcintosh - Orlando Benedict Mayer - Robert Moorman - George Sewal Mower - James D. Neel - William Ellerbe Pelham - Henry Hudson Rikard - Thomas Sidney Sease - Charles Edward Sumner - George Walter Sumner

The opening chapters of this encyclopedic treatment deal with the Newberry County's formation, early settlers, soldiers, notable citizens, government institutions, and social and economic development, while later chapters are given over to biographies, cemetery inscriptions, family reminiscences and folklore. At the heart of the book is a long section devoted to genealogies of pioneer families of Newberry County.

This book provides family sketches and genealogical information on the first families to settle in Edgefield County, SC. The earliest settlers date back to the early 1700s. This area is particularly significant as the "end" of the Great Wagon Road from the New England States. Generally the area was not populated by white settlers until just prior to the Revolutionary War, but immediately following the war, thousands of people passed through as they pushed into Georgia, Alabama, and points west. By the time of the 1790 census, Edgefield county had families with 763 surnames listed. This volume focuses on the families which were apparently in the area as early as 1750. Families Profiled: Hammond, Dillard, Williamson, Thomas, Pickens, Abney, Brooks, Dobbins, Galphin, Pope, Harrison, and Bonham.This volume also includes Civil War rosters for the following units formed from Edgefield County.-1st Infantry Regiment (Gregg's) Company C - Edgefield Rifles-1st Infantry Regiment (Gregg's) Company G - Hamburg Volunteers-1st Infantry Regiment (Gregg's) First Company H - Cherokee Ponds Guards-1st Battalion Sharpshooters-2nd Cavalry Regiment Company G - Bonham Light Dragoons-2nd Cavalry Regiment Company I - Edgefield Hussars-2nd Infantry Regiment State Troops Company B-2nd Infantry Regiment State Troops Company I Other volumes in this series focus on other families. Visit our website at www.researchonline.net/first for a listing of available volumes.