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     Her married name was Fluker. Harriet Mamie Sue Dowling was born on 4 October 1897 at Varnville, SC.¹ She was the daughter of Decanie Dexter Dowling and Mary Margaret Thames. Harriet Mamie Sue Dowling married Edward Hawthorne Fluker Sr. on 15 March 1920 at Greenville, SC.¹ Harriet Mamie Sue Dowling died on 20 October 1984 at St Petersburg, Pinellas, FL, at age 87.¹

     Her married name was Dowling.¹ Lily Maude Boyd was also known as Lily Maude Boyd.¹ She married Wilbur Boyce Dowling, son of Decanie Dexter Dowling and Mary Margaret Thames.¹

     James Dexter Dowling Sr. was the son of Wilbur Boyce Dowling and Lily Maude Boyd. James Dexter Dowling Sr. married Mary Colberg.

     Wilbur Boyce Dowling was the son of Wilbur Boyce Dowling and Lily Maude Boyd. Wilbur Boyce Dowling died; Died as infant.¹

     James Dowling Jr. was born in 1781. He was the son of James Dowling R.S. and Mary 'Polly' Boutwell. James Dowling Jr. married Jane White.¹

      Jabez Dowling was also known as Jabez Dowling.¹ He was born between March 1770 and August 1770 at South Carolina; Jabez was born in 1770 between March and August. Rebecca gave birth to him in South Carolina. He was carried to the Little Salkchatchee area as a child.² He was the son of William Dowling R.S. and Rebecca Walker. Jabez Dowling married Rebecca (?) at Ware Co., South Carolina.¹

     Annie Regina Dowling was born in 1860 at South Carolina.¹ She was the daughter of James Theophilus Dowling and Mary Ann Long. Annie Regina Dowling died in 1883 at Hampton, South Carolina; Died single.² She was buried in 1883 at Hopewell Baptist Church, South Carolina.¹

     Anna Ruth Flood Baptized by Rev A.M. Mehrkan St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Reference: 5. Her married name was Dowling. She was born on 11 March 1916 at Petersburg, PA. She married Herbert Lewis Dowling, son of Albert Lewis Dowling and Ethel Louise McDaniel, on 6 August 1938 at Washington, D.C.. Anna Ruth Flood died on 22 March 1978 at St. Petersburg, Pinellas, FL, at age 62.

     Her married name was Dowling. Clara Louise Ruth was born on 13 May 1844 at Beaufort, SC. She was the daughter of Colonel Abram M. Ruth and Mary E Peeples.¹ Clara Louise Ruth married William Hamilton Dowling, son of James Theophilus Dowling and Mary Ann Long, on 19 May 1867 at Hopewell Baptist Church, Hampton, South Carolina.¹ As of 1870, Clara Louise Ruth was also known as Dowling 1870 Census lists her name a Louisa.² She was By Mrs. W. H. Dowling, Nee Miss Clara Louise Ruth
Written for My children at Hampton, S.C.
September 16, 1914

Dear Children:

Time would fail me to write of my remembrances, of observations and actual experiences after the surrender of the Confederate Army in April 1865. But at your request, I pen you some of the events of the ever-memorable months of my girlhood days in 1865.

My father, your grandfather, Honorable A. M. Ruth, who died while attending the South Caroling Legislature, as Senator of old St. Peter's Parish in 1853, owned a large number (82) slaves, and 7,000 acres of land, and my windowed mother's children were all, loyal and Patriotic to the Confederacy. My oldest sister's husband, Major J. J. Harrison, commanding the 11th South Carolina Infantry, was killed in the battle of Pocotalico, S. C. November 22, 1862. My oldest brother, Captain A. M. Ruth of the Hampton Legion (head of his company) was severely wounded in the Battle of Brandy Station in August 1863, and my brother, R. G. Ruth was a brave and gallant soldier boy of Butler's Brigade of Cavalry, and with your father (my husband) followed Hampton to the last ditch.

In February 1865, when General Sherman's Vandalistic hordes were already across the Savannah River in Close advance to my mother's home, sweeping devastation throughout old Beaufort district, my said wounded brother, Captain Ruth, gathered his own sisters, myself, Emma and Carrie, and his wife's sisters, the Goethe girls, and our little brothers Homer Ruth and "Sashie" Goethe, and Tommie Speaks, and with several loyal and faithful servants with wagons, horses, provisions, etc. refugeed before the army to cross Hill Village, Laurens County.

The winter was extremely severe and our encampment at night without shelter from snows and sleet for three weeks of hurried march-to say nothing of anxiety and dangers-were a bitter experience.

The Cross Hill people, Drs. Watson, Coxes, and Simpson were very kind to us but mail communications were all cut off and not tidings from home were we had . . .left our mother's made us distressingly homesick, and in June we all returned, but only to find devastation and destruction even far worse than our anticipation had been, and famine stared us in the face from every side, but for Jehovah Jireh (Biblical expression).

But the worst things at this time were the Negro raids, especially in Beaufort District and adjacent sections of Colleton District, all at that time under the military company Negro rule. These districts, now counties, contained more slaves than any other in our state and until now the colored population here are more numerous than any other section in the whole South. The Yankees, especially northern scalawags and looters, had embittered the Negroes against the Whites, teaching them that the bottom rail was now on the top, denouncing us as 'He-Rebs' and 'She-Rebs" and filling them with hatred, incendiarism,
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pillage, and revenge. Consequently, while men organized southing clubs for protection, two of which distinguished themselves, and were known as the 'Lightsey Company' and the Boynton Scouts', but for these, unwritten history would have had many additional dark and horrid spots on her horizon of crime and shame.

I will briefly relate a few of these Negro raids and facts which I know to be true as perpetuated by inflamed savage brutes, raiding unarmed and defenseless homes (the few not burned by Sherman) where families were living together, not knowing how nor where the next meal would come from.

After a scanty meal of bread and water, at Newville (?) on the Colleton side of Salkxehatchie, where I had attended the school of my sister's husband, Lieutenanut Buckner, before the war, there was a social and friendly gathering of ladies at a home, and about dinner time, a company of Combanee negroes, with guns, approached the dwelling and abruptly and insultingly ordered dinner prepared for them all and fixed on the table. The ladies being frightened and fearing for their lives, obeyed, and were forced to wait on them, one being ordered to brush the flies. Not fearing that any 'He-Rebs' were near, they had stacked their arms, and were eating gluttonously, using no knives and forks, when the Boynton Scouts rushed up, seized their guns, and quickly every Negro bit the dust, not leaving one to tell the tale, as the joyous ladies, anticipating outrage and death, thanked God and cheered at their deliverance.

On the Beaufort District side, the Lightsey Company, possessed of blood hounds, was a menance to the vicious blacks, as well as Yankee Whites. Nevertheless, a Beaufort Island band came to Ridgeville near Yemassee one night and outraged the home of a noble widow where several ladies were stopping who had just returned from refugeeing. The Black brutes crowed the house, the young ladies, frightened the screaming, clung to the mother for protection. She resisted heroically, and not only was showered with epithets and curses as 'Rebel Bitch', etc. but received blows on her head from which she never fully recovered. Two of the girls were brutally and unnamely outraged, and one escaped by jumping from a high window and feeling through the darkness. Two young men of the social gathering were first seized, overpowered, and tied, and of course, would have been killed, but for the interference of an old Negro who knew one of the boys and who loosed his hands to assist the fainting and bleeding mother of the home. The next day, the same raiding and pillaging crowd of savage brutes moved to up the Isham Peeples (my own grandfather) place. Here they met and captured my brother Gassie Ruth, and harassed and would have killed him, but for the help of one of the plantation's former slaves, who knew and loved him-but again he was halted and surrounded, but being mounted, he dashed for his life and escaped the many bullets that whizzed around him through the briers and densely crowded branches of the trees.

On another occasion, several of these black fiends came to my mother's home and set the tourch to her home which Sherman had spared, but our faithful old Daddy Peter (colored) put the flames out again and again. Five of the brutes entered the mansion and forbade
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my mother calling them Negroes, and threatened her life if she repeated 'negroes' again. A girl friend, who was visiting me, and I escaped by a back way through the end of the swamp to our brother's home at our Appling Place (Sylvan Springs).

But these are only samples of other events of those, the blackest days of all Carolina history. Time would fail me to tell of Radicalism and Klu Kluxism that kept it suppressed and protected us like 'pillars of fire by night' until 1876 when the Sons of Confederate Veterans had reached their young manhood, and fell into line with their patriotic fathers and with political ballots and civil 'personal' powers, arose in splendor, led by the great Wade Hampton, and hoisted the banners of white supremacy under which peace and goodwill will now reign, with prosperity, Christian joy, pride and glory throughout the whole Southland.

Affectionately,

Your Mother

          Mrs. W. H. Dowling
          (Nee Clara Louisa Ruth)

on 16 September 1914.³ She died on 12 December 1923 at age 79.¹ She was buried after 12 December 1923 at Hopewell Baptist Church, Hampton, South Caroline.¹

     Elizabeth Bugg is the daughter of Sherwood Bugg and Elizabeth Hopson.

     Priscilla Bugg Mother of Caroline or William?

     Lucy Appling was the daughter of (?) Appling and Martha (?). Lucy Appling also shows son John as her executor 1811 maybe Jacky is Zachy (Zachariah)? will names daus Lucy Hill and Martha Lamar sons John Lamar and Harmony (Not William) died c MArch 16/20 1811? Caroline R.A not mentioned here or William (Sons by E or P Bugg?). Her married name was Lamar. She married John Lamar, son of John Lamar and Rachel (?).

     David Mason Andrews Farmer. He was born on 17 August 1879 at Brown, KS. He died on 21 May 1943 at age 63.

     Nancy Jane Evans was born in 1837 at Appling, Columbia, GA. She was the daughter of John Paul Jennings Evans and Caroline Rachel Appling Lamar.

     Humphrey Evans was born in 1844 at Appling, Columbia, GA. He was the son of John Paul Jennings Evans and Caroline Rachel Appling Lamar.

     Humphrey Evans was born in 1776 at Mecklinberg, VA. He married Jane Jennings, daughter of William Jennings and Catherine D. (?), on 16 July 1802 at Columbia, GA. Humphrey Evans died in May 1864 at Appling, Columbia, GA.

     Her married name was Evans. Jane Jennings Named in will of Mother Catherine per Peggy (McDaniel)Cassella. She was born in 1776 at Mecklinberg, VA. She was the daughter of William Jennings and Catherine D. (?). Jane Jennings married Humphrey Evans on 16 July 1802 at Columbia, GA.

     William Jennings Info from DNJ:Doughtie p.395 married Catherine ...? He came to GA and shows in Wilkes Co. 25 Nov 1795 and Lincoln Co. Ga 7 Aug 1812 when he bought 265 acres west of Mulberry, 5th Dist from James Eastland. He was born after 1752 at Virginia. He was the son of William Jennings and Agnes Dickerson.

     John Lamar Referred to as Col. Lamar in his death anncouncment in the Augusta (GA) Chronicle Jun 29, 1799. Also said he left wife and children (plural). Info from Peggy McDaniel. He married Lucy Appling, daughter of (?) Appling and Martha (?). John Lamar was born in 1740. He was the son of John Lamar and Rachel (?). John Lamar died on 18 June 1799 at Columbia, GA.

     John Lamar was the son of Thomas Lamar and Martha Blanford.