John Kolb MEIGS and Emeline MOSS updated

 my great-great grandparents

John Kolb MEIGS 3rd of 4 children born to John Thomas MEIGS and Mary HOLLOMAN

    b. November 1820 Society Hill, Darlington, South Carolina

    d. June 1882 Society Hill, Darlington, South Carolina

    m. 1841 Cheraw, Chesterfield, South Carolina to

Emeline MOSS/MORSE daughter of Thomas MOSS/MORSE of Cheraw, South Carolina
    b. 17 December 1820 Cheraw, Chesterfield, South Carolina
    d. 1 October 1900 Meigs, Thomas, Georgia

In Meigs Family of America by Return Jonathan Meigs**, it states that her father is Thomas MOSS of Cheraw, S.C. We have not been able to find out anything more.

Her tombstone (in Meigs Cemetery) lists her name as Emma MORSE MEIGS. The tombstone --or at least the cemetery extraction-- lists her birth date as 17 December 1821, but the Meigs book and DAR papers say it's 1820. The tombstone also lists her death year as 1901, but it is 1900 (her granddaughter Carolie MEIGS told me that she was born when her grandmother died and Carolie was born October 5, 1900).

In the Manning Cemetery in Manning, South Carolina, Mary Kolb MEIGS tombstone reads: Daughter of John Kolb MEIGS and Emma MORSE MEIGS, but her death certificate (Mary Kolb BREEDIN) lists her mother as Emma MOSS. No informant was listed, so I don't know how close to the source this was.

The "Kolb Chart" prepared by T. E. Wilson in 1932, gives her name as Emma BEVIL.

Emma and her husband, John, were Episcopalians.

I do have 10 of the 12 children (all born in Society Hill, Darlington, South Carolina):

1-John T. MEIGS 24 July 1844-17 June 1871

2-Catherine Miller MEIGS 6 January 1848-23 April 1889 (m. William Wallace MILLIKEN)

3-George Wesley MEIGS b. 16 November 1849 (m. Mattie A. MILES)

4-Mary Kolb MEIGS b. 14 November 1851-16 November 1928 (m1st Harrison Allen TRIPP m 2nd Alfred Henry BREEDIN)

5-Benjamin MEIGS 30 October 1853-1858

6-Bettie MEIGS 1854-1857

*7-Martha Ann MEIGS b. 4 Dec 1857 (m. William H BOSWELL)

8- Samuel Kolb MEIGS 18 November 1859-28 January 1927 (m. Etta Johnnie RUSS)--my great-grandparents

9-William Allen MEIGS 18 Mar 1862-Jan 1913 (m. Susan A TAYLOR)

10-Emma Eliza MEIGS 22 Oct 1864-9 Jul 1926 (m. George Golden HAWKINS)

1850 US Federal Census Darlington, Darlington, South Carolina (all listed as born in SC)

Jno K Meigs    31  tailor

Emeline           27

Geo W.            9/12

J T                    6       [John Thomas]

Catharine M.    3     tailor (obvious mistake. that should have been next to Thos. Drayton's name)

Thos. Drayton   24

1860 US Federal Census Darlington, South Carolina (all listed as born in SC)

Jno K Meggs    40   tailor

Emeline            36

Jno T                15

C M                  12    [Catherine Miller]

G W                  10    [George Wesley]

M K                   8    [Mary Kolb]

M A                   3     [Martha Ann]

S K                    1     [Samuel Kolb]

Martha Moore   65

(Martha is listed as the same dwelling house number as the Meggs family, but she is given a different family number--Emeline's mother or aunt???)

1870 US Federal Census Hamilton, Darlington, South Carolina (all listed as born in SC)

J K Meigs           50    tailor

Emeline              47    keeping house

Thomas              25    Idiotic

Kate                   21    keeping house

George               20    laborer

Mary Tripp        18

Martha Meigs    12

Samuel               10

Wm                     8

Emma Tripp       5

Emma Meigs      2

1880 US Federal Census Society Hill, Darlington, South Carolina (all and their parents as born in SC except for A B BREEDIN who was born in Virginia along with his parents with the mistake being made of his two children having their father listed as being born in SC. It should say Virginia.)

J K Meigs        56    tailor

Emma              50    keeping house

W C (son)        19    farmer    [William Allen]

Emma               15

next door to them is their daughter and her family:

A B Breedin    29    dry goods clerk [Alfred Henry]

M K                 27    keeping house [Mary Kolb]

C R                    5      [Clarence Renneker]

B I                     3      [Beulah Isabel]

This is my great grandmother, Etta Johnnie RUSS, wife of Samuel Kolb MEIGS.

*There is a problem with Martha Ann's records. According to Meigs Family of America, Martha Anne MEIGS (b. 4 December 1857) married William H. BOSWELL of Society Hill, South Carolina. However, according to the cemetery extracts of Meigs Cemetery Mattie A. Boswell, wife of Wm. Boswell, was born 1 April 1853 (and died 29 March 1930). We already know that the Meigs Cemetery had some mistaken dates...

Following Martha in the census records:
1860: M. A. Meggs age 3
1870: Martha Meigs age 12
1880: Mattie Boswell age 20
1900: Martha Boswell b. Dec 1857 age 42
Now, for William, the 1900 census lists his birth date as Mar 1851, but his tombstone says 10 Mar 1853.

The information on tombstones is only as correct as it's source...but really-- April 1st vs. December 4th? At least the 1900 census backs up my date and not the tombstone's.

John and Emma's timeline:

1820--John is born 20 November in Society Hill, Darlington, South Carolina
1821--Emma is born on 17 December 1821 in Cheraw, Chesterfield, South Carolina
           (the 17 Dec 1821 was on her tombstone, but 1900 census gives Jan 1822 as her birthdate-17 Dec 1820 was given in 
            the Meigs Family of America book by Return Jonathan Meigs)
1841--they married in 1841 in Cheraw (though I don't know where this piece of info came from...could they have married in Darlington?)
(moved from Cheraw, Chesterfield, SC to Society Hill, Darlington, SC in between 1841 and 1844)
1844--son John Thomas MEIGS born on 24 July in Society Hill
1848--daughter Catherine Miller MEIGS on 6 January in Society Hill
1849--son George Wesley MEIGS born on 16 November in Society Hill
1850 census--John is 31 and Emeline is 27 in Darlington, Darlington, South Carolina
1851--daughter Mary Kolb MEIGS born on 14 November in  Society Hill
1853--son Benjamin MEIGS born on 30 October in Society Hill
1854--daughter Bettie MEIGS born in Society Hill

1857--death of daughter Bettie MEIGS
1857--daughter Martha Anne MEIGS born on 4 December in Society Hill
1858--death of son Benjamin MEIGS
1859--son Samuel Kolb MEIGS born on 18 November in Society Hill
1860 census--John is 40 and Emeline is 36 in Darlington county, South Carolina
1862--son William Allen MEIGS born on 18 March in Society Hill
1864--daughter Emma Eliza MEIGS born on 22 October in Society Hill
1870 census--John is 50 and Emeline is 47 living in Hamilton, Darlington, South Carolina
1880--John is 56 and Emma is 50 living in Society Hill, Darlington, South Carolina
1882--in June, John dies in Society Hill, Darlington, South Carolina

1900--Emma E. is 78, a widow, and living in Meigs, Thomas, Georgia with son William and his wife Susan and their family
1900--Emma died 1 October 1900 in Meigs, Thomas, Georgia and is buried in the Meigs Cemetery (the tombstone says 1 October 1901...it also says her maiden name is MORSE)

**There is a great story about the name Return Jonathan, though the Return Jonathan who wrote the genealogy book is a descendent of the original one, I'm guessing.

There was a Jonathan Meigs who went to propose to Elizabeth, who, though she said she respected him, she could not marry him. As he dejectedly started leaving on his horse, she ran after him calling, "Return Jonathan! Return Jonathan!" Those being the sweetest words he had ever heard, he named his son Return Jonathan (who also named his son Return Jonathan...and there's at least one more Return Jonathan Meigs). I love that story. It's printed in a book about the history of Findlay, Ohio.