Yancey White's South Carolina Family

Elizabeth Martin, Mother of Yancey White

Main tie-in: Eliz. Martin is mother of Yancey White.

Timeline Eliz Martin. She died April 1880 (US Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1880)

Sales of Thomas Bryce estate. About her Bryce grandchildren.

Lewis Reeder estate if I can find a tie. Write up J. Reeder Cleveland as supplement. Here put in the link to the Cleveland 1899 genealogy. 

 Census reports.
1870 agricultural schedule

Trace connection to Lewis W. Reeder was probated 1858, Eliz Martin bought his share. 1 Mar 1856 G.W. Burns was adm. See my notes in spiral notebook.

Yancey White's daughter Jane White Burns of South Carolina

Jane White Burns photo.jpg.
Burns censuses and movements.

Elizabeth Martin's Estate.
George W. Burns, grandson and Administrator.

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mortality report (supplemental RTF if HTML will not work well)

1881 administrator newspaper clipping pdf.

1881 deed heirs of martin PDF 3 p. and RTF supplemental.

Cemetery record, reprint FAG whole cemetery for Old Providence Church Cemetery.

Discussion: Thinking Through Elizabeth Martin (supplemental RTF if not HTML) Include here the census records on showing grandparent of who; Eli Cleveland and J. R. Reeder and his newspaper obituary.

Elizabeth Martin of South Carolina -- Mother of Yancey White
My 2017 correspondent was Jim Roache of  Burlington, New  Jersey, an Adams descendant of Jane White Burns. Mr. Roache (croache48@comcast.net) has done a line of research that shows Yancey White's mother was Elizabeth Martin (1789-1880). This writer has not found a hint of Elizabeth Martin's White husband or of a Martin second husband.  It may be that the conception of Yancey White was a premarital conception by a Mr. White not unlike Yancey, and that she in her late 20s and 30s married Mr. Martin. This scenario remains to be seen. We see evidence this Pickens and Oconee County woman remained close to her Bryce grandchildren

Elizabeth Martin Record

added Aug. 2025:

1840 Elizabeth Martin was Elizabeth Martin as early as 1840 in Pickens County. She was listed as 1 F 40-49 (b. 1791-1800). Also present 1 F 15-19 and 1 F 60-69. No males were in the household and no slaves.

1850 Pickens County, P.O. Townville. Elizabeth Martin was age 60 with $800 real esate/900 personal.
Ruben Bryce 14 (b. 1836)

1860 Pickens County 2nd Regiment
Elizabeth Martin 70 $800 real estate, 900 personal.
J.G. Bryce, 25, farmer, b. SC
Mary E. Cleveland, 11, SC
Thomas M. Cleveland, 9, SC
Matilda J. Cleveland, 7, SC
William E. Cleveland, 5, SC
Sarah M. Cleveland, 3, SC

Yancey's first wife was  Rebecca Brice. Some claim Mahala White was an older sister of Yancey born 1804 and married Thomas Bryce born 1805.

1858 Jan 13. Elizabeth Martin in the  Pickens County Probate record of Lewis W. Reeder
Estate of Lewis W. Reeder. Probate Judge Office, Pickens, S.C. ...I, James H. Reeder of Pickens Dist. for the sum of $167.46 to me paid by Mrs. Elizabeth Martin  of the same Dist. have bargained, sold and assigned all my rights, title, and interest in the real estate of my brother Lewis W. Reeder decd. to be my full share due from the Commissioner in Equity in Oct. 1858 with interest. Dated 13 Jan 1858. Wit: J. G[ambrell] Bryce, A. F. Reeder. Signed: James H. Reeder. Pauline Young, Upper South Carolina, vol 1, p.261-262.

Elizabeth Martin

US Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1880, Oconee County, SC, Seneca Township

family number - 605
Name of person deceased - Martin Elizabeth
age at last birthday - 92
sex - F
color - W
deceased status single, married, widowed/divorced WIDOWED/DIVORCED
nativity:
pob - sc
father born - sc
mother born - sc
occupation - at home
month in which person died - Apr
disease or cause of death - Rheumatism
how long a resident of the county - 51 [calculates to 1829]
if the disease wasn't contracted at place of death, then where? [blank]
name of attending physician - Vine
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1870 US Census, Oconee County, Center township



Agricultural Schedule, 1870, Oconee County, Center:
Martin, Elizabeth
130  acres improved
170  woodlands
1    other unimproved
602  cash value of farm
15   of farming implements and machinery
--   wages paid
2    horses
--   mules and asses
1    milch cows
2    working oxen
2    other cattle
15   sheep
1    swine
200  value of all live stock
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Produce during the year ending 1870
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--   wheat, spring, bushel
20   wheat, winter
--   rye, bushel
125  indian corn, bushel
[the last 5 are blank]
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Jane White, first daughter of Yancey White

Jane White married George Washington Burns

In 1850 George W. Burns, age 28 (b. 1822) lived in Anderson County in the household of his father Joseph Burns. The Anderson County census of 1870 reveals a large family for George age 48 and Jane age 38: Elizabeth, Susan J., Nancy B., Mary F., Joseph Y, Thos. C., and Martha C., plus perhaps a parent and grandparent, Frances Burns, 52, and Margaret Burns, 78. The last listed were a young black couple, Charles and Berry Gains, 17 and 15. They had several children:

xxxx, married xxx Adams

Children of George W. and Jane Burns

A few items are easily discovered on familysearch.org: The death certificates of some of their children.

The death certificate of Susan Jane Burns
According to her death certificate, Susan Jane Burns was born 25 Aug 1853 and died 13 March 1921, both in Anderson County. She never married. Her father and mother were George W. Burns, born South Carolina, and Janie White b. South Carolina.

The death certificate of Lucy Burns Adams
shows her to be widowed, born 1873 in Anderson County and died 1 Sep 1945 in Seneca, Oconee County. She married J. M. Adams. Her father and mother were G. W. Burns and Jennie White, both born South Carolina. She was 72 and a housewife.

-from "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DRF7-PN?cc=1417492&wc=M6YD-GTL%3A30410501 : 18 April 2016), 004177377 > image 493 of 1755; Department of Archives and History, State Records Center, Columbia.

Death certificates (South Carolina) Death certificates, no.4295-15989 (1945) familysearch.org

Attribution notes: Pauline Young, Upper South Carolina, vol 1, and vol 2 are short for:
"A Collection of Upper South Carolina Genealogical and Family Records" published by Southern Historical Press, 1979 and 1981, collected by Pauline Young, ed. by James E. Wooley.

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