City Directories and History: This home was where my great great great grandfather grew up. He was Fleming Benjamin Thomasson. He joined the Lafayette SC Light artillery during the Civil War and helped defend Columbia from General Sherman. [Information written and contributed by Damon Bruce]
Fleming Benjamin Thomasson, son of Nathaniel Thomasson and Elizabeth Cottrell, was born November 12, 1825, in the Ebenezer Community of York District, South Carolina. He died June 12, 1913, at the home of his son, William Nathaniel, and was interred in Catawba Baptist Church cemetery. He married October 22, 1852, Martha Elizabeth Miller, daughter of William P. Miller and Cynthia N. Totten. Fleming and Martha were the parents of five children, four of whom were born before he enlisted in the Confederate army.
Fleming was a lifelong, highly esteemed citizen of York County. He was a most successful planter, working many slaves before the outbreak of the war. He enlisted in Kanapax Battery, Confederate Artillery and was away at war when his wife died suddenly in 1864. Family history says that when Fleming returned home to Rock Hill when the war was over, he stopped by the White home on White Street where he learned of his wife’s death. He was so hurt over the news, he could not go out to his homeplace right away. Fleming’s unmarried sister, Amelia J. Thomasson, who was a schoolteacher, had gone out to his plantation and was staying with his children until he returned home. Fleming never remarried. His sister raised his five children and ran his household.
(Thomasson Traces, Narrative of the Thomasson Family 1677-1995) Volume II By
Curtis H. Thomasson and Marjorie B. Malloy)
Please see the Elizabeth Reed article printed in the Herald Newspaper under the picture column marked – More Information.
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