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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
, belonged to the parishes of St. Thomas and St. Denis, in Charleston county, in the territory originally called Berkeley county. His mother was of Irish extraction, her father, William McGill, having settled in Kershaw county, upon coming from Ireland. William Capers, the grandfather of Ellison, was a soldier of the revolution, a lieutenant in the Second South Carolina regiment, and after the fall of Charleston in 1780, one of Marion's captains in his famous partisan brigade, in which his on to Sarah, daughter of Robert Dunlap, of Newberry. She was the niece of James Dunlap, appointed governor of Florida by Andrew Jackson, and granddaughter of William Dunlap, a revolutionary soldier who was the grandson of John Hunter, a native of Ireland who was United States senator from South Carolina in 1801. General Wallace was occupied as planter in Union county until 1857, when he became the proprietor of the Union Times newspaper, and in 1859 began the practice of law at Union. In 1860 a
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
arolina of his parents who had emigrated from Ireland. His mother was Nancy Morgan McMorries, a naon) Crawford. His father came to Canada from Ireland, where he remained for six years following th-grandfather, Robert Ellison, was a native of Ireland, coming to this country and settling in South and his uncle, William Moorhead, a native of Ireland, was a soldier in the war for indepedence. T family originally emigrated from Scotland to Ireland, and then to America, settling in South Caroln county, and both his grandfathers were from Ireland. He was reared on a farm in his native countncestor, Thomas Coleman, born in the north of Ireland, of Scotch parents, married Elizabeth Roe, anen in Fairbairn's Crests of Great Britain and Ireland, is an escallop, reversed, which is significaty. The next remote ancestor was a native of Ireland. Lieutenant Shannon left the plantation and the State during colonial times and were from Ireland. The country, at the time of his birth, was [23 more...]