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they became the parents of nine children: Mary Elizabeth, Emma, Margaret Vermelle Anne, Caroline Sarah, John Wesley, Susan Amelia, MawST Marion Francis, and Benjamin Franklin. Only Benjamin was born outside of South Carolina.
Marion Francis? mother, Sarah C. Flagler, came from historic early stttlers in the American Colonies. Her great great grandfather, Zacharias Flagler, came to New Yopk in the German emigration of 1710. Her grandfather, Captajfn William Flagler, came to South Carolina with the American Revolutionary forces and served there under Gen. Nathanael Greene during 1780 and 1781. He participated in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse on March 15, 1781.
It appears that Flagler liked the country (as did Greene) and after the war settled in South CXrolina. In 1790 he married a Revolutionary War heroine, Margaret Gregg Scott Gordon, the captain being her third husband. Two sons were born - William Gordon Flagler and John Flagler. The latter was the father of Sarah and the maternal grandfather of Marion Francis Baxter. Margaret Gregg is the best known Williamsburg woman in the Revolutionary War period. The Kingstree, South Carolina chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is named in her honor. Kingstree, seat of Williamsburg County, is the oldest noncoastal town in the state.
Virtually all of the men of the Williamsburg area fought in the brigade led by Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," and, for the most part, supplied their own provisions and munitions. The women of Williamsburg cultivated the cornfields, tanned cowhides for boots and saddles, moulded pewter spoons into bullets, and filed handsaws	into	swords. Margaret did	all this
and,	in	fact, was paid	for	these supplies provided the
Revolutionary forces once hostilities had ceased.
The Rev. James A. Wallace, in his History of Williamsburg Church, writes of her:
*Pending the predatory warfare of Hamilton,	a party
of	marauding Tories	went	to the home of Capt.	William
Gordon and commenced plundering his house. But conscience makes men cowards. The alarm was given, whether false or
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