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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL
rice, peanuts and sweet potatoes. All vegetables and fruits do well, especially peaches and scuppernong grapes. Pasturage is extensive and of the best quality, there being nowhere in the world a finer range for cattle and sheep. The county contains two thousand nine hundred and seventy-five acres of cleared land.
The following statistics were published in I8S5: United States lands for sale, two hundred and twelve thousand acres; delinquent lands for sale by the state auditor, twenty-six thousand six hundred and forty acres; acreage in cotton in 1879, thirty-five acres; bales produced in 1879, twelve by white labor; bushels of corn produced in 1S79, twenty-seven thousand two hundred and seventy-one; bushels of oats produced in 1879, five thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
Among the many early settlers of the county the following were prominent: John McRae, John McLeod, Laughlin McCoy, John Duntzler, John Stafford, Martin Moody, Archibald McKay, Maher Lyle, John Miller, Daniel Mclnnis, Neil Mclnnis, Peter McLeod, Daniel McLeod, Wheeler Gresham, Alexander McLean, William Ball, George Williamson, William Cochran, Burrell Cochran, Edward Williamson, Neeham Cowart, Malcom Black, John Roberts, James Walley, Alexander Fairly, Charles Eubanks, K. Cooley, Walter Denny, Peter McLeod and Isaac Futch. John McRae and Laughlin McCoy were members of the constitutional convention of 1817. Alexander McLean was first sheriff. The first who represented Greene county in the state senate was Isaac R. Nicholson; Hugh McDonald was one of its first representatives in the lower house. A. G. Ferguson is the present state senator, D. W. McLeod the present legislative representative.
The villages and postoffices of this county are Adamsville, Avera, Buck creek, Ivittrell, Leaf, Leakesville, State Line and Vernal. There is a church in every neighborhood, Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians predominating.
Greene county’s population was one thousand four hundred and forty-five in 1820, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four in 1830, one thousand six hundred and thirty-six in 1840, two thousand and eighteen in 1850, two thousand two hundred and thirty-two in 1860, two thousand and thirty-eight in 1870, three thousand one hundred and ninety-four in 1880, three thousand nine hundred and six in 1890. The colored inhabitants numbered three hundred and seventy two in 1870, seven hundred and eighty-five in 1880, and nine hundred and forty-five in 1890. The taxable slaves in this county in 18(>0 numbered six hundred and thirty-two, the voters, two hundred and eighteen.
Marion county was established December 9, 1811. Its seat of justice is at Columbia, on the Pearl river. This county was named in honor of Gen. Francis Marion, of South Carolina, the noted “Swamp Fox” of Revolutionary days. It is bounded north by Lawrence and Covington, east by Perry, south by Pearl river, and west by Pike and Alabama. It was first represented in tlie state senate by David Dickson, in the lower house by Francis Le Noir. Its present state senator is Theodore B. Ford, its representative, J. M. Foxworth. This county is watered by Pearl river, Holliday’s creek, Little river, Lower Little river, Abolo-chitto river and Black creek, which afford good water facilities and furnish fine fish of different varieties. The surface of the county on the river and creek bottoms is level; the balance is generally undulating. The soil is generally light and sandy, not notably fertile, but susceptible of being easily improved and profitably tilled. There are many reed brakes, which, when drained, are fertile under cultivation. A large portion of the bottom lands is very rich and productive, yielding large crops of corn, cotton, oats, sweet and Irish potatoes, peas, rice, peanuts, sugar cane, etc. Pasturage is extensive, tho wood pastures furnishing food for stock during the summer and switchcane on the creek and river bottoms during the winter.