Philemon Beckham Sandifer
I believe Philemon Beckham Sandifer was Phillip Sandifer, the patriot, first of Chester and then of York County, S.C.In 1775, a Widow Sandifer's property abutted the property of Robert Gaston, who got a grant on the waters of the Rocky Creek in Chester County, S.C.I believe she was Phillip's mother, and also the mother of Elizabeth Sandifer, who married Peter Nance.
Philemon Beckham Sandifer was granted 40 acres on the Rocky Creek in Chester, S.C. in 1809.See S.C. Archives online lookup index.He did not take the grant.Samuel Ferguson took the grant.Phillip Sandifer died in 1817 in York County, S.C.I believe Philemon Beckman Sandifer and Phillip Sandifer were one in the same man.The will of Peter Nance mentions that Phillip Sandifer was his brother-in-law.This would mean that Peter Nance's wife, Elizabeth, was a Sandifer and the sister of Phillip Sandifer.Peter Nance's and Elizabeth Sandifer Nance's daughter was Sarah "Sally" Cloyd Nance.She married Abraham Norvell Sandifer (see his will and estate papers and his administration of her estate).
About 1800, Elizabeth Beckham married Burrell Sandifer in Chester County, S.C.They migrated first to Madison County, Alabama by 1820, and then to Monroe County, Mississippi by 1830.Elizabeth's brother, Philemon Beckham, migrated to Monroe (where his son Philemon and mother were in 1830) and Pontotoc County, Mississippi (where Philemon, Sr. was in 1840).I believe Burrell had married his cousin when he married Elizabeth Beckham.Elizabeth is supposedly the daughter of William Beckham, the patriot, who was buried in Chester County, S.C. at the Chisolm Cemetery.I believe the Widow Sandifer in the 1775 deed was a sister or other relative to this William Beckham, the patriot.
Anyone who can share knowledge of this Beckham/Sandifer connection, please contact me.Thank you very much.
Pat Gresham (or contact my brother, David Muir, at [email protected]).
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