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- Louisa Murrell is listed in the 1820 Sumter District Census. She is about 33 years old and has six young children, three boys 1 to 10 years old, two girls 1 to 10 years old, and one girl 10 to 16 years old. There are no adult men listed.
(Sumter District SC Equity Decrees Book D P. 28)
Louisa Murrell trustee of F. C. & S. B. Murrell has filed 1 Jan 1839 her account. The trust Negroes are in her possession and are employed she states for the benefit of her children who live with her.
Louisa was illigitimate child of Thomas Sumter, Jr.
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Reference: "Thomas Sumter" by Anne King Gregarie, PHD (1931 R.L. Bryan Co.).
P. 256:
Old General...set out to Washington before a Bus. taking with him Louisa, the young Granddaughter who made her home with him, to enter a finishing school. Burr joined them by stage from Wilmington to Baltimore. Burr wrote to his daughter "Louisa Sumter was frank, sensible, amiable girl - plays pious in a superior style - has fine singing voice".
P.266:
In Oct. 1817, "old" Mrs Sumter died, being missed by Louisa, her granddaughter, who was married and lived nearby.
P. 30 (n18):
The Sumter's partner was William Murrell, had daughter Mary Murrell who married a Miller and she was Grandmother of Kate Furman.
Thos. Sumter, Jr. b. 8/30/1768. St. Mark's Parrish; only other child mentioned was Mary, mentioned in will of Mrs. Sumter's brother, Samuel Cantey in May 1771. Mary died when only 8 years old.
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Reference: "GAMECOCK", Robert Boss, 1961
P.226:
....he fetched his 2 illegitimate grandchildren, Louisa and William, to Home House and gave them the name of Sumter, rearing them as his own. Mary, his wife, had a stroke but lived 30 more years.
P.247:
Louisa was 17 years old in 1804.
P.244:
Louisa married to James Murrell, manager of Thomas Sumter's estates.
P.246:
Mary Cantey Sumter lived to be 94 years old, tended much by Louisa.
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