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- John Eaton Hyman and wife, Welthy, come to Marion District, S. C., from North Carolina before 25 Sep. 1819. On that date Eaton wrote his will (Will Book 1, page 126, Marion County, SC) leaving property to his wife to raise the three children until the youngest became of age if she “Should have my name.” If she remarried the property was to be divided into four parts. The names of the children were: WIlliam, Elizabeth, and Laurence. Laurence Hyman [Eaton’s brother] was designated as Executor. The will was witnessed by Lemuel Bryan and Charity O’Cain and recorded 25 Oct. 1819. Welthy’s maiden name is unknown. Since the Bryans and O’Cains were also from North Carolina, and no other mention of Charity appears in the records, Charity may have been the mother of Welthy. The Hymans are prominent in the history of Martin County, N. C. A Hyman gave the land for the first Williamston Academy in 1816. John Eaton’s father was likely the John Hyman in 1790 census, Martin County, N. C., listed along with the O’Cain and Culpepper families who also settled in the same area of South Carolina--now Pamplica/Hyman. It is interesting to note the repetition of given names which persists to the present. Eaton names his sons WIlliam and John Laurence [called Larry]. Eaton’s daughter, Elizabeth Hyman Myers, named her sons John Eaton and William. Eaton’s brother, Laurence, named two of his sons John and Eaton. The 1820 census, Marion District, S. C., shows Welthy Hyman head of a household consisting of two males and one female, all children under ten years of age. She is living in the dwelling next to Larry Hyman, her brother-in-law. About 1820 she married Cannon Gibbs. Elizabeth Hyman, daughter of Eaton and Welthy, married Edward B. Myers. They had eleven children. There were nine girls and two boys. The girls were: Martha Melvina, Alice, Mary Elizabeth, Frances Caroline, Sarah Lucretia, Welthy Ellen, Amanda Victoria, Harriett Ann, and Rebecca Florence. One of the sons, John Eaton, was killed in the Civil War. Elizabeth Myers’ will left one dollar to each girl, and the remainder to her only living son, William Albert Myers, provided he care for his sister, Martha Melvina Myers Wiggins. This daughter was a deaf mute. Frances Caroline Myers, one of the daughters, married (1) a Page and (2) John Scott Coleman. John Laurence [Larry] Hyman, son of John Eaton and Welthy, married (1) Mary Elizabeth [Polly] Exum and they had one daughter, Mary Jane Hyman. Larry married (2) Mary Linney Cecelia Turner, who was a daughter of Benjamin W. Turner and Cecelia Coleman. Benjamin W. Turner was a son of Amos Turner, and Cecelia Coleman was a daughter of Robert and Prudence Coleman. Julia, Rebecca, Ada Josephine, Sallie, and LIzzie were daughters of John Laurence Hyman and Mary Linney Cecelia Turner. [1, 9]
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Abt 1790 - 1819 (~ 29 years)
