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Notes for George Samuel Briley HUGGINS

GEORGE SAMUEL BRILEY HUGGINS

George Samuel Briley Huggins was a great-grandson of Captain John Huggins
of Darlington District and his wife, Elizabeth Simmons of Charleston.
Captain John Huggins commanded a troop of cavalry in the Britton's Neck
Regiment of Militia under Col. Hugh Giles in Marion's Brigade in the
Revolutionary War.

George Samuel Briley Huggins, the eldest child of the Reverend John
Samuel Huggins of Timmonsville, and his wife, Zylphia Ham, was born on
June 18, 1831. The Reverend John Samuel Huggins was the inventor of the
first cotton planter used in the South. George Samuel Briley Huggins
enlisted on, April 22, 1862,in Company K, 6th South Carolina Infantry
Regiment when it was organized under Captain W. S. Brand of Clarendon.
He served with the company, until the surrender at Appomattox on April 9,
1865. At the Second Battle of Manasses, August 30, 1862, he was wounded
in the right knee requiring several months of rest time. Although
permanently crippled, he rejoined the company where he served in the
commissary section until the end of the war. He participated in the
battles of Williamsburg, Virginia, May 5, 1862; Frasers Farm, Virginia,
June 29, 1862; Fort Harrison, Virginia, September 21-27, 1864; and
Petersburg, Virginia, 1864.

After the Civil War, he became a farmer and the minister of the Methodist
Church at Muddy Creek in Williamsburg, County, South Carolina. He was a
prayerful Christian man who was still conducting services up to the time
of his death on November 28, 1915, aged 84. As long as he lived, he
would walk the foot-logs across Muddy Creek Swamp every Sunday to attend
Old Johnsonville Church.

Source: Samuel Cornelius Rabon.

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