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BROYLES, Major John Taylor

BROYLES, Major John Taylor

Male 1806 - 1898  (92 years)

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  • Name BROYLES, John Taylor 
    Prefix Major 
    Birth 27 Jan 1806  Pendleton District, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1810  Pendleton District, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • Listed were one male under ten (John), one male between ten and fifteen (Ozey) and one male between 26 and 44 (Aaron). Females included two under ten (Temperance and Edna), two between ten and fifteen (Polly and Sarah) and one between 26 and 44 (Frances).
    Death 13 Dec 1898  Chickamauga, Walker, Georgia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3] 
    Person ID I1263  Pickel_Bartlett
    Last Modified 5 Jan 2012 

    Father BROYLES, Major Aaron,   b. 7 Jun 1767, Culpeper County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Oct 1845, Anderson County, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Mother REED, Frances,   b. 8 Dec 1769, Washington County, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Sep 1841, Anderson County, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage 1787  Pendleton District, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Residence 1790  Pendleton District, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • Census spelled his name "Aron Briles". It showed one male over sixteen, one male under sixteen and two females. This would reconcile with there being Aaron and Frances Broyles and their two children, Cain and Jemima.
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      "Another of the builder families of Anderson is that of Broyles. The pioneer in this section was Aaron, who settled somewhere not far from the old Calhoun section, and married Fannie Reed, daughter of another early settler. They began life with love, courage and industry, their only assets. Their first home was a log cabin with a dirt floor. Mr. Broyles was of German descent, and Mrs. Broyles of French Huguenot blood. While their children were still small, they had begun to accumulate a good share of worldly goods, and they gave their boys and girls what educational advantages the section offered. Their sons were John T., born in 1806; Oze, Cain and Abel. The youngest died when a boy. Cain and Oze lost their lives during the War Between the States.

      Source: Vandiver, Louise Ayer, Traditions and History of Anderson County, 1928
    Residence 1800  Pendleton District, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • His name was spelled correctly in this census.

      Listed were: one male under 10 (Ozey Robert Broyles), one male between 10 and 15 (Cain Broyles), one male between 26 and 44 (Aaron Broyles). It also listed two females less than ten (Sarah and Polly), one female age 10-15 (Jemima) and one female 26 to 44 (Frances Broyles).
    Residence 1810  Pendleton District, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • Listed were one male under ten (John), one male between ten and fifteen (Ozey) and one male between 26 and 44 (Aaron). Females included two under ten (Temperance and Edna), two between ten and fifteen (Polly and Sarah) and one between 26 and 44 (Frances).

      Click here to read 1810 Census.
    Residence 1820  Pendleton District, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    • Census reported one male 16-26 (Ozey), one male over 45 (Aaron), two females 16-26 (Temperance and Edna) and one female over 45 (Frances). There does not seem to be a record of John Broyles who would have been about 14 at that time.
    Residence 1830  Anderson County, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    • Census lists one male between sixty and seventy (Aaron-63), one female between fifty and sixty (Frances-61) and one male between twenty and thirty (unclear who this might have been).
    Residence 1840  Anderson County, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    • Census recorded one male between seventy and eighty (Aaron-73) and one female between seventy and eighty (probably Frances who was actually in her sixties), three males fifteen to twenty and one male between ten and fifteen. It is not clear who these might have been.
    Family ID F329  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family HAMMOND, Clarinda Charlotte,   b. 3 Feb 1812, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Apr 1883, Pendleton Township, Anderson, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1830  South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1830  Anderson County, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    • J. T. Broyles is listed just above Aaron Broyles. There is one male between 20 and 30 (John Taylor Broyles was 24) and one female under 20 (Clarinda Broyles was about 17 at the time).
    Residence 1840  Anderson County, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    • Census shows one male between 30 and 40 (John would be 34) and two males between 5 and 10 ( Julian would have been 9 and George 6). Nothing is shown for females which must be an error.
    Residence 20 Jun 1860  4th Regiment, Anderson County, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Farmer 
    Residence 21 Aug 1870  Oglethorpe, Macon, Georgia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    Bookkeeper 
    • Listed as John T and Clarinda F. Broils, they were living with their son, listed as Dr. Julius J. Broils.
    Residence 17 Jun 1880  Ringgold, Catoosa, Georgia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    Children 
     1. BROYLES, Dr. Julius John,   b. 18 May 1831, Pendleton District, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Nov 1898, Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
     2. BROYLES, George Edwin,   b. 26 Jul 1834, Pendleton District, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Oct 1893, Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
     3. BROYLES, Caroline Frances,   b. 17 Nov 1844, Anderson District, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Jan 1936, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years)
     4. BROYLES, Dudley Hammond,   b. 6 Dec 1847, Anderson District, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Oct 1863 (Age 15 years)
     5. BROYLES, Claudia Augusta,   b. 2 Mar 1850, Washington County, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 May 1928 (Age 78 years)
     6. BROYLES, Cullen A.,   b. 18 Jul 1852, Washington County, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Sep 1857 (Age 5 years)
     7. BROYLES, Chelius,   b. 1854, Walker County, Georgia, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1858 (Age 4 years)
    Family ID F1095  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 May 2022 

  • Histories
    BROYLES - 'A Builder Family of Anderson County, South Carolina    		BROYLES - "A Builder Family of Anderson County, South Carolina

  • Notes 
    • "...John T. [Broyles] had quite a number of adventures. In 1817 he accompanied a relative to Fort Hawkins, which stood where the city of Macon, Ga., is now located. They drove cattle which the owner sold to the government for the soldiers stationed there. When a little older he accompanied his father to Hamburg, S. C., then a flourishing trade center.

      Mr. Broyles raised a quantity of tobacco, which was the staple crop of this section in the early times. Young John rode one of the animals which drew the hogshead and his father rode the other, their camping outfit packed between them as best they could.

      As a youth Major John Broyles was well acquainted with John C. Calhoun, then a rising young lawyer. He attended Calhoun Academy at the same time that his cousin Joe Brown was a student there. Later John Broyles was sent to Tusculum College in Greenville, Tennessee, where he studied under Reverend Samuel Doark, the father of Presbyterianism in Tennessee. At that time there were a number of South Carolina students in the institution, among them Francis Pickens and John Hammond, both afterwards Governors of South Carolina. Pickens was the room-mate of young Broyles. John graduated with honors at Tusculum, and after bidding an affectionate farewell to Father Doark, he returned to Anderson district, where in 1829 he married Miss Clorinda Hammond, daughter of Dudley Hammond, a wealthy planter of the district. The young couple went to housekeeping in what was at the time a fine residence, the gift of the bride's father.

      In 1332 came troublous times in South Carolina; the tariff bill passed by Congress enraged the planters, and the State declared the act null and void. A conflict was feared, and Governor George McDuffie called a meeting of the people of Anderson district in the summer of 1832 to be held at Varennes. There the governor made an appeal for volunteers to support the commonwealth against the Federal encroachments.

      John T. Broyles was the first man to offer his service. He did it amid general cheering, and Governor McDuffie made him a Major of infantry on the spot.

      In 1834 he served as a member of the South Carolina legislature. In 1847 Major Broyles moved to Tennessee. In 1856 he returned to Anderson, and was again elected to the legislature.

      At the outbreak of the War Between the States Major Broyles was not permitted to enlist in the army on account of his age, but his sons served until the surrender.

      In 1862 Major Broyles went to Dalton, Ga., and in 1864 he went with other refugees to Marshallville, Ga., returning in 1866 to Chickamauga, where he lived until 1895. He died at the age of ninety-three years.

      Like many members of his family, he was musical, and at one time played the violin well. He also wrote a number of pamphlets, chiefly of a political nature, though he had fine literary taste also.

      Major Broyles was the father of seven children, five boys and two girls. Two sons died in infancy. Those who grew up were Edward, who died in Chattanooga in 1898; Dudley Hammond, killed in the war; Dr. Julius J. died in Chattanooga in 1898; Claudia, who is Mrs. Renan, of Chattanooga, Term., and Mrs. Clark, of Rome, Ga."

      Source: Source: Vandiver, Louise Ayer, Traditions and History of Anderson County, 1928

  • Sources 
    1. [S93] Broyles / Briles Database.

    2. [S302] 1810 Federal Census, Pendleton District, South Carolina.

    3. [S102] Cer, Parmley/ Griffiths Genealogy - Original dates from Bible of J. T. Broyles.

    4. [S94] Rootsweb, Broyles Archives, Posting by John K. Broyles, Sr. on 6/7/1999.

    5. [S303] 1790 Federal Census, Pendleton District, South Carolina.

    6. [S304] 1800 Federal Census, Pendleton District, South Carolina.

    7. [S305] 1820 Federal Census, Pendleton County, South Carolina.

    8. [S301] 1830 Federal Census, Anderson County, South Carolina.

    9. [S98] 1840 Federal Census, Anderson District, South Carolina.

    10. [S301] 1830 Federal Census, Andrerson County, South Carolina .

    11. [S98] 1840 Federal Census.

    12. [S316] 1860 Federal Census, 4th District, Anderson County, South Carolina Page 53 Dwelling 381.

    13. [S69] 1870 Federal Census, Marshallville Township, Macon County, Georgia Page 221 Dwelling 1703.

    14. [S70] 1880 Federal Census, Ringgold, Catusa County, GA ED 12 Page 24 Dwelling 212.


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