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Author: landarow
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Thank you very much!!!
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Author: s2grand
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Here's what I know:
Pettus Wales Chick was born on September 15, 1806, probably in Union or Newberry Co., S.C., to parents Burwell Chick and Massey Henderson of Henderson Island, Newberry Co. S.C. Pettus was named after his father's mother's father Pettus Ragland & Burwell's younger brother Pettus Wales Chick.
Pettus was a family surname & the Raglands were from Wales. Ancestor Stephen Pettus was shanghaied from Norwich, England & brought to Virginia as an indentured servant. The Chick family was probably originally from the Isle of Wight, England. Burwell's younger brother William Miles Chick was one of the founders of Kansas City, Missouri & its first postmaster, a P.O. branch was named for him. Burwell Chick, the David Henderson family and the Sims family all came to the Newberry area from Louisa County, Va. The Chicks moved to Louisa from Hanover Co. before 1800. It appears they knew each other in Va. Pettus
younger sister Caroline Sarah Turpin Chick married Asa Hodges Congressman from Arkansas for one term. Sister Wilhelmina's family, the Chaplines, also involved in
Arkansas government.
Pettus married his first cousin Sarah Elizabeth T. Henderson on June 19, 1834. They had no children. Pettus and younger brother Reuben ran a store with Mr. Stewart on Stewart's Corner on the Square in Newberry, S.C. They assumed control when Mr. Stewart died. They also had business interests with Albert Maybin and Reuben's brother-in-law Robert Moorman. Pettus also ran a store at Maybinton
with Bill Oxner. Pettus had a farm & house called Rose Cottage near the Goshen community in Union Co. that survived until the 1920s & was later incorporated into the Sumter National Forest. After Burwell died in 1847 Pettus & Reuben ran the hotel at Chick Springs near Greenville, selling it around 1859, and buying it back after the War between the States and adding features to it. Pettus had a house in Newberry at one time that I believe it faced College St. near Newberry College with Cheek St. (named after him but spelled erroneously) on one side. The house may still stand. Pettus had his portrait painted but unknown as to current owner if it survives.
Pettus died August 25, 1878 in Maybinton & is buried in Rosemont Cemetery in Newberry. His wife lived another 24 years.
Chick Springs Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_Springs
The hotel pictured is not the one the Chicks ran but on same property, there was a succession of hotels as they burned.
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