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Author: davegaston_1
Surnames: ZImmerman , Riley
Classification: queries
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I am looking for this Jacob Zimmerman and Mary Riley Zimmerman. Their parent especially.
Any living descendants would be wonderfull.
Sam R. Zimmerman. Some of the oldest and best family traditions in upper South Carolina
are represented in this young and prosperous business man and textile expert of
Greenville, where he has had his home and business headquarters since 1906.
His great-grandfather Zimmerman came to South Carolina during the eighteenth century from
Germany. The grandfather, Jacob Zimmerman, was born in 1798 at St. Matthews, then in
Orangeburg County, now the county seat of Calhoun County. He married Mary Riley, a
celebrated beauty, known as the "belle of Orangeburg." She was of Irish
ancestry, and her mother, a Macauley, was born in Scotland. Jacob Zimmerman moved to upper
Carolina in 1838 and bought Cedar Springs in the eastern part of Spartanburg County,
living there until his death at the age of eighty-three. His brother, Maj. David
Zimmerman, also lived at Cedar Springs. Their cousin, John Conrad Zimmerman, had preceded
them to this section of the state, and in 1830 purchased Glenn Snrings in Spartanburg
Countv, not far from Cedar Springs.
L. C. Zimmerman, who is a retired business man and farmer living at Greer, in Greenville
County, and is the father of Sam R. Zimmerman, was born at St. Matthews, South Carolina,
in 1838,
I got this information from the following link:
http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=Mary Riley Zimmerman South
Carolina&sig=n9bG3LXnARZX2DOi0bBnEbMhGcA&ei=bvsvTN7IDZGmnQft0oG2Aw&ct=result&id=MDgVAAAAYAAJ&ots=McgxUKcDFL&output=text
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