Robert Cheyne Clowney

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ID: I286
Last: Clowney
First: Robert
Middle: Cheyne
Birth: 11 Jun 1838 at County Down, Ireland 1 2
Death: 12 Mar 1885 at New Hope Section, Fairfield Co., South Carolina 3 4 5
Burial: New Hope Associate Reformed Presbyterian (ARP) Church, Woodward, Fairfield Co., South Carolina 6 7
Sex: M
Event: Served in House of Representatives, SC after Civil War Event 8
Notes: Robert Cheyne Clowney, his father John Clowney, mother and 5 brothers emigrated from County Down, Ireland to the United States, arriving about Dec 1838.

The name of the mother of Robert Cheyne Clowney has been reported as Anna Boyd Cheyne, but by 1850 at age 11 he and his brothers were living with "Nancy" Clowney, age 48.

Religion was very important to this family. Presbyterianism has its roots in Scotland. Both the Associate and Reformed branches of the Presbyterian church migrated with the Scots to Northern Ireland and then to America with the Scots-Irish before the Revolutionary War. History of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARP) is at: www.arpsynod.org/who.html.
Sources: 9 10 11 12
 
Mother: Anna Nancy Cheyne b: ABT 1802 d: AFT 1850
Father: John Clowney b: 1791 d: 4 Mar 1848
 
Marriage 1   Margaret Brice b: 25 Dec 1843 d: 19 Sep 1882
Wedding: Fall 1865 Fairfield County, South Carolina 13 14
 
Children:
1 Samuel Brice Clowney b: 26 Aug 1866 Fairfield County, South Carolina
2 Anna Boyd Clowney b: 3 Jan 1869 Fairfield County, South Carolina
3 Janie Brice Clowney b: 14 Feb 1871 Fairfield County, South Carolina
4 Margaret Rebecca Clowney b: 5 Apr 1873 Fairfield County, South Carolina
5 Mary Ellen Clowney b: 1875
6 Roberta Clowney b: 1 Aug 1878 Fairfield County, South Carolina
7 Elizabeth Brice Clowney b: 4 Oct 1880 Fairfield County, South Carolina
8 Robert Hutchinson Clowney b: 26 Aug 1882 Fairfield County, South Carolina
 
Sources:
1 Repository:
  --Name: Fairfield Historical Society Museum
  --Address: Fairfield Historical Society
P.O. Box 93
Winnsboro SC 29180
www.rootsweb.com/~scfairfi/scfairfield.htm
Title: Hand written notes by Cleora Clowney Hall
Note: Transcriptions of monuments and tombstones at Salem Presbyterian Church cemetery, Fairfield Co., South Carolina; and marginal notes. Cousin Lizzie Clowney Coleman is daughter of Robert Cheyne Clowney.
Text: Cousin Lizzie Clowney Coleman said her father (bro. of Moses) was 6 months old when they came over, and he was born June 11th, 1838, so they landed about Dec. 1838 from Ireland.
 
2 Title: 1850 U.S. Census, Fairfield Co., South Carolina
Publication: Roll M432-852
Page: p.461
Note: Birth year 1838 or 1839 estimated from Robert C. Clowney age 11 in 1850 census.
Birth location per family records by Cleora Clowney Hall.
 
3 Title: Meynel Clowney Cato Collection
Note: Typescript history (obituary?) about Robert Cheyne Clowney. A hand written note says : Mailed 7-12-1968.
Text: In the fall of 1865, he married Miss Margaret Brice, daughter of Samuel and Dorcas Price Brice. They moved to the New Hope section of Fairfield County, where he became a large land owner, successful planter and stock raiser...
His lovely home, which he bought from his father-in-law, Samuel Brice who moved to Alabama burned a few years after Capt. Clowney's death.
 
4 Title: Obituary-online
Text: Available at http://sc-families.org
 
5 Repository:
  --Name: South Caroliniana Library - Univ. So. Carolina
  --Address: University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
  --Phone: (803) 777-3132
Title: South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, SCMAR
Publication: Brent H. Holcomb, ed., P.O. Box 21766, Columbia, S.C., 29221
Call Number: 929.205 So8s
Note: Available online at Ancestry.com.
Text: Associate Reformed Presbyterian Death & Marriage Notices, Volume II: 1866-1888
Associate Reformed Presbyterian
March 26, 1885
page 95
Presbyterian Deaths & Marriages, Vol 2: 1866-1888, p.95
Died in Fairfield County, S. C., March 12th, 1885, Mr. R. C. Clowney, aged about 47 years.... once he represented his county in the Legislature.... was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church.
 
6 Title: Meynel Clowney Cato Collection
Note: Typescript history (obituary?) about Robert Cheyne Clowney. A hand written note says : Mailed 7-12-1968.
Location of cemetery: from Winnsboro take SC-Hwy 34 west, go 4.6 mi past US321 bypass; turn right (north) on Douglass Rd. (Rd 22) go 9.1 mi; church is on right at end of dirt road.
Text: Capt. Clowney died March 12, 1885 of pneumonia, and was buried beside his wife (who had preceeded him only two and a half years in death) at New Hope Associate Reform Presbyterian Church yard
 
7 Title: Internet
Note: Photo of church at: www.mindspring.com/~dbn/Bricephoto.html.
History of ARP churches: www.arpsynod.org/who.html
 
8 Title: History of Edgefield County from the earliest settlements to 1897
Author: Chapman, John Abney, A.M.
Publication: Repr. 1980, The Reprint Co., Publ., Spartanburg, South Carolina 29304, from 1897 ed. publ. by E. H. Aull, Newberry, SC
Text: Biographical and anecdotical; with sketches of the Seminole War; Nullification; Secession; Reconstruction; churches and literature; with rolls of all the Companies from Edgefield in the War of Secession; War with Mexico and with the Seminole Indians.
Page: p. 10
Text: During and since the Civil War Thomas McKinstry, Bayliss E. Elkin, W. J. Alston, J.R.Aiken, H.A. Gaillard, T.S. Brice, R. C. Clowney, A.S. Douglas, G.H. McMaster, John W. Lyles, C. E. Thomas, Charles A. Douglas, Hayne McMeekin and S. R. Rutland have served in the House of Representatives.
 
9 Title: 1850 U.S. Census, Fairfield Co., South Carolina
Publication: Roll M432-852
Date: 24 Aug 1850
Page: p.461
Note:
Robert C. Clowney age 11, born in Ireland, in HN/FN 471 of Nancy Clowney age 48 born in Ireland.
Neighbors: HN 470 elder half-brother Joseph Clowney, HN 469 Means, HN 468 Burns, HN472 Cameron, HN 473 Gordon, HN 474 Robinson, HN 475 Feasterville Academy
Text:
HN/FN 470
Name Age Sex Col Occup Val Born
Clowney, Joseph 33 M w Planter 2050 Ireland
Clowney, Jeannette 21 F w Fairfield
Clowney, _ 5/12 F w Fairfield
HN/FN 471
Name Age Sex Col Occup Val Born
Clowney, Nancy 48 F w _ 9825 Ireland
Clowney, John 17 M w Planter _ Ireland
Clowney, Wm J. 15 M w _ Ireland
Clowney, Samuel C.13 M w _ Ireland
Clowney, Robert C. 11 M w _ Ireland
[*=attended school; Transcriber CMB]
 
10 Title: 1860 U.S. Census, Fairfield Co., South Carolina
Publication: Roll M653-1219
Note: Online version with index available: ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/sc/fairfield/1860.
Transcribed by Ray Beam and proofread by Jo Beam for the USGenWeb Census Project, http://www.us-census.org/. Copyright 2002 by Ray Beam.
Date: 7 Jun 1860
Page: p. 11
Note: Robert Clowney age 22, clerk, in HN/FN 74 of tavern keeper C. W. Faucett, served by Winnsboro Post Office. Birthplace listed as South Carolina.
 
11 Title: 1870 U.S. Census, Fairfield Co., South Carolina
Publication: M593-1496
Note: Online version with index available: ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/sc/fairfield/1870.
Transcribed by Ray Beam and proofread by Jo Beam for the USGenWeb Census Project, http://www.us-census.org/. Copyright 2002 by Ray Beam.
Page: p. 47-b
Note: Line 16, Robert C. Clowney age 31.
 
12 Title: 1880 U.S. Census, Fairfield Co., South Carolina
Publication: Roll T9-1229
Page: p. 61-c
Note:
Irish-born Robert C. Clowney in Twp.2 of Fairfield, SC.
Transcription via Familysearch.org website.
Text: Robert C Clowney Self Md M w 40 Ire-Ire-Ire Farmer
Margaret " Wife Md F w 36 SC-SC-SC
Saml. B. " Son Sgl M w 13 SC-Ire-SC
Annie " Dau Sgl F w 10 SC-Ire-SC
Jane " Dau Sgl F w 8 SC-Ire-SC
Maggie " Dau Sgl F w 6 SC-Ire-SC
Ellen " Dau Sgl F w 4 SC-Ire-SC
Bertie " Dau Sgl F w 2 SC-Ire-SC
Eliza " Dau Sgl F w 8mo SC-Ire-SC
Carrie Fant Other Sgl F w 16 SC-SC-SC
Sallie Fant Other Sgl F w 20 SC-SC-SC
Samuel Stevenson Oth Sgl M w 22 SC-SC-SC Farm-laborer
 
13 Title: Meynel Clowney Cato Collection
Note: Typescript history (obituary?) about Robert Cheyne Clowney. A hand written note says : Mailed 7-12-1968. The couple had 8 children
Text: In the fall of 1865, he married Miss Margaret Brice, daughter of Samuel and Dorcas Price Brice. They moved to the New Hope section of Fairfield County, where he became a large land owner, successful planter and stock raiser
 
14 Repository:
  --Name: Fairfield Historical Society Museum
  --Address: Fairfield Historical Society
P.O. Box 93
Winnsboro SC 29180
www.rootsweb.com/~scfairfi/scfairfield.htm
Title: Hand written notes by Cleora Clowney Hall
Text: Robert Cheyne Clowney, md. Margaret Brice -- Cousin Lizzie's father
 


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