Photo: Hester Jane Clowney and John Spratt Clowney

Hester Jane Clowney and John Spratt Clowney.


John Spratt Clowney (1852-1929) was the eldest son of Moses and Susannah Yongue Clowney. His name honors his paternal grandparents from County Down, Ireland: John Clowney and first wife Mary Margaret Spratt. John Spratt Clowney married Alice Jane Brice and they raised 9 children in Fairfield Co., South Carolina.

Hester Jane Clowney (1854-1879) married a local beau, Jimmie Dick Aiken. During a difficult labor in November, 1879, she recited the 23rd Psalm and died. The infant was buried with her, in her arms, at Salem Presbyterian Church in Fairfield Co., South Carolina.



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