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Our low country families, Fitts-Reid and connected families of Forrester, Peeples, and Nix, June McManus Gardner

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Our low country families

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June McManus Gardner

Faith of Our Fathers Series, Book 5

Fitts-Reid and connected families of Forrester, Peeples, and Nix

The story of John Edwin "Dee" Fitts and his wife, Janette Amerine "Nettie" Reid, and their family in the Low Country of South Carolina. The Fitts family came originally from England--the Reids from Ireland and Scotland. Nettie was born on Daufuskie Island five months after her father died. Her mother, Deborah Nix Reid, moved with her six children to the mainland of Beaufort District and made their home with Deborah's widowed mother. At the age of eighteen Janette became a teacher in a one-room school in the village of Gifford where she met Robert Joseph Fitts, a farmer. Several years after their marriage Nettie's husband died leaving her with three young children. Robert Joseph's younger brother, Dee, a single farmer, helped Nettie gather the harvest. After Dee and Nettie married, he cut the timber off his land and built a large house for their family near Brunson, SC. Nettie had three more children with Dee. The story of a blended family, it also includes information about each of their six children and their connecting families of Forrester, Peebles/Peeples, and Nix. Robert Raymond "Ray" Fitts, the maternal grandfather of author June McManus Gardner, was the son of Nettie and Dee

TIMES: Plantations -- The Revolutionary War -- The War of 1812 -- The War Between the States -- Aftermath of the war -- PLACES: Counties & towns -- Barnwell County -- Beaufort County -- Hampton County -- Allendale County -- CHURCHES: Beech Branch Baptist Church -- Prince Williams Primitive Baptist Church -- Brunson Baptist Church -- Kline Baptist Church -- The Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ) -- The Fitts family in England, America, and South Carolina -- The Reids -- Reeves-Forrester -- Peebles/Peeples -- The Nix family -- Education -- Patriotism -- Religion -- Health -- Longevity -- Our heritage -- Our culture -- Cemeteries -- Revolutionary War documents -- Wills -- Fitts service in the Confederate War -- Estate papers of Dee Fitts -- Wedding at north -- How to preserve a husband -- Reid property -- Map of McKissick Estate -- Nix documents -- Sandiford book "We Remember."

Lowcountry families, Fitts, Reid, and connected families of Forrester, Peeples, & Nix