McCreight History page 2 Home Genealogy People Places Gravestones Documents . Home Genealogy People Places Gravestones Documents In the war of 1812 William commanded a company of Winnsboro light infantry and later resigned this commission to command the 25^th Regiment of the South Carolina Militia with the rank of Colonel. He later sold his house and farm to his eldest son James and went to live on a nearby farm. William died on the 7^th of November 1859. He had three sons and seven daughters. He is buried in the Mount Sion Presbyterian cemetery in Winnsboro South Carolina. His three sons were James born in 1798, William Austin born in 1807 and Robert Jackson born in 1819. In 1845 Robert Jackson married Mary Henry Randolph, 3^rd great- granddaughter of William Randolph of Turkey Island, Virginia and his wife Mary Isham. They were both descendents of noble families of England and William Randolph was a direct descendent of King Edward III. McCreights in Camden South Carolina The son of Robert Jackson McCreight and Mary Henry Randolph, Edward Oscar born in 1840, married Margaret Elizabeth Alexander in 1874 and moved to Camden, South Carolina. Two mayors of Camden were her ancestors and she was the great-granddaughter of Abraham Alexander, chairman of the committee that wrote the Mecklenburg Declaration of independence from England almost two years before the Thomas Jefferson declaration. Jefferson used some of the exact same phrases. The Alexander family was descended from William Alexander, Earl of Stirling in Scotland. He was a well known poet who translated the Book of Psalms in the King James version of the Bible. He founded Nova Scotia (New Scotland), which then included much of Canada and part of the northern United States. Robert Jackson built a house for his son Edward Oscar in Camden, for his marriage, on property owned by the Alexander family. Edward Oscar McCreight served as a two term mayor of Camden and died in office in 1906. Six years before his death he built a much larger house in Camden on Lyttleton Street. The house passed out of the family and Edward Oscar's grandson, Professor Emeritus Charles Edward McCreight, who was born in this house, bought and renovated it, with the help of his sister Mary Henry Goodman. When Charles retired from his position as Professor of Anatomy at Bowman Gray Medical School in Winston Salem, North Carolina, he moved to the family house in Camden. When Mary's husband died she went to Camden to live with her brother Charles. Edward Oscar's son Beverly Randolph McCreight married Sarah Katherine Sullivan on the 2^nd of November 1910. A newspaper article about their marriage said the reception was held in the elegant Hotel Camden and the host was her father, the affable Charles P. W. Sullivan.  Charles Pleasant Washington Sullivan, born in 1859, was the son of John Hewett Sullivan, born in 1821, and Mary Dudley Cureton. John Hewett Sullivan had a large plantation in South Carolina.  After the Civil War when the overseer and workers began leaving, he said he could no longer manage the plantation. At the age of twelve his son Charles took over the management of the plantation. He later owned the elegant Hotel Camden, which no longer exists and the U.S. government must bear the responsibility for the loss of this historical building. A post office now stands on its site. Letters, telegrams and other documents indicate that Charles Sullivan and his sister sued their mother Mary Dudley Cureton. It seems that when his father died, his mother turned the family fortune over to a man who speculated on oil wells in Texas and lost it. The outcome is not revealed in the existing documents, but telegrams indicated Charles asked a friend to manage the Hotel Camden, while he went to Texas to try and recover part of the money. McCreights in Newton, North Carolina Beverly Randolph McCreight and Sarah Katherine Sullivan moved to Newton, North Carolina. They lived in a large house that occupied an entire city block on South Main Street, across the street from the Catawba County court house. This eleven room house was described in a 1936 newspaper article as the most beautiful residence in Newton.   The People who lived in the house in Newton, North Carolina were: □ Beverly Randolph McCreight and his wife Sarah Katherine Sullivan. □ Their seven children. □ Sarah Katherine's widowed sister Minnie Pauline and her daughter Jean. □ Her parents Charles Sullivan and  Sarah Elizabeth Garrison □ Sarah Elizabeth Garrison's sister Ella. Including me, when I was there, this was four generations, yet the house was so spacious it was not crowded. Unfortunately this elegant house is no longer there. A rather unattractive bank now occupies its site. Sarah Elizabeth Garrison died in Newton, North Carolina in 1940. During World War II Beverly Randolph McCreight and his family moved to Washington, DC. Charles Sullivan died in Washington in 1946. His daughter Sarah Catherine Sullivan died in Washington in 1955. Beverly Randolph McCreight returned to Newton to live with his daughter Ella and died there in 1973. They are all buried in Fairview cemetery in Newton, North Carolina.