Dear Ron:

I tried to send you a response this A.M. before I left for work, but it did not go through -- reason unknown. Here it goes again,my biographical sketch of Albert Rhett Heyward, who was for a brief time a member of the Washington Light Infantry, Co A of the Hampton Legion Infantry:
"63. HEYWARD, ALBERT RHETT. Enl Petersburg [Va] 3 Aug 61, age 17. Discharged for minority 16 Dec 63; reenl A/S.C. Cadet (Citadel) BN Nov 64 [this was when the vaets were called to active duty; he obviously statrted school sometime earlier that year]; battalion mustyered out at Greenville Apr 65; 3/c student at S.C. Military Academy (The Citadel) [remember that there was another academy at the Columbia Arsenal] in 1861, and then left school; planter in Beaufort Dist postwar; married Sallie Coles 16 Feb 71; moved to Columbia 31 Oct 71, and clerk with South Carolina Railroad there; b. Beaufort Dist 10 Jan 46; d. (of stroke while hunting, near Eastover) bur St. Helena Epis, Beaufort. (204)"

Endnote 204 reads as follows: "Heyward is mentioned in S. C. Genealogies, Vol II, p. 371. The pension apoplication of his widow, Sallie Coles Green Heyward, gives botht he date of marriage and the date of their move to Columbia. Their home at 1711 Pendleton Street, now adjacent to the campus of the University of South Carolina, was within a block of the final home of Wade Hampton [on Senate Street]. 1919 Richland County Confederate Pension Applications, S. C. Department of Archivews and History. She was born in 1849 at Strawberry Hill [Plantation], near Rock Hill, the plantation owned by the family of Cadwallader and Iredell Jones, of Co. A. Heyward's sister, Masy Anna Heyward, married Benjamin W. Taylor in Dec 65. Taylor of course had been a surgeon in the Legion [in 1861 and early 1862, but he was then assigned to the cavalry component of the Legion when the unit was split in Aug 62, so that Taylor and Heyward did not serve together], and he was a member of the socially prominent Taylor family of Columbia. His obituary in The State, 25 Nov 10, p. 7, c. 1, statews that he fell from his horse while hunting and died suddenly, specualting that hsi death was the result of a stroke [and mentioning that another brother had died of a stroke as well]."

The Jones family moved from North Carolina to York District ca 1857 from North Carolina, where a grnadfather had been Governor Iredell. One of their brothers -- Willie, I think -- married one of the daughters of former Governor Adams of Lower Richland fame. There is a Joens Genealogy in the Rock Hill Public Library, as well as a supplement. It gives good information on Iredell, but relatively little on his brother Cadwallader, Jr. Iredell was active in civic affairs in Rock Hill, particularly education, buyt Cadwallader, Jr. went to Hale County Ala, psotwar, where the Jones' famnily ahd extensive land holdings, but he suffered financial reverses and died I beleive penniless 21 Jan 33. There is no estate administration for him in Hasle County, nor can I locate his grave there. But the Jones' were prominent, and both Cadwallader, Jr. and Iredell had attended South Carolina College.

What can you provided me on the postwar career of this man? I am interested in his level of education -- I strongly suspect that he went to College somewhrere, but cannot locate it.

Regards, Lee