Complete web editionRevised, Authenticated & Updated 2025 Edition
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A Poston Family of South Carolina: Its Immigrant Ancestor and Some of His Descendants is a revised and authenticated 2025 digital edition of the landmark 1965 genealogy originally compiled by Erma Poston Landers and updated by Eric Chalmers Poston. This volume traces the Poston family lineage from John Poston, an early eighteenth-century immigrant recorded in Chester County, Pennsylvania, through the family’s migration south into Marion District—now Florence County, South Carolina. Drawing on probate records, Revol…
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Complete web editionA Family Genealogy — Second Edition, Revised, Authenticated, and Updated (2025)
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This volume presents a comprehensive, evidence‑based history of the Poston family, tracing its lineage from the early‑18th‑century migration of John Poston from England to Pennsylvania and following his descendants through their settlement in South Carolina. Drawing on archival land records, wills, census data, church documents, and family bibles, the work reconstructs a multigenerational narrative that was nearly lost to time. It situates the family’s movement within the broader historical context of the Great Phi…
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Complete web editionThe History Of Poston, South Carolina And Its Founding Family
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Rooted in the Pee Dee tells the story of Poston, South Carolina, a small Florence County community with a deep connection to the Great Pee Dee River, the railroad age, and one of South Carolina’s longstanding family lines. Before the name Poston appeared on the map, the locality was part of an older river world associated with Ellison, Ellison’s Landing, Allison Landing, and Poston Landing. Its early history was shaped by the Great Pee Dee River, floodplain agriculture, ferry crossings, river commerce, and the move…
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Complete web editionThe History of Poston, South Carolina
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Poston Family History: the History of Poston, South Carolina traces the Poston family of South Carolina alongside the Florence County community that came to carry the Poston name. Part family genealogy, part local history, and part documentary archive, this volume follows the Poston line from John Poston in colonial Pennsylvania through the family’s southward migration into the Pee Dee region of South Carolina. It explains the correction of the older John-and-Andrew family tradition to the more accurate John-and-An…
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