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Andrew Poston
1829–1916
Best-supported namesake-linked figure for railroad-era Poston, South Carolina.
Historical Entity Index
People
Major people in the Poston family and Poston, South Carolina record, organized as canonical entity pages tied to the books and documentary archive.
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John Poston, immigrant-line ancestor
early 18th century–1740s
The earliest securely documented Poston ancestor in the South Carolina family narrative, associated with Chester County, Pennsylvania, Octoraro Creek, a 1722 tax listing, a Fallowfield Township land patent, and a 1745 will.
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John Poston II
18th century
Second-generation figure in the published family history, husband of Margaret Baldridge Poston and part of the transition from the Pennsylvania homestead to the family’s southward migration.
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Margaret Baldridge Poston
1719–1766/1767 (as reconstructed in the genealogy)
Wife of John Poston II and a key figure in the Pennsylvania-to-South Carolina migration narrative, connecting the Poston family to the Baldridge and Holmes families.
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John Poston III in South Carolina
c. 1755–between 1821 and 1830
Early South Carolina Poston associated with Marion District, identified in the revised genealogy as a son of John Poston II and a brother of Anthony “Antney” Poston.
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Anthony “Antney” Poston
c. 1760–before 1830 (as reconstructed)
Brother of John Poston III in the revised South Carolina genealogy and the branch ancestor through whom Hugh Poston and Andrew Poston are placed in the family structure.
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Hugh Poston (1791–1846)
1791–1846
Nineteenth-century Pee Dee family figure whose household connects the early South Carolina Poston branches to Andrew Poston and to the later Hugh Poston branch associated with Louella Poston.
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John “Jack” Poston
1784/1785–1850
Member of the senior South Carolina Poston surname line, identified in the revised genealogy as a son of John Poston III and an ancestor of John Henry Poston.
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John Henry Poston
1855–1907
Senior-surname-line descendant whose 1882 marriage to Louella Poston is treated in the published family history as the reunion of the direct surname line and a close Andrew-linked collateral branch.
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Louella Poston
born 1860
Member of the Hugh Poston branch and wife of John Henry Poston; her branch is the close family connection through which the modern line is linked to Andrew Poston’s family.
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Lawrence Chalmers Poston
1886–1930 (archive lineage chart)
Son of John Henry Poston and Louella Poston, presented in the published family history as a transitional figure carrying the reunited Poston line into a more mobile twentieth-century South Carolina setting.
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Harold Chalmers Poston, Sr.
1919–1977
Twentieth-century bridge figure in the family narrative, son of Lawrence Chalmers Poston and husband of Ruth West Poston.
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Ruth West Poston
died 1976
Twentieth-century South Carolina family figure documented through marriage coverage, photographs, and obituary notices preserved in The Poston Family Archive.
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Erma Poston Landers
20th century
Original compiler of the 1965 genealogy A Poston Family of South Carolina: Its Immigrant Ancestor and Some of His Descendants, the foundational work revised and authenticated in the 2025 edition.
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