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Evan Prothro

M, #715, (1790 - 1864)
Evan Prothro|b. 1790\nd. 6 Dec 1864|p715.htm|Nathaniel Prothro|b. c 1765\nd. 1823|p611.htm|Zilphia Morgan|b. 1770\nd. 1831|p606.htm|Evan Prothro|b. c 1742\nd. c 1822|p607.htm|Elizabeth Morgan|b. bt 1742 - 1745\nd. c 1817|p2634.htm|||||||

Relationship=Great-grandfather of James Monroe Dobbs Jr.
Last Edited=20 Dec 2009

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Evan Prothro was born in 1790 in Darlington County, South Carolina. He was the son of Nathaniel Prothro and Zilphia Morgan. He married Sarah "Salley" Hickson, daughter of Thomas Hickson Jr. and Sarah, in 1815 in Orangeburg District, South Carolina. He died on December 6, 1864 in Aiken County, South Carolina. He was buried in First Baptist Church Yard Cemetery, Aiken, Aiken County, South Carolina.1

He is mentioned in the will of Nathaniel Prothro in 1823 in Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia. Evan Prothro was in the city government of Aiken, South Carolina between 1845 and 1855 and was mayor of Aiken in 1855.2 He owned 36 slaves in 1860.3
For more information see article The Prothro Family.

Census

1850Barnwell County, South CarolinaEvan Prothro and Sarah "Salley" Hickson appeared on the census of 1850 in Barnwell County, South Carolina, - listed in the same household: Hassel Melton Prothro, Gustaphus Adolfus Prothro, Whitfield Wesley Prothro, Sarah Jane Prothro and Martha Josephine Prothro.4
1860Barnwell County, South CarolinaHe and Sarah "Salley" Hickson appeared on the census of 1860 in Barnwell County, South Carolina, - listed in the same household: Whitfield Wesley Prothro, Elizabeth Whitney and Gustaphus Adolfus Prothro.5
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Citations

  1. [S280] Rebecca Allen, Aiken County, South Carolina Cemetery Inscriptions ([database online] Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 2000.: n.pub., unknown publish date).
  2. [S431] II Gasper Loren Toole, Ninety Years in Aiken County: Memoirs of Aiken County and its People (n.p.: Quintin Publications, unknown publish date), pg 141.
  3. [S283] 1860 United States Census (Slave Schedule), Barnwell Co., South Carolina (Washington: National Archives And Records Administration) ,.
  4. [S76] 1850 United States Census (Free Schedule), Barnwell Co., South Carolina Washington: National Archives And Records Administration,.
  5. [S282] 1860 United States Census (Free Schedule), Barnwell Co., South Carolina (Washington: National Archives And Records Administration) ,.
  6. [S278] Shelly Dobbs Dooley, Prothro GEDCOM, 1999, local storage. Compiled genealogy with source documentation provided to Mike DeBacker, 1999.
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