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ROACH FAMILY p 2

Contributed by Dee White Rush

B.  Thomas Roach, Jr. b. 1805, Rock Hill, SC.

married

(1) Widow Gillespie

(2) Sarah S. Workman  b. 5/8/1808  d. 7/20/1848, buried Ebenezer Churchyard, York county, SC.  Her parents were John Workman  b. 1768 d.  11/11/1816 and Margaret Patton  b. 1774  d.  2/13/1847.  Both buried at Fishing Creek Churchyard, Chester

(3)  Mary Bradshaw

Children of Thomas Roach, Jr.

1.  Mary A. Roach  b. 1830, York County, SC

married

William F. Sturgis, son of William T. Sturgis and Martha Jane Roach (daughter of Samuel Madison Roach and Mary Louisa Workman)

Issue:

a.  Barney Sturgis married Erma ______

b.  Fennell Sturgis

c.  Beuna Sturgis  married Alston L. Blackmond

d.  Martha Sturgis married Eliven R. Faulkerberry

     (1)  Roger Faulkerberry m. ______ Costner

     (2)  William Faulkerberry m. Faye Mitchell

2.  James Madison Roach  b. 2/28/1830 York county, SC        d.  3/14/1917, buried in Oak Grove Presbyterian Cemetery, Lexington, Holmes county, MS

married 5/23/1852

Sarah Elizabeth Smith b.  8/6/1832  d. 2/16/1895, buried in Oak Grove Presbyterian Cemetery, Lexington, Holmes county, MS. 

Her parents were Ebenezer Walker Smith, b. 12/16/1790, Chester county, Arkansas  d.  3/24/1884 and Mary Kuykendal.  (E.W. Smith's parents were James Smith b.  1737  d.  12/5/1795, buried in Old Stone Churchyard, Chester county, and Lillis Patton d.  8/8/1830).  (Mary Kuykendal's parents were Jonathan Kuykendal b.  1750  d. 11/5/1826 buried in Bethesda Churchyard, and Anne ____, d.  7/29/1801 buried in Bethesda Churchyard.)  (Jonathan Kuykendal's parents were James Kuykendal  d. about 1800 and Sarah _________, b. 1729  d. 7/16/1807)

Shortly after James Madison Roach's marriage to Sarah Elizabeth Smith, they moved to AL, where they made their home during the Civil War.  During the Civil War, he served in the Army of Tennessee.  After the close of the war, he moved his family to Coila Springs in Carroll county, MS.  In Dec 1869, he moved his family to a farm in Holmes county.  He was a leading elder of the Oak Grove Presbyterian Church, which was located 1-1/2 miles south of Lexington, for more than 30 years.  (Taken from obituary of James Madison Roach.)