These pages are dedicated to the descendants of George Barmore I [c. 1725 - aft. 1790], of whom more than 3,000 are included herein.
The Barmore family arrived in the old Abbeville District in South Carolina
before the War for American Independence and most remain in the
Southern States to this day.
This database now includes thousands of people who lived in
the South Carolina up-country [circa 1700 to the present]
focusing on the following clans:
Agnew, Barmore, Brownlee, Dodson, Hodges, McGee, Pyles, Rasor, Richey, Shirley and their relations.
In 1979, when I was sixteen and already fascinated by genealogy,
my parents and I journeyed from California to Abbeville County, SC to explore our roots.
I remember visiting some very nice Barmores still living in the homestead
built by William Barmore in 1825. I can also vividly recall
Turkey Creek Baptist Church, knowing my ancestors had help build it
and were buried there beginning in the 1790s.
The people and stories here were mostly gathered on that trip
and then built upon with time.
Barmore Family History
Updated 26 Aug 2007
Gathering the Lore...