George Willing Willard ^{2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9}

  Death Notes:

Name: George Willing Willard
Event Date: 28 May 1942
Event Place: Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina
Gender: Male
Age (Original): 81y
Birth Year (Estimated): 1861
Marital Status:Married
Spouse's Name: Charlotte Taber
Father's Name: Ezra Willard
Mother's Name: Laura Buyzer
GS Film number: 1943905
Digital Folder Number: 4181112
Image Number: 824
Reference ID: 06111

Citing this Record:
"South Carolina, Deaths, 1915-1943," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N9LS-861 : accessed 31 Aug 2013), George Willing Willard, 28 May 1942.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He has alternate birth date of March 1862 and a birth location of South Carolina.

This birth date was provided on his 1900 US Census.
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• He appeared on the 1870 US Census in District 10, Frederick County, MD on 15 June 1870. ⁵

1870 US Census
Page 4, Family 22
District 10, Frederick County, Maryland
George W. Williard..9..MD
(Living with parents.)
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• He appeared on the 1880 US Census in Petersville, MD on 16 June 1880. ⁶

1880 US Census
Page 405B, District 85, Roll 0510
Petersville, Frederick County, Maryland
George W. Williard..Son..18..MD..Works On Farm
(Living with widowed father.)
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• He appeared on the 1900 US Census in Fort Motte, SC on 9 June 1900. ³

1900 US Census
Sheet 9B, District 47, Family 177
Fort Motte, Orangeburg County, South Carolina
Married 5 years
George Willard..Head..Mar 1862..38..SC..Grocer
(Living with wife, 2 sons, 1 sister, 1 sister-in-law, mother-in-law, 1 brother-in-law, and 1 married brother-in-law with his family.)

NOTE - His birth date is believed to have been 11 Mar 1861 instead of Mar 182.
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• He appeared on the 1910 US Census in Amelia, SC on 20 April 1910. ⁴

1910 US Census
Sheet 4B, District 2, Family 86, Roll 1446
Fort Motte, Calhoun County, South Carolina
McDuffie Street; Farm owned, with mortgage
Married 14 years
George Willard..Head..49..MD..Store Merchant
(Living with wife, son, widowed mother-in-law, and 3 nieces and nephews.)
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• He appeared on the 1930 US Census in Saint Matthews, SC on 15 April 1930. ⁷

1930 US Census
Sheet 10B, District 3, Family 205, Roll 2188
Saint Matthews, Calhoun County, South Carolina
Home rented $100
George W. Willard..Father..69..SC
(Widowed and living at the home of his married son, Louis, and his family.)
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• He appeared on the 1940 US Census in Fort Motte, SC on 4 April 1940. ⁸

1940 US Census
Sheet 4B, District 9-3, Family 65, Roll 3792
Fort Motte, Calhoun County, South Carolina
home owned, $3000
Last Place of Residence: Same Place
George W. Willard..Father-in-Law..79..MD..Widowed..9th grade..Carpenter Foreman, Building Construction
(Widowed and living with widowed daughter-in-law and granddaughter.)
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• He was buried after 28 May 1942 in the Saint Matthews Parish Episcopal Church Cemetery in Fort Motte, SC.

Find A Grave Memorial #39369383
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George married Charlotte Garnett Taber, daughter of Albert Rhett Taber and Louisa Burnham Darby, on 7 August 1895.^{1 2 3 4} (Charlotte Garnett Taber was born on 20 May 1867 in South Carolina,^{4 10} died on 9 September 1925 in Amelia Township, Calhoun, SC and was buried on 10 September 1925 in Fort Motte, SC ¹⁰.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1900 US Census in Fort Motte, SC on 9 June 1900. ³

1900 US Census
Sheet 9B, District 47, Family 177
Fort Motte, Orangeburg County, South Carolina
Married 5 years
George Willard..Head..Mar 1862..38..SC..Grocer
Lottie Willard..Wife..May 1868..32..SC..2/2..Farmer
George T. Willard..Son..Jul 1897..3..SC
Louis D. Willard..Son..Oct 1898..2..SC
Laura Willard..SisL..Jan 1878..22..SC..single..Teacher
Lew B. Taber..MothL..Dec 1844..56..SC..6/5..widowed
Densell Taber..BroL..Apr 1877..23..SC..single..Telegraph
Albert R. Taber..BroL..Apr 1873..27..SC..married 5 yrs..Telegraph
Mary Belle Taber..SisL..Mar 1873..27..SC..married 5 yrs..0/0..Telegraph
Alexander Taber..Neph..Jan 1893..7..SC
Densell D. Taber..Neph..Jan 1900..4m..SC
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• They appeared on the 1910 US Census in Amelia, SC on 20 April 1910. ⁴

1910 US Census
Sheet 4B, District 2, Family 86, Roll 1446
Fort Motte, Calhoun County, South Carolina
McDuffie Street; Farm owned, with mortgage
Married 14 years
George Willard..Head..49..MD..Store Merchant
Charlotte Willard..Wife..42..SC..4/1
Louie Willard..Son..13..SC
L. B. Taber..MotherL..66..SC..6/4
Milton Thomas..Neph..11..SC
Louise Thomas..Niece..9..SC
Mary Thomas..Niece..6..SC
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  Marriage Notes:

According to the 1900 census, George was a Grocer while Charlotte was listed as a Farmer. In addition, it is difficult to tell whether they lived in a house or on a farm but I suspect that the census forms had no provisions for the definition of a plantation and that George probably ran the local grocery store while long time family residents probably ran the plantation. It must have been a large plantation type home because of the large number of families living there: not only George and his family, but his single sister Laura, Charlotte's unmarried sister, Charlotte's widowed mother, Charlotte's unmarried brother, and Charlotte's married brother along with his wife and 2 children.
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