Glover Memorials and Genealogies:
An Account of John Glover of Dorchester

 By Anna Glover

Published 1867
D. Clapp & son, printers

 

NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA GLOVERS.

ROBERT D. GLOVER was living in Augusta, Georgia, in 1860;
owned a plantation there; writes that he was " raised about fifteen
miles from Augusta, in Edgefield District, S. C.," and that his brothers
and sisters still live there. He can trace no farther back than his
grandfather, who was Joseph Glover, who lived and died near Williamsboro', Granville County, N. C., and who had six sons, viz.:
William, John, Jacob, Daniel, Robert and David. They all moved
to Edgefield, S. C., except Daniel, who retained the homestead in
North Carolina and lived and died there. William, John, Jacob and
Robert died in South Carolina, at Edgefield; David removed to Kentucky,
and died there. There were daughters, but nothing further
has been reported of them. The family record was left with Daniel
at the homestead. Mr. Glover thinks it probable that his grandfather,
Joseph Glover, moved from Virginia to North Carolina, but
is not certain. He writes also that his father's name was Robert
Glover, and is very desirous that the genealogy of their branch may
be traced out.

ROBERT GLOVER, fifth son of Joseph Glover, was born in
Williamsboro', Granville Co., N. C., in 1758; removed to Edgefield, S. C.,
where he died.
He was twice married.

First, to Miss Frances Atwood, who died,
leaving three children.

He was married, second, to Miss Rebecca
Jeter and had eight more children.

Children of ROBERT and FRANCES (Aiwooo) GLOVER, born in
Edgefield, S. C.:

1. Lucy, m. James F. Adams; died.
2. Susan, m. Josiah Lanham ; died.
3. Willey.

Children by second wife, REBECCA JETER :

4. Charlotte.
5. Elvira, m. James Garrett; died 10 months after.
6. Robert D., m. Martha A. Cools.
7. Charles J, m. (1^st Susan Belcher ) d. in 1853.
                            (2^nd Martha Frazier)
8. David M., m. Frances Bussey, and is still living.
9. Joseph W., d. unmarried.
10. Mary Ann Adaline.
11. William J., m. Emily Collier; lived but a short time after his
marriage.

Robert Glover, Esq., died in Edgefield, S. C., July 9, 1822, aged
64 years.

It is stated, also, that "William, the eldest son of Joseph Glover,
and brother of the above Robert, removed to Edgefield, S. C., married
and had fifteen children, who are scattered in the western country.
Mr. Glover also writes that there are two other Glover families
living in Edgefield, S. C., who claim kinship, and probably are collateral
relatives.
Judge Glover lives in Orangeburg District, S. C. The other
family lives in Edgefield, about fifteen miles from Augusta, Ga., viz.:
Wade Glover, who died early in the year 1859, and left a family.
Eli Glover, of Monticello, Ga., claims kinship with the Joseph-Robert
Glover family. He died in the year 1858. His son, who is a lawyer,
bears the name of Richard Glover.
There are two families living in Morgan County, Ga., who bear
the name of Glover, and claim relationship with this family. They
went to that county from a place in North Carolina, not far from Williamsboro'.
There are two families in Alabama of the name of Glover, viz.:
Williamson, who lives in Greene Co.; and Benjamin, who lives at
Perrary Bluff, Marengo County, Alabama.

ROBERT D. GLOVER, son of Robert Glover, of Williamsboro',
N. C., and Edgefield, S. C., and grandson of Joseph Glover, of
Williamsboro', was born in Edgefield, S. C., May 12, 1807; lives in
Augusta, Ga.; owns a plantation there. Mrs. Glover, his wife, was
born Sept. 25, 1817. They have three sons, born in Augusta, Ga.:

12. Augustus C., b. May 22, 1842.
13. James R., b. June 22, 1845.
 14. Lewis L., b. Nov. 27, 1849.

Another account of the Glovers at the South states that William
Allen Glover resides now (1861) in Mobile, Alabama. He is the
son of Mr. Allen Glover, a planter, born at Cambridge, S. C., and
died there in 1840, leaving eight children; had been twice married.
He, Mr. Allen Glover, was son of Frederick Glover, who was a son
of Benjamin Glover, of Jamestown, Virginia; a descendant of the
first Richard Glover of Virginia, in 1635, and was great-grandfather
to the informant, Mr. Williamson A. Glover.

The name of Glover appears in many of the Southern and Western
cities, and the individuals are presumed to be descended from the
Jamestown Richard Glover. But two of the name have been reported
as of New England descent, among the settlers there. The following
is a list of Glovers, copied from the Charleston (S. C.) Directory for
1859 to 1861:

Glover, Adam B. (Henniker & Glover), house Meeting street.
             Francis, planter, house Bull, corner Rutledge street.
             George A., saddler, Price Avenue.
             H , widow of A. W., house King street, near Spring.
             J. 0., house Cannon above Corning street.
             S. L., accountant, house 7 Rutledge street.

The Charleston Courier for May, 1861, contained a list of students
at Columbia College who volunteered their services in defence
of their homes, but were not accepted on account of their youth and
inexperience. The name of Leslie Glover appears in that list.