ancestors
The matriarchal line
Sarah Lewis Graydon McCrory (1921-2017) [my mother]
Raven Vanderhorst Simkins Graydon (1891-1976)
Sarah Raven Lewis Simkins (1858-1938)
Anna Raven Vanderhorst Lewis (1830-1865)
Ann Elliott Morris Vanderhorst (1795-1879)
Ann Barnett Elliott Morris (1762-1848)
Sabina Codner Elliott (1735-1793)
Ann Barnett Codner (1717-1744)
Ann Hamilton Barnett (1690-1754)
Mary Grimball Hamilton (1666-1695)
Mary Stoney Grimball (1645-1711)
Interred in the mausoleum
Elias Vanderhorst III (1791-1874)
Ann Elliott Morris Vanderhorst (1795-1879)
Children:
Anna Raven Vanderhorst Lewis (1830-1865)*
John Vanderhorst (1832-1864)
Children of Anna Raven Vanderhorst Lewis:
Elizabeth Raven Vanderhorst Lewis (1850-1857)
Sarah Amelia Lewis (1853-1857)
Arnoldus Vanderhorst Lewis (1857-1890)
Infant son (1865) [interred with his mother]
*John Williams Lewis (1820-1873), husband of Anna Raven Vanderhorst Lewis, is buried in Saint Philip's cemetery, Charleston.
Other descendents of Elias and Ann Vanderhorst
Children:
Arnoldus Vanderhorst (1822, died 3 weeks old) [buried in St. Michael's churchyard, Charleston]
Benjamin Simons Vanderhorst (1823-1826) [buried in St. Michael's churchyard, Charleston]
Elias Vanderhorst IV (1825-1850) [memorial in mausoleum; buried Cemiterio dos Ingleses Gamboa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]
Lewis Morris Vanderhorst (1826-1864) [memorial next to mausoleum; buried at site of Battle of Haw's Shop, Virginia]
William Vanderhorst (1829, died 4 weeks old)
Arnoldus Vanderhorst IV (1835-1881) [buried nearby in Magnolia Cemetery]
Children of Anna Raven Vanderhorst Lewis:
Ann Elliott Lewis (1851-1883) [buried in Pon Pon Chapel of Ease Cemetery, Jacksonboro SC]
Helen Morris Lewis (1852-1933) [buried in St. Lawrence Cemetery, adjacent to Magnolia Cemetery]*
Sabina Rutherford Lewis Jones (1855-1936) [buried in St. Lawrence Cemetery]*
Sarah Raven Lewis Simkins (1858-1938) [buried in Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield SC]
Son who died in infancy (c.1860)
Raven Lewis (1862-1940) [buried in St. Lawrence Cemetery]*
*The three sisters Helen, Sabina, and Raven are buried in the same plot -- but only Helen and Sabina's names are on the memorial.
Prominent relatives and their connection to the matriarchal line
Lewis Morris III (1726-1798), signer of the Declaration of Independence, was father-in-law of Ann Barnett Elliott Morris and grandfather of Ann Elliott Morris Vanderhorst. (Harlem To Charleston And Back: The Southern Connections Of An Elite New York Family. Note: There is an error in this blog. Morris' son Lewis Morris IV married Ann Elliott.)
Arnoldus Vanderhorst II (1748-1815), governor of South Carolina, was father-in-law of Ann Elliott Morris Vanderhorst and grandfather of Anna Raven Vanderhorst Lewis.
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816-1892), lawyer and pioneering astrophotographer, was great-grandson of Lewis Morris III, and second cousin of Anna Raven Vanderhorst Lewis.
Lewis Morris Vanderhorst (1826-1864), son of Ann Elliott Morris Vanderhorst and brother of Anna Raven Vanderhorst Lewis, was a member of the Charleston Light Dragoons; he died in the Civil War Battle of Haw's Shop.
Quash Stevens (1840 or 1843-1910), enslaved African-American half-brother of Anna Raven Vanderhorst Lewis and Lewis Morris Vanderhorst, was manservant of Lewis Morris Vanderhorst in the Civil War, and later overseer of the Vanderhorst plantation on Kiawah Island.
Daniel Augustus Tompkins (1851-1914), engineer, industrialist, and newspaper publisher, was great-uncle of Sarah Lewis Graydon McCrory. (He was uncle of Clinton Tompkins Graydon.)
Helen Morris Lewis (1852-1933), actress and crusader for women's suffrage, was daughter of Anna Raven Vanderhorst Lewis, and sister of Sarah Raven Lewis Simkins.
Douschka Pickens Dugas (1859-1893), white supremacist "Red Shirt," was first cousin once-removed of Raven Vanderhorst Simkins Graydon.Â
Clinton Tompkins Graydon (1890-1962), South Carolina lawyer and judge, was husband of Raven Vanderhorst Simkins Graydon, and father of Sarah Lewis Graydon McCrory.
Nell Saunders Graydon (1893-1986), South Carolina author, was sister-in-law of Raven Vanderhorst Simkins Graydon.
Francis Butler Simkins (1897-1966), historian of the South, was son of Sarah Raven Lewis Simkins, and brother of Raven Vanderhorst Simkins Graydon.
Modjeska Monteith Simkins (1899-1992), African-American leader of the civil rights movement in South Carolina, was wife of Andrew Whitfield Simkins Jr., who was second cousin of Raven Vanderhorst Simkins Graydon.