Since the profile for his wife included info that obviously includes 2 different women named Sarah, her birth last name being Griffin is thrown into doubt. Bartholomew Still's widow Sarah did not live in Alabama in 1860, but lived in Butts County, GA in both 1860 and 1870. The person who claims she was born a Griffin should provide evidence or logic to support that claim. Otherwise, it is most likely fiction. Barthomew Still grew up in Barnwell, SC, and appears to have briefly lived in Edgefield, SC around 1820 (if the same man). By 1828, he had moved to Butts County in middle Georgia. A few years later, he sold 800 of his 1200 acre tract in Pike County for the founding of the city of Griffin GA (sold to General Lewis Griffin). He also owned 202.5 acres in Butts County and 202.5 acres in Dekalb County at different times. He died in Dekalb County in 1851.
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George Washington elected first president of United States.
"In 1792, South Carolina passes a law called the ""head tax"" for all free African Americans from age 16-50. This tax was $2.00."
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English and German: nickname for a calm man, from Middle English, Middle High German stille ‘calm, silent, still’. The German name may also have denoted a (deaf) mute, from the same word in the sense ‘silent’.
English: variant of Stile .
English: variant of Stell .
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