Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

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[558] year he removed to Greenwood, where he has since been engaged in cotton manufacturing and merchandising. He has been president of the Greenwood cotton mill since it was established in 1889, and is one of the proprietors of the Durst & Company co-operative store at Greenwood. He is also a director in the Greenwood Oil & Fertilizer company, and a trustee of the Greenwood graded schools. He was married, December 3, 1874, to Miss Louise DeVore, of Edgefield, of French Huguenot descent. She died April 20, 1893, and he was married the second time, on December 29, 1898, to Miss Annie L. Cothran, of Greenwood, S. C.

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George W. Earle

George W. Earle, of Pickens, S. C., was born in Anderson county, S. C., September 1, 1836. His father was Dr. James W. Earle, of Anderson, who now resides in Pickens county at the age of eighty-six, and his mother was Amanda Benson, who died in 1892. He was reared in Anderson county, and entered Charleston medical college in 1856, graduating from that institution in 1858. He began practice at once in Anderson county, but gave it up to enter the service of the Confederacy. In April, 1861, he became a private in the Palmetto Riflemen, was soon transferred to the medical department and served as an assistant surgeon from the summer of 1861 until the close of the war. He served with his command at First Manassas, Seven Pines, and in the Seven Days battles, and was slightly wounded at Williamsburg. After practicing in Anderson county for two years after the close of the war, he removed to Pickens, where he is now the leading physician. He was married, October 8, 1874, to Elizabeth Jeanette Breazeale, and they have five children, three sons and two daughters.

Major William K. Easley, who took a prominent part in the early period of the Confederacy, in South Carolina, was a native of Pickens county, and the son of Col. John Allen Easley, whose father was Robin Easley, a soldier of the Revolution who settled in Pickens county after that war. The second wife of Robin Easley was a first cousin of Ethan Allen. Major Easley was a lawyer by profession, and held the rank of brigadier-general in the State militia previous to the crisis of 1860-61. He was a member of the secession convention and earnestly