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- Christopher Phinney was the sixth child born to Patrick and Margaret McCullough Phinney. He spent most of his life in Fairfield Co., S.C. just south of Chester Co., S.C. where his mother and father lived their entire lives. Christopher married Sarah (maiden name believed to be Sterling) and had two children, John William born 1847 in Fairfield County, S.C. and Margaret J. Phinney (named for his Mother) born in Fairfield County, S.C. in 1849. The first record we have of Christopher on his own is the 1850 census where he is listed married to Sarah. In this census he is shown as a planter in Fairfield County. His real estate and personal property are valued at $10,440. After the 1860 Census, but before the 1870 census, Christopher is gone. It is assumed he was a casualty of the Civil War because we know he enlisted on August 1, 1863. By this time the cause of the South was going badly, and, even though Christopher was 44 years of age , he enlisted as a private in Company H, 4th S.C. State Troops. In January of 1864, we know he was called up from the 24th S.C. Militia and was given extra duty as a courier. The last record shows him as such until January 31, 1864. No further record has been found.Real Estate records, assumed posthumous, show his name on deed grantor lists in Fairfield Co in 1863, (still living), 1865, 1867, 1868, presumed dead. In 1882 and 1884, the county records appear to have recorded the last disposition of any property in Fairfield County, S.C. under his name. By the 1870 Census, Sarah is in Drew County, Arkansas living with her two children. It can be assumed that the aftermath of the Civil War drove them from South Carolina. Sarah died in 1888 in Lincoln County, Arkansas. (Lincoln County is adjacent to Drew Co on the north). She is buried in the Ebenezer Family Cemetery along side her daughter Margaret Phinney Boyd. This cemetery is still in existence (1999) and both headstones remain. It is maintained by the Boyd family and located in a wooded section of the county. [2]
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, d. 7 Dec 1888 (Age 82 years) 