Looking for information on the Ballew family of Glassy Mountain, SC

Question

Please help me find information on the Ballew family of Classy Mountain, South Carolina.

Thank you,

CJ

Comments

Ooooo!  Dark Corner is another name for that mountain and area.  I know the area very well as I spent many an eve during my teenage years tackling the climb over it in various and asundry jeeps, driven mostly by friends, but sometimes by me.

Then with the DOT as that scrabbly old road, fit only for 4x4's, was an actual state road!

It was an interesting place up there - those folk did not like outsiders.  I worked with one of the Goods for a while.  He installed indoor plumbing for his mothers place in 1986 (from a well of course)!  No phones up there until the entire mountain was bought by a developer.

Mags

Answer 1

Try a Google search for  Ballew Glassy Mountain

• Glassy Mountain Baptist Church Cemetery - Find A Grave ...

  www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?...Ballew...1...

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  Find a Grave

  Records 1 - 12 - Ballew, Charlotte Reid 43164343 b. 1834 d. May, 1879, Glassy Mountain Baptist C.. ... Ballew, Charlotte "Lotty" Chastain 10366515 b. Sep.

• JA Ballew b1874 - Glassy Mountain GREENVILLE South ...

  www.mocavo.com › Record Search › 1880 United States Census

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  Jun 23, 2014 - 1880 United States Census for JA Ballew b1874 - Glassy MountainGREENVILLE South Carolina is available for free on Mocavo.

 

Comments

There was another church up on the mountain.  Don't remember the name, but I do know that the Church and graveyard were not to be disturbed as a part of the agreement to develop.  I don't know if the developer followed through with that promise.  Mags

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Come to the light Carol Anne!

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Hilarious Vincent!  Mags

Answer 2

My 4th great grandfather , George Lindsey, was married to Agnes Ballew & they lived on Glassy Mtn. . He owned the land where the old remote cemetery is . His son, William , was a preacher at the old church on the road up the mountain, that is still standing.

Answer 3

Are you still looking for information about the Ballews of Glassy Mountain?  If so, I might be able to help.  I've done a fair amount of research on them, although there are still a lot of questions.

Comments

Yes, always looking for more info, especially older info. My 4th Great Grandfather , George Lindsay was married to Agnes Ballew & lived up there.

Answer 4

Yep, " Dark Corner's ." I am a Lindsay descendant from there . My 4th great grandfather , George Lindsay married Agnes Ballew. The old dirt road going to the cemetery is now restricted . The cemetery is on land once owned by George Lindsay. It was called " Lindsey Cemetery " for years, but now is " Emery-Lindsey."

Answer 5

I am a Lindsay, & a direct descendant of George Lindsey, who was married to Agnes Ballew, & lived on Glassy Mountain.