"Great grand-father Gavin was injured by being security and had to sell property, and is buried on the N. East side of Catawba River in South Carolina on a plantation then owned by Zadie [sic, Zadoc] Perry, who had a brother named James Perry; the river was wide and deep here where Grandfather Gavin lived, he lived not far from the line of North & So. Ca. One of his neighbors was named Dukes, she had two sons John & Moses, Elijah died. My grand-father had moved from Meclenburg Co. No. Ca. near Rocky creek [sic] enters the Catawba river ..." Gavin, David, Diary of David Gavin, 1850's to 1870's, published by Jim Lay, Dorchester, SC, page 146.
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