Bostick / Bostock / Bostwick Surnames and Variants

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Comment by Edwin Sasportas on December 5, 2013 at 11:10am

Kenneth / Judith. You are correct. The house they stayed in is in Fort Motte. Sullivan Reese did a lot of traveling - he worked on and off for the railroad. How are you related - what are your mother's and grand-parents names? I'm going to ask my mother - she may have some other rememberences. Judith: I only did the maternal DNA trace which would trace the maternal Adams branch. My maternal grandfather's surname is Larrymore. He married Daisy Starks (descended from the Bosticks). My great-grandparents on that side were Adonis Larrymore and Mariah Bonaparte. The Sasportas side is my father. All my family are 19th Century South Carolina natives.

Comment by Judith Hazlett Starsinic on December 5, 2013 at 10:44am

Hi Edwin and Kenneth!  May I ask what other information turned up in the DNA?  Are you going to have a male DNA test done?

Comment by Kenneth Douglas on December 5, 2013 at 8:04am

I have the same death certificate via ancestry.com. Thanks for the clarification of Bolton and Shuler. I have Daisy Starks. You've answered my questions about Lillie. I see her living with her Aunt Mary Bostick Reese in 1910 along with her cousins Daisy Starks and Sullivan Reese. Lillie then lived with Sullivan. She was then Lillie Howell. I have Sullivan's obituary. Here is the transcription.

The State--Columbia, SC, Wednesday, September 3 1969

Sullivan Reese

Fort Motte - Sullivan Reese, 80, died August 27 in the Veterans Home in Johnson City, Tenn.

Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Mount Zion Baptist Church conducted by the Rev. W.W. Wine. Burial will be in the Good Samaritan Cemetery.

Surviv ing are three cousins, Hilliard Haynes, Henry McDuffie, and Mrs Viola Cash, all of Columbia.

J.P. Holley Funeral Home is in charge.

Comment by Edwin Sasportas on December 5, 2013 at 7:38am

Judith / Kenneth. Things are getting interesting. I have a copy of Angeline Adam's death certificate. Her mother's name was Eliza Adams. My mother was her great-grandaughter. My mother always said the family were mixed-Native American Indians. We did a maternal DNA swab for my Mom and it turn out Southeast Asia ancestry - which validates the Indian connection since Native Americans originally came to the Americas via Asia. Kenneth - I'm familiar with the names you mentioned regarding some of Joel Bostick's children. Hilliard was the oldest and my mother said his family was more well-off than others in the community. Emma is my great-grandmother. She had three children, including my grandmother Daisy Starks and granduncle John Bolton. I remember "Uncle John" very well - we used to visit him as children in Baltimore. They all had different fathers (Emma got around:-)). Mr. Shuler was a step-father who she married briefly much later. Lillie Bostick was known as Cousin Lilly. She was an illegitimate child of Hilliard - but was raised with the family. She lived with my great-grandmother. My mother has an old photograph of Nancy who you have listed as died in 1932. The reference to Governor James Hopkins Adams is an interesting lead - the connection would be with an Elizabeth or Eliza Adams. I believe that Angeline Adams had a brother named Ransom who may have married a Dicey Bostick. This would not be surprising given the close proximity of the families and the inter-relationships.

Comment by Judith Hazlett Starsinic on December 4, 2013 at 11:42pm

I just found this!  

http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=30928

Comment by Judith Hazlett Starsinic on December 4, 2013 at 11:35pm

Wow!  So interesting!  Great researching, Ken!  I want to check out Gov. James Hopkins Adams!  

Comment by Kenneth Douglas on December 4, 2013 at 10:40pm

Angeline may be the daughter of former South Carolina Governor James Hopkins Adams who served from 1854-1856. I have seen some Family Trees that have him linked to her as his daughter. Speculation perhaps I don't know.

He was Born: March 15, 1812 in Minervaville, SC

Died: July 13, 1861 near Columbia, SC. 

Dicey may have married a man named Ransom Adams for I find them in the 1860 census They were listed as dwelling # 19 on the census. Dwelling 20 was Joel and Angeline Bostick with 2 children Hilliard and Thomas. The Governor lived in the same area.

Comment by Kenneth Douglas on December 4, 2013 at 10:25pm

Edwin,  I count at least 12 children for Joel and Angeline. BTW Edwin what was your great grandmothers husbands name. I recall having some questions regarding her. Is there anyone with the name of Orphas Shuler? In the 1900 census there was a John Bolton living with Angeline Bostick who was 6 years old listed as a grandson. This was on June 27, 1900. Four days earlier on June 23,  I find in the same census I see an Emma and Orphas Shuler with a child named John A Bolton 6 yrs old listed as a son their household. I am assuming he may have been counted twice perhaps he was at his grandmothers house on the 27th. Speculating of course. There was also a Lily Bostick living with Angeline the same year listed as her granddaughter. 

The children I found are:

Thomas: 1855

Hilliard:  1857-1907? He may have been a postmaster .who has a great granddaughter named Marilyn Gilmore(nee) Johnson who lives in Colorado. My Aunt and I have actually talked to her. She met my Aunt Hazel several years ago.

Preston: Jan 1861- d 11 Dec 1922

Mary:  May 1865  d 16 Dec 1937

Emma:  May 1868

John: May 1870

Nancy A: 17 Dec 1872  d 5 Sep 1932

James:  1872

William: 1874

Ransom: 1876

Joel: Apr 1877 d 24 Jul 1948

Masky: Mar 1884

I am hoping that after digging all this up they are really my relatives. 

I hope this is something new for you. 

Comment by Judith Hazlett Starsinic on December 4, 2013 at 8:13pm

Hi Kenneth and Edwin!  I would love to know more about this William Bostick. Is this Richland County?  The names of James and John fit in with.a  John Bostick but that does not mean a William is impossible.      

Comment by Edwin Sasportas on December 4, 2013 at 5:05pm

Judith / Kenneth.  From what I know Joel Bostick and Angeline Adams lived in Amelia Township in 1880.  They had at least 9 children including my great-grandmother Emma.  The 1850 Census has Joel living as a free mulatto planter in Richland County.  Also listed in the household were James, Martha, Dicey and John. I'm guessing they were siblings.  I know prior to that there was a large slaveowner named William Bostick who in 1830 slave schedules had 21 slaves. I think there was a Bostick Plantation. This is interesting ...so many families in Carolina are connected in some way.

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