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Ishmael Chavis

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Lugoff, Kershaw County, South Carolina
Death: 1805 (64-65)
Robeson County, North Carolina, United States
Place of Burial: Robeson County, NC, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Phillip Chavis, Cheraw of Old Cheraws Dist and Selah (Bass) Chavis / Nansemond to Waccamaw
Husband of Reyel Reigel Chavis
Father of Chief Lazarus Elisha Chavis; Mariah Mariah Williams; John Chavis and Julian Chavis
Brother of Erasmus Chavis; Peggy Chavis and Parrot Chavis

Managed by: Marsha Gail Veazey
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About Ishmael Chavis

http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Chavis_family.htm Ishmael Chavis was born in 1750 in SC in what became Kingston Co, Lugoff, Kershaw Co, but was legislated as Old Cheraws District by the SC Legislature in 1767 to parents Phillip Chavis and Selah Bass / Nansemond. Ishmael married Revel Jacobs who had Lazarus Elisha Chavs, Mariah Chavis, John Chavis and Julian Chavis. The family relocated to Robeson Co, NC where Ishmael died in1805 and was buried there.



While in SC, work was done with the Waccamaw and there is a Jacob's Mill in Elgin, SC. When moving to Drowning Creek, Push's Marsh is where their deeded land was located. Ishmael has a native history with his mothers' lines of Pamunky Neck Rez. = Lightfoot. Lateral Anderson Nansemond cousins went to Lost Creek Settlement and were joined by some Cherokee of Mexico to work the mines. Other lateral native communities went to Cheraw, MS area and Cheraw, SC area and some ended up Coushatta Parish, La and name morphed to Hoozier (Canal Digging Hughes in Colonial to Rev War in Licking Creek, Va where there was a Goins School (Native) and some Hughes (Fitz Hugh) went to Indiana and were Hoosiers.

Per FTDNA Y-DNA Haplogroup E-M2

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Ishmael Chavis's Timeline

1740
1740
Lugoff, Kershaw County, South Carolina
1770
1770
Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina, United States
1775
1775
Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States
1785
1785
1800
1800
Age 60
Fayetteville, Robeson, North Carolina
1805
1805
Age 65
Robeson County, North Carolina, United States
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Robeson County, NC, United States