U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
Name: Grimke Rhett
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: South Carolina
Regiment Name: 1 (McCreary's) South Carolina Infantry
Company: F&S
Rank In: Bvt. Second Lieutenant
Rank Out Expanded: Second Lieutenant
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Charleston Mercury
July 8, 1862
A letter from a private in the Carolina Light Infantry to his mother, reported that Lieutenant Grimke Rhett was killed in battle on June 27.
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Charleston Mercury
July 19, 1862
Lieutenant Grimke Rhett also was killed, being pierced through the head by a Minnie ball. A graduate of the South Carolina College with high honors - a lawyer by profession - he entered the service at the beginning of the war. As a soldier he is said to have been one of the most intelligent, active, prompt and efficient in the command.
U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
Name: Julius M. Rhett
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: South Carolina
Regiment Name: 1 South Carolina Artillery
Company: C
Rank In: Second Lieutenant
Rank Out: Captain
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State
March 16, 1895Charleston, March 15. - Captain Julius M. Rhett, a gentleman farmer of Montmorenci, near Aiken, S.C., was killed today by Mr. Marion Toole. The two men's farm adjoined, and there had been bad blood between them for years, but the immediate cause of the quarrel was a drain which belonged to Rhett and which Toole obstructed. Rhett directed his foreman to remove the obstruction, and therefore Toole shot him dead.
U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
Name: W.H. Rhett
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: South Carolina
Regiment Name: Battalion State Cadets, South Carolina Local Defense Troops, Charleston, S.C.
Company: A
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Private
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State
June 19, 1909
Charleston, June 18, - Information has been received of the death of William Haskell Rhett of Hendersonville, N.C. He comes of the well-known Charleston family. He was formerly the agent here of the Ocean Steamship company and also of the Central Railroad of Georgia. He was in failing health for some time. He is survived by a widow, having married for the second time a few years ago.
Interment is in St. Peter's churchyard.
New York Herald
September 21, 1889
Rhett. - At Morristown, N. J. on 19th inst., Eliza Hastie, daughter of the late William S. and Caroline Franklin Hastie and wife of W. Haskell Rhett, of New York.
The following account of his death is in Williams History of Washington County
"The drowning of Charles Haskell is perhaps the most remarkable and the saddest case of its kind on record. Charles Haskell was, at the time of his tragic death, a respected citizen and a prominent member of the Baptist Church. He resided near the river where he had his store. Saturday, July 23, 1831, he observed that some boats that he had secured to the Ohio side of the shore were being blown by the wind toward the Virginia side. Without a second thought, he plunged into the river, and his wife happening to come to the door for a minute, saw him swimming towards the boats. Having confidence in her husband's strength, she went into the house, but upon looking towards the river shortly afterwards she was horrified by the non-appearance of her husband, and the terrible thought was at once suggested that he had sank under the cruel waters. This proved too true. It is supposed that he was seized by a cramp while trying to get into the boat, and thus met a watery death. A long search in the vicinity faiIed to discover any trace of the drowned man, and it was not until the third day that the body was found in the river at a point opposite Marietta. At the time of his death Mr. Haskell was clerk of the Baptist church
Richard Greene Lawton was a farmer.
Jane Lawton was unmarried.
Ezra James Lawton was unmarried. He died during military service in the Civil War.