Samuel C. Austin, b 12/15/1824 d 02/03/1892  Date of emigration - 1842.    Wife, Martha Johnson b 2/27/1838 d 02/031907
both are buried at Liberty Springs Presbyterian Church, Cross Hill, SC
Samuel C. Austin emigrated from Ireland through Charleston, SC harbor and settled in Cross Hill, Laurens County.  It is believed that he was first married to a woman names Armatissa, as the 1850 census shows both their names, with property valued at $1800.  In 1860 the value of Samuel and Martha's property was $1550.
Samuel served in the Confederacy as a Private, Company C, Infantry, Holcombe Legion.  Enlisted for one year in 1861, then re-enlisted for "duration of war".  He fought in battles in Mount Pleasant, SC (Charleston) and Virginia.  He was captured at "The Crater" in Virginia and the batle is recorded in the following:
WAR OF THE REBELLION - OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMIES  Series 1, Volume 42, Part 1, Page 933.  He was one of eight men captured.
He and Martha had one son, James Alexander Austin b 3/27/1871 d 11/19/1908.  James married Mary Elizabeth Nash b 5/311870 d 6/10/1943.  They had 3 children, Samuel Leonard Austin b 12/25/1882 d 4/24/1963.  Married Sarah Eudora Daniels (Landrum) b 4/14/1891 d 7/22/1950.
Evaline b 1894, married Joe Nabors.  John Nash Austin b 1900 d 1930, m Dell Summerall d 3/1983.

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