Home Fulton Family History Copyright 1987, 1999. All rights reserved. Updated May 18, 1999 The following text is taken from a paper entitled "Fulton" written by Larry Samuel Fulton. It contains information about one branch of the Fulton family, primarily in North and South Carolina. Fulton Family History by Larry Fulton   Preface   Notes on Fulton Family History   Theodore D. (Spake) Fulton   Anastasia Fulton   John Bishop Fulton   Notes about Bishop's Children   Wylie Irvin Fulton   Wylie's Death   Elva Jane Fulton Wells Preface Cost of printing this document has been underwritten by Larry and Wylie Fulton. It is presented to most of you as our 1987 Christmas gift. Also it is being placed with local libraries, genealogical and historical societies in Cherokee and York counties of S.C. as well as Cleveland and Rutherford counties of N.C. If any would be willing to contribute toward this expense, give it to Dub, Wylie or Larry. I hope this visit with your ancestors will be entertaining and inspirational to all of you. FULTONS, let us keep in touch! Wylie Wayne Fulton November 1987 Notes on Fulton Family History The purpose of this paper is to put in writing a number of things which have been passed on by word of mouth, so these things will not be lost for all time when those who remember or have lived them are gone. Our interest in history or our family heritage often is not kindled until later life, when those elder citizens have passed on to become a part of the history they remembered and relived verbally. This document will outline the ancestors of the children of Gabriel D. Fulton, as far back as I have been able to find. I will refer to persons and places which are familiar to my brothers and sisters, but which will not be familiar to our children unless we pass this information on to them. A word of caution is in order: history is not always kind to those who would venture into it to establish the supremacy of their heritage; indeed history is often tragic and very sad. I personally place no significance to blood lines, etc., but the tragic events experienced by out ancestors, no doubt, had profound effect upon their lives and the subsequent opportunities enjoyed by their offspring. I will make no effort to launder the past, only to record what has been detailed to me. I hope those recipients of this document will attempt to add to it and make the record more complete. Grateful appreciation is hereby expressed to those many persons who have helped to bring our family story to this point. Larry Samuel Fulton November 1987 Theodore D. (Spake) Fulton 1798-1885 He ran a country general store which was located just south of the Eula Rippy house on Mt. Paran Road. It was a large log building, surrounded by a forest of tall pine trees. This was during the early 1800's and the community was not highly populated at that time. He would have been considered a member of the upper middle class of that period. Some of the logs from the old general store were used in construction of the present Eula Rippy house. Theodore is buried in an old grown-over graveyard at the edge of the Putnam farm near the North Carolina/South Carolina state line. Anastasia Fulton 1830-1921 Details of her life are sketchy, probably because of the scandal with which she was associated. To her were born three illegitimate children - two boys and a girl. The boys were named Bishop and Joe and the girl Alice. Joe married and settled near Cramerton, NC; the girl married a man named Runyan and settled near Earl, NC. Since the father of these children was not known, they all received the name of their mother. Bishop married Martha Dover and had 10 children, the second son and seventh child being Wylie Irvin Fulton, father of Gabriel Dorris Fulton. Anastasia, or Stacey as she was called, is buried in New Hope cemetery at Earl. John Bishop Fulton 1849-1937 Bishop was born and grew up in Mt. Paran community near the Eula Rippy farm. He helped construct and lived in the old Neal house located across the road from Eula Rippy's house. Martha Dover, who Bishop married, was reared on the present Sullivan Roark farm in upper Mt. Paran community. To this union were born 10 children. Shortly after her 10th child was born, Martha died, and Bishop spent the great part of his life caring for those children, but unfortunately the family did not grow to be very close-knit. Bishop was a heavy-set man, about six feet tall and weighed about 225 pounds. He was said to be one of the strongest men around during that period. In his later years he moved to Gaffney and lived in a boarding house and worked at Limestone Mills. The mill owners are said to have thought of him as one of their best workers. He worked in the mill's "opening room". Bishop continued working until he was about 85 years old, walking to work every day. He was an introverted, rather morose man who spoke few words and was not given to outward show of emotions toward his grandchildren. Being an illiterate child, he was probably a social outcast in his day, which fostered a withdrawn behaviour. His sole visible vice was chewing tobacco. My dad Gabriel D. Fulton knew Bishop ("Bish" as he was called) as an old man. His impression of his grandfather was, "He was a quiet hardworking man who had nothing to do with anyone." Bishop is buried in Mt. Paran cemetery, along with his wife and at least four of his grandchildren. Notes about Bishop's Children Wylie - father of Gabriel D. Fulton (more) John - He served in World War I. His childhood sweetheart had died and it proved shattering to him. He finally married late in life but had no children. He moved to Copperhill Tennessee and worked in the mines. During his old age, he also was a barber. Charlie - Married a Bridges girl from near Grover, but died early and left her with three small children. Being a member of the ODD FELLOWS a fraternal organization, the children were eligible to enter an orphanage at Winston Salem, so their mother moved the children to the orphanage and obtained work nearby where she could help with them. One of these children was Lee Fulton, remembered well by my Dad, brothers and sisters, Aunt Georgia, and most of the family. A graduate of Wake Forest University, Lee lived his latter days near Winston Salem. He never married. He died in the spring of 1977. George - When he became an adult, he moved to the Atlanta area and spent most of his life working for Southern Railway. He married a Georgia girl and to them were born about five children. It is said that once he cut a deck of cards to decide whether to attend a meeting of the Jehovah's Witness (Russellite) religion. Based on this cut, he attended the prayer meeting, became converted and spent the rest of his life a devout Jehovah's Witness. His conversion was evidenced by his quitting smoking and other habits, and memorizing large portions of the Bible. As far as Dub knows, his children most probably joined the same sect. Myra - She married a man named Billy Earl of Earl NC. He had been previously married and had three children from his first marriage. No children were born to Myra and Billy. Uncle Billy Earl was famed for his beautiful long "Santa Claus" beard. It is said that when he once cut himself with a straight razor he gave up shaving for the rest of his life! Frances - Married Sylvanus Jones, a preacher's son, and settled in Marion NC. They had several children. Nora - Married Oliver McSwain, Oliver's brother, and settled near Shelby. The McSwains who live near Antioch are related. Minnie - Died about three years of age. Buried at Mt. Paran. Ida - Married Will Johnson of the Antioch area. They had two children. Wylie Irvin Fulton Wylie lived in Mt. Paran community all his childhood and attended the old Holly Grove school (which, I, Larry Fulton, can remember being torn down). He was a very athletic young man, known as an exceptional baseball player. Mr. Wayne Wells, son of Aaron Wells, said that Wylie was "one of the best baseball pitchers in the country." While attending Holly Grove school, Wylie became a childhood sweetheart of Bertha Wells. Mr. and Mrs. Wells objected to Wylie and Bertha's close relationship, yet Bertha decided to run off and get married. This she did and while secretly leaving her home, Bertha dropped her hat in the road (according to her sister Blanche) where it was found the next day. Her mother washed and pressed the hat and later gave it back to Bertha. Wylie must have been pretty rough as a child. There was some indication that he spent time at an old stillhouse and wheat mill up Lick branch near his home. He might have drunk some as a young man and possibly drank occasionally as an adult. After Wylie and Bertha married, they lived at his home for a short time before setting up housekeeping in Cherokee Falls. Ho worked for the mill there and played on their baseball team (mill teams of that period were equivalent to semi-pro now). From Cherokee Falls Wylie moved his family back to the vicinity of his home in Mt. Paran, but soon a friend convinced him that truck-farming in Florida was more lucrative. So Wylie moved his family to Hampton, Florida, where he grew strawberries for about two years. Madge was his only child born in Florida. After a crop failure Wylie moved back to this area and lived in the Gus Randall home place behind where Dean McGraw now lives. From there he later moved over the hill to a house between Bill Shuford's house and the creek. While living there, Wylie Irvin Fulton was tragically murdered! Dad's memory of his father is that he was a hardworking man who wanted the best for his children. He wanted Dad and Manly to attend the Grover NC schools because they were higher rated than the Blacksburg SC schools at that time. The boys were to start school at Grover that fall that their father was killed. Dad has said that Wylie would often take Manly and him hunting and fishing, for he loved getting out in the woods and hunting. He was "a very good shot" with the rifle or shotgun. Wylie was a sandy headed man about six feet tall and weighed about 185 pounds. He took no great interest in religion but insured that the children attended church. He was murdered at age 34 in Antioch and is buried at Mt. Paran. Wylie's Death Wylie Fulton and Will Hardin (or as later spelled Harding) had periodic arguments over their boundary line. Arguments over this line and some wooden poles and stumps became more frequent just prior to Wylie's death. Will Harding even killed Wylie's dog during the period of these arguments. It was fodder-pulling time and Wylie told Bertha that he was going to walk over the hill and hire Tom Wylie to help with the fodder. Harding was a deputy sheriff or some such officer which allowed him to carry a handgun. On that fatal day (September 11, 1918) when Wylie was walking back home from Tom Wylie's, Harding was observed coming up the road by the Bell place and he arrived at the intersection (circled on the sketch) about 25 yards behind Wylie. A witness at the Bell place saw him follow Wylie over the hill out of site at about 2:30 PM-- shortly thereafter three shots rang out. Bertha heard the shots also, and after Wylie hadn't returned for awhile she decided to walk up the road and look for him. She found him lying on the road in a pool of blood. Will Harding was marching around carrying the gun and saying he would kill anybody who went near Wylie. Bertha went to him anyway. He was dead. In the meantime Wylie had told Manly and Dub to pick cotton until about 5 PM and they could go to the watermelon patch (see sketch) for a melon. They were just starting for a watermelon when a woman came running and hollered that their father had been shot. When Dad and Manly got up to the road, they saw their mother with their dad's body and Will Harding still marching back and forth with the pistol. Their father was lying in blood with a hat over his face. Soon Dad, Manly and Bertha were taken home, and as they left Will Harding was still walking around carrying the gun. Later Wylie's body was carried home on a one horse wagon and was "layed out" on the kitchen table with quarters over his eyes. They found a bullet hole through his back and two more through his arm and shoulder. After this tragedy, the Wells family suggested to Bertha that she put the children in an orphanage and try to continue her own life, but she declined. Somehow she and the children would make it. It was hard. The family spent one more year in Antioch before Bertha paid $500 (which she obtained from a Woodmen of the World insurance policy on Wylie) as down payment on the farm near Whitaker Mountain in Holly Grove and Mount Paran community. Purchase price of the 52 acre farm was $2000. 1 Will Harding was jailed, but soon he was released to come home and complete his harvest., The murderer came back and lived less than half a mile from the family of the man he had killed (see sketch). Dad has said that he sat up till long after dark many nights, afraid that old Will Harding would come back and kill the rest of the family. Harding came up for trial in about a year. He was charged with first degree murder -- maximum sentence being death -- but with a hung jury, his defense lawyer managed to get the trial stretched out, until Harding finally came off with about a six year sentence. He actually served only about 4 years! His lawyer was some kind of shrewd politician, known for shady methods of operation. When Harding was paroled he lived for a time at Cherryville NC, finally returning to Blacksburg. (We used to see him at Blacksburg when I was a child. I attended High School with his grandson. --LSF). Dad mentioned that he was able to overcome his natural desire for revenge against his Dad's murderer only after reading in the Bible, "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord." 1 The South Carolina Welcome Station on Interstate 85 south of Grover NC is on a portion of this farm. Standing in front of the Welcome Center and looking toward Whitaker Mountain across the four-lane highway, we can see most of the property where Bertha and her five children struggled for survival and where Dub's 10 children were born. Elva Jane Fulton Wells NOTE: This section actually concerns both the Fulton and the Wells portions of our family history. See Wylie Irvin & Bertha Dulcena Family grouping, also Wells Family page. == Elva Jane Fulton was born around King's Mountain, but her family moved to Antioch community while she was fairly young and settled near King's Creek, not far from the old Henry Houser House. Elva's father had to leave home and serve with the Confederate Army in the North Virginia campaign. Blanch Wells showed us a copy of a letter written by James Fulton describing the tattered state of the CSA army as the war was nearing its end. He mentions missing his baby "Elvy". He was later killed in the battle of Petersburg. His wife Jane carried on and reared about six children. We know that Elva grew to womanhood and married Isaac Gabriel Wells, their children best known to our family being Bertha (our grandmother), Blanche, Floy, Bee, Baxter, Fred and Olin... 13 children in all... the last one, Floy, died in May 1986. But we wish to mention briefly Elva's sisters and brothers, who contributed to some of the principle families in the local Mount Paran, Grover, and Antioch history. Elva's Family 1. Rachel - She married Bob Parker and to them were born five children:    1) Mattie who married J.E. (Uncle Jake) Sapoch, whose daughters Annie and Nell are familiar to us.      a. Annie married Forest Bolin.      b. Nell married J. Roy Robinson.    2) Jane who married George Moss, whose children included:      a. Shirley who was the wife of James Martin (our dear friend).    3) Will    4) Lee    5) Lydia who married a man named Blackwell. 2. Mary - She married Elijah Ross Sapoch. He built the old Sapoch house and operated a sword-making shop for the Confederate Army run mostly by slave labor. Wilks Woods, Rufus Lockhart's grandfather, worked there and was freed at eight years old at Thad Thompson's house near Mount Paran church. They lived in a small shack down Thompson's Branch. Some of the children of E.R. and Mary Sapoch are well known to the older of us:    1) Molly who married Charlie Baber and taught at Holly Grove school.    2) Georgia sapoch, I think was an old maid.    3) Glenn sapoch, who was a Blacksburg merchant, and G.D. Fulton said he was one of his best friends as a young man growing up without a father.    4) Peter Sapoch who was a Blacksburg, SC postmaster.    5)Fulton Sapoch, a bank president at Blacksburg-- when the bank went busted, he moved to the York area. 3. Elizabeth (or Lizzie) - This Fulton girl married Albert Bettis and to them were born several children, among them being    1) Lula who married Martin Sapoch and their well-known family:      a. Cynthia wife of Jack cash.      b. Irene, Beona and Sage Sapoch - never married.    2) Almeda, Thad Thompson's wife, and their three children best remembered by us are:      a. Marie who married DeWitt Moss, and whose children Winona, Eloise and Roy we grew up with. Marie is still with us and greatly loved by all Fultons who know her.      b. Fred Thompson whose wife Ruby still attends Mount Paran church. They had sons Mason Dean, Charles and Bee Ray Thompson.      c. Mary who married R.K. Wilson and lives in Shelby. Mary is quite an authority on the Fulton family and has contributed much to this booklet.    3) James Bettis.    4) Mason Bettis.    5) another son, maybe others.   NOTE: Albert Bettis commited suicide, his son Mason Bettis apparently did also. 4. Nora - She married Guss Randall in Antioch comunity, but died while her children were small, and the children eventually all moved to Tennessee. 5. Willie - Married a relative of Dr. Oates around Grover. (SIDE NOTES) Wayne Wells told Larry Fulton how the old Wells home near Dixon schoolhouse was linked to the American Revolution. Isaac Wells had been forced to join Ferguson's forces when they came through looting supplies. Many of the Colonists were uncertain about who might win the war, so many of them joined with or supported the British out of fear or in hopes of thereby bettering their own situation after the revolution was crushed. Isaac Wells was forced at gunpoint to join the British and, in fact, fought with them at King's Mountain. Following the defeat of Ferguson, he was later freed by the Colonists. Elijah Ross Sapoch and Bishop Fulton were involved with the Ku Klux Klan. One night Sapoch and some other KKK members came to get Bishop with the purpose of tar-and-feathering a negro sympathizer who lived in a large house near the Broad River mill in Blacksburg. Bishop was not at home and thus did not accompany the raid. The other members hurried on-- but the man had been warned! When the KKK-ers arrived, the man shot one or two of them from his upstairs window. But the KKK would not be outdone; they broke into his house and killed the man. The very next day Federal marshals arrived in Blacksburg, arresting all KKK members who had taken part in the incident, and they ultimately spent about 10 years in the Atlanta Federal prison. Bishop Fulton later told George Moss how glad he was that he wasn't at home that day and thus was saved from prison! As a result of this incident KKK activity was greatly dampened in the area for a number of years. The contents of this web site are intended for private, personal use only. None of the information presented here may be used for any commercial purpose whatsoever. It may not be copied nor reproduced in any manner, electronic or otherwise, without the expressed written consent of the author. The entire contents of this site are Copyrighted. In other words, don't even THINK about making a buck from my work, bozo.

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