TIMMONS Family
Related Surnames:
Fryer, Gregg, Hanna, Keefe, Morgan, Myers, Poston, Prosser, Turner
This family line first came to South Carolina with John Timmons (originally Jean Timmins) who was one of the French Huguenot immigrants who left France after the ‘Revocation of the Edict of Nantes’ in 1685. He was SUPPOSEDLY among the group that came to Charleston with the Rev. Elias Prioleau, and his family was a member of the Huguenot Church there. It is believed that his sons, John, Jr. and William moved just outside of Charleston near French Santee (maybe in the 1730s). Nothing more is known by this researcher about the son, John Timmons Jr, but he may have had descendants that migrated to lands further west. NOTE: A Richard Timmons near Charleston stated in his 1723 Will that his sister lived in Ireland.
The son, William Timmons (1702-?), married and had one known child: John Timmons (1740-1825). It is this ancestor who moved to the Georgetown District in the 1760s. He married Sarah (or Mary?) Simmons and had sons and daughters that settled themselves along the Pee Dee. Many in the Timmons family became large land owners and at least one thought of using his land for more than farming.A John M. Timmons and his wife Elizabeth bought a large tract of pine woodland in Marion District about 1850. On this land they erected a saw mill, turpentine still, store and a three story dwelling as well as brought up 13 head of children. The land owned by this John M. Timmons became known as the town of Timmonsville.
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