Our Multi-National Heritage to Adam, Ancestors of Merlene Hutto Byars, Volume 1: Ancestors of Merlene Hutto Byars - Volume 1

By Merlene Hutto Byars

This book is the result of information about the five generations of ancestry for the families of Esther Ray McClintock, Frank Pickens Williams, and Merlene Faye Hutto Byars (Klutzow) being handed down to them by their parents and also because Esther, Pickens and Merlene have explored cemeteries in many states and in Europe.
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Merlene Hutto Byars

Merlene received her education in Accounting and Journalism. She is known through Marquis Whose Who in the World, and through the pages of various Who’s Who publications by the International Biographical Centre where she is Deputy Director to its Director General from the Headquarters in Cambridge, in England. She exhibited her artwork, history books and genealogy at Oxford University and Cambridge University, England, New Orleans, La, and Lisbon, Portugal, in addition to South Carolina. She has traced her genealogy to Adam and Eve through royal families from the heritage of both her mother and father. Kiwanis International selected her as a distinguised member for the 2004-2005.

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CONTENTS

DEDICATION

PREFACE

FOREWORD

ANCESTORS OF MERLENE FAYE HUTTO

ANCESTORS OF ABRAHAM

MY OTTO GRANDPARENTS COME TO SOUTH CAROLINA, AMERICA

Pictures: On Plantation Given to Isaac Otto In Orangeburg, South Carolina (Edisto Gardens)

Pictures: 1. Coat of Arms for Otto-Hutto Heritage. 2. Henry I, Hedwig and Otto Wall Hanging.

COAT OF ARMS FOR HUTTOW, OTTO, HUTTO

(PRONOUNCED HUT’ TOE)

Pictures: Carved coat-of-arms

Picture: Nettie Eugenia Fail and Gideon Thomas Hutto and Four Children

Picture: Byrdie Drucilla Hutto and George Mintz and family

Picture: Henry Tarleton and Onnie Vera Amick Hutto and family

Picture: Gideon Cornelius (G.C.) and Ruby Brunson Hutto and family

Picture: Maggie Hutto Jenkins Williamson and 2 sons, also grandpa Hutto

Picture: Nettie Eugenia Hutto and John C. Woodall, Sr. and their 4 sons

Picture: Andrew Jackson and Colette Rikard Hutto with their wedding party April 25, 1953

Picture: Robert and Marjorie Phillips Hutto with their wedding party

Picture: Raye Hutto Livingston and Merlene Hutto Byars travel to Alaska June 1995

Picture: 50th Reunion of Class of Brookland-Cayce High School in 1999

Pictures: Coleen Raye Hutto Livingston and Her 2 children

Pictures: Merlene Hutto Byars goes to New York City July 1988

Pictures: Our South Carolina Congressman in Washington, D .C. and His Family.

NOTE FROM MERLENE HUTTO BYARS:

THE FAMILY OF MERLENE HUTTO BYARS

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY I

DEDICATION

For my family and all descendants of Adam and Eve. This book is in memory of my parents, Nettie Eugenia Fail and Gideon Thomas Hutto and to my late husband, Alvin Byars. It is dedicated to my children—Alvin Gregg Byars, Robin Mark Byars, Jay C. Byars and Blaine Derrick Byars and their families, and to my present husband, Friedrich Wilhelm Klutzow, MD, FCAP.

PREFACE

This book is the result of information about the five generations of ancestry for the families of Esther Ray McClintock, Frank Pickens Williams and Merlene Faye Hutto Byars (Klutzow), being handed down to them by their parents. Also, because Esther, Pickens and Merlene have explored cemeteries in many states and in Europe. We carried our screwdriver to dig out the engravings on tombstones and then traced the information onto rice paper with a special crayon. Sometimes it was just written onto to paper.

Merlene traveled in Europe three times and Esther traveled there many times while she was film editor for the many movies produced about—The Three Stooges. While there we traveled to places such as St. John’s Church cemetery at Cambridge University, Althorp, many castles in England, Wales, France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and other countries. Pickens has traveled many times to Virginia and Maryland to research our ancestors such as those who served in The War Between The States.

We found that our ancestors came from Denmark, Greece, Holland, France, Egypt, England, Scotland, Wales and even Palestine, Israel, Persia, and other countries. They came from Northern Ireland ancestors whose blood lines were from Scotland, with no Irish blood, to the West Indies and to our present America because of the British controversies with the citizens of Scotland who became Presbyterians, and for other reasons that led to fighting between them.

We also researched the Manning papers at the University of South Caroliniana Library and Barnwell County Museum; the writings and personal contact with our ancestry connected to A.S. Salley, South Carolina State Historian and William Gilmore Simms, Sr., who was the most prolific historian in the United States.

William Gilmore Simms, Sr. had children with club feet and Merlene also had two sons born with club feet. Therefore, we learned much about health and and other problems that are inherited in our family, such as gout, freebleeders (especially in females), osteo-arthritis, migraines by male and females, breast cancer by male and females and club feet in males. We became so fascinated with our findings that we probably became addicted to our work and so we went on to discover our ancestry to Adam and Eve. We are so thankful for our ancestors who handed down information in writing that takes us back to our beginnings.

Fortunately, these great historians were also a part of our heritage and we have been able to acquire from them their research for our family connections.

Merlene Hutto Byars

FOREWORD

I have traced my ancestry back to Adam and Eve through more than four different ancestry lines on both sides of my parents. My ancestry goes back through ancient history to Henry I of Denmark, the father of Otto I and his sister Hedwig. King Otto I, Emperor of Germany was born about 910 and died November 23, 912 in Saxony, Germany and in 973 he married Eadgyth, born about 910 and died January 21, 946, to the Royal family in England, and was the first wife of Otto I. HENRY was the name of nine German kings and six of them were also Holy Roman Emperors. Henry I (c. 876-936) the Fowler, king from 919 was a member of the Liudolfing family, the son of Otto the Illustrious, duke of Saxony and his wife Hathui. Henry I first married Hatheburg, daughter of Count Erwin of Merseburg. He divorced her because of ecclesiastical pr otests. However, he kept her rich dowry. He married second in 909 to Mathilda, daughter of a Count Dietrich. Today the name is Derrick and my mother-in-law was named Lola Derrick Byars. Dietrich had possessions in Westphalia, so Henry I was able to establish himself there. Henry I succeeded his father as duke of Saxony in 912. He was constantly at war with Conrad I over lands in Thuringia until the settlement of Grona, near Gottingen, in 915. Conrad I, on his deathbed December 818, designated Henry I as his successor. At a meeting of Saxon and Frankish nobles in Fritzlar in May 919, Henry was elected king.

In 926 Henry bought off the frequent plundering raids of Magyars for nine years. When he withheld tribute for the Magyars in 932 they resumed their raids but were defeated in 933 at Riade on the Thuringian-Saxon border. In 934 Henry I succeeded against the Danish King Knuba. He received the holy lance, with nails from the cross of Christ, from King Rudolf II of Burgundy in exchange for the cession of Basel. This may have been intended to provide a justification for his planned intervention in Italy. He had designated Otto, his eldest son of his second marriage, as his successor. Henry died on July 2, 936, in his palace of Memleben.

Henry I and Mathilda had these children Gerberga De Saxe, Henry, Bruno, Hedwig of Saxony and King Otto I. We discover that Eadgyth is my mother’s cousin and the wife of my father’s ancestors. My mother descends from William I the Conqueror and King of England and my father descends from Otto I. The name Hutto, Huttow was changed by the English who wrote what they heard as name was given them when Isaac Otto came from Sobernheim, Germany to Charleston, S.C. in 1737.

There are so many names in my family, first and surnames, that come from ancient history as well as the Holy Bible even today. My father was a twin and his name was Gideon Thomas Hutto while h is twin brother was named Thomas Gideon Hutto. Thomas in the Bible means twin. Also, my father’s oldest brother was named James Gideon.

My brother was named Henry Tarleton Hutto for the Henry’s in the royal families that we come from, and the Tarleton for Tarlton Brown my fifth great uncle from Wales heritage. Tarlton Brown took the e out of his name because of the British Tory from England who constantly harassed our people before and after the Revolutionary War. As far as we know the Tory Banastre Tarleton was not related to our family.

On my mother’s side of the family her folks came to South Carolina from Maine, Massachusetts (May Flower) and Jamestown, Virginia (First Settlers at Jamestown, Virginia). Our folks were in Virginia trading with the Indians and taking back from the Pirate’s from the West Indies, the goods they had stolen from the British long before Jamestown was settled in 1607.

Here are some of the names handed down to our generation for centuries—Aaron, Adam, Agnes, Ann (Anna, Anne), Agatha, Augustus, Arnold, Adelaide (Adelais), Adele, Andrew, Alfred, Barbara, Barnard, Beatrice, Bertha, Benjamin, Bessinger (Basinger), Bellinger, Brice, Calvin, Catherine, Charles, Clark (Clarke), Claude (Claudius, Clodius), Cole, (Coleman), Constance, Corneliu s, Daniel (Dan), David, Dorcas, Duke (Comes from Title), Edithe (Edith, Eedeth, Eadgyth), Elford, Eleanor (Eleanora), Ellen, Elizabeth (Liza, Betty), Esther, Eugenia (Jean), Florence, Frances, Francis, Frank, George, Gertrude, Gideon, Godfrey, Gwendolyn, Hannah, Hans, Henry, Holman, Hugh, Sybil (Sybilla), Isaac, Isabelle, Jackson, Jacob, Jane, Joan (Joanne, Joane), Jean (John), Joseph, Joyce, Judith (Judy), Katharine, Kenneth, Lavinia, Leah, Levy (Levi), Lewis, Magdelene, Maria (Marie), Marguerite (Margaret), Marilyn, Martha, Mary (Molly), Major (Comes from Title), Manning, Maggie, Margaret, Margaretta, Malcolm, Matild a (Maud), Middleton, Moselle, Nathael, Nettie, Nicholas, Osborn, Opal, Owain (Owen), Peter, Phillip (Philip), Polly, Rachael, (Rachel), Roselea (Rosala, Roselle), Rebecca, Renee, Robert, Rufus, Ray, Raye, Wray, Rhys, Rice, Reese, Reed, Rees, Richard, Ruth, Sarah, Samuel, Stephen, Susan, Susannah, Tama, Theodore (Ted), Tobias (Toby), Thomas (Meaning Twin), Troy, Ursula, Walter, William (Bill, Williams). I asked my mother as a child, Why does our family keep using all these old names in our family? She answered, because they are a part of our heritage and they tell us from where we came and when we came here.

I was born on November 8, 1931, in New Brookland, now West Columbia, Lexington County, South Carolina, to Nettie Eugenia Fail Hutto and Gideon Thomas Hutto. Nettie came here from Bamberg and Allendale Counties and my father came from Barnwell County, South Carolina.

Merlene Hutto Byars

ANCESTORS OF

MERLENE FAYE HUTTO

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Ancestors of Abraham

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MY OTTO GRANDPARENTS COME TO SOUTH CAROLINA, AMERICA

I am happy to say that in 1997 I was able to travel to the area on the Rhine River from where my ancestors descended. I also traveled in the Netherlands where they stayed for quite awhile before coming to Charleston, South Carolina and up the Pon Pon river to their new land on the Pon Pon (now Edisto River) in America. Isaac and Maria Catherina (Cole?) came to Charleston from the Otto clan in Staudernheim and Sobernheim, not too far from Worms.

It was near the Rhine and Nahe Rivers. This region, The Palatinates—Upper and Lower, were two regions joined together before 1623. The lower Palatinate, lying on both sides of the Rhine river and bounded by Mainz, Treves, Lorraine, Alsace, Baden and Wurttenberg. The capital was Heidelberg.

The definition of the Palatinate, is a land of palaces. Palatinate, the name of two German states united before 1623. They were called Upper and Lower Palatinate. The Upper — being what is the kingdom of Bavaria. The Lower — lying on both sides of the Rhine and bounded by Mainz, Treves, Lorraine, Alsace, Baden and Wurttenberg. The capital was Heidelberg. The Renish Palatinate was established as an hereditary possession, as early as the eleventh century and in 1216 it was granted to the Duke of Bavaria, and this and the Bavarian territory were held by the Bavarian house. In 1559 the Renish territory and the electoral vote passed to Fredrick III, afterwards to Fredrick V, and finally to his son. In 1801 France took possession of the western part and gave the eastern part to Bavaria, Nassau, Hesses, and Darmstadt. The left bank was restored to Germany in 1815, with the larger part going to Bavaria and the rest being divided among other provinces.

SOBERNHEIM, GERMANY

Sobernheim is in South Germany, 152 meters above sea level. With a Felkenbath and climatic health resort situated to the south of the Soon forest on the Nahe river, a small old city and one of the most significant health resorts. The place of operation of the nature-cure doctor Pastor Felke who for decades worked in Sobernheim, and there found his last resting place: Domicile of the Felkebund (the Felke-union or club). In the city are the following places of interest: The Felke Memorial, Evangelical (Lutheran) Church, a Gothic structure of the 14th century. Maltesan chapel and chapel of the knights of St. John, medieval houses, ruins of the monastery of Disibodenberg (3 kilometers away). In 1739 Jul 25 Surv. Lot 282 + 350 acres (Limestone Creek). Petition 22 Feb 1739. Arrived Charleston July 1735 ship OLIVER from Rotterdam. Isabella Hutto now out of servitude and wife, son 15, dau. 16, dau. 13, son 12, and son 2 (Council Journal 22 Feb 1739) [OGS News Vol. I pg. 18, pag. 131; Vol. II, pg. 120] Plat 4:179; Grant 42:218.

ROYAL LAND GRANT

George the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland. King, Defender of the Faith, etc. To all to whom these presents shall come greetings: know ye, that we of our Special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors,

DO GIVE AND GRANT unto Isaac Hotto his heirs and assigns, all that parcel or tract of land containing three hundred and fifty acres, situate lying and being in the limits of Orangeburg Township, on the northeast side of Pon Pon River in Berkley County in the province aforesaid butting and bounding to the northwest on land part laid out unto John Rote, part to Casper Miller and part not laid out to the northeast on land not laid out, to the Southeast part on land not laid out and part laid out to Ludwick Linder, and to the Southwest on Pon Pon River, and also on Town lot in Orangeburg contain half of an acre known in grand plat of the said town by number 282. And have such shapes; forms and marks, as appears by plats therof, herunto; annexed; Together with all woods, under-woods, timber and timer-trees, lakes, ponds, wishings, waters, water-courses, profits, commodities, appurtenances and heridtaments whatsoever, thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining:

Together with privilege of hunting and fowling in and upon the same, and all mines minerals whatsoever; saving, reserving, neverless, to us, our heirs and successors, all white pine trees, if any there should be found growing thereon; and also saving and reserving, to us, our heirs and successors, one-tenth-part of all mines of silver and gold only: To have and to hold, the said tract of three hundred and fifty acres and half of land and all and singular other the premises hereby granted, with appurtenances, unto the said Isaac Hotto his heirs and assigns forever, in free and common soccage, he, the said Isaac Hotto his heirs and assigns, yielding and paying therefore, unto us, our heirs and successors, or to our Receiver-General for the time being, or to his Deputy or Deputies for the time being, yearly, that is to say, on every twenty-fifth day of March, at the rate of three shillings sterling, or four shillings proclamation money, for every hundred acres, and so in proportion, according to the quantity of acres, contained herein; the same to commence and grow due for ten years next after the date hereof. Provided and always, and this present Grant is upon condition, nevertheless, that he, the said Isaac Hotto, his heirs and assigns, shall and do, within three years next after date of this presents, clear and cultivate at the rate of one acre for every five hundred acres of land, and so in proportion according to the quantity of acres herein contained, or build a dwelling house thereon, and keep a flock of five head of cattle for every five hundred acres, upon the same, and in proportion for a greater or lessor quantity; and upon condition, that if the said rent, hereby reserved, shall happen to be in arrears and unpaid for the space of three years after the same becomes due, and no distress can be found on the said lands, tenements and hereitament hereby granted, that then and in such case, the said lands, tenements and hereditaments hereby granted, and every part of parcel therof, shall rev ert to us, our heirs and successors, as fully and absolutely, as if the same had never been granted. Given under the Great Seal of our Commander in Chief in and over said Province of South Carolina, the First day of March Anno Dom 1743 and in the Seventeenth Year of our Reign. James (L. M. S.) Glen. Signed by his Excellency The Governor in Council. Alexander Gordon, C.C. And Hath hereunto a plat thereof annexed, representing the same, certified by George Hunter, Esquire, Surveyor-General, the 7th November 1743.

RECORDED THE 14TH MARCH 1743/4

Isaac Hutto—1 lot and 350 acres on Pon Pon river, March 1, 1743. The one lot in town was for being on town council.

Tradition, according to A.S. Salley, tells us Isaac came from the royal family of Otto’s in Germany. First the Liudolfings came from the Baltic region to fight for the Deutsch. They were so successful that they eventually became German Kings and Italian Emperors as the Otto’s and Henry’s. The Otto’s and Henry’s descended from the Liudolfings . They became members of the House of Saxony as fighters. They were also Emperor’s of Italy. And two of the Otto sisters married into the royal families of Burgundy.

There was an Otto King who married a member of the royal house of Greece; one married a princess of English royalty; another married a member of the Roman Empire. The Otto’s were fighters for Italy, Germany and finally they came to America, specificly Orangeburg, South Carolina to serve as protection for the Charlestonian Colonists.

The Otto’s were always fighters and there is a symbol on their Coat of Arms to signify this. Isaac owned a lot in the town of Orangeburg and was on the town council. They descended from the King Otto’s in Germany. These Otto’s became Kings because they fought to protect the territories in the region where they lived, which was not even a country at that time. This region united and became Germany.

Isaac Otto died while walking from a town meeting to his plantation on the Pon Pon (Edisto River) where the Orangeburg Azalea Gardens and the Airport are now located. The first Lutheran Church in South Carolina was located near Orangeburg/St. Matthews. Rev. Gissendanner was from Switzerland and came to America with the German and Swiss who settled Orangeburg. They came up the Pon Pon River by canoe from Charleston. The church was begun by the Rev. John Ulrich Gissendanner (later his nephew) who kept the records on the Otto family. The first church my grandparents helped to build in Orangeburg was simply called The Church.

The English changed the spelling of Otto to Hotto and then Huttow and Hutto because this is the way they heard it pronounced. The name was originally Otto in the German as recorded in Rev. Gissendanner’s diary.

In 1755 a land transfer was made and the name was written Hutto. This was the first time it was so spelled and in most cases since that time it has been accepted as the correct way of spelling. It is pronounced Hut’ toe.

The Otto’s acquired much land in Germany and South Carolina because they fought wars for the people and to defend their countries. They received land for fighting in both The Revolutionary War and The War Between The States. My Grandparents, Henry and Ann Zorn Hutto had 1,300 acres on the Salkehatchie River in addition to other land in the Orangeburg district.

The Church of Orangeburgh, the first Lutheran Church in South Carolina, was built of clay and wood. It was about 30 feet by 50 feet. This is where the Otto’s worshiped with the Rev. Gissendanner. The Otto’s came to South Carolina sometime during the period of 1735 to 1737.

The first contingent arrived at Charleston on the ship, Oliver, with Samuel Merchant as Master, in 1735. All of these emigrants except forty five disembarked in July, 1735. This ship continued on to Philadelphia. A second ship arrived in 1736 and another in 1737.

In the 1790 census of South Carolina there were eight families by the name of Hutto, two of these spelling it Huttoe Two Isaacs, two Charles, Benjamin, Henry, Jacob and John. There were in Isaac’s family three males over 16 years of age and three under 16 and two females plus a mother.

LOCATION OF ISAAC (HUTTO) OTTO’S PLANTATION: In the Royal grant of 350 acres land and one lot No. 282 in the town of Orangeburg, on Fenwick Street dated March 1, 1743. The plat shows that this land was on the north-east side of the Pon Pon (Edisto) river. On the south-west it was adjacent to the Pon Pon (Edisto) river. On the south-west it was adjacent to the Pon Pon river. It also adjoined land which had been layed out or granted to John Rote (Rowe), Casper Miller and Ludwick Linder. On February first 1771 Isaac, Jacob and Benjamin Hutto executed an instrument in writing leasing this 350 acres of land to George McMichael. This document was signed by Isaac and Ann Hutto, also Benjamin and Susanna Hutto and Jacob Hutto.

This would indicate that Benjamin Hutto was a bachelor at that time. Also, that this land had passed down from the original grantor Isaac Otto to his grandsons. This property is loca ted on the south-east side of the city of Orangeburg and extends from the Edisto river on the south-west side to the north-east side across the Southern Railway to U.S. Highway No. 21 and the present Orangeburg airport is located on a part of this property. Mr. Edgar Hutto had an occasion in 1920 to visit a Mister McMichael on his farm and at the time of his visit he was cultivating land which is described. Edgar Hutto was of the opinion that the property had been in the McMichael family since it was acquired by lease in 1771 from the descendants of Isaac (Otto) Hutto. Isaac Otto was buried on Monday, 17 August 1752. He died suddenly on Saturday, 15 August on the edge of the Path as he was going home and was found and taken up between his home and the town of Orangeburg. He was coming home from a town meeting where he was a councilman. He left a wife and seven children, four that were married. He was aged 57 years and buried on his own plantation. Into the same grave was entered the Grandchild of the late Isaac Otto, named Susannah, daughter of Charles and Ann Otto. She died on Monday morning after a fortnight illness at the age of one year. All of this is recorded in Gissendanner’s diary. Isaac Otto’s widow Maria Catherina married Henry Mell, Tuesday 24, April 1753. There is also a record of these children who were married before Isaac’s death, Anna married Peter Griffith on May 25, 1742, Sarah married Leonard Varnedore (no date shown), Charles married Ann Tshudy (Judy, no date shown). Peter married Margaret Barbara Shuler (no date shown). The Rev. John Gissendanner’s diary was discontinued after 1761 due to his death. The researcher of this history was A. S. Salley, State Historian, and Edgar Hutto. Salley lived in Orangeburg where his family settled when they arrived from Switzerland. Salley’s family, and the Otto’s and McMichael’s were all neighbors.

Edgar Hutto was born November 6, 1896 in Orangeburg county on the Ninety Six road twenty miles west of Orangeburg where the first family settled. His father was George Washington Hutto and his mother was Mary Williams. His grandfather was James Hutto and his grandmother was Mahalia Bell. His great grandfather was James Hutto and his great grandmother was Nancy (?). His grandfather and grandmother are buried in the Hutto cemetery on his grandfather’s old farm. His great grandparents are buried in the Rocky Swamp Methodist church cemetery. In 1860 Cornelious and Isabella Hutto gave an acre of land for this church building to be erected on. The cemetery is much older, since his great grandfather was buried there in 1852. Military records show that Cornelius Hutto was killed in the battle of Gettysburg in The War Between the States. A good number of Hutto kin are buried in the cemetery in unmarked graves. Edgar Hutto was associated with the Southern Railway for 45 years as local agent at various points on the Charleston division.

He was a member of the Baptist Church, Masonic Order, Lions Club, South Carolina Historical Society and the National Genealogy Society. His hobbies were genealogy and fishing. His research took him over much of the United States, South America, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Holland. Edgar wrote a complete history of genealogy of the Hutto family dating from 1735-37 when Isaac Otto settled near Orangeburg on the banks of the Pon Pon (Edisto) river. He endeavored to record a reasonable amount of historical data that would interest Isaac and Catherina Otto’s descendents. It has been handed down in my family that Isaac and Benjamin were grandchildren of Maria and Isaac Otto.

Orangeburg and Amelia— Purrysburgh and Williamsburg shows the great influx of population beginning in the early 1730’s was flowing into several townships at the same time. Orangeburg was the third of the township plan to be settled with German, Dutch and Swiss settlers. Several South Carolinians had already obtained grants and were living in Orangeburg and Amelia when, on July 13, 1735 a shipload of 250 German, Dutch and Swiss arrived from Rotterdam. Two Hundred twenty of these were sent there. There were only a few indentured servants among the Germans of this period. Of the one hundred names to an Orangeburg petition in 1749, sixty-six are German, twenty-five are English (with possibly five or six really German), one is French, and eight cannot be determined. Those who came in la ter had more indentured servants. These Germans were thrifty frugal people who had early success with wheat that diminished the province’s dependence on the northern colonies, particularly Pennsylvania, for flour (wheat). The Germans came to the area mainly to improve their economic condition. But those from Switzerland and the Palatinate came from religious pressure, and some from the desire to live in freedom.

Amelia township, lying between Orangeburg township and the Congaree-Santee, and two or three times the area of its neighbor, covered roughly the present Calhoun County. The Cherokee path ran through it and this was a determining factor in its settlement. Amelia early on developed into a region of large planters, mainly of English stock, who advertised for private tutors. They dominated the location of the church and the politics of the parish when the two townships were erected into St. Matthew’s Parish (now St. Matthews in Calhoun County) in 1768. (Ref: Line of Succession, By Merlene Hutto Byars copyright 2002)

We do know that Isaac Otto came to America by way of one of the trips that arrived in America from 1735 to 1737. However, there seems to be some discrepancy as to the exact