My Genealogy Hound

REV. ARCHIBALD S. SLOAN, of the Twentieth District, and son of James and Jane (Thompson) Sloan, was born in Newbury, S. C., December 8, 1821. He was one of a family of eight children, only three of whom are living, viz.: Rev. H. T., pastor of Cedar Springs and Long Cane, S. C., which position he has filled for thirty-eight years; Mrs. Jane Chalmers, of Newbury, S. C.; and our subject. The father of our subject was born in South Carolina in 1796, and was of Irish extraction. He was a farmer by occupation, and was married in 1819. At the time of his death, which occurred in 1869, he was the owner of about 800 acres of good land. Mrs. Sloan was a native of South Carolina, born in 1803, and died in 1872. Out subject received the rudiments of his education in the schools of the neighborhood, but subsequently entered Erskine College, South Carolina, where he took a regular course, graduating in 1844. In 1846 he was licensed to enter the ministerial profession under the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church and soon after emigrated to Lincoln County, and after moving around for some time began his ministerial career at Prosperity, where he remained as pastor for twenty-seven years. March 14, 1848, he wedded Elizabeth J. Stewart, a native of Lincoln County, born September 20, 1829, and to this union were born seven children, six of whom are living, viz.: Nora J. (wife of H. T. Sloan), Mary F. (wife of John Lindsey), James T., Olivia C. (wife of E. H. Parkinson), Thomas W. and Ebbie C. Mr. Sloan has a fine farm in a good state of cultivation. While yet preaching at Prosperity his charge increased till he was compelled to abandon his practice at that place, since which time he has been pastor at Bethel and New Hope; virtually he has preached the gospel to the same people for forty years, being among the earliest Christian workers. In 1886 his son, Thomas W., graduated at Erskine College, South Carolina, the same place from where his father graduated forty-two years previous.