Source: The Arnold Family, W.H. Arnold of Texarkana, Arkansas, published by West Publishing Company, 1935, p 70
"Mary Charlton first married Johnson, who was an old man. She was called upon, by her husband, on his death bed to bring him his money, out of the chest - it was as much as she could bring in her apron, he told her that he left this and all his property to her. She then married Charles Sullivan (this time for love she said) whom she represented to be the handsomest man that ever walked the town of Charlotte, Virginia. She was a woman of uncommon intellect, lived with grandmother and worked until she was 100 years old, then took to her bed and lived about 10 years longer. I have often heard my mother speak of seeing her at grandmother's; and what a sprightly old lady she was."
"When they settled near Louisville, GA, they lived in log cabins with dirt floors, had to dig a pit in one corner of the house to put the meat in, and cover it over with rawhides and set hens on it to keep the Tories and soldiers from stealing it from the children; would take out a little piece at a time and hange it on the chimney. The Tories would come in and rip up her beds and scatter the feathers over the yard. She had only one pair of cotton cards, and when she saw the Tories coming she would hide them under her dress. She was so anxious to keep them to clothe the children."
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Lebanon Methodist Church History (2 mi from Princeton, Laurens County, South Carolina), p 42,
"From family papers ...we learn that the wives of Peter Ragsdale and Charles Sullivan (known as the "Charlton sisters") and the widow Bowman (nee Gore) were the moving spirits behind the founding of Lebanon Church. They ere women of education and piety, not satisfied in this new land without a church and a school for the children. So as soon as their houses were built, they persuaded their husbands to send back to Virginia for the Rev. Mark Moore, known to be a great preacher and a fine educator, to come to serve their community and help establish Methodism in upper Carolina. 2"
