Minutes of the Big Creek Baptist Church, Williamston, Anderson County, SC: (filmed by Baptist Historical Collection, Furman University, Greenville, SC
Film 236.06 572403)
August 23, 1801 list of members lists Elizabeth Holbert
From the Southern Baptist and General Intelligencer newspaper November 25, 1836: Died at the residence of Mrs. Acker, near Pearce's Ford, in Anderson District, SC on the 5th instant, Elizabeth Halbert, widow of William Halbert, Esquire...She raised thirteen children to be men and women, who have raised large families, and are in the states of SC, GA, Ala, Miss, AL, Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana and Tennessee. In 1826, it was ascertained that she had two hundred and forty descendants...almost ninety years of age.
From the affidavit of Peter Garrison Acker, July 6, 1904, p 99 of Generation Back by Norton: in 1834 Elizabeth was living with Susannah Acker when Peter age six went to live, for several years, with his grandmother Susannah to go to school. "I have often heard Elizabeth Halbert tell of her husband WIlliam Halbert being a soldier of the Revolution, and once while he was away from home in the war some Tory neighbors the Chapmans, came to her house and ordered her to get up out of her bed. She had a three days old babe and replied that she could not. They put a musket to her head saying they would blow her brains out if she did not, so she lay out on the floor while they cut the bed open, scattered the feathers and rode away with the tick as cloth was very valuable in those days." Peter Garrison Acker, sworn to before John A. Horton, Notary Public for SC.
