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Jefferson Luther Drafts

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Jefferson Luther Drafts

Birth
Lexington County, South Carolina, USA
Death
4 Feb 1904 (aged 65)
Lexington County, South Carolina, USA
Burial
West Columbia, Lexington County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
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His great-great grandfather, Jacob Drafts, was the original immigrant to the USA, Jacob Drafts, who got a 300 acre grant in Lex. Co., SC on old Saluda River, near Corley Mill Rd, in John Frierson property at old site W. P. Law, Co., near which is a small monument to Jacob who was scalped by indians; Jacob thought buried there in an old grave marked with a stone marker in 2003.

Jefferson married Pollie Buff whose family owned much property near the present-day highway #378 & I-20 interchange, the home she grew up in being where the fire department substation is on River Road near the south beginning of Corley Mill Road.

JLD served in Co. F, 5th S. C. Cavalry in The War for Southern Independence, starting under Capt. W. F. Caughman Jan. 1863 (wounded 11 June 1864).

Their sons, Darby & J. A. Drafts, ended up with the farm-land on the north side of present-day Darby Ambrose Road. The J.A. Drafts portion ended up with his son, George Bell Drafts, my wife's father (we live at 4524 as of 2017). In about 2005, we were able to have the branch running down the center of that parcel & emptying into Twelve Mile Creek officially named Drafts Branch.
His great-great grandfather, Jacob Drafts, was the original immigrant to the USA, Jacob Drafts, who got a 300 acre grant in Lex. Co., SC on old Saluda River, near Corley Mill Rd, in John Frierson property at old site W. P. Law, Co., near which is a small monument to Jacob who was scalped by indians; Jacob thought buried there in an old grave marked with a stone marker in 2003.

Jefferson married Pollie Buff whose family owned much property near the present-day highway #378 & I-20 interchange, the home she grew up in being where the fire department substation is on River Road near the south beginning of Corley Mill Road.

JLD served in Co. F, 5th S. C. Cavalry in The War for Southern Independence, starting under Capt. W. F. Caughman Jan. 1863 (wounded 11 June 1864).

Their sons, Darby & J. A. Drafts, ended up with the farm-land on the north side of present-day Darby Ambrose Road. The J.A. Drafts portion ended up with his son, George Bell Drafts, my wife's father (we live at 4524 as of 2017). In about 2005, we were able to have the branch running down the center of that parcel & emptying into Twelve Mile Creek officially named Drafts Branch.

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