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"Families are like branches on a tree, we grow in different directions, but our roots remain as one"
Benjamin Styles & Mary Farrow
Ben Styles & Mary Farrow
Woodruff Plantation
Spartanburg, South Carolina
Benjamin Styles was born between 1825-1830 to Gabriel Bumpass Styles, his owner, and an unknown enslaved woman in Spartanburg, SC. The origins of Mary Farrow are unknown at the moment. Mary Farrow was most likely born or brought to Gabriel Styles’s plantation when Gabriel married Rebecca Farrow in 1821. Benjamin Styles would first have children with an enslaved woman named Nancy Miller. His first child was Charlie Rufus Styles, born in 1844. By 1850, Benjamin Styles and Mary Farrow would have their first child, Judge Styles. This union would bring a total of six children: Judge, Amanda, Rufus, Caroline, Susan, Patient, Major, William, Peter, Monar, Ellen, Minnie, Eva, and Mary. In 1860, Gabriel Styles died and bequeathed Benjamin and his family to his son, Carey Wentworth Styles. The family moved to Brunswick, Georgia to live with their new owners.
Carey Styles enlisted for the Civil War and his wife Fannie Jane Styles consistently corresponded with her husband. She makes many references to Benjamin and Mary in these letters. It seems that Benjamin was well respected by his half brother’s family, whether this relationship was known or not is unclear. The daughter of Carey and Fannie Styles, Louella Styles-Vincent, would later write a short story titled My Mary and Others before she became a famous author. As the civil war ravaged towards Brunswick GA, Fannie Styles retreated to Brooks County GA with her children and the enslaved Styles family. All of the Styles family would remain here until the end of the Civil War. Upon the end of the Civil War, the Styles family was emancipated along with the other 2 million slaves in Georgia.
Property Inventory of Gabriel Styles
Showing Benjamin Styles (Ben, 7th Line), Mary, and three children (10th line)
Will of Gabriel Styles
Quitman Free Press
August 20, 1869
As the country entered the Reconstruction phase, Benjamin Styles was tried in Brooks County Superior Court Friday August 20, 1869. He and three other men were charged with VAGRANCY. In 1866, the Vagrancy Act was passed mainly to satisfy angry white southerners about the newly freed African American population. Any person that appeared to be unemployed or homeless was now a criminal. Whites were upset at the number of blacks being “idle” and “lazy” This was completely unfair to newly freed African Americans and forced MOST to continue working for previous slave owners or to be worked on a chain gang if they could not find a home or job. The jury ended up only fining him $5 because he had a “large and dependent family” and was a “good natured, but lazy man.”
Children and Spouses of Benjamin Styles
After unsuccessfully running for Congress, Carey Styles moved to Atlanta, GA to start a newspaper, later known as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Mary Farrow died between 1874 and 1880. Benjamin Styles would then marry a woman named Julia Hollins/Hollis(?) and then married Melvina Jones in 1896. It is possible he had more children with both of these women. Benjamin Styles died between 1896 and 1900. Most descendants of Benjamin Styles settled in Polk Co. NC, Brooks Co. GA, and Jackson Co. FL after his death.
