Williams Middleton
(?-1883)
BIRTH
1809
PLACE
Sullivan's Island, South Carolina
DEATH
August 23, 1883
PLACE
Greenville
FAMILY
BROTHER
Arthur Middleton
(1681-1737)
SISTER
Henrietta Middleton Rutledge
(1750-1792)
SISTER
Hester Middleton Drayton
(1754-1789)
SISTER
Sarah Middleton Pinckney
(1756–1784)
HOMES
POLITICAL VIEWS
SECESSIONIST
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Williams Middleton (1809–1883) was a South Carolina planter and Henry Middleton’s son. Educated in England and Paris, he worked as his father’s secretary in Russia. He inherited Middleton Place in 1846, experimented with rice farming and introduced azaleas to its gardens. In 1860 he signed South Carolina’s secession ordinance and later supported Confederate defenses. He preserved the damaged estate after the war. His career belongs to the later Middleton generation.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Williams Middleton’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
Middleton was a planter and supported South Carolina's secession.
CAREER
DEATH
Williams Middleton was a South Carolina planter and Henry Middleton’s son. Educated in England and Paris, he worked as his father’s secretary in Russia. In 1860 he signed South Carolina’s secession ordinance and later supported Confederate defenses. Middleton was a planter and supported South Carolina's secession. Williams died on August 23, 1883, in Greenville. In 1886, an earthquake leveled what remained of the Main House and the North Flanker, while the restored South Flanker survived. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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