Francis Brewington

HARDY A. BREWINGTON

       The Brewington family is the largest family of Croatans living in Sampson County. Hardy is the son of Raiford Brewington, and the grandson of Hannah Brewington, who lived in Sampson County from 1775 to 1850. The records in the office of Register of Deeds in Sampson County show that she purchased lands in the county in 1807 on Coharee. She is well remembered by Jonathan Goodman, James Strickland and other old men now living. They describe her as being a copper-reddish hue, high cheek bones, straight black hair and a good specimen of the Cherokee Indian. She married "White Simon," so called because he had no surname, and was half Indian and half white. After the marriage he took her name and was known as Simon Brewington. Raiford Brewington was their son and married Bashaby Manuel. They owned nearly a thousand acres of land on Coharie prior to the Civil War. '''Hardy A. Brewington, their son, married Francis Harding, daughter of Amos Harding. They have several sons and daughters. One son, Rev. M. L. Brewington, is a minister and affiliated with the Eastern Carolina Association, which is composed principally of the Indians of Robeson County. Another son, J. Arthur Brewington, married Polly Ann Jacobs, daughter of Jno. R. Jacobs and grandson of Jesse Jacobs.'''

The Brewington family for seven generations with one or two exceptions, have not intermarried with persons of negro blood, and have retained their racial status to a remarkable degree.
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Francis Hardin Brewington BIRTH 4 Mar 1849 North Carolina, USA DEATH 12 Mar 1918 (aged 69) Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina, USA BURIAL Brewington Cemetery Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina, USA MEMORIAL ID 140662889 · View Source

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 1 FLOWERS 1 Family Members Spouse Photo Hardy Ashford Brewington 1846–1917

Children Photo Junius Arthur Brewington 1867–1949

Photo Hardy Sanford Brewington 1880–1943

Joseph Harvey Brewington 1882–1948

Aldonia Brewington Simmons 1886–1949

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