Giles

Bishop Gregg, that Col. Hugh Giles, "a distinguished character" during the Revolutionary War, lived just over Smith Swamp, south of the site of the Marion courthouse, and it was for him, after 1783, that the settlement was called Gilesborough.

Hugh Giles Married our Sarah Ball she is the GGGGrandmother to our Curt Gowdy who still lives South of Marion SC