TRAVIS b: 26 MAR 1814 in Near Red Bank, Edgefield District, Saluda County, South Carolina
5. Andrew Jackson TRAVIS b: 1 MAR 1816 in Near Red Bank, Edgefield District, Saluda County, South Carolina
6. Margaret A. TRAVIS b: 7 JAN 1818 in Near Red Bank, Edgefield District, Saluda County, South Carolina
7. Nancy Ann Adeline TRAVIS b: 9 FEB 1820 in South Carolina
8. Prior Smallwood TRAVIS b: 11 FEB 1822 in Conecuh County, Alabama
9. Alexander Randelson TRAVIS b: 31 JUL 1824
10. Mark Butler TRAVIS , Jr. b: 18 MAY 1827 in Conecuh County, Alabama
James Calloway TRAVIS b: 5 AUG 1829 in Evergreen, Conecuh County, Alabama
MARK BUTLER TRAVIS
Mark Butler Travis was not a son, but a grandson of
Edgefield, and deserves a place in the history of the county, as he was
with the Palmetto Regiment, a member of it, in the war with Mexico.
His life was one of chivalrous heroism and devotion to his country.
He was born in the neighborhood of Old Town, Alabama, on May
18, 1827. He was very apt in the acquisition of knowledge. Having
read medicine he left home to attend a course of lectures in a distant
State, being at the time only seventeen years of age. While on the
way to college he met up with the famous Palmetto Regiment on the
