More family information can be found at the Obituary in The State, Columbia, South Carolina · Saturday, July 26, 1941.
James was the son of Elijah and Narcissa (Simmons) Sproles. His father was in the Confederate Army and is said to have lost his life in the defense of Vicksburg. His mother remarried but when she died, sometime prior to 1880, James and his brother Addison and sister Theodosia, now orphaned, came to live with his mother's family in Greenwood. For a time James and his brother Addison were engaged in the tin business and later in the coal, oil & gas business. James was one of the founders of the Greenwood City telephone company. He was on the board of deacons of the Greenwood First Baptist Church. James married Mary Elizabeth McGhee at Abbeville, S.C. on October 9, 1884 at Abbeville (she died in 1923). Their children were sons: William C. Sproles, James Wilson Sproles Jr., and, James Bryon Sproles; and daughters, Mrs. Mary Sue Davis, Mrs Ruth B. Carroll, Mrs. Janie Seymour, Elizabeth and Miss Theodosia Sproles.
Historical Note: Through the efforts of Mrs Angelle Penn Adams (1905-2004) of the Greenwood Historical Society and the Palmetto Trust, the J.W. Sproles House at 723 Grace Street has been preserved. Built in 1903-4, the house and farm of the Sproles Family was purchased by Mrs. Adams in 1950. Although the surrounding Ridgewood Circle subdivision was created in the 1950s from the Sproles Family 25-acre farm, the historically significant house and grounds were spared and continue to be preserved.
James was the son of Elijah and Narcissa (Simmons) Sproles. His father was in the Confederate Army and is said to have lost his life in the defense of Vicksburg. His mother remarried but when she died, sometime prior to 1880, James and his brother Addison and sister Theodosia, now orphaned, came to live with his mother's family in Greenwood. For a time James and his brother Addison were engaged in the tin business and later in the coal, oil & gas business. James was one of the founders of the Greenwood City telephone company. He was on the board of deacons of the Greenwood First Baptist Church. James married Mary Elizabeth McGhee at Abbeville, S.C. on October 9, 1884 at Abbeville (she died in 1923). Their children were sons: William C. Sproles, James Wilson Sproles Jr., and, James Bryon Sproles; and daughters, Mrs. Mary Sue Davis, Mrs Ruth B. Carroll, Mrs. Janie Seymour, Elizabeth and Miss Theodosia Sproles.
Historical Note: Through the efforts of Mrs Angelle Penn Adams (1905-2004) of the Greenwood Historical Society and the Palmetto Trust, the J.W. Sproles House at 723 Grace Street has been preserved. Built in 1903-4, the house and farm of the Sproles Family was purchased by Mrs. Adams in 1950. Although the surrounding Ridgewood Circle subdivision was created in the 1950s from the Sproles Family 25-acre farm, the historically significant house and grounds were spared and continue to be preserved.
More family information can be found at the Obituary in The State, Columbia, South Carolina · Saturday, July 26, 1941.
James was the son of Elijah and Narcissa (Simmons) Sproles. His father was in the Confederate Army and is said to have lost his life in the defense of Vicksburg. His mother remarried but when she died, sometime prior to 1880, James and his brother Addison and sister Theodosia, now orphaned, came to live with his mother's family in Greenwood. For a time James and his brother Addison were engaged in the tin business and later in the coal, oil & gas business. James was one of the founders of the Greenwood City telephone company. He was on the board of deacons of the Greenwood First Baptist Church. James married Mary Elizabeth McGhee at Abbeville, S.C. on October 9, 1884 at Abbeville (she died in 1923). Their children were sons: William C. Sproles, James Wilson Sproles Jr., and, James Bryon Sproles; and daughters, Mrs. Mary Sue Davis, Mrs Ruth B. Carroll, Mrs. Janie Seymour, Elizabeth and Miss Theodosia Sproles.
Historical Note: Through the efforts of Mrs Angelle Penn Adams (1905-2004) of the Greenwood Historical Society and the Palmetto Trust, the J.W. Sproles House at 723 Grace Street has been preserved. Built in 1903-4, the house and farm of the Sproles Family was purchased by Mrs. Adams in 1950. Although the surrounding Ridgewood Circle subdivision was created in the 1950s from the Sproles Family 25-acre farm, the historically significant house and grounds were spared and continue to be preserved.
James was the son of Elijah and Narcissa (Simmons) Sproles. His father was in the Confederate Army and is said to have lost his life in the defense of Vicksburg. His mother remarried but when she died, sometime prior to 1880, James and his brother Addison and sister Theodosia, now orphaned, came to live with his mother's family in Greenwood. For a time James and his brother Addison were engaged in the tin business and later in the coal, oil & gas business. James was one of the founders of the Greenwood City telephone company. He was on the board of deacons of the Greenwood First Baptist Church. James married Mary Elizabeth McGhee at Abbeville, S.C. on October 9, 1884 at Abbeville (she died in 1923). Their children were sons: William C. Sproles, James Wilson Sproles Jr., and, James Bryon Sproles; and daughters, Mrs. Mary Sue Davis, Mrs Ruth B. Carroll, Mrs. Janie Seymour, Elizabeth and Miss Theodosia Sproles.
Historical Note: Through the efforts of Mrs Angelle Penn Adams (1905-2004) of the Greenwood Historical Society and the Palmetto Trust, the J.W. Sproles House at 723 Grace Street has been preserved. Built in 1903-4, the house and farm of the Sproles Family was purchased by Mrs. Adams in 1950. Although the surrounding Ridgewood Circle subdivision was created in the 1950s from the Sproles Family 25-acre farm, the historically significant house and grounds were spared and continue to be preserved.
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