Book Description
Banks of the Edisto is a family story and compilation of the descendants of Banks and Nancy Gunter. They are part of the large Gunter family that first settled in Lexington County shortly after the American Revolution. Banks and Nancy married about 1816 and raised a family of eleven children in the upper reaches of the Edisto River Valley. Beginning about 1857 shortly before Banks died, some of their children left for Alabama and Georgia while others stayed in South Carolina. Today, thousands of their descendants can be found in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and beyond. Among the many family names in this compilation are Atkisson, Bunn, Canada, Fulmer, Gunter, Gaither, Gurley, Hall, Hallman, Kneece, Lackey, Millsapps, Patterson, Ridlehuber and Sexton.