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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: William Stackhouse Floyd Born: 2 Sep 1886 at Floyd, , Dale, SC Married: Abt 1912 Died: Abt 1960 at Floyd, , Dale, SC Father: Henry Bascom Floyd Mother: Harriett Stackhouse
WIFE
Name: Virginia Spotswood Niernsee Note Born: Abt 1890 at Columbia, , Richland, SC Died: Abt 1980 at Floyd Dale, , , SC
CHILDREN
Name: Louise Niernsee Floyd Born: (suppressed / living) Died:
Name: William Stackhouse Floyd Jr Born: 1915 at Floyd, , Dale, SC Died: Abt 1988 at Floyd, , Dale, SC Wife: Dorothy Britt
NOTES
2). Virginia Niernsee was an exceptional lady from a very distinguished family. Her grandfather was a renowned architect and soldier. He came from a family in Austria which was titled and connected to the royal Hapsburgs. Baron von Niernstina was the olderbrother of John Rudolph Niernstina who came to America after some dispute with the Catholic Church. After arriving in Baltimore, he married Emily Bradenbough, a scotch irish girl and they had six children Rudolph, Margeret, Helen, Frank, Emma and John.John R. changed the name to Niernsee and set about building a fine reputation as an architect. One of his prominent designs is the original Johns Hopkins Building in Baltimore. The Legislature of South Carolina prevailed upon Mr. Niernsee to accept thecommission of designing the State Capitol Building. The family moved to the Mimnaugh House on Gervais Street in Columbia. This same house was later used by General Sherman for his headquarters in Columbia and was spared burning. Niernsee and his son, Frank, Virginia s father, both served the Confederacy, the younger as a courier at fourteen years of age for the 6th Cavalry and the elder as a builder of fortifications, with the rank of major, with General Hampton under Lee in Virginia. After the War, Major John R. Niernsee left Columbia, returning to Baltimore where Architectural work was more readily available, but after a few years South Carolina again prevailed upon him to return to complete the Capitol. He reassembled the artisans he had summoned from Europe for the initial work and completed a major portion of the project. When Major John died, his son Frank, Virginia s father, was summoned to finish the work. John Rudolph Niernsee was the designer of St. Peter s Roman Catholic Church in Columbia, which service he performed at no fee as a contribution to the church. He lies buried there in the churchyard, although he was protestant. Virginia herself served the State of South Carolina well. For many years she was the Home Demonstration Agent forDillon County, beginning at the depth of the great depression in 1932. She had innate dignity and great poise among all those with whom she worked. The aristocracy of her breeding and bearing were in her warm and outgoing personality and she endeared herself to many people. In the latter part of her life her circumstances were somewhat spartan and humble. Yet she gave a moving eulogy at the funeral of one of her grandsons. Dressed in the simplest smock and canvas shoes, she stood and addressed the assembly as if she had been in royal gowns. One of the greatest burdens she bore was the charming, talented and wasted old rascal whom she married W. S. Bill Floyd could have been anything he set himself to following his graduation from Wofford College first in his class in 1907. As it was, he went back home and involved himself in the businesses and properties of his parents, Mr. Bascom and Miss Hattie Floyd in Floyd Dale. His talents unused and unchallenged, he became bored and turned to drink andcarousing. He soon became a hopeless alcoholic with no fortune and no prospects. Virginia saw to the family and preserved a semblance of dignity for them all. I knew Uncle Bill well and liked him very much, but we all knew that he had fallen low andthat Aunt Virgie was the rock that held them. HBF.

						

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