A Poston Family of South Carolina:
Its Immigrant Ancestor and Some of His Descendants
2025 Revised & Authenticated Edition
A Poston Family of South Carolina: Its Immigrant Ancestor and Some of His Descendants is a revised and authenticated 2025 digital edition of the landmark 1965 genealogy originally compiled by Erma Poston Landers and updated by Eric Chalmers Poston.
This volume traces the Poston family lineage from John Poston, an early eighteenth-century immigrant to Chester County, Pennsylvania, through the family’s migration south into Marion District, now Florence County, South Carolina. Drawing on probate records, Revolutionary War militia rolls, land warrants, deed books, census records, and archival materials, the work reconstructs multiple Poston family branches across South Carolina and Georgia.
The 2025 edition incorporates standardized names and dates, digital OCR restoration, archival cross-verification, structured genealogical indexing, and updated methodological notes. Intended for historians, genealogists, and descendants, this edition serves as both a family reference work and a documentary study of migration, settlement, and kinship in the South Carolina Pee Dee.
This edition is intended for historians, genealogists, and descendants researching early Pennsylvania migration, Revolutionary War service records, and South Carolina Lowcountry settlement patterns.
Eric Chalmers Poston
Author
Eric Chalmers Poston is an American author and genealogical researcher based in Columbia, South Carolina. He is the compiler and editor of the 2025 edition of A Poston Family of South Carolina, an updated and expanded continuation of the genealogical work first published in 1965 by Erma K. Poston Landers. His research focuses on documenting family lineages and preserving regional history connected to the Pee Dee region of South Carolina.