In 1893, a massive Hurricane hit the Sea Island Coast, devastating its population and making those unable to make ends meet desolate. Two things are significant in our family history that relates to the Sea Island Hurricane or the The Storm of 1893:

1) Elizabeth, Shed's wife would mention it as a reason he was unable to produce a Marriage Certificate for the Pension Board to verify her relation to Shed.

and

2) I believe that Hector Fields the individual who seems to "disappear" from all known records after selling 100 acres of land to a Stuart Point Early Settler Ben Washington in 1880, is a casualty of this storm. In a Rootsweb post it is noted a man by the name of Hector Fields who is a Resident of South Carolina before 1893 does not show up in any records after 1880. Moreover the records attributed to him on the Rootsweb Family Tree say that he died on August 27, 1893. This is extremely interesting…only because. There is also no known presence of Benjamin Washington b. 1852 after 1893. Could this be connected? Or could this be pure specualtion. And how many more Beaufort and Savannah Residents related to Stuart Point's Patriarchs died in the Hurricane of 1893?

Shedrick Manego