Why the Family Page Matters
The Poston family of South Carolina is the genealogical and land-history context for the community of Poston. This page exists to connect the place to the family record without turning the site into a personal biography or unsupported descendant claim.
The Corrected John / Anthony Framework
Older family tradition referred to two South Carolina founders as John and Andrew. The stronger genealogy framework identifies the early South Carolina brothers as John and Anthony, also remembered as “Antney.” That correction matters because the later Andrew Poston associated with the naming of Poston, South Carolina belonged to a later generation.
From Pennsylvania to South Carolina
The family-history record traces the line from John Poston in Chester County, Pennsylvania, through the family’s southward migration into what became the Marion District and Florence County region of South Carolina. The published genealogy is the proper source base for this history, especially where it distinguishes court records, census records, family tradition, and later supplied information.
Andrew Poston’s Place in the Family Story
Andrew Poston’s importance is not that he was one of the first South Carolina Poston settlers. His importance is that he became the namesake-linked figure attached to the modern railroad-era community of Poston. The family page should therefore place him in proper generational context rather than collapsing earlier migration history into the twentieth-century naming story.
Modern Stewardship
Eric Chalmers Poston appears on this site as a modern author, editor, compiler, publisher, and project steward for materials concerning the Poston family and Poston, South Carolina. That role should be visible enough for author and book-entity clarity, but not so prominent that the place archive becomes an Eric Poston biography site.