Elizabeth Anne Carmichael Rumph Jamison. Portrait by William Harrison Scarborough

Elizabeth Anne Carmichael Rumph Jamison with two of her children. Caroline Harper Jamison Jenkins is the little girl and William Harper Jamison is believed to be the little boy.

Elizabeth Anne Carmichael Rumph Jamison. Photo taken in 1881 in Baltimore, Maryland

This is a line drawing of Burwood Plantation by Thomas Worth Jamison, son of General D. F. Jamison. The Plantation was bought by D. F. Jamison in 1859 and was located on the Edisto River in Barnwell County, South Carolina next to Woodlands, the home of the 19th Century novelist, William Gilmore Simms. The orginal plantation contained about 2,200 acres. The existing home was renovated and expanded by D. F. Jamison during the War Between the States and contained 14 rooms. Completed in 1864, the home was destroyed in February 1865 by Gen. Sherman's men. Elizabeth Jamison described the burning of her home as follows: “We arrived at our home on the 30th of May, 1865. That morning in passing through a town on our way, we met my oldest son. We had not heard of him before, since the surrender. He too was on his way home. It was very sad to see our beautiful home gone, only the chimneys and the underpinning left. Palings and fences all burnt. We had a good orchard, and it was, well, it was well that it was a good fruit year, for at times, that summer, there was little else to eat. As everything that could be destroyed on the place was gone. Everything that I tried to save by sending it off was found and destroyed by our prying visitors whether at home or abroad, except a few articles I had intrusted [sic] to our hostess in Columbia. Writing some fifty years later, William Gilmore Simms, Jr. described the ruins of Burwood in the following poetic manner: "General Jamison had built an elegant home upon his splendid plantation… . and in Sherman's devastating march, house, stable, barns and hundreds of bales of cotton all perished, and where the happy household stood, the stars looked down on roofless walls." The State, Dec. l8, l910, Part III, P.4. Elizabeth Jamison and her children lived in a log cabin on the place until 1869 until it was sold and partitioned for debt in 1869.

Tombstone of Elizabeth Anne Carmichael Rumph Jamison