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Death Certificates or Notices or Obituaries
Clara Port Rion Obituary, Wife of Samuel Weir Rion
Col. James Henry Rion's Grandson James Henry Rion's Death Notice, 1934
Funeral Notice for Col. Rion in Fairfield News & Herald, 22 December 1886
Hanna Rion Hervey Dau. of Col. J. H. Rion Notice, Royal Gazette & Colonist Daily, 6 May 1924
Hanna Rion's Death Notice in the New York Times, 6 May 1924
Hanna Rion Who's Who in Art 1917, 1919, 1924-1925 Obituaries

Engagement Notices or Marriage Bible Records or Certificates or Notices
Wedding Reception for Holbrook Rion & His Wife by Col. Mrs. J. H. Rion

Estate or Probate Records or Wills
George H. Rion Will, 1963

Family Descendancy Charts
Various Rion Descendancy Charts

Family Group Sheets
Col. James Henry Rion Family

Family Information
Address Furnished by Major Woodward
Anecdotes of Col. James Henry Rion From Jim Rion in Columbia, SC
Col. J. H. Rion Charged in 1858
Brief Summary of Hanna Rion by Mrs. Begg
Col. J. H. Rion Information Card Donated by James Wallace Rion, His Grandson
Col. J. H. Rion's Law Office
Col. J. H. Rion Pres. Planters Bank of Fairfield From A Fairfield Sketchbook by Julian S. Bolick
James H. Rion A Century of News Section of The Herald Independent, 19 May 1986
Kitty Rion in Through The Years in Old Winnsboro
Ladie's Southern Florist Book by Mary C. Rion
James Henry Rion From Article by Matt Conrad
John C. Calhoun's Housekeeper, Mrs. Margaret Hunter Rion
Notes for Reminiscences of Old Winnsboro by Preston Rion
Notes for Rion Family by Nelle McMaster Sprott
Preston Rion & Nelle Sprotts History of Winnsboro
Rion Family From Fairfield Families Book
Tributes to Col. J. H. Rion From Fairfield News & Herald, 22 December 1886
Tale of Son Being Reared by John C. Calhoun is Not Countenanced
Mail Call South Carolina Correction September-October 1998 About Colonel James Henry Rion
Mrs. Mary Catherine Weir Rion in Women's History Month Article in The State, 14 March 1999
History Gold Snuff-Box, Memorabilia & Anecdotal Reminiscences of Columbia, Julian A. Selby
Radcliff Honors Hanna Rion
The J. W. Stephenson Home Owned by Colonel James H. Rion in 1857, 2-3 May 1969 Handout
Body in a Rum Barrel by R. S. Thompson, 1888
Hanna Rion Second Wife of Alpheus Baker Hervey
Hanna Rion VerBeck Who Was Who Volume I
A Letter to Riley From Alice Mentioning Rion's, 17 April 1958

Family Letters
Letter Between Jim Rion & J. A. Gabel on Rion's
Letter From J. A. Gabel to Pelham Lyles About Rion Story
Letter From Lt. Col J. A. Gabel on Henry Rion
Letter From Montez Rion English, 28 December 2007
James W. Rion's Letter to SC House of Representative Creighton B. Coleman

Family Pedigree Charts
Lt. Col. James A. Gabel's Pedigree Charts a Rion Descendant

Col. James H. Rion Compiled & Donated by Alice America Beaufort Walker, Winnsboro
A King Among Men, The Life & Times of Colonel James H. Rion From a Charleston Newspaper
Biographical Sketch of the Famous Colonel James H. Rion, Compiled 1965
Col. James Henry Rion Biographical Sketch, Historical & Genealogical Magazine, Caroliniana
Col. James Henry Rion Through The Years in Old Winnsboro
Colonel James H. Rion Article by Jim Hayes in the Journal
Colonel James H. Rion From the Scrapbook of Dr. Paul Fitzsimmons
Col. James H. Rion of Winnsboro, SC Intro by Alice America Beaufort Walker, Winnsboro, SC
James H. Rion From the John C. Calhoun Papers, Volume XVII
James Henry Rion Article in the National Encyclopedia
Life & Times of Col. James H. Rion Sunday News, Charleston, SC, 10 April 1887
Officer Election Form When James H. Rion Was a Major
R. B. Hanahan M.D. Account of Death Col. James H. Rion & Family Tree by Lt. Col. J. A. Gabel
Stephenson Home Formerly Rion House From Our Heritage Booklet
The King House From the Files of Mary Rice McMaster

Military
Description of Winnsboro, Eve of Civil War Transcribed & Edited by Nelle Sprott & Fred Holder
Presentation S. Dakota Gen. Soc., CSA Col. Who Could Have Been King by James A. Gabel
Col. J. H. Rion C.S.A. Letter Requesting Uniform
Col. J. H. Rion the 6th SC Regiment Data, by Lt. Col. J. A. Gabel
Col. James H. Rion Aarticle Published in Military Images Magazine by Lt. Col. James A. Gabel
Col. Jas. H. Rion 7th Battalion, C.S.A.
Instructions for Arms With Percussion Locks & Bayonets With Clasps Given by Col. J. H. Rion
He Might Have Been A King, Lt. Col. James H. Rion C.S.A. Biography by James A. Gabel

Research Request
Virginia Lopez Begg Query for Hanna Rion Daughter of Col. James H. Rion