 Her great grandfather, John “Tuscarora Jack” Barnwell, subdued the Indians in the Carolinas, and her first cousin, Arthur Middleton, signed the United States Declaration of Independence.Upon settling in Sheldon and Beaufort, Thomas Fuller made a fortune as a planter.He and Elizabeth reared their twelve children here, the most prominent being two Harvard-educated sons---Dr. Thomas Fulller, Jr., physician, and Dr. Richard Fuller, lawyer turned Baptist minister, who became a nationally famous preacher and spearheaded the founding of the Southern Baptist Convention.