 Robert Maffett's first wife, Ann Lavinia Gallman, died in 1860.He fathered a single child, Florence, who was born in 1856.With the outbreak of the Civil War, Maffett enrolled in the "Pickens Guards," (Company C of the 3rd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment) on April 14, 1861, at Frog Level (now Prosperity, South Carolina).