Photo courtesy of Special Collections and Archives, Furman University.

[Rosalie Woodson Collins]: D.D., b: 1792 in Charleston, SC. A Baptist clergyman and at one time professor in the Furman Academy. Married Eliza A. Scringeour of Scottish descent. Samuel, Eliza and their eldest son Richard and daughter Mary went to Edinburgh and lived there for 2-3 years, since she had to become an English subject. When they returned to the US, Samuel and his family lived in Mount Carmel in the High Hills of Santee, Sumter County, SC. Both parents are buried in the grounds of the Bethel Baptist Church in Sumter Co. Samuel died in Mar 1877.

1830 US Census household, St. Luke's Parish, Beaufort Co., SC: Samuel Furman
White Males 1 0-5 1 5-10 4 10-15 1 30-40 (assume Samuel Furman)
White Females 1 0-5 1 10-15 2 15-20 1 20-30 1 30-40 (assume wife Eliza Scrimzeour)
Slave Males 3 0-10 9 10-24 3 24-36 5 36-55
Slave Females 9 0-10 6 10-24 2 24-36 3 36-55 2 55-100
Total 55 in household [of which 42 were slaves].

1850 US census, Sumter District, Sumter, SC
Samuel Furman, 58, Baptist Clergyman
Eliza A. Furman, 55
Eliza Furman, 22
Julia Furman, 18
All born SC.

1850 US Census Slave Schedules (ancestry.com):
Saml Furman, Sumter District, Sumter Co., SC, 62 black slaves (may be incomplete listing if list goes to unidentified second page).

1860 US census, South Carolina, Smter Co., Providence P.O., 4 August:
Samuel Furman, 68, Baptist Minister, b:SC
Eliza A. Furman, 65, $4000, $1500, b:SC
Neta Furman, 23, b:Ireland [A maid??]
Terasie, 4, F, b:California
Williams, 3, M, b:CA

1870 US census, South Carolina, Sumtr Co., Sumter Twp., P.O. Sumter:
Edward A. Edwards, 40, Clergyman, $9000, $1200
Julia T. --, 37, Keeping House
Margaret M. --, 14, Attending School
Julian --, 1, male, At Home
Edward --, 1, male, At Home
Eliza --, 2/12, female, At Home
Samuel Firman, 78, Clergyman
Eliza --, 75, Without Ocupation [sic]
Eliza -- Jr., 42, Without ocupation
Ramsay Willis, 9, male, black, Domestic Servant
[All white except Ramsay Willis; all born South Carolina]

Slave Narratives (WPA, transcribed in the 1930's) (ancestry.com):
(records appear related to Samuel Furman and family)
State: South Carolina Interviewee: Bates, Anderson (multiple records)
"I was born on de old Dr. Furman place, near Jenkinsville, S. C., in de year, 1850. My pappy was name Nat and mammy name Winnie. They was slaves of old Dr. Furman, dat have a big plantation, one hundred slaves, and a whole lot of little slave chillun, dat him wouldn't let work. They run 'round in de plum thickets, blackberry bushes, hunt wild strawberries, blow came whistles, and have a good time.
"De old Dr. Furman house is ramshackle but it is still standin' out dere and is used as a shelter for sawmill hands dat is cuttin' down de big pines and sawin' them on de place.
"Where did my pappy and mammy come from? Mammy was born a slave in de Furman family in Charleston, but pappy was bought out of a drove dat a Baltimore speculator fetch from Maryland long befo' de war. Doctor practice all 'round and 'bout Monticello, happen 'long one day, see my pappy and give a thousand dollars for him, to dat speculator. I thank God for dat!
"Dr. Furman, my old marster, have a brudder called Jim, dat run de Furman School, fust near Winnsboro, then it move to Greenville, S. C.
"Dere was over a thousand acres, maybe two thousand in dat old Furman place. Them sawmill folks give $30,000.00 for it, last year.
(Note: Samuel Furman has a brother James Clement Furman)

Slave Narratives (WPA, transcribed in the 1930's) (ancestry.com):
State: South Carolina Interviewee: Evans, Lewis
"Us had two dootors, Doctor Furman and Doctor Davis. White folks care for you when you sick. I didn't have no money in slavery time, didn't have no use for none. Us had no quarters, houses just here and dere on de place, 'round de spring where us got water.

[From "A Family of Educators", McDonald Furman, published in Education, March 1897]:
Samuel Furman, D.D., half-brother of the preceeding [Wood Furman], was an eloquent and learned Baptist clergyman of South Carolina. He was at one time a professor in the Furman Theological Institution (now Furman University of Greenville, S.C.) His death occurred in South Carolina, in 1877.

South Carolina Baptist Deaths and Marriages, 1866-87 (ancestry.com):
Rev. Samuel Furman. This aged soldier of the cross, the brother of Dr. Jas. C. Furman, and the father of Dr. Richard Furman, passed away to his reward at 8 o'clock on Monday morning, March 19. had he lived until yesterday, his age would have been four-score years and five. C. C. Brown. Sumter, March 22. Issue of April 5, 1877.

Online South Carolina Death Records & Indexes:
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/search/searchresults.asp
Series: S165015 Year - ND00 Item - 02540 ignore - 00
Date: N.D.
Description: FURMAN, SAMUEL, FOR THE CHARLESTON BAPTIST ASSOCIATION, PETITION TO BE INCORPORATED. (4 PAGES)
Series: S213050 Volume - 006A Page - 00188 ignore - 00
Date: 1844/02/26
Description: FURMAN, SAMUEL TO CHARLES M. FURMAN, BILL OF SALE FOR 10 SLAVES.
Series: S213050 Volume - 006C Page - 00094 ignore - 00
Date: 1850/03/28
Description: FURMAN, SAMUEL TO RICHARD FURMAN, BILL OF SALE FOR 6 SLAVES.
Series: S213050 Volume - 006C Page - 00110 ignore - 00
Date: 1850/04/13
Description: FURMAN, SAMUEL TO CHARLES M. FURMAN, BILL OF SALE FOR 20 SLAVES.

[Rosalie Woodson Collins]: reports a total of nine children, including Mary, Richard, Samuel Kirkewhite, Dorothea, John, Eliza, Scrimgeour, Julia, and Josiah. Josiah reportedly died in infancy. (The difference from a list over the web is that Josiah is replaced by William Brantly Furman (?)).

http://pages.prodigy.net/sungela/firmyn_john.htm: b: 21 Mar 1792, d: 19 Mar 1877, Sumter Co., SC.

• Married: 5 May or 5 Aug 1814 in Charleston, Charleston Co., SC

1. Samuel Kirkwhite FURMAN b: 23 Aug 1818 in Beaufort Co., SC
2. Mary Scrimzeour FURMAN b: Feb 1810 or 1820 in Beaufort District, South Carolina
3. Richard FURMAN b: 9 Nov 1816 in Coosahatchie, Beaufort Co., South Carolina
4. Dorothea FURMAN b: 1820
5. John Howard FURMAN b: 18 or 19 Mar 1824 in St.Luke's Parish, Beaufort District,, South Carolina
6. William Brantley FURMAN b: 1825 in Cornhill Plantation, Sumter Co., South Carolina
7. Eliza FURMAN b: Aug 1826 in Sumter, Sumter Co., South Carolina
8. Julia Theodora FURMAN b: 5 Oct 1832 in Mt. Carmel, McCormick, SC
9. Scrimzeour Cornwall FURMAN b: 2 Feb 1835 in Beaufort Co., South Carolina