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Title A name given to the resource Witherspoon's Ferry Vested in John Witherspoon - 1801 Subject The topic of the resource The Statutes at Large of South Carolina: Acts relating to roads, bridges and ferries, with an appendix, containing the militia acts prior to 1794 Description An account of the resource The Statutes at Large of South Carolina: Acts relating to roads, bridges and ferries, with an appendix, containing the militia acts prior to 1794 - By South Carolina, Thomas Cooper, David James McCord Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1801 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource By South Carolina, Thomas Cooper, David James McCord https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/c10330ed423920ee75244bb6a9dd1eb9.pdf e1231b7f076a9c84b0b22af75e6f9178 PDF Text Text S.G.—Industries-\/y|ooI Indush-y ExcitedLS, By RANDOLPH S. HANCOCK Observer Agricultural Editor JOHNSONVILLE. S. C., May 1 This town of 1.500 persons, in w heart of the Pee Dee. is (straining at the leash in anticipa( . * , _.' *,- 3J' Ition of the textile industry schedluled to start operations here some (time this summer. Already it is feeling growing I pains, and the townspeople are loud in their praise of the WellIman Combing Co, for having sellected Johnsonvitle for the site of (the first mill of its kind in the ! state and perhaps the South. According to present plans of [the Daniel Construction Co., of Greenville, the 150,000 square foot plant will be ready for oc jcupancy "in early summer." C. S. Carter, in charge of the [construction work of the $3,000,000 (plant, said "it should be ready for i* installation of machinery this {summer and operations can be (started then." Mr. Carter described the work I to be done as "turning grease wool [into yarn ready for the weavers," le added that the wool would Icome from South Africa. South (America. Australia, and "some will I be domestic wool." By "grease wool." he said, he (meant it was wool that comes dijrectly from the sheep's back be | fore the lanolin is removed from it. Ground for the single story pro* ject was broken last Febrauary IS. However, Mr. Carter said, plans ,for construction were actually started on Feb. 6. The plant is so designed that it can be enlarged any time the de mand for its products increases It will employ some 250 local per sons who will be trained for their jobs by engineers which the Well man company will send here. Mr. Carter said that it was hie understanding that Walter Rohifi soa of Lowell, Mass., will be the manager of the plant and that Mr Robinson is scheduled to arrive here next week. The plant is located about a halfmile north of Johnsonvilie on the Mullins highway. The site was an old farm and there is room for any type of operation a well as expansion of the plant. The Wellman company, a sub sidiary of Nirhols and Co., select ed Jnhnsonville, Mr. Carter said because of the fine port facilities t Charleston and because of the [excellent supply of and type of la |bor to be found here. Lock wood Greene Engineers o York. Boston and Spartan Ibnrf. S. C., is the architect or project. following them the woolen and worsted spinning and weaving plant* for which -South C'aro- , j Una hatt so many natural advantages to offer. This will further diversify our great tex tile Industry and bolster It evea IBM1* against shocks. i Other Industries coming to South I DIXIE'S FIRST PROCESSOR OF 'GREASE WOOL' RISKS NEAR JOHNSONVILLE Carolina during the year include industry in South Carolina, hasJTic Tax Company, Inc., at Cam-1 said it "could be one of the most I den. manufacturers of children's significant boosts to South Caro wear; Runnymedc Corporation, lina's economy in half a century." new worsted plant at Pickens; Un Mr. Gable said yesterday that ion Bay Chemical Company, Inc., the Slate Development Board feels of Cambridge. Mass.. at Green the woolen processing plants here ville; United Testing Company at| will result in the establishment of Laurens; and others. spinning and weaving of worsted -ind woolen plants in the state. OF PARTICULAR INTEREST With this latest development, we lo Columbians was the announce can offer the availability of wool ment early this year that Ameri in the more profitable manufactur can Cyanamid Company had ac ing atmosphere of South Carolina, quired title to a 1,110-acre tract Development Board officials said. near Columbia in Lexington Coun "The coming of wool (o ty. The site is at Dixiana nearj South Carolina will at*o have Cayce. Present plans of the com-i a marked effect In financial pany is for a plant to be con-1 circles, because of the largn structed for the manufacture of a banking transactions Involved new acrylic fibre, however, no In the Importation of wool further announcement has been] throughout the raarketn of the made by the company. world," official* added. This year, up to Dec. 1, more! Agriculture leaders are hopeful than $70 million was spent or al that the wool processing plants located for industrial development] will bring an additional cash in WOOL COMBING PLANT FOB; 9C: Here Is an artist's drawing of the Ha n tec River Wool in the state during 1954, according come to South Carolina farmers Combing Company plant being built for the Amedee Prouvoat mud Company of France at to figures released by the State I Jamestown. Construction was begun in November by the Daniel CoimtrurUon Company from the production of raw wool. Development Board. The totaJ is I of Greenville and marks the second mien plant to enUbiish operation* In South Carolina. The Well man company already is basrd on Incomplete estimates The other, the Weliman Combine Company plant, a part of Nlchoto and Company, Inc., experimenting in an attempt to began operations this pant hummer at Jotuionnvllle. find a sheep adapted to South from data In the board's office, Carolina and the Southeastern and may change slightly when the United States. Under the Wellman! final returns are in, Mr. Gable research project, Pollworth sheep j MldTh« yemr substantially booatwere brought here from Australia *d the tremendous post-war by Noel Dennis, a Victoria, Aus Industrial growth of the Paltralia farmer and breeder of PollBy WILBtR McCARTHA state was the culmination of many Company's is being constructed by worth's. The project is in charge metto state. Mnce IMS, ap South Carolina's tremendous years of work of the department. the Amodce Prouvost and Compa of C. H. Mudge, herdsmaji. proximately $933.000,000 has postwar industrial expansion, The board had long realized that ny of France. It will be named been spent In South Carolina which has been near the top in development of our woolen and the Santcc River Wool Combing RECENTLY ILLUSTRATING for new plants or expansion of worsted Industry would depend in the nation, continued at a sub Company. the great demand of wool that existing plants, not Including stantial pace during this year, large measure on securing the Wellman Combing Company Sloan W. Gable, acting director of basic wool processors, who have received lt» firtl shipment of South Carolina farmers will help the A EC Installation near Aiken. the State Development Board said traditionally been located near the raw wool during the. aprln*. II produce, Mr. Madge said at pres wool port of Boston," the report Man the first raw wool to enter ent there were 50,000 sheep in Mr. Gable said it Is virtually 1 yesterday. North Carolina and the Wellman Impossible to measure in full the the Port of Charleston and From the standpoint of long- said, plant in Johnsonvillc could use the benefits accruing to the State from ua*f brought from South range development of South Caro wool produced from these sheep new industrial development. Every THE FIRST OF THE WOOL Africa. lina's industrial economy, the most citizen Is affected, directly or in significant occurrence of the 1953- processing plants, the Wellman directly. Based on dollar expendi 54 fiscal year Ka« doubtless that Combing Company, a part of Niture, the existing industries which! of thr coming of two wool process chols and Company, Inc., began have expanded will add an esti ing plants to the state, the Plan operations this past summer at mated 46,500 new jobs and will said it to easy. to ning Board reported in its new Johnson vi lie. The plant cost ap In excess of 230 persons. It is exannual pected to eventually enlarge tol foresee" a southern woolen indUspay annual report. proximately J3 million. ,350,( about four times the capacity of I try "ranking in importance wit hi excess "An announcement that Nirhols Construction on a second wool that ofNew^Kntfand and perhaps I newJ-nnual wages of over and Company of Boston and Prou- processing plant got underway in the initial plant. overshadowing it." l*> .«» which have accrued to ***\ vost and Company of France, the November at Jamestown. This benefit of the state and its people) "Other wool treatment plants two largest wool processors in the plant, costing about the same GOVERNOR BYRNfcS, comsince the war," he added. almost snreto come, and world, would build plants in the ine on the developing woolen] it as the Wcllmaii Combii Twa Wool Combing Plants Significant Part -saazab -^ 1\St^e_y. <&& /.PS&P , „ ,. OfTnaustnal exansion in south Carolina xp • a � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Excited Johnsonville Awaits New Plant, 5-2-1956 Description An account of the resource Wellman Plant anticipation. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Subject The topic of the resource The ancestors who called this part of the Pee Dee home. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vox Elementary School 1955-1956 Description An account of the resource Several photographs and documents related to the 6th and 7th grade at Vox Elementary School, 1955 and 1956. Files include: Cora Collins - teacher A letter from Mrs. Henry D. Powell Vox 6th Grade, 1955 Vox 7th Grade, 1955 Vox 7th Grade, 1956 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1955-1956 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elaine Tanner Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elaine Tanner https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/756a28f483c717c48422b436aa80437f.jpg a1b484ccf67ed0e1cdd73dcef6f08655 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Documents Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Promised Land - Hand Drawn Map of the Area Description An account of the resource Map insertion from the cover of The Promised Land by Elaine Y. Eaddy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elaine Y. Eaddy https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/18b8d93fd670447ba7ab704e10f22b4a.pdf 2b904c46e1d8966910d8c88ed0c81ac3 PDF Text Text 1. Dovey Rosanna Eaddy ( 18231903), daughter of Edward Drake Eaddy 2. and Mary Bartell, married John Gee Hanna. 3. Half Moon, Lynches River, site of early landing and favorite swimming hole. 4. Trisvan Eaddy (1832-1889), son of John D. Eaddy and Elizabeth Singletary. · 5. Kizanna Hardin ( 1836-1927) . 6. ( 1836-1927) married W i 11 i am James McEaddy (1835-1901), son of Henry Eaddy and Rebekah Ard. �1. Storage house, pegged and still solid and attractive in its proportions, at Browntown. 2. Sarah Eaddy, ( 1834-1914), daughter of John D. Eaddy and Elizabeth Singletary, married first John Hanna and second Rev. William H. Singletary. 3. Henry Edison Eaddy ( 1832-1912 ) and Eliza Louisa Ann Huggins, his wife. 4. William Spious Eaddy ( 18401924) center, celebrates his birthday with four of his surviving 11 brothers, from left: Lawrence, John, Beauregard, and Capers. 1. McEaddy family. Seated center: Kizanna McEaddy. From left: Kate McEaddy Hilliard, Thomas Henry McEaddy, Sandy Alexander McEaddy, William James McEaddy, Jr., Mary McEaddy Parks. 2. Mary Elizabeth Stone ( 1832-1917) married first Thomas Eaddy, second Capt. Thomas E. Johnson. 3. Nancy Vermell Hanna, born 1856, daughter of Dovey R. Eaddy and John Gee Hanna. 4. George Samuel Briley Huggins (1831-1899) married Elizabeth Timmons, daughter of Elizabeth Eaddy and William James Timmons. 5. William J. Johnson, born about 1810, gave the land on which Trinity Methodist Church was built. 6. Cottage at Browntown, now a tenant house, with kitchen pulled up. �1. Marion St. Julian and Ada Ariminta (Wynn) Eaddy. 2. Carlos Alvena ( "Cag") Gaskins. 3. Samuel Olin Eaddy. 4. Nena Alma Carson, who married Samuel 0. Eaddy. 5. Patrick Oneal Eaddy. 6. Zachary Taylor and Judith (Grier) Eaddy. Judith holds Taylor's flute. - 1. John Preston Eaddy, born 1851, son of Taylor Eaddy and Margaret Stone, married Beulah Timmons, right. 2. Joseph Allen Eaddy ( 1860-1919), son of Henry Edison Eaddy and Eliza L. A. Huggins, married his cousin Lillie Belle Eaddy, right. 3. Eaddy-Ford Cemetery overlooks "Eaddy Big Bay," a Lynches River Creek. 4. Gregory Beauregard Eaddy, born 1861, one of Taylor Eaddy's 12 sons. 5. Kate Allen ( 1872-1955) married Southern Rights Eaddy. �1. Prospect Methodist Church, built 1835. 2. Spious Eaddy family. 3. Spious and Mary Eaddy. 4. Cousins Benjamin Britton Chandler and John Jay Eaddy, members of the South Carolina Legislature. 1. John Gary Eaddy ( 1895-1970), son of John Jay Eaddy and Sarah Martha Stone. 2. Martha Alice Huggins (1859-1914) married Benjamin Britton Chandler. 3. Thomasena Mellichamp Phillips married William Jackson Chandler. 4. Mary Elizabeth Aidawell Thursey Rebecca Eaddy ( 1871-1952) married Julian Alston Thompson. 5. Squire Thomas Rothmahler Grier married Margaret Johnson. 6. William Jackson Chandler. 7. Benjamin Franklin Eaddy, born 1847, one of 12 sons of Taylor Eaddy and Margaret R. Stone. �1. Liston and Mary Eaddy. He was the son of Benjamin Franklin Eaddy and Mary Gaskins. 2. Dora McClam and Capers Eaddy ( 1865-1946), son of Taylor Eaddy and Margaret R. Stone. 3. Pitch Landing, Lynches River. 4. Cotton press at Browntown. 1. Lucy Eaddy, daughter of Oliver Eaddy, a Methodist minister, and Susanna Carter. 2. John George Godwin (1878-1956) and Lula Lawrence. 3. Sara Ellen Johnson Haselden ( 1878-1951) married John Mallard Eaddy (1870-1957). 4. John Mallard Eaddy ( 1870-1957). 5. William Jasper Hanna and Sarah E. Taylor, daughter of Redden and Nancy Taylor. 6. John James Hanna (1862-1937), son of John Gee Hanna and Dovey Rosanna Eaddy, married Mary Ellen Hanna, right. �I •• ( 1. Haselden Family. From left: Sam Joe Haselden and his wife, the former Julia Edwards; their daughter, Curtis;Joseph Parker Haselden; his wife, the former Martha Marena Dunahoe an in her arm, Wista Haselden; Dr. Balford Haselden, Charles, Cenie, Lincoln, Henry Will, Nita, and Caesar; in front, Sally and Ruth. 2. Dr. Albert G. Eaddy as a Clemson Cadet. 3. Lulu Simmons, who married Dr. A. G. Eaddy. 4. Elizabeth Ann Johnson, who married John Gregory Eaddy. 5. Rosa Belle Eaddy, who married Wattie G. Woodberry. 6. Gen. John Henry Woodberry, son of Rosa Belle Eaddy and Wattie G. Woodberry. 7. Oliver and Leila (Cox) Eaddy. 8. Henry Bishop Marvin Eaddy, son of Taylor Eaddy and Emily (Timmons) Stone. 1. Ruth Eady, daughter of Kate (Allen) and S. R. Eaddy. 2. Ulmer S. Eaddy, son of Z. Taylor and Judith (Grier) Eaddy. 3. Elizabeth Capers Waddell, who married Ulmer S. Eaddy. 4. The Z. Taylor Eaddy home. From left: hired hand, Margaret Ann, Judith, Sarah, Fitzhugh, Taylor holding Clarence, who died in childhood, Ulmer, Henry,, hired hand, and "Ole Buffalo. ' 5. George Huggins Eaddy, only child of George Huggins Eaddy, Sr., and Mattie Wilhoit. 6. James Richard and Alice Elevene (Gaskins) Hanna. 7. Mary Ann (Huggins) Holland and John Burrell Hanna. 8. Lambert before the railroad. Note crossties. �.,. ~ ~\i r I , ..,.__ I . -~ _]_ 1. James Marion Gregory Eaddy, son of Martin Francis Eaddy and Mary Jane Keefe. 2. Davis Hanna. 3. Katie Thompson married Joseph W. Hanna. 4. Margaret Ann Eaddy married Fred Huggins. 5. Fred Huggins. 6. Leah Eaddy married Orland Mercer. 7. Orland Mercer. 8 Sarah Fleetwood Eaddy, daughter · of Z. Taylor Eaddy and Judith Grier. 9. Lt. Winston Jennings Eaddy, son of Gregory Beauregard Eaddy and Burdette Huggins. 1. Alice Penelope McAllister married James L. Godwin. 2. James L. Godwin. 3. Henry Edward Eaddy, son of Z. Taylor Eaddy and Judith Grier. 4. Wee Nee League of the 1930's. First row: Bell Durant, Edwin Huggins, Roland Daniel, Herman Eaddy, St. Clair Huggins, Dallas Poston. Second row: Oliver Cribb, Roland Altman, Tuffy McClellan, Sam Joe Haselden, Harry Cribb, Fearless Lambert, Herman Tanner, and T. F. McTeer, coach. 5. Sarah Hanna Poston. 6. Barton Eaddy. 7. Allen Drew Hanna. 8. Anna Jane ( Gaskins) Hanna. �1. Henry E. Godwin and Suzanne Hanna. 2. Rufus and Vaughan (Cox) Eaddy. 3. First row: Margaret Eaddy Huggins, Sarah Eaddy Tallevast, Leah Eaddy Mercer; standing: Henry E . Eaddy, Ulmer S. Eaddy, Fitzhugh Eaddy, Rupert H. Eaddy. 4. Early Hemingway store. 1. Luther and Erma Lee (Eaddy ) Hanna 2. Ella Gaskins and Bill Bartell 3. Fred B. Godwin and Ida Ruth Hanna 4. Rosetta Powell and Samuel E. Hanna 5. Foster Hanna and Louise McDaniel 6. Dallas G. Poston 7. Ora Lee Thompson 8. Lillian (E addy ) Potter. 9. Ru th ( D orril1 ) Thomas IO. Irby E addy J �1. Dewey P. Eaddy, son of Robert James Eaddy, Jr., and Louella Bartell. 2. Clark Eaddy. 3. Hanna Family Bible pages (photo 3, 4, and 5). � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Subject The topic of the resource The ancestors who called this part of the Pee Dee home. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Promised Land - Photograph Pages Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elaine Y. Eaddy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The promised land: the James Eaddy family in South Carolina https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/bfb797af2d8e0ecb6ba30539013cc8b1.pdf f51f0961c4a2d9a883be7cfeee643028 PDF Text Text • '" • .' . es. ' 00 e-r a 1ve ,. • 0 .n -s o.n v1 es • Tobacco Group· . Opens Session .· • • I , • I • At.State.Beach ·r o.w I , }.!"\' R1'~t.: "BE~CI!, J u· n e 26 • t.n-l'lenly of . diS()US&lon . or tho problem ol ''synlhclic" (Ir "recon· Dy n i::v BALI,,\ HD lslrccts wl'rc lai d out and Johns~n· olll<1incd Iron\ lh<: lalc S. JJ. Poston 'l'hc populnlion has grown ·I; ap- There arc t~·o ·JX1liccn1cn, ChlcC L. slllu lcd" tobacco b c.x~clcd dur. J,Oll NSON\'JL:t..E. 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Thursday. evcnlng:whcn t he Onght r ·~ ·-= · : · ' · · · ·· · · . ·.. · -:. . · ·· .» .:· :__,,.;_. · bo ahie lo conlrlbulc much lo 111· This \\'as insli\ikd about four Bell Board or Governors · IL'\es ; '. . .. . :.. • .. .. ,... _, ,.,,._.'.1: "-.!,;'-j.{.~.~ ...:.;:.:~'.i· ·ausll")'. ~nd bu~lncs.s. nionllis ·ago. · · elates on whi cli to\,~ceo · 1111c-llon .' .. . : ·,: .. :.'· .' .: . . ··.,.. -: ·.,· ·.'·:~.., To give II gcnt rel ido' 01 the Se~·ing t he loll'n a rc both the snlcs w!ll . bt gin . !n )he Ii1·c·slalc · .. ;:..·: :;··!.;:~ . ;·:->'-S·,;-i '.:..:::. ~-<-'.-t progress· during John.wnviUe's 44 Cerol111a Power nnd.!.\ght Co, Rod lluc-cu rcd :arca.. : : · · · : ·.. .•. : . ·. ·.•,_.! .• ;<--.' ~ .:·: ·~ · years , the town hns grown lrnm a nural Electric ,'\;soc1~llon i)·~i ems, Tl1e b<;nrcl wiH 1Cl a!te~ hcDrl ng . · · ,, .· . .··.. .;·.:._,.,~~~: .;,',:.,·;~.~~~z··~'.·:f general store nca~ the! train $ln!lon " 'ater' is i:-oticn ll11 ougb. the Clly r ccomn\t lldlltlon' ol a 20-n1e1nl>er '.·t:.·'-~''--." : ·., :~,,i.:; ;~;.cY,•~( 1o more lh11n three blocks OI busl· Water S>·stcin from two deep well con1 mlllce, co·mpos.M or ·grower, dlslrlcl. . , PUlllpS. A. J. H1111iphrCl' S fs wnler w_arehousc an_n_ ,i;r~ ·- ·::. :~·-~_-· ·,-;':;;!·}': :, '.~.;~.i~ JJu ri i•g ..t!ic past 11\·o years John· supcrvfsor. On Ilic comi·nlsslou a re h1·~s and thc ·.co~1nls~lo11crs or · . ' .,.. • • •• · > ·• ·· "'' $"'•1·illc r esldcnls J1avc seen' an ln· !!:i;;h Ht'~tll, L. J. Wis c <1 ud Free!_ 11srlc111l11 rc o( \' lr giula, the Cnro· · · . l.~W, ' ·' · ·'·: ~. ; .: _-· ··., :'·~ fl""' · b Inc d \\'<';wcr · Ji na • Georg\11 11nd Florida • Jon:-:soN\111.t..b:, Ju ne 2G - N1>l 'Ihc church a u<lltprlnm. 11.lrl'~d' · '"''~ ux .. o1 new us ~s . an new l l d · ti - " cl I · 1' F., d t ··• · onl}' has· !his town nl ;iboul l 000 l'Om plclcd stands on ~ .i ~ere ! r ~~t "'!"' . . . . . ....:.. .. honi es i nto lhe town. There ha.,·c .n er .1.<' s ~m1ih1on cp ~r nicn , r e S. Roys er. prc~iucn 1 o1 lhc . d . d t' r i ' t lb ··\ · . • k__;:.. ; • . / ·: -.. : · ·1 b~n 78 new homes built ~Iii}'· tl1e town hires :i. ~:i.rt time l(ar\mgc warchovscnicn, , .todny expr essed seen m 11stn 31 an_ . bu.s ncss o prop~r Y a . c 111 crsecllory . o! ~~ Ii. . . . : ;: ·1 or Odell Vcnlt'l'S look· olfico lilllc collccloL'. the opinion tl:nl the group. wonln gr owth, a. ~u~ ver o( its churdics ll; c VllX and lncl1anlol\'n. road~ wtth 1 ·' ·.:~·:; ~ -~ ,._..,,; :, ·· .;_;. . more lhan·f\,·o·ycars iigo v;;1h town ., ·• . . • -. . ~dnpt a rcsnlutinn on the ~ubjccl shows a Sp1nlual graw1h as ''ell. hi_ghway 141 _<Jolm~onv11lt 14. L~k• 1 r~'~. :·~:,_1_: ' ·.·:..,:;::: '.: ·.. cou iJ cn·· · o·• Hng •lus v· ~-l 0 A br ooch olh~ e or ,he F 01cnce o(·r('COl\Slilulcd t~\,aceo before the" In fat.I, a new church spra11g llp ~ 1\ )·l . t~' ..~.. .l ~ nc_ m , " ~ ~. • ir.,i · Co11nly ll<'llllh Center 1; localed In nicct in c!llds (,·iH1in the h1sl yen r and hn< t1H1d'1 : • ·., ' '):",~ >;{'.··t>-·.< Ec!:dr'~?'a E nd• . !lit. Vcnlc~~ l~r. lah o J ol111sonvi~e 1 ~1 care roL' the health Ho\'ilfl'r r cc~nll"· wnrhcd t hat It..< n\~rk hea_vy in Ilic conunun ily's ,\l lh~. \,('ginning cf til t curren t ,»:-;'. < •• ·· •. • '° ' CCnlan ~n •• . • •.. , llCCd$ Qf (ne "<:<>01(l1lllltl \'. • I • j"1( , rC\"il·al. lhe firs\ O( (h¢ Ch\ICC"n' l ~· ,~ · · .Venters also rcpor[s 17 new bust· Aiiolhrr Im orl ~nl cli'ange in the the use of lhe rceonslltulcd for.[ ~;1 , • : • short hi~tory, there were 26 mem~ . . ... "11ts~cs hnve been started in J ohn· -_. , . 5 • tetii li~i~ili 'the rr;:cnl in lob_a c~o m_nnufacturi 11i: l'Ollld ,. 1he \\ c~l Side OrLi:lnnl f•r<:'c bcr~ corollcct. Ollic ers or tlu~ . ~-:~ , " . . .: _.._. , so1will c, Sh: . buildings . for h; tsi · ~~~~~;~~ -,~:s been theg changing' b)' dlsplal'C ·~s n1uch ~s l B lo_ 22 per ~~i·: ~n~;~~\bCh~r~~st ''}1~ ~'~~ii~n 23 r.hu rcl1 include !.. L. Cole, ~l~r~: ;': ··~·.: '~-~'-2· ·r;.·; n~ss l1a"c either been coolplctccl legislative aclion of !h<' I own elcc· c.cnt ~r the. !cl~l nue-cnred prod11c· d 01 • h 0.,ci: , 1• 1h g . 1 A. L. Powell, trcnsurcr ; .\!. c • • ' ~ -' ·~ 't; .u·. or arc now under conslrnclion. . • l l · r t lion And lh;i l he csoccls ii will an ns rO\\ n c ~x ctil Todd Sunday School !llperlnlcnd· t... 1 0 i' · .. ~ ·~ J·o··h. nsonv·I'//e H' as· · ·· N c··. h. h. G" . e · . ' . p bll~~r rcpr~SClll~· W. urc . rou ..·· .. .»·'· .:::·. ;·~j:.:. ~·,·! ll~~s ., 'l 'fir: sfnce 1 "·:t'. .. . . 11 ·},:·~-; 1 · · 110 5 0 1 ° 0 ° One ol the rccc~l acconlplish· ~ :[~;~g 7~ ~w~'"~ ~;~:mc~r;::.sd !1~vc "a mar~cd ellccl on market· ~:~;;~::\\~~ ~ ~;~tc:~~gn ~~~ ~ot~~.~:r enl ; Cole, t"rce''i\'ill !lapl!st Lc~g1Ji T•)~nls tn the town 1s the camplc' . , . . 1ng _or the !956 crop ot tobacco." ., . ' : · 1• 1 director; ~I. C. 'I'odd .and L, M. tlon of a new school bnlldln" This deriuly sheriff S.one . In pol.tee pro . In r onnccl l<1n wilh opcniric · ~tas a rev1\al mcchng cuircntly io 'I 'tl l d -• • I p 11 · •· · tc'c l1"011 arc I ac Powers m a~islr11l c " ' ' progrAs ll 111c11 1 •· . 11 • " er, cacGns: ll •n• ;, , '· owe , 1 15 will be a 27 lc;i~hcr school when it ~· ' '" tor ll11 c-curccl snles, Roy~t cr ~nid ~.•, LC . uc•~ P c.~ · J oll n F. E addy a nd Murdock siont, opens Ibis Jail constable, and G. F.. Donahoe, he undcrslO<>\I 11 5 ,..,.~·al ~omn115 . • peeled lo be boosted l<1 more lhan 1 ·t · · · · · •1i ~gls! ratc ~--i ~ d bl th · · 1 rus ees. ·,. , ' · · · sion In Georgia hAs recommended 0 11 c c ongma · . I::n roll111cnl l~st y('nr wa~ .1(10 111 Olf · . t · 1 t' · . lhnl July 2~ be llxcd r r II [JI I The Rev. Carol Al~xandc>r ~£ Services lit lit~ Wesl S!d~· Dd· . ·high school and ~ in, gra 1nmar lo lh~r:~~·n ;·L~,~~~rs~,:~~ar~le~~-~~~ of ~al~~ !here·. 1•i"ie ~o m~~i:si;n Bethel, N, C., ~nd Columl>ia Is l(in~l r' ,\V.B. Church are sch ed· TOWN HALL in Jui.n1onvill~ ~tc;nds ne a r the ce nler<1t ·to'lt'n; whic~ grew up ci round the ~chool. There wc~e 3liO Negroe~ ~~· road anq, bus lines. w;1s created b)' Jaw in GcorY.i~ to se_rvl?!f ~s J1<1stor ol lhc newly ulc<I ns 'Jollow.s <weeldyl : S1111day oi'l rond the 30-watt " '"'"o-way rolle.~1s ln a combmed school, ll hico All en c1··mg t0 tiie .~p '.ri·1u ~1 need5 rccon1mcnd !11e n~cnind d at c t 0 tlLC oigamzed church. 10 • · m. ; ll!orn " •• totion , In t his town holl" or" • ti re · sta lion ·a nd offices 'tn wh·ch t ' too new ,. " P lans Are 011· be· d r School, h" • lng Wor• r 1 m obile radio system is installed, t hus givin9 t h·e c:i_ty c onta ct · wit h the rest of Florence CounJ, ' "· . ot. its residents .;ir e rll·1i Johnson- Bright Drlt Assn. Royster saicl he , " .mg nia c _or ~ ip, U • m , F.\\ .6. LeiJBllc, _ 1'11e e1c rnenlaty bull omg 11ns , cl h 'l" . · th M. ll did l'lot "anlieipal . d" ff" lt, fu,urc enl~rgcmenl progr am lo 1n- G: i 5 p, n1.; Evening Worship 1 . N . Ii 1 ~; (Mornrng ews P olo com111cl cd al a .cost o! about $!90.- 'L11e . iurc es. nc, are · c c I· 1· , · . e !111; icu } elude an attached two-storied cdu- p m • J\tld-Wcek P r a •er sen·lce, 000 and the old school is being re· on ist, Bnpti~t. Pentacoslal Holiness, n. v.hotldn g out R 5,~ti<r<1ctoi·y date ca tionnl building and 11 pa r sonage \\:cdn.~day 1i" m ) modeled al ·a cos! ol $5G,ooo: .Tlie Ch11rch or God ~nd "'~stsldc F'ree w1l those people. . · ' l'· · Johnsonville schools are in Flor· \\'ill Daplist. . - -·- • . en cc County School Dislrict num- Its postal service will be \nc rcasbcr t \\' O and lake care or yonp~~- ed on July l from .11 lhircl cla'i5 U. lcrs from Johnsonvil! c, \lox, Trin\. S. Post Office to n scC'<lnd class. 1 ly and Prospect commu nities. Mrs. Sophie .f . Poston is cap~blY. 1 \\'orking on 11 ·20 m ill ltt~ ~t!Ctl, handling l he duties O! Ille PO$l · ' lhe town has a volunhity lire de- masler, an offi<:c ~he ha s held . ' .. . . p~rln1cnt or .12 n\embers, including a l n1o~t 22 years. ·r hc orrice h~s ···~ ·!' .·.:··"" .... ...":~:".-::.,... '.:..:.'-. ... ~ ,;..·t : . ~ : · ., · : , :~:; Chic! lrby Slone, who is 11\so a gro\vn from Jourtlt class since sh'~ To . :,. .;.. ,., .. . . . .f:•,.;,.,,,: ... .: u/;•'" ~~ · •, '! Florence County clcp\lly sheriff. k_ chflrgc. . ·. . . . . . ---- - lon ••_ _.o__ _ _ __ _ _ _ Hoping Everything ~- I• • . .·. ' . .... ... . .. \ .... .. . . ·... ... .. .. . .... :: . ' ' • . ' . To . Escape Iron ·curtain . t;· • JI .~... ... : .. ~· . . , •i,, ...... : . o;:. . :;;·.·!: -. -~ ~ : . •• :· .··· . _, .-· · •: •• • 1'- : ·: : . : .. •• • • • • ·.' · :- ~ ~. · · · ·.; ;,. · -· " :.; :· • ·_. ·Fram On A-Energy- F~iENDS At The JOHNSONV ILLE STATE BANK .. ----· . We Wish ' The &dvertisem cnls II'C're ~pon.1 11J red by a group o! niorc l Jt a n CREEL'S DRY ~d1·crli!rmrnt 'The rcporlcaly w;is an MISl\"e; to cl aims al m embers of Congr~ss that lhe United S; ates wa~ lagging in dev cl<1pmenl 1 ol p P~Cttime a!oin ic power. Tbe ad cl~imrd lhe Unit ed Slates coald n1aintain ils lead in this ricld with t he aid o( priv ate pawer , • ': ;. I \ 1 JOHNSONVILLE STAT E BANK fl( \hi' ~l ~lt:'nll'nls h1 lh r. ;1<1\"~rlise. · lrlt~I W<'?c " l tih<' nud m!sleadiDg" and wt re n~l ~upporl r d b)' tr.111· II\~ ~- \:1'·~11 tl\r r on1 111illrc hy At<"1'1~ r:ntr~y <'~111n1hsion "'' it· -~ta. ) . • •• GeneraT Ho1dwo1e • f'aints ·Appliances · ' Building Material Phone 7731 I · Johnsonville, S. C. , .. : .. '( ~. ~ . •\ . . . ' .i. . •. .. . . ..: . ..... ...,. "· ·.. ... • . •• • :,,• • ,·.. . . ...... .. . •','I, •, . , '\ I . ~ . .. Tomlinson and Venters Deportment Store INVEST WISELY .WITH .•• John·sonville State Bank At Their New Locatiori In Modern ) ' ! I I\ ! .' + . BANK ON rc~~tors . A . roi1unltlt~ 1011rct u ld JOJl\I ·. . •' • •·~· ' .. t • THEN .... • IN NEW · QUARTERS • me mb~~ tl,,n~I rno~ey, • BUT YOU CAN To The Snn1t commil)te ha\•e l.n•istcd Uiat the gl}y~nment si.a rt J0 H N SONY ILLE STATE BANK building big tor atomic 1 · powr r de~·elopmtn~ ins lead of ••, ilinf for pr i1·ale enierpr i$t. I JOHNSONVILLE .Al U1e lim' 1he adrtr tise menl: Ha r d w.a re & App1·1once . Co. publisht cl, ,l,pp rop:ialion• I ' wa > conduNine · llc'~rl nt,~ 01r · ·re<inest o! t he Aloin·.!: k )~ntrJ)' l'o 1111ni~.<ion tar 11ddi· , • WITH US! ON ITS OPEN ING • • YOUR . MONEY I JOHNSONVI LLE STATE BANK NE I GHB0 R' ... • . ·. • • • •;. • SAVE YOU . CAN BANK WITH T 0 be 'o Next Door ·r-· -•: ' • ' ;,(.•..... ...,.., ',··~· '° •,. • t"-~t,• •I • ', ,. ·: · '·\ -•,---.-~ • ; ; , • ,':¥:' • . .j SURE GLAD • .. ; ;t .._, , .... j}' ' \ TO t • .,. _. ~ , • • •. .•. . ••• . •. r .......... • •• • Congratulations! i GOODS I .. FOR BEi i ER FURNITURE · EXTENDS ~m~ni~ . 1'.i s .t11bcomn1ll lJ~ HUGH HAYES · CO . State Ba"k · 100 pr h·atc utili lr companies. !~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The commitcee's acl!on·. behind Ii ~=:;;:;;;;;,;;;;;::;;;::;;;~~~~l;,:::=~ ol~s cd door~ was talo:en 'by .ii s;ilil ;;; -- \'olc r cpor!ccl 35 ;;boat 30·10. GROW! Johnsonville H. VENTERS CO. JOHNSONVILLE STATE BANK l • ·LOCKING OUR HANDS TOGETHER WE HOPE TO .SEE . JOHNSONVILLE GROWS GROW! l Much Succe1s • Ro11se Approprialior.s Comtn ittee "FOR SMART LADIES APPAREL" lod~y ordered an inl'estigation of a nalionwide news-paper advertis- !"-------------------------~ in!( · campaign which meml>crs el aimed m isrcprcscntc<l !he sl alus t Of U, S. dc··~Jopmcnt Of \ICaccli mP MA~Y HAPPY, PROSPEROUS alorolc pDwez. I . A ·· committee sr-o~t,~man said· DAYS TO th e ·committee is sµed -.,. sul>pocna !or Olli cials of th e N. \I/. Ayer & Sons, Inc.~ advcrtlsin& · <11(ency. PhU<td~lpnl~. which prep11red iull ~ago adverliseme nls publl~hcd ln TOGETHER, LET PROGRESS!f ah<1ut SO pa.rcrs several weck.s . I ' ago. 1 ' To Gwe11dolyn s Ores$ US • Dairy King I. 1 ,~ASHING·ro~. .;une .2s ~rhel Ed o,.,nahoe's Bait &Tackle Sh.o p Acro$S Tile Sfreet From The New Home Of ; S H.- O P Our Va~ Supply • ·Best ·of Succe·s s · . ' Meet'. Your . House Group TO JOHNSONVILLE STATE BANI<· To. Probe ·Ads . • . .. . l' . BROWDER'S BA~BER SHOP to • ~·-- Get Your Haircut At . JOHNSONVILLE' S town adm ini; tra tion is I tft 'in the honds of" a mayor and 'iour counc il· 1r(en. Here, Moyer Odell Ven ters, st1rrov nded ~y 1~ .luggins on the le ft .and Virgil 0 . Eaildy on rile right, loo!\ for thei r tO°l"'I on a 11iop of the U nitcd States in · the ·W orld · Atlas: These in en, , with Hermon Len tz o nd E. H. Ven ier$ Jr., other councilmen u.ia blc to be ·prese11t f()t picture · are doi ng thei r best· put th eir town·"on the mop" throug h t ntice ment of goqd busines;. cind desirable industry. · ·· · - ·-·· . ___:_.:__ __ · · ' (Morning ~~:!'.~..E~ FISH • 'i'art5 & Appt. V .0 . 'Eaddy & M11ck Poston ----·-·-·---- MEN!! But Draw Out Johnsonville NAPLES, , Italy, June 26 ~ .lo, \ Vcaring ·. his Roo Hu.ngari11n .,,oung 11tl>l~e ,I rom -Communist sport &· unH<irm, w~\cr polo star ·. Hungary today eooh· el11drd his Alodnar S1pbo hclµcd laad bag· .lC~ffilTiil\CS fo . ft precla~\·n bid for gag" ~bo;ir( II bus bound for lhe lr~cth>111 a nd 11skctl ll;\ly lo grant r3llroact slat ion and !he ! rain for hiri1 refuge. · I Jl udapcst. · · ' I By Using Tackle From ' ..... I JOHNSON\ 1LLE STATE BANK I Johnsonville State Ba·nk Red·:Ath lete···Mcikes Dash· .. . Deposit. Your Cash With Good! :: 1 . Farmers' Union o l ! l Up-To-Dote Quarters l Congratulations_! TO GIVI· YOU THE HIGH • I from $ $ • I Livestock Market j • $ $ I . Tomlinson and Venters Dept. Store . . s.f' I --~------------------------..~--..J'--------------~------~---------------...;.__...;...~----I L � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Industry Impact Great for Small Towns - 1967 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10-1-1967 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Florence Morning News https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/dbf2951e49ad10b89ac1e882db0f496c.pdf 537d66fd5d57a0d6fbf616cffba94a0f PDF Text Text SU~Dt\ Yi JANUARY ?AGE 8-B 27, 1952. FLORENCE 1IORNI XG l':E\\'S. l·-I.10nENCE, S. C. • .. ...' '· ,- . .. .. .. ., .. . - . I . ; '; • • f . . .. · . . ... ' ' ! Tl . rf l t(: • I r1 · I ~· • I •' '.\ • TO'VIN Of FICIAlS-Ca ~l"d from 'helr vo rlou• lob-. 1n thtt 1ov-1n of John,onvUlo Fridcy a f Ie-rnoon by Mayor D. L. Marsh {aecon d from loft1 sealed), ,he 1own official, art:t shov1n In 1hoir lown hall o f fice. Seated loft to right, ~2re Alde,mo n r. M. Al1 m c n Moyor Mar5h , ~.1'agi~lrotc G. f, D~nohoe, Alderman J. H. 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Title A name given to the resource Johnsonville is Hustling Little Town - 1952 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1-27-1952 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Florence Morning News Description An account of the resource Includes photos of Seaboard Air Train Depot, town officials, and J.H. Owens, freight and express operator. https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/9215476a440dd04c1c097f04a00b7ffe.pdf c7e0fe13e0ac5589aa353b205a00c042 PDF Text Text .. , I .. . ( ~ ·e· :.;. ' .. .. ;: . )' .. • ''i r " .' , ~ ........ =~J . .o · ~ > . « ..,,,:-; il· "" , ~ < -. ;.i; ~• ' - - ·- 'if , ....- . • ' . .- :. .~ ~ ·. ~ . , ,, a ' .. ~ ·u ~~·. ~ ~ ~. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johnsonville Looked Good To A Boy From Possum Fork - 1959 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3-1-1959 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Florence Morning News https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/bde34a6510a745c62e85236f40316bf1.pdf 62992a28bda0810ae01b334665651485 PDF Text Text • • \\'. };llN)!;;)l>A Y AIUll:.~1 r;IJ, J't:Nli: ·1:1, .l!JjlJ • . • New· Rating Office Holds Pos. f :Johnson ville ,. FOR YOUR STANDARD BRANDS OF BEAUTIFUL e DIAMONDS JEWELRY WATCHES ' ond CHINA . • CRYSTAL e SILVER In, A Progre.Sive JOHNSOMVILLE See Congratulations! WE ARE J>ROUD TO BE ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE STATE BANK Johnsonville Dry Cleaners • ' Johnsonvill.e State Bank Wishes For A BJtlGHT TOMORROW! • KARN IMAX · JEWELERS . . . "Acro11 From Bank" . MI D··W ·A·Y C ·L·E A N.E RS The SANDS of TIM11! IN IT'S NEW HOME for Future Building ·In John1o'nville WE NOW HAHDLE TOBACCO :.\HD COTTON POISONS AND OTHER INSECTICIDES .. • Sand from ·· ........ Coastal S. W. POSTON ·sand COTTON AND SEED f>HONE 7411 - 7412 Co~ JOHNSONVILLE, S. C. " LET US CLEAN YOU UP." Johnsonvillt S. C. !'HONE 7461 • WHILE YOU ARE IN TOWN . .m an DOING. YOUR BANKING · AT" JOHNSONVILLE ST ATE BANK ' lt-f ITS NEW HOME IS INDEED HAPPY .• o. In TO ·HAVE A · PART • D_ROP BY AND LET US Se r v e • ·Be Practical and Purchase . WHILE YOU' RE IN TOW.H SEE US. JOHNSONVILLE STATE BANK • . JUST AHOtHER SUCCESSFUL stir ALONG • to JOHNSONVJLLE STATE BANK MR. FA.RMER: Offers Best. W ishes ' To The FullY. Improved F"ocllities Of -- BIGGER, IETTER BUSINESS IN A FAST-GROWING TOWN ' • • . ... . 0 • • • ' FOR YOUR I I I y 0 u ! ! IN THE GROWTH OF JOH.NSON.VILLE, S. C.. \ HUGHES AND CRIBB BARBER SHOP I. i I "Wt MAKE MEN PRESENTABLE" Sto_ck Up Your Money Like Blocks Through Savings With ' JOHNSONVILLE STATE BANK So Our Economy" • • • We Welcome This Community, • .. ·''As Our Banks SAVE WITH THE HEW JOHNSONVILLE ST ATE BANK InstitL1tion To Our Town AND. WISH iT Much SUCCESS ' .. IN FUTURE BUSINESS � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johnsonville Post Office Holds New Rating - 1956 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6-27-1956 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Florence Morning News https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/cae83a652a0149614fb0d2b15e616e14.pdf 96af9c33476d74bcb30e5d8ae6558f59 PDF Text Text -4-C -SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1967 :·:· .~• · ]!(1.1fl'l1l'L' ~flLuuht\) ~tllHl t~''fr!: ~ . ··~" ; ,) ~)"C/>~<0/'0)·,) ,;,~,. ... .. . •• •.. ., , ,,. y ._ , ~ . .. ~ .• ~ .. ( · , :· t .... ,\ . ~..< .:' :~:, :,: .· • ... .. . •. ··I :,.,..- '.1 • . • . . . .. . . , : .. :.• : .. ~ : : ·,, · :.• . . ,,, SPOTLIGHT When Micbigan GO\'. Geot•gc Homney paid a visit last week lo Williamsburg and F!oren<!e counties, he was intert!s!cd in loss of employment in rural :weas and fin<l ing ways to re· lllacc it. .' JOHNSONVILLE He missed a bet when hP. didn't vi~it the Hemingway and Johnsonville areas. There, he would have found ,\s IO\I'llS go in Lhc Pee l)ee, Hemingll';ly is <1 young to1~n. a rural <trea that produced Around the turn o[ !he century William Capers Henungway, jobs by the hundreds in r~· , a large landowner who planted hundreds of acres of tobac~:o cent years to replace jobs t' and whD had several tenants anrl sharecroptlers, established lost wben mechanization of . four general stores in the Hemingway l!icinity, largely to .· farms hit full swing after :·· serve the people ll'ho worked his land. World War H. ;, 'file first store was located on Black Mingo Cre!!k. Olhcrs In the early 1950s, the towns were buili al Rome, Oll;:md auu Lambert. It was Lambert ... of lesg than 1.000 faced t11e . thal became Hemingway, n<Jrned in memory of Hemingway .. prospecl of withering on tile vine as dozens in the South· :. following his death in J91:i. e:~st have done as farm em· Among the .early businesses in the village were Fred ll. ploymenl dwindled. Huggins Hardware, J. F. DuRant Grocery. Oliver Brothers But a big 1D54 announce.. Liw:stock, W. D. Harmon General Merchandise, Eaddy..Creel ment started the change. That ; Brothers Merchandise and Millineiy. was when Wellman Combing : The Lown early developed as a thl'iving tobacc(} m:.~rkct . · Co. sald it would build a new wi1ich largely act'Oimted for the establishment o£ two banks ::: plant on the Lynches River which in 1949 merged Into the AnderS(Ill State Bank. ·· outside Johnsonville. :· . Follo\ving Hemingway's death, his Uiree sons - J . Ell, Since then, the area has : Waller C. and George S... · Rgrced to Ia)• off a site for a ,,. added Warm:r Brothers aL ; ·town with areas designated Ior businesses <mli homes. They !:· Hemingway, a lingerie rnak~; dunated land for churches and schools. :::; er; Electromotive at Hem· "' .. i.ngway, all electronics capa· ··.: Hemingway was chartered June 22, 1!114, Lhc year that n :·! citor maker; DuBois Dyeing ; : new brick ~chool was buill on Soutn Main Slrcel. 'i'he l•·irst f·~ Co., at JohnsonvHle, a wool. :. 1\1cth<Jdt'st Church \•1as built in 1916 and Fil'st Baplisl Church ,.:.· en ~yn lh · f lf!Il; ' . e t·1c. d.y~tng ln· . : in 1921. :.; ternational Narrow Fabrics in ~ Carolina Power and Light Co. brought clcctrir.al power to ; : HemlngiYa)', maker of elcas; : the town in 193(). Main Street was paved in 19J8 and munici· :,:i. . tic webbing nnd narrow tapes; Atlantic Foods, Inc. in Hem· :-' p<1l water w~s inslalled in 1939. !.he same year Johnson ;! lngway. processor and pack! : Memorial Hospital was built by Dr. Allen H. Johnson. ager of eggs; and .lolmson;.: . •, . . :.; ville Manufacturing Co., a ; · Dr. •Johnson also founded the Pee Dee lclephone CL>. Ill.-: ,Johnsonville garmcnl firm that ! Hemingway in 1947 which was sold to General Telephone Co. ,: makes women's dune<Jrf\Cs and ~ · last year. Since then the telephone company has ~loved into : i slacks. L a new building and announced plans for a $143,000 improve-. ~ Florence County Rep. Odell ;· m~nts program, largely for updating switching equipment.:~~ Veu!.crs, a former Jobnson, , . ville mayor, said that industrial expansion enabled John· "' Johnsonville's early history is somewl1at obscure. Little is :; sunvillc (o kcL'!' its economy : available in the way of a writt~n history. . . going and to expand employ- * ;· * * * * * owns rea mpac n By TIIOM ANDERSON ~lorning News State Editor HEMINGWAY. .' ··- 1970 census,'' Venters said. It Hemmgway firms bave a "tre- Hemingway and locating Du· grew from 350 in 1950 to mendous list of applications'' Bois Dyeing Co. at Johnson· that indicate there ls room for ville. nearly 900 in 1960. . . more. Wal~r and transporta· DuBois locateiJ across the J. P. Askins Jr., :m officer lion were llsted as important. road from Weltman in 1963 o! the Hemingway Industrial Besides a good wtderground with the aid of an SBA loan. Corporation ;~n industry-boost· water supply, the Lynches :md Since that time, they have exing organization, said, "We Pee Dee Rivers arc near Hnd pani:led their plant by some Seaboard Coast Line railr{}ad have to kind of slow down servil-e and truck!lnes give 20,000 square feet to the originand absorb the companles we good freight service, Askins al 27,000 square feet. Employm~nt now is near 100. l!ave rlght now, but that will said. . The Hemingway industrial not take too long." Then, he Askins pointed out anolh1Jr park was a 2(}.acre tract just said, there should be more companies and more employ- factor !hal Romney would across Se11board Coast Line have found interesting. A com· tracks from the busineSs area ment in the area's future. binatioo of local initiative r:nd they. hoped to use for indusVenters and Askins listed federal funds "have been the try. Now, it is fiUed. with three !actors they feel make the backbone of Hemingway ;Jrea small plants, Electromotive area attractive to industry. development." which employs about 100, InA basic attitude on tt>.e part Small l3usiness Administra- !.cma~ional Narrow Fabrics of the people stands near the tion loans have been a factor · with about 50 jobs and a likebead of the list, they said. other factors are a good ~>up­ in locating plants that filled lihood of adding a second shirt, ply or labor. Askins said the a 20-acre industrial pL!rk in ~md 1\tlantic Foods, Inc. All ment some despite farm cutbacks. "In fact, between l9!'<11l and 1960 Johnsonville was Florence County's fastest-growing town and may be ag:lin in the Hemingway Industry Day Friday HEi\llNGWA Y - A series o£ ribbon - cuttiug ceremonies set fGr Frldoy will draw a host of .digrai~ries for a day-long celebratioa of itS recent Industrial success. IJ,IClud~ iJt the. series of ceremonies will be deilica, tions of industrial planls located b~rc since 1960 and ~cremonies formany opr.nmg other businesSl!s. .Having ceremonies wlll be War~er Rrol:IH!rs Co., tru Molive Maouracturing Co., and International Nar~ row F a b r i c s, industrial firms . Also 'h :nolog flfrmul openings wiU JJe C<Jaclt· mao's Inn, the to\m's new motel and rcst;~urant, Genenll Telepboue Co., Hem. mgway Production Credit, Anderson State Bank and Jlemiugway Broadcasting Co. To join local ofrihials in the ceremonies will be Gov. Robart E. McNair, Sens. Strom Thurmnnrl and Ernest. 1<'. Hollings, Rep. JGhn L McMillan and State Development Board Director J. D. Llttle. Otber state officials and Sm:ill Business Administwtiort officials will take part. The 9th Air Force Band ftnm .Shaw 1\ir Fori:e Base wiU Qpen the day with a 10 a.m. concert, and tile series of dcdir.alions will :;tart at 11 a.m. At noon a barbecue at Rig Four Wurebuuse will feature the day. .. J .. ' • .. .. . .~ ... . • .. . .. . • ... . .. ... . . ' ; •.. • '. .. Hemingway Mayor Dons Many Hats In the .1920s, Johnsonville was a bustling community with ·.; stores lining Broadway. the main stree~ and three or fou1·:;. lol:Jacco ware\1ouses holding auctions. II saving:; and loan : ;~~sociations and wholesale grocery firm were among the · : town's busint-ss establishments. ..''<. '· 1 "' . • .. . -... .. ..... ~ ;.·- ..... ·• . . , . • .. , _ One of the most serious fires occutred in 1931. A. news- ·; ~ · paper clipping in the Florence County Public Library quoting ' i i D. B. Ha7.elden, a merchant, relalcs that the fire struck in . ; the dr.ad of night and the on!y tt>jng left 1vas t1¥o stores. :': Haselden is quoted as saying nobody was in a hun·\! to '. . rebuild and thal a de<.:ade PiiSSed before rebuilding really ·.: Look hold. · :i ' The <trrival of Well.man Combing Co. in a major inclust1·y :1 for a connnumty winch l1as been geared !1> an agriculture\ ·:l illld lwub~r ct:unomy, launched Johnsonville on a new era . ·::.; (Siaft P J.olo b7 So11D7 SmiUo) SANDRA POSTON, MISS H EMI~GWAY HIGH SCHOOL Before Swimming Pool ct Hemingwoy's Coachman's Inn .. . .. . .. ' ' , . ... .. . . . • • .. ' ) ' .· · :: · .. .... .. .. •. • -' I • • '. . . ·. ' . • ' I • ' .' ..: - .. .: . . ... .. ..: . . . . ..' .. ... ... . . . . I ~... ' ' •• I ' ' 'H • -' . .. . '. .. • .. . ' " ' 'I • • ' • . ...... -:... ' .··.. .: .,.... .. . .. . ...·. ·.: ; ; ' 0' \ .. •. ": .. • . .. • ' ...o '... .. ·;;. ~ .. .. .. .. .. • : •.. •...· !:. .. <,:'J.. • '· .. . Johnsonville Vividly Shows Impact of Major Industry . JOH!\SO~VILLE - 1' h i s small lower Florence County town (population 88~ llS couni· ed in the 1960 census) illustrates vividly the impact th<tt a major industry can have on a small community. ·.. .. . .. .... . HEMTJ\'GWAY - Hemingway Mayor Durward Lewis wears m<~ny hats. Besides being the top elected offici~! jn the town government, he is sales supervllior of the Hemingway tobacco market and heads the Hemingway Industrial Corp., a Ieg~l body form· ed in l~Gl to spur industrial development. 1:Je earns a living as an accountant. The addition of Lbree new industries during the past two years has sparked new economic vitality whlch is being felt by downtown businesses, according to Lewjs, The arrival of new inrinstry and Lbe continued efforts of . town leaders to secure more ~ .. .. that one as .we did tbe other one," he said. INDUSTRY PUSH .. . • •• • • • • • • . •• ' " ; : '', !'f::.'j )'~'1'+'-'*:W"" ':":" ' '- '' . ,., ... . : ·· ...... ~ , ... !.'<'"''} ~· • . .. ; • ;.·· .... ·~· .... -·· . . . .• . • .• ...... . . . .. ' . . ~~'~ ..."'·· :....... ~.. =-;}~ -.. ; •.~ ~ ..:.· ~ "''; : ; ~.;. ! :·~ ~J ~: I .I 1 after the wartime boo~t or the middle 19·10s to JohnsQnv!lle ocsiness activ lty, there W?.~ a recession which only the arrival of Wellman and other industries reversed. Jollllsonvillc is on the brink Wellman Cambing Ct!., a of undertaking a major sewerwool-processing firm, lnealcd age ami water improvP.ments hr.re in 1954 and now employs program. A petition is being some 1,200 persons, mainly ci~c:ula!ed calling for an decmen. Since then a number of Lion which will :111thorize the other plants have located here, town cmmcil to borrow suffieach divcrsiEying and hnost- cit-nt funds to renovate Lhe municip:1l water system and ing the · economy. inslall a sewerage sysli!m. But the principal ii(Jost lo Preliminary engineering the economy has been the and ground work for . financWellmnn pl:ml providing jobs ing the project has been done, for hundreds . .of men who <tceording to M~yor DeLance would have gone elsewhere Lu Poston. The town fathct·s are seek work hnd i!. not been for asking authorizatirm to sp~nd the Wellman plant. up to $1:i0,000 for improveThe vi~u1.d signs of the lm· ments in the w a t e r system pact of industry on .Johnson- nnd up to $74,000 for installville is n10rc evident around ing a sewer system. the town's perimeter whc1·c . The town expects to fin::mcf! hundreds of new home~ lo a major portion o[ the prohouse plant workers llavc gram with fednral grants and bC"Cn builL to bo1·row the remainder . lt is al~ evident to down· which will be 11<1id oH with lawn merchants, acr.ording to 11tility rcv9nucs over a 20.. Rich<Jrd hus np- year pc1·iod. . . Pro:;~cr. \vho . cra~cu a uepanmcn~ :store 1m .Iohnsonviiie's main sired . ":". · -- .!. .. . .. JllUttuw,tty, WINDOW SHOT AT WELLMAN COUNTRY CLUB FRAMES GOLHKS ANi) COU RSt. ~ey Art Johnsonville Councilman Richfl rd Pr osser, Left, and Club Pro Leonerd Drake ' .~ Lilt: . u ·J;uiJ Widening and resurfacing the main street in Hemingway ltas c~Jrne along with remodel· ing of several. of the stores. There are few vacant buildings, and new store buildings have sprung up oo the end of town. "J hope we do as well with J. P. ASKINS JR., RIGHT, VIEWS MACHINERY Cortez Owens, Supervisor ot I ntemotionoJ Narrow Fabrics The !own whieh began to dcvel{)p around lhe 1l1rn o[ the , . 1:enlnry ur shortly afterwards was named either fo1· Billy:·: Johnson, a blacksmith in the area in the lale 1800s, or for his ;'1 parents. :; - Venters said Johnsonville business has weathered the de~ cline in fann jobs and ex· panded. He added .Some tjrpes of establishments are still needed there and would make money. lndustnal Corp. is obtaining ;l 42-acre tract Lo which the town will run water and sewer li.Ms. ·. . ville depository since Wellman has become the Johnsonville ~:~te Bank, and Andersnn Bank in Hemingway ~<IS undergone expansion that puts it JlQW in a sleek, modern office on Main Street. And l~e sald the Hemingway ' ~ The business cornmunlty has felt the results. The Johnson- He said walLing lists for jobs and young people getting ne3r joining the labor ma!'ket assure a supply of labor. • . . plants locating in the vicinity of the towns since 1961, most with SBA help, have added about 000 jobs. As the towns absorb their new industry, Askins .:;aid more jobs are in the future. L..---------...1 ·. Askins said in addition . Meanwhile, Hemingway has seen a new radio station go on the air and a $2 million expansioll of tcl~plrone facilities by the General Telephone Co. since it has taken over the old Pee Dee Telephone Co. The firm set·v~ both towl.IS as well as Pamplico. . . .. The lown. however, has heen plagued wi!h numbei'S of fires . which took a heavy toll in the business area each time they : : struck. The mayor says serious fires have :;truck the down-',. town etrea probably a half dozen t imes and .iri the days:~ when slon~ buildings were wood, the fires spread rapidly.' ·; . Wellman employs about 1,~ 200 people nQW in prOduction or wool tops and blends. Plans call for a shopping center to rise on the edge of Johnsonville soon. Atlantic Foods, Inc., Elec· :Mayor DeLance Poston says the land on which the town ~·. stnnds w:1s originally owned by S. W. Poston, the fa !.her of a !ormer mayor and a di~Lant relative of the present mayor. have. located in tiNl past three years. ~ireci since the enrly 1930s. . .' Prosser, also :t member of the town council rcc~ lis that WiliCil i iOI¥:5 ci.C'1\ii>~ a·,,;; il<icl\~ or Seaboard Coastline Rnilroad has a number of unoccuplcd. buildings. Work begun, hOW• . I . ever. on widening .Lhree blocks of East Broadway to the in· teJ'lietlion of Highway 51. Sidewaiks, curbs. and. gutters will be Installed along the widened portion of tbe street. JohnsonviUe'~ active volunl~!r fire denartment is building a lire station near the center of town to house a fire truck bought last year and other fire-fighting gear. The department headed by vollnl· !.ccr chief Irby Stone has raised funds to coru;Lrucl the station through donations and a series of fund - raising projects. Utilizing the petition method, .Johnsonvllle's town council h<l:> extended tJle town limits three ti:rncs recently bringing in about 30 houses and adging about 100 tCI Lhc town's population. . Odell Vcnl.crs, a member ol Floreuc~'s County Delegatio.n to. t~e state House of Rep· rr.scnt<ttivcs and a merchant in J ohnsonvil!e, predicts that !he census in 1970 slJOw a substantial increase in the will town's population. 'PujnUn~ . iil;·,y ··~ t.b t:ic Hlim~Jtr tf , Uri\.:iiLi;g:;, lit: ~UJ~, .~ ~ti ;; popula!lon should reach 1,200, an estimate 11e considers con- servative. has brought with it a cha!· lenge to tbe town and its government. The ehallenge i~ to provide water and sewerage facilities adequate to serve uew industries and its climb· ing population, a cosily undertaking for a town witb a population of 951, according to the 196~ census. The pupulation is somewhat higher now, however. •• . I DURWARD LEWIS Hemingway Mayor outsicle. 'rhP. town is counting on receiving $211,550 in federal funds for the project and the remf:lining ~325,000 will be borrowed from the Farmers Horne Administration and repaid with utiliLy revenues. The challenge of providing utility improvements of this scope i.s formidable for a town the si~:c of Hemingway, Lewis observeS. But town leaders realize this is the sort of lhing that has to he done to attract In t9fi2, when Wamer Broth- industry which will in turn ers came as the town's first foslcr prosperity in o the r manufacturing plAnt, the town areas of LlJe commuoity econ~ omy, he says. ~;pent $32,000 to extend water and sewer lines to serve t11c Hemingway, li!<:e ather Pee plant. During the past hvo Dee towns which in the past years, $.'1,000 has been spent have heen trade centers of an agricultural eeonomy, must io cxlcnd uti Iity lines to a diversity its economy by new Electro Motive plant and bringing in new industry or $3,500 t1> extend lines to the dry up, Lewls observes. Jnternettiunal Narro1v Fabrics Hemingway is a one stop· plant: !iglrt town which bas no park· The next big item of bllsi- mg meters and angle park~ ness for the town government ing. There is u.sually adequate is a water and sewer expan- parking ex:cept during peak sion prograni which wi!l cosl shopping periods. The town, in excess of $~~ million. It neve.r~eless has gone into an will include :~ new sewerage am bit1ous off.street parJo:ing treatment facility, a 400,000 program. Five off.street Ita gallcn elevated water tank have l>cen developed ;l n d five m()re are plaiUled which and a new well. will provlde over 200 parking Tlte expansion will Increase spaces. by more than six times !.he Two years ~~go, sidewalks, ready water supply. of . the town. It is needed mainly to curbs and gutterS were .lnSIDll~ raise fire protection capabili· cd on the two 1<ey st.rootstics, accordu1g to tile mayor. Main Street from the raitroad trJc.':s r.n the w~st side of ~·. •t•: • A. ...... ···'1'• ..•.• .•. ·- ._ -·............... ..--,., ...=-- -. .. r...,. . . . ... J ...... ,...- .... ,..-· · · · · ~ ·. gram will make water and s!!Wcr services avaiiabie io i'lil dwellings in town and some I t!'.-: ::~"o l;; ·.~! t.-: :.-:-:. ..... .•. t,..........~ ~!-::'); ........ ......... . ...,.1"" ....... f ....p·: n the east and on eight blocks oi Broad Street, foe principal strf:et cri>sslng Main. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Industry Impact Great for Small Towns - 1967 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10-1-1967 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Florence Morning News https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/a59c4fc17995c49daaafc243feb67972.pdf 91483fe4529e069512cacc5ec16e3aab PDF Text Text • • • ' ·. • •• • and pun~llusc uu item ur two ut the stiH'c uU in one ston• . And Lhey cun t·utch up em th~ latest community n(!ws while they arc at H.. Hurming ~he pnsl ofW.·c is u five-huur-u-tluy jolJ for Mr:-~. Perr\•. 1'hc numbeL' of llniii'S • • sh<~ spends on lhc joh is base.d on po:-;ta! fll{:C~pl s. :she ex- ta llroad the l)ostQn deJ)ot.. Tt'ains origlnat(!d In Poston and it was a switching poin1 for trains running from J+~lorence 1n. U1e aHcrnoon, she comes back about 2: :iot handH out U1e (!Vening mn U, and duUfuUy )owers the nag before ]eavlng at 5. Down th~ strcQt from the P. 0. and CJ(:r~ss the J'ailroau tJ'rttks, the Seuboanl Coast J.. inc d(!pot which was once a "pretty busy place', has gone Oil ~W Jc. 1t was ci{)St.!d Ja t.e in 1967 aftel' the merger of the Allantic CGast Line an J Smlboal'd Ail'!inc railroads. 'fhough the Morsq telcgrapil sand~r lm~l rQet.! ivE-lr has long e!icked silent at Poston, a sig11 ove1· one door at the depot says. They can pick tip stmnps. buy a molll'Y onlcr office. And the way Mrs. Mary · : Dell PeL'ry. poslmisLress for· Uw past 14 ye<rrs. figurm:: it. .. . • corner of th~ slore~ just ·CJS. it has for as Iong as mosl peopie In Poston cao rclllemh~l'. fleople like the post office rlght where it js,. Mr3. Pcrl'y By DEW JAMES MltrnJng New!! Sunday FAIUot· POStl'ON' - Whenever lhc · · top brass in Lhe Pu~l Offlc~ : . Department in • W&l;hlnglon :;taL'l talking aboul clusing .. . smaH post offices as <Ill . , economy. m(!a~urc, it sets t>ff a ~ <!Uiver in Poston. • . Po!;ton. Zip <AKIC 295fl8 a(:' <:ordlng to a hand·writt~n . . notice posle;:d by the single · service window, is J~'lnrencc County's only fourth class post •, • • • •• t"Gmmunity. LOuis Poston says the railroad co~· and north to Marion on the p<my wanted to buHd Us shops al Poston, but his grandfather, Andrew Poston for wtwm Lhc community is named, and the railroad eumpany co u I d n 't Seaooa•·d system. agree on a price for a tt·act of The depot was open around the clock, Mrs. Hearn r.ecaH~. ul workt~ an eight hour shift, land on which the shops were and conne<!Ung wW1 trains tunning sough to Charleston my husband worked another eight hour shift and our s~m workL~ the third slliiL We kept the rumdng oi the depot in the famjl}·,, she says. Passenger service w a :; ~isr:ontinued in the late 1940s here, . o • paddled _upstream .. • . •J • ... . ..'-..' .•... ..~. . ' ~ ...,. .,. ' • . • .. .. #' ; ~ • • -•. ... .. .. ••• • • • • ~ . " • 0 • • • o . 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" . _. • • :.·. •• : 0 - •J:o,'---.._x.c" .:.... - • ••· . ... . . . . . . ... ' # .·o. ...•·'i 0 MRS. M·ARY DELL PERRY RUNS UP FLAG AT POSTON P. 0 . She Has Been Po~tmis tress for Past 14 Ye<~rs. (Staff Photo) he\•(hJ\' was t.~round World \V ill' . I \\•hen thet•e were as many• as four general stores operating at once. There was a villag:; doctor, a drug store and a liverv- stable . The LL·ain station brought in business enough to ~ • .. ..·. -·. .. .. :,·:~:: :...! . . : .. . ... 0 ' : .;::0. .. ...,, ·~ · . . ., • ~ ,.,: : . ~·. t • . . . 0:; 0 .... 0 Furches figures ., Post_on~~ . • . .. • 7 . • ...i,. . •; ~ . .. .. . -~ quite \vere never :reC!overed. ' . . ; cars and one pick-up rolled ofl' the ferry during crm;sings . and ' ' '• ' POST,ON DEPOT, uo~CE A BUSY PLACE/' ~AS USED UNTIL LATE IN 1967 Building at left Was Once o Cafe and Contained Jrgin Dispatcher's Offices ... . ... - . .. ' •• • •.._. . , I; • remcm}:lcn that at least two j' '. • 0 ' ' L, ·ru:!o:J.' 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When the '\~·ater .· - ~.. ~~·- .• .. ... . . •• <I""""'•-- - .. , o Poston • '.• 'f't~ I • ' •• ';'I. 0 ~ f .... ... D l'fll . . . . . . .. ,J • • • H rope system .- F.'ares were .50 eents for a horse .and buggy: . ' fjve t.-enls ))Cr ltJcrson.' 75 een~~'· -~ . :(' for a hnr.se ~md wagon ancl Sl. . I .,... . ' for a hvo-horsEl- w;1gon. h~ _..I said. ~ 'Most people tti~d tu ~H'Oid using the ferry when the w~tcr • . ... .•..'-~·:·:··:.=·~-~· . ··~"·~·=·-~~~.~~;= I railroad shops had been buia • • ' . ones were puHed act·oss with a • . • to be built. So the shop;:; were buill in.. st~ad at Andrews. '• If the might have become a good si?.ed town; Poston said .. Bdorc Ihe railro~•d era, Po~ton Wf\!.i on the mCJin 1·oad and the telegraph $ervlcc was behveen :Georgetown a n d pro~·l11ims : :·,w~slcrn Union Telegraph (tnd Cabh~ Office.'· continued until a year or ~o Marion and a ferry \\·as ago, she says, though the old · operated acros~ t~ Pee Dee Mr~. Nell Hearn who worked at the depot fur 48 years Morse sender was not used River at Elfi!;<m's Landing n beroL'e retiring five years ag(> anymore lor tapping our few. mii<!S e.ast of Poston. .. Dou~la·s Furc-hes. ~v h () s ~ l'cmcmbers that during World me:;sages. l'ost<m, like many Pee Dee· grandlathcr operated the fer· War fi and for some years lmfore things buz~ed around tnwns got its start as a . ry, recalls thal older ferries . were paddle4 across. hut Jale1· suoncr . ot' Inter when the JJ,)ains. l·~Heh rnrwuiug ilb~}Ul 9. she go\'el'nt~lcnl stm·Ls t a I k i n :~ cconotmcs. lhe Po:; ton P. 0. <•omos duwn and runs up lhc flag on a poJc on I he norlh side will hu\'e to go. 'fhc Poston P. 0 . ~erve3 of lhP. gcuer·al store land posl UbJ>Ut 60 rnmiJics \o\'ho COOl(! h• ufftc('}. SIH! stieks around unm James Haselden's g ~! ncr a I ahout IL ::IO handing oul the sloL'C daily Lo rolleel 1heir morning mail brought in from mail. '!'he P. 0. ocl'upies on\! .Jolmson\'il)(!. SUNDAY1 AUGUST 25, 1961 SECTtON D, PAGE 1 0 •• • • • 0 : • . ·• • ·=-···· - • . - . ... . .... •• • ..,., _ ·_: ... 0 • ... • 0 • • • .. . wnrrant a couple of cafes anl a hotel . he said. 1\\:o ·~n tf~rpris~s ·· - the railroad nnd the B r o w n Englimri L:lmlwr Co. on the Pee Dee Ri\•er - accounted for Poston's commercial bus~ .. •• • • • 0 t O O .... ~ tie in the po:~t Worid War f perjod. according to Furches. The bustle has gone from Poston. but H remains n picturesque community where old .~u~Idings are reminders of a lively past. ." ......... ·~ ·--. ~·· ... ~ !\-:::::· ~.... 0. • • • • .. o I 0 .. ... :;o ~ • o o • • ~~· • ,, ' . .. 00 I • • . . . . ... . . . -- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poston Post Office on Borrowed Time - 1968 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8-25-1968 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Florence Morning News https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/fe0c10daf81cbea9e0932679b15f9db6.pdf f11febe8fee721908778ffcab5075ba3 PDF Text Text • ~ Johnsonville Has ,,~ New Church·/ Group g � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johnsonville Has New Church Group - 1956 Description An account of the resource Westside Free Will Baptist Church Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6-27-1956 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Florence Morning News Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Florence Morning News https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/74e6019496a811dd1fbbfc057683db54.pdf 903559de85c016d179aa8d5d3efdd266 PDF Text Text • .. =·~i ~. - '. . ,• • . .-...... ' ..., . . .. " • • - ; · _., • Morning News Sports. Writer .. . ' .. • • • . Th~ Johnsoo,,rille Fl a~ d.0 ~ething last J."riday night· . · that no other in the st.at~ has been able·to do in the past t"'·o ~- football .seasons. The Fl.ashes broke the 2t ganle ¥;-inning · • ~trcak or the defending state (;Jass, AA champioo:s. lhe . E~ is hopvi l le Dragoos by the score of l :l-7. · . The Jc'lasbes OOW advances to the semi - (inals of ftJ<! Stat~ · Class AA J'la~'{tffs this r..riday liight wh~n ltrey host Bamberg - f~rhardl oo. t~ Flashes home field. • Jobnso11villc. Y.-hidt no"'' sporls a L0-0-l r~rord. didn,t ha\•e ::;uch a eaS)' ·Lime -...·itl• lhe Dragons . though Co~b Bob Jtank1ns~ learn looked like it might coa~t etfter lhe fjrsl half. The Flashes jumped ool front early when l~'1bert V.'ea\•er . •ook a Bi k)' Rankin piteh -oot on the 11 ya rd line and v.·::i~ into , .. thf~ end iooe untouched to gk;i·c the Falcons a 7-0 le<1d with · Gregg r""llrt:he~ Kkl<ing the £1 AT! . ~ The home t earn y,:as able lo se-l up its first score d•ie to wme · , fi1ld rlltll)ing by F'rtiz Ed"·ards lli'ho accounlcd for 42 ~·ards or . rushing in 1t'M! &3 )'<trd drive in jusl 5<!\ en carries. The Fla.shes~~ Dragons. mo\red 1he ball v.·c\1all1•ight l{tng as they sho\ved ~he f.ans S.Offi(! of tne best football pla~·ed ]ri . lo~it Jn ti 1c pi) st 1-0 }~~ars_ · ,. · The Dragons lookoo like true r.-ha111ps as the}' came Oi.it to . start thi! third quart.er und je:im1r1ctJ tile b11 II slraight at the · l;-1 ri shes d.efen.c;.p . f!the~' had ~tichae I Cooper ,..·ail lng to r{'{:ei~·e Tomnl}' \\'ilkie'sp.eiss for the-touchdown. · (:ooper 1 waiting at lhc Flashes 20 ]'ard Iin<! fo r \~'ilkie's high • . floating pa~s. had pleilty o! con1pan~· as. t'nrcc Flashes '.\·er<?a1so v."aiting the arrival uf ttie (lying {lhjcct. Through soml:!' mirar:le, Cooper came out cf lhc groop ;i.·lt11 .tlic footbill1 and scampered iriln the r:nd 1.one for the onl}' Dri:i~On score. The to,Jashcs held anotMr drive late in tllr. game whe11 the . Dragon~ mo\'L'd the ooll to lhie (i\'I? bul eouldn~t pLish it acro!i.l:i : ·anfi the home team behind the ru11ning of fullbrie~ R~y · T~alloi.1 , ran l he clock flu l. • · A ~: oung man "'·ho h<Ui cionr. an outstanding jOb for the : r-·~ashcs th1s season and ht:1s. h;:1d \•er}· li~tlC'! crf!dit (~xr-ept I rOTil lhe coaching Slll rr l is ~!ark King . King d.r.scr\'ed the ac.ade~y a\.\·urd for acting lnsl ,,-cl"k Ll.s late in lhe game \~·hen lhc Uragons had 1lt!ld .th~ Flashes 3nd forcerl them to punt, King waited lo the last s~co11d before : klcking the bal l and t:ausP.d the Dragon defender to tun into · J1il11 a11d roughing the kicker was cal led. The prct•)' part or Ch~ : d~al \\·a:s Lhu rttns iii th~ s la~ thought thal King hart real]}· . heen creamed b~ 1 thc .tleft!ooer i1ul ri:all _v he \\'as be<1rl>' · louth('d_ . · The Pl nshl'S success has r.om e ~bout du r. lo :;e\•cra l lt1i11gs.. 'fhc ci;11t er for ~he F'lashC's did a great jab of getting the bal! t1ack to l{ anki t'l .all .scu 5'Jn lung a11u t~1 ct1 c nr11 irtg Llp 10 hl~w.k • 1 • • •• • • • • lh~ n)it1~1~ 12;uardjLtit as it i~ ~tlpposctQ lJc-d onc. SLC\'(! Dukes is lhe j'D'.tn~ man lhat has. pla~' e<l th~ spc.t. so \\"<?-11 lhis S(laS<ln ~lld to !oo.k at htm ~· au 111ight th]nk lhal t1c cauJd care Jess ,~·hat praise he gets he-rause he's a real silent lYP<! j'oung man but \~·hen he gels up <lnd over I he hall th<! m~n in fro11L him best l."€1h'are.. . or ,1o\nother 11n_.sLJrig ~ro ror the i.·~a~hes is Barry Crock-er, -the ·left end. Crocker d [dn'~ ~VC'n start· for lhc .IV t1A·o ~·ear5 agll t)ut to u,5e a1' old cliche, You'\'C come a Ion& via:>· bab.l·· C1:ockcr ha~ a· real good ~t of hands. ::.nd spee·d l~rlt l e1s ~1im · gel under f{<1nkin's pa&sc..'$ . · !lankin arid t1is coach iug staff h~\'e done ~ rind job fh1s ~ea son, can.s idering Ihat the Fla ~tes ha vc \ler .\' little depth . . Rtit1kin ~\' i 11 be I~ rir.~t· tQ_a~mil -t~al hi~ team ha:.; the right ~lClilttdl' and hti,•ing·a n•nnirlg hr.t('k st1ch as Ed~·ards eer~ '<1inly i1clps lli.~C1).."1~hing jobmuchea$iicr. · E4:d\~' a rd~ is t'.>ni' or Ii>e 1nost sooght aft r. r col leg<! pro~~'s ir• tl}~ stale aoo right hi! ~hCJulu be bet~use he has th~ nacural talent to pl a~· an~•\\'her~ OCl lhc [ictd. · Tht:! r•' lashes are \\'Cak wh~n it co111cs to rl~ptl1 but re r1a1nl~· tnf! jll en on too .~idc linc.s arc ~blc Lo fil~ it1 (or an)' [)f 'th~ 11ln) Pr.c; that ;!lrejnthe~tarting JjnculJ i•t tlii~ li111e. Coac-h l~atlkin .~id r..fooda)' afternoon that he gi,·es r1•ll<:t' of Lhe ercdil l)f t bt· .,..-inning of the Fla ~.~e:;, to his reser-..·es." \V..: · h&\ e pla~·crs . oo tlli~ learn that rriu1rt start far a lot [)f ottter 0 1 teams in the a rL?a. ·~ · \\'h r! L (hi:=; rP.pOrter has be-en lryi n.g to Ic11 lttC' •e_a die rs in ::i round ab-0ut way i s, 'Ille ~· 1a~es frmn J ohns0nvillc .arc ooc of the best footb.al l 1eams in the Pee DP!! in lh~ e}"es or this reporter a11d I ga vc I hem ·m~' h(ghe~t. Sc'l l11te for v-~halP.Vf!r !t lfl ~·or­ th. [ helP'!! to .be 011 Ihes! de Ii~c-s the 11 igh l lhc F'l41 shPS mc<!t 1he µ,·inner for t~ upper stale. ei 1 ll be an 11\C' ,<:,1dc-ljncs thl~ \\'eeJ.;enct \\"a1ti ng ~rid \\•ale hing for J nh risan'' illc to \\.ln trLc scnl i · Iin a L~ agaj n~t Ilamt)(!r~ l•:rhardt 1-~ri d'I ; n lghl1 + • • • � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johnsonville Flashes - 1973 Description An account of the resource Flashes victory over the Bishopville Dragons. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11-13-1973 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Florence Morning News https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/40bca3e73fc3448151b82e6b3693f585.jpg d292ac76f880f2b4effbe5479a5e6c5e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Subject The topic of the resource The ancestors who called this part of the Pee Dee home. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource C.S. Carter, F. N. Phillips Jr., and J. F. Osteen discuss preliminary plans for the Wellman Combing Company plant. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9 February 1954 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Florence Morning News Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Florence Morning News Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Florence Morning News Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Florence Morning News https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/36df8e5c53f3d4ca7f9ffb20b246f5d8.pdf e3f7c903ee18463fbe696b7a437bc9fd PDF Text Text ./ 'HE ~EORGF./rOWN 'llMES. OEOUGETOWN. S. V .. ."ATURDAY. FEBHUAHY :l:l.lH!a. \'OLU ~J E 48 NU)lllEH 102 A STORY· OP PROGRESS ~, FROM THE PINE LANDS -- ~~----------.w· ~~-----------­ lfemlnJ{"·ay. they carry at.tractive lines or mer Schools and Churchel!. chandtse. The principal merchant A town that has had remarkable The tobacco Industry has grown up are W. C. Hemingway & Co .. Eadd Educational and religious esta.l>~rowth Is Hemingway, some twenty- fn this section In the last ten years. & Creel Bros., F. E. Huggins, J. 11lshments are tn evidence. In town five mil es from Georgetown. In two This year 3.000 acr<>s will be cult!- JJurnnt, S. J . Haselden, the Summer there Ia an excellent graded school years time It bas developed from a vo.ted. Among tho largest tobacco ford Hardware Co., and W. D. Jlar In a commodious, well-m>ade, well hamlet Into ll town or brick buJldings, planters are w. C. Hemingway & Co., mon. Besides these there are !ventilated and ltghtcd bullding. The plate glass rront stores, gradP.d 80 acres and the Longwood Fa.rm >Co., number or small stores and shops. raculty consists or principal an!l five streets and tho what-not that IR nec- 7 o acres. Others who > b ave large A new hotel Is In course or coo teachers and the curriculum inessary to a municipality of Its advan- tobacco acreages arc G. D. Perry, \V. structlon. It will be ready tor guest cludtos all to be round In a city school tag<>s and am blllons. H. Harman, w . D. Harman, ~lr . Out- about L\tarch 1. The house contain of the 9ame class. There are two Farms, rarms, farms everywhere land, F . E. Huggins, H . E. Eaddy, J. fHteen guest rooms. It will be man churcbee, Methodist and Baptist, bavnurround Hemingway, and they aro T. Durant and ronny more. Indeed, aged by J. 11. Eaddy, who Is a'tng bu.ildlnga tbat would do credit producing farms , too. They are being there Is probably not a Carmer Jn the ade pt at cateiing- to t.he wants ot th to larger communities. tilled by pco)l1e who know how to do section but Is doing som ething in to· traveling public. Ten new buildings bave been put 1 tt ; who are proud of their occupation bacco, running from five to twentyThe IJ.nnk of Hemingway ( $20,00 In the past nine montba, and eleven and Interested In the work. Heming- five acres. capital) hae at ita home one ot tb> others are now tn course or construeway 1s the focal point or sale and Meanwhile these farrn~rs are not nent<'Rt and most convenlf>nt smal, tlon or under contrart. Tho new shipping for a hack country ha.vlng a onll rely tobacco-wrapped . They are bank bulldlngs tbat could be foun houses are being made o! the b~;:.,t radius of fifteen miles or more, In planting cotton and corn as well, and in a day's journey. The building I material and fitted with modern con"hlch territory thE>re nro some of the ~~:lvlng attention to hogs, cattle and of r~d pressed brick, with plate glaa veniences. best farms In tho lower part or the the ll.ke. ~tore of them will cure bay windows, and the desks and furn ish H emingway has two physicians, Dr. state. th is sca!lon than ever bPfore. logs of cherry and mahogany. Un H. l... Baker and Dr. K A. Simmons. Toli •-eo and , ot ~t·r nn• l1H'l pr'ncl The to" n or Hemi ng" ay Is laid otr der foot are tiles and concret It has one drug store, that of C. 1'. pnl trO!l!-1. ll Is oxpcl'teu that uot less o n a plan and scale just as tr its pro- From the day the bank opened It McKenney. A !lecond drug store !s than l,:iOO,OOO pounds of tobacco will Jcctors n.ntl promoters uxpectPd it to doors It has done a nourishing bus! to bo opened by ~tr. Mnscldcn abC'ut be handled there this year. Two I.JCcome a city. And maybe it will. ness. The officers are: W. C. Hem :\1arch 1. There are, of cotlTse, wnn•hout=;rs. 65 by ll O tce>t, ar~ In It has got the "makin 's" In It and lngway, president ; F . S. Hugglm blacksmith shops, <'ating houses and COUrj;f' or <'Oilf>lrur.tlon and \\Ill be around it. The Htrl"t•tB nrc wJde, le v- ,·tee-president; J . A . Doyle, cashier. tho llkt". Even lhP uhlquitous "da~o·· readr nr11l o pen for business with tho el n.n perfectly gro.clt>d nnd drain\Vlthln four miles of Jlemlngwa: bas reached Hemin gway. They nrn beginning Of tho har\'t'St EP.R!IOII. od; the lots are largo and roomy, there are tou r saw mms, and tron looking for tho Chinaman on any Arran~t>tnl'nts havo been concltulod permlttln~ each householder space the amount of building going 0 ' train. for lhO attPIHIODCC of buyers, SO that Cor yards and flo\\er gardtns and lit- tbey must all be kept bustling t ,---------------.........J the n w mnrket will start rl~ht In as \ 1 kitchen gardens In the rear If supply the local demand . S. J. Hasooon ns the tobacco Is ready to be that be d esired. That part or the elden baa a saw mill Inside the cormoved and sold. town which has been built gives an porate limits. ' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . idea or what bas b ~e n planned. The ~---------~------~ lcrullug stores are large, well lighted, well venti lated nnd well arranged bul tog, and wilhout f'xcoptlon, � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Progress In The Pinelands, Hemingway - 1913 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2-22-1913 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Georgetown Times https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/05ecd8898ed7a7c510739c4bf3224374.pdf 77175ae98290937553081842c44b2927 PDF Text Text .. GEORUE'l~OWN 'l'IMES. VOLUME 48 OEORGETOWN. H. U.. SATURDAY. FEI3RUAHY ::!:.!. J Ulij. NU~lBER 102 ~~~~--~----------------~==,-------------------------------~r--------------------------~ -- nriek and 1~1 ate GIMs. People In and around J ohnsonville claim that they have the best tobacco Atandtng on the blghest pine ridge Brick eonstructlon and cement land In South Car o11na and as good Two JllWoD P o rts. between the P"e I>«>e River and .ffl.d"walk laying has already been t:otton land as there Js Jn l\farlboro OeorgC'town Is Johnsonvllle. It ts In begun. The Poston IRlock Is a. "fact or anywhere else. And they seem to They are looltlng tor a: b1g tobacco Williamsburg county, but It really accomplished". It stands at the co r-· have the courage or their assertion. buslm!!llll at Jobnsou:vUle ln tbe fa.ll. ought to be In Georgetown, because ner of Broadway and Hallroad ave- TlH•Y are going Into tobacco and cot- Much rorUllzc."'S has moved out, and It ts worth bavlng.. At any r ate, lt nue, and is as substantiul a block as ton ' 'for keeps", using rertfllzers lots or tolr.tcco Is coming back from ts In the Georgetown buelneu terri- brick and mortar and money can liberally and using the best agricul- It. Two tobac-co warehouses are gotory. J ohnsonville la a lmost br and make. The corner or the block ts tural machinery. Mr. Poston's twen- Ing UP ~ They are a.raou.t iO by 100 new; j uet out of t he bandbox, a.a tt occupil'd by the Farmers and ~fer­ ty-horse rarm or 400 acres Is about feet, rubber roofed. The housoa wer e. B ut Ita n ewneee won't burt chants (branch) Dauk, the par<'n t or c\·cnly divided between tobacco and will be oomple\Pd antf turned over to your eyee to look a t lt. In faet, one which Js at Lake City. The officers or cotton. Other prominent tohncco nnd the owners In ample Ume to catch look wlll call for anothe r , tbe 8ltua- lhe bank are: J . S. McClam, pres!- cotton tllonters or the section arc: A. the mcwement at the Clpenlng of the . dt•nt; S. n. Poston, vlrP-Prcshlcnt, 1•'. Ji'Jowers, Dr. II. L. Baker, J. \\'. season. All aM"angemPnts have been tion Is so attractive. One man said and c. J. Rollins, cns hi~>r or Lhe ('ox. Gt•orge W. navis, M. V. Co~. V. perr<>cted tor t»e new- market and ltt tlH.• othPr dt\y that J ohn so nville was ,Johnson\'lllP branch. Th<> cnpltal g , Cannon, .J. D. Cox, R. B. Tann~r. wil l go Into full strldeo at once. It is becoming a habit. It n•ully seP.ms stock is $75,000 and the surplus' 1 fi,- T•'. A. •raylor, J. E. Taylor, A. T. estlma.wd that not lea tb an 2,000,thnt a right Hmarl !!Calterlng or folks 000. The branch 1s two years old, Taylor, W. G. Stone, J . D. Haselden, 000 po:unds and ma.ybe mor e of tllare g~tting the habit. und has pro~pl'red o\'ery day or Its R. E. I.... Hughes, W. H. MaM5b , J. G. bacco will be bandle4' thla year 011 To bt.• exact, Johnsonrllle Is three life. Its equlpmP.nt Is modern and J.Jnddy, S. 0. Eaddy, C': C. Richard- the floors of tae new- ' 'arebouses. A new hoteli Is neari e g completlcm, years old; that is, It gots Its I>res<mt complete. The middle wareroom ot son, etc. :\1r. Poston and ~r. Richgrowth In tbrco years. Arguing of the bu ilding Js the general store of ardson are trylng truck this year on tho south side of 1!be railroad. It the future by the pn!.'t, ten years S. B. Poston. The storo room Is 3 0 more extensively than usu~rl. ::\1 r. will be Onlshod a.ru! rurnJshed by heneo tbe town's chief stree ts wlll be reet front, 53 feet rear by 1 oo reet Poston has 50 acres or bE>ans, and !\larcl 1, and will be conducted by lined with brick buildings, and side- dt-ep, and is filled wit.h geucrnl mer- l\lr. Rlthardson is planting beans and !\frs. Chapman, wilD bas hitherto " at ked anti paved with some good c handlse and groceries. ~ext door other truck !or shipment. Stra wber- "een giving such en.~ l hmt service at her model bat modest lltlle boarding permanent material. There'll be tn the building Is the John'~onvlll c rles, too, a.re not neglected. house. Tht hotel baa fifteen guest "ater works and sewcrag;c ond elec- Harcl'ware co., s. n. Poston, prl'61tric lights on the street In ten yeal15, dent, Arthur Rogers, general maoI'OOID.iJ. 'E ducation and Religion. th e "ay tblugs aro gotng. ager. The store room Is 25 teet by The physfc:lans or the town are Dr ~ ,Johnsonville takee great pride tn 100 feet, and tbe stock Is a comC"ockftcld, Or. Pt'C)t~tle r and Dr . Crap.. plete line or hardware. The com- her graded school, and tbe lnstltt.t- man. The first is the owner or tl'11· pany bas a workJng capital of $10,- tlon re worth it. It Is run on •tll• Cockfteld Drug Co., or W.hleh M.r. 000. Stores and bank bave heavy conwlldated plan. Several schoor Cfarence Davia ta ma.nager .. plate glass windows. The walls of districts have secured a nlne-monlhs The town Ia laid otr tn streets a.nd the building are seventeen Inches school term, have raised the stand- avenu l's, nod the policy bas b.een thick; which ts in anticipation or ard or teacher• and provided all oth- adopted or gi"lng the a.ven ues the putting on another story when It Is er advantages. which are atrordcd l.lY names of ramous Confed~rate geaer c+ty ~ch•ols. The Johruonv1lle InI needed. stitution bas t •o high school grades als; thus, Hampton, Biltl~r and .tackln additl19n to the grammar school son are a lready In t.be Ktreet nomengrlidcs. Tho rad'l us or tbe consoll- clature. TO\\' n lots are all bl~ a.nd ~ dat:ed district is a.bout lbree miles, roomy. Business lots are 50 by 50 a.nd U1e ch1ldren drfv• in by buggy feet, and residence lots 50 by 100 and carry-all. Ffrteen or twenty ve- rt•et. T<>n uew residences were under hlclt>.a may be seen abCJI'Crt tbe butld- construction within sight of one ing any schtJol day, a.nd there Is not str('f'lt eorncr at the time data for this a scrub horae or mule fa the school article was gathered, and ba.mmera passenger tra:fflc. The raculty con- were ringing on several busfne• buildings. slats or principal ami sill teachers. 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Title A name given to the resource Progress In The Pinelands, Johnsonville - 1913 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2-22-1913 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Georgetown Times https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/f9428bc300c81b0ce1b58b3d6e1a9a1a.pdf 15455ec7547986f88742cbca708d8908 PDF Text Text Building For The Future @'¥'Z'''IN*MDIMRHNmA1..1'p Wi/liamsburgCounty.Sruckey Scboolbtgan seroing black <luderll<ingradnonethrough twelwin 1962. Th<!following Y""'·"lO'"'""'ium wa<added to the facility. DuYl"g rhi< rim~, athlmc compc!itirm was limited 10 basketball. The Suukry uam hAd tht kt rt«mic{allt~tuighboring distrim. ~Blut}ays,a•tiH tums ~e u/IM, won many tropbirsandc/u.mpio'uhif><. fohnronvil/eMzddi~SdJoo/ was origznally the Stuckey Schi>Cl, which wa.o budt in J9$4ona/0-am<raclojLmd two mil<> =:<t ofJolmsonvillt. It took iu nam•from Mr. Eliot Stuckey who donatrd landfor the building.~ buildongu•ufimcomtru<trd to serw as an all-black eltmmtary school. f< had modem conwnimc...-sucbas rwmingW<Zt('r,r/tctriciry,a>~d indoor plumbing wl>ich ,...,.. lacking in many all-black u);ocisin&JU!hGzrolina. Fromi9Hto/958,blad. highschool<tudent>alrmdffl G1bbs High School '" Pamplico. From J958<o 1962, hogb school.rudmu arundtd fuurryParkS<hool,locarrdi" ~Ciassc/196Jwa<tM jiY<ttograduatcfromStuckey, a>~dtiHOasso(1969wastht last. In t!Hja/1 o(that )'car, Stuckeya,Jjolmwnville'Wm! romp/ttclyimtgral.dintoone u;hoo/rysrem . ~Stuckey School htcamt johnwnville Midd/eSchoo/aruiha<houmJ gradesfiwthrougherghtsine<~ bringintegraud. For tYVt:Y 40 ye.m, t!H buildingh..sservedsrudmt<in rhe jclmwnville """" Over time, t~ building /xgan 10 dcrcriorau. On Ocrober 10, 1995,thevottrSo[t!Hdisrnct appi'011o!daS5millionbond "'fer-mdum w build a m-w midd!eschoof_ Plam ""' m dev<!lopmmt,andamstrucrion oftMnewfactluyisu;/xdulr:d for Augu.<t 1, 1996, through july I, 1997. Tim """'• mod.,.,f.ui/irywr/1 open its doorstoitudenuandt~t<:c!H» ~"'""''"""'1195~ 1969).Mr l.am.>rO B<adty-~><~ol oO.Sr<>d<ySO..:.O.\IIM>r,......,~OI;,n>o:••""""~-MrBr..t.ybtc"""><'" ,.,..supmn,........,oiFiormc•CounoyS<hooiO..r""'f""' m3) JMSHistory I atthc/xgimungoftiH1'J'J7-9$ scbool)•tar. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johnsonville High School Junior Class, 1949 Description An account of the resource Maisie Poston Ballou is standing to the left. This photo is taken in front of the old Johnsonville High School, now the District Office for District 5. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1949 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gold and Black https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/5b6a22e56cd36a2fe2d48791ddfa138c.pdf 0af5210e619697efb973d20f3b9a71ed PDF Text Text .INDIANTOWN . PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 175 7-195 7 �Ind·ia 11town Presb3,terian Church, 1957 �An Historical Sketch of INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH In WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY, S. C. 1757-1957 �"To excel the past, we must not allow ourselves to lose contact with it. On the contrary, we must feel it under our feet, because we have raised ourselves upon it." -:JOSE ORTEGA y GASSET. �To the descendants of early members Indiantown is the church of their fathers. For some, time and distance may have blurred reality with a mist of sentiment They fondly picture it as it was in grandpa's day and wish that it could be preserved just so. To the visitor, Indiantown appears a well-kept, dignified, rather plain country church, its original meeting-house style still visible through the additions and alterations of later years. Weathered stones in the cemetary date from as early as 1787. To its members, though they are aware of its history, the past is not so very important. For them the church is the center of religious and social life in a thriving, rural community some hundred square miles in area. Situated in the north-east quarter of Williamsburg County, the countryside has the physical character of the South Carolina coastal plain: there are dark, slow-flowing streams, wide cultivated uplands, sandy-loam soils. The church mirrors the substantial prosperity of its members. Years ago a discerning and witty lady, visiting her husband's old home and puzzled by the vague boundaries of the community, concluded that Indiantown is more a state of mind that a precise locality. It is true that similarity in inheritance, shared history and experience, long years of living side by side, had resulted in a consonance of opinions and prejudices, characteristic speech and manner that gave the community a distinctive flavor and atmosphere. Even quarrels-and there have been some notable rows-were a family affair. The strongest tie was the Church. To an unusual degree Indiantown claimed the loyalty of everyone within reach. Original settlers, almost wholely Calvinist, united in worship at one church. The few newcomers, surrounded by strong opinions and time-hallowed practices, merged into the establishment. They were more changed than changing, and the old patterns continued. Recent years have brought powerful new forces to ·bear : Improved roads have ended semi-isolation; radio and television have modified speech habits; industry is beginning to discover the advantages and attractions of our section; Indiantown has gained many new members-the roll has doubled in the past thirty years. Often they have come from other denominations. But there has been surprising continuity; change has been gradual, and while old ways are being modified, tradition is still potent. All unknowingly, reactions to situations and ideas often reflect our heritage. No age can be understood when isolated from its past. Healthy humility grows with awareness of how much we are the creatures of that past, to what extent we build on foundations laid long ago. The two centuries of our existence as a congregation, eventful as they have been, are only a relatively brief segment in our history. For the three lifespans that compass the clearing of the land and the present moment have their roots in the shadowy days of early Scotland. The Covenanters and the followers of The Bruce were ancestors to those who came to Williamsburg. Hardy, toughened by rugged terrain and harsh climate, fiercely jealous of their rights, thrifty and hardworking, kindly, generous and hospitable, intensely loyal to family and clan, above all deeply religious, they gave to their descendants resources of character iii �and virtue that were to sustain them in bitter times. To their inherent love of freedom may be credited the selfless heroism of our soldiers and the fortitude of their families during the Revolution. All the stamina of the race and all the consolation of their faith were needed to endure the bloody horror of those years. Major James and his followers have become vague and legendary figures, but they were very real. They lived where we live and they fought in defence of these very fields and woods and streams. Victory and freedom were bought at terrible cost. All they had gained by years of toil and privation was burned or pillaged. Even their meeting house was destroyed in hatred and vengeance. But courage was given to persevere; and when independehce was won, they rebuilt their church and homes, and, without any sense of destiny or self-importance, founded a way of life which we, their heirs, still cherish. If the virtues of the fathers seem superhuman and we are overawed by their nobility of character, there are records of other happenings in our church's history to reassure us and to suggest that they were in most respects as frail as we: contentious, prone to backslide, stubborn. There were heated quarrels, long struggles between the old Adam and his ordained leaders, doctrinal battles that bring a superior smile to our twentieth-century faces (our greatgrandchildren will probably find our attitudes equally "queer and quaint"). Even with our sense of mingled superiority and humility, we must be conscious that we are part of an unfolding story, that we are not so far removed from the men of two centuries ago, and that we are continuing what they began. IV �I Indiantown has a daughter's portion in the heritage and early history of old Williamsburg Church. The well documented story of the settlement of the township and beginning of public worship at the king's tree has been told so often that only the briefest of summaries is needed here as preface to our sketch. In 1730, sixty years after its founding, the colony of South 'Carolina was still only a narrow fringe of settlement along the coast. As a defensive buffer between this weak but wealthy strip and the potentially dangerous Indian tribes of the north and west, a series of townships was laid out in the back country sixty miles from Charleston. However selfish this plan in conception, its result was that German Protestants in Orangeburg, Swiss in Purrysburg, Welch in Queens borough and Scotch Dissenters in Williamsburg found unaccustomed freedom from religious strife and a chance to better their lot. Before 1730 a few settlers were already living on the lower reaches of Black River in that part of Craven County now known as Williamsburg. In 1722, John Bayley of Bellinaclough, County Tipperary, Kingdom of Ireland, issued letters to Alexander Trench, of Charleston authorizing him to determine and survey tracts of land totaling 48,000 acres inherited from his father, John Bayley, senior. For one hundred pounds the latter had been created Landgrave of the Province of Carolina in 1698. Among sundry parcels scattered over the province Trench gave deeds to several tracts within a few miles of the old Indian Town. In 1724 Anthony White bought five hundred acres on the "North Branch of Black River." By terms of the deed, he was required to settle on his place. In subsequent years he bought other lots until his holdings came to at least thirteen hundred acres. Trench also gave deeds to John Nesmith and Dougal McKethan for nearby lands. The systematic settlement of the county can be dated from 1732,1 when surveying of the township was undertaken. In that year a small band led by Roger Gordon, and including William James, David Wilson, Gavin Witherspoon and Robert Ervin among others, came from northern Ireland and were given homesites along the river near the natural landmark, the King's Tree. They were the beginning of a stream of Scotch-Irish immigration that was to make the future county for many decades predominantly Calvinist. These first comers were kinsmen, and in the ensuing years they were joined by others of their kindred and related clansmen, notably the Witherspoons: John, his children and their families. Many of these were induced to come by patrons, and to aid in settlement, received a bounty of implements and supplies from the colonial government. 1 R. L. Meriwether: The Expansion of South Carolina. Kingsport, Tenn., 1940, p. 79. 1 �AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 2 They were in humble circumstances, victims of the turmoil and savage factionalism of the preceding centuries. Originally from Scotland, their fathers had been located on lands in north Ireland formerly the holdings of evicted Papists. After winning a measure of comfort and security among the marshes and bogs, they learned that the hard gotten holdings were not theirs, and were thenceforth to be occupied only on severe terms. Embittered by such treatment they were easily induced to sail for Carolina, freedom in the wilderness, preferable to virtual serfdom. By 1736, when the Williamsburg Church was founded, there was in the township area a well established, homogeneous colony, self-sustaining, upright, and growing rapidly. A sudden spurt of immigration in 1737 added impetus. The 198,000 acres in the original survey were granted to the settlers on the basis of fifty acres for each member of a household, including servants. Grantees paid no rent for ten years, thereafter an annual quitrent of four shillings per hundred acres. As the sons of firstcomers reached manhood, married and received new grants, and as their numbers were augmented by new immigrants, the choice locations were exhausted, and expansion beyond the bounds of the original township became necessary. Unlike the lands south of Santee River, these territories were not effectively secured to settlers alone. 2 Great tracts were acquired by speculators, many of whom never saw their holdings. The easily drained and fertile lands east of the township proved particularly tempting to both speculators and bonafide settlers. Non-residents took title to many ~housands of acres adjacent to Black Mingo Creek. Grants to speculators of 2,000 acres, 946 acres, 3,249 acres, and 1,800 acres among others are recorded. In consequence, these tracts had to be bought from the grantees at surprising prices. One of 1,500 3 acres brought 2,158 pounds. Of course, by no means all the land was so preempted, and there were numerous smaller grants based on households, fifty acres for each individual, including servants and slaves. Some of those receiving grants in our vicinity before 1755 were: Thomas Burton in 1744, Robert Wilson in 1753, Joseph White in 1754, Patrick Lindsay in 1740, Thomas Scott in 1747, William Scott in 1741, William Gardner in 1742, Alexander McCrea in 1745. 4 By purchase, inheritance, or in other ways, Hugh Ervin, William Cooper, William Thomson, Samuel Cooper, the Reverend John Baxter, acquired homesites about that time. 5 Most of these deeds and grants refer to Black Mingo Creek in bounding and describing the lands conveyed: "lying on-, -near the head-waters of-, -in the great swamp of-, -on a small branch on the north side of Black Mingo" being a few of the terms recorded. The stream's present condition s~arcely suggests its significance to the early life of the community. A sluggish, 2 Ibid p. 80. a George Hunter to John Baxter 1739. 4 0 Office of Secretary of State, Columbia. Office, Mesne Conveyance, Charleston, $. C. �INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 3 meandering trickle between marshy banks, choked and fouled by debris, logs, brush, it bears little resemblance to the clear-flowing artery it once was. Next to Black River-It is frequently called "the north branch of Black River"-it was the most important stream inside the district. It and its tributaries were a valuable means of transport. There were no roads and, as is related in contemporary accounts, 6 except by boat most hauling was by manpower, on the backs of the settlers. Mills' Statistics ( 1826) 7 states that Black Mingo was formerly navigable 8 to sloops as far upstream as the old Mingo Indian village which stood in the fork of Mingo and Indiantown Swamp. It is from this settlement or camp that our church and community 'derive their name. 8 a With the coming of roads and wheeled vehicles, the stream's value as a waterway diminished, and no efforts were made to keep its channel clear. But for some years it had been a great factor in the community's life and development. And what of the lands drained by this stream? They have withstood two centuries of cultivation, and are probably more productive today than when first cleared. Sandy loams and darker soils, with a sub-stratum of clay, they are kind to a great variety of crops. There are none of the sand barrens found in some other parts of the county, and elsewhere in the low country. The settlers soon learned the land's capabilities and might well have thought the bogs of northern Ireland happily lost. Stands of pine covered the plains, and on the lowlands bordering the streams, cypress, oak, hickory, black gum, ·sweet gum, poplar and ash sheltered a great variety of game. William Bartram's rhapsodies on viewing the similar terrain and flora of lower South Carolina would have been equally justified by our virgin country. 9 Lest these early comers think they had reached another Eden, there were aspects less kind. The howling of wolves terrified the family of John Witherspoon.10 Bears and panthers were numerous. The settlers learned respect for the rattlesnake and cottonmouth. The very lushness of vegetation made clearing the land difficult. To men recently come from the colder climate of northern Ireland our summer heat must have been almost unbearable. In later years malaria and typhoid became common. "It has been said that bilious, remitting and -intermitting fevers have increased with the clearing of its lands, as tending to lead more speedily over them exhalations of marsh mias-mais. Fever and ague are prevalent during the summer and autumn, in the lower country ... in low situations adjacent to swamps and waters. But all the high 6 Witherspoon Family Record. 7 p. 767. 8 See Boddie: History of Williamsburg, Columbia, 1923, p. 62, for further confirmation. sa Numerous fragments of pottery, arrowheads, trade pipes may still be gleaned on the bluff about one mile from the church, and vestiges of the old trail are clearly impressed in the face of the hill. The site is an ideal landing, and it is probable that here the boats docked, bringing goods from Charlestown and carrying out the produce of the farms and looms. · · 9 The Travels of William Bartram, Mark van Doren, Ed. passim. 10 Witherspoon Family Record. �AN HIS'l'ORICAL SKETCH 4 lands may be called healthy." 11 There was an epidemic in 1750, known as The Great Mortality, that killed many; but on the whole the colonists were healthy and many lived to great age. Fortunately, the Indians, most of them migratory,1 2 were not dangerous. In the spring when they came to hunt "they were in great numbers in all places like the Egyptian Locusts but they were not hurtful." 13 The Scots were a sturdy lot and accustomed to labor. The lands responded to loving cultivation. Shelters were built and, as the people prospered, were replaced by more comfortable dwellings. A bounty of six pence a pound on all indigo grown in the colonies assured a comfortable return from ~ts production, and on it was based the early prosperity of the Williamsburgers. It also explains the high prices paid for some parcels of land. 14 By 1755 there were numerous residents near the old Indian town, some who had moved out from the King's Tree, others newcomers from overseas or, possibly, the colonies farther north. Indiantown is some seventeen miles from Kingstree, and there was no arterial stream to make intercourse easy. So it was that among the pious, kirk-loving folk far from Williamsburg Church, local worship began. 15 Probably the first services were held in a home by a visiting minister: Mr. Rae of Williamsburg, Mr. Hunter of Black River, or, a likely candidate, the Reverend John Baxter, who lived near by. If the actual founding of Indiantown is recorded, the record is not known. This is true of most of the early churches. Record keeping was the least worry of the people; they were living history rather than writing it. Dr. Howe, in his History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina, 16 gives an account based on a letter written in 1849 by Dr. J. R. Witherspoon of Brookland, Alabama. 16 a Dr. Witherspoon 17 was born near Kingstree in 1774 and was a member of the Williamsburg Church. He was never a member of Indiantown. His letter, on which our history has largely been based, quoted from Dr. Howe, is an old man's recollection of events occurring twenty years before his birth and known to him only by hearsay. Under these circumstances, the wonder is that the traditional history of Indiantown is not further from actual facts. It has been our task, on the occasion of our bi-centennial, to seek out and weigh all available evidence, not to contradict, but, if possible, to verify the commonly accepted statements. 11 John Drayton : A p. 27. View of S. C. as respects her Natural and Civil Concerns, 1802 12 Dr. Chapman J. Milling, in Red Carolinians, Chapel Hill, 1940, p. 203 ff. describes the loose confederation of Siouan tribes or bands that included the Sara or Cheraws, Waccamaws, Winyahs, Peedees and others who have given their names to the streams of eastern Carolina. 13 Witherspoon Family Record. 14 Gregg: History of the Old Cheraws p. 112. 15 Rev. George Howe, D.D., Hist. of Pres. Ch. in S. C., Columbia, 1870, Vol. 1, p. 229. 16 Ibid. p. 413. 16 a Dr. Howe writes J. S. Witherspoon, but this is clearly a typographical error. At other times his name is correctly given by Dr. Howe. 1 1 Wardlaw : Genealogy of the Witherspoon Family. �INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 5 Speaking of the church at Kingstree, Dr. Howe, says that "Previous to the year 1760 a number of removals had taken place which formed the germs of several new organizations. The first colony from the swarming hive of Williamsburg among whom were Major John James, William Wilson, Robert Wilson and David Wilson, formed the Church of Indiantown." 18 and on the following page we read that "Major John James, and Robert and David Wilson were its principal founders and its first elders. It was founded probably as early as 1760. Other names recollected as belonging to the congregation are those of William Cooper, senior, William Cooper, Jm;ior, Robert McCottry, Robert Dick, John Gordon, James Daniel, Roger McGill, George McCutchen, George Barr, Thomas McCrea, also John James of Lynche's Lake, Robert Witherspoon of Lynches' Creek, and some twelve or fifteen others." All this information was taken from the above noted letter of Dr. J. R. Witherspoon, written almost one hundred years after the event. Several demurrers to this account must be made. They are based on careful checking of contemporary records and are not hastily entered. First to examine the date of organization: There are several oblique contemporary references to indicate that the phrase "founded probably as early as 1760" should be changed to read, "founded in 1757." The Parish Register of Prince Frederick Winyah 19 includes a letter to Right Reverend Thomas Lord Bishop of London, its date May 1, 1756: "My Lord, "We the Vestry-Men and Chh. Wardens of the Parish of Prince Frederic in So Carolina, beg leave to address your Lordship ... " etc. "That this Parish is the largest, and most populous in the Province, yet tho' numerous in inhabitants We of the Church are widely scattered and but few in number; the Parishoners being for the most part of the Communion of the Church of Scotland and Settlers from thence and the North of Ireland; who have two meetings; 20 and large congregations." Dated June 28, 1757, a second letter to the Lord Bishop states that "there are now four Meeting Houses in this Parish and two more talked of being built." Since Indiantown is acknowledged the oldest offspring of Williamsburg, 21 the inference is plain that Indiantown was one of the two churches built during the previous year. The next evidence comes from An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia by Alexander Hewat( t), pastor of the First (Scots) Presbyterian Church of Charleston (Vol. 1, p. 412). Anglican Church for Prince Frederick Parish stood on the bluff south of Black River, one mile east of present day Brown's Ferry in Georgetown County. 20 Williamsburg, which by then had a well-built wooden church; and Black River, or Black Mingo, Brick Church, standing in the junction of the Brown's Ferry road and the County Line road one mile southeast of Rhems. 21 Howe, Vol. 1, p. 412. 18 19 The �AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 6 from 1763 until, an ardent loyalist, he returned to England in 1776. This sympathetic review of the first hundred years of Carolina's development was written to inform the British public on the events preceding the Revolution. It was published in two volumes in London in 1779. The following quotation, though long, is so meaty that it is given almost without deletion: 22 "About this same time (Hewat is noting the worsening relations among the rival colonial powers that culminated in the Seven Year War, our French and Indian War) the French took the field against the Emperor; and the flames of war kindling between such powerful pote~tates would, it was thought, inevitably spread, and involve all Europe in the quarrel ... "By this time the Episcopalian form of Divine Worship had gained ground in Carolina, and was more countenanced by the people than any other. . . . Besides the establishment gave its adherents many advantageous privileges in point of power and authority over persons of other denominations. It gave them the best chance for being elected members of the legislature, and of course of being appointed to offices, both civil and military in their respective districts. "However, the imigrants from Scotland and Ireland, most of whom were Presbyterians, still composed a considerable party of the province, and kept up the Presbyterian form of worship in it .... An association 23 had been formed in favor of this mode of religious worship by Messrs. Stobo, Fisher, and Witherspoon three ministers of the Church of Scotland, together with Joseph Stanyarn, and Joseph Blake, men of respectable characters and considerable fortunes. The Presbyterians had already erected churches at Charlestown, Wiltown, and in three of the maritime islands for the use of the people adhering to that form of religious worship. As the inhabitants multiplied several more in different parts of the province afterwards joined them, and built churches, particularly at Jacksonburgh, Indian Town, Port-Royal, and Williamsburg." Hewat speaks of these events as happening before his coming ( 1763) and dating roughly from the time of, or prior to, the Seven Years War (1756-63). Note that Indiantown is prominently mentioned. These excerpts, together with the presence of so many future members living near the church's site give evidence that we can claim 1957 as our bi-centennial. The list of first members as recalled by Dr. Witherspoon must be revised. Family names are probably correct, but there are numerous errors, both of omission and inclusion. There was no William Cooper, Junior. George McCutchen was a child of three; his father, Hugh, is not mentioned. Hugh Ervin must certainly be included, for he was a trustee of the church a few years later. 24 Land titles and other documents make it plausible that the "twelve Vol. II, p. 49 ff. "Although this body was popularly known under several different names, its proper style and title was 'The Presbytery of South Carolina . . . the third in the order of origination in the United States'." Address by Dr. John L. Giradeau, D.D., Oct. 24, 1885. 24 William Thomson's will. See page .. . . .. . 22 23 �INDIANTOWN PRJtSBYTERIAN CHURCH 7 or fifteen others" on the first roll included Thomas and William Scott, William Thomson, Joseph White, Samuel Cooper, John Gregg. That David Wilson, Robert Wilson, and (Major) John James all became elders of Indiantown is certain. Robert Wilson had been an elder in the Williamsburg Church. 25 In 1753 he acquired a grant on the north side of Black Mingo showing Hugh Ervin's land adjoining. If he moved to his new tract within four years he was in residence at the time of the founding of the church. In 1757 David Wilson was only fifteen years old. His gravestone 26 shows that he was born in 1742, and he would have been much, too young to be an elder. His father, also named David and brother to Robert mentioned above had died in 1750, 27 so there can be no confusion of identities or generations. David, Junior, became an elder, but dates forbid his being listed as an elder at the beginning. John James had been brought from Ireland as a baby in 1732 by his father William James, 28 and had grown up on his father's land twelve miles north of Kingstree. He led the free life of the frontier becoming an expert horseman and skilled woodsman. In 1742 William James bought four hundred acres on the headwaters of Black Mingo, part of eighteen hundred acres granted to William Snow in 1737. It is probable that John James on reaching manhood occupied this tract. He later, in 1765, bought another place northeast of the church and made his home there. In several accounts we read that he had been an elder in the Williamsburg Church. Considering his age, only twenty-five in 1757, this is most improbable. There is room for much confusion among the John J ameses of the colonial period. No less than five men bear the name in Williamsburg, at least one in the Welsh N eek, and one at Pine Tree (Camden). 29 A John James, said to have been William James' younger brother, had been an elder in Ireland and was continued as elder by the Williamsburg Church in 1743. 30 A tradition in the James family identifies him further as John James of Ox Swamp. John James of the Lake, also by tradition a cousin of William James and who lived six or seven miles north of Indiantown, was listed among the new church's charter members. So there is a chance of confusion. Tradition is very strong in declaring that John who later became Major James was not only a founding elder, but also one of those who by a loan made possible the erection of the first House of Worship. 31 25 Howe: Vol. 1, p. 284. Indiantown Cemetary. 21 (Witherspoon Family Record). 2s Howe Vol. 1, p. 407. 29 Charles Woodmason: Carolina Back Country on the Eve of the Revolution: Chapel Hill, 1953, note p. 155. 30 Howe: Vol. 1, p. 255. 31 Mr. Kenneth M. James of Darlington, S. C., a direct discendant of Major James and Captain James, gives us this information. Mr. James has presented to the Indiantown Congregation an invaluable document, a record kept by Captain James when he was Trustee for the church, 1793 to 1797. It will be referred to later. 26 �8 AN HISTORICAL SKETCH Our church stands on the approximate site of this original building, that is, within the same Lord's Acre. No description of its appearance survives, but, like much of the construction of the times, it was probably of logs. No old brick or rubble remain to support a suggestion that it was a brick building. 3 2 No deed or bequest of this plot has been found. 33 The site is part of a tract of three hundred acres originally granted to Thomas Burton (also spelled Burtin) in 1744. Two years later it was sold to Joseph White. 3 5 In 1754 Joseph White was granted five hundred acres surrounding his first acquisition on three sides, north, east and south. The eastern part of this grant was in tpe hands of Joseph White's son George until 1818 when it was sold to John Gordon. 36 He, in turn, sold it to his son, John, Jr. In 1823 the latter exchanged this 323 acre tract for 163 acres owned by the Indiantown congregation on the eastern side of Indiantown Swamp. The Church held this part of the original Joseph White grant until the 80's when it was sold in several different transactions. The land surrounding the Church was also in George White's hands as late as 1818. A plat made for Robert McCottry in that year so indicates. 37 Joseph White made his will in 1764 (proved 1768) identifying himself as a planter of Indiantown. His wife Martha is mentioned, also his daughters Martha and Mary-Mary married Robert McCottry-his sons George, a minor, and John. Witnesses to the will were Robert Wilson, William Hamilton, James Case (his X mark) . The executors were his wife Martha and his friend Philip Owens. A word here about colonial deeds, transfers of title and records in general for our section. Often a transaction was never recorded, the actual deed or indenture in several signed copies being kept and passed on to future purchasers or heirs. The long trip to Charleston required to record explains such lapses. As for marriages, only those performed by Anglican clergy were entered in parish registers or considered worthy of official record. 38 Only in 3 2 It is easy to confuse the traditions of Indiantown with those of Black Mingo Presbyterian Church. The latter was brick. 33 Mr. Boddie, History of Williamsburg County, states that William Thompson in 1753 left four acres of land and one hundred pounds toward the building of Indiantown. However, this is another case of confusion of Black Mingo with Indiantown. William Thompson, Junior, made his will in 1742, not 1753. He identifies himself as a resident of Winyah, his land lying on the south side of the North Branch of Black River. His executors are "obliged to make a good and sufficient title to four acres of land being part of this tract of land wherein I now dwell to the use of building a Presbyterian Meeting house on and for the assistance of the building the said house my Executors is to pay one hundred pounds . . . in twelve months after my decease." The land as described is obviously in the vicinity of Black Mingo Church. Further to help clarify the matter, Dr. Howe dates the first records of that church from 1744, 3 4 indicating that Mr. Thompson's bequest had been used. It would also seem that Mr. Baddie's statement that the building was erected by the Baptists and later taken over by the Presbyterians is questionable. 34 Howe: Vol. 1, p. 255. 35 This Joseph White is not to be confused with an Anglican of the same name, a parishoner of Prince Frederick. The names of their respective wives and children are different (Prince Frederick's Parish Register) . 3 6 Office, Clerk of Court Williamsburg County._ 37 Plat Book 1, p. 80, C. o. C. Office Williamsburg. 38 Woodmason p. 15, et seq. �INDIANTOWN PRESBY'tERIAN CHURCB: 9 family bibles and a few wills do we find confirmation of much that is reasonably certain but without absolute proof. Further, "The fires that consume wherever they may took their accustomed toll of such material, and where moth and rust did not corrupt, a careless custody of priceless treasures made possible the destruction or loss of all that once existed." 39 Tombstones, often a rich source of information, are lacking for the colonial period. Transport, or rather lack thereof, dictated the use of family burying grounds." The graveyard was near the house, usually behind the garden. As a precaution against wolves a large hole was dug to the depth of about five feet; a graye was then dug at the bottom of this hole large enough to hold the coffin. After the coffin was deposited in this receptacle it was covered with boards then the whole filled up. 40 Most often the grave site was marked only by a post or board. As long as families remained at their original homes occupants of individual graves could be recalled. But the tumult and confusion of later years broke the chain of information. Our earliest dated stone is that of Mrs. Elizabeth McGill ( d. 1787) wife of Roger McGill. 41 The problem is compounded by a complete absence of civil records for our section from about 1780 until 1805. Following the chaos of the Revolution the present Williamsburg County was part of the newly created Georgetown District, and all legal records were kept at Georgetown, seat of the district court. These were sent up-state for safekeeping when it was thought that Sherman's force would follow the coast from Savannah to Charleston and northward in 1865. Instead his route lay through Columbia, with a brief fiery stopover. All Georgetown's records were lost in the turmoil and destruction of his further progress, probably in the vicinity of Chesterfield. So, for the years when the patriarchs were leaving wills and their sons and daughters marrying, there are only indirect hints and clues. By looking backward from the years after 1805 when Williamsburg County's records begin, we can occasionally discover transactions of the silent years. The church was built one and one half miles from the head of navigation on Black Mingo Creek. It might have been closer, had not the intervening lands been owned by a staunch member of Prince Frederick. 42 The attitude of the Establishment toward Dissenters was not cooperative. The converse is also true. In later years, after the withdrawal of state subsidy and the decay of Prince Frederick parish, family names once found in its register appear on Indiantown's roll. These include the Gibsons, Burrows and Brittons. Dissenters were doubly handicapped. Churches of the Establishment were built at government expense, the clergy paid by the state ; and practically all elective offices were open only to members of the Church of England. Taxed to aid in the upkeep of the state church and unrecognized as legal bodies, the Hirsch: The Huguenots of Colonial S. C. Durham, N. C. 1928, p. 47. Reminiscences of St. Stephen's Parish. 41 Indiantown Cemetery. 42 Nathaniel Snow, whose land bounded Joseph White's 1754 grant on the East. Listed in Prince Frederick's Register. 39 40 Samuel DuBose: �10 AN HISTORICAL SKETCH Presbyterian congregations were forced to raise their own buildings, pay their pastors, and transact their business through trustees. Speaking of the ministers sent out at the request of the colonists from the Church of Scotland, Hewat notes that "the colonists contributed to maintain them, til at length funds were established by private legacies and donations to be appropriated for the support of Presbyterian ministers, and encouragement of that mode of religious worship and government." 43 The first such legacy to Indiantown of which we have record was made in 1763.44 William Thomson (not William Thompson, Junior) after leaving his lands, numerous slaves, neat cattle, stock of horses and mares, 'sheep, hogs, and household furniture in specific division to his brother Alexander Thomson's children, his late brother John's children (still in Ireland but expected to come to Carolina), his sister Jane Cooper and her sons Robert and William McCottry ( McCaughtry), further devises : Item I leave and bequeath the sum of One Hundred and Fifty pounds Currency to John James and Hugh Ervin Trustees for the desenting Presbyterian meeting House lately built upon the High Road to Indiantown and to the Succeeding Trustees of said meeting for ever, that is to say, in Trust only and for the sole use and benefit of the Disenting Presbyterian Minister Professing to Doctrine and discipline and Worship of the Church of Scotland as by law there Established who shall duly perform religious service in said meeting House from time to time and to his successors forever, that is to say the yearly profit or Interest of said sum of One hundred and fifty pounds Currency, the Original sum I order to be let out upon Bond with good security for the Sole purpose above mentioned." 45 How the money was invested is not known. It was common practice to buy slaves and rent out their services by the year. 46 Mr. Boddie states that the first pastor of Indiantown was John Knox. 47 The Historical Foundation at Montreat has no record of such a minister at that time, nor does any other Presbyterian historian mention him. The first minister of definite record was Wiltiam Knox in 1768,48 but at that time he had just arrived in Carolina and had not been here in 1757.49 John Knox does not appear in Mr. Baddie's index, which is quite full and complete. Is it possible that John Knox is a typographical error? Could John Baxter be meant? He was certainly available. A notable personage in early Presbyterianism in South Carolina, he is first mentioned living at Cainhoy. 50 His Vol. II, p. 52. Mesne Conveyance Charleston. John Gregg and William Cooper were named executors. Witnesses were John Ingram, John Baxter and his wife Sarah Baxter, said to have been Sarah Lynch. 46 Howe, Vol. 1, pp. 203, 256, 257, 280, 312, 327. 4 7 Boddie: History of Williamsburg, Cola. 1923, p. 50. 48 Howe, Vol. 1, p. 413. 4 9 Rev. Archibald Simpson's diaries, quoted in Howe, Vol. 1, p. 323. 5o Howe, Vol. 1, p. 204. 43 44 Offic~, 45 �INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH fi f I. l; 11 list of preaching engagements, as referred to by Howe and unfortunately lost in the burning of Columbia, shows that he visited most of the existing congregations and had no lasting ties with any. He frequently preached at Black River and Williamsburg, and received a grant of three hundred acres in the township as early as 1736. By grant and purchase he acquired vast holdings, his lands in Williamsburg County alone totaling almost four thousand acres. The place which became his home was bought in 1739 from George Hunter, who had bought it from James Kinlock, the original grantee. S,ome time after 1739 The Reverend John Baxter was in residence on his plantation west of the present village of N esmith. 51 It lay on Black Mingo, only four miles from Indiantown, easily reached by water. We cannot say that John Baxter was our first minister; but there is little doubt that he preached at Indiantown. He is mentioned by the Reverend Archibald Simpson 52 as attending sessions of Presbytery until 1770. In that year his absence is noted with the comment that he is no longer active or regarded as a member of Presbytery. It is suggestive that by 1768, when Mr. Knox served briefly at Indiantown, John Baxter 53 might have been quite elderly, infirm and no longer available. The information about Mr. Knox comes from the Stiles Manuscript collection quoted in Howe's History, 54 specifically from a letter written by Elam Potter, a young minister who for a time preached at old Brick Church, Salem. Indiantown is recorded as having fifty families and being supplied by Mr. (K) nox. He shortly thereafter began a ministry at Black River that continued until well after 1800. He also preached near present day Johnsonville at Knox's Chapel. 55 The years from 1750 till the Revolution saw rapid development of the community. By act of the Assembly in 1747 5 6 commissioners to establish ferries and maintain road were authorized. An important highway, from Georgetown to the Cheraws, by way of a ferry on Black Mingo near the site of future Willtown and thence to Witherspoon's Ferry on Lynches River, 57 passed within a few miles of Indiantown Church. ,Several members, including John Gregg (1761), Robert McCawtry (sic.) in 1775, William Wilson and William McCawtry in 1777, served as commissioners. Probably, as is the way of commissioners, they saw to it that the home community was not neglected. Travel was still mainly on foot or horseback. There were few if any carts or wagons. In the wealthy area below Santee the only four-wheeled vehicle was a cumbersome sort of baggage-wagon belonging to Francis Marion. 58 Since Indiantown was somewhat less prosperous it is unlikely that transport 51 Mouzon's Map, 1774. The Reverend Archibald Simpson's ms. diaries, Charleston Library Society. 53 Howe, Vol. 1, p. 385. 54 Ibid, Vol. 1, p. 363. 55 Ibid, Vol. 1, p. 410. 5 6 Gregg: History of the Old Cheraws. 57 Mozon's Map of S. C. 1774. 58 Samuel DuBose: Reminiscences of St. Stephen's Parish, Craven County, 1858. 52 �12 AN Hrs'I'ORICAL SK:E'I'ctt was more advanced. There were horses, 59 and there was horse racing. Most hauling was done on sledges and for only short distances. Watercourses were still utilized where possible. In 1757 there were two militia companies in the present county. 60 The militia census of that year estimates the population at six hundred whites and a like number of slaves and free blacks. Indigo culture, stimulated by the supporting bounty, led to the early introduction of black laborers. Inured to tropical heat and resistant to malarial fever, they greatly accelerated settlement and growth. It is doubtful that much effort was made to instruct these savages in Christian theology. Language difficulties and primitive concepts were effective barriers in those early years. However, they were sometimes given spiritual instruction. The Reverend Simpson 61 records a poignant incident indicating that preaching to the Negroes was attempted, but only infrequently effective. Education was cherished. Woodmason's charges of smug illiteracy in the back country 62 are not sustained by the evidence available for Williamsburg (hereafter understood as referring to the present county not the original township). Many wills give strict orders to executors for the education of minor children, girls as well as boys. John Gregg in 1775 charged: "It is my will and desire that my Sons Robert and William and Daughter Jannet be learned to Read Right and Cypher through the Common Rules of Arithmetick by my Executors and all the Expence of said Education to be Paid out of remaining Part of my Estate." With allowances for the free spelling of the period, this would indicate concern for at least the fundamentals. Furthermore, Presbyterians insisted on having educated ministers. "Sensible that not only natural endowments, but also a competent measure of learning and acquired knowledge were necessary to qualify men for the sacred function, and enable them to discharge the duties of it with honor and success, they associated on purpose to prevent deluded mechanics and illiterate novices from creeping into the pulpit. 63 This educated ministry had great influence in the congregations. The minister was often schoolmaster, also. It is rare to find a signature by mark. And in some cases these "marks" are personal seals added to penned signatures. William Thomson's will bears such a seal. Income from indigo was supplemented by herds of "neat cattle," hogs and sheep. Some fine quality flour was shipped to Charleston; and, at first, linen was woven from locally grown flax. But it was by indigo culture that 59 John James bought an Arabian Stallion, one of several imported by Wade Hampton of Revolutionary fame. Major James's war-horse Thunder came from a cross of the Arabian with a captured wild mare. There were herds of wild horses in the area, descended from horses used in the numerous attempts by Spain to colonize Carolina in the sixteenth century. 60 Meriwether : The Expansion of South Carolina, p. 83. 61 Archibald Simpson Diaries. 6 2 W oodmason : Carolina Backcountry, p. 52, passim. 63 Hewat, Vol. II, p. 52. �. INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 13 Williamsburg became the most prosperous and successful of all the settlements above tide water. 64 Indiantowners enjoyed a much better chance of selecting representatives to the colonial assembly than did those living further up state. To vote it was necessary to go in person to the Established Church in the parish where one lived. Since all these churches were near the coast, dwellers in the sand hills and piedmont were disfranchized, quite effectively. Prince Frederick Winyah being relatively near at hand, Williamsburgers were able to make themselves heard, and their influence felt. John James was an assemblyman. 65 Many offices and prerogatives were denied dissenters by the Church Act of 1705. But the people of Indiantown were not oppressed, and had attained a state far above any their fathers had dared dream of. Of the church itself little is heard. There was a severe shortage of ministers. The long trip out, the uncertainty of a decent living and, above all, the hardships of a minister's life on the frontier at that time demanded a martyr's dedication. Mortality among those who came was frightful. 66 Long journeys between churches in all kinds of weather, exposure and, at times, hunger made survival for more than a few years a rarity. 67 The sour and not unprejudiced comment of Charles W oodmason gives some hints of conditions just before the Revolution: "In the Country are eight Presbyterian Meetings, supply' d with Ministers from Scotland, who form a Presbytery and govern their Members after the Plan of the Scotch Kirk Most of these Congregations are in decay tho' strongly supported from Home ... Ibid: p. 74. "The False Zeal of the Presbyterians, who by forcing their people indiscriminately to the Holy Ordinance, have made more Deserters than Volunteers to the Cause of Religion." Ibid. p. 75. There was rapid growth in population. It has been noted that Indiantown had fifty families in 1768. This change from the early roster in only about ten years is indicative. Grants in the sixties and seventies show that the second generation were establishing homes. William Wilson in 1765 (for one hundred acres), and his younger brothers Robert (b. 1737) and David (b. 1742), sons of David ( d. 1750), in 1768 and 1772 received small acreages, based on small households. Others grants of similar size are common. There were also expansion and migration to other areas. John Gregg's family became the nucleus of Hopewell Church. Aimwell's first members were sons of Hugh Ervin, John Ervin, Gavin Witherspoon and John Witherspoon. 68 It would be untrue to state that Indiantown is the sole parent to these noble and ancient churches, but we claim a major share in their creation. 69 64 Meriwether : p. 86-87. 6 5 William Debien James: 66 Howe, Vol. 1, passim. Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion, Charleston, 1821, p. 42. 67 W oodmason : p. 85. 68 69 Jones, Mills: Presbyterian Church in S. C. since 1850, Columbia, 1926, p. 885. Howe, Vol. I, p. 413. �II The moderate prosperity and freedom from oppression enjoyed by Williamsburg makes it understandable that there should have been little enthusiasm for the Revolution in its early years. The practical Scots regarded the crown and royal appointees as preferable to the colonial assembly and its creatures, almost exclusively Anglican planters and merchants from the tidewater areas. Some units of militia were called to Charleston and took part itl the repulse of Sir Peter Parker's fleet in June 1776. John James was in command of the Williamsburgers. He had resigned his royal captaincy in 1775 but had been reinstated by his men? There is no further word of him until 1779. In that year the British captured Savannah and were advancing on Charleston. Opposing them were the raw and urtdisciplined militia under General William Moultrie in General Lincoln's command. Captain James fought gallantly at Tulifinny Bridge in covering Moultrie's panicky retreat. The defending force withdrew into the city of Charleston and were thoroughly bottled up by General Prevost. However, nearness of the fever-season and the approach of General Lincoln's rescuing army dictated a withdrawal; the British retired to Savannah by way of the sea islands; and Charleston was given a brief respite. 2 The interval was used to strengthen the defences of the town and to raise additional militia. For this purpose John James was sent to the Williamsburg area. The following year Sir Henry Clinton with a powerful fleet and an army of 12,0CX}-one of the largest forces massed at any time during the Revolution 3-laid siege. Convinced that Charleston must be defended to the end and heedless of the rest of the state, General Lincoln delayed extricating his considerable defending army until too late. 4 With the fall of the town in May, 1780, the only effective fighting forces in the state were captured. South Carolina lay at the mercy of the conquerors; Apparently generous terms were offered and widely accepted. The militia were paroled to their homes. Civilians were invited to renew their loyalty. Within a few weeks a proclamation superseded the original conditions. It demanded that those declaring ~llegiance actively help in the restoration of royal government. The gist of this order was that those on parole and those taking an oath of loyalty were to assist in apprehending neighbors and relations still disaffected and unsubmissive. 5 1 Howe, Vol. 1, p. 409. Wallace: History of South Carolina, New York, 1934, Vol. 11, p. 192. 3 Ibid, Vol. 11, p. 198. 4 Ibid, Vol. 11, p. 196. 5 Ibid, Vol. 11, p. 206. 2 14 �INDIANTOWN : PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH A large part of South Carolina had happily accepted the return · of stability, and the British command complacently believed the campaign ended. But to the Williamsburgers and people of like mind, such acts of betrayal as were implied in the most recent proclamation were unthinkable. Major James had not been in Charleston and, so, had avoided capture and parole. 6 Citizens of the district met in a called meeting, "to deliberate upon the critical situation, and Major John James, who had heretofore commanded them in the field, and represented them in legislature, was selected as the person who should go down to Capt. Ardesoif, and know from him, whether, by his proclamation, he meant that they should take up arms against their countrymen. He proceeded to Georgetown, in the plain garb of a country planter, a,nd was introduced to the captain, at his lodgings, a considerable distance from his ship. An altercation of the following nature took place. After the major had narrated the nature of his mission, the captain, surprised that such an embassy should be sent to him, answered, 'the submission must be unconditional'. To an inquiry, whether the inhabitants would not pe allowed to stay at home, upon their plantations, in peace and quiet? he replied, 'although you have rebelled against his majesty, he offers you a free pardon, of which you are undeserving, for you ought all to be hanged ; but as he ,offers you a free pardon, you must take up arms in support of his cause.' To Major James' suggesting that the people he came to represent would not .submit on such terms,. the captain irritated at his republican language, particularly, it is supposed, at the word represent, replied, 'you damned rebel, if you speak in such language. I will immediately order you to be hanged up to the yard-arm.'~The captain wore a sword, and Major James none, but perceiving what turn the matters were likely to take, and not brooking such harsh language, he suddenly .seized the chair on which he was seated, brandished it in the face of the captain, and making his retreat good through the back door of the house, mounted his horse, and made his escape into the country. This circumstance, apparently trivial, certainly hastened the rise of Marion's brigade'," 7 The news brought by Major James, plus the fact that two disreputable characters had been put in charge of the district by the triumphant British, confirmed the people in their course. Major James was asked to lead the resistance, and two hundred men were divided into four companies under Captains William McCottry, John McCauley, Henry Mouzon, and John James of the Lake, a cousin of the Major. Two companies from the Hopewell and Aimwell communities joined their kinsmen. 8 The first concern of the new force was to 6 Wallace: History of Williamsburg Church, (1856) p. ·39. · account and much of the other information . we have about the Revolution in Williamsburg comes from William Dobein James, son of Major James. In 1780 as a youth of sixteen he was taken out of school to accompany his father in Marion's brigade. A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion written in 1821 by Judge W. D. ] ames is the fruit of his years as a teen-age soldier with the 'great partisan. His first hand account is an invaluable part of our history, and his name should be honored by the community where he was born and reared. (Page references are from a new edition printed in Marietta, Ga., 1948.) 8 Maj or James is said to have stammered. His usefulness . in the field was impaired, and he declined to take full command. His refusal led to the appointment of Marion. 7 This 0 �AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 16 guard against the numerous Tory marauders and outlaws from beyond Lynche's Creek. Shortly on news of the uprising of the Williamsburgers, Col. Banistre Tarleton was sent to scatter the new force. McCottry went to meet him at Kingstree, but, forewarned, Col. Tarleton decamped thinking McCottry's strength greater than it was. It was on this sortie that Tarleton burned the home of Thomas Sumter, near Nelson's Ferry on Santee 9 thus spurring the future Gamecock to take up arms. Sumter is usually said to have been the first to rouse the back country. But our people were already in arms as a fighting force before Sumter was persuaded. It is beyond the scope of this brief account to follow the military fortunes of the patriots except as our community was directly affected. It was early recognized by the British that the core of the new rebellion was the belatedly roused Scots, even more specifically the Presbyterians. Hearing that General Gates's Continentals were advancing southward, the Williamsburgers sent a messenger requesting that a competent leader be sent to take command. The answer was historically momentous : Marion. Until then a Lieutenant Colonel in the Continental regulars, he arrived a Brigadier General of militia, commissioned by Governor Rutledge,10 and · ordered to lead the troops east of Santee. He quickly went into action against the Tories along the Peedee, then swung to secure the line along Santee. Late in August word came of the approach of a large force of regulars and Tories under Major James Wemyss. Stung by Marion's hit and run forays and in revenge for the renewal of rebellion, Lord Cornwallis had dispatched this ruthless destroyer to lay waste the land. Marion's force was much reduced and a reconnaissance having shown the hopelessness of resistance, he led his few loyal men to North Carolina, leaving only a small group of scouts to watch W emyss. The latter's line of march, stretching from near Salem the length of the country between Lynche's River and the Black, seventy miles long and as much as fifteen wide, was blackened and made desolate. "On .m ost of the plantations every house was burned to the ground, the negroes were carried off, the inhabitants plundered, the stock, especially sheep, wantonly killed ; and all provisions, which could be come at, destroyed." 11 There were hangings, "wantonness and cruelty," such viciousness that the militia quickly reassembled bent on vengeance. It was on this sweep that W emyss burned Indiantown Church, because "it was a sedition shop." Major John James 1s home was burned after inhuman treatment of his wife and children. His son, Captain John James had been captured at Charleston and was at home on parole. W emyss tried to induce the Negro servants to testify that he had broken his parole, thus giving excuse to hang him. No such evidence was secured, and he was released. 12 Marion and his men bore incredible hardships. Food was mainly potatoes, occasionally supplemented with corn meal or, rarely, meat. Often salt was not Wallace: South Carolina, Footnote, p. 204. Wallace: South Carolina, p. 216. 11 James : Life of Marion p. 57. 12 Ibid : p. 78 f. 9 10 �INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 17 to be had. Marion went to great lengths to get occasional supplies, and when some salt was procured, he saw to it that a part was given to the loyal families. His military effectiveness was limited by shortages of powder and bullets. On one other occasion, his problem became, desperate, he planned to leave the Peedee and seek safety in North Carolina. Timely arrival of arms and reinforcements, sent by General Greene then approaching the state, supplied his lack and gave new courage to his men. The subsequent campaign against British strongpoints along the Santee did much to break the enemy's hold on the province. Bitter as were the privation and suffering of the militiamen, their trials were no more grievous than those borne by the families at home. "Few of us are able to appreciate the sacrifices endured, and the heroic resolution exhibited by our mothers of the Revolution ... .the anguish of mind constantly endured for the fate of husbands and sons, exposed not merely to the dangers of the tented field, but to all the horrors of a civil war, in which life was every moment in peril from every quarter ... those heartrending troubles which afflicted the lonely and isolated mothers with their tender offspring to support, not secure that even the meal in actual preparation would appease their craving appetites, for even this was often the prey of the robber soldiers .... . . . Information from the camp was seldom received, and was always uncertain." 13 The years 1780 to 1783 were the darkest for the people of Williamsburg. Heroic deeds on the battle field are remembered and cherished. Let us also recall those who in harrowing anxiety and destitution endured and stood fast. A complete roll of Marion's Men is impossible to assemble. The fluid composition of the militia was such that formal rolls have not been preserved. At times, Marion's force was reduced to a cadre of a few score. A period of incredibly mobile warfare would be followed by weeks of preparation and waiting. Those, who only yesterday engaged in the ambush of a baggage train or the scattering of a marauding band of Tory outlaws, have to-day resumed their lives as farmers or weavers or smiths. But they are alert to return to arms at Marion's command. There were no Tories among us. There is no record or tradition of internecine divisions such as afflicted other sections with bloodshed. The practical Williamsburgers may have been slow to rise in wrath, but once their sense of justice had been outraged and their homes threatened, they rebelled to a man. It would be ingratitude, however, not to name those of Indiantown most distinguished for valor and achievement. First and preeminent was the noble John James. He served until victory was assured. Then his grateful friends elected him to the Assembly of 1782.14 Also sitting as a representative at this Jacksonborough Assembly was Captain William McCottry. McCottry's Rifles were legendary for their deadly accuracy. Severely wounded and broken in 1 3 Samuel DuBose: 14 Reminiscences of St. Stephen's Parish. Snowden : History of South Carolina p. 433. �AN Hrs'toRICAL .·SKE'tCH 18 health from exposure and privation, McCohry lived only a few years after peace returned. His grave is unmarked and forgotten. The James brothers of the Lake, cousins of the Major, were Marion's trusted scouts. Their ·names: J~mes:, John, William, Robert and Gavin. Captain John James, son of Major John, spent most of the perilous years as parolee. Following exchange he fought gallantly at Eutaw Springs and in subsequent engagemerits; 1 ~ :Like his fat~er he was for many years a ruling elder of Indiantown; Though no formal rolls for Marion's Men have survived, post-revo,lutionary claims for services in the militia (now in archives of the Historical Commission of South Carolina) indicate that the following served with Marion. It is not a complete list, for many entered no claim. As abstracted by Mr. Boddie the roll inclu~es Captain John Graham, Captain Robert Paisley, Lieutenant William Wilson, Sergeant Gavin James, John Daniel, James Ervin, Richard Hanna, James McCutchen, John McCtillough, Samuel McGill, Thomas McCrea, Roger McGill, Thomas Scott, William Scott, William Thompson, John White, David Wilson. It is probable that ~JI of these were from Indiantown. In summary it can be said that' if Marion's role in the Revolution was important-and none will deny it-his success was won with a fighting force composed almost wholely of the Scotch Presbyterians of our section. "Five of Marion's captains were elders of Hopewell Presbyterian Church. There were John and Hugh Ervin and Gavin and Robert Witherspoon. Nearly all the remaining officers with Marion were officers of the Presbyterian Churches of Williamsburg Township [District]." 16 a 15 James : Marion p. 79. Presbyterian Leaders, by H. A .. White, N. Y. 1911. 16 Southern �III Following the disasters of 1780 all public worship came to an end. The church had been burned ; the men of the congregation were with Marion; mere survival was the preoccupation of the families at home ; there was no minister; and public assembly was an invitation for attack. Any delay in rebuilding the meeting-house and resuming public worship is remarkable only in that it was not prolonged. Fire and destruction had left the people in pitiable state. The prosperity created by the subsidized indigo trade was dead. The only resources left to the wretched victims were those of mind, body, and heart: sturdiness, courage, industry, and, above all, faith in the Providence that had brought them through the horrors of revolution. Many years later, Mr. George Barr recalled that following the war the congregation worshiped in a nearby field. Another tradition is of a brush arbor. 1 The latter may have been the first shelter after open air services. By 1783 Indiantown had as pastor the Reverend Thomas Hill, said to have been "one of the missionaries sent out by Lady Huntingdon to Georgia." The presence of a minister employed full time suggests that the church had been successfully revived and a building erected. The pre-revolutionary Presbytery of S. C. had succumbed during .t he turbulent years. In May 1784, the new Presbytery of S. C. was separated from Orange Presbytery and the Reverend Thomas Hill was one of the ministers set apart to compose the new body. 2 It is recorded that Mr. Hill supplied the pulpit of Williamsburg Church occasionally prior to the ministry-if such it can be called-of the Reverend Samuel Kennedy. Mr. Hill was our first full-time minister of record, except for Mr. Knox's brief association in 1768. Unfortunately his usefullness was marred by indulgence and at the first meeting of the new presbytery, at Waxhaw in April 1785, he was cited to answer charges of intemperance. Failing to appear at the subsequent meeting he was cut off, and his work at Indiantown ceased. 3 For a time the pulpit was occasionally supplied by the Reverend James Edmonds of Charleston, Thomas Reese of Salem Black River, Robert McColloch, Robert Finley and James W. Stephenson. It is quite possible that the Reverend William Knox of Black Mingo would visit. However, Black Mingo was a member of Charleston Presbytery not of the newly formed Presbytery of S. C. 4 Howe, Vol. 1, p. 489. Centennial address by Dr. John L. Giradeau, D.D. 1 1885. a Howe, Vol. 1, p. 663. 4 Ibid : p. 489. 1 2 19 �20 AN HISTORICAL SKETCH The year 1788 is important in the history of Indiantown. In South Carolina the Church of England had been disestablished in 1778. At the same time provision was made for the incorporation of other Protestant church units, to make possible their ownership of property and assumption of obligations. There is in the archives of the Historical Commission in Columbia, the original Confession of Faith signed by the members of Indiantown congregation on Feb. 11, 1788, and a petition for incorporat1on addressed to the Assembly. The Confession of Faith is as follows : We the Congregation of Indiantown subscribe, First, That there is one God and a future State of Rewards and Punishments. Second, That God is publickly to be worshipped. Third, That the Christian Religion is the true Religion. Fourth, That the holy Scriptures of the old and new Testament are of divine Inspiration, and are the Rule of Faith and Practice. Fifth, That it is lawful, and the Duty of every Man, being thereunto called by those that govern to bear witness to Truth. The Petition for incorporation: The Honble. Mr. Speaker and the House of Assembly in Charleston now sitting. The Petition of the Presbyterian Congregation of Indian Town in Georgetown District humbly 5 • • • That your Petitioners have associated themselves for the Purpose of religious Worship, and have complied with the other Requisitions previously necessary in Order to entitle them to the Privilege of Incorporation. Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, That they may be incorporated agr~eably to the Constitution, and be constituted and regarded in Law as of the established Religion of this State, under the Denomination of the Presbyterian Church of Indian Town. Signers of both the Confession and Petition were : John James Snr Robert Graham Wm. D. James James Barr John James Jr ( ?) Mary Witherspoon Nathl. McCollugh Jane Dobbin J no. J. McCollugh Philip Owens David Jones William Graham James Daniel J no. Cooper Robert Wilson Moses Barnes Richard Hanna John Gordon Zechariah Owens John James, Jun. Peter Owens John Graham James Owens Robt. McCottry Thomas J ohnsten David Wilson 5 Word illegible. �INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 21 Alexr Thomson Roger McGill George Burrows William Mcllveen Anthy. Haselten George White Wm. Mcllroy Sam'!. Cooper Hugh Paisley Robt. Dick Robt. McFaddin Thos. McCrea Thomas Pressley William Cooper Archibd. Jolly John Gibson Geo. McCutchen It appears that only heads of households signed: there are only two signatures by women, each a widow and head of a household. The year 1788 also saw the coming of the Reverend James White Stephenson at first as supply and subsequently as minister, his services being shared by Indiantown and the newly organized congregation of Bethel at Kingstree. Bethel's membership, like Indiantown's, was composed chiefly of the descendants of the early settlers, and clung to the lofty standards and pure doctrine of the patriarchs. Control of the Williamsburg Church had passed throught weight of numbers to late arrivals, men of a different mold and stamp. 6 The last and most hateful insult was the Socinianism of the Reverend Samuel Kennedy. His heretical views so outraged the Witherspoons, Friersons, McBrides and others of like mind, that they resorted to violent schism, going so far as to destroy the original house of worship. The new congregation of Bethel formed by this faction was closely associated with Indiantown during the forty years of its existence and usually employed the same minister. Mr. Stephenson's parents came south from Pennsylvania during the migrations of the 17SO's. 7 He was born in Virginia in 1756, but grew up at Waxhaw, S. C. Given the best classical education the frontier offered at Mount Zion College near Winnsboro, he became a school master and numbered among his pupils Andrew Jackson, the future president. After revolutionary service he prepared himself for the ministry and was ordained in 1791. For eighteen years he preached at Bethel and Indiantown; his influence was great and it was he who introduced the new dispensation. It seems to have been a mark of the times, this new morality that "took the place of the religion of the Gospel, and many believed that morality was religion." 8 His labors were rewarded by growth in membership and some success in curbing the ancient practices of "treating at funerals," 9 horse-racing and dancing. It was also during his ministry that work among the negroes was begun. In 1802, a camp meeting-an innovation said to have originated in Kentucky-caused great excitement and emotional fervor. 10 It was held at the Sand Hills near Kingstree, drew huge crowds, and resulted in many conversions. Bethel Sessional Record, also Howe, Vol. 1, p. 406. Howe, Vol. 1, p. 581 ff. s DuBose : Reminiscences p. 32. 9 Howe, Vol. 1, p. 586. 10 Howe, Vol. II, p. 65. 6 1 �22. AN HISTORICAL SK~'I'CH . Mr. Stephensoff married Elizabeth, the daughter of Major James. Their married life was brief, and in July 1793 she was buried near her father in the churchyard at Indiantown. The Major had died at the age of fifty-nine in 1791. His son, Captain John is noted as being an elder in May 1792. We do not know when his ordination took place, whether he was elected in his father's stead or had served before. John McFaddin is also on record as an elder at this time.11 In 1805 several families from Bethel migrated to Maury County, Tennessee and bought a large tract of land from the heirs of General Nathaniel Greene. These first migrants were followed by others, and the family names o,f Frierson, Armstrong, Fulton, Witherspoon, Blakeley, Fleming, still appear among the membership of Zion Church, founded by the Williamsburgers. The only member to go from Indiantown that can be identified is Mrs. Jane Wilson Dobbin (she signed the Confession and Petition in 1788) . The journey proved too much for her and she died shortly after reaching Franklin, Tenn. 12 Mr. Stephenson visited his friends in their new home in 1808. Struck by the opportunities of the territory, and affectionately invited by the new congregation, he moved from Williamsburg to Maury County. There he worked with great success until 1831. So highly was he regarded, that South Carolina College, urged by Chancellor William Dobein James, in ·1815 made him a Doctor of Divinity. His long pastorate among us saw Indiantown achieve stature as a large and flourishing congregation, no longer .dependent on occasional supplies and visiting ministers. From 1790 until 1868 her pulpit was seldom empty. A brief pastorate by Dr. Andrew Flinn (1008-10) 13 was followed by that of Daniel Brown. "That which is calculated to make Mr. B.'s ministry most memorable was the opening the way for the reception of People of Colour into full communion with the Church. This we believe has served many beneficial purposes, especially the leading of that class of People among us to reflect that they were concerned on the Subject of Religion as well as the White Christians, but some ·few have disgraced their profession." 14 A fragmentary record has also been preserved which may · mark the beginning of firm judgments meted out by the Session : "The Sessions of the Congregations of Indiantown and Bethel impressed with a sence of their high responsibility as officers of the Church of Christ deem it their duty at all times to attend to the Just Requisitions of the higher Judicatories of the Church of which they are members, being also well assured that the General Assembly had just cause to call on the churches under their care to adopt measures to suppress the alarming and growing vise of the intemperate use of ardent Spirits, Under such views the sessions have unanimously adopted the following resolutions relative to the exercises of dicipline." rn There follows a listing of the degrees of offence and the requisite penalties : Howe, Vol. 1, p. 589. ·. . · Stephenson : The Friersons of Zion Church. The Parthenon Press. 13 Dr. Flinn was first minister of the 2nd Presbyterian Church, Charleston. 14 Sessional Record Bethel Church. 15 Ibid. 11 12 �INDIANTOWN ·PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 23 1. Private drunkenness to be admonished. · 2. Drunkenness, not "aggravated ·by profanity, contention or some other immorality" to be reproved by the session. 3. Aggravated drunkenness to be reproved before the congregation. 4. Persistence in intemperance to be punished by being cut off from the communion of the Church. In 1811,. the Sessions of the two churches acting jointly found a member of Bethel guilty of "incest" because he had married his deceased wife's sister. Mr. Brown died in 1815 while on a visit to his old home. There was an interval of occasional pre·aching before Mr. John Covert a native 'of Oyster Bay, N. Y. and graduate of Princetown, graced the pulpits of Bethel and Indiantown for a year. Had not a call already been extended to the Reverend Robert W. James, Mr. Covert's association would have been prolonged. Instead, he became p·a.stor of Williamsburg, and, equally beloved by both that congregation and his former charges at Bethel, he did much to bring about the reunion of the two factions. That happy outcome was realized only in 1828 after his early death. The Reverend Robert Wilson James was a son of Captain John James. Our Session records have been kept faithfully since his coming, and it might be well at this point to note some matters necessarily omitted in a chronological survey. In trouble and adversity people turn to the church for consolation and reassurance. Spiritual growth can come out ·of tribulation. But it is also true that a church reflects the condition of its members. During the Revolution public worship was abandoned. But the return of peace and confidence brought a quick rebirth. The remarkable ministry of Mr. Stephenson coincided with a period of prosperity and expansion. . The economic void left by the death of the indigo trade was filled by cotton. There had been small plantings of cotton during the colonial period, chiefly for home use. Tedious separation of fiber and seed by harid had limited its · commercial development. The cotton gin opened a new chapter in the economic and social life of the South. Prosperity, greatly increased use of slave labor, the growth of the plantation system, later migrations to the west, all these .affected the state of the church at Indiantown. Black seed, or Sea Island cotton, formerly planted in Williamsburg, was replaced by short staple varieties, green seed and nankeen, a coarse fiber used for rough cloth. 16 The lint, spun into thread at home, was often ·carried to a weaver to be made into cloth for the plantation. One such establishment in Williamsburg was near Murray's Ferry on Santee~ 17 A ready· market for the baled staple developed, and wagon trains, ·each wagon piled high with six bales, made the long trip to · Charleston once a .year.'18 The plantation system, though never on the scale found in the Deep South, became the new order. Drayton : A View ·of S:' C., p. 128. DuBose : Reminiscences. 18 McGill : Reminiscences in Williamsburg County, p. 79. 16 11 �24 AN HISTORICAL SKETCH Roads made wheeled vehicles possible. They had been almost non-existant before the Revolution-none are mentioned in wills-but now riding chairs are often mentioned. That awkward, heavy, two-wheeled cart, with its broad seat and roomy body, was gradually replaced by more comfortable rigs. Eventually carriages and barouches became numerous. Education was afforded by private schools, and, when Mills compiled his Statistics, there were also eight public schools supported by the state, "in which poor children are educated gratis." A very revealing glimpse into church finances and affairs is given by an account book presented to Indiantown Congregation by Mr. Kenneth M. James of Darlington. Twelve pages long, it details the trusteeship of Captain John James and John Wilson, whose responsibility it was to collect the bonds given by the members and disburse the funds for the years 1793 to 1796. The same names appear as those signing the confession of faith and petition for incorporation, with the following additions : J ~cob Rowland, Jean James (widow of Major John James), William Persons, Hugh McGill, Marthar McColough, Henry Price, Stewart Dickey, William Hanna, James Hanna, Thomas Williams, Hanna Snow, John Wilson (one of the trustees), Andrew Russel, Robert Graham, William Graham, Samuel Jones, William McCrea, and Thomas Blackwell for the estate of James Gordon. The bonds, equivalent to our pledges, ranged from ten shillings to seven pounds ten shillings per year. One notation shows that John Wilson advanced the Reverend Stephenson three pounds, ten shillings and sixpence "out of his pocket-which is now due said John Wilson." In June 1797, Mr. Stephenson was paid one hundred one pounds, fourteen and five. Evidently the trusteeship was continued beyond the dates covered by the record, for a notation of 1803 shows that Mr. Stephenson "settled with Messrs. John James and John Wilson Trustees ... in full for the Sallery due on the Bond for which they were appointed collectors." The Census of 1790 sheds some light on the economic standing of the members. There are none very rich, a number in comfortable circumstances, a few whose assets are meager. A fascinating story comes from Howe 19 about a long forgotten personality who had more than casual connection with Indiantown. It was during Mr. Stephenson's pastorate that Thomas Dickson Baird came to join relatives near the church. He had been born in County of Down, Ireland in 1773. His father was determined he should be a blacksmith but he managed to teach himself, though learning the smith's trade. In 1796 he fled to Delaware to escape punishment for taking part in rebellion against the British. He came to South Carolina in 1803. His wife and children died in an epidemic the following year. He had united with Indiantown and expressed his determination to become a minister. In 1809 he sold his possessions and entered the famous school conducted by Moses Waddel at Willington. Waddel, one of the prominent edu19 Vol. II, p. 68. �INDIAN'l'OWN PRESBY'l'ERIAN CHURCH 25 cators of his day, declared Baird to be the most brilliant student ever to come to his notice. In 1812, aged thirty-eight, he was ordained to the ministry. After preaching and conducting a large classical school he moved to Ohio in 1815. Thereafter, his influence became great in church councils. He had an important part in establishing the Western Missionary Society; he became editor of the Pittsburg Christian Herald, sat in the General Assemblies of 1837-38, and was president of the Convention meeting in connection with it. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity ; and three of his sons became ministers, two Doctors of Divinity. Such was one fruit of Dr. Stephenson's ,ministry at Indiantown. David Wilson died in 1812, and Robert Wilson in 1813. In these brothers, sons of David Wilson and Mary Witherspoon, the church lost two elders who had served long and faithfully. David's son, David D., proved a worthy successor. �IV On February 11, 1819, the Reverend Robert W. James was ordained to the ministry and installed as pastor of Indiantown and Bethel congregations. The Bethel Sessional Record tells us that at the .first meeting of Harmony Presbytery, Mr. James "had the honor to attend; it was there understood that it should be a regulation that a record should be kept by every minister and his session, and there books to be reviewed by the Presbytery annually." To this we owe our well preserved history from that date. It would also seem that no regular sessional records had been required or kept before that time. Beginning with the entry noting Mr. James' installation, the Indiantown records were kept in the "old Session Book" until 1845. By that date the book included several inferior specimens of writing, had become somewhat jumbled, and the binding had suffered wear. The minutes were copied into a new book which continued in use until 1899. Hence we have the original and a copy of the records and membership roll from 1819 until 1845. The first page of the new 1845 book records that the transcriber, Reverend J. P. McPherson was requested by the Session to prefix a short history of the church to the copied record. There follow seven blank pages! Mr. McPherson did collect information about Indiantown and Williamsburg. Dr. Howe refers to his notes on Williamsburg/ and Mr. McPherson wrote to The Southern Presbyterian in 1849 that he had a complete list of births and marriages for Williamsburg District from 1732 to 1788. Efforts to trace this invaluable record have been so far vain. The roll of members, as it was first kept, gives no dates, indicating neither when membership began nor ended. The roll is cumulative, but just where the original roll of 1819 ends is uncertain. It is impossible to ascertain the roll at any specific time. Indications are that the congregation in 1819 included the following family names: Barr, Brown, Britton, Cooper, Daniel, Ferrell, Dick, Gordon, Gotea, Graham, Green, Gregg, Gibson, Hanna, James, McCants, McConnell, McCrea, McCottry, McCullough, McFaddin, McCutchen, McIlveen, McKnight, McKnight, Nesmith, Owens, Paisley, Scott, Singletary, Thompson, Wilson and Snowden. Colored communicants were listed by given name and name of owner. There were eighty-nine such members. In 1819 the Session was composed of Captain John James, James Daniel, George McCutchen, Senior, and David Wilson. During the year, Hugh Hanna, George Barr, George McCutchen, Junior, and Samuel J. Wilson were ordained. The office of elder was not lightly bestowed nor lightly assumed. Monitoring the behavior of the membership called for superhuman qualities of humility, assurance and blamelessness. The early record is concerned i Howe, Vol. 1, p. 255. 26 �lNDIAN'tOWN PR1tSBY'tERIAN CHURCH 27 largely with cases of discipline: intoxication, chiefly, but also the "unchristian conduct of quarrelling and fighting." Baptized members were subject only to admonition and exhortation. Offending members in full communion were required to make confessions and profess repentance and reformation before being admitted to the Lord's Supper. Even members of the Session were not wholly free from the sin of intemperance, and the judgment of their peers was stern. Tardiness in submission to the decrees and citations of the Session often resulted in suspension of the privileges of membership, and, if too prolonged, in excommunication. It was a courageous heart or rebellious soul who could bear such a dreadful doom. Colored members were subject to like watchful supervision. If a ' sin was judged particularly serious, the colored offender was made to acknowledge his crime and profess sorrow, not only before the tribunal of the Session, but also before the colored congregation on Sunday afternoon. A touching case found the Session at a loss how to rule: A slave, accused of adultery, had been "forceably separated" from his former wife. Reference of the matter to Presbytery, and by Presbytery to Synod, brought the judgment that, in such a case, remarriage did not exclude from church privileges. The slaves were given religious instruction. In 1824 a Bible Class, a Sunday School 2 and "regular catechising of the black people" was undertaken. They were required to achieve a creditable knowledge of scripture and doctrine and pass examination in "experimental piety" before being admitted to baptism and communion. From the roll it is evident that only a few qualified for admission at first. And it is probable that such distinction was highly prized, not solely from religious conviction. The years 1825 and 1826 saw great changes in the Session. David Wilson in 1825 took dismission with his family to move to Alabama. This is the first of many records of Indiantowners joining the westward march-to Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and California. The Session lost three members by death: Captain John James in 1825, George McCutchen, Senior, and James Daniel in 1826. The following year David D. Wilson joined the Session. Each . generation has its outstanding leader. Major John James had stood above his fellows in the early years, his son and namesake in the early 1800's; and now Colonel D. D. Wilson. It is not only for prominence in church affairs that he is remembered. Patron of education, senator from Williamsburg, Colonel of Militia, and highly progressive and successful planter, he can be listed as one of the county's outstanding citizens. 2 Dr. McGill in his Reminiscences (p. 56.) tells of a Sunday School for which the Elders, Col. D. D. Wilson, William Daniel (?), George McCutchen, George Barr; and Mr. William E. James, Miss Lavina James, Mrs. Eliza Montgomery and Mrs. Thermutis Cooper were the teachers. Col. D. D. Wilson became an elder in 1827 and all the Session resigned in 1834, so the Sunday School to which Dr. McGill refers was in existance between those two dates. Mrs. Cooper joined Indiantown in 1827 and Mrs. Montgomery was a member of the Bethel Congregation until its reunion with Williamsburg. �28 AN HISTORICAL SKETCH In 1824 Miss Margaret McConnell "was received a member from the late church of Black Mingo, this now being extinct." This congregation had been served by Mr. William Knox until after 1800. Just when it dispersed is not known. The old names of members are missing from its vicinity and its records are lost. 3 Mr. James resigned in 1827. From his new charge at Salem Black River he returned occasionally to administer the Lord's Supper, to preach, and to moderate Sessional meetings in the absence of the regular pastor. Upon application to the Domestic Missionary Society of Charleston, our pulpit was supplied by a Mr. Power for a brief time. The Reverend John 'McKee Erwin of North Carolina came and preached in June, 1828, and being called, became pastor in December. To Mr. Erwin must be credited much of the ferment of succeeding years. He had no sooner come than the Session found itself committed to a course that would rock the church and community, and engender opposition leading eventually to bitter separation. The "higher judicatories" of the Presbyterian Church had denounced dancing as early as 1818. But the local Session did not act until the coming of Mr. Erwin. The people of Williamsburg had always loved and enjoyed dancing, horse racing-Capt. John James is said to have had a track on his plantation-and moderate tippling. (Among the tools given the earliest settlers by the authorities in Charleston was a still-mill. 4 We are also told that George Whitfield, the great Methodist, strongly urged the admission of both rum and Negro Slavery into the new colony of Georgia. 5 And in 1770, the Presbytery of South Carolina repaired to Dr. Hewat's for a glass of wine. 6 This is not here inserted for the encouragement of topers, but simply to show that the vice, or practice, was one of long standing.) It must be said that the stern measures adopted by the Session were in compliance with the policy laid down by the General Assembly and were a departure characteristic of the times. The change in emphasis is underscored by a description of Mr. William Knox as a "minister of the old school" who "probably regarded many of his bretheren as too rigid, and perhaps fanatical." 7 This shortly after 1800. It must also be noted that the disciplinary measures instituted by the Session were directed only against communicants. Full membership carried responsibility in those days. A person was expected to have attained serious3 While information about John Baxter was being sought, the following clue to Black Mingo's fate was found: Mr. Robert Barnes, who owns the land on which the church stood and lives nearby, told us that his grandmother, a Miss Gibson, as a girl came to that site just after the War in 1812. When very old, she told her grandson that the church had been burned during the war by British soldiers on a foray up Black River from Georgetown. It was not rebuilt, though the cemetary was used for a time. All that can now be seen are a rectangular mound of broken, crumbling bricks and two or three gravestones. 4 Witherspoon Family Record. 5 Howe, Vol. 1, p. 247. 6 Ibid, Vol. 1, p. 387. 1 Howe, Vol. II, p. 72. �INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 29 ness and dignity, to have overcome the world, before graduating from membership by baptism alone to full communion. It was to preserve the purity of this body and to assert the "government and discipline" of the Presbyterian Church that the Session took its uncompromising position. The matter was enlarged when the original offence of dancing was aggravated by reluctance to bow to the decrees of the Session. The charge of "obstinacy" superseded the original indictment. However earnest the participants or noble the motives, it is impossible to read the Sessional account without smiling at the wonderful clash of personalities and the terrific heat created. It is difficult to keep in clear perspective the basic questions : the "government and discipline of the Presbyterian Church" as embodied in its courts, the authority of the Session over the membership in matters of conduct, and freedom of the individual conscience. The campaign began on January 8th, 1830, when the Session "unanimously resolved to address the following to the Communing Members of this society : "That whereas your Session has reason to believe that some of the members in full communion in the Church give incouragement to and take an active part in Balls or Dancing frolics, and whereas the incouragement thus given to this amusement is a great grievance to Some, perhaps to a Majority of this Society, and if we mistake not a Stumbling Block to others; and whereas the General Assembly of our Church has expressly disapproved of this Amusement as inexpedient among professors in our Church ; the Session after deliberately viewing these things in connection with our high responsibilities as officers of this Church do hereby declare to you our approval of the decision of this Judicatory of our Church and that we will henceforth feel ourselves bound to view all professers of religion in this Church who incourage or take an active part in dancing as offenders against Its purity and prosperity; and finally Bretheren we affectionately exhort you to abstain from all appearance of evil, directed to be read by the Moderator next Sabbath." This address was not entirely effective, and the minister was instructed on March 27th to "admonish privately'~ those violating the resolution. Full compliance still not being achieved, Presbytery was asked, "what farther measures if any are to be taken?" The reply: The Session was to deal with the members "according to the Book of Discipline and the expressions of the opinion of the Synod and General Assembly." This was in March of 1831, a full year after the matter first began to ferment. Reassured in their sense of duty and authority, the Session chose several from. its ranks to converse in a private manner with those persons said to have "recently taken an active part in a dancing party, and if they confess guilt to endeavor to bring them to Repentance." This was done. One of those so visited was Mr. Samuel McGill. He was a devoted member of Indiantown-at this very time, as we shall see, he was one of the contractors for the new church building, a project of much difficulty and no profit. He was also a lover of dancing and pleasure. The interview was not �II 30 satisfactory to the Session, its deputies reporting that Mr. McGill had "assumed principles and made expressions," for which the Session warned Mr. McGill not to commune the next day. Weeks of sparring, requests for clarification of statements and positions, charges and counter charges were climaxed by a demand to know if Mr. McGill submits to "the Government and dicipline of the Presbyterian Church," accepts the authority of the Assembly's letter respecting dancing, and recognizes the duty of a properly authorized officer "to endeavor to bring an offender to repentance." A stated deadline having passed without reply, Mr. McGill was charged with obstinacy, disrespect of the "authoritiv~ expressions of the General Assembly in 1818," "slandering an individual of this Session." Note that the charge of dancing had been overshadowed. A point of view counter to that of the church record is found in "Reminiscences in Williamsburg County" by Dr. Samuel Davis McGill, son of the recalcitrant member: "The Rev. J. M. Erwin, from North Carolina, was our pastor, who tall and slim of figure, and of cold and repulsive address, condemned from the pulpit the practice of dancing ... A church committee, composed of the elders of the church, was appointed to wait on Mr. Samuel McGill to summon him to trial, to be held in the session house. When the day came those two men were seen approaching his house and as their errand was known, it can be imagined in the manner his soft blue eyes sparkled with indignation, overshadowing his otherwise handsome features. He did not meet them, but the wife did at the gate, and it was said their business was hurriedly dispatched amid her clamors, made stinging by her nimble and then irritated tongue, telling them, among other things, of Mr. McGill's claim to that church which his father had founded, nor did she desist in the denunciation of them till they were out of her hearing, and going at a brisker pace than they had come." The trial aroused great interest and excitement in the district. Pages of testimony, much too long to be reproduced here, were given by witnesses for both prosecution and defense, with cross-examination. Several bits, however, must be repeated: To the question, "Did you recommend any religious exercise in preference to dancing as an amusement?" Mr. Erwin replied, "I did. I recommend singing hymns." Mr. McGill had retorted that he "had seen more sin committed in singing hymns than in dancing, because they laughed while singing solemn words." He also quoted from Isaac Watts: "Religion never was designed to make our pleasures less." One witness, a light-footed miss named Leonora Montgomery reporting her feelings when interviewed by a inember 0£ the Session: She was "so badly scared I Hardly Know'd what I said." 8 The Session, having weighed the evidence, found Mr. McGill guilty of the first two charges, but not on the count of slander since there were "extenuating l ( 8 Mr. McPherson, the transcriber of the old record, very carefully and kindly corrects the grammar. Mr. Boddie quotes the eorrected version (p. 278). ,, �lNDIAN'tbWN PRESBYifERIAN ' CHURCit 31 circumstances." Mr. McGill was ordered ·to appear before the elders and witnesses for admonition and rebuke. He thereupon declared his intention to appeal to the congregation, and was granted permission to do so. However, on examining the minutes, Presbytery branded such a· review by the congregation unconstitutional, and appeal was denied. At its next stated meeting, Harmony Presbytery deliberated the whole matter, and the Session had the satisfaction of being sustained in its actions and judgment. The sentence of rebuke and admonition was carried out at long last. It was without visible effect on Mr. McGill and he remained under censure. His request for a letter of dismis'sion :w~s denied. His son says that the suspension was not long continued, that Mr. McGill · came bef9re the elders, made his peace, confessed, and was restored;· "There · were no more dancing parties given at his house during the remainder of his life.'; The Session Book records that on "Nov. 4, 1832, The Session of Indiantown met at the call of the Moderator. Mr. Sam McGill being present gave satisfactory evidence of repentance for the charge against him and was restored to the privileges of the Church." Cases were made against other members; Miss Leonora Montgomery, Mrs. Mary McGill and Miss S. R. G. Sndwden; for dancing after the resolutions had been published. In absentia they were adjudged "contumacious" and received suspensions. So the Session was victor in the battle, but the war was far from won. Evidently the love of dancing and pleasure was not to be stifled in a day or a decade. Mr. McGill was known as an upright man, and others involved were among the most popular and respected members of the church. The actions of the elders may have been entirely correct, but the meinbership was not ready to walk the narrow path they had chart~d. Copscious of their isolation and unpopular rectitude, the Session, en masse, addressed the congregation as follows: "April 28th ( 1834), We the ·undersigned, Elders of the Indiantown Church, having for some years past . been contending against prevailing practices in the Church, which we d.eem unchristian and when bringing discipline to bear on offending members, we were planely told by a member in full standing 'that he knew the mind of the congregation ten .times better than we did and that there were not three individuals in Indiantown Church that would sustain our proceedings,' and having received very little Support or Counten~n~e from the Congreg;ifion, we were induced to believe his statements measurably correct ; arid moreover at a House in the immediate viscinity of the Church (the Heads of the family in full membership) at whi~h a large number of the Congregation attended a Wedding, o'n the hight. previous to a three-Days' meeting, at which the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered, these practices were introduced and persevered in through the night, and to~ such ' . �32 AN HISTORICAL SKETCH excess that we believe it hopeless to proceed farther against such determined opposition, and as we cannot Conscientiously Serve the Church as Ruling Elders, seeing the practice of dancing, excessive drinking and their accompanying evils cannot be Suppressed by us, and judging from the efforts already made that our influence is insufficient for this or to promote the purity and edification of this Church; and therefore after mature reflection we have unanimously resolved that we claim the Constitutional priviledge of ceasing to act as officers of this Congregation ... and now we earnestly pray the Great Head of the Church that the efforts of those who may be called in His Providence to Succeed us ~ay be accompanied with His Almighty power and blessing and make theirs more successful than ours have been." The Signers : S. James Wilson, George Barr, George McCutchen, and David D. Wilson. Mr. George McCutchen a short time later sold his holdings and moved to the Mount Zion community of Sumter District. There he exerted great and lingering influence. Samuel James Wilson and his family moved to Alabama. The Reverend Mr. Erwin also severed his connections with Indiantown and Williamsburg and returned to North Carolina. The entire Eldership having resigned, there was some confusion. A call to the Reverend A. G. Peden was declared out of order by Presbytery because there were no ruling elders. He was installed after the election of William Daniel and Samuel Scott to form the new Session. A more positive and inviting approach to goodness is found during Mr. Peden's ministry. A flourishing "Sabbath School" came into being, with two .superintendents, sixty-six scholars and a library. Thirty-four dollars was initially subscribed for the library's establishment, and occasional special offerings were taken to buy additional books. Fifty-three dollars was also contributed to the newly founded Theological Seminary in Columbia. Fifty-eight dollars was sent for Domestic Missions. The fund for infirm ministers received fifteen dollars ; and thirty-three dollars, fifty-six and one quarter cents went to foreign missions. Indiantown' s interest in the foreign field was no doubt heightened by the fact that John Leighton Wilson, pioneer American Missionary to Africa was the grandson of Captain John James, and descendant of Robert Wilson one of our first elders. 9 All during the years 1830 to 1835, the Session's preoccupation with discipline monopolizes the official record. No mention is made of the building of the new church-our present structure. We again turn to Dr. McGill for our information :10 "The foundation of the new Indiantown Presbyterian Church being ready to be laid, a small eastern portion of the old church was pulled down for the position of the western portion of the new church . . . In this condition, with 9 Wardlaw : Witherspoon Family. 10 McGill: Reminiscences p. 37 ff. �INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 33 only a small part of the old church taken down, it did not hinder divine services in it, protected by the frame of the new church on the exposed side ... "The building of our new church, offered to the lowest bidder, was awarded to Col. D. D. Wilson and Mr. Samuel McGill, at $1,700, which proved to be a tedious and unprofitable investment, as all the lumber for the church could not be gotten nearer than Lawren's water mill, on Lynch's Creek, ten miles above the present town of Scranton. These two contractors put all the material necessary for the completion of the church on the yard, and employed Mr. Doney, of Upper Pudding Swamp, to erect and complete the building ... "Amid the great political and social disturbances in our State and district the new Indiantown Church was completed, and after painting, was' ready for its occupancy. The seats being numbered the members were solicitous in the choice of them ... Mr. George Cooper was given first choice, by reason of a donation in money 11 left by his deceased father for the benefit of the Indiantown Church. "The first sermons 12 • • • were delivered by Rev. Mr. ______________ Morgan, of North Carolina ... These sermons may have been in the dedication of the church or on a sacramental occasion directly afterwards, and were very effective in their delivery." Mr. Morgan was a brother of Mrs. Erwin and is spoken of as "the great and renowned preacher." Evidently the present building was finished during the Nullification period, since Dr. McGill speaks of the great political ... disturbances. There are further interesting facts in Dr. McGill's recollections about the church, its appointments and customs : "The pulpit was high, and its back frame nearly reached the upper ceiling of the house, all of panel frame of workmanship, painted a dull red color, and fringed with black, and raised high above the flooring of the church proper, it was conspicuous. Its enclosure was small, barely sufficient to seat two persons at a time on its hard and uncushioned bench, and was reached by a narrow flight of half a dozen or more steps, supported by a hand railing to its swinging door, which the preacher closed behind him upon his entrance with a slam ... when seated, only his head was visible; and in full view, was another frame of an enclosure, in which the two 'clerks' of the church were placed, whose business was to pitch or raise the hymns ... Mr. Benjamin Gordon, of Cedar Swamp, a singing school master, assisted by Mr. Samuel Wilson, of Muddy Creek, was the foreman of the tenor, while Mrs. Mary Ann McGill from her seat lead the female voices in the part of the music, then known as the 'tribble.' 13 "In the summer of 1838, a Singing School 1 4 was formed and taught by Mr. Marion Timmons, from Marion District, and another school the following 11 Eight hundred dollars 12 Ibid, p. 60. 13 Ibid, p. 58. 14 Ibid, I>· 132. by William James Cooper in 1808. I ! 1.. .. ~:· 1 ! f �34 AN HISTORICAL SKE>i'CH summer ... All the young people eagerly joined, and the old, if not scholars, 'gav~ their encouragement and frequently their attendance'." 15 The eagerness for · learning and culture here noted, was not new. Private schools had been maintained; During the years when the church was being built, the session house-the same still standing-was used as a school room, presided over by Mr. DuRand (DuRant?) of Georgetown. In 1832, the Indiantown Academy was erected .at the head of Mr. Samuel McGill's avenue not far from the church. 16 .Another brother-in-law of Mr. Erwin, Mr. McCamy Morgan, wa.s. teacher. The cypress-pole construction belies th~ pretentious name, but thorough instruction w~s given and some of its students went on to further study at South Carolina College, Davidson, the Medical College of . South Carolina, and numerous boa!ding and finishing schools. In all honesty it can be said that the people of Indiantown had achieved a high standard of living, and showed great respect for knowledge and refinement. Cotton prosperity afforded means to gratify in moderation the desire for self improvement and comfort. Surviving volumes fr9m libraries of the period show a surprising knowledge of the classics and contemporary literature. The pioneer homes, usually of logs, had given way to the weather-boarded, twostory house, rather tall and spar:~, known as a two-up and two-down ; there were additional rooms in a single-story "shedroom" to the rear. Generous porches and shutters made summers cool, and huge brick chimneys kept out the winter cold. With a few exceptions, these houses were not pretentious, but they were substantial and comfortable. General well-being is reflected in the benevolences of the church, in increasing concern for missions. In 1837, the congregation gave one hundred eightyone dollars, eighty-seven cents; and the Ladies contributed an additional fifty dollars to "constitute their Pastor an honorary member of the South Board of Foreign Missions." Once again, Colonel D. D. Wilson was elected elder, and joined the session at the same time as Alex. Knox, and John M. Fulton. Members of the congregation still danced, and the Session still thundered; but there seems to have been a more perfunctory approach to discipline. Sinners were quick to confess, but almost as quick to fall from grace again. One very serious case, however, was that of an elder convicted of intemperance, suspended from his office and forbidden to co~mune for two years. Certain of the "most pious and ·orderly" among the ·colored members were chosen to act as monitors among their fellows. Great efforts were made to impose monogamy and sobriety but seem to have been no more successful than the continuing campaign against dancing by the white communicants. 15 As late as the turn of th.e century, most members of the congregation sang by note. A few years ago Mr. Rob Ervin recalled that it was customary to use two hymnals in singing, one for the music in one hand and the word-hymnal in the other, since the words were occasionally sung to different settings. 16 Ibid, pp. 47-60. �INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 35 Williamsburg was granted a part of Mr. Peden's services for a time, and, after his resignation, Indiantown received in return the ministration of Dr. George H. W. Petrie then at the older church as stated supply. This was only briefly, for in 1840 the Reverend H. B. Cunningham was installed. In a paragraph devoted to the comings and goings of ministers, it might be appropriate to name Indiantown's sons who had become ministers. Dr. Baird's connection has already been noted; so has Robert W. James'. Robert George McCutchen became a minister and moved to Indiana early in his career. W. ' H. Singletary was received as a candidate a bit later, in 1843. Robert Harvey Lafferty came to Indiantown from his native Ohio in 1840 to conduct the Indiantown Academy. In 1842 he dedicated himself to the ministry and was taken under the care of Harmony Presbytery. After graduating from Columbia Theological Seminary in 1845 he was ordained by Concord Presbytery in North Carolina and the following year was installed as pastor of old Sugaw Creek Church at Charlotte. There he remained until his death in 1864. It might also be recalled that Indiantown can claim a definite interest in John Leighton Wilson. In 1843, the Reverend J. P. McPherson began a pastorate notable among other things for greatly increased colored membership. The records of the General Assembly show, by estimate, eighty such members in 1844, and 356 in 1852. Numerous rebukes, admonitions and suspensions for dancing indicate that the Session had by no means given up its prerogatives. Even some of the colored members were disciplined for dancing. It is also evident that the church was far from unanimous in supporting such strict supervision, and there were intimation of serious trouble to come. In 1846 the Session prepared a "brief history of the divisions in our church for the past eight or ten years" which was laid before Presbytery. A few years later a number of dissident members withdrew to form the Whiteoak Congregation. Included were the families of several who had been at odds with the Session in its stern course. Membership, including the colored, dropped from 452 in 1849 to 382 in 1850. It is easy to give too much attention to conflicts, overlooking the gains and quiet progress of turbulent years. The Indiantown Academy, then taught by Dr. S. D. McGill, was made a parochial school (1848) and the pastor was requested to visit it often to catechize and instruct the students. Deacons were elected for the first time in 1849. Those ordained were J. C. Wilson, R. D. Wilson, and L. W. Nesmith. At the same time, S. J. Snowden, R. H. Wilson and W. F. Blakely were added to the Session. Mr. Blakely became clerk of the Session; however, he soon found himself in disagreement with his associates and resigned as elder. The celebrated evangelist, Daniel Baker, D.D. of Texas, chaplain of Congress and founder of Austin College, held a very emotional and fruitful meeting at Indiantown in 1852. The . minutes of the next Session meeting list numerous professions of faith. Receipts among the papers of the Rogers family indicate that extensive repairs were made on the parsonage and church in 1852. Again Colonel D. D. �36 AN HISTORICAL SK~TCH Wilson seems to have been one of the principal contractors. Two other receipts given Mr. W. Vv. Rogers show that the Reverend W. H. Singletary, mentioned before as a ministerial candidate, supplied our pulpit at intervals from 1852 to 1855, and the Reverend William Donnelly preached in 1852. The following year, the Reverend A. L. Crawford was called, and W. C. Barr and James McCutchen were ordained. A year later, D. D. Barr, an elder in the Williamsburg Church, joined Indiantown and was requested to act with the Session. That body was still trying to promote sobriety and moral rectitude among the 585 colored communicants. White members were not slighted. One was disciplined for selling "ardent spirits" and non-attendance. The latter sin of omission received serious attention ; the Session decreed that "any person not communing within the space of one year, his name shall be erased from the Church Book" This ruling was declared too severe by Presbytery and revoked. The elders were faced with another thorny case: A free-for-all fisticuff had occurred at the Muster Field where the militia met for drill. The years have blotted out recollection, but tradition tells of fox hunting and torn-down rail fences as two of the causes of bad feeling. The first notice of the affair is an entry recording that Mr. George Cooper, his sons, and their ladies had applied for dismissals to Whiteoak Church. The request by the men was denied until the Muster Field fracas could be investigated, and responsibility fixed. They were summoned to give testimony but declined to acknowledge the citation. Witnesses for the opposing side gave their version of the set-to, but the Session, "in view of the meagreness of the testimony," was "unable to arrive at a just, and righteous decision" and dismissed the case. It was further resolved "that in consideration of our state as a church· it is our duty to humble ourselves before God, beseaching him no more to afflict us ; but that he would cause all enmity and disposition to strife to give place to Brotherly love and to the Spirit of peace." The petitioners withdrew to join the Whiteoak congregation. In 1857 Samuel J. Snowden lost the power of speech. In a touching letter to his fellow elders he wrote: "Last Sabbath I came off from the Church without letting you know it ... I could not talk, and I had left my slate at home. And Bretheren, I hope you will excuse me from sitting with your honorable body on business of importance, which I am not able to attend." He lived until 1862 but was never again active as a member of the Session. In its centennial year, Indiantown reported 379 members, 282 of them colored. The following year, the Reverend James Ruet Gilland began his pastorate, and the church reported 317 members a figure reflecting the removals of the preceeding year. Mr. Gilland, a native of Pennsylvania, graduate of Washington and Jefferson College, had come south about 1840. He had been pastor at several churches in upper South Carolina, and in 1850-51 was acting president at Davidson College. Preferring the active ministry, he declined the presidency. A gifted teacher, he specialized in preparing youths for �INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 37 college. At each of his churches he also conducted a school. Though from the North, he held strong sympathies for the Southern cause, and his pastorate was unmarred by political strife. Within the Session there was discord aplenty. Three elders, D. D. Wilson, W. C. Barr, and D. D. Barr resigned in protest over the handling of a case of discipline and because they thought they had "lost the confidence of the congregation." William Daniel died in 1859, the venerable George Barr in 1860, soon to be followed by Robert H. Wilson. The sole remaining member, James McCutchen, who had been ordained in 1853, was soon to join the Army of Virginia. James D. Daniel, elected in 1862, was the oµly active elder during the war years. The chief duties performed by Mr. Gilland and elder Daniel were the baptism of infants and the examination of candidates for membership. The roll of the church was greatly increased, and in 1866 there were five hundred communicants, eighty per cent of them colored. In 1932, Mrs. Thomas M. Gilland recalled of her father-in-law that "it was said that he would sometimes throw off his ministerial mien and play his fiddle for the younger members of his congregation to dance and forget the stress and strain of the war days." 17 (Shades of Mr. Erwin!) Stress and strain are weak words to convey the privations and anxieties of the times. The very sparseness of the church records suggests the disruption caused by four years of war. The Sunday School was an early casualty. Practically every able-bodied white man was with the forces. As the fighting grew more savage, there were poignant entries in the roll opposite the names of members: Wm. Wilson, Dead, Killed in Battle, Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863. Julius J. Hanna, Dead in Confederate service, Richmond, 1863. Robert Wilson, Dead, Killed in battle near Petersburg, 1864. Wm. Cunningham, dead, Killed at Sharpsburg. Wm. Douglas, Dead in Confederate Service. John C. Wilson, Dead [died of wounds in a Richmond Hospital] . To these must be added the maimed and wounded. Unlike the Revolution, The War Between the States did not make our community a battle ground. Its testing time was to come with Reconstruction. There was not even grave unrest among the servants. It was only under military government, and with the hearty encouragement of the Freedman's Bureau that good will and cooperation between the races were replaced by bitterness. There are records of additions to the roll of colored members as late as 1866. But by 1867 almost all had left to form their own churches or to join those already organized. Total membership dropped to eighty-two. An attempt to revive the Sunday School in 1867 failed, but another try one year later was successful. About the same time there began a happy association with the Reverend James McDowell, at that time pastor of Brewington and Harmony Churches. 18 He was engaged to supply our pulpit once a month 17 18 The County Record, June 30, 1932. Jones, Mills. �38 AN HISTORICAL SKETCH after Mr. Gilland moved to Arkansas. The memory of this saintly minister is still revered. He was often here during the rest of the century, called in difficult times to bring peace and unity, or simply to hold services. His grandson, Dr. James McDowell Richards, President of Columbia Theological Seminary, bears his name. In the darkest days of Reconstruction, Indiantown was without a pastor. Presbytery evangelists, among them Mr. Boggs, or frequent visitors such as Mr. G. Morgan-probably the Reverend Gilbert Morgan, noted teacher at Harmony College, Sumter District-preached from time to time. In such circumstances, the Session's importance increased. Dr. Joseph S. C~nningham and Dr. Joseph A. James joined its ranks in 1868. Dr. Cunningham continued an elder until his death in 1925, a span of fifty-seven years! Dr. James, grandson of Chancellor W. D. James, author of the Life of Marion, returned to his ancestral community to marry Miss Sarah McCutchen shortly before the War. He moved to Cheraw in 1884. In 1870 the second election of deacons of which we have record resulted in the choice of T. M. McCutchen, J. C. Josey and Julian Wilson. The Session having lost J. D. Daniel by death gained the services of F. N. Wilson. Elder Wilson moved to Manning in 1876. William J. Daniel was also ordained, but was never able to meet with the Session. He died a few months after (Oct. 4, 1871). The congregations of Indiantown and Whiteoak had both suffered greatly from the War. The more bitter factionalists had died, and once great causes of division seemed much less important. In 1870 the two churches joined Williamsburg in sharing the labors of Mr. Banks, and two years later Mr. A. R. Kennedy became pastor of both Indiantown and Whiteoak. Mr. Kennedy's ministry was climaxed by the reunion of the congregations, all but five of Whiteoak's members returning to Indiantown (1873). These five were granted letters to other churches. Mrs. Kennedy was a sister of Woodrow Wilson. During three years among us, warm friendships were formed. Shortly before they left, their little daughter died, and since they had no permanent home, the little one was buried here among friends-a small tie with one of the great men of our era. The Ladies' Missionary Society was organized on July 10, 1875. Mrs. James McCutchen is recalled as the first president. The constitution pledged the members to "labor together in whatever ways may be right and best to secure funds for the cause of Foreign Missions, and to promote the knowledge of God's Kingdom in the world and to increase an interest in this work throughout the congregation." An entrance fee of ten cents and a monthly fee of ten cents were to be collected by the vice-president. Ten cents was not then the pittance it now seems. The society met once a month, at the church, usually, and prayer was made by the pastor or some other officer of the church. The meetings were opened with the singing of a hymn. Members pledged to "attend �INDIANTOWN PR~SBYT~RIAN CHURCH 39 the meetings of the Society and to discharge the duties of the same, unless prevented by good and sufficient reasons." 19 An account of the work of the Women of the Church will be given later. The Reverend J. R. Gilland, after preaching and teaching in Arkansas and Mississippi, retired to Indiantown to make his home with his daughter and son-in-law, Colonel and Mrs. James McCutchen. He died only two weeks later, and is buried in the church yard ( 1876). His son, Henry Gibbs Gilland, who had spent the greater part of his boyhood at Indiantown, became our minister in 1878. Trying times and a depressed economy forced the church to ask Presbytery to be 'placed in the second class financially and be called on for a smaller contribution. But progressive steps were taken and there was steady increase in membership. The congregation was apportioned among the members of the Session for supervision, encouragement and visitation. It became the rule to take collections regularly instead of occasionally. The Session had gained J. D. Daniel ( 1881), T. M. McCutchen and P. D. Snowden ( 1883). It no longer thundered and commanded but, rather, "admonished kindly" those who fell or wandered. On November 17, 1883, a new church came into being at Lake City. All but one of the members came from Indiantown: H. H. Singletary, J. T. Gaskins, W. C. Brown, Mrs. Singletary, Mrs. Gaskins, T. M. Perkins and Mrs. S. J. McCutchen also Mrs. Singletary's children, John Duncan, Barfield Lamar, and Virginia Vernon. The founding commission of Harmony Presbytery, headed by the Reverend James McDowell, included the Reverend Henry Gilland, the Reverend W. C. Smith, and elders James McCutchen and W. M. Kinder. First elders of the new church were H. H. Singletary and J. T. Gaskins. The Reverend H. B. Garris was first pastor of the small congregation. Its growth has been steady and it now outnumbers its ancient parent and is one of the stronger churches in the Presbytery. 20 During the eighties, the Southern Church debated the questions raised by the increasing acceptance and impact of the Theory of Evolution. 21 Dr. James Woodrow, Perkins Professor of Natural Science in connection with Revelation at the Columbia Theological Seminary, was at the center of the controversy. By request he published an article in The Southern Presbyterian giving his views. Far from attempting to refute the new and revolutionary concepts, he suggested that Divinely guided mutations were plausible. Long deliberations by Synod and the Presbyteries led eventually to the dismissal of ·Dr. Woodrow from the faculty of the Seminary. He became an honored and beloved teacher at the South Carolina College, and, retaining the love and respect of his brother ministers, was later elected moderator of Synod. No mention of the controversy appears in our church's records. But it is recalled that stands were taken and sympathies expressed not without heat. 19 Duplicate copy of the original constitution. 20 Jones, Mills. 21 Ibid. �AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 40 For the second time the Indiantown congregation applied for incorporation. Dated May 29, 1882, the charter empowers the "said corporation to purchase and hold real estate or personal property not exceeding in value the sum of $25,000, and to sell and dispose of the same in any manner whatsoever." Some of the church's property was shortly thereafter mortgaged, but promptly redeemed. 2 2 Numerous real estate transactions resulted in the sale of almost all the church's holding except the land adjacent to the manse. For several months late in 1889 after Mr. Gilland was released to join Concord Presbytery, North Carolina, our Stated Supply was ~fr. W. S. Hamiter. Years of occasional preaching followed. J. E. Dunlop supplied the pulpit in 1891 and for the next seven years he preached at both Indiantown and Williamsburg. Colonel Dunlop is remembered as a man of strong passions. He was by that time elderly, with a large white beard. But the fires that had made him an outstanding staff officer with General Forrest were not dead. A violent temper and impulsive behavior were translated in the pulpit into an equally intense delivery and earnestness. Such a person and personality invited either great admiration or strong disapproval. Memories of him differ widely. He made his home at Indiantown manse, but preached at Union, Central and Williamsburg also, continuing the latter charge after resigning from Indiantown and moving to Georgetown in 1898. Once again the Session lost an outstanding member, James McCutchen, an elder for forty-four years, and superintendent of the Sunday School for most of his life ( 1897) . T. M. McCutchen, his brother and brother-elder, was taken the following year. Hugh McCutchen and W. D. Owens were chosen in their places. The diaconate had gained M. W. Rogers and James F. Cooper in 1894, and in 1898 W. C. Snowden was also elected and ordained. The Session Book begun in 1845 ends with an entry in October 1899, a report to Presbytery that "grave rumors are in circulation affecting the character of a minister of our Presbytery." It is far from our intent to revive a tragic story or give new life to an almost forgotten scandal. Perhaps it is well that our records for this period have been destroyed. No purpose will be served by probing an ancient hurt. Those members of the congregation who remember the events to which the report to Presbytery was a prelude are reluctant to discuss the painful scenes. Charity urges us to leave an old man in peace. He had done much good in his long life; and to be called to trial on a grave charge was a bitter last chapter. This much is written only because the impact of the whole affair was terrible and the hurt to the cause of religion and morality deep and slow to heal. In the words of one who was present : "It almost killed the church!" 22 P apers in the possession of Mr. J. C. McCutchen. �v For two years we were without a pastor. The Reverend Frank H. Wardlaw, a young seminary graduate, came in 1900. A brief but pleasant association was ended by his resigning to join Synodical Home Missions in 1902. He was superintendent of the work during a time of expansion and achievement. In 1905 he transferred to the foreign field, and for a number of years was stationed at Cabarien, Cuba. 1 He was at Indiantown again as pastor 'from 1912 to 1914. The Reverend J. B. Branch was our Stated Supply for a brief interval in 1903. The Reverend H. T. Darnall is fondly recalled as a gentle and godly man of distinguished appearance. He and his wife were much beloved. Mr. Darnall died only a year after resigning in 1907. Their son Vernon is remembered as a singer of considerable fame, and a concert given by him in the church is remembered some fifty years later. During Mr. A. C. Bridgman's stay ( 1908-11) a second daughter church was created by peaceful separation, McGill Memorial, named in honor of Dr. Samuel D. McGill and composed largely of his descendents and relatives living some ten miles west of Indiantown. McGill Memorial, though never very strong, continued until improved roads made Indiantown more accessible to its members, and it dissolved in 1929. During its life, it always had the same minister as Indiantown. In 1910, Presbytery met with us as part of the celebration of our sesquicentennial. For the occasion the church "had been renovated and a porch added extending the whole width of the front with roof supported by solid massive pillows." It was a time of reunion and homecoming. Addresses were given by Professor H. A. White on the "origin of the Williamsburgers: the currents of religio-political history of Europe that beat upon them and made them what they were, and brought them here;" and Professor George McCutchen of the University of South Carolina. Professor McCutchen, a son of Indiantown, spoke on the "History of Indiantown Church," and "while such a subject is difficult to popularize, his presentation of it showed the painstaking research of the antiquarian and that sympathetic and masterful grasp of the material in reach that could rivet the attention of his auditors even when the dinner hour was past and the physical man was faint." Barbecue was the chief dish. "The social feature took precedence over the Presbyterial work and until late in the afternoon Presbyters and people mingled in handshaking and conversation in the spacious groves around about the overflowing 'well down by the gate'." 2 1 Jones, 2 News Mills. and Courier. 41 �42 AN Hrs'I'oRICAL SK:E'I'Ctt After Mr. Wardlaw's second pastorate, our next minister was W. R. Pritchett. His stay included the stirriµg days of the First World War, the "Crusade to Make the World Safe for Democracy." The fact that Woodrow Wilson was a Presbyterian and that the Reverend James H. Taylor, D. D. was his pastor gave Indiantown a sense of immediate contact with world affairs. Dr. Taylor is the son of the late Mrs. Clara Wilson Taylor of Charleston, grand-daughter of Colonel D. D. Wilson. In his youth he was a frequent visitor to his mother's girlhood home, and has always shown his deep affection for our church and community. , The boom days of the war brought unaccustomed prosperity. Farmers usually make a comfortable living, but it is not often that .surplus cash can be expected. The demand for cotton and foodstuffs created by the war gave our section a long delayed chance. A few automobiles had labored to church over unimproved roads as early as 1912. But now cars became commonplace. They in turn demanded systematic maintenance and improvement of the public roads. Fords were bridged, marshy spots filled, and sand beds firmed with clay. As a result church attendance became easier; and, stimulated by the fervor of the times, the congregation increased. Contributions became more liberal, and extensive improvements were undertaken. The church was badly in need of Sunday School rooms. All classes except the primary, which met in the Session House, were forced to share the church auditorium, and it was difficult to keep children attentive and intere~ted. So the church building was raised and a basement containing classrooms was placed beneath. The former high dais, (not the earlier pulpit described by Dr. McGill), was at this time replaced by a semi-circular, low platform with room at the rear for the choir. The old reed-organ was superseded by a piano. Steam-heat added greatly to the comfort of the congregation. In 1920 the present manse was built. It took the place of the original parsonage, a post-revolutionary cottage. In 1918 the cemetery was enlarged by 2.5 acres bought from Mrs. Fannie K. · Montgomery, and enclosed with a substantial fence. An arch over the gate bears the name "Indiantown." Two memorial windows, one to Colonel James McCutchen (1830-1897) and his wife Mary Jane Gilland ( 1841-1900) , the other to the memory of Janet Witherspoon Wilson ( 1822-1901) were donated by their respective descendants. For a number of years the church undertook the support of Miss Eliza Neville (later Mrs. Lancaster) missionary to China. Members pledged the proceeds from one or several acres of crops. A census in March 1926, showed sixty-six families connected with the church including three-hundred four individuals; two-hundred twenty-nine members of the Sunday School; and only ten individuals in the vicinity not members of the church. There were two hundred thirty-nine members. Prosperity vanished with the coming of the boll-weevil in the early twenties. Long before the rest of the country experienced the post-war slump culmi- �INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 43 nating in the great depression of the thirties, Williamsburg and most of the South had become accustomed to belt-tightening. Only increased cultivation of tobacco compensated in part for the loss of our chief cash crop. Tobacco has since become the backbone of our farm economy, but in the twenties it could only cushion the blow. For years the treasury of the church was often empty but no emptier than the purses of its members. Mr. Pritchett resigned in 1927. He had been pastor at Indiantown longer than anyone else except Dr. Stephenson. Later he preached at Olanta, South Carolina and in Louisiana. On retiring he returned to Olanta, and was a frequent visitor among us until his death in 1954. He is buried in our <;hurchyard. An interesting service was held in 1928. The occasion was the unveiling of a memorial tablet to David Wilson, his son Colonel David D. Wilson, and grandson Robert H. Wilson, all former members of the Session. Placed on the south wall near the family pew, the handsome bronze plaque was a gift of Mrs. Clara Wilson Taylor. Dr. James H. Taylor delivered the sermon, and a large congregation of relatives and friends met to honor the three former elders. Mr. E. C. Clyde, pastor from 1928 until 1937, will be remembered for the gentle, spiritual leadership he gave in difficult times. The depths of the depression fell during his stay. It was a time of holding fast, not expansion. But, although there are no statistical indications of growth, there was progress. The work among the young people was stressed; and vacation Bible schools were started and regularly held. The church was improved by the installation of electric lights and was completely repainted. Thornwell Orphanage has always had a particularly warm spot in the hearts of Indiantown. During the years when money was short, truck loads of produce were sent each fall, contributed by the members as they were able. For twelve years, Mr. A. W. Ragsdale, one of our elders, has been a member of the board of Trustees. A great loss was suffered in the passing of two beloved leaders: Mr. M. W. Rogers had been a member of the Session and a devoted Sunday School teacher for many years. Mr. David E. McCutchen at the time of his death in 1933 had been an elder for thirty years and superintendent of the Sunday School almost as long. Loved by everyone, he has been sorely missed, and his place has not yet been filled. Mr. William H. Hamilton came in February 1938. His four years as our pastor brought much-needed harmony and restored unity. The whole congregation gave him their support and forgot differences that had rankled for decades. On Sunday, November 8, 1942 Mr. Hamilton conducted services and seemed in his usual health. But shortly after returning to the manse he suddenly passed away. His grave and Mrs. Hamilton's are in Indiantown cemetery. �44 AN HISTORICAL SKETCH Once again the church felt the impact of war. In spite of crippling shortages, gasoline rationing, and the absence of many young people in the armed forces, work continued and expanded during the war years. Our minister was Mr. C. J. Matthews. Sharing in the general boom times and the artificial stimulation of the war effort, the community was able to meet the demands increased membership made on the church's physical plant. Funds were solicited for several years before the lifting of restrictions and easing of shortages made possible the erection of the Fellowship Building in 1948. Costing nearly ten thousand dollars it was completely paid for when finished. It has added greatly to the social life of the church. Many memorial gifts were made to help in the project, and a tablet on an inner wall reads : INDIANTOWN FELLOWSHIP BUILDING ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD 1948 DEDICATED To THE MEMORY oF GEORGE HENRY LOVETT, JR. AND LISTON BLAKELY BURROWS WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE AND IN HONOR OF THE FIFTY OTHER MEN AND WOMEN OF INDIANTOWN w HO SERVED IN THE ARMED SERVICES IN WORLD WAR II REV. CURTIS J. MATTHEWS, PASTOR A. W. RAGSDALE J.C. MCCUTCHEN L. H. BARTELL BUILDING COMMITTEE In 1948, total expenditures and contributions for the church, including the Fellowship Building, were $27,237.00. Mr. Matthews was deeply interested in the development of the Rural Church. In 1947, with his encouragement, a Country Church Award was endowed at Columbia Theological Seminary by Messrs. George, Dexter and James Stuckey of Indiantown in honor of their father and mother Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Stuckey. The interest on the endowment will go each year to the member of the rising senior class who is judged to have worked most fruitfully in a rural church or community during the preceding summer. The same year an electric organ was bought. Mrs. A. B. Buffkin (Martha Snowden) who had been our pianist for some dozen years, anticipating the �PLATES Indiantown Presbyterian Church, 1900 Indiantown Presbyterian Church, 1910-19 The Session House, 1820 The Indiantown Fellowship Building, 1948 The Manse, 1920 Aerial View Pastors from 1808 until present ~ -- �Presb31teria11 Church , c. 1900. It re1110ined ·uirt11all31 1111 chan ged erection 1830-1111til 1910, 'Z ihen th e porch z 1as added Indiantown Presb31 feria.11 Church, 1910-19 ��The Indiantown Fellowship Building, 1948 The Manse, bu,ift in 1920 ��.4erial Viei (C ircle) 111dia11toiv11 Presbyterian Church. A . Three h1111dred acres granted to Tho111as B11rto11 A/arch 19, 1744; a11d co11z 1eyed by Tho111as Burton to Joseph TVhite i11 1746. B. Fi7.•e h111:dred acres granted to Joseph TVhite Ma31 2. 1754. Note 011 both these tracts how current field di'l isio11s, roads a11d land lines at 111a1131 points are deter111i11ed by the rigi11al surveys 111ade i11 174./ a11d 1754. C. Probable site of the 1lli11go Indian Village for ·which the church a11d co111111u11ity ore 1 llQllled. �v ANDREW G. PEDEN 1835-1838 �JAMES McDOWELL 1867 HENRY GIBBS GILLAND 1879-1889 w. s. HAMITER 1889 �FRA K H. w ARDLA w 1900-1902 1912-1914 w. R. PtUTCHET'l' 1915-1927 �E. c. CLYDE 1929-1937 C. ]. MATTHEWS 1943-1949 W. H . HAMILTON 1939-1942 �INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 45 installation of the new instrument, prepared herself by private lessons and diligent practice. Her skill and excellent taste add immensely to the beauty and reverence of our services. The organ has since been improved by a second tone-cabinet. The church was repainted and the manse thoroughly renovated. The Session Book in use since 1899 was burned in the fire that destroyed the home of the Clerk. Since it included the church roll, it was necessary to reconstruct the list of members from memory. Two-hundred eighty-six names were recalled. An effort was also made to list former members who ' had died, elders and deacons no longer living, when they had served, and such other pertinent facts as could be verified. In 1947 the church began the full support of Miss Miriam Heindel, missionary to Brazil. This was continued until her death in 1949. Subsequently, for a number of years, Mr. Joe Hopper of Korea was in part supported by us. In 1948 the choir area and dais were redesigned and rebuilt. The work was given as a memorial to Mrs. Ellen Gamble Tallevast by her daughter Mrs. Carl Feagle of Columbia. At the same time the pews and floor were sanded and finished to show the beauty of the old wood. Our minister, the Reverend Eugene G. Beckman, has been with us since December, 1949. Membership has shown steady growth. In 1955 the Session retired forty-six names of non-resident, inactive members, but the roll still shows three hundred twenty-six communicants. The Sunday School has an enrollment of three hundred ninety-three with thirty officers and teachers. Among progressive steps and achievements of the past few years may be noted the organization of the Sunday School into departments ( 1950) ; the holding of Communicants' Classes for young people, in preparation for church membership; the adoption of the rotary system for Deacons ( 1954) ; organization of The Men of Indiantown (1950)-current president is Mr. George Stuckey. Indiantown contributed a cabin to Camp Harmony in 1954. L arge scale repairs to the porch and basement of the church were made in 1955. The latter was successfully water-proofed and the classrooms attractively painted; the outside of the church was also repainted. In 1954 carpet was ]aid in the aisles and before the pulpit. In recent years new silver collection plates have been given by the Young People and a new communion service by the Gamble family. In 1952 Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Ragsdale gave a handsome mahogany communion table in memory of our beloved former pastor Mr. Hamilton. Organization of the Missionary Society in 1875 has already been mentioned. Mrs. James McCutchen (Mary Jane Gilland, daughter of the Reverend James Ruet Gilland) was president until her death in 1900. She was succeeded by Mrs. Mac Ervin (Sue Barr) who served for six years. Subsequently, Mrs. James F. Cooper (Mary R. McCutchen), Mrs. A. C. Bridgman and Miss Mutie Cooper held office. Mrs. H . M. Cooper (Virginia Saunders) was president for twelve years, from 1915 to 1927. During her tenure, circles were �46 AN HISTORICAL SKETCH organized; young people were sent for the first time to summer youth conferences ; and colored delegates to Negro women's conferences. In recent years others serving as president have been Mrs. J. B. Lovett (Emma Cooper), Mrs. W. H. Nelson (Lucile Cooper), Mrs. H. C. Nelson (Ruth Wilson), Mrs. John W. Snowden (Virginia Wilson), Mrs. S. D. McGill (Jennie McCutchen), Mrs. R. J. Daniel (Jo Smit~), Mrs. R. C. Gamble (Josie Bartell), Mrs. Jessie Marsh (Mary E. Snowden), Mrs. R. F. Badger. Mrs. S. J . Ervin (Louise Brock), Mrs. Ronald Daniel (Elizabeth Roberts), and currently, again Mrs. S. J. Ervin. Many ladies from Indiantown have held high Presbyterial and Synodical offices. Mrs. J.B. Lovett was president of Harmony Presbyterial (1933-35). Many of those mentioned have been chairmen and secretaries of causes. Prior to 1900, fifty dollars was given annually-this in spite of hard timesto the salary of a missionary, Miss French. Later~ a cot was supported in Dr. Wilkinson's hospital in China in memory of Mrs. James McCutchen, the Society's first president. The ladies gave generously in support of Miss Eliza Neville when she was the church's representative in China. Miss Heindel and Mr. Hopper were given hearty encouragement. Local projects carried out by the ladies include new cushions for the church in 1935 and again currently; the sponsoring of Bible instruction in the Indiantown and Hemingway High Schools (1943); present teacher is Mrs. Julian Hanna (Cleva Rhame); silver, china, and linen tablecoths have been bought for the Fellowship Building; young people have been taken to Presbyterian College for placement and aptitude-tests. One of the most fruitful projects achieved by the ladies has been the adoption by the church of a long-range master plan for improvements to the Church Building. Mr. Albert Simons of Simons and Lapham, Architects, Charleston, was engaged to make recommendations and suggest a schedule to be followed in future years. His plan was adopted by the deacons and is being adhered to faithfully. This year, in accord with his advice, new sashes, more in keeping with the original style of the .building, are being installed; wainscoting and window facings are being refinished to match the pews ; and more harmonious lighting fixtures are replacing the old, undistinguished lights. Last year air conditioning was installed. It should be noted that all these improvements have been paid for without indebtedness or borrowing. Indiantown has a representative in the ministry. The Reverend Clarendon · Ervin now of Glade Valley, North Carolina, has given his life to work among the mountain children. The church also takes pride in Miss Frances Ann Buffkin, a graduate of Coker College and the Assembly's Training School in Richmond, who is full time Director of Religious Education and Minister of Music in Darlington, South Carolina. Miss Olivia Cooper, who spent her childhood in our church, is in full time church work in Lumberton, North Carolina. �INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 47 Misses. Harriet and Manette McCutchen, daughters of Elder Thomas M. McCutchen, spent their lives in social work in the mill villages of upper South Carolina, for most of the time at Union. The effectiveness of their efforts and the love they merited are symbolized in the Presbyterian church building recently completed in Monarch Mill Village. It is called McCutchen Memorial. Their sister, Miss Laura Eugenia ,McCutchen, though not a professional social worker, helped her sisters and made their dedication possible. Many names in our recent past deserve affectionate mention: Mr. Clarence C. Daniel who joined the Session in 1903 served a full half c~ntury with gentleness and wise understanding. Mr. R. Wheeler Stuckey, originally from Lee County but a resident of the community and member of Indiantown since 1899, served almost as long, first as deacon, then as elder from 1929 until his recent death. Mr. W. Dodd Daniel and Mr. Robert H. Ervin both gave long years of devoted service. Each was a deacon of the church and a member of the Session. Mr. Rob was also Superintendent of the Sunday School for many years. Elder David D. Brown ( 1938-47), also a Superintendent of the Sunday School, is remembered for a deep sincerity and a genuine goodness that was as attractive as it is rare. Mr. Percy D. Snowden, an elder for thirty-nine years; elder Hugh McCutchen, who kept his allegiance to Indiantown and returned each Sunday from his/ home in Kingstree; S. J. Ervin and his son Laurie H. Ervin; Hugh M. Cooper; J. L. Covington; S. D. Snowden; J. M. Williamson; all served faithfully as members of the Session. Currently elder Albert B. Buffkin is treasurer of the Church. Rudolph J. Daniel also has served as treasurer and is now Clerk of the Session. A project of great promise is near realization. The neighboring town of Hemingway and the surrounding countryside give evidence of continuing growth and development. A Presbyterian church in that section has been more and more needed during recent years. The Session of Indiantown has voted unanimously to support the founding of such a church and it is our hope that Indiantown will, in this her bi-centennial contribute both members and funds to the project. A suitable lot has already been bought by Harmony Presbytery. Plans call for a Sunday School building to be used for all services at present, and a sanctuary later as membership and growth demand. Surely a fitting project for our two-hundredth year! �Material for this summary was collected and arranged by James F. Cooper at the request of the Indiantown Bi-centennial Committee. Mrs. John W. Snowden gathered the pictures of former ministers. Mr. Beckman extracted the statistical report from the records of the General Assembly and documents at the Historical Foundation, Montreat. The Indiantown Bi-centennial Committee: Reverend Eugene G. Beckman, Pastor James F. Cooper Mrs. John W. Snowden, Secretary Albert B. Buffkin Mrs. P. D. Bishop Mrs. W. H. Cockfield Mrs. Ronald C. Daniel Samuel J. Ervin 48 �MINISTERS OF INDIANTOWN 1768 William Knox, 1768 1783 Thomas Hill, 1785 1785 James Edmonds, supply also in 1788 1787 Thomas Reese, supply, 1788 1788 Robert McColloch, supply, 1789 1789 Robert Finley, supply, 1789 1788 James W. Stephenson, supply 1790 James W. Stephenson, 1808 1808 Andrew Flinn, D.D., 1810 1811 Daniel Brown, 1815 1817 John Covert, 1818 1819 Robert W. James, 1827 1828 Josiah Powers, stated supply, 1828 1828 John McKee Erwin, 1834 1835 Andrew G. Peden, 1838 1839 George H. W. Petrie, stated supply, 1839 1840 H. B. Cunningham, 1843 1843 J. P. McPherson, 1852 1852 W. H. Singletary, occasional supply, 1855 1852 William Donnelly, occasional supply, 1852 1853 A. L. Crawford, 1857 1858 James Ruet Gilland, 1867 1867 James McDowell, 1867 1870 G. W. Boggs, supply without charge, 1870 1870 William Banks, supply, 1870 1871 G. Morgan, without charge, 1872 1872 A. Ross Kennedy, 1875 , 1877 W. S. P. Bryan, supply, 1877 1879 Henr.y Gibbs Gilland, 1889 1889 W. S. Hamiter, supply, 1889 1891 J. E. Dunlop, 1898 1900 Frank H. Wardlaw, 1902 1903 J. B. Branch, supply, 1903 1904 H. T. Darnall, 1907 1908 A. C. Bridgman, 1911 1912 Frank H. Wardlaw, 1914 1915 W. R. Pritchett, 1927 1929 E. C. Clyde, 1937 1939 William H. Hamilton, 1942 1943 C. J. Matthews, 1949 1949 E. G. Beckman MINISTERS FROM INDIANTOWN W. H. Singletary Robert Harvey Lafferty Clarendon Ervin Thomas Dickson Baird, D.D. Robert W. James Robert George McCutchen FULL-TIME RELIGIOUS WORKERS Miss Olivia Cooper Miss Frances Ann Buffkin RULING ELDERS OF INDIANTOWN Samuel J. Wilson, elected 1819-resigned 1834 David D. Wilson, elected 1827-resigned 1834, re-elected 1836, resigned 1861 William Daniel, elected 1835-d. 1859 Samuel Scott, elected 1835-retired 1853 Alex. Knox, elected 1836-inactive John M. Fulton, elected 1837-moved 1845 J. B. Pressley, serving 1841-inactive Samuel J. Snowden, elected 1849-retired 1857 R. H. Wilson, elected 1849-d. 1860 Wm. F. Blakely, elected 1849-resigned 1851 Major John James, 1757-d. 1791 Robert Wilson (b. 1710), 1757 David Wilson (b. 1742)-d. 1812 Robert Wilson (b. 1737)-d. 1813 John McFaddin, serving 1792 Capt. John James, serving 1792-d. 1825 George McCutchen, serving, 1819-d. 1826 James Daniel, serving 1819-d. 1826 David Wilson, serving, 1819-moved 1826 George Barr, elected 1819-resigned 1834 again active 1853-d. 1860 Hugh Hanna, elected 1819-inactive after 1824, d. 1841 George McCutchen, Jr., elected 1819-resigned 1834 49 �so AN HIS'I'ORICAL SK~'I'CH James McCutchen, elected 1853-d. 1897 W. C. Barr, elected 1853-resigned 1861 D. D. Barr, continued, 1854-resigned 1861 James D. Daniel, elected 1862-d. 1870 Dr. Jos. S. Cunningham, elected 186&d. 1925 Dr. Jos. A. James, elected 1868-moved 1884 F. N. Wilson, elected 1871-moved 1876 William J . Daniel, elected 1871-inactive, d. 1871 W . D. Knox, elected 1876-moved 1880 J . D. Daniel, elected 1881-moved 1893 · Thos. M. McCutchen, elected 1883-d. 1893 Percy D. Snowden, elected 1883-d. 1922 Hugh McCutchen, elected 1898-d. 1920 W . D. Owens, elected 1898-moved 1905 D. E. McCutchen, elected 1903-d. 1933 C. C. Daniel, elected 1903-d. 1953 H. M. Cooper, elected 1917-d. 1942 M. W. Rogers, elected 1917-d. 1931 R. W. Stuckey, elected 1929-d. 1957 W. Dodd Daniel, elected 1932-d. 1944 S. J. Ervin, elected 1932-d. 1937 J. L. Covington; elected 1932-d. 1939 S. D. Snowden, elected 1938-d. 1938 J . M. Williamson, elected 1938-d. 1951 W. G. Burrows, elected 1938-serving D. D. Brown, elected 1938-d. 1947 R. H. Ervin, elected 1938-d. 1946 L. R. Ervin, elected 1938-d. 1943 A. W. Ragsdale, elected 1942-serving R. E. Covington, elected 1945-inactive A. B. Buffkin, elected 1945-serving J. C. McCutchen, elected 1947-serving R. J. Daniel, elected 1947-serving L. H. Bartell, elected 1947-serving R. M. Stuckey, elected 1947-serving C. P. Snowden, Jr., elected 1947-serving Jasper Tanner, elected 1956-serving R. C. Gamble, elected 1956-serving C. H. Bartell, elected 1956-serving George Stuckey, elected 1956-serving KNOWN TRUSTEES OF INDIANTOWN CONGREGATION Serving in 1763: Major John James Hugh Ervin Serving in 1793: Capt. John James John Wilson Serving in 1820 : John McGill 1 Serving in 1823: Benjamin Britton Hugh McCutchen John Gotea 2 DEACONS OF INDIANTOWN Elected : 1849 J. C. Wilson R. D. Wilson L. W . Nesmith 1874 T. M. McCutchen, elected elder in 1883 J. C. Josey Julian Wilson 1894 James F. Cooper, Church Treas., d. 1914 M. W. Rogers, elected elder 1917 1898 W . C. Snowden, d. 1912 1906 R. H. Ervin, Church Treas., elected Elder 1938 1909 R. W . Stuckey, elected elder 1929 J . A. Cunningham, Ch. Treas. d. 1938 Elected: 1917 R. E. Wilson, d. 1948 1929 W. D. Daniel, elected Elder 1932 W. R. Graham, rotated 1954 1921 L. R. Rollins, moved 1928 T. D. Gamble, d. 1948 1933 D. D. Brown, elected Elder 1938 J. M. Williamson, elected Elder 1938 W. G. Burrows, elected Elder 1938 R. J. Hanna, rotated 1954 S. D. Snowden, elected Elder 1938 1938 J. C. McCutchen, elected Elder 1947 R. J. Daniel, elected Elder 1947 S. J. Ervin, Jr., rotated 1956 George Stuckey, elected Elder 1956 James Stuckey, rotated 1954 1 The Administrators of George White's estate paid $12.00 to John McGill, as Trustee for the Indiantown Congregation. 2 Named in deed from John Gordon, Jr. to the Indiantown Congregation for the lands formerly granted to Joseph White. .. �INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Elected: 1939 R. C. Gamble, elected Elder 1956 C. P. Snowden, Sr., rotated 1956 L. H. Bartell, elected Elder 1947 1945 Henry C. Nelson, rotated 1954 Jasper Tanner, elected elder 1956 J. L. Rollins, rotated 1954 1947 J. J. Marsh, d. 1948 P. D. Snowden, rotated 1955 Dewey Eaddy, rotated 1954 · S. J. Hanna, rotated 1955 Ronald C. Daniel, rotated 1955 P. D. Bishop, rotated 1954 1955 Thos. Baxley, serving Elected: 1955 C. H. Bartell, elected Elder 1955 Harry White, serving W.W. McCullough, serving 1956 Thos. P. Mitchell, serving Pearless Snowden, serving James Stuckey, serving Benj. Stuckey, serving Richard Gamble, serving 1957 John S. Bartell, serving . J. E. Doster, serving ' R. A. Holt, serving Roland Stuckey, serving 51 �INDIANTOWN CHURCH ROLL IN 1819 ET SEQ. Page 1 A Catalogue of the Members of Indiantown Church Explanation: Those names having the Letter D attached to them Designate members Dead. Those with the Letter M, Persons Removed. Those with the Letters Sus., Members Suspended. Those with the Letters Ex, Members Excommunicated. Those with the Letters Dis., Members Dismissed. Page 2 BAPTISED MEMBERS MEMBERS IN FULL COMM.U NION James S. Wilson, M Thomas E. Wilson, M Robert M. Wilson, M 1820 Samuel A. Wilson, M 1822 David S. Wilson, D Sarah B. McCrea Esther L. McCrea, M Mary E. McCrea Alexander Cunningham Alexander McCrea Margaret E. McCrea Eliza C. McCrea Francis J. McCrea 1821 Thomas W. McCrea 1823 John S. McCrea 1819 Jane M. McDonald James McFaddin Hugh McCutchen Elizabeth McCutchen, D Thomas McCutchen, D Nancy McCutchen, D David Wilson, M Sarah F. Wilson, M Thomas McCrea, D Esther McCrea Elizabeth Mcilveen, M, D 1822 Jane McCrea Martha Brown Enos McDonald, M Mary McDonald, M Elizabeth Gotea Mary McConnel, D John Graham, Sr., D 1821 Samuel N. Graham, M William Graham, D Susanna Graham, D Samuel Scott Jannet Scott Agness Singletary Mary G. Brown Sarah Brown, D James McCants Elizabeth McCants, D Alexander McCants Martha McCants Hugh Hannah, Sr., D Elizabeth Hannah, D John Hanna, D Page 3 1819 Elizabeth McDonald John Gotea, D William Gotea, D Sarah Gotea John J. Gotea, D John Graham, Jr., D Elizabeth M. Gotea Aaron F. Graham, M Samuel E. Graham, M Jane M. Graham Susannah K. Graham Sarah E. Graham William J. Graham John F. Graham Daniel B. Graham Charles N. Graham William Hannah Hugh Hannah, Jr., D Page 4 1819 Alexr. W. ]. Graham Samuel Singletary, D 52 �lNDIAN'l'OWN Pu~sBY'l'ERIAN CHURCH MEMBERS IN Fuu. COMMUNION Jane Barr, D William McFaddin Mary McFaddin, D Mary McCrea, D Elizabeth Graham, D Samuel McGill Mary A. McGill, M John McGill, M 1821 Margaret S. McGill, M John James, D John T. James, M Elizabeth James, D 1821 William E. James, M Mary E. James, M BAPTISED MEMBERS Samuel D. Singletary, D Agnes K. Singletary Ebenezer Singletary, Jr., D James D. Singletary 1820 John D. Singletary 1824 William H. Singletary Robert Brown Moses W. Brown James Brown 1823 John Brown Sarah Brown Mary Brown Sarah Hannah, D James H. Hannah Page 5 Samuel James, Ex, D James Barr, Sus., D John Price, M Jane Price, M Elizabeth Graham, D Mary Ferrell, D 1821 Robert G. Ferrell, M Cothenia Ferrell James Daniel, D Martha Daniel, D Jennet Daniel, D Jane Daniel, D Samuel J. Wilson, M Elizabeth Wilson, D Celia Owens, Dis. Peter Owens, D Samuel Green, D Georg W. Hannah Samuel D. Hannah Joseph F. Hannah 1819 Calvin Hannah 1821 Elizabeth A. Hannah John A. Daniel, M 1819 Margaret Daniel, D William J. Daniel Margaret Daniel, Jr. Susannah Jolly Jane Thompson, D 1819 Mary S. Barr 1821 Elizabeth W. Barr, D William M. McFaddin, D Mary A. McFaddin, D Jane E. McFaddin Sarah M. McFaddin Page 6 Mary Green Jane Gordon Jane Wilson, Jr., D William Gordon, D · John Barr, D · Lydia Thompson, D John J. McColough, D George McCutchen, Sr., D George McCutchen, Jr., M Eliza. W. McCutchen, D Georg Barr Jennet Barr, D 1822 George A. Barr, D Margaret Jolly, D Hugh Paisley, Sus., D Jane Dick Mary McCottry, D John T. McFaddin Robert McFaddin Mary McFaddin 1819 Henry E. McFaddin Sarah Paisley Susannah D. Paisley Jane G. Paisley, D William Thompson Alexander Thompson Elizabeth Thompson Alexander Thompson, Jr., D Thomas S. Thompson Robert G. Thompson John S. Dick Agnes Daniel Martha Daniel Esther E. Daniel, D 53 �54 AN HISTORICAL SKETCH Page 7 MEMBERS IN FULL COMMUNION Mary B. McCottry William Daniel Esther Daniel, D Hannah Gordon, D Margaret A. James, M Thomas Mcilveen, M Catharen Mcilveen, M John Gordon, Jr. Mary Gordon John Gordon, Sr., D Jennet Gordon, D Jane Wilson, Sr., D David D. Wilson Mary Wilson, D Samuel N. Snow, M Margaret Snow, M Henraetta Snow, M BAP'l'IS!tD MEMB!tRS Hannah G. Daniel, D Sarah M. Daniel 1821 James D. Daniel Mary W. McCutchen Martha M. McCutchen, D 1822 George McCutchen Robert M. McCutchen, ·D Elizabeth Hannah, Jr. John J. McFaddin Hugh McFaddin Mary Scott Jannet M. Scott Sarah Scott, D Joseph W. Scott 1820 Rebecca C. Scott Mary E. McCutchen Jane E. McCutchen Page 8 William W. Britton, M Sarah Britton, Jr., M Benjamin Britton, D Sarah Britton, Sr., D Margaret Mcilveen, M Sarah Green, D 1823 Agnes Barret, D 1823 Sarah B. McCrea 1823 Elizabeth L. James, M 1823 Hannah Green, M 1823 Elizabeth Mcilveen, D 1824 Elizabeth A. McGill, M 1824 Elizabeth Barino, M 1824 Adam Smith, Sus., D 1824 Jane Isabella James, D 1825 Stephen Carter, M 1825 Samuel Green, M 1825 Margaret McConnel, D 1827 Thermutis. Cooper 1829 Ann Gregg, D 1829 Agnes Daniel 1829 Martha Daniel 1829 Elvira Daniel 1829 Margaret N easmith, D 1829 Alexander McCrea, D 1829 Jane J . McKnight 1829 Agness K. Singletary, M 1829 Sarah A. B. Singletary, M 1829 Sarah Gotea . Margaret M. McCutchen 1820 Elizabeth McCutchen 1821 George McCutchen 1822 John M. McCutchen, D Robert G. McCutchen Joseph W. McCutchen Mary J. McCutchen Thomas McCutchen Eleanor Nesmith Margaret Nesmith · 1821 Sarah W. Britton, M Jane J. Wilson, D Robert H. Wilson 1819 David E. Wilson 1821 Mary A.H. Wilson, D James Gordon David Gordon William M. Mcilveen, D Roger Gordon, M Page 9 1820 Mary E. McGill, M 1823 Martha W. McGill, M Elizabeth M. Wilson Robert D. Wilson Elizabeth A. McGill Jannet L. McGill . Drucilla McGill, D Mary M. McGill Jane C. McGill 1819 Samuel D. McGill 1821 William W ; McGill �INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MitMBltRS IN FULL COMMUNION 1829 Mary M. McGill, M 1829 Sarah Ann James, M 1829 William Pressley, D 1829 Elizabeth Pressley, M 1829 Elizabeth M. Pressley, M 1829 John J. Clark, D 55 BAPTISED MEMBERS 1822 Mary A. S. McGill Elizabeth L. James Sara A. James 1819 James A. McCants 1824 ( ? ) Martha M. McCants Mary Ferrel, D Page 10 1829 Jane P. Clark 1829 Samuel E. Graham, M 1829 Martha M. Graham, M 1829 Margaret E. McCrea, M 1829 Jane E. McFadden 1829 Elizabeth Mc. Wilson, D 1829 Sarah R. J. Snowden 1829 Jane T. Barr, D Liza Dick John Dixon, D William P. Hort, M Samuel J. Snowden 1830 Dorcas Knox 1830 George Cooper 1830 Mary E. McCutchen 1830 John Singletary, M 1830 Ebenezer Singletary, Sus Ticen Ferrel, M William Graham Ferrel 1819 David Flavel Wilsori, M 1821 James Alexander Mc Cants Martha McCants 1819 Alexander James McCants 1821 John Thomas Mc Cants John Alexander McCullough, M William Nathaniel McCullough, M Mary Jane McCullough, M Samuel James McCullough, M 1823 John C. Barr, D 11823 John E. Hannah, D Sarah E. Wilson Henry Mcllveen, M Pamelia Mcilveen, M Rebeccah Mcilveen, D Page 11 John Pressley Jane Heddleston 1830 John G. McKnight 1830 Alexander Cunningham 1830 James Green, M 1830 Sarah McFaddin 1830 Jane McCutchen 1831 Elizabeth Hannah 1831 William F. Blakely Elizabeth H. Erwin, M Leonora Montgomery, M Ann Cunningham Julina McCutchen Mary W. McCutchen, M 1832 Thomas McConnell Sarah McFadden James, M 1825 John Calvin Wilson 1825 John Jay James, M 1825 Alexander James McCrea Robert James Gotea, D 1825 Mary Susannah Gordon 1825 Mary Thomson Hannah 1825 Margaret Jane Gotea 1825 Daniel Dwite Barr 1825 Elizabeth Scott Gordon 1825 William Friendly Gordon, D 1826 Elizabeth McCottry McCutchen 1826 Amanda Magdaline McGill 1826 Robert William Brown 1826 William McCutchen 1826 William Henry McCrea Page 12 1832 Ezra W. Green, M 1832 Willm J. Cooper 1832 David Nesmith 1832 James Pressly, D 1827 Samuel Isaih Wilson, D 1827 William Chalmers Barr Mary Luiza Wilson 1827 Luiza McGill Scott The roll from 1819 till 1822 appears to have been grouped by families with a few names of members joining after 1819 inserted before the whole was entered in the official record. After 1823 names were added in the year members were received into the church. The dates are extracted from the full Sessional Record, and are not a part of the original roll. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Documents Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indiantown Presbyterian Church 1757-1957 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1757-1957 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James F. 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Title A name given to the resource Johnsonville, South Carolina, 1911 Description An account of the resource This painting/mural - "Johnsonville South Carolina 1911" by John Carroll Doyle - was unveiled at Anderson State Bank in 1981 at the opening of the Hemingway branch. Doyle was a prominent Charleston artist who passed away in 2014. The work depicts Johnsonville founder Sylvester Briley Poston as lots were laid out and sold at the Johnsonville Land Sale in 1912. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1981 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Carroll Doyle https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/c45834b4ad40b8cdaa638468698ae562.pdf af8239f1d873e0c80643a91ade773177 PDF Text Text �• r 1 II II �THE GOLD AND BLACK 1964 PUBLISHED BY l~ HE BET A CLUB OF JOHNSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL • • �JOHnsonVIllE HIGH SCHOOl , Jonnsonville, S.C. THE GOLD AND BLACK Co-ed1tors . . . . . . . . . . Debbie Cook Kay Huggins Business ll lanage1· . . . . . . Rena Lyerly Senior Editor . . . • . . . . Linda :'\lcCall Typist. . . . . . . . . . . . Ronda Baxley Typist . . . . . . . . . . . . Zul iene Hanna Advisor . . . .. Mn;. Katherine W. Floyd 1964 2 �• FOREWORD As our school year draws to a close, we begin to look back on our days spent at Johnsonville High School. We find that they were filled with fun and work, happiness and sorrow, triumph and failure. As a memento of our wonderful year we lH·esent the 1964 Gold and Black. Debbie Cook Kay Huggi ns Co- editors CONTENTS ADMINISTRATION FACULTY CLASSES ACTIVITIES ATHLETICS FEATURES ADVERTISEMENTS 3 �EDICATION We, t he Beta Club, dedicate this annual To one WHOSE intellectual capacity covers a broad knowledge of many fields of learning and who unselfishly shares that learning with others WHOSE teaching has achieved that rare combination of ability, dedication, inspi r ation, and under standing WHOSE dedication of her time and er1er gies to the advancement of her profession, t he interes ts of her s tu dents, her school, and her community, has made her a teacher-in every sense of the word. In Grateful RECOGNITION �MRS. THELMA D. EADDY inu? . .. s �Board of Trustees ADMIN IS = • . (' FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Mr. Mayo Allman, Mr. J. B. Richardson, Mr. Joh n O:wid Eaddy, Mr. Kenneth Lyerly a nd Mr. J ames McCall, Chai r·man . ' H. M . Floyd Superintendent of Johnsonville School District 1>5 B. A. University of South Caro lina M. A. University of South Carolina I �TRATION .: I Kenneth E. Creel High School P r tncip:1 1 A. B. University of South Cai'Oll na Randolph E. Willis Assistant P rincipal A. B . Wofford Univcrsltv Mar y Fra nces Mar sh Secretary 7 �Grammar School Faculty Mrs. Burgess L. Altman Mrs. Grace W. Altman Mrs. Veneice Brown Mrs. Mildred Cockfield Mrs. Cora Collins Miss Hattie DuRant Mrs. Lucille Eaddy Mrs. Sarah Eaddy --- - -- ~ Mrs. Tracy Hagan Mrs. Adele Long Mrs. Everleen Lane Mrs. Louise Mackey Mrs. Mary Marsh Mrs. Reid Nettles Mrs. Lura Poston Mrs. Nella Rae stone Mrs. Vera Stone Mrs. Kathleen Venters Mr. Randolph Willis I I I \ 8 �High School Faculty • Mr. Gordon Altman Science, Math and Coach Miss Nell Bruorton Biology and Physical Education Mrs. Helen G. Chapman History Mr. K. E. Creel Principal, English, and French Mrs. Thelma D. Eaddy Library and English Mrs. Katherine W. Floyd English Mr. Tracy Lane Agriculture Mrs. Madeline Lyerly Commerce Mr. Ernest stokes Physics, and Math Mrs. Genevieve W. Weaver Home Economics and Psychology 9 �Senior Class Officers President. • • • • David Humphries Vice President • • • . Ronnie Powell . Zuliene Hanna Secretary . • • • • • ~ 0 , Mascots Neil Ward Sharon Hucks 10 Treasurer. • Reporters. • • • • . Judy Hartfield • • Mike Dunahoe Russell Cox �.,..._ _, ""'" ~ -·- ~ • • • • \ DANNY MY ALTMAN RONDA BAXLEY FREDDY CAMPBELL D8BBI E COOK n Lca'"e knowledge to the saint s, I a n1 but hun1an.'' " I m us 1 I a I k and laugh or .. \Vine, w01nen, and song will "A twinkle In he1• CXtWeSSion, life would be empty ... kill you-T'm going to give Ull singing.!' personality Is her possession." The Senior Class J . D. COX RUSSELL COX MJK E DUNAHOE JOSEPH EADDY ""To hurry and worry is not my c r ee-:1; Things will happen so what'S the need."" ""There Is an at hI e t e very respected, tall arul strong, cool and collected.'" ""From the c r own of his head to the sole of his fool he IS all mirth."" "" He reads much; lie Is a gr eat observer, this Is the key to greatness:· -. 11 �Jllll~liE FAYE EADDY RILEY EADDY TOM~ I Y EVANS CHERRY FEAGIN "A fun-loving gi rl she will be, a n d a n I c e r o n c nowhere you'll see .'' ''GivcmcwhCJ'C to stn nd, and I wIll move the universe. ·· "If girls interfere wllh you•· " A little foolishness is liked even by the wisest of men . " CHERYL HANNA ZULIENE IlANNA JUD Y HARTFI ELD GERTRUDE HASELDEN "Bom with the gHt of laughter and the sense that the world ''She is p retty lo wn lk wllh, and witty to Ialii with and pleasant to th ink on too ." "Small and da inty with p•·etty ways and ceaseless pep that we all praise." "Be sweet and silent, lo•· silence never betrays you. H was n1ad .'' work, quit work." - 12 �, i • PHOEBE HASELDEN KAY HUGGINS THERESA HUMPHRIES TOr.It.IY HUl\IPHRTES "Hind that nonsense at times is singularly •·cr resh ing." "My only books were women's looks and roiiy's all they' ve taught me." ''Always smiling, always neat; Forever nice, ro rcvcr ..Smart, capable, and always kind; In fact he just can't be defined ." sweet.~' The Senior Class DAVID HUMPHRIES J U LIE JONES A LAN KNI GHT L INDA LANGLEY ''He can wo Pk, he can play, .. Fullof pepa nd a lways •·c ady to smile out loud ." .. Let me have wine and wom en, rr1ir th and laughte r. SCl' mons and soda -wate r the day "A sweet a ttr active kind Of grace ." he can be Se1·1ous, he can be gay.'' after." 13 �• , {. I MARGIE LANNING RENA LYERLY LINDA McCALL CHERYL MORRIS "The gentle m in d by gentle deeds is known." "Fair of form, fair of face, she makes the world a happy place .'' " It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak mor e wor ds than I s hould." "She Is a lady sweet and kind, a nicer one you' !! never find." The Senior Class TEO NETTLES LINWOOD PERRY STAFFY PERRY ARCHJE LEE POWELL ''Never put oU until tomorrow that which you can do today ." "Though I am always in baste I am never in a hurry ." "Women may come, and wornen may go, but not UI can help " A smile for every boy, two for every girl ." ' "'"""' "' ,. 1 it. t ' .... -' ,.,. ,., •' �RONNIE POWELL WALLACE STONE BRENDA TAYLOR SHERRELL TAYLOR ··He' s great at maklnr; passes and r eceiving t hem ." "An lnnocellt face--but you nove •· ca n tell." "A c ute combination or sense "You' re young only once, nnd if you wo rk at !l •·lghl, once is enough." and nonsense.'~ WAYNE TAYLOR LOUI SE T!M~IO:-IS DON THOMPSON SHIRLEY WOODBERRY "Who loves not women, wine, and song, he Is a Cool his whole lile long:· '"Her care was never to of!end and every creature was her (riend ." " liworrywerethe only cause of death, I would li••e (orever." "'She's a good worker, ne••er a shirker, a (riend true, loyal through and through ." 15 �s - ~·' · '• JJ!..,.... • /':. , • ~ . ,, .,~,, . , , , , # .. , ,....... . . . . . _, •• ·' #' •• • ··~ # .... =-·· ~lOST OR IGINAL Margie Lanning Wayne Taylor E BEST LOOKING Linda ~lcCall Don Thompson 1 ( N MOST COURTEOUS Louise Timmons Tommy Humphr ies I MOST LlKELY TO SUCCEE D Cher ry Feagin RUey Eaddy 0 R BEST SCHOOL SPIRJT Julie J ones MOST ATH LETIC Rena Lyerly Russell Cox Mike ~nahoe 16 �BEST NATURED s WITTIEST Cheryl IIanna Alan Knight Linda Langley Tommy Evans T A BEST ALL AROUND Debbie Cook BEST PERSONALITY Judy liartlield Archie Lee Powell David Humphries R s MOST DEPENDABLE MOST POPULAR Jim mie Faye Eaddy Joseph Eaddy Zulicne Ii anna Ronnie Powell 17 �Junior Class Officers • .~ ... I J President, Ncron Langley, Vice-President, Vernon Tanner, Secretary, Denny Eaddy, Treasurer, Jimmy Chapman, Reporters, Patsy Watts and Terrie Eaddy. Junior Class Gloria Altman Glenda Mae Ard Mary Altman 18 Emma Barnhill �Junior Class Billy Baxley Jewell Best Jimmy Chapman Ronnie Cokel' Wilbur Coker Monlque Cole Betty Collins In Memoriam Ginger 0:1\'iS 1947-1963 Cindy Eaddy Terrie Eaddy Hubert Emery I? l.lnda Feagin �Junior Class Carrol Hanna ~hnam Harmon Bryan Huggms Cheryl Hughes Kathy Lyerly Leon McDaniel Sna·nh Jones Gene Lucc .,....._ v Bobby :-lettles Barry Parker Ge raldine Owens 20 Thelma Parrot �Junior Class Barbara Powell VeJ·non Tanner Terrell Thompson Louise Powell Jane Stone Nancy Tanne r James F . Taylo r Nancy Taylor Mamie Lee Thomt>son Joseph Timmons Patsy Watts 21 Wilbur Wise �Sophomore Class Officers \ ~ - ,. =-President- Jane Powell, Vice President- Terry Bailey, Secretary- Ken Powell, Treasurer- Larry Miller, ReporterAretus McAlister Sophomores .. Barry Altman Jerry Altman Joan Altman Kathryn Altman Sandra Faye Altman I \ \ Terry Bailey Ronnie Baxley Dena Berg Margie Bolyn Shirley Bolyn '' 22 • �Sophomores \ '\ ' \ \ \ Josephine Cannon Cecelia Chandler futa Ann Coker Pearl Collins George Creel Juanit..~ Creel ,. \ I 1(\ \ Annette Cribb Linda Cribb Joan Dennis Vit·g inia Eaddy Mikel Evans Cleveland Filyaw .,...,> .. • \ \ I \ Beverly Hanna Holly Hanna Marion Hanna Kathy Hanna Romana Hanna Amelia Harrell \ ... - Larry Huggins Cheryl Humphries Sandra F . Humphr ies Ha ndy Jo hnson Vivian Langley Carolyn Marlowe Nellie Mathews Aretus McAllister L.~rry ~Uller Ned Nettles Donna Papitto Pamela Perry ,- • • • \ ' \ Angyleen Powell Ervin Lee Powell Jane Powell Ken Powe ll Norris Powe ll Van Powell Lenew Power s Wendell Rogers Mary Seiveno James Edv.-ard Stone Luther Stone Randy Stone Stephen Stone Benjie Tanne r Ammia Dean Taylot• J e rry Woodberry Not Pictur ed Ge rald Bazen Sylvia Ann He rring Letha Howard John W. Powell , 23 �Freshman Class Officers Pre side nt- Linda Wise, Vi ce-Pr esident-Jean Furches, Secretary-Billy Taylor, Treasurer-Jo Hartfield, Repo rter sImogene Mitcheom a nd Ronnie Johnson Freshmen Bill Altman Carroll Altman Luther Avant Rlcllarcl Ba•·nhill Foster Baxley Kelllletb Baxley 7_ .. ~1 •• '""'I . Gerilynn Berg Faye Burris Carroll Coke r J . J unior Creel Glenn Eaddy Mabry Eaddy I • ' �Freshmen Noon!e Eaddy RoneU Evans Hubert Feagin J ean f'urcbes Betty Lou Hanna Carol Uanna Randy Hanna Jo Ha •·trield Jam es Elbert Haselden Rita Haselden Irene Hatchel! Patricia Hatchell - -[ J.a Hugh Hearn Joseph L. Hughes Der yl liumphl'!es Wayne Humphries Elizabeth Johnson Ronnie Johnson Le roy J ones Steve Knight Julius Lye rly Renette L)•e•·ly Lawayne McAlliste r Alton McDani el • Cynthia Mc!Gssick Dav id Mi les Imogene Mitcheom Randy Newel! Kathy Parrott Tenzil Perry Jamie P layer Mallory Player Janice Prosser Amly Richardson Nelli e Rae Smith Iris Stone L. B. Stone flay Stone Billy Tay lor Jo Ann Tyler Sarah J o Tyler Larue Thompson ' Linda Wise Not Pictured: Elaine Garner Jimmy Hanna Billy P rosser Harold Tanne r 25 �Eighth Grade \ FIRST ROW: Myrtle Lee Abrams, Ray Abrams, Ardith Altman, Brenda Altman, Montez Avant, Ver etha Avant, Miriam Bam hill, Barba r a Ann Cameron, Larry Cameron. SECOND ROW: Me r edith Came ron, Kalhe•·ine Coker, Laxton Cole, Roger Daniels, Buddy Dennis, Nancy Dennis, George Eaddy, Sandy Eaddy, S\lza.me Eaddy . THIRD ROW: Theresa Eaddy, Hal Edwa •·ds, Amencla Emel'y, WUlie J oe Evans, Diane Fennell, Earl Fennell, Jan ice Fen nell, Wayne Godwin, Carole Ann Ha nna. FOURTH ROW: Richar d Hanna, Clayton Harrelson, Rebecca H..-t.field, James Edwar d Haselden, Rickie Haselden, Roger Haselden, Randy Huggins, Ga•·y Humphries, Jerry J ones . FIFTH ROW: Sammy Jones, Ke n Lyerly, Donna Faye Marlow, Phil ip Mal'low, William Marlowe, Vernon Matthews, ' Wayne Matthews, Carolyn McDa.1iel, Charles Miles . SIXTH ROW: Lethaniel Miles , Annette Nettles, Dwaine Parroll, Ronnie P layer, Ann Poston, Ca rolyn Powell, Charles Powell, Howard Powell, Helen Prosser. SEVENTH ROW: Garry Smith, Waylen Stone, J . W. Strickland, Larry Taylor, Wayne Todd, Reid Tyler, F•·a ncis Willis, Wilson Willis, Sandra Wise. NOT P ICTURED: J . L. Harrelson, Ray Huggins, Millar d McDaniel, Ead Tanner. 26 �Seventh Grade ~ ~ 1 I • ... = . ,• 1 • ' FIRST ROW: Wanda K.1y Abrams, Lawaylle At·d, Margie Ard, Drexel Avant, Roger Barefoot, Carolyn Baxley, Mallon Baxley, Shil'ley Baxley, Dickie Bennett, L. D. Cameron, Cllfton Cannon, Canoll Cartel·. SECOND ROW: Beatrice Collins, Jeny Coker, Renetta Faye Coker, RandeU Cox, Betty Creel, Carlisle Creel, Charles Creel, J . E. Creel, Carlton Cribb, J eanette Cribb, Brenda Daniels, Mackey DeCamps. TmRD ROW: Nellie Raye Dt·igger s, Cynthia Eaddy, Peggy Eaddy, Robert Eaddy, David Evans, Zeno Evans, Nell Feagin, Judy Fenters, Palm er Filyaw, Ronnie Gaster, Bonnie Hanna, Jacqueline Hanna. F OURTH ROW: Glenn Hanna, Glenn Harrell, Ann ~lat·tfield, Mexfo t·d Hartfield, Sammy Hartfield, Laverne Haselden, Shirley Haselden, DL~ie Heam, Samuel Howell, Marie Huggins, Bobby Ann Hughes, Cindy Hughes. FIFTH ROW: Je rry Hughes, Danny Jo hnson, Carroll J ones, Connie Jones, Joe King, Kathy Lambert, Dewayne Lye rly, Jerry Lyerly, Patt·icia Mat·lowe, Philip Marlow, Roger Dale Marlow, Sheila Marsh. SIXTH HOW: Donnie Matthews, Jimmy Matthews, Robe•·t Matthews, Donna McAllister, Sharon McCracken, Helen ~!cKissick, Barry Mo rris, Ca•·ole Anne Nettles, Patsy Nettles, Richard Parnell, DuRant Panott, Edward Parrott. SEVENTH ROW: Eugene Parrott, Diane Playe r, Wanda Playe r , Bailey Powell, Jolm Powell, Mary Power s, Dickie Prosser , Judilb Roundtree, Carolyn Sisk, Jilm11y Smilh, Bernice Stone, Bobby Stone. EIGHTH ROW : Cherry Stone, Jackie stone, Teddy Tanner, Handy Tanner, Pel'l'y Ann "fhompson, Rex Thompson, Gwen Tyler, Ca•·olyn Woodbeny. NOT PICTURED: Buck Russell Wyett, Bobby Hooks, Herman Owens, Charles Shal'l'e•·, .F rankie Springs, Brantley Wis e, Juanita Wise. 27 �Sixth Grade ,._. / • FIRST ROW: Oon Altman, Stephen Altman, Faydene Aikens , Maydene Aikens, Clynie A1•ant, Nellie Ann Avant, Mike BaUey, Dadd Barefoot, J ohnny B>txley . SE:CONl) ROW: Sondr a Bax ley , Alice Marie Olackwell, Lynn Cameron, Katitleen CaqJenter, DerrellCoker, Walter Collins, Danny DeCamps, Edward Drake, Lydene Eaddy . THIRD ROW: Marilyn Eaddy, Stephen Eaddy. Brenda Evans, J immy Gaskins, Lynn Caster, J . D. Glisson. Larry Glisson, Edward Godwin, Debbie Greenwood. FOURTH ROW: Charles Hanna. Patsy Hanna, Daniel Haselden. Freddi Haselden, Jan ice Haxtfield, Randy Harliield, Valerie Hearn, Bobb ieJaneJohnson, Levon J owers. FlFTl:l ROW: Chetyle Joye . Betty Joe Lee, Densen Lyerly, J ean Lyerly, P eny Mackey, Gerald Marlowe, J o Beth Mc Kiss ick , Devon Meredith, Carolyn Miller. SIXTH ROW : Oo1·othy Miles, Lenni e Miles. Jimmy Mitc heom, Sh irley Owens. James Parroll, David Lee Pe ny, Emily Playe1·, Wanda J ean Poston, !fanny P oston. SEVEN1'H ROW: Janet Powell. Mike Prosser, J ohnny Richar dson, Dale Smith, Faye Smith. Gail Smitit, Faye Smith, Je1·ald Stone . Tim Stone EICUTH ROW: Danny Joe Tanner, Larry Tyle r, Iris Venters, Gail \Va rd, Mike \Ve llrnan, Fairlyn \Vhile, Gl enn Wooc!be r-ty . NOT PICTURED: Chal'les Bell, Jack Bell, Bar-ry !llcDaniel , Ervin Taylo •· . Albc na Ti m mons . �Fifth Grade .. . . • ' ' • F!RST ROW: Brenda Abrams, James Aiken, Libby Altman, t\ell Altman, Patrtcia Altman, Kenneth Barnhill, Albert Cnnnon, Judy Carpenter, Betty .Jean Carter, G1!rald Coker . SECOND ROW: Ltnda Coker, Steve Coker, Amy Cole, Linda Creel, Llndwood Ct·cel, Carolyn Eaddy, Carroll Eaddy, Wynn Eaddy, Hank Feagin, Rhonda Fenter s . T mRD ROW: Sbil'ley Glisson, Richard Gosnell, Rodney Gra ha m, Ronnie IIa nna, Tommy Ha rtfield, Dan Ha r trield, Emmaline Haselden, Gene Hase lden, Tommy Haselden, Susan Huggins. FOURTH ROW: Annie Lou Hughes, S. L. Hughes, Ann Johnson, Ma ry Anne Johnson, Carol Lou Joye, Sissy King, Susan Kn ight, Bt-yant Lambert, Bill Mace, Jack ~Jar lowe. Fl FTH ROW: Loretta Marlowe, Patncla Matthews, Sandra :11cCrakcn, Billy McDaniel, Wayne McDaniel, Glen Meredith, Stephen Mudge, Renee ~eules, Jimmy Owens, Gloria Parker. SIXTH ROW: Cha r les Parrott, Dessie Part-ott, Regina! Pct·ry, Danny Player, Ralph Poston, Christine Powell, Travis Poweil, Dee Prosser, Ray P rosser, Shirley Prosser. SEVENTH ROW : J acquelyn Roberts, Dewey Sisk, J•·., Regina\ Stokes, Ga il Stone, Laross Stone, Linda Stone, Paula Stone, Gor don Tanne r, Te rry Ta nn e r, Lou ise Thompson. EIGHTH ROW : Ke•m eth Wise. NOT P ICTU REO: Ev elyn G:\ l'lle r, J ean Powe ll. 29 �Fou rth Grade - .' --- -- .- . .. • l FIRST ROW: Legrand Altman, Robin Altman, Billy Ray Ard, Julia Ann Avant, Boyd Baker, Sam my Barefoot, lvey Lee Baxley, Louise Baxley, Mary Etta Baxley , John Benton. SECOND ROW: Michael Blackwell, Susan Blac kwell, Oveida Cameron, Charles Ca ntey,Jimmy Canoll, Tommy Ca rro ll, Jesse Carter, Kemp Coke r, Te rry Coker, Nellie Von Collins. THTRD ROW: Troy Collins, Bany Cox, Esther Faye Dr iggers, Er·ma Faye Eaddy, Sa ra Nell Eaddy, Dale Feagin, Johnny Fennell, Allen Filya"·, Thomas Garns, Can·oU Sue Glisson. FOURTH ROW: Marie Glisson, Anthony Hanna, John Hanna, La Troy Ha nna, Loretta Hanna, J en·y Ha rrell, Lor etta Hartfield, Wylie Hartfield, Saundra Hooks , Billy Huggins . FIFTH ROW: Joe Huggins, Mary Sue Hughes, DeWan e Humphries, Debra Jones, Olli e Mae Joye, Debbie Lan e, Randell Lee, Charles Lyerly, Terry Lyerly, Dan Marlowe. SLXTH ROW: L.eslie Marlowe, Millie Marlowe, stevie Ma r·lowe, Jeny Matthews, Cleo McDaniel, Dickie Me lton, Martha Me r idth, Tim my Miller, Geneve Nettles, Alfred Owens . SEVENTH ROW: Ca rey Owens, Danny Poston, Randy Poston, Sherry Poston, Kathy Powell , Millon Powell, Nicky Powell, Trudy Powell, Billy Prosser, Patricia Prosser·. ElGtl'fH ROW: Roy Roberts, John Rowntree, ~like Sisk, Calvin Sione, Michael Sione, Timmy Stone, Et·ic Tanner, Steve Tanne r, Angela Taylo r, F1·ances Thompson . NINTH ROW: John Thompson, Randy Venter s, TerTy Vente r s, Elaine Weaver, Randy Wesley, Randy Willis, Escla Wise . �Third Grade FIRST ROW: Candy Altman, C. R. Altman, D1mple Altman, Joe Altman, Lawrence Altman, One1l Altman, Chris Avant, Kcrrls Avant, Joel Bailey, Richard Baggett. SECOND ROW: Reginald Baxley, Debb1e Bro\\n, Lou! cameron, Karen Chandler, Debra Coker, Pamela Coker , Debr a Collins, Chandler Cox, Darrell Cribb, Kathy Dav1s. THIRD ROW: Don Dennis, Peggy Driggers, Timothy Eaddy, Wayne Eaddy, Linda Gaster, ~Uchael Godwan, Ricky Gr eenwood, Alice HM na, Candy tl:uma, Randy Ha r rellson . FOURTH ROW: L.~rry H.~rtfield, Nancy Haselden, 5\ephcn Haselden, Rickey Hicks, Patsy Johoson, Gene Joyc, Capitola King, Catrenna Lewis, J ohn Lyerly, Bradley Mace. FIFT H ROW: Randy Marlowe, Karen Matthews, Sh.,ron Mallhcws, Ronnie ~leredith, Nanette Mc Alliste r, Cary McDaniel, R.~ndolph Miles, David Mudge, Gall Parrott, Judy Ann Parrott. SIXTH ROW: Dalo Poston, Gr ayling Powell, Be mic P1·osscr, Gonc ive P1·osser , Danny R., y Sisk, Andy Stone, Rocky Stone, Soundc 1· Stone, Vickie Stone, Danny Tanne1·. SEV ENTH ROW: Elizabeth Taylor, J ean Thompson, Leste1· Thompson, David Walsh, Melanie Ward, Lynda We llman, Deb ra Lynn Wise, Mike Wise, Pau l Woodbcn y. NOT PICT URED: Joey Dur ant, Midge Dura nt, Edd ie Wise, ldcU Wise, Chuck Wylie. 31 �Second Grade I ... .ll - ' ~ • - • ., \., ~ - -~ ' .A. .. ' --' • FIRST ROW: Domue Abrams, Ste•·e Abrams, Akrus Altman, Kenneth Altman, Lana Altman, Mo•·•eta Altman, Pamela Altman, R:mdall Altman, Sandr a Altman, Susanne AltmM. SECOND ROW: Ray Ballow, Wayne Bareroot, Denise Barnhill, Cha rlene Baxley, La Sandra Baxley, Dwight Carraway , Dcb1·a Len Coker, Patnck Coke•· , rucha t·d Coke•·, [larry Crocker . THIRD ROW: Stephen Dukes, Cathy Eaddy , Jacquelyn Edgewor th, Fr itz Ed· wa •·ds, Ro•mie Filyaw, Gregory Furches, Martha Carnett, Marilyn Ca•·ris, Lex Gaskins, Cynthia Caster . FOURTH ROW: Elaane Caster, Debra Lee Caster, John Caste•·, Jr., Lucr Dale Godwin, L:IIT)' Graham, Ann Hanna, Paula Harmon, Ronme llarrell, RonmeHartfield, WandaHaselden. FIFTH ROW: Karen Humphries, Haroleen Joye, Jeanette Kinder , William Kinder, Mark King, Evelyn Lee, Althea Marlow, Snndra Mal'lowe, Elloree Marlowe, Ch•·istime McAllis tel'. SIXTH ROW: Sharon McDani el, Deborah M!tcheom, Debbie Mudge, Joey Newell , Lewis Pa•·•·ou, PbWp Per ry, Jr., Anne Marie Player, Da le Poston, Mackey Poston, Patsy Poston. SEVENTH ROW: Sandra Poston, Pamela Powell, Denward P•·osser, Gail P•·osser, Carolyn Scott, Sandy Smith, Je•·ry Stone, K;_\thy Len Stone, Leverne Stone, Mary Stone. eiGHTH ROW: Mary K:tthy Thompson, Sherri Tyler, Thomas Willis, Myron Wise, Laura Wise, Martlynn\Voodbel'l'y. NOT PICTURED: Raymond Floyd, h·cne Graham, D1anne tL~nna . 32 �First Grade ~\ .... FIRST ROW: Karen Altman, Patricia Altman, Sberwtn C. Altman, Susan Altman, Virginia Ard, Ricky Atkinson, Marsha Avant, Gretchen Oakct·, Caroline Baxley, Luelle Baxley, Rita Faye Ba..xley, and Sara Ann Baxley . SECOND ROW: Han-y Bell, Russell Cantey, Wil la t·d Carte r, Martha Coker, Pamela Coker, Sandra Fay Creel, Wanda K:\y Creel, Dennis Cribb, John Cribb, lUcky Dennis, Cerise Eaddy , Chr·istopher Eaddy . THIRD ROW: Steven Eaddy, Randa ll Evans, Vickie Evans, Suzanne Gaskins, L..ounette Glisson, Ethel Iianna, Michael Hanna, Steve Hartfield, Barbara Hicks, Ray Hicks, Sharon Hucks, Martin Huggins . FOURTH ROW: Donald Hughes, Randall Johnson, Donna Keefe, Clifford Keutban, Mary Lee Lee, Joseph Lewis, Trudy Lyerly, Mary Ann Lynch, Shirley Lynch, Willa Dean Lynch, Wtlllam Lynch, Luther Marlow. FIFTH ROW: Tommy Marlowe, Debra McCracken, Christine McDaniel, Cherry Miles, Eugene MHes, Gail Miles, Teresa Miles, Charlene Owens, Mary Neil Owens, Mickel Owens, Nancy Jean Poston, Teresa Poston . SIXTH ROW: Wanda Poston, Claude Ray Powell, Jimmy Powell, Helen Prosser, Marie Prosser, Tereyl Prosser, Dennis Scott, Lan y Smith, Syb il Smith, Ba rr·y Dale Stone, David Stone, Donna Stone. SEVENTH ROW: Donna Kay Stone, Gregory Stone, James Edd ie Stone, James w. Stolle, Libby Stone, Teresa Stone, Willie Slone, Davie! Ray Tanner , Dean Ray Tatum, Charlollc Tay lor, Debbie Taylo r·, Kay Thompson. EIGHT H ROW: Timothy Thompson, Marty Walsh, Neal Ward, Beth Weaver, Renee Willis, Kenneth Woodbel'l·y. NOT PICTURED: Hal Lewis, Martha Wise, Connie Floyd, Mary Helen Springs. 33 �Alma Mater lr 's f k[t l~ IN TI4C G L ~~ • b us THE: ~K it S I T o r fLORENCE Cou~r y , SO BLUC , r o v tcw . l t T 1 $ L l rT '.'A Y LAS T r ~r CHORUS , O N~A ~O , U('.'(R rA.tL l ALL HAIL TO THCC , • SPtCD I T JO~N$0f~VILL( 1 ALL HA IL ! 34 OUR ALUA ' .• ATCR 1 ��FLASHES STAFF . .. Ronda Baxley . .. Linda McCall Kathy Lyerly Art Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wayne Taylor Bx·enda Taylor Social Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . Rena Lyerly Clubs Editor . . . . . . . . . . . Gloria Altman Exchange Editor . . . . . . . . . . Palsy Watts Sports Editors. . . . . . . . . . . Mary Altman Sherrell Taylor Ed itor- in- chief . .. . News Editors . . . . . Editor, Ronda Baxley and Advisor, Mrs. Madeline C. Lyerly THE SCHOOL FLASHES / �.......,1 - Staff members wo rking on paper. The Flashes is published every six weeks through out the school year by the Flas hes staif members. The Flashes is a member of the Scholastic Press Association. Staff Members attend the press meeting yearly. Sports' Editors and Typists geuln~t up the news. Art Editors, Socaal Editor, and Exchange EditOr ar e v.'Orking on Headlines • • The News Staff is on Lhc job . 37 �The Co-editor s or the Gold and Black, Debb ie Cook and Kay Huggins assemble a lay oul page assisted by Mrs. 11. M. Floyd, advisor. The Gold And Black The Gold and Black is published annually by the Beta Club and the aim of the 1964 starr is to portray as accu r ately as possible this year at Johnsonville High School. Each yea t· the Gold and Black increases in size and c i r cuI at ion . The annual is financed solely by student s ubscriptions and the sale of adv ertising lo local concerns. Business Manage•·, rtcn:t Lycl'ly checks fi nances . 38 �• • Senior editor, Linda McCall plans Senior Layout. Typists, Zuliene Hanna and Ronda Baxley type copy. Ad Committee, SITTING LEFT TO RIGHT: Kathy Lyerly, Nancy Taylor, Ginger Davis, Beverly Hanna, Linda McCall. STANDING: Mary Altman, Ma•·y Seiveno, Kay Huggins, Rena Lyerly, Monique Cole, Debbie Cook. NOT PICTURED: Gloria Altman. 39 �Future Farmers of America The F . F. A. is the national organization of, by and for boys studying vocational agriculture in high school. The pl"imary aim of the Future Farmers is the developmenl of agricultural leadership, cooperation and citizenship. Mr. Tracy L. Lane is advisor. Preslden l- Oavicl Hum1>hrles; Vic e- President- James Furman Taylor; Secretary - Jim Eoddy; Rcporler- Bcnjie Tanner; and Sentinel- Larry l!ugglns . �Future Homemakers of America The Futur e Homemakers Club consists of girlswhoare inter ested in home economics and want to improve personal, family . and community living. Theobjectives are : (!) To discover one's s elf and worth to others . (2) To contribute to the joys and satisfactions of family liv ing. (3) To strengthen education forfuture roles. (4) To launch good citizenship through homemaking. President-Ma•·gie Lanning; Vice- President-Terrie Eaddy; Sec,·ctary- Mary Altman ; Treasurer-Nancy Tay lo r ; ancl Reporter - Ginger Davis. 41 �Student bus drivers have taken the bus drivers' training cour se and ar e certified bus drivers. They drive daily school bus routes. Bus Drivers President-Don Thompson; Vice President-David Humpb1·ies; Secretary and Treasurer-Judy Nell Hartfield; andReporter- Wayne Taylor. 44 �M embers of the Block J. Club are students who have participated in a high percentage of varsity foot-ball andbasketballgames and hav e ear ned the Block J . Cheerleaders are a lso members. Block J Cfub President-Freddy Campbell; Vice President- Alan Knight ; and Secretary ''"d T•·casurcr-Linda McCa ll. �Furman Scholars These stude n ts were sel ected by the facul ty for th eir outstanding academic record. T hey spent a week end on t he Furman Campus as guests of the Univer sity . Dcbb•c Cook Joseph Eaddy 50 • Ri ley Eaddy Linda McCall �Betty Cr ocker· Awar·d M iss Hi Miss 0 . A. R. Cood Cltl~cn Miss L.lnda McCall winner· or the Betty Crocker " Home ~Iaker· of Tomorrow" Contest. Miss Kathy L.yerly was chosen by the faculty to spend a week - end at Wlnth r·op College as Miss Hi Miss. M tss nena t.yerly w:rb selected to r c c e 1\· e the good tIt I zen award give n by the Daughtc r· s or t he American Revolution . King Teen Russell Cox was selected by the faculty on the basis of schola r·shlp, leadership, and personallty to represent our school at Wo!for·d College during King T een week -end . ~lr. Russell Cox 51 �I • Miss Johnsonville High Runner-up Miss Rena Lyerly �- • • • • • • • • • • I I . . I • Miss Johnsonville High M!ss Louise Timmons 53 �J Miss Gold and Black Runner-up MI SS Nancy Taylot· • • �• Miss Gold and Black MIss Lindn i\1c Call 55 �May Day \I \ / SENIOHS: Linda McCall, Lou1se T1mmons, Rena Lyerly, Phoebe Haselden \. \ J UNlOHS: Patsy Watts, Cindy Eaddy, Sarah Jones, Glol'ia Altman �Attendants .I ' • SOPHO!\IORES: Dena Bc•·g, Be••crly Hanna, Sandra Humphries, Donna Papltto . l ....- - - FRESH!\IEN: Renette Lyerly, Ceri Berg, Imogene ~litcheom, Not Pinu•·ed: Lmda Wise �Best All Around DAVID HUMPHRIES 60 �--- ~!iss Ronda Baxley F. F.A. Sweetheart - -- ~- �Girls' State Girls' state is sponsored by the American Legion Au.xilary. Its purpose is to prepare girls for citizens h i p in the future . These girls spend a week in a mythical state to learn government. Rena Lyerly, Ronda Baxley, and Zulienc Hanna . Boys' State • Boys' State is sponsored by the American Legion. In order to be selected to attend Boys' State, a boy must have high moral character, and potential leadership tendencies. These boys spend a week at the University of South C a 1· o 1 in a where they study governmental procedures. Sher rell Taylor, Joseph Eaddy, and Riley Eaddy . BOYS STAT£ �Senior Harvest King and Queen Jimmte Faye Eaddy and Larry Huggins The Senior Harvest King and Queen a1·e selected annually at the Halloween Carnival. • Junior Harvest King and Queen Judy Elaine Gaster and Fntz Ed\\".trds The Junior Harvest King and Queen are also selected at the Halloween Carnival. I �Washington and New York Trip 1963 I tn..l FIRST ROW, left to right: Dorothy Cribb, Verlcne Carter, Janet Hughes, Kay Brown, Lynda Jean Eaddy, Gwen Prosser, Becky Jones, Faye Cook, Susan Rowntree, Judy Player, Carol Allen, Fairlyn Poston, Mary Catherine Taylor, Mary Ann Rogers, Bobbie Jean Matthews, Elaine Oenms, Janet E\·ans. SECOND ROW: Buddy Stone, Olin l\lcDaniel, Maylord Altman, Jimmy Poston, Gary Cribb, Kenny Stone, Mr. Creel, Ralph Barnes, bus driver, Mr. Chapman, Mrs. Chapman, Harry Altman, Gene Seiveno, Carl Arant, Joe Parker, Larry Taylor, Johnny Powell, and Burnette Collins. 6• ��FIRST ROW, lert to J'ight: Carol Ca1·ter, Jay Creel, Bryan Huggins, Wallace Stone, Ke n Baxley, Mallon Bax ley , Leroy Jones, Ken Lyerly. SECOND ROW: B1lly P1·osser, James McDaniel, Wayne Godwin, Larry Huggins, Larry Mille r, Mack McDaniel, James Haselden. THIRD ROW: Assistant Coach Randolph Willis, fl11ly Baxley, C<!orge Cl'eel, Tommy Evans, Ken Powell, Morris Perry, Head Coach Gordon Altmun . • • c 0 a • c h e s Head Coach Gordon Altman 66 Assistant Coach RMdolph Willis �Seniors 'r ommy Evans Wallace Stone Manager Edward PatTOI CnJ>t:lln-Tom my Evans Co-Captain Ronnie Baxley Not Pictured 67 �~ ... And Huggins crashes through I • Well, anyhow, IICI'O goes . I ••• \ Follow me, fellows. - - Meanwhile, back al the •·nnch . I 68 • • �Homecoming Queen • l\1 Iss Zuliene Hanna 69 �Homecoming Sponsors ' ... • Julie Jones Linda McCall Rena Lyer ly Sarah Lou Jones Mary Selveno Gertrude Haselden - .. . -... I \ • 10 �Homecoming Attendants ' n ,_ • Margie L.'\nning Zullene Hanna Cindy Eaddy Terrie Eaddy Dena Berg Holly Iianna Imogene Milc heom Jean Fut·ches 0. Sandra Wise Dianne Playe r Gwen Tyler \ Jackie lL~nna 71 Ardith Altman �Varsity Mary Altman, Head Cheerleader -Junior LEFT TO RIGHT-Mary Seiveno, Monique Co le, Rena Lye rly, Mary Altman, Linda Mc Call, Dena Berg, Julie Jones, and Ginger Da\•is ( Rena Lyerly, Senio r Linda McCall, Senior 72 Monique Cole, Junior �Cheerleaders Glnget· Davis, Junlo•· Senior Cheerleaders: Julie Jones, Rena Lycl"ly, and Linda McCall Gloria Altman, Jumor Dena Berg, Sophomore Julie Jones, Senior 73 Mary Seivcno, Sophomore �Junior Varsity Cheerleaders FROM LEFT TO fliGHT: Imogene Mitcheom, Suzanne Eaddy, Geri Ber g, Sandr a Wise, and Theresa Eaddy. Not Pictu r ed: Linda Wise 74 �Midget Football T earn • • •• FIRST now, left to right: Charles Cantez, .Jimmy Mitchcom, Johnny !Uchardson, Jim my (Scooter) Cal'!·Oil, J e1·ry Matthews, and Manager-Barry Cox. SECOND now: Bucky Coker, Bailey Powell, Joe King, Randall Cox, Danny Player. THIRD ROW: Lcvon Jowers, Danny D~Camps, Hal Ed..,-ards, Ervin Taylor, Carlton Cribb. FOURTH ROW: n.~ndy Willis, Charles Stone, Randy Venters, Rodney Oraham, Dickie BennctL. F'l FTH ROW: !-~ton Cole, Bubba Coker, Linwood Creel, Nicky Powell, Timmy Miller. 75 �Junior Varsity Basketball T earn 30 11 1' 12 • ' 33 ~ ao Ji'TRST ROW Left to Rlghl: Bay Slone, Bt·yan Huggins, Gene Luce. SECOND ROW : Ke nneU> Baxley, Lar ry Huggins, Cleveland Filyaw. THIRD ROW: i\'IJ'. Randolph Willis-Coach, James ~!cDanjel, Wendell Roge•·s, Earl Tanner, Larry Miller . POURTH ROW: Terrell Thompson, Randy Newell, Billy P •·osse•·. 76 �Midget Basketball Tearns FIRST ROW From Lett to Right: Kathy Lambert, Judy Rowntree, Judy Fenters. Jenettc Cribb, Carol Ann Nettles. SECOND ROW: Dixie He:u·n, Mir iam Ba•·•lhlll, A•·dith Altman, Suzanne Eaddy, Theresa Eaddy. THIRD ROW: Marie Huggins, Shirley Haselden, Connie Jones, Nell Feagin, B•·cnda Daniels, Coach-Randolph Willis FTRST ROW From Left to J1tght: Larry Cameron, Dickie Bennet, Ken Lyerly, Dickie Prosser, Mallon Baxley. SECOND ROW: Barry Cox, Laxton Cole, Carroll Ca•·tcr, Randell Cox, Hal Edw:u·ds, Coach-Randolph Willis �Boys' Basketball Tearn v 23 u 12 l ( • I 31 FlRST ROW From Lch to Right: I)illy lla.xlcy, Wallace Stone, L:trr)' Huggins, Larr)' Muter, Jean Luce, Dry an Huggins, Moa·rls Perry . SECOND ROW: Coach, Gordon Altman, Freddy Campbell, Sta!fy Pcny, RusseLl Cox, Tommy Evans, Ken Powell, and Alan Knight. START ERS From Left to Right: Freddy Campbell Sta!fy Perry Russell Cox Tommy Ev:uas Ken Powell Alan Knight 78 �• Sco•·e Kccper-Che•·yl Hughes Time Keep ers-Mike DunnllOC and Ronnie Powell Trio In unison while Freddy makes lhe layup. Alan cont l'ibutes two fo r the goal! Cox and eom)>any. 79 �Girls' Basketball T earn ~~· • • ~ • • • • 2· • FffiST ROW Left to Right : Gloria Altman, Monique Cole, Mary Altman, Patsy Walls, Ceri Berg. SECOND ROW: Bevedy Haru1a, Donna Papitto, Ginger Davis, Julie Jones, Debbie Cook. THIRD ROW : Imogene Mitcheom.Rena Lyerly, Dena Berg, and Cheryl Hanna. Coach Miss Rose Nell Bruor ton 80 • �Patsy Watts Fo•·wnrd Mary Allman Forwa•·d Debbie Cook Forward Julie Jones Monique Cole Guard Glori a Altman Guard Guard 81 �Baseball T earn FffiST ROW From Loll to R!~;ht : F•·cddy Campbell, Alan Knight, Lar ry Miller, Wilbur Coker, BIUy Baxley, Wallace Stone, and J immy Chapman. SECOND ROW: Mr. Gordan Altman- Coach, LaiTY Huggins, Ken Powell, StaHy Perr y, Tommy Evans, Morris Perry, Russell Cox, Gene Lucc, and Earl Tanner. Flashes wa•·m up! 82 �Russell conccnu·atcs on pitch Per ry puts tag on , ., ' Campbell beats a bunt' \VaJJacc, you ' re out! 83 �l'• ~liss Ca rolyn Gaines Miss South Carolina 1964 Miss G~incs made lhe seiecl ions from phologr aphs ron he ~~ is• Gold and Black Conlcsl. 08 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gold and Black Subject The topic of the resource Yearbooks Description An account of the resource Yearbooks tell stories not only about people, but the places, culture, and fashion of the time. The first edition of the Gold and Black was produced in 1939. Several classes did not produce yearbooks, including 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1951, 1952, 1953, and 1954. Browse all available digital copies below. 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Title A name given to the resource Mildred Browder Hughes Collection Description An account of the resource The photographs and documents in this collection were created or collected by Mrs. Mildred Browder Hughes. Mrs. Hughes was a fixture of Johnsonville journalism for decades, working extensively with The Weekly Observer from its inception in 1974. She continued to write through the 2010s and was the author of several books, including "Life In The Past Lane." Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950s-2020s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Mildred Browder Hughes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mildred Browder Hughes Description An account of the resource Mildred Browder Hughes was a reporter for The Weekly Observer, a Hemingway SC newspaper serving Hemingway and Johnsonville, SC. She was at the forefront of community journalism in South Carolina for six decades. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Matt McColl, via The Weekly Observer https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/6fad01c94556e3647340155c7cd3e4a6.pdf 00d9015be1731ae0011b5daec9e53e67 PDF Text Text Johnsonville Elects A Woman Mayor Mrs_ R. B- Dickson, pro-minent in soc.inl, club nnd ehurch work 1 i u her community, hns been elect. ed Int endant of th e town of Johnsonville and t he people of that town are Mtisfied t hat her administration will be a most prog ressive onelilt's. Dick son wns a compromise candida te, so to speak. Accordinl1: to the st ory as told 'l'he New~ Hev iew last night, in. the J'ecent elec tinn !or to wn otY.icers R. B. Dickson and Mr. Bishop, . candida tes for th e office or intPndnllt, each t·ccefved 22 votes. There heinsr no way to settle t he tie t he two factions Sl!TCe d t o j the nomination of Mrs. Diekson, wife of one of t he candidate~. a nd she was u nn nimo\Jsly e lcc(... ed. i Ml's. Dickson attended tho last count y convention held hete aud was elected a dele~ate t o lhf' I .' 1 , state convention. - Slle i~ very well known in Florence l>v 1e.1s- of her interest in public ~ fIon fair~. a nd club a1id chm·ch work . 1 Mcm6er5 of t!ie b'onrd of nldcr- I m en servinl!: witb 1\Irs. Dick<;o n : He G. J. Rollins, mC!'chn nt ; L. ' G. Jenkins, S. A. L. llj!en t : P. Cocldield, merchant; ,T. S. H n~:­ , giris, f:u·nier_ - � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johnsonville Elects Woman Mayor - 1925 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9-27-1925 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Morning News Review https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/dfe4e189123e54c8527b0d3b72804be6.pdf f94c771773f9e239ae70c1015030382b PDF Text Text Tovvn ' ] Gets New ... Hospital aad in HEMINGWAY. Nov. 18.-Special: Comin~ as a climax in Heming- ~~ way•s .recent building and business to advancemenf procram is the erec- tion ot the Johnson Memorial hoser- pital, the buildin& and equipment ~ed to cost approximately $60,000. Dr. Allen H. Johnson. the owner, d' a graduate of the Baltimore Medical ~'~ college. is building this hospital as 0 a memorial to his father, the late 'ith Dr~ L.B. Johnson. who enjoyed the '!- life of a busy practitioner in this ~ is section for more than thirty years; ird The site on which the hospital is dh being constructed is situated on it South Main street, adjoining the home site of the late Dr. W. C. in- Hemingway on the not:th side and t the school property on. the south a side. The frontage of this property iirl measures more than 300. feet and extends through the entire block me with like amount of space opening the· on Lafayette street on the east side is!" making access. to the hospital easy from both thoroughfares. l The two-story building, .·the main 3! portion of which measures 152 feet nill- long and thirty~three feet wide in v addition to the extensions to the obf- front and rear. is of moderilistic deY sign and will be constructed of tier brick and stucco. It will be heated ·m- by a' hot water heating system in the basement. The hospital will ing have asphalt tile :floors. steel case- . the menf windows, a lavatory in each :I!; ~~~ib:n:·.·=~~~: ~~07:e s~:ri~ i!: ~~0lli:~~or~r~!i°en ::1~! s~~d:~~ !~r tensions. · "s · · · Forty-two Bed Capacity . the It will have a · forty-two bed to capacity. with. two operating rooms•. ar- one to be used for major· surgery and one for minor surgery•. The, a two operating roonis, the scrub room. res and the sterilizer room will have and ceramic · tile floors clnd six-inch squares of · green tile. wUi .·extend six feet · up on walls. A · modem the equipped nursery, a complete labiild oratory and X-ray department, . as ltS;. well as clinic on the first floor. in the w1!iCh emergency room will be ~it­ vas uaLed. . are ·. some of the essential . ch components of the hospital. . , . · · 1 I There : Will be a negro division ~~~ Iproperly l()Cated. with a c~paci.tr f!f: d ten beds. ·A small lobby .in thlS_·diFez.: vision will accommodate the negro . patients. ~ electric eleva_tor ser1ey vice will be installed. It is estimated that the building will be. 1 ~i completed not later :than May 1, . led 1940. George Creighton. the archi- · •en tect. and Worth Powell, the con•1 d tractor, are .from Mullins. • . ~ In actuality this is· not· a flew· lo- . ~n- cation for Dr: Johns~n as he was. - · born and passed his early. life.· on ::n his father's estate iii .the. Rome com;.. munity near here.· He· was·. grad- · h uated from the U"niori high school · "in . 1927, from the · University of :~ South Carolina in 1931 and from the 'he Medical College . of the State of iad South Carolina in 1934. His .postgraduate training. consisted of thi'ee ~~~ years at the Columbia hospital of , the Richland county. the ~ twelve · months. as a rotating in~ and .~e L~ last twenty-four .months as· resident od; surgeon. For the· last two. years he· l&h bas been chief surgeon in the Martin•s private , hospital at Mullins ~: where he will. remain until his hos101 pita! ~e;:.:_~m~lB~dFaU.er the It is to perpetuate the great Sti,r- :e; ves i:et ~or ~~~ oin.~J~~1:i:nton:; ~~=W:~~ ~~1monum.ent. His.mother ·was"foI'Jl!er~ _ ly Miss Cora Huggins, who was - · born and reared· in this community. In 1935 Dr. Johnson was married to Miss Mae Burgess. o! Kingstree. They. have· one son. Allen H. Johnson,. Jr.• who is two and ·a "halt · years old. . ·. Dr. Johnson said the h~spital . staff ·will be composed. ·of a com~ petent corp of doctors and nurses as well as the other necessary personnel who will participate in making this hospital one of outsdindin~ service in this state. in ~ave left the pantry of the Pilgrims · � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johnson Memorial Hospital - 1939 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11-19-1939 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News and Courier https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/78f6eb67659982343be7fe155ebe9b22.pdf 47b29a6977627f80e2ce18ffac619716 PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Housing Lags Behind as Johnsonville Boosts Population to More Than 1000 - 1956 Description An account of the resource Charleston News and Courier Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10-28-1956 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News and Courier https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/826b5b7087d7aea5934453e039e81006.pdf 93337326fe6d5ac8b1868cba28a70116 PDF Text Text .... • .... !'. -,: ; tt • .:. •• ; • •• • · ·4'·-i ~ ,, ,·•. · · · , - ·· . ( . : · "'.~·.. : · · rlpt ai.S. .tt ~ ~un.sm.. - .,.. A~ ~(I:· ~~~~~t~wn ~~~-~cth:t. ~. :?:~~~li.;::'~th~~;~~. I T o-'l'he,.et<"&an4CottrfH': - ~ ·' ·- A.,o, . the old ' ....,.,... , .. . th• , ~~~be ~;lor,- 'ot old Jri4ianton •tm cemeter)' Ia that of l.taJor Ja.mH. .u.-5·~ - " 'u heard ,.0.:14 ; ~ . one or ol a..,otuUOJSU7 tame. Aa IA!aat :our! outatandlni; .Pr~J>;tet!An, min'- ol the'ReY. A114 M .t a. -A. Jl. 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Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indiantown Church - 1935 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 7-29-1935 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News and Courier https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/6648f7db2d32fc8b8f64bb36d66dc790.pdf 07778d44e0effd638f3a3be78927516d PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johnsonville Theater to be Rebuilt At Once - 1937 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9-25-1937 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News and Courier Description An account of the resource Article describes the old theater owned by Chevis Prosser. This was the original location that burned, approximately where Jake's BBQ is now located on Broadway. Story of the aftermath of the fire that destroyed the Prosser Theater on Broadway in 1937, causing casualties next door. https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/2c75027e4eadafebeb28e7fa3a7f3679.pdf d01a8762dce5d299693be9212f234001 PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johnsonville Welcomes Wellman - 1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11-8-1955 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News and Courier https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/713ba2d6986d034a7c2b82ee38795882.pdf ac4325d31920c0a5a7155f68c6081a7f PDF Text Text • THE NEWS AND COURIER, CHARLESTON, S. C., SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1950 • of ·walterboro, state commander. The picture at bottom, taken just before the ceremony and banquet at 8 p. m., shows ' he new hut, constructed almost entirely by rr:embers of the post. In addition to post members and Legion officers of t!'le state and various districts. Governor and Mrs. Thurmond and Florenee county officials attended the ceremony. (Photos by \\'alter S. McDonald.) · • J OHNSONVILLE LEGION CEREMONY-When the new American Legion post home was dedicated, Thursday night. Post Commant.er 1Joe T. Huggins (second from left) as host of the occasion was surro•~d by high of!icia ls of the Legion in the IState. Seated, left to right. at':! ~ss 'Qullard. of Columbia. state adjutant;" Commander Huggins. Mrs. Hu~ns : 0. B. Freeman. (•! Loris, department vicc-('ommander, and W. J. ~Lead, - ...., t I I ·-------------------------------------------------------------------------------I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Legion Hut - 1950 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 4-30-1950 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News and Courier https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/f897f7815bf26c5220d9b3c39dc628bf.pdf 856aef8e9f695edc8ba731d8331abb2f PDF Text Text Johnsonville's mayor got .scared and e.rlecl the. first time be was iD the town. . ·, . 1 · And the 9!)ca,Sion ·prodiic~· tears qnly for 06eU Venters. 'Ibis thiDC happened; ilaturally.- many· Y.e ars l1ago Odell was· but a yoUDJ· wb~n ~ ster iJl·ovefalls•.~ms the Veaters •lived about'- three miles frOm.Job.o. SOilVille• . partciul.ar ·-Saturday was-.to ,be aD eventful one in' Odell's ·li!e-he ·.was c:omiog in to town with his father: .'Tbey drove in a bui&Y. ·Mayor .Venter.s that his fa~ pulled up to a' hitch· .iol post about wbere -. the ·present pollee· is....located.· . . station· . . ... ... Tbis : 'recallS ,: ~e hQrse ,was lect·_ at_. tbe post, appar~nUy bitched·and cont~t. But 1 I 5ometh.i.Jit happened· to excite the animal and .he . broke·, away and beaded. home. F.athtr ·venters left: Odell at : a · :hardware store and went for the. horSfl,aud blifiY· ."Wh.n· Dad-..came back. I was ·standinf in ·front 'o~ .~he .store cry· iol my lieart out &od- sCared half to'deatb," Mayor Venters 'reealls. Alid all this cryinl · took' ·ptaee ne~.: the ·sj,of .where . Odell 'tcMlay operat~~S a .department store. : � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Odell Venters Childhood Story - 1956 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10-21-1956 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News and Courier https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/166fa3518c175efdb0ec7ebf0da60d7c.pdf 5211db9b378a679afe7e1cdcfc593d27 PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Old Johnsonville Methodist Church renovated - 1960 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 4-3-1960 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News and Courier https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/09990620072c5624bea46e771bad2ade.pdf deaaf92ad1b8e79ce1a57cbf16fdd7bf PDF Text Text Charleston, S. C., Friday, December 21, 1956 1State News Sports ---------------- Comics 1-B Markets -------- -------------- - Want Ads ) ' ' •• " • _...... _/ ,, t .... • t " If ,~ l REQUEST BEI NG MADE FOR JOHNSONV ILLE POST OFFICE Mrs. Huggins, 1\larsh, Powell, Altman, l\lrs. Poston, 1\Irs. Donahoe And Cole. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Request for new Johnsonville Post Office - 1956 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Dec 2, 1956 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News and Courier Description An account of the resource Johnsonville's postmaster requested a new post office - from the News and Courier in Charleston, Dec 2, 1956. https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/3ab699adae508069d04d41a0b0b16d85.pdf 2353af01777390640b12648bcbe2ae6f PDF Text Text -l> . • • • • ouri . 1 ng o . . . .. . .. 1rst: ommun1ty .rom.: _.rowing • • · · t ' ' . . ' \ .. • • .. : I ' ' .. ·~ lly 'WAL'l'B& 8 • .McDON~LD . A S'•ft <>orre1ponden& :·.\ · :· · ..· . ·. . . . • Il 1 l'1 1 • ' .. ... '. matter·, . ·a1 . • •• • • OLD JOHNSONVJLLE. Deo. 23- an<l . 1till ·. f.i tor· -that .·. The1•0 .always ha1 been. a .keen i1elthe.r Johnsonville :·o.r .·.·Heming~ rlvali·y between Johnaonvlllo and · way ha·i · Cleveloped :• new "burial Hemi11aw1y a1,d'. it 'ha• ·left . this p•ace. " .· · ·_ · oomtriunl\)' lite1•ally Jn ·t~e middle. : .J.l'.\·. those ·day,1, .. the school .whlch" · In thtt mld~le it ·ls,. b,01uae· lt aer.v:~(I . \ll~. . .,are•.:... adj~oin.e~ ·:.. ·.t.:~ . • ta ffltuated on \he hl1hw11 between, :c~~t~.h··'/ l~~µn~•· . .I~. ;....h~•-.· .: •l~~.• :· ~.~ep . tho i,vo iown1 whloh ·are. only five cone9ll~ated .:with: othel' · schools. · nlile•· apa1·i and . 11e1. on . both aide• : .There .w~•:. ;•: •e~ilem.,nt . . ·a t:. Ham- , ot the lino ·aep•r•tinl William•- Jngw~y "before, .1909~·,. :·t?u:t. ·:~ ~t· tha~ · 1nnd: Florence County. 'Thi• is an time ... the.· pqstqttlc.e·: ·:: v1as . called. 1dded f9'otor tn the rivalry between .Lam~~rts. · after · th~ .. tan:tily : whi9h O~d John1onville 11· · .!JOn1petltlve · 9wnfd '11.~o.h . oi . the · ·.a_~rr.o·unding ne11hbor1, •• 1n addition to beiril la-nd. . ~ere ... were . al~o . :aev~ral ~ival towns, they .are in ·•dJolnina Hemingway fa~lll~• · .~her6 then, .as OOlltltio1,· . no\\r, and t~e. town .whl'cl{_WIS .char• Rivalry between the two factions tered>in .1917 was ·ao ·n a.m ed wh·etf whJoh ·founded Jfemlnaway and ·it was .. foun~ed~ ao·m e y~ars .'t?efore Jot1n1onville, Jn·.· the · opinion• . ..of it wa• -ch~rtered ..~ ..:". · . . . . · . aome ro1ldent1 ot .O ld Johnsonville. · John~onv.llle. is ·~ ole;ter 1eit1e. is \Vhat kopt their oon\munlty from ment ·t~an He~ln~ay, ·and. it, tQo, growlng into what·. they believe -took. i~. "~'!'!! ~r~m a f~~tt.~ .. p~~mi~· oolild have become ···a thrlvinr lit· nent in· the ..a~ea·. But. 9rigJnally, · ~~~ tlo mc\1•opalt11/' . plan wa1 for a .towt) a~ :Old John· Back "·r ound th turn · of the • · Bonvl~~e •., F~ctio~~ . i;oon .,for~e~. an~._ , . . oen .tho~e. llvlr:ig . pn ,the · Johnsonville t \tl ~ • 0 ld John19nvllle w~.1 the cctn· side advoc·a ted ·1ocatlon of the town· ior ot notlvlty in .lt1 re.neral · afea. · tnei•e·-.:.·:"·and :thole .. living .on · the 0 1 'E,~~ ~f, ;hpol~~! ·~~:~hc~l·tri~':i p~\het H~ml~gw.aY·. side .,:<?i'- co.~r1e.: . .w.~nted·· e =-• . n . Jt ·In ·: th0ir - neighborhood.· . of co1~111u11lty · lite. _. Tho ohu~oh . Neither : alde':w0 ·n.:, 10 today· tnere cotl1e\e1 y, direo.*ly_across the roa~. ai·~ . th·e .two.· t~wna:' an·d .Old John· : ls \Vllore ·they ·buried . theJr deaa. sonvllle ·. community~-- · ·:'_ ".~ . ., . .;.,-:_' . - . Old . J qh~aonv~l~e.::: tc>'diy "cpn·•l·at1 · ot the . ·chUrch, .. tl1e· ; c·em~*ery; ·.. I " couple . of 1to~ea . =and :. the ·aurrounding farm :· r~1idence1. ·· ·: i · · - . · . • • • • • • The ct\urch-. .con·1 reia·tlon·: existed • before the War · B~(ween: the :States and t~e : ahurqh-'.bull.d in1·;(iatel .b'ick · • • to .t he wir· ~eriod.~·; ·it. ·was: built J)y · • member1 · o~· ...the :co~1re1at_l~n. :;·The · Ard' family · gave · the ·l•n(l<.for the alte. .· · ·. · · . · . ·= ·. · ·. • -Such names . a8 ·.Cox, t . ;Dickson... Eaddy,.'. Hu11tn1,. Hemint\Vay"··:.and. • • • Ard ·were·:well k~own in the·churoh" and the · section . Rt · .that _·.·tfme, I'S · f • • • .. • • •• • • ° . 01 • • fllf , , • I , ·• • , , t • t.,ey •re.. today•.,·.. , ·" " ,., • • . l ·O • . .. . ......... . ·· . · . ._ Thii : ae~_tion.: ~r?d :. ~t~ .'~h~r~hea·· and· ~ther .1andmark1 . ar_ e ftpt . old-. when': : COl)Sldered·.fn the ·li&'ht .'of :the: COast~'.: al areas, but . the'...competi'.tive·: spirit which . )>rou·g ht· .ttie .. pioneer. 1~ttl.e~1 In· trom : more. densely. populated .area a ~till ·: exJ1t1 ·to~ay~. :...;. . · ... . · . .. . .• . . ' . ' ' . ·: .. . . .•. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Founding of Rival Towns Kept First Community From Growing - 1951 Description An account of the resource Article discusses how Old Johnsonville and the Venters Community didn't grow as fast as Johnsonville and Hemingway. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12-24-1951 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News and Courier Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nancy Huggins Staton https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/8db943fa2ae18fc4398fccdf69262695.jpg 50dd32dfa1d09cab5e8b5a5d532c962e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Documents Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Williamsburgh District Map - 1825 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1825 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Mills Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Places Subject The topic of the resource Places, Buildings, and Sites in and around Johnsonville Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. URL <a href="http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SFMAPS/id/3564">Johnsonville, 1940, Unpublished</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johnsonville, 1940, Unpublished Subject The topic of the resource Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Company Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Company Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 300dpi, 24-bit depth, color, Ideal Crystal Tx40 Wide Format Scanner, Archival Master file is a TIFF Description An account of the resource Click the link below to view the map:<br /><br /><a href="http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SFMAPS/id/3564">Johnsonville, 1940, Unpublished</a> buildings fire Johnsonville map https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/0378a16d555e8677edfb2374a41af208.jpg 8985bdb60d39ba3f54ddf1ad583ce3da Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Places Subject The topic of the resource Places, Buildings, and Sites in and around Johnsonville Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johnsonville, SC 1907 Description An account of the resource Postcard photograph showing Johnsonville in 1907. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1 July 1907 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Slocum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Photograph in postcard format of Johnsonville, S.C. in 1907; https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/8a2b3f5fbbaca4d60415ed6cc76f9aa7.pdf 685af4e982c0b2a109bfa566e335ab74 PDF Text Text Page Eight • - SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC CO-OP NEWS A Rural Industry: Blackwell's Mill · O ne of the tlu·iving rural ,industries in South Carolina m ade possible by rural electric cooperative power is B lackv1ell's Mill, route 2, Johnson ville. This modern mill receive s its electric service from ihe Santee Electric CoO p at Kingstree. The mi~l... c an be seen in the photo a t left above, not too busy in this off season. In the right p hoto. white-shirted Mr. ~ F. Blackwell. owner of the m ill, is t alking with Santee Electric Co-Op manag er Basil W ard as they look over the electric• motors powering this To back up this statement, he' ll gladly show you an arr ay of electric motors r anging from one horespower up to 75 horsepower. H e has five big motor s, the smallest being 20 hp, and the lar gest 75 horsepower. Scattered .ctl l over the plan t is an assortment of sm aller motors ranging from one to five horsepower. The Blackwell mill specializes in custom g rinding and feed mixing for the Johnsonville area. He grind3 some white grits for sale in stores Mr. Blackwell say s folks won't buy yellow grits. but that the majority of the b ig shel ler. . Two big motors can be seen in this picture. They grits he grinds for home consumption are old fashioned . function as power plants for the e&,ller. Mr. Blackwell yellow. Mr. Blackwell ls well satisfied with the service prosan this slrr.ller will Jmack out al>qut 500 bushels an • how ~ .,.:ea war.kl~up a ~ sweat. It 19 ~ 91d8d by Sant.. Electric Co-Op and says he wouldn't 1- .J>I• » fuacJlon u:ltlaoul Co-Op electricity. <S. C. of ~ a. ..... ., ..... iii I t~·> � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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LONE STAR NEGRO WHOLE FAY IS WIPED OUT IN PENITENTIARY AGED WOMAN IS BURNEI). Mrs. Louise D. Logan, of Columbia, Found Dead. | in 1891 RIDES TO COLUMBIA. PEOPLE NOT BROKE, 1 OCONEE MAN SAYS recovered RESOLUTIONS Gaffney Boy Returns Horse and Gets * Old Job. ; i Gaffney, Jan. 16..The Jones-Poole Columbia, Jan. 14..Caused from WANTS NO "HARD LUCK" either sparks igniting her bed or her SHERIFF HILL CARRIES SLAYtR TERRIBLE TRAGEDY ENACTED Mule company of Gaffney has STATE FINANCES DEALT WITH was taken the horse which by INTRODUCED. NEAR PAMPLICO. night clothing catching on fire, Mrs. COLUMBIA. TO white EXCLUSIVELY. the man, Fred ALMOST young Wolfe, Louise D. Logan, aged eighty-six, the barn saying who at left note a widow of the late Charles Logan, he had taken the animal. Wolfe was burned to death this morning 2 stated that he went as far as about 5.55 o'clock at her home just riding the horse, and that Vote for Governor and Lieutenant across from the state capitol on the Calhoun Officer Caught Fugitive and Theory is That L. S. Bighain Shoots while he was in a restaurant, he Recommends Tax on Incomes and Governor Declared by corner of Assembly and Senate and Two Sister, Boys, Mother, Mob..Dastard Eludes heard two men talking about the Large that is The Tax..Not in Favor of streets. presumption Senate. th)en Ends Own Life. of the horse and that a taking at Lone Star. Crime flew the from fire, open sparks Cotton Acreage Legislation. of $25 Had been offered for his her bed while she was asleep or arrest, and that he thefl and there Columbia, Jan. 14..Senator that she was feeding her pet dog onL Florence, Jan. 16..Discovery Jan. 15..Richard Columbia, R. 12..Governor Jan. return. of Oconee, sprung something of a that he decided Columbia, had better of the bodies of five members of the hearth when her clothing caught gle, Calhoun county negro, who shot A. Cooper read his annual message afire and sfie sprang into tne Dea tc' He was away four days and it was surprise on the senate today. The a white the Bigham family revealed that the Earl killed Wadford, and of the to the two houses general smother the flames. She was dead man, seriously wounded Corbett Zeig entire family, living about five miles stated yesterday that he was given point of it was that the state of South in joint session at noon today. when a neighbor, Mrs. from Pamplico in the southeastern his job again with the mule com- Carolina and the people in South discovered by and white painfully another man, ler, The message deals almost Carolina are not broke by a "durned" Melvin Platte, lying at the foot of th ! wounded Mrs. Wadford and her four part of Florence county, was wiped pany. the It is finances. state with His resolution is rather slrikbed. months old baby at the Wadford out some time yesterday afternoon, be any more depressed yesterday sight. that the the of unusual and reads Iiks this: and governor opinion ing Mrs. Logan is survived by very few home near Lone Star Wednesday a total of five being killed. said. than he usual, be reduced "Whereas, the senate has had property tax levy should L. S. Bigham, aged about of her immediate family. Mrs. LoganL night, was brought to the state I into car with my "When the got to mills and one-half twelve resolutions of a distressing \ from is thought to havfi shot and killwas a native of Lexington county, hex afternoon by Edmund to yesterday to I Pamplico," go family nine mills, and the governor maiden name being Miss Louise iff Hill and Sheriff Dukes after the ed his mother, Mrs. M. M. Bigham, Bigham testified, "I left my mother nature presented before it; and three the measures whereby Schwartz. She has lived in ColumbiaL officers eluded a mob of between 600 aged 60; his sister, Mrs. Marjorie and sister and the children at their "Whereas, Such resolutions are and one-half mills may be raised since her to mislead the people as to childhood. A. Black, aged 35; and the latter's various occupations and play. As far early men. and 1,000 from other sources. His our real condition; and It has been Mrs. Platte's customL The negro's act greatly enraged two adopted children, Leo as I know there had been no are for the enactment of a "Whereas, The state of South and John McCracken, to awaken Mrs. Logan every morning the people of Calhoun county and all aged nine, Instead of the day. during measure for a tax on incomes, gifts and when she' knocked at Mrs. is undoubtedly hurt by the low troubles going straight to Pamplico, I went Alleged family a posse searched the aged five. night Thursday of and inheritances, an increase prices of its products, still the door at 5.55 a. m., she swamps and woods for the fugitive in which an estate valued at about up the road to see Bob Foxworth for and privilege licenses, and a and other classes of citizens, \ the bed afire with the deceased's* and members of the sheriff's party $75,000 was at stake, is reported to a minute.- As we came back we saw not are while yet depressed, consumption tax on gasoline, ieeling body at the foot badly burned. She5 here yesterday believe have been the cause of the tragedy. mother stagger but of the yard. I and soft drinks. Nine mills on immediately summoned the negrc> bringing Fogle broke. L. S. Bigham has not been officially then turned and caught a glimpse of negro might have been "Therefore, Be it resolved, That property would produce about four butler who attempted to extinguish thedealt with the crime as the changed by been had he caught almost with woods the into Smile turning ly million dollars. will not make a report for in a run. He had his right hand up no further resolutions of a the flames. In the meantime turning the mob. jury for is scale A graduated suggested nature be received and in an alarm of fire. The negro, who is said to be about about two weeks, but the theory is toward his breast as if something in the pessimistic but that like the income tax provisions, exempting senate, Charles Logan, the late husband oi 17 years of age, was barefooted and that he was the murderer and the I not see but did in was any pistol, it, be forthwith rejected and not young men of payment on $1,000, Mrs. 'Logan, died about twenty years when he torn his were as badly clothing died we mother carrying my tax A of $2,000. and married men The father of L. S. Bigham was the her into the house. T. D. Garrison considered." ago. He i^ remembered for his manj at the penitentiary, indicating of one-half of one per cent, would be benefactions The senate had about passed the to the city of Columbia tlrat he had been dodging about in late Senator Bigham and the family and Hoyt Bostick had come up in to $3,000; When he died he bequeathed a levied on net income up resolution by a viva voce vote when. is a prominent one in the county. the swamps. Officers of the the meantime. I called my sister, Mr. Christensen asked what is was all one per cent, from $3,000 to $5,000; tract on Elmwood avenue and a iary said yesterday that Fogle's first All were evidently killed Mrs. Marjorie Black, but she did not about and had the resolution read a two per cent, from $5,000 to the for cash man's of nucleus $40,000 except Mrs. Bigham, the move after getting inside was to light answer. three per cent from $10,000 to second time, and suggested that it had of a modern school building a cigarette. He seemed not to who lived a few moments, mother, Child. Finds Youngest better go over. Under the senate 150,000; and four per cent on all net which was completed some years ago preciate the seriousness of the crime and the oldest child, who died at 5 "I then went back the on piazza a income above $50,000. The grounds and money, however he is alleged to have committed. o'clock this morning. The tragedy and found John McUrachen, tne rules one objection carries a that out The governor pointed over until the following day, and were to have become available at the5 owes his life took place at the old Bigham home youngest child, dead there. is it said, The negro, My tax of one cent per gallon on the resolution will, therefore, be coi& death of Mrs. Logan but she waved to Sheriff Hill, of Calhoun county, the five miles from Pamplico. on the floor afdnrod of n latpr dav. also was mother's cap would yield approximately title to 'both the land and the monej officer displaying courage and bravery After slaying all within the house just by the back door and there was Senator Johnstone inquired if Sen- \% ol released them for the purpose and is it at the Bigham alleged, his duties. time, of the mother discharge I in believe all about. blood my Cotton acreage reduction by force erecting the school. The property has ator Mason was a farmer, but the went deep into the woods surround- and the child were shot on the Wednesday Night. Shooting resolution had gone over and no dieof legislation is not deemed enhanced many thousands of dollarsi the place and fired a bullet Into ing the into to tried that she and get the but The shooting occurred Wednesday his own brain. When his cussion was in order. by the governor, since bequeathed and is considered[ body was road for help. makes it of sufficent importance one of the most caluable schoo.I night, but did not become generally Mason stated that his * Senator noon today his right hand it .found for look to my started "We then All day "that the farmer must be impressed propertfes in the state. In additiort known until Thursday. grandfather, his father and he had the pistol. It was still grasped was It other child. the and sister rea of all been farmers, and that there were with the absolute necessity to the city olI Thursday Sheriff Hill, his deputies, left Mr. who examined $9,000 Logan the physician by two hours almost dark, probably duction of cotton acreage for the I Columbia for work of protecting and an ever increasing crowd sought the nothing but farmers in his famly. that Bigham had been dead] body found we that reached we home, Hiai ly luuisuay 1115111,, r Ugie. Senator Mason in conversation said, \ year 1921." dumb animals. more than twelve hours. room her in dead Black Mrs. the to the widespread "Because of that he realized that the farmers, in At her own insistence Mrs. LoganL said, three negroes came The murdered persons were all not did of the prohibition law, Governor lived alone in the house in which she iff and told him where they thought shot in the with everyone else, head; the bullets in each "Later some one found the child, common have a bed of roses just at this time, Cooper asks for more funds died, the furniture of which is o1I Fogle was hiding in a house six miles case entering just beneath their Leo McCracken, on a pile "of straw but that they were far from beings for enforcement. He emphasizes antique mahogany and walnut and isj from where the shooting occurred. was shot more than once, None behind a potato bank out in the vard. "broke," and even if they were that if the revenue from fines and considered by collectors to be of muchl Several citizens were present when missed that balls had two although forfeitures had been paid into the value. the negroes told the sheriff and they their mark were found near the back He was still alive. We called Dr. "broke" there was no use to be paradPoston as soon as possible. The boy ing that fact to the public. As state treasury, there would have been spread the word to members of the door. The large pistol used by i» ^ died about 5 o'clock this morning. of fact, both the senate and a balance to the credit of this mob scouring the swamps for the an unexplodedj It ROOM. contained still BLOOD SPATTERED was the that boy is evident The governor is of the the house met today to receive new the that indicates which cartridge, shot." was he when the of Sheriff Hill and his men went for that the violators bills and to go through the technical man reloaded. Tells Story of Madman's Assault or Mr. Bigham could not say why the requirement of declaring the official law should serve terms in the negro and began a search of the The Bigham home is more than room of Mrs. Black was not searched vote for Governor R. A. Louisiana Family. Cooper and house. N After a few moments or and "that the law should be so a mile distant from any half he "It so," happened sooner. just found Wilson G. a guilty located was that Lieutenant Governor person amended searching, the negro one could be found No house. Jan. about think not did DeRidder, La., we said, "that a mattress by Sheriff Hill, but of wilful violation of the prohibition There were bare quorums heard had shooting who any today the of saving despaired tonight it." of in either branch, as it was law should serve a term due to the fact that the officer and about the 1 place. victim latest John life of him to Orlander, asked had Some one go of the any no known that the usual week-end and that the men in the house had payment lights a Ghastly One. Sight ol two and Mr. children, with wife it. his do not but he just did recess would be taken today. The amount of money should not the sheriff did not let his discovery A #3 Vi -tt. leti ge uuwu gatiicicu UUHU5 believe authorities the a fiend brother that his who, declared also of service Bigham house will meet again on Monday to relieve from the be known generally. While other passed from room to room had been in financial troubles and evening and the senate today agreed the imprisonment sentence, and that is the same that seven years age) members of the party continued the day and the dead. The sight was a had aften spoken of them. Two claimed 45 persons as his victims inL search, the Calhoun officer slipped viewing to meet at 11 o'clock Tuesday. The there should be no suspended On a bed in a ghastly .one. 1 from reached that trail of a terror was while he of service the postmaster after years ago no except out with Fogle, who made engrossing department, through its and mother the room aged lay Texas. a to with Houston, Lafayette at Orum, he was charged from three to six months." to shoot or resist arrest. At J new chief, Mr. Jackson, announced their faces the child, youngest theii his a Besides wife, been had to Orlander, There as always shortage. that the department would remain Another recommendation least 15 men were in the house when In an adjoining with blood. Paul, and 6, it had daughter of Josephine, age and that about this is statutes was said question here and be ready for such clerical change in existing Fogle was discovered, it children of the oldest room the of victims the old are. son, been settled. He had also work as might bp offered at any time the state highway department. The eight year terday. a bed where he died at 5 o'clock assault madman's bloody been had supposedly state who certain the of relieve the people After getting the negro out of during the recess. governor would this morning, and beside him the body trying to do him wrong, he said. with an axe. of the of duty to him rushed Hill highway department house, Sheriff Senator Wightman, of Saluda, has of Bigham was placed when the "That morning about 12 o'clock, evidently got his legislative gun out collecting automobile license fees by The tragedy was discovered early waras wrangeuurg iu an auiumuunc. searchers returned with his body. we had paid off the hands together transferring these duties to the office today by a child who sought entrance1 Fogle was found between 9 and 10 for many of the present activities of in the room she usually Upstairs which of store the little to was grocery turn brother in I that who noticed and the sheriff my of 12 state, o'clock o'clock and of secretary by the state government. Today he was the body of Mrs. He would stand awfully depressed. would distribute them tnrougn tne Orlander was proprietor, to make a had him in the Orangeburg jail. The bills looking toward the oldest sister of Bigham; Black, the door small Finding purchase. in an abstracted and about each of county. court about of clerk gaze sheriff reached Orangeburg up abolition of the Board of Public Wel ./gja just in front of the manner. He did not have a pistol fare and the State Tax Commission. The governor also recommended a closed the little girl went to the side midnight. Sheriff Hill said yesterday it lay on the floorlate this afternoon dresser. Until complete revision of the present state entrance leading to the sleeping his first thought was to smuggle the when the coroner's jury completed that I know of. The pistol he did He proposes to devolve these duties of the family. Shrieking for negro on ftie Carolina Special and get the killing with was mine and was on other departments and revert to pension law for Confederate were bodies the evidence, taking the aroused she neighbors. state help in my bureau drawer when I left t£e county board of assessors in tax him to the penitentiary. ans. He would abolish the Lying across their beds, clad in the house. There was another board and distribute the matters. Mr. Wightman is also Start for Columbia. to said the is tragedy Although the the their man, in night clothes, my the in somewhere house, through the office of the of introducing a bill to abolish Early yesterday morning Sheriff have been committed at 3:30 o'clock Walls were found. children and obtained general, which plan the State Highway Commission. -He Dukes, of Orangeburg, decided to yesterday afternoon, it was late last mother's room, I think." were floor and bed and clothing also It Edmund is Mrs. of two The ago. until years testimony has already introduced a bill looking up make a get away with Fogle and night before word of it reached with blood, while a broken little two daughters, her and recommended that the pensions be Bigham a flat 20 per cent, reduction in the to bring him to Columbia. The officials and they county showed how an window on the latch the in Confederate those Mr. to Bigham who accompanied salaries or compensation of all state, paid "only officer found his automobile not sent out dispatches asking car house the just from and sailors, or the widows of entrance had been gained. away county and other officers connected functioning properly, however, and officers to be on the watch out for the from were lips Moans issuing financial at of every with either the state or county the shooting, tallied such, who are in need his start was delayed. In the in nearby towns. Bigham conscious was She of the woman. the Mr. of Bigham. Under present assistance." point with that time snerin jtim wim ms utsyuncai Bigham's brother, Edmund There were some at the scene of al lveterans receive a pension, a despite her terrible injuries, but, with had arrived ancl it was decided to Senator Johnstone suggested that the house with his left had to Her talk. unable her were to jaw split, who as the shooting today graduated scale obtaining the finance committee had under the negro in the Calhoun husband lay beside her, the top of bring machine. Sheriff Dukes then family in an automobile at 3:10 that Smile Bigham had doubt to consideration the resolution o'clock. He returned from a short done the wholesale killing or that he his skull broken. The children were informed looking toward the extension fcr the th* few men at the i visit to a neighbor's house about 20 had killed himself. All of the Sub-District Institute No. 5. unconscious, suffering from great payment af taxes, without penalty, jail that he was going to a minutes later and found his mother found be today, gashes in arms, legs and shoulders. could which until April. The committee was anxplace in the county and would The Methodist sub-district institute Although an Italian merchant is return shortly. This was done to staggering toward the road. He however, pointed toward him as the ious to know the attitude of the jumped from his car but the aged .No. b, comprising tne sunaay scnoois1 held on suspicion, Sheriff Frazier and the track, woman died almost before he reached murderer and suicide. The complex county authorities, and how this mob off Calhoun the throw of Ehrhardt and Lodge circuits, will his deputies are tonight searching estate situation in which the Bigham extension might affect county should it show uP at Orangeburg. her. Others happened to drive by xicia u ecu ?-ntto/3 fnT fV»o rvocth vo.1T convene at Lodge Methodist church for a negro with whom Orlander is j and suggested that the various Sheriff Dukes then took Fogle out the house at that timd, and when January 30, at 11 a. m. All the trouble. said to have had senators, if opportunity permitted, of the jail through the back yard and they bore the body of Mrs. Bigham or two, gave rise to the doubts schools are requested to send a the of living some people by the inquire what the home view was with party into the house they saw evidence of placed him in the car and 12:30, adjournment for dinner. representative delegation. in the community. reference to the extension of the time was soon on the way to Columbia, I blood on the floor and began an Afternoon session.2:00, song » PROGRAMME First. Black Mrs. Kills 11 for the payment o/ taxes. the start being made about which revealed the 'ftag 2:10, reports; 2:20, of Morning session.11:00, devotions scene the at From the situation o'clock. "Everything was quiet as a slaughter of three others. the L. J. the unreached.making 11:20, Jones; led by and songs, the shooting it is believed tTiat the The Hague, Jan. 17..The former lamb when we left," Sheriff Dukes At the inquest today Edmund by a state worker; 2:40, From first. "Evangelism our chief business," A. murderer shot Mrs. Blbck said. The party met a group of men testified he had been away from tbe cleanness of the bullet wound, German empress, Augusta Victoria^ a Christian leadership.the S. Varn; 11:40, "What, why and how is reported to be very sriously ill in a road making the trip through the house only twenty minutes. He and of decision day," Rev. T. L. Belvin; educational movement," Rev. R. P. the room into he crept evidently She suffered a relapse immed. Orangeburg county, but had no had left his brother standing in the shot her before she knew it. It is 12:00, "Our organized Sunday school Hucks; 3:00, miscellaneous business, in getting to the city. The party yard. He had acted strangely for lately after the former crown prince, i D. M. VARN, adjournment. work," W. E. Willis, district weeks but he did not appear to (Continued on page 5, column l.)|:returned to Wierengen. President. (Continued on page 2, column 1.) 12:20, enrollment of delegates; Wightman Has Gun Kills 1, Wounds Others Five Persons Killed Tax Question Discussed Gasoline _____ Columbia reward igniting Fo' today Mason, fortyfivp numerous McCracken, calculated Carolina farmers assembly exclusively penitentiary Sher5 .' suggests recommendations business tobacco ° ' Logan's discovered ' summari1 coroner's ' depressing resolutions suicide. arrived ' _ quarreling ' $10,000; valuable erection penitent1 ap' ' instantly resolution ' _ gasoline $400,000. " piazza expedient condition stated r ttt.1. m , 1 mi n violation department. opinion prohibition prison imprisonment, sufficient ' running upstairs, ' A . r*rs 4- Cf attempt yess s°\ 1 ._ ^ 4. downstairs covered layon never spoken ^ occupied Marjorie soldiers statute quarters I introduced undisturbed. woman spattered income. Orangeburg TTM1 -*iL l_;_ J mean1 officer's Orangeburg certain Florence immediately Bigham, pistol thinking before inclined evidence governments. serious , 1. - Sunday mvuiT^u mi i.uu ^ . expressed investigation Bigham service; "Discovering survey," "Preparing president; Harvey. present already ' i veter! pension pensions comptroller amatt^r , neighboring under -i -- temples. Bigham ' ' i j- % upstairs. fugitive. 12..Surgeons * after 10 sher> sentences *"*- ^ - . trouble several various finances, * ' today. ... � https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/4e441fccacd534291b1cab844a56ad98.pdf a25f8514fe6b1a231ecd7c64b61e65d3 PDF Text Text De-| dispatches I I I r starred recently. composed Parlette Canada. January I sister-inlaw, Bigham, kitchen other before Big[ Bigham, Bigi George[ imprisonment 1 PHONE 15 ' : | TomDucker IJ ?8 ^ ry I BAMBERG, S. a Service ".:. V! > . ... .... County vS&A i February, Bamberg J. T. Herndon LAXATIVE J^3 .EHWHilll IIIIIMff undersigned musical cultured lyric Robert members Wa Ln rue accompanist, ifc musicians, accompany A *. Sliced Boiled Ham Sliced Bacon I Quality THE CITY attendancePRESSING CLUB Lindquest **.*;» l estate hundred season vanety Best on the U. S. flarket ' will help and inspire the young men of Carlisle whom the state of , South Carolina has committed to The Carlisle School has this care and training. spared neither pains nor money your CLAUDE MELTON. .Adv. Formerly Operated by j a most boy's body wras half-way down the in providing for Bamberg of NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE. steps, indicating that he was trying splendid lyceum course, consisting Mr. Naill live attractions tnai represent the meantime the In to escape. and quality beyond all former Notice is hereby given that the child evidently had made his way Is Now Being Operated by guardian of Virginia Ayer \ into the yard and wras run down, seasons. The course will open on January Grimes will on the 11th day of being overtaken near a potato bank 21st 1921, file his final accounting ! with the coming of Albert at the rear of the kitchen. From all as such guardian, and will at the Mr. same time make application to J. J. and assisting artists. that can be gathered Bigham must |! in America and Brabham, Jr., probate judge of have immediately buried himself in, Lindquest is known county, for his final discharge Tenor with the thick woods a mile from the house Europe as "the American First-Class Work Guaranteed. said as guardian. R. A. AYER, the voice of gold." The greatest where he took his own life. of Virginia Ayer Grimes. Guardian LET US GIVE YOU critics of the age are unanimous January 18, 1921. Bigham was about forty years old. finest the of He was unmarried and was a son of in proclaiming him one He The Qototoe That Does Not Affect the Head < the late Senator L. S. Bigham, who concert tenors of this generation. Because of its tonic and laxative effect. intellect, musical a broad has senate the in than ordinary better terms is BROMO QUINLNE served several not cause nervousness nor and polished, and an exquisite Quinine and doesRemember the full name and from Florence county. in head. nnging voice. W. GROVE. 30c. of of E. The for the look signature quality engineer. a civil Bigham was Miss Leonora Allen and Mr. only surviving members of the MacDonald are the other www ham family now are Edmund Miss concert company. this of and home, old the at who lives whose Allen, soprano, and Mr. Allen, Dr. Cleveland Bigham, are highly accomplished whereabouts are unknown. Dr. and well qualified to ham was convicted in the Mr. Lindquest. town county court several years ago This attraction this season has sold of the murder of his wife. He w:»3 in the large colleges and universities sentenced to three years the United in the penitentiary, but before of Europe, Canada and an engagement, but by he could be taken to prison, jumped States at $500 fortune Carlisle his bond and has not been heard of a rare piece of good services for half since. The amount of the bond was School procures theiractual cost, but a price, much below $10,000. To do your BATTERY WORK, courtesy that the Bureau wishes to Still Uncollected. any kind of battery. We have for past an experienced battery new to The state of South Carolina has extend out of gratitude bond do battery work, and have the the collect to never been able Music together club, The I Bamberg the money and the matter is now in m MBgaa with all music lovers of the commuparts for your battery. 'hands of the attorney general for and a in us and trial, Come give It is understood that the nity, are urged for your own we think wo can. please you in in to hear this concert. Yours, work and price. Bigham estate is responsible for the We rare a is opportunity. this case, the of money, all the members kind and quality We also have rental batteries having signed the bond except shall be given that an into us for you to use while we are Mrs. J. Bogan Cain, who died rather of music that leads repairing yours. that lies even beyond the suddenly during the influenza and tears, where demic, leaving a husband and one power of laughter and longing fill us with son. As a possible motive for his inspiration like the deed yesterday, it may be stated that the pure and the beautiful, with the L. S. Bigham has been suspected of red and white meeting of a rose. To lift us high to make mutilating the county records for the these are the experiences purpose of getting hold of the estate us strong,owe ourselves oftener than that we lands. This matter is being It seems that about the time occasionally. BAMBERG, S. C. Following the Lindquest concert Dr. Cleveland Bigham left Florence the Bighams transferred their WANTS TO GO ON GANG. in the estate of the late Mrs. J. Bogan Cain, the only member of the family not on the bond. All the Hugh Bramlett Withdraws Motion For a New Trial. deeds to the thousand or more acres of land bear her name. Greenville, Jan. 13..Hugh T. Since her death, it is stated, that Bramlett, convicted last week of the Bigham has been attempting to COTTOX BROKERS a settlement from her husband who murder of his mother-in-law, .Mrs. HMVV VVM 108 Jackson St., Augusta, Ga. is a deputy sheriff of this county, but' Lou .McHuyh, with recommendation For Leng Distance call us at the the matter has not been closed. Sev-j to mercy, was this afternoon Cotton Exchange. Cotton handled eral pages have been torn from the' by Judge George E. Prince to serve in ten-hale lots. We solicit your deed books, the indices indicating, the remainder of his life at hard business. H Bramlett today withdrew his Correspondents and it is stated that they relate to the IICSE & SOX, Bigham lands, and it is also said ihat motion for a new trial and announced Broad 81 Street, Xew York. in more han one case the wording of through his counsel that he was to receive sentence. Bramlett the deeds where the record is in long hand has been -crudely altered to ii asked that instead of being CITATION FOB LETTERS OF AD-! he be state the to to, entitled penitentiary show that Mrs. Cain was MLMSTRATIOX. t fID ! the on sentence serve his to COL imci permitted iinru only a nan or case might le in the certain tracts j chain gang here where he would be The State of South Carolina.County of Bamberg. Ev J. J. Brabham.j referred to. The mutilation of the near his family and his aged mother. [. Jr., Probate Judge. m court house records caused something This request earnestly pleaded tor Whereas, C. If. Brabham has made j £&? of a ssnsuliou and the matter hasi by Bramlett's counsel and strongly suit to me to grant him Letters of the Estate and ef-: opposed by Solicitor .Martin was giv- AdministrationAX.ofBrabham. been kept quiet until absolute of \V, fects I J*a en consideration by Jud?e Prince, could be secured. are. there'ore, to cite and These the in serve BramleU to ad.ro: ish all and singular the Kin- i but included a provision that dr'Hl and Creditors of the said W. M. S*: i rag l&ifea tobacco mnxcs 1:10:2 i'kkxs. f$#'ii»"*W fc-Si ''in case the insane asylum unite in Brabham, deceased, that they be and of before me, in the Court Genera! Willingness to S* 11 in a certificate that you have entirely appear to be held at Bamberg. o;i Probate, recovered your mental balance you the 21st day of January, next, after hereof, at 1 1 o'clock in may be, on request of the publication Lexington, Ky., Jan. 17..Higher of Greenville county, transferred the forenoon, to show cause, if any have, why the said Administra- | prices and general willingness on the for hard labor upon the public works they should not be granted. part of growers to sell characterized of said county for the remainder of tionGiven under my hand this 6th day j the reopening today of hurley your sentence." of January, Anno Domini, 1921. Ken-1 Central J. J. BRABHAM, JR., market throughout Judge of Probate. 1-20 tusky, according to reports received! Read The Herald, $2.00 per year. < U. S.1 SLICING MACHINE f Strengthening reserved provided Excellent Numbers. c' ^ regularly Beef I Sliced jj ' his mother, the piazza, which connects the and dining room with the main house. There he shot her and the youngest of the two children. The -I- unhealthy Lindanes! audiences. largest s ji^ Carolina. February, coun-j Estill Orangeburg, | r NOTICE OF niSCHAIlOF. The markets closed artists will come "The Harry Leiter Notice is hereby given that I will January 4 following refusal of the Light Opera Company," "The Clifton file Girls my final account with Hon. J. J. "Tlie at at and Virginia their This crops Mallory Players." City People Visiting in farmers to market Brabham, Jr., Judge of Probate for Other Points. Sextette," and Ralph Parlette. prices offered at. that time. State of South Bamberg county, At only one point.Carrollton, Ky., tailed announcements will be made as Guardian for Grace Moore .Miss Mary Valiev, of Holly Hill,' .was any dissatisfaction shown over as each company follows the other. Langford, upon the 5th day of 1921, now next ensuing, and Our Light Opera Company has made; is visiting Mrs. S. C. Hollifield. prices offered by buyers. There, will petition the Court for an order showed, the market closed a "great hit" throughout the .Mrs. Geo. P. White is spending of discharge and letters dismissory. at 2 p. m. because of complaints of try. The Mallory Players have a few days in Union with relatives. ALEX LANGFORD, New of not Platforms offered the did on Guardian. that Lyceum farmers prices .Miss Ethel Black has gone to This 8th A. D., dav of January, costs. Decision as to York City and Philadelphia only to spend a few days with friends. pay production 1921. 2-3n The Virginia Sextette is whether the markets will reopen is to .Mrs. D. C. Murph, of of six cultured Virginia girls be made tomorrow. No Worms in a Healthy Child spent Monday in the city with the who sing and play well. Ralph All children troubled with Worms have an Reports from practically ail relatives. color, which indicates poor blood, and as a is everybody's favorite.his markets showed that rejections of there is more or 1 ess stomach disturbance. rule, .Mrs. D. G. Felder, of Biltmore, buvers' offers were rare. "The University of Hard Knocks" has GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC given for two or three weeks will enrich the blood, is in the city for a few days on N. Prices offered on the Lexington been heard around America and the digestion, and act as a general improve a visit to relatives. market, the largest in the world, Tonic to the whole system. Nature will then The tickets this season, covering throw off or dispel the worms, and the Child will be .Rev. Geo. P. White attended a were slightly better than before the five attractions, are offered at in perfect health. Pleasant to take. 60c per bottle. meeting of the Baptist general board growers forced suspension on in Columbia this week. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. 4, warehousemen stated tonight. three-fifty ($3.50) an extremely low Albert that recall around we when was price .Mrs. R. C. Jones and Miss Lil- The average price here Pursuant to an order directed to stated. was alone commands a price of not it 100 week-end the pounds, past $12 per lian Martin spent the undersigned, in the case of' me, Approximately 900,000 pounds was less than two-fifty to three-fifty T. M. Bailey, in Allendale with relatives. plaintiff, against C. C. stated in all large, seat to warehousemen per $3.50) and here ($2.50 McMillan sold et defendants, in the al, of Virginia, .Dr. E. 0. Watson, Court of Common Pleas for Bamberg and university bids growers of by college city, that rejection spent Sunday in the city shaking would is notice County, hereby given to all Head not total one per cent. the hands with his many friends. claims against 'persons having has authorized me of the Duncan three Colonel least at for buyers McMillan of Mrs. Susan Bailey, -^-C. P. King, superintendent of the firms to state that an entire side section of deceased, to file the same with me, manufacturing tobacco Charleston division of the Southern were on the local floors today and the Carlisle auditorium will be duly itemized and verified, on or the 5th day of February, 1921, railway, was a visitor in the city the offers were made for every basket for those of the city who hold on said day I will hold a reference and week. past of quality. Prices ranged season tickets, and chairs will be regardless office at Bamberg, S. C., for the at my .Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Glover have from 50 cents per hundred pounds to to take care of the overflow. of hearing testimony on all purpose returned from Ehrhardt, where they $53. I may say further that the Carlisle claims and passing upon the same, with illness the were called on account of from other points boys will maintain attentive order and all persons failing to comply Dispatches the with accordance in this and death of Mrs. Glover's showed the range in price as follows: among themselves, and will cooperate ordernotice, be will barred. of said Court, Mrs. Ritter..Walterhoro Press Winchester 50 cents to $56 per in making a grand success of this J. J. BRABHAM, JR., *nd Standard. pounds; Lancaster, $5 to $60; larger and more inspiring lyceum Judge of Probate for Bamberg and acting Master for Bamberg Danville, 25 cents to $53; Frankfort, course. FAMILY County. 2-3 WHOLE to $48, and The lyceum may be made to serve $1 Carlisle, to $69; $1 OUT IS WIPED mm MBiwmaMa.w as a great institution in Bamberg. Paris, 50 cents to $35. have 5.) Let us make it such. We may (Continued from page 1, column the great in the lyceum world just in SPLENDID LYCEUM. thought that the man then rushed proportion as we give support to this Mrs. met and stairs the down Offers Unusually cause within our gates. Your at the back doer on Course at Carlisle here tonight. PERSONAL, MENTION. ; A PRESS Winter Resorts in the South I iMM 1 jjjl REACHED BY THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM Pullman service for the principal cities Through on/1 K»ftOAt«to rtf flia SkAllth vuv/ wvuvui CliLU XCOUX lid VI ^ >. > t'xrm ' Winter Tourist tickets on sale October 1st, 1920, *: limited May 30, 1921. For full information, apply to Depot Ticket | Agent, or | R. W. HUNT, D. P. A., j Charleston, S. C. ' Ready * settlement. | family epi| patronage. pleasure experience bosom A. H. 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Wearing a pajr of old hrogan bye, 'Whore's that new pair of shoes with his blue .suit, Bigham shoes I was supposed to get when jokingly asked Deputy Warden I left here?" Kllis Men V , . i go0(i. McDougald said he'd see about sending Bigham a pair of shoes. v 4 f (cardbfc. Bigham to Go to Florence For 4 Murder Hearings -****. ^ X EDMUND BIGHAM . . . FREE AT 81 Enjoys First Meii On 'Outside' DUG UP AGAIN In the Horry County Court House |at Conway 33 years ago the Jale Judge Mendel L. Smith, declared, after the fourth murder trial of Ed mund D. Bighara, "The Bigham case is ended." But, at the initiative of Senator Gasque, after four decades in prison, four years of which were spent in the death house, Bijjham has been removed to Florence for a hearing in the four other deaths of members of his family as a prelude to the granting of a pardon. The case, which started in Jan uary- 1921, when the bodies of Bigham's mother, brother, sister and the latter's two adopted sons were found at th« family home near Pamplico, Florence County. The state charged that Bigham had wiped out his fam ily in order to inherit the extensive BIGHAM TO GO HOME: South Carolina's most fam^d slayer, Edmund H. Bingham, above, is scheduled to he returned to his home county jail at Florence Thursday afternoon. Bigham, a doorkeeper at the State Peniten tiary, has been serving a life sentence since April. 1927. He was twice sentenced to the electric chair lor the slayIng, and his prosecutors said that if he ever came up for parole he would be prosecuted for four other slayings in his family. Bigham, through the years, although his memory has become somewhat clouded, has maintained his innocence. (Staff Photo) holdings. The case aroused more sensational interest than probably any in the state's history, and there was violent opinion on both side?. Bigham's chief defense was that the imprint of a bloody hand was that of a left hand and he had no left hand. He contended that Smiley Bigham, in whose hand a pistol was "loosely held," was the murderer. Whether any evidence was adduced to show whether S m i 1 e y * s left hand was bloody is not now apparent. The case also made history when, at the fourth trial, the first consent verdict in a murder case was per mitted, the accused being allowed to plead guilty on the agreement that he would be sentenced to life im prisonment. And now, long since considered buried and almost forgotten, the Bigham case has been dug up again. FLORENCL A court order to Senator Gasque, is to a&k the was signed Tuesday to return court to compel the state to fry the other four counts of murder Edmund D. Bigham. alleged against Bigham that have been murderer of five persons, to hU ponding for 39 years. home county of Florence. The reason for this. Senator Bigham has been a prisoner at Casque noted, in that the parole the South Carolina penitentiary board will not consider Bigham since April 4. 1927. with 47 months for parole until the four cases of that time spent in the death are disposed of. house. In case of a tria lof the four Presiding Twelfth Circuit Judge murder charges, there could be Thomas Bussey signed an order very few witnesses. A boog was to return Bigham Thursday after written about the case entitled noon to the Florence County jail "The Last of the Bighams." In addition to being the last of the And on Monday morning, a BiRhams. Ed has outlived all hearing is to be held on four witnesses and al! jury members murder charges against Bigham in the original trials something all dating back to the 20's. he said, and was quoted at the Bigham, who is 90 years old| time as saying, he would do. if you listen to him or 75 if you go by prison records, is serving a life sentence for the slaying of his mother. The four other mur der charges are for slaying his brother, his sister, and her twt adopted sons. The hearing and the move to Florence came on motion of two [was a schoolmate of Biqham's; |Joe Bos tick, son of Hoyt Bostick. attorneys who have taken up the mailman who in 1921 on a Bigham's case on a no-fee basis. mail delivery discovered the five The motion was made before dead bodies at the Bteham home Judge Bussey by Marion Sen. J. Others included C. D. Munn. PamRalph Casque and Attorney Wil banker; Mayor Bennett; and| liam H. Seals. [S. L. Finklea, magistrate. According to Judge Busse; *' BiRham stood around the car. order, there was no opposition [dialling and talking. Sometimes! to the Gasque-Seali motion. The he would recognize uV crertersl sometimes they would have order specified that Bigham be) to tell who they were and hf transported to the Florence Coun would say, "Oh, yes, I remembor ry ail Thursday afternoon "to I |you." the bystander reported. Aftawait disposition of the motion herein Hnd any trial or trials er reminiscing for a while andj which may result from the hear-1 looking at old landmarks, he point mg of said motion." ed to the Pamplico Mule Co..| The hearing Monday, according! across from the drug store, still) operating in the same building. After talking for a while, he] was invited into the drug store by J. D. Calcutt. The drugstore lt-| self has not changed too much, no bystander reported, Bigham Visits Pamplici Hrlaxed and friendly, Bigham] auphed, to exhibit It's Like Old Home Week 'quitr H andsenseseemed of humor." the I HUMOR front of the drug store at 3:30. lystander reported. A little phil-j By 8UII Writer PAMPLICO-Ed Bigham drank Otdtimem say it was the first time wophy came from Bigham, the In chocolate milk at Hyman Drug h* had been back to Pamplico jystander said, after Bigham re-| Store here on Main Street Fri since he was arrested shortly marked hf enjoyed "seeing all he pretty youne girls walking! day, shook hands with Pamplico after the slayings in 1921. he Is around." The philosophv. the by-, residents and took a trip out to While not a free man where live members of his lam- waiting a court hearing on Mon bander said, was . "God made |lly were slaughtered back in 1921. day that possibly may lead him man for His own glory, but he| Bigham was treat made woman for man's glory." Bigham. an old man between to a parole Coming out of the drug store. 180 and 90, is serving a life sen- ed as such Friday. Itence for one of the slayings. He Peter Hyman, formerly magis Bigham got back In the car and | was indicted for Wiling all five, trate at Florence, was driving the hoy drove away, While he had car with Sheriff Hanna hi back vcn talking, he had expressed I including his mother. !he desire to see a house he hart Rut Friday, it was different. with Deputy Sam Ba^oat. built out on the old River Road BETTER LOOK Oldtimers came up to Bigham, hook hands with him. and talked. As soon as the ca r stopped. near the old Bigham house. The BY SHERIFF Bigham got out. The crowd, one Bigham house, a two-story frame Bigham was brought to Pam bystander said, was "a bit re building, burned down 15 or 201 plico. five miles from the Bigfiam luctant but curious" and moved years a50. home where the five were killed up to get a better look. And one Tho house Bigham wanted to hy Florence Sheriff John Hanna. by one. the bystander said, the old see is up the road from the old I Rumor here was that it was timers came up and started shak home, and Bigham had lived! done at the request of Bigham In? Ed's hands and. the hvstand there. i himself. cr said, "it almost got like old The bystander, a native of 1he| Word had gotten around town home week." Pamplico area, said "I detected) I that Bigham was coming. A The bystander said Cutrion My- a remarkable change In the send-1 I crowd gathered on Main Street. ers was first to greet him. Others ment in the people during and] The sheriff's car, with Bigham greeting him included Press My- after his visit this afternoon. In I | In the front seat, pulled up in crs; Mrs. Mary Wilkmson. who my opinion, the feeling ii not �Inearly so strong against the man! las it was." SENSATIONAL SLAY INGS AMIABLE the indictments^ mal until recent ly had been reported pending. He urged the jurist to swear, Ed Bigham: Prisoner to Prince in Eighty Miles P a fury and let the indictments, The bystander, talking further. presented, and then if a nol w I said that "All during the years piosse was in order, that it be they have felt bitterly about his| taken ni that time. | beinc releaased from the penirough." He turned then and pick Bv REV BALLARD Jud«p Bussry declared that the [tentiary and coming back down up his walking cane. "This." ed court had no interest in the case Htaff H filer lor The State there . . . Strangely enough, when he grinned, "was the heaviest indictments were there unless :the man made an appearance. f. re sen ted and that in view of the FLORENCE- "They're killing thing I lifted the whole time." I everybody seemed amiable." tart thai the four impending ac me down here with kindness'" He went on 1o explain his duThe Bigham House was located B> BEV BALLARD tnat they will immediately take tions had been marked "nol A jovial Ed Bigham. back In his,ties as doorkeeper at the prison, I about five miles from Pamplicoj :teps tn prepare a presentation prossr" on the journal, that the home counly after many years of 1 He spoke as if the job were the Waff Writer for The Stale on the old River Road, which wasi Parole Board in nn ef court could not revive the indict imprisonment in Columbia at the most important one thrre and before well traveled before the highway FLORENCE A court ruing has fort to the S. C. Penitentiary, spoke highly!warned, "nothing nor no one goes ments. between Florence and Pamplicol cleared the way and his attorneys dom. win for Bigham his free of his treatment since being re- through that door that 1 don't ques the raised again Gasque was paved. It runs roughly parplan (o make a bid lor the freetion of whether or not there could turned to Florence last Thursday, see." lallel to the Pee Dee River com-; dom o( a convicted murderer at At Tfl. Bicham considers his he any future prosecutions on the "Why, they've brought me I "Who's taking care ol tin'ing through that section. The Big-, i he next meeting of the South health "as good as could be ex indictments and admitted, "I am plates and plates of good country while you're away?" | ham home faced the road, andi pected under the circumstances." ompletely frustrated. I've asked home cooked food. And my friends' 'Oh, they got a young fellow Carolina Parole Board. was about a half mile from the! He sat throughout the hearing, the solicitor to decide in the mat all come to visit me," Bigham de- youngest I **ver saw up there. 1 Florence taking Bigrmm, Edmund I river. crossfire between ter of prosecutions and th*n the clared. Scall him chillun who is taking County lanmer who spent 39 years lawyers inandthejudge. The Bigham property, estimat-] To reach Bigham for iin inter-'care of my duties and my bunk shuttleo been I've rule. to t/urt the for Penitentiary C. S. the .n led to have been worth $80,000 in view just alter a hearing; here My radio and othrr possessions 11971 slaying ot his brother, wa< What did he think of the out buck and forth like a yo-\o." 11921. has since changed hands. The judge then settled the mat- Monday morning during which'have been locked up for safekeeptold that there were no charges come? ifr bv issuing the statement to the court ruled four indictments in* until I return." Bigham said | pending against him in the sensa THE STATE — 'Well, these old ears aren't so ihe clerk of cmirt that "in my for the slaying of members of He was not sure when he would tional slaying of four other mem- tjood any more and I hardly opinion, there are no pending his family were no longer stand* return. 'I'm enjoying meeting my March 26, 1960 Ibeis uf his family. heard anything the judge sajd. but tases or prosecutions against Ed ing, a reporter had to push his:friends down here." he added, Judge Thomas Bussey of Char according to what I've been told. nmnd Bigham." He added "at way through * crowd gathered; Someone remarked assuringly, leston, sitting m General Sessions it all went in my favor and may lhi» time." "Mr. 3igham. if they got up a just outside Bigham's rrll. |Court here, heard Bigham's attar - be I'll get some time before I In the )ail office, a deputy rp- petition in Florence and Horry , neys Sen. Ralph Casque and Wil die to live outside the prison," marked, "we've got a celebrity .counties. I bet they'd be filled THE STATE — liam Seals of Marion and then the bowed prisoner said. .with signatures before nightfall." here." [dictated a court order lo the ef- Gasque told the judge in review March 29. 1960 And to sre the visitor* circled He explained he means a petition itect that "at the present" no pro- ing the circumstances behind the around ilighair. it seemed he had for Bigham's relmse. to clear Bigham that hej [ secutions are pending against appeal been hoisted from the role of a "I saw the old home place and i iJ ^^ ^ i Bigham. ! prisoner to a pnnce. He stood out- my how things have changed," and Seals aren't receiving any j side the door to the crll and Bigham concluded. He referred Bussey signed an order last mone\ for their services and thai | laughed a* he answered questions, to « trip hr took Friday with Florol agreement the with hud re Tuesday to return Bigham, 79, to One of the visitors asked, 'Mr. Vnce County Sheriff John Hanna the Florence County Jail on Thurs the probationary office, gone so did they work you hard,back to the farm near Pamplico. iBighsm, to plans motion in set to day, where he remained in con tar a* 'I do hope I can get out for a | up there in the prison?" tact with his lawyers until the provide Bigham a residence "if before I am too old to get while paroled." i hei when and he "Yessireebob:" hearing Monday morning before he said tearfully, re down'around." rolling sweat had I "Why. in and warrants original Thr a crowded courtroom. mv fnrehead and boy, was It'minding of hi: age of "about 80." Hiclmrnt* against Bigham were Gasque said he had planned to introduced by Gavque, along with Widay, March 29, 1960 nave any pending indictments «n order lor his "death in the brought into court and a trial be electric chair." gun if necessary so as to dispose It A ax pointed out by the deanything against Bigham's rec- lense that the Bigham case ha? rind thus open the way to iterome a legend in the Pee Dec that no other indictments arrj Tea. Gasquc said, "Many storie* parole consideration. *K«in*t the gray-hatred | pending o* various incidents connected old man The Piling poasibly However, it was noted that ft with Ihr alleged slayings have! opens the way ^ hi« strongest! \vas discovered late last week been told and retold. remaining desire to he realized tnat the four indictments against "A lot of the (acts have been I "to die away from prison b* B[gharri had been "nol pressed" rlixiorted. I don't believe there Biehsm has maintained his in-l ip the Horry County General Ses hn* been any case in the annuls of the murders down I nocwve sions Court record of January, «.' South Carolina history where' years. th* through 1921. But, the warrants contain ?inv man has served thii long a I ing the indictments had not been period in the penitentilary when Edmund FLORENCE <AP> THE STATE so marked. convicted purely on the grounds | [Bigham left the Florence County evidence." circumstantial trf as man happier a Tuesday jflil Gasque narrowed down ttii March 30, 1964 The Mtoin^y told of how Big Ihr: headed bnck to his home of (/ucstinn before the court to a re yearr the stale penitentiary in quest for a decision as to whether ham spent lour years on death I Columbia. the court journal or the warrants row. He said the aged man con With him, the 79-year-old man are considered conclusive. Since tended continuously that he was! (took the knowledge that the State the journal had "not pmused" innocent ol the playlngi. Parole Board can now consider marked across the four indict "He accepted a plea of guutyl for parole. It had refused to him ments, then "is there any prose- in order to save his Life and have Ho so seven*! years ago herause against my the sentence commuted to life im-| pending rut ion it WAS believed four murder in client?" he asked. prisonment." Casque added. dictments were pending against Solicitor Richard Dusenbury Producing a packet of letters! (him. said he considered the journal the collected over the years, Gasqur ! Biaham, brought here from Co-| t;nal word and declared that he started to reiterale some of what Jumbia last Thursday for s spe knows of "no prosecution pending he termed "pitiful pleas," when cial hearing Monday In General I J udge Bussey interrupted and ,.gainst Edmund Bingham." Sessions court, was arrested tail kept be remarks the that .rged After an hour of arguments on tc> the constitutional question in-1 1920 for the murder of his broth-1 clarification of the constitutional vo(ved. |er. Smiley. rights of thep risoner and the Gasque Ihr-n laid aside the let He wan Blso indicted for the I MEETING FRIENDS: Jubilant over having been cleared question of possible future prose ters and he read a law which of his mother, a sister, [ I'laying* by a court order of any impending prosecution, Edmund cution, Judge Bussey handed down land two foster children. | "entitled is citizen a that stated Bigham. 78-year-old veteran of 39 years' imprisonment in the order which was considered if n speedy trial" in case of in However, it was disclosed by the S. C. Penitentiary, stands outside the Florence County by Casque and Seals as "Just dictments. [search last week. Horry County I court records show the other four jail talking with friends and neighbors. He halted for the. what we wanted In the first He stressed the word "speedy' indictments to havt been nolle I and said he. felt Bigham had been greeting as he walked freely from the courthouse to th« place." 1 plowed. The Bigham lawyers said after patient in that 39 yean jail, left. (Staff photo by Ballard) (he hearing that they are well I elapsed and nothing had been 1 Testimonv nn ihi« mir*^ Judge! leased with the outcome and laonc in bring him to trial over 1 v to rule iThoma* P 1 Ruling Puts Bigham Closer to Freedom iBigham Now Sees Hope Of Parole < � https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/7a5fbadf61f910bdb7b0d6630fe36a5d.pdf eaffe77ebaeb5e6221fb4c93f0ff93bf PDF Text Text Bigham Relishes Freedom After 39 Years in Prison ~ fas Brother, smiley; his mother; "But I believe sentiment is with] his sistrr; and his sister's two mr now. All thrse Rood people stepchildren. A««orlated Prww Staff Writer nil these sood people," the old| Bisham maintained Smiley had man sighed. Kdmund R IK ham stood in the committed "the crimes, then de One of Bigham's witnesses at bright sun>hme of Main Street stroyed himself. the parole hearing, the Rev. I [here Thursday alternoon, hw lined Charles M. Kelly, pastor of the iface agog at the wonder of free- Three times Bisham was con First Church of the Nazarene. Horn after 39 years behind prison victed and sentenced to die. and Raleigh, N. C., lold of a ques-| three timofi he won appeals to tion BiRham put when Kelly 'bars. the state supreme court for new the prison chaplain here. Only a half hour before, a maj. "He asked me if a man could I |ority vote of the stale's parole trials. board had freed thr man who once Finally, he agreed to a consent kill his mother and his brother [stood an-usrd of five murders in verdict of cuilty of the slayinc of and his sister and two children and | a sensational family massacre. the brother, Smiley, and «»* stay In prison for 25 years and| return his mental balance. "How does it feel to be free?" gentenced to life in prison. "I told him 1hat would he hard] The other indictments were no he w«* asked. to do," the Rev, Mr. Kelly said. pressed in 1927. Eugene Fallon. Sunday editor of] Obviously relishing the question. The subject of his guilt or in- the Florence News, also testified ! the Kl-year-old former Florence (county resident leaned forward on nocence has been an almost comp- for Bigham. He told the board ^»>v« conversation piece for Big. Mparate polls by the News and far ham durm* ^ Ion« pnson >cars hy the Cheraw Chronicle indicated moment of contemplation. "See this." ho declared in the there would br no resentment if I I dont beheve I v c really ^^.^ interview Hr rolled up Bisham were released. J " h time to get accustomed ^ ^^ ^owmK . slcndcr Parole board member* had SURchuckled finally. handless stump which he slapped KM ted that Bigham stay aw ay | "f do want to say I'm deeply dramatically against the door of from Pamplico. Asked dunns the hearing if he wanted to return] grateful to Sen. Gasque and all til* stale office building. the other wonderful people who "That hand could leave no print there. Bigham looked at Gasque | have helped me." I lost it 14 years before I was and jwid. "I'll say thi.«. If ihc people ofl acnjscd." Ralph Casque, the Marion counPamplico wanted me over there He was referring to evidence at Ity senator, had argued success crimson stains that the on a short visit, I'd eo over fully for Bigham's release before HI? trial defense argued ucre made by a provided it didn't interfere »with| the six-member board. He urged Jpf* hand against a door. Bigham y«ir work." the board to parole the senior inOut on the sidewalk couldn't have done it, his altor jmate of the state penitentiary so the marvels of downtown traffic, n«»y« said. "that this old man can spend his BiKham w-as asked when he was] "The human race is nectilair." last days'a free man." Bigham sighed as he walked away gome "home" to Marion. Ry a majority vote, the hoard from the bloodless innocence of "When Sen Gasque comes to] get me," he replied. freed to turn Bigham over to the office hutldine door. A guard nodded aerccment arvlj |r»avpie, who will supply him with ' The Scribes and the Pharisees Mi4, not unkindly, "that won't be| trio-i to turn sentiment against a home and light employment. for about two days, thouch." Jesus Christ. I don't mean to The brulal slaying in the Pamp- compare mywlf in any way. but Righam didn't seem to mind| the wait lico section of Florence county on that's what was done to me not after 39 jears. Uanuary 15. 1921, plunged Bigham sentiment was turned against me," THE STAT1 into unaccustomed limelight. He imihnc a ultlr. hr added: June'3, 19601 was accused of shooting to death H.v ROB MrHI (.H ___ Old Well Where Mr*. Bigjam's Body Was Found THI "CHARLOTTE OBSIKVEK Friday, Ayti 1, ________ 'Last of the Bighams' Scheduled To Come Up for Parole on June 2 Edmund Bigham "the last of were no longer in existence came death in the bizarre case, fi the Bighams" is scheduled to to light only two month* ago. one story of the 1920's. but <>n| come up for parole June 2, pa Bigham's lawyers claimed he three occasions his lawyers oh-i role board officials said yester couldn't get a parole bct<*re be lamed state supreme court ap-| cause it was ihought the indict peals. day. The parole board was 10 navel ments were still in effect Bigham. whose age is rM defi nite but is between 66 and 75, The state has declined to ask. heard the case next Thursday, was sent to prison, ace-used o! for new indictments. Witnesses at [ but state Sen. Ralph Ga&nje. "t| five murders in the ma.-> slay the original trial have lorw since Marion, one of BriKham'? attor neys, asked for thr postponemrntj ing of his family, 33 yen is- ago died. to June 2. this month. The life sentence way Next week thr board, however,I for the murder of his broincr, L. According lo penitential y rec wilt hrar an appeal for pamle ords, the former resident of the | Smiley Bigham. Indictments for the murder ol Pamplifo area in Florerut: Coun from another long-lime ronvict, his mother, a sister and iwo of ty is 75 years old. According to Lathan Robert Crisp. 66. »*crvins her foster children, were nol.t parolp board records, he is 66. life for the 1931 slaying of pressed (set asidri many years Bigham (old a newsman la;t year wealthy banker. Crisp, a former Laurcns Countj he was 87. furl that those indictment-* HP w»s originally sentenced to resident, WHS turned down lor pa. role in 195S. He has been a trust] THE STATE ; Saturday, May 14, I960 for a quarter of a century. ine< >tate| her foster children, were nolle casions his lawyers pressed (set aside) several years Supreme Court appeals and he was eventually sentenced to life] ago. The fact that those indictments imprisonment. were no longer in existence came THE STAT1 to light only two months ago. Bigham's attorneys claimed he June 2, 1960 couldn't get a parole before becr;use it was thought the indict By THE ASSOCIATED PREHS ments were still in effect. Edmund Bigham, an inmate ol The state has declined to ask the State Penitentiary for 33 for new indictments. Witneses at years, will ask the State Proba- the original trial have long since I Upn, Pardon and Parole Board for died. | his freedom today. There is some doubt as to BigBigham was sent to prison, ac- ham's age. Penitentiary records cused of five murders in the mass sliow him to be 7^ years old. Pa 'slaying of a family, in May of role board records have him 66. 1927. The life sentence was for the And last year Bigham told a 1 murder of his brother, L. Smiley newsman he was 87. I Bigham. The lormcr Florence County Indictments for the slaying of resident was sentenced to d«ulhl I his mother, a sister and two of back in the 1920's. On three or- Ed Bigham To Ask for Parole Today ator in Marion. EDMUND BIGHAM Old Convict Quits Cell For New Life COLUMBIA, S.C. - OJP1* For aged Edmund Bigham, life began at more than two times 40 as he walked to the South Carolina Penitentiary Friday a free man for the first time in mre than 39 years. The oldest convict in the state wan paroled Thursday by the South Carolina Probation. Parole and Pardon Board but was nnt released for 24 hours while necy paper work was perform ed. At that. Bigham who had packed his things before the pa role hearing was freed sooner than he expected. The radio wouldn't fit Into the car and a npwuman cover ing Blgham'R departure put Ihf huge instrument In htc station wagon, promising to deliver It to Bigham's new home In Ma rion. Each of the boxes containing the old convict's personal effects was neatly addressed to "E. D. BigThe old man wh» claims U ham, Marion. S.C." br Hfl althnuKh the Parole Board Bigham had been in jail since Ray* he Ii 81. was itill In pris Jan. 21, 1921. shortly after his on clothe* when his lawyers, mother, brother, sister and his State Sen. Ralph Casque and sister's two stepchildren were William Seals, called it the found shot to death at the penitentiary to pick him up. ham farm near Pamplico in Flo rence County. "I'm sorry I wasn't ready for Three times Bigham was sen you. If I'd known you were com tenced to death and each time] ing this early I'd have been tht State Supreme Court reversed] ready." Bigham told Casque as the conviction on a point of law. he hurried back to his cell to don his blue double-breasted suit. At the fourth trial. Blgham He and several other trusty agreed to plead guilty to the convicts carted his trunk, two laying of his brother. Smiley, cardboard boxes, a pre - World In exchange for a life sentence. War II radio and an armful! of He liter repudiated the guilty plea and has sine* stuck stead picture* out to Casque's car. Bigham will work for the sen- fastly to his nriKfnal story that Smiley killed the others and nletde. � https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/9c26796b24c9f91bd64d221fb16a1c82.pdf 67a5621db1ece8d450aad30bfa09fa16 PDF Text Text S. C. FOUR INDICTMENTS DISMISSED ^__^ __ « • ** * __ Oldest S.C. Convict Near Freedom? FLORENCE, S. C. <UPI) The path to freedom bright ened Monday for Edmund D. Bigham. oldest inmate of South Carolina's penitentiary when a circuit judge ruled four mur der indictments against h i m had been dismissed 33 years ago. However, state Probation Parole and Pardon Board Su pervisor Curtis Moor; said it would be gome time after formaJ application is made before the board could consider a par ole for the aged convict who dainu to be 90 although prion record* list him as 75. "We will have to Investigate the case thoroughly before it comes up," Moore said. He add ed it would be impossible to bring the case before the board at Thursday's regular meeting. The board had refused to con sider parole for Bigham until the four indictments were dis posed of. His attorneys moved for Monday's hearing be/ore Circuit Judge Thomas P. Bussey for the purpose of having the four indictments dismissed, but learned while researching the case that all four had been no] - proased in Horry County General Sessions Court at Conway April 1927. Bussey ruled there were no charges pending against Bigham who was ordered returned to the State Penitentiary at Col umbia while his lawyers pre pare a formal parole applica tion. Bigham has been behind bars since shortly after five mem bers of his family were found slaughtered at the Bigham fam ily home near Pamplico in January 1921. The family was one of Flor ence county's most prominent namei at toe time. Bigham's mother, brother, said he pleaded guilty in South sister and her two stepsons Carolina's first "consent" ver were shot to death with a .38 dict on record because he was caliber pistol owned by Bigham. promised a parole after five He was convicted three times years. and sentenced to the electric Stale law requires service of chair spending 4 - months at least 10 years of life sent in the death house before fi ences before parole can be con nally pleading guilty to the slay sidered. Bigham has served 33 ing of his brother. Smiley, and years being sentenced, receiving a life sentence in 1927. but has since been in custody 39 Despite the guilty plea, the years. one - armed Bigham has since His lawyers State Sen. maintained his innocence and Ralph Casque and William claimed Smiley murdered the Seals, both of Marion said four other victims and then they had a job waiting for Bigcommitted suicide. Bigham ham if he is paroled. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [ ^^^^^^ i^^^MM^^B^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H aughter Of Five In Family Horrified South Carolina on Edmund when he was order was missing. "Aunty Silvia." a -withered yean ag« sad was replaced Edmund arranged a quick ed searched by the coroner for Negress born as a slave on the with what ti BMW the quiet and simple mass funeral for all a pistol he reportedly had been Bigham place, is said to have country home of Mr. and been cooking hog meat at one MM. Thomai Pottoa. five of the dead. The two boys seen carrying. Edmund Bigham. returned some land dce( were buried in white coffins. The able solicitor told the Bigham home when the slaugh Mrs. Poston said she saw to hit native Florence Coun carrying on her person were News nf the slaying spread jury how Edmund and Smiley ter began. the car Bigham was in stop ty this week to hear a judge (missing. She allegedly ran across a were last seen together in the over the state in no time. * * * in front of her house Monday. rule that four of five murder field and silent about Some residents of the Pam woods near where Smiley's what she remained She said _h*_^eemed Jo__droi in4ietm*nii against him hod had seen. plico community, 18 miles body was found. his head after taking a quTcl * * * been,dmmissed 33 years ago Lifeles* Body Witnesses testified thai Smisoutheast of Florence, agreed look at the old well in the] Attorney* for Bighorn, old- The lifeless body of one of with Edmund that it was Smil A'ew Trial Denied back yard and the outbuild Icy tried to leave the woods but «t inmate rtf the S. C. Peni Mrs. Black's two adopted sons. ey who killed his mother, si.stcr ings on the place. Bigham's attorneys appealed i tentiary of Columbia, said the 2-year-old George McCracken. and the two boys and then took that Edmund called for him to Bigbam recently stated he is| for * new trial but received] court ruling ITOJ the /ir*l step was found under a long bench his own life. wait so they could walk a denial June 10, 1922. The pris 90 years old but prison rec in their efforts to win the Rumors were thick that Smil home together. Both Smiley oner was sentenced to die July ords list him as beinf 75.1 j*n the back porch. The young prisoner a formal parole. Former Pamplico acquaintances) ster had been shot in the tem ey, who had worked at a postal and Edmund were in the woods I 22 of that year. Bigham hat been in custody ple. job. was worried over a short paying N'cgrn woodcutters their j say he is 77. since 4 1ev> days after five age of funds discovered by a wages. The Bighams were left But the defense lawyers Sit year - old John Me- postal examiner. member* of his family were wouldn't gire up. Thf 7 won in the woods alone. Cracken Jr. was found lying found slaughtered at the BigThey whispered Smiley was other trials for Bigham and on a potato bank near a ptCasque explained to the jury ham family homeplace near ran tree la the back yard. He ' also disturbed over impending how Mrs. Edmund B.gham IB April of 1927 it Conway Pamplico in January of 1921. too had been shot la the prosecution for destroying rec went to the court clerk's office succeeded in gaining a com Folloicing is an account of temple but was itlll living. ords at the Florence County in Florence while Edmund was promise with Solicitor Casque the discovery of the five bod There wai also a wound la Courthouse. in jail awaiting trial and tr<ed thai the Jury be permitted to ies, Bighorn's arrest and the Another rumor was that he to record a deed Casque said enter a guilty verdkt and one of thf boy'f hand*. Indi legal tkirmuhes that followed. cating hr had raised his arm had been denied a loan by a was taken from Marjorie Black recommended mercy. bank a week before the shoot when her undervest was ripped to ward off the assasiin's bul By DON GRAY ings. This was done and Bigham Staff Wrtttr let. open. However, was sent to the S. C. Peniten the Wednesday aft PAMPLICO. S. C. - When an Casque emphasized that Ed John McCracken died during er the fateful Saturday Edmund. mund's lust for land led him to tiary for life. He has been there aging rural mail carrier for the past 33 years but still stopped at Mrs. Dora Bigham'i the night without saying a word. who denied any connection with the shooting spree. maintains his innocence. Mrs. Edmund Bigham and the crime, was arrested on a fcome near here Saturday. Jan. Clerk E. M. SinglMary testiWhen Casque agreed to the 15. 1921. little did he know he her two daughters were found warrant signed by John Mchad came upon the scene of one alive on the front porch of the Cracken Sr. father of the two] Led the deed, signed by Dora compromise at the 1927 trial { Bigham, Mrs. Black and Smi he reportedly included in the of the worst crimes S. C. has big house. All three were young boys killed. settlement that if a governor scared almost beyond speech. ever known. At the March. 1WI. term of ley Bigham. was forged. should pardon Edmund for (he Edmund testified the other Mrs. Bigham lay crumpled criminal court in Florence Edmund said he had seen his behind an old well. A stream brother Smiley disappear into County. Edmund was found Righams owed him $42.000 and murder of Smiley he would be of blood led to the back steps the woods near the home and guilty of murdering Smiley and liad given him a deed' to all promptly re-arrested and tried again for the murder of one of f the house. that he had a pistol in his was sentenced to die in the their property as payment. the other four victims. Edmund Bigham. one of the hand. electric chair. dead woman's son*, ran to the Edmund admitted the pistol Solicitor Lonnie Gafque ar The day after the shootings mall man and said "She has Edmund found in Smiley's hand was gue that Smiley Bigham's post directed a search that just died . . . ihe told me his i Edmund's) but .«aid Smil Bigham Returns Smiley done it. he has killed us led to the discovery of Smiley's office shortage amounted to ey had gotten it by forcing body. only 40 cents and that he could When Bigham was brought •11." have borrowed f 10.000 from Joe open a locked drawer. He too had died of a bullet to Florence this week in con Mrs. Msrjorie Black. Ed One defendant was convicted nection with his bid to win mund's sister, was found in wound in the temple and was McCown's bank if he had need on circumstantial evidence, parole, officers drove him to I ed it very badly. holding Edmund's pistol. room dead. She had been Casque also argued that there were no eyewitnesses to Pamplico to the old Bigham J . . in the temple, her under Edmund suggested suicide to wear "«d been ripped open and the coroner but Smiley's wallet mi ley's wallet was found the shootings. At least, none homeplace. who would testif: The old house burned � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bigham Murders Collection, 1921-1960 Description An account of the resource Several news articles recounting the Bigham Murders on Old River Road. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1-20-1921 5-4-1960 3-26-1960 3-29-1960 3-30-1960 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Bamberg Herald The Charleston Observer The State https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/b2012656d7db35d82503792b5990a599.pdf 8bfb9eeb0638397b79428892e8e7b312 PDF Text Text .ojsj «p^o p*."f". £ .^ .*$* »j . f^ .e^i..*4®.*4®.*4*.*4*.iS tj# ^^ .<\£* *4+ ) FIND M TC I ONE ONEY, ANN TO : LUCF OD GO {IT'S 1 «t, Since this is tru<e, as well as the fact that when vciu save money easily it's like pick:ing it up in the street, if you woulc1 be lucky you can be so by coming to our store for * * Edging!5, Flouncing,Rib bons,Silks. ]" f* Bargains in Dress Goods, White Goods,We Laces, full line i7 1 and L o w Cut Shoe carry at our store 1ve will give any one a special sh(>wing over our sto :k. Will No t Be Undersold. I to suit any family from fath er down. By calling Ij ** II S TICK LETY'S JJJK Y GOODS <COMPANY , .i. .KEEP YOl R EYES ON *t*OUR SHOW WIS»OWS.«* '*§ ..»f> >§» 'f* »f» *§* »f* many innocent ones who must suffer through no wrong of their own. PROHIBITION PRINCIPIES ARE ROCK-RIBBED. Prohibitionist, | a* A A A A *. A. *. J p*.*§» *$* *f* *f*. § .*§» T.T.T.T.T T «f».'f* «f*. § £».^.4. tr-.f.T ~ . Why Leay^g^^ for the h**ated ter( have a Will money pay the price? The next election is near at hand. I will you lend your Editor County Record: -We are hand at this time, or will you allow watching every evening the swiftly Neptune, Courier, an article from the News & the House of "Is the Prohibi-; have the men. u lder the FOR JNE. ; ====== AT j . . Summer Report rigat here In Kingstree. THE QUESTION SHOULD NOT BE the Halley's comet and musing ground you have gained to be; receding VIEWED FROM STAND-POINT t vast its journey of six thousand taken by the enemy? Lose no time on OF REVENUE. in calling together the true men of millions of miles before it can get Editor County Record: the county and bringing out a strong back with another load of sun fuel: issue In your last week's appeared prohibition ticket for the Senate and for it is said its elliptical pathway H ' I SLEDGE HAMMEJlR BARGAINS! I 1\ THE SAGE OF 'POSSUM FORK Discourses on Comets and Their Functions-Wonders of Space. I YOUNG'S One thousand yards 45-inch-widie Persian Lawn only 15c a yard. Still a large line of 10c Cotton \roiles on hand going at 5c a case Dress Ginghams 9c a:pard, 12 yards $1.00. A large assortment of Men's Pa,nts in all prices; will close out very cheap A large line of Men's Blue Dt;nim Overalls, 50c values, yardOne ^ -J ' 'i X beyond the orbit of Representatives. We extendsourfarmost distant planet, which you'll find all kinds of caption: Let me nominate C tion Wave Receding?" This article W Wolfe for the Senate and E B takes 164 of our years to make one Mineral Waters, was written by some whiskey man Rhodus to head the ticket for the of his. going at 40c the pair. wholesome who wishes prohibition to be a fail- j House. They are not office seekers Other comets will visit us, Cool Drlnks,lces,Crushed Fruits. ure. The whole article went to prove over and over again, before but will respond to duty's call. another make that the cpunties which retained; can comet oil Lover of Right. Halley's ice ureamiresn uaiey are were by there money for making round of 76 years, dispensaries Kingstree, May 30. ¥ a cool, comfortable plase to selling whiskey. I have never heard (The editor of The Record many hundreds of them throughout A assortment of Men's 5Oc Work Shirts will go at \our leisure or to while lurge away that whiskey selling! our solar system, and .it is any one claim a friend. Courteous and 40c each. in the bring the implied compliment that some of them visit also was not a money-making business. polite attention to all patrons. Our line of White Lawn Shirt Waists is the wonder of all paragraph of the concluding is it solar other see them. who although Bar-keepers' wives are always pic-1 systems, FRESH BREAD DAILY article. He would be guilty of more than Just received another shipment of Ladies' Black Panama millions tured as dressing in silks and riding thousand twenty to feel deeply not J insensibility great Skirts very cheap. going is claim we in fine carriages. What of miles to the nearest sun. j of offers the supk at for see Blac each. our line Skirts Don't fail to of many $2.25 that God's cur3e always rests upon grateful But (outside the planets), every DO now going at 85c. White Linene Ladies' friends values, Skirts,$1.1 influential and port by loyal the money thus made. In years gone with vast speed, !star is a White Linene Skirts, $1.65 values, noW going at $1.25 in connection with the office referred with allsun, moving around their by men considered respectable sold to. attendants, He regrets that it is impossible !3ome common centre, just as whiskey and made money thereby; to heed the call of "duty's voice". all ourgreat since that time the public conscience e Ka£P. on planets revolve around our one has been quickened and educated to if it may so be considered.but that sun. And if all these millions of KJnfstree Lodge it the paint of knowing that the busi- obstacle alone would preclude, !suns are fed by comets-1-scavengers No. 91 men at need We health. ill of strong * ness is dirty and degrading. Now this time to represent our county. (of creation.what an army of fuel of Just received another shipraei of Ladies' Tape Neck Regular Conventions Brer; no self-respecting man will engage in natifre! gatherers as well as virile of men energy, and 4th Vests only 5c each. Full le ngth and full size, a 2nd Gauze nights Wednesday is but in the business outright; glad Yes, God's plantation is the and brethren in every way, only 5c each. welcome. high broad did Visiting intelligence always garment man to profit by having some other of suns and solar systems of Castle Hall 3rd story Gourdin Building Undervests only 25c each. lot A large of Men's Balbriggan do the work he is too respectable (?) planetary worlds, intermingled with line of Men's Porous knii Undervests, short sleeves, t A (j. D. Jacobs, C. C. ?arga SALTERS SITTINGS. to do himself,not recognizing the fact (comets and flying debris, like bees C. C. Burgess, K R 8 & M F and short Drawers, only 50c each; $1.00 the suit. A large line of Men's Balbrigga n Vests only 50c each. that the man who dispenses the iin a forest; everything on the move, v I 1 each. Infant-Saccessfnl $1.00 Undervests Gauze of an Men's Silk Death of line A nice ^ and is his his vote agent motion whiskey by counteracting Items. centrifugal A full line of Scriven's Elastic Searn Drawers only 7oc the < is po more responsible for the thing School Term Closes-Local or gravitation; TJie Thrice-a-Week World, universal attraction, pair. Imitation Scriven's Elastic Seam Drawers (Received tco late for last week's issue). than he himself. Jall.all is perpetual motion, from Men's only 5Cc It is indeed a sad fact that the Salters' Depot, May 24:.Gladys, ,Luc .nicicunv; stuuc, iiiuviu^ the pair. WITHOUT A RIVAL IN ITS HELD. men of Williamsburg have been so the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs jits own individual orbit, to the fkn {«% kmnn/y S A Carraway, died last week at ( of planetary worlds.yes, all. 1 ka V wtaif PkttatMttf an/a Rail negligent ui uieu uutjr m uatmg UnlKn.nr TTlo Tiio rpmains wprp uai^v«»| this: but law enforced, J prohibition mns, planets, worlds, comets and Published at Newspaper not is and on here law May the that Thursday, does not prove brought debris of every description, in. one the Price. < right and good; it rather proves that 19, interred at the Union Presby- jarrand, universal perpetual motion the devil has a way of putting men' terian church cemetery. i around the throne of God.heaven Read in Every English-speaking Country to sleep and making them feel so Mr Ed Tutle, the local station jitself. And we.poor little human has invariably been the great effort comfortable that they do not wish agent for the Atlantic Coast Line 1beings- are snugly ensconced under of Itthe Thi values in Indies' W hite Lawn Shirt Waists, ice-a-Week edition of the Splendid r.«» the World news York New work. to publish and and White Linen Ski ^ be roused is Skirts to Black put up railroad, who has been quite sick, a bomb-proof atmosphere that burns impartially in order that it may be an hear to It is no uncommon thing into vapor nearly all the flying accurate reporter ot what has able to be up again. j It tells the truth, trr< spective of our officers highly complimented as of Woodson R Rev A Manning meteoric stones that assail us day party,and f<>r that reason it has have' to brave men, able and willing a position with the public unique a series of interesting and and night, and causes to float away, preached of its class. the 1aws enforced. In some respects instructive sermons at Union Pres- harmless, any and all poisonous gases among season is now at The papers subscription they nave earned this high praise, j byterian church last week. Large!'that comets' tails can ever bring hand and this is the best oiler that will We have had mysterious murders1 congregations gathered to hear him along, our atmosphere being heavier be made to you. news as it really is, Ifyouwantt.be in the county since these men have ! morning and evening during the than the gases which scientists try subscribe to ihe Thrice-a-We k edition of the New York V\ orld, which comes held office and by determined effort week and on Sunday as well. to frighten us with. other day except >uriday, to the guilty parties have been hunted The closing exercises of Salters No wonder the Psalmist said: anayouis every thus practically a daily at the of a weekly. down and brought to justice in spite' Graded school will take place "What is man, that Thou art mindful price The Thrice-a. Week World's regular of the attending mystery. But*, price is only $1.00 per year, night. Under the able manage- of him, or the son of man that Thou subscription this pays for 157 papers. We offer m strange to say,this has not been done ment of Misses White and Arthur, visitest him?" "Thou madest him a ana this unequalled newspaper and The in every case. Some months ago a the little lower than the angels, but County Record together for one year T.of nc annnTv vnn with some of the articles you may need, popular principal and assistant, crownest for one year for *1.75. ^ with and honor." him poor man was found dead in Black \ glory the school has enjoyed The regular subscript ion price of the as respectively, such of The circumstances rivei swamp. successful term. Both these "Well done, thou good and faithful two papers is $3.00. a his death were indeed horrible. He very ladies have been elected for another servant; thou has b^n faithful over 1910 was a murdered man, as was shown a few things, I will make* thee ruler by the bottle of whiskey found on year. over many things." But, Mr Editor, COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON. his person. That whiskey was the Miss Emma Nettles of Sumter is I am going over there before long, I 126th Year Begin* September 30. HL will be held at the mstr.ar.ent of murder: the lawless visiting her sister, Mrs J see understand Entrance and and shall things county courtexaminations house on Friday, July I, at 9 a m. can compete in wret~h who sold it to him was the for/ admission here in All candidate* better than I can for vacant Boyce scholarship, which September to murderer. It would not have been j Messrs E T Hamer and William S free tuition 'Possum Fork. pay $100 a year. OaeCarolina. Board scholarship ami each county of South last week Columbia went to Shaw the to crime that trace to room in dormitory, $12. Tuition, $10. lurnisned impossible For catalogue address delegates to the State convention. HARRIS )N RANDOLPH, Cannot Be Cured Deafness guilty party and have that party as 'PUy* jr 5-26-tf President. punished. Has anything been done' lie tcuouo onnmnvofca^-v/A fni* T $ By local applications as they cannot of the in the matter? If so,we have never township have sent in their work to reach the diseased portion t>I heard of it. Strange, indeed!! Ye the district supervisor at Darlington.' car. lucre ia unij' uuc w<%y tu euic and that is by brave, fearless office bearers, what The aforesaid enumerators have deafness, Deafness is caused remedies. * this dare lay added to their stock of experience by an inflamed condition of the mu1 of these facts? Do you J are headquarters for everyows, jb can't in several ways. at the door of "prohibition cous lining- of the Eustachian Tube. in the £ thing is inflamed you have prohibit"? The time will come The cotton crop is not very prom- When this tube Line Fruit and when this terrible wrong will be ising around here, as it is is grassy,1 a rumbling sound or imperfect a also We Keep complete line o L and when it is entirely closed, j { re, laid at other doors. with bad stands. Corn is small, but! deafness is the result, of Soft Drinks. Kindt and unless All j and is law right The prohibition looks well. this inflammation can be taken out We handle on SATURDAYS CI w COT Mill I FTQ !/ right will eventually prevail. We Mr W C Lifrage, the Coast Line's and this tube restored to its normal y rue I nU ^ will be destroyed condition, hearing are not alarmed about that, still we hondsome and >ves. obtainable. relief agent, forever; nine cases out of ten are popular ^ works through men, took Mr Tutle's place here for sev-' know that God PAID PRICES HIGHEST caused by catarrh, which is nothing and if the present men of Have just received a car-load of \ foeral days during the latter's illness.; but an inflamed condition of the V| PRODUCE. are false to this duty which has COUNTRY £ Salters Depot. mucous surfaces. ^ A share of your patronage is R come to them, they may go on and j We will give One Hundred solicited. L for any case of deafness (caus- I «j earnestly sell w hiskey for the present and they, .Tust received.a beautiful A cordial welcome alwa ys awaits you. Anderson, Spring & Co., £ will make make money by it, as' line of wedding stationer}' and ed by catarrh; that cannot be curea C. S. Send for Hall's Catarrh Cure. KINGSTREE. by a new series of "Engravers whiskey sellers have always free. frnr^rrrerrrT^^rrriyrrrr That with it. will Old curse od's English" type. You can't circulars, go C but ( F. J. Cheney & Co., 'Toledo, 0. dm nanpre for sale cheaD bv Give! Sold by druggists, 75c. curse will rest upon their own souls,, tell it from engraving. hundred at The Record the upon their homes, their children, us your order; satisfaction Take Hall's Family Pills for office. ^ their church organizations and upon guaranteed. NBBHBnBBHBHHHnmH .' r.\ -/-3 healthgiving however, appreciates Don't Miss the Big Bargains OurRemnant Counters. conjectured foregoing j . Young's Ice Cream Palace Don't Miss tbe Bargains W Have to Otter Yoa Our Remnant Counters. f g? vSuf' f j||p§ Knights Pythias universe character). icoot . .^ m largest wv 1U U1UV1 * t *" *M> «»% « uc , »»».» AI*V spleni ' «#v«% happened. achieved Don't Miss the Splendid Bargains We Have to Offer on Our Remnant Counters. |1 Jenkinson IIros. Co. '1 ImSBBHBHBnHBnMai SSE555S5SS Your Home and Farm Needs. I Tuesday i - A^WV WW Chandler. A/mkmio Ciiumvi Are o 1V1 o xxiiiv.o ...... 4.^ ...» constitutional i ANDERSON, SPRING & GO. Grocery hearing, -- > H1k.W I Tinware, v £ j) Portland Gement. Dollars done;j VIVA J j , i & constipation. j "* A I Glasswa Crock ery, St( . Williamsburg ] . ^ ^ |2 vaaiaa J Farm Implementis, Orangeburg Sw eeps, Cotton Hoes, Dixie Cast Mower Jtepairs, Bind( Twine, Hardware of All Kinds, Screen Doors, I Screen Wind |1785 ± ^. J Farmers'SnipplyCo. '" * ... 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Title A name given to the resource Discourses on Comets - 1910 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6-2-1910 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The County Record Description An account of the resource The Sage of Possum Fork, Henry Eaddy https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/4d4a3b07df8c409d6ab1d177b33e492b.pdf 6c1c4c750ae7aa439c96efc319f371a1 PDF Text Text V THE .4 ^FINANCIAL END | Another new dwelling is going upin the Nelson Addition. Mr W El McGee has the framing up for his dwelling and a force of i hands pushing the work completed Mr McGee will have a pretty and comfortable G A L E 6 Z Cr A. L E. dailyWhen MILL] N E R Y OF THE FARM Ii cottage. The record* ot tiie station agent Kingstree show that | needs careful attention if thei Saturday, October 0, 3,174 up at to , * 1 ' - - -1- *' ii » Don't select your Hat for the Winter until y<ou see our line of latest styl<ss at lowest prices. 1 measure oaies 01 couon nau neensmppeu this season. This is over a thou- farmer wants the full J uf success. sand more bales than had been JOHNSONVILLE JOTTINGS. In no other way is this so easilyshipped from here at the same Transient Notices will be Published W. O- W. Monument Unveiled.Fine and so accurately accorn-; time last year, we are informed.; in This Column at the Rate of One Nonogenarian. Cent a Word for Each Issue. No plished as by means of a check ! On Saturday, October 2, Mr Mr 1> M Krvin went to Lake School Opening-A taken for less than 25 cents. I 10:.As October Johnsonville, Glenn .UcGee, who lives across account. City Monday. have seen nothing in your valuable Successor to For Sai.k.a few hundred bu-helsof YOUR account will be appre-! Black river,about six miles west her since rust-proof Seed Oats. Johnsonville is J good, R McCabe Mrs visiting concerning and: paper his town, of lost dwelling J C Everktt, ciated at THIS bank. / the new county got killed, please 10-7-3t Salter* D»»not S C, contents, all his household and j relatives in Marion. me space to inform the public in I kitchen furniture, etc, by tire. Mr Winslow Wright is in town Wanted.At once. five or six loads We have a lar^e and well general that Johnsonville is still in of stove and chimney wood. The loss amounts to over $1,000, this morning from Scranton. stock of all kinds of The County Record. with no insurance. The tire was Miss Helen Scott is visiting existence. on which we are AvnoA^inrfltr pre^ IATTT I community has been For Rent.Two 6-room houses on parvi W J^IVU cavxcuui^ij accidental, caught from a stove trie: js in Marion and Manning. Our prices. Let us ligure with you East Main 3treet and one 9-room house and bountiful this year, crops flue. on your wants. on Brook street. Apply to Kingstree, S C. M Brockinton of J DGilland or prices good. Correspondents must send! Or W 4-15-tf S L Courtney. Mr M V Cox has added two clerks was in Kingstree Friday of their letters so as to reach this to his business this fall. office not later than Tuesday, or last week. Wanted.One good, young Jersey On October 2, in the Presence of a cow. with young calf, to milk 3% to 4 the communication will attended Miss Marie Thorn gallons a day. Address not appear in the current the Gregg-Commander wedding large crowd at Johnsonville church, W D Bryan, unveiled the Woodmen of the World 10-14-lt Taft, SC. issii#> W#» start to orint on Wed- in Florence last week. of one to the monument a memory the Wanted.Five or six loads of stove can dress you from head nesday and we can't set up Esq, of the of their number, Mr Frank (look. to We and chimney wood. foot with the best and most The man who advertises is type for the whole paper and J Ilarry Lesesne, 10-14-tf The County Record. bar, was iu Kingstree Rev C W Creighton, editor of the goods on the market never scared of competition. do the press work all in one or Manning on professional Tuesday Christian Appeal, delivered the Notice.The State Deputy will reached the 13 cent two days. Edwin Clapp Shoes to Cedar Swamp (^amp, No 435, which was enjoyed by all. at A series of a is off but began meeting's mark yesterday, S C, on Wuoacraft the Fourth Benson, We are sole agents for these moved has last Our school M McCutchen T Dr opened high the Baptist church Wednesday celebrated shoes and can give Saturday night in October. Come out, today. Woodmen. with a 'urge number of students you any size and shape, button to Mayesville, where he will of last week and is still in 10-14-lt G E Rembert, C C or lace. Price $5.00 and $6.00. of loads six of oar or Some six teachers. live yoang Wanted, We also handle Services are held daily at practice his profession..Dillon and For Rent.Three or four horse farm folks have already been making eyes stove and chimney wood. 3:30 and 7:30 p m. The meetings Herald with sufficient dwelling house and barn Peters .Shoes at the pretty teachers. Talk about at this office. room acommodation; one store, dwelling are well attended and much Miss Leah Townsend, for men, women and children. house and lands adjoining; one horse as as much little "sweet girls" your is manifested. The and a pair of mules. Kind words are seed sown by Miss Sadie Carver, yon -please, bnt, boys, we've got William Cooper. W is assisted E with week-end Hurt, oftimes by the comes whose fruition spent "LION BRAND" 9-30-4t Cooper, S C at Johnsonville. them State Evangelist Woodward friends. when least expected. Shirts and Collars I wonder if anybody remembers For Sale.At 12 o'clock sharp on is an able who has Uncle Wesley Hughes. Lou Arrowsmith, Mrs Cotton is quoted on the local Mr Woodward The reputation of these goods the 18th day of October, 1909, now He is Monday, his efforts here have and is well known in this section. I will sell to the highest bidder for cash in been Kingstree, narl-pt trkH.iv it 12ir for midvisiting is wife his and J ninety years old, to $1.50. SHIRTS.50c at tr.e lesioence 01 Mr jonn tiawsins borne fruit. T T A DQ 1 tZr% fa/A /av 0?*/» to Georgetown. eighty-foui. They have been married UV/iiliALW on Railroad avenue, all tlie carpenter's yesterday dling; seed $22 per ton. We ire informed that the whole .Georgetown Item, Octoicr 8. tools (either singly or in pairs) of J W a have raised and sixty-seven years Junk, deceased. We are special representatives Owing to a wreck on the road package of "Records", A M Snider. No SO, the morning train from 30 papers, addressed Do you know that "a enters big family. Children, grandchildren of the October 1900. 10-14-lt nearly 11, Brown ridge amang ye takin' notes'* in the and great-grandchildren number two Charleston, was tive hours late to Trio failed to reach that T. W. It is of interest to note the high hundred and twenty-five. Both of 1 mlr '"PVi /I ic shape of a magazine y UV^ Sunday. Co. of a Southern institution. Tailoring standing have are enjoying good old these female the of people persuasion? Statistics been prepared to she w when we have all the and guarantee our clothes to fit. us the that Jefferson you Standard Life In* help health By helping to today. $50.00. SUITS.From $14.00 trouble of printing the paper Mrs A H Dobbin, who spent suranee Company of Raleigh, N C, is to who $18.00. bouses the TROUSERS.$5.00 from had Buy one of the strongest insurance to the summer with her son in Well, Mr Editor, I guess I COATS.$10.00 to $30.00. advertise in The Record and and putting it in the officeThe in America and is stronger in to want ever off. If better to $40.00. OVERCOATS.$10.00 ling you is visiting her have our work all in vain. Terre Haute, Ind, to its assets, surplus and tf the in a select stock We also carry from this section, consult ^mention paper. reports than any other company Trousers Men's of daughter, Mrs Hugh McCutclien. hear line papers were mailed here was at its age. '9-2-tf "The Jest of Johnsonville." on time and should have Suits for boys from 4 to 15 Mr Fritz Young of Mr Robert P Whitehead of old. reached Trio on Friday as usual. well known to many friends in Foley's Honey and Tar clears the years visited Spartanburg will individuals Postmasters and in this county,died in stops the irritation in town last week. Mr Whitehead air passages, t GO TO confer a favor by notifying is a son of the laU B (J throat, soothes the inflamed memGROCERIES. Monday morning. uraues,t»uu me must uusimaic wu^u when the current On account of a large grocery The stock law election, to be us promptly Esq. Sore and inflamed lungs trade, disappears. we always have a fresh to fails Record The of issue are healed and strengthened, and the held in the Black river and to select from W e carry stock P L and L J FOt» Messrs Stackley : reach their office by Friday or cold is expelled from the system. everything needed in the pantry. ; Swamp sections of this Saturday cirSells-Floto the saw Kinder Groceries Green and Also Fruits at latest. the in but the Refuse genuine any in season. county, is advertised in this cus in Charleston Monday, D C Scott. package. yellow and nose Dr Clifton, eye, ear, from here who saw it the delicacies ot the $ Our best clubbing offer.the throat specialist, will be in seemed well pleased. season served in first class ? r Woman's World and two nice Kings tree for three days, Messrs C W Stoll, D J Epps, J I style while you wait. Friday and Saturday, premiums and The Record, all L E Hirsch, Louis Walker, 16. 14, 15 and Operations Burgess and Or W V !* Oysters in Every Style, + See ad this e year for $1.25. and above on organs Fruit! Fruit! performed ue. took in the Sells-Floto Hot Drinks, Bouillon, 1 fitted. Examinations eyeglasses Our fruit line is complete. We earn t Chocolate; Cocoa, Coffee i I wish to call the attention of f^he ladies of St Albans Guild, fitted. Headquarters at Dr W V circus at Florence Fnday. that you will find at an everything and Tea. Dr George V Cannon and Mr the people of Kingstree and vicinity fruif store. We also carry a ciliary to the Episcopal Rrrk/*lririrr+nn'c rlrnrr ctnrp. of line select for bazaar a will Cannon of Johnsonville, give rch, also to the fact that I have secured Bojs Sayed. benefit of the church on the ETC. of SOFT progressive DRINKS, young, FISH, GROCERIES, types the agency for the FANCY COLD DRINKS t Louis Boon,a leading merchant of business November 5. element of that favored to "lady wish ''Three writes: When give you Mich, your Norway, t AND section of Williamsburg, paid us friend" something that will please in I Tar Honey and on us ancf select a nly eight pounds of cotton of Foley's call fruit the line, ICECREAM. cured my boy of a severe a brief but pleasant call j nice basket of fruit. a whole year's subscription and a neighbor's boy, who Peaches, "sweet and J Fine Fresh Candy, Choiccough, Maryland as if looks It basket. present prices. was so ill with a cold that the juicy," 2 dozen to select In mentioning the young ladies stock, 5 dozen !est Quality. t Malaga Grapes, ^rybody conld pay up and a gave him up, was cured by basket. to who left here recently to attend and beginning with lr ahead this fall. Foley's Honey and Tar." FRUITS, CIGARS, CIGAAETTES, Plums the size of an apple, 2 dozen else is as safe and sure in resnlts. Winthrop college the name of to basket. TOBACCO. ^The tobacco men are a clever D C Scott. Miss Mary Gordon was Apples, double the size of an j apple. their and of set gentlemen the We omitted. hope to Yours please, here has been an acquisition Noted Eye-Sight Specialist at Lake joung lady will pardon the will I 1909, City. ANDERSON, SPRING & CO. | socially as well as in a business j Dr W G Browne, course was uninof which Sue cea.or to P. 8, Courtnoy. former on who, Opposite Jacobs & Scott's. J Call For and Deliver way. We bid them au revoir, but tentional. to his satisfaction such visits, gave a in We have just got not good bye. is at Lake City to stay only Superintendent Seawell, of your laundry every week. patients, lot of all kinds of stationery a tU CI Prnnrna Kro VI If A/1 UV) one week and can be consulted. Will Lake City High school, spent fine bond papers,ruled headings Notice is hereby Jfiven_ that on the W Sight Specialist," who has make examinations free, at Sturgeon few hours in Xingstree Saturday inn nnn pnvplnnes. and Denni- 13th day of November, A u 190», l win between trains. Mr Seawell to P M Brockinton, Judge of closed a very successful week Hotel. son's shipping tags with brass apply of Williamsburg county, for a of the Probate enthusiastically here, announces that he will be He has on hand all styles of speaks the wire and as executor of the estate strings, final discharge eyelets If sa Lake City next week. and eye-glasses and will make large enrollment and excellent At L.J.Stackley's Furniture Store. best made. See our samples of Rebecca Graham, deceased. Richard Parsons. tf KM4-4t your eyes need attention, see to order when necessary. All work prospects generally of Lake elsewhere. Executor. ordering 10-14-11 City's school. him. guaranteed. ; suiifs iMPERSONALffi * Bank of Williamsburg, j , Manning t[OCALYiTEMS.lt # # progress. Apply interest pastor,Rev preacher -- o c? ^A xaok * 1 o x 11 io yourself. ao containing of^ T-£»rtr « vi ic_ v*aocouraging, reliable address, Monday lecture accompanied Florence returned IfTTU AUA fc"v« correspondent companies proportion insurance I Georgetown Cedar issue. Thursday, October YOUNGS | Whitehead, Hot Meals at All Honrs.; | everybody L B. RBDGEBS. !A11 Bishop FINE IB IH. Fruit! Brockington upto-date e» -Both. Friv, bottles absolutely doctors taking Nothing Monday. Best Laundry in the State Monday, October 4, inadvertently presence oversight, j V spectacles M I fflf GENTS' promptly Georgetown, people fciiV »wn FURNISHINGS. business. little selected merchandise prosperous probably Cotton V M advertisemen allow S.L. COURTNEY & CO. ! « SPECIAL NOTICES p. i cii m ordinary g j i I | 1 Young's Ice Cream Palace: splendid Final Discharge. before MaawamMiMMMmssssmmsmms1888888888888888888888888SMS.t CEEPBlUT NOT H I N G ISELILEVE RYTH ING. WE CC MPANY. DRY G OODS BUTLEfi188888888888888888888888 mmmmssmmi i jj&vH � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johnsonville Jottings WOW Monument, Fin School Opening, Nonogenarian - 1909 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10-14-1909 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The County Record https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/0437d44057f8fdd4d4e8f38f3b64c705.pdf 30ca7b317798d32df9e5077d7907da30 PDF Text Text ------------. TBIUVIN& 4'0BNSONVQ,1,E. . .. CMmlter ol Co•meree Orgaalz· l lzed•·lla•Y Neweomen. Johnsonville,September 23: At a · general get together meeting caJled : for the citizens of thie place Thurs- 1 day evening nearly every man in •· town was preaent. After several very stirrin)C and enthusiastic ad- 1 · dresses by representative men it wu : unanimously decided to form a , Chamber of Commerce. Every man , signified his desire to join and to · \ • give hie bt:st efforts toward the gen- , eral upbuildinr of the town and community, and with the hearty CO· · operation of such a live and enthusi· astic body of men behind the work there is a areat future for progrea- : sive Johnsonville. · Of the Chamber of Commerce, E F ProS1er was unanimously elected , president, S R Cockfield secretary , and treasurer and S B Poston, E L Powell and J W Grooms on the executive eotr.mittee to act with the pre1ident and aecre in 1ettin1 up bylaw1, fixing dues and arranging committees, to report at 1nother meetina in a few • • . While the cotton erop ii very lhort,coDliderable quantities are beina marketed here at over 15 centa - and busine11 aenerall1 aeema good. A number of new f1milie1 have remntl7 moved to town and dwelling bou1e1 are in 1t1 ona demand, greater in fact thin ean be 1Upplied at once. • C T Powell of Poeton bu reeently aoeiated birmeJf with the Jobnaonville Hardware eomp1n1 and will move bia familr bere u 1oon u be can eecure a dwelling. Mr Powell bu taken over the man1rement of thi1 eompaDJ'. a ___ , - - County Record 28Sept1916 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Thriving Johnsonville - 1916 Description An account of the resource Discusses the new Johnsonville Chamber of Commerce and local business owners. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9-28-1916 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The County Record Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nancy Huggins Staton https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/5395157ebec785d489929e86e6ff4b39.pdf 8443ad2dd976214c075d5ed9d2a2180a PDF Text Text • • • • • . Sellool a ....._....... •4'olule . . .v1.... • 5Nw1Dg Towa.• The members of the ~uatiDi c1.. are: Lila ~dJ. Kenneth Bvilfna. Wilrner Hurains, Glad11 Bud- : eon, J•nie ~ewell, Marion Sprbw~ Oleceiwed too late f• l•lt ••••·• I 11 ae). Emmenoa Ard, Gilbert Bueldea ' • Johnsonville, Ma1 27:-The cloeing exercises of the J ohn1onville High IChool beean FridaJ eveninr, and Watte Venter-. . The very ftatterinr but well cJe. .. aent!d announcement waa made that all the teachen b&ve been re-eleetei for the fall t.erm. · Our aloJfUI, ''JobD8()nville the Growing Town''; ii beier fulfilled la everyway: · . Dr and Mra J H 0.pman lave . moved into their elegant ae whotel.. . buildiq, which waa recentl1 -... pleted in Main street, near the ~PoL '11leir reput.ation for rood ~\. May 23, when a ve17 entcrtaiaU. • play entitled ''When Bell Went to Europe'' wu eb11mingl1 pneented · by the eer;ior • in tbe 1J>&cio111 ecbool auditorium. TbO£e in the pla1 bad the inapiration of a J*ked • bo11•, eeveral eounties beint repr&. aented in the audienee. The eommeneemast wa preathecl at 11 o'clock SundaJ mo,. • .mon commodationa and unexerlled .en- · lee ii already made with ttt? travel- · ing in Johmonville Metbodiet cbarcli bJ Dr E O Watmn of·c.onwq. Takinc for bil tbec•Mt. ''Ambi• Prop. erl1 Directed,'' drawn from tbe req\Je1t of ~bedee'I IODI ODCl Qlrilt'I reply to them. Dr Watlon, with bf8 usual foreeful eloquenee, held bia laqe aadient-e in apell-boand attention for mo~ than an hour. · ·, After the eermon • beautiful trib- . ing pablie. Thia botel ia being larpa .. 1J patronized especiallJ becauae of : ita homelike atmoephere, which ap- · peals to the traveliq !raternity. Mr and M'l'I Clarence Woodbel'l'J are now occopJintt their. attractive eotta«e in Pine stt eet. 1 Mr Jamee McCutcben, re'cent11 of. Sumter, who is now extemive!J ea. ut.e • • paid Mill Rudaoa, tbe ·~ . ~ged in the saw-mill bulinea1 here. sic t.eaeber of the high echool, whe9 : ii preparin~ to build a inodern home the pastor praented her witb ali ~ · on Pine street. Several other build· egant pld-handled umbrella,. ~ · inn are in proceu of construction. lift of the eonirention. ia •PPN't. · Various enterprises are being neation of her faithful ad un&irin« " eeafull1 engaged in, all of which work • orpniat. . . .._, . demonstrate that the posejbilitiet of On Mond&,J following, Dr W._,. th~ part of Williamsbo~ county are allo deH.w nd the literarJ adctr. unrivaled. . bef.oie t.he sraduatlas al- of 1913. Johnsonville is situated on the 'Die auditorium. w~ ftlled tD Id aft. highest point between Georeetown 1 most eapaei~ and· a n.ore IM,JplUl and Mullins and, being surrounded and inapiriat diacori we r..'9 by lovely groves and bubhlinc rare11.it ever, liatenfid to. I>r W.at!springs of del1ghtrui11 cool, retrem• l()D made a J11tiq iJDPftlliOll .,.,. inr water.is a charming location for the heart.a and minds of the JGIJ9. a health resort. IODville people and we feel that we <Ame over, Mr &iitor, and 1ou were especiaJIJ fortunate in ~ will be surprised to note the rapid in« bia eonaent toaddremour ICbooL progress of ··Johnsonville,the Grow• - . . - ._• ; ing Town''. • · I • 1 County Record, 5 June 1913 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johnsonville, A Growing Town Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6-5-1913 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The County Record Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nancy Huggins Staton https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/2c48e46fdd125ce51461df124ab39995.pdf 2d1beb331e6c6782b6c68b4170eba1fc PDF Text Text lfotice of· Election. thereof. order and diJ'eet that an elee- 1 South Carolina, approved the lith day tioa be held and conducted at the •tore of February, 1915 ·and b7 and vnder Wbenu. u aet of the General of the .JohnsonYille Hardware Com~y the authority of the Mme, an el~ Awembt1 of 8tata of Soatll Care- in the town of Jobn1C1GviUe, S C, in will be held and conchlcted 1t the .tore tina entiW ••An Act to uthorise J~ Hid school district, OD Toeeda7, the of tM Jobneonville Hardware Company 9GDYiUe School Dia~~ in~il- 16th day of March. A D 1916, for the , in the town of Johmonvjlle, S c, in ~COan~ and lell purpoee of submitting to the qualified i Williamtburg eou.nt7, on Tuffday, thle CIOQ)iCiaboii11 for ~of ~ voten in and of said school diatrict, the 1 t6tb da1 of Karch. A D 1916, for ti* inf.a~ echool b · and to ~ question of iuuing coupon bonda of the parpoM of RbmittiDJ to the qualified in Mid ICbool di•triet ~ or a linki~ fund coaunileioa and said ddtrict No 16 to the amount and voten deftDe ita datiee , approved the 12th in the aum of fifteen thousand doJlan the question o iauin~ coupon bonds of daJ of Februry, 1916, the 8Cboo1 tru- ($15.000.00)for the purpose of erecting a said .Johmoa'rille. School Diltriet.No 16, t.eee of JobuonYille School Diatrict., No public ecbool bailding in and tor the to the amount and in the aum of fi.ltHD 15, ID eaid eoun~an authorised and Aid Johneonville School District, No l~t tboaMnddoUan(Sl6.000.00) for the purempowered, for parpoee of erecting• and the citizens thereof, by wbicb Mia poee of er.acting a poblie school bUilding a publie 8Chool bai~ therein. to re90lution, pUMd, adopted and ratified tn and for Aid 9Chool district; that for - . . and eeU eoapon of the •aid , u aforeuid, lt wu further ordered the parpoee of lucb election tbe polls lehooi dJmict in the AID and to the and provided that, for the purpoM of 1haU be opened at eight o' dock in the amount of atu. thom1nd dollan uid election, tbe ~ lhall be o~ed ferenoon and cloeed at four o'clock 'in at the J obnaoavdle Hardware Com- the afternoon bJ F L Powell, C 1 Rol(116,000.00) beariD« inteNst at a rate pany'a at.ore in JobmooTille. S C. at lim aod L C P09ton, managers of the ~tu~ lix per c:entam (6%) per eighto'clock in the forenooa and e)()eed lllM duly nominated and appointed; annmn, le ~1 OD anuUJ 1 ~ 1 of acb ,ar, at 9Ueh at four o'clock fn the afternoon. by F that onJ1 the oualified YOten reliding place .. aid trvteee may best. L Powell, CJ Rollins and LC Poston, in aid achoo1 cfinrict lhall be mtitled provided tbe question of '-Wnc the tbe mana~ in and by Aid ftllOlution to YOte at Mid election, which shall aid balm uatbOrised •at~ 9bal) du1>: appotnted and directed t~ bold and be beld and cooducted in accordance be lntlllbmitted to the qv~ ~ conduct the Aid electioa u. required with and panaant to the aforeeaid act . -: · of tM GeDera.l AlwmblJ of tbe State of aid ICbool district., at IOIDe time and bJ law:Now. therefore, D'Jtieeis hereby given of South Carolina. and . in accordance place in the di8cNtioo of the Aid board of trut.em, all of which IDOl'9 full1 and that. panuant to the aforesaid act of and eomp1iance witb the lawa of the the General .A.Mmbly of the State of State of South Carolina providing for at~ 1p~ b7 referenee to laid South Carolina, approved the l i tb day and roftftrina IUCb •lectiOas, and that act oreu.sd: of February, 1916, and b7 and under at such election thole •oting in favor And, wbereu, the Aid RID of 6.fteen the authority of the same, an election of the aforeaid iuae of boadl 9baU .........nd dol1an (fli.000.00) doee DOt will be beld and eooducted at tbe store TOta "For Bonda" and tbcM •o=ft oc:eed eight per c:entum (8%) of the of Johnaonville Hardware Co~y againat tbe aforeaid bond iaue 1 w•1ed nhae of the taxable property in the the town of JobmonTille, S c, in vote "Aninat Bonda". iD eaid 8Chool district No 16.. Williamlburg eou.nt)', on Tuffday, ti. By Onfer of the · 8Chool lrmteee of And, where-. the eaid 9Chool tnmt.eee t6th da7 of March. A D 1916, for tbre Jobn.on911Je School District No 16 iD of JobmonYill• School Diatrict. No 16, purpoee of nbmittinJ to the ~alified WiW1mabars eounty, SC. · · by a r.olotioD dulJ adopted, . pused voten residing iD uid ICbool di1triet . . JAMBS McCtrrcB.EM, \ and ratified I Jtoa ...?IJlbled 08 the the of ilauing coupon bolJds of · · · E F fltosna. · 27th daJ of· Febn1ar7, 1916. did 'J>UI'-- aaid~tion Jobnsoa'rilJe School District.No 1i, · · · SB POSTON, 1118Dt to and bf uad ander the authority to the amooot and in the 1um of fifteen . School Troatee. of John10D'rille of t.be afoNMid act of. t.be General A> tboaaanddollan(Sl6,000.00) forthepur·· Sebool Dilt:rie'- No 16, Williama...W1 a.JD eccmdimce and eompli- poseof eroletin~ a pablie school building bars County, SC. · IDCe Witb t.be eonditiCJUI and 1n and for aid 1ebool district; that for Man:b.4, AD 1916. M-2t . - .... . - -,, - BL residinf deem m pm,.._ .. . . ... � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Notice of Johnsonville Election - Bonds for School, 1915 Description An account of the resource Describes bonds for the building of the new Johnsonville School District 15 in Williamsburg County and elections held at Johnsonville Hardware Company. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3-11-1915 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The County Record Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nancy Huggins Staton https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/ede84f5d3d18731c2f8bab8fe722fae5.pdf d9e9a6134b5d8370093308dfa74cb1bd PDF Text Text GEORGETOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA, SEPTEMBER 13.1912 = ===------=======;--At Jj 111 . the ntw tioHII't' r~ , tht· BIG LAND SALE Burton Bro-; , of Cn:t'll\ illo•, N. C at•comp tniecl hv thctr hm s I null, At Johnsonville---Over ·Three took t hf'i r phil'<'~' on t J,,. v,r 1111 I; Tbouslnd Penons Present··· w ith the auctionters •,t leuhn){ tn n wagon, th~> hilutl p'a ill" o N tti .. u Biddinc Lively and Many al air, the livt:ly \\·mk , ;,.~.t n , .111cl 0\'\ r I()() I hoin lots unt cor I Ill ,,., " ' Interested. Ve!>terday morning at 8.ll0 o'- clock found a goodly number of Georgetonirm'f at tbe d e pot of the - G . and W . R. R teady to take the t rain on a n cxc-11 r'>ion to J oh n'lonvillt: where a la rg e la ud sal · w as t o be consumatell later in the cia\'. The train lt-ft he re a • k .4:i ami arrived at its dest ination at 11 20 a . ru. where a c1owd of oth~:rsau x iou s to a\'ail the mselvt>S of a day's enjo) me nt among the towering piues and waviug mcadows, mel u s aud ron~ingly wckorucd t he incowing condu:s which we• c filled with visitor'! fto m G eorgetown, Sampit, Antlrews, Nes m t th ~. Hem ingwar nncl fl puq•, tn h1- augment ed lat.-r hy si x C'oac hes cro\\ d t:d witb peoplt: from Alli.,oos, ~ 11111 te r , Plottnrc•, Mulliuo; a ud Ktn st ree, anti fn>lll th o: :-<l'lilln uf J o hn · sonvil'c. readth• sotlrl at remark.ohlo· gnt ol pric~>-;; '.e\'rral mta-,uring 'illx l fitl were kn Ol·ke·l down lo hiJelt>1 o.; , nt aa,.O a nd $tOO Wbtlt! I he aur tiom:eri 11 ~ wns 111 prl.lgrt•'l Ul .lll\ , f th t \'i•.tt or-., " ith tllf'ir lunc h I.Ja•,L:f:'h, 'ill ll){ltt "''' I~~'·· en~d aud • hJJ) ">Jl· th '' ht: t' I h o \ enjoyed a bountiful r• pa t. An IWUlt-ll'ie barh.~c n t:.' was soon• ed at 4 .:JO o'clock to a' l who c·nuld rt:ac b I ht: tables tb ron ~ ~~ t h~: H'll t .1bl.e rru•.h gat he red t he• P I o up ~~~---=====---. Mr. S R Poo;ton, ·the hn ~tlin~ Bank of J o hn'lonville, and th i promoter of this -.clwnll', to lll.'wl· stockholde r'> aH· pteparing to erec ope 1 bat se<'ti•• n of \\' tll i.uu.,hurg a suitable hr kk hni'din g for tbc Couqa:y, aud who abo lt:ndl•n d f H .- e pmp::r cond ne t ol l he busi ues.'>. the t:sC'nrsinn train!~ , is to lw c onOur t rip to John.;on\•illt! yeslt't gratulated. lie ~c,.,, a .. did the d a y OC..' (':'ISIIliiCcJ ll'i IIIU C'h t>)••a· llrf' Superiuteudrnt u f tlw G t>orgt-t n \\ o i 1 t he ml!eting of h"t0 r'r1.; or a nd \Ves ter11 K. R. t'o . who built friends, we kn<'w in n•tr 1 ,-'·~')()(! the road from Anoltt•ws 111 Alliso11.,, da y-;, and a renewill of that frie nd a distance o f 30 milt·s, tthlll.' o~ lo ·s~ s hip until the nrbitt-r of tim'! pa<;ses. the great a<lvo~ntng(.'s to lw ~n ino d us into oblivion. fo r the farm~:rs lhwul(hOIII the Le11ving the SCC IIl' of the rln) ''I Johoeouville, and o elt<' t !><:• liow of a cti \'i t ies nftcr nutncrouo.; h:uul the s urrouodiug count i(.' .. fur quick shakc'> nwl God SJlCt•tl you's wt. nr traoaporlatiott to 1 he n1.1rl..t·t " of rive..! hc rc, a t holll t' -sweet home tbe coaatry. the gr~·ate.~t of .,art hly hle~ings, Favored a.•• it ''• \\it h a lar l(e tir..-d, but plcno;ed with the trip farming back counh y, t h(.'ro: io; among whisp·t iug pi ncs :llld lo\•el) acarcrly a r ca•un "It• Johtt.o n \ el.c: mcadu\\ s. abould not in a t•·w Y• 'lr'> tlt' a '"''''II of &Pnt·h co•u•u· 1 uul irutl4trtanre. Our predicthtu is, a Lril(ht fut ure awaits each of llu.• luwn.; re•'«:ntlr sprung into exi~teu• ·t- on thiK u .. w road t o Allison's Ferry , to- wit : Heminrway, Henry and j ohu'IOn- pd'lt: the C' fd\ iugs of I hi! 11111t:r man . The attPndancr on tIn· o.~l'll"ion was varion ~l y es timat d from :lOOO to 3,1l00, wtth not the •.lt ~ ht t'sl j " r to mar the husiue..-;o; or ple'lo.;tttc., nf ville. the day. Alrndy a large and ha11dsome drug ston! has bern built (and did ' a rusbin~t bu.,iae •s iu soft olrinks, ice cream, etc.• vesterdav ' and a larp two story brick store is un• cler c:onatraction by Mr. Po~too . A Commission bas been ~u oted a., tiM 8ecrecarr o1 mate to tbe � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Big Land Sale at Johnsonville - 1912 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Daily Item Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9-13-1912 Description An account of the resource The Daily Item from Georgetown reports on the Johnsonville land sale of 1912 https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/444de006ba629ce4e8d1f330d1c6647c.pdf bb0bb07ca570eccef5d3fee75c031c33 PDF Text Text .t O ll !\'f'I;0'" \' 11.1. 1•: 1..-:nroll nu~ u t :-it 'flUO i t • : Jef '('(ttt'fl to ~ U() ,_ark. O ri•!NS. R c1u·h tho f(l)t't'l!ll \ Q 'fht~ ~tl.tf' , ,l h h nt~n tl\ til t , t 'f'l. 4.--Thf'l J c:thn'-"". \' Ill,. high ,-f." h Qol O Jlf'll~d l\tl')nday with e n ,•nru llmNH .. 16 6 pupiiH, The flllru llm£-ll l , ,. ""Jl"t't t tt to reAch bey o n d th t• 20iJ m n rk '' hhtn '-' t r.w w e~ k ... H. R M Rj()r , whn tnt#l alr MH1)' , ,.rved twn tPrml'. I• nrlnr 1pa.1. AI!'IWCi fl t {ld " ' hh hlnl 11 Mlt!IH'~,. P au line \VIII!tln ot MHnnl ng. 1·~1tf!le H olllnw or 1\omt'. Pf'Mrl r •·e f 1t lt ldl" ... wnr. ( 'IAudl&. J Qh n · 1<0n or Rtdg A 8prtrur. Kllz~•beth W•d dlll nf 1'h~mAI!ton , Oa. a o d Emil )' lt UI M>n ot Ve n t~~'"- Min H u t.~ton h auJ t'hll r• ~ ot the tnlll'llr dopartm ,.nt . lt N''*'" M tse 1.-tl:'.y m e O reffl hot r eturned tn h ,.r h UO\t' In r.e ke f ... lty f\ f ter bfOing A •ur.• t a t the h om e ot/llra. J . A. <'ock · fl•ld Mr11. II' f'An rum and Mrfl;. R. J.. f 'o<"krteld en hl UorJi nlt On t or a t f!W d aY"- MI ~ H utann h ttll nt urn,.tl hnmto a rtf•r , pf' ndlnl I!Om e Hrn& In MIHY C'h.- r1f!'flt() O w Uh r t l &t h 'u . Mr11. J . 11. \V, Dixo n Ia b•rk t ro m AAIIIm f\ rf". l...n;,' Rotu rdny 1he W o()tlnu•n ot th" t\'n rlf'l l'ln1f"rt.Ainod thei r tr l~nd ~ wllh k tiE' lhC'lu r ut ptr·nle. I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johnsonville School Opens - 1911 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10-5-1911 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The State