https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/82593736d96853385a97e174c15a17d3.png 638e2c04e865ed07c4aacef927966af2 https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/5f3404e383d6dfb74ad2be0220f44b7c.jpg 1c6cb8a0d175ca2d220be15621a06d88 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 Nan Perry Helbig Collection Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nancy Helbig Hirst Subject The topic of the resource Llewellyn and Hortensia Baxley Perry family and relatives, homes, and daily life. Description An account of the resource Nan Perry Helbig was a Johnsonville native whose life spanned more than a century of local history. Born December 1, 1907, she was the youngest and last surviving child of Llewellyn Francisco “Uncle Zeke” Perry and Elizabeth Hortensia Baxley Perry of Johnsonville. She graduated from Johnsonville High School in 1925 and later studied piano performance at Coker College. After many years living in Bridgeport, Connecticut, she returned to Johnsonville, where she remained active in community and church life, serving for 17 years as organist and choir director at Johnsonville United Methodist Church. Her donated photo collection includes the Perry-Baxley family and related families as well as everyday life of the Johnsonville community. 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 Grace Perry, 1950s Description An account of the resource Edna Grace Perry (1872-1971) was a daughter of Llewellyn Francisco "Zeke" Perry (1868–1957) and Elizabeth Hortensia Baxley (1870-1942). She was a well-known school teacher. Her obituary from 1971 speaks of her life and career: FLORENCE MORNING NEWS, MAY 22, 1971 Miss Grace Perry, 78, retired school teacher, landowner, farmer, and church benefactor died Friday after a long illness. She had taught school for 38 years prior to her retirement and actively managed more than 1000 acres of farmlands... Miss Perry was born near Hemingway, a daughter of the late Llewellyn Francisco and Elizabeth Hortensia Baxley Perry. She was a graduate of Winthrop College and begun her teaching career in Ft. Myers, FL, where she taught elementary school for a year prior to returning to South Carolina. Her teaching career in South Carolina spanned 37 years, in schools from the Piedmont to the Pee Dee, but most of her teaching was in Florence County. She had taught in the Johnsonville school system for a number of years prior to her retirement in the late 1950s. Miss Perry was a member of the Old Johnsonville United Methodist Church and has been memorialized by the church as its benefactor. During the past several years, she personally contributed funds to the church which were used to renovate and refurbish the old, wood-frame structure into a modern brick church, replete with central heating and air conditioning, wall-to-wall carpeting, a Colonial-style frontage and edifice. She also contributed funds for the construction of an education building for the church and subsequently presented the church with an especially manufactured electrical pipe organ. A plaque memorializes her contributions as "gifts of love for her God, Christ, and fellow man." She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Philip R. Helbig of Johnsonville, and a few nieces and nephews. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nancy Hirst