Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1849-09-05

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! which she received her education. These
were he. courts in which she acquired her
graces..
!Ahei General Greene was forced to fall
hack from befure Ninety six, and reIreated
over Saluia River on his way towards
Norih Carolina. il was generally supposed
thar South Carolina would soOn become a
conquered prnvince, as The British held
Ninely-six. Granny, Camden and Char
lesion, with The Intermediate country.
Many whis families fearing to remain, fled
10 Greene's Camp. to following and claim
the protection Of the rctredIing ARMY.
Among these was The family of General
/! Pirkens, who. with his command. (alIO-
geher holding his Commissinn from South
Caroiina;l was then with Green's army.
Ii was supposed Of course that General
Pickens would for their safety, &c.. let
them remain. bat ho Immediately sent
Them back TO share The common sullerinss
Of the country, and thereby show that the
struggle was not over. but that the spirit OF
resistance. was unhyinS. Mrs: Pickeus
with Roman 'foflitude, and The devotion Of
situation and sustained herself and her
children throughout all reverses, amid The
perilous times hat fell upon her home and
her country. Her husbands younger brolh-
or was a captain ia.lhe service and was
killed at the ssiar redoubt," Nineiy-six.
He was n brave officer, and devoted TO her
and.her children, aud often rendered her
great assistance when Geiieral Pickens
was absent. Alter his death she was oh
lised 10 struggle almost alone.
With elasticity Of spirit, remarkable
even in one of her sex, she had Ihe peculiar
faculty of rigid government over her chill.
dren. who all feared and loved her. Her
sons often spoke Of it in after life. She
was very playful with children, even in
old aga; and
WHEN wild wars dendly blast was blown,
Aid gentle peace returning"
her house was the delight Of young people,
and her playful spirit enlivehed their eve
ming sports.
She had three sons and six daughters
Her suns graduated at Princeton aud
Brown University. and two of Them he.
came memb ers Of The bar. One ofthem
was afterwards lieutenant COLONEL in the
tenth regiment, U. s: Army, in Canada,
termination Ol that war was chosen one OF
the colonels in Stale brigade raised III
South Carolina for the war. Judge lluger
was chusen Tie general, aud Col. Draytun
The other cuonel.
This soa was in 1876. chosen governor
Of South Carolina, and was afterwards, in
1925, appointed; by the Alabama legisla.
rure, first president of their State Bank.
The brother of Mrs. Pickens, Colonel J..
E. Calhoun, was very eminent lawyer,
and also a senator in Congress from South
Carolina. The Hon. john c. Calhoun is
her cousin.
She was kind and transformations; full Of
charity and meekness. She was a mem.
her of the Presbyterian church, and her
piey was without the slightest linse nl
bisotry. She died in 1915, aud a marble
slab marks rhe spot, by the side Of her
husband. where her earthly remains re-
pose, in the sweet and halIowed vale that
surrounds the "0Id Meeting House." Of
PcndletOn.
AT Roman banquet, dispute arose
between the distinguished revelefs as to
who had the best wife; and it was agreed
that i, should be decided by visiting that
night each one g wife, 10 observe her occu.
paliou. One who afterwards exercised
grea, influence upon The destiny Of her
country, was found busily engaged with
her maidens preparing her wool for the
loom. She was Immediately pronounced
by all the best wife. If judged by this
Roman standard Mrs. pckens would be
pronounced the best Of wives; for The wool
and dista(f were never neglected by her.
She did not pretend to any of those &C.
cnmplshments which modern ladies nre
too apt TO think the only necessary in life.
She knew nuthing Of The fashionable eti-
quette borrowed from he upslarl manners
in the city life, and which has too much of
lalc pervaded The interior of our country,
corrupling that ancient and cordial hospi
tally which was once The pride and glory
of South Carullna. But in all the genuine
dignity that becomes woman, in ease and
afIabiIity Of department, in sen,leness aud
kindness Of disposiIinn and manners, she
had few equals; while in all the pure aud
high virtues which aGorn the female char
acter, she had no superiors.