The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-09-23

1920, his grandmother, Hannah
Kelly, died. By her will, she de-
vised to him ''Springfeld." Thither,
in August Of that year, he removed.
In 1922 he was returned to the
House Of Representatives, and by
successive biennial elections, he was
returned, in 1924 and 1926. In
1924 and 1925 ne was elected
Speaker Of the House of Represen.
tatives, without opposition. During
the four years in which he held that
great office, there was only single
appeal from his decisions, and in
that his decision was sustained.
In February, 1928, he was elect
ed Brigadier- General of the 10th
Brigade, 5th Division, South Caro-
lima Militia. On 20th August,
1925, he was elected and commits
stoned Major General of the 9Th
Division.
On the Goth December, 1928,
John Bolton O'Neall was elected
and commissioned as an Associate
Judge. He rode the Southern,
Western and Middle Circuits, in
the fall Of 1880, the (then} Eastern
Circuit, but at Chesterfield was
taken dangerously sick. As soon
as he could ride, his friend DR..
Smith, of Society Hill, removed
him to his residence, and gave him
every attention, which was rapidly
restoring him, when the sad intel
lgence reached him that two of
BIS children were dead, and a third
at the point of time. He did not
, resume his circuit. His friend,
Judge Johnson of the Court of
Appeals, held the Courts from
Marion to the close. On the 1st
December, 1880, Judge ONeall
was elected Judge Of the Court
of Appeals. With Johnson and
Harper, he encountered and per-
formed the labors of the Court of
Appeals-Herculean as they we're
until December, 1885. The Court
of Appeals was then abolished, and
Johnson and Harper assigned to
Equity, and ONeall to the Law. In
May, 1850, on the death of Judge
Richardson, he became President
of the Court of Law Appeals and
Of the Court of Errors. In 1916,
the degree of L. L. D. was confer
red on him at Columbia College,
District of Columbia, and was re-
peated few years after, at Wake
Forest, North Carolina.
In May, 1847, he was elected
President of the Greenyille and
Columbia Railroad.
On the 3lst December, 1882, to
save friend. he abandoned the
use of spirituous liquors, and, in
June following, gave up the use Of
tobacco. To these two causes he
ascribed his health and ability to
perform more labor than most men.
He joined, soon after, the Heads
Spring Temperance Society, New
berry District, of which he became
President. he became a teetotal-
ler, and, in December, 1641, he was
appointed President of the State
Temperance Society. In l649 he
joined the Sons of Temperance,
Butler Division, No 16, Newberry.
He was elected G. ". P. OF the
Grand Division of South Carolina,
October, 1850. In June, 1852, at
the city of Richmond, Va, he was
elected and installed NJ. ". P. Of
the Sons of Temperance of North
America. He attended, in 1858
and 1854, the annual meetings at
Chicago, ILL.,, and at St. Johns, New
Brunswick. Then he surrendered
his Office to his successor, Samuel
L. Telby, of st. Johns. In 1887 he
was elected President of the New
berry Baptist Bible Society. He
was also President of the Bible
Board of the Baptist State Conven-
tion, and was, in July, 1853, elect
ed President of that Convention,
and again in 1859. He was elected
President of the Newber1y Agri-
cultural Society in 1889, which
office he probably held until the
end of his life.
Judge ONeall has written and
labored much for his fellow men.
He wrote, in 1918, many articles
on the increase Of Judges salary.
signed "Cato." In 1910, he wrote
the ssDrunkard's Looking Glass,
and, afterwards, the "Wanderer,
with many other subsequent fugi
2 tive essays and letters, in the Tenn
= perance AdUocate, the Neorberry
: Rising Sun, the GreenrHle Patriot
/, Patriot and M0untaineer and South
crn Enterprise. He wrote Remipis
cences of the Revolution for thu
Y the Southern Literary Register
), Revolutionary Poetry for the Orion
|. and sketch OF Joseph NJ. jenkins
4 for the Magnolia. He has deliver