The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1876-03-08
BLACKSTOCM.

Augusta 1sailroad, there is q station
twelve miles below Qhestervillh
called Blackstuck. Tho depot took
it's name from tho postroi>icc in tht
ncighborhood. The linc of division
bctwenn tho counties of Fairfield
and Chester, RUNS through tho grow
ing town Of Blackstook. The depot
mid poHtofficc, rs woll, perhaps, ar
most of tho buaiiiuRs houses, arc il,
Chester county. Blackstock pust.
Office wis 50 named in honor Of Ed
Ward Dlnckstock, generally called
old Ned Blackstork. Originally, il
VAS located about Il quartor of 4
ihllo above where the widow OF
Charles Bell how rosides--two miles
above Blaclstock depot. Afterwnr,l
it was moved down to tho place now
belonging to tho estate Of Charles
Bell. When tho post-oflice was oss
tnblished ut this point, we aru not
certain. This much may bo safely
snid: it was in existence cully i'll tho
beginning of the present century.
Old Ned Blnckstock was succeeded
by II gentleman by tho namo Of Law,
who afterward removed to Colunl-
bla: Law WIS succeeded by John
+. Dcbnrdolabun.
When tho Charlotte and Columbia
Railroad was conpletod, tho post
Office was moved from Dubardclsl-
bon's-now Boll's placc-to what is
known rs Bluckstock Depot.
Some, from the similarity of tho
name, have been led to suppose that
Backstock Depot and Blackstock =
battle ground occupy one and the
same locality. This is not correct.
Hlackstocks battle ground is on the
TyScr river, in the western portion
OF Union county. Whether Black
stocks, from whom the name of tho
battle is derived and Old Ned Black
stock were related or not, wo nrc
not able to say. There isa differ
encc i'll the photography. Tie for
mer terminated with an s, whilst tho
httor did not The name nlack.
stock, OF Blackstoclls, has, So far az
wo know, disappeared from the
county; but ohce it WAS not uhus,ial
to meet persons bearing that rnmc,
BY exa. mining the old grave-yar,ls in
the up country pf South Carolina,
tomb stones will DO found which
silently bear testimony to tho oxis.
tencc of family how almost, if not
entirely extinct.
Ned Blackstock, from whom
Blackstock Depot derives its name,
wac II Scotch-Irishman. The pre-
else date of his coming TO America
we have no means ut hai,d by which
to ascertain. It VAS, however,
shortly after the Rovolutionury;Aar.
Perhaps it was in the year 179l.
There were four of them. The
mother, two sons--tho REV. William
and Edward-and ono sister, the
wife Of Alexander Skelly. Thq
father had died somo time before,
leaving the children already named
and one other son, Samuel,
whoso tragical end drove tho mother
and hcr children to Amen ica.
Ireland, from time out Of mind,
has been an afflicted country. Tho
Scotch'lrish arc II good people.
Find them who're you will, you will
find IL pooplo thrifty and Industrious,
and great lovers of civil md re-
hgiot,s iborty. They have SO long
been tramplcd upon by tyrnnts, that
they ihstinctivcly hate ltings. Find
an Ulster man i'll WHATEVER rnrt of
the globe you may. and you may
count upon him, with certainty, as u
friond Of constitutional liberty.
lrela1ld, in consequence of this spirit,
has been the sccne of cdmtlcRs re-
bollions' a part of tho duty of tho
Kings troops is tu guard Ireland
and ko"p tho pootlo in subjtction;
LII one Of those rclcllions Sam
blackstock bncnmn the object of
suspicion to tho Fing's troops, A.
squad was sent to take tho young
matt into custody Hc was found ut
II short distance from the thatthutl
roof of his widowed mother: With
uhbridled lust aiid brutal crttulty,
he was set upoH by band Of tufllans
ahd murdered. This was not all.
Ho was ripped open and his bowels
borh out. AS if to add Insult to in;
jury, and tnunt the widowed mother
mid brothers and sisters ih their
grief, tho squad rodo ,ip to tho
door Of their dwelling aid told the
mother that shs would find her son,
Sa'n, at such n place. Apprdlion
sivr Of somo dreadful calamity, the
mother and her daughthr, Jane, set
out for the designated spot. There
she found the hfeloss corpse of her
son aid nonr by his bowels. With n
fortitttdb beyottoii Iy the circt,m-
stances, an,l pressed with u grief
which driod her tears, she bid lltr
daughter take!hold of tho lowcr cor
ncrs of her apron, tlloit gathering
up the bowels Of her sull she placed
them in The apron of JANE. She
then took tho disGmboWoldd body
i'll hor own arms and tho two wciit
silently bnrk to the house:
Such q bcene bcggars all deacrip
ton. This shock was too great for
the daughter. 1t dothroned reason;