Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-21
From the Yorkville Enquirer, 1870.

| ing-and was opened by him as house OF
entertainment. He, after few years, sold
out to his brother, John Mccall, who thus
became ''mine host" of the little village.
Michael Moore and Mr.. Jimmy Mcneil
were in the habit of carrying wagon load
ed with beds, cooking utensils, plates, &C.,
&C., to the village, and renting house own
ed by Mr.. Beatty and while the crowd re-
mained, furnishing entertainment and ac-
commodations. The week following being
always Court week at Chester, the worthy
copartners and their impromptu hostelry,
migrated thence, ready, for the week, to
take in Bench and Bar, as we'll as common
folk.
After the death of Mr.. Mccall, his wife
still continued to keep open house. For
many years she might be truly called the
''mother of York" " and was a woman, whose
actions, are beyond all praise. She was be-
loved by all classes and with reason, for as
friend, neighbor, mistress, she had scarce a
peer. Left widow with five small chill
dren, she managed with industry, energy
and economy, her home affairs; but in sick
ness and distress, no matter whether among
high or low, she was ever ready to minister
to body or mind diseased, out of the flowing
springs Of sympathy ever yelling up in her
tender heart.
"Men's due deserts, each readermay recite
- For men of men do make goodly show;
But wonlssp's work may never come to light,
Memorial man tTiei. :. isc,ls acts may KNOW
Many now in Yorkville remember old
Mrs. Mccall, and the kindliness that lived
with her toa green old age The same BEAM
ing benevolence seemed to have distin-
guished her girl-hood, for on the occasion
referred to in another number when in COM
pany with President Jackson, Of none did
| he inquire with more affectionate interest,
than a "blooming lass of his school-days at
Bethel, named Grizzly Mckinney" At
the time of the conversation with General
Jackson, she was my much loved and re-
spected landlady. Universally, among her
acquaintance, was her death lamented.
The whole village mourned her loss. OF
few can it be said, as of her, she left not an
lives in the vicinityof Yorkville, and knows
probably more of It's early history than any
one else living. To him | am indebted for
the name of Robert Smith, the first resident.
DR.. Josiah Moore located in YOrkville in
1903, and was the first physician who settled
there. He was one of DR.. AleXander's pu-
pills, and received his first classical instruc-
tion at the Bullock's Creek Academy. He
graduated, afterward, at an institution in
Kentucky, and studied medicine with old
DR.. Mcdowell, of Danville, Kentucky, and
then returned to his native State to practice.
DIR. Moore was man of first-rate natural
abilities, with cultivated, well-trained
mind. He was successful as practitioner,
and beloved as man. He played most de-
Iightfully on the violin, and had voice re-
markable in the sweetness of its varied
modulations, and was fond, 1 presume, of
dancing and society, as I remember he was
one of the managers of the first ball ever
given in Yorkville. However, the social
habits, which contributed to his popularity,
lead to his early death. He contracted hab-
its Of intemperance, which induced disease,
cutting him off in the medium of his days,
and in a full career of usefulness. He left a
widow and two children. The latter mar
State Thus no memento of this once es-
teemed and prominent citizen now remains.
How evanescent are the things of sense.
How true themournful cadence of Raleigh's
lines:
"Even such is time, that takes on trust,
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us. but with age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story Of our days.
JUDGE WILLIAM SMITH.
The climb Of the law" which first engraft-
ed its destinieS with those of the growing
town, was of material which afterWard form
ed strong plank in the Bench of the State.
William Smith-later Judge Smith-was
the first resident lawyer of Iorkville. [
have always thought he was from Lincoln,
and am still under this impression, though
a biographical sketch of him, published
he always spoke Of himself as South Caro-
linan ; and she had vague impression that
by the adjustment of boundary lines betW cen
North and South Carolina, his birthplace
was thrown from the latter into the former.
/ think if she is correct in believing the
State of his nativity changed by new sur
vey, it is probable she got the facts reversed.
D-A portion of York District formerly be-
I Ionged to North Carolina. 1t formed por-
tion of a county called Tryon, which also in
cluded the present counties of CASTOR, Lin
coin, Catawba, &C., in its boundaries. The
Court House of Tryon was located near
where the road from Salisbury to Smiths
Ford, on Broad River, now crosses the road
from Yorkville to LincOlntOn, known as the
'King's Mountain" road. For this locality
I am indebted to Rev. S. l.. Watson ; but
neither he or I can designate the points of
line which then formed the boundary be-
tween North and South Carolina.
Judge Smith received the first elements
| OF his Latin under Dr. Alexander, but nm
ished his course within the time-honored
walls of Mount Zion College, Winnsboro.
That he was man of the first order of intel
lect, the various positions of eminence to
which he was preferred, undoubtedly prove.
His career furnishes to young men a most
encouraging example, portraying the effects
of ambition, energy, perseverance and So
briefly. His parents were happily able to
give him good education and profession.
His farther patrimony was but good advice
and blessing. Two young men who were
his contemporaries Simon Taylor and Bob
Hill-dashed about in their sullies on the
circuit, while Smith rode chunk Of horse,
carrying saddle-bags filled with law-books.
In the race of life, how far he ran ahead !!
They were the sons of wealth, and had not
the stimulus of empty purses to urge them
on, and call out every faculty to gain the
goal. True, in the beginning, there was lit
tie promise in the young lawyer, of the fu-
ture brilliancy of his career. He was wild
and dissipated. Suddenly he was brought
to consider and mend his ways.
Galloping his horse one day at full speed,
he came to the forks Of the road. He wish
cd to take one-the horse the other. The
result was the animal ran up against tree,
the force of the shock throwing both to the
ground-the rider apparently lifeless. The
efforts to restore consciousness by the COM
panion of his ride, were, for some time,
without effect. AT last, animation was re-