The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-07-14

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tl<sre was about $50 members. AlQn
z Sst before the war broke oslt, y
Of wG,y ,2xas, takin' his thrJ wiv,
Wits bear he died shSItly ate
c ~ 4 10ss Vent e tSs THAT, an
, what they done vi Ok 1 don
. " know. 1a,sss iusS NaSai.a Nix i
t So fen1 ,onsc ag,SsS6ams sarks
b an he preached an Epossed t1G paris
until 80, when he disappeared one da
an nothin' was heard OF him until abou
: L month after, when his dead body wa
: found up here in the woods near Fid
dlcr's Elbow. He was buried in s-ea
style. 1t was during Sparks term whel
Tom Perry was converted. Tom va
pretty well along in years-arormd th'
sixties, somewhere, [ gucss-but he be
came i red hot Mormon, an he used tt
get up in the old school-housc an say
the spirit moved him; then he'd talk al
hour at 4 time, real smart, too. 1t Was
on account of this talking power that old
Perry took charge when Sparks was
gone, and l think he had bout $50 wim-
min and sevcnty-tive men in his congre
CATION The old school-house wasn't t
big enough TO hold them, an they held
their mcetin's outside Old Tom had
one wife when he iined the church, an
;fore he got through he had eight 1
hear thcy's all dead now. The old wo-
man war 81 when she died, an the
Youngest, q gal named Minnie, war
about %. Long in ~ or 773 Tom made
up his mind to convert the whole coun-
try an he made up meetin' to discuss
the question with the Methodists down
to Sandiston. The meetin' lasted eight
days an both sides claimed they got the
best Of it, so it was put into the hands of
q committee to decide, but somehow
they never reported how it come out
In II the thing commenced to dwindle,
IN it kept gittin' lesser IN lesser until
now, [ guess, there's only two LETT. One
of en- is a cousin of mine, Miss Meyers,
down in Haynesville, an t'other one is
old Mart Recton, who lives up here a
piece in the mountain on the road to
nowhere. The settlement just below at
Shaytown, which was run by Charlie
tbers, never mounted to much anyway.
an, I guess, they're al gone now. Well,
[ must go to work. Much obleeged for
yol, fellers stoppin. don't see much
OF life up here.
After thanking Sile for his story the
scribe drove on to the old school -house
where the meetings were held. It is a
little old hut, not much larger than a
good-sized dry goods box. At present
it is occupied by Martin Cole and his
family, consisting of vile and eight
children. It has but two rooms, and
these are used for cooking, eating and
sleeping purposes. Half mile further
up the road is Tom Pe1ry's old place.
On little clearing by the road is the
house where he was born and lived all
his life. It is an unpainted wooden
building containing four rooms. There
is c little shed in the rear. Tom was
quite character. He Was born poor,
md by drudging and saving he succeed
I'd in buying tie Land around his home
stead, amounting 70 about $50 acres. I
Twenty years before he joined the Nor
non Church he quarrcled with h;s wife J
about a triiing thing, and they never !
spoke to each other until the night he |
vas baptized All that time they lived s
n the same house, cooked, ate and slept /
ogether, yet they never spoke word to I
.ach other. He was the father of four !
eeI children by the woman. How many d
le had by lis later wives is not known. T.
ie had eighty-two grandchildren when t
,e died. All are scattered in different a
'arts of the country, none Of them living
.ear the Old place. !:
About half 8 2sile north from Perry,s s.
lace is Lake Shipooag, where all the 7;
onverts were baptized. It is quite . II
arge body of water, considering the fact "
hat it is on the highest point OF the Blue =
sidgc range, over 1900 feet above the u
vel of the sea. The view from the lake O.
one of the grandest in world Stand b
lg O. the roadside near by one can see II
fteen village with the naked eye, the u
carest one ten uiiilv-- ccway. -Four miles III
ON the lake, on the old 's,saa;xe line turn NJ
Ike, IS Shaytown, which was also oacccc \ \
Mormon ~cttlement. c. D. Abers was +
lie lcadiug elder ia. this place. He be- NJ
.s,e converted while attending the al
cetingx ct Perryvile while Elder Ltsss...cc OF
us in charge ot them. Upon his return Or h
ome he gathered aroInd him band of Pa
dozen, and every Sunday dn2,,ing the ST 81,
.nll,er they would so off in the woods u
ID hold their meetings, while in the yo
inter they woai,>aa he held in his house.
bers had but one wife. He had eight
iilren, six of them girls, ali O. whom
med ti,e Mormon Church, and married
'ung Mormon converts. None of them "a u
c living now. Va
4 few miles back of Shaytowa Gh.nre g.,
Is a settlement of Mormon women -
le leaders were Mrs. Ray and Mrs ~ IL,
*. No man was allowed 70 Join this ~ ~
but if wanted to come end ~ ~
t wife he was welcome, provided he -
reed to go away Eith her. At one os oe
ne there We're as many as fifteen mem a. 9n.
IS in this settlement. A driye OK shree I;1. IL
les over stony, rocky road and Sox Ia
, in Brick House, the only town lii the y H.;
ighbolhood that did not have at least tts' as
e convert to Mormonism when it was ", w.
evalcs.tt Why it was called Brick Se, 90,
)use is a noysae-E.. as a brick is some loi ~,
ng probably never secs. by the IN tI'a ',
bitants of that village. Here IS Mhcl@e :Ie :-le
, we,s.r traveller eats, however, and If 70
ere is any oi.c thing more than another
It the proprietor % the Brick House
tel knows about, it is feeding hungry E.
op;c 2 good, square meal, giving u i.
rse six QuArtts of oats, and asking the Tie,
veler when he LA. finished his meal :sP
,+I,,. ba would 1;1-n n E;,:elo .scboiD