The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-28
Vacation of n Country Pastor.

Rev. D. e. Presley, of Davidson, n.
c., has been visiting in South Carolina,
and writing some very interesting letters
to tho Associate Reformed Presbyterian. We
make the following extract:
Our last took us to the residence OF Mr..
D. j. Sherard, u brother-in-law. He
lives OH the old homestead, but not in the
house where my wife was born, and
where we wero married, April 4th, 1919,
by Rev e. T. Pressly, d. ID. On our
bridal tour VIC went directly to the home
of Rev. Henry Bryson, D. D., in Lincoln
county, Tenn, where 1 boarded and at
whose churches 1 was located for that
year. 1t is such a rough, limestone
country, no buggics' were used only
about towns and on turnpikes. Hence
the first Sabbath there wo turned out as
everybody else did, on horseback; and
at that season, there was but ono very
passable track in the road So VIC went,
I before and my bride behind, both how
ever on the samo horse.
Well, Mr.. d. j. Sherard is known as
one of the successful farmers of the coun-
try, and it is well he is such, for he has
seven sons and two daughters in the
house and not one of them nineteen years
old. A better and brighter looking set of
children I never saw in one household
This may bo explained in part by the
fact that he got his wife here, within one
fourth ola mile of my former and present
residence with my son. Mr.. b. w. Press
ly. Her hair is rs black and glossy, and
her eyes as bright and sparkling as when
she was married.
Rev. Calvin Pressly, our kinsman, had
appointed communion on the approach
;ng Sabbath ut Concord, his upper church,
twenty-six miles distant. would have
been pleased TO accompany him if it he'd
suited, not only to be with him and preat h
some, but because 1 was licensed thoro
September is, 1917.
Good Hope, the Presbyterian church,
is two miles distant, of which Father
Hunphrics was pastor, and for whom /
often preached III my youthful days.
Bro Ligon, the present popular pastor,
the very evening wo landed gave me a
cordial invitation to occupy his pulpit /;
and after some consultation with friends
present agreed to do SO if able to be there
with the one condition that he have q
small platform fixed on the pulpit floor,
that could sit down and preach. This
was done, not only well, as everywhere,
but in workmanlike style. The day
being cool and drizzly, the congregation
was not an average one. I felt very
much at home, through tho kindness of
Bro Lyon, and in meeting so many
friends Of my youthful days in the min
istry.
The week was most pleasantly and
proiitably spent. we trust, among rea-
tiyes and other friends. Tho Sherard
connection is now numerous. There
were eight children i'll the family, five
sons and three daughters, two Of them
dead, and only three Of tho eight are in
the neighborhood. Some Of tho forty-liyo
grandchildren living havo families OF
children. AS something unusual We
mention the factIl,at on the place of my
fathcr.in law, Mr.. Wm. Shcrard, there
has been Il storc in tho family for ninety
five years, and now kept hy the eldest
son, Thos. a. Sherard, and first by hi:
grandfather who came from Ireland
With the families of Thomas, James, and
d. j. Sherard OIL the homestead, and thu