Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-02-09
wALHA11,A. SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 8, 1898.

Anna Fore, the daughter of neigh
Dor. A long and happy married life
and seven children blessed this union.
Mrs. Stackhouse died only a few
months before he did.
The chosen occupation of Colonel
Stsckhouse was farming, and of this
calling he was ever proud, and per-
sistently adhered to it through Life.
He was always in advance OF the
agricultural thought of the times,
am! was bold and successful ex-
perimenter. Without much money,
but with an abundant stock of energy
and good common sense, he adopted
early in life the intensive system OF
farming, and was rewarded with re-
markable success. In this respect he
was a pioneer and exemplar to his
coanty. The Little Rock community,
where ne always lived, to-day owes
much OF its prosperity and reputation
as farming section to his influence
ard example. In fact, the entire
State recognized his worth and pro-
oressiveness. He was elected by his
county to the Legislature, became
the first President Of the State ALI
ane, and afterwards member OF
this body.
Never before in the history of the
State had such honorable recognition
been accorded q simple farmer. In
ISL Col. Stackhouse entered the
Confederate army from Marion
county as captain of company
(which was incorporated in the Eighth
| South Carolina Regiment. lr April,
1861, tfe regiment, under Col. Cash,
entered service in Charleston, where
! it remained until after the surrender
| of Fort Sumter. 1t was then trans
ferred to Virginia, where it became
u part of the historic army OF North
ern Virginia, with which it remained
until after the surrender at Apo
mattox. From Captain he was pro-
noted to Lieutenant Colonel and
then Colonel, which latter position
he held at the surrender.
Although advanced in middle life
when South Carolina seeded, yet In
response to his patriotic impulses he
was one of the first to volunteer and
one of the last to retire from service.
He fought not for glory but, from a
sense Of duty, and the consciousness
that the, cause of his State was q
righteous one. When the crisis came
in which the Southern Confederacy
collapsed and its cause was chronlcled
as one of the lost causes, he was the
same patriot he had been during the
times of war. Few men who had
attained the age OF Col. Stackhouse
when the war ended were ever able
to so completely adjust themselves
to the new order of things.
Men of my age can hardly appre-
ciate what fortitude it took at mid
die life, after crushing defeat, with
the added deso.ation and misery left
by Sherman's army in its "March to
the Sea-" for one to gather up the
scattered threads of broken exist
cree and begin anew the battle OF
Ijite. My only remembrance is as OF
aorrid NIGHTMARE. the white, tear
~ face of a widowed mother, and
! .,r little brood, where all mad been
plenty, dependent for food upon
what was thrown away by the VIC
toG Gous army, and picked up BY Jfaith1-
fu}slaves. J.
Ia hmid these tr ~ n, :,
! lthl same traits which in war made
lls commanding officer speak OF am
! as' the '.steaIiest colonel in the bri-
gaae"
tPlcdging anew his loyalty to the
! Uaion and the constitution, save as
emory, he adjured the old South.
Is.Jh It's traditions, and addressed
himself to :he work of building up a
new South. He settled upon his
! plantation, gathered up the fragments
.c; h;> lost property, and engaged
WITH heroic energy in agricultural
pursuits. When others were csoak-
fing and gliding into bankruptcy, he
demonstrated the possibility of max
ing cotton at profit with hired
labor. He was soon called from his
retirement to represent his county in
the State Legislature. As a member
of that body he made his mark for
solid sense and sound judgment
although modest and ostentatlous
There he zcalously advocated al
measures looking to the agricultural
interests of the State His constltu-
encv then accorded him the vel
done, good and faithful servant with
as much sincerity as his late constitu
cncy did when he had finished hi:
course as member of this House.
Col. Stackhouse was an ideal citl
zen, modest, unassuming and impcr.
turable, vet firm, bold and aggres.
sive in his convictions. Conserva-
tive, cautious and slow, yet advanced
patriotic and pertinaclous in his ac.
tons, his was versatile stamp OF
citizenship. Old theories were moi
adhered to for their antiquity, nol
were prevailing ideas adopted be,
cause they were entertained by the
multitude. He was ever ready tc
accommodate himself to changed con.
ditions in agriculture, politics, Oh
anything else, and to adopt prosreess
sive ideas and methods. He fol
lowed what his convictions taught
him was right in spite of criticism OF
opposition. He thought for hiuselt
and was no truculent follower o.
maiorities, but sought to be a mofdel
of public opinion and leader of men
/ Devotion and faithfulness charac
terized his relc.ions as father, hus
band and friend In his family cir
Gle he was the household god. II
his friends he was the soul OF honor
:, To his country and State his loyalt.
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