The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-05-04

IN tHt
,t,, his father, John 7. Broyles, was
lii living at the advanced age of SO
...r. This remarkable man, whose
i~;.,ory will be found in what follows,
-. lived in this city for a number Of
and is one of the very few sur
';vors Of the golden age CT American
h;.,orv. TO say that his life reads
Tia romance, is to put it mildly
,,deeJ so wonderful are the facts
concerning one of the fathers of the
republic
Yesterday a Times reporter called
D, III, residence Of Mrs. A. G. Rey-
,a,J. loG East Montgomery avenue,
aherc Maj. Broylcs resides. He was
,lea.antiy entertained by Maj. Broyles'
,xo daughters, Mrs. Reynard and Mrs.
clark. of Rome, Ga. who ushered
him into the presence Of their veneer
.hle father, who looks more like o
man Of ~ than of SO. Following is
The history of Maj. Broyles' life. as
,o,d by himself and two daughters.
Mai. John T. Broyles was born in
Anderson district (now Anderson
county, South Carolina, in the year
IsOj. lie was the son Of Aaron
Broylcs and Frances Reed. His
father 5 people were Of German descent,
and on his mothers side he could
trace back to lHuguenot blood. His
father, like his German ancestors, was
a firm believer in the Baptist faith.
Aaron Broyles began life q poor
man. and. when he married Frances
Reed they went to housekeeping in a
loc cabin with a dirt floor. But.
Aaron Broylcs was a worker, and
when John I. Broyles was born he
bad anlassed quite a fortune for that
cay aud time, and was one of the
weal,hicst planters in Anderson dis
trict.
John =. Broyles was the oldest Of
three brothers, Osey, Cain and Abel
Brcylcs. Abel, the youngest, died
when a boy, and Cain and Osey
Broylcs lost their lives during the
civil war. so that he is the sole sur
yivor of the children Of Aaron
Broyles.
As a boy Maj. Broyles went through
many experiences and adventures
which in his old age he takes great
pleasure in relating.
In 1917 he accompanied relative
to Fort Hawkins (now Macon, Ga.)
With q drove of cattle which the latter
bad sold the government for the SOL
diets at that point. and when a little
older he accompanied his father to
Hamburg, S. c., then q Furnishing
trade center. augusta, Ga, on che
opposite side Of the Savannah river,
being at that time only a cluster of
houses.)
His father raised a great deal Of to-
baeeo, which was packed in immense
h0ssheads, and they were drawn or
rolled to market. Hamburg was then
the great tobacco market, and young
John rode and drove one Of the teams
that hauled tobacco from the planta-
lIlon to market.
As a youth he was we'll acquainted
EElth John G. Calhoun, then a rising
F0ung lawyer Of Anderson district.
lie went to school with his cousin,
p0scph +. Brown, afterwards governor
IL Georgia, at Calhoun academy. Joe
browns father paid his SON tuition
9n cattle.
Later John T. Broyles was sent to.
Fasculum college, Greenville. Tenn,
saere he studied under Rev. Samuel
poak, the father Of Presbyterianism
. Tennessee. There were a great
Ea'ny South Carolina yontns at this
Ra'utution at that time, among them
frank Pickens and John Hammond,
& bao were afterwards governors Of Gle
annette State. Frank Pickens was
2ae roommate of John T. Broyles and
3aey "ere fast friends.
lie graduated with honors at Tuscu-
gaa'' and after bidding an afectionate
safewell to Father oak," as the stu
fso's called their venerable principal,
H. returned to Anderson district,
raere in 1929 he married Miss
s'Oflnde Hammond, daughter Of Dud-
Hammond, a wealthy planter. of
Ae district.
."e young couple went to house.
tseplng in a dne colonial residence,
as gilt of the brides father, and.
.sfe surrounded By silit the iuNuries OF
Bglan's'ion lifc-slayes, carriages, fine
+s.ses' etc. Maj. Broyles and his
r"e knee nothing of work until after
8ae war, for in thoun doysl thn.o sr.