The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1898-05-17
MARY MUsaRovE.

"Aoh pOlOIo SOla W uuo mhtb II
know about the matter. My fathers
family and Mr.. John Hutchinson's all
took water from the same spring from
the time | was big enough to work
till old enough to want to court one Of
his girls. Aunt BeccR, as we called
her, always claimed her mother, TO be
the Mary Musgrove OF Horseshoe Rob-
inson fame. She claimed to be the
daughter (which L know was SOY Of
George Berry, whose wife was Mary
Musgrove, and her grave was pointed
buried at the old Berry graveyard Just
below the old homestead, and | never
heard OF 1t being disputed but that she
was the veritable Mary till q year or
80 ago. The Hutchinson family was q
very interesting one for that day and
time, both Internationally and in
tellectually. The old man himself
had a large library, and was the only
man who took a newspaper in that Sec
tion. He had nine children-seven
girls and two boys-all OF whom were
up, just as familiar with them as / was
with my fathers family, and to con.
clude 1t does seem that Aunt Becoa
ought to know who her mother was,
and that also Mr.. John Hutchinson
ought to have known who his wife's
mother was, as he lived In the same
section OF the county whore he married
his wife. And now the intelligence Of
the Hutchinson community is hard to
boat. The leading men thereof we're
well known to me, such as Matthew
HOLIDAY, John Dean, Thomas Dean,
Charles Allen, John Todd. Matthew
Hunter, James Hunter, John Threat,
James Hutchinson, DR.. James billiard,
(Scufletown), John MoOlintock, WAR.
rtor Creek, Henry Meredith, Robert
Patterson, William Cowan, James
Martindale, Jack Byrd, Samuel New
gen, Young Terry, Thos. McGill,
Charles Smith, Thos. McCarley and
w. w. Hitch. Every one of the above
were substantial citizens, every one
educated, every n q land owner, and
ali except two or three wore slave
owners. How they were all 80 for
tunate to be so well educated in their
day and time l can't tell, for they all
must have been born about the heels
OF the revolution, for some Of them an.
peared to be older and some
thai ny father, and he was born in
1889. | never saw one OF them intoxi-
Gated or heard OF one being accused Of
criminal otfense. They all formed
They had everything at home. Charles
Allen was the coroner, Cargil and Dill
lard the doctors, Todd and Jake Byrd
the merchants, John Dean and VIM,
Rose the teachers, Fowler and Hutch
enson, the brandy makers. They have
all long since died, and I would like to
tell how they all lived and worked, but
the article Is too long now.
]. F. SLOAN.
The above communication OF Mr..
Sloan appeared in the Piedmont
Headlight, An intelligent, but
modest lady Of Tylersville, a rela-
tive Of the Romantic Mary writes In
reference to facts stated in a commu-
nication to the Fairfield News and
Herald and copied in THE ADvER-
TISER of recent date and inclosing
Mr.. Sloan's letter says: 81 SEQ in
the Laurens ADVERTISER OF May 3rd
an article copied from the Fairfield
News and Herald entitled a "Historic
Locality" containing a short sketch
of Musgrove Mills. 1t Is correct ex-
cept the latter clause which states
that Mary Musgrove is buried on q
rugged hillside over the river. Mary
Musgroye Is buried in the old Berry
graveyard lei Warrior Creek. She
married Capt. Berry and was the
mother of four children, the eldest of
whom was my granddaughter, Rebecca
Berry, who married John Hutchinson.
Mary M~usgrove, the heroine OF Horse
Shoe Robinson, certainly married and
wal my great grandmother. l have
now a walnut box that belonged to
Mary Musgroye."
In other respects tho lady cor
roborates MIR. Sloan. We regret that
her modesty withholds her name
Musgrove Mills, now Marlborough, the
scene Of the fascinating story Of Ken
nedy, being located in our county,
adds largely to its interest with the
young OF our county, Union and Spar
tanburg. Hunter, Fowler, Meredith,
Hutchinson, billiard, McClintock, Pat
t%erson, Byrd, Hitch and others men
toned by Mr.. Sloan are still promi-
nent names in the Warrior Creek set
tlement alleged as the burial ground
OF Mary. To give force to the fact of
Mary being a historic parsonage nc
well as romantic, it comes we'll au-
thenticated to the writer that Horse
Shoe Robertson certainly was. Ken
nedy, the author of the book, who was
in Ftllmore's Cabinet, = as q young
lawyer OF the neighborhood OF Balt'-
more, passed thrn"- -.
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On to Pendleton in this State
travelling on horseback, looking after
some land claims OF his MARYLAND con-
s%tltuents. On this tour he gathered
the facts and incidents and sketches of
many OF the p~ersonages immortalised
In his story. Near Pendleton he met
Horse Shoe, who was a blacksmith.
residing In the bend OF q creek, which
gave to his name it's DISTINGUISHING
feature. From Horse Shoe himself
the author got the main incidents OF
this historic Years after
wards whom the book had won great
popularity, Kennedy wrote to a friend
In this county with a view to securing
a picture OF the hero, for a new edi-
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