Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-08-03
TAr NEWS &; From SagWs,lY, Y.}
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\ Distinguished families of Old Plskyns. 58

NEwRY, $. C., July 90, Ed ditors Keo-
wee Courier: If you win allow inc space
in your most worthy paper 4 will give
you q few dots from this portion Of our
county and will ask a few questions for
Information. Il, j$$ 81
When was Old Piclsens first laid of,
and by whom2 n S.s n NJ 2t.$
I was there some time sinoe, and the
thought occurred to me, who was the
person that first laid OFF this now defunot
old place3 Mr.. J. Bennett Hill's nice
home and farm is about tho only remain
ing yestago Of what Old Plckens onc6
was. 1t was on this now old red hill,
overlooking the clear and limpid waters
of tho Keowee river and tho blue and
distant mountains looming up far be.
yond that onco could be found the busy
merchant, the school teacher, tho blacle-
smith, the farmer, the lawyer and the
editor. 1t was hero that once resided
somo IF Ia :Nsipst Gistingulsheu families
! of the then entire Gistriot sudh na7ssps
as the Nartons, Hogoois, Alexanders,
Holcomhs. Kennedyss Jawrences. Carys.
Keiths, Craigs, Robinses, Wiclliffes,
Gantts, Roids, and last, but not least,
your own Col. Robert A. Thompson, who
made TIE KEowEE COURIER, away back
in those primitive days, and siuce, well
como visitor to many q fireside. The
high moral standard of the paper, I am
glad to see, is still maintained by tho
present editors. ..# .N..'
Tho first newspaper your scribe remem.
bors eSer seeing was TIE KEowE,. CoU-
RlGR. 1t was thon edited by Col. Robt.
A. Thompson and published at Old Pick
ems. That was over thirty-0ye years
ago. was thon only child. So it was
that on the day paid this dilapidated
place visit tho thought occurred to me
that would write THE COURIER q short
letter about my visit and express few
of the many thoughts that occurred to
my mind.
Who were the first ofllcialsP Whom
was tho first court convened? What
Judge presided? Who was tho first por-
son hanged there? Whilo standing on
that old'rcd hill these thoughts came to
me as we'll as moro solemn oncs. Whore
arc tho peopla who onoo lived there2-
tho Nortons, Carys, Roids, Koiths, Hol.
combs, Thompsons and Hagocds. All,
l think, havo passed. over tho dirk rivor
oxcopt Col. J. l.. Hagood, Clerk of the
United States Court, with his homo il
Pickens and Charleston, and Col. Robt
A. Thompson, now residing ut Walhalla
and practicing law. These facts show
us that wo, too, must soon follow, an6
constrains us to say:
Other mon our streets shall fill,
Othor mon our fields shall till,
A hundred years to come.
THE LOCAL NEWS ABOUT NEwRY.
Now, with q fow words about Newr,
we will close.
First, the Courtenay Manufacturing
Company has in course of erection, b1
Mr.. il. l.. Boggs, q large and oommodiou,
school house. Whom finished it will bt
quito an addition to our place, as we'll as
to our educational advantages.
Mr.. Albert Noblett lost small chilt
not long since.
DR.. Lewis Gray, of Seneca, was will
us not long since.
DR.. Frank Ashmore, our local physi
clan, seems to bo on tho move, looking
aftor his patients. !
Mr.. James L. Burloy left short Will
since for Nashville, Tenn, whore he viii
ontcr Prof. Draughon's Business College
with Mr.. II. Il. Whitmiro, who loft her
some three months ago.
; Whom Mr.. II. Crenshaw, our efficion
, livery stable man, gets into his now sta
: bic, which tho Courtenay Manufacturin,
Company is building for him, we will b
all right on that limo.
| After a protractod drought wo hav
had an abundance of rain. ANON.