Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-07-12
AULD LANG SYNE
SOME PERSONAL RECOL.
LECTIONS OF INCIDENTS
AND MEN YEARS AGO.
BY AN OLD STAGER,

BY AN OLD STAGER.
Mr.. EDITOR: Your type-setter
made US to say 'sfor instance,
when we wrote "for instruction."
which destroyed the sense of the
sentence in which it occurred.
In one of our communications
we said something about Little
Stevens Creek church and some of
the noble Christian men and wo-
men who composed the member
ship of that church. We propose
now to say something Of another
church of which we were a fire.
quent visitor in Dur boyhood. We
mean Gilgal. To get there we had
to travel over rugged, rocky, hilly
road, as,every one knows who ever
visited in that section. In going
there we passed the residence of
old Uncle Caleb Holloway, one of
the landmarks of that day and
time. There were three brothers
of that name-Billy, Jordan and
Caleb-all of whom lived to ripe
old age. The first named was the
first to die, then followed Caleb
with Jordan as survivor. They
were honorable, thrifty men. We
also passed on the way thither
through ths yard of the widow
strom who enjoyed some celebrity
in administering medicines to the
sick. One of the remedies most
used was lobelia. given to the ex-
tent of putting the patient in "the
state of ALARM" which meant that
he was made so sick that he could
not be made much more 80 and
If the first course did not
produce the desired effect, the pa
tient was to be carried through
second similar ordeal but of in
creased intensity. But few patients
would say that they were not i'm
proved in the face Of the threaten
ed repetition of "the alarm" treat
ment. Her ministrations, however,
were not confined to that one
remedy. She made herself useful
IN ministering to the necessitiesof
ladies on certain occasions.
Gilgal in the day of which we
speak hsd as their pastor, Rev.
Thomas Chiles, that Cody man,
refined Christian gentleman and
eloquent preacher with voice
SO effeminate, and yet SO persua-
sive and tender as to touch the sen
sibiilties of sinners. Among the
members who worshipped
there were Mr.. Luke DeVore, whose
ayes so often suffused with tears
1nder the preaching of the Word,
DR.. John Laho, pel:- @-h~' o~~-o-
Blocker, Luke Culbreath, Lswls
Reynolds, Sam Stronr, Butler Will
Iiams, Isaac Roles, Garrison Hollo-
way, Eldred Byrd, Artemus Lowe,
Abram Adams, Robert Lanier,
Temple Martin, old Squire Settle,
David Seigler, Guthridge Cheat
1am, and many others whose
names we do not recall. The mere
mention of these names Is a sufti-
,ient guaranty of the strength and
spirituality of the saints who wor-
shipped there to say nothing of the
ong array of Christian women
Who filled no secondary place i'll the
traces which gave sanctity to the
of God. We, perhaps,
would be excusable for mentioning
" name Mrs. Isabella Blocker,
whose attendance upon the preach
ID word was so pnnctual and whose
levotion and piety were 30 exem-
,lary as one of the mothers in
.srael of that church.
After long years of experience {
md observation, we are prepared
% believe the citizens of Sleepy
Creek, Little Stevens Creek and
9ilgal sections of Edgefeld county l
nave not been excelled by any
,ther rural portions of the county
)r State in all that 60 to make up
character for morality, Christian I
ity, sobriety, honor, truth. honesty
and industry. To have been
brought up in such a community,
receiving the blessings Of such as
,ociations and examples we recog-
,ize as great blessing in shaping
our own life. We shall ever revere
he memories and the virtues OF
:hese people.
In that day it was the custom,
we might say rule, for every thrifty
farmer to raise everything that
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