The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-03
A IA MsLY REUNION.
The Editor Spends n Pleasant Time at Homo
with tho Old Folks aud all tho
Young Folks Too.

childhood and we spent very few years
with them there and apart from the
fat that they live there, there Is little
Newberry County has many more pleas
ant associations to us than the one IN
Greenwood County, for it was there
that our childhood and youth were
spent and around the old hills and val.
leys cluster many pleasant memories
| We love at times to dwell on these and
the old school house at St. Panl's and
the hickory nut trees that used to stand
in the church yard grove and the sweet
| gum tree down ut the spring and the
boys and girls that we're with us in the
school in those days-all these things
we say come back to us with pleasant
| memories.
But back in the seventies we moved
| to Edgcficld County, now Greenwood,
and that is now home because father
and mother live there. We spent two
years at the school house that stands
near by and soon after that went of to
college and since then we have ully
| made visits there. 1t is true some
friendships and school associations
were formed then which are pleasant
to recall but they appear somehow diff
| fcrcnt to those formed at the old home
in this county.
1t has been twcnty-onc years since
we left the parental roof to enter col
lcgc. 1t is true IL seems but yesterday
and we can scarce realize that 80 many
years have come and gone since then.
We still feel very much like school
boy and in sense We are, for We are
ready and willing to learn. We have
been through the mill since those days
and have been tossed against the rough
edges Of The world, but still We are but
Il school boy.
We feel like writing something of
this reunion, even though it were a re-
union Of our own family, and us the
family once lived in this county and
has many friends and relations among
our readers we hope no one will c0nsid-
or what VIC say improper or out Of place
in the editor.
In many respects the family has been
greatly blessed and for these blessings
we arc humhly and truly grateful.
Jacob Luther Aull is the youngest
son OF the Rev. Herman Aull, and was
born in December, 1885. Of large
family he has one half brother, Mr..
VIM. Werts of Mountvillc, and one
full sister, Mrs. l. G.. Hunter, of New
berry, still living. In May, 1856, he
was married to Miss Julia Ann Haiti
wangcr, of Edgclicld County. OF this
union five sons and two daughters were
born. He lived at the old homestead
OF his father in this county until 1873
when he moved to EdgeGcld now
Greenwood County, where he now re-
sides. OF the seven children Que son,
jacob Osborne, died in infancy in 1860,
aged one year. The others have all
grown to manhood and womanhood and
are still living. They are Elbert Fl.
Aull, the editor Of this paper, who
married Alice Kinard in February,
1881; Rowcna, who married Rev. W. w.
Daniel, OF the Methodist church, and is
now living in Anderson; Nathan e
Aull, who is principal of the Prosper
ity Graded School; Eva, who married
Mr.. Arthur Zimmerman, OF Edgefleld
County; William Bowman Aull who Is
now in the Theological Seminary at
Mt. Pleasant, S. c., preparing for the
Lutheran ministry, and Luther Bach
man Aull, who is at present in the Of
flee Of The Herald and News, and IL
reading medicine. We have pardon
able pride in the fact that all the bows
are graduates Of Ncwberry Colle1e
OF tho grandchildren, one Is dead
Julia, our oldest, died ut seven. The |
others are John kinard Aull, Gilbert |
Herman Aull, James Luther Aull,
Alice Aull and Humbcrt Mayer Aull.
And Herman Aull Daniel, Willie Dan |
icl, and Walter Wright Daniel, in all |
eight grandchildren, six boys and two
girls. You sec we have been greatly |
blessed. In nearly forty-thrce years |
there have been only two deaths in the |
We return mos. grateful thanks to the |
Giver Of all good. And, too, the father |
and mother arc whore they started. |
They two started life together and the |
children that came have grown up and
gone ont and left them and they are
left to themselves again to end the Jour
ncy together. Such is life and we trust
they may have happy and pleasant
ending together and that thoy may be
spared yet many years TO pursue the
journey together.
But we started out to speak OF the re-
nnioo. Since we began to leave home
10 take up tho journey of life on our
own account we have never all met
here at the Same time. But the past
week it so happened that we could all
DC there together and we went, chill